Culture
In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I natter on the concept of circular economy and the right to repair, which earns me some points in the dorkiest scribe category. But seriously, in an economic climate where everything is getting more expensive quicker than incomes can keep up with, there
Culture
Once in your life you find someone, sings Bryan Adams in Heaven, who will turn your world around. Finding your soulmate can be the work of a lifetime. But you know what’s even harder to find than the kind of love people write songs about? A movie so fucking
Politics
In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I tear a strip off anyone who thinks paying people fairly and humanely for their work is a “cost” to be kept down. When a Texas-based chain of loud and garish gas stations treats its people better than you do, you know you’
Politics
Tomorrow is the third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and in the Ottawa Citizen I offered some reflections on the ways non-Indigenous people should approach this work so that we can get to a place of healing and trust. In my legal writing for National Magazine you’ll find
Urbanism
My column in the Ottawa Citizen this week took the mayor to task for acting surprised at OC Transpo’s financial situation. Transit is a public service, not a business. It’s not meant to turn a profit. Oh, and there are other, more important things the mayor clearly doesn’
Gender
I had a couple of columns in the Ottawa Citizen this week. The first one was about the definition of mass shooting and whether we should have one. There was a Q&A with the extraordinary Sgt Maria Keen, and another column on the fact that schools have become
Politics
OK. I tried to resist taking apart this ad that the party and its leader so proudly unveiled at the end of their Quebec City convention. I swear I did. I got very busy with Other Serious Writing and reading and parenting and I did something like 12 workouts since
Politics
Unlike so many weak-kneed losers bleating about their freedom like they’ve graduated from the Preston Manning School of Ineffectual Whining, when someone tries to silence me I just write louder. Because that, friends, is how you fight toxicity. By being right up in its face, disturbing its shit. I
Politics
This week I’ll keep the roundup a little shorter. I’m hanging out most unwelcomingly at the Conservative Party Convention in Quebec City and writing a longer piece about that. I will endeavour to make it entertaining and perhaps even funny but fair warning, some of this stuff is
Politics
My Ottawa Citizen column this week is on 24 Sussex, our official mojo dojo casa house (obligatory Barbie movie reference, more on which below), and why Pierre Poilievre should make history, in a good way, by giving up his own taxpayer-funded mansion. Continuing with our summer series of lovely and
Gender
My very good friend called this morning in relation to my recent Pride column and asked how I would solve the problem of a young kid who says they feel they’re a boy even though they were assigned female at birth. “This is not a problem,” I said. “I
Gender
In my column this week I amplify Fae Johnstone’s invitation to straight and cis-gender Ottawans to march in Sunday’s parade. I add a few choice words about the “parents’ rights” crowd, including this important bit: If your child is out and you’re the only one who doesn’