Canada under siege

  

Canada under siege
by Maj (ret'd) CORNELIU E. CHISU, CD, PMSC,
FEC, CET, P. Eng.
Former Member of Parliament Pickering-Scarborough East
   As the Coronavirus pandemic ravages the country, Canada's political leaders gesticulate wildly, taking erratic measures of their own accord in desperate attempts to confine the spread of the disease.

The two most populous provinces, Ontario and Quebec, have declared states of emergency and respective curfews, introducing drastic limitations to personal movement, hoping that these measures will stop the pandemic.

The arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada was the first truly good news since the pandemic began nearly a year ago. But it was also a false dawn.

That small glimmer of hope may have obscured the daunting challenge and the profound personal suffering that still stand between us and a new day.

So while the new year started with several days of fussing over how fast vaccine doses are being distributed, the announcement of new epidemiological modelling and new restrictions on businesses and individuals in Ontario and Quebec should remind us that this pandemic is not yet under control and will not pass easily according to the predictions of various medical advisors.

The recent dialog between federal and provincial governments over vaccination began when a concern was raised about the seemingly sluggish pace at which provinces were injecting the vaccine doses that the federal government had distributed. In Ontario, for example, most vaccinations paused for three days around Christmas.

So we are again subjected to political spin around the pandemic instead of action in the best interest of the nation.

After picking up the pace of vaccinations, several premiers are now insisting that the problem might soon become one of supply. "We're all hopeful the federal government will get us more vaccines," Ontario Premier Doug Ford said last week. "Without them, hospitals will have to start cancelling appointments and all the progress we've made getting our daily vaccine numbers up will be lost."

Premier Jason Kenney of Alberta said that his government was exploring the possibility of purchasing its own vaccine supply from manufacturers that currently don't have a deal with the federal government. "I want to be clear, this is not a blame game," Kenney said - before suggesting that blame might ultimately be directed at the federal government. "But we're just saying that Alberta's health system has stepped up in a big way here and we need more doses, bottom line, it's very simple."

The federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc replied to these concerns that it was a "bit simplistic" for provinces to claim that they were in danger of "running out" of vaccine doses.

If there is a faster way for Canada to acquire 37 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, no one has explained it yet at the federal level. Also no one should have been under the illusion that vaccinating the entire population would happen quickly. However, there is certainly pressure on the Trudeau government to show that it is at least holding its own in the global vaccination race. The federal government is forecasting that vaccine shipments will continue to increase on a weekly basis through February and it continues to insist that a sufficient number of doses to cover every last Canadian should be available by September.

As we stand today on both a per-capita basis and in terms of total vaccinations, Canada ranks tenth among the world's 193 countries. Among the G7 nations, Canada's rate of inoculation is fourth - behind the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy, but ahead of Germany and France. (Japan has not yet started to vaccinate its citizens.)

Even though vaccines now available and on their way to citizens, the Covid -19 numbers are still on the increase. So here we see some wavering among politicians. They don't really know what to do.  It seems they are unable to combine medical advice and common sense.

We citizens must do our share to contain the pandemic and our political leaders must do reasonable things. We need to avoid unnecessary meetings with other people, wear masks when social distancing is not possible and stay home as much as possible.

Coercive measures promoted by governments might well be counterproductive.  Instead, they should concentrate on assuring testing, contact tracing, case management, monitoring self-isolation and quarantine, supporting people to stay home, and effective communication in multiple languages and across multiple platforms for the purpose of advising people of the best practices to contain the spread of the virus.

If we focus exclusively on vaccination over the next few weeks, there's no doubt that thousands of Canadians will die unnecessarily.

The rate of infection in Canada's largest province is already far above what it was last spring. The curve has yet to flatten and the question looming over the Ford government is whether it should have moved faster and further to restrict unnecessary activity.

According to new projections, Ontario's daily case count could reach 10,000 by mid-February if the current rate of spread continues. A new and more contagious variants of COVID-19 is now on the rise. And while so much attention was being paid to the arrival of vaccines, another 198 residents of long-term care facilities and two staff members have already died this year in Ontario - months after Ford's government vowed to build an "iron ring" around such facilities.

Other provinces might take comfort in the fact that their second waves have been less dire, but surely no government can assume that the weeks and months ahead won't be difficult.

Nearly a year later, in the Covid-19 pandemic, political leaders are contending with much more public fatigue and impatience and should be careful to make fewer mistakes. Since the existence of a vaccine might help consolidate the public's resolve to accept some new restrictions, political leaders might give more thought to balancing concerns over public health and the economy.

The ultimate goal here isn't just to ensure that every Canadian gets the vaccine, it is to ensure that as many Canadians as possible are still alive to receive the shot.

Be safe!

Love's Beggar

 Love's Beggar
Q I am 20. Five months ago I started dating a coworker, 29. We work in separate departments, so we are not on top of each other every day. When we started dating, I told him I was looking for a relationship. He said he had just gotten out of a two year relationship four months before.
     We talk on the phone every day and see each other at least twice a week.  I thought we were on our way to making it official as a couple—at least until two days ago.  That’s when he confessed this new girl at work wants to get back together with him.  That was a shocker.
     Before we started dating he dated her for a month, but she broke it off because he was moving too fast.  Now he says he is stuck in the middle because he has feelings for both of us and doesn’t want to hurt either of us.  I told him he was too late because he is already hurting me by leaving me to get together with her.  I said I was beginning to fall in love with him, which is true, and if he cared as much as he said he did, he would stay with me.  Well, he told me he wanted to be with me and he would tell her his decision.  And he did. Problem solved, right?  Wrong!  While I was on the phone with him, she shows up at his house, and they have a long talk.  He tells me she said he is confused, and now he doesn’t want to talk about it anymore because he’s stuck in the middle of a situation he doesn’t want to be in. I hurt so much when I realize I could lose him, because I have strong feelings for him.  I want to be with him, and I already told him how I feel.  What else am I to do? Shauna
A Shauna, some stories stick with us because they condense a truth in an unforgettable way. For us, one such story was a news item about a pilot guiding a large ship into port. When the ship collided with the pillar of a bridge, gravely damaging both the bridge and the vessel, the first words out of the pilot’s mouth were, “Don’t tell anybody.” People aren’t honest naturally.  We are animalistic.  Our self-preservation mechanism is still so strong that a lie is the first thing which tries to come to our lips.  Only our good character can stop it. Your boyfriend is weak and a coward.  When you jumped up and down, arguing with him, he didn’t have the courage to say he doesn’t want to be with you.  Instead, he threw his hands in the air and said, “I’m confused.”  But he doesn’t love you.  He can’t explain why he doesn’t, he just doesn’t.
No man can tell any woman exactly why he loves her.  Love is an unmeasured quality, beyond factors and reasons.  With a man who cares about you, you don’t have to beg.  But when you beg, you know for sure you are not loved.  Arguing will not change that.
You think you have to make this relationship work because you are hungry for love.  That is the first misstep in falling down a long staircase.  When you find yourself tripping on the first step, you must grab the rail so you don’t fall all the way down the stairs. What railing are we talking about?  The railing of reality.  Grab hold of reality and say I’ve dated him five months, I told him how I feel, he doesn’t love me, and I’m not going to beg any man to be with me.
Treat yourself as a person of value.  Prize yourself, as the one who loves you will prize you.  You need to be some man’s first choice, his right choice.
Wayne & Tamara       Email us at DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com

Questions About the Ketogenic Diet

Questions About the Ketogenic Diet
 W. Gifford-Jones, M.D. and Diana Gifford-Jones

What is a ketogenic diet? How does it differ and is it more effective than other diets?  Apart from the hype surrounding this diet, what are the medical concerns about it?
Recent marketing of the ketogenic diet suggests it’s a new one. But a report from the University of California says it’s been used for years to treat medical problems such as epilepsy in children.
But what is it about the ketogenic diet that causes weight loss? A major factor is that it’s low in carbohydrates and high in fats.

Blood sugar (glucose) is normally the body’s main source of energy. But when blood sugar is diminished by eating less carbohydrates, the body is unable to maintain needed levels. To compensate, the body must start burning fat for energy. It also obtains more energy by converting some amino acids from protein in foods. And if this does not suffice, it gets energy from muscles.

The breakdown of fat, and to a lesser extent, protein, creates a condition called “ketosis” which is also used for energy. Hopefully none of us will ever be in a situation where we’re starving. But if that happens, we develop ketosis. It also occurs in uncontrolled diabetes.

Ketosis starts within a few days after carbohydrates are decreased to between 20 and 50 grams a day. This is not much carbohydrate, as two one-ounce slices of bread contain 28 grams of carbs!

How does a ketogenic diet compare with a normal diet? The average North American gets 50-55% of energy from carbohydrates, 30-35% from fats, and 15-20% from protein. The ketogenic diet obtains 5-10% from carbohydrates, 70-75% from fats, and 20% from protein.

A ketogenic diet contains full-fat dairy, eggs, fish, poultry, meat, nuts, non-starchy vegetables and butter. You are allowed to eat as many of these foods until you are full. It eliminates starchy vegetables, most fruits, grains, and sweets.

The British Journal of Nutrition analyzed 13 diet studies and reported that most, but not all, found that patients on a ketogenic diet lost more weight than those on other diets. They also ended up with lower blood pressure and blood triglycerides. And it helped those with type 2 diabetes. The negative of this diet is that it also increases bad cholesterol because of its high content of saturated fat.

Another negative is that the low carbohydrate content makes it hard for people to stick to it. Also, by eliminating most fruits, many vegetables, whole grains, and fiber, constipation is more likely to be a problem. Moreover, it removes ingredients essential for good health. No one should start a ketogenic diet without the help of your trusted family doctor.

It’s unfortunate that most diets wouldn’t be needed if people would follow a sound lifestyle. The first error is not having a bathroom scale that you step on every day. Scales tell it the way it is. Focus on losing any gained weight the same day the scale reports an increase.

This means saying no to high calorie desserts, eating smaller portions on smaller plates, and declining any offered second portions. Healthy weight loss also means an increase in daily exercise. Loss of excess weight and common-sense healthy living significantly reduces the risks associated with the epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes. A sustained commitment can add years of longevity.

Republican rats & Trump flee sinking ship of state! They Exit Stage Left!

 

Republican rats & Trump flee sinking ship of state!

They Exit Stage Left!

Larry Klayman says nothing short of revolution will return nation to We the People

By Larry Klayman

Last Wednesday, Americans rose up because they could not take it anymore, and entered the Capitol Building, to try to take control of their own so-called government, which had abandoned them with lies and deceit and subverted our democracy with fraudulent November 3, 2020 elections, both presidential and otherwise. Sure, there probably were a few non-representative Antifa infiltrators in the masses, but not even these persons committed any major crimes by simply breaking a few windows. The patriots who then chose to sit at the desk of the evil and vile Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, did no harm and indeed that desk does not belong to Pelosi but to We the People. Not a hair on the head of any senator or congressman, who fled to hide in the bunker like political cockroaches, was assaulted. To the contrary a brave female military veteran protestor was shot and assassinated at point blank range, by a Capitol security guard.

The people rose up in defiance as our greatest of Founding Fathers and presidents, Thomas Jefferson, predicted they someday would, because they finally came to fully understand that they had been left defenseless to government tyranny by a totally corrupt legislature, evil Deep State in the executive branch, and worse of all a federal judiciary who had just crowned, through their dishonest rulings, the nation’s new king, one Joe Biden, the Manchurian candidate and now anointed head of state.

Biden, who through money laundering with his son, had accepted billions of dollars of bribes from the same Communist Chinese who, if they had been in charge last Wednesday in the nation’s capital, would have, as occurred with its Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, murdered the Capitol protesters. Between April 15, 1989 and June 5, 1989, these butchers of Beijing, who now literally own the incoming President of the United States, slaughtered in cold blood over 10,000 peaceful protesters who, while carrying a re-creation of our Statue of Liberty, were speaking their peace about the Communist Chinese dictatorship which had enslaved them.

Incredibly but to be expected, cable media in particular from all quarters, Fox News, CNN aka the “Communist News Network,” and MSNBC raced to call this protest an undemocratic insurrection and riot, widely condemning their provoked actions. Fox News, which had in its early years been seen as the network for conservatives, people of faith and the masses who believe in the creation of our Founding Fathers, readily jumped on the leftist media bandwagon, fearing that it would be blamed for inciting what the socialists and communists were calling this attempted coup d’etat. Next in line were former criminally minded, incompetent, and/or clueless former presidents – all part of their elite “presidents club” – from Jimmy Carter, to Bill Clinton, to George W. Bush, to Barack Hussein Obama.

Seeing all of this, the Republican establishment, which at first was attempting to pull off a phony dog and pony show in the Senate by “doth protesting too much” the fraudulent elections – simply to take the monkey off of their cowardly backs – followed suit. Trump White House officials and cabinet secretaries jumped the Trumpian ship, fleeing like the rats who they are. Most notable, and ironically, was Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, not coincidentally the wife of outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who has just thrown Trump under the bus in a disgusting speech on the Senate Floor). Chao, whose family is tight with the butchers of Beijing, as my then Judicial Watch uncovered in the late 1990’s, had during the Clinton years laundered money from the commies, through Chinese spy John Huang, into her husband Mitch’s coffers, although a mere pittance compared with criminal Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

A short while later, the Wall Street Journal, owned by the owners of Fox News, the Murdoch family, demanded that Trump resign the presidency.

If this situation were not so tragic, perhaps one could have found some humor in these the Keystone Cops, by cutting and running under pressure from the left, particularly Fox News and the Murdochs who had profited handsomely from the Trump presidency. But wait, just hours later, President Trump himself joined the mass exodus, now to try to save his own skin from being removed as “insane” under the 25th Amendment by his own Vice President Mike Pence, the American equivalent of Brutus in the Roman Senate who had stabbed Julius Caesar in the back, and/or impeached by a Democrat House of Representatives. Trump then jumped ship himself, conceding the election to the Manchurian candidate, and branding the protestors criminals for having committed a “heinous” act, promising that they all would be prosecuted.

And, so as not to hang around for the inauguration of our new compromised and corrupt leader, leaks from the White House suggested that The Donald would instead hop Airforce One on January 19, 2021 and flee to Scotland, where he could seek asylum to golf at his own course. But cutting this apparent plan short, the Scottish government said that it would not allow Trump on its shores, citing the phony excuse of Covid-19 quarantines as a pretext.

So there you have it, not just Fox News, but its Republican minions who were showcased on this network, including the president himself, a man who had billed himself for years as a person of courage, fled the sinking ship of state like rats, condemning Americans who, after they could not stomach more government tyranny and corruption any longer, simply chose to occupy for a short while the Capitol Building that belongs to We the People.

If this cowardice had been exhibited in the years, months and days leading up to July 4, 1776, and the over two centuries which followed, we would not even had the broken and tattered republic that today we must reclaim with all due speed.

A few of wnd.com’s “readers,” probably leftist trolls, have criticized me for pushing my new book on Amazon.com and freedomwatchusa.org, “It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!” This is unfair as the reason that I wrote this work, the culmination of 43 years as a public advocate fighting the corrupt government and legal system, is because the American people need urgently to be educated, emboldened and have a real roadmap and plan to wage a new American revolution, peacefully and legally, before all is lost.

With the events of the last week, the citizenry is now totally on its own, with only the Father and his Son in our camp. But with Divine Providence, as our Founding Fathers proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence, We the People, risking our lives, fortunes and pledging our sacred honor, must now rise up, forget the Republican cowards and so-called conservative media who just jumped ship, and save the greatest country ever known to mankind!

So help us God!

Republican rats & Trump flee sinking ship of state! They Exit Stage Left!

 

Larry Klayman says nothing short of revolution will return nation to We the People

By Larry Klayman

Last Wednesday, Americans rose up because they could not take it anymore, and entered the Capitol Building, to try to take control of their own so-called government, which had abandoned them with lies and deceit and subverted our democracy with fraudulent November 3, 2020 elections, both presidential and otherwise. Sure, there probably were a few non-representative Antifa infiltrators in the masses, but not even these persons committed any major crimes by simply breaking a few windows. The patriots who then chose to sit at the desk of the evil and vile Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, did no harm and indeed that desk does not belong to Pelosi but to We the People. Not a hair on the head of any senator or congressman, who fled to hide in the bunker like political cockroaches, was assaulted. To the contrary a brave female military veteran protestor was shot and assassinated at point blank range, by a Capitol security guard.

The people rose up in defiance as our greatest of Founding Fathers and presidents, Thomas Jefferson, predicted they someday would, because they finally came to fully understand that they had been left defenseless to government tyranny by a totally corrupt legislature, evil Deep State in the executive branch, and worse of all a federal judiciary who had just crowned, through their dishonest rulings, the nation’s new king, one Joe Biden, the Manchurian candidate and now anointed head of state.

Biden, who through money laundering with his son, had accepted billions of dollars of bribes from the same Communist Chinese who, if they had been in charge last Wednesday in the nation’s capital, would have, as occurred with its Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, murdered the Capitol protesters. Between April 15, 1989 and June 5, 1989, these butchers of Beijing, who now literally own the incoming President of the United States, slaughtered in cold blood over 10,000 peaceful protesters who, while carrying a re-creation of our Statue of Liberty, were speaking their peace about the Communist Chinese dictatorship which had enslaved them.

Incredibly but to be expected, cable media in particular from all quarters, Fox News, CNN aka the “Communist News Network,” and MSNBC raced to call this protest an undemocratic insurrection and riot, widely condemning their provoked actions. Fox News, which had in its early years been seen as the network for conservatives, people of faith and the masses who believe in the creation of our Founding Fathers, readily jumped on the leftist media bandwagon, fearing that it would be blamed for inciting what the socialists and communists were calling this attempted coup d’etat. Next in line were former criminally minded, incompetent, and/or clueless former presidents – all part of their elite “presidents club” – from Jimmy Carter, to Bill Clinton, to George W. Bush, to Barack Hussein Obama.

Seeing all of this, the Republican establishment, which at first was attempting to pull off a phony dog and pony show in the Senate by “doth protesting too much” the fraudulent elections – simply to take the monkey off of their cowardly backs – followed suit. Trump White House officials and cabinet secretaries jumped the Trumpian ship, fleeing like the rats who they are. Most notable, and ironically, was Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, not coincidentally the wife of outgoing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who has just thrown Trump under the bus in a disgusting speech on the Senate Floor). Chao, whose family is tight with the butchers of Beijing, as my then Judicial Watch uncovered in the late 1990’s, had during the Clinton years laundered money from the commies, through Chinese spy John Huang, into her husband Mitch’s coffers, although a mere pittance compared with criminal Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

A short while later, the Wall Street Journal, owned by the owners of Fox News, the Murdoch family, demanded that Trump resign the presidency.

If this situation were not so tragic, perhaps one could have found some humor in these the Keystone Cops, by cutting and running under pressure from the left, particularly Fox News and the Murdochs who had profited handsomely from the Trump presidency. But wait, just hours later, President Trump himself joined the mass exodus, now to try to save his own skin from being removed as “insane” under the 25th Amendment by his own Vice President Mike Pence, the American equivalent of Brutus in the Roman Senate who had stabbed Julius Caesar in the back, and/or impeached by a Democrat House of Representatives. Trump then jumped ship himself, conceding the election to the Manchurian candidate, and branding the protestors criminals for having committed a “heinous” act, promising that they all would be prosecuted.

And, so as not to hang around for the inauguration of our new compromised and corrupt leader, leaks from the White House suggested that The Donald would instead hop Airforce One on January 19, 2021 and flee to Scotland, where he could seek asylum to golf at his own course. But cutting this apparent plan short, the Scottish government said that it would not allow Trump on its shores, citing the phony excuse of Covid-19 quarantines as a pretext.

So there you have it, not just Fox News, but its Republican minions who were showcased on this network, including the president himself, a man who had billed himself for years as a person of courage, fled the sinking ship of state like rats, condemning Americans who, after they could not stomach more government tyranny and corruption any longer, simply chose to occupy for a short while the Capitol Building that belongs to We the People.

If this cowardice had been exhibited in the years, months and days leading up to July 4, 1776, and the over two centuries which followed, we would not even had the broken and tattered republic that today we must reclaim with all due speed.

A few of wnd.com’s “readers,” probably leftist trolls, have criticized me for pushing my new book on Amazon.com and freedomwatchusa.org, “It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!” This is unfair as the reason that I wrote this work, the culmination of 43 years as a public advocate fighting the corrupt government and legal system, is because the American people need urgently to be educated, emboldened and have a real roadmap and plan to wage a new American revolution, peacefully and legally, before all is lost.

With the events of the last week, the citizenry is now totally on its own, with only the Father and his Son in our camp. But with Divine Providence, as our Founding Fathers proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence, We the People, risking our lives, fortunes and pledging our sacred honor, must now rise up, forget the Republican cowards and so-called conservative media who just jumped ship, and save the greatest country ever known to mankind!

So help us God!

What You Should Know About a Silent Heart Attack

 

The Doctor Game

What You Should Know About a Silent Heart Attack

W. Gifford-Jones, M.D. and Diana Gifford-Jones

Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, wrote that “Silence is a source of great strength.” Possibly sound advice in some situations. But for people who’ve had a silent heart attack, silence is far from a virtue. In fact, according to a report from the University of California, up to one half of heart attacks are totally silent! So, how dangerous are these myocardial infarctions, and what is the treatment?

The first indication of an attack may be when an electrocardiogram (ECG) is done for another medical reason and shows a damaged heart. But it may remain undiscovered until an autopsy revels scarring in the heart’s muscle.

Why does the silent heart attack fail to cause symptoms? Some people have a higher threshold of pain than others. Or a higher blood level of endorphins helps kill pain. Or a smaller coronary artery is involved, causing less damage. And diabetes can cause degeneration of nerves.

In 2014, the Rotterdam Study, involving longitudinal research on a cohort of citizens, showed the silent attack is associated with a greater chance of dying from any cause, or from cardiovascular disease, for men and women over a period of 20 years, compared to no heart attack.

In another study, ECG evidence of a silent heart attack was associated with a triple risk of death from coronary heart disease and a 34% risk of dying from any cause over nine years, compared to someone without a heart attack.

It also noted that there was a greater risk among women than men for both types of heart attack. No explanation was given for this difference. But years ago, Dr. Tirone David, one of the worlds great cardiac surgeons, stressed that by-pass surgery is more difficult in women because their coronary arteries are smaller.

An Icelandic study, published in JAMA Cardiology, showed what happened to cardiology patients over a 13-year period. During the first few years, those who had a known heart attack were more likely to die of any cause than those with a silent attack. But after 10 years, silent heart attack patients were just as likely to have died as those who had a known attack.

This means that the silent heart attack can be as dangerous as painful ones. And since they’re so common, it’s prudent to try to prevent them.

What is the best treatment? A silent coronary occurs for the same reasons as one that causes pain. So, being obese, a smoker, diabetic, having high blood cholesterol, hypertension, and a sedentary lifestyle are all risk factors. Your doctor will suggest a change in lifestyle to eliminate them. And a good start is a high fiber diet rich in fruit and vegetables, whole grains and unsaturated fats as found in fish and nuts.

Your doctor may suggest a 33 milligram Aspirin to decrease the risk of blood clot and should explain complications that may occur with this medication. You’ll know from reading past articles that omega-3 fatty acids decrease the risk of clotting, lower triglycerides, increase good cholesterol and decrease inflammation. Visit our website, www.docgiff.com/omega to learn how you can measure your level on the Omega-3 Index.

So, to Lao Tzu, silence may have its virtues. But it can also hide a serious medical problem. A good case scenario is that you get a diagnosis long before an autopsy. The best case is prevention, prevention, prevention.

CALLING FOR RESIGNATION OF ALL HYPOCRITES

 

CALLING FOR RESIGNATION

OF ALL HYPOCRITES

By Joe Ingino

Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”

I call for the resignation of all politician and or official that violate the stay at home order and or the travel restriction mandate.

The headlines read:

Halton region police chief travels to Florida amid COVID-19 pandemic.

Did he really need to go to florida? Is he not the top dog when it comes to enforcing law on violation of Fed/Provincial legislation related to Covid?

Why is this man still a Chief of police?

NDP Deputy Leader Sara Singh said Doug Ford cannot give Finance Minister Rod Phillips a free pass for his choice to leave the country for a vacation in December, while instructing everyone else to stay inside their home.

Another... How is it that the finance minister can travel and the rest of us must stay home and not even be allowed to go to work.

I call for his resignation.

ONA President Vicki McKenna, RN, notes that international travel for non-essential purposes breaches federal travel guidelines during COVID-19.

"It is disturbing to see reports of prominent politicians and at least one hospital leader opting to knowingly break the guidelines that the majority of Ontarians are following," she says. "While we certainly understand the need for a break – and our front-line registered nurses and health-care professionals are themselves exhausted following many months of providing care for their patients, residents and clients – we remind everyone to follow the guidelines and travel only if the need is essential."

The leaders of OPSEU/SEFPO are demanding the full resignation of Thomas Stewart as CEO of Niagara Health and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton after revelations that he vacationed in the Dominican Republic over the holidays.

Like really? These are all 250k plus positions. All positions of authority and responsible for assuring compliance of legislation related to COVID-19. Yet, they clearly are in violation. Showing no respect or care for what the rest of the population are undergoing. These are the same people that call for total shut down. While they still collect their 250k plus a year.

You and me worry over where the next mortgage payment will come from. Will you last the next 6 months. Yet these over paid incompetents run our lives and do not follow the same rules.

I am tired of hearing this buffon of Ford telling people they must close down their businesses. You want us to close down our businesses. You stop taking pay from the people.

You live amongst us. You worry about your daily bread. What am I saying. The man is a millionaire. As for our chief medical officer. Cut her pay until she and her people come up with a real plan to beat the spread of the virus.

To just come up with ‘STAY APART’, wear a mask and stay home just does not cut it.

It is proving tha isolation is not the way to beat the virus. There is more to this then these over paid incompetents care to know about.

I call a pay freeze to anyone that has anything to do with the decision making process of closing down businesses.

See how quick they will come up with a totally different strategy when their pay checks disapear and they are still responsible for mortgages, utilities and food.

If we can learn anything from what is going on in the United States. It is that the system is broken. Democracy is dead. Our governments do not work.

Governments today are about power and greed. It is about filling your pockets as quick as you can while you are still elected in office.

It is not about doing what is right. What is best for the country.

This COVID-19 and all it’s off shoots. Are nothing but marker to the end of civilization. Every political ‘ism’, has failed the test of time.

Political ideology only work in small groups and communities. As soon as the population number surge.

The system fall apart. We the people in modern society have become nothing short of numbers in a system that is far from fair or working in our best interest.

From politics to law. The flaws on the service to the people are huge. Our policies and laws are not reflective of the current times.

We live in a world of misconceptions and easily influence public conscious. Individualism and free thinking is a mirage in a sea of misinformation and convoluted opinion to sway public thought. Who is this Ford to tell us to close down our businesses. Who is this Canada Chief Medical officer Theresa Tam person that can’t figure out a plan to stop the spray of this Chinese released virus?

I say cut their pay until such time as they come up with a real plan. The vaccine is not a plan. The vaccine is nothing short than a prayer and hope that the numbers will fall.

I do not think that any official knows the true threat. The true spread. I personally believe that this virus is by design to infect the population at large. This so called virus. I do not see it as the magic bean that will stop the spread. It will slow it down. Far from controlling it and or bringing it to a halt. If we are to entrust those that lead us. They should then led by example. If they expect us to suffer financial hardships. Should they not endure the same pain?

We must demand accountability. We must demand fairness in an unfair world.

YOU PLAY YOU PAY. DON’T EXPECT US TO PLAY YOUR GAMES AND WE THE PEOPLE FORCED TO PAY FOR YOUR MISTAKES.

LOCK DOWN LOCK DOWN WAIT UP... WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?

LOCK DOWN
LOCK DOWN
WAIT UP... WHO IS GOING TO
P

AY FOR IT?

By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”

   Have you noticed this trend.... When politicians have no clue what they are doing... What do they do.  NOTHING.   In the case of COVID-19.  Politicians that have no training in dealing with viruses and it’s transmission instead of coming up with an aggressive team of people that can truly combat the virus.    Politicians take the easy way out and tell us to wear a mask and shut down our businesses.
   Really, how easy it is to tell business to shut down for 28 days.  How did they come up with 28 days, why not 100?    I say that if politicians without much care force hard working people to shut down their businesses.
Politicians pay should also be shut down.  Most make over 100k a year what do they care about  the true small businesses that at times don’t even make a sale in any given day.   Who is going to pay their utilities, their rents.   Who is going to pay these same folks mortgages, loans and financial interests.
It is easy for politicians to shutdown when they have nothing at stake and or understanding.
I CALL THAT LEGISLATION BE PASSED THAT EVERY TIME A POLITICIAN PASSES A RESOLUTION TO CLOSE BUSINESS IN THEIR MUNICIPALITY/PROVINCE.   THAT ALL POLITICIANS IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS PAY BE ANNULED.   This would show solidarity with those that voted them in...
The Federal government has made various attempts to help those businessess affected by the shutdowns but in my opinion it is not enough as many local businesses across Durham Region are closing at an alarming rate.
There is no guarantee that in 28 days things will go back... to open for business.   We have no guarantee that in 100 days we be any better off.   If anything we will be worst as the virus develops new variations of the same.
OK, so if the latter stands true.  Where will all these people get money to feed themselves?  Will the government put everyone on UI?
What is more fundamental to this argument.  Does the government have the power to shut us down?  To force us to wear masks... To force us to stay home.
Are we not surrending our basic rights.   To boot the government seems to have taken the initiative to punish anyone not conforming.   Building detention centres as self isolation places.
What if this pandemic can’t be brought under control and it is by design going to infect us all at one time or another.
What if in the name of COVID-19 infection.  The government starts sending those economically affected by the virus to these facilities.   
After all, money is going to eventually run out.   People will loose all their resources.  Banks, Insurance companies keep making billion as utility companies such as Bell, Rogers.  Not to mention the Walmarts of the world.   Oh yea and lets not forget Uber and services alike.
Once all this said and done... and they vaccinate the popuation.  Who is going to pick up the bill for the catastrophic defecits.
Will the government of the worlds turn to China and make them pay since that is where the virus originated?
Will the world turn to China and demand retribution for damages across the world?   If had been an oil spill would it not have been deemed a national environmental catastrophe.   Would someone not been held accountable?
Why should China get away with such an attack on the world?   China boast on having the richest economy.
All I know is that the common folk like you and we are victims of an irresponsible government that should be made to pay.

The World and Canada in 2021.

 

The World and Canada in 2021.

by Maj (ret'd) CORNELIU E. CHISU, CD, PMSC,
FEC, CET, P. Eng.
Former Member of Parliament Pickering-Scarborough East

After enduring the trials of a gruelling year blighted by the Corona virus and our political leaders' bumbling attempts to handle the pandemic, can we expect to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel in 2021? This is the question.

The World, including Canada finished 2020 by gasping for some kind of relief. Squeezed between the worst pandemic in a century and the potential administration of various vaccines, there is hope that we will succeed in getting out of this nightmare.

The year 2021 will be decisive in giving us the highly desired optimism for finding the road that will get us back to a new palatable normal. By now most countries' economies are in shatters. Such an insecure global outlook hardly makes for a secure context for economies to make a quick recovery.

However, let us hope that the strongest economies, including Canada's, will continue to show a resilience in the midst of the pandemic as government relief programs continue to offer support. How long this support will be in place is hard to predict.  On the positive side, financial markets have done better than expected despite the earlier doom and gloom pronouncements prophesied nine months previous.

Certainly, some things in the present world have clearly changed, and perhaps permanently.  The global job market has been ravaged by COVID, especially in the service and tourism sectors, where typically low wages left millions vulnerable and highly dependent on government stimulus measures to survive.  The prospects in this area are not very optimistic at present, with the pandemic entering a new and more dangerous phase.  The chances of small to medium sized businesses having to close their operations for good are strong and worrisome, as this eventuality will create unprecedented hardship for many people and their families.

The future doesn't look good, as the World Bank contends that Covid-19's wide-ranging effects will result in an increase of the poorest by up to 150 million people. The success of the past 30 years, where the numbers of the world's poorest declined from 36% of the 1990 global population to 8% just prior to the pandemic, has now been devastated.  This is a tragedy of significant proportions.  
But we are still optimistic that the Western economies including Canada's are capable of rebounding despite a new wave of the pandemic devastating much of their productivity, just as we looked for recovery to commence. Unlike the Great Recession of 2008-2009, when economists felt they understood the ground and how to rebuild, our current predicament has left these same financial experts scratching their heads.  They are aware the unemployment numbers will remain stagnant for perhaps decades.

Our present economic challenges are now on a global scale and the reverberating effects will remain unknown for years to come.  In order to contain the virus, actions needed to be taken that actually hurt global economies, rather than invigorating them.  Health concerns paralyzed us and have transcended everything as civilization seeks to survive something it can't even see.

Our recovery will take much more than we actually think. Just when trust and cohesion are required at the societal level to wade through this calamity, increasing numbers of citizens and businesses are deeply concerned at the COVID restrictions designed to save lives, that are, ironically, killing their livelihood.  The wobbling decisions made by governments both provincially and federally add ferment to a badly deteriorating situation. The societal unease and fragmentation arising from this uncertainty could become an element for endless partisan divisions in upcoming provincial and federal elections.

There will also be positive outcomes arising from the pandemic, such as an increased respect for our healthcare providers, even though the healthcare system is badly in need of modernization. Health science and the research accompanying it will be more respected.

There will certainly be positive global changes on the societal scene and new trade opportunities with Canada's traditional allies in America and Europe. Hopefully we will have a new vision on the ability to focus on Main Street, not only on Wall Street. Canadians will look forward to effective and fair societal changes in line with their values and traditions and a more collaborative form of politics at all levels of government.

This will be our life in 2021 - more uncertainty, slow economic recovery, the rising divisions within the temporary hegemony caused by COVID, increased tensions with Russia and China, and the ever-present politically motivated climate change challenge.

Will Canada remain a reasonable and reasoning country?  The answer to that question is within our control, although much of our fate in 2021 will be determined elsewhere, and how it will unfold and how these external forces will influence us remains to be seen.

Welcome to 2021! Happy New Year!

A Lockdown New Year!

 A Lockdown New Year!
by Maj (ret'd) CORNELIU E. CHISU, CD, PMSC,
FEC, CET, P. Eng.
Former Member of Parliament Pickering-Scarborough East
Politicians all over Canada are running around like headless chickens chasing the Coronavirus pandemic, as cases increase by the minute. There is no apparent coordination, no coherent thought put into counter-measures, only sad efforts at improvisation at both the federal and provincial levels. The medical professionals in charge give contradictory advice; mask/no mask, more lockdown/less lockdown by rainbow colors, vaccine/no vaccine for allergies, and so on. Nobody seems to care about the people losing businesses and livelihood for their families, with public service employees enjoying secure jobs paid for by tax dollars, looking on, seemingly twiddling their thumbs.
Ontario, Canada's most populous Province, has announced that as of Boxing Day, southern Ontario, will be entering a 28-day lockdown. The new rules include restrictions on businesses and gatherings, as well as shutting down some outdoor activities such as downhill skiing. Parks, skating rinks and cross-country ski and snowshoe trails across Ontario will remain open. Incongruously, just across the Quebec border, hills will be still open.
The lockdown for southern Ontario will be in place from Dec. 26 until Jan. 23, but will be lifted for northern Ontario on Jan. 9. Health officials have  criticized the delay, with one top infectious disease doctor saying it was ridiculous to wait until the day after Christmas to shut down. I wonder what date the good doctor had in mind for going into lockdown?
 "We had hoped not to see a shutdown," Joyce Lock, the medical officer of health for Southwestern public health, said. "This has many implications for individuals, businesses and services. (No kidding! LOL). "However, this virus is raging within our communities. This is the best tool we have to keep distance between people and stop the spread."
There is no mention of the best non medical advice, of course, which would be to continuously educate people to respect each other and hygiene rules, to allow small businesses to survive. The role of the state is to help its citizens live peacefully and enjoy their freedom.  It's not to impose arbitrary rules that serve their own interests; implementing contradictory, baseless, and ad hoc measures.

With the worrying surge of cases across the province potentially putting more patients into Ontario hospital beds, many seem to consider the lockdown a necessary precaution. The question is why we do not have enough doctors and nurses in the province to face this kind of exceptional event? And what about people whose life saving surgeries are on hold;  being delayed indefinitely?  Need they become victims of the virus too? The medical profession is silent and politicians do not know what to do. They are ready to declare however, that if the lockdown is not taken seriously, we risk more people becoming very, very sick, and will overwhelm the health-care system. My question is this: how can we justify a healthcare system in this country, which swallows billions of tax dollars every year, and gets worse, instead of getting better?
The new measures in Ontario- the most stringent since the spring lockdown - will ban in-person shopping in most retail stores, shutter gyms and recreation facilities and force restaurants to offer takeout or delivery only. The lockdown also prohibits indoor social gatherings, except with members of the same household, and caps outdoor gatherings at 10 people.
On top of these worries, there is now a new variant of COVID-19, which appeared in Britain and has prompted many countries to implement travel restrictions against the United Kingdom. Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam says that this mutation has not yet been identified in Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has said it is analyzing known cases to determine whether the new strain, which research suggests is significantly more transmissible than the variant currently dominant in Canada, is already in the country.
"Obviously it's an evolving situation," Tam said. "We've been very active in the last couple of days and activated all the scientific networks in Canada."
Unfortunately, long before they will have all "the results" the virus will have taken many more victims. The appearance of the new variant of COVID-19 has also sparked concerns that it may reduce the efficacy of existing vaccines.

Tam is clinging steadfastly to her stock phrase, saying that current "expert research" suggests it is unlikely to have a significant effect on the current or soon-to-be-approved vaccines. "Right now, we remain optimistic on that front," she said. Tam affirmed that it was important to work with the vaccine manufacturers and international partners - particularly the United Kingdom, which is also rolling out the Pfizer vaccine - in order to determine the potential effect of the new variant. Tam also warned that   Canada was currently on track for a strong resurgence of the virus over the next several months. She pointed to disturbing trends in cases, hospitalizations and mortality, and urged Canadians to continue to follow public health guidelines.
"This is a perilous time," she said, noting that unlike the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, the virus is now reaching remote communities. "With the widespread resurgence right now, there's a much more broad impact across all areas of Canada, and you can see the impact in Nunavut," Tam said. Nunavut reported its first two deaths related to COVID-19 last week. "And we're only getting into the winter," she said.
She further stated that the exhaustion of health-care workers, and ordinary Canadians, was one reason the next few months would be so difficult.
As of this week Canada had recorded a total of 520,045 cases of COVID-19, and a CBC News tally of deaths stood at 14,402. Ontario and Quebec are each recording more than 2,000 new cases daily.
On top of this, planes are still arriving with people not required to be tested before entering Canada, a precaution many nations have implemented. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has said that the screening and quarantine measures in place since the spring in Canada are adequate and proudly claimed  that Canada has been among the most aggressive countries in controlling entry during the pandemic, alas, without backing up his statement with proof. (A pompous, politically motivated understatement perhaps?) "We have not been slow and not been unresponsive to the concerns that Canadians have," Blair claimed.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford described the border as a "sieve" and argued for a more effective testing system at airports across the country.
He said that he was asking the federal government to implement a requirement for pre-departure tests for people trying to enter Canada. Blair's counter argument is that international travel was the source of just 1.8 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada throughout the pandemic. "What we're seeing now is that the biggest problem in Canada is community transmission inside Canada, it's not really the importation of cases," claimed Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Howard Njoo, with confidence.
With this deadly new virus cocktail on the menu for politicians and medical professionals, let us hope that we will still be able to enjoy Christmas and New Year with our families.
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2021

 2021


By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
   
  Another year has passed... and what a year it has been.  Normally for the welcoming of a new year we must first ponder on the year gone by.  the good and the bad.    Sadly, 2020 has been one bad year and very little good can be acknowledged.
It is hard to look at the future with optimism.   As per definition   op·ti·mist: is  a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something. "only an eternal optimist could expect success".
From the COVID to the recent elections in the United States.  The world is undergoing changes like never before.    It is hard to look to the future with optimism.   A vaccine!  World peace!  Social order!  All long and far fetched solutions to a never growing problem.
If not to look at the future with optimism then the only other choice left would be to enter 2021 with a pessimistic outlook.
By definition a pes·si·mist. Is a person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.   "the pessimists point to ways in which life has deteriorated".
Can we be a optimistic/pessimist?    After all there are so many thing on the balance. Here in Canada it appears we govern by following global trends....    It is easier to close everything down in the hope that the VIRUS will magically disappear instead of coming up with some plan of attack to assure public places are constantly disinfected to protect against this viral attack from China.
It appears it is easier to restrict civil rights and freedoms then to actually come up with an aggressive plan to fight the virus street by street.
Why does the government not come up with trucks full of disinfectant patrolling streets.  No instead they patrol the streets with pockets full of   violation tags in order to fill their coffers.  
Our government is of opinion of that of Thomas Jefferson.... Let us not be uneasy then about the different roads we may pursue, as believing them the shortest, to that our last abode, but following the guidance of a good conscience, let us be happy in the hope that by these different paths we shall all meet in the end. Thomas Jefferson
Well wishful thinking, I supposed.   The reality of it is we will still have to deal with COVID.  The reality is that due to forced closures in Ontario, many people will loose their businesses and homes.
In the word of Jesse Jackson...  "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive." Jesse Jackson.
It appears that Jesse Jackson had it right....  As governments of the world surely have their chest out and awaiting for a morning to come to get us out of this pandemic.
The question is how many people need to die.   After all just because you had been infected it does not mean you can’t be infected again.   Not to mention what affects you will have if you become infected by the new mutated virus.
In the words of Barack Obama...The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope." Barack Obama
Well Obama surely got it right.   We as a people need to stop feeling hopeless.  We need to take control of our future and demand on our governments to come up with a real solid plan.
The vaccine is not a government plan... It is a possible solution brought about by science.  A science that has in the past proven to have many failures.
This new vaccines promises a possible solution without telling us all the risks and all the future side affects.
At the moment we are being forced to trust or die mentality.   This is wrong.  Our governments are taking away our rights and freedoms in the name of public health.   I say malarkey.   Ask us don’t tell us.   Enforce those who are in violation of social norm.   Why are we closing the small businesses and Walmarts and alike are allowed to stay open.   This is not a democracy when our elected official pick and choose on our behalf with a hidden agenda.    How dare close big Walmarts...place where large number of people use.  
Happy 2021.   Will we make 2022?  How many of us must die?  How long will we wait?
We must be optimistic/pessimists in this ironic world we live.  

Staying the course

 The holiday season
 Written by,  Sharleen Cainer, BSW RSW
There are many avenues that can lead a person into homelessness.

Staying the course, giving up, going off into the great abys where a poor decision leads to a bad outcome and a poor outcome becomes a leader into another bad decision. Things are then galloping into an uncontrollable financial, personal, relationship mess. Where do we go from there or what do we do?

We are born with 3 attributes that define ourselves: resilience, personality, and character. Resiliency is documented as a prime indicator of our ability to remain mentally healthy, to bounce back from a disaster. Personal disasters are also are a marker or challenge to our ability to succeed.

Many extremely successful people have suffered many personal or financial disasters.  Jeff Bezos started a company in his garage called Cadabra, after his parents loaned him $250,000.  He gained a few other investors after a convincing sales pitch where he told everybody there was a 30% chance of success. Cadabra then became an online bookstore. Mr. Bezos then decided to name it after a river, Amazon. Mr. Bezos is now the richest man in the world, weighing in at 163.6 billion a year.  You might feel that if you had a parent that was going to invest ¼ million into your impending success, you would also be quite rich and famous. Well, maybe yes, and then again maybe not.

Mr. Bezos worked on Wall Street in New York. He became aware early in 2000's that internet businesses were flourishing while the same annual growth was not evident in other financial avenues. He set up his business to ride the Ecommerce wave. His vision and his problem-solving skills propelled him forward.  Long gone are the days when he was sitting in his garage plotting the success of an online book store business while conventional businesses met their demise.

Another inspirational individual, Jal Jok became a child soldier somewhere at around 7yrs of age. He, along with other children escaped and became involved with a British Aid worker, by the name of Emma McCune. This dedicated young worker smuggled a young Jal Jok into Kenya and he eventually came to Canada. He became the poster child for the story War Child. But on a personal note, he aspired to be a hip hop artist as EmmanuelJal. He amassed a large following and became remarkably successful.  You might be feeling that you would never have survived with your mind intact had you been forced to be a soldier at such a young age. Well, maybe not but then again, maybe.

EmmanuelJal is very insightful while talking about suffering; how he has run from one place to another. With each episode of suffering, a resolution awaits. With each resolution another set of circumstances arises that brings a new heightened intensity of suffering and then again, the resolution. The past can not be changed, the future is unknown. What you can be in control of is the present.  What do these two Iconic heroes have in common? Resilience, vision, problem-solving strategies, and self-reliance.

Institutionalization, the antithesis of self-reliance, will diminish an individual's ability to resolve their issues and expand their ability to problem solve, therefore becoming a gateway to homelessness. Hospitals discharge, with little attention of where too. Jails release with little thought of where too. Children's Aid, discharges, with a sanitized term called "aged out", and little thought as to where too. To resolve a crisis, one must be able to conceptualize the problem, then create the solution. Note where you came from, how you got here, where are you going from here, and how will you get there?

Indigenous people have been institutionalized since the arrival of the Europeans. Institutionalizing the Native inhabitants was necessary for European land ownership, which lead to the subsequent homelessness of the Indigenous. The residential schools separated the children from families and culture, leaving them to struggle with who they were, how they got into that torturous situation and how they were going to escape from it. Dominated as defenseless children, Indigenous youth struggled to conceptualize solutions. The concept of institutionalization has many arms, like an octopus.  Each arm has the same agenda, to dominate the spirit of an individual so as to ensure the compliance to policy. We have lost sight of the fact that "policy" is an ever-changing concept that shifts with the flow of the political pendulum. If you are sceptical on that think back to WW11 era, when in an address to the nation, it was deemed by the Prime Minister of Canada that one Jew in Canada was one Jew too many.  Think back to the days of slavery when it was policy that allowed the Prime Minister of Canada to own a slave. Policy changes because of public opinion. The role of institutions changes because of public opinion. Go Public, shelter the unsheltered.

Dream Lover

 Dream Lover
Q I’m an 18-year-old girl who just finished her first semester at her new college. Things have been going okay, I guess, but there is something that keeps bugging me. I can’t seem to get over my crush from 8th grade. And no, that’s not a typo. . .since 8th grade.
Back then, 8th grade was my “transitioning stage” from wearing glasses and kids’ clothing to dressing more girly and wearing contacts. I was always called ugly and a loser back then. However, since my “change,” people in and outside of school made comments about how pretty and beautiful I am. Anyway, in 8th grade I had 4-5 classes with this boy. He was tall (still is) and had blue eyes and blond hair (still does) and was really attractive (still is). He was one of the most popular guys in my grade, while I was a shy girl with dark brown hair and hazel eyes who didn’t go out often. For some reason, he started talking to me. Even more than that, he sat next to or behind me. He used to joke with me, poke me, and in general, be very nice to me. He gave me a lot of his attention. It made me so happy!
This guy, why would he want anything to do with an unpopular girl such as myself? I didn’t know either. I was just so happy! This was the first time a boy, and a good-looking one at that, was genuinely nice to me!  Thus began my crush.
I had two classes with him in 9th grade. We talked and joked around then, but in 10th grade nothing. Then 11th grade comes, and I sat right next to him as his physics partner!
We talked and laughed together. He even patted me on the head when I put my head down to rest my eyes. . .it was a wonderful feeling. Then senior year rolls around and I barely saw him, except in the hallway.
I said hi to him a few times and he said hi back, but that was it. The next thing I know, we have prom (I was dateless, he took a random friend as his date). I saw him look at me a few times as I passed by in my dress, but that was it.
Then we had graduation. My last name starts with a “K” and his with an “L.” Three people were between us when we sat down to graduate. I saw him look at me a few times, but I thought it was nothing.
That brings me to college. I go to an all-women’s school, but many men from a coed school take classes at my school and roam around. However, I feel sad that my little talks and times with my crush have ended. But I can’t stop thinking about him from time to time.
I thought I would have the opportunity to meet new guys at my new school, but every time I see photos of my crush at his college with friends who are girls, I get jealous. Why couldn’t that have been me? It’s so unfair! The guys I see now don’t compare to him.
I know this sounds weird, but I’ve fantasized and had a few dreams where he was in it, and even in my dreams he was a gentleman. The last dream I had of him was yesterday. Unfortunately, my mom woke me up in the middle of it. The fact that I wanted the dream to last made me so mad I almost wanted to cry! I was so sad my mom interrupted, you have no idea.
I know it sounds stupid, but I just can’t get over this guy! I wish I could have been his girlfriend so I could do anything to make him happy, but it’s too late.
Monique
A Monique, we go through life. We meet a lot of people. Some of them older, some of them younger. Some of them are pretty, some are plain. Some are friendly, some are standoffish. It doesn’t mean that every one of them, or any particular one, is the one for us.
You happened to meet a guy your age, good-looking and friendly, who didn’t ask you out. He treated you well, but as a classmate.
Because he was handsome and nice to you, you saw him as someone to date. Though you were lab partners in physics, the chemistry that makes people like each other in that way was not there on his side. Everything else was made up in your mind.
Maybe as a boyfriend he would have been terrible; maybe as a boyfriend you would have been jealous all the time; maybe you were not ready for that kind of relationship. That you say you would do anything to make him happy means it was a fantasy. A crush.
What are crushes for? They are one-sided, practice relationships. You get over them and then start having real relationships. Now you must do the grownup part. You don’t get to measure every male by a daydream.
You may have heard, time and again, that you have your whole life ahead of you. But you do! You don’t get to pick a boyfriend like you pick next semester’s classes. It has to be a two-way boulevard. It might be next year, or it might be six years from now. We don’t know.
But it will not happen when you are focusing on the wrong place. It will happen when you are acting from the place where you now are, as a beautiful, educated young woman.
Wayne & Tamara             
Email us at DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com

What Did You Learn in Disastrous 2020?

 

What Did You Learn in Disastrous 2020?
 W. Gifford-Jones, M.D. and Diana Gifford-Jones
   How carefully have you been reading our column over the past year?  Take our True or False quiz.
#1: Excessive amounts of fructose, one of the main carbohydrates in refined sugar, is converted by the liver into fat. Glucose, the other component of sugar, is burned up as energy by all cells.
#2: It’s prudent to brush the tongue after eating, not just your teeth, as this removes bacteria, fungi, and even protozoa from deep fissures with benefits for your overall health.
#3 Magnesium found in dark leaf greens and whole grains helps to dilate arteries and lower blood pressure.
#4 The World Health Organization and 15,000 scientists have signed a petition warning humanity to cut back on eating meat, citing the environmental harm of methane-emitting cattle.
#5 Light therapy releases morphine-like substances, helps with the formation of new-blood vessels, and cures 60% of patients with degenerative changes in the lumbosacral region of the spine and compression of spinal nerves.
#6 Artificial intelligence developed by a Canadian company is assisting in early diagnosis among the 425 million patients worldwide who have diabetes, complicated by retinal atherosclerosis, and stand to lose their sight.
#7: Men suffering from chronic obstructive lung disease are more often correctly diagnosed than women with the same problem who are more likely to be labelled as having a psychiatric problem.

#8 There may be 2,000 ticks in an acre of forestland. A classical tick bite rash looks like a bull’s eye with a clear center, but only three people in ten get this rash.
#9 Keep the toilet seat down when flushing. A report in Physics of Fluids advises it’s better to keep viruses in the bowl. Spray, they say, can fly as high as three feet and in public toilets even higher.
#10 Dr. Charles Matthews of the Nutrition Cancer Institute in the U.S. pooled data from 9 studies which analyzed how activity affected 15 types of cancer. Those who engaged in 7-15 hours of physical activity a week showed significantly lower risk of 7 of the 15 cancers.
#11 Authorities say that the safe limit for canned goods such as acidic foods like canned tomatoes and other fruit is 18 months. For canned vegetables, beans, meats and poultry, it’s two to five years. A dented or rusty is a red flag. A swollen can means harmful bacteria are present and the can must be thrown away.
#12 A Gifford-Jones Law states that one degenerative disease often leads to another and another. This is why the epidemic of obesity often leads to type 2 diabetes and the complications of blindness, kidney failure and amputation of legs due to atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries).
#13 For baby boomers (born between 1945 and 1965) having hepatitis C, it most likely was transmitted long ago through contact with contaminated blood before robust controls were in place.
#14 A study at Boston University showed that cortisone injections for knee arthritis should be limited to 2-3 a year to decrease the risk of cartilage damage.

#15 International viral experts report that 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C taken three times a day, 3,000 international units (IU), 400 milligrams of magnesium and 30 milligrams of zinc daily will decrease the risk both of developing coronavirus and of dying of it.

The answers?  All items are true.

We close out this disastrous year of 2020 with a wish to all readers for your good health and a better year ahead.

AND THIS IS 2020 CHRISTMAS

 AND THIS IS 2020 CHRISTMAS

By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
   
       Russian author Leo Tolstoy,  in his book  War and Peace.  a book about people trying to find their footing in a world being turned upside down by war, social and political change, and spiritual confusion.  May  be said that in part this is what many are going through today.  We are at war with COVID-19.   Our social and political leadership is being exposed for what they are.... nor left or right.... it appears they are one of the same.  It is not about the people but about politicians at all levels filling their own pocket at the expense of hard working taxpayers.
George Orwell’s 1984 book another warning from the past...  Litarete genius that in part fore warned us of a very real future.
What was George Orwell's purpose for writing 1984?
In writing 1984, Orwell's main goal was to warn of the serious danger totalitarianism poses to society. He goes to great lengths to demonstrate the terrifying degree of power and control a totalitarian regime can acquire and maintain.
Having witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian governments in Spain and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase their power, Orwell designed 1984 to sound the alarm in Western nations still unsure about how to approach the rise of communism.
Today with the decay of political ‘isms’.  The world is in a free fall.  We have a Prime Minister that talks about a global social GREAT RESET.
About the world becoming one under one government.   It started with the phantom of climate control to now the very true threat of a pandamic.   An opening for governments to restrict movement and exercise serious violations of human right and freedoms.
We the people are being fed the pill through fear of infestation, when in reality it shoudl be the responsibility of the government to go after a vaccine and the real infectious point of threat.  No, instead they put fear in people and pass all kinds of regulations to restrict movement.
As we the people have been conditioned to be a good citizen we follow with limited challenge and anyone opposing will face strict reprecautions.   Tolstoy and Orwell both warned us of such powers by a govenment.   Why are we not listening.
  Our government has gone as far as telling us how and with who we should be celebrating one of the most important holidays of the year.
I can rationalize common sense.  I can’t rationalize hypocracy.   Government tells us to stay home.  They tell us to shut down our businesses.... and yet they increase and or threaten to increase staple items.  
As we turn with hope to 2021.  One has to wonder how this GREAT RESET will play out in our daily lives.   What will it mean when we are once again faced in 2021 with this COVID threat and what will be forced to give up in the name of public health.
In the words of John Lennon - ‘SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS’ -
“So this is Christmas - And what have you done? - Another year over - And a new one just begun - And so this is Christmas - I hope you have fun -The near and the dear one - The old and the young - A very merry Christmas - And a happy New Year - Let's hope it's a good one - Without any fear - And so this is Christmas - For weak and for strong - For rich and the poor ones - And so happy Christmas - For black and for white - For yellow and red ones - Let's stop all the fight.  The world is so wrong”
How reflective of what is going on in our society today.     As 2021 we should all be doing our part to combat COVID.   Not letting government tell us what to do.  But doing what makes sense in order to prevent the spread.  My Christmas wish is that we as a people as a nation stop looking at each other as the same but instead as unique.  As through our uniqueness we can become one strong nation of tolerance and understanding of all people.   I wish that we stop worrying about foreign lands and truly take care of our people.   That we stop the global thinking and put our hard earned resources into building on this great nation.   It is Christmas and it will always.  Let no agenda or hidden interst compromise a Canadian cultural custom and tradition.  We as a nation can celebrate Christmas any way we want.  It is up each and everyone to do what is right.  DO IT.  MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.  

Political allergies and Covid 19

by Maj (ret'd) CORNELIU E. CHISU, CD, PMSC,
FEC, CET, P. Eng.
Former Member of Parliament Pickering-Scarborough East
After nine months of a gruelling, unrelenting and frequently mismanaged battle with the pandemic, finally a vaccine has arrived in Canada and the world.
The start of vaccinations gave Canadian PM Justin Trudeau an opportunity to champion the environment, focusing on a new start of the economy in terms of the principles and promises of the Liberal Party.
In capitals around the world, political leaders have, with varying degrees of success, pinned their own political fortunes to the arrival and successful rollout of a vaccine. Who can blame them? After almost a year of unrelenting bad news, what politician wouldn't want to own the solution?
The people at Pfizer and Moderna, whom we actually have to thank for the vaccine, have worked hard to try to find a solution to fight the Covid 19 virus.
Here at home, it remains to be seen how our own political leaders will fare in their vaccine politics and whether the glory will be taken away by some unknown allergies.
Thus far, Trudeau and his cabinet are heavily pursuing an unknown, ambitious and somehow unrealistic climate change based new economy that will probably be extremely expensive and might well bring an economic pandemic to the country.  For example, in a recent announcement, it was predicted that the federal carbon tax would soar to $170 a tonne by 2030, adding 28 cents to the average price of a litre of gasoline. This is further evidence that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a global revolution in embracing a wholesale, tax-induced adoption of less mobile, more vegetarian and generally far less consumptive lifestyles in the world's wealthiest countries, with the COVID-19 pandemic serving as a catalyst.
The Conservative Party and opposition leader Erin O'Toole are not far  from the same kind of promises  to Canadians; only the packaging is different. No innovative ideas, no policies in place which could mobilize the Canadian electorate to have a realistic choice and vote for a change. That said, it is a dispute purely over methods, not goals. Conservatives have committed to meeting Canada's 2030 targets under the Paris Accord, just not with a carbon tax.  The Conservative team has been signalling that it plans to get serious about fighting climate change more generally, but non essentially. O'Toole's predecessor, Andrew Scheer, stumped for his "Real Plan to Protect Our Environment" as "Canada's best chance to meet the Paris targets." Even Stephen Harper's 2015 platform boasted "We've committed to ambitious greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030,"  but  no real action was ever taken.
With a potential election looming just around the corner, Trudeau has better hope and his team prepares for the landing, because there is no inoculation that can keep a minority government alive forever.  So he is preparing himself to be best positioned to win a new majority.
Their various post-COVID slogans "build back better," "a more resilient Canada," etc; even the press release announcing the carbon-tax hike begins, "As we continue to address the impacts of COVID-19 and ensure our strong economic recovery…" go out of their way to liken the battle against climate change to the battle against the pandemic.
But now comes the unknown which nobody wants to hear about. With the vaccine in place, the issues of people with allergies being advised to be careful about taking it, might easily translate to a political allergy, as the vaccinations proceed.
Pfizer has admitted that people with a history of severe adverse allergic reactions to vaccines or the candidate's ingredients were excluded from their late stage trials. However, the allergic reactions may have been caused by a component of Pfizer's vaccine called polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which helps stabilize the shot and is not in other types of vaccines.
On Dec. 12, Health Canada issued official guidance for those with serious allergies. Noting that all vaccines in Canada "carry a warning about the risk of serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, and immunization clinics are equipped to manage these rare events," the federal government warned that "people with allergies to any of the ingredients of the [Pfizer COVID-19] vaccine are currently cautioned against receiving it."
So as we approach the winter festivities, we need to be cautious and aware about the coronavirus pandemic and hope that our politicians do not become allergic to their duties. Life must go on……
Wishing you and your loved ones hope and happiness during this traditional season of giving.