Issue: 2013-08-08

No Need to Feel the World is Dour, If You Have a Tasty Beer in a Well-earned Shower

By / 16 February 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

If you can satiate yourself with simple pleasures, your chance at a happy life increases. If, for example, a well-timed cupcake can make your day, a contented existence awaits you. For me, the inevitable sticky hands that result from cupcake consumption ruin this effect; but I have my own simple satisfactions. During the course of …

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Making something illegal that used to be legal is a tricky road to manoeuvre.

By / 10 August 2021 / 2 minutes of reading

Making something illegal that used to be legal is a tricky road to manoeuvre. Opium? Sure, I understand. DDT? Makes sense. But making booze illegal after being freely produced and imbibed for hundreds of years in North America — what idiot dreamed that one up? Prohibition was heavily supported by the women of Canada and …

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Cycling to Inspire

By / 16 February 2021 / 3 minutes of reading

British Columbia teen Saskia Vaisey writes in her blog, “A human connection is the most powerful way to affect people.” She is one of four young people finding their way to the Yukon to do just that. Vaisey, along with Gavin Rea (California), Jessica Magonet (Quebec) and Graham May (British Columbia) will be teaming up …

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Authors on Eighth

By / 21 March 2022 / 3 minutes of reading

Taking a stroll along the Writers’ Block — from the corner of 8th Avenue and Hanson Street to the corner of 8th and Firth — you find yourself sandwiched between Berton House and Robert Service’s Cabin at the top end. Moving south and then west, you close the block at Jack London Square, with the …

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