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Things I Wrote At Care2…

July 21, 2011

1,800 Canadians To Lose Their Citizenship In Fraud Crackdown Jason Kenney, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, made it an election promise: to get tough on illegal immigration. And today, he seems to have delivered. But at what cost? Kenney’s office today announced that over 1,800 people will have their Canadian citizenship revoked after a [...]

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Things I Wrote At Care2…

July 21, 2011

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Things I Wrote At Care2…

July 19, 2011

Poorly Managed Asthma Linked To Premature Births Access to prenatal care is vital, particularly for mothers with pre-existing medical conditions. This was underscored earlier this week when a study review concluded that mothers with asthma have an increased risk of pregnancy complications, from lower birth weight to higher rates of pre-eclampsia to higher risks [...]

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Things I Wrote At Care2…

July 16, 2011

Want To Avoid Dementia? Take Better Care Of Yourself It turns out a healthy body may be the key to a healthy brain. At least, that appears to be the conclusion of a study carried out on over 7,000 Canadians over the course of 10 years. The group of seniors was tracked over the decade [...]

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Things I Wrote At Care2…

July 15, 2011

Air Canada Faces Fine Over Soda Order In Canada, there are two official languages: English and French. The government and certain private organizations are obliged to provide service in both languages, according to law. Air Canada, as a former Crown corporation, is subject to these language laws, with all passengers entitled to service in [...]

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Things My Dog Has Caused Me To Google

June 14, 2011

1. Are mothballs poisonous to dogs 2. How to make a dog vomit 3. Dog ate entire chicken leg whole 4. Dog stomach acids able to digest bone 5. Dog ate entire stuffed animal 6. Dog constipation 7. Keeping dog out of garden 8. Beagle proof fence 9. Infallible beagle proof fence 10. Is blood [...]

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What I did when I wasn’t here again

May 24, 2011

Here’s everything I’ve been up to when I’ve been neglecting this blog: Lately at Care2: The RCMP officers who tazed Robert Dziekanski to death will be charged with perjury. Nothing more. A British Columbia woman spent 7 weeks stranded in the wilderness after the GPS steered them wrong. Sean Avery supports gay marriage. A hockey [...]

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What I Did When I Wasn’t Here

May 6, 2011

I’m stealing this feature from The Bloggess. It seems that I’m super busy writing everywhere except for, well, here. Ha. This week at Care2: I wrote about the Ashley Smith case, and how her parents settled their lawsuit after their daughter died in prison. I also wrote about the Nadia Kajouji case and the unique [...]

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On Beignets and Voodoo and Magic

April 20, 2011

I kind of feel like I’ve been eviscerated, only in a really good way. If there could possibly be a good way to be eviscerated. Like I’ve heard they do when they do abdominal surgery, such as a c-section, where they go in and take out the various parts that need to be removed like [...]

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What Happens When You Publicize Your Passion?

April 15, 2011

This is the blog post to accompany the roundtable discussion on this topic at the Mom 2.0 Conference in New Orleans on April 13, 2011. Your passion is the thing that gets your pulse going. The thing that you could work on - if you wanted to call it work - all day without tiring [...]

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