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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: November 2006
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Sunday, November 26, 2006. Nursing Home Workers Victims of Health Care Cuts. Published November 1994 in the Prairie Dog). Five years ago they were pumped up to believe they were the ultimate in health care. Now," says nursing home worker Charlene Crosby, "they're throwing us out the window.". Most of the LPNs were offered jobs in the home, but at the NA level, with a pay cut of $310 per month. CUPE local 2569, representing nursing ho...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Herbal Remedy
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Tuesday, November 14, 2006. Video piece which aired May 26, 1997, for Plugged In Vancouver, on Rogers Cable. Herbs may be the medicine of the twenty-first century. More and more people are using herbs to boost their health. But Health Canada wants to regulate herbs, restricting some herbs from sale, and reclassifying many as drugs. And that has herbalists fighting mad. Elaine Stevens, herbalist:. Simone Hoedel, reporter:. It allows t...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Nursing Home Workers Victims of Health Care Cuts
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Sunday, November 26, 2006. Nursing Home Workers Victims of Health Care Cuts. Published November 1994 in the Prairie Dog). Five years ago they were pumped up to believe they were the ultimate in health care. Now," says nursing home worker Charlene Crosby, "they're throwing us out the window.". Most of the LPNs were offered jobs in the home, but at the NA level, with a pay cut of $310 per month. CUPE local 2569, representing nursing ho...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: South Asian Women face Discrimination Twice over
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Sunday, November 26, 2006. South Asian Women face Discrimination Twice over. Published in Fall/Winter 1993. An Indo-Canadian woman rises to her feet in the Langara faculty lounge to tell a group of approximately 30 South Asian women how her husband refuses to acknowledge her child simply because she is a girl. The woman is emotional as she tells her listeners about the humiliation she now faces as a wife and mother. She is taking her...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Spirit of St. Francis Inspires Atonement Sisters
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Monday, November 20, 2006. Spirit of St. Francis Inspires Atonement Sisters. Published July 1996 in BC Catholic). People spill out of the packed St. Paul's Church on East Cordova Street and file around the corner into the basement lunchroom of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement. They are celebrating the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Sisters' mission in Vancouver, where some 700 people a day come for soup and sandwiches.
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: East Timor: Western Aid Fuels Tragedy
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Tuesday, November 14, 2006. East Timor: Western Aid Fuels Tragedy. Written and published October, 1993 in the Voice newspaper). East Timor has been called Indonesia's killing fields. International human rights organizations have reported that since Indonesia's invasion of the small island just off Australia's north coast in 1975, more than 200,000 people have been killed in a brutal campaign of oppression and counterinsurgency. East ...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Archbishop Exner of Vancouver Discusses Issue of Sexual Abuse within Church and Society
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Friday, November 17, 2006. Archbishop Exner of Vancouver Discusses Issue of Sexual Abuse within Church and Society. Interview by Simone Hoedel. From the Prairie Messenger, Sept. 11, 1995). In an interview last year with Archbishop Exner, Simone Hoedel asked for his views on the problem of sexual abuse within the church and society. There have been two national studies on the issue of sexual abuse, one published in 1984 and a second i...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Safe Haven: Collins Okeny leaves Sudan and Finds a More Peaceful Home in Yorkton
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Sunday, December 10, 2006. Safe Haven: Collins Okeny leaves Sudan and Finds a More Peaceful Home in Yorkton. By Simone Hoedel, published Winter 2004. Collins Okeny is resting with his family in his Yorkton home, relaxed and at ease. Although he now works as a blaster at Leon's Manufacturing Company in Yorkton, he reflects that only a few years ago, he and his family had escaped a harrowing ordeal in their native Sudan. Okeny fled to ...
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Simone Hoedel's Weblog: Dinners Warm Empty Stomachs
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A more or less official depository of the Scribblings of Simone Hoedel. Sunday, December 10, 2006. Dinners Warm Empty Stomachs. By SIMONE HOEDEL (published in the Voice, Fall 1993). It's Thanksgiving on the downtown east side in Vancouver. On this sunny day, street people are lined up on Cordova Street around the block outside the Union Gospel Mission, near Oppenheimer Park. They're here for the food: a hot turkey dinner with dressing, mashed potatoes, carrots, gravy, pumpkin pie and coffee. Rich MacHale...
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