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Traditional and Western Medicine: It’s not one or the other
It took their daughter’s near-death experience for Samuel and Patricia Hearns of the Ojibwa First Nation to realize their indigenous culture meant more to them than they thought. About 10 years ago, the Hearns were at their daughter’s bedside at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital. She was extremely ill from a cyst on her pancreas. The…
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Print class 2013 signs off
Welcome to the features issue of Western Journalism Report. The 2013 class of print journalism students have travelled throughout the community and across the web touching base with experts around the world to bring you this range of stories. As our class heads out to pursue their future writing careers, we leave behind a collection of articles…
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The life of a cadaver
When the phone next to her bed rang at 2:30 a.m., some part of Joan Johnston already knew the news would not be good — her husband was never coming home. She was asleep when the call came on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. She picked up after two or three rings to the unfamiliar voice…
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Sex off-limits if they aren’t conscious
Jenny didn’t scream. She didn’t call out for help, and she didn’t try to fight back. Instead, she just lay there–passive and non-resistant. While in some part of her mind, she might have known what was happening, she didn’t have the strength or the words to speak what she was feeling. She isn’t sure that…