

HONEYBEES AND HUMANITY
There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...
Jul 28, 20194 min read

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Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...
Oct 22, 20188 min read


TOO POUR
Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...
Sep 1, 20183 min read


DIMENSION FOUR
I don't like to think of time in the conventional manner. I once read a definition of time as, “a measure of change”. I always liked...
Jun 18, 20175 min read


NOT I
iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...
May 12, 20178 min read


MY CO-OP STORY
(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...
Aug 31, 20162 min read


THIS YEAR AND LAST
And so it was, the year of their Lord, two-thousand-six-teen. And there was a Queen, with a large jaw, and a Duke, with a pale-face,...
May 6, 20163 min read


MOPS AND COFFEE or CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
I thought the deal was that “privately owned productive enterprises, in a highly competitive marketplace, will produce ever-better...
May 29, 20157 min read


LITTLE CHANGE
Yesterday I was having a discussion with someone about cars and driving. (I’ve always said that I have no plan to buy a car until I can...
Dec 4, 20146 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