Edmonton Polyamory Group Seeking Non-Profit Status, Wants to Extol the Benefits of Multiple Romantic Partners

EDMONTON – An unusual Edmonton group is seeking to raise awareness about their unique formula for blissful romance. Polyamory Edmonton is a group of people that practise consensual, non-monogamous relationships. They are in the process of becoming a non-profit organization and want to educate Edmontonians about their unconventional take on romantic partnerships.

Founder Alyson Sidra, who is married and dating outside that relationship, gives a crash course on polyamory and explains why it can be a recipe for relationship success.

What is polyamory?

 

If someone identifies as polyamorous, they are open to having more than one romantic partner with the openness, consent and honesty of everyone involved. There wouldn’t be any cheating or anything secretive. Everyone knows who the other is dating or involved with.

John Lucas / Postmedia NewsAlyson Sildra, founder of Polyamory Edmonton, pictured last week.

What makes polyamory any different from polygamy or polyandry?

Polyamory can take on many different structures. People may have heard of swinging, for example, which is an open relationship, but strictly sexual. But polyamorous relationships are open to romantic partnerships rather than just sexual ones. Some couples might date other people separately, outside of their relationship. Others go into it wanting to mutually date the same person, where everyone is equally involved with each other. There are triads with three people, and other relationship groupings with four or more. How interactive those people are with each other can definitely vary.

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Lord, It’s Hard to Be Humble When You're Discontented in Every Way

We live in a society built around perpetual dissatisfaction. As I write these words on my two-year-old MacBook Pro, I cannot help but to think about how much better my life would be if I went out and bought one of Apple's latest computers. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with my present computer; in fact, it is the best computer I've ever owned and still works as good as the day I bought it, maybe even better. The truth is, I don't need a new computer, but I've been preconditioned by the culture around me and the genius marketers at Apple to believe that every time a new, updated MacBook Pro comes out, I need to run out and buy one.

The Apple computer bug may not have bitten you, but I am certain there is someplace in your life where you've learned to be perpetually discontented. For some people it is cars, for others it is houses, or clothes, or books, or watches, or fishing boats. The list could go on and on. We have been conditioned to think that something will bring ultimate satisfaction to our lives, and we spend our lives on a never-ending quest to find the thing.

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Alberta Tory leadership candidates attend Gay Pride, avoid abortion

Update Sept. 5: In the dying days of the Alberta Tory leadership race the pro-life Wilberforce Project has endorsed candidate Ric McIver. Wilberforce's Rosenke told members she had come away from meetings with two of three candidates "with a good idea as to who would be the best leader with regard to pro-life issues. Candidate Ric McIver has given TWP a lot of reason to believe he will listen to us and to our concerns in the future."

Being leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta sure isn’t what it used to be. Before Alison Redford, the party’s recently disgraced leader and therefore the province’s recently disgraced premier, no leader dared march in Calgary’s Gay Pride Parade. Now it is virtually de rigueur. All three candidates to succeed Redford attended this year’s event on Sunday and two actually marched.

On the other hand, the third, Ric McIver is said to have ruined his chances for the leadership before the race began by marching in the city’s Jesus Parade. That is why McIver, a Catholic, is rumoured to be sympathetic to pro-life policies, but unwilling to come out of the closet.

The front-runner, former federal Conservative cabinet minister Jim Prentice, is openly pro-abortion. The third contender, Thomas Lukaszuk, is Roman Catholic and a third degree Knight of Columbus, but his views on abortion are unknown.

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New Iraqi Christian: ISIS Brutality a Turn off to Islam

ZAKHO, Iraq -- Northern Iraq is facing a refugee crisis, with an estimated 182,000 Yazidis fleeing to Kurdistan to escape the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) army. Many have sought refuge in Kurdish cities, dwelling in abandoned office buildings.

Just behind the northern Iraqi city of Zakho are the mountains that lead to Turkey, which is very close, just several kilometers away. Many of the Yazidis who have come to Zakho say they prefer to go to Turkey. That's because they can no longer live with Muslim Arabs.

One Yazidi leader told CBN News hundreds of Muslim neighbors turned against his people when Islamic State fighters arrived in Sinjar.

"These Arabic tribes, they joined them," Faris Elias Kholo told CBN News.

"They took away our females, children, old men, everything," he continued. "Even if we get back our homes, we cannot live with the Arabs because they usually try to persecute us."

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