Opinion General

When I first sat down to write this column I spent twenty minutes scrolling through BuzzFeed articles that were completely irrelevant — articles about dogs, about biodegradable coffins, about how the art work on the covers of Sweet Valley High novels rivals pornography. I don’t know why I wasted twenty minutes of my life doing...

Given the revelations from the Snowden archives that we now have proof-positive of Canadian government and corporate surveillance of virtually everything that Canadians (and others abroad) say and do, one might forgive Canadians for believing that we live in uniquely perilous times. The times are so perilous that we even share this data with the...

Judging by the comments we’ve received and noticed elsewhere, there’s an outrage boiling in Kamloops over the sentence and then appeal for a local man who struck and killed a woman in a crosswalk with his pickup truck in 2012. His six-month jail sentence was just reduced to house arrest, in part because a Supreme...

I stopped watching the Oscars when the Academy decided to keep stiffing Leonardo DiCaprio. Titanic I understand, but Gangs of New York? Blood Diamond? Wolf of Wall Street? The Beach? Like, there is a conspiracy in there somewhere. Several years ago, in lieu of watching the actual event, I tried to start a new tradition...

Writers are blessed (or damned) to be concerned constantly about language. We’re concerned about things like how our work is received by the reader, whether we are accurate in isolating on the paper or the screen something singular and unique that will be a turn-on for the reader. Maybe give them a little insight or...

If you didn’t know the name Selina Morrison before, chances are you do now. The Vernon woman, originally from Kelowna, has thrust herself into the spotlight and inspired a conversation we all need to have about domestic abuse. After enduring a frightening exchange with a boyfriend earlier this month, she lit up Facebook with personal...

When I was in my final semester of University — so long ago, yet somehow I’m still reaping the tax rewards — I was asked to give a presentation on a modern day Utopia. Almost everyone found obscure communes to profile — communities of people living in places such as Niland, California that I so...