It’s suicide prevention month so just pointing out:
- 75% of all firearm deaths in Canada are suicides
- gun control does have an affect on firearm suicide rates
- suicide is the 9th leading cause of death in Canada
- don’t say “committed suicide”, say “died by suicide”
I have spent millions of dollars at Starbucks because I come here to do work distraction-free. PLEASE open the MUN library this fall so I have a space to work on my thesis 😫
Hard to believe most of my program has been in the midst of a horrible snowstorm that shut down the city, and a pandemic that shut down the world.. this new normal is weird!! I miss classes and being on campus and socializing 🥺
The first draft of my thesis proposal is finished and now I have to wait 1-2 weeks for feedback 😮 what shall I do with my free time!!
(Answer: continue to do more research for my proposal lol) 😇
Really hurts me to turn on my phone everyday and see such hatred and ignorance all over social media.. it is plagued with white fragility, discrimination and prejudice
Last year I conducted a telephone interview with an influential person in Toronto and I just found the transcripts of our interview on firearms in Canada:
The third, capacity building, is that we need to build the understanding of priority communities with a community development approach. You can’t tackle the first two without the third.