It’s been another tough year, hasn’t it? As we’ve cycled through another of our increasingly limited revolutions around the sun , there’s not a lot to celebrate or dwell on with much heart. Nor is there much optimistic honesty with which to declare a Happy New Year as we drink ourselves into a stupor long before the midnight bell tolls. But 2023 hasn’t all been gloom for the world at large; there have been bright spots and moments of hope -little joys amidst the pain that has kept life worth living. Indeed in some respects it has been a picnic this year, which I can speak to authoritatively as one whose consciousness this past month was transferred against my will into the mind of a forty-five year old Icelandic physics professor. In the span of a few hours I lived out the whole of 2024 in their life. Here is just some of what I witnessed through their eyes. January -Following on the heels of several higher profile labour actions in 2023, teachers in Saskatchewan go on strike. In...
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