Hysteria

• Dr. Hughes serves as president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).
• Tragically, these measures not only failed to stop the viral infection, but they caused incalculable harm, especially to our children.
• “Media censorship played a huge role in fomenting mass COVID hysteria, which resulted in an almost unquestioning acceptance of tyrannical measures….
• The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons is published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) , a national organization representing physicians in all specialties since 1943.

• COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Joget Inc., the global innovator in next-generation enterprise application development, has been included in the Forrester Research report, "The Low-Code Platforms For Citizen Developers Landscape, Q4 2023".
• The report, which serves as a crucial benchmark for application development and delivery leaders, offers an overview of low-code platforms for citizen developers.
• According to Forrester's analysis, "as in many software markets, the hysteria and allure of generative AI have affected low code.
• Raveesh Dewan, President and CEO of Joget, states, "Forrester's report validates for us the strides we have made in the low-code market.

• Any Canadian diplomats in India past Oct. 10 are expected to lose their immunity.
• The high-profile diplomatic crisis has confirmed rumours of longstanding tensions between the two countries over the issue of Sikh separatism in the Indian state of Punjab.

The facts so far

• Nijjar, a Canadian citizen wanted in India for alleged terrorist acts, was part of the Khalistan movement calling for a Sikh homeland separate from India’s Punjab state.
• The movement is controversial because of its organized violence against Indian officials and terrorism-motivated tactics.
• India and Canada have each expelled diplomats from their respective countries, and India has suspended visas for Canadians as the diplomatic crisis deepens.

Still to be revealed

• Trudeau has yet to reveal the “credible evidence” provided by Five Eyes linking India to the crime.
• The FBI has warned American-Sikh activists that their lives are in danger, while U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on India to co-operate with Canada and ensure “accountability” over the killing.
• But that doesn’t necessarily mean the Indian government had a hand in Nijjar’s murder.

Fraught history

• India has a painful history with separatism after it gained independence from British colonialism in 1947.
• Shortly after that, diplomatic and later militaristic crisis over Jammu and Kashmir unfolded, which culminated in two wars between India and Pakistan and several armed engagements.
• The parallel rise of Naga nationalism in neighbouring Nagaland is also a thorny issue for Indian authorities.

Existential crisis

• On the other hand, India’s secessionist movements represent an existential crisis threatening everything India has worked towards for the past 76 years.
• Nijjar’s murder, however, is also a matter of grave importance for Canada.
• But both Canada and India will need to calculate the risks and repercussions of such a high-profile diplomatic rift in a highly globalized world.

• With this in mind, it’s not entirely surprising that some people seem to think men have a problem with friendships.
• While women may be especially quick to draw this conclusion, the idea exists in society as a whole.
• Men, we are led to believe, either have low quality friendships, or not enough of them.
• We then do not see how men demonstrate closeness less obviously, in coded ways, or even silently.

Humour is one example

• Contrary to the notion that it’s used to “put up walls”, humour, such as the use of provocative nicknames, can promote a sense of closeness.
• Humour in the military, for instance, is used to express the hardships of the work and channel aggression, all the while creating a sense of togetherness.

Resisting masculinity

• But readings of male friendships as shallow assume that men are unable to negotiate the rules of masculinity.
• The truth is that regimes of masculinity are largely imposed on men, and they do their best to play the game, or subvert masculinity if they can.
• Many men resist competitive masculinity enough to express vulnerabilities and create deep connections.

The rise of the bromance

• No phenomenon illustrates this better than the rise of the “bromance”.
• The term may have emerged from skateboarding in the 1990s, when heterosexual men commonly shared hotel rooms while on tour.
• Young men talk about how their bromances are on another level to friendships in terms of trust, expression of vulnerability and physical affection.

‘Levelling up’ male friendships

• Research shows younger men are engaging in close male friendships and expressing their feelings like never before.
• They will open up to others in safe contexts – although not all men have these safe spaces.
• For example, it seems that by encouraging men to do activities side by side, or that have a “purpose” (such as volunteering or attending men’s sheds to create things), male bonding and important conversations naturally emerge.