Khan has to wear a cone!

For the next two days my cat will play the part of a walking lampshade. No, he won’ after my vet put one of those plastic cones on his neck. This afternoon I was petting him when I noticed blood comin...

Nathaniel Christopher / 6 December 2012

Police make arrest in New West trans murder

Police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of a trans woman in New Westminster almost 10 weeks ago. Charles Jameson “Jamie” Mungo Neel, 20, has been charged with second degre...

Nathaniel Christopher / 4 December 2012

Non-Catholic Alberta school districts consider queer policy

Despite the Alberta School Boards Association’s (ASBA) recent refusal to support anti-homophobia policy, some school districts are moving forward with plans to protect their queer students. A majority...

Khan

Nathaniel Christopher / 2 December 2012 / 8 Comments

Cheap insulin for Khan at Costco!

The other day I realized that my cat’s insulin bottle was almost empty so I phoned my vet who kindly faxed a prescription over to the pharmacy so that I could buy another vial. Normally she’d just sen...

Nathaniel Christopher / 27 November 2012

Openly gay men make less money, survey shows

Gay men who are out at work make less money and are three times more likely to experience discrimination, according to the results of the 2011 Sex Now Survey. “So people who are going into the workpla...

Reflections and Opinions

Nathaniel Christopher / 26 November 2012

Google maps the indoors!

Google now maps interior spaces such as airports and department stores. Apparently they announced this program about a year ago but I just noticed it the other day when I was doing a random Google Map...

Reflections and Opinions

My three computers loaded with my customized Google homepage

Nathaniel Christopher / 3 November 2012 / 5 Comments

Google to eliminate background images

I recently learned that Google will be eliminating the ability for users to add a custom background image to their Google homepage. When I opened my browser this morning a little information balloon p...

Travel

Nathaniel Christopher / 1 November 2012

Nathaniel in Quebec!

As some of you may know I recently returned from a week-long trip to Quebec. I went out there to be with one of my dearest friends as she celebrated her 30th birthday. She recently moved to Que...

Nathaniel Christopher / 28 October 2012

Court defends Boissoin’s free speech

An anti-gay letter to the editor published in the Red Deer Advocate in 2002 is “coarse, crude and insensitive” but still a legitimate expression of opinion, Alberta’s highest court has ruled, dismissi...

Nathaniel Christopher / 25 October 2012 / 4 Comments

Leo Mantha’s grave

This Tuesday I visited the grave site of Leo Anthony Mantha, the last person ever executed in British Columbia. He was born in Montreal on Dec. 22, 1926, executed in Burnaby on Apr. 28, 1959, and buri...