Foster Care Council of Canada

The Council announced  the formation of a permanent, citizen based, five-year review committee, and invites the public to join. The “Ride for Accountability of Children’s Aid Societies” (RACAS)  is an awareness bicycle ride from Ottawa to Windsor led by John Dunn of the Foster Care Council of Canada. Updates on this [...]

“He’ll probably keep spending his nights at the Oxy, coming home mean, talking fist speak, till she ducks out, goes to the Women’s Centre, which will be closed due to funding cuts, so she’ll do some dumpster diving in the donation box outside the Thrift Shop until she finds another quilt and a spot to lie.”

Making Rights Matter
by Cheryl Duggan
Making Rights Matter was part of a two day dialogue with Miloon Kothari, the United Nations first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing. The Special Rapporteurs job is to investigate, monitor and recommend solutions to human rights problems. They are critical in their views and forthright with [...]

To all persons of poetic persuasion,
The deadline for poems on the theme Crucified Woman (not necessarily Christian) has been postponed indefinitely. Please see the updated poster.
Crucified Woman, 14–15 May 2010
in honour of the statue by Almuth Lutkenhaus-Lackey
inviting artistic reflections in recognition of  the
suffering and courage of women worldwide.

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