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Government of Alberta Allots $29 Million For Houses For City’s Homeless. Oh that’s funny. Not funny like ha ha, but funny like I told you so.
Meanwhile in BC (from Megaphone Meganews):
Province takes a kid away from parent. As the parent has no kid in the home, the shelter allowance is cut. As the shelter allowance is cut, the parent loses the child-friendly home. The Province keeps the kid because the parent does not have suitable accommodation.
What was it the Mariners said about children?
60% of B.C. RCMP staff considered quitting. Probably because they can’t afford to live here.
Inside the Dangerously Empty Lives of Teenage Girls
This cover is fucking gross and misogynistic. The article addresses anxiety, not vapidity. FUCKING FAIL, McLean’s. Also, the “expert” is a dickwad.
Then again, it would be in keeping that the Mariners’ daughters would be vacant and lascivious. God, Howard Rotberg must hate reading the news as much as I do.
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RE: Province takes a kid away from parent… I really have a problem with the notion that this family is a victim of the system. Why should the mother continue to collect child subsidies when the child is not in her care? That government funding should go toward supporting the child in whatever home he or she winds up in — whether that’s with family or with foster parents. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the province or society in general to expect parents to demonstrate the ability support a child independent of government hand-outs. Child shelter allowances should really only make things a little easier, and not be the determining factor in whether or not a family has a roof over its head. If this woman couldn’t pay her rent because she lost her child shelter allowance maybe she shouldn’t expect her child returned to her until she gets her life sorted out.
Why exactly did this child get removed from his or her home in the first place and why doesn’t Pivot Legal think this is pertinent information?
Yeah its crazy, because we’re such a child friendly city/Province. Its crazy because we usually have such flawless child protection services.
Oh god. Please don’t tell me this is going to become a daily Sean Orr rant like Morning Brew. I’m going to be sad to delete this RSS feed…
Love you, you poor dear.