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Mapping the Mountain Ranges of Vancouver Island

There was no clean map of Vancouver Island’s mountain ranges, so I drew one.

The Corridor We Already Own

Restoring Vancouver Island’s rail corridor is not a regional ask. It is a national infrastructure argument backed by twenty years of deferred political will.

The Sublime Cannot Be Stored Like Treasure

On Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, and what it teaches about beauty, possession, fidelity, and the cost of becoming real.

The Top 50 Most Powerful People in Canada

A ranked, opinionated, spreadsheet-haunted attempt to understand who holds power in Canada, and what kind of power they hold.

The Quiet Cost of Cynicism

On why the sharpest, safest-seeming stance toward the world is also the one most likely to hollow it out.