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"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilt and I'll show you a man."

Erica Jong

 

 

1949 - April:  United Nations World magazine publishes an article by Ambassador Warren Austin, chief of the U.S. Mission to the UN, in which he pronounces that '....World government could not be accepted without radical change of national outlook.... It will take a long time to prepare peoples and governments of most nations for acceptance of and participation in a world government....If we expect this future world government to be created by agreement and not by force or conquest, we will have to be willing to work patiently until peoples or governments are ready for it....

 

Cache ton cul

L'ARGENTEUIL - Nouvelles

Deux étudiantes FÉMINISTES de Gore reçoivent une bourse du millénaire
 

28 mai 2008

par L'Argenteuil

Dix étudiants de la région des Laurentides figurent parmi les lauréats d’une bourse d’entrée 2008 de la Fondation canadienne des bourses d’études du millénaire. La bourse d’entrée souligne le leadership, l’engagement communautaire, la réussite scolaire et le sens de l’innovation d’étudiants sur le point d’entreprendre des études postsecondaires.
 
Parmi les étudiants lauréats, Léa Clermont-Dion, de la Polyvalente Saint-Jérôme et résidant à Gore, recevra une bourse nationale.
 
À l’âge de quatorze ans, Léa a co-organisé un colloque à l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) sur la situation des femmes, où elle a elle-même présenté une conférence sur l’hypersexualisation des adolescents. Ce colloque, auquel ont participé des féministes renommées, avait une envergure nationale. Une initiative surprenante vu l’âge de Léa, mais qui révélait à la fois un engagement social profond et une maturité exceptionnelle. Se déclarant fièrement féministe, Léa a fait de la sensibilisation des jeunes à la situation des filles et des femmes dans le monde un véritable combat.
 
À seize ans, elle a réuni plus de six cents signatures sur une pétition visant à lutter contre le culte de la maigreur dans l’industrie de la mode, et sa pétition a été déposée à l’Assemblée nationale du Québec. De telles initiatives, conjuguées à plusieurs actions bénévoles dans des organismes comme Amnistie internationale, Oxfam-Québec ou le Club 2/3, lui ont valu un prix Hommage bénévolat-Québec en 2007. Mentionnons que Léa, à la suite du colloque à l’UQAM, a été un temps chroniqueuse jeunesse à l’émission C’est bien meilleur le matin à la radio de Radio-Canada.
 
Que ce soit pour des activités de sensibilisation ou des grands rassemblements, Léa applique ce qu’elle dit être ses trois piliers, ses trois «s’in…»: s’indigner, s’informer et s’impliquer. Ouverte et déterminée, convaincante et persévérante, modeste et combative, Léa est de celles qui ont une influence bien au-delà de leur milieu.
 
Par ailleurs, Audrey Brown, de la Laurentian Regional High School de Lachute et qui réside aussi à Gore, recevra une bourse d’entrée locale en raison de son action citoyenne, ses idées fraîches et ses succès en classe.
 
Il existe trois niveaux différents de bourses d’entrée: national (100 bourses de 5000$, renouvelables jusqu’à concurrence de 20 000$), provincial/territorial (241 bourses de 4000$, renouvelables jusqu’à concurrence de 16 000$) et local (711 bourses non renouvelables de 4000$).
 
Les bourses locales et régionales sont réparties dans les provinces et territoires en fonction du pro rata de leur population par rapport à celle du Canada. Les bourses nationales sont accordées en fonction du mérite uniquement.
 
«Investir dans la formation de ces jeunes citoyens, c’est investir dans l’avenir de notre société, affirme Norman Riddell, directeur exécutif et chef de la direction de la Fondation. Ces gens ont montré qu’ils peuvent changer le monde dans lequel ils vivent; qu’ils savent faire progresser les choses, et qu’ils continueront de le faire même après la fin de mandat de la Fondation, en 2009».
 
La Fondation canadienne des bourses d’études du millénaire a remis cette année des bourses d’entrée à 1052 lauréats. Parmi ceux-ci, 243 proviennent du Québec, soit 16 de niveau national, 57 de niveau provincial et 170 de niveau local.

 

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Provoked to kill?

Hmm..It must be Friday..The Edmonton Sun's vicious man hater Mindelle Jacobs attacks again. Now what about that "battered woman syndrome" defence and the Lavalee decision which sees women murderers getting a free pass for killing their husbands. Some of them while they sleep. Shot in the back stabbed in the heart etc etc. None of them had a chance and when their murderers go to trial the defence has a field day with the character and reputation of the victim which amounts to nothing less than a character assasination. Murder all over again. And to make things worse the entire defence of these murderers is paid for by with your tax dollars and bankrolled by feminist groups. Its happening again right now with R Vs Teressa Craig in Ottawa. Jacobs knows that Canadian women have a 'kill your husband and get away with it" pass so to divert attention she goes off on another 'men are to blame for everything' rant. So sad.

JS

 

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"Obfuscation and Public Deceit for Dummies"

How to destroy Children and Families, use the Taxpayer to do it and then hide behind it all by avoiding the questions and shutting out the Observers.

by Tom Thompson, 

Independent Justice Reporter

4th June 2008

Tax dollars and resources meant to help children are being squandered by Ontario’s Children’s Lawyer in efforts which ultimately harm the interests of children and of Justice in Ontario. Under legislation in Ontario, the Office of the Children’s lawyer (OCL) is the taxpayer-funded agency which is appointed to represent the interests of children in many family court proceedings.

While most taxpayers would expect this government agency, with its lawyers and social workers, to spend tax resources in a manner which would best help children and promote justice in an open and accountable manner, evidence would reasonably indicate that this agency is often failing in these objectives.

The person assigned the responsibility of managing this taxpayer-funded agency is Ms. Claire E. Burns, a lawyer who also serves as the Vice-Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.  

Analysis of documents and testimony from the very children and families which the OCL is supposed to be helping, reveal that significant problems continue to plague this agency and that significant changes are required to repair the serious flaws in the way in which this government agency operates under the direction of Ms. Burns.

Of significant concern is that a number of children and parents who have had dealings with the OCL state that their experience has not been a good one.

Many say that they do not trust the OCL or its workers and report that they have been harmed by the agency.

Some children report that OCL workers showed clear signs of bias against one of their parents and that they did not think this fair while some others reported that they wished they had a recording of their meeting with the OCL worker so that the workers could be exposed for lying. 

While Ms. Burns has been questioned as to why she does not support the concept of having OCL workers simply employ the use of audio recording devices to maintain accurate records, Ms. Burns has stated on the record that the recording of meetings with children by her staff will cause the children harm.

Yet the Supreme Court of Canada has disagreed with Ms. Burns and has stated that the recording of children’s testimony for court purposes is a most reliable form of record keeping. Police  routinely record children's testimony as well, especially when interviewing them during investigations involving sexual assault or domestic violence.

Yet even when children say they wish to have their meetings with OCL workers recorded they are refused this option.

One 13-year-old from the Barrie, Ontario area told the Canada Court Watch group during a videotaped interview that she caught the OCL lawyer attempting to record her but that the lawyer lied to her about this when she asked.

By far, the most common and alarming complaint voiced by child clients of OCL is that their lawyers fail to make their wishes properly known to the court and that OCL workers use leading questions and coercive questioning techniques during meetings. Children have reported being completely ignored by their lawyers and their wishes and opinions are never heard by the court at all.

One child informed her mother that she had not seen her lawyer in over a year and that during a subsequent telephone call to an administrative assistant at the OCL, the parent was told that the file had been closed some time before.  Yet, according to the parents, in spite of the child being told that she no longer had a lawyer, the lawyer continued to attend court appearances afterwards and to “speak to the child’s wishes” in court.

Given that this lawyer had no contact with the child it is difficult to imagine how the lawyer in question was able to determine the child’s wishes without actually speaking to the child.   It would be reasonable to assume that the taxpayers of Ontario were paying for this lawyer when she did go to court as it is unlikely that she went to for free.   Last month, one parent from Halton, Ontario reported that he was concerned that the OCL lawyer for his daughter had billed the Ontario government for services which his daughter had not received.

The 15-year-old girl involved testified in a videotaped interview that she did not trust her OCL lawyer and that she felt that he had been “useless.”

Currently, there appears to be no reliable method which would allow clients to verify the billable hours charged to the taxpayers for services provided to children being represented by the OCL with some saying that the OCL billing process lacks transparency and could be easily abused.

The Office of the Children’s Lawyer also employs clinical investigators that that are assigned to conduct assessments and provide reports during high conflict custody and access cases.   In some cases, OCL workers are refusing to provide any written documentation as to work they have done and in some cases where reports are provided, serious flaws can be found with the manner that evidence is gathered and with its accuracy.

A report from a clinical investigator from the OCL was submitted as evidence in a recent high profile case in Newmarket, Ontario which related to the health and welfare of two morbidly obese children.

When the OCL investigator was cross examined at trial on the content of the report, it was admitted that this OCL worker had failed to interview any of the collateral contacts provided by the father and had refused to review crucial medical evidence provided by the father relating to the weight of the children.

Simply, the OCL worker had failed to exercise due diligence in the gathering and reporting of the facts.

Significant tax dollars are being paid out to so called, “clinical investigators” from the OCL to produce what many parents and even professionals say are highly flawed and unprofessional reports with many of these reports costing thousands of dollars in each case.   In another case, OCL workers demanded that a videotape of an 11-year old disclosing that he was being coerced by his children’s lawyer child be destroyed.

Just last week in a Hamilton courtroom packed with media representatives from all over the Province, Ms. Burns singled out the media representative from Canada Court Watch and immediately asked the court to exclude Court Watch from observing the proceedings, involving a young leukemia patient apprehended from his parents by the Children’s Aid Society in Hamilton.

Ms. Burns wasted the court’s valuable time and that of many other people to exclude Canada Court Watch in spite of the fact that this individual held valid press credentials and despite the fact that a court had ruled against the OCL in a previous court on this identical issue. Most believe that the real intentions of Ms. Burns were to silence those who dare to criticize her agency. 

Ms. Burn’s efforts to muzzle Canada Court Watch would indicate that she has more interest in keeping her agency unaccountable and that she holds little respect for the fundamental role that the media play in protecting the public’s interest in the administration of justice.  The entire court was forced to sit and listen to arguments that had absolutely nothing to do with the best interests of the child and everything to do with Ms. Burns own personal agenda to stifle those who dare expose the failures of her agency.

Already distraught at having their seriously ill child apprehended these poor parents were forced to watch as Ms. Burns turned their child protection hearing into a personal attack against Canada Court Watch.

It was a good example of Ms. Burns wasting tax dollars to lessen transparency and accountability.

Ms. Burns and her agency are supposed to be focusing their energies on providing legal services to vulnerable children and to do this job in a most efficient and transparent manner, not squandering tax dollars for the purpose of muzzling criticism of their agency.

As a government funded agency, the OCL should be placing the interests of children and families first, not the interests of its lawyers and social workers.

Disturbing complaints which continue to arise about the OCL raise serious questions as to the ability and willingness of its director, Ms. Claire Burns, to find solutions to these repetitive problems.

The Auditor General of Ontario, Mr. McCarter who delivered a scathing report after conducting his value for dollars audit on the spending habits of CAS agencies might be well advised to review the financial records of the OCL sooner than later before more children are adversely affected by the actions of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.

 

Le retour de la couture !

Du temps où les filles n'avaient pas systématiquement deux mains gauches (contrairement à ce qu'essaie de nous faire croire l'Education Nationale qui a, depuis triste lurette supprimé de ses programmes l'enseignement de la couture), on apprenait aux demoiselles à faire un ourlet, trousser une boutonnière, assembler deux lés de tissu, soit en se piquant les doigts, soit en les piquant à la machine. Un certain féminisme imbécile a mis au ban des apprentissages ces arts simples, transformant nos jeunes filles en niguedouilles dès qu'un bouton manque à leur chemise.

Mais chaque errance a un terme. La mise à l'index de la couture a vécu et coiffer à nouveau son majeur d'un dé de métal redevient à la mode. La couture rapplique avec ses subtilités, son côté pratique, esthétique, héroïque aussi. Etrenner, d'un fier mouvement des hanches le jupon à volants qu'on s'est taillé la veille ou se coucher sous un couvre-lit fait-maison sont des sentiments absolument délicieux.

Le lin qui danse chante nos louanges. Il dit : cette femme-là sait faire marcher ses mains, sa tête, son imagination ET une machine à coudre. Cette femme sait ce qu'elle veut et n'a peur de rien. Cette femme, qui s'est épaté en réussissant ce que tant de gens jugent difficile à faire est épatante.

Dans cet ordre d'idées et pour en donner à toutes celles qui ont à cœur d'embellir leur maison, les Editions de Saxe viennent de publier Couture Déco, un grand et beau livre de l'anglaise Emma Hardy qui propose, sur le sujet, une mine d'idées. Du salon à la salle à manger en passant par la cuisine, les chambres, la salle de bains, les enfants ou même le jardin, l'auteur explique par le menu 50 projets simples à faire le temps d'un week-end. Faciles et bien expliqués, ces ouvrages qui mêlent la couture traditionnelle au patchwork ou à l'appliqué sont autant d'opportunités de changer son cadre de vie en deux temps trois mouvements. Étoffes fleuries, volants et galons y mènent un train joyeux autour d'objets jolis et astucieux.

Valérie Lejeune


Couture déco. Editions de Saxe, 178 p. 24,50 Euros

 

 

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