Without sending my atheist and militantly agnostic readers into a tizzy wondering if I've gone full Old Testament, I want to pick up where...
Three years. Normally one might say a lot has changed in that time. But COVID-19 has turned all our lives upside down in the space of a...
That's not a very catchy headline, but it's a true expression of what I'm feeling about the Uncivil War between BC and Alberta over the...
I was in the middle of writing a rant on how everything's going to hell...and then Calgary went ahead and re-elected Nenshi. The idea...
(Salt Spring Islanders will hold a referendum September 9th on whether to incorporate as a municipality. With a year-round population...
Hello from Salt Spring Island. It’s another beautiful day here. One of the things I love about living here is, inherent in the culture, the understanding that having more than one way of viewing the world is normal, natural, and healthy. This understanding leads to another: that it’s perfectly acceptable for your...
Surely the end of Confederation, Pipelines, and Life As We Know It! I jest, of course… John Horgan has been sworn in as the 36th premier of BC. He and...
(In honour — or honor, for our American readers — of this weekend’s commemoration of the “fiftieth anniversary” of CKLW Radio, this is part two of my...
I don’t often write about radio. At its best, radio is theatre of the mind. It provides only sound. It requires the listener’s imagination to create...
This is an open letter to one wannabe and two current Alberta MLAs who should know better, from a former MLA who does. I’m ashamed of you. Here are a...
