Problems in Perceiving Leads to Death and Destruction on our Streets

Perception. “1 a the faculty of perceiving.” Canadian Oxford Dictionary Perceive “1 apprehend, esp. through the sight; observe. 2 apprehend with the mind; understand. 3 regard mentally in a specified manner.” Canadian Oxford Dictionary Perception has been in the news this week, although many mayn’t have seen it that way. In Arizona, a man shot…

Cross Country Shames Canada, Reveals Discriminating Attitudes Remain

When I was studying psychology, back in the last century, in the less-enlightened-than-now era, we talked about not labelling patients and not calling patients patients but clients. The idea was that because of assumptions over the ages, we didn’t want to further marginalize people through diagnostic labels, didn’t want to give people a reason to…