SO DO BAD DOCTORS, BAD NURSES, BAD
HOSPITALS
and I have no respect for bad cops or
bad politicians..
"Mandatory prison sentences are appropriate
for those who commit serious drug offences threatening our society,"
said Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. The proposed legislation would impose
one-year mandatory jail time for marijuana dealing, when it is linked to
organized crime or a weapon is involved. The sentence would be increased to
two years for dealing drugs such as cocaine, heroin or methamphetamines to
young people, or pushing drugs near a school or other places frequented by
youths. The bill also calls for a two-year mandatory prison terms for being
caught growing at least 500 marijuana plants and increased maximum
imprisonment to 14 years, from the current seven, for running grow operations.
The government also proposes tougher penalties for trafficking in date-rape
drugs.
I have to totally agree with the federal Justice
minister here about the truth, fact that serious drug offences do now also
require serious jail time, and jail next is a good place for a lot of people
to think where they want to go next too.. I have done prison visitations and I
know people in jail get a chance to think about their past crimes for sure..
My experience also is that the police themselves will not and
they do not arrest many drug users still.. There is another thing many
people seem to forget.. that is how many of the drug users get the funding for
their drug habits.. next eventually it means theft from others basically thus
also hurting many others..
BUT MEANWHILE WHY IS IT THE POLICE ALWAYS ASK
FOR TOUGHER LAWS FOR THE CRIMINALS WHEN THEY THE RCMP CAN'T OR REFUSE TO CATCH
THE BAD GUYS FIRSTLY?
U.S.
State Department says Canada the top source for
ecstasy Fri Feb 27,
6:27 PM WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department says Canada should do
more to curb the production and trade in ecstasy and other illicit drugs. The
2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, released Friday,
highlights the growth of methamphetamine "super labs" throughout the country,
particularly in British Columbia and Ontario. The report says Canada has
become the No. 1 source of ecstasy south of the border.
The report also quoted Canadian officials as saying
Prime Minister Stephen Harper wanted to increase penalties for drug production
and trafficking, but not for drug use. ( Typical Harper Hypocrisy,
false partiality)
THE POLITICIANS CAN LEGISLATE ALL THE LAWS THEY WANT, BUT YOU STILL
CANNOT FORCE SOMEONE TO RESPECT THE BAD COPS, RESPECT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TO
BE EARNED, NOT LEGISLATED.. HISTORY ALWAYS SHOWS THAT THE PEOPLE STILL
WILL NEVER RESPECT THE BAD COPS..
"Police is a public
service, not a corporation, and the only PR they are supposed to do is through
their work to make sure they earn public support and trust. People don't want
to see police officers doing PR to protect police's interests a) in the media
and b) during a major investigation."
RCMP
in BC to speak about late search for Montreal ski
couple
CBC.ca - The Montreal couple
was lost in the backcountry near the Kicking Horse Resort for 10 days,
according to RCMP. (CBC) The RCMP will hold a press conference Thursday in
Golden, BC, to help explain why it took more than a week to begin a search for
a … Husband rescued after 9 days on BC
mountain National Post
Many other incidents in the past few years have also
raised serious questions about the ethics and competence of RCMP officers. Why
was an 82-year-old man tasered while he lay in a Kamloops hospital bed? Why
wasn't a heavily armed tactical team called in to the incident in Mayerthorpe,
Alta., which resulted in four Mounties being shot to death by a man known to
be dangerous? Just recently, in northern Saskatchewan local residents found
the frozen body of a teenager who had escaped from an RCMP car the night
before after being arrested for drunkenness. It took them only half an hour to
find him and they were left wondering why the Mounties didn't call on them
right away. The bigger scandals, such as the RCMP's willingness to help the
U.S. authorities who shipped Maher Arar to Syria for torture, and their
bungling of the Air India investigation, have cast long shadows on our
national police force. Relationships between police officers and the public
are always fraught with tension. But it seems the RCMP has fallen so far from
grace that it's hard to imagine it will ever recover public
confidence.
Full real, active Vigilance by all persons here
is still always required in reality. There are still too few cost, money
controls - and too many opportunities for fraud and abuse - associated with
the biggest outlay of federal money in our own government's
history.
President Barack
Obama told officials at all levels of government the he would hold them
accountable for how they spend federal stimulus money, pledging to "call them
out" if the funding is wasted on projects that do not generate jobs for the
struggling economy. He a warned the nation's
mayors that he would use the "full power" of the presidency to
expose and crack down on them if they misuse the stimulus dollars meant to
boost the sagging economy. If a federal agency or a local
government, Municipality proposes a project that will waste that
money, he will not hesitate to call them out on it and use
the full power of his office and his administration to stop it. "And
I want everybody here to be on notice ". He also said a White House team
will track how the funding is spent. A report by his budget director laid out
specific guidelines that states and cities must adopt for reporting activities
financed with the money. "What I will need from all of you is unprecedented
responsibility and accountability on all of our parts," Obama said. "The
American people are watching."
Many persons they
also urged the US president to make sure the money does not get caught up in
the kind of bureaucratic delays that often slow the flow of funding from the
federal government to cities. "It took 2 1/2 years before any money
really hit the city of New Orleans after Katrina,"
Obama's warning
confirms his role too as a guardian of the public purse, which could help
inoculate him when inevitable controversies erupt over how the money is being
spent by some municipalities. Too many persons rightfully also do
worries that too much money will be abused, stolen but spent recklessly
on end projects that have no long-term job, economic
benefits. It is the constituents themselves who are
paying for it all now still with their tax money
This is a very sad commentary that
such abuses do often still occur in both the US and Canada now too.
There is always the obligations to spend the taxpayer's money money
wisely, free from politics and free from personal agendas. That now still
applies to anybody that takes part in any amount of
this funding. On this there is no compromise or shortcuts. Full,
real, active Vigilance by all persons here is still always required in
reality. There are still too few cost, money controls - and too many
opportunities for fraud and abuse - associated with the biggest outlay of
federal money in our own government's history.
" Back in
late 1995, the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien was close to panic after
the federalist side came within a whisker of losing the Quebec referendum. The
Liberals did what governments do when they don't know what else to do - they
threw money at the problem. They took a little-known program created to
promote Canadian identity, which in the year before the referendum had spent a
relatively minuscule $2 million, and pumped money into it, turning it into a
huge patronage slush fund. By the time it was over, the Sponsorship Program,
for that's what it was, had burned through $322 million in taxpayer's money.
Some of the money was wasted, some was stolen, some found its way into the
pockets of Liberals operatives in Quebec, some into the coffers of the party,
and some simply disappeared. No one knows how much money went astray, but it
could have been as much as $100 million. It was an outrage, but it was
inevitable. In its wisdom - or desperation - the Liberals took the sponsorship
program out of the hands of the public servants who handle government
contracts, and turned it over to the political fixers in the Prime Minister's
Office. They shoveled money out the door. There was no oversight, no
accountability to Parliament, no competition for contracts, and in some
instances no reports of how the money had been spent. Anyone with connections
in the Liberal party had a chance to get on the sponsorship teat. Fast forward
to 2009. The Conservatives are in office and there is another national
crisis. The Conservatives, like governments everywhere, are desperate to
stimulate the economy, get credit flowing again, save failing enterprises and
create jobs. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is asking Parliament to authorize
his government to spend $3 billion by the end of June in short-term stimulus.
He wants to operate without oversight by circumventing the normal approval
process that is designed to weed out schemes that can't pass the smell test.
The $3 billion would be in a special Treasury Board fund that the politicians
- the cabinet - would disperse among departments. Parliament would not be told
where the money was going until after it was spent. Doesn't this sound like
the sponsorship program, magnified 10 times - from $322 million to $3 billion?
Once again, we have a government that is so eager to spend money to address a
crisis that it is not going to lose any sleep if some of the money is wasted
or goes astray. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said as much the other day when
he warned that the Tories' fast-track disbursement was bound to produce some
foul-ups in the allocation of funds. He's right, of course. The Liberals call
the stimulus fund a "blank cheque" and the New Democrats label it a "slush
fund." They claim that 70 per cent of the infrastructure grants currently
being disbursed under another program, the Building Canada fund, are going to
Conservative ridings. Prime Minister Harper is not taking any of this nonsense
from mere opposition politicians. He went out to Vancouver the other day to
rattle his sabres. The man never seems to learn. "We are not going to mess
around with this," Harper said, ". . . If the opposition doesn't like it, they
will find themselves in an election." Let's get real. The Conservatives have
dropped in popular support since last October's election; today they are in a
statistical tie with Michael Ignatieff's Liberals - and Ignatieff is not a man
who can be bullied the way Harper bullied his predecessor, Stéphane Dion. If
the Conservatives are defeated when their $3 billion package comes to a
parliamentary vote on March 26, Harper will have himself and his foolish
hardball tactics to blame." geoffstevens@sympatico.ca. http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/article/447184
"Harper's $3 billion fund needs
oversight Feb 28, 2009 04:30 A M James Travers OTTAWA Stephen Harper
says he's ready to fight an election over a Conservative slush fund.
Michael Ignatieff should call the bluff. What the Prime Minister is proposing
would create irresistible political temptations, won't effectively
stimulate the economy and is dangerous to democracy. Apart from stirring
sponsorship scandal memories, the plan for cabinet to distribute $3
billion behind closed doors is an acid test for public accountability.
If Harper has his way, Parliament's defining responsibility to control
public spending will be further diminished even as executive powers
again expand. "Trust me" is not a credible proposition from a prime minister
who broke his word and law to force the fall election. Suspending fiscal
oversight is not a reassuring response to a leader who ignored available
evidence to campaign on the assurance that Canada would escape recession
and as recently as November forecast surpluses. It's no more prudent for
taxpayers to leave politicians alone with buckets of cash than it's wise
for parents to leave children alone with the cookie jar. One leads as
predictably to abuse as the other to sugar fits. So why run the risk?
Urgency is the answer. A government that resisted boosting the economy
three months ago is now so determined to flush money out the door it's
ready to short-circuit safeguards. Mad-rush spending is suddenly so essential
that Harper is threatening the fifth election in just nine years - if he
isn't given extraordinary freedom. The logic is bizarre. In this crisis,
$3 billion is chump change and won't provide instant relief for a $1.5
trillion economy. If the justification is a stretch, the election
bravado is a leap. Another campaign would delay the economic rescue
package by many months and almost certainly for too long to ease the
financial pain. At least Harper, unlike Jean Chrétien, is announcing the fund
while confirming the obvious: mistakes will be made. Even if pre-emptive
damage control, that's a step forward. Still, the national comfort level
should be pegged on skeptical. Conservatives have a shoddy record of
spreading infrastructure millions where they will have most impact on
party fortunes. Just as worrying, this government is quietly kneecapping
the independent office it noisily created to "bring truth to budgeting"
and now want off Ottawa's twisted money trail. Revealing in itself, the ugly
fight with budget officer Kevin Page is rich with implications for
accountability and the slush fund. Twice Page has embarrassed the
government in the year since his position was created. First he revealed
the rising costs of the Afghanistan mission at a sensitive moment in the
last campaign. Then he projected deficits just days before Finance
Minister Jim Flaherty wrongly predicted surpluses. No surprise, the
government wants no repeats. It will try to control information about the
$3 billion fund, leaving the bad news to some future, post-election
auditor general report. If the Prime Minister has nothing to hide, he
has nothing to fear. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/594542
"It is an excellent idea for the public to have access
to follow the money trail of Government spending. All levels of
Government should have this accounting practice in place. I believe it
was Obama who first mentioned the idea of a websight.
"
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.. BECAUSE JUDGE NOT OTHERS SO
THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED NEXT FOR DOING THE SAME THING STILL
APPLIES .. THE CONSERVATIVES HAD SAID PUT US INTO POWER AND WE WILL
SHOW YOU A DIFFERENT, CLEAN, HONEST, TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT AND SADLY NEXT WE
ALL CAN KNOW THIS WAS A BIG LIE.. THE SAME CONSERVATIVES LIED JUST THE REST
AND DID, DO MANY OF THE SAME BAD THINGS TOO. THEY WERE, ARE NOT ANY
BETTER.
Tories drop the gloves on Ignatieff,
prepare attack ads The Canadian Press - Stephen Harper speculated last week about a possible election if
the opposition blocks Conservative efforts to speed up infrastructure
spending. The Conservative research group started poring through
Ignatieff's work - including more than a dozen books and countless academic
papers - This means another political WAR!!! More taxpayer's money wasted again
too
Doctors call for weight loss industry
regulation CBC.ca - Many
weight loss products like pills, herbs and some private clinics fail to
deliver on their promises and governments should be regulating scientifically
unproven therapies, obesity doctors say.
Two pounds a week beats any magic bullet
Globe and Mail
Regulate
weight-loss clinics that make unproven claims, obesity … The Canadian Press
CTV.ca -
CityNews -
Vancouver Sun - Calgary CTV
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Many weight loss
products like pills, herbs and some private clinics fail to deliver on their
promises and governments should be regulating scientifically unproven
therapies, obesity doctors say. I said the same thing in writing to the
federal government, health ministers the last 2 decades too. In reality even Ten Nurses
cannot replace a decent doctor, never mind the health food quacks, liars now
as well… nor can the internet if you are serious ill.. I had 4 separate major
illness that no one was able to diagnose without a proper medical test. A
friend of mine who ran a health food store totally misdiagnosed the ailments
as well to prescribe tones of expensive unneeded products.. nurses ate
the emergency clinics were at to diagnose my problems as well.. My problems
included gland problems, diabetes, blocked arteries, kidney stones.
In addition to a doctor the second best thing I
discovered was a dietician.. Many Hospital delays are unessential, they are
mere bureaucratic ploys, blackmail to get more money, raises, funding..
they are still very poorly managed. The Health Council now
claims that contrary to popular belief, aging and population growth are not
the major causes of increased health care spending. Instead, Canadians are
using the system more than ever. PART OF THE REASONS IS THAT THE TOO OFTEN
CHARGE CARD HAPPY DOCTORS ARE NOT DOING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.. when many
patients have to have repeat visits even visits to other doctors to get a
second opinion this clearly show we can we improve the system without cutbacks
or service reductions. Just cause a Doctor has a medicinal degree it still
even does not mean all doctors are similarly competent now as well. "We can
account for how money is spent, but not, in any precise way, for what it
achieves," We must figure out a way to make our money go further without
compromising the quality of care Canadians have come to expect and need. To do
that we for sure do need to have better Hospital, medical supervisors
for a start. About the political Health
Council of Canada. It was created by the 2003 First Ministers' Accord on
Health Care Renewal, The Health Council of Canada is mandated to monitor and
report on the progress of health care renewal in Canada. The Councillors were
appointed by the participating provinces, territories and the Government of
Canada which does not honestly disclose it's full
agenda..
Hospitals play waiting
game Toronto Sun -
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF Hospital statistics released by the province
yesterday confirm what patients have long claimed: They're spending far too
long in emergency rooms.
City ER patients wait
longer London Free
Press
ER waits longer than
average Peterborough
Examiner
Windsor
Star - Globe
and Mail - Metro
Canada - Ottawa - LondonTopic.ca
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articles »
Council wants Canadians to express views on
health-care system
CBC.ca -
A new website is asking Canadians for their input on how to get more
bang from the bucks spent on the health-care system. Are services used well
when cataract surgery is done on people with little loss of
vision?
Can you believe it that
the already rich doctors as well complain they are underpaid, demand more
money, and yet these very same doctors only work 9 to 5, have the
holidays and weekend off, even though people get sick all the time now too..
THE DOCTORS AND NURSES
NEED TO GET BACK TO CARING AFTER THE SICK PEOPLE.
The government's own
bad management, past false savings by getting rid of middle managers,
supervisor has firstly led to the increase of the Health costs.
I
don't know if it bugs you as it does now bugs me, that when something is
defective with my car the auto motive dealer issues a recall and fixes it
freely, but now with MICROSOFT it sadly is the other way around. For
when something is defective with one of their computer operating systems, they
finally, eventually do issue the supposed corrections, but they also
mainly do call it a new package and even next charge me more for it..
wow, what a rip off, a real high way robbery… and 5 times now at least
too. How many times can we get ripped off and be silent about it now
too? Secondly I am really getting tired of all that false
really big let downs due to the false, misleading MS advertising system
on how their newer operating system will be even be much better than the
old one. And what ever happened to all of the past great expectations
for MS Dos, OS2, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, all of them now too
it seems next gone the way of the dinosaurs. In reality also I know that
millions of computer users still using Windows 98, and and are still happy to
continue to use Windows XP as well, especially when you have had to
seriously upgrade firstly your computer system to be able to firstly even use
the new Windows Vista. While Windows Vista was improved after SP1 was
released, but what still plagues the software-is it's bloat and
resource-intensiveness, to just name a few issues-is present even after
Service Pack 1. Many persons thus would rather use XP than Vista,
since it's more reliable, it doesn't require a new, powerful computer to run,
and forgoes the beauty for usability. Vista clearly too rightfully hasn't
performed nearly as well as Microsoft has advertised to us all and thus many
businesses are loath to switch to it, for sure adding to the strained MS
relationships with businesses. Many people now do need a new computer. Badly
too. But they are seriously willing to wait? and wait for what? More
reasonable pricing and a reasonably effective Windows operating system.
They thus now are unwilling to buy a new computer today. And
now for certainty there's a single major factor that's forcing them
to to wait: and it is the advertised Windows 7. Now while Macs, iMac
and the MacBook are trusty companions many persons still do
want to get into the real world of Windows, computer usage. And
some now they say that Windows 7 isn't just an outstanding operating
system that provides an ideal positive experience, but it's also a great
alternative to Mac OS X. WOW? And Windows 7, on the other hand, also
finally blends beauty with usability and that makes it even supposedly
superior over Windows Vista, that is until they find some new
undiscovered bugs and MS again have to issue a new service package too?
Anyway for now why buy
something like Windows Vista that really now doesn't offer both when next its
successor Windows 7 will? And it looks like Windows 7 will be released
even in 2009. So how much sense would it really make for anyone to
buy Vista? Sure,
many persons, businesses they do need a new faster computer
now and it would be nice to have one soon, so I too don't see any reason
to buy one packed with an operating system that will be made also
obsolete in a matter of months. It doesn't make any sense. Some persons
also do say Windows 7 will be remembered as one of the greatest operating
systems Microsoft has ever released. But they said that about many of the
previous operating system now as well.. So do not get rid of your XP yet… I
too will have no problem holding off from getting Windows 7 . I'm
willing to wait. As per others Moving beyond Vista,
Microsoft says it aims to make a much different first impression with Windows
7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor. And
the Windows 7 buzz may thus severely stall Windows Vista sales for all
that now supposedly happy Windows 7 talk has made it harder to convince many,
many businesses to move to Windows Vista. A tour through the beta
of Windows 7 might makes a favorable impression. But that too isn't'
good enough.. We need to fully test it as well.. Let's also now
next hope Microsoft does right by its existing Vista customers on pricing
something Microsoft botched up on Windows Vista as well. But that is unlikely
too..
Distasteful drinks, repulsive photos and unfair
financial treatment all evoked the same primitive response in their
experiments - the unmistakable grimace of disgust. "People feel it very
strongly and viscerally," says Hanah Chapman, lead author of the study
published today in the journal Science. It suggests revulsion to unfair
financial dealings - be it overpayment of executives or brokers peddling toxic
mortgages (or crooked cops, bad doctors, crooked realtors, lying accountants,
bad pastors or priests, bad RCMP too, bad politicians , bad civil and public
servants, child molesters, lawyers) - taps into powerful and primitive
emotions more commonly associated with cockroaches, filth and disease.
The idea that immoral behaviour "leaves a bad taste in your mouth" is more
than just a metaphor, say psychologists at the University of Toronto, who have
shown that immorality triggers the same primitive reactions that helped early
humans avoid poison and infection Http://www.canada.com/life/behaviour+leaves+taste/1336270/story.html
