Stupid, Dumb and Just Plain Ignorant Cop Thread
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Here is a fine example of the sort of madness that cops face pretty much daily on the job and it’s a good illustration of our Cdn future if LIE-berals persist in being willfully blind to home grown terror and bigotry -and there are some comments of my own in brackets):
Cops report: Man kills 3 on street, says he 'hates white people'
Scott Smith, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. First posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 04:52 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 05:02 PM EDT
Fresno police members walk near a shooting scene Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. (John Walker/Fresno Bee/via AP)
FRESNO, CALIF. - A man shot and killed three people on the streets of downtown Fresno on Tuesday, shouting “God is great” in Arabic during at least one of the slayings and later telling police that he hates white people, authorities said.
Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, was arrested shortly after the rampage, whose victims were all white, police said. He also was wanted in connection with another killing days earlier, in which a security guard was gunned down at a Fresno motel after responding to a disturbance.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said the victims were shot minutes apart in close proximity in areas around downtown. He said Muhammad made other statements to police but he did not disclose them.
The shooting happened outside a Catholic Charities building, but spokeswoman Teresa Dominguez said the charity doesn’t believe the suspect was tied to the non-profit organization.
Sayed Ali Ghazvini, imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno, said Muhammad was not a member of his congregation and he did not recognize him. The imam said he is consulting with other faith leaders.
(I say that`s nice- BUT WHO CARES where he went to pray? All that really matters is his shooting spree apparently based on religious HATE!)
“We’re kind of shocked and surprised for what happened,” Ghazvini said. “We are very sorry for this to happen. We offer condolences for the victims, we pray for the victims and their families.”
(That`s nice-prayers are ALWAYS nice-but WE PRAY that NO MORE of these Muslim religious nutbars are allowed into western society! They are simply too dangerous and unpredictable and the cost and consequences for society are TOO HIGH!)
Following the shooting, Fresno city spokesman Mark Standriff said county offices were placed on lockdown, and people were urged to shelter in place.
(Here is a fun question-how much did it cost Yankee tax payers to be charitable to this one lone white hater? In Canada, a typical defense lawyer-supplied by legal aid at a murder trial- gets paid half a million dollars to defend his client. We can assume that the prosecution team gets paid at least that much with both sides needing psychological studies of the villain along with forensic evidence and etc. Then there are the court costs-for the building, the judge, the bailiffs dragging in HUNDREDS of citizens to winnow through the crowd to find a suitable jury and the time jurors spend away from work- usually at their own cost. The time spent by cops waiting to testify regarding their actions around the arrest of the villain. Then the jail costs-currently in Canada it cost one hundred fifty grand per year to incarcerate a hard core felon. Over a 25 year period the costs add up to many tens of millions of dollars-that could have BEEN SAVED if only govt would recognize that Muslims hold values and views that prevent them from fitting into our culture!)
Here is another article questioning LIE-beral immigration policy-along with some comments of my own in brackets):
HIV-positive sex offender stays in Canada
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun. First posted: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 03:46 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 03:51 PM EDT
An HIV-positive sex offender who avoided being deported is back on the streets.
Winnipeg cops are warning residents that Apay Ogouk, 33, was released from prison after being caged on three counts of sexual assault.
“Although he participated in some treatment programming in the past, Ogouk is still considered at risk to reoffend in a sexual manner,” Manitoba’s high-risk sex offender unit said in a warning. “All females are at risk.”
The Sudan-born man had unprotected sex with three teenage girls — two of whom he infected with HIV, the virus that causes potentially-deadly AIDS.
While the acts were consensual the Lolita-loving lothario didn’t inform his sex partners of his condition.
(And Why would he inform the girls as it might kill his fun?)
Ogouk came to Canada as a refugee in 2005. In 2006, he was informed he was HIV-positive — and told to use protection and inform his sexual partners about his health.
(I have to ask: Why do LIE-berals not check refugees for such a deadly disease before letting them in? This is the fatal flaw in LIE-beral logic in throwing open the doors to anybody who wants in! And why was he not immediately deported when his HIV status was uncovered? At that time his Cdn status would still have been “on trial” so to speak and we could surely have shipped him back home if LIE-beral hug a thug judges had ordered it?)
One girl, 15, was lucky she wasn’t infected but two others weren’t so lucky.
By the time cops went looking for him, Ogouk had moved to Calgary where he was later charged with aggravated sex assault against two more women. Both happily tested negative.
(OH great-not content with charming young females into dangerous sexual situations, now he is growing impatient and is ATTACKING them! Should we assume he is Not using condoms either? We now have THREE people suffering from Aids when-with a little care we might have avoided having ANY! And as the ass-clown is likely to reoffend, the cost of being kind to him will likely GROW!)
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. In addition, he was hit with a seven-year jolt for his Winnipeg crimes.
At his sentencing, Ogouk said: “If I get a chance, I don’t do that again. I’m very sorry for that.”
But he was not ordered deported.
(Again-I ask : WHAT BENEFIT COMES TO CANADA from allowing this goof to stay? I see clearly the legal bills and jail costs he has generated from his criminal behaviour. I see the immigration court costs he has generated-first to get into the country and then to persuade us to let him STAY. I see the medical bills HE has already generated and the future bills he will generate as his condition deteriorates. I see the bills that the girls he infected will generate as their condition deteriorates.)
(What I DON’T SEE is what`s in it for us? What do we get for taking this goof in? And what are the odds he will re-offend later-and generate even more costs if he gets bored and horny?)
(The world is full of people desperately seeking a better life-why then do we stick with ones who spit on us and abuse our hospitality? Why not give those who insult our charity the boot and then bring in others that are more responsible and reliable? It`s not like there is a shortage of candidates! Just how badly DO LIE-berals want and need that immigrant vote? Is the LIE-beral grip on power that precarious? Are they that much hated by main stream Canada? Apparently the answer is YES-main stream Canada LOATHES LIE-berals! And our LIE-beral loving news media-the ones Conservatives such as Harper hated- are doing their best to HIDE the fact that LIE-berals are elected by a cabal of well paid civil servants plus a coterie of special interest groups that LIE-berals suck up to completely and shamelessly!)
Oh you poor thing....lurking in your basement and hardly ever seeing the light of day and thus totally confused as to WHY so many people are acting so weird and wrong! You do not understand that when the money runs out.....SO DOES THE SANITY! Incidentally I notice that most of the examples put up by spaminator are related to Yankee cops and sadly we Cdns are following in your crazy wake-doing the same stupid things Consider this:
Here is a nice article illustrating why the "sunny ways" of Our imbecile leader Trudope are growing so cloudy! With some comments of my own set in brackets):
Wages Are Falling In Canada's Low-End Jobs.
1/23 Huffington Post Canada. Daniel Tencer
Here’s a clear sign income inequality is on the rise in Canada. Wages in the country’s lowest-paid sectors are falling, while rising (albeit slowly) for others, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
Average weekly earnings for retail workers fell 2.1 per cent in December, from a year earlier, to $566.17. Retail is the largest sector by employment in Canada, accounting for 1.96 million jobs.
Earnings also fell in accommodation and food services (the fourth-largest sector), down 1.9 per cent in a year, to $373.12. These are among the lowest-earning sectors of the economy.
Overall, wages are up 1.2 per cent in Canada over the past year. Adjusted for inflation, which ran at 1.5 per cent in the same period, wages are down 0.3 per cent.
(And those numbers dont tell the full truth! Deduct the nice little wage packages handed to civil sevice Working Family Hogs and you get a much meaner wage number! And those Hog wage benefits are being paid for with BORROWED MONEY that we will have to pay back with interest-compounded AND amortized in the future! No wonder LIE-beral popularity is falling!)
Notably, both retail and accommodation/food have added jobs over the past year, about 45,000 of them combined. This suggests that employers are offering lower wages for new workers, or increasingly shifting to shorter hours.
(In other words, employers want workers who are desperate and wont complain about lousy hours and short shifts! This is a nasty blueprint for creating a social underclass of people who simply cannot get along without govt social welfare and LIE-beral bribery!)
StatsCan data from earlier this year showed that Canada is shifting to part-time work. Over the past year, the country has seen the number of part-time jobs grow 5.6 per cent, while full-time jobs rose a soft 0.6 per cent.
(And the great majority of full time jobs are with GOVT! Meaning they are being paid for with borrowed money that we cannot afford!)
The strongest wage growth among major sectors over the past year has been in construction (which has benefited from a housing boom in southern Ontario) and education. Wages are up 2 per cent in both sectors. Wages rose 5.1 per cent in mining, oil and gas, though given the 6.1-per-cent reduction in jobs, this probably only indicates that lower-wage oil workers are losing their jobs faster than higher-paid ones.
(Oh thats GREAT! Most of the workers in residential construction are here ILLEGALLY! Brick layers from Poland, tile setters from Italy, carpenters from Brazil, window washers from Mexico-and I dont name these countries at random! These are all place names taken from news articles related to people being deported from Canada! Cdn kids dont have a chance to get hired or trained as its cheaper to hire skilled illegals from other places!)
(For one thing-skilled illegals dont pay income tax since they are illegal. They dont pay the health levy for the same reason. No unemployment insurance deductions or CPP either-so book keeping for such people is quite low cost-its all just one lump sum CASH payment per week.)
(And if the illegals ever need health care, there is a nice cache of health cards forged by those ever helpfull and clever Nigerians-with the aid of people inside our health system SELLING personal information for profit! And aint LIE-berals helpful in this? They have decreed that Canada Post CANNOT halt delivery of packages below a certain size-meaning Postal people SEE the cards going through the system and can only alert the cops and hope that they have somebody to watch the postal box until somebody comes to pick up. And if cop is called away for something like a murder or major car crash then- oh well- the forged cards can be picked up without risk! And any person caught in these scams simply gets deported back to their countyr of origin!)
(And there is NOTHING to prevent illegals from sending money back to Portugal or where-ever and keeping THEIR national pension plan working for them when they retire! In addition, many muddle-headed Cdn politicians have decreed that Cdn cities will be "sanctuary cities" where illegals can access all manner of services including sending their kids to school for free! They use our schools, our health care, undercut our people with tax dodges and then retire to a nice pension in THEIR country! Its a great deal for illegals but not so good for Cdn kids trying to get started in life! Even worse idiot LIE-beral politicians are so desperate for power at any price they are willing to let illegals vote for them here in "Sanctuary Toronto" without the bother of proper ID! Who cares about Cdn law when LIE-beral PRIVILEGE is on the line?)
Overall, this is weak wage growth compared to what Canada was seeing just a few years ago, when wages were rising above 3 per cent annually.
When oil prices crashed, many economists predicted that the oil price collapse would mean slower income growth. The overall decline in national income caused by the slump would eventually work its way through to individuals’ wages, they predicted.
(Sadly-I see things are working economically in STANDARD LIE-beral fashion-promise anything and then blame the results on somebody else! After all LIE-berals ARE focused on the middle class-its just too bad that a bunch of naive young people-the ones doing all those McJobs- got suckered into thinking that they would be aided by LIE-berals as well!)
(We are out of money and now the smelly stuff is hitting the fan and making tempers flare! LIE-berals and their supporters have SERIOUSLY MIS-CALCULATED!)
Spillthebeer, how old are you? Can't you just spell Liberal?
Anyway, yes, the wealth gap is a problem that needs to be addressed. But to just blame this PM or that PM or party will resolve nothing. We need to offer ideas, and you didn't offer one single practical idea in your whole diatribe.
Anyway, yes, the wealth gap is a problem that needs to be addressed. But to just blame this PM or that PM or party will resolve nothing. We need to offer ideas, and you didn't offer one single practical idea in your whole diatribe.
Here is an example of where govt can pick up money AND control housing costs as well:
Here is a nice story explaining the efficiency our federal civil service Hogs at Canada Revenue Agency routinely display. It illustrates how civil servants seek out low hanging, easy to get at fruit, and ignore any hard and time consuming jobs that WOULD PAY MORE IF PROSECUTED! But Hogs don't want to sweat the big jobs-its much easier to chase the little guys!
Civil service Hogs are so lazy they are actually screwing themselves as they desperately NEED BILLIONS of dollars in top- up financing to keep their grossly generous pension plans afloat! LIE-berals simply cannot shovel in the cash fast enough to suit the Hogs. And the foreign tax cheat cases represent EASY shots at tax cheats! No need for `new revenue tools` that will screw ordinary Cdns when you have these cheats to work with-if lazy entitlement counting Hogs can find the time to DO THEIR JOBS!
Feds, after dragging heels, plan crackdown on Vancouver real estate tax cheats 5/18. The Province. Peter O'Neil.
OTTAWA -- A "bombshell" internal federal government document has triggered a new wave of accusations of government inaction in dealing with Vancouver's housing affordability crisis.
The document, leaked to the South China Morning Post, indicates the Canada Revenue Agency conducted only one successful global audit last year of the so-called "astronaut" millionaire immigrants who buy pricey homes and settle families in Metro Vancouver, but fail to report their worldwide taxable income.
The single overseas audit was one of 339 audits done by the CRA's Pacific Region that yielded a total of $14.4 million in recovered revenues and $1.3 million in fines.
The document is stamped "protected B" -- which indicates that the public disclosure of the report could cause "serious injury to an individual, organization or government," according to Public Works and Government Services Canada.
The Hong Kong newspaper quoted from a provocative slide presentation to B.C. Pacific Region agency staff last month that said the agency is now beefing up its resources to go after tax cheats, and especially the top 500 files of greatest concern in the city's overheated housing market.
The additional 85 full-time staff on the West Coast will target the "astronauts" as well as speculators who "flip" properties to obtain a quick profit, then fail to pay capital gains tax and sometimes don't pay the goods and services tax.
Some, according to the presentation, seek to avoid the GST by claiming the house is a "principal residence" and therefore exempt.
(This little dodge would be a LOT EASIER to stop if LIE-beral immigration judges would make honest efforts to actually TRACK the comings and goings of `landed immigrants` who actually happen to be using Cdn citizenship as a flag of convenience like Greek ship owners skirting marine LAW by registering their vessels in LIBERIA. Anybody remember the last war between Israel and Hezzbollah in Lebanon when FIFTY THOUSAND `Canadians-so called-suddenly appeared at the docks and DEMANDED `their` govt rescue them from the war zone! It cost 86 MILLION dollars to get these PRETEND Cdns back `home`. And LIE-berals consider it RACIST to ask just how many of those rescued were actual Cdn residents instead of foreign clowns with dual citizenship and carrying Cdn passports just in case things go sour and they have to leave their Middle Eastern HOME!
The quick sale is justified in a variety of ways, according to the slide presentation, including: "Dad tripped over a crack in the sidewalk in front of the house (bad omen)."
Another excuse for a quick-sell is a negative Feng Shui report -- a reference to the ancient Chinese philosophy of harmonizing people with their surrounding environment.
The slide show also presented a photo of a Vancouver mansion that sold for $5.8 million, over a caption saying the new owner had declared income so low he or she was able to claim the federal tax break intended for low-income Canadian workers.
(LIE-berals also consider it racist when Conservative appointed judges ask too many questions about bullshit stories being spun by immigrant frauds who only want to exploit US for fun and profit! There are NO votes and NO ethnic groups that LIE-berals will not seek to BUY!)
A CRA spokesman issued a statement Thursday saying the agency's efforts are not targeting specifically foreign buyers.
"The source of funds for the real estate purchases are not the focus of tax non-compliance," said Jeffrey Lansing.
He also noted that the agency's focus on domestic tax evasion and real estate flipping is taking precedence over failure to report offshore income because that's the area "where the risk of non-compliance was highest."
(This is govt style double speak telling us that foreigners are finding it QUITE EASY to get Cdn citizenship and then LAUNDER money brought in from their home lands by running it through the Cdn real estate market. In the 1970`s CBC did a documentary explaining how organized crime was getting into Cdn real estate market. Should we ask if CRA agents are AFRAID to target certain home buyers?)
( Thugs didn't even have to actually do any renovation to the houses-just buy them and flip them around to other gang members -with the prices going up regularly! And if they actually decide they want to renovate-then those houses are a GREAT place to dispose of stolen building materials and such-complete with FAKE receipts. Better still, gang members can get `work` on the renovations and then apply for un-employment Insurance based on their fake work records with their CRIMINAL BOSSES!)
A Vancouver academic called the report a "bombshell" that is certain to enrage many British Columbians frustrated that the agency didn't act sooner given evidence of tax evasion for years.
The Vancouver Sun reported last year that a study by University of B.C. geographer Dan Hiebert found that some homeowners in tony parts of the west side of Vancouver and Richmond were claiming to have income as low as people struggling to survive in Vancouver's poor Downtown Eastside.
A study by Vancouver mathematician Jens von Bergmann, formerly of The University of Calgary, published first in the South China Morning Post, had similar findings.
"This is a stunning failure on the part of the CRA," said Simon Fraser University professor Joshua Gordon, who recently completed a study on the impact of foreign investment in Metro Vancouver's housing affordability crisis.
"It represents gross negligence in this area, since questionable activity in this area has long been suspected."
(I say: "the `prof` has a nice way with understatement"! Fraud and fakery are RAMPANT-and CBC had the evidence in 1978!)
Gordon said the former Conservative government needs to take a considerable degree of blame because it "gutted" the agency's international audit division as part of its budget-balancing initiative.
(Yeah-that's typical-Conservatives finally get control of federal govt after decades of LIE-beral rigging of immigration system by setting biased laws and appointing biased judges in both immigration and criminal courts and then creating MASSIVE deficits that are gutting our legal system by STARVING our police forces of the resources they need to launch a MAJOR ATTACK on fraud-AND handcuffing COPS because they cannot investigate criminals without IMMIGRANTS crying RACIST at them while LIE-berals nervous of losing immigrant votes DEMAND cops back off! Just look at how quickly LIE-berals kissed the boots of disgruntled swine at Black Lives Matter! And its all the fault of that all purpose whipping boy Stephen Harper who simply did not have the fiscal resources-and CERTAINLY did not have the AID of civil service Hogs in cleaning up this mess! Immigration fraud and organized crime go back decades to Pierre Trudeau and continued with Jean Chretien and now LIE-berals want to blame Harper because his magic wand was broken!)
New Democratic Party MP Kennedy Stewart was similarly enraged.
"This confirms the federal government is leaving local residents to the wolves when it comes to our housing market," said the MP for Burnaby South. "It confirms that we have lost control of a significant segment of our housing market to foreign buyers, many of whom appear to be cheating our tax system.
(I say Stewart offers up a nice sentiment-too bad his NDP is prepared to bankrupt the country with insane spending. Anybody remember Ontari-owe premier Bob Rae and his Rae Days? NDP dorks are less cunning than their LIE-beral counterparts but are just as willing to play up to immigrants and frauds!)
"Worse still, the government has known about this problem for years, failed to take the right actions, and what limited actions they have taken have badly failed. It is scandalous and the government needs to start treating this situation as the emergency it is."
Vancouver-Point Grey NDP MLA David Eby said the CRA has been asleep at the switch, failing to identify and penalize so-called low income owners of expensive houses that have avoided paying taxes.
The additional 85 auditors and support staff for tens of thousands of households that need this type of complex audit work is "grossly inadequate," said Eby, who has been a vocal critic of federal and provincial government action on the overheated Vancouver housing market.
(I say that staff would NOT be so inadequate if CRA had actually been ORDERED to take some strong action-nothing like a few jail sentences and the CONFISCATION of some costly homes-coupled with REVOCATION of Cdn citizenship and DEPORTATION to make thieves scurry for cover! But LIE-berals will have NONE of that! Our Brainless Boy Trudope is even going to GIVE BACK CDN citizenship to the leader of the Toronto 18 who PLANNED terror attacks on Cdns! Compared to that a little tax discrepancy is nothing-especially to LIE-berals!)
In a written statement, the B.C. government said it supports the CRA's efforts and is already sharing information, but did not respond to a Vancouver Sun question on whether it believed the CRA effort should be beefed up even further.
B.C. Finance Ministry spokesman Jamie Edwardson said Finance Minister Mike de Jong's raised the tax-evasion issue last month with Morneau, the federal finance minister.
(Yeah, they each want the OTHER to do the dirty work and lose the votes!)
That helped create a working group of federal, provincial and municipal officials examining this summer how to share more information to prevent further tax evasion in real estate, said Edwardson.
Also in a written statement, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said he hopes the working group will result in concrete steps to strengthen real estate market oversight and rein in the Vancouver housing market.
(Yeah-just have LIE-beral morons talk the deal to death while existing laws that ARE BEING BROKEN go UN-ENFORCED for lack of political will!)
He said the CRA could use more resources to track, audit and enforce tax rules given the amount of money flowing into Metro Vancouver real estate.
"With unregulated, speculative global capital flowing into Metro Vancouver, we are seeing housing prices completely disconnected from local incomes," said Robertson.
The additional staff for the B.C. regional office include 50 income tax auditors, 20 GST auditors, and 15 "workload development officers" to assist them, according to the June presentation.
The document said only one B.C. audit was done in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016, on worldwide income, involving a total of 172 hours of work. It generated just $26,722 in additional taxes, or $155 per hour of work, and resulted in a $10,664 fine.
Auditors spent more than 11,000 hours during the last fiscal year looking at 93 flips, uncovering $3.4 million in additional tax revenue or $306 per audit hour. The probes led to 36 fines totalling $883,325.
(I say no wonder these CRA Hogs are not catching crooks! Add $26,722 and $10,664 for a total of $37386.00-and divide THAT by 172 hours and you get $217.00 paid per hour and NOT $155.00. Are these people COMPETENT? Or just GROSSLY ENTITLED?)
CRA staff went after 20 instances of suspected capital gains tax evasion, generating $824,750 in tax revenue (or $297 an hour) and three fines totalling just under $30,000.
There were 225 files opened on suspected GST fraud, generating $10 million in additional revenues or $800 per audit hour.
In total auditors spent almost 27,000 hours on 339 files, generating $14.4 million ($537 an hour) and triggering $1.3 million in fines.
As of April 29, 2016 there were 40 audits underway on people allegedly failing to report worldwide income, with another 667 involving probes of possible dubious flips and alleged failures to report capital gains or pay the required GST.
The slide show says any additional enforcement work "will not address the major concerns" involved in the affordability issue, which it says is driven by broader dynamics relating to the forces of supply and demand.
(No kidding-blame it on CRIMINAL greed and stupid LIE-berals!)
poneil at postmedia
If the LIE-beral shoe fits then they have to wear it! They have misled us about EVERYTHING-up to and including the number of hospitals they have closed as Sun writer Levy illustrates! Consider:
Hoskins wrong about hospital closures
By Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, April 27, 2017 08:31 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, April 27, 2017 09:15 PM EDT
hoskins
Health Minister Eric Hoskins denied the Liberals have closed any hospitals, but the the Ontario Health Coalition tells a much different story.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins got rather miffed with me Tuesday when I suggested his government was simply reinventing the wheel by closing hospitals on the one hand and offering $9 billion in this year’s budget to construct new ones.
In their nice glossy 2017 budget book, the Liberals claim the $9 billion will be used over the next 10 years to support “major hospital projects” across the province — in other words mega-hospitals — as part of their investments in “service transformation.”
(That’s code blue for gutting health care, most specifically community care, in the province.)
The budget book says 18 new mega-hospitals are under construction; another 16 in the planning process.
“I think you are thinking of the Conservatives who closed more than two dozen hospitals,” Hoskins told me, denying the Liberals have closed any hospitals.
“Name one hospital I’ve closed,” he said, his normal smooth delivery seemingly ruffled.
Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition — who has been actively advocating against hospital closures for years — said the Liberals have closed the hospital in Shelburne, in Burk’s Falls and three hospitals (including the Finch campus at Jane and Finch) for the new Humber River Hospital.
She says the newly announced hospital in Niagara will replace five and in Windsor all existing community hospitals will be replaced with one hospital as well.
Perhaps Hoskins missed this, as well, but Branson Hospital (a campus of North York General hospital) is slated to close in June and a fight is on, led by Councillor James Pasternak, to keep it open.
“He’s absolutely wrong,” said Mehra.
Just a few minutes before he challenged me, Hoskins told a reporter from friendlier media that he’s working very hard to make sure services are maintained at community hospitals.
(See note about all the community hospitals being shut tight above.)
As for the hype around increasing operating budget funding to hospitals by 3% per year, Mehra said the reinvestment will only barely meet inflation (at 2%) after a “decade of hospital cuts” amounting to billions of dollars.
She says every advocate in the system feels at least 5% is needed just to try to keep pace.
“There is no money to restore services (from 10 years of cuts),” Mehra said. “What this means is that patients will remain lying on stretchers in hallways and frail seniors will continue to be kicked out of hospitals.
“All the suffering we’re seeing now will continue,” Mehra added.
And here I thought I heard Finance Minister Charles Sousa say — and more than once — that not only does the Liberal government have everyone covered, but the province has “strong universal health care.”
Mehra said the only bright spot in the budget is the new pharmacare program which will give free coverage for “all needed drugs” to everyone 24 and under — a costly manoeuvre (no doubt to win the 18+ vote) at up to $500 million a year.
The trouble is, the same extensive coverage is not being provided to “working people” from 25-65 years who are sick and require drugs — particularly cancer, Crohn’s disease and HIV drugs, she said.
Dr. Kulvinder Gill, a pediatrician and president of Concerned Ontario Doctors, agreed the 2017 budget will only create a “dent” in what’s required in health care.
“This is simply a drop in the bucket,” she said.
She said conspicuously absent was funding to front-line care, especially considering doctors are now in their fourth year without a contract and have been treated like dirt by the Kathleen Wynne Liberals.
Gill noted there are currently one million patients in the province without a family doctor.
“There were no details provided on how they intend to decrease the wait lists without funding doctors,” she added, noting several physicians have announced this week their intentions to leave the province.
“There was lots of smoke and mirrors, a lot of numbers thrown around,” she said. “Frankly after the gutting of the health-care system, cosmetic changes will not be enough.”
SLevy at postmedia
Here is an article illustrating the failings of “sanctuary cities”- and it illustrates why some cops are bewing a little goofy-after all, they are citizens to and have the right to behave like idiot citizens don't they? And maybe cops would behave better if they wree not watching crap like this on a regular basis? There are some comments of my own in brackets):
Sanctuary cities promote illegal immigration
By Candice Malcolm. Toronto Sun. First posted: Friday, February 24, 2017 06:20 PM EST | Updated: Friday, February 24, 2017 06:55 PM EST
(C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
Canada is dealing with an unprecedented surge in illegal migration. And rather than handling the influx with clarity and fairness—enforcing our laws and applying them equally—many in Canada are advocating for lawlessness. Some insist on copying the failed immigration policies of our American neighbours, for instance, the policy of sanctuary cities.
Montreal city council, led by mayor and former immigration minister Denis Coderre, voted earlier this week to declare itself a ‘sanctuary city’ for illegal immigrants. Toronto, Vancouver, Hamilton and London have all passed similar motions, and city councils in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Regina are considering doing the same.
These city councillors, without public consultations or input from residents, have banded together to decide that Canada’s immigration laws no longer matter. Instead of filling pot holes or issuing building permits, these municipal busybodies want to use your tax dollars to protect and promote illegal immigration.
(This is a political coup of third world proportions in which a selfish minority sets aside a batch of Cdn law for their own convenience and the buying of votes!)
Sanctuary cities do not verify a person’s immigration status before that person is eligible to receive taxpayer-funded municipal services, be it a library card, subsidized housing or even employment with the local government.
(I point out that welfare, health care and some dental care will be included in govt generosity!)
Regardless of status, sanctuary cities provide all individuals with the same privileges as legal tax-paying residents and Canadian citizens. Some sanctuary cities go even further – they actively refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and undermine deportation efforts.
Sanctuary cities are an American invention, popular among Democrats who prefer open borders. Our American neighbours have long suffered from a broken immigration system, a porous southern border and rampant illegal migration.
Democrats, who see illegal migrants as victims of a broken system, have crafted policies to deliberately undermine federal immigration laws.
Most major U.S. cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and so on – as well as the states of California and Connecticut, are sanctuary jurisdictions, and actively protect and shelter illegal immigrants from federal authorities.
But these cities also demonstrate how criminals and fraudsters take advantage of sanctuary city lawlessness.
Two years ago, Kate Steinle was taking a stroll along San Francisco’s Embarcadero with her father, when she was fatally shot and killed by a stranger. Her killer, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, was an illegal immigrant from Mexico with a lengthy criminal record.
He had been deported from the United States seven times. After his arrest, Sanchez said he had chosen to hide in San Francisco specifically because of its sanctuary city policies. And it paid off.
Weeks before he murdered the 32-year-old woman with an illegal gun, Sanchez was arrested on drug charges. Rather than booking him for these crimes and deporting him back to Mexico, San Francisco Police released this criminal back onto the streets.
Sanchez says he does not remember shooting Kate Steinle in the back. He was too high on drugs.
(Oh that`s nice! The guy is illegal BECAUSE he has no skill, no ability and possibly lacks even the inclination to live successfully in USA UNLESS he resorts to crime!)
Sanctuary city policies have real costs. They send the message that we do not take immigration laws seriously, and that our laws are unjust. But the opposite is true. Canada has the best immigration system in the world, it is nothing like the broken system south of the border. We receive high-caliber immigrants, most of whom work hard, play by the rules and strive to integrate into Canadian society.
Sanctuary policies, especially when championed by the country’s former top immigration official, undermine our system and erode public trust in immigration.
These policies are a slap in the face to Canadians – particularly new Canadians who diligently followed our laws and came to Canada legally.
(Anybody recall a few years back when that ship load of Tamils showed up in B.C and jumped to the head of the immigration line? And our media played a few scenes of REAL Cdn immigrants growling about the time they had spent in line waiting to be honestly admitted! And they mentioned various family members who were still WAITING patiently to be admitted! And our media swine swiftly STOPPED playing such grumbling`s from the public so as not to upset our LIE-beral govt!!)
(LIE-berals don’t care about Cdn law when LIE-beral power and influence are on the line! But that is a LIE-beral for you-as some wsie people observed: “a LIE-beral is a person who will give away everything he does not own” and “the trouble with LIE-berals is that they eventually run out of other peoples money”! It was Brit PM Marg Thatcher who coined that second comment. )
Perhaps you should spend a moment considering the pressures cops operate under when things go bad-and consider how many UNSUITABLE people apply and then ask if the "bullying" might be a cheap way of getting rid of people who cannot stand thr heat of the job? The cops are NOT social workers with guns!
The military is more honest about it-take the pressure or get out.....but cops get WAY BETTER pay so some people will whine and cry for that cop gravy!
Ohio police chief shot dead in nursing home massacre
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, May 12, 2017 01:54 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, May 12, 2017 03:13 PM EDT
People hug as emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
KIRKERSVILLE, Ohio — An armed man gunned down a new village police chief on a street Friday morning and then killed two employees in a nearby nursing home, where he later was found dead, a sheriff said. No nursing home residents were injured.
The slain police chief, Steven Eric Disario, had headed the Kirkersville Police Department for only about three weeks, Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp said. Disario was shot on a street near the Pine Kirk Care Center, and the two employees and the gunman were found dead inside, Thorp said.
Disario, 36, was a father of six children, with a seventh on the way, the sheriff said.
Thorp called it a hard day for all.
“We’ve lost a police officer. It’s just a tragic event,” he said. “I guess the only peace of mind is that the threat is over.”
By early afternoon, flowers and flags appeared in an impromptu memorial outside the village police hall.
Disario was responding to a report of a man with a gun, and his last radio communication said he had the man in sight, Thorp said.
Responding officers found Disario on the street and then investigated a report of a gunman at the nursing home, Thorp said.
Some nursing home residents barricaded themselves during the shooting, but none of them was injured, he said.
Police weren’t immediately able to identify the gunman and were trying to determine what, if any, relationship he had with the nursing home, Thorp said.
The shooting closed down the main street in the village, which was flooded with police officers from several surrounding agencies and with ambulances. The village of about 500 residents is roughly 25 miles (39 kilometres) east of Columbus.
“This is a really small town, and everybody knows everybody,” Kirkersville resident Debbie Messer told the Columbus Dispatch. “These things don’t happen here.”
Pine Kirk is licensed for 24 patients and had 23 as of May 3, according to Ohio Department of Health records. A message was left with the centre.
Peter Van Runkle, the head of the state trade association representing nursing homes, told the Dispatch that Pine Kirt caters to “the forgotten members of society.”
“They provide them with a small environment that’s less institutional than some facilities might be,” he said. “They do a good job of taking care of a niche clientele.”
The state Bureau of Criminal Investigation is leading the probe into what happened.
Gov. John Kasich expressed his condolences in a tweet.
“Join me in praying for his family, friends and colleagues, and for the others injured in this tragedy,” the Republican governor said.
How come you don't talk about drugged up nuts who happen to be handcuffed while kicking out cop car windows? That happened in Toronto this winter so cops dragged him kicking and screaming out of the car- had to tazer him so they could get his feet manacled so he could not do further damage-and got public hostility for being "too aggressive with the nut"!
Here is a sign of the moral rot that has infected our legal system-with some comments of my own in brackets):
Law Society tribunal lawyer calls sex assault 'minor offence'.
By Michele Mandel, Toronto Sun. First posted: Friday, April 28, 2017 07:20 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, April 29, 2017 09:59 AM EDT
Raj Anand is not only a lawyer but the former Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission — so you’d think he’d know better.
So why did the vice-chair of the Law Society of Upper Canada tribunal make several disturbing comments that appeared to minimize a sexual assault complaint while deciding whether paralegal Nephat Siziba should be suspended?
“The motion arose out of an allegation that while acting as an Uber driver on September 23, the paralegal took the hand of his female passenger (the passenger) and initiated sexual contact with her,” Anand wrote in reasons released last month.
Police alleged Siziba, 55, sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman during a 4 a.m. Uber ride from Thornhill to Toronto. After she complained to Uber, he was suspended for a week while they investigated. “We were informed that the paralegal resumed driving for Uber, but resolved not to pick up intoxicated passengers.”
The woman then went to police and the driver was charged with sexual assault. Siziba, who has no criminal record and stated he will vigorously defend himself against the allegations, is free on bail under conditions he not work as an Uber or taxi driver.
(WE will never know what really happened between driver and passenger. Maybe driver is a sexual predator seeking out drunken passengers as easier prey? Or maybe she is the villain. From my own experience in the taxi business I can state that the VAST MAJORITY of people in a taxi at 4am are drunks, pimps, hookers and drug dealers! And it is not unusual for a few women to offer to `pay` for the ride with sexual services. Perhaps driver decided passenger was too skanky to be appealing and this offended passenger-and prompted the complaint by the woman scorned? We will NEVER KNOW!)
But could he still work as a paralegal?
The Law Society urged the tribunal to suspend Siziba’s licence while his charge is pending.
Lawyer Amanda Worley said the optics were terrible: “The fact he was charged with a sexual offence against a vulnerable young woman harms the public’s confidence in the integrity of the legal profession and the ability of the Law Society to govern the profession in the public interest.”
(A sexual assault charge is not a laughing matter but in this case with NO EVIDENCE other than the word of a passenger who may have been trying to weasel out of full payment of the fare-the seriousness of the offense sinks to insignificance. Your old Granny would tell you that a woman who goes out late at night intoxicated- as this passenger apparently was- is inviting trouble! And Granny is probably RIGHT!)
Anand and the two others on his panel ultimately refused to suspend Siziba. Instead, in remarks reminiscent of several controversial judges in recent news, the vice-chair seemed to blame the complainant and downplay the allegations.
“I think boiled down to its essence, you have obviously contested evidence about what took place over a matter of a few minutes,” Anand said in a transcript obtained by the Sun.
(Apparently there was no blood shed .no physical marks, no indication of any trauma-and with such a total lack of evidence of real injury what can a judge do but dismiss the case for lack of evidence. Our courts are jammed with more serious cases with too many of them dropped due to the length of time it takes to get to trial-and here we are wasting time and money on a matter of NO importance since it is unprovable and unresolvable- with NO evidence and NO chance of reaching a fair verdict for driver or passenger!)
“Obviously, sexual assault is serious in principle. But it is a relatively minor offence compared to some of the other criminal conduct that is referenced in some of the other cases, like viewing child pornography or something like that.”
(We accept that a woman is not a plaything to be handled whenever a guy wants to -but the total lack of evidence in this case mandates dropping the case- and advising the passenger NOT to be wandering around-drunk and stupid at 4am. There is something STRONG to be said for in car cameras to record events and to provide protection AND EVIDENCE for all involved!)
“You have no evidence other than the fact that the charge is made, essentially. Obviously, the complainant said something to the police. We don’t actually know what she said to the police,” he continued. “The question is, really: By virtue of being charged with this offence, is that enough for (Siziba) to be suspended indefinitely?”
(Clearly suspending Siziba from his paralegal job would be a cruel and unusual punishment for a crime he cannot be proven guilty of since there is no evidence.)
Did he actually say “it is a relatively minor offence?” Tell that to the young woman. After the recent “knees together” and “drunks can consent” judgments, it seems that once again, the law doesn’t take sexual assault as seriously as it should.
(Deplorable comments made by a few old fossil judges who are frustrated by the stream of hung over females entering their courts to complain about guys touching their thighs should not be allowed to influence cases where there is NO evidence!)
When reached by the Sun, Anand said he wasn’t in a position to address any criticism. “I don’t think I’m able to comment as an adjudicator.”
The law society’s lawyer was obviously struggling with Anand’s remarks.
“I am not sure I would agree with you that it is a relatively minor offence. It is predatory in nature. The victim was confined to a vehicle,” Worley said during the hearing.
(A vehicle that she SUMMONED for her service and for which she would have to pay-and it`s a costly ride from Thornhill-again I ask if this complaint is not simply part of a negotiation ploy by the female to avoid paying full fare? With no proof!)
“So I think we have to be careful not to sort of make judgment calls about comparing this offence to this offence. If you are satisfied that it does present a risk, then you need to act,” she insisted. “We cannot diminish the seriousness of allegations of sexual assault.”
Yet Anand seemed to do just that: “I am just saying that here we have simply a sort of “he said, she said” at this point.”
(And how would the public react if lawyers tried to compare a momentary hand on a thigh to the gory details of a genuine rape?)
How would the public feel knowing they did nothing to protect the public? asked Worley.
(I ask again how the public can be protected by a witch hunt with no evidence? Unless you are prepared to dismiss all males as not being part of the public? What about our right not to be harassed by vindictive women with false stories-using the politically correct legal system as a weapon?)
The optics didn’t trouble the tribunal. They found “no reasonable grounds to believe there was significant risk” to the public, or to the administration of justice. They dismissed the law society’s motion to suspend Sizibo’s licence and said the public would be satisfied with his offer to work under supervision in his son’s law office and not provide legal services or meet with clients alone.
That may be so. But how do they feel about the tribunal’s vice-chair minimizing the seriousness of an alleged sexual assault?
(That the tribunal minimized the seriousness of the alleged assault is NOT evidence of contempt for women-it is an open acknowledgment THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY CRIME! Statements to the contrary are a form of sexist dictatorship!)
(And how does the public feel about a vindictive woman possibly using the courts to get out of paying an Uber fare? We don’t know and cannot honestly find out what happened so the witch hunt is discriminatory if it goes any further-throw it out since it is beneath the attention of the court which has MUCH BIGGER fish to fry with more serious criminals anyway!)
We do. There's also a great thread called "Cool, Compassionate and Just Plain Nice Cop Thread." I've noticed you never post there. I calculate it's because you're a butthurt whimpering pussy who just wants to rage at how hard-done-by you are.
I could be wrong, but that's the way the evidence is leaning.