You’re in a basement lit only by neon strobe lights and a broken disco ball sputtering too close to peoples’ heads. The closest thing to a bar is a waist-high dresser with a shower curtain draped over it. When you ask for a drink from the man behind the furniture…

The origins of the first monkeypox outbreak in Mexico aren’t known for sure, but reporting done by Argentinian news media outlet Infobae has suggested a possible explanation. In their piece, they report that a tourist from Dallas, Texas was on vacation in Puerta Valla when they were told they needed…

In 2020 a prominent Communist Party of Canada member reached out to me. They had seen my application sent in a couple years prior regarding my membership (after offering to drive to Toronto for an interview in 2018, they never responded) and if I would like to join other applicants…

In one of my journalism assignments at X University I pitched a story about how women musicians were doing lately. Being a lifelong punk fan I know that, even in the best of times, it’s hard making that music a big pillar of your life. …

In one of my journalism assignments at X University I pitched a story about how women musicians were doing lately. Being a lifelong punk fan I know that, even in the best of times, it’s hard making that music a big pillar of your life. …

I moved left from Canada, and they think I’m a socdem, eh. The Springfield Files is a series of Medium articles tenuously connecting classic Simpsons bits and lines to different (mostly political) concepts, ideas, trends or whatever I happen to feel like. In the endlessly quotable and highly rated episode…

Since the beginning of 2022, certain public figures have commented on the Canadian media’s coverage of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and its effects. Voices like Jesse Brown and Jen Gerson have echoed the sentiment that pandemic fears are overblown, that lockdowns are unnecessary and “a minority of zealots kept us…

By all accounts, it was a beautiful day. The short drive west of Kingston on Highway 2 would have been a bright and lovely trip in the midsummer sun, but the majority of attendees were not from the Limestone city. The majority traveled in from the surrounding areas, as far north as Ottawa, and as far south as…

Disclosure: The writer has been involved with Katarokwi Union of Tenants and Kingston Peace Council in certain capacities. Kingston’s housing crisis has notably worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic, with shelters reportedly overflowing or becoming unsafe, individual citizens filling in the gaps, and reports of a completely inefficient and ineffective Housing…