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Police 'Warrior Training' Is a Common Cause of Death

Law enforcement is a tough job, I won't pretend otherwise. I would rank it up there with social work and emergency medicine with regards to how traumatic your day on the job can be. For the most part it will be boring...right up until it isn't. The not boring

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Unfiltered #8: Police Brutality in the LAPD

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Digging into the Ring of Fire

Conflicts between the Canadian government and the First Nations are not uncommon. There's a long history of oppression and genocide between our government and the various Nations across the country. Those wounds run deep, and the scars do not heal easily. It's not unusual for problems between them to carry

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Water Wars, Then and Now

From the end of 1999 to the spring of 2000, a war was raging in the South American country of Bolivia. Cochabamba city had become a mess of barricades amidst a cacophony of chanting voices raised in protest. It was not a war of opposing political factions, nor of nations,

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Unfiltered #7: The Water of Life

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A Shift in the Overton Window

I have always said that the most important thing to understand in the realm of politics is something called the Overton Window. Understanding the Overton WindowThe foundation of politicsWorld-WearySam W See, on the whole politicians aren't stupid. They understand that the game they're playing is based upon the opinions of

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The Doctor Shortage Problem

It's a rainy week in the Maritimes, which is fantastic timing. In the middle of rampaging wildfires, Canada was in sore need of a good drenching to help take some of the toxic smoke out of the air. Being in the process of recovering from a nasty cold, I particularly

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Unfiltered #6: Police Brutality Never Ends

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Some Good News for Pride Month!

It's about time! This year's Pride has been somewhat rocky, to say the least. We've seen bigotry spreading like wildfire around the globe. Laws have been written and passed in some American states to restrict freedom of expression, and the discourse there is only heating up. We've seen some pushback

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Housing is a Basic Need

We all have needs that must be met in order to live a fulfilling life. We all need food. We all need water. We all need air to breathe. These things are obvious; deprive us of any one of them and eventually we'll keel over. Our bodies require fuel to

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Unfiltered #5: I Rant About Hate in Pride Month

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Using Art to Inspire Social Change

Humans are emotional creatures. We base all of our choices on how we feel whether we realize it or not. That's simply the way our brains are structured; we choose based on our emotions, and then we justify the choice afterwards. That's why generations of propagandists and advertising experts have

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Be Proud This Month

It has been a rough couple of years for the community. While we're used to taking a few lumps, a few solid hits on the chin, I can't deny that life has gotten harder for the LGBTQ+ folks around the world. There have been anti-trans laws passed in mass throughout

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Unfiltered #4: Let's Visit Germany!

We Have to Talk About Uganda Again

It is with a heavy heart that I once again turn my readers' eyes towards events in Uganda. As I've written about in the past, both here and over on Medium, anti-LGBTQ+ policies are ramping up across the world. Over the past few months, the country of Uganda has been

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Revolutionary Acts: They Found the Road to Victory

The World-Weary Missive is all about the fight for a better world. As part of my work here I often advocate for collective action, solidarity, and networking as a means of obtaining justice and equality for people across the board. In one of my previous articles, I detail a number

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Unfiltered #3

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Unparalleled Greed: Food Waste in the First World

In last week's post, I discussed how food insecurity is a very large problem for low-income families. Lack of access to good, healthy produce contributes to poverty, mental and physical health problems, and the loss of dignity for people struggling to keep their families fed. The Truth About Poverty, Diet,

A Brief Hiccup

A series of unforeseen events got in the way of my typical posting schedule this week. The story that was meant to go out on Wednesday was interrupted by a perfect storm, including a drawn-out power outage and a flurry of appointments. It sucks to have missed Wednesday's post, but

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Unfiltered #2

The Truth About Poverty, Diet, And Quality of Life

We live in a world of wealth. Many of the things we have today, the things we take for granted, would have been unimaginable luxuries to the people of the past. Vehicles like cars and planes, clean drinking water, medicines and vaccines. Air conditioning, imagine living without air conditioning! The

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The Invisible Crime of Cultural Genocide

We tend to think that 'genocide' only means mass murder...

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World-Weary: Unfiltered #1

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The Paradox of Intolerance

Events of the past week have made this an even more topical subject.

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The Shifting Tide: Climate Change and Refugee Migration

When disaster destroys your home, what do you do?