I am a supporter of the Wet’suwet’en people in their struggle for territorial sovereignty. By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Narwhal, February 21, 2020 https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-loves-the-rule-of-law-unless-were-talking-indigenous-rights/ Last October, an international celebration occurred in the verdant coastal community of Bella Bella, B.C. Members of the Heiltsuk Nation finally opened their Gvakva’aus Hailzaqv, their Big House, a red and yellow […]
Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars
This is an issue in Canada (and the UK according to my friend, Mark, on Facebook). America’s Mental Health Crisis Hidden Behind Bars “Ten psychiatrist jobs have gone unfilled for two years.” By Eric Westervelt and Liz Baker, NPR, February 25 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/25/805469776/americas-mental-health-crisis-hidden-behind-bars It’s recreation time at a Los Angeles County jail known as the Twin […]
Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, Sexual Abuse In Mixed Verdict
Harvey Weinstein Found Guilty Of Rape, Sexual Abuse In Mixed Verdict Colin Dwyer and Vanessa Romo, National Public Radio, February 24, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rglkul7 Editor’s note: This report includes graphic descriptions of sexual assault accusations. Updated at 3:42 p.m. ET A Manhattan jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual abuse but acquitted him […]
Marianne Williamson and the US Presidential Race
Marianne Williamson endorses Bernie Sanders for president By Annie Grayer, CNN, Feb. 23, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/marianne-williamson-bernie-sanders-2020/index.html (CNN)Former Democratic hopeful Marianne Williamson made a surprise appearance at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ rally Sunday in Austin, Texas, to announce her endorsement of the Democratic front-runner. “Bernie Sanders has taken a stand, and Bernie Sanders has been taking a stand […]
The Wet’suwet’en: Balance of the Law in Canada
“The sad fact is that since non-Indigenous peoples arrived on Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples have been “economically inconvenienced.” “Moreover, their lands have been desecrated – plants, animals and land no longer have sanctity, but rather they are treated as mere commodities to sell or to create the next job. “Academics and philosophers concerned about the […]
Enjoy The Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek A Try
Enjoy The Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek A Try NPR, February 21, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try Shake Shack shortened managers’ workweeks to four days at some stores a year and a half ago. Recently, the burger chain expanded the trial to a third of its U.S. stores. Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Companies […]
RCMP Retreats from the Wet’suwet’en Blockades, Building Trust with Indigenous Women
As the RCMP retreats from the Wet’suwet’en blockades, the delicate trust it is building with Indigenous women remains at risk By Jula Hughes and Elizabeth Blaney, The Globe and Mail, February 20, 2020 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-rcmps-involvement-in-the-wetsuweten-blockades-crisis-puts/ Jula Hughes is the dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. Elizabeth Blaney is the director of […]
UN Charges Syria and Russia with Deliberately Targeting Civilians
Please send your prayers to the people of Syria affected by these events. (1) Civilians fleeing, dying as UN charges Syria and Russia are deliberately targeting them United Nations says the attacks could constitute war crimes Reuters/CBC.com, Feb 18, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-displaced-people-targeted-1.5467301 Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed […]
Tara Brach: What Does Love Mean?
Tara Talks: What Does Love Mean? with Tara Brach, 2019-12-18 We are hard-wired for belonging. In this short video, Tara shares the wisdom of children as they answer the question: What does love mean?
Inmates Are Earning Free College Degrees Behind Bars, And Their Recidivism Rate Plunges to 2%
By McKinley Corbley, GoodNewsNetwork, February 12, 2020 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inmates-earn-college-degrees-through-hudson-link/ In a win-win for the public, these New York prisoners proudly earned their college degrees—while they were still behind bars. They were part of the latest graduating class consisting of inmates who’ve gotten their diplomas for free through Hudson Link: a nonprofit degree-granting program dedicated to providing […]
Better Angels: Healing a Divided Nation Begins Face to Face
The dialogue so needed in Canada. . . From 2019. So say the Better Angels of the partisan divide. Sarah Lazarovic, YES!, November 12, 2019 https://dev-wp.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/12/healing-a-divided-nation Three weeks after the 2016 presidential election, a group of 21 people came together in South Lebanon, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, to talk. The group comprised 11 people who’d supported […]
Creating Societies of Love, the Divine Feminine Rising
www.voiceoffreedom.ca We humans are grappling with many issues on this planet. In the lightworker community we call it the the building of Nova Earth, a new and different, conscious reality. November 2011, in a personal reading with Archangel Michael through channel Linda Dillon, he told me we are here to translate “the values and the […]
‘Going After Canada Where it Hurts the Most’: GTA Rail Blockade Supports B.C. Pipeline Protest
‘We’re working apart but together in solidarity for the Wet’suwet’en land defenders,’ organizer says By Desmond Brown, CBC News, February 15, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-protesters-ontario-rail-blockade-1.5465525 Protesters gathered at a rail yard in Vaughan, Ontario, on Saturday, vowing to continue the pop-up protests in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en who oppose a natural gas pipeline […]
A Bigger Picture of the Pipeline Protests in Canada
www.voiceoffreedom.ca If we look to the Universal Law of Balance – As Within So Without – what do “the pipeline” issues in Canada represent metaphorically? In the bigger picture without, the pipeline can – and often does – represent the control and greed of the elite furthering their agenda, indiscriminately extracting Gaia’s natural resources. So […]
Protesting in Canada
Canadians are protesting, and it’s about a lot more than a pipeline, as the post below says. A fire is lit on the legislature steps in Victoria, BC, the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver was shut down, the intersection at Cambie and Broadway was blocked, and a sacred fire lit there, as well. Broadview Wet’suwet’en […]
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