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Here is a pdf presentation the City of Vancouver developed to present to the NEB- Spill Impact Presentation. So stupid this has to be done. So glad they did an excellent job. The evidence is obvious, Kinder Morgan has got to go!! No Tankers! No Pipeline.
Hey Everyone, I just wanted to share the new blog I made. It's called "I Heart Granville Island" and I am really happy with my new idea.
I hope you will check it out! I am working really hard on it and I hope it's a huge success. But I need everyone's help. I want to share how wonderful Granville Island. I hope to get all the businesses and artists to let me make videos for them and then share them there.
That's where you come you, I need you to share the blog/videos/info so we can tell all the wonderful people around the world what a super special place Granville Island is. Will you help? I thought you would. :D Thanks!!
Such very sad news today. I cried when I watched this video now, not sure why it touched me so. He really did have a BEAUTIFUL MIND and she was a wonderful compassionate understanding soul to have loved and care for this man and the issues that he endured.
John Forbes Nash
Jr., a mathematical genius whose struggle with schizophrenia was
chronicled in the 2001 movie "A Beautiful Mind," has died along with his
wife in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. He was 86.
Alicia Nash- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/p_anash.html
After three years of familial turmoil, Alicia filed for divorce, something that the Hollywood version
of Nash's life left out. With the help of her mother, Alicia raised
their son John on her own. Later he, too, turned out to have
schizophrenia. In 1970 a decade after the divorce and with her
ex-husband struggling just to survive, Alicia took him into her home not
as a husband but as what she called her " boarder." "They
say that a lot of people are left on the back wards of mental
institutions," says Alicia, speaking of her decision to take Nash in.
"And somehow their few chances to get out go by and they just end up
there. So, that was one of the reasons I said, 'Well, I can put you up.'
"
"If she hadn' t taken him in, he would have wound up on the streets,"
believes Nasar. "He had no income. He had no home.
I think that Alicia
saved his life." In the 1980s, John slowly emerged from schizophrenia
and in 1994 he received a Nobel Prize in Economics for the game theory work he completed as a young man. In the spring of 2001, Alicia and John were remarried, 38 years after their divorce
Poor Poor Paige! This is such a sad and disturbing story but doesn't surprise me. The DTES is plagued with issues like this. Much of it stems back to social assistance and lack of funding and services. The system treats people like dirt. And you happen to be aboriginal then it's often less than dirt because you are stigmatized. Somehow people think it's their fault. Enough already!!
There is no one there for the people. I can't even begin to tell you the issues I faced when I was on assistance and to be a child born to an addicted mother trying to survive anyway she could it's just heartbreaking.
You have to hear this video. We NEED CHANGE NOW!!
As she says when are we going to have a proper program to help them not have to resort to survival sex and drug debt collections. WAKE UP PEOPLE!! WAKE UP BC!
“The professional indifference that plagued her life — that prevented
her from receiving a minimal standard of child protection, a minimal
standard of health care and even a minimal standard of education
services — must be the product of a system that has effectively
discounted the value of girls like her.”
"Turpel-Lafond said the investigation is among the most troubling her
office has ever conducted, but it is sadly not unique. She estimates
there are about 100 to 150 aboriginal youth similar to Paige in the
Downtown Eastside. "
I feel so sad for Paige, I am going to say prayers and do a little healing ceremony so she can rest in peace. Shameful, someone needs to be held responsible and it's you and me!! We need to help change this. Please do what you can, now!
Now normally I am Green but for this I am voting NDP! Constance is for the people. Last night my friend asked who she was, I was like, that's Constance Barnes, she's like a celebrity! She really cares about the people and fights for them.
I first became aware of her when I was following Jagrup's Welfare Challenge. http://mlaonwelfare.com/ She is a fine lady who has experienced hard times herself and has been on welfare. She knows the unfairness of the system and she can relate to others who have suffered the same challenges. Her dad Emery Barnes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery_Barnes went on welfare many years ago to make a point about the unfairness of it. Sadly nothing has changed. This video is four years old and still nothing is changed, it's time for change!! I believe that Constance is one of The Changerzz-http://thechangerzz.blogspot.ca/
Please vote for her. Defeat Hedy Fry and let's get someone in here who will really make a difference and move forward in the positive ways that we need. http://constancebarnes.ndp.ca/about Constance is a popular municipal leader and tourism
professional with the experience and determination to deliver results as
Vancouver Centre’s next MP. She’s ready to get to work with Tom Mulcair’s NDP team to:
take back our coast by stopping environmentally-hazardous oil pipeline development projects;
tackle household debt with plans for affordable childcare and housing; and
defend public health care and reverse Harper’s $36-billion funding cut.
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Centre NDP candidate. Partnership Director Classical Chinese
Garden.Advocate $10 day Child Care Plan. Avid cyclist, lover of all
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"In a huge victory for First Nations rights, the BC government has
bought out the coal mining permits of the Sacred Headwaters region in
Northern BC in an effort to create a conversation around conservation,
governance and land management.
In light of this victory, Beyond Boarding
has released a portion of their documentary, Northern Grease which
showcases the beauty, actions, and sacrifice of the Klabona Keepers to
fight for the Sacred Headwaters."
If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it
There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be
Produced by Chipotle, the film was
created by Academy Award®–winning Moonbot Studios and is set to a remake
of the song “Pure Imagination” from the 1971 film classic “Willy Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory.” Beautifully performed by Grammy
Award®–winning artist Fiona Apple, the song is available for download on
iTunes.
If only they could grow their own gardens and then could sell and share the food. And then I remember about this man. We have all the technology, food just keeps getting more expensive and everything they talk about people living in a city can relate too!! The DTES is our BRONKS and we need to CHANGE that. ARE YOU ONE OF THE CHANGERZ?
"We've gotten threats from the oil and gas industry," Martinez says in Kid Warrior,
a short documentary profiling his pursuits. "Shit like that's scary. My mom wouldn't let me walk home from school for, like, the next two months. For me, it's 14-year-old kid going up against a multimillion dollar industry who will stop at nothing to silence my voice. Weird shit happens when people start to tell the truth about big industries that take advantage of communities and take advantage of resources."
"They
say that a lot of people are left on the back wards of mental
institutions," says Alicia, speaking of her decision to take Nash in.
"And somehow their few chances to get out go by and they just end up
there. So, that was one of the reasons I said, 'Well, I can put you up.'
"
