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Columnist for the National Post (est. 1998). colbycosh@gmail.com
Nov 20, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
A dressing-down in the Legislature for your correspondent. The hon. member offers the familiar boast that Medicine Hat “is the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness”.
Mar 2, 2019 5 tweets 1 min read
You can even have modern or pomo additions done with some dignity & sense, if it’s a question of artist ego. But Featureless Industrial Box in 2019?? “I don’t want to slavishly imitate an obsolete style of building, so instead of trying to match or just respect the style of the Château Laurier, here’s, uh, the same rectilinear nonsense we’ve been making for 90 years? Have I got this right?”
Oct 16, 2018 4 tweets 1 min read
I’m no ag expert, but I already knew that barley yields are ~50% bigger than they were when I was a child, frolicking ‘midst the barley fields of B.A. You can’t even frolic ‘midst barley fields now, I’m told. The stuff’s so enormous and thickly planted that it will cut you to ribbons.