«Oui, je connais Justin Bieber et j'ai un iPod !» Photo : Joannie Lafrenière J’enseigne au secondaire depuis 1978. J’ai enseigné à peu près toutes les matières : français, anglais, musique, écologie, morale, mathématiques, dans une douzaine d’écoles, dans des centres pour décrocheurs et pour délinquants, dans des classes enrichies, en formation professionnelle, en récupération scolaire et en orthopédagogie. J’ai côtoyé des adolescents brillants, mais aussi de grands écorchés, des enfants battus, victimes d’inceste, affamés, déprimés, révoltés ou réduits au silence par des souffrances insoutenables. Mon expérience et ma formation devraient donc aplanir bien des obstacles et faciliter l’exercice de ma profession, mais ma passion s’éteint peu à peu, mes convictions se désagrègent et ma foi en l’avenir s’étiole. Tous les enseignants que je connais ont été victimes de critiques injustifiées de la part de leurs élèves et des parents de ceux-ci. Autrefois, on affirmait qu’enseigner était une vocation. J’en suis à ma 32e année d’enseignement.
Addiction Expert: We Know Too Little About Marijuana Although medicinal marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, no dispensaries have opened yet. (Melanie Tata/Flickr) What do we really know about marijuana? This state is among 24 that have already legalized the sale and use of medical marijuana. Hill casts himself as a dispenser of facts and truth about what’s actually known about marijuana. But he also says, “If you think marijuana is an evil drug that leads people down the path of moral degradation,” the truth is, pot offers many potential medical benefits. Guests Kevin P. More The Boston Globe: State Pushes Forward To Legalize Marijuana “Advocates have long planned an initiative petition to legalize the recreational use of the drug for adults, and political analysts have expected that measure to pass in the next presidential election year.But some lawmakers are balking at the prospect of activists unilaterally writing a law that would have such a profound effect on the state. Other stories from this show:
What’s Buried Next Door to Vancouver Island University? — KevinAnnett.com Crimes against Humanity in our own Backyard are Finally Surfacing I was held in the Nanaimo Indian Hospital when I was a child, for seven years. I was used like a guinea pig in experiments. Lots of Indian kids died in there. - Joan Morris, Songhees Nation, at a lecture at Malaspina College (VIU) in the spring of 2004 Just south of the VIU campus stands an overgrown piece of land behind stern barbed wire fencing: the site of the former Nanaimo Indian Hospital, run by the United Church of Canada and the federal government for over a half century. According to Joan Morris and other Indians, this ground holds the remains of children who were killed after grisly medical experiments were conducted there for decades by military doctors. This past week, Joan Morris’ testimony is helping to place Nanaimo in the news at international human rights forums in Europe. “My mother and I were both imprisoned in the Hospital in the 1960′s” she described. “Dr. In the words of Joan Morris,
Pesticides, Forbes Photographer Captures Waves of Trash in Indonesia Waves for days. Trash for eternity. That’s what photographer Zak Noyle discovered on a recent trip to Java, Indonesia. The waves of Java, always known for being pristine and barreling, were now rolling swells of disgusting trash and debris. Noyle was shooting Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya in a remote bay when he and Surinaya discovered the water to be covered in garbage, according to GrindTV. “It was crazy. In addition to the sea of plastic, large objects like tree trunks were being tossed around in the waves. Indonesia, a country comprised of more than 17,000 islands, suffers from a terrible trash problem that is polluting its waters. Often, the only other disposal option Indonesians have is burning their trash. Residents of large population centers are often the ones improperly disposing of their trash, which storms and currents carry to beaches and islands most locals have never even seen. No matter who is to blame, the effects are felt by those who live in or visit Indonesia.
Marijuana use may increase heart complications in young, middle-aged adults Study Highlights Marijuana use may result in heart-related complications in young and middle-aged adults. Nearly 2 percent of the health complications from marijuana use reported were cardiovascular related. A quarter of these complications resulted in death, according to a French study. Embargoed until 3 p.m. DALLAS, April 23, 2014 — Marijuana use may result in cardiovascular-related complications — even death — among young and middle-aged adults, according to a French study reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association. “In prior research, we identified several remarkable cases of cardiovascular complications as the reasons for hospital admission of young marijuana users,” said Émilie Jouanjus, Pharm.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study and a medical faculty member at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse in Toulouse, France. Among their findings: Most of the patients were male, average age 34.3 years. Additional Resources:
Exposed: Factory Chicken Slaughterhouses Using Super-strength Chemicals to Cover Up Extreme Salmonella Contamination There is a reason why the conventional poultry industry in the U.S. has been fairly successful in recent years at lowering detected levels of salmonella in chicken. But it has nothing to do with factory birds being raised in cleaner and more humane living environments. To the contrary, a new investigative report by The Washington Post (WP) reveals that many chicken slaughterhouses are merely treating their filthy chickens with an ever-expanding volume and variety of toxic chemicals to mask the presence of more virulent salmonella strains from federal regulators. This shock finding was realized after researchers looking into the salmonella testing process for poultry identified a mismatch between levels of bacteria detected on birds and overall infection rates among the general population. Simply put, salmonella contamination rates in chicken appear to be decreasing while salmonella poisoning rates in humans have remained the same or are even increasing.
Psychological Medicine - Effect of high-potency cannabis on corpus callosum microstructure Original Articles Effect of high-potency cannabis on corpus callosum microstructure S. Riguccia1a2 c1, T. R. Marquesa2 †, M. a1 Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy a2 Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK a3 Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK a4 Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK a5 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK Abstract Background The use of cannabis with higher Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol content has been associated with greater risk, and earlier onset, of psychosis. (Received March 04 2015) (Revised September 30 2015)
Grain Free Butternut (or Sweet Potato) Flatbread I know, that’s sounds like an extreme claim. But if you follow a restricted diet, then you know just how liberating it is to have a never-fail staple recipe in your culinary arsenal. This grain free flatbread, a healthy bread alternative, fits the bill when you crave something–for lack of a better term–bready. If you are on a grain free diet, then you know how comforting it is to have something that can be used for sandwiches. I’ve been enjoying these for breakfast, slathered with raw honey. The strange ingredient in this grain free flatbread is the gelatin. “I don’t have gelatin,” you may be thinking, “can I leave it out?” I know I will be asked about egg substitutes. If you don’t have the butternut squash, you could use mashed acorn squash or sweet potato to make this grain free flatbread. Grain Free Butternut (or Sweet Potato) Flatbread Ingredients Instructions Have all ingredients at room temperature.
Réduire ses taxes scolaires… sans tricher Même quand je reviens de vacances et que ma boîte de courriels contient plus de 2000 messages, je ne me lasse jamais de lire les messages des lecteurs de , lapresse.ca et maintenant de . Vous êtes nombreux à me poser des questions de finances personnelles, à dénoncer les pratiques douteuses des commerçants ou à me raconter vos trucs pour mieux gérer votre argent. Merci ! J’adore. « On m’a déjà dit que, n’ayant pas d’enfant, j’ai le privilège de changer pour une commission scolaire qui a un taux de taxation moindre. En effet, il est possible de réduire ses taxes scolaires en payant son compte dans une autre commission. Ils peuvent changer de commission scolaire uniquement lorsqu’ils n’ont pas d’enfant qui fréquente une école dans cette commission. Mais il faut être conscient que le taux de taxation des commissions scolaires anglophones est souvent plus élevé que celui des commissions francophones. Dans certains cas, la différence peut être considérable. C’est complètement faux !
A Medium Sized Rain Water Collection System We decided to do a medium size rain water harvesting project by collecting water off the roof of our outbuilding shop/garage/barn. The idea is that this manageable size system could provide water for the garden and some trees, and that we could learn from it and decide if we want to do a somewhat larger system using the house roof which provides quite a bit more collection area. 2nd year update March 2013 -- a freeze problem.. One year update May 2012... Overview The shop building with its gambrel roof and the extension shed roof on one side provides a total of 925 sqft of equivalent flat collection area. We added gutters to the east and west sides to pick up the water, and then ran PVC piping to a 2500 gallon plastic tank located under the south end of the lean-to roof. The water collected by the gutters goes to an inlet at the top of the tank. The sections listed below give quite a bit of detail on the sizing and construction, which is all pretty simple. Sizing the System Performance