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What do our abandoned playgrounds say about who we were- and who we are?

Posted on 27 April 2016 and filed under articles, cities, comments, design, main, Prince George

In a new interview, the co-founder of Cash Money Records reveals he spent three years of his childhood in northern British Columbia.

Posted on 24 April 2016 and filed under main, Prince George

“I know this next comment will get me in trouble, but that doesn’t make it any less accurate: Vancouver isn’t really a creative city, anyway. It’s a picturesque city made up of glass shoeboxes—but a creative hotbed? I’m not so sure.”

Posted on 22 April 2016 and filed under British Columbia, links, main, small

nothing compares 2 u

Posted on 21 April 2016 and filed under articles, main, music

A new name and visual identity, pretty much everything else is the same.

Posted on 17 April 2016 and filed under design, main, meta

I disagree with the premise that either you live in a city with an NHL team or you accept worse outcomes for you and your loved ones. I disagree with the premise that we should give up on any place that isn’t a major urban centre.

Posted on 16 April 2016 and filed under articles, big, Canada, main

SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT!

Posted on 2 April 2016 and filed under articles, CFUR, comments, main

I’m sure your mom/wife/sister/daughter/grandma/aunt are awesome. The women in my family are awesome. Yours probably are, too. But too often the mother/wife/daughter thing is used by men who cannot think of any women in the public space whom they admire or respect. Literally when American presidential candidates were asked which woman they would like to […]

Posted on 8 March 2016 and filed under articles, main, misc

Here’s a story about being a white guy in Canadian media.

Posted on 21 February 2016 and filed under articles, Best Of, big, Canada, journalism, main, media

What I did, what I need to do better.

Posted on 17 January 2016 and filed under main, personal

One second from nearly every day of my thirtieth year.

Posted on 17 January 2016 and filed under main, personal

My favourite music of 2015.

Posted on 24 December 2015 and filed under main, music

Who is allowed in to your space, and what are they allowed to say?

Posted on 30 November 2015 and filed under articles, blogging, Canada, Indigenous, main

Nicholas Quah: “The vast majority of the charts draw upon the same few concepts, deriving from the same few traditions, borne of the same few sensibilities. Touchy-feely reportage. Public radio two-ways. Public radio science-y shows. Shows about music. Comedians talking with comedians. People talking with people like themselves. Celebrities talking celebrity things. Conversationals. True crime true […]

Posted on 12 November 2015 and filed under links, main, outbound, radio, small

If people from a cultural group say a costume is offensive, I just won’t wear it. There is no costume that is so important to me that it is worth making a group of people feel excluded or belittled, regardless of my own thoughts on the subject. And that’s my hot take on cultural appropriation […]

Posted on 30 October 2015 and filed under articles, main, small