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Men’s Guide to Ultimate Power – Strategy #2

Here is the third excerpt from my upcoming book. I posted the Introduction and the first of 50 strategies over the last two weeks. I welcome your feedback! “Men’s Guide to Ultimate Power -50 Strategies to Hold Women Back (Or Not)” Strategy 2. Expect Women to act like Mini-men “Therefore to be a more effective communicator, you must

Get mad and support teachers for these 5 reasons

IF YOU ARE NOT MAD AT CHRISTY CLARK and the GOVERNMENT, THEN YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION! Here are the facts (according to me) you need to know about the BC teachers strike (although given the media blackout it’s hard to tell exactly what is going on). Fact 1. In 2002 when Christy Clark was

Parents join me for a 15 minute revolution on Tuesday

The BC teachers are still on strike.Please show up at your school at 9am to 915 on Tuesday with your kids and tell the government to bargain fairly! I have followed the debates and now am convinced that the Liberal government did not really want to solve the strike at all. Although the issue seems

Must read A Thousand Spendid Suns

I just read “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini (author of “The Kite Runner”). It gives a real picture of why women in Afghanistan have so few rights today. Although women were once politicians and academics, when the Taliban came in they essentially forced women into their homes. It helped me understand how

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Sexism at the highest ranks is disturbing

Great article on stereotypes by our own Justice Minster. Its disgusting. Moms change diapers, dads are leaders! http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Moms+change+diapers+Dads+form+leaders+Justice+ministers/9969889/story.html

The Vancouver PAC Elephant under the Table

Here is what Vancouver parents are afraid to talk about. As you know from my blog the Lord Byng Secondary School parents (including me) had a big fight last week about the PAC executive election “irregularities.” A new slate got elected and some have suggested that the Executive consists primarily of those parents who “opposed the new

Its sad when our value differences make us hate each other

As you know, our PAC had a big fight this week over a potential abuse of the PAC election process. Thanks Peter Ormesher for sending me this article about people who are opposed to LGBT programs. It partly explains the rason why our PAC Chair (who is in this group) would want to gain power….I

My sad story of PAC abuse of process

I just want to let you know that abuse of process does happen! Although I practiced law for over twenty years, I have never witnessed such manipulation of the law as has occurred over the last few weeks at the hands of Lord Byng School PAC Chair and the current Executive Council (EC). They misinformed and

I am in the news fighting for PAC election fairness

http://dailyxtra.com/vancouver/news/reelection-pac-chair-cheryl-chang-questioned Parents challenge Chang’s opposition to school board’s trans policy A queue of parents crowded into the hallway of a small international college in downtown Vancouver June 17 only to be turned away from a meeting of their own parent advisory council (PAC). The meeting follows the Vancouver School Board’s June 16 adoption of