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Facts continue to change their shape…

Posted on November 11, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Facts are simple and facts are straight Facts are lazy and facts are late Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around Facts are living turned inside … Continue reading →

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Yvette Perrault

Posted on October 17, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

I was lucky to get to listen to Yvette Paerrault talk for two hours as guest speaker last week at a team retreat …. This talk covers some similar ground so you can hear Yvette too. Yvette Perrault of AIDS … Continue reading →

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True Legacy

Posted on October 14, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Short video in which George Monbiot outlines the true and most lasting legacy of the colonial project that takes its lead from Columbus and the way of thinkingthat says … “We do whatever we like, because, well, because we can.” … Continue reading →

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NOT COOL: Toronto’s heat-relief network not enough…

Posted on August 26, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Article from Samantha McCabe at Globe & MAil on how City of Toronoo’s latest approach to offereing refuge from heat falls short. Experienced RNs and Street Nurses Roxie Danielson, Cathy Crow, Joyce Rankin speak to how it impacts health and … Continue reading →

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Why Mass Murderers May Not Be Very Different From You Or Me

Posted on August 18, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Opinion piece by Richard A Friedman in NYT, 8 Aug 2019. The current [and for some while] habit of dismissing mass murders as acts of “mentally ill monsters” has no basis in anything but unthinkin predjudice and habitual hatred – … Continue reading →

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Dear Doctor – MC Fubb

Posted on July 28, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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The sun was beginning to bear down on the earth… Albert Camus

Posted on July 28, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Heat makes life even more difficult for those who have been estranged from our society- made ousiders by politics, economics and more than a smidgeon of good old not giving a fuck about those we see as not like us. … Continue reading →

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Trauma is the effect left within us by our experience….

Posted on July 25, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Dr Robert Scaer… “In Western medicine we incorrectly categorize trauma by the events that happen when, in fact, it is the effect left within us by our experience. “ As he introduces himself here, “humble country traumatologist from Colorado” who, … Continue reading →

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Resistance is Resilience: Resilience is Resistance

Posted on July 2, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Article I first drafted two years ago now, published today in Canadian Journal of Disabilities Studies, Vol 8, Iss 4, Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences. This is my first artile published in a peer reviewed journal, so: Whoohoo! Big up from my … Continue reading →

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Pharmacists sent into care homes amid fears pensioners are being put at risk by drugs cocktail

Posted on May 10, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Healthcare” has become all about drugs. Time to make it about care and about people and about living a life worth living. Here’s a small and welcome change happening in UK. Where 400, 000 people living in “care homes” take … Continue reading →

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