Ella Does Squamish

from http://www.care2.com/greenliving/arugula-salad-pears-gorgonzola.html#

For the Dressing
2 tablespoons maple syrup
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar

For the Walnuts
1 cup walnuts
Splash of olive oil
1 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon maple sugar (or sweetener of your choice)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Generous pinch of cayenne pepper, to taste

For the Salad
10 cups loosely packed arugula
2 pears, peeled and thinly sliced
3 ounces gorgonzola

1. Combine dressing ingredients in a jar shake until combined.
2. Preheat oven to 325 F.
3. Wipe a baking sheet with olive oil.
4. Combine walnuts and remaining walnut ingredients in a bowl and mix to coat.
5. Spread nut mixture on prepared baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, or until nuts are deep golden and bubbling, stirring occasionally.
6. Add arugula, pears, gorgonzola and walnuts to large bowl and toss with some dressing. The dressing in strong, a little goes a long way.

Serves 4 to 6.

This looks amazing!

at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2007/10/11/nobel-literature.html

Thanks to TPL for forwarding the below article.  If you go to http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/, TPL makes some interesting observations such as:  "The media loves the monks in Burma and never mentions the
nuns while the rapes in Congo continue at an atrocious rate."  Thanks TPL!
 

INTERNATIONAL / AFRICA | October 7, 2007
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Women are being systematically attacked on a scale never
before seen in eastern Congo, where large regions remain
lawless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html?ex=1192420800&en=b3a7a2dcd4d613c7&ei=5070&emc=eta1

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis (Basic Books, $27.95).

Press Release

TORONTO, Oct. 4 /CNW/ - YWCA Toronto, the city’s largest multi-service organization by, for and about women and girls is stunned by the 64th and 65th murders of the year, two women both under the age of 30, but is not surprised that not one political candidate has addressed how his party will work to end violence against women in the province.

One victim, Jocelyn Dulnuan, a 27-year-old woman living as domestic worker in a tony Mississauga neighbourhood, the other 25-year-old Aysuen Sesen, was seven months pregnant when she was allegedly stabbed to death by her common law husband.
    
The details of these crimes speak to the overwhelming swell of systemic violence against women in our city, and a missed
opportunity for Ontario’s provincial candidates to address the issue of violence against women in their campaigns.

In fact, party leaders have been conspicuously silent on issues of violence against women, focusing instead on publicly
decrying gangs, guns and the importance of community crime prevention, rather than addressing the root
causes of woman abuse - including inadequate affordable housing, income inequality, and lack of access to affordable child care.

"At YWCA Toronto we see causes of violence against women as they affect each of the services we provide," says YWCA Toronto Chief
Executive Officer Heather McGregor. "We see the connections between abuse and the factors that
prevent women from leaving abusive partners including insufficient post- shelter funding; inadequate access to safe,
affordable and permanent housing; and the overwhelming lack of affordable, high-quality childcare.

With a week left before Ontarians head to the polls, what are the parties’
positions on the development of a more effective domestic violence action plan?"

Some facts to consider from YWCA Canada (www.ywcacanada.ca):

     -   In Ontario, between 1995 and 2005, 231 women were
murdered by their partners or former partners, many of whom then
killed themselves.

     -   From January to November 2006, 24 women and 12
children in Ontario were murdered in acts of violence against women.   Unfortunately, these numbers - in Ontario and across Canada, are not decreasing;
     -   Canada’s more than 550 shelters for battered women
remain full; many with waiting lists;
     -   According to a recently released study by
Statistics Canada, approximately one in ten abused women use a
shelter;
     -   The same report found that approximately 100,000
women and children used battered women’s shelters in the 12 month
period beginning April 12, 2005;
     -   Ontario’s Domestic Violence Death Review
Committee, which reports to the Office of the Chief Coroner, noted in its 2004
report that 100% of the victims in the cases it reviewed were women
and 91% of the perpetrators were men, concluding that domestic
violence is not gender neutral. The most common risk factor was
actual or pending separation, followed closely by a prior history of
violence, which was present in 8 of the 11 cases reviewed by the
committee in its first year.

     The brutal murders of Jocelyn Dulnuan and Aysuen Sesen
serve to remind all Ontarians that the root causes of violence against
women deserve the same media and political attention given to other aspects of the
provincial election campaign.

YWCA Toronto urges provincial candidates to hear this
message and begin to address in their platforms the conditions that trap women
and children in violent homes. Adequate child care, employment supports, anti-discrimination laws, affordable and permanent housing,
and an end to the baby bonus clawback are just some of the issues that
parties should be focusing on in the remaining campaign period.

Between October 15-20th YWCA Toronto will host its 11th annual Week
Without Violence, a weeklong series of free events throughout the GTA aimed at
eradicating violence and envisioning peaceful communities.
For more information visit
www.weekwithoutviolence.com

For information or to arrange an interview contact
Corinne Rusch-Drutz,
Director of Advocacy & Communications, 416.961.8101. x
350

     October 14 to 20, 2007
     Imagine a Week Without Violence
     www.weekwithoutviolence.com

WASHINGTON - October 3 – Two well-respected US peace activists, CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and
retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, were denied entry into Canada today (Wednesday, October 3). The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the War Coalition.

At the Buffalo-Niagara Falls Bridge they were detained, questioned and denied entry. They will hold a
press conference on Thursday afternoon in front of the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC to ask the Canadian government to reverse
its policy of barring peaceful protesters.

The women were questioned at Canadian customs about their participation in anti-war efforts and informed that they
had an FBI file indicating they had been arrested in acts of non-violent civil disobedience.

Press Conference:
WHEN: Thursday, October 4th at 1pm
WHERE: Canadian Embassy, 501 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington DC

"In my case, the border guard pulled up a file showing
that I had been arrested at the US Mission to the UN where, on
International Women’s Day, a group of us had tried to deliver a peace petition
signed by 152,000 women around the world," says Benjamin. "For
this, the Canadians labeled me a criminal and refused to allow me
in the country."

"The FBI’s placing of peace activists on an
international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US
citizens opposed to Bush administration policies," says Colonel
Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. "The
Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the
criteria for entering the country."

Both Wright and Benjamin plan to request their files from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act
and demand that arrests for peaceful, non-violent actions be expunged from international records. "It’s outrageous that Canada is
turning away peacemakers protesting a war that does not have the support of either US or Canadian citizens," says Benjamin.

"In the past, Canada has always welcomed peace activists with open arms. This new
policy, obviously a creature of the Bush administration, is
shocking and we in the US and Canada must insist that it be overturned. Four
members of the Canadian Parliament–Peggy Nash, Libby Davies, Paul
Dewar and Peter Julian– expressed outrage that the peace activists
were barred from Canada and vow to change this policy.

ED - Harper’s NEW government in action!  Glad to see that Paul Dewar stepped up to the plate but what about Jack Layton and other progressives? 

at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKlMuDMCZMc&mode=related&search=