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La vie en rose's interest in women's cultural events and feminist artistic creations is hardly a phenomenon of its own invention. The magazine started to publish after a long and intense decade of feminist activism: a decade of close convergence among women's cultural and political groups. Already during the sixties, socialist journals such as Parti Pris (1963-1968) used to publish critical analysis of current political and social issues as well as of the arts and cultural productions with several authors contributing to both types of articles (Laurin, 2005). At the start of second wave feminism in Québec, women's groups - in and outside Montréal - were engaged in all kinds of collective action developed and organized around several issues related to women's social and economic conditio...
... in any single women's group - come the conditions of possibility for coalitions of solidarity which ... were still closely connected with their living conditions. The act of performing arts that put wo...
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GA 132nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Chegwin will also be submitting a proposal to the Manitoba Council of International Cooperation, which provides $1 million each year to fund humanitarian projects. Chegwin's proposal is for a program to help improve living conditions for people impacted by HIV and AIDS.
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Few efforts have been made to explore two emerging demographic features, the extra low fertility of the Taiwanese population, and a rapid increase in cross-border marriages. The objective of this research is to provide comparative estimates of fertility outcomes of marriage immigrants from Mainland China, Southeast Asia, and other countries. Through exploring the 2003 Survey of Foreign and Mainland Chinese Spouses' Living Conditions, this study gives us a first glimpse of how prevalent cross-border marriages are in Taiwanese society. While the headlines tend to portray an image that only old veterans and minority rural men are likely to marry an immigrant, the findings indeed show that an increased number of Taiwanese men have adopted cross-border marriage as an alternative. The fertili...
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On the other side, promises made by developed nations to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce poverty, improve health, educate children and enhance the role of women significantly by 2015 are not being met. Property destruction, along with injuries and deaths during violence, and a resulting refugee problem, have all set communities back in their efforts to improve living conditions.
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Everything about [Danny Roberge] is efficient and practical," [Julie Jonas] said. "For him, grass represented maintenance and watering.
"Moles sometimes fall into the swimming pool and frogs often hop in," Jonas said, adding, "we put an animal rescue pad in the pool so that they could save themselves by climbing on it, but they don't use it. We have to fish them out."
"We saw our first snake three years ago and every year, we've seen more and more," Jonas said. "We obviously have fantastic living conditions for them. There's probably food for them in the form of moles and mice."
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With basic living conditions that grim, spending money on sports seems irresponsible. Instead of considering that some of the remote reserves will never function comparable to a municipality connected to rail and road, [Laura Robinson] suggests more money will solve what are chronic, systemic failures, never mind daunting logistics. Robinson admits she recently found herself "grappling with the same issues that representatives in 1991 had to confront." Those persistent issues aren't indicative of racism; they reveal a denial of reality.
Robinson suggests there are "no aboriginal athletes on our team to Vancouver" which is ironic considering how heavily VANOC has given the games an aboriginal theme. The North American Indigenous Games might account for some of that conspicuous absence. ...
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There's not supposed to be any knives or alcohol but there's a great deal circulating in the building," said resident Chris Arnason, who said he saw a resident threaten another man's life in the building on March 12. "Both are still here. Why is that?
"From our perspective, they met our criteria," said [Rick Lucia]. "We ensure they're in good standing, we review financial statements and often do site visits."
Lucia said they wouldn't have inspected the living conditions at the building. "We're not a licensing organization," said Lucia, who called the stabbing and shooting death "tragic."
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Last month, it was revealed that the October riot was the work of Native Syndicate gang members unhappy with the living conditions.
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When the members of a committee tasked with studying aboriginal issues don't even know that many reserves in remote areas of this country don't have running water, it's no wonder these communities have been unable to shed Third World living conditions.
One of the things that always amazes me about civil servants," the senator said dryly. "You always give the impression things are OK.
"We've created a horror story out there as a society for the last 100 and some years for First Nations people. It's time the (Assembly of First Nations) and every group, the governments, oppositions, whoever, start working together and making a difference in First Nations' quality of life or else it's going to victimize all of us... We are the healthiest and the wealthiest and it's up to us to do somethin...