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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; 2007 &#187; September</title>
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		<title>A space of one&#8217;s own (Kaslo, B.C.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Blog posting #14
BriarpatchMagazine.com
by Shayna Stock, with photography by Dominique Fenton

We recently had an intriguing conversation about the (un)sustainability of communal living. Paul, who has lived at Lofstedt Farm in Kaslo, B.C., for the past 5 years, said that he doesn&#8217;t think living communally is sustainable. From his perspective, &#8220;it&#8217;s tiring.&#8221;
His opinion comes both from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loralee&#8217;s garden (Lethbridge, Alberta)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Blog posting #13
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by Shayna Stock, with photography by Dominique Fenton
I have written a lot about people who are creating community somewhat outside of greater society&#8212; often rural or, if urban, generally restricted to one household or so. Some of these communities do reach out to greater society through education programs such as the Free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prairie&#8217;s Edge (River Hills, Manitoba)</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/07/prairie%e2%80%99s-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Blog posting #12
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by Shayna Stock, with photography by Dominique Fenton

There is one community I had been postponing writing about. This group of people so embodies what we have been seeking on this trip that to put their story into a single posting seemed a daunting task.
Prairie&#8217;s Edge Eco-Village, in rural Manitoba, aims to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sept/Oct 2007: Mental Health</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/06/septoct-2007-mental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dave</dc:creator>
		
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<strong>It's the great paradox of our time:</strong> <a href="http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/05/the-social-sources-of-madness/" target="new">poverty makes us more susceptible to mental illness,</a> while <a href="http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/05/buying-happiness-the-depressing-reality-of-materialism/">affluence drives us to depression.</a> Exploring these topics and many more, <em>Briarpatch</em> takes a fresh and fearless look at the state of our mental health in an age of growing inequality.
 
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		<title>The Social Sources of Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By J. F. Conway
Briarpatch Magazine
September 2007
While the condition of a people is prosperous, and uninterrupted by violent and sudden changes, insanity never exceeds. But when the dispensations of Providence fail of their accustomed bounteousness, or man by trouble is afflicted beyond his nature, or by his own wilfulness o&#8217;erleaps the bounds which nature and reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Happiness: The Depressing Reality of Materialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Dodson
Briarpatch Magazine
September/October 2007
Illustration by Aimee van Drimmelen
Of all the notions by which our society abides, none influences our daily life more than the idea that &#8220;money buys happiness.&#8221; It is why Canadians spend an average of 8.9 hours a day working, up from 8.4 hours just 20 years ago. It is why we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Journey Back to Where I Began: Finding Myself at the Child Study Centre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stanford Sinclair
Briarpatch Magazine
September/October 2007
You do not know what wars
are going on down there
where the spirit meets the bone.
- Miller Williams

Illustration by TJ Vogan
I&#8217;ll never forget my first day at the Centre, the beginning of a nearly two-year period that would alter my life forever. They&#8217;re not all bad memories, but still, they stand as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psyched Out: Why Bush&#8217;s mental health isn&#8217;t the point</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/05/psyched-out-why-bushs-mental-health-isnt-the-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tracey Mitchell
Briarpatch Magazine
September/October 2007
A review of:
Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President 
By Justin A. Frank
Harper, 2004
The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis
By Paul Levy
Authorhouse, 2006
The Madness of King George 
By Michael K. Smith &#38; Matt Wuerker
Common Courage, 2003
&#8220;You&#8217;re crazy!&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s insane!&#8221; &#8220;This is a psychotically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a space for ourselves (Pic River, Ontario)</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/09/04/creating-a-space-for-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shaydom</dc:creator>
		
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Blog posting #11
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by Shayna Stock, with photography by Dominique Fenton

Bonnie&#8217;s home in Pic River.
What seems like lifetimes ago now, when we were staying with the Belzers in Nova Scotia, Ed Belzer said something that has stayed with me ever since.
&#8220;The best thing I can do for myself,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is to surround myself by [...]]]></description>
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