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Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report, Irked Videos

Quoted from StandUpForMentalHealth.com:

In David Granirer’s Stand Up For Mental Health course, mental health consumers turn their problems into comedy, then perform their acts at conferences, treatment centers, psych wards, for various mental health organizations, on college and university campuses, and most importantly for the general public. ‘We use comedy to give consumers a powerful voice and help reduce the stigma and discrimination around mental illness’ says Granirer. ‘The idea is that laughing at our setbacks raises us above them.

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On Saturday February 21st, 2009, at 12:21 PM, on Twitter, Jennifer Navarrete tweeted:

Glenda’s PowerPoint presentation after the jump!

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A video message from Canadian Entrepreneuse Glenda Watson Hyatt, author of the book I’ll Do It Myself:

www.doitmyselfblog.com

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Terry Fox, Cunard Street near the corner of Robie, Halifax, Nova Scotia, headed for Province House, May 20th, 1980.

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba July 28, 1958.

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NIGHTWALKER: An essay about Restless Legs Syndrome

Written by Estelle Hébert

3 A.M.—I’m standing next to my bed, staring at my alarm clock. In less than 4 hours, my day begins. Bouncing up and down, I decide to Click to continue »

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Stepmom Shares Life with Deaf Twins

by Karen Putz, and guest blogger Barbara Desmarais

[Ed’s note: In addition to being an insightful, talented and entertaining freelance writer, Karen is also a deaf mom to three deaf and hard of hearing children. Her husband is deaf, too. Their cute little Westie “Kaycie” can hear a rabbit breathing a half-mile away.]

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Filed under: Themes, Bum Deal, Books & Book Reviews

Susan Scott is a freelance writer who worked for many years at the Calgary Herald. While writing this book, she interviewed more than 60 women facing homelessness across Canada. Part of her agreement with these women was to tell their stories in the way they would want to have them told.

All Our Sisters is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the conditions facing homeless women today.

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2 amazing excerpts from the book I’ll Do It Myself

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Filed under: Art Gallery, Books & Book Reviews

written by Richard Van Camp

ISBN 978-1-55143-661-6
Published by Orca Book Publishers
$9.95 CDN | $8.95 USA

Welcome Song for Baby was this year’s official selection of the Books for BC Babies initiative, and will be given as a free gift to every newborn baby in British Columbia in 2008.

Approximately 42,000 babies will be born in British Columbia during this time.

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Kevin Frost: A Deaf-Blind Speed Skater…with Olympic Ambitions

“I’m back from my competition. I won a gold in my division at the Provincial Master Championship against able body skaters. I would be honored to have my story in your magazine.”

Limited vision.

Total silence.

Could you do it?

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