Category: Canadian News
Be Inspired By Because I Am A Girl on International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. Looking for ways to support girls and women and empower them to reach their full potential, you’ll find everything from signing petitions to end sex slavery to ways to help fund the education of girls and women in developing countries. One organization that has truly inspired us to invest our [...]
Why Family Literacy Day Matters
It’s hard to hear the word “literacy” and not assume that you will be met with a bunch of book-loving academics who will insist that you must spend your waking hours poring through books and chasing after the written word with unending glee lest you find yourself frowned upon by them and possibly the whole [...]
Why BC Teachers Will Walk Off The Job on Monday
B.C.’s 41,000 teachers announced Thursday that they will exercise their right to strike and walk off the job for three days starting Monday, March 5 as contract negotiations with the province remain at a stalemate. While many parents may be waving their fists at the prospect of having to scramble to find three days of [...]
Sex, Teens & Porn in the Mobile Age
Your daughters, right now, right this very minute without you even knowing it, are sexual pawns. Your sons learn a majority of their sex education from the xxx world of the internet. Every time you send them off to school even the youngest of kids whom you thought would at worst be exposed to pop [...]
Remember
This day, 10 years ago, our collective spirits and world shifted forever. We are changed immeasurably by the violence in New York City and across the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. It forced us down a difficult road, many more lives have been lost and the world so much more scary. While we honor [...]
Get Out The Vote – Federal Election is Today
We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to remind everyone to take a moment and hit their neighbourhood polling place today to vote in the Canadian Federal Election. Polls are open until 7 p.m. in B.C. today. Take a peek at your voting card for the location of your polling place. If you’ve misplaced your voting card, [...]
SHIFT News – Celebrate Great Canadian Women
Editor’s Note: If you missed Robin’s morning post on pregnancy advent calendars, you can read it HERE. They are simply lovely. Now, let’s take a look at five exceptional Canadian women as we celebrate International Women’s Day. Here they are: When legendary Canadian speed skater Clara Hughes declared Canada one of the greatest countries in the world [...]
BPA in Sigg Bottle Liners, Company Comes Clean
Good Morning. We have preempted our regular Farm to Family feature here today to keep you up to speed on the news that broke earlier this week when Sigg executives admitted that bottles manufactured before August of 2008 had liners that contained BPA. Treehugger.com was one of the first to break the news and I [...]
