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A Plague Diary 11
I wrote the other day about the success of women leaders during this pandemic. The other side of the story displayed itself only yesterday, the other side being the utter failure of right wing governments. My opinion–and maybe I haven’t said it enough, it’s an important thing to say–is that right wing governments are fundamentally […]
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A Plague Diary 10
April 14, 2020
Back at the end of the 18th century, the maritime fur trade started in British Columbia, and the traders that came here from England and the US—King-George-men and Boston-men, as we knew them locally—came up against a reality of Northwest Coast cultures, the social power of women. In the journals of the trading captains were […]
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A Plague Diary 9
April 12, 2020
Every single day feels like waiting. You wait for the numbers to rise, since rising is their only direction. You wait for the numbers to, please, begin to slow. Because numbers aren’t numbers. They are people and families, units of tragedy. You wait for another day, another threat, another horror. It’s hard to do anything […]
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A Plague Diary 8
April 9, 2020
If you flip our calendar up for June, you see it there, marked for June 6th, the John Prine concert. He was supposed to come last August, but health issues delayed the tour. Earlier on, I guess two or three weeks ago, we were speculating whether we were going to be able to come out […]
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A Plague Diary 7
April 3, 2020
The world is poison. Don’t touch it. The counter is poison. Don’t lean on it. The railing is poison. Don’t put your hand there. Don’t put your hand to your face, either. You are poison to yourself. Use your sleeve to press the button to cross the street. Enter with the handicapped button, hitting the […]
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A Plague Diary 6
March 31, 2020
Maybe other people have seen it, and what I’m thinking is nothing new. Not that it matters whether it’s new. Maybe I’m wrong, and there is some escape from my reasoning that a pro could answer in an instant. However, I see an Achilles heal to our ongoing Covid-19 response which appears to apply almost […]
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Grandpa Theo
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
April 20, 2020
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