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.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Climate change: Somebody ought to do something about that

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For a while there, we could all write about climate change as if it were still coming and might possibly be avoided if people were exhorted ...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Let me tell ya, kid, back in my day...

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When I was a kid and got too whiny about some little difficulty in my life, I'd get shaken back to reality by a parent or grandparent wi...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Drugs don't kill people, poisoned drugs do

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BC's crisis of poisoned street drugs is hitting men in the prime of their working years the hardest. Three-quarters of the 10,000 deaths...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

I will remember

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  Clockwise from top left: My father David Paterson; my aunt Joan Hepburn, solo and with her mates; my grandmother's brother Jack Feica;...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Falling B grades signal community decline

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Few things visualize the impact of the pandemic and the sad slide of social wellness in Greater Victoria quite so pointedly as the 2022 Vita...
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