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Futility of “Lest We Forget”
Remembering the great-uncle I never knew, Donald Young-Leslie, who enlisted Dec 30, 1914, served in the 24th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces’ “Victoria Rifles” (Infantry, Qu…
Remembering the great-uncle I never knew, Donald Young-Leslie, who enlisted Dec 30, 1914, served in the 24th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces’ “Victoria Rifles” (Infantry, Qu…
Ok, bear with me; working through an idea. The City of Edmonton’s urban and budgeting planners have estimated that to institute the bike transportation infrastructure needed to mee…
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
June 14 2021: ANTICIPATION…. I’m at the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh…
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about air travel: flygskam: flight guilt. I…
Updated from a 2015 post: 28 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached…
Updated from a 2015 post: 28 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached…
the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children* On Valentine’s Day, 2017, Justice Edward Belobaba of…
the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children* On Valentine’s Day, 2017, Justice Edward Belobaba of…
Police violence at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City. Overshadowed by a different sort of violence, a vigilante-payback murderous sort of protest, in Dallas. Heartbreak. Horror. Anger.…
Police violence at a #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City. Overshadowed by a different sort of violence, a vigilante-payback murderous sort of protest, in Dallas. Heartbreak. Horror. Anger.…
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first published piece of creative non-fiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first ‘published’ piece of creative nonfiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
(Re-blog from PressProgress.ca) A Toronto court heard final arguments Thursday in the trial of former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ghomeshi is charged with four counts of sexual…
[Feb 9, 2016. Some thoughts on the Ghomeshi trial, as the third complainant’s testimony and examination is completed, and as we wait for Judge Horkins to rule on…
I’ve been resisting following the Ghomeshi trial. Partly, I’m enabled by circumstance–a temporary fragility of anatomy with accompanying pain & analgesics have occupied me for th…
There are so many types of “refugees” and many ways to describe them. We have used terms like Displaced Persons (“DPs”), Victims of War, Illegal Immigrants, Émigrés; each…
26 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached the Berlin Wall. It seemed…
When I lived in Paris (1986), young Algerians, especially men, were the most despised members of the city’s society. They hung out, smoking cigarettes on streets and trying…
Originally posted on News Service: In a press release published yesterday, 50 Science Europe members agreed on 4 new common principles expected for publisher members when providing payments/subsidies…
Jason Antrosio, author of the Living Anthropologically blog, wrote a great response to the flurry of neo-liberal detractors who began declaring anthropology as a poor option for university…