Fiction – Chris Loblaw, Author

Get over yourself, Canada

So the U.S.A., our long-time special friend-with-benefits, has broken up with us. And most of you are not handling it well at all. Standing near the border and shouting “HOW COULD YOU? DON’T YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU NEEEEEEED US? WELL TWO CAN PLAY AT THIS GAME, BUDDY”. We tried to make the U.S. jealousContinue reading “Get over yourself, Canada”

Hateful gossip

We, as Canadians, have the ongoing opportunity to watch massive sociological events take place in a country that is almost identical culturally to us. We have far more in common with them than any European nation, much less the rest of the world. And invariably, any major change they go through is usually mirrored hereContinue reading “Hateful gossip”

You and me, baby, ain’t nothin’ but mammals

I’m going to put on my amateur sociologist/evolutionary psychologist hat and ramble at you, so I’d appreciate some preemptive forgiveness at my uninformed indulgence. The survival of a species is driven by two distinct primal forces: creation and destruction. Humans, like most animals, have these forces allocated by sex. Male is destruction, female is creation.Continue reading “You and me, baby, ain’t nothin’ but mammals”