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Teaching Tolerance

March 21, 2009




I was reading Dale McGowan’s wonderful blog The Meming of Life last night and got caught up in his post on Glass Houses. In his post he talks about the importance of teaching his children that ideas need to earn respect, but people are inherently deserving of respect. I agree that this is an important [...]

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Irony and History

November 21, 2008




My jaw dropped…and then I burst out laughing. On Tuesday evening, on my way to my basketball game (part of the way I strive for balance), I was listening to CBC’s As It Happens 40th Anniversary show on the radio. They were interviewing producers and staff from the show’s past to talk about some of [...]

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Tips for Breastfeeding on a Plane

September 3, 2008




I’ve had the opportunity to nurse my children on at least 12 flights, half of them long trans-Atlantic flights and half shorter flights. My nurslings were aged between 7 months and 21 months at the time of the flight. All of my experiences were positive ones and I was never harassed for nursing on the plane. [...]

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Nursing in public incidents a sign of progress?

August 18, 2008




If you’ve been reading the newspaper, watching the news, or checking out blogs, you’ve probably seen a lot of recent coverage of situations where women were confronted for nursing in public. I wrote about a few of them on my blog, including the Guelph swimming pool incident, a United Airlines incident, and a summary of [...]

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