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Emily Oster writing for FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s data-based journalism outfit: “The bottom line is that if you want to build a case against water fluoridation — and, apparently, many people do — it is possible to do so. But the case is weak.” There have been many comprehensive reviews on fluoride in mainstream media, most […]

Posted on 12 November 2014 and filed under links, main, misc, outbound

Last week I was in Vancouver for work and I stayed at the Georgian Court hotel. One evening, I had about an hour of free time and was hoping to pop up to a couple shops of Commercial for some Christmas shopping. I didn’t feel like paying for a taxi, so I mapped it out […]

Posted on 11 November 2014 and filed under articles, bikes, main

Mapping where the candidates call home.

Posted on 11 November 2014 and filed under articles, comments, main, Prince George

Prince George as an argument against the need for population growth.

Posted on 11 November 2014 and filed under articles, cities, comments, links, main, outbound, Prince George

Is a mayor an equal voice among nine, or the leader of an organization?

Posted on 6 November 2014 and filed under main, Prince George

I’ve been remiss in mentioning that we had the final council meeting prior to the election last week. Let me remedy that by highlighting a couple of post-mortems that came out this week. Over at the Prince George Citizen, editor Neil Godbout notes the speeches, applause and tears that closed the meeting,  opining: “Nobody does […]

Posted on 6 November 2014 and filed under articles, main, Prince George

“If your parents are letting you live in the basement, you might as well go out and do something for free to put the experience on your CV.”

Posted on 5 November 2014 and filed under links, main, outbound, small

And now for the National Research Council’s official time signal.

Posted on 5 November 2014 and filed under Canada, CBC, links, main, outbound

Personal questions for the candidates for mayor and council for Prince George 2014.

Posted on 4 November 2014 and filed under main, Prince George

You may have noticed me posting more frequently this week. Inspired by Andy Baio, Gina Trapanai , et al I’ve decided to break down the silos of “what belongs” on my blog a little bit. For one, I’m not limiting myself to the maximum of one post a day because I’ve discovered that then I […]

Posted on 4 November 2014 and filed under comments, main, meta, misc

We’re in the middle of the election race for mayor, council, and school board all over British Columbia right now (hey, here’s Daybreak’s election page) but another big election is shaping up. Dick Harris, long-time MP for the Prince George region, recently announced his retirement after 21 years in office. There are adults who have never […]

Posted on 4 November 2014 and filed under main, Prince George

I find it far easier to confront the idea that there are monsters among us than the idea that humans do monstrous things.

Posted on 4 November 2014 and filed under articles, comments, main, misc

Hand-picked episodes of my favourite radio shows, so you will donate a dollar to them.

Posted on 3 November 2014 and filed under main, radio, reviews

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