Diana Parks
@DianaParks
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Executive Director, for a small and mighty non-profit. Edmontonian living life on the East Coast. Community Servant. These thoughts are my own. 🤓
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Joined May 2011
Education has the power to transform lives. Access to post-secondary education for former youth in care is key to reducing health, social, & economic inequities across the lifecourse. #EducationForAll
https://t.co/ZhvsUeMO6M via @ConversationCA
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Canada needs to focus on tracking, monitoring and evaluating the economic, health and social outcomes of former youth in care, especially as they transition from government care.
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‘Saying to a person they shouldn’t be depressed because others have it worse is like saying they shouldn’t be happy because others have it better…’ Distress is deeply subjective & must NEVER be invalidated.
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To the lady who stopped on Christmas Day 11 years ago while I slept in this doorway (across from the West Hotel at Pender & Carrall in the DTES) to give me a Tims coffee, a hug, and 50 bucks … please reach out if you remember me! I want to THANK YOU. You gave me hope in a very
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SOMEONE LEFT. A FULL PLATE OF COOKIES. AND A GLASS OF MILK. RIGHT BY THE FIREPLACE FOR ME. I AM NOT KIDDING. WHAT A NIGHT
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Every Christmas Eve, children in the Netherlands light a candle and place it on the grave of a Canadian soldier in cemeteries in Holten and Groesbeek. It’s a tribute to those who gave their lives for freedom. Never forget.
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Every Christmas Eve local school children come to Holten and Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemeteries in the Netherlands to light a candle in honour of each soldier laid to rest. The act is both humbling and beautiful and serves as reminder to be grateful for the peace we enjoy.
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First rule of Storm Chips Club: Always buy two bags. One for the storm, the other for the drive home from the grocery store. Rookies.
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This is the most accurate piece of reporting on the Alberta UCP and Danielle Smith’s agenda I’ve ever read. It would be nice if our own media would deliver truth about this dinosaur party and the oil lobbyists it employs.
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Are you an Indigenous woman, two-spirit, transgender or gender-diverse person with lived experience or questions about sexual and reproductive health? Join us virtually on July 31! E-mail srh@nwac.ca with your full name, mailing address, which sessions you would like to attend
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Telling everyone Alberta has the most ethical oil and gas industry and then leaving your abandoned wells to be cleaned up by the taxpayers.
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A four-week cabin-building workshop in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut and hosted by the Inuit non-profit Ilitaqsiniq, is teaching youth and young men in the community valuable trade skills while getting them out onto the land amid the summer months.
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A four-week cabin building workshop in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut was hosted by the Inuit non-profit Ilitaqsiniq.
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Congratulations to ALL our athletes. Wela’lioq, all of you, for bringing your A-game to Kjipuktuk. We hope that you will always keep a piece of our ocean home with you on your journey.
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I am surprised Prince Albert Road along Lake Banook was not closed to motor vehicle traffic during the North American Indigenous Games. Lots of young athletes and visiting spectators present. If you can, plan an alternate route.
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@GratisVoel I have been there. I was milliseconds away I never understood suicide. Had vet friends of mine who did it and could never understand it ... until that one millisecond. Then I understood it. It is hard to explain unless you have been there and come back. Veterans call it
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Exciting News! Kiara Sexton our in-house Yoga Instructor will be holding space at 531 Herring Cove Road every Tuesday from 1:30pm to 2:30pm until September 5th. All Levels from age 12+.
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