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.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Life sentence for victims of intimate partner violence

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Sharing an opinion piece I wrote this week that was published today in the Times Colonist , sparked by the sentencing of a serial assaulter ...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

How racist are our roots? So racist

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My new hobby of diving into ancestry information brings me many treasurers, including these four 1924 Chinese Immigration Act documents of m...
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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