Opinion

"Fake it until you make it", "mind over matter" and "be more  positive" are words of encouragement I hear often from well-intentioned people. I have tried my best to live up to these expectations. This advice can work against a person with a brain injury.

An arrogant and self-centred decision was made by our current federal government to call an expensive (est. $500 -$700 million) election. We, as taxpayers and voters, must ensure it does not result in a majority government.

Many feel it is a violation of their freedom if they are required to be immunized.  Such thinking contradicts an important life principle, made clear by Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl: “Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.”

So why don’t we believe these promises? In every instance, they conflict with real action. Politicians and policy maker’s methodology is to isolate and contain rather than connect the issues.

The full cost of field trips, graduation ceremonies, the arts, sports, scientific calculators, lab coats and safety glasses, need to be covered in each school’s budget.

We don’t have enough housing, social services and safe consumption sites to take care of all the people coming here. We are overwhelmed.

If Canadians are as concerned as they claim to be about the increasing number of unmarked graves found near former residential schools, the 2021 federal election will be pivotal. 

In an open letter to parents, the president of the BC Teachers' Federation urges parents of students (ages 12 and up) to get their child vaccinated.

She was far more than a statistic but that is now part of who she is.