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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Health is a virtuous circle – that thought came to me the other day, as I thought about how well I’m feeling lately. …Knock on wood that I didn’t just jinx things… Shades of Stevie Wonder’s Superstition… 😉 Vicious circles are pretty familiar, right? You have an itch, you scratch it. It gets itchier, you […]
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Tags: mental_health, virtue, virtuous_circle
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Everybody is talking /writing) about pot, including pot in Canada, it seems. Nothing new, really: every Canadian (especially every British Columbian) knows it’s a resource and a big economic contributor. Now a recent Guardian article by Douglas Haddow, Marijuana may cause Canada’s economic comedown, prompted even our local press conglomerate to publish a pretty good […]
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Tags: cannabis, marijuana
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
On Monday March 30, the Downtown Residents Association (DRA) hosted a public meeting, On The Front Lines: Community Solutions for Homelessness and Social Issues, at City Hall. Moderated by DRA chair Rob Randall, we heard from Victoria City Councilor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, the Coalition to End Homelessness‘s Jill Clements, the Downtown Victoria Business Association’s Ken Kelley, […]
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Tags: charlayne_thornton_joe, jamie_graham, jill_clements
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
The other day Rob Randall posted an entry, Amsterdam cracks down on prostitution, cannabis: lessons for Victoria?, on which I left a long comment. Rob’s post was about how Amsterdam is reconsidering its liberal laws regarding drugs (and prostitution). My comment wasn’t about Amsterdam or about liberalizing drug laws (as such), but more discursive, “thinking-out-loud” […]
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Tags: drugs, risk, robert_randall, schools, youth
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The Vancouver Sun published two articles, nearly back-to-back, which make a lot of sense when read in conjunction: on March 22, we read Bob Ransford’s As cities become more complex, our taxes keep rising and on March 24 we read Milo Cernetig’s Approach to social woes a moral failure by all three main B.C. parties. […]
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”) Annotated tags: boogie, brooklyn, drug_addiction, gangs, interview, nyc, photography, ping_mag, street_life Interview with “Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in […]
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