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Cocktail Hour: Michael Geoghegan and Rye Whiskey (opens the original)
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Recorded on September 13th, 2026. But time moves fast. Since then, Mike’s podcast, Save the West, has started and Kerry-Lynne Findlay has been deposed BC Tory leader. Still lots of up-to-the minute thinking on BC politics and the Crisis of the West.
Chapter 41: The Bread Lady (opens the original)
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I was expecting to tell the second part of the Julian West saga, with the stalking, base jumping, Helena Bonham Carter cameo, the New Zealand canoe incident and the whole story’s ultimate intersection with the Mike Duffy Inquiry. But things have been a little turbulent here and I found that every time I have tried to write the next chapter, my mind has drifted to the Bread Lady, and my encounter with her in the summer of 2011.When I began my graduate studies in 2004 in Toronto, I believed myself
AIM, Leonard Peltier, Terminal Phase Apartheid and PW Botha: Context You Need To Understand the Eby Government’s Land Giveaways (opens the original)
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Apartheid in Global ContextI was a proud campaigner against South African Apartheid when I was a kid. Down at the Unitarian Church I attended, we raised funds for the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and campaigned for cutting off the wine and sulphur trades with South Africa in the 1980s. We helped to make the term “apartheid” a dirty word, a synonym for unjust, authoritarian, racist government. I am by no means sorry about any of that.One problem with our success in mobilizing na
My Glorious Friends: A Christopher Nolan-free Article on the Significance of Homer in 2026 (opens the original)
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Cinematic Adaptation and the Question of ThemeThis essay will not be saying anything about Christopher Nolan’s recent adaptation of The Odyssey except to commend him in creating such a controversial and deeply flawed film that it has touched off a larger public reappraisal of Homer’s classic and its companion text, The Iliad.As I have observed in my writing on Peter Jackson’s adaptations of the works of JRR Tolkien, the problem with adapting a work of fiction from one medium to another is that o
Chapter 40: "Perky Prof Peels Pants" - Part One (opens the original)
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The “Perky Prof Peels Pants” event is a single that is suspended, improbably, from its original unfolding in 1996/97 until its sudden and dramatic resumption and conclusion in September 2008. The period between June 1996 and August 2008 was an extraordinarily fruitful time in the political career and intellectual life of Julian West, one of the world’s greatest living scholars of Applied Mathematics working specifically on the math of electoral systems, in my lifetime. He was one of my two key s
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