Media Hyperlinking in Canadian journalism (Case study, IPBES report) If news orgs are serious about being good partners in mitigating misinformation, they need to link meaningfully to relevant references and especially science-based organizations…
Media The dominant press is a giant inertia machine But here’s an old idea: what if dominant journalism, by and large and in the long run, is actually a drag on progress? What if dominant journalism, and by that I mean the mainstream press, is actually a conservative force? On this view, it’s a drag on change…
Media Regulating fake video Deep fakes, or the ability to manipulate people’s actions in videos, were in the news recently. Macleans wrote a very concerned article December of 2018. This will be the year […]
Politics My picks for city of Victoria’s Mayor and Council From housing and affordability, transportation, childcare, and budget priorities, here is how I’m voting on October 20th in the Victoria election for mayor and council…
Policy Let all residents vote in Canada This year, I will be asking Victoria’s municipal election candidates where they stand on letting permanent residents vote in our elections. Join me!
Culture The closet, sewing communities, and yay for good comments I’m loving this article written on the Sewcialists blog. It’s a blog with the goal of making the sewing community more inclusive and representing a wider range of voices. The article is published under a pseudonym…
Roundup Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jeans, not Genes! Where we wade into the “new” controversy on genetics and race, and talk about e-cigarettes, food and more
Culture Hitchhikings In which Meghan and Sherwin reflect on the old days, hitchhiking, and being young and lucky (and privileged) …
Policy Buying ourselves out of homes Renting and buying homes, for BC residents, is becoming less and less affordable. We’re experiencing the result of decades of deregulation and rabid speculation…
Art Friendship to the Max! A Review of Lumberjanes! I recently discovered Lumberjanes, a comic published by Boom! Box, an offshoot of Boom! Studios. I strongly recommend …
Culture 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 my home. The pool is great. The gym is nice. It’s got a kind […]
Politics The dream of proportional representation dies again; long live pro rep I campaigned during the first and second referendums we had here in BC regarding proportional representation. We won the first one. 58% of voters voted yes for the Citizen Assembly […]
Science Map of earthquake liquefaction risks around Victoria My father recently sent me these amazing resources about various risks due to earthquake around Victoria. I immediately had to look at one, because the thought of the ground turning to liquid is terrifying to me…
Policy The many boats of climate change Their (the IPCC’s) dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C.Keeping to the preferred target of 1.5C […]
Politics Tsleil-Waututh Nation versus Bill Morneau, the duty to consult, and the public interest Say it with me. The duty to consult Indigenous people does not conflict with the public interest…
Design Martin Speckter, type design, and the interrobang 99% Invisible did an episode on the interrobang recently. I was interested to learn that early Greek and Roman writing didn’t have spaces! Rack that up to stuff I took for granted. Apparently an ad man in the sixties developed the interrobang…
Roundup Bharat’s pocket scraps you own a pipeline! edition Ottawa fails to find new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline The federal government is set to become the official owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after failing […]
Roundup Bharat’s pocket scraps – Making room edition Vancouver makes room for more people, charities get political, and more…
Culture Trinity Western University continues to defend anti-gay community covenant The Supreme Court of Canada, happily, was not moved by Trinity Western University’s claims that they weren’t hurting gay folks. And the Supreme Court was not moved by the claims by TWU that they…
Media Canadian journalism fails at nuance when it comes to jihad On my view the news media in Canada have, by and large and in the long run, misrepresented the concept of jihad. They have positioned jihad as a form of villainy. In so doing they have portrayed Islam as a peril…
Media Some notes on why jihad is good If you read Canadian journalists on the topic, you might not understand that jihad has some very nice meanings. Most Canadian journalists seem to commonly misrepresent the concept. It’s not just them, mind you. There’s lots of misrepresentation of jihad to go around…
Media Ads versus articles in the Saturday BC Edition of the Globe and Mail, A Section Here’s the A Section of the Globe and Mail. It’s the BC edition for June 2nd, 2018. There are 19 reports and 5 opinion pieces. I counted the weather section […]
Design Some thoughts on microblogging with self-hosted WordPress So I’ve been experimenting with microblogging on Mastadon, micro.blog and Tumblr. I decided it’s time we have our own self-hosted WordPress microblog…
Roundup Bharat’s Pocket Scraps: Jagmeetophobia TV facebook and more Canadian media is still hung up in the 1980s on Sikhs, is facebook really to blame for polarization, and more!
Roundup Pocket Scraps – Jan and Feb 2018 Convergent evolution, cat mass spectrometers, love jihad and more!
Media Anadrome, semordnilap and levidrome: a whimsical example of problematic information How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…
