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Draft Report Calls for Reduction of Suicide Stigma

Canada needs a "dynamic, broadly based social movement" to improve its citzens' mental health, a "whole of government" approach that unites everyone from political leaders to "experts by experience," according to a national strategy five years in the making.

Canada: First Nation Children Still Removed From Parents at High Rate

More First Nation children are in foster care today than during the height of the residential school system during the 1960's, according to new reports.  Today, tens of thousands of First Nation children reside outside of their family home living with foster parents, distant relatives or in institutions.

"Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones, but Words Will Hurt Forever."

An amateur video making a powerful statement about verbal bullying.

Can Government Teach Good Parenting?

Researches are calling for a national campaign to improve the quality of parenting, as a way of encouraging social mobility.  Interesting report form the UK.

How One First Nation Broke the Tragic Trend in Child Welfare

Nationally, there are more aboriginal kids in care than at the height of the residential school system, various reports and calculations indicate.  At Kitigan Zibi however, there's only a handful at any one time, and some of those come from neighbouring Algonquin communities.

"Do Something"

A youth engagement program that survives with little federal funding and does remarkable work at the national level.

Philippines Street Kid has Talent

Tourists record video of boy and his impersonations...Look out Mister Bieber!

And While on the Subject...

Check out Gary, a New York construction worker on the 2nd ave. subway line who sings Sinatra during lunch hour.



"The young have aspirations that never come to pass;
The old have reminiscences of what never happened."

-SAKI  (H.H MUNRO 1870-1916)