Quite simply, if a politician dangles child welfare money to anyone, but makes it contingent on embracing a sick LNG plant, what does that smell like to you? I think it smells the same as when she tells a school board to close schools or else they don’t get seismic
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The Canadian Progressive: Making our movements work for kids and families
By providing child care for protesters, racial justice organizers shift the public’s understanding of “front line” work, and make protest movements work for kids and families. The post Making our movements work for kids and families appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Family Matters
Kinda puts a damper on that whole family values and morals thing… :)Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: family, Origin Stories, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice, Uncomfortale Christian Facts
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: No, BC Actually Mentored Saskatchewan’s Poor-Bashing
Despite being Metro News, Emily Jackson’s great piece yesterday [below] about how brutally cruel the Saskatchewan government is should make us mindful of a number of issues. Not the least of which is that the neoliberal Saskatchewan Party has been photocopying many of the worst of BC’s regressive and anti-social policies. That makes the BC … Continue reading No, BC Actually Mentored Saskatchewan’s Poor-Bashing →
Politics, Re-Spun: Seven Tips for Feminist Men
I know already. You’re a feminist. And a man. But I’m not going to pat you on the back for that because we need to do better. We may think we’ve already earned all the male-feminist scout badges. We may subscribe to the male-feminist version of the doctors’ maxim ‘first, do no harm.’ But that’s … Continue reading Seven Tips for Feminist Men →
My journey with AIDS…and more!: Out for 35 years
Reading something which noted that 1981 was 35 years ago jarred me into realizing that it was three-and-a-half decades ago this very month that I officially came out of the closet, by which I mean letting my family know that I was gay. It was in the co…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Libs to repeal spanking law
It is decades overdue, but finally in response to a recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the Trudeau government will move to repeal §43 of the Criminal Code, which allows for "corrective force" (i.e. spanking).
No doubt this will get the socons riled up as yet another example of social engineering. But there is simply no proof corporal punishment works. If anything, it
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Libs to repeal spanking law
It is decades overdue, but finally in response to a recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the Trudeau government will move to repeal §43 of the Criminal Code, which allows for “corrective force” (i.e. spanking). No doubt this will get the socons riled up as yet another example of
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Libs to repeal spanking law
It is decades overdue, but finally in response to a recommendation from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the Trudeau government will move to repeal §43 of the Criminal Code, which allows for "corrective force" (i.e. spanking).
No doubt this will get the socons riled up as yet another example of social engineering. But there is simply no proof corporal punishment works. If anything, it
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Home.
Next Tuesday at noon, our daughter Natalie arrives home for Christmas. Jim and I will meet her at the airport and then together, we’ll drive around the corner to where Nicholas lives. I know there will be hugs and tears. Christmas Eve is my…
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Celebrating the Holidays at Home with Seniors
Guest post by Maria RamosWhile generally a time of cheer and celebration, the holidays pose their own set of challenges for seniors and those living with disabilities. The holidays are a time for family and friends, and generally everybody wants to get…
Continue readingScripturient: 1914: My Grandfathers’ Year
As I read further into Max Hastings’ book, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, I wondered, as I have done in the past when reading similar books about that time, what my grandfathers must have felt when that war broke out. What it meant to them…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Where to Put the Homeless?
Source: A groundbreaking study suggests giving homeless Canadians homes first saves money So, giving homeless people homes saves money [and shhhh, it’s the RIGHT thing to do!]…who knew! Utah, that’s who. They’ve been at it for a while now. It’s a report that could change the way that homeless people are treated in Canada. Funded … Continue reading Where to Put the Homeless? →
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Politics, Re-Spun: Where to Put the Homeless?
Source: A groundbreaking study suggests giving homeless Canadians homes first saves money So, giving homeless people homes saves money [and shhhh, it’s the RIGHT thing to do!]…who knew! Utah, that’s who. They’ve been at it for a while now. It’s a report that could change the way that homeless people
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program.
I realize Canada has never been totally …
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: About those shared cost programs …
In last night’s final debate, Tom Mulcair said if he’s elected, then Quebec – and only that province – would get the option to opt out of new shared cost programs, including his $15 per diem child care program. I realize Canada has never been totally equal on social programs.
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: May 9, 2007
The assignment for this week (Sept. 28, 2015) at the Mount Sinai Narrative Writing Group was “Write a story about a decision you have observed or experienced.” May 9, 2007 The indicators of Craig’s brain activity were not at all promising more than two weeks after his fall. He
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Ashley Madison Is Not Nearly So Black and White
The Ashley Madison hack is bad news for cheaters—and just as terrible for everyone else – By Harris O’Malley It’s like the royal family: glamorize them so we can bash them down to earth. A bit of a mindfuck. If Ashley Madison were a straight infidelity website among heterosexual couples
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: 11 Weeks of Daily Harper Protests
The Harper Re-election Disaster Bus Totalitarianism: daily, for 11 weeks! Get used to this. People hate Harper and his Conservatives. We will see through his weak attempt to wedge oppositions parties by running a long election campaign because he has more money to spend. Saturation will come fast. We will
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