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.

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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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Grandmothers, I see you

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I’ve been chasing my three grandmothers through history of late, awed by their resiliency. Their early adulthoods were in the 1910s. Then an...
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Thursday, January 04, 2024

Jan. 5, 1974: A wedding story

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On this night 50 years ago, I was preparing for my wedding the next day. I was barely two weeks past my 17th birthday. What was on my mind t...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

In case you were wondering: A surfeit of social realities to explain (a bit) about how we got here

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Image by  Taken  from  Pixabay I haven't worked as a full-time journalist for almost 20 years now, but people still pay me to go find th...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

I wish you a Central American

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  My partner and I lived in Honduras and Nicaragua for almost five years doing Cuso International development work in the 2010s. I concluded...
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