tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32922736265207488652024-03-13T16:03:05.015-07:00Eugenics and the FirewallWhy Our Eugenics Past Matters to 21st Century CanadiansJane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-224653775819604672016-06-07T14:14:00.001-07:002016-06-07T14:15:33.187-07:00Alberta Literary Award 2016<div style="color: #636466; font-family: ScalaCompRegular, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; padding: 0px;">
Jane Harris (Harris-Zsovan) has won a 2016 Alberta Literary Award. She received the James H. Gray Award for short non-fiction at the <a href="http://writersguild.ca/the-2016-alberta-literary-awards-shortlist/" style="color: #0585ac; text-decoration: none;">Alberta Literary Awards </a>Gala June 4th in Calgary, Alberta. Jane's essay, <a href="https://albertaviews.ab.ca/2015/10/29/the-unheard-patient/" style="color: #0585ac; text-decoration: none;">"The Unheard Patient," </a>published in Alberta Views November 2015 issue, was also short-listed for a <a href="http://www.albertamagazines.com/awards" style="color: #0585ac; text-decoration: none;">2016 Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Showcase Award (essay category.)</a></div>
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Jane is also the author of Finding Home in the Promised Land, a personal history of homelessness and social exile (J. Gordon Shillingford, 2015) and Eugenics and the Firewall (J. Gordon Shillingford, 2010). </div>
Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-83097611394970913792015-11-10T12:53:00.002-08:002015-11-10T14:54:33.358-08:00Media Coverage of Finding Home in the Promised LandWe're off to a great start. Both the Lethbridge Herald and LA Beat have stories on<i> Finding Home in the Promised Land, a personal history of homelessness and social exile</i> this week: LA Beat calls Finding Home in the Promised Land, an <a href="http://www.labeat.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4464:jane-harris-writes-honest-account-of-poverty-and-homelessness&catid=35:art-beat&Itemid=59" target="_blank">"honest account of poverty and homelessness." </a>Lethbridge Herald focuses on <a href="http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/local-news/2015/11/07/memoir-helps-healing/" target="_blank">healing and trauma. </a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-8203745594608066202015-11-02T19:18:00.001-08:002015-11-02T19:18:07.200-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The Lethbridge launch of Jane Harris’s memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finding Home in the </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Promised Land, a personal history of homelessness
and social exile</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is this Saturday, November 7, 2015, at Chapter’s <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">701 - 1st Avenue South, Lethbridge.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Finding Home in the Promised Land
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">is the fruit of Jane Harris’s journey through the
wilderness of social exile after a violent crime left her injured and tumbling
down the social ladder toward homelessness—for the second time in her life—in
2013. Her Scottish great-great grandmother Barbara`s portrait opens the door
into pre-Confederation Canada. Her own story lights our journey through 21st
Century Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">She asks why Canadians fell into accepting
diminished dreams, and ignoring the obvious—that trauma and poverty are
inextricably linked, and it is social exiles who fall through the cracks. She
asks why Canada, a nation of exiles driven to create their own Promised Land
came to accept first poor houses; then soup kitchens, food banks, shelters, and
a silent suffering class of working poor? Why did charity, another word for
love, become cold bureaucracy? She uncovers that sad truth, that the taxes and
charitable gifts the prosperous among us pay as tolls to avoid looking at the
poor, fix nothing. Instead, they fund a poverty industry that keeps the
dispossessed in an exile thornier than any back bush squatter’s camp. But she
also uncovers a path out of the bureaucratic wilderness that could eliminate
social exile in Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“On a personal level I had to retrace my own
path into social exile. I had to come to terms with my own suffering, but I
also had to know why 21st Century Canada traps some of us in poverty. I had to
know how the place my own hard-working ancestors thought would be their
children’s children’s Promised Land, became just another place of hungry exile
to hundreds of thousands of its children.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Jane Harris turns complex research into
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Finding Home in the Promised Land
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">is her second book to be published by J. Gordon
Shillingford Publishing. The first, <i>Eugenics and the Firewall: Canada’s
Nasty Little Secret, </i>was published in 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Jane has also contributed to two Canadian
anthologies. Her articles about business, personal finance, history, faith,
politics and social issues have appeared in more than a dozen publications
including the <i>Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Capital, The National Post,
Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, Lethbridge Herald, </i>and <i>The Anglican
Planet. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Phone:
403 381-3390 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-17863419432070891372015-09-30T14:08:00.001-07:002015-09-30T14:08:31.579-07:00<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">It's out! Finding Home in the Promised Land a personal history of homelesssness and social exile is now in print and heading to bookstores. I will be at the <a href="http://whistlerwritersfest.com/2015-festival/" target="_blank">Whistler Writers' Festival,</a> October 16-18th. More Tour and launch news to follow soon!</strong>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-49631226353508055112015-02-17T10:29:00.000-08:002015-04-06T13:50:35.740-07:00Notice Board<br />
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Jane Harris (Harris-Zsovan) has a forthcoming book and a new website: <a href="http://janeharrisbooks.wordpress.com./">janeharrisbooks.wordpress.com.</a> Her new book, <i>Finding Home in the Promised Land, a personal history of homelessness and social exile in Canada </i>is being published by <a href="http://jgshillingford.com/" target="_blank">J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing</a>. It will be out by Fall 2015.<br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">SEPTEMBER RELEASE UPDATE: <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finding Home in the Promised Land: A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile</em> is the fruit of Jane Harris’s journey through the wilderness of social exile after a violent crime left her injured and tumbling down the social ladder toward homelessness –for the second time in her life—in 2013. Her Scottish great-great grandmother Barbara`s portrait opens <span class="text_exposed_show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the door into pre-Confederation Canada. Her own story lights our journey through 21st Century Canada.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">She asks why Canadians fell into accepting diminished dreams, and ignoring the obvious—that trauma and poverty are inextricably linked, and it is social exiles who fall through the cracks. She asks why Canada, a nation of exiles driven to create their own Promised Land came to accept first poor houses; then soup kitchens, food banks, shelters, and silent suffering class of working poor? Why did charity, another word for love, become cold bureaucracy? She uncovers that sad truth, that the taxes and charitable gifts the prosperous among us pay as tolls to avoid looking at the poor, fix nothing. Instead, they fund a poverty industry that keeps the dispossessed in an exile thornier than any back bush squatter’s camp. But she also uncovers a path out of the bureaucratic wilderness that could eliminate social exile in Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Jane Harris turns complex research into engaging scenes and easily understood messages.Finding Home in the Promised Land is her second book to be published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing. The first Eugenics and the Firewall: Canada’s Nasty Little Secret was published in 2010.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Jane has also contributed to two Canadian anthologies. Her articles about business, personal finance, history, faith, politics and social issues have appeared in more than a dozen publications including the Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Capital, The National Post, Alberta Views, Alberta Venture, Lethbridge Herald, and The Anglican Planet.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">She is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.</span></div>
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Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-90190595218671188252014-01-16T16:35:00.000-08:002014-01-16T16:40:11.816-08:00Canadian Books J.Gordon Shillingford Publishing<a href="http://www.jgshillingford.com/" target="_blank">J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing </a>has an updated website. LOVE IT! This means you can now purchase<a href="http://www.jgshillingford.com/shop-books/eugenics-and-the-firewall/" target="_blank"> Eugenics and the Firewall</a> directly from the publisher.Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-12975115065782551302013-11-23T12:26:00.000-08:002013-11-23T12:36:11.754-08:00 Congratulations to author Katherena Vermette<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; margin: 0px; padding: 32px 0px 25px; width: 600px;">
<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Congratulations to</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"> </span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/features/2013/11/13/katherena-vermette-wins-the-2013-governor-generals-poetry-prize/" style="color: #004477; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Katherena Vermette,</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"> who just received a 2013 </span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/?gclid=CLPPqZPg-7oCFclcMgodaAoASQ" target="_blank">Governor General’s Award</a> for her book</span><a href="http://http//www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781897289761/katherena-vermette/north-end-love-songs" style="color: #004477; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> North End Love Songs</a><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">. Her publisher, Gordon Shillingford, is also the publisher of last book, Eugenics and the Firewall.</span></h1>
Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-55828721799702361852013-10-09T15:30:00.000-07:002013-10-09T15:30:27.413-07:00Creative Writing I Starts October 22It's a go. <a href="http://www.lethbridgecollege.ca/conted-courses/1969" target="_blank">Creative Writing I</a> starts October 22nd at Lethbridge College. Register for the workshop online, in-person, or by telephone.Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-6192263702674811812013-10-09T15:27:00.000-07:002013-10-09T15:27:01.238-07:00Smart, Disciplined Online ShoppingYes, it is to overspend, but can turn online shopping into a cost cutting tool. This week's <a href="http://www.troymedia.com/2013/10/08/make-online-spending-your-cutting-corners-tool/" target="_blank">Cutting Corners</a> column, published by Troy Media: Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-46642175468082459032013-09-26T07:26:00.003-07:002013-09-26T07:26:26.728-07:00Cutting Corners Column 7Can't believe this is my seventh column on Troy Media. I am even more surprised to discover that people with insurance and jobs cut corners on their medications because they can't afford them. Something is definitely wrong with distribution, but there are some things you can do to protect yourself. <a href="http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/25/cut-corners-safely-on-prescriptions/">http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/25/cut-corners-safely-on-prescriptions/</a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-40066575145153516222013-09-18T11:03:00.001-07:002013-09-18T11:03:43.766-07:00Cutting Corners Goes to Dinner & the Food Bank<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Want to trim your grocery bill without wrecking dinner? Treat your home food inventory as a financial asset.</span><a href="http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/17/cut-your-grocery-bill-without-wrecking-dinner/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #004477; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/17/cut-your-grocery-bill-without-wrecking-dinner/</a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-59107768130894163292013-09-04T08:01:00.002-07:002013-09-04T08:05:23.681-07:00Public libraries & ending povertyCutting Corners is financial advice for the real world. It goes right along with my concern for the disadvantaged and increasing equality of opportunity -- principles that motivated me to write Eugenics and the Firewall. Those principles inform my current works-in-progress. This week, we go to the library: <a href="http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/04/how-the-library-helps-you-cut-corners/">http://www.troymedia.com/2013/09/04/how-the-library-helps-you-cut-corners/</a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-76128475229069512572013-08-21T13:21:00.000-07:002013-08-21T13:21:01.730-07:00newsAs of this morning, I am writing a weekly column, <a href="http://www.troymedia.com/2013/08/21/money-guilt-is-a-luxury-you-cant-afford/">"Cutting Corners"</a> for Troy Media. It offers financial advice for the real world.Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-45945489236409925732012-06-01T15:33:00.001-07:002012-06-01T15:37:01.001-07:00When I'm Not Writing Books -- a few recent by-linesA couple of my recent articles and columns: I wrote about Alberta based philanthropist/entrepreneur Frank Flaman in the April issue of <a href="http://www.capitalmagazine.ca/legacy/profit-motive-10081/2">Canadian Capital</a> and Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in Canada for <a href="//http://www.maranathanews.com/2012/05/30/put-the-queen-on-your-prayer-list-this-sunday/">Maranatha News</a>:Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-45502259151437955822011-12-18T13:18:00.000-08:002011-12-18T13:18:48.528-08:00Buy southern Albertan books for Christmas<a href="http://labeat.ca/index.php?view=article&catid=59%3Abook-beat&id=1870%3Abuy-southern-albertan-books-for-christmas&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=&option=com_content&Itemid=76">Buy southern Albertan books for Christmas</a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-15112962639067550932011-11-12T11:09:00.001-08:002011-11-12T11:09:26.876-08:00Coming Up on the CurrentLeilani Muir is the human face of the history I discuss in Eugenics and the Firewall. Please Listen and consider what not treating the poor, the sick, the foster child, the mentally and physicially disabled as valuable does to a society. And continues to do in Alberta where we have never really said sorry to the victims. Paying out $$$ is not really being sorry.<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/#.Tr7DgzFvosU.blogger">CBC.ca | The Current | Coming Up</a>Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-91062626076865472482011-10-20T10:38:00.000-07:002011-10-21T19:51:20.078-07:00Listening (for a change) to the Opposite ViewLast Wednesday, I attended a well-organized <a href="http://www.uleth.ca/artsci/event/7746">public philosophy lecture at the University of Lethbridge</a> Author Gary Bauslaugh discussed the findings in his book, <a href="http://www.lorimer.ca/adults/Book/1443/Robert-Latimer.html">Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy.</a> <br /> <br />Given that I'm an Anglican who opposes euthanasia, and Mr. Bauslaugh, is a humanist who believes mercy-killing is a compassionate choice, it's not surprising we disagree on whether Robert Latimer acted properly in killing his daughter, Tracy. <br /><br />I admit, I was annoyed when I left the lecture, feeling that Gary had dismissed opposing views, including my book <a href="http://www.thewinnipegreview.com/wp/2011/01/eugenics-and-the-firewall-canadas-nasty-little-secret/">Eugenics and the Firewall:Canada's Nasty Little Secret. </a>Foolishly, I blew off a bit of steam in a private email outlining my perspective. Somehow, my email got posted online on a <a href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/atheist-organization-speaker-%E2%80%9Creligious-and-disabled-groups-should-not-be-able-to-influence-government-policy%E2%80%9D/">US website</a> No excuses, I should know better than to write chatty, bitchy emails to friends who are journalists. <br /><br />(I will add that the author of the post in question risks her own paycheque supporting my work, which challenges the political views of many of her readers. She does this because she believes Alberta's eugenics scandal should not be hidden to protect any political or religious view. Without Denyse, my book would never have been finished because I was convinced Alberta publishers wouldn't touch the subject and out of province royalty publishers wouldn't read a manuscript from Jane in Lethbridge, Alberta.) <br /> <br />Gary read the post. Off course he was upset, but to his credit, he emailed me directly with his concerns. (I appreciate that.) I am pleased to say this unfortunate situation started a dialogue between Gary Bauslaugh and me, that I think is quite productive. And, as a fellow writer, I will defend Gary's right to express his views even when they are the opposite of mine. That's the Canadian way! <br /> <br />So, here's what Gary had to say about his position:<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Gary on Religious and Disabled Groups Impacting Public Policy:</span><br /> <br />"It is not that such groups ought not to have a voice, it is that voice should be kept in perspective by politicians and judges who may be influenced by the volume, rather than the quality, of comments they get on controversial issues. What I actually said was that there is a "need to ensure that certain advocacy groups, with particular axes to grind, and religious groups who abide by particular and arbitrary readings of religious scriptures, do not unduly affect public policy." <br /> <br />My point was that it is unfortunate if vocal minorities have undue influence on public policy, and that the solution to this was that other groups, representing the majority of opinion in Canada, need to speak up more, not that the minorities are to be somehow suppressed. My example related on the one hand to the Latimer SCC hearing, in which 11 groups hostile to Latimer spoke up, while only one spoke in his favour, while in fact about 75% of all Canadians are supportive of him. I related this as well to the evident difficulty of getting more rational policy developed on end-of-life issues, where similarly disproportionately negative, ideological and religious lobbying occurs whenever the issue comes up. I don't want to stop this lobbying, but to counterbalance it by hearing more from representatives of alternative views.<br /> <br />Gary took the time to add more explanation when I pressed him on the issue of allowing interest groups to intervene in court proceedings:<br /> <br />"I guess I have still not made my position clear. I am not objecting to having interveners of any sort, in fact I strongly support the right to participate in our democracy in that way. My comments are directed to getting more groups to respond to issues in that way, not fewer. My concern is that particularly vocal ones steal the stage, and more moderate and reasonable ones, often representing a large majority as in the Latimer case just don't bother. This creates a distorted picture of reality for legislators and the judiciary. The solution is not to try limit interveners but to encourage more liberal groups to provide a more realistic balance of views and to step in and argue for what they believe,"<br /> <br />Gary acknowledges that the audience may have interpreted his comments differently:<br /> <br />"That is what I was arguing for, although as Trudy pointed out in the session, my comments were open to misinterpretation. I have always stoutly defended the idea of pluralism, and freedom of expression, and strongly and frequently endorsed that position in the magazine I edited. This is a position I hold so strongly that I was probably not careful enough, for an audience that did not know me, in expressing my view on interveners in a way that could have been taken in a way not intended."<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On Latimer's Conviction:</span><br />"The case is a simple straightforward one: he deliberately ended the life of his daughter, something that is classified as murder in our Criminal Code. This is a case that for which the only real defence was to urge the jury to refuse to convict in spite of his evident guilt, which is why I talked about the <a href="http://ethics-euthanasia.ca/issue/jury-nullification/">issue and problem of jury nullification </a>in Canada. (Note: I was pleased to see that Gary welcomes those supportive and opposed to Latimer's stance to his site.)<br /> <br />Gary does not feel he treated all the Crown Prosecutors with disdain. <br />"I did so with the prosecutor in the first trial, but so did the Supreme Court of Canada when it ordered a retrial of Latimer based on that Prosecutor's behaviour. I said nothing negative about the second prosecutor, Neufeld, who for the most part behaved in a dignified and reasonable manner. I even quoted his positive comment about Latimer's act being a compassionate one."<br /> <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">On Parole Boards:</span><br />You were right about my concern about Parole Boards, but I thought that the readings made a persuasive case for such concern. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On the Audience:</span><br />You were right as well to criticize me for getting annoyed with certain questions, including yours. It was not, though, that they were "hard" questions; rather they represented a world view that I find very difficult to swallow, though I certainly should do so with more grace. (Being a writer, I understand this was his first stop on his tour. Nobody does the first stop perfectly. Overall, the event went very well. The readings, performed by Gary's wife, Gwyneth Evans,were excellent, too.)<br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">On the dangers to the vulnerable:</span><br />Your views linking eugenics with euthanasia is one I have heard before, and makes the basic error of equating state-run eugenics policies, which drastically interfere with personal freedom, with proposed new laws on euthanasia, which embrace and enhance personal freedom. <br /> <br />I do think there are ways of protecting the vulnerable and still permit assisted suicide and euthanasia. Various people have proposed such laws, including one by bioethicist Eike Kluge that appears on my web site <a href="http://ethics-euthanasia.ca/issue/legislation/">ethics-euthanasia.ca</a><br /> <br />(While I don't trust the <a href="http://www.seniors.alberta.ca/opg/">Public Guardian</a>, families, cash strapped governmens or health systems to protect the rights of the vulnerable or ensure `consent; Gary believes these are issues that can be overcome. I appreciate his willingness to acknowledge that his could become an issue, especially in light of events in which seemingly civilized people violated the civil rights of the vulnerable: Canada and Australia's residential school history ((the post-confederation government run residential schools on prairies were modelled on proposals of US eugenicists, by the way) the Sexual Sterilization disaster in Alberta, Apartheid in South Afria, Hitler's euthanasia law.) <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Gary's New Area of Research:</span><br />"You might be interested to know that one of my next projects is to work on something about a different group of vulnerable people - those in prison. I was stunned by how unfairly and harshly the Parole Board treated Latimer. I wonder how often that sort of thing goes on, and hope to do some more investigation of it, and of other ways prisoners may be mistreated. It seems like once they are convicted of a crime they lose rights even to basic fairness, largely because no one cares about them anymore. <br />(Now here's an area where I think Gary is 100% right!) <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Take Away:</span><br />Gary (a humanist) and I (a fairly conservative Anglican raised by evangelical parents in Manning country) found an important point of agreement by discussing our differences. I think that is a hopeful sign.<br /> <br />I've been watching Canadian public debate over the past few years: the abortion debate, the ID/Evolution debate, athiest versus evangelical, left versus right, unions versus management, environmentalist versus oil worker. It seems to me traditionally respectful Canadians have been convinced that listening to (even acknowledging your opponent is a valuable human being) is wimpy. Instead, speakers on church pulpits, university podiums and even Parliament take an aggressive attitude borrowed from the United States.(It doesn't appear to work down there, either.) We talk at other rather than to each other. We shout, demonizing our opponents, and make zero progress solving our problems.<br /> <br />We blog to people who think like us and boost our egos. We buy books by authors who back up our own view of the world. We watch the television network that suits our political view. And, often, we demonize those on the other side of the political, ideological, religious, or social spectrum. We feel good, but we learn nothing. <br /> <br />The luxury (and poverty) of 21st century living (and the internet) lets us build intellectual walls disregarding and dehumanizing neighbours who do not share our world view. The result, an increasingly toxic dialogue in politics, science, and the arts. <br /> <br />What we do disagree about should be discussed openly and respectfully. If we do that, we'll likely find points of agreement to move society forward. For example, I was really pleased to learn that Gary Bauslaugh is investigating the parole system in Canada. <br /> <br />I have no doubt that Gary will produce a book on the justice system Canadians need to read. And I hope Gary keeps us posted about his new project! (I hope humanists will consider what I have to say in Eugenics and the<span style="font-style:italic;"> Firewall: Canada's Nasty Little Secret.</span> Those who oppose Gary's view on euthanasia would also do well to at least check <span style="font-style:italic;">Robert Latimer: A Story of Justice and Mercy </span>out of their local library.)<br /> <br />As for me, I'm mulling a personal memoir of the year I spent without a home. A year in which I saw first hand the injustices in employment, social benefits, hidden taxes, denial of civil rights, health care, and housing faced by the poor in oil rich Alberta. <br /><br />How does <span style="font-style:italic;">My Year Rising Above the Bar, A Memoir of Semi-Homelessness in Alberta</span>, sound for a book title? And should I put more opposing views up on this blog from time to time? What do you think?Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-82829747118913605302011-08-29T13:09:00.000-07:002011-08-29T13:39:22.953-07:00I tweeted this earlier:
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<br /><a href="lethlib.ca/node/1454">Author Encounter, Crossings Library, Tuesday night;</a> Jane Harris-Zsovan, Blaine Greenwood, Richard Stevenson, and Ken Sears.
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<br />It’s all part of the only Word on the Street to take place in Alberta, 25 September.
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<br />Here is <a href="http://lethbridgeword.wordpress.com/">Lethbridge’s Word on the Street Blog</a>. (I’m also participating in that event.)
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<br /><a href="http://artslethbridge.org/aac-initiatives/artsdays-2011.html">Arts Days, including Art Walk and Arts Fest</a>, are the following week. I’m also doing a reading there, but haven’t got all the details, yet.
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<br />Come one; come all to the only city in Canada, co-founded by Father of Confederation, who just happens to be the son of the Scottish poet who founded Guelph and wrote my favourite poem, "Canadian Reflections." We love talking books down here!Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-42145564953928849442011-08-12T20:25:00.001-07:002011-08-12T20:25:39.922-07:00Click on the <a href="http://shaw.ca/shawtv/lethbridge/">Word on the Street icon</a> on Shaw TV's website to watch Dan Clovis, Shaw TV Lethbridge, interview Colette Acheson, Project Manager <a href="http://lethbridgeword.wordpress.com/">Word on the Street Lethbridge</a>, and me about writing, books, and what's in store at Word on the Street 25 September,11am to 5pm, at the Lethbridge Public Library and on the adjoining streets.
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<br />(There's also a good screen shot of my books, <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Eugenics-Firewall-Canadas-Little-Secret/dp/1897289510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313202513&sr=8-1">Eugenics and the Firewall: Canada's Nasty Little Secret</a> and <a href="http://www.volumesdirect.com/detail.aspx?ID=2866">Stars Appearing: The Galts' Vision of Canada</a>, included in this footage.But stay away from the Chinese website on the Stars Appearing link. That book is still available through Volumes Direct.
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<br />Eugenics & the Firewall is published by J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, Inc., represented by the Literary Press Group of Canada, and distributed through U of T press. It's available online, in university bookstores, independent bookstores,and through chains such as Chapters. McNally Robinson, Audreys, Pages, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, & Booktopia also sell Eugenics & the Firewall.)Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-40664776614713957192011-07-26T12:11:00.000-07:002011-07-26T12:23:25.055-07:00If you’re interested, here’s my newly posted <a href="http://writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=2690&L=H&N=Jane%A0Harris-Zsovan">Writers’ Union of Canada</a> web page. Very proud to be a member of both the Writers’ Union of Canada and the <a href="http://www.writersguild.ab.ca/Member-Directory-Detailed.asp?ID=1087">Writers’ Guild of Alberta,</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.artslethbridge.org/">Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge</a>.Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-86067422353681634362011-07-24T15:01:00.000-07:002011-07-24T15:05:52.188-07:00Norway and Canadian Misinformation Brokers (Let's Get Back To Our Own Vision)Writers and pundits, including some in Canada, who have been trumpeting this “America Alone” stuff need to remember that they may think they are making a logical argument, but the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/24/anders-breivik-facebook-hatred">disaffected </a>(esp. male, esp. young) will seize upon it as evidence of a conspiracy and a reason for their own frustration. I am deeply saddened about what happened in <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/a-nation-in-mourning-defies-gunman-by-sticking-to-open-tolerant-society/article2107826/">Norway</a>. I am terrified that this <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/24/suspect-posted-manifesto-before-mass-killing-in-norway/">the kind of hatred is being trumpeted</a> by so-called pundits, religious leaders and politicians. I hope Canadian Conservative parties will realize their majorities do not lie in catering to this fringe, chuck the extremists out, and return to Canadian style conservatism. And that the left remembers they are just as liable to intolerance. I won’t be commenting further on this post. People are dead. And I’m not interested in arguing politics today. Here’s the link http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/24/suspect-posted-manifesto-before-mass-killing-in-norway/Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-31927852321024758532011-07-11T12:12:00.000-07:002011-07-11T12:13:58.722-07:00Word on the Street LethbridgeHere's a heads up. It's not on the website yet, but I will be one of the authors participating in <a href="http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/">Word on the Street </a>in Lethbridge, Alberta 25 September 2011. <br /><br />Word on the Street is a national celebration of reading and advocating literacy. It`s held in cities across Canada every September.<br /><br />Other Word on the Street Festivals will be held in Vancouver,B.C., Saskatoon,Sask., Kitchener, Ont., Toronto, Ont., and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lethbridge is the only Word on the Street location in Alberta this year. Come on down!Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-74009221154108500142011-07-11T12:03:00.000-07:002011-07-11T12:11:46.099-07:00Word on the Street LethbridgeHere's a heads up. It's not on the website yet, but I will be one of the authors participating in<a href="http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/"> Word on the Street</a> in Lethbridge, Alberta 25 September 2011. <br /><br />Word on the Street is a national celebration of reading and advocating literacy. It`s held in cities across Canada every September.<br /> <br />Other Word on the Street Festivals will be held in Vancouver,B.C., Saskatoon,Sask., Kitchener, Ont., Toronto, Ont., and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lethbridge is the only Word on the Street location in Alberta this year. Come on down!Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-70123501632206305722011-05-24T11:39:00.000-07:002011-05-24T11:54:20.482-07:00Part three: Don`t blame the athiests and the CCF on eugenics disasters. Everybody loved it (except the disadvantaged)!<span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/eugenics-and-the-firewall-an-interview-with-jane-harris-zsovan-part-iii/">Part Three of my interview with Denyse O'L</a>e<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span>ary is up. The people who blame eugenics on a progressive ideas and social programs are going to hate what I say here: <br /><br />"It`s not our progressive heritage that made the eugenics scandal possible. It`s the dark side of populism. The self-righteous pack mentality, that allows the grassroots to demand that the rights of the socially, morally or economically defective be violated by the government. Or that turns its back when it sees these rights violated.That mindset made the Sexual Sterilization Act a political necessity under the UFA and the Social Credit administrations. It allowed it to exist for forty years. It also made racial segregation and forced sterilization of defectives and `criminals`thrive in the United States for decades. And it turned a blind eye when Hitler disbanded the German Parliament and began his holocaust of innocents.``<br /><br />Ahh, well, the anti-progressive types who want to remake Alberta into Texas north didn`t like me much, anyway, before I said this. So, I won`t feel much of a loss. Oh and they will absolutely hate this:<br /><br />``But apparently, we still aren`t supposed mention the fact that most churches and respectable businessmen and women endorsed forced sterilization for reasons as varied as morality to the costs of housing the mentality ill. Worse yet, some national columnists keep insisting that it was only the CCF and the atheists who supported eugenics in Canada. Rubbish.``Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3292273626520748865.post-5174430448703996272011-05-24T06:22:00.000-07:002011-05-24T06:46:38.953-07:00Key Quotes from my latest media interview on eugenicsDenyse O'Leary took a big risk interviewing me for her blog. For one thing, many of her ID and faith based audiences won't like what I have to say about <a href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/eugenics-and-the-firewall-interview-with-jane-harris-zsovan-1/">who supported eugenics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: </a>"Eugenics was widely accepted by the business, academic, medical and political establishment. Preachers – in evangelical and mainline churches – even preached it from the pulpit." Nor will their opponents: "You can believe something, insist it’s scientific and proven, and be totally wrong. Atheists and religious people are equally vulnerable to this error." <br /><br />Many more won't like what I tell Denyse her about the <a href="http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/eugenics-and-the-firewall-interview-with-jane-harris-zsovan-2/#more-20517">political culture in Alberta</a>: "Well, I think it’s the mindset that Albertans have – that we’re pretty much on the side of right. And we have this terrible poverty mentality hanging on from the pre-oil industry days. The big cars, big houses, and rampant materialism are just symptoms of the fact that we “never want to be the poor men and women of Confederation again.” <br /><br />Still more of the province's political and business hacks will gag on what I say about the the province's failed attempt to use the <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/11/contents">notwithstanding clause in the Canada Act </a>to prevent the victims of the Alberta Eugenics board from getting compensation in the 1990's:"God help anyone who threatens to take any of it away in a lawsuit. We certainly don`t want to look at the dark side of populism—the pack mentality that overrides the opinions and rights of your political opponents and of the weak."<br /><br />Part Three will be posted soon.Stayed tuned.Jane Harris Zsovan (Jane Harris)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12076301737580482355noreply@blogger.com0