HeyJaredPete McMartin
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 29, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Vancouver Sun
- Top 100K sites
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- Aug 2, 2026
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Pete McMartin: The dire state of the once-close relationship with our southern neighbours (opens the original)
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A buddy phones from Windsor. Once next-door neighbours, now separated by a continent, we’ve kept in touch since our childhoods. We talk often. The subject turns to the U.S. and its narcissist-in-chief. My buddy says: “You know, I wouldn’t mind seeing a couple of Chinese tanks parked on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge, just so the Americans understand how pissed we are at them.” And I say: “Funny you should say that. I’ve been having a similar thought recently that I wouldn’t mind seei
Pete McMartin: The things she does (opens the original)
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She curates the refrigerator doors, shingling them with her grandchildren’s artwork, her mother’s obituary, cartoons, photographs of us when we were young and beautiful, and photos of her best friend who has been dead now for over 30 years. She corrals the spiders that make themselves at home in the corners in our hallway, ushering them onto pieces of paper so she can release them into the garden unharmed, where, she said, they can do good. She isn’t a woman afraid of spiders. She dons rubber gl
Pete McMartin: The laziness that comes with Alexa (opens the original)
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Perched on my kitchen table, it plays any music I ask for — Jewish klezmer, Balinese gamelan, the Allman Brothers’ Statesboro Blues. Alexa delivers jazz from New Jersey’s WBGO, classical symphonies from CBC-FM, or an eclectic, world-view musical mix from Salt Spring Island’s CHIR. It tells me when the Stilton cheesecake baking in the oven is done. It can explain why the sky is blue — not that I’ve asked. (Something about gases in the atmosphere? Dunno. Don’t care.) It tells me jokes, all of them
Pete McMartin: Summer has become the season to get through unscathed (opens the original)
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A son-in-law installs fire-suppression systems. These systems aren’t meant to suppress fires inside the homes — they are meant to suppress fires outside the homes. His part of the world is thickly forested, and in a warming world his customers have begun looking over their shoulders at the enveloping trees. The forest can no longer be trusted. The mind’s eye — the one attuned to possible catastrophe — sees a candling curtain of flame. The son-in-law sees a growth industry. A summer trip to Franc
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