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I write about kings and prophets. In but not from Vancouver, BC
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Christ in a Red Robe, by Minerva Teichert, 1945, 📸 by Brian Babineau

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Retweet if you are in Canada and expending some effort to buy less from America

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I wrote this very over-optimistic piece a few years ago about the past and future of Vancouver: seeing its mayor nominate an apologist for police lawlessness as one of its councillors today is a sign that it remains captive to its worst traditions. jacobin.com/2022/10/vanc...

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"Although the officer couldn't recall who told him not to take notes, he said Vancouver Police Union (VPU) president Ralph Kaisers was one of two union representatives present at the time." #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Mayor Sim effs up everything he touches - remarkable www.change.org/p/we-need-a-...

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A healthful and inspiriting drink

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At long last found the Bible (Walbran)

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Interest in the Google search term "join the military" in Canada over the past 90 days

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Developing an interest in our national sport

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This is objectively a fucked up thing to say. Canada’s allies need to start speaking up explicitly. Though the soft power statements are starting.

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Me, Vancouver parent: ah well, I shouldn't have expected to get my kid into the elementary school 5 min walk from my house, good job we twice voted for MLAs to build the elementary school first promised in 2012 that's 10 min walk in the other direction - surely it's done by now? Oh.

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Wrote for @jacobinmag.bsky.social about whether it matters that the UK has never been a meritocracy jacobin.com/2025/02/powe...

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I'd probably be careful in asking what migrants 'contribute' to GB if my career highlights were writing in the Telegraph and a manifesto for Boris Johnson

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Peter Newman's nationalism (1988) is sort of mine and I'm not even Canadian

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