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Blog Entries by Silken Laumann from 03/2012

Taking Action on Obesity

| Posted 03.06.2012 | Canada Living
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Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler Jones warns that if we continue on this trajectory by 2023, 70% of Canadians will be overweight or obese....

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Blow Up the School System

| Posted 03.14.2012 | Canada Living
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I think we should blow up the current school system and start over. Due to cutbacks, my son did not have art in his entire middle school education -- a fact I find unacceptable, but not remarkable. When do we as parents say enough is enough?

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