Aubade – Vancouver – Mary Kean This morning is a morning for hot sweet tea, the sky so gray it’s almost white, yet dark, and our commons, Braemar Park, flat green with the fall colours all round. A cathedral of trees trembles over our street. I’ve been...
“Redemption preserves itself in a small crack in the continuum of catastrophe.” Walter Benjamin Although the Trudeau government continues to promise further steps toward Indigenous reconciliation and allocate funding to issues such as the quality of water on...
Toronto in the 1960s Air Pollution This story starts in 60’s in Toronto Ontario where I lived as a young boy. In those days there were no seatbelts in cars and no regulation ofemissions from their the engines. People drove around drunk, smoked and most people were not...
There are eerie parallels between COVID-19 and the Spanish flu epidemic that swept across the planet a century ago. “From February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world’s population at the time – in four successive...
2020 has been a challenging year for most of us. When we look back on it from the future, it will likely be defined by Covid-19. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has directly affected the health of many more than we were able to count worldwide, with both young and old needing...
