PEI Liberal MLA blocks contituents on Twitter
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…
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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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
PEI’s anti-choice Liberals – Abortion in PEI
An editorial I wrote today in response to this article that ran in The Guardian today: ‘ movement supporters restate their opposition to abortion’. Submitted it to the paper, maybe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…