Beyond the Rhetoric

One of the biggest reasons why I love Vancouver is that we really do celebrate our multiculturalism in this city. You can come from nearly any part of the world and there is likely a community of people here that can relate. Better still, we host all sorts of festivals and community events that celebrate [...]

English can be a very tricky language, even for people who consider it to be their native tongue. There are all sorts of nuances, rules, and exceptions to every rule. Just when you think you’re getting the hang of it, you’re told that you made yet another error. We’ve all been there. And yes, even [...]

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them [...]

Maybe it’s because of all the recent news about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Maybe it’s because I’ve found myself using Wikipedia a little more often to look up pertinent tidbits of information. Whatever the case, curiosity got the best of me and I had to determine the origin of the term “wiki” when it came [...]

To some people, this may seem like a simple matter of semantics, but I think there is something much more profound here that is worth discussing. I also find that I get very different responses, depending on who is participating in this conversation with me. When you think about what you do for a living, [...]