A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

I'm a communications strategist and writer with a journalism background, a drifter's spirit, and a growing sense of alarm at where this world is going. I am happiest when writing pieces that identify, contextualize and background societal problems big and small in hopes of helping us at least slow our deepening crises.

Showing posts with label drug prohibition. Show all posts

Showing posts with label drug prohibition. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2025

My radio interview on - surprise! - the toxic drug crisis

Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20, Pixabay Anyone else like a radio opportunity that gives free range to say whatever you want to sound off about, but th...

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Sidney McIntyre-Starko was loved. So were the other 50,000 people who didn't get their stories told

Pixabay I hope the inquest recommendations that have come out of tragedy in a University of Victoria residence really do lead to major chang...

Monday, April 07, 2025

Don't buy the snake oil

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...

Friday, March 28, 2025

One more walk down the road to failure

Sunil Kargwal, Pixabay Thank you to long-time community organizer Ann Livingston for pointing me to this 17-year-old blog post that takes us...

Saturday, March 15, 2025

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

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 ...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Letter to a friend, because paid writers never waste words even when no one's paying

Image: Pixabay, johnhain Letter to a friend today as we talked about how to get our heads around what has to come next in the toxic drug cri...

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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

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...

Friday, February 14, 2025

Our governments are protectionists for the drug cartels

Image by Manfred Steger, Pixabay John Horgan, David Eby and Justin Trudeau are responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 21,000 people in BC...

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

BC's toxic drug crisis: Facts, figures and a video that will break your heart

I'm fresh from MC'ing a great opening event today for Peers Victoria's speaker series on the toxic drug crisis, and wanting to s...

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