Recently we enjoyed an excellent fine-dinning experience at Salmon n’ Bannock, on West Broadway. Vancouver is a multicultural, foodie city where organic is popular and the environment healthy. So other…

Protecting the border, caravans, criminals and sovereignty. Most of this obtuse rhetoric targets people from three countries; Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. *It should be noted that for decades, US…

It would seem Julie Payette is a really unpleasant person. Incredibly impressive on paper, the former astronaut seemed like a good choice for Governor General of the country. As the…

Venezuela is a disaster. Populist authoritarian ‘socialism’ has caused untold misery in the once oil-rich South American country. Somewhere between 4.7 and 6 million people have fled the lush country…

My specific quarantine began March 14 – just as I returned home from a trip to Mexico. We are now in the third week of January and are waiting anxiously…

Shall we talk about slavery? I honestly did not know the term Juneteenth, but over the years I have begun to understand a little about the history of enslavement. However…

A 17-point guide to the new game of Hiding Covidly This is a historic game. You are a virus. Survive. This game requires stealth, evolution, politics, inequality and indifference. Good…

Follow the Evidence Today the world is faced with a pandemic. COVID-19, caused by the novel Coronavirus is now present in the majority of countries and has infected at least…

Chile is under a state of emergency A 30 pesos (4 cent) rise in the price of a Metro (Subway) ticket has unleashed a level of anger few outside observers…

Stop saying ‘no worries‘ if that is not what you mean! Language, dialects, and accents are among the more obvious indicators of cultural traits and indeed language is dynamic. I…