Porter: Linda Chamberlain rose from rough beginnings to become a champion of the mentally ill
Published On Fri Nov 25 2011

Video: Linda Chamberlain
Linda Chamberlain has lead a very interesting life. She’s been orphaned, homeless, a burlesque dancer, a fugitive, accused and aquitted for murder…. She is now dying of cancer and [...]

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Recommendations for an Ontario Income Security Review
May 2010
Table of Contents
The Social Assistance Review Advisory Council
Letter of transmittal
Executive Summary
Recommended Terms of Reference

Scope of the Ontario Income Secuirty Review
Key Strategies to Guide the Ontario Income Security Review
Measurable Outcomes
The Review Process
Why Ontario Needs an Income Security Review
Introduction
From Social [...]

“Sharing The Burden”
with Stephan Cayton Briones
Sharing the Burden is “an artisitic social justice endeavour whereby people with an experience of poverty are given (inexpensive) disposable cameras with which to take pictures” and which resulted in a showing  in July of 2011 at Gallery 1313 on Queen St in Toronto, Canada.
All of the equipment used [...]

The “Roots” of
Immigrant and Ethnic Voter
Participation in Canada: via Electoral Insight

Jack Jedwab
Executive Director, Association for Canadian Studies
It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants is lower than among the Canadian-born electorate. But this view fails to account sufficiently for the diverse pattern of voter participation among Canada’s many ethnocultural and ethno-racial [...]

to be made available to and demanded by the public
2011 Candidates
Conservative: Theresa Rodrigues
Liberal: Mario Silva
NDP: Andrew Cash
Green: Wayne Scott
Communist: Miguel Figueroa
Animal Alliance/Environment: Simon Luisi
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How did a visit to these candidates websites change you if at all? What did you glean?
What general feeling did you get from each, what unspoken message, what sense?
What are they trying [...]

Indigenous Environmental Network
“A network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions.”

Yinka Dene Alliance and Allies – All Nations Statement Of Solidarity Against Enbridge Northern Gateway
WE THE UNDERSIGNED INDIGENOUS NATIONS STATE IN SOLIDARITY:
Our Nations are bound together by the [...]

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Iroquois Story of Creation

Woman Who Fell From The Sky
In the beginning, in the Sky World, a pregnant wife asked her husband to fetch the delicacies she craved. But she wanted the bark of a root of the Great Tree in [...]

Eat If  & When You Can

Creamy, Brothy, Earthy, Hearty

Yunhee Kim for The New York Times; Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop Stylist: Deborah Williams.

By MARK BITTMAN
Published: March 3, 2011

I’m not anti-recipe (obviously), but some things just don’t need them — and most vegetable soups fall into that category. Here are easy-to-follow instructions for [...]

Have you ever done this? You find an awesome recipe with a beautiful picture. You get all the ingredients, put in a ton of effort to get the perfect result—and then it just doesn’t turn out right. You check the ingredient list twice, you reread the steps and you can’t figure out where you [...]

From the Missing Election Issues file: poverty reduction

by Seth Klein
BC Office | Commentary and Fact Sheets
Issue(s): Federal election, Inequality and poverty
April 27, 2011

It’s odd to see Stephen Harper continuing to crow about his economic management prowess, even while almost 1.5 million Canadians remain unemployed, nearly one in ten people live in [...]