Ahhh…blogging. So rewarding. So time consuming. After much deliberation, I’ve decided that it’s time for Boreal Citizen to come to an end. It’s already past due, drawn out by the encouragement of kind people, new subscribers, and friends who clicked “share” ten minutes after publication, making my efforts feel worthwhile.
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Boreal Citizen: Can reason and secularism protect kids from anti-science rhetoric (and build a better society)?
When it comes to teaching my kids about the world, I never assumed science would be a top priority. Yet these days I find myself spending little time focusing on language, instead opting for discussions about things like gravity, the solar system and human evolution. This is partly due to
Continue readingBoreal Citizen: Lessons from Big Tobacco: When the right to make money trumps the right to clean air
In Manitoba, beach-goers fed up with cigarette butt litter and drifting plumes of smoke have reason to celebrate. The province is the first in Canada to make beaches and playgrounds in provincial parks smoke-free. Now, imagine traveling back in time, and showing that headline to somebody in the 1960s when smoking
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