The NEW A B C's of LIFE!! ... our world's brand new alphabet As most of you know by now, "Courtney's Story", has grown and has now become a Global Phenomenon raising awareness around the World of PML. You are probably thinking to yourself that PML are just three of the twenty six letters that make up our alphabet. True, they are just that! However, in today's society and in the world in which we all live. The alphabet we have all been raised on and learned even before … [Read more...]
Commonwealth Day – This year’s theme is ‘Women as Agents of Change’
Commonwealth Day Celebrated March 14, 2011 A Celebration of Women honors the Commonwealth and Celebrates this years Theme of 2011 The idea of a designated day each year to celebrate the Empire was first put forward in 1894 by the Canadian branch of the Royal Colonial Institute (now the Royal Commonwealth Society). Clementina Fessenden, the wife of Ontario Minister of Education, Senator George W. Ross, promoted a scheme for children to commemorate the Empire on one day each … [Read more...]
ADELE BUTLER – Women of Spirit: Child Brides
Child Brides ... When I heard the news report about 12 year old girls from B.C. were being given as brides to polygamists, I was shocked and disgusted. "They are still children!" They aren't even developed fully yet. and what disturbed me the most was that their parents sanctioned this. Marriage, according to documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court Friday. The girls were “sealed for time and eternity” in religious ceremonies to Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church … [Read more...]