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7/11/2008

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 Morgenthaler....Mandela.....G8 ..and Gems from Harper's Magazine....

     The Order of Canada awarded to Dr. Henry Morgenthaler  is most deserving and long overdue. At great personal risk, this survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, championed women's health and reproductive rights, by offering to perform abortion at his clinic ai Honore Beaugrande  St. in Montreal, Quebec.He was arrested, tried and convicted. After appeals, in 1988, the Supreme Court, using Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms " the right to life, liberty and the security of persons ",  struck down Canada's abortion law.

   The deciision not only clarified Sec.7, but freed women from the shackles of unwanted [pregnancy, and the freedom not to be kept " barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen ". Women were now in fuller control of their life. Their servitude was  coming to an end.....the right to vote and run for office, to start a business and get a bank loan, to have a career and to be free from the tyranny of male/religious domination.
   The reaction of The Bishop of Toronto was at best fatuous and the predictable statement from the fundamentalist Stephen Harper was laughable. Latest polls show that more than 65% of Canadians support the granting of the award.

                                               Nelson Mandela...

     In a recent statment, the American Government, has decided to remove the name  of Nelson Mandela from their terrorist list. He was placed there by the Reagan Administration, who had a policy of support for the racist, apartheid government of South Africa and also a policy of labelling " freedom fighters " as terrorists.........hello Washington, Jefferson et al. By the way this was the same Reagan Adm. that supported  " death squads " operating freely and openly throughout Latin Americs.

                                         G.8 Meeting

     They met , feasted on caviar and champagne, exchanged "photo" hand shakes and then laboured mightily and produced a " toothless "  and " stillborn " and meaningless baby of Kyoto. They gave themselves until 2050 to reduce carbon emissions by 50% but were left to their own designs as to how to do this. The " fossil fuel barons " are in hogs heaven. The Bush/ Cheney/ Rice led lobby, kowtowingly supported by Stephen Harper are ever going to be wined and dined by these barons.

                                       Gems from Harper's Magazine.......July 08.

    1.  Estimated total value of investments in major military contractors owned by members of Congress....$150,000,000.....let's make war...ohh, it's so profitable.

   2.House cats must have 2 hours of social " activities " each day, according to new regulations in Sweden......purrrrr.

   3.Genetic variation affecting two thirds of East Asians men, allow them to take performance-enhancing testosterone without detection.....Hello Olympics!!!!

   4.Women who  consume bananas before conception are more likely to give birth to boys ..... Does this qualify as performance enhancing? Another conspiracy against females and what does this do for the Chinese one child policy and all of those Indians using ultra sound to find out baby's gender so that they can get rid of unwanted girls..... Outlaw bananas until they stop their gender bias!!!!!!

   5. On a more gender free note...... Bornean orangutans, have learned to swim and spear fish. 

    Lastly I would like to recommend three books for your reading pleasure.......Salman Rushdie's  Midnight Children.....J.M. Coetzee's ..Disgrace and John Grisham's  The Appeal .                                     
 
                                          Ishwar Prashad.......retiredprof.com
 





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Ishwar Prashad link
7/11/2008 06:39:44 am

A variety of new and interesting issues

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Hannah Deegan
7/14/2008 06:41:46 am

I always love these little tidbits, although I would think woman in china will stop eating bananas in order to increase the chance of having a girl, apparently these days a wife is a little hard to find in china. Hello Supply and Demand.

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Ishwar Prashad link
7/15/2008 01:55:38 am

Hannah...... Unfortunately, in China as in India, a girl is a liability. They,in their ignorance do not realise that they are jeopardicing their future by clinging to their male prejudice.T

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     Ishwar R. Prashad recently retired from over 47 years of teaching.

    He taught Political Science variously at Dawson College, Loyola College, Algoma University College, Sir George Williams University, Concordia University and Vanier College.

    Previously, he taught for nine years in Port Mourant, Guyana.


    He became Principal of Corentyne Comprehensive High School at the tender age of 21. During this time he turned down Scholarship offers to study overseas in England and the U.S.S.R.

    He chose Canada and after graduating from Sir George Williams with a B.A Honours with Distinction, he accepted a Fellowship to complete his graduate work at McMaster University. He completed his first two degrees-Bachelors and Masters- in three years.  

    His last position was as Co-Ordinator of Political Science and Economics at Vanier College and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

    He is married to the former Juliet Ramcharan (Library Supervisor, McGill University) and together they have three children – Indra R. Prashad, P.Eng. ,McGill (Presently Manager, Ontario Safe Water Drinking Agency), Ishwar R. Prashad Jr., B.A ,McGill (Presently, President, Kismit Gear Inc.) and Rabindra Y. Prashad, (Presently, Artist and Chef).They are the proud Grandparents of eight grandchildren-Miranda, Kamal, Ayesha, Élan, Anĵa , Étienne, Chloé, and Jasmine.

     

     

     





     



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