From http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Domestic+violence+advocacy+bias/4935081/story.html
Re: Women And Domestic Violence, letter to the editor, June 9.
This letter's writers (seven women who run women's shelters) are not being totally honest with your readers. More than one-third of partners injured in domestic disputes are men, and at least a quarter of partners who are murdered are men. Yet there are no shelters and victims' services for men.
These numbers would undoubtedly be closer to equality if the legal system treated male and female victims equally. Women who stalk men are rarely charged, and women who commit sexual assault are never charged -even if they admit kneeing or stabbing a man in the groin area. Women who kill men are usually found to have been justified, or not guilty by reason of a mental disorder.
Women fear violence more than men mainly because their fears are constantly being stoked by those whose livelihoods depend upon it. It is long past time to end the cycle of bias in domestic violence advocacy.
Grant A. Brown, Edmonton.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
The high price of gasoline
The U.S. futures regulator on Tuesday sued two veteran oil traders and their employers, the Arcadia and Parnon Energy firms, charging they booked US$50-million in profits by manipulating oil prices in 2008. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused traders at Parnon Energy Inc and Arcadia Energy Suisse SA of carrying out a cross-market trading scheme between January and April of 2008 involving accumulation and sell-off of a substantial position in physical crude oil to manipulate futures prices. Parnon and Arcadia are owned by Norwegian shipping magnate John Fredriksen. The CFTC said James Dyer and Nick Wildgoose -former BP senior traders -directed the manipulative trading scheme. The complaint is among the agency's biggest charges of wrongdoing in energy markets.
From Page FP3 of the Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Financial Post
From Page FP3 of the Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Financial Post
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
St. Thomas Air Show
I told the person in charge of the St. Thomas Air Show today that I would not be attending, since they will not allow anyone to drive their vehicles to the air show this year.
Instead, they will have "shuttle buses" coming to and from the St. Thomas Airport.
It seems that "safety" trumps practicality. So be it.
Since "safety" seems to be the big thing, I think it best that they stop having an Air Show at the St. Thomas Airport, since Air Shows are potentially dangerous.
Instead, they will have "shuttle buses" coming to and from the St. Thomas Airport.
It seems that "safety" trumps practicality. So be it.
Since "safety" seems to be the big thing, I think it best that they stop having an Air Show at the St. Thomas Airport, since Air Shows are potentially dangerous.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
St. Thomas Transit
For the first time in many years, I have not purchased a monthly bus pass.
As St. Thomas Transit has become an unreliable method of transportation, it has been necessary for me to find an alternate, more reliable form of transportation.
This is not the fault of AboutTown transit, or employees of AboutTown, but it is the fault of the bureaucracy at City Hall.
Many people depend on St. Thomas Transit for transportation to and from work.
It has become physically impossible for some buses to complete their route in a 30 minute time period, due to traffic and “equality”.
My suggestions to improve service “will be considered” for the future.
While I hope to be around in the future, I am in the now, and require a reliable method of public transportation.
St. Thomas, at this time, does not have a reliable method of public transportation.
As St. Thomas Transit has become an unreliable method of transportation, it has been necessary for me to find an alternate, more reliable form of transportation.
This is not the fault of AboutTown transit, or employees of AboutTown, but it is the fault of the bureaucracy at City Hall.
Many people depend on St. Thomas Transit for transportation to and from work.
It has become physically impossible for some buses to complete their route in a 30 minute time period, due to traffic and “equality”.
My suggestions to improve service “will be considered” for the future.
While I hope to be around in the future, I am in the now, and require a reliable method of public transportation.
St. Thomas, at this time, does not have a reliable method of public transportation.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
RCMP Watch - Who Is Keeping Them Accountable?
Visit http://www.rcmpwatch.com/ for many articles where the RCMP believe that they are 100% correct, and the public is 100% wrong.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Elgin CAS
Eleven Children's Aid Societies took unprecedented action Tuesday in London, asking a court to order the province to pay tens of millions of dollars they say is needed to keep their doors open. - London Free Press, 2010/05/05
The Elgin CAS is one of these groups.
We, as a society, can no longer afford to keep maintaining the vast number of social services, including CAS. There is no money tree growing in the back yard of the Ontario Legislature. All the money, and I mean ALL of the money, for ALL social service programs come from the taxpayer, NOT the Government.
You cannot get water from a dry well. When you go to your wallet, and it is empty, how do you spend what you do not have? Do you use your credit card? Well, that's what the Government is doing, that's why, as a Province, and as a country, we are going deeper into debt.
Who is paying for this court challenge? We, the taxpayer, are paying for this court challenge.
Every social service agency thinks that they are the most important agency. The more nanny laws we create, the more bureaucracy, and debt, we create for ourselves.
The Elgin CAS is one of these groups.
We, as a society, can no longer afford to keep maintaining the vast number of social services, including CAS. There is no money tree growing in the back yard of the Ontario Legislature. All the money, and I mean ALL of the money, for ALL social service programs come from the taxpayer, NOT the Government.
You cannot get water from a dry well. When you go to your wallet, and it is empty, how do you spend what you do not have? Do you use your credit card? Well, that's what the Government is doing, that's why, as a Province, and as a country, we are going deeper into debt.
Who is paying for this court challenge? We, the taxpayer, are paying for this court challenge.
Every social service agency thinks that they are the most important agency. The more nanny laws we create, the more bureaucracy, and debt, we create for ourselves.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Another Scam?
There seems to be quite a few people these days, who are soliciting businesses for door prizes. These door prizes are to be used for Stag and Does.
The targets seem to be stores that are operated as franchises.
When did this tradition start to ask for donations for private parties, from complete strangers?
To those who have the nerve to ask the owner of a franchise, be it a restaurant, grocery store, etc., for a door prize for a Stag and Doe, please be advised that many owners are not rich tycoons, and are barely scraping by, and having a difficult time of even keeping their businesses operating.
For some of these people, they seem to have no problem contacting the head office of a franchise, to complain that the owner did not give them a door prize for their Stag and Doe. They word their complaint as if they are the victims, and the franchise owner is a mean, evil person, for not providing a door prize for their Stag and Doe.
How does the owner know that you are indeed having a Stag and Doe? You did not provide any proof, just your word. How would YOU feel if someone came up to you, and asked YOU to donate a door prize to a Stag and Doe, someone you have never met before?
So, the next time that you decide on asking a business for a door prize for a Stag and Doe, put yourself in the business owners place, and see if you would donate a door prize for a Stag and Doe to someone you do not know, who provides no identification, and no proof that you are indeed having a Stag and Doe.
Scam artists are many these days. Think about it.
The targets seem to be stores that are operated as franchises.
When did this tradition start to ask for donations for private parties, from complete strangers?
To those who have the nerve to ask the owner of a franchise, be it a restaurant, grocery store, etc., for a door prize for a Stag and Doe, please be advised that many owners are not rich tycoons, and are barely scraping by, and having a difficult time of even keeping their businesses operating.
For some of these people, they seem to have no problem contacting the head office of a franchise, to complain that the owner did not give them a door prize for their Stag and Doe. They word their complaint as if they are the victims, and the franchise owner is a mean, evil person, for not providing a door prize for their Stag and Doe.
How does the owner know that you are indeed having a Stag and Doe? You did not provide any proof, just your word. How would YOU feel if someone came up to you, and asked YOU to donate a door prize to a Stag and Doe, someone you have never met before?
So, the next time that you decide on asking a business for a door prize for a Stag and Doe, put yourself in the business owners place, and see if you would donate a door prize for a Stag and Doe to someone you do not know, who provides no identification, and no proof that you are indeed having a Stag and Doe.
Scam artists are many these days. Think about it.
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