Happy Birthday Peacock Poverty!
We welcome you with joy, awe and hope.
We celebrate you.
Time now for Reflecting
Refreshing
and Renewing
Let us see what the new harvest brings…
TBA September 2010

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PEACOCK ANNOUNCEMENTS: May 2010
Greetings and welcome to our eleventh-11th- cycle here at Peacock.
Things have been busy here of late.
The big news is that Peacock Poverty has been invited [...]

Jan 4th, 2010
By CBC News
Prorogation of Parliament will delay review of dozens of government-sponsored bills.
Prorogation of Parliament will delay the review of dozens of government-sponsored bills.
Government-sponsored bills go back to square one unless there is majority consent in the House of Commons to restore them to the stage they were at prior to prorogation.
In the [...]

Taken 2 minutes to email your MP yet?

Christopher White 31 December 2009 at 18:43

Hullo All,
This has certainly exceeded our expectations, we’ve got 2,000+ members in the first 26 hours and counting.
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
The idea of this group was to organize pressure on our MP to show up to work on January 25th, when parliament SHOULD [...]

Dear Friends and Members,
 
Happy New Year!
 
The Centre started off the new year with the release of Hugh Mackenzie’s latest report on executive compensation. The total average compensation for Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs was $7,352,895 in 2008—a stark contrast from the total average Canadian income of $42,305. They pocketed what takes Canadians earning an average [...]

Collateral Christmas Holidays – By Gilles Chiasson Dec 26 2009
I am quite sure it was never meant to be this way
Full of pressure, hostility and addictive abuse
Domestic uproar, spilt over gravy boats and broken toys
Babies crying, children anxious and parents fighting
Most damming of all, the promise, the hope, the expectation
That this day should be happy [...]

Patricia Diaz-Cummings
 
FORWARD is a community-based multicultural group of homeless and under housed women. We began in April of 2005 as a human rights program called “Claiming Our Rights” by researcher Emily Paradis of the University of Toronto. Women came together every week at Sistering to learn about human rights, analyzed their experiences of having their [...]

on aging… (againg)
 
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my [...]

Today (Jan 7) is ‘Old Rock Day’ with the ‘rock’ most associated with January being the beautiful gemstone garnet. That’s right, anyone who celebrates a birthday in January should know that their special birthstone, the same one that can bring them big fortune and lots of luck, is the very same garnet. In fact, this [...]

 
The Business of Giving
Exploring philanthropy, non-profits and socially motivated business, from the Gates Foundation to your donation. A fresh look at the economy of good intentions.
September 25, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Homeless are economic assets, says Gates Foundation CEO
Posted by Kristi Heim
Seattle’s business community should consider homeless people as valuable assets, and tackle homelessness not as [...]

Happy New Year!
 We are very pleased to share information about a number of exciting learning opportunities that Tamarack will be offering in the coming months. These events not only offer you support for your own continued learning but also enable you to participate in enriching the learning of others. We do hope you will join [...]