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December 9: 1 Minus Human Rights Day

Posted on December 9, 2017 by dykewriter

Canada: December 6: Canada Edition December 6 – In Memorium Quebec December 6: The Montreal Massacre of Women Engineering students December 6 and Civilian Mass Shootings British Columbia, December 9, The BC Human Rights Tribunal invited a number of gay and lesbian groups … Continue reading →

Posted in Agoraphobic Philosopher, Canada, Living Well, Raw Recovery Specialist | Tagged 1980s AIDS, Angles, Brian Mossop, Canadian War on Queers, counterculture, decade defining, December 9 Coalition, gay and lesbian, grassroots activism, human rights, journalism, Lesbian Avengers, lesbigay, lgbt, LGBTQ, news media, queer, queer media, reporting, social media, subculture, Supreme Court, the 1990s, volunteering | 7 Comments

The Post With The Mic Drop

Posted on February 1, 2017 by dykewriter

The Globe and Mail Donation drop forces merger of Canada’s largest cancer charities: CCS chairman Robert Lawrie says the new group is in preliminary merger discussions with four other charities Donation drop forces merger of Canada’s largest cancer charities The … Continue reading →

Posted in Agoraphobic Philosopher, Living Well, Raw Recovery Specialist, science, Uncategorized, Zeitgeist Analytics | Tagged artistic speech, Black History Month, blogging, boy scouts, cancer, cancer rates, charity burn out, conservatives, dear editor, democracy, explaining to children, free speech, freedom of expression, girls scouts, Golden Shower, government, industrial pollution, internet debates, journalism, Kellie Leitch, liberals, Member of Parliment, Mexico, mining, Muslim Ban, News Aversion Therapy, Parliment, Party Member, political party, protest speech, Republic, Right vs Alt-Right, sarcasm, Socialists, systemic oppression, The Globe and Mail, Trump's Fault | 2 Comments

How to read for comprehension

Posted on September 16, 2016 by dykewriter

I spent 13 years as a Federal bureaucrat;so there’s a trick to reading everything, and it’s 1. format 2. framework (who paid for it). 3. validity of measurables against scope of claim and 4. facts vs assumptions things … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, Emergency Preparedness, Rules of Writering, Zeitgeist Analytics | Tagged business writing, comprehension, correspondance, fiction writing, government papers, how to read, journal writing, journalism, literacy, papers, report outline, reports, technical writing, term papers, understanding writing, white papers | 2 Comments

How Newspapers Lost to the Internet

Posted on October 3, 2015 by dykewriter

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20151003 It really was the Comics Page. Newspapers retaining cartoon strips beyond the lifetime of the original artist and lingering the worst stereotypes and cliches – it showed their disconnect when artists of the medium – Berkley Breathed, Sam … Continue reading →

Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Rules of Writering, Zeitgeist Analytics | Tagged big news, blog blag, cartoon page, cartoons, Citizen Kane, climate change, Comios strips, corporate news, dear editor, editor free internet, editorial cartoons, Emergency Preparedness, flagging, funny pages, how to blog, how to promote yourself, if it bleeds it leads, importance, international news, internet, journalism, Know your Rights, media literacy, media sensation, media whore, media whote, medium messages, message medium, national news, news media, newspaper, prioritize, Public Opinion, radio, Randolph Hearst, regional news, Rosebud, self education, self promotion, sharing knowledge, sleepy now, television, toons, webtoons, write what you know, Yellow Journalism | 5 Comments

Angles on Je Suis Charlie

Posted on January 9, 2015 by dykewriter

I was the news editor of Angles – Vancouver BC Canada’s original queer newspaper – although, for many years the masthead said “gay and lesbian”. I was instrumental in the addition of “Bisexual” and I am sorry that I missed … Continue reading →

Posted in Rules of Writering, Zeitgeist Analytics | Tagged Angles, Blasphemy is Duty, comedy, free speech, freelance journalist, Je Suis Charlie, journalism, Nina's Nonsense, parody, photo journalist, queer community, queer community newspaper, satire, social commentary, Vancouver BC Canada, vancouver police | 7 Comments

Career Achievements Unlocked

Posted on December 24, 2014 by dykewriter

When I was in high school and stayed home sick, I would watch old movies on one of the three tv channels that we had. So, when I had to take the Careers Course …in High School, I was not … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Well, Movie Review, Raw Recovery Specialist, Television Review, Uncategorized | Tagged career achievements, Cheaper by the Dozen, Desk Set, efficiency expert, journalism, legal work, life is like a moviwe, Perry Mason, real life, reel life | 1 Comment

For Better or For Worse

Posted on June 12, 2013 by dykewriter

Sadly even in Canada we do need to be concerned about Police From “Starlight Cruises” (google Neil Stonechild to learn more…) in Saskatchewan where Indigenous people are left out in the winter without shoes and far away from anywhere … Continue reading →

Posted in Zeitgeist Analytics | Tagged equality, inciting incident, inclusion, journalism, Lynn Johnston, mainstream, neil stonechild, news editor, photo-jpurnalist, police abuses, politicians, queer community, Starlight Cruises, vancouver airport, when cops kill, women rape | Leave a comment

Taking Self Stock

Posted on June 8, 2013 by dykewriter

Posted in Agoraphobic Philosopher, Living Well, Raw Recovery Specialist | Tagged acting, entertainment, guided imagry, journalism, life story, Meditations, Nina is the Elvis who lived, photographer, radio dj, role models, television production, video | 3 Comments

Getting the story right

Posted on February 28, 2013 by dykewriter

Posted in Living Well, Rules of Writering | Tagged based on a true story, book to movies, community planning, Desert Hearts, editor, equality, Help, Indian Act, investigator, Jane Rule, journalism, lesbian stories, movies based on books, Prime Minister of Canada, publisher, reporter, reservation, resources, services, Star Trek, Star Trek Fan, Stephen Harper, suicide, suicide contagion, suicide prevention, teen suicide, undercover reporter | Leave a comment

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