Politics

My Election Strategy: Engage Passionately, Invest Strategically, Vote Tactically

April 26, 2011




I’m sitting in the dark in my basement typing on my laptop. The power is out and my blackberry battery is dead, which means that all contact with the outside world has been cut off for now. No CBC news, no #momthevote discussions on twitter, no reading and responding to comments on my latest Care2 [...]

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Conservative Party (CPC): Family, Parenting and Women’s Issues

April 23, 2011




This week, I’ll be posting highlights from the platforms of Canada’s five major political parties, focusing on their policies and promises with regards to family, parenting and women’s issues. I am going to try (but do not promise!) to simply report on or summarize what they have promised, rather than providing colour commentary in my [...]

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Bloc Quebecois (BQ): Family, Parenting and Women’s Issues

April 22, 2011




This week, I’ll be posting highlights from the platforms of Canada’s five major political parties, focusing on their policies and promises with regards to family, parenting and women’s issues. I am going to try (but do not promise!) to simply report on or summarize what they have promised, rather than providing colour commentary in my [...]

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Green Party (GPC): Family, Parenting and Women’s Issues

April 20, 2011




This week, I’ll be posting highlights from the platforms of Canada’s five major political parties, focusing on their policies and promises with regards to family, parenting and women’s issues. I am going to try (but do not promise!) to simply report on or summarize what they have promised, rather than providing colour commentary in my [...]

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New Democratic Party (NDP): Family, Parenting and Women’s Issues

April 19, 2011




This week, I’ll be posting highlights from the platforms of Canada’s five major political parties, focusing on their policies and promises with regards to family, parenting and women’s issues. I am going to try (but do not promise!) to simply report on or summarize what they have promised, rather than providing colour commentary in my [...]

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Canada Votes: Which issues are important to YOUR family?

March 25, 2011




Canadian Parliament made history today. It was the first time that a government has ever been defeated because it was deemed to be in contempt of Parliament.  This brings Stephen Harper’s Conservative government to an end thrusts Canadian citizens into a Spring election. During our last election, I scoured through the platforms of each political [...]

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Mothers shouldn’t have opinions

May 20, 2010




I should be barefoot, pregnant and tied to the kitchen sink. Or, as they say here in Germany, “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” (children, kitchen, church). I should spend my entire day, every day, gazing adoringly into the eyes of my children. Or so they say. In my post on 50 reasons for breastfeeding anytime, anywhere, jenny [...]

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