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Topics: Ethical Living, September 2019 | Opinion
What I learned when I stopped chasing ‘likes’
By Tim Johnson |In the age of social media over-sharing, one travel writer puts down his camera and recaptures the true meaning of his expeditions
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Topics: Ethical Living | Opinion
Canadian in Sri Lanka describes horror of nearby church bombing
By Tim Johnson |The writer was just around the corner from St. Sebastian's Church when it was attacked Easter morning
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Topics: Death | Society
When Tim Johnson’s mom died, he had to figure out how to grieve
By Tim Johnson |Learning to live without her was messy, the ups and downs unpredictable, but research into grief helped
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Topics: World | Society
Bhutan says it is the most blissful place on Earth. Is it true?
By Tim Johnson |The kingdom shuns measuring Gross National Product in favour of Gross National Happiness, yet not all is copacetic
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Topics: World | Human Rights
Travel to countries that flout human rights carries ethical issues
By Tim Johnson |It also offers the opportunity to ask questions, learn, hold governments to account and put money into local hands
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Topics: World | Justice
Rwanda, healing from genocide, is now an African success story
By Tim Johnson |About 800,000 perished in 100 horrifying days in 1994, but a system of traditional restorative justice has helped bring the nation back to strength
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Topics: World | Technology
Internet access is so easy now that it’s hard to be unplugged
By Tim Johnson |Even the most remote places in the world are still connected, says travel writer Tim Johnson, and finding a retreat is rare
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Topics: World | Politics
The Koreas, on the most complicated peninsula in the world, remain at war
By Tim Johnson |Like yin and yang, whatever the North does, the South does the opposite, to the max -- and vice versa
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Topics: Justice | Human Rights
The Salvadoran civil war has left citizens searching for peace
By Tim Johnson |People are trying to move on 20 years after a brutal civil war tore communities apart