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Behaviour Analysis for DementiaReuel S. Amdur
October 24, 2018
On October 18, the Royal Ottawa Hospital hosted a presentation by two staff from the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) who spoke about behaviour analysis with dementia patients. Their presentation began with a film of a mute man suddenly activated when earphones were installed, playing music he liked. He started talking animatedly about the music and then began to sing. Mary Lesiuk, a registered nurse and the manager of geriatric outreach for the LHIN, said that to be effective the music should be to the person's taste. Lesiuk was accompanied by behaviour analyst Nick Feltz.
Freedom of Information, for real?Reuel S. Amdur
February 16, 2011
"We only get as much an open government as we demand," said Jim Bronskill, in a presentation to the Ottawa Council of Women on February 15. He was describing the current state of affairs with availability of information from the federal government. His major areas of interest as a Canadian Press journalist are security, intelligence, policing, and justice.
New NAFTA HurtsReuel S. Amdur
October 27, 2018
USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), son of NAFTA, means that Canada has been forced to make some important concessions. The notorious tariff on steel and aluminum, exempted from coverage as being necessary for defense, may be a prelude to other similar exceptions. The ongoing softwood lumber battle is not resolved, as the U.S. appeals and appeals, but objects when Canada does to the World Trade Organization.
Canada-US Security Perimeter: Whose Security?Reuel S. Amdur
February 24, 2011
There are active discussions taking place between Canada and Washington on a common security perimeter, or more precisely, a common security and economic perimeter.
Right to water, what water?Reuel S. Amdur
March 3, 2011
Maude Barlow is a woman of many causes, but water is the one that is perhaps closest to her heart.
Ambassadors Address Gender Reuel S. Amdur
November 26, 2018
Rima Alaadeen and Souriya Otmani, from Jordan and Morocco respectively, share on a couple fronts. They are the only Arab female ambassadors to Canada, and they both attribute much of their progress in the foreign services to the attitude and policies of their countries' progressive kings. Both governments have implemented more progressive family codes. In Jordan, according to Alaadeen, if your children don't go to school or marry under the age of 18, you go to jail.
Death of a social work organizationReuel S. Amdur
March 9, 2011
The national social work professional organization is in the process of committing suicide.
On the streetReuel S. Amdur
June 9, 2019
Most people do not choose to be homeless, and the experience is generally negative, unpleasant, unhealthy, unsafe, stressful, and distressing. That is what Sue-Ann MacDonald old an audience at Ottawa's Algonquin College on May 30. She was citing Stephen Gaetz, Director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness. She is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Universit� de Montr�al.
Gadhafi murders Qatari journalistReuel S. Amdur
March 16, 2011
Qatari Ali Hassan al-Jaber was assassinated by Gadhafi agents on March 12. Al-Jaber was working as a photographer for al-Jazeera. He and correspondent Baybah Wald Amhadi were attacked in their car outside Benghazi. Amhadi said that they were aware of being under surveillance for days before the attack. Al-Jaber was struck by three bullets and Amhadi was also wounded in the attack.
Police MisconductReuel S. Amdur
October 31, 2019
As the Roman poet Juvenal put it, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers themselves? We have the police to protect us, but we sometimes need protection from them as well. There have been a number of incidents in which people have been the victims. The most glaring and public of these get attention and sometimes appropriate action is taken. One thinks of the Toronto case of Sammy Yatim, shot by officer James Forcillo. Yatin was behaving in a bizarre fashion but was no immediate danger to anyone at the time. Forcillo was convicted.

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Dimitri Lascaris just returned to Greece from an 11-day journey across Iran in a time of war. While walking the streets of a coastal town in Crete, Dimitri discusses what he learned in Iran, where he thinks the war is heading, and why he came to Crete to continue his coverage of the war.