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A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf  necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.”

I've heard and seen some wild shit this week. (Though I probably shouldn't, I'll leave out the most insane anti-Semitic noise and...

During the Red Scare and adjacent insanity , that terrible decade of right-wing propaganda, paranoia, and political persecution born of...

The hawi derived all their power and influence from inherited privileges. Those privileges largely took the form of ownership of key...

We moved into a new place. The first strata council meeting eventually arrived. My partner had been anticipating the event for two months, was eager to go, and I was thrilled for her to represent. I was also happy to opt out. She reported back that I was the only one not in attendance, that she explained my absence to the group as “He doesn’t like meetings,” and that the secretary noted this in the Council’s minutes. I thought all of that was funny. I recounted it to friends

BC’s Chief Coroner, Lisa Lapointe, came out in defence of “safe supply.” Safe supply being the tack recently adopted by the province to...

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I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...

Recently I read the pot market more than doubled during the pandemic. And yet almost everywhere a weed shop stood in this town in 2018...

The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...

I'd gotten a text message from a friend telling me I should listen to this podcast from someone named Ezra Klein. I didn't know the...

With all this talk about museums, I'd like to review our publicly owned Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project (read: interprovincial...

We may have reached peak nonsense; that, or I'm suffering a catastrophic stroke. Today I awoke and the first two things I read were from...

Folks of all temperaments and occupations keenly share their belief that the Information Age is uniquely foolhardy and strident. They...

After America's most recent and notable mass shooting, Heather Cox Richardson , professor of nineteenth-century American history at...

I've been writing about this for twenty years and it's as excruciatingly tiresome as it is bleak, like watching a slow motion immolation....

Perhaps the most important lessons I learned in university were not part of any curriculum or found in an assigned reading. They also...