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Vancouver’s ‘Giants’ invite play
The colourful Oceans industrial plant in Vancouver's heart seems less about concrete than playful illusion.
Demos
Democracy is broken – so let’s fix it.
In America Brett Kavanaugh would not be a top judge nor Donald Trump president, and in Britain Brexit would not be a thing, had they run in fair elections. Fairer elections are held in almost all first-world countries - except the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Westernmost Canada now has a chance to change.
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Donna Strickland, woman wizard (and Nobel laureate)
Donna Strickland, a leader in the science of ultrafast lasers, joins the tiny, tiny, tiny cohort of women who have won the Nobel in physics.
Free Range
Found in translation
Despite my Swiss-cheese memory and tongue of clay, I am trying to learn a few essential words in the languages of the people I encounter daily.
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Gastown Grand Prix
The Gastown Grand Prix on a sunny evening, with cobblestones lighted by glaring late sun or cast in dark shade by tall buildings, was a fun playground to experiment with the photo challenges of the contrast of blinding light and deep shade, and intense speed.
Free Range
Solstice
The songbirds ushered in the Solstice, singing spun light from the northeastern horizon, pouring it into my neighbourhood, spilling a beam on the bench in my front yard.
Goldilocks Zone
One mere day for World Oceans?
Sailing in to catch the last of World Oceans Day, with this image taken on a grey foggy day on a ferry sailing north on the Salish Sea, from Earl’s Cove to Saltery Bay, British Read more
Demos
Canadians get their own Donald Trump
Don't like that Ontario handed total power with minority support to a northern version of Trump? Fix Canada's toxic election system, and bring in democracy.
Demos
Bearing Witness: Indian Horse
Had someone tortured my child as the nuns and priests and bigots tortured the children depicted in the film, had bigots treated anyone in my circles as Saul was treated by many people, I'd have fought them all to the death. Had I known, I'd have acted. Which, of course, is the point of a movie like Indian Horse.
