Unemployment is rising as our economy swirls the bowl and the Harper government searches for ways to prevent Canadians from accessing Employment Insurance.  I will refrain from making the usual jokes about that idiotic name as it is just too easy and beneath me.  The Liberals under Michael Ignatieff want the government to expand eligibility [...]

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Tokens come in many forms.  They can express what words cannot and cause memories to rush back.  But tokens can also be an evil thing.  Any of us old enough to remember the civil rights movement, who are active in the feminist movement and the still struggling gay rights movements know that tokens are also [...]

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I want to apologize for not posting anything in the past week.  I hope to have something up in a few days.  I have several unfinished drafts but have found it extremely difficult to write this past week.  I am suffering from the loss of someone very close to me.  His departure left me lethargic [...]

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Child abuse is the most abhorrent crime I can conceive.  If ever a crime demanded a zero tolerance policy, the abuse of the most vulnerable members of our community qualifies without question.  Physical and sexual abuse speaks for itself.  But what about psychological abuse?  Twisting a child’s psyche is often the most difficult form of [...]

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Homelessness is a chronic problem in Western industrialized states but this current recession is swelling the numbers.  After all it was the sub-prime mortgage disaster that pushed the ball over the cliff in the first place.  Thousands have lost their homes; many of them ordinary working people who had bought into the American dream.  There [...]

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