Is Canada a Tyranny?

Aristotle on Justin Trudeau.

Pop-up ‘Speakeasy’ at Denver Homeless Encampment

Under investigation for prostitution.

Some Canadian School Libraries Ban All Books Published Prior to 2008

In ‘equity-based’ weeding process.

Canada Teaches MDs

To become killing specialists.

Orwell Would Loathe Today’s Left

He slammed the bourgeois intellectuals of his day for their intolerance and insularity. 

Activist Breaks Elbow

Discovers ‘typing things’ is a form of oppression.

Nature Is Always Listening

The science of mushrooms, music, and how sound waves stimulate mycelial growth.

The Pirate Preservationists

When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law.

To Hell With Woke Publishers

The gatekeepers of the creative industry are riddled with a nasty strain of identity politics.

What Have New York’s Drug-Use Sites Accomplished?

A lot, say supporters, but the data suggest otherwise.

A Fairytale Wooden World

Soviet country cottages in pictures. 

Control for Surrender

Henry Miller’s stunning letter to Anaïs Nin about the value of and the antidote to despair.

Justin Trudeau’s Luck

Appears to be running out.

Why More Baby Boomers Are Sliding Into Homelessness

The aging of America means more old people on fixed incomes are overwhelmed by the high cost of housing and other financial shocks; ‘not seen since the Great Depression.’

‘Empty Shelves with Absolutely No Books’

Students, parents question school board’s library weeding process.

‘Shame On All Of You’

Toronto businessman decries city’s decline into violence.

CBC Has 144 corporate Directors

Making six-figure salaries.

Milan Kundera on the Power of Coincidences and the Musicality

Of how chance composes our lives.

US Boy Correctly Diagnosed By ChatGPT

After 17 doctors over 3 years failed to do so.

Las Vegas is the Future of the West

Our trivial dystopia.

A Modern Exodus

Renters leave Portland for the suburbs in droves.

Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s Love Poem to Life

At the horizon of death.

Mary Oliver’s Advice

On writing.

Enough Is Enough

For Pierre Poilievre and Conservatives on the rise.

Doctor Shortage Delaying Care at Nanaimo Hospital

Lack of doctors has been particularly felt this month at NRGH.

If Your Kid Can’t Read This, Thank a Teachers Union

Teachers insisted their jobs were not ‘essential.’ They were right.

Leo Tolstoy

On finding meaning in a meaningless world.

How More Homeless Encampments in Ontario

Signal a housing crisis out of control.

What Is Time

200 years of ravishing reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone.