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Appointments with health
Want to keep up with health events and initiatives? Here's a calendar with a selection of the main national and international sessions. Keeping informed is easy… with Pic!
World Diabetes DayNovember 14, 2019
This year, World Diabetes Day turns 28: it was way back in 1991 that the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization picked 14 November as the official date to raise ...Find out more
World Heart DaySeptember 29, 2019
World Heart Day is much more than a simple date placed on our calendars by a leading health institution: it is the largest awareness and communication campaign for heart health in the world. ...Find out more
World Friendship DayJuly 30, 2019
Now in its 9th edition, World Friendship Day was officially created 8 years ago to encourage communities to find a moment to focus their thoughts and efforts on one of humankind's most important values.Find out more
World Hand Hygiene DayMay 5, 2019
Washing our hands is probably the first rule of hygiene we learn, the simplest and one of the most effective. On May 5th, World Hand Hygiene Day, many countries around the world celebrate this ...Find out more
World Health DayApril 7, 2019
For the past 70 years, April 7th has been World Health Day: an important date for the international community to meet, plan actions and inform the public about the greatest challenge we face in ...Find out more
World Diabetes DayNovember 14, 2016
This event, now in its 25th year, opens a window on the world of diabetes prevention, information, and innovation. It highlights easy, effective ways of reducing the risk of the disease and ...Find out more
International Day of Older PersonsOctober 1, 2016
In a world where life expectancy is growing, the needs and rights of older people are fundamentally important. This event, established by the UN in 1990, is celebrated all over the world.Find out more
A #picstop for World Heart DaySeptember 29, 2016
To celebrate this annual event, launched by the World Heart Foundation in 2000, Pic is starting a campaign entitled "#picstop: take a break and check your health". A truck will tour Italian town ...Find out more
World Alzheimer's DaySeptember 21, 2016
It's a chance to meet, talk and learn from others, with dedicated information centres and open days at doctors' offices all over the country offering practical help for carers of people with ...Find out more
World Blood Donor DayJune 14, 2016
World Blood Donor Day was inaugurated in 2004 in honour of Karl Landsteiner, who discovered blood groups and was born on 14 June 1868. Each year it celebrates over 100 million donors around the ...Find out more
World No Tobacco DayMay 31, 2016
Instituted by the World Health Organization in 1988 as an encouragement to stop smoking for 24 hours, World No Tobacco Day has become a powerful tool for raising awareness of this habit's serious ...Find out more
World Hypertension DayMay 17, 2016
When was the last time you had your blood pressure measured? You can do so on 17 May, when the International Hypertension Society will be disseminating information on the prevention of ...Find out more


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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, which were due to be held in Kuching between July 29 and Aug 4.
The decision was made by the IPC governing board at its meeting in London, England on Sunday (Jan 27), after the Home Ministry said it would not allow Israeli para swimmers to enter the country and participate in the event.
In a statement, IPC president Andrew Parsons said that all World Championships must be open to all eligible athletes and nations to compete safely and free from discrimination.
"When a host country excludes athletes from a particular nation, then we have no alternative but to look for a new host.
"The Paralympic Movement has, and always will be, motivated by a desire to drive inclusion, not exclusion. Regardless of the countries involved in this matter, the IPC would take the same decision again if it was to face a similar situation involving different countries," he said.
According to Parsons, in September 2017, when the IPC signed the contract with the Paralympic Council of Malaysia (NPC Malaysia) to host the World Para-Swimming Championships, they were assured that all eligible athletes and countries would be allowed to participate in the event with their safety guaranteed.
"Since then, there has been a change of political leadership and the new Malaysian government has different ideas. Politics and sport are never a good mix, and we are disappointed that Israeli athletes would not have been allowed to compete in Malaysia.
"As a result of the Board's decision today, we are now looking for a new host for this vital World Championships, which acts as a qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games."
Around 600 swimmers from 60 nations were expected to take part in Kuching with more than 160 world titles up for grabs.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia would not allow Israeli Paralympic swimmers to enter the country for the championships.


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Surfing with bulls on Sumatra
We are landing in Padang in western Sumatra. The kamikaze driver provides a quick transfer from the airport to Bukittinggi. Three hundred thousand rupees and less than two hours later we're (safely!) in place. We stop in the slightly forgotten Rajawali Homestay. There is no bedding or running water, but there is 'still water' in…Read More
A hot day in Abu Dhabi
It is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai is the first). Our plane has landed in Abu Dhabi early in the morning, just at the crack of dawn. Intuition tells me that, being located somewhere in the desert on the Arabian peninsula, this must be an unusual city.…Read More
Romania by Yellow Bus
The first hours in Romania are not easy. We are trying to pass through endless kilometers of road works. It's not just swinging traffic and unexpectedly deep holes. It's also about speeding kamikaze trucks and poorly marked dangerous sections of the road. Provided we can survive it, everything is gonna be fine. I'm glad that…Read More
Exploring levadas in Madeira
This time it's a family trip. More precisely a surprise trip for my mother's 60th birthday. She's always been a fan of Portuguese culture and heritage, hence the idea to go to Madeira. What do you associate Madeira with? For my mother and sister Luisa, this is the "island of everlasting spring" and the cradle…Read More
Alsace and the Upper Rhine trail
Rhine River originates on the hilly slopes of the Swiss Alps and it gradually grows in strength with every kilometer it passes. Its headwaters set boundaries for the three European countries: France, Switzerland and Germany. Being in the area it is worth to visit all of these. I'm enchanted not by the Swiss scenery, but…Read More
Belgian beer and chocolates
I came to Belgium in the middle of completely hot summer, out of curiosity. I rarely travel in that part of Europe so it is even more interesting to visit a country commonly associated with beers and chocolates. We drive my yellow bus from the Luxembourg side and arrive to Rochefort, a random town on…Read More
Mandalay by the Ayerarwady river
Mandalay is a flat city. During the day it is hot as a frying pan. Vertical-horizontal arrangement of the city's streets makes it easy to find your way, so it is quite unlikely to get lost here. This morning I'm meeting Vera. A few days ago we agreed that our roads would join here. As…Read More
Mawlamyine and the Ogre Island
We arrive to Mawlamyine at six in the morning and to our surprise it is not too early for a very early check-in. Courtesy of Breeze Guest House. Without wasting time, we set off on scooters to explore the area around. The everyday life of the town's inhabitants concentrates around the market, bustling with retailers…Read More
Land crossing into Myanmar
The overland travel to Myanmar, former Burma, had crossed my mind long time ago when visited Southeast Asia for the first time. Even though some of the Burmese land borders began to open already few years ago, the south of the country remained largely isolated from the world until August 2013. Today one can "easily"…Read More
Serbia, Danube and bicycles
Let's move south. Eurovelo 6 is a bike trail going from the Atlantic coast of France, following for some time Danube river, all the way to the Black Sea. Our goal is to cycle along the Serbian section of the this route, commonly known as EV6. We start from Baja, a Hungarian town nearby the…Read More
Goat in the Masai village
Kenyan side of Mt. Kilimanjaro We are heading towards Kilimanjaro along the road C102. Police officers at the roadside station ensure us that we are unlikely to come across dangerous animals at this time of a year. On the way we pass scattered tiny villages with inhabitants taking care of their cattle. It's nearly the…Read More
Cycling through land of the Masai
Short break in a village Every day we learn more about African animals, their behavior and nature. We cycle through land of the Masai, yet most of the time it is a no man's land. Observing the landscape I see only fleeing antelopes, warthogs lurking from the distance, zebras resting in the shade of a…Read More
Sipping tereré in Paraguay
Tereré on a hot day Gran Chaco is the second least accessible part of South America (preceded by the Amazon jungle). We pass this giant uninhabited area with a passenger and smuggling bus. The bus is definitely overloaded, there is a crowd in the aisle, lots of bags and boxes with unknown contents cramped all…Read More
Tierra Caliente in Bolivia
Chatting by the table In the beginning I must admit that the last few weeks spent at over three thousand meters made me feel a bit tired. This feeling is accompanied by longing. I miss early morning sun which warms up my tent and wakes me up. I also miss these pleasant evenings, sitting outside…Read More
Notes from Ecuador
The panorama of colorful Las Peńas and central Guayaquil Traveling through Ecuador I visit some interesting places. Guayaquil is a vibrant and modern city, which despite its size (its bus terminal could easily compete with many international airports in Europe) has a few nice spots captivating with ambience. One of which is Parque Seminario, a…Read More
Snapshots from Colombia
A colorful group of street musicians There are some questions at the Venezuelan-Colombian border. "You speak Polish in your country, right?" – I nodded – "So where did you learn Spanish?" – "By traveling and reading books". Questions become less formal, "How do you say "Buenos Dias" in Polish?" – I answer that "Dzien Dobry",…Read More
A glimpse of Venezuela
U.S. made school bus A small Caribbean Airlines plane quickly gains altitude. Shortly after the takeoff it performs a rapid turnaround in a surprisingly limited space. Twenty minutes after leaving Trinidad I notice scattered islands, green hills and large, two or three thousand meters high peaks on mainland South America. These are the remote territories…Read More
Sinai on a bike
Secretive bay, Sinai Tamar, a girl we met in a desert oasis in Israel has influenced our plans. "Jordan is just like Israel twenty years ago, go to Sinai and see something entirely magical". I remember the gleam in her eyes and lips telling of the truth. A few days have passed until we managed…Read More
Two Laotian tribes
Hot springs to bathe and do the laundry, Muang Vieng Thong I still cherish a hope that an already delayed bus would take me to the east. Luckily it arrives. The journey starts in the early afternoon and lasts until darkness. I carefully observe changing scenery. Mountains, plateaus and valleys of this vast land are…Read More
A village in the north of Laos
A sticky rice basket is made of dried bamboo, or katip Two days in Luang Prabang is exactly two days more than enough. The main problem is the city is often perceived as the only point on a tourist map of Laos and honestly it is simply overrated. I appreciate the unique night market and…Read More
Lao motorcycle diaries
While the four guys came up to the fence, the fifth one hid behind a tree Bolaven Plateau is an area located at an altitude of 1000-1350 meters in southern Laos. The region is famous for its picturesque waterfalls. Making your way to the waterfalls you will pass little scattered villages inhabited by ethnic minority…Read More
People of the Mekong
Cambodian temple complex in Kampong Cham Blacksmith works alone, his wife takes care of their child and a family's friend sits comfortably in an unchanged position with a thoughtless, unconcerned expression as he rolls another strong cigarette and smokes it, occasionally sipping his tea. Leaving the city behind we get to know Mr. Peck, who…Read More
Southern Cambodia
A curious but still timid girl, southern Cambodia Cambodian four hours equals roughly seven regular hours and it is the amount of time to reach Kampot by bus. We discover another pleasant city, whose once slow life bustles on when you visit a marketplace. The local market is divided into sections making some sort of…Read More
Ankor Wat and the Khmer Empire
Prah Khan temple, Angkor Wat The history of Cambodia dates back to 2000 years ago. The former Kingdom of Funan grew in power over the years to become the Khmer Empire in the ninth century. Many problems plagued the empire, but still it had been consistently gaining the importance in the region. It is also…Read More
Thai notes
Colorful Thai fashion Khanom is a medium sized town. This is our first destination, also a place to visit Thai family of a Swedish friend. We wait for a bit and two young guys arrive on their scooters to give us a ride. After a few minutes we find ourselves in a modern hut on…Read More
A cup of Ethiopian coffee
A sensual ritual of preparing coffee I visit a tiny souvenir shop in Addis Ababa. Lemlem is roasting beige coffee beans on a clay hearth. Just within minutes the sun is overcast by dark clouds and an imminent intense rain sets all the shopkeepers to action. I help Lemlem and her sister to hide merchandise…Read More
The unique Abyssinia
Kids on the roads less traveled are curious, throughout the world I get up at crack of dawn. Logically reasoning, a new day has just started. While a European would say it is six, according to Ethiopian time it is zero hour. The notional concept of time we are used to may be delusive. What…Read More
A glimpse from Ethiopia
An Ethiopian beauty In the center of Addis Ababa, just off the main street we find a friendly Ethiopian, a happy owner of a timless Renault 4. He give us a ride to the bus station. This old car has a unique charm. Clutch is a manual handle, the gears transmission works vertically and on…Read More
The Congo is falling apart
Transportation of barrels in the rural Congo The value of Congolese deposits of natural resources is estimated at over 20 trillion dollars. That is approximate equivalent of the entire U.S. housing market, or ten times the most recent financial crisis. The amount could be alternatively used to buy everyone on the planet a three packs…Read More
Burundi, the heart of Africa
A Hutu tribe woman, Burundi A scenic river runs along the valley defining the border with Rwanda. Since the outbreak of civil war and even after the official ceasefire, Burundi has a reputation of a very dangerous country. Just a year ago the capital city of Bujumbura was the only area controlled by the state,…Read More


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Russia battered Ukraine with a "massive rocket attack" of missile strikes that hit critical infrastructure and residential buildings across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"It's been a difficult night. A massive rocket attack across the country. … Attacks on critical infrastructure and residential buildings," Zelensky said in a Telegram post.
"The enemy fired 81 missiles in an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians again, returning to their miserable tactics. The occupiers can only terrorize civilians," he added.
The Ukrainian president said attacks targeted several regions throughout Ukraine, including Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia — which houses Europe's largest nuclear power plant — and the capital city of Kyiv. Some people were injured and killed in the strikes, Zelensky said.
Zelensky and other top Kyiv officials quickly turned attention to protecting the country's energy infrastructure and restoring power to affected areas.
"Despite thousands of Russian attacks, we will all together ensure the invincibility of Ukraine. We are working. We will win!" the president said.
Ukraine's chief commander of the armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, said Russia shot 81 missiles and eight Shahed drones into Ukraine on Thursday, according to The Associated Press.
The onslaught of strikes comes as Ukraine defends the embattled town of Bakhmut. Reuters reported that Russia's defense ministry said it carried out the new strikes in retaliation for an alleged raid last week on a village in the Bryansk region of Russia last week.
"Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, leading to loss of lives and damaging civilian infrastructure. No military objective, just Russian barbarism," said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
"The day will come when [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and his associates are held accountable by a Special Tribunal," Kuleba said.


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At 20 million views, Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor's TED Talk called "My Stroke of Insight" is one of the most poplar TED presentations online. As a result of her talk, the Harvard-trained neuroanatomist was chosen as one of TIME magazine's most influential people and appeared on Oprah's Soul Series.
Dr. Bolte-Taylor once told me her "conversational" delivery took practice–and a lot of it. She rehearsed her presentation 200 times before delivering it on stage in a front of a live TED audience. As it turns out, she did exactly what her fellow brain scientists recommend.
Dr. Sian Beilock is a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. For her book, Choke, Dr. Beilock examined individuals who perform their best when it counts the most. She also studied those who falter–they choke when the stakes are high. While much of Beilock's work at the Human Performance Lab involves athletes, she applies the research to public-speaking events such as making a pitch to a client, delivering a presentation, or giving a TED-like talk.
Beilock's research concludes that the best way to avoiding choking and to deliver the presentation of a lifetime is to practice under stress. "Even practicing under mild levels of stress can prevent you from choking when high levels of stress come around," writes Beilock.
In other words, going over a presentation in your mind or saying it quietly to yourself is not the same as delivering the presentation out loud–in front of people, even a friend or colleague. According to Beilock, "Simulating low levels of stress helps prevent cracking under increased pressure, because people who practice this way learn to stay calm…Becoming accustomed to the pressure of performing in front of others makes public speaking a lot less daunting."
TED speaker Amanda Palmer is a musician and performance artist. As a performer, she knows how important dress rehearsals are to the final outcome. Palmer stole the show at TED 2013 with her presentation "The Art of Asking," which has received nearly 9 million views. Palmer prepared exactly as professor Beilock would have recommended.
First, Palmer spent countless hours over four months to build and practice her 14-minute talk. She wrote and re-wrote, timed and re-timed, tweaked and practice. In a blog post after the event Palmer thanked more than 100 people who she had asked for feedback or who watched her presentation rehearsals. Palmer would read the drafts out loud to a group of people. If they seemed to be bored, she'd go home to re-write. She practiced in front of anyone who would listen. She told the story to a bartender and a passenger next to her in a plane. She held potluck dinners and invited friends to watch and offer feedback. She delivered it to a class of students. Finally, Palmer performed it twice for the TED team.
Palmer's preparation confirms Beilock's theory: a winning presentation doesn't happen without feedback and a comfortable performance doesn't happen without hours and hours of practice–preferably, in front of an audience.
In a recent Tim Ferriss podcast, Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about how he improved the public speaking skills he needed to become the governor of California and to advance the issues he's passionate about. "Reps count," he said. "I'm a big believer in practicing, and practicing and practicing. The more you practice, the better you get, and slowly the fear goes away. Reps, reps, reps."
Before you deliver a presentation, sit for a job interview, or give a TED-style talk, ask yourself: Have I put in the reps have I done so in front of an audience? There are no shortcuts to mastering a skill like public-speaking. Practice is good, but practicing under stress is even better.
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The "Alternative" Sassy Brit Book Cover Award 2018
MAY 2018 winner is announced…
I'd like to thank everyone who participated in celebrating these wonderful cover artists and the amazing work that they do. I think you'll agree there's a lot of talent out there and quite often the artists remain in the background, which is a shame as I fully believe a good cover can make all the difference to an author's sales. What do you think? I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of these beautiful covers, and I'm glad to have shared them with you. I do hope this monthly contest will go some way towards providing the recognition these artistic individuals deserve. With the amount of votes received, it certainly looks that way! So once again, thank you for all of your support – authors, artists and last but not least, those of you who took the time out of your busy schedule to vote. Once again you totally rock! x
The winner of the May 2018 Book Cover Award is…
PORT717 came a worthy second, with Children's Short Stories for Action Medical Research for Children coming third place.
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Congratulations, Nancy A. Lopes !
Following a year after The Daywalker Chronicles, The Lycan Chronicles finds Theo distraught when he finds out that his cousin, Matteo is facing some problems back home. Curious, he heads to Vancouver and soon finds out what's happened and how bad it really is.
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On a day like this, this image will forever be burned into my mind:
17 years ago, I can remember exactly where I was when it all happened. At 8:46 a.m., the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. During this time, I was a junior in high school. Second hour just started. It was my Advanced Algebra class. At this time, I didn't even know that the World Trade Center was under attack. News didn't get to me yet.
At 9:03 a.m., the second plane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Again, I was still in second hour, completely unaware of what was going on. Completely unaware of the catastrophe that changed the world forever.
At 9:53 a.m., another plane crashed into the Pentagon. At this time, it was toward the beginning of my third hour, in my Beginning Journalism class. With class just started and the announcements over, working on my next assignment was the only thing that I had on my mind.
Then it happened. At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed. About a minute or two later, somebody ran into the Journalism classroom, in complete shock. They shouted that the World Trade Center collapsed. Collapsed? I couldn't believe it. Curiosity got the best of me, and the entire class, so we all crowded around the television that was in the adjacent room that was connected to the library. And there it was. Replayed footage of the South Tower collapsing.
Shock was the only thing that filled my mind at the time. Who would do something like this? What terrorists are responsible for causing this? We all had our unanswered questions, whereever we were that day.
The lesson plan was pretty obvious. With this event unfolding before our eyes, it was abandoned. We all spent the rest of the hour, watching the recaps of what happened this dreadful day.
At 10:03 a.m., another plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The plane was stopped from hitting the capitol building in Washington D.C. The other proposed target was the White House.
And then, at 10:28 a.m., it happened. The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. The damage was done. Both towers were gone, leaving behind a smoldering pile of rubble and plumes of smoke.
Later that day, at 5:20 p.m., 7 World Trade Center collapsed. Three buildings were gone. One was damaged, and one was protected, from the heroes who sacrificed their lives to prevent the plane from hitting any other building.
That day left in me a somber feeling. A somber feeling that I still experience today when I recall the events of the worst tragedy that our nation has ever experienced.
Where were you on 9/11? I can remember where I was. I can remember the shock, the pain, and the coping that happened afterward. Somehow, we just had to move on. Even after something this devastating happened. The healing was slow. It began a day later, but it still continues in the lives of those who have lost someone on this tragic day 17 years ago.
My heart goes out to you, if you know someone who lost their life from the attacks.
Muse: After 17 years, I can still feel it. And I'm sure that all of America can feel it too.
It's a day that I still don't forget. A day of reflection and remembrance.
Muse: And a day of prayer. Can you remember how many people actually prayed after this terrible tragedy happened? *sobs* Millions.
There are a lot who still pray today as well. Now let's have a moment of silence for everyone who lost their lives on this day.
Muse: *sobs* I need to be alone. From 17 years ago, I can still feel the sorrow and pain from this tragedy. We'll talk later, okay? Oh, and I'm not talking about being a mermaid today. *sobs* I need to go now! I'm…sorry! *wails uncontrollably and vanishes in a beam of light*
We'll talk later. It will be alright. Maybe not for those who have passed away. We can't get back those we have lost. But for all who are mourning, it will be alright.
As upset as she is, it will be alright. Today's high is a warm 73 degrees. The silver lining will be seeing World Trade Center, a movie that I traditionally see every year, in light of this day.
To all of you who still remember this tragic day, I especially hope that you all have a fantastic day.
Muse: Lord, for all those who have lost a loved one on this day, please be with them and heal them. Be also with us, and help us to comfort those who need to be comforted…*sob* I will never forget this day…


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1923 Peace Dollar Guide – VAMs, Values, History, and Errors
This video is all about the 1923 Peace Silver Dollar. Today we are going to be learning the ins and outs of this coin, including its history and the context in which the coin was minted in, its appeal to collectors, and the various values it may have depending on its condition. We are also going to be covering the 1923 Dollar VAMs and errors – if there is not a section for one of them, that means that there are none known. Hopefully this is a good introduction to this awesome coin, and best of luck finding all of the valuable errors, VAMs, and highly-graded coins in addition to learning the sweet history behind it. Always keep an eye out for good coins, whether they are worth tons of money and rare, or just have great eye appeal and a story to them! This video is made as part of a greater educational series on every date, denomination, and mint mark in U.S. coinage.
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Bridget Kelly is quickly becoming a figure to watch on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood season 4. She has a storyline that ties in with Ray J's, she's looking to change her musical image, and the show is a great platform to do that. But the show is called Love & Hip Hop, so we need to know more than just her musical side. What's going on in Bridget's love life? Who is Bridget Kelly dating? As it turns out, Bridget Kelly's boyfriend's name is James Shipp Jr., and since he's new to the world of Love & Hip Hop, people are curious about Bridget Kelly and James Shipp Jr. With that in mind, let's take a closer look. From James Shipp Jr.'s age to his family, we've got you covered when it comes to Bridget Kelly's boyfriend.
Being pretty new to the world of reality television, there isn't a huge amount of information on James Shipp Jr., but what we do know is fascinating. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona on July 20, 1988, making him two years younger than his girlfriend Bridget Kelly. Before he ended up on Love & Hip Hop, James went to Arizona State University, first studying biomedical engineering and eventually moving to the University of California (Los Angeles) to pursue business administration and management.
He Has a Sister You Might Recognize
While Bridget Kelly's boyfriend isn't exactly a household name, you may recognize a member of James Shipp Jr.'s family. He has a younger sister named Alexandra Shipp, who moved to Las Angeles at the age of 17 to become an actress and to her credit, she's doing pretty well. She started off with a small role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel but quickly moved on to a lead role Nickelodeon teen drama, House of Anubis. Alexandra moved back to film, playing the part of Ice Cube's wife in Straight Outta Compton and quickly followed that up by appearing as Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse. In fact, James help shave Alexandra's head for the part! You can see James Shipp Jr.'s pics of the event on his Instagram.
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He's Building His Own Career
Given how reality television can sometimes portray the people that are on screen, you may think that James doesn't work and is living off Bridget's money while trying to start his own company or some such thing. That couldn't be further from the truth as he is working hard to establish himself. James Shipp Jr. is currently heavily involved with Ballerz World, a company of which he is a co-founder. Ballerz World started life as an app that connects basketball fans and players from around the world, allowing its users to meet up for games and practice, sell merchandise through the app's built-in e-commerce platform, and features tons of other ways to connect and interact revolving around basketball. Ballerz World has branched off into a radio show currently found on ESPN Radio. Not content to sit on his laurels, James is also giving other creative pursuits a try as he recently collaborated with Bryson Tiller on the song "Sure Thing." He's also tried his hand at modeling.
Where to Next?
With all of the projects that he has going on, you may be curious as to what James Shipp Jr. has planned next. At the moment of this writing, nothing is for sure, but we wouldn't be surprised if you see more of James Shipp Jr. and Bridget Kelly on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood next season.


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On Tuesday February 19, head of the Legal Unit of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Lawyer Jawad Boulos, reported that the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem rejected an appeal for the release of hunger striking detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy. Boulos said that the court decided to keep Al-Eesawy is custody, until an official court ruling is reached within a month of this date.
Boulos said that Al-Eesawy was brought to the courtroom in a wheelchair, surrounded by dozens of armed Israeli guards, and when the judge asked him about "how he feels" he could barely utter a word due to his near-death condition resulting from his extended hunger strike.
Al-Eesawy, from Al-Isawiyya town in occupied East Jerusalem, repeatedly faints, and his current health condition was described as serious but stable.
Boulos also said that Al-Eesawy's mother fainted, and fell onto the court in front of the courtroom, after seeing the bad health condition of her son.
El-Eesawy started his strike 210 days ago demanding his release as he is being held by Israel without charges.
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers broke into the home Al-Eesawy in Al-Isawiyya, violently searched the property, harassed the family and kidnapped his brother Shadi. Their brother, Midhat, is also a political prisoner held by Israel.
On November 18, 2011, Al-Eesawy was released as part of the prisoner-swap deal that secured the release of Israeli corporal, Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the resistance in Gaza. He was released after serving 10 years of a 30-year sentence made against him by an Israeli court.
On July 7, 2012, Al-Eesawy was rearrested at the Jaba' Military roadblock, north east of occupied East Jerusalem, after the soldiers stopped a car transporting him following his visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem is filing charges against Al-Eesawy for what it called "violated the terms of his conditional release by entering West Bank territory", while the Ofer Israeli Military Court is demanding that that he serves the remaining 20 years of his 30-year term, and based its demand "on secret information" that neither Al-Eesawy, nor his lawyer, can have access to.
In August 1st 2012, Al-Eesawy decided to initiate an open-ended hunger strike demanding his release.
He was moved to the Al-Maskobiyya interrogation facility where he was subjected to ongoing interrogations for 28 days, and was not allowed to see his lawyer for 23 days.
In related news, hunger striking detainee Ayman Sharawna, from Hebron, was moved to the Soroka Israel hospital in Be'er As-Sabe' (Beersheba), due to a serious deterioration in his health condition.
He started his hunger strike on July 1 2012; 140 days later, he paused his strike following advice of Physicians for Human Rights, and resumed his strike on January 16 2013. He is currently only drinking water, refusing to even take vitamins.
Sharawna was also previously released by Israel under the prisoner-swap deal that secured the release of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was held by the resistance in Gaza, then recaptured for an alleged violation of his release terms.
The deal was implemented in two stages leading to the release of 1027 Palestinian detainees held by Israel. 280 of the freed detainees were serving life terms in Israeli prisons.


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All dog lovers know that our favorite furry friends are an endless source of selfless and loyal love. And this astounding story about two rescue dogs—Simon and Sammie—is the perfect example of that innate canine compassion.
In an image shared by Rescue Dogs Rock NYC, you'll see Simon (right) showing support for a fellow abused dog, Sammie (left), as he received medical care in New York City, according to the organization's Facebook page. Simon was comforting Sammie, who has two broken legs and is in danger of infection. In this moment, Sammie was fighting for his life.
Before being rescued, Sammie, a three to four-month-old boxer puppy, was spray painted, shot in the head, and dragged by a car, resulting in horrific injuries all over his body, his YouCaring fundraising page explains. As for Simon, a one-year-old Border Collie mix, he received medical care for mange, a skin disease covering his body, Today.com reported.
When these sweet pups first met, Sammie was on an X-ray table. Just nearby, Simon was let out of his kennel and immediately rushed to Sammie's side and put his paw on the table, followed by touching his nose to the dog's paw.
The pair instantly formed a strong attachment. "The picture really speaks for itself," Stacey Silverstein, the cofounder of Rescue Dogs Rock NYC, told Today.com. "You can see Simon comforting Sammie. It shows that animals have compassion and they feel. Simon would go to Sammie's kennel to comfort him and play with him and sit with him often."
Since the photo was posted, the organization has received a flood of adoption applications for these two pups. Sammie is still recovering in New York City, and doctors are hoping they can save his back leg from amputation. Simon has already found a happy home in New Jersey.


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UPDATE. Sadly, Embassy East has now closed permanently.
The bus ride from Bermondsey to Hoxton is a slow one but when you know there is a good brunch waiting for you at the other end, the trip is well worth it, even on a cold, grey Sunday morning. And so it came to pass that I finally got my act together and paid a visit to Embassy East, a cosy neighbourhood café on Hoxton Street, just south of Regent's Canal. I left home slightly later than planned and there were a few people standing outside the café when I arrived but fortunately, they weren't in a queue and I was able to walk straight in and nab a table near the coffee bar.
Embassy East is pretty small: there are only about 20 covers, mostly at the two- and four-person tables that occupy most of the dining area, although there are also a few seats at the window. The décor is rustic and homey with wooden furniture and a muted colour palette. The La Marzocco sits on the bar, sharing counter space with an assortment of delicious-looking sweet things.
I was more interested in the savoury food items, however. The menu has a big selection of breakfast, lunch and brunch dishes, from granola, to haggis toasties to 'eggs and meat' (poached or scrambled eggs, with bacon, sausage, haggis and tomato). Predictably, I ordered the poached eggs on toast (£5) and started with a Chemex-brewed filter coffee (£3).
The eggs were perfectly poached and came on some tasty sourdough bread, garnished with a generous helping of dill and rock salt. It was a simple and subtle twist on a classic and one I enjoyed very much.
The Chemex brew was excellent too. Embassy East uses Assembly coffee and they were serving a Burundi varietal I hadn't tried before but which was fruity, flavoursome and very drinkable. I followed the filter coffee with a piccolo shooter, which was also very good.
At Sunday brunchtime, Embassy East was busy and bustling but not too hectic and I never felt rushed by the friendly Kiwi baristas. I love neighbourhood cafés that marry an obsessive emphasis on quality of food and drink in such a relaxed, casual setting and Embassy East definitely fits the bill.
Embassy East. 285 Hoxton Street, London, N1 5JX (Hoxton or Haggerston Overground). Website. Twitter. Instagram.


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Munster Minor Football Playoff 1 – Limerick 3-8 Tipperary 0-11
Limerick defeated Tipperary by 3-8 to 0-11 in the Electric Ireland Munster Minor Football Championship Playoff 1 on Wednesday April 20th at Semple Stadium Thurles.
Limerick minors bounce back to end Tipperary's campaign
Report by Jackie Cahill for the Irish Examiner newspaper
Tipperary 0-11 Limerick 3-8: They contested Electric Ireland Munster and All-Ireland minor football finals in 2015 but Tipperary will play no further part in this year's campaign after being dumped out by Limerick in Thurles last evening.
The Shannonsiders were full value for a six-point win to set up a clash against Waterford next week, with the winners to play Cork in the Munster semi-final. It was Cork who defeated Tipp last week at Páirc Uí Rinn and a second defeat in a week for Mick O'Sullivan's Premier County ends their 2016 campaign prematurely.
O'Sullivan was also sent to the stands in the second-half following a verbal altercation with an official on a forgettable evening for Tipp. But credit Limerick with an impressive display as the Treaty boys bounced back from their one-point defeat to Clare in Miltown-Malbay last week. And maybe this win shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise when you consider Limerick had 12 wides in the second-half of the Clare game.
They can create chances and while they missed a few last night, particularly inviting goal opportunities, they took enough to advance. Wind-assisted from the start, Limerick took on the challenge with gusto and were 1-4 to 0-0 clear within 11 minutes. Captain Diarmaid Kelly, who scored 1-1 in each half, waltzed through the Tipp defence for a fifth-minute goal and by half-time, Limerick were 1-7 to 0-5 clear.
This was a night when Tipp finished with just two points from play, one in each half, and Limerick added their second goal in the 34th minute when Kelly netted a penalty Jack Dolan got a hand to but couldn't keep out.
Tipp's best goal opportunity saw Dolan's opposite number Aaron Murphy deny John Lyons but Limerick wasted some great chances before Eoin O'Mahony, scorer of 1-4, rammed home a clinching goal in the final minute. It allowed Limerick boss Jerry O'Sullivan breathe a little easier as Tipp had got to within two points, 0-11 to 2-7, with six minutes left. But Tipperary could never conjure enough attacking consistency to really compete, as a campaign dogged by talk of dual players that were unavailable petered out.
Tipp boss Mick O'Sullivan admitted: "I think the better team won to be honest, the more clinical team that took their chances in front of goals. I'd say if you looked back at the stats, we probably both created the same amount of opportunities, it was just on the night they took theirs and we probably didn't take ours. They came out of the traps, they had the aid of a strong breeze. Fair play to Limerick they're a good team, we were putting out fires all over the field but our lads showed great character to come back."
Delighted Limerick boss O'Sullivan smiled: "It's tough enough to come come up to Thurles any day of the week but to come up here and win is brilliant, great for the lads. It wasn't so much the wides against Clare that bothered me, more the way we distributed the ball," he added.
"I think I was more upset over that. I don't mind kicking a wide if you're in a scoring position, and it's on but what killed me that day was that we brought it to the final third and we just didn't execute it properly."
Scorers for Tipperary: J Lyons 0-6f, M Barlow 0-2f, C English, B Hyland (45) & A English 0-1.
Scorers for Limerick: D Kelly 2-2 (1-0 pen, 0-1f), E O'Mahony 1-4 (2f, 1 45), S Hurley & A Barrett 0-1 each.
TIPPERARY: J Dolan; J Harney, D Brennan, J Flannery; C English, P Feehan, S Nolan; C Cashman, B Hyland; R Lambe, C Boland, D Egan; J Lyons, M Barlow, A English.
Subs: E Ryan for Feehan (b/c 18), S Ryan for Boland (25), J Delahunty for Cashman (h.t.), A Vance for Lambe (54), Boland for A English (57).
LIMERICK: A Murphy; G Brennan, F Murphy, D Enright; S Hurley, A Kearns, O Collins; J Ryan, D Kelly; E O'Mahony, C McSweeney, A Storan; A Barrett, N Callinan, J Ryan
Subs: D Ranahan for Callinan (37), J Kelly for Barrett (49), L Cardy for J Ryan (52), S Ryan for Storan (60), J Kelly for Hurley (60+2).
Referee: Eddie Walsh (Kerry).
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Team News
The Tipperary team to play Limerick in the Electric Ireland Munster Minor Football Semi-Final Playoff on this Wednesday night, April 20th in Semple Stadium Thurles at 7pm is unchanged from the side which started against Cork in the first round.
1. Jack Dolan – Fethard
2. Jack Harney – Moyle Rovers
3. Paudie Feehan – Killenaule
4. Jake Flannery – Galtee Rovers
5. Colin English – Fr. Sheehy's
6. Daire Brennan – Kilsheelan-Kilcash
7. Stephen Nolan – Drom & Inch
8. Conor Cashman – Cahir (Captain)
9. Ben Hyland – Fr. Sheehy's
10. Ryan Lambe – Clonmel Commercials
11. Calvin Bolan – Clonmel Commercials
12. Daire Egan – Galtee Rovers
13. John Lyons – Grangemockler-Ballyneale
14. Michael Barlow – Ardfinnan
15. Adrian English – Ballyporeen
16. David Croke – Holycross-Ballycahill
17. Eoghan Ryan – Loughmore-Castleiney
18. Shane Ryan – Galtee Rovers
19. Michael Purcell – Thurles Sarsfields
20. Stephen Quinlan – JK Brackens
21. Conal Kennedy – Clonmel Commercials
22. Andrew Vance – Emly
23. Conor Murphy – Thurles Sarsfields
24. Oscar O'Dwyer – Arravale Rovers
Minor panel v Tipperary tomorrow night in Thurles at 7.00pm. All support would be greatly appreciated. #LuimneachAbú pic.twitter.com/OKdWx5HDEY
— Limerick Footballers (@LmkFootballers) April 19, 2016
The Limerick minor football manager Jerry O Sullivan and his selectors John Clifford and Gerry Phillips has released their match day team and panel for this Wednesday Munster minor football championship playoff 1 game against Tipperary in Thurles at 7pm.
The Limerick minor football team and panel is as follows 1. Aaron Murphy (Fr Casey's), 2. Gearoid Brennan (Claughaun), 3. Fionn Murphy (Kilteely/Dromkeen), 4. Daniel Enright (Monaleen) 5. Seamus Hurley (Newcastlewest), 6. Adam Kearns (St Senans), 7. Oran Collins (Adare), 8. Josh Ryan (Oola), 9. Diarmaid Kelly (Newcastlewest)(Captain), 10. Eoin O Mahony (Ballylanders), 11. Colm McSweeney (Gearld Griffins), Noel Callinan (St Kierans), 13. Anthony Barrett (Kilmallock), 14. Adam Storan (Mungret St Pauls), 15. James Ryan (Athea)
16. William O Mahony (Oola), 17. Conor O Grady (Hospital/Herbertstown), 18. Sean Ryan (Athea), 19. Darragh Ranahan (Ballysteen), 20. Paudie Sheedy (Kilmallock), 21. Luke Cardy (Adare), 22. Eoghan Carew (Monaleen), 23. Jason Kiely (Claughaun), 24. James Kelly (Monaleen).
Extended panel members are Robert Childs (Galtee Gaels), Ciaran Laffey (Mungret St Pauls), Padraig McGrath (Galtee Gaels), Dara O Farrell (Croom), Dylan Corrigan (Kildimo/Pallaskenry), Tadgh Leddan (Hospital/Herbertstown), Evan O Donoghue (Ballysteen) and Conor Staff (Kildimo/Pallaskenry).


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The Israelis call it "cutting the grass." Every so often, the level of rocket fire coming from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip into Israel rises from the level of nuisance to that of provocation, just as the weeds in your garden grow naturally to an unsightly height. At that point, it's time to take out the mower — in the Israeli case, a punitive missile strike — and clip things back. The weeds will return, and so will the rockets. But if you've done a thorough job, you've bought yourself some downtime.
Hamas — and whichever jihadist groups use Gaza for cover — had fired upward of 800 rockets into Israel in 2012. The rate of attack was escalating. The tipping point was reached in mid-November, and the Israelis fired back. The result was a weeklong miniwar that left five Israelis and 162 Palestinians dead. After a flurry of diplomatic activity, a cease-fire was arranged. Both sides claimed "victory." Some political sparring followed. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought and obtained "observer status" from the U.N. General Assembly for an as-yet nonexistent Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by authorizing new housing settlements in East Jerusalem.
Has anything changed with all this?
Hamas provoked its confrontation with Israel because its position has been steadily deteriorating. Its popularity has declined as living conditions in Gaza have grown increasingly desperate. Corruption and repression — the chief complaints against the previous regime in Gaza, Abbas' Al-Fatah Party — remain rampant. At the same time, the Palestinians in general have lost international relevance in the wake of the Arab Spring. Syria and Egypt have other things to think about. Saudi Arabia is preoccupied with unrest on the Arabian Peninsula and the weaponization of Iran. Accustomed to disproportionate attention like all groups that have successfully described themselves as victims, the Palestinians have been chagrined to find that they are no longer the center of the Muslim universe.
This situation affects Hamas most of all because Hamas has held itself to a higher standard of revolutionary purity. Unlike the accomodationist Abbas, its leadership is uncompromising in its rejection of Israel. Having defined itself in terms of struggle, it cannot afford to rest idle for any length of time. Having accepted the largesse of Iranian rockets that can reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, it could not fail to use them. Having either welcomed or been infiltrated by foreign jihadists armed with their own rockets — perhaps both — it could not allow others to take the initiative in striking Israel from Gaza.
Hence the dust-up in late 2012.
Hamas got what it wanted from its week of war. It burnished its credentials and acquired new "martyrs." It showed off the range of its weapons and its willingness to use them. It brought the Palestinian issue to center stage again.
The losers were Netanyahu and Abbas. Netanyahu's response was measured; he mobilized but did not use Israeli troops, refraining from the radical option of reoccupying Gaza. On the eve of an election, this cost him politically in southern Israel, which took the brunt of the rocket fire. He cut the grass, but what his more hardcore constituents wanted him to do was raze the yard. Nor were residents of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem overly comforted by the success of the Iron Dome missile shield in stopping most incoming fire. For them, the ante has been permanently upped.
Abbas also suffered, as Hamas further marginalized him as a do-nothing leader unable to deliver either peace or war. He lost politically most of all simply in being left out of the action, unable to support or condemn Hamas by either word or deed.
Abbas did the only thing he could, which was to go on the diplomatic offensive in seeking observer status at the U.N. for the Palestinian Authority. Cashing in on the coffins in Gaza, he received an overwhelming vote in which the United States, having failed to dissuade him from his bid, was unable to keep even its European allies in line. Apart from a handful of small client states, the U.S. was supported only by Canada and the Czech Republic. Thus, President Obama became a loser as well.
In this unhappy ballet, the last move remained to Netanyahu. Having been baited twice, he could not fail to respond in his turn. He did so by approving a raft of new settlements in the so-called E-1 corridor, which, if built, will cut off East Jerusalem from the West Bank. This was interpreted as taking the idea of East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state off the table and thus, in effect, scotching hopes for a revival of the peace process. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton immediately declared this move to be "unhelpful."
In responding to the rockets, Netanyahu decided to do less rather than more. In responding to Abbas, he decided to do more rather than less. A less confrontational and symbolically chilling response was certainly possible. One assumes that Netanyahu was swayed, in part, by domestic political considerations. But he unquestionably made, and intended to make, a larger political statement.
That statement is that the peace process is dead.
This fact is news only to anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the history of the past dozen years. The peace process introduced by the Oslo Accords died with the failure of Bill Clinton to broker an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority at Camp David in 2000 and the violence that followed. The incoming Bush administration put the question on the back burner until, responding to pressure, it offered its so-called road map for peace. This, a simple restatement of previous positions, was a nonstarter. With the division of the Palestinian Authority by the accession of Hamas to power in Gaza in 2007, there was no longer any basis for talks because there was no Palestinian leader who could bind his side to an agreement. As no movement had occurred in the previous seven years, no movement has been possible in the past five. Instead, both sides have quietly walked back from the idea of the two-state solution that was the basis of Oslo as well as of every international diplomatic initiative since 1947.
Peace is dead. Cut the grass.
It is pointless to bewail this fact. Both sides have already adjusted to it. Hamas has its political machine in Gaza, and Abbas, for the moment, has his own on the West Bank. Both are determined to protect their turf, and the sources of subsidy that enable them to survive. In Israel, most on the left are resigned to an indefinite prolongation of the status quo. Those on the right see an opportunity to push the boundaries of a Greater Israel, whether for ideological or defensive purposes.
Netanyahu's settlement expansion has simply clarified the existing situation. Israel has been in a 65-year state of siege. The first stage of this siege came to an end with the Six Day War in 1967 and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The second stage was the long stalemate that prevailed down to the acceptance of the Oslo Accords. The third stage was inaugurated by Oslo. Its concrete achievement, of benefit to both sides, was the Israeli withdrawal from most of the West Bank and then from Gaza. The Palestinians assumed a government, if not a state of their own. The Israelis shed the burden of caring for 2 million hostile refugees.
We are now well into the fourth stage, one of resumed stalemate. It will last — short of catastrophe — until a decisive popular majority on both sides supports a peaceful solution and seeks to implement it. There is no telling when or if this will ever happen. All that can be said is that there is no realistic possibility of it at present and that the trust of each side in the good faith of the other will be exceedingly hard to develop and sustain.
The conventional wisdom has always been that the Palestinians have time on their side. This may be the case, but there is no reason why the present situation cannot continue for a good while. It is said that Israel will be forced into the position of an apartheid state, ruling an Arab majority undemocratically. This is conceivable in the long run but of no immediate concern. The Israelis have no wish to reassert political authority over the Palestinians or, apart from some on the far right, to incorporate the West Bank and Gaza into a Greater Israel. The so-called single state outcome is, therefore, a chimera. Israel may continue a piecemeal settler expansion into the West Bank, but it will not annex any territories not contiguous to its own borders or containing any substantial Palestinian population. This would be directly contrary to its own interests.
There will, of course, be ritual talk of peace. Diplomacy is committed to this — what other function does it have? The U.S. is obliged to maintain a posture of seeking peace, and Israel must humor the ally with which its prospect for long-term survival is entwined. But, for the foreseeable future, the Israelis know they will be cutting the grass.
Robert Zaller is a professor of history at Drexel University. He can be contacted at [email protected]


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Nearly a month to the day after the October 21st federal election, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, presided over the swearing-in of the federal Cabinet.
Having lost only two ministers to electoral defeat – Ralph Goodale and Amarjeet Sohi, who were cast away in the Conservatives near-sweep of the prairies – many of the faces along Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reconstructed front bench are familiar though many of them will be stewarding new portfolios and responsibilities.
Assembling a Cabinet requires careful consideration of experience, region, demographics and backgrounds to assure the government's leadership both reflects the population it represents and assuredly implements its agenda. Adding only one additional seat to the Cabinet table, Trudeau has offered a gender-balanced ministry and chosen to illuminate members with genuine roots in Western Canada to offset the Liberals' dearth of electoral representation in the West.
- Justin Trudeau | Prime Minister of Canada
- Chrystia Freeland | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
- Bill Morneau | Minister of Finance
- François-Philippe Champagne | Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Jean-Yves Duclos | President of the Treasury Board
- David Lametti | Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
- Navdeep Bains | Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
- Bill Blair | Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
- Harjit Sajjan | Minister of National Defence
- Marc Garneau | Minister of Transport
- Marie-Claude Bibeau | Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Seamus O'Regan | Minister of Natural Resources
- Jonathan Wilkinson | Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Catherine McKenna | Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
- Anita Anand | Minister of Public Services and Procurement
- Filomena Tassi | Minister of Labour
- Carla Qualtrough | Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
- Patty Hajdu | Minister of Health
- Marco Mendicino | Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
- Stephen Guilbeault | Minister of Canadian Heritage
- Marc Miller | Minister of Indigenous Services
- Carolyn Bennett | Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
- Ahmed Hussen | Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
- Bernadette Jordan | Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
- Lawrence MacAulay | Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
- Diane Lebouthillier | Minister of National Revenue
- Karina Gould | Minister of International Development
- Bardish Chagger | Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth
- Mélanie Joly | Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages
- Mona Fortier | Minister of Middle-Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance
- Mary Ng | Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade
- Deb Schulte | Minister of Seniors
- Dan Vandal | Minister of Northern Affairs
- Dominic Leblanc | President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- Maryam Monsef | Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development
- Joyce Murray | Minister of Digital Government
- Pablo Rodriguez | Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Responding to Regional Tensions
With Canada/US relations mostly settled, Trudeau has rewarded Chrystia Freeland with the Deputy Prime Minister role and the government's single toughest challenge; navigating an increasingly fractious provincial landscape, with western separatism on the rise and the rebirth of the Bloc Quebecois seeing the Liberals lose seats in Quebec and be completely shut out of Alberta and Saskatchewan. From pharmacare to carbon pricing to addressing regional alienation in Quebec and Alberta, Freeland is in for some battles. She also retains responsibility to Canada-US relations.
Prime Minister Trudeau has tapped former minister Jim Carr, who hails from Manitoba, as his Special Representative for the Prairies. Carr's time as Natural Resources Minister was well received by industry allowing him to become a trusted voice for the Prime Minister and Cabinet on Western and energy issues. As International Trade Minister, Carr was front and centre in response to the canola and pulse crop trade disputes, two issues that have hurt farmers in the region and gained a closer relationship with key stakeholders in those sectors.
A resurgent Bloc was the black swan of the 2019 campaign, a phenomenon that no strategist within the Liberal and Conservative parties anticipated. At one-point, Bloc Leader Yves Francois Blanchet's momentum posed a serious threat to the Liberals' prospects for re-election, not to mention the seats of some of Team Trudeau's strong performers in Cabinet like Jean Yves Duclos. Some of that momentum abated in the last stage of the campaign, but Blanchet's talents as an able communicator and his strong working rapport with Premier Legault and his CAQ Cabinet do not augur well for the minority parliament. As Quebec Lieutenant, Pablo Rodriguez will have his hands full.
Blanchet's strong language about Alberta's intentions to create "an oil state" has already set the tone for a challenging time for intergovernmental relations, given Premier Jason Kenney's combativeness. He is fully willing to stoke the "Wexit" fires, and the next Council of the Federation meeting in Toronto on December 2nd will be one to watch, as the terms of engagement on Quebec and western co-operation will be established. If Chrystia Freeland imagined her skills as a negotiator were forged in the hottest fires during the worst of the CUSMA negotiations, they may be tested like never before in the months ahead.
Managing in a Minority Government
In a minority government, the parliamentary assignments of House leaders and whips are of heightened importance. These roles are critical to maintaining the government's control and power and to keeping the legislative agenda moving.
Pablo Rodriguez will be pulling double duty by also quarterbacking the government's parliamentary agenda and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.
Rodriguez earned a strong reputation as a stable, knowledgeable force in the House during his time as Whip, beginning in 2017. He is known as a shrewd political strategist outside of Ottawa as well, working as a key organizer in the province – and notably, playing that role in Opposition for Ignatieff. He has had to contend with a resurgent Bloc once before. During his time at Heritage, he burnished his reputation as a strong team player within caucus, perceived as able and responsive on contentious files.
Imperative to a successful House Leader is an experience House leadership team. Rodriquez will be assisted by veteran MPs Mark Holland and Kevin Lamoureux and former Ministers Kirsty Duncan and Ginette Petitpas-Taylor.
- Mark Holland | Chief Government Whip
- Kirsty Duncan | Deputy House Leader
- Ginette Petitpas-Taylor | Deputy Government Whip
- Kevin Lamoureux | Parliamentary Secretary to the Government House Leader
Streamlined Cabinet Committees
Along with a renewed front bench, the Prime Minister has also announced the restructuring of Cabinet committees:
- Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications
- Treasury Board
- Cabinet Committee on Operations
- Cabinet Committee on Economy and the Environment
- Cabinet Committee on Reconciliation
- Cabinet Committee on Health and Social Affairs
- Cabinet Committee on Global Affairs and Public Security
Cabinet Mainstays and Minor Tweaks
Despite the extent of the Cabinet shakeup, The Prime Minister will rely on several Ministers to keep a steady hand on the helm of critical portfolios including Finance, National Revenue, Justice, Defence, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture and Agri-Food and Indigenous-Crown Relations.
A not-so-incidental development over the past three quarters in Canada is that, despite strong job numbers, there are worrying signs of an economic downturn that could lead to a recession. The global economy is now in what Kristalina Georgieva, the new head of the IMF describes as a "synchronized slowdown," while here at home, high debt levels and struggles in the resource and manufacturing sectors continue. Bill Morneau's return to Finance is about providing Bay Street a large measure of assurance that this is no time for on-the-job training in the most crucial portfolio in Cabinet. Morneau has also earned the trust of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues by establishing a reputation for strong collaborative skills with Planning and Priorities and ably righting his own ship after his near-death experience with the introduction of tax policy measures in his second year on the job. He has become a better communicator, and he's proven he has the Prime Minister's back with such bold measures as the purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline and the implementation of retaliatory tariffs with the US.
Navdeep Bains will continue to lead Innovation, Science and Industry but under a re-named and re-profiled department that fully reintegrates authority over science but will no longer manage economic development. Mary Ng gets a boosted role, assuming all International Trade responsibilities, while Joyce Murray retains Digital Government duties but will no longer lead the Treasury Board. Explicit responsibilities for science, sport and tourism have all been folded back into larger departments.
Fresh Perspectives
François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Champagne's move to Global Affairs signals a recalibration of priorities inevitable in a minority parliament. An activist agenda on the world stage is less the focus than an able and diligent management style that lowers the tensions where possible. The fires this government needs to put out are not quite so intense in Washington, and establishing Canada's place in the world through multilateral commitments is not as important as a more transactional, incrementalist approach – in particular with China, as tensions continue to simmer on a number of key trade fronts. Champagne earned his bona fides for this role as Minister of International Trade, where he became a tireless brand ambassador for Canadian enterprise, most notably in the ASEAN countries (where he had established strong ties from his time before government with AMEC, a large international player in the energy sector). Expect him to maintain that focus on bringing – and keeping – good Canadian jobs to those high growth communities that can benefit most from transnational entrepreneurial capital and access to rapidly developing supply chains.
Jonathan Wilkinson
(North Vancouver)
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Wilkinson was raised and educated in Saskatchewan and become politically involved while in the province, which included serving as an advisor to Premier Roy Romanov as well as working in the provincial civil service. He is likely to be relied upon to provide a Saskatchewan lens to Cabinet decisions amidst the lack of Liberal representation in the province. During his time as a Parliamentary Secretary to Catherine McKenna in the Environment portfolio, Wilkinson quickly became known for his deep understanding of policy. While Fisheries Minister, his strong working rapport with BC's coastal communities only further enhanced his bona fides for leadership on what will arguably be the most important portfolio for the government, apart from Finance.
Catherine McKenna
(Ottawa Centre)
Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
To view McKenna's new role in Cabinet as a demotion is a misread on the priorities of this Liberal government's mandate. From the Trudeau team's first platform, infrastructure has been central to their vision of how the federal government can drive regional economic development.
The Liberals have taken an activist approach to the portfolio on a number of fronts, from the National Housing Strategy to urban transit funding to the advent of the Infrastructure Bank. Each initiative has weathered significant challenges, and much of the criticism has been focused on a lack of leadership and vision at the Cabinet table itself.
François Philippe Champagne's approach was to take on the Minister's role as national brand ambassador and evangelist for P3 projects across the country and abroad, as he racked up air miles and leveraged his impressive network of international contacts to garner the political capital for large scale investments. McKenna will assuredly take a different approach, but she has been successful in winning over a significant number of champions around the Cabinet table and in caucus in her last role as Environment Minister. As a communicator, the PMO contends she has also improved considerably. This is her opportunity to get some large-scale projects green-lit and show she has the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with provincial and municipal partners and communities. You could say no Minister has had better training for this role.
Seamus O'Regan
(St. John's South—Mount Pearl)
Minister of Natural Resources
Coming from an oil-producing province, O'Regan will provide a new lens to the Natural Resources portfolio to quell some concerns with the energy sector.
Serving previously as minister for the portfolios of Veterans' Affairs and Indigenous Services, O'Regan, struggled in the Veterans' Affairs role and held the Indigenous Services role for a short period. He is a former TV anchor for CTV, where he worked for nearly ten years. He also served as a senior policy advisor to a former Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Premier and was a political staffer for the province's Justice Minister.
Ahmed Hussen
(York South—Weston)
Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
As Minister of Citizenship and Immigration in the first Liberal mandate, Hussen was considered a strong team player as he worked closely with Blair to manage the ongoing challenges from irregular migration. A noted community organizer brought into Dalton McGuinty's team at Queen's Park; he has strong ties to the Prime Minister's team of key advisors within the PMO – including Katie Telford. His new role will allow him to focus on a mandate that gives him more good news to announce than difficult issues to manage.
Mélanie Joly
Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages
Joly was promoted to the portfolio of economic development. The once embattled minister struggled in her first ministerial portfolio as Heritage Minister for failing to tax web giants and faltering because of her overall political inexperience. After being demoted to Minister of Tourism (keeping the Official Languages portfolio), she played a pivotal role in calling out the Ford government in Ontario over its decision to cut services to Ontario francophones. She was viewed as a very effective Tourism Minister.
The Montreal MP and long-time Trudeau confident is rewarded for her strong ground game during the federal election and popularity in Quebec. She was comfortably re-elected in her Montreal riding and will work to ensure Quebec is well represented.
Bardish Chagger
Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth
Chaggers' appointment as Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Youth can be directly linked to the need to install a more experience House Leader to manage a minority parliament where the role of is much more critical to the government and its ability to maintain the confidence of the House. A well-liked and respected caucus colleague, she will bring a breath of fresh air and energy to files that touch youth, diversity and inclusion issues.
Carla Qualtrough
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
Qualtrough has been appointed as Minister for Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion. Before being elected in 2015, Qualtrough practiced human rights law at the federal and provincial levels. Qualtrough has served in a number of different roles under the Trudeau government and is regarded as a strong performer. After being named Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities in 2015, she was shuffled to Public Services and Procurement following the resignation of Judy Foote. Qualtrough was also the acting President of the Treasury Board after Jane Philpott resigned in reaction to the SNC-Lavalin Affair. Qualtrough – who has been visually impaired since birth maintains the role of overseeing accessibility and disability inclusion.
Jean-Yves Duclos
President of the Treasury Board
Duclos, an economist and MP from Québec City, will take over as President of the Treasury Board after serving as Vice-Chair during Trudeau's first mandate. He was previously Minister of Families, Children and Social Development. Duclos is seen as a policy wonk and less of a communicator, and it is likely he will stay in the background during this mandate.
Bill Blair
(Scarborough Southwest)
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Blair's strong law and order background as the former Chief of Toronto Police Services served him well as he took on, as Parliamentary Secretary for Justice, the groundwork for the cannabis legislation. His promotion to Cabinet with the Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction portfolio cemented his reputation as a reliable and able communicator on difficult files, further burnished by his talent for community relations as a Scarborough MP. He is the clear, logical choice for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, filling large shoes in caucus, given Ralph Goodale's strong work here.
Patty Hajdu
(Thunder Bay-Superior North)
Minister of Health
Hajdu will take over the role of Minister of Health where she will lean upon her previous experiences, specifically her time spent on drug policy, having served as the Thunder Bay Drug Strategy Coordinator. Hajdu was first appointed to Cabinet as a rookie MP in 2015, taking the role of Minister of Status of Women. Having garnered a reputation as a competent Minister and good team player, she was promoted to Employment, Workforce Development and Labour in 2017.
Filomena Tassi
(Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas)
Minister of Labour
Tassi earned strong bona fides as a community activist in Hamilton and was a key figure behind the scenes during the steel crisis caused by the Section 232 tariffs from the US. She was viewed as a Cabinet member with strong EQ who worked well with stakeholders in her former role with the Seniors file. Tassi's first real test with be managing the current CN Rail strike, which comes at a critical time for western grain farmers.
Maryam Monsef
Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development
As a rookie MP in 2015, Maryam Monsef was immediately vaulted to Cabinet as Minister of Democratic Institutions, becoming one of the youngest Canadians, and first Muslim, to ever be appointed to Cabinet. As Minister of Democratic Institutions, Monsef came under scrutiny for her handling of the Electoral Reform File. Monsef was shuffled to Minister of Status of Women in 2017, where she introduced Canada's first-ever Strategy to Prevent Gender-Based Violence and lead the transformation of Status of Women from a federal agency to a full-fledged government department. Monsef now adds to her responsibilities the Rural Economic Development portfolio, where she will be a key spokesperson for the Government's rollout of rural broadband.
Karina Gould
Minister of International Development
Gould has been named the Minister of International Development. The youngest woman to ever serve in a Canadian Cabinet, she previously served as the Minister of Democratic Institutions and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development and La Francophonie. Trilingual in English, French and Spanish, in her pre-politics career, Gould worked for the Mexican Trade Commission, the Migration and Development Program at the Organization of American States and volunteered for a year at an orphanage in Mexico.
Dominic Leblanc
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
Leblanc keeps his position as President for the Queen's Privy Council for Canada but has been moved from Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade. He has also been appointed Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Operations. Leblanc, who serves as MP for Beauséjour in New Brunswick, stepped back from politics in April 2019 to focus on his medical treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He underwent a stem cell transplant on September 18, 2019, and was released from the hospital on November 5, 2019. The President of the Privy Council is in charge of the Privy Council Office and has the ceremonial duty of presiding over state meetings. Leblanc has held a number of roles since the Liberals won government in 2015, including Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.
Bernadette Jordan
(South Shore—St.Margarets)
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
First elected to Parliament in 2015, Jordan was appointed to Trudeau's Cabinet as Minister of Rural Economic Development in 2019 after proving that she can be relied upon. Prior to being appointed Minister, she was elected by her peers to serve as Chair of the Atlantic Liberal Caucus. More importantly, she is no stranger to her new file; Jordan also served as Chair of the House Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. A female Member of Parliament representing Nova Scotia with her experience made Jordan a no-brainer for her new file.
New Faces
Anita Anand
Minister of Public Services and Procurement
Anand will take on the unenviable task of replacing the Phoenix pay system and will oversee all major federal procurements, which includes all defence acquisitions. Furthermore, Anand will be responsible for overseeing the viability of establishing a standalone Defence Procurement Agency as the Liberals alluded to over the course of the campaign.
A Law Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, Anand was a star candidate for the liberals in the GTA, successfully holding the riding of Oakville. In her time at University of Toronto, she held the role of J.R. Kimber Chair in Investor Protection and Corporate Governance, was a Senior Fellow and member of the Governing Board of Massey College, and was the Director of Policy and Research at the Capital Markets Research Institute.
In 2015, Anita was appointed by Ontario's then Minister of Finance, Charles Sousa, to sit on the Ontario government's Expert Committee to Consider Financial Planning Policy Alternatives and has written opinion pieces of financial corporate governance. Though she has a legal background, she comes from a family of medical practitioners with her mother and father as a surgeon, and anaesthesiologist while her sister as a medical practitioner.
Steven Guilbeault
Minister of Canadian Heritage
High profile environmentalist and political neophyte. The co-founder of Équiterre, a well-esteemed and influential environmental organization, is popular in Quebec and among politicians for his devotion to the environment and considerable communication skills. The Montreal MP faced intense scrutiny from environmentalists and progressive voters during the campaign over his decision to run for a party that purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline but was also viewed as too radical to Western Canadians for his anti-pipeline outbursts.
Facing calls of Western alienation on one side of the country and a resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois on the other side, assigning Guilbeault to a ministry, bolsters Trudeau's Quebec inner circle while keeping provincial tensions at bay.
Marc Miller
(Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs)
Minister of Indigenous Services
Back in June of 2017, when Miller, the Prime Minister's boyhood friend and MP for Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs delivered a speech in the House in the Mohawk language, it was clear that he took engagement with Indigenous communities very seriously. A high achiever who has both a law career and time as an infantry commander also earned a great deal of respect from his caucus colleagues for being a quick study. The Prime Minister trusts him and considers him a close confidant; they went to high school and university together, and prior to their time in office, travelled to Africa together. Many key stakeholders will view this as a well-deserved promotion that also comes with the strategic advantage of providing Quebec greater representation around the Cabinet table.
Marco Mendicino
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Re-elected in the diverse riding of Eglinton-Lawrence in Toronto, Mendicino will now oversee the Liberal government's immigration increases. Mendicino previously served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Justice and Infrastructure ministers and has been deployed as a public communicator for the government's policies regularly and is well-liked by his caucus.
Mendicino was a federal prosecutor for nearly ten years and fought against organized crime and put terrorists – including members of the 'Toronto 18" – behind bars. Mendicino is seen as a hyper-partisan Liberal through years of grassroots work with the party.
Mona Fortier
Minister of Middle-Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance
First elected in a 2017 by-election following the passing of long-time Liberal Mauril Belanger, Mona's assent to Cabinet comes on the heels of her stickhandling the 2019 Liberal Election Platform as Co-Chair with Ralph Goodale. Mona is seen as a team player, after having been a staunch defender of the Prime Minister as a Member of the Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics throughout the SNC Lavalin scandal. She is being rewarded for these efforts by having a hand in the crafting of the federal budget and ensuring that the primary Liberal narrative of helping the middle class is reflected.
Deb Schulte
Minister of Seniors
Schulte will use her experience as Chair of the Liberal Seniors' Caucus to oversee the government's rollout for further support for one of the most vulnerable groups in Canada. First elected in 2015, she was the Chair of the House Environment Committee and then promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance. She held her seat in the Greater Toronto Area. She is a former York Region councillor and holds a mechanical engineering degree from Princeton University. Schulte spent 20 years working at Bombardier Aerospace.
Dan Vandal
(Saint Boniface—Saint Vital)
Minister of Northern Affairs
One of the four remaining Prairie Liberal MPs, Vandal, will now also represent the interests of Canada's North. His appointment to Cabinet is an important nod to Indigenous Canadians and is a testament to his strong work as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services in the last Parliament. Vandal is a former Winnipeg City Councillor and Deputy Mayor and was Chair of the Board of Directors for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
A Government in Transition
In the coming weeks, Ministers will meet with their Deputies and other departmental officials to review their mandates, be briefed on key policy areas and begin charting a course for delivering on their priorities. Mandate letters authored by the Prime Minister are in hand, but they will be released publicly at a later date, presumably with the return of Parliament and the delivery of the Speech from the Throne on December 5.
It is understood that a lineup of Chiefs of Staff has been selected and affirmed by the Prime Minister's Office and will be matched with Ministers over the coming week while other senior roles in those offices will fall into place shortly thereafter. Next up, the Prime Minister will draw from his remaining MPs to appoint Parliamentary Secretaries who will help their Ministers and, while Bloc Québécois Leader has gotten a jump on his caucus responsibilities, Opposition Leaders will unveil their critic roster to shadow Cabinet positions.


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