moritherapy/canada

100 Canadians to Watch. This one is a young publisher of a magazine for 13-15-year old girls.

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."

Round one in Canada's net neutrality battle. Fortunately, there is a round two.

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.

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 I�m using �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 aren�t reading about hot Vice Presidents or the lamest Garbage Pail Kid cards of all time or some such, then you�re not happy. So I won�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. "

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.

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."