A MORE INFORMED PUBLIC
This morning NPR landed in my news feed with this astonishing bit of journalism: Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its...
Feb 29, 202419 min read
SPOILS
Sho-sho : What do you know about Anfal? Ne-nah : What language is that? Sho-sho : Arabic, I presume. Ne-nah : Al-Anfal is the title...
Feb 23, 20249 min read
INFLATION
In the summer of 1998, as a teen, I got my first paying job working at a community centre. I had no education or any work or life...
Feb 21, 20243 min read
NO-CYCLE
In 2011, I wrote an essay about recycling . I was venting my frustration that, despite many decades of “the three Rs”, tons of emergent strategies, and so much problem-solving passion to be found, as a society we’ve only ever seemed to make the plastics pollution and single-use situation far worse.
Feb 19, 20247 min read
IS THAT WHAT WE NEEDED?
I've recently written a few rants about cannabis legalization in Canada and harm reduction in BC . Exploring these themes further, I just came across three new papers investigating mental health emergencies induced by cannabis consumption. All super interesting. The first study is titled Association between non-medical cannabis legalization and emergency department visits for cannabis-induced psychosis. Led by Dr Myran , a family physician with the Ottawa Hospital Research I
Feb 14, 20243 min read
