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Speaking about children, aid staff and peacekeepers in war torn countries were sexual abusing children as young as 6 years old. According to an organization called, Save The Children Fund, they had released a scaving reprimand on those aid workers and peacekeepers who are suppose to be there to help children, not abuse them. Half a year before, a 12-year-old girl, Elizabeth was raped by 10 United Nations peacekeepers. A gathering of the world's humanitarian agencies hammered out promises to end sexual abuse of children by aid staff and peacekeepers. Much more would be done, promised delegates at a Dec.2006 conference in New York. Investigations would be faster, punishments would be harsher and codes of conduct would be strengthened. After the world's humanitarian agencies had hammered out these promises to end sexual abuse of children by aid staff and peacekeepers, more than 200 children reported cases of being coerced into sex, often in return for the very food or protection aid staff and peacekeepers were there to provide. How many of these kind of cases were not reported, we can only guess. The Save the Children report stated that all organisations had their share of abusers which involved in some of the most despicable abuse against some of the world’s most vulnerable children. The scale of abuse was “significant” and victims were being let down by “endemic failures” in responding to the incidences that were reported. Save the Children research found that children as young as 6 were trading sex for food, money, soap and even mobile phones in warzones and disaster areas. The findings by Save The Children Organization demanded action after its report findings and suggest that the commitments mabe by the world's humanitarian agencies are still largely, just words on paper. Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of children in need. The inspiration and vision for Save the Children came in part from the international children's rights movement which begun in England in 1919. The Save The Children Organization urged that an international watchdog must be set up to deal with child sex abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers. Yeap! The UN crowd sure knows how to take care of their own.
At the beginning of the 20th century, two sisters had a vision to achieve and protect the rights of children. Their vision has survived into the 21st century. Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy (Buxton), had decided that direct action was needed as well as campaigning in order to save the children in war torn countries. The Save the Children Fund was set up at a public meeting in London's Royal Albert Hall in May 1919. Eglantyne ended up being in charge of the Save the Children Fund. She was born in 1876 in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England and grew up on her family's estate. The Jebbs, apart from being a well-off family, also had a strong social conscience and commitment to public service. Eglantyne Jebb's mother, Eglantyne Louisa Jebb, had founded the Home Arts and Industries Association, to promote Arts and Crafts among young people in rural areas, her sister Louisa would help found the Women's Land Army in World War I.
I read on the CTV News web site that former White House Press secretary Scott McClellan has accused the Christian President, George W. Bush of relying on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign'' instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war, according to published reports Wednesday. The Bush White House made "a decision to turn away from candour and honesty when those qualities were most needed'' -- a time when the United States was on the brink of war, McClellan writes in his forthcoming book entitled "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.''
US President, George W. Bush attends services at United Methodist Church in Texas and when at the White House, he goes to St. John's Episcopal Church. The former US President, Bill Clinton goes to the Foundry Methodist Church. The Clintons played an active role in the life of the church. Bill Clinton is known for lying to the public. Jimmy Carter attends and teaches Sunday School at a Baptist church. He loves the Palestinians and justifies their terrorists ways. Present Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Christian who belongs to the Foundry Methodist Church. She is known to tell fibs to the public, then has to retract her lies. Present Democratic candidate Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. attends the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. We all know what they stand for. Present Republican candidate John McCain attends the North Phoenix Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist congregation. John McCain flip-flops on most issues. He goes where the wind blows. Yes, Christians are real good at deception. They have two thousand years of practice in deceiving people.
A person was shot near the Blessed Mother Teresa secondary school in Scarborough, Ont. Located north of Highway 401, near Neilson Road and Finch Avenue East. A predominately black neibourhood. The shooting happened shortly after 10 a.m. near a Catholic school. Students were in their classes at the time. Police have confirmed one person was shot this morning. The man, who police have not identified, was shot several times in the chest. Const. Vella said a witness heard six shots, although it is not clear whether the victim was shot six times. victim was still "conscious and breathing". He was rushed to Centenary Hospital but was pronounced dead at the hospital. The victim is believed to be about 20 years old. Toronto police Insp. Dave Brown said victim was not a student at the school. "The shooting has nothing to do with the students or the school itself," he told reporters at the scene. At 10:37 a.m. police had responded to a shooting where they found the male victim. Police are now looking for two male blacks in their late teens, early 20s, last seen fleeing the area. The suspects are also reported to be wearing dark clothing. The shooting happened near the corner of Sewells Road and McLevin Avenue. The person with the gun, is described as black, 19 years of age, wearing dark clothing. Police do not have a full description on the second person. Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic School is located at 40 Sewells Road, in the Neilson and Sheppard area, Deanne Foidart Sedef, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Catholic District School Board, said the school is in lockdown along with three other schools in the area. She said that is normal procedure while the police hunt for the suspects.
When I had left Toronto some twenty odd years ago, you would only see an occasional black person. When I had returned to Toronto, it seem like half of the population from the Caribbean Islands had migrated to Canada. Most of them must have come to Toronto. I could not believe how many black people were within the greater Toronto area and its suburb’s. I also noticed a huge increase of Asians, Indians (India), Pakistani, and those from Moslem countries within the GTA.
A large prayer rally had taken place at Jerusalem's Western Wall Plaza this evening for the recovery of former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who had suffered a relapse early this morning. Rabbi Eliyahu had been in intensive care and is in critical condition at the Sha'arei Tzedek hospital. Doctors said that Rabbi Eliyahu is conscious and is improving slowly, though he has difficulty speaking and his condition remains serious. Only GOD will determind the fate of Rabbi Eliyahu. Until then, all we can do is wait. Rabbi Eliyahu has a good medical team who will look after him. Rabbi Eliyahu is considered one of the leading rabbinic figures of the religious-Zionist in Israel. Rabbi Eliyahu means a great deal to a lot of people in Israel and the Jewish world. May we hear only good news!
May 29th, 2008; This morning at 5 AM when I took Buddy out to do his latrine it was quite warm. The tempature was around 11°C with clear skies. I think this is the end of the cold weather we had been having latley. From here on end, it should be frost free weather for those people who are tending their gardens. I have to go into New Liskeard this afternoon so it will give me a chance to go to the Tamiskaming Mall and pick up a few things I can not get here in Haileybury. A person had dropped in last night and ask me if I would look at their computer because it was having some problems, so I will have a look at it this morning. People are starting to have their sidewalk or yard sale which will allow me to look around and pick up some things that I might want. What is one person's junk, might be another person's treasure as the saying goes. I had picked up some neat things in the past, through these yard sales.
Ardoch Algonquin First Nation's leader Bob Lovelace had spent 3 1/2 months in jail for protecting his community's traditional aboriginal territory from a privet mineral exploration company who was trespassing without aboriginal approval. What gives the courts the right to allow a privet non-aboriginal mining company to trespass on aboriginal land? The eastern Ontario aboriginal leader was jailed in February for breaching an injunction that allowed Frontenac Ventures to conduct uranium exploration activities on his community's traditional territory unhindered. While the ruling does nothing to resolve the dispute, Lovelace said he hoped this "exercise" would prompt the Ontario government to engage in "meaningful" discussion and consultation on the matter which ultimately comes down to an archaic Mining Act that allows companies to stake land anywhere they like. But Lovelace cautioned he must "continue to protect our land," meaning he may be forced to occupy the disputed territory again if the company decides to proceed with its exploration activities on aboriginal traditional territory. The court also decided six leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation had served enough time and ought to maintain their freedom. They had breached a similar injunction involving the company Platinex Inc., which sought to drill on their land some 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont.
Chief Donny Morris, deputy KI chief Jack McKay and members Sam McKay, Darryl Sainnawap, Cecilia Begg and Bruce Sakakeep were granted a temporary release last Friday pending the outcome of Wednesday's sentence appeal.
Chris Reid, a lawyer representing the two aboriginal groups, argued aboriginal law dictates the leadership must uphold the wishes of their community, which in this case, is to stop companies from engaging in mining exploration on their land. "This is not an isolated case," Reid said. "It's something that's going to occur again and again." He suggested the aboriginal groups are prepared to discuss the matter, but want the right to say no if they don't like what they hear.
That court had not the right to give an injunction that allowed Frontenac Ventures to conduct uranium exploration activities on aboriginal traditional territory unhindered. All land, water, mineral or forestry rights belong to the aboriginal people to use for their own development on aboriginal traditional territories. It is bad enough that the British/Canadian Government had stolen aboriginal traditional territory from the aboriginal people when they were suppose to protect those aboriginal lands (Crown Lands) from the intrusion of settlers and privet non-aboriginal enterprise companies. This whole matter about aboriginal traditional territory has to be settled first, before any court can grant any non-aboriginal enterprise, an injunction to invade or trespass on aboriginal traditional territories. That was the original mandate of the British Crown, least we forget.
A Christian family were involved in a domestic homicide in Calgary, Alberta. The bodies of four family members - a young couple in their 30s and their two daughters, aged four and six, along with a second woman, a tenant of the house in the quiet Dalhousie neighbourhood, were found dead by Calgary police. Only one person remained alive in the house after the slayings, a one-year-old baby girl whose crying prompted the discovery by a neibour of the bodies. Although little has been released about their cause of death, five seasoned police officers who made the discovery were quickly taken back to their station for counselling. Another officer broke down while speaking to media. None of the adults involved were known to police. Calgary Police said that a friend went to the house early Wednesday to pick up one of the children for school and couldn't get a response. The person went into the house, saw the bodies, then called the police. Calgary police Insp. Frank Reuser, a 35-year veteran of the force was visibly upset by the events. The bodies were found throughout the home and none of the deaths was from natural causes. The major crimes unit has been dispatched to the scene, a police spokesman said. A neighbour had told police that the family of that domestic homicide consist of two adults and three children, and a female tenant had lived in the home on the quiet street for at least three years. They were described as a normal, nice, really friendly family. Another neighbour, Mia Albino, said she often saw the mom walking the kids to school, and had seen the children and the parents at the nearby community centre. Police have identified the
people in the house. Their names are,Joshua Lall,34, his wife,Alison,35,
and their daughters, Rochelle, 3, and Kristen,5, as well as Amber Bowerman, the basement tenant were all found dead. They were a church-going family and was active in the community. A trauma consultant said the memories of the one-year-old girl will fade quickly. "By the time she is in elementary or middle school, she'll have no memory of this, just memories of what people tell her and show her." The baby should not be told about the details surrounding the deaths until she is at least a teenager and can understand what happened and not blame herself.
I had refrained from saying anything about this domestic homicide at the time I posted it on my web site. This domestic homicide made no sense at all given what was known about the Lall family. How can people who appear to have been religious, Catholic, have killed their two young children in cold blood, yet had the compassionate mind to spare the baby. Frankly, I find it awfully hard to understand how any parent could do such an evil thing, to murder their very young children. Let alone to commit suicide in the first place. I have no words for what had happen there. According to a CTV News report, police are investigating reports that Joshua Lall had called his parents days before his death to say he was suffering some kind of mental breakdown. It was also revealed that Lall wasn't missed at work on the day his body was found because he had a "planned absence." The chairman of the architecture firm where Lall worked said he was shocked to hear of the slayings. Rob Adamson of the Cohos Evamy firm described Lall as "kind-hearted," calling him a "solid" member of the company for the past five years. Get the full A police source confirmed that Joshua called his parents in Ontario a few days before the killing to express concern over his mental state. A close friend who lives in Edmonton had detected some anxiety from Joshua during a visit a few weeks ago, but said it didn't appear to be anything more than what he and his wife could handle. Joshua was also a little stressed with work, and had some big exams on his mind that could allow him to fulfil his ambition of becoming an architect. Joshua mother and father were concerned enough about their son's emotional state to book a flight to Calgary, but were due to make the trip Wednesday night. Joshua seem to have been suffering with some mental and emotional trouble when they spoke to him on the phone. To learn more about the family, you can check out the
CTV News Story which give further information on the Lall family background. Police would not say what was the weapon used, or if a suicide note was found inside the home. They called the crime scene "gruesome."
It is great to hear that Nadia Lefebvre, the Canadian woman who was abducted last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been released and is in good condition. She had been released Wednesday night. Nadia Lefebvre, a non-medical volunteer from Montreal was in Haiti on a short-term assignment with the Paris-based organization Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World).
June 1st, 2008; This morning at around 5 AM, I took Buddy out as usual, to do his morning toilet. The temperature was around 11°C with a slight drizzle. It is expected to rain throught most of the day. I will stay home and catch up on some reading.
June 2nd, 2008; This morning I took Buddy out as usual for his morning toilet. I noticed it had rained a little, then the sky cleared and we had a nice sunny day with temperatures around 18°C with a few clouds. We had not that thunder and lightning as was predicted by the weather forecasters. Though we may get a few scattered showers later in the evening. I see that our Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Quebec Premier Jean Charest, both liberals, have signed an agreement to cut greenhouse gases in their provinces. It is a move that will no doubt anger the federal government. The Quebec-Ontario deal, according to CTV News, will involve a basic framework for an interprovincial cap-and-trade system with a 1990 baseline for emission levels. The system aims to limit industrial emissions ( pollution) by allowing companies to sell unused carbon credits to companies that exceed their cap. These guys have really bought into the whole Kyoto Protocol which is an expensive, bureaucratic solution to fix a problem that do not even exist. The Kyoto Protocol is all about climate change. To be more specific, they are referring to the "speed" at which the earth is warming up due to carbon in our atmosphere. It is also about the total control over people lives. Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb have really bought into the New World Order system. Our astue Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty stated that he and Charest, can move fater and do more than the federal government. If we have to go by their track record, Dalton McGuinty snail pace speed is not what I would call fast or speedy. If these guys really want to eliminate pollution emission levels, they would have by now allowed pollution free electric (SMV) vehicles to be used on our public roads. These guys do a lot of talking about limiting pollution emission levels, but have done nothing about allowing pollution free electric (SMV) vehicles to be used on our public roads. All they have done for the past many years is talk about it, but have never implemented it. Now if that is not a contradiction, then I do not know what is. All those vehicles exhaust produces large amounts of air pollution. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, diesel run heavy equiptment and trains cause the largest amount of air pollution. They are also the largest contributor for lung cancer and asthma within our population. Hummmmm! If they have it their way, it won't be long before these guys come up with a pollution tax for the individual. Taxing people for their emission levels while driving gasoline and diesel fuel vehicles and equiptment which pollute our air. Place a tax on people for using wood stoves to heat their homes. These are things people really need to worry about. Not that phoney Kyoto Protocol and their rapid global warming malarkey. Frankly, its time these people got real, and stop chasing after fools gold.
June 4th, 2008; This morning I took Buddy out as usual and noticed the clear sky. We are going to have a warm sunny day with temperatures around 21°C. We never got any rain last night, but according to the weather forecast, we can expect some showers by Friday, but the weather can change by then. I had to drop into the medical clinic to get papers filled out for my upcoming eye operation. I am going to get a new lens to replace my cataractic right eye. After that, I went to Temiskaming Lodge to help Kim, the driver of the bus, to help the elderly and disable people get aboard the Lodge special bus to take people to the Malls in New Liskeard so they can do some shopping or just get out for the excursion. Today we went to the Temiskaming Mall. I helped one elderly person who uses a wheelchair, to get around the Mall and help get things she can’t reach. Then we went to a restaurant and got drinks and some apple pie. I will be helping out every time the residence of Temiskaming Lodge go shopping or out for an outing. I even managed to pick up a dandy wide brim hat for myself at Zellers. All the hats I had seen in other places I was not keen on. But this one really caught my eye. It is made of very heavy fabric, in the style of the Australian outback wrangler. It will be great on a hot sunny day. I normally never wear hats, but it is time I do. That sun can get pretty hot during the summer months. It will be great when I go canoeing too. After we got back to Temiskaming Lodge and unloaded the passengers, I went home and took care of Buddy. All in all, it was a pretty good day and everybody had a grand time.
I am given to understand that Sen. Barack Obama said that he has resigned from the church where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers created political headaches for his campaign. According to CNN News, Sen. Barack Obama said he was resigning from the church, though with some sadness. "We don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in the church. We also don't want the church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes", stated the Democratic front-runner. Is Sen. Barack Obama only saying that to protect his church?
Sen. Barack Obama resignation from the church comes days after the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a visiting Catholic priest, mocked Obama's Democratic rival during a sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
In the visiting Catholic priest sermon, Pfleger wipes his eyes with a handkerchief and suggests that Sen. Hillary Clinton wept because she thought that as a white person and the wife of a former president, she was entitled to the presidency. Pfleger is the Catholic priest for St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church on Chicago's southwest side. He is also a friend of Trinity's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from whom Obama distanced himself in April. Obama said the Pfleger controversy made it clear that as long as Rev. Jeremiah Wright remained a member of the Trinity congregation, remarks from the pulpit would be "imputed" to Obama, even if they conflicted with his own personal views. Sen. Barack Obama seem to suport Israel in its fight against the Palestinian (Arab) terrorists. During Barack Obama's speech on Israel, he stated that; "My view is that the United State's special relationship with Israel obligates us to be helpful to them in the search for credible partners with whom they can make peace, while also supporting Israel in defending itself against enemies sworn to its destruction". Well; That at least is a ray of good news. In the meantime, the Palestinian Arabs are reacting angrily to Barack Obama's first foreign policy speech in which he called for Jerusalem to be the "undivided" capital of Israel.
According to Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips, he pridicts that Canadians from coast to coast can expect a hot, sweaty summer.
After that exceptionally cold and snowy winter we went through, this is going to be good news to some people, especially for farmers. The prediction is good news for farmers. If they get rain in the early part of summer, and then have it dry in August, well, that couldn't be a better situation for them since the heat would combine with the potential for above-average rainfall. It could potentially be a "banner year" for the nation's food producers.
There is news that the our Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will apologize on June 11th/2008 on behalf of the Canadian Government which had forced native children to be uprooted from their homes and placed in Christian residential schools. They might have thought and may have even meant well by doing this, thinking it was the best way to integrate the aboriginal children into the Canadian "Christian" society. One must not forget, the Christian churches, both Catholic and Protestants, particularly the Roman Catholic church, had much influence and sway over the then Federal, Provincial Governments and with Mayors in major cities across Canada at that time. An awful lot of discrimination was against the First Nation People and their children by the majority of the Christian Canadian society. The First Nation People and their children were looked upon as less than human, lower than third class citizens. But the most blame for the ill treatment of the First Nation children has to go to the Catholic and Protestant religious institutions, where there was rampant physical, mental and sexual abuse by its priests, nuns and Christian co-workers towards the native children in those native residential Christian schools. That is what made it a horrid experience for these native children. This is what made it a terrible and bitter experience for those former students who had lived through a legacy of cruelty, trauma and cultural loss during the hundred years the government had implemented the aboriginal integration plan. Children were starved from lack of food as punishment, and became weak and sickly. A great many children had died needlessly at the hands of their Christian abusers. About 150,000 children attended the now defunct church-run schools that were funded by Ottawa to “Christianize” aboriginal people in the last century. Many people recall being beaten for speaking their aboriginal languages as they gradually lost touch with their parents and aboriginal customs. While some former students had described positive experiences at those Christian residential schools, thousands of other children had experienced horrifying ordeals at the hands of priests, nuns, church staff and "white" pupils. The First Nation People do not want to remain a victim of government, or the Christian churches for the rest of their lives. No doubt that most present day Canadians will wonder why people, be they in government or church leaders, who had the responsibility to care for and develope these children into happy, well rounded individuals, had abused that authority. It will be interesting to hear what Prime Minister Stephen Harper will say during that apology statement on June 11th, 2008.
Native leaders wanted white education for their children. They wanted European education so that their children would be able to survive in a rapidly changing new world. At the same time, native leaders were firm in not wanting to totally assimilate their children into white culture in order to receive that education. Nor was the intent of the native leaders to surrender their lands and to deliver their children into forcible confinement far away from their families and traditional cultures.
In 1880, Canada had created the Department of Indian Affairs to control the assets, culture and religion of the First Nation Canadians (Indians).
The Indian Act made it very clear that the term "person" or persons meant an individual other than an Indian. This simple provision allowed Canadians to treat Indians as animals. The Indians are effectively removed from all basic human rights. The Indian Agent's duties were more like the commander of an internment camp of a defeated enemy. Each native Indian, like any prisoner of war is given a treaty number that over time became like a surname. Their movements were restricted and governed. They could not buy or sell the products of their labour. They could not practice their traditional religion nor raise their children in the native tradition. The Indian Act had failed in its attempts to completely subjugate the native people. As the Canadian Governors for the Crown kept stealing native lands for their own benefit and their "white" settlers, "Indian Reservation" lands were set aside for the First Nation people, which became internment ghetto camps. The white Christian new Canadians, deemed the First Nation People as "savages", when in truth, they were the ones who had acted like savages through their immoral conduct. How sly and deceitful these Christians were then as they are now. They made right, look like wrong, and wrong, look like right. This is what had happened, and unfortunately, became a shameful part of our Canadian history and legacy. May Canada set things right so that the nation may be redeemed from its shameful and horrid legacy. As for those Christian churches, they will keep on deceiving people as they always have. They will be judged harshly for their immoral actions.
June 8th, 2008; This morning as I
took Buddy out for his regular act of releasing himself, I noticed the
temperature is a balmy 20°C with few clouds in the sky, and the humidity is
around the 88% mark. I think we might get some rain, thunder and lightening
sometime today. I spent the morning finishing the upgrading of an old
computer for a friend. I had used a discarded modern computer, which had a hard drive that had broken down, and used it, to upgrade my friend's computer. It has a modern motherboard, a faster processor, and has the USB hub ports for plug and play hardware, and a rewritable disk drive. I also loaded some neet games for her children to play with. when I finished doing that, I worked on another old discarded computer and repaired it. I had some spare parts and hardware on hand, to repair that computer. It is still a late model computer, but it will be good enough to give it to a child who's parent can not afford to buy a computer. Even if they can not afford to be hooked-up to the Internet, they can always surf the net at the public library and download the information they need for their homework assignment. They can take it home to read it, and do their homework at home on their computer. Children nowadays need to know how to use a computer, not only for their schoolwork, but also when they will eventually get a job. Almost everything now, in jobs or business, computers are a fact and way of life, and people will have to know how to use them. Even now, I see many elderly people who are playing catch-up, and are wanting to know how to operate a computer. I see this where I teach basic computing to the elderly people at our public library. When I had finished doing those repair jobs, I settled back to read, The man behind the Da Vinci Code, an unauthorized biography of Dan Brown by Lisa Rogak. It is basicly about what it takes to become the best selling fiction writer of our time. After having read this book, it is no wonder the Christian bible has become one of the best known books. In that bible, people can have a living relationship with a phoney Baal god. People are actually stupid enough to buy into that fable. It should be among the fiction best sellers list. I read that Hillary Clinton has droped out of the U.S. presidential race. Hillary Clinton has ended her bid for the White House and has formally endorsed Barack Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum in Washington. I see that gasoline is now a dollar and thirty seven point nine and diesel is selling at a dollar and forty two point seven, which is forcing the General Motors complex in Oshawa, Ont., their car and truck plants to shut them down. I think they just want to build their vehicles elsewhere, where the labour is cheap. Motorists are now starting to feel the pinch after the surge of oil and gasoline prices has gone up so rapidly. The big three American auto makers have a tendency to lag behind when it comes to building small, electric or hybrid type of trucks and cars. These are the type of vehicles people are wanting to buy because of the high cost of fuel. Speaking of drivers, the Ministry of Transportation are asking drivers in northwestern Ontario to stay off the roads following a near-record rainfall that caused flooding over the weekend. Ministry of Transportation had issued a travel advisory for the the Thunder Bay area, asking people to delay or cancel their travel plans over the next couple of days after the area was hit with up to 80 millimetres of rain in a span of a few hours. The same storm system dumped heavy rain on Manitoba and had spawned some new tornadoes in Minnesota,USA. We only got a little rain around northeastern Ontario. Mostly scattered showers here in the Haileybury area. Well, now that I have fixed the two computers, and read that book, I will have to look for something else to do. Maby I will take Buddy out for a nice long walk before it starts to rain again.Sure enough, after I had taken Buddy out for that walk around 5:30 PM, it began to rain. It didn’t last for very long though. I decided to watch some TV for a change. I could not help notice the vast difference in the picture quality between CTV and CBC TV. While I get the TV single by way of a rabbit ear antenna. CTV came in so clear and sharp, one would think you are hooked up to cable TV. CBC TV came in very snowy with a lot of distortion. Basicly, it sucks compared to CTV. CBC is put to shame by it as a national broadcaster. What a shame. If anything, one would think that CBC would have had the best reception, but that is not the case. I recall as far back as I can remember, it was always that way.To think that CBC TV is our national broadcast, and this is the best they can do. That do not say much for a Canadian owned national TV broadcasting station which our government is taking care of for the taxpayers. It sure is a poor reflection on Canada and its capabilities to run an outfit. Then again, when one compares the way Jean Chretien's Liberal government had handled the purchase of four submarines from Britain, back in 2006, it should not be a surprise to anyone. Our Canadian government had doled out $900 million to the British for those used subs. Canada had purchased the HMCS Chicoutimi, Corner Brook, Victoria and Windsor, but they've been plagued with a whole lot of problems. Our Canadian Government sure fouled up on that score, big time. Out of the four subs they had bought, only one is operational today, the rest are still in dry-dock costing taxpayers millions of dollars in repairs. What will it take to overcome these two Canadian made fiascos, I wonder?
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