The Aphrodite Salas Blog

Just a reminder that this coming Friday, April 25th my show will be broadcast live on CPAC television. It's the second time they've come to create a "reality radio" show and we are thrilled here at 940 Montreal to host the CPAC team once again.

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It's always a pleasure to have Annika Melanson, parenting and lifestyle expert, in for a visit. She was in studio with her round-up of great family activities happening this spring. Here's a list:

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Tons of calls on this - and the opinions were pretty split. Some of you felt it was imperative that Canada boycott the Beijing games, while others felt that it would be terrible to politicize the games and rob the athletes of their chance to shine.

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Believe it or not, doctors in this country are absolutely allowed to fire you as a patient. If you cancel too many appointments, if you don't follow the doctor's advice, if there is a pattern of "difficult" behaviour, you can be told to buzz off and never come back. Harsh, but true - and in my opinion, totally inappropriate for what is supposed to be a universal health care system.

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Annika Melanson, parenting lifestyle expert, was in studio with me recently, to fill you in on everything going on in Montreal over March Break. The list follows, but you should also check out the Montreal Families Camp Fairs for the summer. There are early bird discounts for families signing up early, so don't miss out!

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Tasers get a lot of very bad publicity. You remember the Polish traveler who was killed by multiple tasering in the Vancouver airport. There were two other cases of people being tasered to death here in Quebec last fall. These and other cases have spurred a new coalition of groups to form and pressure Quebec government to ban tasers altogether.

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If you think telling your kid that they are super smart all the time is helping them, think again. Carol Dweck is a psychology professor at Stanford University. Dweck says that instead of building self-esteem, you could be setting your child up for failure - big time - by making them think they are "all that."

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Sounds like a no brainer, right? Sure they should! But then there are the exceptions that complicate the rule. Like the situation of a 13-year old girl in the Quebec City area. The girl is suffering from a rare protein disease, and her mother has just been ordered by the courts to keep her in hospital.

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Olympic level athletes in this country get anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $1500 a month from the Government of Canada's Athlete Assistance Program. In my opinion, this is a pittance when you consider these kids are spending their lives aiming for Olympic gold. There's no time leftover to flip burgers or serve drinks to make the rent. They need to train, they need to rest, they need to travel.

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This is a disgusting, horrible practise. But perhaps what is more horrifying is that it is taking place in Canada, Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh was a guest on my show this week. He said that many South Asians in BC visit clinics across the border early in pregnancy so they can have an abortion if it is a girl.

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