This is Systemic Street Safety
The video above demonstrates how communities can transition from an unhealthy, vehicle focused, urban design to a healthy pedestrian design. Regular readers of this site know that streets designed for…
March 2018
Column: as with Trump, what if they won by cheating?
It almost seems kind of quaint, doesn’t it? Back when the Conservative Party was running things, the commentariat were apoplectic about something called CIMS: the Constituent Information Management System (CIMS).…
Greater Sudbury Councillors Dismisses Public Participation in Land Use Process – Equates Public Participants with Saboteurs
This is getting out of hand. Here we have an elected official – someone who actually gets to vote on the official plan amendment and rezoning applications to permit a…
Choosing champions.
One of the aspects of populism that confuses people is that they can come from the left or the right or any other part of the political spectrum. Typically, the…
Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta budget
On March 22, the NDP government of Rachel Notley tabled the 2018 Alberta budget. I’ve written a blog post discussing some of the major ‘take aways’ from the standpoint of…
in ontario election, the choice is clear. put down the polls and pick up your vote.
I am very frustrated by progressive reaction to the appointment of Doug Ford as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. People are acting as if Ford has already won…
Unsolved crimes, a cold case file
BC residents who read comments here and like places in social media will be familiar with the very articulate Lew Edwardson (@valtamtech on Twitter). Lew has had a particular interest…
An Evening with Michelle Obama
Last Friday Ms Soapbox and her friend spent an intimate evening with Michelle Obama. True, we were packed into the Stampede Corral with 6000 other people, but as soon as…
Democracy Under Attack. Are You Ready to Fight Back?
Once again we need to look at what’s happening in the United States and decide whether we will allow it to happen here. There’s now clear evidence that a hostile…
How to deal with online assholes
I’ve been doing this web stuff – it’s a web site, people, not a blog – for almost two decades. At the start, I didn’t have comments – partly because…
We’re Just a Bunch of Monkeys
I wanted to write something in anticipation of the inevitable Left vs Right commentary that will be forthcoming on the Alberta Budget debates. However, I have not really read the…
We’re Just a Bunch of Monkeys
I wanted to write something in anticipation of the inevitable Left vs Right commentary that will be forthcoming on the Alberta Budget debates. However, I have not really read the…
We’re Just a Bunch of Monkeys
I wanted to write something in anticipation of the inevitable Left vs Right commentary that will be forthcoming on the Alberta Budget debates. However, I have not really read the…
Words from the ‘Sacrifice Zone’: Caleb Behn on How B.C. is Failing First Nations on Fracking
When the B.C. government announced its promised review of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, earlier this month, it came as a shock to many that it wouldn’t examine human health impacts.…
Are We Witnessing the Resurrection of "The Project"?
In 2006, I succumbed to a moment of hubris and announced the death of neo-conservatism, broken on the wheel of ruinous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The horrific experiment that…
Lost Tumblr found!
Stumbled on my lost Samupress Tumblr at Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20160325060311/http://dougsamu.tumblr.com/ Just an ordinary Tumblr, really. Typically the reposts and likes are interesting though.
Our Least Recognized Existential Threat – Over Consumption
We tend to hear a lot about climate change and a fair bit about overpopulation but we hear less about our rapacious and, for the moment, growing over consumption of…