“Forgiving yourself for your negativity and failure makes it so much easier to forgive others for the same frailities. You no longer need to project all of those unacceptable qualites onto people around you. ” Jane Hope.
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“Why do women leave home to take their services into the marketplace? Money? For sure. But maybe the need to materialize. You had to have been there to know what it was like to be invisible. To move and not be seen, to talk and not be heard. To have family return to the house every evening
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This is not new, but it sure is powerful! http://en.avaaz.org/1198/watch-this-and-youll-never-think-of-the-word-pretty-the-same-way-again?utm_source=facebook_avaaz&utm_medium=social_media&utm_campaign=hot-videos
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I just read an article in The Advocate (BC lawyers magazine) by lawyer Sandra L Kovacs. She suggests that unless big law firrms make life better for lawyers (e.g. allow flex time, reasonable work loads, family consideration etc.) these employees will leave, set up shop and compete directly with them for clients. She states: “While lip service is paid
If young lawyers keep grinding law firms are slow to shift Read More »
The Whistler Film festival launched two new films of interest to women. The first is “Status Quo?” about the status of women in Canada, directed by Karen Cho. Needless to say, it was an emotional event since so many Canadian women are still being held back (e.g. limited access to medical help and no national child care policy).
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Two years of investigationg. This demonstrates how a legal-type process can actually cause more harm than good. I wonder if there will ever be more restorative processes eventually where accountability and honesty prevail? http://www.vancouversun.com/news/should+have+caught+Pickton+sooner+Vancouver+police+chief/7716616/story.html
Sad 1500 page report on Pickton does not heal Read More »
Thanks to Tracey Young who wrote a letter to the editor of the Vacncouver Sun last week. As a social worker she explained how mentally ill people fall bewteen the cracks and end up harming themselves or others. In this case 3 Vancouver women over 65 ended up in the hospital after being attacked by
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“For girls, peace, harmony, social stability and non-combative non-heirarchal play are essential to having fun. When girls play informally, winning is not vital; they seek applause and admiration. Paramount to girls is “being liked.” Helen Fisher, The First Sex.
I hope we (the public) do not have to pay the legal fees to defend the RCMP, our national police force. I have lost track of all the litigation. From harassment suits to systemic discrimination. Yet yesterday I read that two female mounties are now launching a charter challenge because they were not allowed to top
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