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, April 07, 2025

Don't buy the snake oil

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ChatBox AI image created by me I generally stay out of the fray when it comes to commentary on politicking, so much of which is about as rel...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

One more walk down the road to failure

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Sunil Kargwal, Pixabay Thank you to long-time community organizer Ann Livingston for pointing me to this 17-year-old blog post that takes us...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Could the stories of the dead shake us out of this moral panic?

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Pixabay: Erika Wittlieb This is a callout to people who know someone who has died in the toxic drug crisis in the last decade. I've got ...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Letter to a friend, because paid writers never waste words even when no one's paying

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Image: Pixabay, johnhain Letter to a friend today as we talked about how to get our heads around what has to come next in the toxic drug cri...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Stigma deepens. People suffer and die. Just another day in BC

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A hundred years from now, our descendants will feel sick to their stomachs when they read about how we treated people who used drugs in ways...
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