Books: Our Malady by Timothy D. Snyder

Yes, the same guy who wrote On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom.

This booklet - as near as I can tell - is an argument for taking what the UK's been doing with the NHS and Canada with Medicare and running with it as far and as fast as possible, from the position that such a course would maximise the freedom of most, if not all, citizens.

I hope to have more to say after I finish reading it.

Related note, discovered via Mastodon: Finnish insurance companies seem to have a pattern of making trouble for people dealing with ADHD. I wonder how much along similar lines is happening in Canada. Also, remembering one of the plotlines of Robert J. Sawyer's novel Frameshift...

Spacing: Space for Grief

Been thinking of this without really paying much formal attention to it this past couple of years...

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/04/space-for-grief-a-public-space-model-for-community-connection-and-healing/