One thing I really appreciate from my mother is that from an early age she taught me to think of skin colours as flavours. She didn’t refer to people as black or white (which they never actually are) but as peach-skinned, or chocolate-skinned, or coffee-skinned, or honey-skinned, or vanilla-skinned… everything was a flavour. This wasn’t … Continue reading
The John Howard Society has some valid concerns about the new Conservative platform on crime, based on the society’s 80-year history in advising the Canadian government on justice issues and helping criminal offenders with community work and rehabilitation. Executive Director of the John Howard Society of Manitoba called the government’s new crime strategies “tough on tax-payers and … Continue reading
Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man a hammer and he’ll make a living teaching other people how to catch fish with a hammer.
Finally I have a place to put my most random stuff again. You can see old byroniverse stuff here.