March 8, 2018

How to stop Trumps tariffs (Tom Toles)

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March 8, 2018

Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand lower salaries

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/07/hundreds-of-canadian-doctors-demand-lower-salaries/?utm_term=.2b60bd23b961

In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.

As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 700 physicians, residents and medical students from the Canadian province had signed an online petition asking for their pay raises to be canceled. A group named Médecins Québécois Pour le Régime (MQRP), which represents Quebec doctors and advocates for public health, started the petition Feb. 25.

“We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public system, oppose the recent salary increases negotiated by our medical federations,” the petition reads in French.

The physicians group said it could not in good conscience accept pay raises when working conditions remained difficult for others in their profession — including nurses and clerks — and while patients “live with the lack of access to required services because of drastic cuts in recent years.”

While this may be 'utterly Canadian' it is also shows what real human beings who act on true Christian principles (whether they are Christian or not) of 'doing unto others as they would have others do unto them', and being 'their brother's keeper'. We here in the US could really take lessons from these Canadian doctors.

March 6, 2018

Cheerleaders Surround Girl From Rival Team Who Was Cheering All Alone

http://www.reshareworthy.com/cheerleaders-join-lone-cheerleader/

Being on a cheerleading squad usually means a team experience, but that wasn’t Tori Adams felt when she was the lone member of her squad to show up to cheer on her school.

But Tori wasn’t alone for long, when girls from the opposing squad joined her on the court at the CLAA Conference Tournament in Missouri.

It turns out that Tori was all alone because all the other girls on the cheer squad for the Northwestern Eagles came down with an illness except for her.

It was quite a dramatic turn of events, but Tori felt obligated to represent her school. She told told FOX4 News: “My coach gave me the option to cheer or not cheer, and I felt like I had to be there for the team.”

In this video clip, Tori, who is dressed in a blue outfit, was looking a bit embarrassed and scared in front of the large audience all by herself. But she is soon surrounded by girls from the Hardin-Central cheer squad – all total strangers to Tori.

More and a video at link

March 4, 2018

Philando Castile Charity Covers Entire School Districts Lunch Debt

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/philando-castile-charity-pays-school-debt_us_5a9b2c1ee4b089ec353ae3c7

Two years after he was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, Philando Castile is still helping students afford lunch.

A charity created in Castile’s honor has paid off the lunch debt for every student in the 56 schools in the St. Paul Public School District, including the school where Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor.

“That means no parent of the 37,000 kids who eat meals at school need worry about how to pay that overdue debt,” a charity organizer wrote on the “Philando Feeds the Children” fundraising page.

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In July 2016, St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez shot and killed Castile after pulling him over for a broken taillight in a St. Paul suburb.

Yanez maintained that he thought Castile was reaching for the weapon, while Diamond Reynolds, Castile’s girlfriend who filmed the traffic stop from the passenger seat, said he was reaching for his wallet.

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This was the shooting where the victim's girlfriend, who was sitting in the passenger seat, filmed the incident. Even though both the police dash-cam and the girlfriend's video shows Philando remaining calm, doing exactly what the officer asked, the officer claimed he 'thought the suspect was reaching for a gun'. The cop was found 'not guilty'.

However, the charity now has enough money to make sure that no child goes hungry due to lack of funds 'for years to come'.