Working The Graveyard Shift Might Lead To Cancer

STUDY POINTS TO HIGHER RATES OF CANCER AMONGST MIDNIGHT SHIFT WORKERS

Scientists and researchers from thethe International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization will add "shift work" to the list of known probable carcinogens.

Researchers found that higher rates of breast and prostate cancers existed in people who work the overnight shift. Those same researchers then studied the effects of light deprivation on melatonin production and realized that production falls when the there is strong lighting.

Although the study does not "prove" that working overnight causes cancer there are certain shared risks amongst shift workers that raise their exposure levels to cancer.

Twenty percent of the worlds' workforce works the midnight shift. In the 1930's it was deemed to be a hallmark of progress when people worked the night shift.

A 1987 study by Richard stevens pouinted to a massive increase in breast cancer after the 1930's. This indicator led him to study the production of melatonin in conjunction with light and darkness.

Canada Joins Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

CONServatives Plan To Re-Import Nuclear Waste

The Harper government has introduced plans that would have Canada join a US led organization that proposes using spent nuclear waste for a new "fast reactor".

The government for months had denied that they were approaching a deal with the organization and yesterday were forced to make the news public.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said in a release."Canada is recognized for its commitment to (nuclear) safety and non-proliferation. By joining this partnership, we are making sure Canada can continue to be an effective advocate for those ideals."

But Canadian environmental activists feel differently about the project.

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership in its mandate states that all used nuclear fuel must be repatriated to the original uranium-exporting country for disposal. This could leave Canada holding the bag on the majority of the worlds' spent uranium as Canada is the largest singular exporter of uranium on earth.

NDP environment critic Nathan Cullen says "It's totally undemocratic and unaccountable of this government to take such an enormous decision to re-import nuclear waste into our country without involving Canadians".

Joining the GNEP will sound a death knell for Atomic Energy Canada as subsidies will be limited to all non-GNEP organizations.

For months the Harper government denied any involvement in the project but internal government documents show that the plan has been in motion for sometime backed by an enthusiastic Industry minister.

An Email Received From Dalton McGuinty Today Regarding Burgess Park

A RESPONSE FROM DALTON MCGUINTY ON BURGESS PARK

All of us need to continue raising this issue beyond the city of Woodstock level.

This is the only way we might be able to stave off the developement of this regions' parks and conservation areas.

From :
Sent : November 29, 2007 4:14:22 PM
To :
Subject : An e-mail from the Premier of Ontario

Thanks for your online message about Burgess Park. I appreciate the time you’ve taken to raise this issue.
Our government stands firm in our commitment to strengthen protection of our environment. We know that strong environmental protection is the foundation of the high quality of life and sustainable economic growth we enjoy in our province. Ontarians deserve to live and work in clean, safe communities — communities in which the environment contributes to our health and quality of life.
As the issue you’ve raised is best addressed by the Honourable Donna Cansfield, Minister of Natural Resources, I’ve asked her to respond to you directly.
Thank you again for writing. Please be assured that my colleagues and I will continue to welcome your input as we keep working with all Ontarians to build on the positive results and major accomplishments we have achieved. Please accept my best wishes.
Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario
c: The Honourable Donna Cansfield

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Mulroney Admits That Taking Money Was A "Huge Mistake"

MULRONEY "REGRETS' TAKING MONEY FROM SCHREIBER

Luc Lavoie, the official spokeperson for Brian Mulroney, says that Mulroney has regretted taking money from Schreiber almost since the day he got it and that he had made a 'collossal mistake".

It is interesting to see that for many years, Mulroney didn't seem to mind having received the money from Schrieber, but now that a formal inquiry is under way, he is filled with remorse...or regrets about having received it.

Mulroney paid Schreiber a visit in August 1993 where the first $100,000.00 was handed over to Mulroney in cash. Schreiber had been staying at a rented chateau in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal while awaiting the completion of renovations on his Montreal home. Mulroney was driven to the meeting by the RCMP.

The government this week decided to keep Schreiber in Canada to testify before a commons committeee which is investigating these payments that were made to Mulroney before and after he left office.

The committee is also examining whether or not the government was correct in paying out $2.1 million in legal and communication costs to Mulroney after the Chretien era Liberals pointed fingers at him over Airbus.

Archaeology Study On Burgess Park/Standard Tube Parks To Be Delayed

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG ON DISPUTED PARKLANDS DELAYED

An archaeological dig that is to have taken place over the winter months at Standard Tube and Burgess Parks has now been postponed due to a number of factors,most of them to do with inclement weather.

The phase three study that was to be conducted on the site this fall has been delayed after reports of a native burial ground in the area surfaced.

The study will resume in the spring after the location of the burial site is determined, and the weather clears.

Council will still make it's decision on the future of the parks on December 13, 2007 no matter what new evidence arises.

Contact information For UTRCA Board of Directors

A good contact list for the board of Upper Thames...Lets start calling these people now...

UTRCA Board of Directors
Members of the UTRCA's Board of Directors may be contacted through the Administration Office:
Telephone: 519-451-2800
Fax: 519-451-1188
E-mail:
buildemail("infoline", "thamesriver.on.ca", "infoline@thamesriver.on.ca");
infoline@thamesriver.on.ca
Mail: 1424 Clarke Road, London, Ontario, Canada N5V 5B9
Open: Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm


The Board of Directors meets ten times each year. People or delegations interested in making a presentation to the Board may contact the Administration Office. Board minutes are posted on our Downloads & Publications page in pdf format.
Members of the Hearings and Personnel Committee are indicated with an asterisk (*).
MUNICIPALITY REPRESENTED
DIRECTOR
LONDON and MIDDLESEX
City of London
Councillor Joni Baechler (Vice-Chair)*
Murray Blackie*
Councillor Judy Bryant
Stephen Clark*
Municipality of Middlesex Centre
Deputy Mayor Albert Bannister*
Municipality of Thames CentreTownship of Lucan-Biddulph
George Marr
OXFORD
Township of Blandford-BlenheimTownship of East-Zorra Tavistock
Councillor Marion Wearn
Town of Ingersoll
Councillor Ernie Hunt
Township of NorwichTownship of South-West Oxford
Councillor David Mayberry
City of Woodstock
Councillor Connie Lauder
Township of Zorra
Councillor Jeff Brown
HURON, PERTH, ST. MARYS and STRATFORD
Township of Perth East
Hugh McDermid
Township of Perth SouthTown of St. MarysMunicipality of South Huron
Tony Jackson
City of Stratford
Jane Boyce
Township of West Perth
Peter Huitema (Chair) *

Battle For Parks In Woodstock Needs To Go Elsewhere

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR BURGESS AND STANDARD TUBE PARKS IS BACKWARDS

The past year has been one filled with waste at the city council level here in Woodstock. Instead of doing their jobs in supporting the community they have opted to support the community of developers who wish to remove the public from public parklands.

This council is presently embroiled in an action against its' community in the matter of Standard Tube and Burgess Parks. The majority of this council believes that a private for profit golf course on public parkland is better than public parkland for all to enjoy.This council is prepared to sell out to the lowest bidder on the matter. This council is anti-environmental.

Some councillors have even said they would like to see the land revert back to a kids playground after the developer has used it for all its worth. Yeah, we'd all love to send our kids to play on that poisoned piece of land after the developer is finsihed loading it down with toxic pesticides.

Awesome, I can't wait to see the bill for that reconstruction and environmental cleanup, and isn't it lovely that several generations of children will be prevented from using this publicly owned parkland after the developers' no trespassing signs go up?

Council has the right to make any decision it wishes to make, even if it goes against the wishes of the community. And this one goes against the community. Perhaps not everyone in Woodstock has signed the petitions and maybe not even 1/2 of the people in the community have signed the petitions, but what is true is the people who have signed are definitely interested in protecting the area,and those people will remember who voted to destroy the area. And those 7000 people will make a difference when it comes down to re-election.

Fact is, the developer approached the situtation wrong.

He should have obtained approval from the UTRCA, as well as the Ministry of the Environment before approaching council for their support.

Instead council now feels as though it must side with the developer as the developer now has his short on the line.

Perhaps those councillors who wish to vote for this stunned developement should consider resigning or moving from the community as they obviosuly do not have the community interests at heart.

It is interesting to note how the city bills itself on its' website...

"A population of 36,000 including tree lined streets, century old homes, abundant parkland and friendly citizens. We are known as The Friendly City and with good reason. Spend a day in our beautiful city and discover it for yourself!"

Abundant Parkland?

Are they joking!

Woodstock has been identified as having one of the lowest levels of green space in the entire region. I think they need to change this motto to include sellers of public parklands...and butchers of the local ecosystem for big developers.

Only in Woodstock could this happen.Forty kilometres up the road the council of London is finding ways to keep their forests and parks and green spaces. Here in Woodstock, they wish it all to be paved under. Sounds like our council is allergic to green space and forest.

If there was a reason to overthrow this council, this is it.

Oxford Community Police Service Should Be Disbanded

TIME TO KICK OCPS OUT OF WOODSTOCK

The Oxford Community police need to be disbanded for numerous reasons, but the most important reason why is they just do not do the job.

The city of Woodstock is about to be left holding the bag on a regional force that is being slowly kicked out of the townships they now police. These townships have moved to invite the OPP back into their communities after seeing the costs of policing skyrocket.

In the past year there have been numerous officers charged with various crimes including sex crimes, and misconducts under the police services act.

One of the latest charges to be levelled against an officer was dropped after it was revealed that the police chief did not follow correct procedures in filing the complaint against the officer.

This resulted in an officer being found not guilty by way of a procedural error.

This leads me to beleive that the chief has not capable on the job.

City Of London Has It Right

CITY OF LONDON OFFERS GOLF COURSE DEVELOPER $700,000.00 FOR WOODLOT

The city of Woodstock could take a few lessons from councillors in London, Ontario.

This week London city council moved to have their developement office, offer an amount rumoured to be $700,000.00 for a woodlot they valued early last year at being worth around the $100,000.00 mark.

Just goes to show what a smart council would do to appease its' residents.

London City council, after facing immense pressure from residents from the area surrounding the woodlot in the Adelaide/Windermere road area of North London, decided that allowing the developer to go ahead and build a course over the area which is privately held would be against the wishes of the public, and not in the best interests of the environment.

Developer Vito Frijia has been considering knocking down all of the trees, stripping the land and turning it into a golf course driving range for some time now.

On November 7, 2007, community activists numbering about "100", met at a London community centre to develope plans for a fight.

"We're going to fight this all the way," said Ann Hutchison, "Our city needs many more trees and not many less."

Even numerous London city councillors are onside with this.

Coun. Joni Baechler attended the meeting to answer questions from the public. (Holy shit, a councillor that actually wants to listen to the people? I wonder why this type of question and answer session hasn't happened here in Woodstock?Fear,that's why!)She represents the area that includes Adelaide woods and heads the city's planning committee. "Forests are critical to economic health, but also for livability," said Baechler, who is opposed to chopping down the trees. "I think the number of people here clearly demonstrates how important this issue is to the broader community."

Wow, 100 people show up, and councillors are goo gooing all over them, wishing not to piss them off, but here in Woodstock, council is willing and prepared to turn their back on the community that elected them. ^thousands upon thousands of people have signed petitions against the butchering of a park!(Yes, a public park, publicly owned, under consideration for privately owned developement...what a farce.)

Controller Bud Polhill suggested one possible solution in which the city and the community would work together to purchase the land from Frijia. "We've tried all kinds of things and we can't seem to come to a mutual agreement," he said. "There's got to be a solution."

One local resident whose house overlooks the wooded area says she's been living there for nearly 30 years. "I think it's great to have all that green space," she said. "We need all the trees we can get,"echoing sentiments heard all across the city.

Hell, Woodstock city council wouldn't even have to spend a nickle here on this one, and they are still goo gooing all over the developer.

You'd think with so many people against this mess, they'd want to walk away.

But then again, the majority of members of this council epitomize the common stereotypical aloofness and disconnect from their constituents that most elected fools posess.

If we cannot ask our council to act in our best interests, then for what reason have we elected them?

I think the only reason is to fill the seats of city hall so we have some cheap comedy to watch on Rogers cablecast, and to reaffrim to us that they are the reason our city is being butchered by development and unauthorized developement.

Beef Recall...You can recall a burger, but not an elected official.

Frozen beef burgers manufactured by a Mississauga company are being recalled for possible E. coli contamination.
The affected products made by Cardinal Meat Specialists Ltd. include Cardinal Roadhouse Beef Burgers in a 20-piece, 113-gram box with a product code of 01-1697 and UPC 63351 00126.
The other recalled items are:

Compliments Beef Burgers Super 6, 1.36 kg (8 x 6 oz) UPC 55742 34129, BEST BEFORE 08JUN14, 08JUN15;

Compliments Traditional Beef Burgers, .36 kg (12 x 4 oz) UPC 55742 34128 BEST BEFORE 08JUN15;

Compliments Three Cheese Beef Burgers 1.13 kg (8 x 5 oz) UPC 55742 34131 BEST BEFORE 08JUN22;

Compliments Peppercorn Garlic Beef Burgers 1.13 kg (8 x 5oz) UPC 55742 34132 BEST BEFORE 08JUN14;

Compliments The Pulled Porkshire 4 Burgers 680 g UPC 23682 10208 BEST BEFORE 08JUN15;

Longo's Ultimate beef burgers, 8-1/4 lb / 113 g Burgers 2 lb 907 g UPC 72468 00241 Product code 1697.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says these products have been distributed nationally.

Food contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 may not look or smell spoiled.

Symptoms include severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea.

Tory MP Khan Charged With Election Finance Irregularities

REMEMBER THIS ONE?

"The more we worked together, the more both of us began to realize that, politically, we have an awful lot in common. In time, it became clear to me that Mr. Khan would be quite at home in the Conservative Party."

-Stephen Harper, January 2007 after this person crossed to the CONservative party.

Well, I wonder if he still means that statement?

Or will there be a flip flop?

Wajid Khan who crossed the floor to sit as a ONservative MP has been charged under the elections finance act for overspending on his campagn, and for spending on advertising without his ridings Chief Financial officers knowledge.

Khan apparently had overspent on his camapaign by nearly $32,000.00.

Elections Commissioner William Corbett, who investigates breaches of the Elections Act, has accused Khan of spending $109,112 on his 2004 campaign when the legal spending limit was $77,923.
The charge of unauthorized spending carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, although the Elections Act provides for less if prosecutors treat it as a summary conviction offence, rather than an indictable one.

Khan was a sitting member of the Liberal party until he resigned after Dion gave him an ultimatum over working with the CONservatives on a middle east issue.

After 11 Years Of Hardline CONservative Rule, Australia Ditches Howard

AUSTRALIAS' HOWARD DRAGS CONSERVATIVES INTO OBLIVION

Australia's Labor Party swept into power on Saturday, putting 50-year-old former diplomat Kevin Rudd into office on a wave of support for generational change.
Conservative Prime Minister John Howard is struggling to hold on to even his own parliamentary seat, which he has held since 1974, putting him in danger of becoming the first Australian PM since the 1920's to lose his constituency.
"We've all got goose bumps that finally we might have a leader who is passionate about fairness in this country," Celeste Giese, 39, told media at a stadium in Brisbane where Rudd was due to hold a victory party.
"Finally, after 11 years, it's happening," she said, as a large crowd gathered.

Rudd (a former diplomat)presented himself as a new generation leader. He has promised to pull Australian combat troops out of Iraq and sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, further isolating Washington.
This is only the sixth government chnage in Australia since world war 2.

The election was fought on domestic issues. Anger at workplace laws and rising interest rates have put home owners under financial pressure at a time when Australia's economy is booming.
Howard won four consecutive elections and was Australia's second-longest serving prime minister behind Liberal Party founder Sir Robert Menzies.

He had been trailing badly in the polls and is expected to resign even if he wins his parliamentary seat.

Quebec Company Wants To Turn Dirty Diapers...Into Synthetic Diesel Fuel

Could Smelly diapers Be The Next Wave Of Fuel Generation?

Anyone who has ever had to change one of these nasty things knows there's some kind of fuel in there.

A Quebec company is hoping to make synthetic diesel fuel from used disposable diapers that are put through a process called pyrolysis to convert them into fuel.

An engineering and project management firm, AMEC, is working on behalf of an unnamed client to build a facility in the Montreal area that could effectively bring an end to disposable diapers being sent to the landfill.

Luciano Piciacchia, an engineer and vice-president with Amec's Quebec office says that the idea has been around for ages, but recently has become more economically viable as munipalities struggle to deal with growing mountains of waste diapers.

Some of the major engineering issues are the consistency of the material that is being put into the system. The advantage that used diapers have is that their consitency remains the same, no matter what the contents of that diaper might be, and their availability is enormous. These could be picked up rom day cares, hospitals and nursing homes. "If we try to take municipal waste and run it through a system like this, it would be too variable and you'd get all sorts of nasty surprises you'd have to deal with," Piciacchia said.

Quebec disposes of 120,000 tonnes of diapers yearly into landfills.

Taking even 25% of those diapers from landfill and putting them through this thermal "cracking" process will result in 11,000 tonnes of diesel fuel.

The process costs about 50 cents per litre in total, making this a very profitable business as diesel sells for nearly double that.

This so called diaper diesel could be used for many industrial applications, but may not be suitable for autos yet.

Perhaps they need some higher methane content diapers.

jim bender, woodstock

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MOVES TO PROTECT AN ENORMOUS NORTHERN AREA

We Can't Knock Them On This One

Canadas' Conservative government has moved to protect a vast amount of the barren north to stop economic activities in the North that threaten forests and wildlife.

John Baird(our environment minister) said the new protected areas, which are five times the size of Prince Edward Island, visibly shows his government is committed to finding a balance between conservation and development.
"Conserving our environment has become a cornerstone of our government's agenda. And nowhere is the opportunity so unique and so pressing as in the North," said Baird, during a special ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Nature.

This move will protect at least10 million hectares of land near the east arm of Great Slave Lake and around the Ramparts River and some vast wetlands in the Northwest Territories.
Baird and Chuck Strahl, aboriginal leaders and environmentalists, indicated this is the first step toward creating a new national park and wildlife area in a region that serves as a home for the boreal forest, tundra and the deepest water in North America, along with many different species such as caribou, wolf, moose, wolverine and the great horned owl.
"Our North is a very special place," Baird said. "It invokes great passion in the hearts and minds of Canadians coast to coast to coast. Our North is a place of boundless potential with its huge swaths of untouched lands. It's a legacy that we all need to collectively protect for future generations."

Aborginal leaders have called the move a great step towards protecting their lands and culture from developement devastation.

"There's fish in some of those small lakes that you can't find anywhere else in the world," said Chief Frank T'seleie of the K'asho Cot'ine Charter Community Council. "I would like to congratulate the government of Canada and the ministers for their commitment in working with our various partners in the territory to obtain protection for this area."
An official with the World Wildlife Fund Canada, said he hopes the government will eventually tackle climate change in the same manner it's tackling conservation issues.

Personally I see this as a great move towards building a better environment for future Canadians. One thing I did note however was the lack of an announcment on the pressing issue of the oil patch industry as it continues to wreak devastation across the north of Alberta and it's neighbouring provinces.

I guess we just can't have it all at once.

All Thames Valley and Seperate school Board Buses Are Cancelled

FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW PELT SOUTH WESTERN ONTARIO

I've been up since 3 am, and around 5 am the ice pelletts started hitting my back window.

All Thames Valley buses have been cancelled for the day as well as the buses of the seperate school board.

Only three schools are listed as being closed, East Oxford, Tollgate Central and Zorra Highland Park.

Geez, remember the days of walking through snow up to your eyes...

(okay, that's a little deep)

A bus spokesperson told me that the real reason isn't the snow...it's the insurance company telling them not to run.

City of Woodstock Hires A Municpal Investigator

WOODSTOCK HIRES INVESTIGATOR TO LOOK AT CLOSED DOOR MEETINGS AND THE BUSINESS THAT TAKES PLACE DURING THEM

The City of Woodstock has hired for the first time a person who will solely investigate the goings on of city councils' closed door meetings.

This person, John Maddox, will assume his role in January of the new year.

Woodstock isn't the only munipality to have hired this person for this type of work.

The Municipalities of Tillsonburg and South-West Oxford have also retained him.

Changes to the Ontario Munipal act last year made the position available across the province.

Paul Bryan-Pulham, CAO for Woodstock says the role was created to look at city council closed door meetings and complaints that arise from those closed door meetings.

This is a good move.

In fact, we could have avoided hiring another person if council just refused to hold closed door meetings.

What is a closed door meeting in a democracy anyways?

It's certainly not democracy.

Harper and Day Lobby For The release Of A Canadian Swindler Millionaire

NOW CONSERVATIVES WILL FIGHT FOR CANADIANS ABROAD...IF THEY HAVE MONEY

This government is all over the map on these types of files.

What do Jason Kenney, Stockwell Day and Stephen Harper all have in common?

Not only are they esteemed members of the ruling national CONservative party, but they have an express shared interest in seeing a Canadian jailed in Bulgaria on fraud and embezzlement charges released or returned to Canada.

Michael Kapoustin was jailed in Bulgaria in 1996 at the same time that capitalism was replacing communism. For more than 1 year now Harper,Kenney and Day have lobbied Bulgarian officals to release this man to no avail.Bulgaria refuses to relase this man they believe is an international swindler.

Today a Canadian delegation heads to Paris where they will face off against the Bulgarians using a little known treaty that was enacted after WW2 that sets out prisoner transfer rules between the countries of Europe, Canada and the United States. This new mediation process follows months of diplomatic protests on this file.

Stockwell Day is MP for Kapoustin's British Columbia-based family.

Does anyone have any idea why this man is needed in Canada and why we should pay for him to be returned here when in the past year alone the CONservative government has denied the transfer of lesser criminals even though the United States has voluntarily agreed to their transfer?

Canadian efforts to win a transfer came to an end in 2005 when Liberal MP Dan McTeague, wrote Kapoustin a devastating letter.
"Canadian officials cannot seek preferential treatment for you or try to exempt you from the due process of local law," the letter said. "Regretfully, there is no further possible action to be taken ... by the government of Canada."

As soon as Harper took office he reactivated the file.

This person is not facing charges in Canada, and there is no reason to bring him back here. He is not facing the death penalty. Jason Kenney said that "I understand they have their own domestic concerns, but frankly we think after 10 or 12 years it's not unreasonable for him to serve out his sentence in a place that's closer to his family."
Kenney refused to comment on why the government is working hard for Kapoustin but ignoring the cases of certain other Canadians in foreign jails, particularly those in the U.S.
"This government's been very responsive, aggressively defending Canadians who have not had the benefit of consular services or natural justice abroad," he said.

Yeah, right.

Canada Fails Children Miserably

UN REPORT BLASTS CANADA FOR FAILING TO MEET ITS' OBLIGATIONS

A new report from UNICEF Canada suggests that Canada is failing to meet its' obligations under the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The report which is to be released today with the advent of National Child Day makes recommendations that Canada create a childrens' commissioner position with conventions that are enforceable in court.

The original document was ratified in 1991 and all the provinces signed on to the program by 1999, but delivery of the program has been sketchy in all regards.

"While there has been some progress for some children in some places, for too many children we've stalled or even regressed in some aspects of their health, development and protection," says the report.

..About one in six Canadian children live in poverty, a number unchanged in a generation.
..A child obesity rate of 26 per cent — one of the highest rates of obesity among children in developed countries.
..Infant mortality rates at five deaths per 1,000, a figure unchanged in five years.
..Canada has one of the highest rates of children in state care and in youth detention centres compared with other industrialized nations.
..Mental illness among children has risen, with only 20 per cent getting treatment.

Cliff Zaluski Did Not Send This Person To See Me

CLIFF ZALUSKI DID NOT SEND THIS PERSON TO SEE ME, NOR DID THE VILLAGES OF SALLY CREEK INC...THIS CRAZED OUT OF TOWNER JUST FREAKED FOR NO REASON...WHERE WERE THE TASERS??????

Cliff Zaluski did not(and I will reaffirm that...did not) send anyone to pay me a visit.

What did happen was, some guy, named Fred******** came to see me and made claims that he represented Mr Zaluski. That is what happened..no shit about it.

A conversation with Mr Zaluski himself on November 14th at 5:56 AM resulted in Mr Zaluski calling his friends up to ask them if they were involved.

As a result of his calls, some people made contact with me, one person in particular came to see me(Alan Ede)in order to identify himself to me as not being the person in question.

The person who accosted made specific claims that I will not detail here that may be used in my defence of this lawsuit.

I had no idea that him and Cliff were not friends. There was no reason not to beleive the assailant who claimed him and Cliff were friends. There was no reason not to beleive the assailant when he said he had money invested in this developer.

There was no reason to beleive the assailant was lying and that no harm would come to me or my family.

This person on his own volition made and issued the threats, as well as conducted himself in a fashion that caused personal physical injury to myself.( I was dragged down the street some distance by him)

This person, Fred*******, first assaulted me, then verbally threatened me over the delay in the developement of Burgess and Standard Tube Parks.

This non community member was so incensed by the lack of development in the North west quadrant(even though he lives out of town...no where near the developement site itself)that he lost control upon seeing me, freaked out and felt the necessary urge to threaten my life with loss of some very important appendages. He also felt a need to throw in some poor buggers name for shits and giggles. Seems kind of odd.

I wonder where he invested his GM pension? Rolly seemed to know.

I find it hard to beleive that someone with absolutely zero connections to something would take things to an absolutely ridiculous state. It is difficult to see why someone would jeopardize their personal freedom for something they are not involved in. why would this person have felt the need to assault and then threaten me with death over something he has nothing to do with?

Now that we have him, we'll see what's going on.

Perhaps he really was just a lone nut...something like Lee Harvey Oswald.

Or perhaps he was more like a Jack Ruby.

No, Cliff Zaluski didn't send anyone to see me.

This lone nut just appeared from out of town, and decided that he would pick me off the street to voice his concerns over the lack of developement in Woodstock.

Nice. Too bad he didn't pick someone else.

Now We Have A Suspect In This Assault And Death Threat

THANKS ROLLY...YOU ARE AWESOME, BUT I BET YOUR FRIEND THINKS YOU AREN'T

Okay, so things were a little bit hairy yesterday with all that is going on. But there was some good news as the day wore on.

We were finally able to get the name of the individual who made these threats out of a local real estate guy who is a friend of the person who assaulted and accosted me and made threats against my life and limb. This person is responsible for making threats.

Now we will proceed with charging him with making those threats . We will hold him to account onthis and for all of the trouble he has started.

It certainly seems bizarre that events would have taken such a twist and that this situation would have been turned into this.

As far as being sued goes, well, theres not much I can do there, and no point in worrying about it.

Personally, I am more concerned with having this person off of the streets who assaulted and threatened me than anything else.

And I can't wait to see the story in the news.

Okay, Anyone Know Of A Good Lawyer???Read On...This isn't correct!

A Not So Nice Legal Letter.....Hmmmm

Canadian Soldiers Continue To Die In Afghanistan

TWO MORE CANADIAN SOLDIERS DIE IN AFGHANISTAN

Once more I will say that this a war of attrition and It will be near to impossible to rout out the Taliban from this country.

The death toll of Canadian soldiers and civilians killed in Afghanistan in action has risen to 73 after 2 more soldiers were felled by a roadside bomb.

Cpl. Nicholas Raymond Beauchamp and Pte. Michel Levesque were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their LAV-III armoured vehicle in Zhari district during routine surveillance. Their bodies are to be flown home today to CFB Trenton where they will be given a military funeral.

Three other soldiers who were injured during the attack were transferred to a German air base where they will undergo medical treatments.

Woodstock Parade Well Attended By people and Loads of Garbage

EVENT WAS AWESOME...GARBAGE WASN'T

I do not have a problem with the parade. I do however have a problem with the people who attended, ate and drank, and then threw their garbage onto the streets.(some wierd kinda thanks as far as I was concerned)

Heck, at the corner of Dundas and Huron the garbage was everywhere, loaded well beyond the tops of the garbage cans, all over the parking lot, and onto the streets. People left behind clothing, garbage and even a singular lawn chair that was broken.

The scene down the street Sunday morning was the same. For the entire path that the parade took, the garbage followed.

Perhaps nexy year we could have more cans put out for the people who can't carry their own garbage home.

They Couldn't Get The Job Done So....CONservatives Move To Try And Kill Gun Registry...Again

HARPER WANTS TO KILL GUN REGISTRY COMPLETELY DESPITE OBJECTIONS FROM POLICE FORCES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Harpers' federal CONservative party is bound,bent and determined to make the job of policing Canada more difficult in the future for Canadas' police forces.

Doris Day...ahem, Stockwell Day says that the money saved(didn't they already cut finance to the registry last year?????)from cutting the program will be spent on front line policing...somewhere.(so, if the money was cut last year, where does he think all the savings this year are going to come from???)

The Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has consistently supported the registry, saying police officers across the country use it more than 5,000 times a day and have used it to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. (Seems like a good enough reason for me to want to keep it.)

Stockwell Day says that having no laws for gun control in Canada will actually reduce gun crimes in the future.(in some other country but not here, and what future is he talking about?? I'm sure as a result of this, many persons will not live to see their future if guns remain on the streets unaccounted for.)

The government is lying about this one.

Operational reports from the ministry in charge show that spending on this particluar program actually increased from $83,600,ooo.00 to $91.4 million.(go figure, they don't tell the truth about much else, so why would they on this one??)

So, the increase in spending while this program was effectively axed is odd. Where did they spend the money, on what and why? It seems the program didn't get any bigger, just smaller, so why the increase in costs assocaited with it?

We'll leave that Doris Day to answer.

Harper Wants Schreiber Out Of Canada..I Wonder Why?

PM HINTS THAT HE WILL NOT LET SCHREIBER STAY UNTIL MULRONEY INQUIRY IS OVER

We've already spent millions keeping this guy here so what is the big rush?

Stephen Harpers' CONservative government hinted Friday that it wants to send Karlheinz Schreiber back to Germany and have officials from a public inquiry interview him there – even though Mr. Schreiber says he won't talk if that happens.

They say they want him out of the coutry as they have spent too much on him already.

So what will it cost to fly the inquiry over to Schreiber in Germany?

And are they just wanting him gone to mimize the impact on their polling numbers?

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, now acting as the government's chief spokesman on the issue in the Commons, refused to say what the government will do, but added that the inquiry will be able to question witnesses “wherever they might be.”
“Within the guidelines of a full public inquiry is the power to subpoena, the power to require people to be witnesses and that would take place wherever an individual may find themselves,” Mr. Day told reporters.

Mr Day is not entirely correct in his assumption that the same powers afforded an inquiry in Canada could be extended to another country.

The German government would have to agree to the terms, and as well would have to issue an order allowing for the inquiry to take place in its' country. Technically, subpoenas issued by a Canadian inquiry have no force in a foreign country, although German authorities can agree to issue similar orders there. Whether that would have an effect on Mr. Schreiber once he is in Germany is another matter, however.

There is good reason to delay the extradition until the Mulroney inquiry is complete: Schreiber has stated that if he is extradited, "they can all fuck off".

It would be a simple process to keep him incarcerated in canada until the end of the inquiry and then ship him off to Germany.

The costs would be close to the same(maybe $100,000.00 for jailing if he spends 1 year waiting)as sending a plane load of legal experts and inquiry staff to Germany to stay in hotels for an undetermined amount of time.

The inquiry would be better to remain on Canadian soil to be overseen by canadian law.

Progressive Canadians To Join Liberals

PROGRESSIVE CANADIAN PARTY EXECUTIVE JOINS THE FEDERAL LIBERAL PARTY

The entire executive and many senior members of the party formed by Progressive Conservatives who rejected the merger with the Canadian Alliance have joined the Liberals.
The Progressive Canadian Party, which used the old PC logo and the ideals of the old Tory party, will likely continue, says Tracy Parsons, who quit as party leader.
Ms. Parsons and party president Jim Love, as well as the four other members of the executive, the entire national council, and all of the CPC's Quebec organizers and many riding presidents joined the federal liberals yesterday.
The executive made the decision to quit en masse. It was a surprise when the others followed.
There was a realization, said Ms. Parsons, that Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion was offering very similar policy options .
“As a political party you are always trying to find your differentiators [with other parties] and I found that when Stéphane Dion became the leader of the Liberal Party that that differentiator was harder and harder to locate,” explained Ms. Parsons, who lives in Truro, N.S., and had been party leader since 2005.
“He had a lot of the same visions for the country that we had. And, of course, the Liberal Party has sort of moved into that Progressive Conservative space anyway.”
Last federal election they fielded 25 canddiates across Canda taking only .1% of the popular vote.

The move is a shot in the arm for Mr. Dion, who has been kicked around by the Conservatives as a weak leader.

POSSIBLE LINK BETWEEN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY AND

COULD EMF CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASE IN AUTISM RATES?
Washington, DC, November 16, 2007 – A groundbreaking scientific study published this week in the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine warns that wireless communication technology may be responsible for accelerating the rise in autism among the world’s children. (J.Aust.Coll.Nutr.& Env.Med, 2007; Vol.26, No.2 pages 3 – 7; report attached.)
Autism is a disabling neuro-developmental disorder whose cause is not completely understood, but is known to involve heavy metal toxicity. American advocacy groups call autism "the fastest-growing developmental disability in the United States." Twenty years ago, only 1 in 10,000 children were diagnosed with some form of autism; U.S. government data show the rate in 2002 to be 1 in 150; clinicians who treat the disease estimate the occurrence today to be closer to 1 in 100.
The children studied were seen by Tamara Mariea 2, a certified clinical nutritionist based in Nashville, Tennessee, specializing in treating autism. She is the primary author of the paper, along with Dr. George Carlo 1, an expert on the dangers of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), who headed the world’s largest research program on mobile phone health hazards in the 1990s. Their work revealed the autism-wireless technology connection following a series of tests on autistic children monitored during 2005 and 2006.
The autistic children followed specific detoxification protocols in an environment that was mitigated with regard to sources of EMR including mobile phones and WiFi 3. Heavy metal excretions were monitored from hair, urine and feces over periods ranging from several weeks to several months. The researchers found that with protocols administered in the mitigated environment, heavy metals were cleared from the children’s bodies in a pattern dependent on time and molecular weight. The heaviest metals, such as mercury and uranium, cleared last. In many of the children, the decrease in metals was concomitant with symptom amelioration.

Tamara Mariea, said: "These findings give us very important clues to solving some of the enigmas we see in the autism literature regarding the efficacy of detoxification. And, we are extremely pleased with the results we are now seeing in these children. Our protocols are working."
Dr. Carlo said, "These findings tie in with other studies showing adverse cell-membrane responses and disruptions of normal cell physiology. The EMR apparently causes the metals to be trapped in cells, slowing clearance and accelerating the onset of symptoms."


The authors point out that the rise in cases of autism is paralleled by the huge growth in mobile phone and WiFi usage since the late 1990’s – with worldwide wireless usage now having reached nearly 4 billion persons.
"Although some of the increase in autism can be ascribed to more efficient diagnosis by the medical community", Dr. Carlo said, "A rise of this magnitude must have a major environmental cause. Our data offer a reasonable mechanistic explanation for a connection between autism and wireless technology".



Notes to Editors:

1. In the 1990s, Dr George Carlo headed the $28.5 million Wireless Technology Research program, funded by the mobile phone industry and overseen by the federal government, studying health hazards from mobile phone technology. He is currently head of the non-profit Science and Public Policy Institute, based in Washington, D.C.

2. Tamara Mariea is Director of Internal Balance, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2000, she has helped over 500 autistic children.
3. WiFi refers to technologies that use wireless communication to connect computers to the Internet.

No, we won't be backing down.

THERE WILL BE NO BACKING DOWN ON THIS ONE

Okay, so we've had to amend this a bit here.

Ecojustice will not be able to defend this as they have no money to do so.

So, we will figure this one out ourselves, and will contact a lawyer through the channels identified in a letter from their (ecojustice) representative.

One thing that may be of use to us is this....

http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1485.aspx

Provincial Policy Statement (2005)
This Provincial Policy Statement was issued under Section 3 of the Planning Act and came into effect on March 1, 2005. It replaces the Provincial Policy Statement issued May 22, 1996, and amended February 1, 1997.
Table of Contents
Part I PreamblePart II Legislative AuthorityPart III How to Read the Provincial Policy StatementPart IV Vision for Ontario’s Land Use Planning System
Part V Policies1.0 Building Strong Communities 1.1 Managing and Directing Land Use to Achieve Efficient Development and Land Use Patterns Settlement Areas Rural Areas in Municipalities Rural Areas in Territory Without Municipal Organization
1.2 Coordination1.3 Employment Areas1.4 Housing1.5 Public Spaces, Parks and Open Space1.6 Infrastructure and Public Service Facilities Sewage and Water Transportation Systems Transportation and Infrastructure Corridors Airports Waste Management
1.7 Long-Term Economic Prosperity1.8 Energy and Air Quality
2.0 Wise Use and Management of Resources2.1 Natural Heritage