Are you a reproductive rights advocate/activist/concerned citizen on PEI? Heck, are you simply a vocal concerned citizen in Canada? Have you checked lately to see if your MLA has blocked you from communicating with them on Twitter or other social media? You should check. That’s exactly what I discovered this morning
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ROAR!: You really can’t fight City Hall – Charlottetown, PEI
What if this is as good as it gets when dealing with City Hall? There is a rezoning application happening on your street. You didn’t know about it. Why? You hear second-hand because, as you come to find out, you don’t live within 100 meters of the house in question
Continue readingROAR!: ‘City looks to protect home of former premier’ – Charlottetown, PEI
That was the article title in The Guardian today, in a piece written about a rezoning on my street. Only thing is …. this is the first mention I’ve heard about the City being hell bent on protecting a former premiers home. I’ve submitted a shorter version of the article
Continue readingROAR!: Hydraulic Fracturing in Atlantic Canada – Elsipogtog First Nations
I am turned away from any discussion re: Hydraulic Fracturing that starts with someone saying that Fracturing can be done so long as environmental protections are in place … because the sentence itself is ridiculous, it’s like a chemical equation that doesn’t make sense although, if you don’t know chemistry, you wouldn’t
Continue readingROAR!: An uninformed public a City’s best friend – Charlottetown
It seems Charlottetown’s residential areas, close to the downtown core might be at risk of ever encroaching commercial development. What does the City have working in it’s favor? An uninformed public. A couple weeks ago a neighbor says to me in passing ‘did you know that a house down the street
Continue readingROAR!: One potato two potato – Pesticides on PEI
We don’t go more than a few months these days, on Prince Edward Island without hearing about our high Cancer rates. And if Islanders are bothered by this, try being someone who has been fighting against big industry, educating people and raising the same questions/concerns over and over and over
Continue readingROAR!: PEI’s anti-choice Liberals – Abortion in PEI
An editorial I wrote today in response to this article that ran in The Guardian today: ‘[Anti-choice] movement supporters restate their opposition to abortion’. Submitted it to the paper, maybe it will run on Monday, fingers crossed. ______________________________________________________________ PEI’s anti-choice Liberals In The Guardian on the 10th, was coverage describing the
Continue readingROAR!: RU486 Ready Canada – Abortion in PEI
Saw this the other day over Twitter … Abortion pill now a reality. Australia sits poised to list RU486 as part of their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which will make the once very expensive drug, available to all Australian women at a hugely lower price. Medical abortion.Safe, effective and ACCESSIBLE. So I google RU486 and I see
Continue readingROAR!: Passing judgement on Medical Services? | Abortion, PEI
I saw this today, it came across the status update on a Facebook Page I follow – I’m not sure who wrote it, but it seems to be a post on a blog called ‘Worry about your own Uterus’ (an interesting read in and of itself!). It jumped out at me
Continue readingROAR!: The Fight for Choice on PEI – Midwifery and Abortion
It is flat out no longer the case that Islanders are uninformed about their rights and the discrimination that they are enduring at the hands of a gov’t that refuses to allow women access to choices in their reproductive heatlh. Well, I don’t really think it ever was the case, but at
Continue readingROAR!: PEI Health System to transcend politics – April Fools!
Quote of the Day: “The future of the Island’s health system has to transcend politics.” From our Health Minister, Doug Currie … Health Minister of the only province in Canada to deny women access to abortion services as part of their primary health care. It’s Spring and with Spring hope springs eternal
Continue readingROAR!: PEI’s Anti-Choice Legislature – Abortion in Canada
A couple Tuesdays from now, March 26th our PEI Legislature is to sit after it’s Winter break (or whatever you call it). To mark that occassion I sent all our MLA’s this email, I also sent it to a few others who might be interested in the general discussion of how our
Continue readingROAR!: PEI is my home – But you may not want to ‘come play on my Island’
There is a new government campaign underway on lovely little Prince Edward Island – #PEIismyhome and they’ve gone all out to promote the brand on their website, with a YouTube channel, Twitter hashtag and although I don’t see it now, perhaps it will pop up on Facebook like a zombie from the grave (or is that
Continue readingROAR!: Apology for Plan B – PEI TCH Project
I wrote this in response to this article that appeared in The Guardian on Feb. 5th Plan B Protesters Fined in Court . For more information on Plan B (no, it’s not the morning after pill, I totally support that!) visit their website – StopPlanB. The PEI gov’t put through
Continue readingROAR!: PEI Premier maintains Anti-choice Stance – Abortion in Canada
This just released today … MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release Premier maintains Anti-Choice Stance 25 years after National Decriminalization Charlottetown – January 27th, 2013 – Since his 2011 statement that the “status quo is going to remain in effect” Premier Robert Ghiz has declined to respond to calls for
Continue readingROAR!: It’s been a long winter on PEI for Women’s Rights
My tweet this morning: “Liberal Groundhog surfaces … sees shadow and runs back into hole … women’s rights too scary to deal with! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2013/01/10/pei-abortion-rights-study-584.html … #peipoli” that was in response to this: Last night UPEI professor Colleen MacQuarrie released preliminary findings of her research project regarding the practise of sending Island
Continue readingROAR!: PEI – 2012 The Year of the ‘Unpleasable’
If Islanders wondered for even a moment if they made a difference this year fighting for their particular cause, they can rest easy. Proof that you had an impact was in the Premier’s year end interview on CBC Compass where he referenced some portion of Islanders as being people whom he will never please … he’s not able
Continue readingROAR!: Pro-Choice scores a Victory in PEI! – The truth is out there, just not on PEI
Eventually, surely eventually I will take a big lesson from these experiences and learn to do as my wiser, and usually more educated reproductive rights counterparts do when they see the kinds of anti-choice propaganda that sends me over the edge. I rant, and I call some people some choice names
Continue readingROAR!: Status of Women on PEI – Failing
I’m not sure why, on PEI, we even bother to put a woman in the role as Minister responsible for the Status of Women. I say that because if you are elected on PEI, regardless if you are personally inclined to address the REAL issues that face women (which I doubt many are),
Continue readingROAR!: Oh Dear Lord – Prayer in the PEI Legislature
A couple weeks ago I was asked to go sit in the gallery of the PEI Legislature, during Question Period, as a reminder to MLAs that folks from the ‘Stop Plan B’ group will still be watching and encouraging continued discussion about ‘the highway that no one wanted’. While we
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