BC Childcare Crisis has existed 15+ Years! SHAME!!!

The Crisis
 http://www.10aday.ca/the_child_care_crisis

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It's time for affordable childcare in BC
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Wow, takes me back. I remember nearly 15 years ago...well actually let's say 16 years ago...when I was pregnant and taking the prenatal course over on Commercial drive...come to think of it...and the Registered Nurse teaching the course asked me if I was prepared for daycare and what my plans were for working and taking care of the baby. I was clueless.

I had NO IDEA that daycares were $900 a month for babies, $675 for 3 and older ($15 a hour private) and there were lots of rules- on both sides and well it was a huge awakening into how f___d the world is when you have to pay nearly as much as you make to PAY someone to take care of your child. Sort of takes the fun out of motherhood when your are super stressed trying to survive...and can't raise your own child :( (Hello behavioral problems...).

I shall not go on...but just one more point..Paul Martin ? he was going to bring in the $10 day care plan back when Angel was about 3.5...but he lost the Federal election. He was basically bringing in Quebec's daycare plan. I heard that was formed when women went to man in charge of that ministry at the time and locked the door and kept him there until he agreed. I like that! Sending love and light, let's do what's right. Let's take care of moms and kids!! Free daycare for all!!

Let them run in the forest...green schools, gardens, solar...the future..we got to go for it. If Vancouver doesn't become the greenest, socially just city ever...that will suck because we know what is wrong, we have the technology and knowledge..we just all need to work together to do it. Do we have the wisdom?

I don't know why this $6million man clip popped into my head...I guess I am nostalgic..after sharing the clips for Norma Rae yesterday.



We were fed all this hope and that technology could make things better. But where is wisdom and ethics. We have the technology...we can rebuild the systems...Go Green. A Socially Just world.







Related Links:
https://earthday.ca/

Check this out, the people who started this school in Bali, they are Canadian and American.
WtHeck? Why don't we have Green Schools all over BC.
Seriously...let's get with the program...the Green program.
https://www.greenschool.org/about/
https://www.greenschool.org/  

Vancouver City- We Need to Grow Our Own Food
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/vancouver-city-we-need-to-grow-our-own.html




https://peoplesclimate.org/

https://actionnetwork.org/events/peoples-climate-march-vancouver?referrer=&source=widget

Stop KinderMorgan Protest/Rally/Pledge
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/justin-trudeau-can-you-hear-us-now.html

Photo by Contessa Abbott- Stop Kinder Morgan Protest- Rally- From City Hall across Granville bridge to Library-Nov 2016

 International Women's Day 2016
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/unite-for-international-womens-day.html

Salmon Need Your Help!
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2013/03/salmon-need-your-help-yes-you.html 

#FishFarmsGetOut
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/09/eviction-party-videos-fishfarmsgetout.html








https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/we-must-restore-balance-its-about.html

Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance from Marchfelder on Vimeo.

If Nature is not kept healthy, humans will not survive.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/12/if-nature-is-not-kept-healthy-humans.html

DTES Survivors Totem Pole Raising
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/survivors-totem-pole-raising-photos.html



We need a Singing Revolution from Mexico to Canada.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/we-need-singing-revolution-mexico-to.html

Rock Candy Revolution
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2011/05/rock-candy-revolution-tedxtalks.html 




Remember this...what's taking so frigging long...Let's get 'er done!!

"Our vision: an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on the Earth."

Sure sounds goods...doesn't it? Let's make some noise and some change...Do it for your kids. Do it for ALL the kids and the next 7 generations. Please!

Remember...People Died and are Dying For Your Rights...

Updated!
I think we've grown up thinking we had all these rights and forgetting how many people died for them. Especially today for example it's Remembrance Day in Canada.

 I'm not talking just wars, I am talking the Civil Rights Movements in the 60's and the Women's Rights and many many people who have stood up for injustices and I just know that in my 30's when I got out of college...as a mature student...I worked 11 years...got hurt, got screwed over by WCB, then went to school, huge debt, screwed again and I was like "what" I thought I had all these rights? and then to have a child and living through a system that is meant to keep people weak and insecure...but not knowing that and thinking it was me...we just grew up believing in a dream and taking it for granted..we were taught that and we teach our kids...so when the reality bites us in the ass, we are like wtf. It confuses people.

That's why things like Standing Rock are so important, people are waking up...but Standing up and Standing Together is scary, isn't convenient or fun, and we really are at a crossroads in time...maybe we've been here a lot in the past..like in Europe, Egypt, Rome...Ancient times..we've just forgotten..or it was all erased, burned..like the Mayan codecs in Mexico.

With everything that has just happened and is happening in the US, it's important to realize what is happening worldwide. 

The knowledge has been revealed- the Apocalypse occurred or as the actual word means "disclosure of knowledge" has occurred. -An apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning "uncovering"), translated literally from Greek, is 'through the concealed', meaning a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation. In religious contexts it is usually a disclosure of something hidden, “a vision of heavenly secrets that can make sense of earthly realities"

And the whole war thing is difficult, no one wants to support war, I sure don't want to endorse war but I do want to support and send love to people who died trying to bring justice and rights to people when they were being and are being oppressed.

That's what Remembrance day is for me. That's what I want to Remember. 

Here's a couple of my posts from previous years.

https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2012/11/remembrance-day-2012-remember.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/why-wear-poppy-remembrance-day-1111.html

Other important links
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/suffrage/ 
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/the-fall-of-wall-of-shame-heroes-1989.html 

So in light of what is happening in the US we must watch for signs and be forgiving. Raging against your neighbour will never bring peace. http://katu.com/news/local/protests-set-to-continue-thursday-meeting-point-set-downtown

But taking on the system might http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/11/after_trump_victory_oregonians.html

And forgiveness is huge. We must remember to forgive, but not forget.
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/forgiveness-signs-and-double-rainbows.html 




 https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/forgiveness-signs-and-double-rainbows.html

 

And watch for signs, we have many signs but people discount them and we suffer for that



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3350753/Did-blind-Bulgarian-clairvoyant-predict-rise-ISIS-Nostradamus-Balkans-died-20-years-ago-said-great-Muslim-war-2016.html 

And Teach your children love, kindness, respect. Teach them we are all equal, that no one is more important than another. Teach them to have a voice and to unite and protect each other against the injustices of the world. It's the only way we will have peace. 

I had to come in and update this. With the news of the BCTF win in the Supreme court I ask that we remember the Residential School Survivors for their strength and resilience to survive a war that was waged on children for the entire history of Canada. Please keep them in your hearts and prayers today.  For the First Nations who fought in the war but upon their return had to give up their status.

And for everyone who has stood up and fought against the Social Injustices of the world, let's remember them especially The Survivor's Totem Pole - Pigeon Park- DTES A Survivor's Totem Pole raised by communities struggling for justice and dignity in the Downtown Eastside since colonization, it honours First Nations, LGBTQ, Japanese, Chinese and South Asian survivors of racism and injustice. On Nov 5 2016, a historic moment in time occurred. Here are some of the interviews and photos and videos I created to document this, so that it can live on and never be forgotten.  https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/the-survivors-totem-pole-pigeon-park.html

And for all the Teachers with kind hearts and souls, who truly care about children, let us remember all the hard work they have done and the sacrifices they have made.


Teachers Federation of BC Wins in Supreme Court!!!
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/11/teachers-federation-of-bc-wins-in.html

And for our parents, let us remember the lessons we learned and the lessons we have taught...