The Day of Reckoning | Jun 13, 2021

On the banks of the South Thompson River, in a valley surrounded by semi-arid hillsides, the wind blows unobstructed. Neither crosses nor tombstones…

"I want my old life back" | May 2021

Next to my desk there is a drawing pinned to my corkboard…

The Murder of Leo Santostefano | April 2021

I have debated whether to write about a family friend of ours, who in the early hours of Sunday March 7 was found dead on the outskirts of Canada’s…

The Explorer | March 2021

Some half a billion kilometres from this earth, deep in the dark expanse, as she neared that celestial crimson sphere, Perseverance must have felt it to…

Is the plague tired yet? | February 2021

IN THE YEAR 430 B.C., a plague emerged from Ethiopia, spilled over the adjacent Persian empire, and soon marched toward the almighty city-state of…

The Hit and Run on American Democracy | January 2021

When the pro-Trump protesters left the White House, before they transformed into a mob of insurgents and thugs, when they were nothing but a moving sea…

The Great Rogue Wave of 2020 | December 2020

In the dark and roiling sea that was 2020, back when we had only barely begun to embark upon her troubled waters, before coronavirus had hit our…

November 2020

Where are you, Leonard? | November 2020

Leonard Cohen died just hours before the 2016 election…