

LIFE IN KAMPALA
Me: a traveler passing through. Emma: a gainfully employed husband and father. We were talking about what it's like to live in Kampala....
Apr 5, 20182 min read


THE NEW REVENGE PORN
I just heard about Aziz Ansari. I worry you won't read the victim's words and just assume this case to be like most of the others. It is...
Jan 15, 20183 min read


OK
This Omar Khadr case is far more interesting than the banter in your local or national paper, on the evening news or on Twitter. What I...
Jul 10, 20175 min read


THE GREATEST CANADIAN
Tommy Douglas is widely considered one of the greatest ever Canadians. The story most of us know is that, as a social-democratic...
Jun 4, 20159 min read
BUSINESS ETHICS
As of late there’s been an abundance of charitable campaigns on Twitter. This isn’t the seasonal call for money you get from your local...
Jul 25, 20146 min read


LEST WE REMEMBER
Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...
Nov 11, 20127 min read


I SEE WHY THEY CALLED IT A STING
So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...
Jul 8, 20128 min read


FUNDS
Recently I had some money I wanted to put away and, really, never think about again. I was convinced to talk to someone at my credit...
Mar 13, 20129 min read


PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC BOLLOCKS or WHY MATH AND SCIENCE MATTER
I was standing in the checkout line at my friendly neighbourhood grocery store when I noticed a display of homeopathic remedies above the...
Jan 23, 20128 min read


SAMASOURCE: LIBERATING FORCE OR TROJAN HORSE
In 2008 Leila Janah, an attractive, young, globetrotting Harvard graduate founded a not-for-profit called Samasource. She introduced the...
Dec 9, 201120 min read


DIRTY JOBS (SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT)
Steve Jobs was responsible for some great things. The impact he had in personal computing, publishing, telecommunications, music, and...
Oct 10, 20117 min read
DISAGREEING WITH FEMINIST JOURNALISTS or HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
In the April 1st edition of Victoria’s Times Colonist, Jody Paterson wrote an article about a horrific sexual assault that took place in...
Apr 2, 201112 min read
CULTURAL HERITAGE, CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural heritage is another of those sticky concepts I get hung up on. Having looked over the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...
May 21, 20104 min read
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...
Apr 9, 20108 min read


THE DOOR
Alas, it was New Year's Eve and, against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning, I had agreed to go out and “party”, whatever...
Jan 30, 201016 min read