I'm sitting here watching -- as you are -- the unfolding uprisings on the streets of six dozen American cities. And in my heart, where I...
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...
Here on Salt Spring Island, where the landscape is green and things are starting to bloom, it’s easy to forget that life in paradise brings with it the ever-present risk of catastrophe of one sort of another. The worst, of course, would be “The Big One” — a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the last one of which hit the...
(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...
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...
Greed > logic.
🧵It’s impossible to prepare yourself for the... first time your disabled child (or child with disability - depending on your preference) is excluded. My son has Down syndrome, exclusion is familiar. The specifics vary but the underlying reason is always the same. 1/9 #vanpoli
I didn't know the Edmonton downtown library was ...mobile...
