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		<title>Pondering on the Purpose of Remembering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s December 14th and the memorials for the Montreal Massacre are done for another year.  This year December 6th fell on the date my column is printed &#8211; Tuesday.  The only positive aspect of the day was that I could write about it on the day of and not before or after. This column was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=756&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Sisters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the privilege of working with the wonderful women at the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (SACHA).  We spent the day exploring the potentials of social media and how it can be used to advance the SACHA mission of eradicating violence against women (vaw).  Despite the seriousness of the work, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=735&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And I Heard the Door Open From Below&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of the blog post:  &#8220;Staying Alive and Following Your Dreams&#8221; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The other day I posted about Janice Butler and her &#8220;It&#8217;s a success&#8221; strategy for, you guessed it, success.  Today, I&#8217;ll recount the rest of the afternoon&#8230;. Location:  The Lakeview, Hamilton, Ontario Purpose:  Professional development day. Just before we broke [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=634&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Alive and Following Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part one of a two-part post.  It was getting too long so I cut it in half.  Part two will come tomorrow. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; I work at the best place. The director of our department hosted a professional development day earlier this week.  Our director believes that it&#8217;s important to provide opportunities for staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=605&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy International Women&#8217;s Day everyone! This year marks the 100th anniversary of International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD).  I can hear the groan growing among some readers, mostly male, but some women too, who think the day a sexist celebration of all things women. When&#8217;s International Men&#8217;s Day? I came across this question in my reading this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=589&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day Not to Forget</title>
		<link>http://inthesisterhood.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/a-day-not-to-forget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 6 marks the day that changed the lives of many people in Canada and an important day in the sisterhood. On that day, a man stormed an engineering classroom at l&#8217;Ecole Polytechnique and singled out the female students for execution.  In late-2oth century Canada.  It was, and remains to be, a chilling reminder that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=568&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be envious, get your own life&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://inthesisterhood.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/dont-be-envious-get-your-own-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole “other woman” thing has captured my attention lately.  I suppose it began with Tiger Woods and the revelations that surfaced concerning his long list of illicit lovers, unknown to his loving wife.  Then Jesse James ponied up the truth on his backroom dealings behind the back of Sandra Bullock, his devoted wife.  Such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=541&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planned obsolescence.</title>
		<link>http://inthesisterhood.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/planned-obsolescence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, as I mentioned in my last post on menrvaSOFIA, I’ve spent the past few weeks reading.  Not all day, everyday, I have a job, but most of my free time has been spent with a book or magazine in my hands and my eyes on the page these past few weeks.  With a break [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=532&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Country for Any Men?</title>
		<link>http://inthesisterhood.wordpress.com/2010/07/24/no-country-for-any-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the summer issue of The Atlantic last week.  I couldn’t resist, the cover story by Hanna Rosin (The end of men.  How women are taking control &#8211; of everything) captured my attention.  As a woman I wondered, where had I gone wrong? To call on words familiar to all feminists, aren’t I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=524&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough is enough&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://inthesisterhood.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/enough-is-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scientist who helped eradicate smallpox has issued a warning that the human race will be extinct in 100 years. He claims that overpopulation and the over consumption of resources will do us in. If you ask me, population control has gotten a bad rap over the last 100 years.  The eugenics movement began in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=inthesisterhood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9450482&amp;post=440&amp;subd=inthesisterhood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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