Navel Gazing

Final Thought: Election madness

Didja here? The BC United party has basically imploded, pulling out of this election, except they haven’t really because they still want to maintain...

Final Thought: Welcome to the ugly season

The almost never-ending political season is well underway down in the states, it has been for months, and we still have over two months...

Final Thought: Letting go of the tools you know

Chances are you’ve heard the story about the Mann Gulch Fire. If you haven’t, here is a brief refresher. On August 5, 1945, 15 smoke jumpers...

Final Thought: at the top of the world

As I write this, the Emperor’s Challenge is less than two weeks away. I have never actually run the Emperor’s Challenge, though I have been...

Final Thought: shots fired

Last week, while walking the dogs with Michael, I mused that there has been an unnaturally long gap between the last attempted assassination of...

Final Thought: 30 years on

Warning: This editorial may get sappy ahead; if you don’t want to get covered in the stuff, you might want to skip. I have...

Final Thought: An address to the grad class

Continuing my unbroken streak of not being invited to speak to this year’s grad class, I am instead writing this, which is full of...

Final Thought: …your journey to the dark side is now complete

It was less than a year ago that Facebook pulled the plug on Canadian news. You might recall, as at the time I offered a...

Final Thought: a matter of scale

Consider the humble electron. An electron, for those of you who have never met one in real life, is one of the fundamental particles of...

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