A scene from the Lethbridge-West riding, as seen by the Wildrose Party. Below: Lethbridge-West candidate Kevin Kinahan. During the campaign leading up to the recent Alberta provincial election, the website of Lethbridge-West Wildrose Party candidate Kevin Kinahan had two sections outlining his perspective on the party’s health care policy –
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ROAR!: 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 readingDead Wild Roses: The Republican War on Women Continues – Mississippi Failing
The United States is regressing quickly under the burden of its plutocratic elites. Public health and the rights of women are under onslaught by ignorant religious ideologues who espouse intensely anti-woman rhetoric that undermines the ideals of civilized society. You would think that idiocy on this scale would quickly
Continue readingLeft Over: U.S. Conference Of Mayors Passes Pro-Choice Resolution-today in HuffPost
This is very heartening, and flies in the face of what Repug-led States are attempting with their regressive anti-women stances…I’m happy and relieved to see that the entire country hasn’t lost its mind…Will this make a blind bit of difference in the next round of elections?One can only hope that
Continue readingROAR!: Waiting on Woodworth – Abortion in Canada
Saw this tweet this morning, and it made me laugh: “MP Stephen Woodworth didn’t realize his mother was 90 until his abortion motion bill blew up in his face.” There was a link to an article in The Globe and Mail. To me, and I guess to the person who
Continue readingROAR!: Crush Motion 312 – Abortion in Canada
A year ago I would have been less than useless in a discussion about why there is no abortion law in Canada, why it’s simply a medical procedure, why we don’t need a law, and what are the realities of a country without an abortion law. And this is coming
Continue readingROAR!: The Abortion Question – Your MP
Last night on #FAQMP, #cpc MP Scott Armstrong answered a question (my question) about #M312, was he going to Vote for or against the motion. He is voting against it. He is apparently amoung many Conservative MPs who are, wait for it, Pro-Choice! Imagine my surprise. You see since finding
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review – April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 26 saw ample discussion of private members’ business – and if the Cons are now cracking down on such debate, the results of the day’s proceedings might give us some clues as to why. The Big Issue While it didn’t receive as much media attention as another issue
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review – April 23, 2012
Monday, April 23 was the first day back in the House of Commons following the Easter break. And it featured some of the most lively and telling discussion we’ve seen yet on the Cons’ anti-refugee legislation as the second-reading debate reached its end. The Big Issue As part of the
Continue readingROAR!: Will PEI MPs Affirm Women’s Rights – M312
The vote over M312 is approaching, June 13 and while abortion rights groups and suppoters rally, discuss, petition, network, lobby, educate, disseminate and push back against those who would see women’s access to some medical services in Canada restricted, it is curious that some MPs remain silent. On PEI we have four
Continue readingROAR!: Say it with me: Abortion is a Medical Procedure
In the Winnipeg Free Press there was a ‘have your say’ response that grabbed me, it was short and sweet and to the point, and regarding the recent discussion over a certain #cpc MP trying to open the door to recriminalizing abortion in Canada. It said everything that needed to
Continue readingROAR!: Thank you Judy from Winnipeg!
In the Winnipeg Free Press there was a ‘have your say’ response that grabbed me, it was short and sweet and to the point, and said everything that needed to be said in a very few lines. Absolutely unacceptableRe: Debate rages on (Letters, May 9). Canada holds as a basic
Continue readingcmkl: March for Life? Bring a snack – that’s one long march
Do you ever get to stop? No? Maybe an extra pair of socks then. When I was in university the campus anti-choice group was called ‘McGill Students for Life’. We – the Dailyites – used to go up to their tables in the student union building and say naïvely “Does
Continue readingLeftist Jab: And then Jonathan Kay Compared China’s Forced Abortion Laws to Canadian Women’s Right to Choose
“About one hundred and fifty words” That’s what must have been going through the mind of National Post’s columnist Jonathan Kay when he was nearing the end of his column on Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist. “I’m short one hundred and fifty words!” And so, what does every
Continue readingROAR!: #M312 – How will your MP Vote?
What a rollercoaster ride! it has been since little old PEI screamed out into the universe that women here were no longer going to be ignored and silenced. Okay, well, women have screamed before, but this is the first time I’ve been invovled. Specifically of course I’m talking about access to abortion services,
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On Feminism
I am proud to call myself a feminist. I take it as a first principle needing no further derivation that all people deserve equality of freedom and opportunity, and that it is both morally right and morally obligatory to fight for this in society. Feminism, to me, is simply the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Woody Woodworth and the Egg Man
Gawd. What a horrible way to begin my day. All I could think of was Stephen "Woody" Woodworth polishing his big teeth, and preparing for his big day. Even my egg started to look like him, and I hardly dared boil it, in case it should hatch. For who knows
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: How Abortion Is Making You Dumb
When people don’t talk about an issue because of fear, society becomes ignorant. Abortion is one such topic where ignorance abounds, and not just on one side of the debate either. The polarization of the issue has all but eliminated reasonable discussion, leaving most Canadians less than informed, and facing
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: If the Liberals want to stand up for reproductive rights, they should stop pretending and whip the dammed vote
Today Parliament will debate a “private members” motion from Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth that would effectively re-open the abortion debatein Canada, and put the reproductive rights of women at risk. In the last 24 hours I’ve received two e-mails from the Liberal Party of Canada on this topic, both eager
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Abortion: The Liberal Party should respond with a boycott
Stephen Harper promised before the election not to reopen the abortion debate if he was re-elected. Now one of his MPs is tabling a motion to reopen the debate. Harper is using the Woodward motion to slip past his pre-election promise not to reopen the debate on abortion. In doing
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