Navel Gazing

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...

Final Thought: arbiters of society

Free speech is not free if the only voices allowed are the ones you agree with. I was thinking about this last week, as I...

Final Thought: on power outages and lost editorials

I had this great editorial written. Well, mostly written. Then the power dropped out (not just once but twice) mid-production and I lost the original...

Final Thought: Dear Council

I’m trying real hard right now. I’m trying real hard right now to want to continue on as a volunteer in this town, but it’s...

Final Thought: first steps

The first step is always the hardest. Sure, the second step is no bowl of peaches. Maybe with a bit of sugar and heavy cream....

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