May 20, 20239 min read
COMPASSION AND CLEAN DRUGS
BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...
May 15, 20236 min read
USER EXPERIENCE
A true story — 5:51 AM — Me: “Hi. There’s a problem with my bill.” Them: “Thank you for contacting the [REDACTED]. Merci d'avoir...
Apr 28, 20237 min read
ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the...
Apr 18, 20238 min read
STRIKE
More than 155,000 public servants under the Public Service Alliance of Canada have set up picket lines across the country. On the service...
Apr 2, 20235 min read
THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...
Apr 2, 20236 min read
UBER TEACHER
Letter to Blair Épinal, Lorraine, France : ...I’m sure I told you about this outdoor education program I was hired on for. I don’t think...
Mar 17, 20238 min read
BESMIRCHING THE TRUTH
Though this was clear to anyone paying attention, we now have some details from behind-the-scenes of the rampant, wide-spread,...
Mar 15, 20233 min read
ANNELID DINE-IN
Kurl : Ice ages and droughts, tornadoes and floods, they're all absurd chaos. Kahronna : Yes, but it’s there, as Cornel West reminds...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
WHY DOUBLE?
An article about housing affordability popped up in my news feed. From Business in Vancouver, it was titled British Columbians need to...
Feb 23, 20234 min read
FRAUD? WHAT FRAUD?
So, Canadian real estate. Yeah. The prices in Canadian residential real estate went from an already obscene high in 2020 to a peak 40%...
Feb 20, 20235 min read
OFF THE RAILS
I began hearing about faulty braking as the cause of the train derailment in Ohio starting on February 8th. More specifically David...
Feb 16, 20237 min read
"WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORING THIS?"
This is a curious phenomenon I’ve been following for more than a decade now. It happens around everything from environmental issues (such...
Feb 10, 20233 min read
WHAT'S UP WITH WEED?
Recently I read the pot market more than doubled during the pandemic. And yet almost everywhere a weed shop stood in this town in 2018...
Jan 8, 20236 min read
HOW ARE SEA STARS DOING?
You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....
Jan 1, 202310 min read
TADZIMAS
Quinita: Typhoid is rampant. QUINT.INA > Rampant everywhere across the globe. Has been for years now. Quinita: It's generally accepted...
Dec 28, 20223 min read
YOUTH SUICIDES PLUMMET WITH SCHOOL CLOSURES
There's a Vancouver MD named Tyler Black who I've been following for some time. He's an emergency psychiatrist who studies suicide in...
Dec 20, 20223 min read
"DOOMSDAY GLACIER"
IS THIS HELPING ANYTHING? • The “Doomsday Glacier” Is Irreversibly Melting, Researchers Say “It could fall apart quickly, in decades.”...
Dec 8, 202257 min read
YOUR DEFINITIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE EXAMINATION (OF TREMENDOUS SIGNIFICANCE AND PROPORTIONS)
EMERGENCIES ACT COMMISSION EDITION This is a special test. It's a learner-centered knowledge assessment in which studying and marking...
