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I weigh 283 pounds. My weight is creeping back up to the highest it has ever been in my adult life – 297 pounds. I’ve almost always been big. I’ve… Continue reading "The Thing That Scares Me – by Marc Laferriere"
As a community worker at a Sexual Assault Centre, one of the most commonly asked questions I get is, why do you work at the Centre? People are usually pretty… Continue reading "Lessons from Copper and Todd (Carrie Sinkowski, @CSinkowski)"
For years, people in Brantford tried without success to create a large scale community garden. In those same years people from Six Nations tried as well with the same result.… Continue reading "Community Gardens: Collaborate, Grow, Heal (Jenn Hill, Marc Laferriere @MarcLaferriere)"
When I was in my early 20’s and could finally afford some of the things I really wanted, I could only think of one thing. A brown leather jacket. One… Continue reading "If You Build It – by Dave Carrol"
I have worked at the Sexual Assault Centre here in Brantford for over nine years. What drew me to the Centre was their emphasis on social justice work. They understood… Continue reading "Taylor the Turtle (Carrie Sinkowski, @CSinkowski)"
As a long time worker in the anti-violence field, I have made a conscious effort to connect local experiences of violence to ones in the international arena. The first time… Continue reading "Brantford: Part of a Global Community (Carrie Sinkowski, @CSinkowski)"
Sometime I’m still caught off guard by the number of people who know me as “Captain Kindness”. A recent letter to the editor in the Brantford Expositor even referred to… Continue reading "Sometimes Kindness is Dangerous (Dave Carrol, @DaveCarrol)"