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Change Is Your Decision

Andrea Paine | Posted 04.27.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Life Changes After Cancer, Cancer, Suffering Is Optional, Choice, Mind as a Powerful Tool, Canada Living News
Andrea Paine

Recently, a good friend of mine wrote me, wanting to introduce me to an esteemed colleague, and friend, who has cancer. She wanted me to meet him, and felt I would have a lot to share with him. She spoke to him about me as well. She shared this blog, and my history. She concluded with " Change is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

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Staring Fear in the Face at Your Child's Graduation

Andrea Paine | Posted 08.30.2012 | Canada
Read More: Graduation, Fear, Breast Cancer, Inspiration, Confidence, Choice, Happiness, Cancer Survivor, Cancer, Parenting, Childhood, Canada News
Andrea Paine

Looking back at this old life of mine, I realize how many of these fears, both big and small, were unfounded. But life as it is now, is seen through a cancer survivor's lens. Although I will be first to admit that there is the odd time when I have to stare fear in the eye, and fight to back it down, I fear much less today. Cancer has taught me a few things, and I don't scare easy.

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Hey Joyce, Get Your Outdated Views Off my Body

Cassie Farrell | Posted 07.31.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Pro Choice, Abortion, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Stephen Woodworth, Motherhood, Motion 312, Parenting, Babies, Pro Life, Choice, Joyce Arthur, Canada Politics News
Cassie Farrell

Pro-choice advocate and HuffPost blogger Joyce Arthur's views on abortion are ripe with inconsistencies. She bemoans what she believes was a recent attack on a woman's "right" to abortion. But according to parliament, women do not have a right to abortion. The "right" to abortion that's so often touted is about as substantial as the unicorn, and the act itself is far uglier: the antithesis of good mothering.

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