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the din of inequity the din of inequity wednesday may 9 2007 car advice needed tonight my old topaz went out in a blaze of glory it was a spectacular display of acrid billowing smoke multiple fire extinguishers ear splitting sirens suspendered firemen and a gaggle of curious onlookers now i m in the market for a replacement my only criteria are fuel efficiency and non flammability suggestions at 23 13 23 comments thursday may 3 2007 battered women s defence presentation i just received a notice that kim pate the executive director of the canadian association of elizabeth fry societies of which the kamloops elizabeth fry society is a member will be giving a presentation in kamloops next friday on the so called battered women s defence as i mentioned earlier this legal concept owes its existence to a judgment by the late bertha wilson in the famous lavallee case the event notice indicates that ms pate has been involved for 15 years with implementing lavallee and more generally in activist work on behalf of women who run afoul of the law caefs mission statement caefs is an association of self governing community based elizabeth fry societies that work with and for women and girls in the justice system particularly those who are or may be criminalized together elizabeth fry societies develop and advocate the beliefs principles and positions that guide caefs the association exists to ensure substantive equality in the delivery and development of services and programs through public education research legislative and administrative reform regionally nationally and internationally the talk takes place at 12 30 at desert gardens on seymour street it s part of a day long fundraising conference and costs 20 which includes lunch rsvp by may 8 at 13 29 1 comments wednesday may 2 2007 no small feet following in the mincing footsteps of several us cities victoria bc will be home this saturday to a march against sexual assault called walk a mile in her shoes starting in centennial square at 10 30 a m men of all ages including some local luminaries check out the event s blog or this article in the times colonist will don high heels and walk for one mile to protest rape and to raise funds for the victoria women s sexual assault centre pictures of a similar event held recently in la can be seen here someone give these guys a foot massage at 02 03 0 comments monday april 30 2007 making babies in canada could result in nutjob nationalists given that it s part of the asper empire i suppose we can t expect much of the gazette but this piece it published online yesterday entitled making babies in canada could save money is particularly appalling author dianne rinehart s premise is that our governments should invest in artificial reproductive technologies rather than immigration because the latter costs 1 6 billion in departmental and resettlement costs and growth from immigration currently outnumbers domestic births by three to one the first thing that strikes me about the piece is the barely contained fear that real canadians will be outnumbered by immigrants it rears its ugly head every time the author throws in a statistic about rising immigration numbers as a self evidently bad thing that concern is probably racist and certainly stupid after all everyone but our first nations were immigrants to canada at one time and look how we treat the original inhabitants the economic argument as well is completely disingenuous even if rinehart had provided a cite for her dollar figure consider if you will the financial implications of waiting for canadian babies to contribute to the domestic economy the canadian council on social development estimated that in 2004 it cost families on average 166 000 to raise a canadian infant from birth to age 18 i really can t see how it could possibly cost more than that to simply open the doors to foreign nationals who are often already trained and very willing to go to work furthermore and with all due respect to struggling would be parents i have a real problem with invasive espensive fertility treatments for one thing it seems foolish to go to such lengths to increase the population of a planet already bursting at the seams we especially don t need more citizens of so called first world countries who damage the environment disproportionately secondly it bothers me that many people will stop at nothing to create of and for themselves a little genetic replicant there are so many children that need someone to care for them and i don t care if you pull a brangelina and truck them in from far flung locales or head to your local ministry of children and family development office there s just no need unless you re a couple of geniuses trying to breed the next generation of cancer curing scientists to replicate biologically when it involves such ridiculous expense and limited success rates my final complaint is that any r d and other government funding that go towards developing newer and better fertility treatments are at the expense of more pressing medical concerns as we all know there are just not enough health care dollars to go around the kicker in the article at hand and i ll quote the paragraph in full is where rinehart states the following after explaining that artificial reproductive technology is a better use of health spending than palliative care or heart disease finally if it s all about money and not about families consider what else new scientist reported the findings concluded art could be as effective at increasing birth rates as other proposed policies such as raising the level of child benefit and wait for it but would cost less this is the most ass backwards logic of all it first requires us to accept as i clearly haven t that encouraging population growth via domestic birthrates is prima facie superior to encouraging immigration then it suggests that because it costs less government money is better spent on artificial insemination than on actually increasing child benefits to struggling families what a brilliant idea forget helping the parents who are currently trying to raise their existing children with little to no assistance from the state we should do biological backflips and get them to pop out some more the author dresses her elitist and xenophobic wolf of a position in the sheep s clothing of feminism commiserating with women who are maligned for delaying pregnancy and environmentalism claiming nonsensically that immigration contributes to congestion and pollution since most new residents head to the urban centres in reality city living is well documented to actually reduce environmental pressures because people are more likely to live in smaller residences to commute less to work and to take advantage of the other ecological efficiencies that result from high population density in reality though her proposed solution is just straight up white supremacism of a particularly crazy brand and that s pretty disturbing even given the gazette s well known biases of which you re well aware right scottay maybe you shouldn t show them your portfolio at 21 43 1 comments rip bertha wilson canada s first female supreme court justice bertha wilson passed away this saturday justice wilson sat on the scc between 1982 and 1991 and was a staunch charter supporter and author of a number of woman friendly judicial opinions perhaps most notably in r v morgantaler and r v lavallee which accepted battered woman syndrome as a defence to murder although she apparently did not call herself a feminist justice wilson was avidly pro choice and upon retiring from the bench chaired the cba s task force on gender equality justice wilson had also been the first woman appointed to the ontario court of appeal she was 83 at her death photograph michael bedford supreme court of canada collection at 12 53 2 comments friday april 27 2007 support vwsac i don t know tom williams and i don t really care about his beard but i think it s great that he s raising funds for the victoria women s sexual assault centre vwsac is a fantastic organization that helps hundreds of victims of assault every year i volunteered there for the three years that i lived in victoria and was very impressed with the quality of services they provide all with limited funding and a small staff in addition to individual and group counselling services they also run a 24 hour crisis line and have volunteers with pagers who respond to emergency calls meeting victims and accompanying them for post assault hospital visits there s also a great youth component run by project respect promoting its acclaimed yes means yes programme vwsac always needs community support and i encourage you to help them in the great work they do click here to go to the givemeaning donation site at 12 09 0 comments sunday april 22 2007 what s the problem with homelessness in kamloops the answer isn t as you might expect uhh because people have no homes according to gay pooler general manager of the kamloops central business improvement area the problem is that it makes the streets just gosh darn unattractive in monday s kamloops daily news she told reporter jason hewlett that we need to keep the streets pretty and safe when he pointed out that m ost homeless aren t dangerous pooler countered that it s all about perception well we wouldn t want the shoppers and business owners in our squeaky clean downtown to have to face the fact that there are people in this city with nowhere to live and forget about how safe that situation is for the people actually in it she wants the rcmp to exercise zero tolerance when patrolling the downtown ron mccoll the manager of corporate programs and projects for the city of kamloops has described a new initiative where officers and outreach workers will interact with the expected influx of homeless people in order to find them housing and keep the streets clean and safe he didn t elaborate in the article or in an interview yesterday on cbc kelowna about where these proposed homes will be found but at least it shows some degree of awareness on the part of the city not so for pooler in last week s downtown echo she stated that the minimum wage should sit at 8 00 hour because some people aren t worth more than 8 and anyone worth more than that is already being paid it this week in her kcbia notes she describes how she wants to see the local rcmp using the so called safe streets act the trespass act and municipal panhandling bylaws against abnormal users of the downtown who should not be comfortable on our streets this kind of anti poor insensitivity and nimbyism apparently is not just for barbers and councillors at 21 53 52 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me jayney view my complete profile blog archive 2007 28 may 3 car advice needed battered women s defence presentation no small feet april 16 march 9