Welcome to The Essentials

A new experiment in journalism -- by friends for friends.

Hello friends.

If you’ve followed my work for these last few years, then you know that I don’t just write about politics. The shot of serious stuff in The Morning Coffee is always followed by a chaser of music, hockey and soccer news, and whatever else might be obsessing me at a given moment.

Now felt like as good a time as any to curate those random musi…