When we are tired, scared and in pain, it’s very easy to lash out at the closest people around us but we need to stop and take a step back. The nurses, administration, aides, staff… Every single person working in health care deserves to be treated with respect and gratitude. If you’re waiting, if you’re hurting,…
Political violence. Open bigotry. Racism. Hate. Lies from leaders. Silence from those elected to protect us. People in our own communities living in fear. It’s tempting to turn away—to bury our heads, to hope it’ll pass. But silence has never stopped hate. It didn’t work in history, and it won’t work now. The truth is:…
From the moment a colonoscopy revealed my rectal tumor to the day surgeons removed it—leaving me cancer-free and living with a permanent ostomy—exactly 7 months and 9 days passed. At first glance, that timeline might sound long. “Diagnosed in August, surgery in March?” It’s easy to jump to frustration or blame Manitoba’s health system. But…
Sprucewoods has never elected anyone but a Conservative. Around here, it’s known as a “dead dog” riding — meaning the party could run a sign on a corpse and still win. And because they’ve never had to fight for your vote, we’ve often been ignored. Even with a PC MLA in a PC majority government,…
Language, Politics, and the Weight of Words in a Divided Time The murder of Charlie Kirk has ignited a storm of reactions — grief, shock, anger, and, inevitably, division. Some mourn a man they saw as a leader; others wrestle with the harm his rhetoric caused. But beyond the tragedy itself, this moment exposes a…
Have you ever wondered hat meditation is, how to meditate, or what mediation could do for you? Do you immediately dismiss the idea of meditation with a ‘not for me’ or ‘I’m not religious’ or ‘It will never work’? Let me walk you through my meditation journey… because I used to think all of those…