Featured

 
May 31  • 

DEJA VU

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 used to feel...

April 17  • 

WHAT IF THERE IS A GOD? AND SHE’S PISSED?

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 my last...


April 6  • 

POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE IN A TIME OF PLAGUE

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 month....

April 16  • 

THE PIPELINE DILEMMA

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 Trans Mountain...


October 20  • 

WINTER IS COMING, ER, UM..DELAYED

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 for this piece...

August 29  • 

STORM OVER SALT SPRING? OR HOT AIR RISING?

(Salt Spring Islanders will hold a referendum September 9th on whether to incorporate as a municipality. With a year-round population...


August 8  • 

OPEN LETTER TO ALBERTA

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...

July 19  • 

HORGAN SOCIALIST HORDE SWORN IN

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...


July 14  • 

THE THREE WHO MADE THE BIG 8 GREAT

(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...

July 13  • 

“AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING!”

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...