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On April 12th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld sent George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice and email titled “Predicting the Future.” The...

CBC - Federal plan would count rent toward a credit score. Wow. It's almost impossible for me to make sense of the level of detachment...

Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw in the previous year. In 2019, our already staggeringly high death count climbed again, approaching 1,000 drug overdoses. That was a level of deaths here in BC that formed what was seen as a kind of last straw for those in public health and advocacy. This caused the province to redouble the harm reduction efforts and make many radical new cha

In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling .  I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent strategies, and so much problem-solving passion to be found, as a society we’ve only ever seemed to make the plastics pollution and single-use situation far worse.

I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC. Exploring these themes further, I just...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

Though I bought " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now did I finish reading it. ( You should go buy five copies .) Obviously, as the title suggests, it's a book about transforming our society with a reorientation toward a concern for climate and addressing the problems we face. In spelling out just how all this will work, the author starts by quoting Gramsci. * And, well, it goes downhill fast from there. Am

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

I saw a “safe supply” rally yesterday in Victoria. And I read this article about it this morning, titled “ BC mother runs across province...

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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For eighty years humans have lived under the threat of a nuclear exchange between superpowers, intended or unintended. Despite the elapsed time, many still consider this threat to be at the top of their list of global concerns and something that continues to keep them up at night — and much more so as of late . Others have never learned or largely forgotten that their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents rigged the whole of the northern hemisphere with these highest

So, Canadian real estate. Yeah. The prices in Canadian residential real estate went from an already obscene high in 2020 to a peak 40% higher in 2022. (By contrast, Australia, another one of the hottest housing markets on the planet, only grew by 25% at this time.) Such a large jump in such a short period resulted in wacky valuations — within the context of a supremely screwball marketplace built on insane valuations. As a result, the credit ratings giant Fitch Ratings has e

I began hearing about faulty braking as the cause of the train derailment in Ohio starting on February 8th. More specifically David Sirota , Julia Rock , Rebecca Burns , and Matthew Cunningham-Cook published a piece in The Lever titled Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment . It starts:

In a first-year Canadian History course, I was made to debate the invocation of the War Measures Act and the internment of "enemy aliens"...

AS I HEARD THEM: So Commissioner Rouleau, for the record, my name is Sujit Choudhry and I’m counsel for the Canadian Constitution...

COUNSEL: Today in your evidence, you talked about the economic and financial consequences of the protests. And you talked about the...

Counsel Miller questioned former Deputy Minister of Public Safety Rob Stewart. Stewart had testified about the threshold needing to be...