March 20 2020 The Vancouver Park Board is closing its playgrounds across the city and reminding Vancouverites about the importance of social distancing when visiting parks and beaches during the…
Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be…
How we see our lives and how we expect things to go for us is life or death right now, sanity or madness. This has been an emotionally exhausting week!…
My gaze fell on my air purifier this morning, the unit I bought to keep seasonal wildfire smoke under control in my house. It’s the same model as the one…
It wasn’t money that fueled Joe Biden’s come-from-behind victory in the Democratic primaries. Of the final seven candidates, Biden’s spending was dead last. Outgunned on the airwaves and out-organized on…
Lately I’ve been thinking about fragility. About how we are all connected by caring and how very, very lucky I am to be alive. It feels almost accidental. The images…
There’s nothing like a crisis to shine a light on the cracks in our socioeconomic systems. As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, people in Canada and around the world are being…
With every responsible, mature adult practicing social distancing and self-isolation these days, it means spending lots of time at home, alone or within the small family unit. Trying for some,…
Welcome to the Vernal Equinox. May spring bring better things. Last week was a tough year. I decided to dial back on my anxiety a little for today and just…
SFH at the Bovine. This’ll likely be our last show for a long, long time.
I just ran a workshop/facilitate this morning for a number of the Chief Digital Officers from several European capital cities to help them share best practices and shared challenges in…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Adam Tooze writes that the coronavirus pandemic has offered a reminder that the economy (particularly defined in terms of shareholders’ interests) can’t be…
The New York Times has posted an animated graphic of how Covid-19 has spread through the United States. A picture really does beat a thousand words. Maggie Haberman discusses the…
As waves of shelter-in-place orders sweep over the continent, Canada and the US must figure out how to support an entire population thrown into unemployment and in need of food,…
This social distancing/self-isolating thing is going to get tiresome if it’s not already. If you’re like me you may wonder how long you can live out of your pantry. The…
The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick reckons we can come out the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic a lot smarter. It might even allow us to take a grown-up attitude…
Scott Clark and Peter DeVries write that we are headed for a very large deficit. But it’s manageable: It won’t be long before people will start asking about what all…
The photo was taken 10 days ago when we were enjoying our escapade in Quebec City, on Wednesday, March 11 just after the sun came out to shine splendidly after…
A lot of people seem to agree with this. Hope I’m wrong. Does anyone feel, as I increasingly do, that the United States is going to be hit very very…
Experiencing a pandemic in real time is surreal. The culture industry machine has pre-transcribed such events in multiple movies, books, and comics. Read the rest of this post on the…
