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Police release name of suspect in Christmas card killing in Kitchener, Ont.
Dec.19th, 2007; It is sad when you hear that someone was killed in Kitchener, Ont., over nothing, during this Holiday Season. Lately, there has been a string of violent attacks on elderly people, mostly for whatever money they may have on hand. Was this the case with Hunter Brown, who was a retired Bell Canada executive, that was killed just steps away from his home while delivering Christmas cards? Someone had approached Brown and had stabbed him with a sharp instrument, probably a knife. Was the attacker a street person or pan-handler looking for money? Police had blocked off the area around 50 Glenwood Drive in Kitchener, Ont., while the investigation is ongoing. Hunter Brown was handing out Christmas cards among his fellow neibours which had become an annual tradition for him. Brown had lived in that Kitchener Waterloo community for more than three decades and was a friend to everyone in that close-knit neighbourhood. People who know Brown say that he was a gentleman, always gracious, a community-spirited person and a real family man. There had been another attack made upon another person who was shoveling his driveway on Saturday. A 35-year-old man was shoveling his driveway when he was approached by a man and was then attacked. The man managed to fended off his attacker with his shovel. A resident came to his aid and confronted the attacker, who fled the scene. The man who was shoveling his driveway was not injured. Assault charges was laid following the attack. The Waterloo Regional Police had released a composite sketch of the suspected attacker. Hours later, they had arrested a man. The suspect was arrested by police who were covering the area. He was with another person at the time of the arrest. A 22-year-old man was charged with the assault. While both attacks happened in the Kitchener area, police are uncertain whether the two incidents are connected. But investigators think that the man who was arrested for attacking the 35-year-old man who was shoveling his driveway, may also be linked to the murder of Hunter Brown, though investigators have not publicly linked him yet to Brown's slaying. The man who was arrested claimed that he didn't know either of the two men. According to THE CANADIAN PRESS; Police have now released the name of the man charged in the slaying of a 74-year-old man Hunter Brown, who was delivering Christmas cards to neighbours in Kitchener, Ont. Brown was struck several times in the head and face with an "edged weapon" and left to die Saturday in a neighbour's driveway. Trevor James Lapierre, 22, is to appear in court Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder. Waterloo police say Lapierre is also charged with the assault of a 35-year-old man who was attacked Monday while shovelling snow. All I can say, I pity the person who will try to pull that stunt on me!
I see that the U.S. Congress has approved the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years. The energy bill, is expecting to boost gas mileage in cars by 40 per cent, which means that cars should be able to go 35 miles per gallon, about 6.7 liters per 100 kilometres. Canada can do one better if they insist that all vehicles be hybrid or fully electric three or four wheeled cars. That is, once they have figured how to install a heater, something like what the air-cooled Volkswagen had used for its vehicles. These cars are fully electric low speed vehicle (LSV), which is great for the core city dwellers and for large towns. They typically have only a top speed of 45 km (25 mph). Imagine how that would reduce deaths due to car accidents at those speeds. They typically have a range of 60 kilometers (about 30 miles) before the battery needs to be recharged. Unfortunatly, a full charge would typically required 6 to 8 hours. These cars are roughly the same size as a Mini-Cooper. Better batteries that hold more energy and last longer are being developed. Electric vehicles should be able to go 150 to 200 miles before recharging. Adopting that standard, would drastically improve air quality and cut down on air pollution in all cities across Canada. The Canadian government is no doubt taking heat for depriving its citizens of locally built electric cars like the ZENN, which is being made in Quebec. Transport Canada is in favour of zero emissions vehicles for Canadian roads, but the individual provinces seem to be stalling. Ontario has yet to accept eletric cars on its roads.
I see that the RCMP have approved a new backup policy that at least two officers will from now on, be required when responding to calls when they lack radio contact in remote regions. Police officers, be they federal, provincial or local are facing growing threat to their safety by having to respond to dangerous calls dealing with violence, weapons, drugs, mental problems and the lack of radio contact. It is good to hear that our Mounties who are serving in isolated detachments will now travel in pairs when responding to calls that may involve any kind of threat on the officers lives. The news comes out of a two-day RCMP meeting of leaders in Ottawa as Mounties in this day and age, face growing pressure to better protect their officers in the North and remote regions. The proposed backup plan is expected to cost $25 million or more. Despite the added cost, This is really good news. Whatever the added cost, if it will save police officers from being cut-down and improve their safety, it will be well worth it.
A convenience store owner was charged Wednesday with stealing a winning lottery ticket and fraudulently claiming $5.7 million in prize money. Ontario Provincial Police had charged 60-year-old Hafiz Zulqarnain Malik, of Mississauga, Ont., with two counts of fraud and one count of theft. Additionally, about $5 million worth of his assets were seized or frozen by police, including his Mississauga home, bank and investment accounts and three vehicles. Lottery customers are advised to sign the backs of their tickets to prevent potential fraud. According to CBC News; Hafiz Malik, at the time was operating a convenience store in Toronto, and allegedly stole the ticket from a group of four Toronto co-workers in June 2004. Malik defrauded the real winners when they "simply entrusted him with the validation of a lottery ticket." He cashed it six months later, in January 2005. The charges were the result of an investigation launched in July, following a complaint to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. This is just one of a broader OPP investigation into fraudulent Ontario lottery game prize claims by Ontario lottery retailers and employees. The investigation focuses on "insider wins" between 1999 and 2006. Police are still investigating four other lottery-related cases that involved large amounts of money. With all the new lottery safty measures that are in place now, that should drasticlly cut down on the cheating and scams that had been going on in the past. Those people who are fortunate to win on Lottery tickets, at least they will now recieve their winnings, whatever it may be. Thanks Lottery Gaming Corporation.

Ipperwash Park returned to Aboriginal people in Ontario.
Dec. 20th, 2007; The McGuinty Provincial Government is returning Ipperwash Park back to the aboriginal descendants of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation people. The Kettle/Stony Point native people in Ontario had wanted the federal government to return nearby Camp Ipperwash, which was formerly the Stony Point reserve, to Kettle/Stony Point descendants. At the time, the native protesters also claimed that the Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been taken over by the provincial government, was the site of a sacred burial ground for the Kettle/Stony Point native people. Ipperwash Provincial Park was the location where the then PC Party, Ontario premier Mike Harris stated that he wanted the "f----ing Indians out of the park" during a meeting with senior officials. Soon after, native protester, Dudley George, was shot and killed in 1995 by OPP acting Sgt. Deane, while Dudley George and the native people was trying to reclaim the land which was first rented, then later stolen by the Liberal Federal Government. When the Ipperwash military base was shut down, instead of returning the land back to the native people as promised, the federal government, the then Liberal Party, had unlawfully sold the land to the provincial government. After the death of Dudley George, the Ipperwash Inquiry, headed by the commissioner, Justice Sydney Linden, which probed the death of George, said in his May 2007 report that the most urgent priority was that both the federal and provincial lands be returned to the Chippewa First Nation people of Kettle/Stony Point. The land in question was a large parcel comprising the eastern third of the Stoney Point Reserve, controlled by the Chippewas Stoney Point First Nation. The shore frontage of this parcel, including the park immediately to the west, which had been forcibly sold to non-aboriginal interests in 1927-1928. That was the (Crawford/White and Scott purchases). The property for the park was purchased in 1932 and established in 1936. In April 1942, Department of National Defence (DND) sought a voluntary surrender of the remaining property of the reserve behind these parcels to the east of the provincial park, however they were refused. The Liberal Government, then used the War Measures Act and expropriated the property, with the expropriation agreement indicating that the property would be returned to the First Nation when it was no longer needed for military purpose. The military camp (Camp Ipperwash) was formed on January 28, 1942 with the A29 Canadian Infantry Training Centre (A29 CITC) being the lodger unit. Following the land expropriation, buildings and a firing range were constructed on the property that spring and summer. By July 1942, 16 Stony Point families had been moved further west to Kettle Point, giving DND full access to the new military training area. A29 CITC served as a "boot camp" or basic training centre for army recruits from southwestern Ontario (Military District #1) and ceased operations in 1945. Strange how things turn out. The Liberal Federal Government had taken the lands away from the Kettle/Stony Point native people in Ontario, and it took the Liberal Provincial Government of Ontario to give it back to the rightful owners. According to CTV.ca News Staff; Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant said that; "Returning Ipperwash Park and acting on Justice Linden's recommendations is the clearest and most powerful expression of the intention of the McGuinty government to move forward in a concrete, practical and deliberate way to forge a stronger, more positive relationship with all Aboriginal peoples in Ontario," Thursday. Natural Resources Minister Donna Cansfield said the province plans to work with local communities during the transfer phase. Why couldn't this common sense decision had been reached a long time ago by the Liberal Party which was the Federal Government at that time. It is sixty years past due. As a Canadian, I am happy to see that Justice and Truth had prevailed and that Canada is trying to put right, the wrongs it had committed to the First Nation People in Canada. To get some insight which led to the death of Dudley George, I recommend this web site, Ipperwash: A Canadian Tragedy . It is a native web site which give the native perspective of how they had experienced the events leading to this tragic story which has become part of our Canadian history. I remember seeing a movie about the Ipperwash conflict. It was called; One Dead Indian. It was a timely tale of the Ipperwash crisis. The movie is based on the book of the same name, by Toronto Star reporter Peter Edwards, who wanted the title to illustrate the injustice and prejudice involved in the Ipperwash crisis, which culminated in the death of aboriginal protester Dudley George. I do not quite remember exactly where I had seen that movie, it might have been on a CTV or CBC television program.

The injustice and prejudice over native lands.
In 1535 two Indian youths told Jacques Cartier about the route to "Kanata." They were referring to the village of Stadacona; Kanata was simply the Huron-Iroquois word for village or settlement. This modest, generic name stuck. Cartier used "Canada" to refer to the entire area subject to its chief, Donnacona. The name was soon applied to a much larger area. Maps in 1547 designated everything north of the St. Lawrence River as "Canada". Cartier also called The St. Lawrence River the "Riviere de Canada," a name used until the early 1600s. By 1616, although that part of the region was formally known as New France, the entire land between the east and west Coast became known as Canada. Native, Indian or Aboriginal terms used here is to refer only to the original or 'First' peoples of this land and their descendants who are the true, original indigenous people of Canada.

How auspicious and a surprise that CTV ran the movie "One Dead Indian" this evening at 8pm. I managed to see half of the movie before the TV screen went blank, even though on CBC, the hocky game was still playing. After having watched what I was able to see, concerning the Stoney Point Natives who had entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario and began their protest aimed at reclaiming their traditional native land and burial ground. I did not agree with the way the Native people vented their anger at the OPP police officers with their foul language and rude gestures. But I was greatly disterbed at what I was seeing. Especially the part when a 32-man OPP riot squad, accompanied by an eight-man sniper unit, began their advance on the 25 protesters who were not armed with firearms, when Cecil Bernard George, a band councillor from the Kettle and Stony Point reserve was severely beaten to the ground by OPP police officers when Cecil was trying to convince the police officers to back off their advance on the Stoney Point protesters, who were only trying to reclaim their burial ground at Ipperwash Provincial Park. Cecil had recived 28 blunt force trauma wounds as he was being clubbed unconscious with batons by OPP officers. That was hard to take. The Police Officers had used excessive force on Cecil when they claimed he was resisting arrest. I think it was that incident, seeing how the police were clubbing their fellow protester, that had provoked the rest of the protesters to throw rocks and stones at the advancing police force. CTV went off the line at that point and I did not see the rest of the program. The part when the eight-man sniper unit had started to open fire at the bus and at the protesters and had fataly shot Dudley George. The Kettle and Stony Point protesters had waited to make their protest stand only after the park had been closed for the season, so that they would not disrupt people who were using the park during the summer months. That was a thoughtful gesture they had made. Dudley George was a friendly joker who grew up listening to his father’s stories about the family land at Stony Point being seized during the Second World War. He got into scrapes as a teenager, had spent some time in jail for minor offences, held part-time jobs, and was always willing to help out his community. In 1993 he moved his trailer to the Camp Ipperwash military base, joining the protest there and saying he was going to live on the former family land, for his father. Dudley George was unarmed when he was fatally shot in the standoff between the protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police at the Ipperwash Provincial Park on September 6, 1995.

Winter storm warnings, global warming & elections
Dec. 23, 2007; Winter storm warnings; Flash freeze warning for Kirkland Lake - New Liskeard and Temagami area. Temperatures are expected to drop well below freezing tonight, down to -12 degree Celsius with a band of heavy snow will affect our area. Snow will persist all night producing 10 to 15 centimeters of new snow. Snowfall should end by Monday morning over western sections and by noon near the Quebec border. Brisk winds will cause snow squall conditions that visibility may be close to zero at times, making driving hazardous. Drivers were reminded to be extra cautious on the roads Sunday night as temperatures will dip below the freezing mark, turning melted snow on the road into ice. These winter storms we have been getting lately is a sure sign that global warming is rising the temperature rapidly, don't you think? The more I think about global warming while we are getting all these winter storm warnings, it sure seems to be a long way off. Stéphane Dion can talk about global warming until he is red in the face, while I look out my window and hear the weather news that tells about how a nasty winter storm is pounding several U.S. Midwest states this weekend, and officials blamed the weather for at least 11 deaths. Storm warnings were posted in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan Sunday as the weather system continued heading north across the Great Lakes. Heavy snow and howling winds had caused multi-car pileups and closed parts of several major highways in the states. Speaking about fighting global warming, it is strange that when the Liberals were in power during all those years, they had done very little about it. Wasn't Stéphane Dion a part of the Liberal government then? How hypocritical Stéphane Dion is. As for elections, Dion did not push for an election this year because he knew the Liberals were so far down in the polls, they didn't dare want any election. Now he's willing to push for an election in 2008, because Stéphane Dion thinks he now has half a chance of winning. Stéphane Dion and his Liberals only care about getting back in power, they care about no one else but themselves! So save that Liberal rhetoric for somebody who is gullible enough to believe it!

Another false claim by Anit-Smoking Morons.
Dec. 26th, 2007; After having seen on CTV late night news, a report about a man who had to have a triple bypass surgery for clogged arteries, which of course was blamed on smoking cigarettes. No doubt that his doctor had told the man to reduce eating fatty foods along with the need to quit smoking cigarettes to prevent the reoccurrence of clogged arteries. I knew that smoking cigarettes had nothing to do with plaque build up or clogged arteries because none-smokers end up with plaque buildup and clogged arteries. So I got busy to write this artical on what is the real cause of plaque buildup and clogged arteries. People having heart disease and heart attacks, we hear about these tragic events all the time. The news often reports on threats to heart health and the current medical trends being taken. Heart disease is the #1 killer and clogged arteries are part of a progression towards heart disease. How are clogged arteries formed? Interestingly, most doctors claim that smoking is the main cause of clogged arteries. Other doctors will blame it on eating too much fatty foods. Other doctors will blame both smoking and eating too much fatty foods as the main cause of clogged arteries. But there are many non-smokers who have as many heart attacks due to clogged arteries as people who smoke. I know quite a few people who ended up disable due to a bad stroke from a heart attack, who had never smoked a day in their life! So what gives? The real guilty culprit for the formation of clogged arteries is a more primal cause. The main reason that people start to develop clogged arteries, it is due to the lack of vitamin C, or what doctors call, ascorbate in the body. This is termed as sub clinical scurvy. This causes cracks in the arteries to form. The body, in an attempt to heal or patch the cracks, takes cholesterol and uses it as a patch. Over time, this hardens into what is called plaque. Now we are getting into more familiar territory regarding clogged arteries. The buildup of plaque in the arteries narrows the passageway of the arteries and also increases blood pressure. When a small clot breaks away, it can totally clog an artery that has already developed a lot of plaque around an artery which reduce the flow of blood, triggering a heart attack. Normally, the small clot would be harmless, but due to the clogged arteries it can now become deadly. What helps clean arteries? According to Rob Stein, a Washington Post Staff Writer, wrote on Page A01 on the Tuesday, March 14, 2006 issue that a new Drug Clears Clogged Arteries. The study suggests this new drug may cause a "Revolution" in Heart Disease Treatment. A cholesterol-lowering drug has for the first time been shown to shrink the kinds of blockages that cause most heart attacks, indicating that such pills may offer the first non-surgical way to start to clear clogged arteries. A study of more than 500 patients found that high doses of a "statin" drug began to reverse the buildup, causing plaques lining the artery walls to recede. Statins are already widely used to prevent or slow heart disease. This may be the beginning of a real revolution in the treatment of heart disease, according to Steven E. Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, who led the study. "We're not merely slowing down the inexorable progression but truly reversing the disease. It's very exciting." said Steven. Some experts criticized the study, saying the researchers failed to compare patients who received the intensive treatment with those who did not. Consumer advocates and other researchers have also raised safety concerns about the statin used in the study, Crestor. While Nissen and other experts agreed that more research is needed to confirm the findings, determine whether the shrinkage will translate into fewer heart attacks and strokes, and make sure high doses of the potent drugs can be administered safely, they said the findings could mark an important step forward. The findings are likely to accelerate the trend of doctors using cholesterol drugs much more aggressively, they said. "This is very exciting for those of us who take care of patients," said Roger S. Blumenthal of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "This is the first study showing you can take a pill for two years and get some actual reversal of the disease. It really supports aggressive treatment." Heart disease is the nation's leading killer. It occurs when plaques build up inside artery walls. The accumulations can burst, forming clots that block blood flow to the heart and brain, causing heart attacks and strokes. Patients take statins to slow or even stop the narrowing of arteries and can undergo surgical procedures to bypass or reopen clogged arteries. But there has been no way to reverse the disease. In their study, Nissen and his colleagues gave 507 patients with mild to moderate heart disease the maximum dose of Crestor -- 40 milligrams. The drug caused low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels to drop from about an average of 130.4 to 60.8, a 53 percent reduction and the biggest drop ever shown in a study. LDL is the "bad" cholesterol that accumulates inside artery walls. At the same time, the patients' high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels rose from an average of 43.1 to 49, a jump of nearly 14.7 percent. HDL is called the "good" cholesterol because it helps remove LDL from the blood. Some doctors sugguest that Ascorbate (Vitamin C) or Nattokinase (Japanese soy food, natto) or Serrapeptase (for blocked arteries or varicose veins) are also helpful to prevent clogged arteries. As you can see that there are products that have been created to help prevent and may even reverse clogged arteries. Since Heart Disease is the #1 killer, it behooves us all to find out how to prevent clogged arteries. A person has to research and seek it out, and they will find the answer to the cause and reversal of clogged arteries. The only thing left to do is to put the research into action in one’s own life. I only mention this because of that news report I saw on CTV late night news which was making another false claim about plaque build up and clogged arteries which was blamed on smoking cigarettes, when smoking cigarettes has nothing to do with plaque build up or clogged arteries. I am a person who smoke and had my arteries checked out for plaque build up and clogged arteries a few years ago and I checked out with very little plaque build up, if any at all, in my arteries. So get off this Anti-Smoking campaign and quit lying to people and concentrate on real life issues!

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