The topic of their ire? The City of Calgary’s noise bylaw! What’s with that, anyway? Over the weekend, prominent Conservative political figures including Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- A.R. Moxon writes about the desperate need for a radical reshaping of both stories and substantive policy when even the most modest challenge…
If you have ever offered a back-handed compliment to your children knowing that they will not catch it while the adults in the room all snort, then you understand what…
National Indigenous People's Day is this Sunday! Above is Cree/European artist Rachel Drager’s logo chosen by the Fraser River Indigenous Society to represent National Indigenous Peoples Day. In celebration of…
Fathers are tricky businessSome of us love and revere themFeel their presence in all we are as individuals, Or find ourselves bedamned by the weaknesses we see in them that…
I have been thinking about writing on freedom of religion for awhile but have not been able to develop a framework for my thoughts so I decided to just set…
This is part of a series on potential paths of legal challenge for anti-transgender laws in Canada: Anti-Transgender Laws Are Jim Crow LawsLegal Challenges of an Anti-Transgender LawIn the first…
In the Letters section of today’s Vancouver Sun, readers will find me disputing the notion that recent drops in overdose deaths can be attributed to the provincial government’s rejection of…
This is Evi in the little front garden, on the watch for interesting flying insects. You'll note she's wearing a harness and on a leash. That's because we don't want…
The whole Trump administration is summed up by what has happened with that Reflecting Pool. It is a metaphor for everything wrong with Trump. The following chain of events is…
Send ‘a strong signal that Canada works’ NDP Opposition leader urges PM Mark Carney in letter Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi called yesterday on Ottawa to step in and use the…
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I recently gave a presentation titled “What I’ve learned from other countries’ battles with homelessness.” A ‘top 10’ overview of the presentation can be found here:
Vancouver went slightly mad today, and took the rest of the country with them. View on Threads This is the Red Sea of Canada supporters at the World Cup. Each…
People with rust in their arteries (like me) probably remember a song that was briefly popular in 1969...
Premier Danielle Smith’s pathetic $100 Dani Dollars gambit having flopped miserably with pretty well everyone on Wednesday, Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government plunged ahead yesterday with its previously announced scheme…
Most people would not be surprised to learn that computer data centres need a lot of electricity and water for cooling. “The federal government, and some provinces, have been actively…
Recently, I finished the first iteration of The Ascension of Mont Royal, a dystopian science fiction novel, audiobook, and story-cast: a serialized audiovisual narration of the story. The project took…
Richard Dawkins is no stranger to shaking the cultural tree to see what falls out. In 2024, Dawkins was interviewed by Rachel Johnson on British TV. He noted in that…
Well, he has just become a trillionaire, one of the many reasons Elon Musk must feel chuffed these days. Being a master of the universe is surely a heady experience,…
