The above popular rock song immediately shot to popularity upon its release. It’s a song that bring solidarity, a song to sing to ready the troops and do battle, a song to inspire individuals to band together to right some wrongs, a song to stand up to authoritarian figures when you are ready to put…
Category: Politics
Moving towards a Bipolar World
An Essay Have you visited Huawei’s website? I have. While I was thumbing through its digital pages, I realized how much our world seems to be shrinking. Smart cities, the internet, the internet of things, neural networks around the globe in which we call earth is turning into one big ball of yarn threaded by…
A Patient Revolution
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…
Food as Medicine
Suggested Reading: Why Food could Be the Best Medicine of All – Time Magazine Today’s societies are faced with so many “dooms-day” stories about what life will be for humans on this planet for the generations of tomorrow; and the outlook does n’t look very good. We have environmental emergencies, robots taking over our jobs,…
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….
Modern Humanism – Our Voice (Part II)
Go to: Modern Humanism – Part I In a Toronto Star article, Oprah Winfrey talks about income inequality and why she left 60 Minutes by relating an experience early in her career. “In the late ’70s and ’80s, she said, “back when I was doing the news in Baltimore, I asked to make the same…
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…
Bell Let’s Talk Mental Health IoT and Privacy – Part IV
Go To: Bell Let’s Talk: Mental Health – Part I, Part II – The Internet, Part III – Internet of Things When you think about privacy and solitude or confinement, it usually means that you are alone – by yourself. In speaking about activities you’d like to perform by yourself, and in the context of…
Bell Let’s Talk – Mental Health and The Internet (Part II)
Go To- Bell Let’s Talk: Mental Health – Part I, Part III – Internet of Things, Part IV – Privacy Alexander Graham Bell would be very proud of his invention if he knew how the telephone inspired new inventions in the telecommunications industry. After the invention of the telephone there came television and its developments,…
