The government sucks! The government picks and chooses who gets to live well, and whose needs are met, and those people end up helping the same people get re-elected. And at the same time, no wild social change actually takes place, and people feel helpless because they can’t change their…

It’s weird to leave home, and try to recreate it somewhere else, Oceans apart. It’s weird to swear allegiance to a matriarch you’ve never met, and who lived in a different country an ocean away. It’s bizarre to have to call this new place home, because one border away from…

A few years ago, when in Iran, I heard my cousin say one of the most painful things I’ve ever heard. It wasn’t painful because it attacked me personally, but my personal values were certainly attacked. My cousin said that he believed that not all races were equal, and that…

What does history teach us? Are we doomed to repeat cycles? Is technology really going to save us? What does scarcity have to do with anything? Did the Buddha come up with his philosophy just to avoid processing grief? I look at the world, and there is so much I…

I’ve heard this from progressives and left-wing activists, including my own family. They say, usually after a long stream of unfortunate events, and following a glaring failure on the part of some progressive party they had invested their hopes in, that the conservative/reactionary party(ies) seem more honest, at the end…

With the election of the CAQ, and its business-daddy leader François Legault at a record-high seat majority, it’s normal to wonder if Quebec, like many countries around the world (look at Italy and the previous governments of the US and Brazil for example) is seeing a rise in populist flavour…

I don’t even know where to begin! What the fuck Waititi? Are you paying attention to the final product, like at all??? The whole thing was bland as fuck! How did you manage to break down a character that you yourself helped build up? Thor became so much of a…

I’m anxious as fuck these days. I feel like the trauma I’ve been through as a child doesn’t really warrant the way I’m living now. I can’t even consider working right now. I push away people when things get tough, and I’m avoiding relationships out of fear of getting hurt…

I’m sleeping on my mom’s couch. It’s not an ideal living situation, but the couch is comfortable, and the view is amazing. I get gently trampled by her two cats at odd times in the night, and my mom has to keep quiet as she leaves for work. It has…