Facing Autism in New Brunswick: NB Ombudsman’s Centre of Excellence is a Fantasy That Will Not Fill Residential Care and Treatment Needs of Severely Autistic Adults

The Bricks and Mortar Office of the Ombudsman 548 York Street, Fredericton,New Brunswick, at the Staying Connected consultations, in which I participated, Ombudsman Bernard Richard and NBACL President Clarence Box both dismissed Long Term Residential Care and Treatment Facilities for Autistic Youth and Adults as “Bricks and Mortar Solutions” The

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knitnut.net: Welcome home, Oboe

We brought Oboe home from the hospital last night. There hadn’t been any improvement since Friday, but no deterioration either. Poor little guy. Life’s tough right now. But so is Oboe; he’s a feisty little bird. (Although you wouldn’t know it to look at him right now. His personality has

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Red Tory v.3.0.3: Mitt The Ripper

The unaffiliated (definitely not co-ordinating with Stephen Colbert) SuperPAC “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” has just released the following advertisement, which logically proposes that if “corporations are people” then Mitt Romney should be regarded as a serial killer… The way Colbert has methodically gone about illustrating on his show

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Corraling The Dean With A Confidential Missive

NeverMindTheBollocks HereComesTheFireWallVille Well, well, well….. It would appear that Vaughn Palmer got the memo. The ‘secret’ memo that is: …(Conservative Prime Minister Stephen) Harper, far from not having time for (Liberal Premier Christy) Clark, has met with her on non-hockey matters a half-dozen or so times over the past year.

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