I fear not!:
I fought as best I could to keep drug dealers away from the supervised injection site I worked at, but it was a battle that came with a price. The threats could be terrifying.
One dealer I had kicked out of the facility came up to me outside and tried to pull my COVID mask off. He said he wanted to take a picture of me on his phone so his boss could come and wait for me after work.
This is one of many disturbing memories that ran through my mind on July 7 as I watched the news on TV. I felt numb seeing footage of that familiar stretch of Queen Street East in Leslieville, a neighbourhood just east of downtown Toronto, now blocked off by police cars and yellow crime-scene tape. Three suspected drug dealers had exchanged gunfire after a dispute outside of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, killing an innocent passerby, a woman named Karolina Huebner-Makurat, who had two young children.
She died on the sidewalk across the street from the health centre, where I had worked for six years. South Riverdale still felt like home to me, even though I’d stopped working there a year earlier.
I had met with senior management several times during my years there, begging them to help us with the drug dealers operating around the centre – and often selling drugs inside the supervised injection site as well. But nothing ever changed. The drug dealers were as emboldened as ever.
If I’d still been working at South Riverdale that day, that could have been me who died on the sidewalk.
The reality, though, is that no one needed to die, if only management had listened.
Also:
The Ottawa Public Library wants to increase security measures in libraries to address a rise in safety issues at branches across the city.
Library workers have been physically and verbally attacked, threatened and spat on, leaving workers with long-lasting psychological and physiological impacts, according to a safety and security report presented to the OPL board in June detailing a rise in dangerous incidents.
OPL is asking for security guards to be stationed at more libraries, along with continuing full-time security at the city’s Main and Rideau library branches at a cost of $3 million over the next five years.
Some of the city’s libraries have had security guards since 2018. The current security contract expires at the end of the year. The funding request will go before the library board on Dec. 5.
If the board rejects the request, security services at the Main and Rideau libraries will cease at the end of December. That could expose staff and clients to potential safety risks given the frequency and severity of incidents, said a report for the library board prepared by Sonia Bebbington, OPL’s chief librarian and CEO.
The report cites an increase in the frequency and intensity of security incidents at branches over the past five years.
Incidents include drug and alcohol use, trespassing or causing a disturbance. In two cases in 2023, security guards administered Naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses.
During the first quarter of 2023, library staff made 176 public incident reports, which amounts to almost half of all reported incidents throughout all of 2022. If the trend continues, OPL anticipates the highest incident reporting of the previous five years by the end of 2023, said the report.
If people truly cared about their children being exposed to predators, they would never let their children use social media devices un-monitored and certainly wouldn't let a tyrannical government with a bad track record of punishing crime have a license to ban it all. No censorship was ever designed to protec the vulnerable:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's inappropriate to draw a link between government actions and the death of a British Columbia boy who killed himself last month after falling prey to online sextortion.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh referred to the death of the 12-year-old in Prince George, B.C., during question period today as he asked Trudeau when the Liberal government will table long-promised legislation designed to mitigate online harms.
Trudeau first promised to introduce legislation tackling hate speech, terrorist content and sexual abuse material in the 2019 federal election campaign.
He made a similar promise in the 2021 contest, specifying that a re-elected Liberal government would table a bill within its first 100 days, but it has yet to do so.
Trudeau told MPs today that the government needs to strike the right balance between freedom of expression and addressing the needs of communities subject to "discrimination and marginalization."
The prime minister also cautioned against "associating a tragedy that happened in Prince George with actions or inactions of any particular government," adding in French that it was inappropriate to make such a connection.
Who left Point Grey Academy early and why?
“I teach about Marxism, I teach about socialism, I teach about trans rights, I teach about LGBTQ history, I teach about black history, I teach about the racial history of our country and the genocide that we have inflicted upon indigenous people," Frank Domenic Cirinna of Craig Kielburger Secondary School in Milton said in the video.
He called parents who oppose any of this "antiquated dinosaurs" whose children will eventually turn away from them and adopt his worldview. His school board, the Halton District School Board, did not reply to an Epoch Times request for comment.
In the York Regional District School Board (YRDSB), teacher trainings for math and English as a Second Language (ESL) have been dominated by CRT, according to former teacher Chanel Pfahl, who receives many communications from teachers and parents about such things and posts them on X.
“What is your understanding of your identity and how your privilege and power shapes the way you experience the world?” reads a math consultant's slide Ms. Pfahl posted. An ESL training focused on "intersecting social identities" and "forms of oppression," as shown in materials from the training.
Also at YRDSB, parents of Grade 8 students were told their children would meet with an external organization called Black Excellence 365 weekly throughout November to build an understanding of "anti-racism and anti-oppression." A parent leaked the communication to Ms. Pfahl. In October, the board also had a speaker from the "On Canada Project" speak with students, Ms. Pfahl says. The organization's website lists federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as "far-right/white supremacists."
The YRDSB didn't respond to a request for comment by press time.
The West is the only part of the world that recognises that racism is inherently wrong and does something about it.
Aside from federal funding for divisive groups, what does division of racial and cultural lines achieve?
An Indigenous child-welfare agency reunited a troubled family despite multiple warnings of neglect and abuse, according to a three-year-old B.C. government internal review that has recently come to light. Six-year-old Dontay Lucas died at the hands of his mother and stepfather, just months after he was returned to their care.
Earlier this week, Dontay’s mother, Rykel Frank, and stepfather, Mitchell Frank, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges for the boy’s death in 2018.
The trial heard that the Nuu-chah-nulth boy suffered horrific abuse before he died of blunt-force head trauma. The pair will be sentenced next May.
Usma Nuu-chah-nulth Family & Child Services, a delegated Aboriginal agency (DAA), was responsible for child-protection concerns involving the family in Port Alberni.
All deaths and critical injuries of children and youth in care are reviewed by B.C.’s Ministry of Children and Family Development.
A summary of the 2020 review on Dontay’s death, obtained by The Globe and Mail, painted a troubling picture of Usma’s protection plan for the boy and his sibling, who was “impacted as a result of the death.”
The summary report was posted on a government website but not easily accessible to the public. It does not identify the boy but matches the circumstances of the case that emerged during the trial.
The report states: “The DAA supported a reunification plan for the children and the parents, gradually increasing their time together until, shortly before the child’s death, the children returned to their parents’ care.”
“During this period of reunification,” the report continues, “the DAA received multiple reports concerning neglect and abuse of the children while in their parents’ care; none of the reports were assessed or addressed according to policy, and the plan for reunification continued, leaving the children at risk of future harm.”
The report set out an “action plan” for the agency based on its failings in Dontay’s case.
Under that plan, Usma is required to self-audit its adherence to policy, create tools to support case documentation and clinical supervision, ensure care plans are current, and review options for care with its staff.
Judith Sayers, president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, said the agency has implemented all the recommendations in the review.
“There were some deficiencies that have been addressed, to ensure none of this ever happened again,” Ms. Sayers said in an interview. “It’s been a transformation in many ways. There’s been a change in staff, and continual updates of policy.”
Usma, an agency of the tribal council, has improved its staff training and communication structures, she added, and it has reinforced public messaging on the duty to report when there are child-safety concerns.
Which seems to happen a lot.
With all of the "tools" and "strategies" and other catch-phrases, where was the will and the foresight to prevent the death of this boy?
Just as militant atheists don't speak for everyone, neither do these tools:
Muslim American Society demands shutdown of Christmas tree lightning
— Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) November 29, 2023
so much for #Coexist https://t.co/NADFHjPfti
(Insert own "not at all crazy" comment here):
Jason Lee Willie of Nashville, Illinois, was charged Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois with 14 felony counts of interstate communication of a threat to injure, according to a federal indictment.
The threats, which are dated between March and August, include repeated references to Christians, black Americans, the Republican Party, and others.
Among the alleged threats cited in the indictment are threats to “bomb the churches”: "...We're gonna bomb them, we're gonna bomb them. We're gonna bomb the churches. We're gonna bomb them. You know it. We're going to kill you..."
In an online video, Willie — who also goes by “Alexia N. Willie,” according to court documents — made reference to “Christian trash,” adding, “They're transphobic, they're homophobic, they're no different than the [expletive] white supremacists....”
The indictment alleges Willie also frequently used racial epithets and threatened to target anyone "with a cross around your neck.”
Prosecutors say Willie also specifically mentioned harming children, with online video threats such as, “...We're coming for your children. We're not going to hurt you. We're not going to hurt you.
"You have to understand, I know how to get to you, and that's by [pounds fist into palm twice for emphasis] f--- your children. By hurting your children. And that's exactly what we're going to do."
In August, Willie made an online video in which he allegedly said, "Well, I guarantee I'll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters and there ain't nothing you f— can do about it. You hear me?"
According to prosecutors, in another August video, Willie appeared to identify himself as a pedophile when he graphically described sexual abuse toward "little girls" and said, "You guys can't do nothing about it. I don't care, I'm openly a pedo. I'm openly a pedophile ..."
Why not challenge this guy in a debate?
Or is it easier to ignore to who cry out anti-Jewish things when they are in full force?:
“To invite an author who has been accused of making false accusations and misrepresentations in his book about the Holocaust and survivors and justifying the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel is the last thing we need in the City of Toronto,” wrote Pasternak. “We should not be welcoming someone who spreads disinformation and conspiracy theories about Jews and the Holocaust.”
Pasternak added that Finkelstein’s views toward Holocaust survivors and the justification for the Oct. 7 attacks “are not welcome in Toronto and should not be welcomed to our public spaces.”
But such things are already acceptable in schools and on the streets where favoured voters blocks are given free reign.
Is Finklestein right?
I don't believe so. I believe he is a self-indulgent leftist who enjoys kicking the proverbial hornet's nest.
Imagine being able to say as much during a debate.
The issue is really how much money people are willing to waste to prove that they are eco-pious:
Consumer Reports said EV owners most frequently reported troubles with battery and charging systems as well as flaws in how the vehicles' body panels and interior parts fit together. The magazine and website noted that EV manufacturers are still learning to construct completely new power systems, and it suggested that as they do, the overall reliability of electric vehicles should improve.
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