Some good recent reads which didn’t make it into full blog posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter Levine offers a close reading of Wendell Berry’s poem, September 2<\/strong><\/a>: “If his leaves are his writings, I do not think they will soon dissolve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n A beautiful Guardian article about slime moulds<\/strong><\/a> and the people who study them: “So confounding were they that Carl Linnaeus, who spent his life taxonomising life, lumped them into a genus called \u201cchaos\u201d.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are fixing up the record”<\/strong> says Jungurrayi Simms Otto in this short and beautiful documentary<\/a>. He is summarizes the work of a collaboration between the English artist Patrick Waterhouse and a slew of Warlpiri artists as they revise historical records of the British colonial occupation of the Warlpiri homelands .<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who doesn’t like some deeply evidence based takedowns<\/strong> of terrible research or policy? Here’s a couple from Dougald Lamont. One on a “racist and sexist” report from the MacDonald-Laurier Institute<\/a> on the productivity cost of DEI policies in Canadian universities and another that dismantles the case for Alberta separatism because, well, its based on fever dreams<\/a>. That one got a follow up.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Issues of Aboriginal rights and title are important in British Columbia<\/strong>, and actually have been since 1851. Political mischief has turned these issues of fundamental justice and law into a political football. As Canadian citizens we have to understand the LAW of the situation not just the politics. Aaron Pete, another voice I dont always agree with, has a good piece on this today. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n