Showing posts with label human behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human behaviour. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Can we talk? No, really - can we?

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Image by  John Hain  from  Pixabay Virtually every day, I go out on a dog walk and start putting together the start of a blog post in my hea...
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Sunday, May 07, 2023

The civility of silence

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"Don't talk about Trump/guns/abortion/covid/climate change," friends and family variously cautioned me as I prepared for a thr...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Don't let them mess up your face

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  This is me, age 66. The rock star Madonna is two years younger than me, and I am stunned to realize after her appearance at the Grammys on...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Sometimes a good shaming is all you've got

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It's hard to talk about Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond.  I fully believe that the right thing is happening to her as she is held up to the sea...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

When a rock meets a hard place

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Francesco Villi was an angry man who settled his differences violently . The fights he got into with his Toronto strata council were obvious...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Who is Rod Baker?

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Up until getting caught this week flying into a tiny Indigenous community in the Yukon to fake his way into an early COVID-19 vaccine, Rod B...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Suicide by car: On trauma, tragedy and ICBC policy

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The tragic suicide by car of a 24-year-old on the Pat Bay Highway on Sunday takes me back to another similar suicide back in 2000 that I w...
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Sunday, March 03, 2019

The immensely irritating but effective way that climate-change deniers do battle

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I'm seeing a pattern in my social media spaces right now, where I post some article or opinion piece on climate change and a climate-c...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Missive from a climate-change fear monger

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Graphic credit: Cakeburger.com I'm in a heated Facebook exchange at this very moment with one of those people who don't want to ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

A garbage read. No, really

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Just be glad you don't live in Kolonnawa, Sri Lanka, where 800 tonnes of garbage is added to this dump every day.  I'm repostin...
Friday, June 15, 2018

On voyeurism while urinating: The strange tale of the Opus Hotel video cam

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I first heard about this story in April from a co-worker of mine, the wife of Paul Razzell. I could hardly believe what I was hearing, and m...