I’ll be honest: I wasn’t planning to write about Resident Evil as a serious political text. I wanted to write something fun. “New game out, monsters are scary, here’s what the lore means.” That kind of thing. But then I started pulling on the thread. Requiem dropped February 27, and it’s excellent — probably the […]

Podcast Feed Yet another war broke out in the middle east on Saturday morning, but this time it’s different. It can be difficult to see the forest for the trees, but when we examine recent history, we see that there is a narrative that starts to become clear. This is the next (and hopefully final)

Podcast Feed Fourteen, Ten, Ten. That’s the number of Olympic Winter gold medals Canada won in 2010, 2014, and 2018 respectfully. Halfway through the 2026 winter Olympics and we’re trending towards two. So it begs the question, what gives: what happened to all the gold medals? We’re a winter country after all, so aren’t we

Podcast Feed It was a great speech. Prime Minister Mark Carney made headlines around the world this week. He gave a resounding speech at Davos; and Canadians are buzzing about it. A few days on, and some of the knock on effects of the speech are starting to surface. The chickens are beginning to come

When I was eleven years old, a distant cousin let me play a demo disc on his PlayStation. Those demo discs were single CD-ROMs loaded with 4-6 short game experiences and videos. You’d find them in the latest magazine issue, cereal box, or by subscription, featuring upcoming games. They were mostly awesome, and often drew

Podcast Feed My favourite podcast is Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore history”. Specifically the episodes on the ancient Achaemenid Persians: Kings of Kings. In it, Carlin tells the story how Cyrus the Great took Persia from a backwater tribe to become the mightiest empire in the world. The story goes that he did this with military might,

Podcast Feed It has been a torrid start to 2026 – there’s lots going on at accordingto. We wanted to take this opportunity to give a little update to our audience. We started the site back in October, the first pod launched later that same month. According to our Google analytics, In 2025 we had

One of the most misleading stories told about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is that it is defined by two fixed and irreconcilable camps. From the outside, it appears as a clean moral binary: us and them, right and wrong, irredeemable extremists on both sides. That framing is emotionally satisfying. It is also politically lazy. Spend time

I was born in Canada to an Iranian family and raised between two realities. One is the freedom I experience every day in this country. The other is the constant awareness that, had my life unfolded differently, I might not be allowed to speak, dress, or live freely at all. Loving Iran means being honest

The current world order has meant that Millennials have grown up in unprecedented times. Thirty somethings in the west have never known war, hunger, or economic depression. This colours the way they see the ongoing conflicts that seem to be becoming more and more frequent: The war in Ukraine, Israel’s conflict with Iran, and now