‘Raising Awareness’ Archives
One more day could mean one more life saved
In 2009, we attended a host of free Mental Health and Awareness seminars sponsored by many Niagara region businesses and organizations such as YGAP (Youth Gambling Awareness Program), Niagara Child and Youth services, Canadian Mental Health Association, CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), The Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, TAMI [...]
The demons that lay within- World Suicide Prevention Day
World Suicide Awareness Day has surpassed it’s golden anniversary of 50 years and is approaching quickly as the summer of 2010 begins to fade into a distant memory but those in need today, tomorrow and everyday thereafter and for those who took this final path for their families left behind we cannot ever let fade into a distant memory. And [...]
Tune into Mental Awareness and Addiction
According to Statistics Canada suicide in Canada from 2001-2005 suicides increased from an incredible 3,692 in 2001 to 3,743 by 2005, with the highest increase of deaths during that time in the age range of 40-44 with a increase of 43 people who successfully committed suicide by 2005, with 375 of the 495 in 2005 being male. The International [...]
The truth behind the reality
Social networking a must these days if wanting to keep up with everything you would miss if we didn’t have it. When I saw Anderson Cooper tweeted last week he was co-hosting Regis and Kelly my finger hit the remote, how can I miss Anderson in a more relaxed atmosphere away from his regular AC360 news broadcast. First guest to appear on [...]
An Activist Hero Needs Our Help
An Activist Hero Needs Our Help Last year, University of Utah student Tim DeChristopher disrupted an oil and gas land auction in order to allay further climate change. Now he faces trial and ten years in prison. It’s time for us to descend on Salt Lake and tell the world: “Put the polluters on trial, not the planet!” An [...]
Link Live to From Hamilton to Haiti benefit
Watch From Hamilton to Haiti benefit live from the Lincoln Alexander Centre located in downtown Hamilton, you can help by making an online donation - monies raised go to the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, the closest hospital not affected by the earthquake.. they need your help so they can help those in need of medical attention and supplies .. [...]
Hope, Help and Prayers for Haiti
Hope for Haiti, we all have hope for Haiti, the children looking for their families who are lost, parents looking for their children, friends looking for friends, friends and family living in other countries around the world waiting for word on the health of those they know and love who are now misplaced victims of this large natural disaster. In [...]
Benefits and support for Haiti
Parent’s, teachers friends and family breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as 23 Grade 12 students, teachers and volunteers from Mount Sentinel School in South Slocan a town of approximately 360 people in the Kootenay region of southeastern B.C. arrived today at Trudeau International airport in Montreal after becoming stranded in Haiti after the [...]
Living the dream one climb at a time
What's News Today (some of the original post wording has been changed, original posting date 09) If you haven't heard of Alain Robert a.k.a. Spiderman you check out his site and biography. You may know him better as the Human Spiderman. I recently watched a biography on Alain Robert followed on his many adventures. It was difficult to watch, [...]
Murderous Churches and the Olympics
What's News Today It's the Law: Murderous Churches - and the Olympics - Are Illegally Trespassing on the Land, and Must Leave by Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice www.hiddenfromhistory.org Press Release On March 4, 2008, a hereditary chief of the Squamish Nation on Canada's west coast, Siem Kiapilano, issued an eviction notice to the [...]
Bingo is Dead, But is He Silenced?
By Kevin Annett --- Hidden from History "The only reason I'm still alive is because I see there's people who care about me, and who'll stand beside me when I face the bastards who hurt me." Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, an aboriginal survivor of Canadian Indian residential schools, said those words last year, when with uncommon courage he [...]
A Day of Silence to End the Silence
By Nell Cole A Day of Silence to End the Silence: Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Become part of an international campaign to stop religious terrorism and bring to justice the killers of children The only reason I'm still alive is because I know people care about what happened to me, and will stand beside me when I face the ones who [...]
Canadian clergyman to ask Pope to identify grave sites
Canadian clergyman to ask Pope to identify grave sites and pray with him for those killed by the Catholic church A clergyman from Canada who helped to force the Pope to issue an apology for the harm suffered by Indian children in Catholic boarding schools will hold a memorial service for those who died in these schools outside the Vatican on [...]
Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson — I’ll be there
Two great icons of my generation passing today had so many millions of people stop in their tracks and reflect on what they each meant in our individual lives. The beautiful Farrah Fawcett filled with life, innocence and a smile that will now light up the Heavens and Micheal Jackson, a person despite if you were a hardcore fan or not, feels the [...]
Comic Relief climbs new peaks
Comic Relief their vision is ‘a just world free from poverty’. See What's New at Comic Relief and how their dedicated efforts have made a world of difference, make your smiles spread across the globe and help bring relief everywhere. Read their recent press release March 29, 2009 "Comic Relief’s celebrity climbers met Prime Minister [...]
SOS — Save Our Songbirds
What's News Today "Canada's greenhouse gas emissions soared to new highs in 2007"... "Environment Canada said emissions rose to 747 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, up by 4 per cent from 718 million tonnes the year before..."Canada has one of the fastest rates of growth in greenhouse gas releases in the developed world, and a record that [...]
