ENDING THE CONFLICT
It feels like we’re having a really tough time with this. So let’s walk through it together. There is no conflict between freedom of...
Feb 27, 20152 min read
CHARLIE WHO?
Regarding the issues surrounding Charlie Hebdo, and the murders that recently took place in France, many folks I know have quoted or...
Jan 11, 201512 min read


HOW TO SAVE LIVES
Hamilton RIDE checks snag 30 impaired drivers. Hamilton chapter president for Mothers Against Drunk Driving says RIDE program is...
Jan 1, 20155 min read
LESS FOR MORE
In Canada we pay some of the highest taxes on the planet. But it’s not what you think. The personal and corporate tax rates paid to your...
Nov 28, 20145 min read
TAXES SHMAXES
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network of 185 reporters in 65 countries, have collaborated on a...
Nov 7, 20144 min read


GETTING IN THE WAY
VPI inc. is a Canadian-owned “workforce management services company devoted to helping individuals and organizations better define and...
Oct 24, 20146 min read
THEY DON’T CALL IT CLASS WAR
Our elected and unelected leaders, from government and business, lie to our faces. And these storytellers never fabricate more...
Oct 12, 20145 min read
MEASURING DIFFERENCE
When we calculate things like income disparity in this country we don’t typically look at the difference between people’s incomes. (No,...
Jun 18, 20146 min read

SUBJECT, CITIZEN, CONSUMER
It makes me laugh to think about our present notion of a model citizen and worker. You can hear elected officials, school administrators,...
Apr 25, 20143 min read
LIFE SUPPORT
Every few years non-governmental organizations re-evaluate the cost of living in major cities throughout the world. Here in Canada the...
Apr 16, 20145 min read
THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION or WHAT EVERY BRITISH COLUMBIAN NEEDS TO KNOW
British Columbia’s Ministry of Education has developed a new Education Plan. Their stated aim is to improve the provincial education...
Jan 8, 20148 min read


FORGOTTEN
If you know me then you know that I hate Remembrance Week (as it is currently constructed and observed.) This here is my annual...
Nov 9, 20134 min read
TUITION?
We actually hear a lot about tuition fees. (Of course we don’t tend to do much about the problem of tuition inflation, but it is talked...
Nov 2, 20132 min read


THE UNRAVELLING OF REX MURPHY or A SHORT LESSON IN IRONY
Rex Murphy is a Canadian icon: a Rhodes scholar, an author, a popular voice in newsprint and on national television and radio. But I...
Jul 27, 201312 min read

EARTH HOUR: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
Earth Hour, an annual event organized by the folks at The World Wildlife Fund, attempts to raise awareness of environmental issues by...
Jun 13, 20134 min read
FUEL
We seem to have bet the farm, the whole town and county too, on $100 per barrel oil. Why is that? Nobody thinks this is a terrible idea?...
Mar 26, 20136 min read

TOWARD AN OLD CONSCIOUSNESS
I was recently given a report called Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain Human and Natural Communities. The work was produced...
Dec 8, 201221 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