The Philosopher Dad

Since I started teaching, I've tried to bike to work as often as I can.  This means that for most of the fall, and a good chunk of the s...

Every month, Beaconsfield circulates a newsletter called CONTACT  that lets us citizens know about all the great stuff happening in our tow...

There's a terrifying story on Stuff (see link) about a family in New Zealand who opted not to vaccinate their children and then watche...

One of the big news stories around here this week is how Dawson College expelled a student for exposing a security flaw in the online course...

All of my kids love Justin Bieber - and would gladly tell anyone about it; at least until recently.  Something sad - and certainly not u...

When I first started this blog in 2006, our first child - Curious Boy had just been born.  It was a huge shift, and the ensuing years were f...

It's really been a long time since I've been here, and in a lot of ways it's very good to be back. On a practical level my web ...