In this short video, aptly timed given it's Bell's Let's Talk Mental Health week, Dr. Gabor Maté explains how mental distress and pathology exists in a continuum and are largely a result of a materialist culture that rigidly “idealize individuality and ignores emotional needs,” prioritizing objects over people and well being. In other words, we've … Continue reading Dr Gabor Maté on why “crazy”is a cultural construct
Could you commit 2 hours a week, from your own couch, to advancing reconciliation? UBC’s Faculty of Education is offering Reconciliation through Indigenous Education, a free 6 week massive open online course (MOOC) running January 24 - March 7. It starts today, but the course is self-directed, with new modules dropping each week. It's free. You … Continue reading UBC’s free MOOC on Reconciliation kicks off this week -and you can still register
Shares Polek, who has undertaken a new photo journal project this year (check it out at https://theseatosky.wordpress.com/): "I have been shooting Whistler a bit these days, but I got this frame of Tae and Sweatpants a few days ago. I can't top it really, it inspires me beyond words and builds tremendous hope inside for the … Continue reading Hope. Polek Rybczynski’s photo sums it up.
I've watched the creek behind my house transform utterly over the last few weeks - with a sense of fascination and awe (and granted, yes, a little disappointment that the ice melted, sure.) I think Georgina Dan is on the same watchful program. Last month, she was capturing Christmas trees draped in lights and snow. … Continue reading I see your Arctic outflow and give you a case of pineapples. Georgina Dan’s photo reminds us of winter’s magic, no matter the temperature
Sing it. The N’we Jinan Tour is a music initiative that brings a mobile recording studio and a video production team into schools and youth centres across First Nation and Native American communities. The program offers youth the chance to create an original song and music video that explores relevant issues and topics while promoting … Continue reading Music is medicine. Here’s proof.
Well, I admit I was wondering how the Polar Bear swim was going to go, back when everything, including my eyelashes, were frozen solid. Pineapple Express seems to have taken care of that... The genius organizers (I'm talking to you, Carlee Cindric), got a jump on the weather changes by hosting last weekend's pop-up Winterfest at … Continue reading UPDATED: Winterfest is coming. (With fireworks! And the Hairfarmers!) But NO POLAR BEAR PLUNGE. It’s too treacherously slick at One Mile Lake.
If a cold and hungry hawk is going to get itself entangled in the netting of your chicken coop, attempting to source itself a nice New Year’s Day dinner, the best possible scenario is to be John Tschopp’s neighbour. The 40-year Pemberton resident unwittingly designated himself as my go-to guy for any bird-related questions, when … Continue reading Counting Birds, Wrestling Hawks: All in a day’s work for John Tschopp
Our photographers share their images - every weekend - wordlessly. And that's as it should be. An offering. A moment of quiet, stillness, contemplation. For you to interpret as you will. But I couldn't help, in the thick of flu season, but see the offerings of nature in Dave Steer's images today, of snow-cloaked rosehips, … Continue reading The medicine you seek. Dave Steers captures snow-cloaked rosehips in the thick of flu season.
This leaves me speechless. It left Victoria Saddleman bone-cold. But she got the shot.
Kindness is everything.
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