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Even if we are, as he says, tired of hearing about this hour after hour, Michael Enright’s take on this week’s Ghomeshi revelations is worth a listen. Comforting to still have his perspective after all this.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under links, outbound, small

There is a whole lot of middle ground between what is blatantly untrue and what has been proven in the eyes of the law.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under journalism, links, main, nocomments

Twitter essays, tweet storms, blog posts, and middling thoughts.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under articles, blogging, main, social media, writing

I’ve had a draft blog post sitting around for a long time about feminism. It’s not really well written, more just a bunch of disparate thoughts. It starts with how I’ve always believed men and women to be equal in the sense that there is nothing men can do that women can’t and that women […]

Posted on 1 November 2014 and filed under articles, big, comments, main, personal

A collection of songs with “ghost” in the title, but also better than that.

Posted on 31 October 2014 and filed under links, main, music

I wrote a blog post earlier, but I have some more things to say. I apologize if you are feeling over-saturated with this. For me, personally, this has been a strange time to work at CBC. * * * I was interviewed for my first job here by a panel of women. My first producer […]

Posted on 30 October 2014 and filed under articles, nocomments

I keep wanting to write about how I feel betrayed. Betrayed as a listener and betrayed as a fellow broadcaster. I guess to an extent I’m doing that now.

Posted on 29 October 2014 and filed under nocomments

This is like finding out your parents are getting a divorce and mom is suing dad for $50 million.

Posted on 26 October 2014 and filed under articles, CBC, main, nocomments

A lack of graffiti can signal no crime, but it can also signal no creativity, no pedestrians, and no fun.

Posted on 24 September 2014 and filed under articles, cities, comments, main, Prince George

I’m not a fan of covering crime for its own sake.  I understand people are interested in the details, but there’s a lot of crime and it would be easy to fill our days with gory details of shootings and murders from around the world. Not much public value in that. At the same time, there […]

Posted on 17 September 2014 and filed under articles, big, British Columbia, Canada, Indigenous, nocomments

A tutorial in how to make a hip-hop mashup with very few musical or technical skills at all.

Posted on 9 September 2014 and filed under articles, how to, nocomments

Working through problems in public.

Posted on 5 September 2014 and filed under blogging, comments, meta, personal

“In the interior…people don’t think of education beyond grade twelve. The questions they ask at the end of the day are ‘How many trees did you cut today?’ or ‘How were things down in the mine?'”

Posted on 4 September 2014 and filed under articles, comments, Prince George

I’m discovering that I’m not very good at delegation. This is not good.

Posted on 3 September 2014 and filed under articles, comments, management, personal

Your writing is valuable and interesting. Stop throwing it away.

Posted on 30 August 2014 and filed under articles, big, main, social media