Hospice Peterborough’s Bedside Singers Reach Out to Palliative Patients By Melodie McCullough It is a gift for both the ones receiving and the ones giving. For the past seven years, a group of Hospice Peterborough, Ontario, volunteers have been singing at bedsides in the palliative care unit at Peterborough Regional […]
“All diseases have two causes: one pathological, the other political.”: Rudolf Virchow, 19th Century German pathologist. By Melodie McCullough (Originally Published August 2016) Every week, street nurse Kathy Hardill roams the […]
“Papa, if I give them all my toys, will they stop? If I give them one shekel? If I give them one kiss?”: Amira Khaled, age three, Gaza. By Melodie […]
Nourish Project Talks About BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE By JOELLE FAVREAU, Community Development Supervisor at YWCA Peterborough Haliburton/Nourish Project Manager I’ve always been fascinated by the metaphors we use to talk about the world around us. With their colourful and memorable images, they get us hooked quickly and help us make […]
…and relearn Canada’s history. “Blankets infected with the deadly smallpox virus were given or traded to you by British military leaders. You died from small […]
Local Group Participates in Walk to Save Indigenous Sacred Site From Condos, Office Towers and Pavement By Melodie McCullough Algonquin Grandmothers and Elders of the Ottawa River region, and […]
Edward George and the Nibi Onji Canoe Journey “What more must we do?” “What is the water asking of us?” ” What must we come to understand in […]
By Melodie McCullough So far Canada’s federal government has spent $762,827.48 and 30 years trying to make Lynn Gehl disappear. It hasn’t worked Gehl wants First Nation Indian status, and, although she lost a […]
By Melodie McCullough This article was updated August, 2017 “I’m sorry, but you’re just not a good fit.” Stacey Love-Jolicoeur does not like those words. In fact, she hates them. […]
The school principal finds the tiny Grade 2 boy hunched over in the hallway, sent out from his classroom because he’s been disruptive and rude to his teacher. His face […]
By Melodie McCullough There’s a small wooden box on a shelf in Rosemary Ganley’s Peterborough apartment. Each day, she opens it and adds to it — scraps of paper on which […]
