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...
Mar 17, 20226 min read
YOU ARE NOT HERE
I’m sure we can all agree about much on the humanitarian side of this Russia/Ukraine thing. The attacks on civilian infrastructure,...
Mar 11, 20227 min read
'IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO WORK'
It’s always a mistake to read the news. Reading local news tends to be worse still. I know this and yet I do it anyway. Here’s just one...
Mar 6, 202211 min read
TRAFFICKING
There have been a bunch of human trafficking cases in the news here in Canada in recent weeks and months. As ever, reading all these...
Feb 28, 20226 min read
WHAT I LEARNED IN UNIVERSITY
Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...
Feb 24, 202216 min read
SCALE AND PERSPECTIVE
Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...
Feb 21, 20223 min read
TO WATCH
This is a list of films I'd like you to watch. Some of these will blow your mind or lift your spirit; some are more like a pleasant...
Feb 20, 20223 min read
ORGANIC? MAYBE NOT...
It's easy to find folks promoting organic. Abundant are claims that organic farming reduces environmental pollutants and greenhouse gas...
Feb 17, 202213 min read
THA, WTF!
Go listen to episode five of The Trojan Horse Affair podcast; or even just episode five, titled A Study in Scarlett . This is some of...
Feb 14, 20227 min read
A DIET FOR THE 21st CENTURY?
Food and nutrition fads come and go all the time. We often hear folks excited about learnings they've had around what to eat and what to...
Feb 11, 202217 min read
ADHD, OBVIOUSLY
What is up with this attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) fad sweeping North America? Are you also seeing this everywhere you...
