Cirsium in bloom in Victoria
Corner of Rothwell and Esquimalt. Thistle.
Reality testing: measuring the long term impact of journalism
When Margaret Wente was getting busted repeatedly for plagiarizing, her publisher, The Globe and Mail, more…
Land back
I’m awed by Ayla Brown’s handmade design. Oh wow, turns out there is more art where…
Style guides, notes on “jihad”
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Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?
I tend to think that comms advice for scientists is also comms advice for everyone. Here’s…
My cell phone carrier has stopped spamming me
My local gym and community centre is awesome. It’s a little less than three kilometres from…
Headlines, cognitive processing, and problematic information
Headlines matter. Publishers know it. Good headlines help with the understanding, reach, and impact of a…
White supremacy, doing journalism, and the explanatory comma
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory…
Music, music history, and generational waves of white supremacy
The more generations that pass by, the more obscured women’s lives are, by waves of patriarchal…