Showing posts with label BC politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BC politics. Show all posts
Saturday, May 10, 2025

What might we learn if we listened?

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Image by Couleur: Pixabay Nobody knows the challenges of getting out from under harmful substance use like someone who has actually done it....
Monday, April 07, 2025

Don't buy the snake oil

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ChatBox AI image created by me I generally stay out of the fray when it comes to commentary on politicking, so much of which is about as rel...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Could the stories of the dead shake us out of this moral panic?

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Pixabay: Erika Wittlieb This is a callout to people who know someone who has died in the toxic drug crisis in the last decade. I've got ...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Stigma deepens. People suffer and die. Just another day in BC

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A hundred years from now, our descendants will feel sick to their stomachs when they read about how we treated people who used drugs in ways...
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Monday, September 16, 2024

Lock 'em up: Everything old is new again

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Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay And just like that, institutionalization is back.  My head is in a whirl. After untold hours of my ear...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

The icky truth about international students in Canada

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Opportunistic Canadian training institutes that over-promise and under-deliver are no doubt a problem for international students in Canada. ...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

BC's decrim experiment: One giant step for governments, one really tiny step for fixing the problem

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Credit: No Name 13, Pixabay The BC government doubtlessly had to work very hard to get the OK from the federal government for a three-year t...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

The crisis is now

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The perfect is the enemy of the good, as Voltaire noted back in the 18th century. His wise words came to mind when I saw the Vancouver Sun...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Open procurement and social care: Why that should scare you

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Find me here in the Vancouver Sun writing on the scintillating issue of open procurement, and other strange happenings bombarding the comm...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Proportional Representation: One British Columbian's heartfelt, well-considered and very linked-up case for voting YES to PR

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I am rooting like mad for British Columbians to vote in favour of switching our voting system to  proportional representation when the ref...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Martyn Brown: Say Wha-a-a-a-t?

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People change. I get that. But I still feel a flash of furious disbelief every time I see one of my soft-left acquaintances embracing th...
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