GOD
BLESS OUR BELOVED ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY- NOVA SCOTIA- knew they'd step up and
fix this mess....... our kids and folks look up 2 our high school, university
and colleges.... we truly do...
u
matter...
HALIFAX
Anti-rape
culture rally planned at Saint Mar y’s
A
rally opposing rape culture on university campuses will be held Thursday
afternoon at Saint Mary’s.
The
university has been in the news since frosh leaders were filmed last week
teaching firstyear students a chant about sexually assaulting underage girls.
The
Saint Mary’s Women’s Centre is organizing the rally, which will be held at 2:30
p.m. outside the Atrium .
“We
recognize that this culture is not created by or limited to Saint Mary’s
University but is prevalent throughout society," a release from the
women’s centre reads. “The chants captured on video are a symptom o f a wider
culture that minimizes sexual violence, shames and blames rape victims and
victims of assault, and promotes the normalization of rape."
According
to the release, a community support and debriefing event will be held from 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Local Women’s Council House at the corner of
Young and Inglis streets.
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GET
THE POINT- IT'S LIKE CHER SAYS 2
question r u a feminist still??
Cher
on the art of the comeback
A
conversation with Cher on working with Lady Gaga and singing for Jackie O
by
Elio Iannacci on Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:00pm
Q:
So many young performers like Taylor Swift don’t want to identify as feminists.
Why is that?
A:
What is the bad connotation with
feminism? When women have full control of their bodies, when women get paid
exactly the same as men, when everything that happens for men happens for
women, I can stop calling myself a feminist.
AND..
READER’S
CORNER
‘How
many of you are feminists?’
I
remember being in high school in Mr. Plato’s Global History class when he
point-blank asked the students: “How many of you are feminists?"
Only
about three of us raised our hands. Plato told them all they were doorknobs (or
something to that effect, lovingly) and explained that feminism is the basic b
elief in equality, something the other kids had never considered before.
Kids
aren’t taught about feminism — not what it actually is, anyway. They close
their eyes and imagine feminists as fat lesbians, frothing at the mouth and
hating men while they stuff their faces with three-day-old tuna casserole.
They
don’t think of their mothers, struggling to make the same pay as the men at
work. They don’t see their older sisters dealing with misogyny each and every
day as a university student. They don’t see their neighbour being raped, their
best friend b eing turned down for jobs, or their grandmother being forced to
stay home because that was her “place."
Kids
need to know what feminism is, because feminism is how we’re all going to make
our world a better place. Making each group equal is how we move beyond issues
like what’s happening in our university system, in or our political system, in
or our workplaces and in our schools.
You
have to teach people when they are young that all people deserve equal respect,
or else you’ll lose them. Why are kids in their first year of university so
quick to accept a sexist chant? Because they don’t know any better, and that’s
our fault.
We
have to do better for the girls and the boys, or else the next generation will
lose something that’s been essential in shaping the current generation: the
ongoing fight for gender equality.
Christie
Blotnicky, Halifax
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POSTED
BLOGS- One-Two Billion Rising- breaking
the chains of abuse- NO ...MORE... EXCUSES 2013
CANADA-
2 BILLION RISING-breaking the chains/Classified is a hero 2 child
victims-bullied-abused WTF???/St Mary's Canada Students stepping up tackle
rape, abuse of women, kids/IDLE NO MORE CANADA FIRST PEOPLES- 10,000
years/SHANIA/CLASSIFIED/ABUSED/VIDEOS/M.A.D.D.
BLOG
CANADA:
LIFE WITH BILLY- Nova Scotia-mandatory reading - no more excuses - no more
abuses- Universities, Colleges, High Schools must change- ur the leaders of our
Canada Kids- they look up 2 u/PAEDOPHILE MONSTERS- Martin Kruze I was a
paedophile's dream
BLOG
CANADA:
ONE BILLION RISING- break the chains-no more excuses -or abuses/ST. MARY'S
UNIVERSITY-UNIV. BRITISH COLUMBIA- universities, colleges and schools
inclusive-u r tommorow's Canadian Leaders- kids look up 2 u.
BLOG
CANADA
MILITARY NEWS: Sep6- innie meenie minie mow- catch a nig**r by the toe -in our
day VS 2day's "Y is for your sister, O is for oh so tight, U is for
underage, N is for no consent, G is for grab that ass, SMU boys we like them
young." - Thx SMU students r couragely stepping up and fixing the hurtin
BLOG:
PAEDOPHILE HUNTING- Nova Scotia where's our
inquiry in2 Nova Scotia Home 4 Coloured Children -black on black paedophile
abuse/ Cruise Ships PAEDOPHILE HORROR/ Hunting Paedophiles August 29, 2013
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TO
CANADA'S CLASSIFIED... 4 EVERY KID IN THE WORLD- whether ur 2 or 102- we've all
been there...
see u got that Inner Ninja going on- and don't
4get kids and elders are also ur fans- u chisel ur words in stone on our hearts
and bring hope from despair 4 homeless kids and kids who have just had a shitty
chance at life- thanks Canadian son... and taps out 2 David Myles who also has
Canada's flag wrapped around his heart and soul- the Buddy Holly of Canada
Classified - Inner Ninja ft. David Myles
ONE BILLION RISING- SHORT FILM- break the chains of abuse- no more excuses
One Billion Rising- Break the Chain of Abuse- NO MORE EXCUSES- Evry Day is Internat.Women'sDa
UNITED NATIONS- USA OBAMA AND THE WORLD NATIONS NEED 2 SIGN 65% OF WORLD'S WOMEN ARE EQUAL- come on USA- no more excuses- and if all nations - do not sign THEN CANADA- DUMP UNITED NATIONS... please
bullying-
malalas
first responders
CANADA'S SOLDIERS OF SUICIDE- UNVEILING OTTAWA- SEPTEMBER 15 2013
Martin Kruze- young hockey play- raped abused as a boy Maple Leaf Gardens- I WAS A PAEDOPHILE'S DREAM- Child Abuse Healing Monument- Toronto- Canada (Only one of kind on planet)- we pray 4 the murdered abused kids, suicide kids- and pray 4 the survivors- the victors..... God bless u- Martin Kruze commited suicide 2 days after the horrid small verdict... now the paedphiles are back on 85 more charges.
Honouring our troops- thank u
September 11, 2001- Canadians Remember- somebody has 2 care- God bless our troops
Child Abuse Healing Monument- Toronto-Canada
child abuse- if we all don't stop this- who will?
suicide by bullying- 11 year old Canadian child- just couldn't take it- only child-BULLYCIDE
Nova Scotia Home 4 Coloured Children- hundreds of lives destroyed by systemic child abuse (mind rape/physical torture/sexual assault) by black on black abuse- Nova Scotians - Canada wants inquiry
Phoenix Sinclair- takin from beloved foster parents and beaten 2 death and horrible abused by mother and live in partner- she didn't make it 2 five years old folks...
Jamie from Ottawa- bullycide- are u happy now????
Beautiful Courtney A. Brown of Nova Scotia- tortured and destroyed by peers- BULLYCIDE
Rehtaeh Parson- raped, tortured by peers- not one institution in Nova Scotia saved her- BULLYCIDE
VICTIMS NEED JUSTICE FROM PAEDOPHILES- IT'S TIME CANADA- r kids matter
sex /labour slave trafficking of children and women- globally 80 million
MURDER BY BULLYCIDE- OUR AMANDA TODD- Canada is going 1,000 BULLYCIDES- Let's Step Up Canada
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LINKS ON BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE- (Mind
Rape/Physical Torture/Sexual Assault)
FOR KIDS- TWEENS-TEENS-YOUNGBLOODS- But
perhaps most of all..... each and every Canadain Adult- we must take more
responsibility and be more vigilant:
To learn more about bullying and if u r being
abused- check out:
RespectED: Violence & Abuse Prevention
If you are a victim of bullying, call The Kids
Help Phone at 1-800-668-6868.
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14
f**king years old??????????????????????????????
HEY BIKER FRIENDS- STREET PEERS- PASS THIS ONE ON - hang his junk 2 the jailyard wall- a-n-o-n-y-m-o-u-s help darlins!
Soccer
coach guilty of sex assault
STEVE
BRUCE COURT REPORTER
sbr
uce@herald.ca @CH_cour ts
A
Halifax soccer coach has pleaded guilty to s exually assau lting one of his
players, a 14-year-old girl, last fall.
Konstanty
(Kostek) Bedoa-Gorski, 24, entered the plea Tuesday in Halifax provincial
court.
Bedoa-Gorski,
a psychology student at Saint Mary’s University, will be sentenced Dec. 18.
Judge
Michael Sherar ordered the young man to co-operate with the preparation of a
presentence report.
Defence
lawyer Thomas Singleton told the court the sentencing date would allow his
client to finish this semester at SMU.
But
the south-end Halifax university announced later Tuesday that Bedoa-Gorski had
been suspended and barred from campus.
A
dis ciplinary hearing will b e held as soon as possible, a university
spokesman said.
SMU
was in the national headlines last week for a frosh week chant encouraging the
rape of underage girls.
Bedoa-Gorski
abused the girl last October.
He
was also charged with sexual interference. That charge will be withdrawn after
he is sentenced for sexual assault.
Bedoa-Gorski
remains free on an under taking , with conditions banning him from using the
Internet, having contact with children under the age of 16 and going to
schools, parks, playgrounds and other places known to be frequented by kids.
He’s
forbidden from communicating with the victim or going to her home. The girl’s
identity is protected by a publication ban.
Bedoa-Gorski
was director of MAPS Elite, a Halifax-based program for high-performance
soccer players between the ages of 12 and 16 .
He’s
also coached in Soccer Nova Scotia’s provincial program, at the Farias Soccer
Academy and with clubs such as Cole Harbour, Dartmouth United, Halifax Dunbrack
and Dartmouth FC.
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IDLE NO MORE CANADA- our beautiful First
Peoples of 10,000 years- u matter-Canada matters
}} this
day and age.... u would come 2 Canada and trophy hunt OUR BEARS????- let alone
the First Peoples of 10,000 years in Canada- u would insult our First
Peoples- had to cry- watched this on
APTN- Canada's First Peoples Television Station- how could we not mourn and
cry- and 2 leave the carcass- like the billion buffalo stolen from USA First
Peoples.... Come one it's 2013
Bear Witness: a film by BC's Coastal First
Nations
Published on Sep 3, 2013
When 'Cheeky' the bear is ambushed and
decapitated in front of a lone witness, a chain of events is set in motion up
and down the coast. You're the next link.
imho- we must all work 2gether 4 our
environment- and yes we need our own energy and use our own oil- Cape Breton
toxic wasteland is now a children's
park- we must stop using oil, gas whatever from HERITICAL MUSLIMS who are
destroying Muslims like pirannas every damm day in the Middle East, Africas and
Asias..... we just cannot continue 2 condone this kind of world in 2013-
God bless our Canada- I always picture God
looking like Chief Dan George :-)
Idle No More Canada- our beloved First Peoples 10,000 years- our Canada children- our wolves (my very
favourite creature- haunting- beautiful-inspiring) - let's look after Canada
now
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The Wolves
The Gray Wolf (Canis lupus; also spelled Grey
Wolf, see spelling differences; also known as Timber Wolf or Wolf) is a mammal
in the order Carnivora. The Gray Wolf shares a common ancestry with the
domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), as evidenced by DNA sequencing and
genetic drift studies. Gray wolves were once abundant and distributed over much
of North America, Eurasia, and the Middle East. Today, for a variety of
human-related reasons, including widespread habitat destruction and excessive
hunting, wolves inhabit only a very limited portion of their former range.
Though listed as a species of least concern for extinction worldwide, for some
regions including the Continental United States, the species is listed as
endangered or threatened.
IF U LOVE WOLVES PLZ ENJOY IT!! SAVE THEM!!
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UBC
student leaders quit over rape chant
September
12, 2013 - 7:02am By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Same
chant recited at SMU earlier this month
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Tenancy
rules eased for abuse victims
September
11, 2013 - 7:20pm By THE CHRONICLE HERALD
Nova
Scotia is making it easier for abuse victims to get out of leases early without
financial penalties.
“The
worry about a lease could prevent someone from leaving a dangerous situation,”
John Joyce-Robinson, the justice department’s director of victim services, said
Wednesday in a news release.
Through
changes to the Residential Tenancies Act, victims can now work with victim
services to end year-to-year leases with one month’s notice instead of three
months and end fixed-term leases before the stated end date.
Tenants
who would previously had to pay the rent for the rest of the lease can now
apply to have the financial responsibility reduced.
For
more information, call victim services at 1-888-470-0773.
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Frosh
chant response group set
Five
women, three men on Saint Mary’s panel established by university president
EDUCATION
REPORTER FRANCES WILLICK fwillick@herald.ca @CH_Frances
Saint
Mary’s University announced Wednesday the members of a new group tasked with
helping prevent sexual assault on campus.
Led
by Dalhousie University law professor Wayne MacKay, the membership will include
Laurel Broten, the creator of Ontario’s Sexual Violence Action Plan; Shelagh
Crooks, a philosophy professor at Saint Mary’s; lawyer and writer Wendy
MacGregor; Marilyn More, the minister resp onsible for the Advis ory Council
of the Status of Women Act; Brad Prest, a fourth-year political science
student; Staci Simpson, a graduate student and the coordinator of the Saint
Mary’s women’s centre; and Russell Westhaver, a sociology and criminology
professor at Saint Mary’s.
Maureen
Reid of BoardWorks Consulting will serve as an administrator and resource
consultant for the group.
Colin
Dodds, the president of Saint Mary’s, struck the presidential council last
week in the wake of a pro-rape cheer sung on campus during frosh week.
“We
have assembled a team of five women and three men that bring a wide range of
perspectives to the issue," Dodds said in a news release. “They will be
drawing on the best resources and expertise from both the campus and the
community."
The
group will also look at ways of increasing respect and safety on campus.
Saint
Mary’s spokesman Steve Proctor said external organizations will have an
opportunity to give input, but he’s uncertain how it will be solicited or
collected.
“There
are any number of people who have great resources that we will b e tapping into
in the process," he said.
The
bu dget for the council has not yet been set. MacKay told The Chronicle Herald
last week that his role as leader is a volunteer p osition .
The
council’s recommendations are expected in mid-December.
Two
students are facing a disciplinary hearing in connection with the orientation
week chant.
Another
student, 24-year-old Konstanty (Kostek) Bedoa-Gorski, was suspended and will
also face a dis ciplinary hearing after pleading guilty on Tuesday to sexually
assaulting a 14-year-old girl whom he coached in soccer.
Proctor
said neither the dates nor outcomes o f dis ciplinary hearings are made public.
and...
SMU
names experts on panel looking at sexual violence
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Program
to target sexualized violence
AARON
BESWICK TRURO BUREAU
abeswick@herald.ca
@CH_ABeswick
ANTIGONISH
— It took three years of hundreds of Saint Mary’s University students chanting
about sexually assaulting underage girls for anyone to complain, or if s
omeone did, for s omeone to listen .
It
took widespread outrage in the media for the administration and stu dent
council, the president of which admitted to participating in the chant, to
respond last week.
And
that’s a problem for Lucille Harper, Annie Chau and the 80 stu dent and
academic leaders coming to Antigonish on Friday to learn how to b e the
individual that resists this type of herd mentality.
“When
you look at the (Saint Mary’s University) frosh leader saying that (students)
didn’t even think about the words they were chanting, you see how pervasive
sexualized violence is in our culture," said Harper, executive director
of the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services
Association.
This
weekend, stu dent and academic leaders from around Atlantic Canada will come to
St. Francis Xavier University to take instru ction on how to identify
sexualized violence and its promotion and how to intervene in a program hosted
by the Women’s Resource Centre. Those 80 will be sent back to their campuses as
instructors of a program called Bringing in the Bystander, in the hopes of
creating a broader culture of whistle-blowers.
“We
all want to live in a safe, happy community where p eople are treated with
respect," said Chau, program co-ordinator at the women’s centre.
“Everyone
in the community is responsible for that."
The
bystander approach was developed at the University of New Hampshire as a means
to reining in the excess es on campus that promote sexual violence.
Angela
Borges, a lead trainer in prevention innovation at that university, will be in
Antigonish on Friday to teach the course.
“When
you look at movies, music and television you s ee a lot of themes around sexual
violence and rape that trivialize it in some way," said Borges on Monday.
“So
much so that people take it as normal. Our program asks people to look at that,
whether it be in the broader media or people making jokes, and stand up against
it."
During
the program, participants practise intervening in situations, whether it be an
intoxicated girl being dragged off from the bar or a chant such as the one at
Saint Mary’s University that promotes rape.
It
is about the individual standing up against a massive media machine that promotes
extreme sexuality and often trivializes sexual violence, said Borges.
She
admitted that those are big forces for the individual to oppose.
“But
it is encouraging to see that now we are starting to recognize the problem and
seeking solutions to do something about it ."
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NFLD
Racy
beer mug noticed by university dean
The
dean o f engineering for Memorial University of Newfoundland says there will
be consequences for a sexualized beer mug that has prompted the school’s
engineering society to apologize.
Greg
Naterer says he’s disturbed by the mugs selected by the society for a recent
party.
The
souvenir mugs feature a cartoon image of a barely dressed woman and the words
“If She’s Thirsty Give her the D (DAY)," a play on the party’s D-Day theme
and a reference to a phrase that has its origins from a pornography website and
its us e in standup comedy. (CP)
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Waste
not, want not
September
11, 2013 - 6:54pm By GORDON DELANEY VALLEY BUREAU
Farmer
donates corn to Feed Nova Scotia
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ATLANTIC
CANADA FILM FESTIVAL 2013- COME VISIT
CBC
at the Atlantic Film Festival 2013
CALGARY
Cenovus
to give priority to veterans
One
of Canada’s energy giants has joined a program that makes military veterans a
priority when hiring new employees.
Federal
Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino was in Calgary for the announcement
by Cenovus Energy, which has a workforce of about 5,000.
Fantino
said Cenovus is the first energy and utility company to participate in the
program announced last fall as part of a government veterans transition plan.
He
said many Canadian soldiers leaving the military have useful skills, including
the ability to work as part of a team. (CP)
Kind-hearted
custodian puts school in the pink
September
11, 2013 - 8:31pm SHERRI BORDEN COLLEY Staff Reporter
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all the troops- then, now, always waiting with God 4 us-we love u and we
remember 9/11
Go Rest High On That Mountain-Vince Gill
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