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To my American friends

February 3, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Democracy, Featured 22 Comments

An image of water carving a channel in a gravel path that diverges and then joins up again. It has been frantic weekend here in Canada. The President of the United States implemented an executive order that imposed a 25% tariff on every single item exported from Canada to the United States, except 10% on energy. In retaliation, our federal and provincial governments have imposed some selected tariffs on American imports to Canada and in some cases we have closed markets for procurement for American services or for products like American produced alcohol. We are in a trade war that …

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New Squamish names on Bowen Island

February 2, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Featured, First Nations, Uncategorized One Comment

It’s a snow day here on Nexwlelexwm/Bowen Island. After a couple of weeks of clear warms weather, winter seems to have finally gotten around to giving us a little blast of snow and cold. we’re looking at a week or so of colder than normal temperatures on the back of these squally snow events we’ve been having for the past twelve hours. After shovelling and salting the driveway, wrapping my water pump in a blanket and checking the heat tape on the pipes, I settled in to watch soccer and catch up on local news. It’s been 24 hours of …

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The economic productivity conversation

January 31, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Democracy, Featured, Learning, Youth 3 Comments

The photo shows my neighbour Shane at the top his game, and the top of a tree, skillfully falling a 50 meter Douglas-fir. So today is another Friday, which is the day I set aside to do some reading and reflecting, and follow my interests down various rabbit holes. And today the rabbit hole is the crisis of “productivity“ in Canada. The term productivity crops up a lot when policy makers, and those with an interest in how economic policy affects corporate activity begin talking about their worries and fears. Productivity is simply an economic measurement that divides the gross …

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A local example of what Facebook has cost us

January 25, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Community, Democracy, Featured 9 Comments

When I first moved to Bowen Island back in 2001, there was a very active discussion board of Bowen Island issues called the Bowen Island Phorum. This was a typical late 1990s bulletin board type website. Locals could join and make posts and sometimes the discussions would cascade over four or five pages with replies into the hundreds on especially contentious or important issues to our little community. Although that place drove me crazy with frustration a lot of the time, and I used to issue earnest warnings about the tone of some of our debate, which, probably seemed like …

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Time to leave the enclosures

January 21, 2025 By Chris Corrigan Being, Culture, Democracy, Featured, Power, Wordpress 6 Comments

It is time to leave the enclosures. It is not worth trying to make our social networks work under the terms of unfettered fascists and venture capitalists who prey on our attention for profit.

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