Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Canada Day reflections on patriotism and nationalism

  1 Jul, 2026

  Canada's flag is younger than many of its houses — a reflection on what patriotism and nationalism really are, which kind of national pride is worth having, and whether we should believe in our countries at all.

• Be kind — we're all suffering

  30 Jun, 2026

  A Scottish minister's proverb, a theory of mind you can test on yourself, and why the constant noise of being conscious is reason enough to go easy on each other.

• On being Allen Schyf

  29 Jun, 2026

  Why I needed a name that wasn't mine, and what Allen Schyf is actually for: cases, not causes.

• Dispatches from the Dog Park: Fourth week of June 2026

  27 Jun, 2026

  Three conversations at a Moose Jaw dog park — on taxes and roads, on arriving from Korea, and on a city some feel is slipping — with a look at two Saskatchewan AI data-centre proposals.