JUST IN WIKILEAKS:
Holy sheeeeeeet ... we were just talking on
this on boards.... and the fact that now that Obama and the 5 NATIONS HAVE
CUDDLED UP 2 IRAN kicking Israel 2 the curb... now they want 2 kick our Canada
down.... seriously??? seriously?... USA troops are the shining star ... this is
actually... hurtful..imho.
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA’S FAKE TRADE DEAL – ONLY 5 OF THE 29 CHAPTERS ARE ACTUALLY ABOUT TRADE
Wikileaks has managed to get a hold of the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership deal and reveals what has been reported for years – this deal is hardly about trade at all. Up till now, any cry that this was a sovereignty killer was simply regarded as conspiracy theory.
With the contents now exposed, we can see that there is no theory here it all: It is a fasist coup for any country that signs it.
The substance of agreement matches our reports going back to 2013. Only 5 of the 29 chapters have anything to do with trade. The other 24 chapters deal with everything from Internet regulation to handling of labor. That’s right, corporations willdictate how labor issues are handled within the United States, superceding our own courts (they have their own)…and that’s hardly all.
Wikileaks Exposes Obama's Fake Trade Deal - Only 5 Of The 29
Chapters Are Actually About Trade - http://goo.gl/qAFG9v
via @shareaholic
...What? 
POPE
FRANCIS...
"Putting bread on
the table, putting a roof over the heads of one's children, giving them health
and an education, these are essential for human dignity."
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Pacific Rim agreement and canada's sacrifice expected 2015
1. Pacific Rim trade talks will put pressure on ...
www.bnn.ca/News/2015/6/25/Pacific-Rim-trade-talks-will...
Pacific Rim
trade talks will put pressure on ... Pacific Partnership (TPP) are expected
to ... sign the agreement, which would transform Canada’s trade
...
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1. Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement
www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords...
Canada-Korea
– Free Trade Agreement. ... 2015. This landmark agreement
constitutes Canada’s first free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific
region and provides new ...
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NOTE: Obama wants 2 do a
Germany on Canada like Greece... and USA is NOT even a member.... hint, hint...
choose Canada...
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/pacific...us.../article25074516/
23 Jun 2015 ...
25, 2015 2:39PM EDT ... willing to sacrifice to join the Trans-Pacific
Partnership, the biggest trade deal ... Canada
has insisted it wants to be part of the sweeping TPP trade ... creating more
good American jobs and reasserting our country's ... Editor's Note: An
earlier digital version of this story incorrectly said ...
www.us.advancedtech.com/.../corporate-america-can-t-hire-enough-military-en-us - Cached
Dedication, work
ethic, integrity, training, worldly experience . the list goes on. .... laundry and servicing customers
with clean uniforms is not the most glamorous work, .... So many other
companies have figured out the military is a great source. .... Production and maintenance
join forces in TPM: TPM is simple, but not easy, ...
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4 May 2013 ...
What was once understood as the work ethic—not just hard work but
also a set ... The connection between more
and better has been broken; our needs for ..... He's the founder of the Bring
Your ”A” Game to Work youth training and .... Even the military,
firefighters, construction workers, day laborers and farm ...
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1. Indian Army facing crisis: Youth not interested to join
www.merinews.com/article/indian-army-facing-crisis-youth-not...
... Youth not interested to join ... my
name is prem kumar im studying b.tech 3rd year im interested to join in army wt is
the process to join in army. can i
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CANADA
Military recruits struggling to win
the battle of the bulge, audit says
1 Jul 2014 ... But what is suffering is the development
of America's young people. ... It's not so much to train young people to join
the military, but rather to instill in .... You have less than 5) posts under this name full of
attitude and poor spelling ..... July 13, 2015; Thanks to Obama's INSIDIOUS Comments, We
Now Have to ...
USA
17 Feb 2008 ... None of us has a pension, so
everything will come out of our own savings. ..... Making $70k in academia
with a pension, I'd need to make $87,500 in the ..... Most of them were held on
active duty for two years (which is a ...
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UK
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../One-in-four-want-to-quit-the-Armed-Forces-says-
21 May 2015 ...
The number wanting to leave the Army is so large after
20,000 regular ... the idea of leaving in many of
those who were not sacked, he said.
www.thenation.com/.../american-drone-operators-are-quitting-record-
5 Mar 2015 ...
An internal Air Force memo reveals that the US military's drone wars are
in major trouble.
15 May 2014 ...
00:00 GMT, Jul 11, 2015 ... Most young Americans are ineligible
to join the military, either because they're drug users, obese,
... And when fewer young people can't find a job in the civilian sector,
the military is less of a draw.
1.
[PDF]
—Albert
Einstein. 132 10 EXCEllENt REASONS NOt tO jOIN tHE MIlItARy. Page
2 ... school campuses and to foster a
stronger youth antiwar movement. ... States has repeatedly invaded other countries
us- ing military force in the name of democracy and freedom, joining ... many
are need-based or just require a bit of focus.
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1 Feb 2013 ...
William Busbee was in many ways the archetype of the US soldier, ....
have had multiple deployments," said Phillip Carter, a military
expert at ...
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beforeitsnews.com/.../huge-prophetic-event-has-just-taken-place-and-there-is-
20 Apr 2015 ...
The U.S. military is being transformed into an overtly anti-Christian
... large numbers of Christians are either leaving
the military or never joining ...
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Why are so many
of the most talented officers now abandoning military life for the ... Significantly, this leakage
includes a large share of high-performing officers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Germany - Cached
Conscription
by country ... The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany and several special laws
(e.g. ... twice as many draftees refused military service and served in alternative
services. ... They could join the military as volunteers. .... In the former German Democratic
Republic, conscripts who were not willing to bear ...
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17 Jan 2015 ...
People who want to join the Army must be in good physical and mental ...
She is surprised by the number of
people who cannot meet the military's standards. ... The U.S. Army reflects the nature
of the country's youth. .... Young people should refuse to serve in the army. .... Comments
page. 1, 2. of 2. Next ...
Just like Ukraine...
GREECE:
QUOTE: The best and the brightest are
queuing up to move to Australia and Canada.It will be a long, hard road back to growth.
The facts remain. Greece has €320bn in debt. Its debt to gross domestic product ratio is above 180%.
What is missing is the means by which Greece will return to growth.
The deal brings to an end a long period of pretending.
The figures used for Greece to join the single currency were massaged. In 2009, their accounts were proved to be as good as fakes.
Reforms were never fully implemented. Paying taxes was a lifestyle choice.
Many middle-class and wealthy Greeks have their funds in London.
Snap election- Greece
It is a lesson for other countries that the eurozone wanted to reshape the Greek government even though it was democratically elected.---------------
And 9,000 refugees a day 4 Greece.... omg
‘Misery, humiliation and slavery’
EUROPEAN leaders might be pleased with themselves, but
ordinary Greeks are more frightened than ever.
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Aboriginal women shake off unjust stereotype
There is a little-known flip side to the requiem for Canada’s missing and murdered aboriginal women. It is a song of resilience. Since 2007 aboriginal women have outperformed every other group in the Canadian labour market. Their employment rate has risen. Their participation rate has gone up. Best of all, they are landing well-paying jobs […]-----
KITTEN THINKS
IT’S A HUSKY
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The Hollywood walk of shame
THEY’RE some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and they
beat up women. These are the actors who should have their stars dug up.
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Australia
‘We don’t give privileges to child killers’
CHILD killer Andrew Peter Garforth will die in jail and
could have existing privileges revoked after the NSW Corrective Services
Minister issued a massive slap-down.
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Australia
She says
while on paper young employees are more qualified than ever before,
20-somethings are showing up to work with degrees from universities that are
“disconnected with the workforce”, and a lack of workplace experience.
the grim
picture that’s emerging of a generation of newcomers to the workforce
unprepared for work
Generation unprepared: The school and university
leavers with ‘no skills to work at all’
OVER the past 18 months,
Queensland mining employer Jack Trenamen has developed a formula that helps him
predict the performance of his new apprentices.
The country kids who have worked
on mum and dad’s farm from a young age will work hard and appreciate every
dollar they get. “You can’t fault ‘em on work ethic,” he says, adding that it
shows in their performance.
But the ones who come from more
affluent areas, whether that be from the big cities where their parents are a
bit more well off and happy to give them pocket money, or mining regions where
jobs are available and salaries are competitive, are more difficult to engage.
They’re also less likely to agree to get their hands dirty when it comes time
to sweep the shed.
The contracting boss has seen
exceptions, of course, but he’s also noted strong trends, and what he’s picked
up is in line with the bigger picture — the grim picture that’s emerging of a
generation of newcomers to the workforce unprepared for work.
“I’ve had countless experiences
with kids who are just not ready,” he says.
“They haven’t picked up the
skills that you learn by working and that’s often because they haven’t had to.
“They come in late, they don’t
realise that they might have to do things they don’t want to, and they don’t
appreciate the job. They think if they don’t like it here they can just pack up
and get another job around the corner, keep chasing that almighty dollar
without building their skills.”
Mr Trenamen might sound like
another disgruntled boss whining about “kids these days”, but what he’s picked
up is reflected in national trends.
Employers say it’s clear which
kids are going to be good workers — and point to kids who’ve grown up on farms
as a good example. Picture: Nicole Cleary Source: News Corp Australia
WE’VE GIVEN UP THE AFTER-SCHOOL
JOB
Australian Bureau of Statistics
show that school and university students are less likely to pick up part time
work while they’re studying with only 31 per cent of 15 to 19-year-old students
employed.
The figures are unsurprising to
Australia Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Kate Carnell, who tells news.com.au
she could have predicted the findings based on conversations with employers
like Jack.
She says while on paper young
employees are more qualified than ever before, 20-somethings are showing up to
work with degrees from universities that are “disconnected with the workforce”,
and a lack of workplace experience.
“A number of our members consistently
tell us they’re seeing students come out of university or training programs and
they might have the academic or theoretical skills, but no skills to work at
all. It makes them really hard to employ,” she says.
“General issues are not
understanding that a job is about turning up on time every day, not just when
you feel like, that it’s about taking direction, and basic things like you’ve
got to be well presented and you’ve got to be pleasant.
“The number of young people not
working while they’re in school is one of the problems.”
Ms Carnell says the declining
need for kids to work is a symptom of a largely more affluent society, and
while it offers young people the luxury of focusing on their studies, it also
deprives them of the skills they will pick up in the work force before they
take up a full time role.
Another part of the problem, Ms
Carnell says, isn’t just a lack of enthusiasm for kids to get a job down at the
local takeaway or supermarket, but parents encouraging them not to while they
focus on their studies.
Getting a good after school job
can even lead to a career with the company. Medina Cicak started her career
working at KFC stores, and now works in a managerial role at head office. Source:
News Corp Australia
SHOULDN’T WE PREPARE KIDS FOR THE
WORKFORCE?
But if students are paying for an
education to prepare them for a career, the logic goes, shouldn’t they get that
training in the classroom?
As well as the lack of work
experience young employees bring to their career-starting roles, bosses are
also quick to point the finger at the education system.
Mr Trenamen suggests schools
teach workplace skills from year 10, and encourage kids to get into the
workforce.
It’s an argument Professor
Johanna Wyn, director of the Youth Research Centre at the University of
Melbourne has heard before.
While she believes there is a
disconnect between what kids are learning at school, university and TAFE and
“the real world”, she says it’s unfair to put pressure on educational
institutions to be “all things to all people”.
“It’s not that the universities
are teaching the wrong thing, but more that young people are encouraged to get
an education, follow that to a job they believe they want to do, and the
assumption that it’s going to be an automatic match with what’s required in the
labour market,” Professor Wyn says.
“It would be fabulous if young
people were gaining really strong skills that they should be learning, but it’s
really hard for educators to catch up. Instead of turning it around and blaming
schools, we should look at other path ways.
“There are some really good
models of how communities can wrap more around schools and bring educators and
employers together.”
IT’S A TWO-WAY STREET
Brett Schimming is the CEO of
Construction Skills Queensland, an industry body that works with schools and
young career seekers together with employers providing skilling programs to
bridge that gap and equip kids to get in to jobs.
“What we do know is that if you
simply are going to employ a young person and expect them to know what to do on
day one, you are more than likely not going to have success and it doesn’t end
well for anyone,” he says.
“We’ve learnt that it’s 50/50 in
terms of effort, so we like to increase the chances of matching the right
people to the right jobs, and matching people who are each willing to give
their 50 per cent and work together.”
While Mr Schimming’s programs
aren’t supplied in response to complaints, he says they do help to address
issues among employers.
“There is a level of frustration
of how to source good workers,” he says.
“They want good aptitude and
attitude, not the technical craft skills, they can be taught. The key thing
small businesses are looking for is that attitude and they get challenged by
how best to find that person because they’ve had experience where they’ve hired
people and it hasn’t worked out.”
Apprenticeship Support Australia,
which covers the recruitment of more than 300,000 apprentices, is another group
trying to meet businesses and new workers halfway.
Last month the federal
government-funded group announced a “job-fit test” that would gauge Gen Y job
seekers’ work ethic, skills and job readiness before they are approved for an
apprenticeship.
The performance test was devised
in response to the drop out rate of apprentices falling to a shocking 50 per
cent, the Herald Sun reported.
So there are programs that help,
and employers, educators and industry bodies alike believe there should be
more, but back at ACCI Ms Carnell says the simplest way to learn skills is for
young people to get into the work force as soon as they can.
“Young people are always
conscious of the reputation their generation has, and they should work to break
that,” she says.
“It really, really makes a
difference as an employer if you get a CV from a young person and see they’ve
been employed during school or university. It’s a huge tick.”
U mean that
many are retiring and few are signing up 2 serve... it is happening in
democratic nations all over the world.... it’s become a very scary secret...
Defense Department to cut Army to pre-WW II size –...
security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/24/defense-department-to...Cached
Feb 23, 2014 · This investment has received criticism as the United
States makes an effort to slash nearly $4 trillion in ... Why don't you
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Canada's
military is better in the Arctic than people believe: report
Canada’s military is doing a much better job of protecting
Arctic sovereignty in an increasingly busy North than Canadians think, says a
new think-tank report.
“Canadians need to understand what I believe the military already
understands,” said Adam Lajeunesse of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs
Institute. “They recognize that their role up there is not traditional
military.”
In a report released Tuesday, Lajeunesse said too many Canadians
believe other countries look to shows of military force when considering who
controls northern waters — especially in light of mammoth Arctic military
exercises staged recently by Russia and the Scandinavian countries.
“They need to understand that presence does not equate to sovereignty,”
said Lajeunesse. “We could have 50 icebreakers sailing back and forth and it
does absolutely nothing.”
Sovereignty, he said, is reinforced by control over day-to-day
activities.
“Forces in the North contribute to sovereignty by doing
something useful. “A warship sailing back and forth isn’t really exercising
authority.
“Controlling foreign shipping is exercising authority. Providing
services is exercising authority.”
Lajeunesse gives the military good marks for using its Arctic
exercises to get better at working with government departments such as the RCMP
or the coast guard that have the job of enforcing Canadian law and keeping
people safe in the Arctic.
Most of the simulations run during so-called “sovops” have more
to do with responding to a civilian emergency than with a military attack, he
said. New Arctic patrol vessels may be only lightly armed, but will be highly
flexible ships for transporting police or fisheries officers.
“They’re never going to fight with the (Arctic Offshore Patrol
Ships).”
The Canadian Arctic is in a much different situation than the
area around the Barents Sea, north of Norway, Lajeunesse suggested.
“No one in NATO, I am sure, actually expects any fighting in the
Canadian Arctic.”
Still, the message of soldiers defending Canada’s borders is
what comes across when the military goes North.
“Part of that is the government’s own making,” Lajeunesse said.
“The easiest thing to show is warships and airplanes.”
What those soldiers, sailors, police and park wardens are really
learning to do is work together.
There’s been progress, Lajeunesse said, but the Forces still
need to improve their operational capabilities, especially as climate change
makes the North increasingly accessible to everyone from miners and drillers to
tourists. To do that, the military needs consistent, long-term support from the
government.
“Canada’s interest and investment in the North comes in surges,”
he said. “Canada has to approach the North in an entirely different manner. “It
can’t be a 10-year surge, then apathy for another decade.
“This is something we’re going to have to keep an interest in
and maintain a continuous investment in.”
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July 2015
- Government of
Canada participates in Royal Canadian Legion Initiation Ceremony
July 10, 2015 - Volunteers
recognized for dedication to Canada's Military Veterans
July 10, 2015 - 30,000th Daily
Ceremony at Menin Gate Commemorates Courage and Sacrifice of Fallen
July 9, 2015 - Reminder:
Deadline for Nominations for Légion d'honneur is July 10th
July 8, 2015 - Government of
Canada honours Military Veterans for their contributions to Canada's
engagement in the Second World War
July 7, 2015 - Ceremony in
France marks 99th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
July 1, 2015 - Ceremony marks
99th anniversary of the Battles of the Somme and Beaumont-Hamel
July 1, 2015 - Government of
Canada marks 99th anniversary of Battles of the Somme and Beaumont-Hamel
July 1, 2015
June 2015
- Government of
Canada delivers for Canadian Armed Forces personnel and Veterans
June 30, 2015 - Minister
O'Toole Joins Treble Victor Group for its 3rd Annual Mess Dinner
June 25, 2015 - Government of
Canada applauds Royal Canadian Legion's dedication to mental health for
Canadian Armed Forces personnel and military Veterans
June 23, 2015 - Government of
Canada honours Aboriginal Veterans
June 19, 2015 - New Brunswick
volunteers recognized for dedication to Canada's military Veterans
June 19, 2015 - Parliamentary
Secretary Pierre Lemieux speaks at Vocational Rehabilitation Association
National Conference
June 19, 2015 - National
standards being set for service dogs
June 1, 2015
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QUOTE: Pope Francis drew cheers when he opened his
remarks by telling residents he couldn’t have left Paraguay without visiting
the Banado Norte slum, “without being on YOUR land”.
Pope Francis
visits Paraguay slum to hear impoverished residents' stories
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Pontiff says area belongs to the
people amid dispute over municipal land
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Francis asks to hear about
‘everything you went through to be here’
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O Canada- Our Environment Matters –save it 4 the children and the future
generations...posted 2007 (this was on myspace page) – the future need it more
than any man now can understand....
The Wolves
Animals
thrown in huge giant factories.... they are not grown anymore... that is the
food and meat we eat... chicken... ewwwwww LIQUID ANIMAL WASTE BEING SPAYED-
TOXIC WASTE.... dead hogs in it...
SWEET
JESUS, MOTHER MARY AND JOSEPH.... how can Al Gore and Jane Fonda and the
Hollywood breeding ground... have the audacity 2 come 2 our Canada.... with over
2MILLION FRACKING WELLS... severe drought... and this sheeet...... USA...ur 2nd
only 2 China.... in the horrific climate destruction.... 2nd.... and your abuse
totals all other nations outside of India, Pakistan, Russia, China and
Japan.... ewwwww.
Published
on 17 Dec 2014
"Spy Drones Expose
Smithfield Foods Factory Farms": SINCE 2012, "Speciesism: The
Movie" director Mark Devries has been secretly using spy drones to
investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory farms.
In this video, the drones capture shocking aerial footage of several massive
facilities that supply pigs for Smithfield Foods. Find out more at http://FactoryFarmDrones.com
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For 'defeated' Greece, a hideous pact and the death
of democracy
MICHAEL BABAD
The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Jul. 13, 2015
3:23AM EDT
Last updated Monday, Jul. 13, 2015
10:28AM EDT
BLOGGED: GREECE-From Canada with love-GERMANY'S WWI AND WWII WAR DEBTS
74% WERE EXPUNGED... ewww/July 14- DEATH OF DEMOCRACY- and AUSTERITY is useless
as titties on a bull for any nation/ the world's humanity lives here- the rich
elite of Brussels Versus the beautiful historical brilliant people of Ancient
Greece - GREECE, U ARE US- THE WORLD'S POOR, DISABLED, ABUSED BY INDIFFERENCE
OF ELITE POLITICAL IMF AND CRUEL 1% RICH GETTING RICHER.... stories -shares...
Canada loves our Greece and Greeks- leave the EU -so we can visit and love u
again/ONLY WINNERS OF GREECE- REFUGEES/ 21 things they never tell you about
poor countries
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COMMENT:
Germany
caused 100 million murdered in 2 world wars and in the 50s had 75% of it's debt
expunged..... when EU was formed IMF-Germany and France cleaned up
$$$BILLIONS.... Greece has risen from the ashes..... whilst German/IMF u have
disgraced humanity with feral and vicious behaviour...... The world's poor will
remember... imho
The euro
‘family’ has shown it is capable of real cruelty
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COMMENT:
IDLE NO MORE- MEXICO STEALS THE SOULS OF
FIRST PEOPLES- right in front of the world's eyes..... our First Peoples
-Indigenous Peoples being ransacked yet again.... God is weeping and so are we.
u
are all the f**king same....look at this.... look at this... destroying First
Peoples of the world and their lands..... all over the world..... u break our
hearts..... we have been standing and walking the talk since the 60s and 70s...
and many of us have paid dearly, dearly... with poor jobs, and our communities
sometimes become angry and upset and embarrassed with us... but they love our
courage... and respect our dignity in each and all matter.... and u cannot
continue 2 steal the souls of the First Peoples... if Canada gives a sheeeet...
why can't u all do the same??? Watch one
of the biggest abusers of all time... THE USA MARCH 2 CLIMATE CHANGE....
yet..... USA has over 2 million FRACKING WELLS.... and horrendous water
problems along with ingrained poverty.... just watch the monsters come out and
play for climate... whilst they steal our cultures that founded this planet and
very nature itself... imho.
News >
Latin America Mexican President Expropriates Indigenous Land for Highway
Trucks, protected by police, entered an indigenous community’s territory, after a presidential decree passed in favor of a construction company. Activists expressed outrage, launching an online campaign, after government trucks and construction vehicles entered protected lands of one of Mexico's indigenous communities July 12-13, in order to build a highly controversial highway. Mexicans used the hashtag #XochicuautlaNoEstaSolo (Xochicuautla is not alone) to tweet in solidarity after the recent attempt to begin construction on a new section of the Toluca-Naucalpan highway on the land of the Otomi community in the town of San Francisco Xochicuautla, just west of Mexico City
“Let’s strengthen Otomi resistance vs. the expropriation decree of [President Enrique Peña Nieto]” This is the latest attempt by Grupo Higa S.A. to build on the land and it came a day after President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a presidential decree July 9 that canceled a 1954 order guaranteeing Otomi indigenous community land rights in San Francisco Xochicuautla. The private construction company is owned by Juan Armando Hinojosa, who is believed to have close ties Peña Nieto, and its trucks were accompanied onto Otomi land by police vehicles. RELATED: Mexico without a State The new decree, on the grounds of "public interest" and the need for "easy transport" between Mexico City and the suburbs, stripped 38 acres of land from the Xochicuautla community. Officials claim the private highway will deliver huge financial returns to the community, something critics say is untrue. According to a report by Proceso magazine, the act was labeled as “plunder” by community leaders, including Supreme Council member Lucas Josefa Hernandez, Xochicuautla community chief Armando Garcia and Otomi spokesman Jose Luis Fernandez Flores, who also said the move violates the ethnic rights granted to them by the state. They added that they were not consulted about the new decree and thus they had not given any approval for given up the lands.
Trucks, protected by police, entered an indigenous community’s territory, after a presidential decree passed in favor of a construction company. Activists expressed outrage, launching an online campaign, after government trucks and construction vehicles entered protected lands of one of Mexico's indigenous communities July 12-13, in order to build a highly controversial highway. Mexicans used the hashtag #XochicuautlaNoEstaSolo (Xochicuautla is not alone) to tweet in solidarity after the recent attempt to begin construction on a new section of the Toluca-Naucalpan highway on the land of the Otomi community in the town of San Francisco Xochicuautla, just west of Mexico City
“Let’s strengthen Otomi resistance vs. the expropriation decree of [President Enrique Peña Nieto]” This is the latest attempt by Grupo Higa S.A. to build on the land and it came a day after President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a presidential decree July 9 that canceled a 1954 order guaranteeing Otomi indigenous community land rights in San Francisco Xochicuautla. The private construction company is owned by Juan Armando Hinojosa, who is believed to have close ties Peña Nieto, and its trucks were accompanied onto Otomi land by police vehicles. RELATED: Mexico without a State The new decree, on the grounds of "public interest" and the need for "easy transport" between Mexico City and the suburbs, stripped 38 acres of land from the Xochicuautla community. Officials claim the private highway will deliver huge financial returns to the community, something critics say is untrue. According to a report by Proceso magazine, the act was labeled as “plunder” by community leaders, including Supreme Council member Lucas Josefa Hernandez, Xochicuautla community chief Armando Garcia and Otomi spokesman Jose Luis Fernandez Flores, who also said the move violates the ethnic rights granted to them by the state. They added that they were not consulted about the new decree and thus they had not given any approval for given up the lands.
“We
defend life, we defend our land.” Image reads: No, it's not called
dispossession. It's called expropriation by presidential decree. Furthermore,
many local residents accuse the government of expropriation and say the plan
will destroy the Xochicuautla forests and natural resources. Some activists cut
the water line to prevent the construction from taking place. The villagers
also said that they would challenge the new presidential decree and that they
had submitted a new complaint to the national human rights commission. RELATED:
US Collaboration in Mexico's New Dirty War
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: Hey Canada , USA, Europe- and world – all history matters- STOP SCRUBBING FIRST PEOPLES HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE IN AMERICAS and latino and Immigrant history off the pages 2 suit the ‘MOMENT’ ... shame on the lot of ya- USA u going all black and Californ...i...a... movie stars and such /Canada Immigration History matters as much as First Nations- Canadians get that/QUOTES..imho
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We
love u Greece... and we've been posting... millions and millions of us
globally... neither WWI or WWII and now Brussels and Germany and IMF have the
gall 2 lecture beautiful Greece.
Thomas Piketty: ‘Germany Has Never Repaid its Debts.
It Has No Right to Lecture Greece’
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Saw
a documentary 2nite.... in the whole world of horror... NOTHING.... nothing is
or was ever more evil than over 10 million murdered and 60 million who died in
WWII because of Germany... and how come in the 60s Germany was forgiven 75% of
it's global debt...YET... 2day... Greece is being fried.... ... did not realize
so many Christians, gays, disabled and gypsies.... and people of colour....
hero... hero...hero.... imho
Willem
Arondeus was a Dutch resistance fighter who gave his life trying to protect his
Jewish countrymen from the Nazis.
Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17.
In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home.
On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris.
In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans.
Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people's homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers.
In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis.
Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem's last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.
For his efforts to save lives at the expense of his own, we honor Willem Arondeus as this week’s Thursday Hero at Accidental Talmudist.
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With thanks to Mrs. AT, aka Nina!
Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17.
In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home.
On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris.
In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans.
Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people's homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers.
In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis.
Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem's last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.
For his efforts to save lives at the expense of his own, we honor Willem Arondeus as this week’s Thursday Hero at Accidental Talmudist.
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Image: Wikimedia Commons
With thanks to Mrs. AT, aka Nina!
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u
all knew this was coming.. same as Europe and cheating IMF.. and China owns
USA... what a f**king mess again... and all nations pay- we seriously need 2
dump United Nations and United States needs 2 fix their messes.... humanity is
suffering badly...imho
China trade slumps in first half of year, dealing blow to global economy
China trade slumps in first half of year, dealing blow to global economy
China trade
slumps in first half of year, dealing blow to global economy
Falling commodity prices and ‘sluggish foreign demand’ blamed for fall
in trade growth by world’s second-largest economy
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O
F**K we said democracy was murdered and Europe was complicit and especially USA
(always) and now Canada- Poor Canada- we have Liberal Justin Bieber/Thomas the
forgotten Teddy Bear NDP with the freakshow candidates who prefer the taliban
over our troops/PM Harper ain't a gonna change/Green Party who don't do a lick
of work and May btrayed all women with her crass creepy media behaviour...
SWEET JESUS, MOTHER MARY AND JOSEPH
Canadian embassy used as safe haven during
Ukraine uprising,investigation finds
It was one of those
events that simply appeared and disappeared during the bloody, swift-moving
events of Ukraine in the winter revolution of 2014.
Canada's embassy in Kyiv
was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the
uprising that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych.
The Harper government
never fully acknowledged — during the upheaval or since — the depth and extent
of the security breach, which has had far-reaching implications on how
Canadians are perceived in the region.
The Canadian Press has
spent months piecing together the events surrounding the extraordinary
incident, which started on Feb. 18, 2014 and occurred at the height of the
violent crackdown against pro-European protesters.
It began, according to
multiple sources in Kyiv and Ottawa, when one of the protesters being chased by
riot police waved a Canadian passport at embassy security. Once the door was
open, the individual was quickly followed by other demonstrators armed with
sticks and paving stones.
Roman Waschuk, the
current Canadian ambassador in Kyiv, confirmed the account in a recent
interview with The Canadian Press.
"I understand there
was a Canadian passport holder associated in some way with the group,"
said Waschuk, who replaced Troy Lulashnyk as ambassador in Kyiv last year.
He acknowledged the
protesters were camped in the main lobby for at least a week, which is
something neither Foreign Affairs nor the Harper government has ever publicly
stated.
Waschuk also suggested
no harm came of it.
"From what I was
told, it was several days and they left flowers on departure," he said.
A host of security
improvements were made in the aftermath, but that opening of the doors was
"a gesture designed to react and to reach out to the people suffering in
the turmoil," Waschuk said.
Allies question Canada's role
But some of Canada's
European allies, speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the
subject, said the fact protesters were allowed to stay for so long and operate
freely made it appear Canada was an active participant in regime change, and
not just lending morale support.
That was certainly the
perception of Ukraine's interior ministry, which oversees the police, national
guard and the country's intelligence services.
Two ministry officials,
with knowledge of the case and who agreed to meet as long as their identities
were not revealed, said a criminal investigation was opened into the actions of
the protesters, but quietly dropped after Yanukovych fled to Russia.
Pro-European
integration protesters walk with sticks and shields near a burnt-out bus during
a rally in Kyiv January 19, 2014. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
They described an
extraordinary scene of chaos and violence outside of the embassy, which is
located in the heart of city immediately adjacent to the Maidan — or
independence — square.
"There wasn't much
of an obstacle for them to get in. Not much security," said one official.
"Canada was sympathizing with the protesters, at the time, more than the
government."
The lobby was used to
treat the wounded on the night of Feb. 18 and they were transferred to hospital
by ambulance amid the violence, which included a mini-van that was stolen by
protesters, according to the officials.
It was later found
burned, something Ottawa hasn't acknowledged, they said.
"There was no
public statement from the Canadian side about this, and it's really interesting
what grounds they would use not to say something," said the second
official.
Multiple layers of
intrigue surround the occupation, which was first reported by Russian media as
an attack on the embassy by pro-Russian groups.
A spokesman for
then-foreign affairs minister John Baird acknowledged, on the day itself, that
protesters were in the reception area of the building; they had taken
"shelter," and they were "peaceful and have not caused any
damage or harm to staff."
After the initial
report, there was silence. The embassy was closed and remained so throughout
the tumultuous events that culminated with Yanukovych fleeing to Russia on Feb.
22.
How the protesters got
in and what happened during their stay was never fully explained by the Harper
government, which — according to sources in Ottawa — was seized with how to
respond and what options there might be to end the occupation.
In the end, a decision
was made "at the highest levels" to let events play-out.
If you talk to ordinary
people here, academics or even Ukraine's charge d'affaires in Ottawa, the fact
Canada pushed the envelope isn't surprising. They see it as a natural extension
of the Harper government's bullish rhetoric, and in fact something they've come
to expect.
"Generally speaking
in Ukrainian public opinion, as well in the Ukraine government of that time,
there was a common understanding that Canadian sympathies are on the side of
the protesters, pro-European, pro-democratic," Marko Shevchenko said in a
recent interview with The Canadian Press.
Dominque Arel, a noted
expert on Ukraine at the University of Ottawa, agreed and said the perception
that Canada was more than a disinterested bystander was formed long before the
Maidan protests, which erupted in the fall of 2013, turned violent.
Perhaps reinforcing that
rebel image, at least one local embassy staffer was targeted for her attendance
at anti-government rallies and online blogging that was critical of Yanukovych.
Inna Tsarkova, who was
part of a group called AutoMaidan which carried out mobile protests around
Kyiv, had her car torched and she faced traffic violation charges in December
2013. She declined to speak about her experience, but as the local spokeswoman
for the embassy her treatment fit with a pattern of official intimidation at
the time, which targeted journalists and other high-profile figures.
There is no prohibition
on locally-hired embassy staff participating in political movements.
Embassy incident reflects broader foreign policy
The fallout is rarely
discussed, but Canadians are not very popular in some quarters and occasionally
loathed by pro-Russian Ukrainians. Arel said he knows of one incident where a
Canadian journalist was briefly detained by rebels.
Bob Fowler, a former
diplomat and senior foreign policy adviser to three prime ministers, says the
Harper government has played a dangerous game and pushed the country's
involvement in Ukraine to the point where Canada has become a disruptive
influence for allies who have more at stake in managing the confrontation with
nuclear-armed Russia and are trying to keep the conflict from erupting into
all-out war.
"We're not the
considered, intelligent players that we used to be," said Fowler, who as a
UN representative survived a kidnapping by al-Qaeda. "We have been all
mouth and no brain."
The embassy incident is
a small but perfect snapshot of what Canada's foreign policy has become, said
Fowler.
"I would argue we
have very little credibility within NATO. Of course, our friends in NATO aren't
going to say that publicly, but the people within NATO who are relevant to our
discussion, they know about Canadian military capabilities. They know about
what we could and could not do and they know our posturing is utterly
vacuous."
NDP foreign affairs
critic Paul Dewar was shocked by the recounting of events and demanded the RCMP
investigate the security breach. He accused the government of covering up the
incident and endangering the lives of not only embassy staff, but Canadian
citizens in the country.
"Why are we just
learning of this now?" asked Dewar. "And what would have happened had
the revolution gone the other way and Yanukovych stayed? If things had gone
that way not only would our credibility have been undermined but also the
safety and security of our staff."
Waschuk says the safety
and security for diplomats is a paramount concern, and Canada's backing of
democracy in Ukraine should surprise no one.
Wounds still visible throughout city
"The public stance
ministers and the prime minister took during the Maidan events; that Canada
stood on the side of those who were protesting for freedom and democracy, and
certainly we've never made any apologies for that," the ambassador said.
The wounds of Maidan are
still visible throughout the old city, be it weather-worn shrines with pictures
of the dead or gaping holes in the square where protesters clawed bricks from
the ground to hurl at kevlar-clad security forces.
The annexation of Crimea
and the dismemberment of eastern districts have given Ukrainians little time to
reflect, said Marko Suprun, of Winnipeg, who worked for the Globe and Mail and
was on the streets Kyiv when the shooting was at its height.
Even today, he can point
out the precise rooftop perches where special forces snipers fired on
protesters. The wounded and dead would be carried, or dragged, off the streets
into any shelter, including the nearby Hotel Ukraine, where there white marble
floors were smeared with blood.
Those were the kinds of
scenes that were unfolding outside of the embassy doors, he said.
"I just had to
help. It's still kind of hard to talk about," said Suprun, who put down
his pen and carried the maimed and dying into the hotel. He has stayed to
provide combat first aid training to Ukrainian volunteers and hands out
F—kUPutin bracelets as his business cards.
Consideration of the
bigger picture becomes less important the closer you get to the ground, he
said.
"You could say
events are still raw because Crimea was annexed and eastern Ukraine was
invaded," Suprun said. "And as far as I can tell, the only country
that has stood side by side with Ukraine has been Canada, even during the
Maidan by closing the embassy in Moscow. These are the right things to do. In
finding that friendship, you keep finding the strength to move forward."
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Chronicle
Herald
SO
MANY CHILDREN IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE... TREATED SOOOO HORRIBLY
Tragic memories of Halifax's City Home
DOROTHY GRANT
Editor's Note
Dorothy Grant is a freelance writer living in Halifax.
For centuries, Halifax used poorhouses as a haven for the poor, orphans and those either mentally ill or dying from untreatable medical conditions. They were terrible places that offered virtually no care and a truly appalling environment.
In Halifax's history, three poorhouses were built in the city. The last was built in 1886 near the corner of South and Robie streets, occupying most of the space where the IWK Health Centre now stands.
In 1907, the name was changed to the City Home, probably to make it sound more hospitable. Unfortunately, this did nothing to make the home more humane.
I was about age 11 in 1946 when I first visited the City Home. I didn't like to go, but my mother asked me to accompany my grandmother to visit my uncle Francis, who was, in my opinion, an ‟inmate" there.
I would walk to my grandmother's place on a street just off Spring Garden Road, a rather rundown rooming house where she rented a small room heated by a wood stove.
My grandmother, born in L'Ardoise, Cape Breton, had never learned to read or write because, she had been almost completely deaf from birth. She married my grandfather, Augustus Lawrence, in her teens.
Soon they had a large family, three sons and two daughters. (They also lost two or three infants.) Because they were very poor, they moved to Halifax, probably during the 1920s, in the hope of earning a decent income. My grandfather began working as a carpenter on the waterfront, but slowly began experiencing serious walking problems. One day, the police brought him home to the house where the family lived on Lower Water Street.
They told my grandmother he was drunk. We now know he was suffering from a fatal neurological condition. Soon he could no longer walk. Because the family was destitute, he was placed in the City Home, where he would die in 1925 at age 40. He was buried in a pauper's grave in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Sadly, my grandmother also fell ill, so all of their children, except their youngest son, were sent to St. Joseph's Orphanage in Halifax.
Francis, who was probably less than two years old, was sent to stay with relatives in a nearby community. We later learned he had been physically and emotionally abused and, years later, he also ended up in the City Home.
And so, every Sunday, my grandmother visited Francis at the City Home, which was for me a large, forbidding fortress.
Around 10:45 a.m., we would arrive at a large entranceway that seemed almost stately but smelled strongly of carbolic acid.
Like other visitors, we walked directly into a large Catholic chapel that was exquisitely peaceful. On the wall, a crucifix emitted a solemn religious message and, on the altar, candles flickered softly, lights that seemed somehow comforting.
But it wasn't long before some of the residents would arrive. We could watch them come down to us by looking up at windows framing a hallway above the chapel.
They were truly a strange collection of men and women and, I believe, some children. Some were obviously mentally challenged, others were old people who struggled to walk and many individuals acted in a bizarre way that made you conclude they were psychiatric patients. Among the group were the seriously disabled.
Their noisy chatter virtually assaulted the tranquility that had previously filled the chapel. Suddenly, it almost exploded with emotions. There were hugs, kisses, tears and laughter, and a sense that normal life from outside had somehow temporarily invaded the City Home.
Francis would quickly lumber over to us. He was always dressed in a variety of clothes that appeared to have come from a pile of discarded garments. He needed a haircut. He barely spoke to us but, almost immediately, eagerly began eating the apples and cookies my grandmother brought him.
He also later took the pencil my grandmother had given him and wrote a few large letters on a scribbler. I believe he did say some mumbled words, and even smiled a little about this achievement, but it was distressing to recognize that he no longer functioned normally.
The situation was overwhelming and I was anxious to get away from such a distressing environment. I soon began to look for excuses to avoid ever going back to the dreadful City Home.
While in my first year of nurse's training at the Halifax Infirmary, I learned my uncle Francis had died at the City Home. He was 30 years old. I believe my mother was told he had somehow ingested something toxic that had caused his death. I wasn't able to attend his funeral.
In 1956, my last year of nurse's training, it necessary to again visit the City Home I once found so dreadful. This time, the Sisters of Charity who ran the Infirmary told us we would tour the place.
Some of my classmates who first had the tour warned us it would be a disquieting experience. They were right.
Wearing our bright white uniforms and nursing caps, we must have created a striking paradox on the dingy wards we visited.
What we found at the City Home was absolutely horrifying. There were people kept in wire cages that did not seem to offer any kind of comfort. Some of these pathetic souls looked at us with hopelessness etched on their faces. In one corner of a ward, a man sitting naked on the floor exposed himself to us.
One woman was dressed in handmade clothing made entirely of underwear. She acted as if she were wearing her Sunday best.
Another resident told us, ‟everyone who walks through the door of this ward will receive thousands of dollars." How can I describe the emotions I felt that day? I cannot, because it was especially overwhelming for me to confront the devastating realization that both my grandfather and my uncle once endured this kind of tormented existence.
Today, more than 50 years since that awful day at the City Home, I do take some comfort knowing that, although much still needs to be done to care for the poor, the sick, the mentally ill and the disabled, Nova Scotia has made dramatic progress in making sure we now treat people like human beings, not animals.
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Save
our planet... save our nature... save it for the future generations....
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BEST
COMMENT:
What I can't
believe Jake is this government also cut funding to the CNIB & Feed NS.
What more do these organizations have to do to show the benefit they are to NS.
If you need support with vision issues you go to the CNIB not a hospital. It's
high time some of our politicians spent a day with some of these
organizations.You will see the liberal supporters criticizing everything the
last government did, but you don't see them defending these cuts with any kind
of facts on why they funding should be cut. But damm criticize giving $22
million to RBC. The way we treat our less fortunate & disadvantaged speaks
to what kind of society we are. This has been spoken almost since the birth of
time, & we still as a society don't get it.
Non-profit groups denounce lesser-known N.S. budget
cuts
MICHAEL MACDONALD THE CANADIAN PRESS
Published July 12, 2015 - 10:27am
Published July 12, 2015 - 10:27am
Linda Quigley, executive director of Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia, says her organization will cease to exist within a year because the province eliminated the group’s $34,200 annual grant.
“The services that they cut are pretty essential to the province and they did it without really understanding the impact,” says Quigley, whose organization has been around for 42 years. “We’re done if we can’t find funding in the next little while.”
Quigley had to close her office and lay off a full-time co-ordinator two years ago when the United Way cut their funding by $43,000. Today, the organization is just Quigley working part-time out of her home.
For the 55,000 people in Nova Scotia dealing with hearing loss and deafness, Quigley’s association provides a range of services aimed at helping them become productive, employable citizens.
Among other things, the association helps employers defray the cost of hiring interpreters to provide deaf employees with training in first aid, health and safety rules and working with hazardous materials.
“If I was to say anything to the premier, I would ask him to take a look at what is being lost and to have a better understanding of the impact on each of these organizations,” Quigley says. “I don’t think that government understands.”
Complaints from groups like Quigley’s have started to register with the government. Health Minister Leo Glavine recently confirmed he will be reviewing his department’s cutbacks to non-profit groups this fall.
As examples, he cited Eating Disorders Nova Scotia, the Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia and the Free Spirit Therapeutic Riding Association, which helps children with special needs.
Kathleen Flanagan, executive director of the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia, says the cuts were made without any consultation.
More importantly, she says, they will be counterproductive in the long run because more vulnerable people will become a drain on the system when they can’t get the help they need.
“It’s so short-sighted to cut the groups that actually help build the economy and build the assets that we need,” says Flanagan, whose group speaks for the volunteer and non-profit sector.
Flanagan says even though the Liberal government has committed to improving the province’s sputtering economy by increasing immigration, its April budget reduced funding for the non-profit Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia.
“There’s no real economic argument to support what is being done here,” says Flanagan. “The motivation is simply that these are the places where we can cut … These are organizations that are not rich and powerful.”
Community Services Minister Joanne Bernard says the cuts in her department were necessary because some non-profit groups were not being held accountable for how they were spending public funds.
“They don’t monitor their outcomes or they don’t provide reporting mechanisms,” she said in an interview. “It is in the best interest of non-profits to know who they help and if it’s making a difference … Tough decisions had to be made.”
Bernard stressed that the cutbacks affected only nine of the 70-plus organizations that receive Community Services funding, which included the Deafness Advocacy Association.
“We didn’t have much information about what they did,” Bernard says. “We don’t know if the work that they were doing was working.”
Jean Coleman, executive director of the Nova Scotia Association for Community Living, says the government cut $25,000 or one-third of the group’s operating budget.
The non-profit group offers help to over 30,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families, providing respite care, help with challenges at school, employment assistance and other services.
“It’s a shame that some of the most vulnerable people in our province are being affected by these budget cuts,” Coleman says. “If we don’t care for our most vulnerable people, it shows the type of province we are. Nova Scotia should be better than that.”
A sampling of some of the cutbacks announced in the Nova Scotia government’s spring budget:
• Community grants for mental health and addictions have been reduced by $400,000 to a total of $600,000.
• Grants reduced by 23 per cent for groups that help people with AIDS, eating disorders, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
• Grants reduced for immigrant groups, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in rural areas, aboriginal mental health support and Hope Blooms, an inner city program that helps at-risk youth.
• Grant programs in the Seniors Department cut 25 per cent.
• Community Services Department reduced funding for: the Canadian Mental Health Association; the Canadian National Institute for the Blind; Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia; Heartwood Centre for Community Youth Development; Nova Scotia Association for Community Living; People First Nova Scotia; and Youth Voices of Nova Scotia Society.
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Pope Francis demands end to Christian 'genocide' in Middle East
Bolivia: Pope Francis demanded an
immediate end on Thursday to what he called "agenocide"
of Christians taking place in the Middle East and beyond, describing it as a
third world war.
The pope, who has never
been afraid to weigh into delicate issues both religious and political, made
the comments in Bolivia, the second stop on a three-nation tour to his home
continent of South America.
"Today we are dismayed
to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers
and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus,"
Pope Francis said.
"In this third world
war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form ofgenocide is
taking place, and it must end."
In September last year he
lamented a rash of global conflicts, saying they were effectively a
"piecemeal" third world war and condemning "terrorism."
He has also in the past
voiced grave concern about the dangers facing Christians around the world,
including in Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State extremist group has
overrun large areas in a brutal offensive of beheadings and forced conversions.
His latest remarks, at a
so-called World Meeting of the Popular Movements in the city of Santa Cruz,
came after he apologized for "offenses" committed by the Catholic
Church against indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the
Americas.
The first Latin American
pope "humbly" begged forgiveness, during an encounter that included
indigenous groups and other activists.
"I say this to you
with regret," he told an enchanted crowd. "Many grave sins were
committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God."
One million
Earlier in the day, Pope
Francis, a champion of the poor and social justice, called on a million
faithful to reject today's consumer society, at an open-air mass.
The pope addressed the
throng in the vast Christ the Redeemer Plaza in Santa Cruz, including many
people who camped out overnight to see him.
He denounced what he called
a "mentality in which everything has a price, everything can be bought,
everything is negotiable. This way of thinking has room only for a select
few."
"Jesus speaks these
words to us, here in this square. No one has to be discarded," the
78-year-old pontiff told the crowd, estimated by authorities in Bolivia --
South America's poorest nation -- at one million strong.
The two-hour service
featured religious hymns and chants. Hundreds of musicians also played Baroque
works, introduced by Spanish Jesuit missionaries in the 18th century and still
very popular in this country.
Thousands in the crowd were
from Bolivia's indigenous majority and President Evo Morales, the country's
first indigenous leader, was in the front row.
Around the plaza, dominated
by the giant bronze Christ the Redeemer statue, big-screen TVs were erected for
people to watch the religious service.
'As close as
possible'
Since his election in 2013,
Francis -- who hails from Argentina and is also the first Jesuit pope -- has
indeed shown himself to have a down-to-earth air about him, and that is ringing
clear in Santa Cruz.
He and several bishops are
reportedly using a Burger King restaurant as their sacristy -- the place where
they don their vestments and make other preparations for mass.
"We want to be as
close as possible to receive the blessings that he is going to bestow,"
said one of the campers who waited overnight to see the pope, Nancy Camacho,
her head wrapped in a thick scarf.
Francis arrived in Bolivia
on Wednesday evening in the high-altitude Andean city of La Paz -- more than
4,000 meters (13,000 feet) above sea level.
Concerned authorities had
extra oxygen tanks on hand for the pope, who lost a lung during his youth, but
he was not seen using it.
He will head on Friday to
Paraguay, the last stop on his tour of South America, which began in Ecuador.
A robust pontiff
Francis has impressed
people with his stamina as he walked amid crowds, kissed people and took
selfies. Some of the journalists traveling with him had to stop and take a shot
of oxygen.
Bolivia is destitute -- the
minimum monthly wage is equivalent to about $240 a month -- but has made
economic progress in recent years.
Alcohol sales and musical
performances have been banned throughout Bolivia during the pope's visit, and
17,000 police and soldiers have been deployed.
All three of the countries
Francis is visiting are predominantly Catholic and have been marked by a long
history of poverty and inequality mostly afflicting indigenous populations
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Halifax
Chronicle Herald
Smith comes by his social conscience naturally
JOHN DEMONT
jdemont@herald.ca @CH_coalblackhrt
Harry Smith has fond memories of his last visit to Halifax, even if it was 40-odd years ago when he was selling oriental carpets rather than writing moving books, bedeviling the political right and doing his part to protect the global welfare state.
For five or six straight years, Smith, who then lived in Ontario, would set up his wares in a room in the Lord Nelson Hotel and wait for the customers to arrive.
It isn't so much the business that made the 1970s visit memorable, although he did sell one carpet for $35,000, about what a decent Halifax home would have fetched in those days.
What he remembers, sort of, is a business contact taking him to a naval seamen's club. ‟He had me staggering back," said Smith, 92 , who now doesn't touch anything stronger than shandy. ‟Those were the good old days." These most assuredly are not.
When Smith touches down in Halifax on July 15 as part of his cross-Canada tour sponsored by the Broadbent Institute, the message will be sobering: ‟It makes me think that I've seen this all before," Smith said Friday from Belleville, Ont., his Canadian home. ‟Once we were united to build a united society. Now we are divided between the few that have and the many who do not." Today, he said, ‟there's a cruelty in society that we haven't seen since the '20s and '30s." Smith knows all about that. The son of an alcoholic unemployed coal miner, he grew up in abject poverty in Yorkshire, U.K., during the Great Depression. A sister died of tuberculosis at age 10 and had to be buried in a pauper's grave. Sometimes the only food they had was scavenged from the garbage.
‟It (the experiences of childhood) has never left my thoughts," said Smith, who started work at age seven. ‟Sometimes years later, I would be sitting having dinner or doing something else and just break into tears." He had the drive to push forward anyway, joining the Royal Air Force, serving in the Second World War and later marrying a Canadian woman - ‟I owe this country so much," he says -with whom he immigrated to Scarborough, Ont., in 1953.
There he went into business and helped raise two sons. This was before his startling second act, which began after his wife died in 1999.
Smith has written four autobiographical books about Britain during the Great Depression, the war and the post-war years.
His fame as much as anything rests on his public appearances, including the riveting speeches he has made in defence of the United Kingdom's beleagured National Health Service and welfare system.
Truthfully, he doesn't feel much better about his adopted home. ‟We've let Canada go to the dogs," Smith said in a voice that, thanks to youthful elocution lessons, lacks the distinctive Yorkshire twang.
As in the U.K., apathy and ignorance are to blame, Smith said. Since the 2009 global economic downturn, governments everywhere have been pushing painful austerity measures as the way forward.
‟We should be electing a government by the people and for the people, not someone who ends up as a dictator as we have now in Canada," he said.
Which brings us to his Halifax speech.
Smith, who favours mandatory voting, will tell the young Millennials - who not only face dispiriting job prospects but could also be the first generation in living memory who fail to do better than their parents - that they had better get involved in the political process if they want to improve their lot.
‟I want them to understand that they have to put some skin in the game if we're going to change this sorry situation," he said.
Change takes effort. Smith, who has two books coming out this year alone, is living proof.
He tweets to his 40,000 Twitter followers. He hits the road to make speeches for progressive causes. He hammers away any way he can at his favourite themes - that austerity doesn't work, that universal health care is an absolute necessity, that, unless, we bring in governments who care about ordinary people rather than the one per cent, our societal descent will continue.
‟I don't have to worry whether I'm going to be able to sleep when I go to bed," said Smith, whose only vice is a nightly bowl of ice cream. He tries to keep up with the tai chi practice he began at age 80 and to walk his customary kilometre a day.
While in Halifax next week, Smith may take a little stroll along the waterfront. ‟Then for oldtime sakes," he said, ‟I'm going to take a walk down to the Lord Nelson and see how it has fared after all these years."
jdemont@herald.ca @CH_coalblackhrt
Harry Smith has fond memories of his last visit to Halifax, even if it was 40-odd years ago when he was selling oriental carpets rather than writing moving books, bedeviling the political right and doing his part to protect the global welfare state.
For five or six straight years, Smith, who then lived in Ontario, would set up his wares in a room in the Lord Nelson Hotel and wait for the customers to arrive.
It isn't so much the business that made the 1970s visit memorable, although he did sell one carpet for $35,000, about what a decent Halifax home would have fetched in those days.
What he remembers, sort of, is a business contact taking him to a naval seamen's club. ‟He had me staggering back," said Smith, 92 , who now doesn't touch anything stronger than shandy. ‟Those were the good old days." These most assuredly are not.
When Smith touches down in Halifax on July 15 as part of his cross-Canada tour sponsored by the Broadbent Institute, the message will be sobering: ‟It makes me think that I've seen this all before," Smith said Friday from Belleville, Ont., his Canadian home. ‟Once we were united to build a united society. Now we are divided between the few that have and the many who do not." Today, he said, ‟there's a cruelty in society that we haven't seen since the '20s and '30s." Smith knows all about that. The son of an alcoholic unemployed coal miner, he grew up in abject poverty in Yorkshire, U.K., during the Great Depression. A sister died of tuberculosis at age 10 and had to be buried in a pauper's grave. Sometimes the only food they had was scavenged from the garbage.
‟It (the experiences of childhood) has never left my thoughts," said Smith, who started work at age seven. ‟Sometimes years later, I would be sitting having dinner or doing something else and just break into tears." He had the drive to push forward anyway, joining the Royal Air Force, serving in the Second World War and later marrying a Canadian woman - ‟I owe this country so much," he says -with whom he immigrated to Scarborough, Ont., in 1953.
There he went into business and helped raise two sons. This was before his startling second act, which began after his wife died in 1999.
Smith has written four autobiographical books about Britain during the Great Depression, the war and the post-war years.
His fame as much as anything rests on his public appearances, including the riveting speeches he has made in defence of the United Kingdom's beleagured National Health Service and welfare system.
Truthfully, he doesn't feel much better about his adopted home. ‟We've let Canada go to the dogs," Smith said in a voice that, thanks to youthful elocution lessons, lacks the distinctive Yorkshire twang.
As in the U.K., apathy and ignorance are to blame, Smith said. Since the 2009 global economic downturn, governments everywhere have been pushing painful austerity measures as the way forward.
‟We should be electing a government by the people and for the people, not someone who ends up as a dictator as we have now in Canada," he said.
Which brings us to his Halifax speech.
Smith, who favours mandatory voting, will tell the young Millennials - who not only face dispiriting job prospects but could also be the first generation in living memory who fail to do better than their parents - that they had better get involved in the political process if they want to improve their lot.
‟I want them to understand that they have to put some skin in the game if we're going to change this sorry situation," he said.
Change takes effort. Smith, who has two books coming out this year alone, is living proof.
He tweets to his 40,000 Twitter followers. He hits the road to make speeches for progressive causes. He hammers away any way he can at his favourite themes - that austerity doesn't work, that universal health care is an absolute necessity, that, unless, we bring in governments who care about ordinary people rather than the one per cent, our societal descent will continue.
‟I don't have to worry whether I'm going to be able to sleep when I go to bed," said Smith, whose only vice is a nightly bowl of ice cream. He tries to keep up with the tai chi practice he began at age 80 and to walk his customary kilometre a day.
While in Halifax next week, Smith may take a little stroll along the waterfront. ‟Then for oldtime sakes," he said, ‟I'm going to take a walk down to the Lord Nelson and see how it has fared after all these years."
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Finally
we have humanity back on earth.... everyday people, our precious
environment..... matters more that USA/CHINA/RUSSIA AND UNITED NATIONS ISLAMIC
HATRED OF EACH OTHER- RULING OUR PLANET... enough... enough.... Thank u
Jesus..... this old Paedophile Hunter has returned 2 believe again.... Hallelujah
- Peace of Christ 2 all because I am Canadian.. and that's how I roll. and
always... God bless our troops, policing, RCMP, firefighters and first
responders..... keeping our freedoms strong and true.... thank u.
Pope Francis Rails Against Corruption, 'Idolatry of
Money'
Pope Francis Draws Massive Crowds On Latin America Trip 2:08
ASUNCION — Pope Francis appealed to world leaders on Saturday to seek a
new economic model to help the poor, and to shun policies that "sacrifice
human lives on the altar of money and profit."
It was the second time during his trip to South America that Francis,
the first pope from the region, used a major speech to excoriate unbridled
capitalism and champion the rights of the poor.
In Bolivia last Thursday, he urged the downtrodden to change the world
economic order, denouncing a "new colonialism" by agencies that
impose austerity programs and calling for the poor to have the "sacred
rights" of labor, lodging and land.
"Putting bread on the table, putting a roof over the heads of one's
children, giving them health and an education, these are essential for human
dignity," he said.
He urged politicians and business leaders "not to yield to an
economic model which is idolatrous, which needs to sacrifice human lives on the
altar of money and profit."
He said those charged with promoting economic development must ensure it
had "a human face" and he blasted "the idolatry of money and the
dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose".
"Corruption is the plague, it's the gangrene of society," he
added during a heavily improvised speech at the rally, attended by Paraguayan
President Horacio Cartes
At FIFA Women's World Cup we saw Kadeisha Buchanan become the best young footballer on the
planet (has the trophy to prove it).
Tonight, she and her #TeamCanada mates begin their Pan Am Games gold medal defence at #TO2015. #NowOrNever
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Kentville man charged with child porn offences
THE CHRONICLE HERALD
A 58-year-old Kentville man has been charged with child pornography offences after an investigation by the RCMP's provincial Internet child exploitation unit.
Members of the unit, along with Kings RCMP and Kentville police, searched a home in Kentville Thursday and arrested Michael Arthur Miller.
Miller was arrested without incident and charged with possession of child pornography and making child pornography available. He was released on conditions and will appear in Kentville provincial court Nov. 23.
Police say the investigation is continuing.
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BEDFORD
Teen charged with Internet luring
The Mounties have charged a 19-year-old Bedford man with Internet luring.
Officers executed a search warrant at a Bedford home June 30, RCMP said in a release Friday.
Zachary Franck Whitehead was arrested at the scene without incident and released from police custody later in the day.
Whitehead, who has been charged with luring a child, is slated to be arraigned in Halifax provincial court Aug. 25.
Teen charged with Internet luring
The Mounties have charged a 19-year-old Bedford man with Internet luring.
Officers executed a search warrant at a Bedford home June 30, RCMP said in a release Friday.
Zachary Franck Whitehead was arrested at the scene without incident and released from police custody later in the day.
Whitehead, who has been charged with luring a child, is slated to be arraigned in Halifax provincial court Aug. 25.
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PAEDOPHILE
HUNTING.... anonymous - love u dearly... u promised and u are keeping your
word... hey grandmas, bikers, vets, troops, mommas, and the millions stepping
up..... a huntin we will go...
British Lord
Accused of Raping Boys Inside Parliament
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CANADA
POLITICS-50 YEARS LATER- CANADA POLITICS NEVER CHANGES- And all political
parties in Canada play their ugly games... whilst old Canadians have watched
the nothing has changed by any party in 50 years.... imagine... politicians
actually working together and bringing about serious and positive change and
helping everyday Canadians in their communities - not by their spoilt
indifference of each and all elected today... but by new and inspired and
teambuilding by all parties towards a brilliant and beautiful Canada where
education was free for all.... medical health and especially mental health
issues raised the bar so high that all Canadian children knew... they were
loved and adored and respected and treasured... IMAGINE A CANADA WHERE ALL
POLITICAL PARTIES TEAMBUILD TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD.... our Canada...
instead of this disconnect and horriific breakdown at the base in each and all
communities.... who are so tired of the useless same ole, same ole bullsheeeet
and beans proving that each and all parties are useless as titties on a
bull.... don't cha think it's time - some of the hard working youngbloods of
our communities who really get out among us... became our leaders... and we
dumped the useless media 'never gonna change' and old- stuck and staid and
spoilt same ole same ole same ole?...imho
God
bless our policing #BlueLivesMatter #WeSeeYou - Canadians are
watching - and so are the American majority of everyday people.... we don't
make the news... we are the 99% of the real world... and we are so grateful for
your sacrifice, courage and humanity as protectors of our nation and our
flag.... and your volunteer work in communities is what keeps us alive and
strong... God bless our policing... and always our RCMP - in our nations... and
yours. Old Momma Nova
#WeSeeYou
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: Project Spade- Global Child Porn Ring Pervs BUSTED- check out news around planet-BUT CANADA-2 busy FORDing it and PM Hopeful telling kids 2 smoke dope?/PAEDOPHILE HUNTING/Rehtaeh- Bullying Statistics Canada- Global- Horrifying scary/Breaking the Chains of Abuse- no more excuses... One Billion rising/ Nov 15,2013
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When
did Civil Liberties law groups get 2 continue and debase and betray our
children and basic freedom of everday people
PAEDOPHILE HUNTING..... America – what the hell happened 2 u.... and
that pretty well answers it..... yet another bunch of lawyers paid by taxpayers
for the monsters 2 roam free and hunt... Sweet Jesus, Mother Mary and Joseph-
where’s ANONYMOUS.... and our PAEDOPHILE HUNTERS GLOBALLY...
USA-
ACLU Sues To Allow Child Molesters Onto Elementary School Campuses
Many
religious schools have churches on their campuses. The ACLU tries to claim that
school isn’t on Sunday, but guess where the school’s children are every Sunday?
On the campus for church services and other activities, which is right where
the child molesters want to be.
Excerpted
from Pal-Item: The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit
Wednesday invoking the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act to contend
that not allowing serious sex offenders to attend churches with attached
schools is an undue burden on religious rights.
The
lawsuit, filed on behalf of two unnamed sex offenders, challenges another new
state law that bans registered sex offenders from entering school property —
including when a parochial school is located on the same grounds as a church.
Under
RFRA, the ACLU said, the government is placing an undue burden on the religious
beliefs of sex offenders.
“This
is a prime example as a place where people’s religious rights are being
burdened, and therefore under RFRA the state has to justify that,” said ACLU of
Indiana legal director Ken Falk. “It makes no sense to ban people on a Sunday
if there are kids there on a Thursday.”
Serious
sex offenders include sexually violent predators or those convicted of crimes
such as child molestation, possession of child pornography or sexual misconduct
with a minor.
The
lawsuit in Elkhart Superior Court was filed against the prosecutors and
sheriffs of Allen and Elkhart counties.
Indiana’s
new religious freedom law went into effect July 1. The law says if the
government imposes an undue burden on the religious rights of individuals,
businesses and religious organizations, it must prove a compelling interest and
that it is using the least restrictive means possible.
The
ACLU of Indiana opposed RFRA, arguing that the law would allow discrimination
against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. But Falk said
the lawsuit uses RFRA “as it was originally contemplated” to protect religious
freedom. Keep reading
Read
more at
http://patdollard.com/2015/07/aclu-sues-to-allow-child-molesters-onto-elementary-school-campuses/#tRY2iqSK3E26Hu48.99
Read more at http://patdollard.com/2015/07/aclu-sues-to-allow-child-molesters-onto-elementary-school-campuses/#tRY2iqSK3E26Hu48.99
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We
reported this yesterday... Thank u Pope Francis... thank u.... like many oldies
said... don't just apologize 2 Canada... apologize 2 all Indigenous peoples our
beloved First Peoples... and also 2 so many children - this old tattered and
tarnished angel is a Roman Catholic believer once again.... BUT will never give
up PAEDOPHILE HUNTING... and love u Pope Francis... but will never forgive a
paedophile ... ever... we children of the secret.... suffered and 2 many died
whilst grownups knowingly watched and did... nothing - imho
Pope begs
forgiveness for sins and 'offences' of church against indigenous of America
Nicole Winfield and Frank Bajak, The Associated Press
Published Thursday, July 9, 2015 2:30AM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:13PM EDT
Published Thursday, July 9, 2015 2:30AM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, July 9, 2015 10:13PM EDT
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia --
Pope Francis apologized Thursday for the sins, offences and crimes committed by
the Catholic Church against indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest
of the Americas, delivering a powerful mea culpa on the part of the church in
the climactic highlight of his South American pilgrimage.
History's first Latin
American pope "humbly" begged forgiveness during an encounter in
Bolivia with indigenous groups and other activists and in the presence of
Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president, Evo Morales.
Francis noted that Latin
American church leaders in the past had acknowledged that "grave sins were
committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God." St.
John Paul II, for his part, apologized to the continent's indigenous for the
"pain and suffering" caused during the 500 years of the church's
presence in the Americas during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.
Pope Francis talks to Indian leaders and social workers at the
second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Thursday,
July 9, 2015. (AP / Rodrigo Abd)
Pope Francis walks amid the crowd while leaving the second World
Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 9, 2015.
(AP / Rodrigo Abd)
But Francis went farther,
and said he was doing so with "regret."
"I would also say,
and here I wish to be quite clear, as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask
forgiveness, not only for the offences of the church herself, but also for
crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of
America," he said to applause from the crowd.
Then deviating from his
prepared script, he added: "I also want for us to remember the thousands
and thousands of priests who strongly opposed the logic of the sword with the
power of the cross. There was sin, and it was plentiful. But we never
apologized, so I now ask for forgiveness. But where there was sin, and there
was plenty of sin, there was also an abundant grace increased by the men who
defended indigenous peoples."
Francis' apology was met
with wild applause from the indigenous and other grass-roots groups gathered
for a world summit of popular movements whose fight against injustice and
social inequality has been championed by the pope.
"We accept the
apologies. What more can we expect from a man like Pope Francis?" said
Adolfo Chavez, a leader of a lowlands indigenous group. "It's time to turn
the page and pitch in to start anew. We indigenous were never lesser
beings."
The apology was
significant given the controversy that has erupted in the United States over
Francis' planned canonization of the 18th century Spanish priest Junipero
Serra, who set up missions across California. Native Americans contend Serra
brutally converted indigenous people to Christianity, wiping out villages in
the process, and have opposed his canonization. The Vatican insists Serra
defended natives from colonial abuses.
Francis' apology was also
significant given the controversy that blew up the last time a pope visited the
continent. Benedict XVI drew heated criticism when, during a 2007 visit to
Brazil, he defended the church's campaign to Christianize indigenous peoples.
He said the Indians of Latin America had been "silently longing" to
become Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors violently took over
their lands.
"In effect, the
proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an
alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign
culture," Benedict told the continent's bishops.
Amid an outcry from
indigenous groups, Benedict subsequently acknowledged that "shadows
accompanied the work of evangelizing" the continent and said European
colonizers inflicted "sufferings and injustices" on indigenous
populations. He didn't apologize, however.
The Vatican spokesman, the
Rev. Federico Lombardi, said that Francis wrote the speech on his own and that
the apology for the sins, offences and crimes of the church was a
"particularly important declaration."
Church officials have long
insisted Catholic missionaries protected indigenous peoples from the abuses of
military colonizers and were often punished by European colonial powers as a
result. Francis' own Jesuit order developed missions across the continent,
educating the indigenous and turning their communities into organized
Christian-Indian societies. The Jesuits were expelled in the 17th century.
Mexican Bishop Raul Vera,
who attended the summit where Francis made the apology, said the church was
essentially a passive participant in allowing natives to become enslaved under
the Spanish "encomienda" system, by which the Spanish king granted
land in conquered territories to those who settled there. Indians were allowed
to live on the haciendas as long as they worked them.
"It's evident that
the church did not defend against it with all its efforts. It allowed it to be
imposed," Vera told The Associated Press earlier Thursday.
He acknowledged that John
Paul had previously asked forgiveness for the church's sins against indigenous.
But he said Francis' apology was particularly poignant given the setting.
Campesino leader Amandina
Quispe, of Anta, Peru, who attended the grass-roots summit, said the church
still holds lands it should give back to Andean natives. The former seat of the
Inca empire, conquered by Spaniards in the 16th century, is an example.
"The church stole our
land and tore down our temples in Cuzco and then it built its own churches --
and now it charges admission to visit them," she said.
Francis' apology was not
the first. After his 1992 apology, John Paul II issued a sweeping but vague
apology for the Catholic Church's sins of the past during the church's 2000
Jubilee. A year later, he apologized specifically for missionary abuses against
aborigines in Oceania. He did so in the first ever papal email.
During the speech, the
longest and most important of Francis' week-long, three-nation South American
trip, the pope touched on some of the key priorities of his pontificate: the
need to change an unjust global economic system that excludes the poor and
replace it with a "communitarian economy" involving the "fitting
distribution" of the Earth's resources.
"Working for a just
distribution of the fruits of the Earth and human labour is not mere
philanthropy. It's a moral obligation," he said.
He ended the speech with a
fierce condemnation of the world's governments for what he called
"cowardice" in defending the Earth. Echoing his environmental
encyclical of last month, the pope said the Earth "is being pillaged, laid
waste and harmed with impunity" while "one international summit after
another takes place without any significant result."
He urged the activists
present to "keep up your struggle."
It was a message he
articulated earlier in the day when he denounced the "throwaway"
culture of today's society that discards anyone who is unproductive. He made
the comments as he celebrated his first public Mass in Bolivia, South America's
poorest country.
The government declared a
national holiday so workers and students could attend the Mass, which featured
prayers in Guarani and Aimara, two of Bolivia's indigenous languages, and an
altar carved from wood by artisans of the Chiquitano people.
In a blending of the
native and new, the famously unpretentious pope changed into his vestments for the
Mass in a nearby Burger King.
Associated
Press writers Paola Flores, Jacobo Garcia and Carlos Valdez contributed to this
report.
Wish it wasn't just
the everyday people of the world trying so hard for this still.... many of us
oldies working and walking the talk over 55 years.... and so tired of the same
ole same old... 1% own it all - pray God doesn't call for another flood...
Pope Francis warns against “new forms of colonialism”
Pope Francis once against spoke to a
gathering of representatives of worldwide popular movements. He last met with them in Rome this past October, when they
discussed social problems like unemployment and a lack of housing and land.
On this occasion, the Pope came to
them. He delivered the most powerful and wide-ranging speech of his
trip.
POPE FRANCIS
"Human beings and nature must not
be at the service of money. Let us say no to an economy of exclusion and
inequality, where money rules, rather than service. That economy kills. That
economy excludes. That economy destroys Mother Earth.”
He denounced "new forms of
colonialism” that leave entire groups of people as nothing but suppliers,
impeding their ability to grow and develop.
POPE FRANCIS
"The new colonialism takes on
different faces. At times it appears as the anonymous influence of mammon:
corporations, loan agencies, certain 'free trade' treaties, and the imposition
of measures of 'austerity' which always tighten the belt of workers and the
poor.”
The Pope said that new and old forms of
colonialism must be abandoned.
He did not overlook "offenses”
committed by the Church during his condemnation of colonialism. The Pope
apologized for crimes committed against local populations during the conquest
of America.
POPE FRANCIS
"I wish to be quite clear, as was
Saint John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the
Church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during
the so-called conquest of America.”
At the same time, Pope Francis said
that it would be unfair to ignore the Christians who also left behind
"works of human promotion and love” among Native populations. He also highlighted Latin America's profound Christian identity.
The Pope mentioned that these things
have happened in other parts of the world, as well. Even today, Christians are
persecuted.
POPE FRANCIS
"This too needs to be denounced:
in this third world war, waged peacemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form
of genocide is taking place, and it must end.”
Pope Francis asked for the crowd to
pray for him, but not everyone in attendance was Catholic. So he made a special request for those who do not believe.
...Think about me and send good vibes.
Thank you.
HOMELESS
YOUTH MATTER IN CANADA
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Preventing violent encounters
Police officers speak to person in street.
In 2011, the Edmonton Police Service collaborated with the University of Alberta to improve the interaction between police officers and those suffering from a mental illness. Credit: Edmonton Police Service
De-escalation training for police
By Yasmeen Krameddine and Peter Silverstone, University of Alberta, and David DeMarco and Robert Hassel, Edmonton Police Service
Police officers are now frequently the first-line responders for those suffering a mental health or addiction problem, but training in handling these cases isn’t keeping up with the need.
Related story
RCMP takes holistic approach to mental health
To counter this, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) teamed up with the University of Alberta to investigate a new way to improve outcomes. This research was led by Dr. Peter Silverstone and PhD candidate Yasmeen Krameddine, and the results to date are very positive.
The training focuses on improving interactions between police officers and individuals exhibiting various forms of mental illness. What makes it novel is that it uses actors to portray real-life scenarios, developed in close collaboration between police and the University of Alberta.
Police officers then interact with the actors in these scenarios. The goal is to increase skills in active verbal/non-verbal communication, de-escalation techniques, empathetic understanding and mental-health knowledge.
This program is run as a one-day intensive training program with six scenarios: depression, addiction, schizophrenia, alcohol withdrawal, mania and a suicidal individual.
It allows officers to improve their interactions in real-life situations. One important part of the training is the use of professional actors, who give feedback to the officers after each scenario. This is in addition to feedback from more senior training officers.
The actors are trained to acknowledge both the positive and negative behaviours of each officer during the scenario, giving officers in-depth feedback on how the officer made the actor feel during the interaction. Feedback is crucial for officers to understand how their actions affect the emotions and behaviour of individuals they come in contact with. The actors were trained extensively on verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, and varied their interactions depending on what the officer said or did.
For example, if the officer rolled his or her eyes, didn’t listen to what was being said or tried to rush the actor, the actor would in turn behave more belligerently and less helpfully.
In contrast, if the officer looked engaged, gave the actor his or her attention and held eye contact, the actor would be more relaxed, helpful and supply all the information asked for.
Emphasis during the feedback for each scenario was on increasing the expression of empathic feelings and body language expressed to the actors in the scenarios.
After the scenario was complete, the feedback continued to highlight why the actor behaved in certain ways. This allowed police to have an outside perspective of their actions and body language, giving them a better view of how their actions or what they said impacted the way they are viewed.
An example of feedback from an actor would be “When you asked me my name, I felt like you actually cared about me, as a person, so I was comfortable in answering your questions” or “when you told me to calm down it made me angry because your tone suggested you didn’t care why I was so angry.”
To date, more than 650 police officers have completed this training. Results have been very positive.
Over a six-month period, EPS members demonstrated significant improvements in their communication, empathy and de-escalation skills, as observed by their supervising officers.
Additionally, there was an improvement in an officer’s ability to confidently recognize, respond and empathetically communicate with individuals in distress.
This supported a 41 per cent increase in the actual number and classification of mental health calls, with 19 per cent less time being spent on each call, thus an increase in efficiency. Over a six-month period, this led to cost savings of $83,828.
Additionally, police reported feeling significantly more confident in their training and ability to interact with a mentally ill individual. There was also a large decrease (more than 40 per cent) in the use of any kind of force when interacting with mentally ill individuals, although there were other internal police initiatives that may have helped this latter figure.
These results show promise, and continue to emphasize the positive effects of this innovative mental health training initiative. What’s interesting about the research that was done, and the tips provided, is that little things can make a big difference.
Active listening and expressing empathy in both verbal and non-verbal communication improves outcomes for police officers, particularly when interacting with those who have mental illness and/or addiction problems.
This study also shows that these skills can be taught and improved, and that this leads to true-to-life training and real-life application. Feedback from officers taking part repeatedly said how realistic the scenarios were and that they were able to subsequently incorporate these skills into their daily tasks.
Dos and don’ts for talking to people with psychiatric problems
Try to do the following:
Ask individuals their name in a conversational manner, and offer yours. This small act of bonding can go a long way in developing an understanding and empathetic relationship.
Active listening. This is done by keeping attention and maintaining eye contact on the individual. You can also summarize what they say by repeating it back to them. Nod your head up and down to demonstrate strong non-verbal understanding. If you show you are actively listening, you will increase empathy with the subject, helping you gain any information and insights you need.
Use “open” body language. Body language is an unconscious form of communication that can escalate or de-escalate situations depending how it’s used. Keep a calm and relaxed posture, try not to cross your arms, smile and show you’re concerned. These behaviours allow the subject to feel safe and trusted.
Mirroring. Copy their body language if you can. It’s a powerful way of empathizing using non-verbal communication.
Label and confirm their feelings. Since feelings and emotions are frequently a major cause of problems, labelling their feelings shows you are listening, for example, “It sounds like you’re feeling very underappreciated.” Confirming also helps them see that their feelings are normal, such as “anyone would feel sad after losing their job.”
Focus on family. By asking the person about their family or friends, you can decrease their isolation and remind them that they have people in their life. Examples may be “do you have any children?” and “what would your children do if they no longer had you in their life?”
Tell them what you are doing and why. Research shows that if you explain to the individual what you have to do and why, there will be less chance of aggression and escalation. For example “I am going to have to arrest you because it looks like there are five warrants out for your arrest.”
Try not to do the following:
Telling them to “calm down” or “relax.” These words may make them angry because they feel they’re being talked down to and told what to do. This does the opposite of making someone feel calm.
Using dominating body language. Standing over an individual with your feet planted, hands on your waist or on your gun, can indicate control and power. This may make the person feel defensive, powerless and unimportant. They are less likely to be co-operative. If they’re sitting, try instead to crouch down to their level, so you’re able to talk to them as equals.
Improper mirroring. Copying isn’t always appropriate. If they’re shouting, don’t shout back, no matter the provocation. Try talking in a softer voice so they have to stop to listen to what you are saying. Also, if the person is scared or anxious, mirroring their body language can exaggerate anxiety and fear, which may escalate the situation. Keep a calm demeanor, even if they are not. Eventually and without realizing it, many subjects will copy your body language.
Telling them they shouldn’t feel a certain way. All feelings are real no matter how outrageous it sounds. Do not belittle what the subject is experiencing. For example, if a subject is hearing voices, don’t say “no, you don’t hear that.” Instead, ask more about the situation: “How long have you been hearing them?” or “How do they make you feel?”
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/gazette/vol76no1/cover-dossier/edmonton-eng.htm?fb#problems
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ISIS suffers major setback as ‘over 250 jihadists killed’ in just a few days
Heather Saul
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/ISIS-suffers-major-setback-as-over-250-jihadists-killed-in-just-a-few-days/articleshow/47039684.cms
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U THINK IF
LIBERALS OR NDP OR GREEN WINS- u cowards get 2 stay on the bloodstains of
Canada Military, Militia, Reservists, Rangers and Special Forces DEAD?- HEADS UP CANADIANS- - F**KING RIGHT HEADLINE-from everyday Canadians article-
US soldiers
opposed to war now find Canada less hospitable
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- When Army Sgt. Patrick
Hart decided a decade ago that he would not serve in the war in Iraq, he
expected to follow the same path as thousands of American war resisters during
the Vietnam era and take refuge across the border.
But after
five years of wrangling with the Canadian immigration system, he came back to
the U.S. - and ended up in a military prison.
The country
that once welcomed war resisters but has developed a much different reputation
during the conflicts in Iran and Afghanistan: Supporters say no U.S. soldier
who has sought to legal residence in Canada, either as a refugee or on
humanitarian grounds, has been successful.
"Nobody's
won," said Hart, a Buffalo native who exhausted his legal options then
turned himself in to the Army, was court-martialed for desertion and sentenced
to two years in prison.
With an
estimated two dozen U.S. military members still waiting out their fate in
Canada, the resisters' movement is seen as nearing a crossroads. With a
national election three months away, supporters are hopeful for a Liberal Party
victory and more sympathetic stance toward American military exiles, but
bracing for the possibility Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper wins
re-election.
Liberal Party
leader Justin Trudeau has not committed to letting the resisters stay, but many
are buoyed by his family history. It was his father, Pierre Trudeau, who while
prime minister during the Vietnam War said Canada should be "a refuge from
militarism."
"Why not
do it again? It's only a couple of dozen people," said Michelle Robidoux,
spokeswoman for the War Resisters Support Campaign in Toronto, which has been
lobbying members of Parliament.
After a
flurry early on, between 2004 and 2006, it's been at least four years since any
new known claims have been filed, Robidoux said.
Besides Hart,
at least three other soldiers who were deported or left Canada have been sent
to prison: Pfc. Kim Rivera, a mother of five, was sentenced in 2013 to 10
months; Spc. Clifford Cornell of Mountain Home, Arkansas, received a one-year
term in 2009, and Pfc. Robin Long of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced in 2008 to 15
months.
More than
20,000 soldiers have dropped from the rolls as deserters since 2006, according
to the Army.
Canada's
immigration laws have tightened since the Vietnam War, the support campaign
said, giving U.S. soldiers few options other than to try for refugee status
based on the fear of persecution if made to go home.
Government
guidance issued to immigration officers in 2010 requires them to consult
supervisors on U.S. military cases and spells out that desertion is a crime
that may render those who've left the military as criminally inadmissible to
Canada.
"Military
deserters from the United States are not genuine refugees under the internationally
accepted meaning of the term," Citizenship and Immigration Canada
spokeswoman Nancy Caron said in an emailed statement. "These unfounded
claims clog up our system for genuine refugees who are actually fleeing
persecution."
It's a
strikingly different stance from what Bruce Beyer saw when he found a safe
haven in Canada and spent five years there after refusing induction into the
Army during the Vietnam War.
"The
word is definitely out in the anti-war community that going to Canada is not
beneficial," said Beyer, of Buffalo, who returned to the United States in
1977 and has publicly supported the current resisters.
Canada's
Immigration and Refugee Board does not track claim types and could not provide
the number of claims made by American soldiers, spokesman Robert Gervais said.
He said each case is decided on merits.
Robidoux
estimated the number of claims filed at 45. She said about two dozen soldiers
remain in the country while appealing decisions or pursuing other action. One
of them, Rodney Watson, has sought sanctuary in a Vancouver church for nearly
six years to avoid a second tour in Iraq.
Both Watson
and Hart spoke out publicly against the war after arriving in Canada, and Hart
believes his lengthy prison sentence was a direct result. Prosecutors sealed
their desertion case against him with clips from anti-war rallies that captured
him saying he had no plans to return.
Hart finally
did, he said, after deciding with his wife, Jill, that it would be best for
their son, now 13, to leave Canada on their own terms.
"We had
kind of run the course of legal action to stay there, so we were pretty much
just sitting there waiting for a deportation order to come down," said
Hart, who was released from the prison complex at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in
2013 after serving 15 months.
Hart left his
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, base in 2005, a month before he was to be sent to Iraq
and after serving nearly a year in Kuwait in 2003. He now lives in Florida and
is pursuing a nursing degree, helped by the G.I. Bill. He is seeking to have
his bad conduct discharge - a step up from dishonorable - upgraded to other
than honorable.
"Up
until the second part of the Iraq War, I was pretty much a model soldier,"
said the sergeant, who had hoped his more than 10-year record would work in his
favor upon his return, "but they didn't see it that way."
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As we said
way back when..... CHINA OWNS USA’S ASS.... GERMANY HAS DESTROYED EUROPE....
AND UNITED NATIONS HAS LET THE ISLAMIC WORLD DESTROY ITSELF.... so Canada....
save us and git it done...
Employment Minister Poilievre announces almost $3 billion for families and jobs
Harper Government low-tax plan to support
economic growth amid global instability
OTTAWA, July 12, 2015
/CNW/ - Employment and Social Development Minister Pierre
Poilievre and Member of Parliament Royal Galipeau (Ottawa-Orléans)
announced today that the Harper Government will transfer almost $3 billion to families and the economy on Monday, July 20. On that single day, the lump-sum Universal
Child Care Benefit payment will land in almost 4 million mailboxes or bank
accounts, totaling over $2.986 billion, the biggest
single one-time payout in history.A family with two kids will receive as much as $1,000 in a single day under the Harper Government's Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB). Parents may spend this money on child care services, back-to-school supplies, sports activities and much more, boosting the economy and creating jobs across Canada.
Under the boosted UCCB, families will receive almost $2,000 per year for each child under 6 and $720 per year for each child aged 6 through 17. The new benefit amounts will be retroactive to January 1, 2015, and be reflected in monthly payments. That means families will receive payments of about $520 for each child under 6 and $420 for each child 6 through 17 on July 20. The boosted UCCB will benefit almost 4 million families—double the number of families that previously benefited from the program.
This is on top of the nearly $2 billion Family Tax Cut that went to families in the form of tax refunds this spring. The Family Tax Cut allows couples with children under 18 to split their income and reduce their tax burden by as much as $2,000. In addition, payments will continue under the Child Tax Benefit, which remains unchanged.
If a family is not currently receiving the UCCB, has never received the UCCB, or has never applied for the Canada Child Tax Benefit and still has children under 18 in their care, they should go to www.canada.ca/taxsavings to find out how they can apply.
Quick Facts
- All families with children under 18 will benefit from the new Family Tax Cuts and Benefits, which includes the Family Tax Cut as well as enhancements to the UCCB, Child Care Expenses Deduction and Children's Fitness Tax Credit.
- Combined with other actions taken by the Government of Canada since 2006, a typical family of four can receive up to $6,600 in tax relief and enhanced benefits in 2015.
- Low- and middle-income families will receive two-thirds of the overall benefits provided by the Government of Canada's new family measures.
"Canada has created 1.2 million net new jobs through training, trade and tax cuts. This new cash injection will help families, build consumer demand and create more jobs. If you've got kids under 18, you qualify. It doesn't matter how much you make or the type of child care you choose."
– The Honourable Pierre Poilievre, Minister of Employment and Social Development
Associated Links
www.canada.ca/taxsavings
Backgrounder on new measures: Helping Families Prosper
SOURCE Canada's Economic Action Plan
For further information: Aaron Bell, Press Secretary,
Office of the Minister of Employment and Social Development, 819-994-2482, aaron.bell@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca;
Rebecca Rogers, Director of Communications, Office of the Minister of National
Revenue, 613-995-2960; Media Relations Office, Employment and Social
Development Canada, 819-994-5559, media@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca; Follow us on Twitter http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1569413/employment-minister-poilievre-announces-almost-3-billion-for-families-and-jobs
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12 Things to Know When Someone You Love Has
Anxiety
Anxiety is
unpredictable, confusing and intrusive. It’s tough. Not just for the people who
have it but also for the people who love them. If you are one of those people,
you would know too well that the second hand experience of anxiety feels bad
enough – you’d do anything to make it better for the one going through it.Whether we struggle with anxiety, confidence, body image – whatever – there are things we all need to make the world a little bit safer, a little bit more predictable, a little less scary. We all have our list. If you love someone with anxiety, their list is likely to look a little like this:
1. They’ll talk about their anxiety when they feel ready.
Ask if they want to go somewhere else – maybe somewhere quieter or more private. Don’t panic or do anything that might give them the idea that they need looking after. Go for a walk with them, or just be there. Soon it will pass and when it does, they’ll be able to talk to you about what has happened, but wait for that. Then just listen and be there.
2. They’re pretty great to have around. You’ll want them as part of your tribe.
Because of their need to stay safe and to prepare against the next time anxiety rears its head, people who struggle with anxiety will generally have a plan – and they will have worked hard to make sure it works for everyone involved, not just for themselves. They’ll make sure everything has been organized to keep everyone safe, happy, on time and out of trouble. Notice the good things they do – there are plenty. Let them know you love them because of who they are, including who they are with anxiety, not despite it.
3. Remember: anxiety is a normal physical response to a brain being a little overprotective.
There’s a primitive part of all of our brains that’s geared to sense threat. For some people, it fires up a lot sooner and with a lot less reason than it does in others. When it does, it surges the body with cortisol (the stress hormone) and adrenaline to get the body ready to run for its life or fight for it. This is the fight or flight response and it’s in everyone. The “go” button is a bit more sensitive for people with anxiety.
4. There’s a lot to know, so if you try to understand everything you can … well, that makes you kind of awesome.
5. Make sure there’s room to say “no.” And don’t take it personally.
People with anxiety are super aware of everything going on – smells, sounds, people, possibilities. It’s exhausting when your attention is drawn to so many things. Don’t take “no” personally. Just because they might not want to be doing what you’re doing, that doesn’t mean they don’t want to be with you. Keep offering – don’t assume everything you offer will be met with “no” – but be understanding and “no big deal” if you aren’t taken up on your offer. They are saying no to a potential anxiety attack. Not to you.
6. Loads of lovin’ never hurt anyone, so be compassionate and there for them.
Talk up the things you love about them. There will be times that people with anxiety will feel like they are their anxiety and that they are a source of difficulty. (Who hasn’t felt like they’re making things harder than they need to be?) Specifically, I’m talking about when plans have to be changed, when you need to book a few rows back from the front row, turn the radio down, take the long way. If this is the worst you have to deal with in a friend, sign me up.
7. Anxiety has nothing to do with courage or character. Nothing at all.
8. Anxiety can change shape. It doesn’t always look the same way.
Anxiety can be slippery. Sometimes it looks the way you’d expect anxiety to look. Other times it looks cranky, depressed or frustrated. Remember this and don’t take it personally.
9. People with anxiety know their anxiety doesn’t always make sense. That’s what makes it so difficult.
Explaining there’s nothing to worry about or they should “get over it” won’t mean anything – it just won’t – because they already know this. Be understanding, calm and relaxed and above all else, just be there. Anxiety feels flighty and there’s often nothing that feels better than having someone beside you who’s grounded, available and OK to go through this with you without trying to change you.
10. Don’t try to change them.
You’ll want to give advice. But don’t. Let them know that to you, they’re absolutely fine the way they are and that you don’t need to change them or fix them. If they ask for your advice then of course, go for it. Otherwise, let them know they are enough. More than enough, actually. Just the way they are.
11. Don’t confuse their need to control their environment with their need to control you. Sometimes they look the same. They’re not.
The need to control everything that might go wrong is hard work for anxious people, and it also might make you feel controlled. See it for what it is: the need to feel safe and in control of the possibility of anxiety running the show – not the need to control you. You might get frustrated, and that’s OK; all relationships go through that. Having compassion doesn’t mean you have to go along with everything put in front of you, so talk things out gently (not critically) if you need to.
And finally …
12. Know how important you are to them.
Anyone who sticks around through the hard stuff is a keeper. People with anxiety know this. Nothing sparks a connection more than really getting someone, being there and bringing the fun into the relationship. Be the one who refuses to let anxiety suck the life out of everything. And know you’re a keeper. Yep. You are. Know they’re grateful – so grateful – for everything you do. And they love you back.
Read more: http://themighty.com/2015/07/12-things-to-know-when-someone-you-love-has-anxiety1/#ixzz3fiGYkMOH
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Pope Francis demands end to Christian 'genocide' in Middle East
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CANADA
ELECTION- u know we fought for May back
in 2007- HOWEVER.... the Green Party of Canada had done nothing and has no
platform.... and in 2015 is still the same.... we, many women of Canada and
globally, fought for Elizabeth May 2 be represented in 2007- but come one.....
Green Party needs 2 get off their arses and get 2 do some hard work in the
communities like the ‘real’ parties......
anyone can protest or march... then party up and go home..... Canadians
deserve better..... and 55 years of fighting for rights.... am finally giving
this a pass....
Greens blocked from debates
Party says exclusion denies voters full range of national viewpoints
Party says exclusion denies voters full range of national viewpoints
JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA - The federal Green party says leader Elizabeth May is being unfairly excluded from two high-profile election debates, denying Canadian voters a full range of national viewpoints.
May has not been invited to an exchange of views on the economy hosted by the Globe and Mail newspaper and Google Canada, nor one on foreign policy planned by the Munk Debates.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have been asked to take part in these debates.
In both cases, the organizers say they chose to invite leaders whose parties have official status in the House of Commons, which requires at least 12 seats. The Green party, Bloc Quebecois and Forces et Democratie each have two seats.
May has been invited to a number of other events with rival leaders, including one hosted by Maclean's magazine early next month.
Green party spokesman Julian Morelli said in an interview that he privately asked the Globe and Munk organizers to reconsider their decisions, without success.
Morelli said he is ‟quite stunned" that the organizations would leave May off their invitation lists with no ‟solid rationale." ‟We're not begging to be in these debates with the Globe or Munk, nor should we have to," he said.
‟This is about Canadians having an opportunity to hear from all the leaders in a forum that's unscripted." The run-up to the general election, expected in October, will see a variety of encounters in different formats - unlike other recent ballots when major leaders debates have been limited to televised exchanges in English and French.
Sean Humphrey, the Globe and Mail's vice-president of marketing, defended the format of the newspaper's planned Calgary event, to be streamed live on globeandmail.com, in partnership with Google Canada, and distributed through YouTube.
‟We believe our proposal, and the official parties invited, will lead to focused discussion on the Canadian economy," he said in an email.
Munk Debates chairman Rudyard Griffiths said in May that inviting all six parties with MPs ‟would unduly limit our ability to hold a substantive debate." ‟We really struggled with this," Griffiths said this week in an interview.
‟It's somewhat arbitrary to move off the criteria that we've chosen." Morelli said that's not good enough, stressing that the Green party plans to run a full, national slate of candidates in the election.
In letters to the Globe and Munk, he pointed out that Preston Manning took part in the 1993 TV debate even though the Reform party held just one seat.
May has led the federal debate on climate change, anti-terrorism legislation and Canada's military involvement in Iraq, Morelli said in the interview.
She has been asked to take part in the televised French and English leaders debates to be aired by a consortium of broadcasters on Oct. 7 and 8 respectively.
May has also agreed to participate in the Aug. 6 leaders debate organized by Maclean's that will be broadcast on several television and radio outlets and stream via Facebook and YouTube.
In addition, May received an invitation this week from the venerable Empire Club of Canada to a debate with other party leaders on business and financial issues - the same general focus as the Globe and Google event.
The Canadian Press is jointly owned by the parent companies of the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and Montreal's La Presse.
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EXCELLENT...
our environment... this is awesome.
Canada to
sign Arctic fish deal Agreement will block commercial fishing
in area size of Mediterranean Sea BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada appears poised to sign an international agreement to block commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean until more is known about the potential of the resource.
A source close to the negotiations told The Canadian Press that the deal is to be signed next Thursday in Oslo.
A Fisheries and Oceans spokeswoman confirmed that Canada will be in Norway next week.
‟We can confirm that we are planning to attend a meeting in Norway with other Arctic Ocean coastal states to discuss further measures against unregulated high-seas fishing in the central Arctic Ocean," Carole Saindon wrote in an email.
‟Details of the results of those discussions will be released at the conclusion of the meeting." Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark and Norway reached an interim agreement in February 2014 to work toward protecting Arctic waters beyond the 200-kilometre territorial limit of their respective shores, an area the size of the Mediterranean Sea.
‟The participants recognized the need for interim precautionary measures to prevent any future commercial fisheries without the prior establishment of appropriate regulatory mechanisms," the countries said in a news release.
The final signing of that agreement has been expected, said Michael Byers, an international law expert at the University of British Columbia.
‟The signing has been planned for some time, and postponed for the last year or so because of (events in) Ukraine," he wrote. ‟I . . . have been expecting something this summer." Russia announced in June that it was ready to sign the deal.
The waters in question are beyond the jurisdiction of the five signatory states. They have acknowledged the need to bring the rest of the world - especially major fishing nations such as China, Japan, South Korea and the European Union countries - on board with the moratorium.
There is currently no commercial fishing in the central Arctic.
But recent research has found more than 800 commercial species are moving poleward at up to 26 kilometres a year. The effect is especially pronounced in the Arctic.
As much as 40 per cent of the central Arctic Ocean has been ice-free during recent summers, making industrial fishing viable for the first time.
Last year, the Canadian government announced a ban on new commercial fisheries in territorial waters in the western Arctic until more research can be done.
New commercial fisheries in the Beaufort Sea will only be considered after research has shown surplus and sustainable stocks.
Local Inuvialuit are to get first dibs on any new licences.
The U.S. has made similar moves on its part of the Beaufort.
In 2012, more than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries - including 551 from Canada - called for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more research can be completed. They said such activities should be prohibited until there's a better understanding of the area and sustainable fishing quotas can be set.
in area size of Mediterranean Sea BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada appears poised to sign an international agreement to block commercial fishing in the central Arctic Ocean until more is known about the potential of the resource.
A source close to the negotiations told The Canadian Press that the deal is to be signed next Thursday in Oslo.
A Fisheries and Oceans spokeswoman confirmed that Canada will be in Norway next week.
‟We can confirm that we are planning to attend a meeting in Norway with other Arctic Ocean coastal states to discuss further measures against unregulated high-seas fishing in the central Arctic Ocean," Carole Saindon wrote in an email.
‟Details of the results of those discussions will be released at the conclusion of the meeting." Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark and Norway reached an interim agreement in February 2014 to work toward protecting Arctic waters beyond the 200-kilometre territorial limit of their respective shores, an area the size of the Mediterranean Sea.
‟The participants recognized the need for interim precautionary measures to prevent any future commercial fisheries without the prior establishment of appropriate regulatory mechanisms," the countries said in a news release.
The final signing of that agreement has been expected, said Michael Byers, an international law expert at the University of British Columbia.
‟The signing has been planned for some time, and postponed for the last year or so because of (events in) Ukraine," he wrote. ‟I . . . have been expecting something this summer." Russia announced in June that it was ready to sign the deal.
The waters in question are beyond the jurisdiction of the five signatory states. They have acknowledged the need to bring the rest of the world - especially major fishing nations such as China, Japan, South Korea and the European Union countries - on board with the moratorium.
There is currently no commercial fishing in the central Arctic.
But recent research has found more than 800 commercial species are moving poleward at up to 26 kilometres a year. The effect is especially pronounced in the Arctic.
As much as 40 per cent of the central Arctic Ocean has been ice-free during recent summers, making industrial fishing viable for the first time.
Last year, the Canadian government announced a ban on new commercial fisheries in territorial waters in the western Arctic until more research can be done.
New commercial fisheries in the Beaufort Sea will only be considered after research has shown surplus and sustainable stocks.
Local Inuvialuit are to get first dibs on any new licences.
The U.S. has made similar moves on its part of the Beaufort.
In 2012, more than 2,000 scientists from 67 countries - including 551 from Canada - called for a moratorium on commercial fishing in the Arctic until more research can be completed. They said such activities should be prohibited until there's a better understanding of the area and sustainable fishing quotas can be set.
ENVIRONMENT-
Preserving salmon a job for community
STEPHEN CHASE
Take a minute to consider what Atlantic salmon means to this province. It's part of our identity, intermingled with our past, present and future. From long before European settlers landed here, salmon was a mainstay of aboriginal life and is still a centrepiece of native livelihood and ceremony.
Fishing lodges on the mainland and in Cape Breton have a long history of welcoming fishers from all corners of the world, transported in canoes by local guides poling to secret spots, a world away from lives left behind.
How many generations have shared the bond of standing in waders casting into a pool, content in that tranquil moment, yet hoping it will be shattered in the split second of a strike?
When you consider salmon and its place in our history, lifestyle, economy and culture, especially with respect to First Nations, its value is immeasurable.
But considerable pressures are being placed on our salmon, from environmental factors in our oceans and rivers to overfishing by the international commercial fishery. And while we know that there are good years and bad years for our salmon runs, the trend is troublesome.
Since the 1970s, returns of adult salmon to Eastern Canadian rivers have dropped from 1.8 million per year to less than half that, an average of 0.7 million per year. In 2014, 70 per cent of the 60 rivers monitored by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) fell short of their conservation limits for salmon.
Given salmon's importance and its precarious situation, the work of the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation (ASCF) is vital. The foundation was formed nearly 10 years ago, when the federal government provided a $30 million endowment to fund Atlantic salmon conservation.
Through its advisory panels of scientists, biologists and conservation experts, ASCF uses the interest earned on that endowment, and donations from generous sponsors, to fund projects to protect wild Atlantic salmon and its habitat in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec.
Since 2008, we've awarded over $3.5 million for more than 200 projects. This year alone we distributed close to $1.1 million.
The results are considerable: nearly 900,000 square metres of habitat restored and almost 43 million square metres of new habitat created. That's a lot of waterways cleaned up, log jams and abandoned dams removed, trees planted, culverts repaired, river sedimentation dealt with, and obstructions breached to allow headwater access to spawning fish. We also fund restocking programs and initiatives that teach school children about conservation, support leading edge salmon conservation research, offer webinars covering conservation and habitat restoration and recently launched our new webbased resource, The Salmon Hub.
Much of this is done through partnerships with communitybased conservation groups, First Nations and municipalities. Across the region, over 1,000 jobs have been created, mainly in rural areas. Beyond the paying jobs, nearly 3,700 volunteers have donated their time and effort.
While we are proud of the difference the foundation is making, we still turn down many excellent grant applications.
But we are optimistic. Earlier this year, Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea formed an advisory committee on Atlantic salmon. At meetings across the region, proposals were presented on how to advance conservation efforts, a government priority.
We offered our Foundation as an excellent and accountable delivery method for any new federal funding, which is so necessary to saving Canada's iconic wild Atlantic salmon. ASCF already has this mandate and the infrastructure in place to hit the ground running.
How can you help? If you're an angler, honour Ms. Shea's call for ‟catch and release" of salmon across the region. Keep habitat conservation in mind and avoid damaging streams, brooks and riverbanks. If your business, farm or mill borders on waterways, mitigate harmful runoff and plan expansion carefully.
With your diligence, an enhanced effort by DFO and ASCF's support, the king of the fighting fish will have more than a fighting chance. Stephen Chase is executive director of the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation
VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE... CHRONICLE HERALD..
HARPER'S DISDAINFUL
So now that Mi'kmaq researcher Tuma Young has told the native story about Green Cove, will the Mother Canada construction project in Cape Breton Highlands National Park ride roughshod over even our First Nations story, too? After everything else we white people, through our governments, have done to First Nations peoples?
The Mother Canada project is just one more example of Steven Harper's disdain for Canadians and for democracy.
Every one of its patrons is aiding and abetting him in his effort to immortalize himself while our injured and ill soldiers have to prove every year that they are still injured and need our government's help.
Imagine having to prove every year that your legs are still missing in order to continue to qualify for a pension. Shame on all of you.
Marilyn MacPhee, Port Williams
So now that Mi'kmaq researcher Tuma Young has told the native story about Green Cove, will the Mother Canada construction project in Cape Breton Highlands National Park ride roughshod over even our First Nations story, too? After everything else we white people, through our governments, have done to First Nations peoples?
The Mother Canada project is just one more example of Steven Harper's disdain for Canadians and for democracy.
Every one of its patrons is aiding and abetting him in his effort to immortalize himself while our injured and ill soldiers have to prove every year that they are still injured and need our government's help.
Imagine having to prove every year that your legs are still missing in order to continue to qualify for a pension. Shame on all of you.
Marilyn MacPhee, Port Williams
AND..
HALIFAX PIPER FITTING
A monster Mother Canada memorial in Green Cove, Cape Breton, is wrong on so many fronts.
I wanted to put forth an idea. How about a four-metre-high piper, piping the fallen military personnel home.
It should be at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, where so many left from and didn't return.
Rob Forfar, Shelburne
A monster Mother Canada memorial in Green Cove, Cape Breton, is wrong on so many fronts.
I wanted to put forth an idea. How about a four-metre-high piper, piping the fallen military personnel home.
It should be at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, where so many left from and didn't return.
Rob Forfar, Shelburne
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CANADA MILITARY NEWS: Hey Canada , USA, Europe- and world - history
matters.... how can u have a future without the past- good, bad and ugly...
imho/Quotes about history /STOP SCRUBBING FIRST PEOPLES HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
IN AMERICAS... shame on the lot of ya- USA u going all black and
Californ...i...a... movie stars and such- Remember all USA and it matters in
2015 imho/why Latino History matters 2 the USA/Canada Immigration History
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N.L. sex abuse survivor wants to be a voice for other victims
Victim wrote book about experiences, spoke publicly with CBC
Sex abuse victims are often too
ashamed and scared to tell their stories, but one Newfoundland man has lifted a
publication ban on his own case of abuse to tell his story.
For two and a half years, Matthew
Burry was abused in secret by a man in Greenspond, Bonavista Bay, first being
lured into hanging out one-on-one, then morphing into full-blown abuse.
Burry was 12 when the abuse
began.
Scared by threats of losing
friends and family if the secret came out, Burry's abuser
categorically blocked his victim from telling anyone about the abuse.
'I basically just kept this to myself for a long
time and it just bottled up and bottled up.'- Matthew Burry
"I basically kept it to
myself," Burry told CBC News.
"He basically brainwashed me
to believing that if I told anyone that I would lose my friends and
my family wouldn't love me anymore, and that they'd send me to a
boy's home."
The abuse stopped after family
members noticed the man lurking outside the family's home. The pain stemming
from being victimized did not.
"The day that he was
arrested, the town basically knew within a day or two," he said, despite
there being a publication ban in place to protect Burry's identity.
Burry began chronicling his abuse
as part of the healing process. (CBC)
"People in Greenspond
treated me 50/50 — some treated me good, and some treated me and my family
kind of bad, because he was a member of the church and the people of the
church didn't like what they heard."
In Grade 10, depressed and
suicidal, Burry was ready to tell his story on the stand. At the last
moment, his abuser pleaded guilty.
The confession set off a chain of
events that included years of bullying, hospitalization for mental illness
and eventually dropping out of high school.
Part of Burry's inability to
heal, he said, was that he wasn't able to tell his story of abuse — a
publication ban blocked him from publicly identifying himself as the victim.
"I basically just kept this
to myself for a long time and it just bottled up and bottled up."
After the Crown prosecutor denied
his request to lift the ban, Burry said he wrote several lawyers and eventually
got the ban lifted.
Burry began to write a book about
his experiences, and was able to speak publicly to CBC.
"I just feel it's the right
thing to shed some light on what happens behind
closed doors that most people don't understand or
realize," Burry said.
"He was an adult, I was a
kid, and he knew [the] difference ... and I was just too young to
understand what happened."
Now 25, Burry has moved from
Greenspond to Gander, where he's starting running.
"It's a lot of benefits I
experience. I feel a lot more happier and just a lot of benefits I find with
the running, happier, [I] enjoy life more."
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Canada: Never mind. We’ll just ship our energy to China
posted at 2:01 pm on June 15, 2015 by Jazz Shaw
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When we’ve discussed our energy partnership with Canada in the past, realists
have tended to note how our cooperative relationship has produced jobs, lower
gas and oil prices and an improved national security position. And why would
the Canadians want to do business anywhere else when they have a ready partner
with massive refinery capacity and global leading technology resources? But
opponents have fought expansions to this partnership, particularly when it
comes to new pipelines or expanding the types of fossil fuel products we work
together to process. They also seem to want to keep us from opening up foreign
markets by lifting US export bans on crude oil and liquefied natural gas. (LNG)
In the past, I have expressed concerns of my own on these pages, one of them being that if we became too intractable with the Canadians, they may just take their toys and play elsewhere. One possible example could be opening up their western seaboard and exporting energy products all over the world themselves, including to China. Opponents responded by scoffing, assuming we would work out something with the Canadians. Besides… if you wanted to drive a pipeline from the rich oil and gas fields of northern British Columbia to some processing facility and port on that nation’s rugged northwestern coast, you would have to blast your way through a stretch of some of the most inhospitable peaks of the Canadian Rockies imaginable. I mean, you’d have to be insane just to consider the project. Insane, I tell ya!
Boy howdee… those crazy Canadians.
TransCanada Corp said on Friday it expects to start construction this year on natural gas pipeline to British Columbia’s Pacific Coast worth at least C$5 billion ($4.1 billion) following a conditional go-ahead by a Petronas-led consortium for what could be Canada’s first LNG export terminal.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line will connect the prolific Montney gas field near Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia to the Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal, which is planned for Lelu Island on the North Pacific Coast near the port of Prince Rupert.
The conditional go-ahead for the liquefied natural gas terminal is a rare win for TransCanada, which has struggled in recent years to rally support for its crude oil pipeline projects, including the long-delayed Keystone XL line to move oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
The Calgary-based pipeline company has bet big on Canada’s nascent LNG industry, with deals to build more than C$13 billion in natural gas pipelines to serve proposed export projects on the country’s West Coast.
Depressing thoughts about lost opportunities aside, you have to give them credit for taking on a project of this scale. Check out this Google map which shows a pin on Lelu Island. Then look to the East and slightly North until you cross the Rockies and get to Fort. St. John. If you hit the button in the bottom left of the screen marked “Earth” you’ll get a satellite view of the span they’re going to have to drive that pipeline across. But once they finish it and get a processing center constructed on the island (which seems to have a very nice deep water bay) the world will essentially be their oyster. LNG and other products will eventually be able to go straight to tankers and across the globe to whoever is willing to pay them.
Meanwhile, back at home, the feds keep pounding on ExxonMobil for the biggest fines they can manage, yet another Democrat is taking a run at shutting down fracking through a misinterpretation of the Clean Water Act and our restrictions on exports have led to our companies saturating the market to the point where we’re now laying off oil field workers. What a country, baby.
So, good for you, Canada. I can’t really blame you. It’s a big world and a big energy market and there’s no reason you should have to sit on the sidelines waiting for a bunch of bureaucrats to stop sitting on their hands. And on the plus side, if anybody in the US gets seriously tired of living here, there should be a ton of jobs available up there. (Assuming you can manage to not freeze to death in the mountains.)
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