RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE
So, let’s talk about recycling. Do you recycle? Of course you do, you're not some kind of barbarian! When Vancouver first implemented its...
May 11, 20117 min read
WHO’S COUNTING?: MISREPRESENTATION, FORCED VOTES, and SPOILED BALLOTS
Most folks I know, many of whom tend to avoid political discussion most of the time, can get pretty passionate about elections and voting...
Apr 11, 201121 min read
DISAGREEING WITH FEMINIST JOURNALISTS or HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE
In the April 1st edition of Victoria’s Times Colonist, Jody Paterson wrote an article about a horrific sexual assault that took place in...
Apr 2, 201112 min read
CULTURAL HERITAGE, CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural heritage is another of those sticky concepts I get hung up on. Having looked over the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...
May 21, 20104 min read
PRESCRIPTIONS
What I love the most about the Ten Commandments is that those stone tablets, we are told, were the only time God (G-d, Elohim, Yahweh,...
Apr 9, 20108 min read
THE DOOR
Alas, it was New Year's Eve and, against my keen hermit instincts and all logical reasoning, I had agreed to go out and “party”, whatever...
Jan 30, 201016 min read
MY KIND OF ADVENT CALENDAR
1) “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857 as a Thanksgiving song 2) Gift giving at Christmas was banned by the Catholic Church for being a...
Dec 1, 20093 min read
THERE ARE TWO OF ME AND ONE OF THEM IS YOU
(Landa went to sleep early, the same way she did every night. She awakes in a hospital room.) Nope. [twelve minute pause] Nope. [eight...
Nov 5, 20097 min read
NOISE POLLUTION
Defining noise in a truly satisfactory way is a complicated issue. In his book The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of...
Sep 23, 200913 min read
WHAT MORE COULD ONE WANT?
It was Wednesday February 7th, 2001, when Munro and I landed in Singapore. We arrived just after midnight, after more than nineteen hours...
Jun 2, 200965 min read
ONE-SIDED
Saturday 01.01.2000 CNS, Breathe deeply. Keep your eyes well ahead. Watch the skies and be very careful what you wish for. Stay...
Apr 9, 200838 min read
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
It was the first day of June and the Krauss family had just moved into the neighbourhood. They seemed quite normal – friendly even. After...
Mar 14, 20088 min read
THE END OF THE BEGINNING
My ex and I had been together six years when she was given an offer to do her PhD in Australia, all expenses paid. Though doing a PhD was...
Dec 20, 200710 min read
LIKE A BIRD
A predominantly true story: “Do you know this game that came out some time ago, called 'Spore'?” Sue asks. Marcus hesitates, adjusting...
Nov 9, 20079 min read
COMEDY
Following the style of T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, I've attempted to create a dramatic stream of consciousness...
Sep 28, 20073 min read
