Oct 11, 202316 min read
THE SEA WE SWIM IN
I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...
Sep 29, 20233 min read
NO-SEE
No part of the narrative forming around this story even makes sense. That CBC is pushing this silly idea is, well, no surprise. With the...
Sep 28, 20235 min read
A GOOD WAR?
Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish...
Sep 19, 20233 min read
IT'S NOTHING LIKE THE RED SCARE
During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...
Aug 18, 20234 min read
FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
Aug 16, 20236 min read
“THIS IS HOW IT IS”
I imagine that it is as true for you as it is me that almost everything I thought I understood from prior education turned out to be far...
Aug 12, 20233 min read
(THE COMPLETELY FICTIONAL) CONTEXT FOR A STORY
The hawi derived all their power and influence from inherited privileges. Those privileges largely took the form of ownership of key...
Aug 1, 202311 min read
DON'T!
We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two...
Jul 30, 20232 min read
TIME STAMP
Today I was reminded that I had this weird conflict with my friends. We decided we wanted a stamp made to brand some paper bags for our...
Jul 28, 20237 min read
THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.” “July isn't...
Jul 21, 202310 min read
RÉSUMÉ
T’wi: You should let me look at your resume. Zah: Haven’t I? T’wi: Well that was a long time ago. Zah: Well, if I recall, you were...
Jul 13, 202311 min read
BUSINESS BUSINESS or TALKING WITH FRIENDS
Jean : You should just start a business. Wendal : I don’t think businesses are a thing. Tyson : Oh, here we go. Wendal : What I mean...
Jul 6, 20235 min read
INDUSTRY STANDARD
I’ve been looking at commercial and residential real estate numbers pretty regularly since 2016. When I was in Calgary at that time and...
Jun 25, 202312 min read
"IF IT'S SO AVAILABLE WHY ARE PEOPLE DYING MORE THAN EVER?"
I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “ BC mother runs across province...
Jun 15, 202317 min read
OBLIGATIONS, PRIORITIES, AND THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY or HOW TO DESTROY TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS
In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the...
Jun 11, 20239 min read
TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
May 28, 202311 min read
UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
May 26, 20234 min read
GIANT SADISTIC MURDER-DOLPHINS
The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many...
