Written Words: A communicator's blog

Why I resigned a big freelance account

Last post, I wrote about how I cut down on some of the stressors in my life. One of them was a particular freelance client for which I wrote blogs and social media content. Letting that one go was necessary for my health. My blood pressure was through the roof, and I felt wrong about […]

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I'm back

A lot of time has passed since my last blog post—four months. A third of a year! To tell you the truth, often during the first two months of that time, I wondered myself what was standing between me and updating my blog. I put it down to having too much other (paying) work to […]

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The fiction in our election

I have been torn about how to comment about the current federal election. I am struck by how emotional and fraught it is. But the most glaring characteristic is the amount of fiction the Conservatives base their platform on. In the past few days, they’ve started just making things up about their opponents legalizing hard […]

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A message to Alberta's oil and gas workers

We hear you, Alberta. We get it. Unemployment is up. Earnings are down. You feel threatened. You feel your children’s future is threatened. We get it. We’ve been there, too. We all have. We all are, right now. Here’s the thing: as a civilization, we cannot afford to keep doing things the way we have […]

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Our leaders are embracing anti-facts

Anti vaccination. Climate change denial. Flat earth. Creation science. Trickle-down economics. Refugees are a threat. Wind power is unreliable. Carbon prices will ruin the economy. Higher wages kill jobs. Anti-facts are ruling. Which is to say, lies drive our society today. Much of the social and political discourse in the West has devolved to people […]

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