Medical services poverty program
Readers of an age to receive a monthly Old Age Security cheque will be thrilled to notice a 57¢ increase in January. As I mentioned on Twitter, cautious saving of…
January 2016
The next Burnaby Mountain? Site C Dam opponents dig in their heels
Could civil disobedience and arrests be the missing ingredient in the battle to halt Site C Dam? Things are getting interesting with the occupation by First Nations and supporters of…
Jan. 7: How time flies when you’re having fun.
It is now 2 p.m., and my breakfast copy of the Moncton Times and Transcript has yet to arrive. However, there is enough news around so we can get along…
Frameworks
Frameworks are sets of definitions, ideas about how things relate to each other, construed relationships, or even (especially!) of other frameworks, with which people make sense of phenomena and of…
Impact of Site C Dam on B.C. Farmland Far More Dire Than Reported, Local Farmers Show
Clay and Katy Peck are just the type of young farming family that B.C. Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says his government wants to support to ensure “a reliable food source…
Why the rush to spend billions?
BC Hydro's own sales records demonstrate Site C is not needed. Domestic consumption of electricity has been flat for more than a decade and technological efficiencies indicate we will need…
Classical ukelele
My sister plays a short tune Autocorrect corrects Ukelele to Useless.
The Litmus Test
Two renegade members of council broke the town’s Code of Conduct by sending out an unauthorized media release to defend their own, personal positions – but presented them as “town”…
Activism, Accompaniment, and Being in a New City
A perennial question: How should I act next in the world to create the change that I need, that you need, that the world needs? The shape of the question…
Activism, Accompaniment, and Being in a New City
A perennial question: How should I act next in the world to create the change that I need, that you need, that the world needs? The shape of the question…
Activism, Accompaniment, and Being in a New City
A perennial question: How should I act next in the world to create the change that I need, that you need, that the world needs? The shape of the question…
Tea while waiting
One of those days while waiting is enforced upon me, I can sit at TeaHaus and have tea, with some buffalo milk cheddar, the first cheese in months. The next…
Charlie Hebdo – the Fight for Free Speech
To: The Rebel. This One's For You.
Why Justin Trudeau’s Honeymoon Will Continue
Yesterday I tried to explain why I believe it's going to be very hard for the Cons and their friends in the media, to dent Justin Trudeau's popularity.Or end his…
On common values
There's reason to be wary about the Libs' handling of the Senate, as Thomas Walkom writes in his latest column. But it's also worth noting that contrary to Walkom's conflation…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Justin Fox explores why it took the economic field in general (with some noteworthy exceptions) decades to start dealing with burgeoning inequality. And…
Quick black cat on a couch.
Just something abstract unto pure pattern. Camouflage. This is why tuxedo cats can hide in the dark and in the light at the same time. Sometimes the fill tool is…
New column day
Here, on how people generally have a better idea about the facts underlying our political choices than they suggest in response to an ordinary poll - and how we can…
Why does Canada Post continue to distribute Holocaust denial and white supremacy?
Because they do. Just this week, in fact. Here’s an extract from the latest issue of Your Ward News, distributed this week by Canada Post to tens of thousands of…