I. INTRODUCTION Staples theory is perhaps Canada’s most significant contribution to the study of political economy. The theory was developed inductively in the 1920s and 1930s as an attempt to create an approach that attended to the particularities of Canada (Howlett et al., 1999). Early staples theorists found liberal and socialist approaches inadequate when applied … Continue reading Staples Theory and Canada’s Potential as an Energy Powerhouse →

Northern Canada depends on a vast network of ice roads for the transportation of goods. As a result of global warming, increasingly, Canada’s ice road network is not meeting the needs of residents and businesses of Northern Canada. After detailing the problems with Canada’s reliance on ice roads, this paper explores several courses of action. … Continue reading From Ice Roads to Airships – The Future of Goods Transport in Northern Canada →

This essay was written in 2005 for an introductory course on Archaeology The conventional understanding of the peopling of the Americas is that Asian hunters armed with Clovis points entered North America via Beringia, following herds of woolly mammoths (Holden, 1999, p. 1467). Archaeological evidence in the form of stone tools show that the groups … Continue reading The Solutrean Theory →

The following comment that I wrote regarding the BC General Election was 'content disabled,' or censored by CBC: "The BC NDP have been an unmitigated failure on the housing file. They reneged on their 2017 campaign promise of $400 for renters. They let the Little Mountain Housing Project fiasco to continue to fester and they … Continue reading CBC = Constantly Blocking Content →

Global News report from April 8, 2017 on the community event to commemorate the beginning of the redevelopment of the Little Mountain Housing Project in Vancouver and the displacement of its tenants. I am included in the report. “The B.C. Liberal government justified this redevelopment saying that it needed to be transformed into a mixed-income … Continue reading Little Mountain – 10 Years Later →

I researched and wrote this report in 2011 for the CPNet@Western Housing Intern and Scholar Programme offered by the University of Western Ontario. The report was submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. I am posting it to my blog now because I believe it is relevant to many of the new … Continue reading Local Delivery of Housing Allowances and Rent Supplements in Ontario: Best Practices and Program Challenges →

Perhaps the most uplifting protest events at Little Mountain were the art-ins. In addition to beautifying the housing project for the remaining tenants and serving a therapeutic role for many participants, the paintings produced at the art-ins advance a communal property claim to the buildings and grounds of the Little Mountain Housing Project. The Little … Continue reading Performing Property at Little Mountain: A Content Analysis of Protest Artwork →

I’ve always been a geographer. Since I was in grade two at DLG Elementary School in Mrs. Harvalias’s class, I’ve been fascinated with people and places and their stories. Mrs. Harvalias was from Greece and I spent every recess scouring the 1980s globe, almost half of which was labelled U.S.S.R., looking for Greece. I finally … Continue reading It’s good to be back →