We’re a quarter of the way into 2022 and it’s proving to be another strange one. Covid lingers and people around the world face violence and repression. The news is exhausting, and so fast-moving that we can find ourselves missing the slow and thoughtful. This weekly update can provide that for you. We do this by distilling the best of the web and recommending just three links every week that you absolutely must see. No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads. Here are this week’s recommendations:
The nurse imposter (Sarah Treleaven / Maclean’s)
Stanley finds it troubling that, for a full year, Cleroux’s questionable conduct at BC Women’s Hospital didn’t appear to prompt any alarm among hospital staff or management. “I’m very confident this lawsuit will demonstrate that Ms. Cleroux demonstrated an utter lack of competency that should have caused people to review this,” says Stanley. “To me, that’s more concerning than her fraudulently defeating the barriers to acquire the employment.”
Police couldn’t identify a toddler found dead at a ball field. Then someone noticed this sketch (Isabel Hughes / USA Today)
The girl’s face haunted those who paused to read further though, the careful shading illustrating where the sun would have reflected off her small features.
Despite this meticulous sketch, the hundreds of people who passed the flier daily had no idea who the child was. They didn’t recognize her from daycare, from the playground, from the neighborhood.
Bella Hadid
I urge you to watch every one of these videos. Whether it is a 12 year old child being suffocated by a grown man, or a mother of 6, running with her hands up , shot by the military. An elderly man on crutches, unable to fight back, being thrown to the ground. A child and his father being terrorized for absolutely zero reason.
Image credit: All Bong