Residents drink beer at a bar after work hours in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. Vernon Yuen/AP Photo.

An ode to the third place

If you spend a day tasting through beautifully made wines, few things taste as good at the end of it as a beer. And there’s no better place to drink one than in those magical “third places” between work and home.

An electric vehicle is charged in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.

Project Arrow is doomed to fail

If we want to get serious about building an innovative Canadian future we can be proud of, our governments at all levels need to realize that they’re the obstacles, not the solutions. 

As the rain falls, a father walks his son to Garfield Elementary through a flooded section of Peach and Need Avenues, on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Clovis, Calif. John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP.

The greatness of good men

What could be more worthy of celebration, of putting pen to paper and etching something on the unknown future unfurling before us, than the greatness of good men? 

Seen on a screen of a device in La Habra, Calif., the new iPad Mini is introduced during a virtual event held to announce new Apple products Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo.

Against convenience

We wanted convenience, and now we have it—or rather it has us. We have become slaves to convenience. In the name of efficiency, time-saving, and productivity, we have sleep-walked into an inhuman nightmare.