Spill the Beans: Is it spring yet?
When I moved to the farm after 13 years of living in the city, my grandmother suggested I start small. You know, small garden, only… Read More
Spill the Beans: Rescue me
If I’m going to rescue animals, I need to make sure I can do an incredible job of taking care of them. Read More
Spill the Beans: Waiting for water
When I moved to the farm after 13 years of living in the city, my grandmother suggested I start small. You know, small garden, only… Read More
Spill the Beans: Ferment it
When I moved to the farm after 13 years of living in the city, my grandmother suggested I start small. You know, small garden, only… Read More
Style trumps substance at racism summit
All too often Winnipeggers celebrate the effort instead of the outcome. Chalk it up to the city’s small-town sense of self and resulting inferiority complex. No doubt, then, the response to those who criticize the mayor’s summit will be the same: at least he is doing something. Read More
Nothing childish about NDP and LPC intransigence
Every parent hopes his or her child plays well with others. After all, to play well with others means your child is well-adjusted, open-minded, willing to compromise, able to share. If children can do it, why is it so hard for Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair? Read More
Exporting failure
One can only hope for the sake of the patients of China’s Rizhou Hospital that their Wellness Centre will not also include the institutionalized racism, dismal wait-times for critical surgeries and tests, and inexcusable lack of accountability that is endemic here in Manitoba. Read More
Canadians are the real winners — and losers — of the Maclean’s debate
This obsession with winners and losers and knock-out punches does a disservice to the entire process and to our national discourse. Politics isn't sport, and last night's federal leaders debate wasn't a boxing match Read More
Spill the Beans: Canned
When I moved to the farm after 13 years of living in the city, my grandmother suggested I start small. You know, small garden, only… Read More
Spill the Beans: A walk in the woods
When I moved to the farm after 13 years of living in the city, my grandmother suggested I start small. You know, small garden, only… Read More
Healing Canada’s ailing democracy starts with how we vote
Our politics are an extension of ourselves, not something that exists separately from us. Even those who cannot be bothered to vote are a part of this system; their inaction is an endorsement of the sorry status quo. Read More
Will the real Brian Bowman please stand up?
What a difference eight months make. While there has been no shortage of teary-eyed press conferences or glamour shots of the Mayor posted to his social media feeds, there’s been little in the way of substantive policy coming from his office. Read More
City cycling plan deserves context
Obviously, those bicycles are costing us a fortune! Except they're not. Read More
Daddy Issues: Fearing his children would depose him
My best friend is going to give birth to our child in about a month or so. No, we're not ready. I don't think we can be. It's not that I'm not excited about it — it's just that I'm caught wriggling beneath a massive Sisyphean boulder of anxiety when I think of the social, moral and economic gravity of raising another human being. Read More
Meet Manitoba’s trans-phobic parliamentarians
Lest we forget those trans-phobic Members of Parliament from Manitoba who have consistently attempted to thwart the advancement and extension of rights for trans Canadians. Read More
Ireland’s victory bittersweet for far too many
Unfortunately, Ireland's decision to join the 21st century also serves as a chilling reminder too many countries remain firmly in the Dark Ages, and countless LGBT people worldwide remain at risk of persecution, even death for living openly as their authentic selves. Read More