by Admin Editor | Sep 8, 2014 | From the Headlines
“Maybe our future can be found in the past’s moments of kindness and courage rather than its centuries of warfare.” – Howard Zinn Most history books are written by the winners, but this book presents history from a different point of view. The history of the...
by Admin Editor | Jul 24, 2014 | From the Headlines
It is hard not to feel that the world has gone mad when the daily news this week is full of sadness and outrage over the senseless killing of almost 300 passengers on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. Flip channels and you will hear that the Israelis and Palestinians...
by Admin Editor | Jun 3, 2014 | From the Headlines
With great sadness I write about the rape and murder of two girls in Northern India last week. Two cousins ages 14 and 15 went out to the fields in the night to relieve themselves because they have no toilet inside their house. They were brutally gang-raped by a group...
by Admin Editor | Apr 8, 2014 | From the Headlines, News, Programs, Youth programs
A Salt Spring Island campaign taking place with the aim to address stereotypes and silence regarding crime and victims of crime in our community. SWOVA’s Salish Sea Girls’ Leadership Project secured the funding from the Federal Ministry of Justice to run the campaign...
by Admin Editor | Feb 11, 2014 | From the Headlines
I grew up in rural Nova Scotia and last week was grateful and relieved to read that the Halifax Regional School Board voted to rename Cornwallis Junior High, a public school named after the city founder Edward Cornwallis who was a British military officer who founded...
by Admin Editor | Nov 19, 2013 | From the Headlines, Research
Universal Children’s Day is on November 20, 2013, a day to annually celebrate childhood worldwide. First proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, it was established to encourage all countries to institute a day to initiate action to benefit and...
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