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Police divers have found the body after a snowmobile and rider went down in open water overnight Saturday around Mowatt's Landing in Barr Township on the Montreal River, west of Haileybury. Police say the driver attempted to cross the open water shortly before 3 a. m. A second rider watched as he made the attempt, and called police when the first rider didn't make it. The OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit were called on Sunday, according to an OPP news release. Police identified the driver of the snow machine as Chris Cowton, 33, of Haileybury. Running open water is where a snowmobile operators attemps to cross open water at very high speed without sinking. Police will charge any snowmobilers with careless driving under the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act who are caught running open water. The snowmobile operators not only place themselves in real danger, they also place rescuers and emergency personnel who respond to the scene at great risk as well. Police will strictly enforce the law against anyone operating a snowmobile while intoxicated. A large number of people had to be rescued this winter. People cannot last long when they fall into icy waters. Most hydroelectric facilities are remotely controlled by operators who may be kilometers away. To meet the fluctuating demand for electricity throughout the day, these operators open or close dams or start or stop generators as needed. This causes frequent and rapid changes in the water flow and levels often creating strong undertows, turbulence and sudden, powerful gushes of water moving downstream in what was once calm looking surface water. All waterways where an OPG dam or hydroelectric station is located have well-positioned warning signs, buoys, fences, booms and barriers. OPP Police urge everyone to obey these warning signs and barriers. They are there for the public's safety and to let everyone know that the areas around the signs are dangerous, so stay clear.
An Ontario police officer says drivers will get real angry over the new smoking law forbidding smoking in a vehicle while carrying a minor. It's only a matter of time before someone "snaps" after being pulled over under Ontario's new no smoking law in a vehicle carrying a minor. People got mad enough when they couldn't smoke in restaurants, bars, bingo parlors and in stores. Now you're telling them they can't smoke in their own cars. At some point somebody's going to "snap" along the way here. That should comes as a surprise to anyone? When people feel their freedom and rights are being trampled and violated? This is going to become a human-rights issue for people who smoke. People are being pushed too far on this whole smoking issue. Ontario had previously banned smoking in all enclosed public places and workplaces before the new legislation took effect late last month. Unfortunately, it will be the police officers who will feel the brunt of a smoker's wrath when they are given a ticket for smoking in their own vehicles. This is going to cause a lot of resentment and make our police officers very unpopular among people who do smoke. Since the no smoking bans came into effect, I have not gone to restaurants, cinemas, theaters, bingo parlors, bars, bowling and pool halls, sporting events, social gatherings and functions. I am restricted to my own appartment where I can socialize with fellow smokers because of those no smoking bans our governments have imposed upon us through those Anti-Smoking MORONS! That is something our guys and gals who fought and died for our rights and freedon in the two world wars did not have to contend with. They lived at a time when there were no no-smoking bans. Least we forget! This country is slowly turning into a communist state, weither we like it or not!
A woman was killed when she was driving her white Cadillac coupe through an intersection in Surrey BC. The woman was gunned down, execution style, while driving with a little boy in the back seat. The woman was caught in a hail of bullets in Surrey, which left the 4-year-old boy traumatized, but otherwise unharmed. The little boy was safely taken into care by police. Police blocked off a large portion of the area and homicide investigators were on the scene looking for witnesses. No one has been arrested and police released no other details about the shooting. There has been an epidemic of drug gang gun violence in every major city in Canada. Illicit drugs are becoming the largest cash crop in Canada. It is a multi billion dollar industry and where you find drugs and money, you find gangs, and where you find gangs, you find violence and gun crimes. This was Surrey's second shooting on Monday morning. Police were already looking for witnesses following a shooting outside a strip club in the Whalley neighborhood. Two men and two women were in a Range Rover when somebody opened fire on the vehicle, wounding a man in the shoulder. All of these shooting are believed to be drug gang related. Maybe if our politicians focused more on the illicit drug gang problem rather than harassing people who smoke tobacco and finding ways to invent all those bans, something would be done with this growing problem. Good thing we have all those gun laws, regulations and restrictions that are in place today. I wonder if any of those gang members had taken the Canadian Firearms Safety Course tests, and applied for their Possession and Acquisition License so that they can use their firearms?
Now there are Canadian cultural groups like ACTRA and the CCA who want Canada's broadcast regulator to wade into the realm of the Internet, as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday kicked off a series of hearings investigating the issue. What is the reason these groups want to regulate the Internet? They claim that "inaction could mean our stories will get lost and our culture will drown in a sea of non-Canadian content". Hogwash! If I want Canadian content, all I have to do is Goggle for it. Keep your regulator paws off the Internet! We are already swamped and drowning in a sea of regulations, without adding more of the same. We need to de-regulate our over-regulated society. There are already so much regulations, its impossible to keep track of them. Regulate the Internet? Hell NO!!! Keep the Internet open and free of regulations, as it was intended to be.
Speaking about adding more regulations, now Doctors want governments to add more regulations. This time regulations for the weight loss industry. How many more regulations are we going to end up with in our already over regulated society? Instead of adding more regulations, why not just inform the public why many weight loss products like pills, herbs and some private clinics fail to deliver on their promises and let the public decide for themselves, if they want to waste their money on those products and services. Most people are already aware that diet pills, various diet potions, diets and programs promising miraculous weight loss are full of nonsense, and do nothing to help loose weight.
Feb. 18th, 2009. This morning light snow is falling with mild tempatures around the -5°C mark. Winds are from the south, blowing around 20km/h, making it feel like it is -12°C. According to weather forecasters, we can expect for it to snow all day today and tomorrow. Here is an update on that piece of rocket debris that had hit the Earth atmosphere yesterday. While the space garbage dump continues to be orbiting around the Earth, we are now informed that the large piece of space debris that was heading towards the city of Calgary, was in fact a meteorite, the size of a bus, that people saw streaking across the sky as a bright light. We find out now that by the time people got any warning at all, it would have been too late to avert any kind of danger. Had that meteorite struck Earth in a populated area, it would have killed an untold number of people. What if that meteorite measured a mile across, streaking towards Earth, we see now that we can not depend upon our governments and its warning systems to warn people in time to avert a major catastrophe. One second people are blithely going about their business, the next second, BOOM!, people are dead everywhere. So much for our advance warning systems, huh? What a false sense of security people have been led to believe in.
According to a CTV News Report, Peter and Peggy Rigo, pastors at the Dominion Christian Centre of Canada in Hamilton, Ont., had its charitable status revoked after a government audit found donations were being used to fund gym memberships, personal trips and private vehicles. The Canada Revenue Agency says it had warned the church with an official notice on Dec. 30, 2008 that it intended revoke the organization's charitable registration because the audit "revealed serious issues of non-compliance". The organization's assets were being misused for the private benefit of the church's directors. It also accused the church of issuing official donation receipts that contained incorrect or false information. Receipts transactions that did not qualify as gifts, and on many occasions had failed to properly establish the fair market value of property received which, in several cases, was significantly "inflated". The church, was described as a "spirit-filled, bible-based, non-denominational" church on its website. It was established in 2000 by Pastors Peter and Peggy Rigo. I bet they are not the only Christian church who are doing this, they just happened to get caught in the Canada Revenue Agency audit net. We hear of scandals erupted within the various competing religions about the misuse of money, on illicit sexual activity and other moral flaws like materialism. Donation funds are being spent on luxuries items, such as very expensive homes and its furnishings, diamond rings and other expensive jewelry and wardrobes, limousine rides, first-class seats on airlines and dining in very expensive restaurants, vacationing in first-class exotic resorts and entertainment expenses using their religious organization credit cards for such expenses. So much for the honesty of Christians, and their churches, huh? Like I had always stated, Christianity is a real money making racketeering business. Giving people a false hope and misleading people with fraudulent information about Christianity and its many bogus claims. There are enough stupid and gullible people to buy into that phony religion and support these "Holy" shysters. Shut down one of these fraudulent ministries, and five will come along to take its place. That is the reason why there are so many of these "Christian" ministries that are cropping up all the time.
According to a recent CBC News Report, trees from tropical forests are getting bigger and absorbing almost a fifth of all the carbon dioxide that is being emitted in the world, according to a new study. Researchers studied data collected between 1968 and 2007 from 79 intact forest areas in 20 countries across the world. They found that on average, trees soaked up 4.8 billion tones of carbon per year, significantly more than had been expected. In the meantime, we are cutting trees at an alarming rate all across the world. As trees are being depleted due to events like wildfires or deforestation, the rate at which trees in forests grow eventually equals the rate at which they are taken out of the ecological system, the state of equilibrium is that carbon absorption in our atmosphere is decreasing. The researchers say their study demonstrates why tropical rainforests should be conserved. All the more reason why predominantly rich polluting countries should be saving and planting trees were deforestation has occurred. Why countries with tropical forests need to reduce its deforestation rates and promote alternative logging practices.
During the spring session of the Ontario legislature, the Liberal government is preparing to bring in a deficit budget and a Green Energy Act that it hopes will transform the province's ailing economy and create 50,000 new jobs. Premier Dalton McGuinty has warned the province he will not tolerate objections to the creation of green energy projects such as "wind turbines" and solar panel farms as he looks to put idled manufacturing plants back on line to create jobs. Premier Dalton McGuinty stated that he cannot allow small groups and individual municipalities to stand in the way of our greater public interest in good jobs, cleaner electricity and assuming our responsibility in the face of climate change. I think that Premier Dalton McGuinty strong stance to push the production of "wind turbines" despite what Ontarians may think, is worrisome, to say the least. People are already aware of the problems "wind turbines" have on people who live close to those things, not to mention the devastating effect wind turbines will have on birds and wildfowl such as ducks and swans during their migration flights. Their lack of ability to see the propellers turning mean that the birds can fly straight into the blades with devastating effects. It is also well known that people have complained that the propellers can generate high levels of noise, enough to keep people awake at night and spook animals such as horses, cattle and sheep. People have also found that these wind turbines can generate low frequency sounds that can actually make people feel sick and, in worse case scenario, even kill people. People who live up to a mile away from a wind turbine farm have complained the low level noise cause then substantive stress and ill health. So far, wind turbines has had mixed reception from local residents, and local MP's about having these in their communities. No wonder Premier Dalton McGuinty is taking such a tough stance not to allow small groups and individual municipalities to stand in the way of building wind turbine farms. The downside to McGuinty's strong stance is that it may very well cause a backlash on him during an election. I would think that Premier Dalton McGuinty would focus more on solar panel farms which have none of those problems associated with wind turbines. Can you imagine if every house roof in Ontario were covered with solar panels, which is clean, noiseless and hazardless to birds, this type of electric power would generate and contribute to the hydro grid? These solar panel systems would not need batteries for back-up, because they can feed off the hydro grid during times when the solar panels can not generate electric power. The potential to create more manufacturing industries to produce enough solar panels to meet the demand from people all across Canada, and the installation of these panels on home roofs is far more enormous of a job creation progran for Canadians than wind turbine farms. A national east-west hydro grid line would create more jobs and also secure Canada's hydro needs in future years. Something our politicians should be thinking about.
The OPP Commemorative Patrol has arrived at Moosonee after having traveled over 1,000 kilometres by rail, snowshoe and dogsled, stopping at the sites of the OPP’s earliest outposts to educate the public about the force’s early Northern Ontario history. OPP Constables Erik Howells and Guy Higgott are the officers on the patrol, which began in Hearst on February 1st, 2009 and will take them by dogsled, snowshoe and rail to Moosonee and then back to Cochrane by Feb. 21st. 2009. Go to the "Memories from the Past" web page at the Main Index page to get the full story on the "Time Travelling Cops", the OPP Commemorative Patrol.
Feb. 20th, 2009. This morning there is more
light snow falling with tempatures around the -15°C mark. Wind gusts are blowing at 46km/h from the NW, making it feel more like -26°C. Yesterday, US President Barack Obama came to Ottawa, Canada. Obama came on Air Force One, and touched down at Ottawa's International Airport and was greeted on the tarmac by Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. Then Obama's 50-car motorcade wound its way to Parliament Hill where Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Obama with a handshake. The pair emerged outside from Parliament's Centre Block to smile and wave at the cheering crowd who were gathered on the front lawn. Obama did not address Parliament during his six-hour visit. Obama and his crew departed for Washington around 5:30 p.m.
Speaking about US President Barack Obama, Kyrgyzstan has just cut America's most important supply lifeline into Afghanistan right after President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 more U.S. troops to be sent there. The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted to evict the United States from Manas Air Base outside the capital of Bishkek. The United States will have 180 days to evacuate the facilities and lose its key refueling base to supply forces in Afghanistan. The expulsion of U.S. forces from Manas, Kyrgyzstan is a huge humiliation for the United States in Central Asia and marks a drastic change in Russia's attitude toward the long-running U.S. and NATO war against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Obama's Afghanistan agenda is in dire trouble unless they can find an alternative site, now that he got the eviction notice from Kyrgyzstan.
I had always suspected that the majority of Christians are against free speech , even though they claim the opposite. Considering that they are doing everything they can to prevent atheists from displaying their ad, "There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life" on Canadian city buses, despite that Christian ads are displayed with little controversy all over the country. They lie about wanting free speech like they lie about their
apostate, Baal God, Christian religion. How often have I heard some Christians claim that atheism is a religion. To suggest that atheism is a religion, these Christians are a bunch of imbeciles, brainless fools. They claim that atheism is a form of religion, despite that atheists have no religious rites or rituals. They do not have a religious book enumerating a strict set of moral commandments. They do not force people to put on specific religious garbs like veils or turbans, or dictate how long or short their hair ought to be, or coerce anyone that they cannot work or force to close all stores or tell anyone what people can and cannot do on a specific day because it is deemed to be sinful and unholy. They do not determine what a person can or cannot be, or who they can marry or not. They do not put banners up all over the place with statements like if you do not obey its theology, you will go to hell. While I personally believe that GOD do exist, atheists have the right to say otherwise. I believe that GOD had given humanity free will and individual autonomy to choose what they may want to believe. That GOD had given all of humanity basic universal human rights that no one has the right to trample upon. I believe that reason and free inquiry is the best way to seek GOD, and that any religion must stand or fall on its own merit. I also believe that anyone has the right to "Freedom of Speech", unless perhaps it's advocating "hate speech" which threatens a person's life, is one of our most important freedoms we have in this country, and to loose that, means we are on the path to fascism. Yes, looking back on the history of Christianity, one can readily see that Christians, regardless their brand, Catholic or Protestants, are secretly against free speech when it comes to the topic of their religion and its apostate religious beliefs.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will head to New York on Monday for a pair of meetings. The first, to report to his UN boss at the UN? Harper will meet with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon where they will focus on "global security" and on Afghanistan. On the second meeting, Harper will attend a round-table talk with major international business leaders in New York, on the global financial crisis, among other things.
According to an artical from "The Canadian Press", volunteer groups of a half-dozen researchers said that UFO sightings have soared in Canada. Canadians made a total of 1,004 UFO sightings in 2008, up more than 25 per cent from the previous year and the highest number in the 20 years Ufology has been keeping track. One of the big mysteries from 2008 occurred near Wadena, Sask., last March, when people in two vehicles reported seeing an object the size of a car float quickly across a rural highway. Witnesses said the object never touched the ground, and no tracks were found. "There was no cross-street or cross-road at that point, which really puzzled us, and the witnesses were absolutely flabbergasted by what they had seen," Rutkowski said. More recently, Winnipegger Sheryl Ducharme, 39, saw some strange lights while out walking one cold night. "It wasn't blinking like a plane, and it was so bright that it caught my eye," she said. "I watched it for maybe 45 seconds, and then it shot up into the sky so fast. It just shot straight up and disappeared. And it was so striking that I gasped because it was just something I had never seen before." Ducharme said she has always been open to the idea of extraterrestrials, and isn't sure what she saw. "Perhaps it was some sort of spacecraft, or some sort of military [plane]. But there was absolutely no sound." Ontario residents were the busiest sky-watchers in 2008, with 334 reported sightings. British Columbia placed second with 272 and Alberta was third with 157. People have reported UFO sighting which turned out to be airplanes, stars, planets, meteors or some other fake sightings. But from the hundreds or thousands of UFO sightings that have been reported, there are a small percentage that can be classified as true UFO sightings from reputable people around the world that remain very mysterious, totally unexplained, that no earthly source have the capacity to duplicate the speed and movements that had been reported. While I had not seen a UFO sighting that I can truly be certain about. What I had seen was much like what Winnipegger Sheryl Ducharme had experienced. I had been camping on Spuzzum Creek, near Hope, British Columbia during one of my painting trips in the summer of 1967. As I laid in my sleeping bag, looking at the clear night sky, I noticed a bright light that was far brighter than any of the other stars in the night sky. That is what had caught my attention in the first place. I knew it was not a plane, shooting star or satellite, because it was not moving. The space station had not been built by then. It was completely stationary. As I was studying this bright light for a few minutes, I was beginning to think that it might be a planet, when suddenly, it shot straight up into space until it disappeared from sight at an incredible speed. While I still do not know what that was, I had never forgotten that incident because it had made such an impression on me. Are we alone in the vastness of the universe? I think not.
Another Christian cult is exposed. I happen to view W-FIVE which aired a program called, Deliverance Ministry: Choosing God over family. It is about how a protestant pastor of the Mount Zion Full Gospel Ministries, Andrew Paton, had brainwashed people, mostly women, with his apostate Christian "possessed by demons" theology and influenced these women to leave their husbands and families to his "Mount Zion" church. These brainwashed women are not teens, but older, mature women who one would think had more common sense to get involved with these type of shysters. Isolated from the rest of society, these women are ripe for Andrew Paton's brainwashing. Andrew Paton uses that well known line in Matthew 10:37 "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me" to keep the women from leaving the ministry. Most people who get involved in these Christian cults do not realize the psychological damage it does to them. W-FIVE discovered this was not the first time a controversy had surrounded Pastor Andrew Paton. Almost 20 years ago, Paton preached to a small but loyal flock near Owen Sound, Ont. While ministering to this group, Pastor Paton, who was a married man, became involved with one of his female parishioners. The scandal rocked the small community and eventually Pastor Paton relocated to Ballinafad, where he's now preached for 13 years. W-FIVE followed the trail of broken families right back to Pastor Paton himself. W-FIVE discovered Paton has been married and divorced five times. In at least three of those marriages, Paton's wives alleged that he was adulterous. Andrew Paton left behind four children from these different marriages, children with whom he has had almost no contact. W-FIVE also found that Paton became a pastor by simply filling out a generic form over the Internet from some Christian ministry, where they dish out a Pastor "ordination" for a fee of $85. When W-FIVE, spoke to the six women and one man in Paton's church, they all claimed to be happy and at peace in their dedication to Andrew Paton, because they believe he is a prophet. They even give all of their savings and inheritance to the church because "Pastor" Paton claims it is the right thing to do. Of course he will quote the verse in Matthew 19:21 where it say's, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me". Without proof of any criminal activity going on at the Mount Zion Full Gospel Ministries, there is nothing that the broken-up families can do about their loved ones who are mentaly trapped in that church.
Damn these Christian ministries that entrap people the way they do. But then again, if people are that stupid to get ensnared by these shysters, given all the warnings about that apostate, perverted Christian religion, and its horrendous long history, they may well deserve to be entrapped by it.
Feb. 23rd, 2009. This morning we have overcast skies with tempatures around the -16°C mark with winds from the North at 25km/h which feels more like -27°C. It was only two weeks ago, I had read "The Mad Trapper of Rat River", so this CBC News article on, "Mad Trapper not a Canadian, scientific tests discover", caught my eye. According to the article, the infamous Mad Trapper, Albert Johnson was not a Canadian, but grew up in northern United States or northern Scandinavia by analyzing isotopes in Johnson's teeth, and scientific analysis of the outlaw's remains who was in his 30s and rose to infamy in the early 1930s for killing an RCMP officer, which sparked a five-week manhunt through the northern wilderness before he was shot dead by police nearly 80 years ago. According to this scientific research, DNA analysis has shed new light on the identity of the Mad Trapper, known as Albert Johnson. The scientific testing was done for Myth Merchant Films, an Edmonton-based film company that has produced a television documentary about exhuming and analyzing Johnson's remains. Hunt for the Mad Trapper is scheduled to air May 21 at 8 p.m. ET on Discovery Channel Canada.
So, according to this scientific research they have come to the amazing conclusion that Albert Johnson was not a Canadian, because of what they had found out in the isotopes found in Johnson's teeth and analyzing Johnson's remains. Can someone please explain to me how would that determine if Albert Johnson was a Canadian or not? Would not Ottawa be the best place to determine whether Albert Johnson was a Canadian or not through his record of having a
Canadian birth certificate or a Canadian citizenship document? Ottawa did have immigration and Canadian citizenship in 1900 CE. So how would analyzing isotopes in Johnson's teeth and analyzing Johnson's remains determine if he had obtained a Canadian citizenship during his lifetime? Did the isotopes in Albert Johnson teeth reveal whether Johnson had a Canadian birth certificate or had obtained a Canadian citizenship? My understanding is that an isotope test result from a tooth analysis and analyzing Johnson's remains can only determine the genitic stock of an individual. Frankly, the only true "Canadian" such an analysis would have to come from the First Nation People who lived in the region in what is now called Canada. As for the rest of us who are Canadians, we all had come mainly from foreign stock. According to the book, it had already been determined that Albert Johnson might have come from Scandinavian or Finnish stock. As to who is a Canadian, only our documentation of having a Canadian birth certificate or a Canadian citizenship can prove whether any of us are a Canadian citizen. According to the Mad Trapper of Rat River story, officials found no documentation in Albert Johnson possessions. That still do not exclude documents that Ottawa would have on file. We have wonderful government staff in Ottawa who can dig up that kind of information, as to whether Albert Johnson was a Canadian citizen or not. So this entire "Hunt for the Mad Trapper" by analyzing isotopes from Johnson's teeth and analyzing Johnson's remains can not really determine whether Albert Johnson was a Canadian. Which is what that television documentary is suppose to be all about. These people would have been better off if they had focused more on searching Anerican and Canadian Government records to find out whether Albert Johnson was a Canadian or not. Talk about not seeing the forest on account of the trees. Some "scientific" analysis that is!
It is great that Canadians show a little pride to draw attention to some of Canadian achievements and its importance in Canadian history by having created the
The art class went rather well this morning that we were able to finished a painting we had been working on since last week. The students are progressing with their art lessons, but most of all, they are having fun and are enjoying it. They also derive great satisfaction for a work well done. I thank Christina, who is a fellow volunteer at the Lodge, for having given me that sheepskin coat and hat. It was pretty cold with that wind today, but I was nice and toasty warm while walking to Temiskaming Lodge. Most times I have to leave that coat wide open while walking to the Lodge, for it gets a little too warm in it. But not today, I had to button it all up.
A Spanish fishing trawler fishing off the coast of Nfld., had caught fire and then began to list and then sunk within a very short period of time. The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Leonard J. Cowley, was only a mile away when they responded to the distress call of the Spanish fishing trawler. It was on the scene in about 10 minutes.
Premier Dalton McGuinty wants five foot distance from media cameras and microphones. Frankly, The premier of Ontario is making a fair request for asking the news media to give him some breathing room when being interviewed. I have no doubt that people are sick and tired of being jostled by reporters, having media cameras and microphones stuck to their face. I see that all the time when watching news media coverage of events. McGuinty's request for the media to stay at least five feet away from him is quite understandable. It would be a respectful thing to do.
The Canadian military is launching an investigation after an Afghan elder accused Canadian Forces of leaving behind an unexploded shell that killed two boys. The exact circumstances of the incident are not clear but local reports say the children may have found a shell left behind from a firing exercise. Military Spokesman Maj. Mario Couture confirmed Monday that Canadian troops were in the area on Sunday conducting firing exercises. Meanwhile, a group of angry Afghans chanting "Death to Canada" protested in Monday outside the provincial council office in Kandahar city. At the protest, the bloodied bodies of the two boys were displayed on the back of a small, wooden taxi. Along with "Death to Canada," many of the protesters also chanted "Death to America." An elder claims three children were also wounded by the rocket. This tragic incident was clearly an accident which caused the death of two children and the wounding of three children by an unexploded shell or rocket. Despite this tragedy, there is no cause for the Afghans to chant "Death to Canada", after everything Canada has tried to do to help these people. If this is what the Afghans really think about Canadians after having our troops risked their lives and some have been killed, and the millions of Canadian taxpayers money that had been spent to help these people, and this is what these people think about Canadians? Then these Afghan people should be told to go to Hell! Seems to me our politicians are too blind to realize that Canadians are just being used in this whole Afghan affair. How many more Canadian troops need to die and how much more of Canadian taxpayers money are doing to be extorted from Canada before our politicians realize what is really going on? Talk about a waste of Canadian lives and taxpayers money! Canada is going to be looked upon as being the biggest suckers in this Afghanistan affair.
Canadian Silver Dart's replica and flown it where the original was built. The Silver Dart biplane was built of wood and silk fabric and had a three-wheeled undercarriage, which enabled the machine to take off under its own power. On Feb. 23 1909, the Silver Dart was flown by engineer John McCurdy, one of the aircraft's designers, who was part of a team led by inventor Alexander Graham Bell. McCurdy was fully exposed to the weather as he flew the fragile bird-like biplane over Baddeck Bay, covering one kilometre at an altitude of about five metres. Hundreds of people watched from a frozen Baddeck Bay on Sunday, as a former Canadian astronaut coaxed a replica of the Silver Dart into the air on the eve of the original Silver Dart 100th anniversary historic flight. Conditions were perfect as Bjarni Tryggvason climbed into the replica biplane and made five separate flights over a 1,000-metre runway on the ice-covered lake. The Silver Dart's original system of wing stabilizers is used in modern aircraft to this day.
According to the Cowley’s captain, Derek LeRiche, the Spanish boat went under the waves within 20 minutes of the distress call. I am glad that all the crew from the Spanish fishing trawler were safely brought aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship, but something is very fishy about this sudden sinking. The reason the Canadian Coast Guard Ship was so close to the Spanish fishing trawler, it was conducting its routine fisheries patrol. I have no doubt that the Spanish fishing trawler captain had seen the Canadian Coast Guard vessel was nearby and heading their way, and must have decided to scuttle the ship in order not to get arrested, fined and reveal what their fish catch was. As the captain of the Canadian Coast Guard vessel had stated, "We were thinking of doing a boarding on her anyway". This whole incident just seem too pat, to be anything else. It is well known by the Canadian Coast Guard fisheries patrol that Spanish fishing trawlers tend to catch illegal size fish or go way over their allocated fish quota. I greatly suspect this was the case. It was just too convenient for that fishing trawler to have sunk so fast while the Canadian Coast Guard fisheries patrol was so close. After disembarking at St. John's, the crew will go through customs and then head back to Spain, having saved themselves a whole lot of trouble and a great deal of scandal. Vessels that violate fishing regulations set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization, can have their fishing license revoked to fish in the North Atlantic. The Leonard J. Cowley was just outside of Canada's 200-mile jurisdictional limit at the time of the rescue. It routinely monitors foreign fleets to ensure they're complying with fishing regulations set by the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization.
Feb. 25th, 2009. This morning the sky is overcast with temperatures around the -9°C with the wind blowing from the SE at 15km/h making it feel like it is -16°C outside. Allan came to my apartment last evening to get some training on how to make changes on the Haileybury Heritage Museum web site. I was concerned that someone at the museum would be able to maintain it, being that I might be leaving Haileybury next year. I am hoping that I will have that piece of wilderness land by then, where ever that might be, to fulfill my wilderness homestead dream. I read in the news that the captain of a Spanish fishing trawler that sank on Sunday on the Grand Banks says he is disturbed that a Nova Scotia MP is suggesting he had deliberately scuttled his own boat. New Democratic MP Peter Stoffer said this week he wants an investigation into why the Monte Galineiro sank so quickly, and whether the trawler
which had been fishing for turbot, may have been sabotaged in advance of a federal inspection.
In St. John's, Monte Galineiro captain Ivan Blanco said that "He was well aware that the coast guard vessel Leonard J. Cowley was in the area on Sunday". That the trawl nets were down at the time prior to the sinking. Blanco said he could not believe Stoffer is suggesting he would do this deliberately and put the lives of his crew at risk, all to avoid a routine inspection. The office of Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea called Stoffer's claims as being "far-fetched". Really? Let us review what had happened and see why this sinking incident is so suspicious. First, we know that the captain knew that the coast guard vessel Leonard J. Cowley was in the area and there was a good chance it was going to inspect the fishing trawler. That the Cowley had been preparing to carry out a routine inspection but had not yet issued a hail to the Monte Galineiro to prepare for boarding. This is the reason why the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Cowley, was able to arrive on the scene just 10 minutes after receiving the distress call from the Monte Galineiro. The coast guard's crew saw some of the mariners jumping directly into the Atlantic Ocean. At least one fisherman was wearing only underwear during the emergency evacuation. That suggest that most of the fishing crew did not know that the trawler was in danger prior to the sinking. It was first stated that a fire had broken out in the engine room which eventually had caused an explosion and that was the reason why the trawler sank. If that was the case, why is it that some of the crew were still sleeping in their bunks while a fire was going on in the engine room. Would not those men be alerted of the fire? Were there no fire extinguishers on board the vessel or a hose that is used to wash the deck was being employed to quench the fire? How is it that the coast guard vessel did not hear an explosion on board the Spanish trawler? It would have to have been a massive explosion in order to have ruptured a steel hull, killing at least half the crew. Crewmembers had stated that they only heard loud banging noises from the engine room. How is it that there is no black smoke coming from the Spanish trawler? We have a photo to prove that. When the Canadian Coast Guard vessel was close by, the Spanish vessel trawl nets were down at the time prior to the sinking. Was the Spanish trawler captain afraid that the coast guard vessel would find out it was using illegal size mesh nets? These and many other reasons give good reason why MP Peter Stoffer wants an investigation into the Monte Galineiro sinking, and whether the trawler may have been sabotaged in advance of a federal inspection. I am sure that most people, as like myself, find this whole sinking to be quite suspicious that it deserve a full investigation. Being that the Spanish vessel sank on the Grand Banks, it would have sank in 10 to 40 fathoms of water, that divers can make an inspection on the vessel and give a full report on the sinking. The Grand Banks are actually a series of raised submarine plateaus with a water depth mostly at 10 fathoms, but it ranges between 18.2 to 100 metres ( 60 to 328 feet). The relative shallowness of the water allows extensive marine animal and plant life to flourish on the bottom. As well, the warm waters of the Gulf Stream pass over the southern portion of the Banks in winter but cover almost all of the Grand Banks in summer.
Canada is preparing to celebrate its history of powered flight by marking the 100th anniversary of the flight of the Silver Dart. Another piece of our aviation history is Canada's most famous bush plane, the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, which is considered by aviation historians to be the classic Canadian bush plane. It is a single-engine, utility transport aircraft which has the capability for short take-off and landings. A gold coin was issued in 2008 by the Royal Canadian Mint to honour the DHC-2 Beaver. To this day, many of these legendary planes can still be seen in remote skies in Canada and around the world. The Beaver is called, the airplane that opened up the North. The Royal Canadian Mint will issue a special quarter, that is part of the millennium series issued in November 1999. The Canadian Engineering Centennial Board named the DHC-2 one of the top 10 Canadian engineering achievements of the 20th century.
Recently, I had received an e-mail from a Christian, who do not like what I have to say about their phony Baal god, Je-Zeus Christ. This is what he had to say…"Its not hard to take you on, your a perverted little demon trying so hard to be heard. God is Triune. the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three distinct, yet One Almighty Lord God of Isreal. You hate Jesus Christ. your not alone. The Jehovah wittnessess, the Oneness penecostals, the Mormons, the Seventh day advantist, the Arians, are the same value as you. You all are God haters and you all will be left out the kingdom of God, unless you repent. I hate to pray for demons, but my Lord and My Savior Jesus Christ told me to pray for my enemies, so I must pray for you that you come out of your Father the devils shadow and I will. once, God only said pray for them, he did not say all the time. your worth none, but I will give you one. I reject your pagan god, I reject you and you telling people that the new testament was never translated from the greek is the biggest lie I heard coming from anybody. now I agree with you on Irvin Bastor Jr, He is as pagan as you. those who lead into captivity shall surely go into captivity. you will see, trust me, one day you will stand before Jesus Christ, who you call a fictional nobody, and on that day, the Truth shall destroy you. In Jesus is that Truth. Jesus is Lord. Jesus is God, In the name of the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. I rebuke you. and your pagan god". Scott Perkins.
Anytime a highly regarded Christian theologian, Rabbi or Imam (a'imma) wishes to challenge me on what I say, they are quite welcome to do so on an open public debate from a secular network. But I will not waste my time on a lengthy discussion with idiots like this Scott Perkins fellow on the topic of Christianity and what they believe. I have already covered that on the People of the Holy Testament web site, as well as on GOD, Religion and the Bible on this web site. One of these days, Christians will find out that their truth is covered with lies. Where did this guy ever get the stupid idea that I had written that the new testament was never translated from the Greek? I had never said that. That is an outrageous lie. Something I notice and found out is quite common among Christians, since its inception. What I had said was that regardless where the New Testament was translated from, be it from Greek, Latin or any other versions that exist, the Christian bible had been corrupted by the early Christian church fathers. The King James Version is as corrupted as are all the other translations that exist, in what Christians deem to be the Christian bible. Seems to me this person needs to take comprehension classes for it is plain to see he knows not what he is reading. Given that this person has some difficulty in understanding what he is reading, I feel in this case, it is sufficient to give this fellow a brief e-mail reply to answer his accusations. I wrote back saying.. "Dear Scott Perkins; Thank you for your e-mail which give further evidence how stupid you Christians really are. Now please take your asinine phony Baal god, Je-Zeus Christ, somewhere else. The stench coming from you is too great for me to tolerate". JP
According to a CBC news report, a ski trip turns tragic for a couple lost in the B.C. wilderness back country. A Quebec woman is dead and her 51-year-old husband is recovering from a harrowing ordeal after spending nine days huddling out-of-bounds in southeastern B.C Search and rescue crews rushed to an area near Kicking Horse Mountain Resort west of Golden, B.C., yesterday after a pilot flew over an SOS symbol in the snow and spotted someone waving. RCMP say the man was located along with the body of his 44-year-old wife, who had apparently died of exposure. The couple was reported missing Feb. 23, when they failed to return from a ski trip in Banff, Alta. B.C. authorities had received a number of tips about the missing people who had ventured into the back country, several days earlier. An autopsy on the woman, whose name has not been released, will be conducted Friday and a police spokeswoman says the man is recovering from frostbite in hospital in Golden. This is a tragedy that should not have happened in this day and age with the kind of technology that is available to people. Anyone with a bit of common sense who are taking a ski trip into the wilderness, the back country, should have at least a handheld GPS, a lighter, some dry food packs and a emergency space blanket, carried in a small daypack or packsack. This type of senseless tragedy happens to people who have the attitude that it can't happen to them and will not take the basic precaution of safety in mind. I have to wonder about the people who had seen the stamped SOS signs in the snow, a known distress signal, but nobody went to the lost skiers aid. According to news reports, the lost skiers were stranded in the British Columbia backcountry for nearly 10 days with wind chills reaching -24C during the night and barely edged above zero during the day. Gilles Blackburn, 51, would finally be rescued after his ten day odeal with his 44-year-old wife, Marie-Josée Fortin, who was not fortunate to have survived. She had likely succumbed to exposure. Her frozen body had to be carried out by helicopter. Get the CBC full story on this
tragic event which lead to the death of Marie-Josée Fortin.
Within the past few years, there has been a sudden rash of gang related gun violence in most cities across Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proposing to introduce new legislation aimed at cracking down on gang related gun violence. The Harper government wants to introduce two bills to add in the Criminal Code. One is aimed at gangs and other organized crime, while the second bill is targeted on illicit drugs. I suggest that the main problem with the rash of violence that has invaded our city streets is gang turf wars which are an intimate part of what gangs and organized crime are involved with in this country, aside with other criminal gang related activities. I suggest that is the root cause to the wave of killings which our streets have become war zones in this country. In order to crack down on criminal gangs, the government needs to bring legislation that make it illegal to be associated with any type of criminal gangs. To put an end to the two-for-one credits for time served and charge any gang-related homicide with an automatic mandatory first-degree murder charge attached to it. I would also reinstate the death penalty to homicides in which there is no question surrounding as to who the murderer is. The court needs to be given this type of legislation in our Criminal Code in order to get tough on gang related homicide crimes. Maybe we should reinstute public executions as a means of deterrent. I am aware that those who consider themselves as being "progressive" believe that public executions is barbaric. To have people witness the death of a condemned criminal. This belief stem from Victorian ideas of modesty, of protecting the privacy and the dignity of the condemned individual who do not deserve such privacy and dignity. The death penalty has been reduced to moral arguments in our modern industrialized society. There is no doubt that people will say that there is not a shred of evidence that any deterrent benefit will accrue to society if we reinstate public executions. But there is also not a shred of evidence that public executions had not deterred some people from committing murder.
Feb. 27th, 2009. This morning we have blowing snow, almost like a blizzard, with a lot of snowdrifts. Temperatures are around the -16°C with the wind blowing from the North at 35km/h making it feel like it is -28°C outside. The Montreal couple who got lost while skiing out of bounds at the Kicking Horse Resort near Golden backcountry had to fight off wolves, eat leaves, and build shelters to stay alive as they waited nearly 10 days to be rescued. The wife, Marie-Josée Fortin had died before help arrived. Gilles Blackburn was fortunate that he managed to survive at all during the ten days before he flagged down a helicopter that rescued him. He was treated for frostbite and exposure and released from hospital. According to CBC news, the couple are experienced skiers, who loved going off trail into the backcountry. Gilles Blackburn and his now deceased wife were extremely stupid for going off trail into the backcountry without having been prepared for it. It was only a matter of time when this tragedy was bound to happen. It is very important when in the wilderness backcountry, whatever the season, that a person is prepared for it and has a gun/rifle to protect themselves from wolves, bears or even a Moose during rutting season.
According to the Canadian government latest report, the combat mission in Afghanistan could cost taxpayers around $11.3 billion by the time it ends in 2011. That is if there is not some drastic change to the situation in Afghanistan. In October, parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page offered different estimates, saying the mission costs could reach as high as $18.1 billion, or $1,500 per Canadian household. Page reported that Canada had spent $7.7 billion to $10.5 billion on costs related to the mission in the past six years, and could spend $13.9 billion to $18.1 billion by the end of the 2010-11 budget year. Page's report also said a lack of government consistency and transparency made it difficult to come up with estimates, and the figures likely understate the full costs of the Afghanistan mission. Since the Afghan mission began, 108 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat had died, and about 375 troops have been wounded.
Jewish people in Israel and all over the world are getting ready to celebrate their pagan, man-made Canaanite/Babylonian God, "Hashem", during the pagan feast of Purim, to eat, drink, and make merry, for Israel's redemption may never come, while rocket fire from "Palestinian" Hamas, and Fatah Arabs continues to strike Israeli towns and armed attacks against Israel. It will be interesting how things will unfold in Israel this year. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his new era of "Change" to his Globalization agenda. He is determine to bring the Muslem country of Iraq into the New World Order fold by 2011. According to the "New York Times", the Obama administration has also pledged to provide $900 million of American taxpayers money to aid in the rebuilding of the "Palestinian" terrorist stronghold in Gaza. The Obama administration claims that the aid would not be given to Hamas, which controls Gaza. Yeah Right! And the "Palestinian" Muslem terrorist and their supporters in Gaza are a peace loving people who use their women and children as defense shields and suicide bombers. Oh, I had forgotten to mention one little thing concerning the Jewish people in Israel. The Jewish people in Israel have the stupid idea that Israel will be the safest place on earth for Jews to live in, because they believe that the God of Israel, that pagan, man-made Canaanite/Babylonian God, they call "Hashem" (YHWH), will protect them. They have deluded themselves with the idea that they are in some kind of "safe bubble" whereby they will escape the wrath that is to come. Frankly, these Jews are living in some fantasy dream world of their own making, much like what the Christians are doing. According to what I had revealed concerning Israel on our web sites, Israel will be trampled upon from many sources, (instigated by the UN) and those Jewish people who were fortunate enough to have left Israel, before this dreadful event had transpired, will have survived the trauma by having scattered themselves throughout the world. That situation has not changed. Events are unfolding according to what had been revealed to me way back in 1995-6. Given the present situation, my task is done.
Feb. 28th, 2009. This morning it is bone chilling cold after that blizzard we had yesterday. The sky is clear with freezing temperatures hovering around the -33°C mark with a light wind from the North at 5km/h. This is the last day in February, and with it, a great weight has been lifted off my shoulder. Yesterday evening during my meditation, I had recived a revelation that I had compleated my task. I no longer have to argue and contend against the Canaanite/Babylonian Jewish people and their man-made God, "Hashem", or with Christians and Muslems and their man-made religions. How good it is to have that weight lifted off from me, that I feel like a bird souring high in the sky, free from the troubles of this world. Now I can fully concentrate on that long standing wilderness venture with a mind blissfully free from the concerns of this world. Oh how wonderful that feeling is. I happen to go to our public library and came across a book titled, "The Cabin", by Hap Wilson, written in 1951, published by Natural Heritage books in Toronto, Ont. How incredible and appropriate that I had gone to our public library, and from the thousands of books that line the shelves there, that this particular book had found its way onto my hands at this very precise time. The Cabin is about the Author, who is also an artist, living an existence devoid of the burden of care at the edge of Lady Evelyn River in Temagami, Ont., which is located within the Temiskaming Shores area. This writing is something that is right up my ally, so to speak. So now I will excuse myself for awhile, as I settle down in my cosy warm appartment with Buddy, and read this book.
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