Here is an editorial I wrote, published in The Guardian this past week: Let’s take discrimination out of Healthcare At the recent Health PEI Annual General meeting, the slogan that ran with their logo was ‘Safe, Quality Healthcare in tight financial times’. This current government’s way of letting Islanders know
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ROAR!: Robert Ghiz – I don’t know if you remember me – Abortion on PEI
‘I don’t know if you guys remember me?’ says a young woman standing at a microphone, before a panel at Health PEI’s 2nd annual general meeting. She is soft spoken, her question is studied, her position informed, and her persistance, commendable. She stands in front of what is surely a group of individuals
Continue readingROAR!: PNP Program in PEI – ‘Free Money’
The list of names who participated in the PEI PNP program is long. The list of questions about who made the most money, longer. As a small business owner, we heard it was a program whereby we could grab some ‘Free money’. And let the story unfold
Continue readingROAR!: A Scar on the land and the people – PEI
I spent over a week in a ravine, in Churchill, standing with a small group of people, holding an invisible line while machines roared through the land. It was something I will never forget. Cold feet, reheated coffee, wet sleeping bags, peeing in the woods, sleepless nights aside, I will
Continue readingROAR!: PEI Liberal MLA shows no shame to emotional crowd at Province House.
At least that is the headline I would very much like to see, on the news tonight, in the paper tomorrow. Of course it’s not likely. All we’ll see is a 20sec soundbite on the 5o’clock news that Liberal MLA, Bush Dumville was booed by a large crowd when he tried to
Continue readingROAR!: Robert Ghiz – This land is my land – PEI
The song was sung last week in the woods of Bonshaw Hills, Prince Edward Island, amoung old growth forest, Acadian forest, between hundred year old Hemlocks, beside streams, it’s words rearranged to make us smile. But by the end of that week, it was clear the land on PEI belongs
Continue readingROAR!: Party Policy more important than ever in Canada – M312
I would very much like to stop posting about M312, it has been a horrible and fantastic alarm. But I’m awake now. We’re all awake now. Here is what I now know. Here is what I will not forget: A motion like M312 would not have come up through the ranks
Continue readingROAR!: The man who made M312 about him – Abortion in Canada
My hat is off, to the man who managed to make M312 about him! My MP, Sean Casey. When a Conservative MP in Ontario put forward his ‘personhood bill’ last Spring I began the long and annoying process of trying to get my MP to publicly state how he would
Continue readingROAR!: M312 – this far, no further! | Abortion in Canada
Conservative MP for Kitchner, Ontario, Stephen Woodworth brought forward a Republican-style motion last Spring, to discuss the definition of a human being – #M312. This motion has opened my eyes to two things; 1) that I don’t always need to be watching the U.S. news to hear about ‘personhood bills’ and 2) that in
Continue readingROAR!: New PEI Schoolboard – A hope and a Prayer
PEI has decided to merge its two school boards into one centralized board. Leaving PEI with an English Speaking Schoolboard and a French Speaking Schoolboard. This has been done as a money saver and I guess as a means for streamlining policy and practise in PEI schools. I’m not sure
Continue readingROAR!: On PEI Smoking may be helping gov’t!
Walking into the grocery store an hour or so ago, I had to stand and wait while husband went to buy a lotto ticket. Good thing because I picked up the paper, and what do I read … ‘Island government holds Tobacoo investments’. Smoking has been in the news a
Continue readingROAR!: PEI – Public opposition to TCH ‘Plan B’
In case you hadn’t heard, (in a nutshell) the PEI gov’t under the leadership of Liberal, Robert Ghiz, is trying to move forward with a highway project in order to grab 8million ’50cent dollars’ (Ghiz’s words) from the federal gov’t. The project would alter the path of the Trans Canada Highway between
Continue readingROAR!: ‘Cause’ for concern. PEI MPs vote on M312
After a few weeks where I officially stopped reading tweets and blog posts about M312, in order to make the best fake attempt at not thinking about the fact that Canadian MPs will be voting on my access to primary healthcare services, specifically abortion, I am back in the swing of things.
Continue readingROAR!: Environmental Assessment in Canada/PEI
TCH ‘Plan B’ – Environmental Assessment has GREAT significant impact! on a crowd of people who learn that the chances of getting a ‘significant impact’ ruling, is 100-1. Tonight I attended my first public meeting held by a group tasked with performing an environmental assessment of the TCH ‘Plan B’ project
Continue readingROAR!: Ghiz asked to defend public healthcare?!
Today in The Guardian an article that must be a joke. Or at least, I guess the joke is on the women of PEI whose primary health care is obviously not part of the equation when people talk about public healthcare. Medicare express set to roll from P.E.I. to Halifax asks Robert
Continue readingROAR!: PEI – looking for big balls/ovaries
The door is indeed open for change, but PEI is without a politician with balls/ovaries big enough to cross the threshold. Today on CBC Sunday Edition there was a great interview about the status of Abortion access on PEI. Being interviewed was Sam Wright of PRRO and Colleen MacQuarrie a
Continue readingROAR!: PEI MPs & Abortion – See you in Sept. 2012
So Summer is here and no one wants to talk about #M312. Go figure. Afer a million or so tweets and emails, I am unable to get a public answer to ‘how will you vote on #M312’ from any PEI MPs. They also don’t seem interested in posting anything on
Continue readingROAR!: I want what my dog has – my MPs attention!
Recently I received an email from a close friend, not unusual, but what was in the email wasn’t our usual chit chat. She had included me in a list of email addresses that included, amoung others, all four PEI MPs. She was asking that since they all had active website
Continue readingROAR!: Canadian MPs and Public Questions
The other day I got a Facebook message from my MP, Sean Casey, Liberal MP for Charlottetown, he wanted me to know that he thinks what I say about him is untrue, that I’m being aggressive in my public communications with/about him and that I have no integrity. Oh, also
Continue readingROAR!: PEI Liberals – #Ghizonomics
So, I mentioned this in a previous post, that I attended a rally for Plan B and Dialysis last week, and made the sign you see in the previous post. Now that sign is getting bigger as more and more issues are brought before Islanders and the hands of the PEI Liberal
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