Pandemic Poems, First Wave: Olive Senior’s fragments of last summer

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Our first wave of COVID-19 in Jamaica was the summer of 2020. Almost a year later, we seem to be just creeping out of the second – and fearing a third.

The summer of 2020, at least for me, was a slow recognition – a dawning – that life wasn’t simple any more. It wasn’t a smooth run, despite the cliché of “flattening the curve” and other phrases that are losing their meaning now. We are moving on to other catch phrases, like “vaccine hesitancy.”

Our Poet Laureate Olive Senior’s collection is a reflection of our mood – or rather, our myriad moods – during that period as the first wave slowly gathered momentum way out at sea, and Black Lives Mattered. Then, that wave and everything it brought with it broke on the shore, and Merry Christmas seemed a tawdry dream.

In her introduction, Ms. Senior explains…

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B.C. First Nation opposes jade mining, wants reality TV show ‘Jade Fever’ taken off the air – BC | Globalnews.ca

Jade is mined from mountainsides or through placer mining, a smaller-scale excavation ranging from old-style gold panning to digging in and around riverbeds for deposits of minerals washed away over time.

B.C.’s consultation with the nation over jade mining permit applications has been “minimal,” Day said, and in recent years the nation has expressed opposition to new permits and the industry overall.

Ten jade mining permits remain active in Tahltan territory, the ministry said, while 34 are inactive after operating between 2015 and 2019. Another seven permits are not being used because the operators’ certificates are suspended, it said.

In response to the Tahltan’s concerns, B.C. has stopped issuing some permits and says it is in negotiations with the Tahltan about further mining restrictions.

Source: B.C. First Nation opposes jade mining, wants reality TV show ‘Jade Fever’ taken off the air – BC | Globalnews.ca

De El Paraíso a la Calle Real, un paseo por la historia, las recetas, los sabores y las tradiciones

Google translation of the title: From El Paraíso to Calle Real, a walk through history, recipes, flavors and traditions –

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

Autor del texto: Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

Acervo documental y fotográfico: Gerardo Torres Calderón

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Prólogo

Cuando mi padre y yo visitamos, por primera vez, la ciudad de Morelia (1), en julio de 1983, pernoctamos en una posada familiar con la idea de recorrer, al siguiente día, el centro histórico con sus palacios de cantera, sus conventos y sus templos virreinales, sus portales típicos, sus balcones románticos, sus jardines prodigiosos con fuentes y bancas de piedra o hierro, sus portones de madera y sus rincones insospechados. Morelia representaba, para nosotros, una tierra desconocida, un paréntesis dentro de nuestras existencias, la posibilidad de iniciar una historia en un terruño.

Aquel año de nuestras existencias, preferimos viajar en autobús de primera clase, lujoso y cómodo, perteneciente a la línea Tres Estrellas de Oro. No existía, entonces, la autopista México-Morelia-Guadalajara, que sería construida…

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Whānau the secret of success for Te Ao With Moana | Stuff.co.nz

The result is Te Ao With Moana, a weekly current affairs show that examines national and international stories through a Māori lens. Now in it’s third season, Maniapoto says while there have been a few upsets, on the whole the response has been positive.

Moana Maniapoto, from Te Ao With Moana, works on the show with her son and says they have “a really good relationship”.

Source: Whānau the secret of success for Te Ao With Moana | Stuff.co.nz

Two Classes of Workers or One Big Mess

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An insurance article today raises the question of whether the current CDC guidance about masks creates two classes of workers in any business — the vaxed and the unvaxed. Those who have received the full treatment of a vaccine can operate rather normally; those who haven’t, can’t.

Retail stores are operating the same way, with functionally two classes of shoppers.

Unfortunately, as both employers and retailers bring people back to the worksite, both are relying on the “honor system”, that is, relying on consumers to tell the truth about vaccination status. Good luck with that.

It should be quite obvious by now that people lie. Americans, in particular, tend to be indifferent to the impact they have on other around them. It’s the “Ugly American” of the 1950s re-emergent.

Which brings us to the question that no one wants to discuss: What happens when someone lies about their vaccine status…

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Public warning issued about 11 gangsters with ties to B.C.’s escalating violence | Globalnews.ca

A public warning has been issued by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) about 11 men with ties to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.

The men post a “significant threat to the public” and have been “connected to the current spike in violence” the CFSEU said in a statement.

They are all known to the police.

“Police believe that anyone with, or in proximity to these individuals may be putting themselves at risk. CFSEU-BC is issuing a public warning and identifying them in order for family, friends, associates and the public to take measures to increase their own personal safety,” the organization said.

Source: Public warning issued about 11 gangsters with ties to B.C.’s escalating violence | Globalnews.ca

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