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I barely wrote at all last year, but my editor and partner managed to find a few (possibly) worthy of a best-of post. Thus,  this page has b...

In a country of 35 million Jian Ghomeshi: was known to be a sexual harasser and a sexual assailant; was employed by the CBC; remained employ...

Many years back, I used to blog about a phenomenon called fascist shift . I borrowed the term from Naomi Wolf 's essential  The End of A...

Remember the war resisters I used to blog about all the time? It may surprise you to learn that many are still in Canada. And are still figh...

When we dropped off Tala and Diego for their vacation, a film crew from Breakfast Television was there. The results are here , and Diego is...

We spent our last day in Oregon poking around downtown Ashland, looking at scarves and jewelry and used books. We don't shop much when w...

This morning we woke up at 3:45 a.m., packed up the car with binoculars, cameras, sandwiches, and coffee, and drove two hours in the dark. A...

This is the view from my brother and sister-in-law's new home in Oregon. Last year B+SIL retired, pull up stakes, sold their home in New...

This was an eventful day! We started at the Acme Cafe , for another BOGO breakfast. The food is great even without the discount. But a free ...

Our last day in Vancouver was a full one. It included a library, great art, a meet-up with an activist-friend... and noodles! I didn't w...

Another beautiful day here, sunny with a few clouds and a high of 10 or 11 C. Vancouverites are all exclaiming about three consecutive days ...

On Tuesday morning after breakfast we were finally able to see the pups on the webcam, so the day started out right. After a quick breakfast...

We forgot to pack Allan's netbook and my little Bluetooth keyboard for my tablet isn't working, so this is going to be interesting. ...

I struggle to find time to write even a small fraction of what I'd like to post here. But there's one thing I'll always write ab...

About a month ago, I received an email from a film producer: Netflix is making a documentary about Americans who moved to Canada for politic...

I've had a longstanding interest in prison libraries, and was happy to meet another librarian-friend who shares this. But I was very ple...

Goodbye. A while back, I announced that Allan and I were going to try weeding our books and CD collection. A few months passed until we cou...

I attended OLA * for only one day this year, partly because I'm already missing so much work for bargaining and other union business, an...

How do we know that the oxygen exists, and that oxygen is different from carbon dioxide? Well, we know it because we've been taught thos...

When this came out, I hung the cover on my bedroom wall.   Sharing memories of David Bowie, as so many of us were after his too-early death ...