JOSEPH TRUTCH was an odious man. He was racist not only in word but in action. As B.C.’s pre-Confederation land commissioner, he was contemptuous of Indigenous people, used [Continue]
THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]
I FILLED OUT MY CENSUS questionnaire last week. So did you, probably. Some households got the long form, but mine got the short one, which was a bit like opening War and [Continue]
GOOD NEWS: I thought I was lazy, but it turns out I’m an environmental superhero. Suzuki should wear my picture on a T-shirt. What I refer to is my inadvertent adherence to [Continue]
SOME ROADSIDE MEMORIALS bring you down. They drag you into somebody else’s grief, an unwanted reminder that a tragic death happened right here. Often the impromptu shrines [Continue]
I GOT THE ASTRAZENECA this week. Failed to clot up and croak, which will disappoint some readers. My arm was sore for a couple of days, but I put that down to Bill Gates [Continue]