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Two million people die from indoor air pollution every year

JOHANNESBURG, 27 November 2009 (IRIN) – Eat less meat, have smaller herds of animals, switch to more efficient stoves that pollute less, and develop more sustainable public transport systems are some of the lifestyle changes and technical fixes that could save millions of [...]

MP derides jobless as ‘no-good bastards’

MPs’ comments on unemployed, abortion show party’s ‘meanness,’ opposition critics say
OTTAWA–Comments by Conservative MPs deriding homeless people and describing abortion as a procedure that makes women more available to men demonstrate the party’s true colours, opposition critics say.
Nova Scotia Conservative MP Gerald Keddy has apologized for describing unemployed Nova Scotians [...]

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Help write the story of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Posted November 23, 2009
Article source Canadian Museum for Human Rights

This is an invitation to participate in a roundtable discussion in Toronto on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 from 7 – 9 p.m., as part of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ content and story-gathering tour [...]

Canada is in a serious crisis in regard to poverty and homelessness, the only cure to this crisis is not to reduce but eradicate these problems and not in 10 years but now, we need to take action to make this happen (the eradication of poverty & homelessness), we are all in it and we [...]

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Nine high-energy ways to start the day
Posted Thu, Nov 06, 2008

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Morning madness can make you feel like food is a time-luxury you can’t afford. But research shows that breakfast eaters are slimmer and healthier than their coffee-only counterparts. One reason: People who start [...]

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Frontline worker faces forced relocation
By John Bonnar | November 12, 2009
For over 20 years, Gaetan Heroux has worked with homeless and poor people at Dundas and Sherbourne in Toronto’s downtown east end. But the much loved anti-poverty activist now faces forced relocation after he and fellow ID workers wrote a letter of support for [...]

‘Tsubouchi diet’ causes uproar

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It’s a crash diet that is threatening to burn the new Ontario government. Rookie social services minister David Tsubouchi, overseeing drastic cuts to the province’s welfare system, has already infuriated opponents by suggesting welfare recipients could make ends meet by haggling with shopkeepers over tins of tuna. Now he’s published a [...]

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Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Housing  United Kingdom
Tuesday 10th November 2009 – 12:01am
 Shelter: Don’t coop up our children in overcrowded homes

Housing charity Shelter has today called on MPs to show the same concern to the one million children stuck in overcrowded accommodation as they are for battery farm chickens.
More than 270 MPs are [...]

No Mountain Too High
11/9/09
by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Are there any life problems that seem beyond our power to overcome? Let’s think about that for a minute. In the face of life-threatening problems like alcoholism and drug addiction, excuses for feeling powerless like “It’s too difficult,” “It’s too big,” and “I’m not strong enough,” might spring [...]