Hello everyone. I am currently finishing the second year of my Bachelor of Education, and that requires me to complete various reflections regarding how I feel about a variety of pedagogical topics. One of these reflections requires that it is posted publicly, to act as an artefact for other educators…

I’m back! Although it’s highly unnecessary to regale you all with tales of my hiatus, I’m going to do it anyway. Between my last article and now, I’ve completed a semester of school — only one semester now lies between me and my teaching certification, thank god. In the space…

Although we’ve seen the coronavirus pandemic wane somewhat in Ontario, mostly due to the overwhelming, and somewhat surprising, ability of the general public to put their lives on hold for the common good, we are still staring into an uncertain future. We’re seeing an alarming uptick in cases, perhaps due…

“People see rock ‘n’ roll as, as youth culture and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?” intones an interviewer. “I think,” a voice replies “we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth…

Instead of focusing on a full album this week, I wanted to keep it short and talk about a favourite song. This week, that song is “Willin’” by the rollicking Southern rock band Little Feat. Little Feat was formed in 1969 by Lowell George, who was then a member of…

Isaac Brock can see the future. There’s no other explanation as to how he created two successive albums that were visions of wildly different dystopian futures and somehow has seen them both come true. In 1997, Modest Mouse, with Brock as their unhinged frontman, released The Lonesome Crowded West, a…

It’s been a rough few weeks for everyone. Besides the ongoing protests against police brutality and racism, not to mention further killing of black people at the hands of police there’s also a pandemic not yet in the rearview, not to mention a massive oil spill in Russia to cap…

I’ve been a bit reticent to dive too far into commentary on the current protests against police brutality and racism taking place all across the continent, not because I am apathetic or don’t have an opinion, but because my voice isn’t really one that needs to be centred in this…

It’s the first bit of nice weather we’ve had in Southern Ontario since about October, which in normal times is a reason to rejoice. But, as we all know, we are in Not Normal times and as such the beautiful weather felt less like a reprieve than a taunt (two…