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I was thinking about harm reduction and trying to hunt down some more information related to themes from my last output on the topic. In...

The New York Times just published a flashy article on its website accusing Israel of deliberately starving Palestinian children . They tell us, “Obtaining enough to eat had already been a struggle for many in the blockaded Gaza Strip before the war. An estimated 1.2 million Gazans had required food assistance, according to the United Nations, and around 0.8 percent of children under the age of 5 in Gaza had been acutely malnourished, the World Health Organization said." They

Early in the new year is when we get the official tally from the BC Coroners Service for the number of overdose deaths the province saw in the previous year. In 2019, our already staggeringly high death count climbed again, approaching 1,000 drug overdoses. That was a level of deaths here in BC that formed what was seen as a kind of last straw for those in public health and advocacy. This caused the province to redouble the harm reduction efforts and make many radical new cha

This morning NPR landed in my news feed with this astonishing bit of journalism: Why Egypt won't allow vulnerable Palestinians across its...

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...

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.

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

I’ve been shocked by the response to Israel’s declaration of war and actions in Gaza. Of course, I’m not talking about the masses making...

I almost fell over reading this story in the news this morning: Indonesia enlists help of experts for ICJ Israel case. The Foreign Ministry has assembled a team of experts to help formulate Indonesia’s arguments in an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory case that seeks to hold Israel accountable for its 'policies and practices' in the occupied Palestinian territories. https://www.thejakartapost.com/world/2024/01/16/indonesia-enlists-help-of-experts-for-icj-israel-ca

These tweets are from the accounts of directors of Middle Eastern studies, investigative journalists, media companies, Palestinian...

Between 1892 and 1954 around 12 million people immigrated to the US via the immigration station at Ellis Island, New York. And any scan...

A FEW BASIC FACTS AND THINGS I NEVER HEAR Choose the answer that best fits your understanding of the situation If you don't know the...

The United States and 21 other countries pledged on Saturday at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai to triple nuclear energy...

NO CEASEFIRE November 1st Hamas official Ghazi Hamad stated that Hamas would “repeat the October 7th attacks time and again until Israel...

The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...

Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...

Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf  necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.”