Category Archives: Health

Working on it

Posted on 2025-02-04 by CKirkby

So, about that silence. It’s been a rough time on the truth and love front. I plan to write more once I get my practice caught up to my theory; in the interim, I refer interested readers to my sources … Continue reading →

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Food

Posted on 2024-12-18 by CKirkby

This one touches on areas of trauma, so I’m not sending it to subscribers as a “newsletter.” If you want to opt-in to this post (which is also about community (and dystopia)), click through to the website. Maybe leave a comment. Check out a poem, even. Continue reading →

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Pieces I did not produce

Posted on 2024-12-11 by CKirkby

I spent a lot of time writing this past week. Hours on Saturday and Sunday and Tuesday and nothing “produced.” First I once again felt too resigned to publish a piece about politics. I couldn’t even get people who espoused … Continue reading →

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Petitioning the court

Posted on 2024-11-26 by CKirkby

I developed a neat trick for my healing work, which is to convene a courtroom in my head. It starts with noticing that I’m doing something I don’t want to be doing. One low-shame example is sitting in a way … Continue reading →

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Suggested questions to put to unions re: fighting in-office policies

Posted on 2024-11-15 by CKirkby

I’ve learned that my former union’s Annual General Meeting is being held this Sunday, 17 November 2024, including by Zoom. My emails to the union about fighting the federal government’s return-to-office policy have gone unanswered. Presumably it’s easy to ignore … Continue reading →

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Dance like nobody’s getting COVID

Posted on 2024-10-29 by CKirkby

A few things happened over the past week. Which means it’s time to get angry again about the federal government’s return-to-office mandate. I don’t know how much plainer it can be that it’s not okay for employers to unilaterally impose … Continue reading →

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The hope of seeds and gardens

Posted on 2024-10-25 by CKirkby

I’m sitting in the Centretown condo of my good friend Élizabeth Powles. Outside are signs of construction and autumn. Inside are her loudly purring cat and what she describes as a fuck-ton of common milkweed seeds. (I correctly guess the … Continue reading →

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How many ineffective roads must a union walk down…

Posted on 2024-10-17 by CKirkby

My former union now thinks the solution to the federal government’s three-days-in-office policy is to request that Parliament study the matter. Presumably the reasoning is that the federal court process is taking too long and maybe a minority Parliament overflowing … Continue reading →

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Universal ambivalence (pharmacare news)

Posted on 2024-10-06 by CKirkby

Bill C-64 now at third reading in the Senate Per CBC, the federal pharmacare bill made it through committee study in the Senate this past week and is scheduled for a final vote on October 10. No further amendments were … Continue reading →

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Doing some math on the federal government’s return-to-office policy

Posted on 2024-08-27 by CKirkby

September approaches. September is the month when federal employees are expected to start donating their “free” time three days per week to commute to a job they’ve proven they can do from home, where there probably aren’t bats. 7.68 work … Continue reading →

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