A life in Sarnia, and a record of what happens along the way.
I’m Nathan Colquhoun. I’ve been keeping this site since 2004: writing, photographs, community projects, politics, faith, travel and ordinary life. Most of my current public writing appears at The Sarnia Journal. This is where the different threads meet.
About me · What I’m doing now · Things I’ve helped build
Start here
Beginning of the blog — October 2004. The first entry.
Europe, 2007 — A travel journal from an earlier chapter.
Prayers and liturgy — Writing from my years in church and community life.
Sarnia City Council — Writing from and about municipal public life.
Buying The Sarnia Journal — A life update from January 2024.
The people we elect will have to work together — October 2026.
Writing elsewhere
My column at The Sarnia Journal continues alongside this site. Selected pieces are collected on the Writing elsewhere page, with links to their original publication.
Recent entries
- The people we elect will have to work togetherToday I’m publishing conversations with Andrew Stokley, Josh Coutts-Smith and Honie Chumko, three candidates running for Sarnia City Council. I chose to interview them because none has served on council before. They don’t have the…
- The $20 Million “Quantum DISH”: Ottawa’s Sci-Fi Spectacle and the Militarization of Stolen LandThe federal government recently released an announcement that reads like it was written by a committee that watched too many late-night techno-thrillers and then tried to turn the dialogue into policy. Ottawa is directing $20.3…
- The Threat of the Conqueror: Capital Flight and the Settler Brain in Middle-Class CanadaYes, minor footnote that 80% of Jewish doctors in Ontario have experienced racism at work and 31% are thinking about leaving the country. https://t.co/WkDrYJDKaC — Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) August 3, 2026 We need to separate…
- The Obedience Pipeline: How Childhood Spiritual Engineering Funds the Carceral StateI’m genuinely surprised that several people who played key roles in the Sarnia Police Service’s recent failures are now aggressively asking for your vote to lead this city. If we want to stop our tax…
- The Police Chief Sued Me, Then Bailed: Defeating a $1.5M Intimidation Campaign on the Frontlines of Carceral CapitalismI woke up one morning in early April to a knock on my door and being served a $1.5 million lawsuit by the Chief of Police. For those who know me, you can imagine how…
- The Idolatry of the Consumer: A Response to “Resistance Infrastructure”Scott Galloway’s proposal for “Resistance Infrastructure” is more of the same in the very “mediated reality” that keeps us tethered to the state. By framing the “wallet as a weapon,” he reinforces a theology of…
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A changing record
Older entries reflect the person I was and the circumstances in which I wrote them. I leave that history in place as my life and thinking continue to change.