This column was originally written for the Squamish Reporter . This version updates that first publication. Minutes ahead of a colonoscopy procedure in August of 2025. Difficult conversations have become comfortable for me. Politics, religion, death, gender, sex and body parts we never speak of keep coming up everywhere I go. In the sentences ahead the topic is body parts we don’t talk about. It’ll end with the anus and ahead of that there’s the rectum and the colon. These are body parts I’m...

A summary of my trip to Victoria to attend the 2025 Union of BC Municipalities annual convention.

Something a bit different happened in the District of Squamish council chamber on April 15, 2025 when the 2024/25 Howe Sound Secondary...