Harm: The Drug of Choice
Aphorism #1: Take everything with a grain of salt. I remember back in the early nineties when the internet was beginning to take off, there were internet safety classes with delightful puns like ‘Get Street Smart on the Information Super Highway.’ No one says ‘information super highway’ anymore, but I somehow retained the hardy and [...]
Scrums: Equal Accountability
Back in the Day: I grew up in Deer Lake, Newfoundland. There, our Member of Parliament would hold court outside of town at the Irving Gas Station, the kind with a diner. He would set up, order supper at the corner table by the window, and people would trickle in to speak with him – [...]
Tunnels and Locked Doors
A couple of weeks ago, my roommate called me into his room to show me a document he had found on the internet. It was written by a guy named Rick (probably a pseudonym) who, four or five years ago, had infiltrated the tunnels and corridors beneath WLU. As a student here, I knew that there were non-public consumption areas underneath the school, but I’d never been.
Picking a Fight for the Spotlight
This article primarily concerns one Tanya Janca. That said, the temptation to begin this piece with a self-reflexive anecdote is a little too much … I have, in the past, dabbled with the idea of focusing my life on making music, but I never followed through. Only a couple of times have I played anywhere [...]
Don’t get caught with your participle dangling in the wind
At the risk of pathetic fatalism I’m going to come clean right at the beginning that I’m not sure if it’s possible to write something interesting about grammar, so at this point I apologize. However, you’re not exactly going to be spared either. My condolences… It’s hard to say exactly where language is headed these [...]
Don’t Check Your Wallets at the Door
These days they are everywhere. Local malls, regional shopping centres, and the other more mammoth of the genus have plopped down in just about every community across North America and parts of the world. These one-stop retail facilities represent key contemporary social and cultural touchstones, as well as some significant economic ingredients. But that’s a [...]
