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.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

The good thing about traditions is that you can always remake them

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Christmas Eve 2012, Utila, Honduras     Today is my birthday, my third one in a row celebrated outside Canada. I wouldn't dream ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

There's a million stories in the big city

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  Horse cart man  and cotton candy vendor at the end of their day, Managua     Oh, for a good newspaper that had an appetite for day-...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Bad sex work law takes effect on the day of a massacre - "How horribly, enragingly appropriate"

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 On this day of mourning marking the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, another reason to mourn: Bill C36, Canada's flawed and tr...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Tap water, beer and beef: The surprising facts of life in Managua

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  Why does meat taste better in developing countries?  We'll have been in Managua for a month as of tomorrow, just long enough tha...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Right hands, wrong tools: 'Easy' counts for a lot in international development

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    I love that my new organization has a weekly radio program. Radio remains one of the most effective ways of communicating in cou...
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