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If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? [Women]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? For women, the desire to have it all comes with the obligation to do it all
Jun. 12, 2009. Margaret Wente
In 1963, an angry woman named Betty Friedan published a groundbreaking book about “the problem that has no name.” In it, she described the stifled lives of women in North America – talented, creative, and increasingly educated women who were trapped in the suburbs, leading lives of quiet desperation.
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There’s more to life than GDP
TheStar.com – Opinion – There’s more to life than GDP: Canadians need a new, holistic measure of societal progress that goes beyond economics
June 10, 2009. Roy Romanow
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A new approach [partnerships with First Nations communities]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – A new approach
June 06, 2009
Perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but the more the federal government finds itself lacking options on the economic front, the more progress it seems to make in other areas of the Conservative agenda.
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Taking a run at mental health [exercise]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Taking a run at mental health: A Victoria program for the city’s more troubled residents believes a little bit of exercise goes a long way toward healing the mind
June 5, 2009. Adrien Sala, Victoria
For almost as long as he can remember, Wayne Patrick Sheeran has suffered from severe social anxiety.
“Throughout my life I had this inner fear of people talking about me, making fun of me. I wanted to hide away,” he says.
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Tories plan First Nations overhaul [a more market-oriented approach]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Tories plan First Nations overhaul
Posted: June 03, 2009. John Ivison
The Conservative government is set to unveil a new approach to its relations with Canada’s First Nations that will see fresh money flowing to bands when Ottawa believes there is a good prospect of economic success, while bands with a track record of failure will be frozen out.
As part of its move toward a more market-oriented approach, the government is also keen to reform the electoral system used to elect aboriginal chiefs.
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Make it public and mandatory [a national sex-offender registry]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – Make it public and mandatory
Published: Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Enjoy the delicious irony, Liberals: The law-and-order Conservatives keep trying to kill an expensive national registry for firearms that many police agencies claim to like and to use a lot, yet here they are, desperately trying to rehabilitate a national sex-offender registry that the police don’t have any use for. Perhaps it all just depends on what kind of weapon you are more afraid of?
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