

HOW TO FUND A WORKER CO-OP
We’ve spent two years getting a worker-owned co-op from conception to construction. The business is a for-profit bakery in the heart of...
Mar 14, 20176 min read


PMURT
Nobody wants to hear anything more about the US election or about its victor; but, just for the record, I'd like to make two...
Feb 27, 20172 min read


MEASURING WITH NO STANDARD
I don't think I understand the pending march on Washington. Some have said they're marching in the name of justice and in opposition...
Jan 20, 20173 min read


QUESTIONING QUESTIONED QUESTIONS
I've been mildly criticized of “never asking questions” of other people. This has been brought up several times over the last few years...
Jan 10, 20175 min read


WE ALL LIVE
At 37 I've watched many acquaintances and friends and much of my family die. I feel like I've seen the gamut, and in everyone from the...
Nov 3, 20168 min read


DAVE DIED
In early 2016 my father officially retired and at the same time his cancer started acting up. His blood was funky and his liver was...
Oct 31, 20166 min read
HOW TO BREAK A THING
The following is just the sort of thing I see that stops me in my tracks almost every day. Today I was walking past a large corporate...
Sep 26, 20163 min read

PHANTASIA?
It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...
Sep 1, 20164 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


POPULUS TREMULOIDES
Also known as white poplar, golden aspen, mountain aspen, quaking aspen, or Quakies, Populus tremuloides is a truly amazing organism. It...
Jun 1, 20164 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


BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...
Mar 11, 20169 min read

STICKING TO ONE’S GUNS
The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...
Feb 29, 20165 min read


MORE THAN JUST WORDS
I was sipping a delicious Trappist beer at my neighbourhood bar when two young couples pulled up at a table next to me. A newly married...
Feb 26, 20164 min read


“WEALTHIEST”
An interesting study came out the other day. It was an internal government research report comparing wealth accumulation trends by...
Feb 24, 20164 min read

STITCHES FOR PAPER-CUTS
Wow, this Valizedeh shit just won’t stop. In case you don’t know, Daryush Valizadeh (aka “Roosh”) is an American writer known (but mostly...
Feb 5, 20164 min read


SO MUCH HOT AIR
Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. I think of...
Jan 15, 20165 min read


I BELIEVE YOU
If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...
Dec 20, 20152 min read


THIS IS NOT THAT
Racism is a very serious allegation and we should be very harsh in our condemnation of acts of racism – even more so than we are today....
Nov 10, 20155 min read


EDUCATION GAP
It has been said my entire life that schools strongly favour boys while making a sport out of either passively neglecting or actively...
Oct 20, 20158 min read


TODAY'S CLIMATE RANT
It's not like we haven't been up against ecological catastrophe many times before in my short life. But in the past we just did it...
Aug 17, 20151 min read


THE DASH
Hamilton, Ontario. June 28, 2015. It's Sunday. Early. Summer warmth, richly saturated light, and the Carolinian morning chorus fill the...
Jun 29, 20152 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


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