A note on email signature do’s and don’ts
An email signature is a bit of content at the end of your email that identifies you and has some…
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AI is a tool, not a teacher
In a world where endless streams of information (or misinformation) are at everyones’ fingertips, what are the implications of a…
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Chronic Lyme is real
Like many of our readers we’ve been disappointed by some media coverage of Lyme that seems to ignore the very…
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Own your content
Sometimes teams get caught up with publishing on Instagram, or Linkedin, or in their newlsetter, and they lose sight of…
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From stereotypes to sovereignty: How Indigenous media makers assert narrative control
Over the last 30 years, we have seen exponential growth of Indigenous media and Indigenous media makers, especially here in…
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Another young woman dies in the midst of ongoing confusion around Lyme disease
Another tragic story is emerging in Canada highlighting the ongoing confusion in this country around the diagnosis and treatment of…
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Avoid using underlines (except in hyperlinks and annotations)
Good typography is everyone’s job. Readability and usability have a pretty direct impact on how your ideas get taken up….
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Canadian media: Where are they now?
The podcast production company Media Girlfriends has had an impressive three years! Led by journalists of colour Nana aba Duncan,…
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To Read! Dark PR by Grant Ennis
I love the War on Cars podcast for its great content detailing how cars and cities aren’t BFFs. And I…
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Thoughts for publishing page titles, menu labels, slugs, and headings
Modern CMS’s, like WordPress, provide a range of options when it comes to assigning names to your pages. There’s the…
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Grappling with the status quo, and making change
Thank you to everyone who helped promote awareness of The Quiet Epidemic global impact campaign by sharing CanLyme’s event on…
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Don’t rely on PDFs
Somehow, somewhen, PDFs became sort of lodged in people’s brains as a very serious way of delivering very serious information….
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Beware scammy letters from predatory domain name registrars
Every year I get a phone call or an email from someone asking if they should pay Domain Registry for…
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CanLyme partners with Explore!
The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation is excited to announce our partnership with Explore. Through this partnership, CanLyme is helping Canadians…
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Join us for a screening of The Quiet Epidemic
May is Lyme Disease awareness month and CanLyme is helping to raise awareness by hosting an online screening of The…
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Global News: “How to prevent run-ins with ticks” with CanLyme president Janet Sperling
It can be easy to let your guard down in the wilderness as the summer wraps up, but tick season…
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Ontario family had to move to B.C. for Lyme disease treatment
“For many Canadians, Lyme disease is not a concern that is top of mind. If you’re walking through a tall…
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New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID-19, Lyme disease
A new clinic opened Monday in Montreal to treat patients and help researchers better understand two conditions with different origins…
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Jury awards $6.5M to Maine family for wrongful death, negligent misdiagnosis
PORTLAND (WGME) — A Cumberland County jury on Wednesday reportedly ordered Mercy Hospital in Portland and one of its physicians,…
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About QR codes
I’ve never been a particularly big fan of QR codes. I like the idea of them. But I’m just not…
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Microplastics research in the Okanagan: media roundup
On World Water Day 2022, our Microplastics Okanagan team and project partners published a press release about the Microplastics In…
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You can write your titles last
Writing is a joy. But it’s also the other stuff. Don’t make writing more painful than it needs to be;…
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Reflections
About a month ago I got this text message from a friend: I, of course, needed to know the name…
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Archiving against erasure
There are many decisions to be made when building an archive. These decisions have often been made by individuals in…
