Tag: Canada

• Is there a plague on both our houses?

  We take a lot for granted in Canada, don’t we? Or is it just me? I mean, I know there is poverty, food insecurity and discrimination for some here, as well as many of the other things that plague the rest of the world, but it still seems to be a pretty nice place… Well,…

  gozzter

  July 27, 2022

  Uncategorized

  Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, Canada, expectation shock, Ginny Lane, Hassan Vatanparast, immigrant children, immigrants, obesity, refugee children, refugees, sedentary lifestyle, The Conversation, University of Saskatchewan, Western diet

• A Childless Motherhood

  Well of course! Did we think there would be no consequences? Did we actually think we could get away with it? That there weren’t two sides to the story that we all needed to hear? Sometimes I think we are so focused on our journey to right a wrong, that we wander off the path…

  gozzter

  September 18, 2018

  Uncategorized

  Canada, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, CBC radio, child apprehension, Elizabeth Wall-Wieler, First Nations, foster care, Jane Philpott, Kahlil Gibran, mental health, Minister of Indigenous Services, mother-child bond, motherhood, suicide, The Conversation, University of Manitoba

• Crybabying

  I remember (sort of) my days in Elementary School, when one of the most devastating insults a little boy could receive was to be labelled a crybaby. I’m not sure why, really. Maybe it meant you didn’t fit in with the prevailing umwelt –with what you were supposed to be as a little boy- or…

  gozzter

  August 16, 2017

  Uncategorized

  babies, Baby feeding, Canada, CBC News, children, colic, crybaby, Denmark, Dieter Wolke, feeding infants, fuss/cry duration, Journal of Pediatrics, meta-analyisis, normal variation, Rule of threes, UK, University of Warwick

• The Bicameral Mind

  Time to unwrap the Jeremiad again, I’m afraid; I’m getting tired of this. Really tired. I know it’s an American thing, but stop it will you? Or can you? Every time there’s a bicameral shift it tears the fabric a little more and unravels what I want to believe about your country. Yes, I’m Canadian…

  gozzter

  January 25, 2017

  Uncategorized

  Aesop’s Fables, bicameral system of government, Canada, family planning, federal defunding, gynaecological convention, Heaven, Hell, Jeremiad, mailboxes, opinions, pregnancy termination, USA, women’s rights

• Prostitution Laws

  Okay, I think you’re going to have to help me with this one. Suppose you have a product the courts have decided you are legally entitled to sell, but a new law is enacted making it both illegal to advertise or purchase it… Am I missing something here? In December 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada, in…

  gozzter

  June 12, 2014

  Uncategorized

  Canada, government, New Zealand prostitution law, nordic model, prostitution, prostitution laws, Supreme Court, Supreme Court decisions, Supreme Court of Canada