Think City Electoral Reform Survey

I’m reprinting this from Think City’s last email message out. Please read and participate! ————- Vancouver and many other BC municipalities suffer from declining voter turnout, the taint of big money influence on elections, a lack of neighbourhood accountability, and a host of other democratic challenges. But the laws governing local elections are going to [...]

Liam Reads me Bedtime Stories

On a lighter note, last night Liam decided that he wanted to read me bedtime stories, rather than the other way around. I, of course, took an iPhone video of him “reading” to me: Story 1: 10 Halloween Trick or Treaters Story 2: Curious George at the Chocolate Factory I had asked for “Curious George [...]

Fear of Random Public Death at the Olympics

I have many Gen X friends, those friends who are just a little older than me who became teenagers during the 1980′s. One of the defining characteristics of this set of friends is a lingering existential angst about the impending nuclear doom. For me, given that I was all of 11 in 1988, the threat [...]