Ryan Knighton
Ryan Knighton lives in Vancouver, teaches at a college in North Vancouver, and peers at the world with a strange but distinctive focus. He just signed a whopping book contract based on a series of pieces that appeared on this site, and his publisher made us erase them.
Shopping for Safe Streets
A street encounter makes Ryan Knighton think twice about British Columbia’s not-exactly controversial Safe Streets Act
Read MoreAN OPEN LETTER TO BECK’S TAXI
One of Toronto’s leading taxi companies has a moral problem, and quite likely legal and public relations problems, too.
Read MoreAS FOR ME AND MY SMOKING
Ryan Knighton continues to quit smoking…
Read MoreSalty Prices
Ryan Knighton visits the salt mines near Krakow, Poland, and finds them, er, translated…
Read MoreA Bad Case of Blindness
Ryan Knighton goes to see, sort of, the movie Daredevil
Read MoreQUITTING, AGAIN: Day 30
Ryan Knighton continues his elegy for cigarettes–or his descent into recidivism…
Read MoreQUITTING, AGAIN
Ryan Knighton tries to wax philosophical about quitting smoking, but would really rather…
Read MoreOn The Rewards of Plagiarism
Ryan Knighton wonders if college-level plagiarism might not be presenting a societal morality
Read MoreOn Psychopathy TM
Ryan Knighton raises the possibility that corporate manipulation of the cybersphere is creating a new kind of psychopath
Read MoreTEACHING IS EASY
Giddy about the end of term, our two trouble-making pedagogues offer a synopsis of how to get to class
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