Michael Moore’s Sicko may paint the Canadian health care system in a rosy light, but I had heard differently. I recently experienced first hand the British Columbian medical system when I underwent coronary bypass surgery.
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I was a participant at a free birth back in the 1980’s. We didn’t call it that at the time, at the time we called it a home birth. The difference between home births like the one my family planned and free births of today, is that a typical home birth includes a mid wife or some other qualified personnel in the proceedings. A free birth, does not.
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I found a cute little tank top and proceeded to wait in queue to buy my blues away when “she” appeared… a normal enough looking woman, about 5”4, 100 lbs, maybe a size 6… dark hair pulled up into a flip-bun, wearing average everyday clothes and a few blemishes on her face.
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I will start off by saying what pretty much every postpartum survivor has probably said, “I never thought it could happen to me.”
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Mr. Gordie Johnson is best known up north as the former frontman of the hugely successful Canadian band Big Sugar, which was famous for its orchestra of unlikely collaborators making the sounds of rock and roll, blues, funk, pop, honkey tonk, country and reggae, all rolled into one. After a 13-year run ending with Johnson’s disillusionment with the increasingly vicious Canadian music industry, Big Sugar broke up. Johnson headed south…
Sphere: Related ContentI don’t know about you, but I wasn’t taken by the sobs that of key Crown witness Lynn Ellingsen today in court. I watched her closely as I used to when I’d sit back and observe people to stay safe Downtown Eastside…I felt as though what she saw didn’t affect her as much as she let on.
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Andrew Keen, Author of Cult of the Amateur: How The Internet Is Killing Today’s Culture says, “The cult of the amateur is the love affair that we all have for amateur-created content on the Internet. By amateur, I mean content created by people without the kind of monetary award that allows one to pay one’s mortgage or put food on the table”…read more on www.orato.com…
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Revelle Balmain was an Australian dancer and model who was about to return to Japan to take up another dance contract. She was due to meet her friend on the evening of November 5th, 1994 but never made it. The following day, Revelle’s bag, shoes, make up, diary, credit cards and the keys to her flat were found scattered around a Kingsford suburb…read more at www.orato.com
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I’ve been living in Lebanon for 22 years now, my whole life. I was born during war, so all the memories and sound clashes of this horrible experience still flow in my head nowadays…Read more at www.orato.com.
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