Feb 10, 20222 min read
NO, SERIOUSLY...
My question is: Has there been an international moratorium established to prevent the sharing of negative images, video, or audio of...
Feb 7, 20228 min read
WHAT IS GOING ON?
I’m politically, epidemiologically, and personally opposed to effectively everything even tangentially related to the Ottawa convoy and...
Feb 2, 202210 min read
HOW TO MAKE THINGS WORSE
I’m not in Ottawa and have no idea what happened or is happening with this 'trucker convoy' thing. I don't know who’s involved or not,...
Jan 27, 20227 min read
WATER IS LIFE
What is going on with the water situation in this country? For more than ten years now I’ve been hearing about serious drinking and...
Jan 23, 202217 min read
CHOOSE YOUR OWN REALITY
[A SOCIALLY DISTANCED PANDEMIC PUB QUIZ] 1) COVID-19 will: A) Soon be forgotten B) Decide to disregard natural and anthropogenic...
Jan 20, 20222 min read
TUBERCULOSIS
I know very little about past outbreaks and pandemics (other than a few half-anecdotes about some notable events like the 1854 Broad...
Jan 5, 202233 min read
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Conversations about carbon dioxide and energy have been unavoidable within environmental circles and are increasingly so in the media. In...
Nov 9, 20219 min read
THE NOUVEAU NIHILISTS or A RESPONSE TO “WHY YOU SHOULDN’T LISTEN TO SELF-SERVING OPTIMISTS…”
Someone shared with me an article by a senior lecturer in sociology from Lund University, Roland Paulsen . Therein Paulsen offers a...
Oct 21, 20216 min read
"92% EFFICACY"
I was having an argument with someone about how we report our COVID cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and deaths. My issue wasn’t...
Sep 2, 20215 min read
FAIRY CREEK or AVATAR?
Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...
Aug 25, 20215 min read
WHAT AM I MISSING?
We act as though seeking or divulging one’s vaccine status is simple and no big deal. I feel like it’s very complicated, more like a...
Aug 18, 20211 min read
WHY NOT BE THE ALTERNATIVE?
Dear Green Party of Canada, What if you dropped the misinformation, at least for official statements on key platform items. During...
Jul 31, 20216 min read
VACCINE EQUITY?
Editorials and Twitter threads have arrived weekly on the issue of global vaccine equity. They’re easy to find. Every major news source...
Jul 22, 20210 min read
Jul 21, 20216 min read
I'LL GIVE YOU TEN REASONS
As I’ve said all pandemic, I’m in support of very strict, even unpleasant, public health measures for combating COVID. But such measures...
Apr 29, 202111 min read
NO SENSE OF PLACE or HOW TO ERASE HISTORY AND CULTURE
In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...
Apr 21, 20215 min read
HUNGER
[ Preemptive proviso: This story is not actually about Climate Change ] "I believe I've discovered that the cause of climate change and...
Apr 18, 20215 min read
THESIS - CHAPTER FIVE - CONCLUSION
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on – in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world… Life is both dreadful and...
