I’ve been feeling a bit bereft of blogposts lately. Not because I haven’t been thinking about a lot of things, responding internally to recent events, or processing my life as I always do – but because it’s seemed like too much is going on internally to attempt external synthesis in nice, concise postings about this [...]
Well this is exciting. A little good news for a change. Once again the BC Supreme Court has found Canadian drug laws to be unconstitutional. It’s not the first time it’s happened, but in this case it will grant Insite (Vancouver’s safe injection site) a reprieve until next summer when the courts expect to [...]
I’m at the airport surfing public wireless as I type this. On my way to Ottawa for another week of bargaining and feeling mildly resentful about leaving home on a holiday, though I suspect the week will go quickly. With about 15 minutes to go before boarding I thought I would throw something out here [...]
An East Van fact – the traditional name for the area now called Grandview-Woodlands in the tongue of the Squamish Nation is XapXapay’ay or Xpey’elhp [hon'qo'mi'nom'] both of which refer to cedar trees. As one commentator on tribe noted, it is likely that East Van was a place where large cedars were stripped down for [...]
Medellín – so badly desiring to capture this place between these pages and also know the impossibility of it. It is noisy and dangerous, polluted, and crowded with throngs of people mostly going in circles – the dispossessed caught in the bowl that is the base of this city. Where Pablo Escobar once ruled is [...]
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