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Isabella is a 54 year old woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
I'm a psychotherapist and writer. Intersted in a million things. Excited about helping people reach for the really good lives they are meant to have - because happiness is something that will always spill over. My web site is Counselling in Vancouver.
Rated • 1 review • canada, twitter, vancouver, british columbia, social media • twittgroups.com
For all of you Vancouver Twitter users out there - I'm trying out Twitter groups, and greated a group for Vancouver, BC. Care to join?
Rated • 1 review • women, youth, canada, journalism • thecanadianencyclopedia.com
100 Canadians to Watch. This one is a young publisher of a magazine for 13-15-year old girls.
Rated • 1 review • african americans, history, journalism, women, canada • walkervilletimes.com
Mary Anne Shadd, woman publisher in the 1850s. And black. From the page: "During the 1850s, Mary was one of the most outspoken anti-slavery activist in the region. She felt strongly that "caste" or segregated institutions were inappropriate in a free country and only contributed to racial discrimination. Mary believed that integration was the surest route to "race improvement" of Canadian blacks. To promote these views, Mary helped found the Provincial Freeman, a weekly newspaper for the black community of Upper Canada that began publication in 1853. Although listed on the masthead as "M.A. Shadd, Publishing Agent," in reality Mary was the editor of the paper.
In 1854 Mary decided to correct the "misapprehension" that M.A. Shadd was a man. "It was," she wrote,"a mistake occasioned, no doubt, by the habit we have of using initials. We would simply correct, for the future, our error, by giving here the name in full (Mary A. Shadd) as we do not like the Mr. and Esq., by which we are so often addressed."
This revelation unleashed a wave of "sex discrimination" that threatened to close the Provincial Freeman. Mary urged readers not to abandon their support of the paper simply because "it had editors of the unfortunate sex."
Rated • 1 review • canada, internet media, net neutrality • michaelgeist.ca
Round one in Canada's net neutrality battle. Fortunately, there is a round two.
Rated • 1 review • politics, canada • greggscott.net
From the page: "NDP / Jack Layton: Ralph Nader's life insurance agent. - Green / Elizabeth May: Al Gore's Environmental Studies professor." Check the post for the two main candidates. 7 minutes before the polls close, it looks like the limo driver is up ahead.
Rated • 1 review • politics, canada • wordpress.com
From the page: "10 Reasons Canadian Elections are Better than Your Elections
Much as it pains me to bring up my secret shame yet again, events of the day have forced my hand. Today is Election Day in Canada, where all* Canadians go to the polls to elect a new government.
*here Iâ€m using â€oeall” in the metric sense, which comes out to about 48%.
Now, I understand full well that this website has primarily an American audience, and that if you guys arenâ€t reading about hot Vice Presidents or the lamest Garbage Pail Kid cards of all time or some such, then youâ€re not happy. So I wonâ€t get into the particular issues of this election, and bore you all with details of the proposed changes to whale oil tariffs, and harsher sentences for polar bears and so on. What I wanted to do here is explain some of the differences between the Canadian and American electoral process, and to helpfully highlight some of the ways ours is so much vastly superior to yours. "
Rated • 1 review • health, canada, british columbia • uvic.ca
This organization has been incredibly helpful for people with chronic diseases of any kind, from diabetes to arthritis to chronic pain. If you live in British Columbia and suffer from any of these or know anyone who does, please please check them out.
Rated • 1 review • mental health, canada, charity, children, banks • rbc.com
I don't usually promote banks here. But this is a worthy cause: the Children's Mental Health Project. "15-20% of Canadian children and adolescents (1.2 million), at any given point in time, will suffer from a mental illness of sufficient severity to cause significant distress and impaired functioning."
Rated • 1 review • architecture, environment, blogs, canada, alberta • duanestorey.com
The 52-home solar community has installed an array of solar panels on the roofs of their houses and garages. Glycol solution runs through an insulated piping system, or collector loop, that connects the array of solar panels. The solar panels absorb the solar energy during the daytime and heat the glycol solution. The glycol solution travels through the collector loop and reaches an underground heat exchanger within the community's centralized Energy Center. The heat is then transferred from heat exchanger to the water stored in a short-term storage tank. The glycol solution returns to the solar collector system. The Energy Center has short-term thermal storage tanks and long-thermal storage tanks (Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES) system).
