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Canadians are renowned for being too polite and too humble. While politeness may be an endearing quality, we need to start celebrating our accomplishments. Recently an independent think tank, Development Initiatives, singled Canada out as the world’s largest donor supporting basic nutrition. Over the last few years, CIDA has disbursed $104 million a year in support of global nutrition development assistance and committed millions more.

It is a savvy investment that is being applauded around the world – and should be here at home too.

Malnutrition is the underlying cause of 35 percent of all deaths among children under five. When children do survive, malnutrition in the early years of life can constrain potential as tightly as a straight jacket – leaving the young, and the adults they become, physically and intellectually weakened, more susceptible to disease or chronic illness and, in many cases, incapable of enjoying a rich full and productive life. If we don’t tackle malnutrition, all of our efforts in development are undermined, from health, to education, to economic development.

And the benefits of investing in nutrition have long-term ripple effects. The Brighton-based and influential Institute for Development Studies, has reported that eliminating under-nutrition in young children make those same children 33 percent more likely to escape poverty as adults. With health and increased earning power, the generational spiral of poverty, poor health and diminished potential can be reversed – having implications for individuals, families, communities and economies. Investing in nutrition can boost the GNP of countries and entire continents – Asia and Africa – by as much as 11 percent. More...

http://blogs.ottawac...t-malnutrition/

Some good news instead of the regular made up so called scandals.

Just listen to part of his testimoney on the gas plants , he did because it was not the right spot to do it and because of his desicion, no kids will have to go to school beside one of these plants. The lies just keep coming. lol

This union just don't get it, the gravy train is ending and time to get use to it. RoC is sick and tired of listening to the constant whinning. This just shows how pathic they have become.

http://www2.canada.c...html?id=8235225

OTTAWA - Canada's largest public service union is risking a strong public backlash after its latest protest against budget cuts backfired spectacularly Thursday when an online stunt saw the prime minister targeted for crude racist and sexist attacks.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) launched the harper-says.ca website on Thursday, which allowed users to imagine Stephen Harper's secret thoughts and attach them to a photo of the prime minister. But the site, part of its Harper Hates Me campaign, was taken down within hours due to what PSAC claimed was an inability to moderate the comments efficiently.

Users could create their own "thought bubble" above a photo of the prime minister and anonymously submit their creation. Before the page was removed, some entries compared Stephen Harper to Adolf Hitler, had him pondering nuking Quebec, discussed putting student protesters in cages and imagined Harper trying to choose between eating, beheading, selling or jailing the recently donated pandas from China.

Just after 5 p.m., PSAC tweeted an apology "to everyone who was offended by the Harper Says website. The website was contrary to PSAC policy and values," it conceded.

Ian Lee, a former Tory candidate for Ottawa Centre and a current professor of business strategy and public policy at Carleton University's Sprott School of Business, said PSAC is "risking a backlash" because, unlike in the U.K. or the U.S., where personal commentary can get quite vicious, Canadians "don't tolerate personal attacks against the family of a politician ... that's a no-go zone."

While he stopped short of suggesting that PSAC encouraged or incited the comments, CTV political analyst Scott Reid called the website "spectacularly bone-headed."

"Whatever the technicalities are, the reality is if you set up a space for people to riff off of the word ‘hate,' you're going to get extraordinarily ugly commentary," said Reid, a former communications director for Paul Martin.

"And, from a purely political perspective, they couldn't have done themselves more harm or their opponent a greater service than to create this kind of idiotic forum," he said.

Lee said PSAC should have anticipated that users would take the opportunity to air their opinions about the Conservatives and that, given the anonymity of the website, the posts would likely border on the inappropriate.

"The subject is very emotional - I understand why public servants are angry - but all the more reason why somebody should have been moderating that website to make sure that the really nasty stuff - the stuff that went over the line - never saw the light of day."

Harper's spokesman, Andrew MacDougall, responded to the site with this tweet: "re: PSAC: the Prime Minister thanks the members of the public service for the work they do each day on behalf of Canadians."

"He's playing it very cool - that is to say, he's not responding in a flamboyant, emotional way - I think he's coming off looking better for it," said Lee.  More......

I see my man Kairos is banned , I was watching what he posts and I don' t understand, can we know why fellow posters get banned?