Columns
January 2004 – May 2004
These brief pieces were published in The Independent, a weekly newspaper in Brighton, Ontario.


Got any change?
Here’s a cliché that needs to be stood on its head: the rate of change is steadily increasing.

Fossil fuel fallout
Take a drive west along the lakeshore, past the Darlington generating stations, and you can witness the most urgent environmental problem of our age. No, it’s not the nuclear reactor, shrouded in concrete …

A cry in the desert
In early 2004, when torture was front-page news and The Passion of The Christ was doing boffo box office, it seemed an appropriate time to check out a recent documentary

Artificial intelligence hits the road
On April 1st, a non-partisan coalition announces a major improvement to Canada’s traffic infrastructure….

A brief history of rush hour
Another technological tall tale. This one is wholly implausible, but factual.

The butterfly challenge
Will computers outstrip human intelligence any time soon? Not a chance, I’d venture to say, because you just can’t reduce everything to numbers.

 

Two-
Wheeled
Travel
Tales


Uranium Files:

A very public debate
An article published in the Bulletin of the Canadian Nuclear Society

Regarding emissions
Presentation to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission hearing in Port Hope, Nov 29, 2006


Three little words, which hide a world of truth
If journalists need a few simple words to cover a complex reality, "terror vs. terror" will do the job much better than "war on terror."
Editorial in The Independent, Brighton, Ontario, 2002

Decriminalizing torture
Before the Bush administration, no mainstream politician would openly promote torture. After Bush, it appears, no mainstream politician dares to advocate the prosecution of torture
Blog entry on OpenSalon, April 23, 2009

Bipartisan lovefest in Toronto
A cozy conversation, in an exclusive club: George W. Bush & Bill Clinton chat with Canadian financiers.
Blog entry on OpenSalon, May 28, 2009

 

 

Book Reviews

F A R  N O R T H:

The Arctic Grail
by Pierre Berton

The Quiet Limit of the World
by Wayne Grady


O U R  A P P E T I T E S :

Much Depends on Dinner
by Margaret Visser

Smoking: The Artificial Passion
by David Krogh


Books

Recent projects include writing all the text for Inuvik In Pictures, as well as editing the text of Inuvik: A History for author Dick Hill.
Cover design of Inuvik In Pictures

Cover design of Inuvik: A History