Andrew Lodge
Guest columnist | Winnipeg |
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About Andrew Lodge
Andrew Lodge is a physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba’s Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, and Medical Director at Klinic Community Health Centre in Winnipeg. He is also a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a member of the Board of Directors for the Manitoba Health Coalition.
A salute to journalists everywhere
Ask any person of colour how they feel the day after a terrorist attack. My friends tell me the hate is palpable. We are a much less civil society than we like to think. These are troubled times and tolerance is on the run. To think that we are immune to barbarism is naïve, myopic and dangerous. And journalists are a fundamental safeguard against such a descent. We must recognize them as such.
Opinion: Children caught in the grind of poverty and war as UNICEF celebrates 70th birthday
Child casualties have become so commonplace as to barely merit mention in the news cycle. An estimated 15,000 have been killed in Syria since the conflict began.
Massive fire destroys Greek detention camp as no end in sight for refugee crisis
As desperate refugees' lives are caught in limbo, a sense of moral urgency seems to be sorely lacking.
Inside Greek discotheque turned refugee camp
“This is only the beginning. The world’s poor have have suffered and gone without for too long. Now they will come. And they will keep coming. This is a revolution.”
A cold wind just got colder
“We are here because we are also of afraid of these people,” says a Syrian woman fleeing her country.