- Jun 26, 2023
- 12 min
"IF IT'S SO AVAILABLE WHY ARE PEOPLE DYING MORE THAN EVER?"
I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “BC mother runs across province...
- Jun 16, 2023
- 17 min
OBLIGATIONS, PRIORITIES, AND THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY or HOW TO DESTROY TRUST IN OUR INSTITUTIONS
In order to have a civilization we need to have trust in our institutions. I think that’s irrefutable. But are those institutions and the...
- Jun 12, 2023
- 9 min
TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
- May 29, 2023
- 11 min
UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
- May 27, 2023
- 4 min
GIANT SADISTIC MURDER-DOLPHINS
The killer whale is the largest known species of dolphin. This exposes its common name as a rather silly one. ( Silly, just like so many...
- May 21, 2023
- 9 min
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 16, 2023
- 6 min
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 29, 2023
- 7 min
ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the...
- Apr 19, 2023
- 8 min
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 3, 2023
- 5 min
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...