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Tell Harper: Hands off our reproductive rights »

lemon-sprinkles:

Stephen Harper said he would not re-open the debate on a woman’s right to choose.

But 24 hours from now, he’ll allow Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth to put forward a motion in the House of Commons which clearly opens the possibility of re-criminalizing abortion.

It’s up to you to make sure Canadian women and men know about it.

When I began my nursing career in the 1950s in Quebec, contraception was illegal and women had no say over family planning. They had no choice, and some faced desperation.

I saw women come to the hospital, bleeding and in pain, only to discover they’d tried to end their pregnancy themselves.

As a nurse, and later as an MP and Senator, I took part in the hard-fought battles to institutionalize and enshrine the right to choose in Canadian law.

And in 1988 the debate was settled when the Supreme Court ruled: “The decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy is essentially a moral decision and in a free and democratic society, the conscience of the individual must be paramount to that of the state.”

If you believe in a Canadian woman’s right to choose, you have 24 hours to speak up and spread the word.

Please sign the petition and share it on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you.

- Lucie Pépin



(Of course it’s an official LPC petition. They’re sneaky that way but yolo)

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Source: lemon-sprinkles

Even in 1849, people learned that providing welfare on an “out-relief” basis was way more cost effective and humane than imprisoning the poor in superprisons work houses.

There’s things I just can’t understand about modern government.

Topping, C. W. Canadian Penal Institutions. Toronto: 1929. To those noble dead whose passing has convinced me that death is by no means the greatest of evils

Topping, C. W. Canadian Penal Institutions. Toronto: 1929.

To those noble dead whose passing has convinced me that death is by no means the greatest of evils
This section is called “Canada”. It seems a more accurate name would be “Crime in Canada”. Is it too much to ask to read news that doesn’t entirely consist of what various people are being arrested for? No wonder Stephen Harper thinks we are dissolving into a mass of criminals in need of mandatory minimum sentencing and super prisons. There’s a serious disconnect between actual crime and news-reported crime.

This section is called “Canada”. It seems a more accurate name would be “Crime in Canada”.

Is it too much to ask to read news that doesn’t entirely consist of what various people are being arrested for?

No wonder Stephen Harper thinks we are dissolving into a mass of criminals in need of mandatory minimum sentencing and super prisons. There’s a serious disconnect between actual crime and news-reported crime.
These are the kind of people whose thoughts I read in my spare time.

These are the kind of people whose thoughts I read in my spare time.
nationalpost: No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatterThe playgrounds, hallways and cafeterias of Quebec’s largest school board will soon be French-only zones as authorities move to silence other languages, even during recess.In a bid to ensure its 110,000 students master French, the Commission scolaire de Montréal has announced a new code of conduct declaring French de rigueur at all times during the school day.Diane De Courcy, the board’s chairwoman, said the approach will be persuasive not punitive.“There will be no language police,” she said. Instead, monitors who overhear children using their mother tongue during recess will simply remind them of the rules.“If they are automatically switching to another language, [the monitor] will gently tap them on the shoulder — not on the head — to tell them, ‘Remember, we speak French. It’s good for you.’ I don’t know where I live anymore.

nationalpost:

No recess from French as Montreal schools to scan playground chatter
The playgrounds, hallways and cafeterias of Quebec’s largest school board will soon be French-only zones as authorities move to silence other languages, even during recess.

In a bid to ensure its 110,000 students master French, the Commission scolaire de Montréal has announced a new code of conduct declaring French de rigueur at all times during the school day.

Diane De Courcy, the board’s chairwoman, said the approach will be persuasive not punitive.

“There will be no language police,” she said. Instead, monitors who overhear children using their mother tongue during recess will simply remind them of the rules.

“If they are automatically switching to another language, [the monitor] will gently tap them on the shoulder — not on the head — to tell them, ‘Remember, we speak French. It’s good for you.’

I don’t know where I live anymore.

 Source: nationalpost