Is the news getting you down? Well, we’ve got some good news to cure those blues!
In our new series Feel Food Friday, we’ll recount some of the positive, inspiring and all around good things that have happen in Canada and the world to balance out that steady diet of Harper, Rob Ford, Donald Sterling and general injustice.
So, let’s do it!
- Seattle’s mayor has announced plans to increase the minimum wage to $15/hour, which would place it among the highest in the nation.
- The “Fair” Elections Act received some changes. No, the changes weren’t “Our bad, we take it all back,” but they did amend the parts about vouching, Chief Electoral Officer freedom of speech and spending limits. (There’s still more work to do.)
- Transgender rights activist and author Janet Mock kicked some serious ass in this interview when she flipped the script on how an interview with a trans woman normally goes.
- Need some new emojis like “DVD of rodeo bloopers” or “adult acne” or “skiing spider?” You. are. welcome.
- Can’t find a Black Barbie in Canada? Check out Be-You-tiful Girls Club, which encourages parents and their children to design Barbies that reflect themselves.
- Renewing awareness about urban environmentalism by planting wildflowers all over barren lawns? Sounds good to us!
- Newfoundland and Labrador to replace student loans with grants! Yay!
- DO YOU LIKE RAD PEOPLE?! How about these five rad voices of radical grassroots activists.
- Nice feel good story about 90-year-old Walter Ross receiving his diploma and graduating alongside his grandson.
Don’t it feel good?
Photo: flickr/Cary Bass
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