- Sep 4
- 5 min
HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
- Aug 3
- 9 min
DIRECTIONS
Narendra : They’re not trying to hide anything from you, though. Adrenalina : Aren’t they? Narendra : They would if they could. For...
- Jun 1
- 3 min
MISNOMER
I don’t know how I got here. Somehow I developed this crazy belief that firefighters fought fires. Crazy, right? My bad. Per capita,...
- Apr 18
- 9 min
SOLVED
Last September the CMHC came out with a study suggesting that for Canada to reach housing affordability last seen 20 years ago “an...
- Apr 17
- 5 min
REDUCTION OR PRODUCTION?
If you’re the chief coroner, hold an executive position in public health, or are the independent representative for children and youth or...
- Apr 12
- 2 min
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...
- Apr 2
- 6 min
CREDIT SCORE?
CBC - Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Wow. It's almost impossible for me to make sense of the level of detachment...
- Mar 5
- 18 min
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw...
- Feb 19
- 7 min
NO-CYCLE
In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling. I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent...
- Feb 14
- 3 min
IS THAT WHAT WE NEEDED?
I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...