October 2019

The fiction in our election

I have been torn about how to comment about the current federal election. I am struck by how emotional and fraught it is. But the most glaring characteristic is the amount of fiction the Conservatives base their platform on. In the past few days, they’ve started just making things up about their opponents legalizing hard […]

A message to Alberta's oil and gas workers

We hear you, Alberta. We get it. Unemployment is up. Earnings are down. You feel threatened. You feel your children’s future is threatened. We get it. We’ve been there, too. We all have. We all are, right now. Here’s the thing: as a civilization, we cannot afford to keep doing things the way we have […]