The following are what I consider to be quality resources on events and issues I care deeply about. The links are chosen to be informative, challenging places to start your own search. I welcome submissions of other links for possible inclusion here.I operate out of a Christian ethos. I am a deeply spiritual and reflective person who chooses "Life" as in the choice offered in Deuteronomy 30:11-20. I sign my correspondence with the word "L'Chaim" which is "To Life" in Hebrew.
As to my faith background: I was raised as an Anglican, trained as a nurse at a Catholic hospital, joined the United Church of Canada and served in its church courts for almost twenty years before deciding to become a Roman Catholic which I did at the Easter Vigil 2000. I am married to a United Church of Canada minister.
As to other formative experiences: I am the oldest of seven children of a CPO, RCN ret. My father served during WW II through the Cuban Missile Crisis and the offloading of Canadian Peacekeepers at Nicosia, Cyprus from HMCS Bonaventure. I studied Political Science & History at Dalhousie University under Robert Boardman, James Eayrs, Jennifer Smith, John Kirk, et al.
At university the most important things I learned were: how to think, to ask why, to not "buy" another's premises but to argue from outside of those premises.
In life, the most important things I've learned are:
1. from my grandmother: use honey (you can catch more flies that way), listen ("The wise old owl sat in an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard..."), in loving be wise ("Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.");
2. from my dad: remember whose you are (God's); anything worth doing is worth doing well; you have been gifted - give back to the world: your community, your church, your family; pray - always, regularly and with gratitude;
3. from my children: everyplace is "holy ground", patience is an awesome virtue, I finally can understand, "For God SO loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in this Son might have eternal life."
4. from my husband: letting go is good, in vulnerability one can find great strength, marriage is an adventure.
Tao Yin Alternative Web
Tao Yang Wind Index (Activists' Links)
Canadian Bioethics Society
Canadian Foundation on Compulsive Gambling
Gambling in Canada: National Council of Welfare.
Problem Gambling Across Canada
Profiling the Canadian Experience: An Interpretation
CHC Atlantic Gambling Help Centre
Brian Isfeld's Homepage: Brian's son Mark, a UN Peacekeeper, was killed while clearing landmines in Bosnia. Landmine links included. A must see!
The Landmine Network: Mark Isfeld Memorial Page.
Suffer The Little Children: Award-winning six-part series from the Ottawa Sun.
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