- Jul 28, 2019
- 4 min
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...
- Oct 22, 2018
- 8 min
REFERENDUM[B]
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...
- Sep 1, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- Jun 18, 2017
- 5 min
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...
- May 12, 2017
- 8 min
NOT I
iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...
- Aug 31, 2016
- 2 min
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...
- May 6, 2016
- 3 min
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 29, 2015
- 7 min
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...
- Dec 4, 2014
- 6 min
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 9, 2011
- 20 min
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...