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A Plague Diary 12
What we are seeing south of the border is truly dismaying. It’s dismaying because of the death toll, 60,000 by tomorrow—and that is almost certainly an underestimate. It is dismaying because of the number of infections of Covid-19—more than a million in the US, and everybody knows that number is also wildly wrong. It is […]
A Plague Diary 11
April 20, 2020
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Plague Diary 5
March 29, 2020
100,000 US deaths. That’s the figure used by Trump in the news today. Achieve that and “we all together have done a very good job,” the president says. I hope he doesn’t expect a Nobel Prize. Apparently, he has been just now catching up on the issue. “When I heard the number today,” he said. […]
A Plague Diary 4
March 28, 2020
What all of this is going to look like when it settles is a big issue for all of us, something we can’t really hide from. The world is not the same. The rules are not the same. Can we really return to living the same way? There are other even more frightening and personal […]
A Plague Diary 3
March 26, 2020
People remark about how clearly they see the North Shore mountains, how fresh the air is to breathe, how many stars there are in the sky at night. And the city is quiet, almost middle-of-the-night quiet in the middle of the day, and almost country-quiet at nighttime. My granddaughter was playing with the next door […]
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
April 28, 2020
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