Compassion is defined as the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering involving an authentic desire to help. In the medical profession, one would think that compassion should be a cornerstone of caring for patients, it is currently debatable if health care providers (HCP) compassion is merely an “ought” – a moral imperative out of…
Category: Civic Engagement
Compassionomics – Stephen Trezciak
Compassionomics: The World is Broken Compassionomics is a relatively new term mainly referring to the medical field to look at compassion as a value proposition. Rising complaints within the medical professions of “systemic inhumanity” within patient based medicine. Leading those to believe that we are in a compassion crisis in healthcare. Treating patients more kindly,…
Jacinda Arden: Compassionomics
March 2019, thousands of students took to the streets in New Zealand in protest against climate change – ‘Raise your voice, not the sea level’. RNZ reports, “At least 2000 spirited students and their supporters descended on Parliament as students around the country demand urgent action on climate change. The lawn in front of the…
Saving Medicare
Medicare in Canada is a government-funded universal health insurance program established by legislation passed in 1957, 1966 and 1984. The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care or dental care, which means most Canadians rely on private insurance from their employers or the government to pay for those costs….
Human Dignity and Modern Humanism
` In the book, Identity, author Francis Fukuyama tells a story about a policewoman who confiscated the produce from the vegetable cart of a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi because he did not have a permit. He was publicly slapped by the policewoman who confiscated his electronic scales and spat in his face (The…
Pillars of Democracy – Equality
Growing up, we used to live in predominantly white people’s towns where we were often the only black family, perhaps except for a handful of others, in the region. In school, I was often the only black student in class or perhaps even the whole school. Race and color didn’t really bother me growing up…
Pillars of Democracy – Freedom
How important is privacy to you? I know a strange question to ask, especially living and a free and democratic society, such as Canada, where we enjoy a considerable amount of privacy thanks to our laws namely our Charter. So let me ask you another question; how important is freedom to you? Yes, another strange…
Pillars of Democracy – Justice
Celebrations and Milestones March 17, 2017 – Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin received the first-ever Simone de Beauvoir Institute Prize and delivered a lecture on the importance of the courts in Canadian democracy as part of the Social Science Research workshop series at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec . In receiving her Prize she made a…
The Law of Human Experimentation
Monuments. Respect. Having respect for monuments should go hand-in-hand, yet it seems that many display a lack of respect for monuments, perhaps it is more because they do not know what a monument is and what it is for. A monument is a commemorative structure explicitly created to remember a person, an event or a…
The Experiment – Our Democracy
What an odd piece of commentary based on social shunning. Is this actually possible? All sorts of behavioral social experiments are being conducted through the internet on unsuspecting individuals that would leave you preferring authentic human to human connections rather than spending time online only to find that you’ve been deliberately isolated and segregated because…
