Appeared in the North Shore News – January 17, 2014 Olga Kotelko is weird, just plain weird — in the nicest, most incredible, let’s pull out all the stops and say phenomenal way. This is not just mediaspeak phenomenal. We throw such words around. But Olga intrigues and puzzles medical science. She puzzles herself. Olga,…
Day: January 20, 2014
Objective journalism takes another hit with VBOT protest coverage
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 14, 2014 Hello, business persons (I’ll ask other citizens some other time): Do you sometimes get mad at the media? Me too. But in my case the annoyance is as complex as love and as fat with conflict of interest as a Montreal mayor or two. At this…
Nursing more interprovincial business barriers in Canada
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 7, 2014 Poverty is relative. You knew that. In Canada we debate the definition – low-income cut off (LICO), absolute poverty and such. This puts things in perspective. Linda Barrett – not her real name – is a registered nurse and an adventurous Canadian. We met in Ontario…