Oct 26, 20221 min read
I'D LIKE A SALOON
Karl: I’d like to start a saloon. Yarl: Oh really? Karl: Oh yes. I've got it all sorted out. Yarl: I bet. Karl: The main floor is...
Oct 22, 202215 min read
THE COMMISSION HEARS FROM CITY AND PROVINCIAL POLICE
Days six and seven offered us more illuminating inquiry. The people running police operations in Ottawa knew what was coming,...
Oct 19, 202212 min read
QUESTIONING POLICE OVERSIGHT AND INTELLIGENCE
On day five of the inquiry, October 19th, we started hearing from executives within local and provincial policing and intelligence...
Oct 14, 202221 min read
SOME KIND OF INQUIRY
Much has been learned in the opening days of the Emergencies Act inquiry. Many surprises have come out, too. I’m so glad I wrote about...
Oct 1, 20228 min read
HÔPITAL Y
A short story by Lew Roeg-Roeg, recomposed and enShortened further still for modern sensibilities– It was a year. 2021, I think. France,...
Sep 20, 20225 min read
POLAR BEAR SNOW JOB
The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
DE-FAULT
Sometimes you fall apart. Sometimes you pass out. And you can break down or log off just any old time. Apparently. This is what the...
Aug 30, 20224 min read
CONSIGNED TO MALIGN
I'd gotten a text message from a friend telling me I should listen to this podcast from someone named Ezra Klein. I didn't know the...
Jul 16, 20222 min read
IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
David Suzuki used to have this metaphor he'd use when talking about climate change. He likened the problem and our inaction to a car...
Jul 1, 20222 min read
VARIATIONS
Margaret's grandmother, Florence, and great-uncle, Noel, built a small cedar cabin on a little lake in British Columbia’s Interior back...
Jun 24, 20221 min read
WHAT TO DO WITH PUBLIC MONEY
With all this talk about museums, I'd like to review our publicly owned Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (read: interprovincial...
Jun 17, 20221 min read
BACKWARDS AND UPSIDE DOWN
We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...
Jun 8, 20223 min read
VIRGINIA WOOLF: TWITTER'S PATRON
Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...
May 26, 202221 min read
SHE LOVES HER GUNS
After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson , professor of nineteenth-century American history at...
May 12, 20224 min read
WHY YOU TRANSMIT
Twenty-nine months into this pandemic I'm still running into folks who think that being immunized means they're immune to infection and...
May 5, 20227 min read
FROM MEDIAN INCOME TO MONEY LAUNDERING
I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....
Apr 14, 202227 min read
OBVIOUS LIES
As someone with little understanding of the region, beyond the occasional news article and reading Applebaum's excellent Red Famine, I’ve...
Mar 31, 20228 min read
WHAT ARE WE SEEING?
I'm seeing mostly egregious war reporting and from every channel. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, ludicrous claims are continuously...
