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NEW! Guide to B.C. Disability Benefits - July, 2010

A Guide to B.C. Disability Benefits - who qualifies, who should advise, how to fight, how to win. More about this excellent new report at ASKBiblitz.com.

 

Attention: Disability advocates worldwide -- Ontario disability benefits (ODSP) class action needs your advice!

 

Medical marijuana is now legal in Canada.  Find out how to get it, how to grow it and how the international community feels about it here.

 

Toxic Mold -- more about toxic mold and leaky condos at www.bccondos.ca.

 

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Our Mission:

Welcome to www.bcdisabilities.com. We're a new worldwide disability consumer/advocacy website from Vancouver, British Columbia on the west coast of Canada. Visit myBeautifulBC.com for more information about the daily goings on in this world-class city. Also vist GoldMinerPulse to information on gold and silver mining companies, many of whom are headquartered in Vancouver B.C.

Our mission is to provide protocols for a variety of disabling conditions, including a description of the illness and the medical treatments and social supports necessary to manage the disability and maintain a reasonable quality of life. At the end of the day, we hope to have amassed a body of evidence so compelling that governments throughout the world will be moved to properly plan and provide for all disabled citizens.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
for trying to change the system from within. I'm
coming now I'm coming to reward them. First we
take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Opening lyrics from First We Take Manhattan from Leonard Cohen’s 1988 release, I’m Your Man. See the album cover, watch a video and listen to the track by clicking on Discography at http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/, the Leonard Cohen Files, our favorite Leonard Cohen website. It’s so good even Leonard is a contributor. For recent entries, click on Blackening Pages. For lyrics to Nancy White’s hilarious tribute, Leonard Cohen’s Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In, visit her website at http://www.nancy-white.com and look under Discography at Momnipotent: Songs for Weary Parents, recorded in 1990. Scroll down and click on This is Nancy’s Page.

We open our homepage with a cut from our favorite Canadian poet for two reasons: first, because at 69, Leonard Cohen still provides the most eloquent answer we’ve heard so far to the immortal question, What do women want? Second, because we rejoice in his mysterious recovery several years ago from the crippling jaws of what fellow sufferer Sir Winston Churchill called the black dog.

My depression, so bleak and anguished, was just crucial, and I couldn’t shake it; it wouldn’t go away,” he says, looking back at that time from his suite in the Vogue. “I didn’t know what it was. I was ashamed of it, because it would be there even when things were good, and I would be saying to myself, “Really what have you got to complain about?” But for people who suffer from acute clinical depression, it is quite irrelevant what the circumstances of your life are…
 
Excerpt from A Happy Man by Mireille Silcott in Saturday Night, Nov. 15, 2001, p. 22-28. Click on Saturday Night online at http://www.saturdaynight.ca/html/coverarchive.php.

Here’s to the mystery. Here’s to recovery.

We’re also delighted with the trim new text, The Obesity Myth, Why America’s Obsession With Weight is Hazardous To Your Health, by the equally trim Paul Campos published by Gotham Books in May, 2004.  Read our favorite interview with the Colorado law professor by Dr. Pattie Thomas at http://www.bigfatblog.com/columnists/archives/001240.php, Big Fat Blog, The Fat Acceptance Weblog.  Here’s a sample of the book from its conclusion at p. 248:

…The prosecutors in the case against fat aren’t completely wrong:  They’ve just indicated the wrong parties.  Americans are too sedentary.  We do eat too much junk that isn’t good for us, because it’s quick and cheap and easier than the alternative of spending the time and money to prepare food that is both good for us and satisfies our cravings.  A rational public health policy would focus on those issues, not on weight, which isn’t the problem, any more than diets and diet drugs would be the solution, even if they actually made people thin (thin people with bad habits are no healthier than fat people with the same bad habits).