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AI and Anthropology

‘Python is ready to have a conversation with you’: the reproduction of an ontology of language in natural language processing educational material," AI & Society. 27 May 2025.
The whole notion that AI will overtake humanity relies on a false premise. The Globe and Mail. November 2, 2024
Is There an AI Metrics Mirage? American Scientist. Vol. 112. No. 2
Artistic Bodies: (Re)Imagining Autism Diagnosis through Art Therapy. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. Special Issue: Transitive Afflictions. Spring 2026. With Neda Maki (Submitted)
Prompt / Completion: Entextualizing and Purifying Multilingual Training Data in an Open-Science Project. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Special Issue: Language Machines: Unpacking the Sociotechnical Practices and Ideological Work inside Large Language Models. Fall 2026. Submitted.
Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning. Association for Computational Linguistics 2024.
In Defense of Plumbing: Joseph Wilson talks to James Pennebaker about his studies into the significance of function words. Babel: The Language Magazine. Autumn 2024.
Combat by Algorithm: Trials of Strength in Artificial Intelligence Research. Anthropology News. Jan. 23, 2024
Will AI really change everything? Not likely. Globe and Mail. June 5, 2023.
The Metapragmatic Function of Machine Learning Algorithms. Science, Technology and Human Values. (In Review)
Shifting Voices in Dungeons and Dragons. With Adam Axbey. Babel. February 2023.
Why AI Will Never Fully Capture Human Language. SAPIENS.org. Reprinted in American Scientist
COVID shows why we need the social sciences now more than ever. Ottawa Citizen
When we search for the humanity in LaMDA AI, we’re missing the point. Globe and Mail.
The Ghost in the Machine: Metaphors of the ‘Virtual’ and the ‘Artificial’ in Post-WW2 Computer Science. Perspectives on Science, Special Issue: Virtual Entities in Science. Cambridge: MIT Press (in review).
Constraints on generality: The (mis-)use of generic propositions in scientific prose, The Digital Scholar: Philosopher’s Lab, Vol. 3. No. 1.
Decaying Words: The Metaphor of Evolution in Language Becomes Literal in a Canadian Forest, Technology and Language. Vol. 1. No. 2.

Entrepreneurship

A group of brewers is trying to establish terroirs for Canadian hops, The Globe and Mail
The Use of Games in Museums and Science Centers, Spongelab White Paper
The Power of Open, STEM Magazine Canada
How Savvy Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Co-Opt the Business Model Canvas, EdSurge
7 Principles Lean Startups Can Learn from the Scientific Process, MaRS Blog
Fighting to Get Heard at SXSW: Some Tactics for Entrepreneurs, MaRS Blog
Joseph Wilson on Learning… Possible Canadas Interview, The Globe & Mail
Youth Hackathon Platbook Hits the Web for Free, MaRS Blog
Why Travel is a Crucial Part of an Entrepreneur’s Education, MaRS Blog
How Not to Be Annoying at #SXSW: A Review, Betakit
Startup Weekend Toronto EDU, MaRS Blog
Creative Tension at SXSWedu, Betakit
Game Changer: How Digital Games Are Creating New Learning Experiences, Canada Education
Education Changemakers: Learning Differently, Startup Library
Education Changemakers: Business Models Matter, Startup Library
Education Changemakers: Blended Solutions, Startup Library
Investors Give Education Technology Firms the Nod, the Financial Post
The Lean Rock Band, MaRS Blog
Future Leaders: Planting the Seeds of Entrepreneurs, MaRS Blog
Big Ideas at SXSWEdu, Mindshare Learning
Collaborating for Growth in the K-12 Education Market, MaRS Blog
Great Ideas From Minds That Don’t Think Alike, Globe & Mail
The Mini Maker Faire is a Science Fair for Grown-Ups That Matters, Yonge Street
Toronto’s 49 Pixels Project is Mapping Out Our Silicon Valley North, Yonge Street
Social Entrepreneurship in Toronto is Hot and May be a Future Direction for Capital Markets, Yonge Street
Toronto`s Serious Gaming Companies Have Kids Thinking? Yonge Street
Planet Traveller Digs Its Way Into a Low Carbon Economy, Yonge Street
MarketLink is Helping Small Toronto and Canadian Tech Companies Get Into International Markets, Yonge Street
Toronto`s CFC Media Lab is a World Pioneer in Digital Interactive Media & Now They Mean Business, Yonge Street
Towards a Sustainable University of Toronto Campus, Yonge Street
Net Change Week: Social Innovators are Making Don Tapscott`s Predictions Come True, Yonge Street
Collaborating Across Disciplines, Open Source Business Review
Getting Graffiti: Brick Works shows off what Rob Ford would clean up, The Globe & Mail
Come on in, the water's fine ... right?, The Globe and Mail
Creationist Spin on Our Origins, The Toronto Star
Blinding them with 'science', The Toronto Star

Spacing Magazine

What's in a Smellscape? Spacing #72
Long after books blazed, a library is finally back. Spacing #63
The True Disruptors at Collision Were Asking us to Slow Down and Listen. Spacing blog. July 18, 2023
The Promises and Perils of AI at the Provocation Ideas Festival. Spacing blog. May 16, 2023
Jane’s Walk Festival + Provocation Ideas Festival. Spacing blog.
Placekeeping on the Islands: An indigenous landscape architect is reimagining Toronto’s iconic park. Spacing Magazine. #58
Elevated: What would it take to turn the decommissioned Scarborough RT into a park? Spacing Magazine. #57. Fall 2021.
Elder Wisdom: First Nations and public health in Toronto. Spacing Magazine. #56
Archeologists Unearth Privies From 19th Century Toronto, Spacing Magazine, #54
The Oldest Bottle of Wine in Toronto, Spacing Magazine, #52
Urban Adventures: City Scouts teaches kids how to navigate their own city, Spacing Magazine, #52
Indigenous youth help redefine landscape architecture. Spacing Blog.
Street Gangs of Toronto, 1943, Spacing Magazine
Street smarts, Spacing Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006
Big City - Bright Lights, Spacing, Fall 2005

Book Reviews

A conversation with Jennifer Petersen about her new book How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. CaMP Blog.
Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic. Edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe. Spacing #62, 2023.
Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias by John Lorinc. Spacing #61, 2022.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Growing up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks by Micah Toub
Year Of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
The Steps Across the Water by Adam Gopnik
Zero History by William Gibson
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Programming The Universe by Seth Lloyd
Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space by Jim Lebans and Bob McDonald
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time by Christopher Dewdney
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone by Shashi Tharoor
The Physics of Christianity by Frank J. Tipler
The Scientist as Rebel by Freeman Dyson
What’s Science Ever Done for Us?: What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life and the Universe by Paul Halpern
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers by Dave Eggers, Daniel Moulthrop and Ninive Clements Calegari
Bush Vs. The Environment by Robert S. Devine
End of Ignorance by John Mighton
Fueling the Future by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney
Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
On The Nature of Human Romantic Interaction by Karl Iagnemma
The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansson
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life by Avery Gilbert

CBC Parents

Parenting is Hard, No Matter What You See–Or Read–Online. CBC Parents
Think Pronouns Are Difficult? French Doesn’t Make It Any Easier. CBC Parents.
On A Family Vacation, I Recommend Letting Your Kids Take The Lead. CBC Parents
I’m Trying To Show My Kids Music Is Something We Create, Not Just Consume. CBC Parents.
When One Child Has More Extracurricular Success Than Their Siblings. CBC Parents.
My Family’s Encounters With An Often Shirtless, Longboarding Opera Singer. CBC Parents.
Our Family Tree Revealed Many Things To My Kids, Including The Roles Women Have Historically Filled. CBC Parents.
We Want Our Kids To Play Music Like We Do, But Nothing Is Working. CBC Parents.
Groundhog Day Is An Absurd Tradition— And My Kids Want Answers. CBC Parents.
There Is An Art To Swearing And I’m Sharing That With My Kids. CBC Parents
January Can Be A Bleak Month, So Our Family Threw A Robbert Burns Supper. CBC Parents.
Hair Pulling, Superheroes And Stickers — How My Three Kids Braced Themselves For Vaccination, CBC Parents.
Canada’s ‘Sometimes Smug Approach To Mulitculturalism’ Is Hard To Avoid — And Explain To Kids, CBC Parents.
Canadian Thanksgiving Is Often Oversimplified For Kids — But There’s A Lot To Discuss, CBC Parents.
Is Getting A Cat Spayed Unimaginably Cruel?, CBC Parents.
My 10-Year-Old Plans To ‘Vote’ For Justin Trudeau, CBC Parents.
‘Will It Split The Family?’ — Our Italo-Anglo Family’s Euro 2020, CBC Parents.
A Look Into The Anxiety-Inducing, Deeply Regulated World Of A Kid’s Pandemic Spelling Bee, CBC Parents.
Pride Is Not Just For Brians — We’ve Always Felt Welcome As A Straight Family, CBC Parents.
Do Kids Even Want to go Back to School in June?, CBC Parents.
Our Newest Aggravating Family Member Was Ravaged by Ticks…, CBC Parents.
The Monster My Daughter Fears Isn’t An Active Shooter But The Lockdown Drill Itself, CBC Parents.
My 7-Year-Old Fashion Designer, CBC Parents.
How To Dispose Of Children’s Crafts Without Crushing Their Souls, CBC Parents.
Two Girls Read Books About Girls With Their Dad — Here Are Their Reviews, CBC Parents.
Parenting is a Dictatorship, CBC Parents
I Enjoy Letting My Daughters Help Me With Home Projects — Here’s Why, CBC Parents
Our Family Could Grieve 2020, But We Had It Better Than Many, CBC Parents
How the ‘Buy Nothing’ Philosophy is Alive And Well In Our Home — And Always Will Be, CBC Parents.
This Canadian Family Bought 10 Chickens To Feed And Educate Their Kids, CBC Parents
I Hope The Person Who Keeps Stealing From My Family Reads This, CBC Parents
Reports From Our Pandemic-Era Bedroom, Where ‘Air Conditioner Privilege’ Lives, CBC Parents
How To Help Your Kids Turn Your Old T-Shirt Into Their Own No-Sew Mask, CBC Parents
I’m Thinking Beyond Online Learning, So I Asked My Daughter To Write Half This Article, CBC Parents
Ending The Stigma Of COVID-19 At Home So It Doesn’t Become The New ‘Cooties’, CBC Parents
The Day My Daughter Learned That Hawks Want To Devour Other Birds — Not Berries, CBC Parents
My Father Died Four Days After My Daughter Was Born, CBC Parents
I’m Not Vaccine-Resistant Or An ‘Anti-Vaxxer’ — I’m Teaching My Kids Why Shots Matter, CBC Parents
Navigating My Daughter’s Three Personas — Maria, Big Boy And Le Petit Bébé, CBC Parents
I Don’t want my kids to have a Nature Deficit Disorder, CBC Parents
We’re All Going to Die: conversations with a 5-year old, a 7-year old and a squirrel named Eli, CBC Parents
Our Family is a Proud Member of the #Beyhive, Despite all the Swearing, CBC Parents
Most Parents Have Been on a Field Trip From Hell–Here’s My Story, CBC Parents
My Daughter Wore a 1960’s-Inspired ‘Indian’ Costume–Here’s How I Took Care of That, CBC Parents
Stealing From a 3-Year-Old Kid is BS, CBC Parents
Our Kids Love Opera But Not Because We Force Them To, CBC Parents
Why do I Let My Kids Take the School Bus Without a Seat Belt? CBC Parents
Why the Gillette Ad isn’t About Just Boys and Men, it’s About my Three Daughters Too, CBC Parents
Lies Parents Tell: The Teeth in this Secret, Hidden-Away Jar Aren’t Yours, CBC Parents
Why Canning Tomato Sauce is More Important to our Family Than Going to the Cottage, CBC Parents
My Family’s History of Early Death is Driving Me to Make Changes for My Daughters, CBC Parents
I Lied To My Kids About Meeting A Mermaid And Had A Crisis of Conscience, CBC Parents
How We Can Afford To Be a Cultured Family: We Barter, CBC Parents
Our Family’s Struggles As A French-First Family In An English-First City, CBC Parents
I Think the Policing of School Lunches Has Gone Too Far, CBC Parents
Let Kids In On Cooking Because Dinner Doesn’t Just Magically Appear, CBC Parents
Here’s What Your Kids Can Learn if You Let Them Use Power Tools, CBC Parents
It’s Not a Sex-Ed Curriculum, It’s a Health Curriculum, and Our Kids Need it, CBC Parents
How a Broken Promise Between My Two Daughters Led Me to Accepting That Violence is OK — Sometimes, CBC Parents

NOW Magazine

Football TV's Final Frontier, NOW Magazine, Jan 29 - Feb 05, 2009
Free Shareable iTunes in Sight, NOW Magazine, Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2009
Browse and Get Smarter, NOW Magazine, Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2009
Christians Convert to Gaming, NOW Magazine, Nov 13 - Nov 19, 200
E-books Get Some Traction, NOW Magazine, Oct 22 - Oct 29, 2008
Is Wikileaks Sell-off a Sell-out?, NOW Magazine, Oct 08 - Oct 15, 2008
The Search for Better Privacy, NOW Magazine, Sep 29 - Aug 05, 2008
Canuck Election Sites Suck, NOW Magazine, Sep 26 - Oct 03, 2008
Cells Signal the Future of Film, NOW Magazine, Sep 10 - Sep 17, 2008
Olympic Gear Raises the Bar, NOW Magazine, Aug 06 - Aug 13, 2008
History at the end of a phone, NOW Magazine, Jul 24 - Jul 31, 2008
How Green can save the world Economies, NOW Magazine, Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2008
Outdoor art with a difference, NOW Magazine, Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2008
Robots learn surgical moves, NOW Magazine, Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2008
Euro Free Kicks, NOW Magazine, Jun 03 - Jun 10, 2008
Sitting in Newton's Tree, NOW Magazine, May 29 - Jun 05, 2008
Wiki Recipes for Disasters, NOW Magazine, May 22 - May 29, 2008
Death of the Format Wars, NOW Magazine, May 08 - May 15, 2008
Death Tech Never Says Die, NOW Magazine, May 01 - May 08, 2008
Wake-up Call for Cyclists, NOW Magazine, Apr 17 - Apr 24, 2008
Great Ideas from Minds That Don't Think Alike, The Globe and Mail, Mar 29, 2008
When Printers Go Startrek, NOW Magazine, Mar 27 - Apr 03, 2008
Dog Sledding in Haliburton, NOW Magazine, Mar 20 - Mar 07, 2008
Car Design For A Green Future, NOW Magazine, Mar 06 - Mar 13, 2008
Science for Not-So-Dummies, NOW Magazine, Feb 07 - Feb 14, 2008
Cool disappearing acts, NOW Magazine, Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2008
Google expands the heavens, NOW Magazine, Dec 13 - Dec 19, 2007
Nerd words go mainstream, NOW Magazine, Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2007
Taking a bite of the apple, NOW Magazine, Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2007
The medici effect, NOW Magazine, Oct 04 - Oct 10, 2007
Political parties' online push, NOW Magazine, Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2007
Peer-to-peer under fire, NOW Magazine, Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2007
End of ignorance, NOW Magazine, Aug 09 - Aug 15, 2007
Election debates hit YouTube, NOW Magazine, Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2007
Cataloguing the cool way, NOW Magazine, Jul 05 - Jul 11, 2007
Ghost map haunts the future, NOW Magazine, May 31 - Jun 06, 2007
OCAD okays high-tech plan, NOW Magazine, May 17 - May 23, 2007
Power plays, NOW Magazine, Apr 19 - Apr 25, 2007
The wizard of wikinomics, NOW Magazine, Mar 22 - Mar 28, 2007
Giving black inventors credit, NOW Magazine, Mar 01 - Mar 07, 2007
Tips for the oscar pool freak, NOW Magazine, Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2007
Vista system's full of glitches, NOW Magazine, Feb 15 - Feb 21, 2007
Big brother at the Superbowl, NOW Magazine, Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2007
Say goodbye to bank loans, NOW Magazine, Jan 18 - Jan 24, 2007
Scents and new sensitivities, NOW Magazine, Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2007
Hydro hits the wireless grid, NOW Magazine, Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2006
Surfing mayoral hopefuls, NOW Magazine, Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2006
Life lessons from Dawson, NOW Magazine, Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2006
Bye-Bye NASA Monopoly, Open Source Business Resource, Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2006
Its ieverything these days, NOW Magazine, Aug 31 - Sep 06, 2006
Troubles over tiered net, NOW Magazine, Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2006
Where brains meet games, NOW Magazine, Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2006
You too can design an ad, NOW Magazine, Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2006
France's way or the highway, NOW Magazine, Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2006
Writers you are not alone, NOW Magazine, Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2006
Your memory tells TO's story, NOW Magazine, May 25 - May 31, 2006
Lose that real estate agent, NOW magazine, May 04 - May 10, 2006
E-waste not, NOW Magazine, Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2006
Do iPods mean the end of tolerance, NOW Magazine, Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2006
Do robots have souls, NOW Magazine, Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2006
Paralympic heights, NOW Magazine, Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2006
Photoshop fakers, NOW Magazine, Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2006
Tail yourself for a change, NOW Magazine, Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2006
Google loses lustre in China, NOW Magazine, Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2006
Slip-Sliding Away to Olympic Gold, NOW Magazine, Feb 09 - Feb 15, 2006
Classroom Heroes, NOW Magazine, Feb 02 - Feb 08, 2006
In defence of wikipedia, NOW Magazine, Feb 02 - Feb 08, 2006
Not-So-Useful Election Sites, NOW Magazine, Jan 19 - Jan 25, 2006
Tech Capitalist Get Conscious, NOW Magazine, Jan 12 - Jan 18, 2006
Rootkits Sign Of Sony's Arrogance, NOW Magazine, Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2006
Joseph Wilson's Top 10 Tech Events 2005, NOW Magazine, Dec 29 - Jan 04, 2005
Can Digital Bits Eclipse Bound Books?, NOW Magazine, Dec 22 - Dec 28, 2005
Random Acts, NOW Magazine, Nov 17 - Nov 23, 2005
Community Wi-Fi, NOW Magazine, Nov 03 - Nov 09, 2005
Debra Fischer's Starry Eyes, NOW Magazine, Oct 20 - Oct 26, 2005
Garreau's Vision, NOW Magazine, Oct 06 - Oct 12, 2005
Why Moog Didn't Go Digital, NOW Magazine, Sep 29 - Oct 05, 2005
Guns Are Getting Smarter, NOW Magazine, Aug 25 - Aug 31, 2005
Surveillance Hitting Home, NOW Magazine, Aug 11 - Aug 17, 2005
Night Moves, NOW Magazine, Jul 07 - Jul 13, 2005
Virtual Date With A Porn Star, NOW Magazine, Jun 30 - Jul 06, 2005
Who's Your Nanny?, NOW Magazine, Jun 09 - Jun 15, 2005
Wireless, And We Mean It, NOW Magazine, May 12 - May 18, 2005
Net Long Distance is Close, NOW Magazine, Apr 28 - May 04, 2005
The Afterlife Of Cell Phones, NOW Magazine, Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2005
Doing it With Dexit, NOW Magazine, Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2005
Eco-Basher Bush, NOW Magazine, Mar 17 - Mar 23, 2005
Gaming For Greater Good, NOW Magazine, Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2005
Podcast Broadcast, NOW Magazine, Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2005
Science Lovers, NOW Magazine, Jan 13 - Jan 20, 2005
High-Tech Hunting, NOW Magazine, Jan 06 - Jan 12, 2005
Belize's Reefs' Rewards, NOW Magazine, Dec 30 - Jan 06, 2004
Progress at a Price, NOW Magazine, Dec 30 - Jan 06, 2004
Crossover Blog, NOW Magazine, Dec 02 - Dec 09, 2004
High Science for Regular Folks, NOW Magazine, Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2004
Packaging Punditry, NOW Magazine, Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2004
Weblogs Getting Some Respect, NOW Magazine, Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2004
Chad Checkup, NOW Magazine, Sep 30 - Oct 06, 2004
Silly Sci-Fi Flicks, NOW Magazine, Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2004
Olympic Surfing, NOW Magazine, Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2004
Changing Status, NOW Magazine, Aug 19 - Aug 25, 2004
Modder's Day, NOW Magazine, Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2004
Accessible to All, NOW Magazine, Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2004
Made in Canada, Eh, NOW Magazine, Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2004
All That Jazz, NOW Magazine, Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2004
Queer Site Specifics, NOW Magazine, Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2004
Nature Knows Best, NOW Magazine, Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2004
High-Tech Camping, NOW Magazine, Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2004
On Tour With Moonraker, Jambands.com, May 29, 2004
Energy Ingenuity, NOW Magazine, May 27 - Jun 02, 2004
Cyborg Sensation, NOW Magazine, May 13 - May 19, 2004
The Plane Truth, NOW Magazine, Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2004
Ads That Stalk Us, NOW Magazine, Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2004
Tuning into Tech, NOW Magazine, Feb 26 - Mar 03, 2004
Joy of the Stick, NOW Magazine, Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2004
Mars Attack, NOW Magazine, Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2004
New Tech's Old Style, NOW Magazine, Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2004

An archive of my writing

AI and Anthropology

Entrepreneurship

Spacing Magazine

Book Reviews

CBC Parents

Parenting is Hard, No Matter What You See–Or Read–Online. CBC Parents

Think Pronouns Are Difficult? French Doesn’t Make It Any Easier. CBC Parents.

On A Family Vacation, I Recommend Letting Your Kids Take The Lead. CBC Parents

I’m Trying To Show My Kids Music Is Something We Create, Not Just Consume. CBC Parents.

When One Child Has More Extracurricular Success Than Their Siblings. CBC Parents.

My Family’s Encounters With An Often Shirtless, Longboarding Opera Singer. CBC Parents.

Our Family Tree Revealed Many Things To My Kids, Including The Roles Women Have Historically Filled. CBC Parents.

We Want Our Kids To Play Music Like We Do, But Nothing Is Working. CBC Parents.

Groundhog Day Is An Absurd Tradition— And My Kids Want Answers. CBC Parents.

There Is An Art To Swearing And I’m Sharing That With My Kids. CBC Parents

January Can Be A Bleak Month, So Our Family Threw A Robbert Burns Supper. CBC Parents.

Hair Pulling, Superheroes And Stickers — How My Three Kids Braced Themselves For Vaccination, CBC Parents.

Canada’s ‘Sometimes Smug Approach To Mulitculturalism’ Is Hard To Avoid — And Explain To Kids, CBC Parents.

Canadian Thanksgiving Is Often Oversimplified For Kids — But There’s A Lot To Discuss, CBC Parents.

Is Getting A Cat Spayed Unimaginably Cruel?, CBC Parents.

My 10-Year-Old Plans To ‘Vote’ For Justin Trudeau, CBC Parents.

‘Will It Split The Family?’ — Our Italo-Anglo Family’s Euro 2020, CBC Parents.

A Look Into The Anxiety-Inducing, Deeply Regulated World Of A Kid’s Pandemic Spelling Bee, CBC Parents.

Pride Is Not Just For Brians — We’ve Always Felt Welcome As A Straight Family, CBC Parents.

Do Kids Even Want to go Back to School in June?, CBC Parents.

Our Newest Aggravating Family Member Was Ravaged by Ticks…, CBC Parents.

The Monster My Daughter Fears Isn’t An Active Shooter But The Lockdown Drill Itself, CBC Parents.

My 7-Year-Old Fashion Designer, CBC Parents.

How To Dispose Of Children’s Crafts Without Crushing Their Souls, CBC Parents.

Two Girls Read Books About Girls With Their Dad — Here Are Their Reviews, CBC Parents.

Parenting is a Dictatorship, CBC Parents

I Enjoy Letting My Daughters Help Me With Home Projects — Here’s Why, CBC Parents

Our Family Could Grieve 2020, But We Had It Better Than Many, CBC Parents

How the ‘Buy Nothing’ Philosophy is Alive And Well In Our Home — And Always Will Be, CBC Parents.

This Canadian Family Bought 10 Chickens To Feed And Educate Their Kids, CBC Parents

I Hope The Person Who Keeps Stealing From My Family Reads This, CBC Parents

Reports From Our Pandemic-Era Bedroom, Where ‘Air Conditioner Privilege’ Lives, CBC Parents

How To Help Your Kids Turn Your Old T-Shirt Into Their Own No-Sew Mask, CBC Parents

I’m Thinking Beyond Online Learning, So I Asked My Daughter To Write Half This Article, CBC Parents

Ending The Stigma Of COVID-19 At Home So It Doesn’t Become The New ‘Cooties’, CBC Parents

The Day My Daughter Learned That Hawks Want To Devour Other Birds — Not Berries, CBC Parents

My Father Died Four Days After My Daughter Was Born, CBC Parents

I’m Not Vaccine-Resistant Or An ‘Anti-Vaxxer’ — I’m Teaching My Kids Why Shots Matter, CBC Parents

Navigating My Daughter’s Three Personas — Maria, Big Boy And Le Petit Bébé, CBC Parents

I Don’t want my kids to have a Nature Deficit Disorder, CBC Parents

We’re All Going to Die: conversations with a 5-year old, a 7-year old and a squirrel named Eli, CBC Parents

Our Family is a Proud Member of the #Beyhive, Despite all the Swearing, CBC Parents

Most Parents Have Been on a Field Trip From Hell–Here’s My Story, CBC Parents

My Daughter Wore a 1960’s-Inspired ‘Indian’ Costume–Here’s How I Took Care of That, CBC Parents

Stealing From a 3-Year-Old Kid is BS, CBC Parents

Our Kids Love Opera But Not Because We Force Them To, CBC Parents

Why do I Let My Kids Take the School Bus Without a Seat Belt? CBC Parents

Why the Gillette Ad isn’t About Just Boys and Men, it’s About my Three Daughters Too, CBC Parents

Lies Parents Tell: The Teeth in this Secret, Hidden-Away Jar Aren’t Yours, CBC Parents

Why Canning Tomato Sauce is More Important to our Family Than Going to the Cottage, CBC Parents

My Family’s History of Early Death is Driving Me to Make Changes for My Daughters, CBC Parents

I Lied To My Kids About Meeting A Mermaid And Had A Crisis of Conscience, CBC Parents

How We Can Afford To Be a Cultured Family: We Barter, CBC Parents

Our Family’s Struggles As A French-First Family In An English-First City, CBC Parents

I Think the Policing of School Lunches Has Gone Too Far, CBC Parents

Let Kids In On Cooking Because Dinner Doesn’t Just Magically Appear, CBC Parents

Here’s What Your Kids Can Learn if You Let Them Use Power Tools, CBC Parents

It’s Not a Sex-Ed Curriculum, It’s a Health Curriculum, and Our Kids Need it, CBC Parents

How a Broken Promise Between My Two Daughters Led Me to Accepting That Violence is OK — Sometimes, CBC Parents

NOW Magazine