This week I fly to Nairobi for a conference, to the land of the true safari. But before any of that, on a Friday after work, I went on a different kind of safari, closer to home, and in many…

On my bed this week, laid out on a checkered cloth, sit the small documents that make a big journey possible: a Canadian passport, a Republic of Kenya eTA, a TMVC International Certificate of Vaccinations, and the familiar yellow International…

Sometimes the planet sends a small thank you note back. This time it arrived for all of us at once. A few weeks ago I wrote a story about the 29th annual Trash Bash at TRU. It was a quiet,…

This year I had the privilege of serving as Agency Field Instructor for two BSW practicum students whose self-directed research practicum redefined what community-based learning can look like: Brittney Fletcher and Tamarau Bingila.In a self-directed research practicum, students don’t slot…

I spent this spring studying our city’s strengths. Here is what I found, and why it gave me hope. Kamloops takes its name from the Secwépemctsín word for “where the rivers meet,” the confluence of the North and South Thompson…

One year ago, Kamloops gathered in a university classroom to bear witness. We watched Standing Free together, asked Maxim Khomenko our questions, and turned a documentary screening into direct support for Ukraine. That evening, the distance between Kamloops and the…

Somewhere in Kamloops right now, a student is finishing an assignment between hospital visits. A neighbour is cooking a second dinner to drop off down the street. A son is helping his mother with her medications before heading to his…

When a firefighter answers an alarm in British Columbia, a paramedic takes a call in Kentucky, or a rescue crew launches into the Black Sea from a Ukrainian port, something deeper than training carries them through. Behind every uniform is…

Дві Університети, Один Якір Notes from the first week of Educating for Social Change · Kamloops and Lviv, May 2026 This week I begin teaching Educating for Social Change in two classrooms at once. One classroom is at Thompson Rivers…

The morning began the way most Thursdays in Westsyde begin this month, with the small, ordinary rituals of taking care of where we live. I rolled the recycling bins to the curb (it is recycling day pick up in the…

Every Saturday since February 24, 2022, we have gathered. Through snow and heat, through grief and stubborn hope, we stand with Ukraine. But on the second Saturday of May, something tender joins us. The rushnyky come out, strung between us…

Eighty-one years ago today, Nazi Germany was defeated. Millions died to make that defeat possible. Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Kazakhs, Jews, Poles, Roma, Indigenous soldiers from across the Soviet Union, Allied forces from around the world. Their memory belongs to all…