Senate advocates for Affordable Housing and the Mentally Ill

CTV.ca News Staff

A Senate committee is recommending raising taxes on beer, wine and alcohol to pay for $536 million a year in mental health initiatives.

The Senate social affairs committee also proposes the creation of a permanent Canadian Mental Health Commission in its final report, entitled "Out of the Shadows at Last."

Its mandate would be to educate Canadians about mental health. The commission would also create a national Knowledge Exchange Centre and would oversee a 10-year national anti-stigma campaign.

Another notable recommendation in the report was the development of 57,000 affordable housing units for people living with mental illness.

The cost would be funded by raising the excise tax by five cents a drink. That translates to five cents a beer, 25 cents on a bottle of wine and 85 cents on a bottle of alcohol.

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Click the tile to read: The complete Senate report: Out of the Shadows At Last 

The Salvation Army - From the Canadian Department of National Defence website:

The Salvation Army and the Propagation of the Faith:

The central mission of the Salvation Army is evangelism. The Army exists to
spread the Word of God through its distinctive methods of outreach to the
world. The Church and its members do not hesitate to reach out to the poor
and the abandoned, to help all toward salvation.

Read more: http://www.dnd.ca/hr/religions/engraph/religions29_e.asp

When legalism replaces grace?

Not a popular leader.

After Oliver Cromwell's death, the people placed his political opponents in
power, exhumed his body, hanged it, cut off its head and put it on a pole at
Westminster Hall.

New Sessional Names

The Next Sessional Names for the Training Colleges

2007 - 2009 Witnesses for Christ
2008 – 2010 Prayer Warriors
2009 – 2011 Ambassadors of Holiness
2010 – 2012 Friends of Christ
2011 – 2013 Proclaimers of the Resurrection
2012 – 2014 Disciples of the Cross

Michael Ramsay
Herald of the Good News

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." -
H.L. Mencken

Canada fails to live up to social, economic and cultural commitments

May 8, 2006. 04:54 PM
CANADIAN PRESS

GENEVA - A United Nations watchdog group has harshly criticized Canada for its failure to live up to its commitments under an international treaty that protects people's economic, social and cultural rights.

In a tough assessment, one of the committee's 18 independent experts noted that "some situations (in Canada) had actually got worse" since Canada's record was last scrutinized in 1998.

Click HERE to read more from the Toronto Star.

International Fast Day Against Malaria - May 11, 2006

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April 6, 2006
Posted to the web April 6, 2006

Today, with a great sense of urgency and desperation, the world leaders in the fight against malaria including, but not limited to, The Malaria Foundation, Africa Fighting Malaria, Dunk Malaria, The Free Africa Foundation, Hedge Funds vs. Malaria, The World Swim Against Malaria, the UN Foundation and Be the Cause have called for an international day of fasting day to focus worldwide attention on the emergency facing billions of people living in malaria infested regions of the world. The International Fast day Against Malaria (IFAM) will be held on May 11, 2006. Adults all over the world are asked to fast from 9:00am until 6:00pm (drinks and medications are allowed). Children are asked to fast from 9:00am until 12:01pm. To participate in the fast and or sponsor your fast or the fast of others please visit www.worldswimformalaria.com/ifam.

Pray for Liberia. It has suffered...It is suffering

Aid workers giving girls food for sex in Liberia: report

Last Updated Mon, 08 May 2006 14:35:30 EDT

CBC News

The aid agency Save the Children says foreign workers and peacekeepers are sexually exploiting young girls in Liberia, despite pledges to stamp out such abuse.

• INDEPTH: Liberia

Girls as young as eight are being forced by local and international agency workers to have sex in exchange for food, according to a report called From Camp to Community: Liberia Study on Exploitation of Children, released Monday.

"These children were engaging in sex for money for education, for food for the day, or even for something as small as a ride," said Save the Children spokeswoman Emilia Brookstein.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/05/08/liberia-camps-sex.html

Food for Prayer - Homeless dying in heat wave

Homeless people dying in Indian heat wave

A heat wave in India that caused many schools to shut early for the summer has killed 34 people in the past few weeks, authorities said Monday. FULL STORY