HOW TO BREAK A THING
The following is just the sort of thing I see that stops me in my tracks almost every day. Today I was walking past a large corporate...
Sep 26, 20163 min read


PHANTASIA?
It was July 29, 2016 when I came across an amazing article written by Carl Zimmer, my favourite science writer. The piece, titled...
Sep 1, 20164 min read


MY CO-OP STORY
(First published by the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation) Like most thirty-somethings I've worked in many different fields: from...
Aug 31, 20162 min read


POPULUS TREMULOIDES
Also known as white poplar, golden aspen, mountain aspen, quaking aspen, or Quakies, Populus tremuloides is a truly amazing organism. It...
Jun 1, 20164 min read


BEING BORN
I only made it through the first season of Mad Men. As a television series set in an advertising firm at the end of the 1950s, I found it...
Mar 11, 20169 min read


STICKING TO ONE’S GUNS
The Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, produced and long and insufferable video diatribe on physician-assisted suicide. His...
Feb 29, 20165 min read


MORE THAN JUST WORDS
I was sipping a delicious Trappist beer at my neighbourhood bar when two young couples pulled up at a table next to me. A newly married...
Feb 26, 20164 min read


“WEALTHIEST”
An interesting study came out the other day. It was an internal government research report comparing wealth accumulation trends by...
Feb 24, 20164 min read


STITCHES FOR PAPER-CUTS
Wow, this Valizedeh shit just won’t stop. In case you don’t know, Daryush Valizadeh (aka “Roosh”) is an American writer known (but mostly...
Feb 5, 20164 min read


SO MUCH HOT AIR
Downplaying the Islamic State shows not only our lack of courage and compassion but also our failure to learn from the past. I think of...
Jan 14, 20165 min read


I BELIEVE YOU
If you told me, clearly and specifically, that you went to Hawaii to swim with the dolphins and turtles I would say you had swimming or...
Dec 20, 20152 min read


THIS IS NOT THAT
Racism is a very serious allegation and we should be very harsh in our condemnation of acts of racism – even more so than we are today....
Nov 10, 20155 min read


EDUCATION GAP
It has been said my entire life that schools strongly favour boys while making a sport out of either passively neglecting or actively...
Oct 19, 20158 min read


TODAY'S CLIMATE RANT
It's not like we haven't been up against ecological catastrophe many times before in my short life. But in the past we just did it...
Aug 16, 20151 min read


THE GREATEST CANADIAN
Tommy Douglas is widely considered one of the greatest ever Canadians. The story most of us know is that, as a social-democratic...
Jun 4, 20159 min read


MOPS AND COFFEE or CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
I thought the deal was that “privately owned productive enterprises, in a highly competitive marketplace, will produce ever-better...
May 29, 20157 min read


MIND THE GAP
In the last few weeks the media has been full of reports about the gender pay gap. Now, this issue has always bothered me, for its...
May 6, 201515 min read
ENTITLED MUCH?
An amazing new report was published by researchers out at UBC. Some of it you already know, but together and in detail I think it packs a...
Apr 14, 20153 min read











































































