Canada has gun control so what is the worse thing that can happen?
http://globalnews.ca/news/2055266/teen- ... cellphone/
Teen fatally shot in London, Ont. after tracking lost cellphone
WATCH ABOVE: All Jeremy Cook wanted was to find his lost cell phone. But when the 18-year-old London, Ont. teen tracked it down, it ended with him losing his life. Jennifer Tryon has the details.
Police are searching for three suspects in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in London, Ont. on Sunday, after a dispute over a lost cellphone.
Teen shot dead in latest Toronto homicide
London Police say Jeremy Ryan Cook, originally from Brampton, had left his cellphone in a taxi cab and electronically tracked it to a parking lot at 1181 Highbury Ave. North on Sunday.
Upon arriving at the address with a relative at about 5:15 a.m., police say they approached a silver 2004 Mazda 6 four-door sedan occupied by three men and a “discussion occurred about the phone.”
Police say one of the passengers exited the car and walked away from the area while the vehicle started to drive away, which is when Cook then partially climbed onto the car and held onto the driver’s side door.
The vehicle drove northbound on Highbury Ave. and then turned east, which is when police say shots were fired and reported by witnesses.
Police responded to the scene and found the victim without vital signs after suffering multiple gunshot wounds behind a plaza located at Highbury Ave. and Huron St.
Paramedics attempted to revive Cook, but were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
“The end result of this whole scenario is definitely tragic. It’s very unfortunate, we never suggest anyone grabbing onto a moving vehicle, as that in-and-of-itself is very dangerous, but if there’s any concern whether it be of criminal nature, such as a stolen item or any concern for your safety we certainly encourage people to contact police,” said Const. Ken Steeves.
“I don’t think anybody would have been able to predict that the end result in this scenario would have been the case under the circumstances. But if anyone has any information in relation to where their lost items may be, certainly there’s nothing wrong with inquiring, but if there’s any suspicion or any indication that there’s trouble or anything like that we certainly encourage people to contact police.”
Police say the vehicle then drove west on Huron St. and collided with a fence and a hydro pole near Barker St., before it was found abandoned on nearby Wyndham Cres.
“With the vehicle, often times you’re able to determine the registered owner but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he or she is involved in the scenario,” said Steeves.
“I’m not indicating whether he or she is involved in this situation but it doesn’t always solve or provide concrete answers.”
After the vehicle was abandoned, police say a man was seen running through a nearby park and three separate suspects were arrested and taken into custody after a cab they were in was stopped by police.
A citizen then reportedly called police after the victim’s cellphone was found in the area of Wyndham Cres. and Barker St.
Police initially said they were not looking for any other suspects, but on Monday police released the three suspects after it was determined they were not involved with the shooting.
Police say the suspects and the victim were not known to each other, and the victim was not known to London Police.
They are currently searching for three men – including the two who were in the vehicle and the one who walked away. They are all described as being between 18 and 21 years of age and police are appealing to the public for information on the suspects.
The first suspect is described is black, wearing a white shirt with a black design, the second is described as black with very short hair, wearing a black jacket or shirt and a fitted hat, while the third is described as black with a slim build, wearing a blue shirt and black hat.
Anyone with information related to the incident is asked to contact London Police.
Canada has gun control so what is the worse thing that can h
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Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
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What with them being next to the US, their rate of gun deaths is amazingly low.
Murder by gun;
Canada 0.51 / 100,000 population
United States 3.55 / 100,000 population
Murder by gun;
Canada 0.51 / 100,000 population
United States 3.55 / 100,000 population
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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alice springs stabbing capital of the world....
http://www.couriermail.com.au/...stabbi ... story-e6fr.
Springs is `world stabbing capital'
By Tamara McLean
AAP
March 24, 2008 11:00PM
STABBINGS in Central Australia's tourist capital Alice Springs have reached epidemic proportions, and traditional Aboriginal thigh spearing is being blamed.
Surgeons at Alice Springs Hospital say the town is in crisis, with the number of stab injuries, blunt force injuries, bone breaks and burns admissions rising.
The town now reports the highest rate of stabbings in the world, with 390 incidents for every 100,000 people.
Most concerning, say the medics, is that almost 40 per cent of the stabbings were thigh injuries most likely meted out by Aboriginal elders as traditional punishment.
The practice, designed to settle grievances, is performed by elders who "have a deep knowledge of human anatomy and are skilled at spearing the femoral artery with deft accuracy," Dr Abraham Jacob wrote in a report published in the latest ANZ Journal of Surgery.
The study shows 16 of the 605 Aborigines admitted with thigh stab wounds between 1998 and 2005 were dead on arrival.
"We found a significant and particular pattern of traditional stab injuries," Dr Jacob said.
"Medial thigh injury to kill, posterior thigh to permanently disable and lateral thigh to punish."
Contrary to anecdotal reports, women were just as likely to be subjected to the practice as men, and the location was town camps and homes, not streets or pubs as previously thought.
Alcohol played a role in 30 per cent of stabbing admissions.
About 20 per cent of the victims were admitted with stab wounds more than once, and in the same number of cases the victim absconded before they had completed treatment.
Dr Jacob and his colleagues said the study was the first to reveal the extent of injury and death due to traditional spearing, saying it adds to the town's growing poor statistics.
"Alice Springs has been given the title of the crime capital of Australia, and its town camps have been described as a 'sea of despair' with conditions similar to South African ghetto townships," Dr Jacob said.
The camps' population was expected to double in the next five years, speeding up already increasing rates of injury and death.
"Central Australia's tourist capital is in crisis," he said.
"A multi-pronged approach is needed, engaging Aboriginal leaders, social uplifting and economical support and education of the entire community."
http://www.couriermail.com.au/...stabbi ... story-e6fr.
Springs is `world stabbing capital'
By Tamara McLean
AAP
March 24, 2008 11:00PM
STABBINGS in Central Australia's tourist capital Alice Springs have reached epidemic proportions, and traditional Aboriginal thigh spearing is being blamed.
Surgeons at Alice Springs Hospital say the town is in crisis, with the number of stab injuries, blunt force injuries, bone breaks and burns admissions rising.
The town now reports the highest rate of stabbings in the world, with 390 incidents for every 100,000 people.
Most concerning, say the medics, is that almost 40 per cent of the stabbings were thigh injuries most likely meted out by Aboriginal elders as traditional punishment.
The practice, designed to settle grievances, is performed by elders who "have a deep knowledge of human anatomy and are skilled at spearing the femoral artery with deft accuracy," Dr Abraham Jacob wrote in a report published in the latest ANZ Journal of Surgery.
The study shows 16 of the 605 Aborigines admitted with thigh stab wounds between 1998 and 2005 were dead on arrival.
"We found a significant and particular pattern of traditional stab injuries," Dr Jacob said.
"Medial thigh injury to kill, posterior thigh to permanently disable and lateral thigh to punish."
Contrary to anecdotal reports, women were just as likely to be subjected to the practice as men, and the location was town camps and homes, not streets or pubs as previously thought.
Alcohol played a role in 30 per cent of stabbing admissions.
About 20 per cent of the victims were admitted with stab wounds more than once, and in the same number of cases the victim absconded before they had completed treatment.
Dr Jacob and his colleagues said the study was the first to reveal the extent of injury and death due to traditional spearing, saying it adds to the town's growing poor statistics.
"Alice Springs has been given the title of the crime capital of Australia, and its town camps have been described as a 'sea of despair' with conditions similar to South African ghetto townships," Dr Jacob said.
The camps' population was expected to double in the next five years, speeding up already increasing rates of injury and death.
"Central Australia's tourist capital is in crisis," he said.
"A multi-pronged approach is needed, engaging Aboriginal leaders, social uplifting and economical support and education of the entire community."
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Glasgow Scotland – Western Europe’s Friendliest Murder Capital
Busy Metropolitan City- Glasgow
Busy Metropolitan City- Glasgow
Glasgow was once the biggest city in the world… well no but it was one of the largest seaports in the world! Being at the entry spot of the Clyde River, it naturally became a point of trade for sailors to find scallywags and where big business took place.
Glasgow’s population inflated rapidly and eventually it became known as the tobacco trading capital, when more than half of the UK’s trade came from Scotland, sending internationally to the Americas and 47,000,000 lb. of tobacco a year.
Banks grew, wealth grew and the population grew swiftly and by 1939 it reached over 1.1 million and by the 1960’s they had to spread out the population and started the urban renewal project relocating families to Glasgow’s outer areas.
Western Europe’s murder capitol, Glasgow was voted the friendliest city and ranked as UK’s most violent city the same year. Contradictory reports perhaps but it explains the diversity of Glasgow. On one hand, you have wealthy business and the other a dirty drug crisis.
Entering a shop, the cashiers say hello, and tell you their specials. They comment on our accents and ask where we are from. It reminds me of Vancouver. Awe. It has been a long time since I encountered customer service. Living in France there is zero. I felt so loved in Scotland, even if artificial it felt great!
My stepsister has a special place in her heart for rainy Glasgow since she moved from England and met a wonderful circle of friends through her work at the University of Glasgow. Eventually she met her husband and had a beautiful baby boy. And they lived happily ever after. Everyone deserves their happy ending and after meeting her family, she definitely has hers.
The Uni, interestingly enough, was founded in 1451 and ranked in the top 100.
Which brings me to…here is the thing about blended families. I met my stepfamily when I was at my worst; sixteen-years-old, your typical raging teenage with a temper that could put a fist through a wall, especially after my parents split, I was not very happy. In addition, my stepsiblings were just about as unbalanced. We eventually learned to get along. The adjustment was hard as our family placement changed with our new family unity and we had to learn the new pecking order. Twenty-four years later, we are family none-the-less.
It is different when you grow up with someone from birth. With my older brother, I figured he was smarter and I naturally believed and trusted his judgment. New people had to earn my trust, especially being children coming from broken dysfunctional homes. Functioning dysfunctionals is what my step sister called us, and she could not be more correct. Although I thought, barely functioning. The older we got the more fun we had at Christmas and Easter. Our time together was full of laughter around our big family table and there was always piles of food. And boy did that table grow.
Glasgow gave my sister something she never got from our home in Aldergrove. A type of confidence that comes from trusting your own instincts. Being unaided by family, she not only surviving, she succeeding. I am proud of who she has become but also never saw her so happy. Glasgow is to her is like Kitsilano is to me. A place where you do your most personal growing and end up excepting the things you cannot change and changing the things you cannot except.
My impression of Glasgow after the few hours walking around was a mixed bag. I saw two mothers, one pushing a stroller and the other dragging a screaming kid down Buchanan Street, the promenade. Later I saw them at the KFC, and after that, they shopped at the local Primark. The child had not stopped screaming, and her mother looked about sixteen. I thought I saw her lift something from the store, except that may have been wrong. It would fit the picture and I do have a vivid imagination.
Nicole and I stopped at a bench in the middle of the walking street to check her phone, and a woman with very dirty pants, rummaged through the garbage and then abruptly turned to a man beside us who was busy talking on the phone and said, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO ROLL? The women asked as she sprinkled the old tobacco from the cigarette she pulled from the trash into a rolling paper a man gave her a few minutes before. The man gave her a dirty look, and turned his back on her. Annoyed by his indifference to what was obviously an urgent situation, she stormed off, but only after I got a glimpse of her face under the hoodie. She was a beautiful girl; green eyes and black hair (my guess is she was not yet twenty), then I noticed the pockmarks on her face, a sign of a heroin addict. So sad.
Behind us were two junkies, high as kites, walking super fast and animated as crack heads do. We have them in Surrey BC too, and Alfonz used to get them down at the shop trying to sell their stolen goods. He’d shoo them away like annoying flies. Most were so week from years of drugs and the paranoia that comes with, they would leave without much incident.
These two men were again surprisingly young and already lost their teeth, giving them the caved in old man face. Whatever was going on between these two friends, they were having a blast. I bet their high seemed it was going at normal speed to them while we were in slow motion. It makes sense that the film Train Spotting filmed not far from here, in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh (starring the awesome Ewan McGregor although it has nothing to do with my post on Glasgow, in my imagination Ewan and I are friends).
My sister laughed, yup that’s us, a little bit of everything. Moreover, she is right. Men on lunch breaks in designer three-piece suits walk with beautiful co-workers dressed for business. Their shirts still perfectly creased from the John Lewis box. They looked as though they just walked off a runway while they pick up their to-go coffees and hurried back to work.
The architecture too I found interesting and took photos of random buildings.
Although Glasgow is not particularly beautiful, the drive home to Cupar, Fife was. We stopped to change the baby and pulled off on a random road at the side of the highway and I snapped the last of my shots.
I talk about Scotland with friends here in France and say, it reminds me of Vancouver. After a good laugh, I explain. Not the building of downtown, obviously, but the beach in the rain and the surrounding green fields smell like home. The lush vegetation greener than green from the abundance of rain. Moreover, when I made my morning cuppa and looked out my sister’s window, I thought, if someone told me I was in Vancouver I would believe it. I watched the rain streak down the window as I looked up towards the neighbors’ tree, and the mist hung low in the early morning hours.
Cupar, Fife and Vancouver BC are not sister cities, however, the lower mainland of British Columbia, the open spaces of the West Coast sure feel a lot like Scotland. On the other hand, perhaps with my sister near it just felt like home.
I don’t have a blood sister and have no idea what that’s like. I do know, I love that I have someone who went through the last twenty-four years with me and has a whole bunch of shared memories. Maybe not exactly the same, but I feel lucky anyways…
Busy Metropolitan City- Glasgow
Busy Metropolitan City- Glasgow
Glasgow was once the biggest city in the world… well no but it was one of the largest seaports in the world! Being at the entry spot of the Clyde River, it naturally became a point of trade for sailors to find scallywags and where big business took place.
Glasgow’s population inflated rapidly and eventually it became known as the tobacco trading capital, when more than half of the UK’s trade came from Scotland, sending internationally to the Americas and 47,000,000 lb. of tobacco a year.
Banks grew, wealth grew and the population grew swiftly and by 1939 it reached over 1.1 million and by the 1960’s they had to spread out the population and started the urban renewal project relocating families to Glasgow’s outer areas.
Western Europe’s murder capitol, Glasgow was voted the friendliest city and ranked as UK’s most violent city the same year. Contradictory reports perhaps but it explains the diversity of Glasgow. On one hand, you have wealthy business and the other a dirty drug crisis.
Entering a shop, the cashiers say hello, and tell you their specials. They comment on our accents and ask where we are from. It reminds me of Vancouver. Awe. It has been a long time since I encountered customer service. Living in France there is zero. I felt so loved in Scotland, even if artificial it felt great!
My stepsister has a special place in her heart for rainy Glasgow since she moved from England and met a wonderful circle of friends through her work at the University of Glasgow. Eventually she met her husband and had a beautiful baby boy. And they lived happily ever after. Everyone deserves their happy ending and after meeting her family, she definitely has hers.
The Uni, interestingly enough, was founded in 1451 and ranked in the top 100.
Which brings me to…here is the thing about blended families. I met my stepfamily when I was at my worst; sixteen-years-old, your typical raging teenage with a temper that could put a fist through a wall, especially after my parents split, I was not very happy. In addition, my stepsiblings were just about as unbalanced. We eventually learned to get along. The adjustment was hard as our family placement changed with our new family unity and we had to learn the new pecking order. Twenty-four years later, we are family none-the-less.
It is different when you grow up with someone from birth. With my older brother, I figured he was smarter and I naturally believed and trusted his judgment. New people had to earn my trust, especially being children coming from broken dysfunctional homes. Functioning dysfunctionals is what my step sister called us, and she could not be more correct. Although I thought, barely functioning. The older we got the more fun we had at Christmas and Easter. Our time together was full of laughter around our big family table and there was always piles of food. And boy did that table grow.
Glasgow gave my sister something she never got from our home in Aldergrove. A type of confidence that comes from trusting your own instincts. Being unaided by family, she not only surviving, she succeeding. I am proud of who she has become but also never saw her so happy. Glasgow is to her is like Kitsilano is to me. A place where you do your most personal growing and end up excepting the things you cannot change and changing the things you cannot except.
My impression of Glasgow after the few hours walking around was a mixed bag. I saw two mothers, one pushing a stroller and the other dragging a screaming kid down Buchanan Street, the promenade. Later I saw them at the KFC, and after that, they shopped at the local Primark. The child had not stopped screaming, and her mother looked about sixteen. I thought I saw her lift something from the store, except that may have been wrong. It would fit the picture and I do have a vivid imagination.
Nicole and I stopped at a bench in the middle of the walking street to check her phone, and a woman with very dirty pants, rummaged through the garbage and then abruptly turned to a man beside us who was busy talking on the phone and said, DO YOU KNOW HOW TO ROLL? The women asked as she sprinkled the old tobacco from the cigarette she pulled from the trash into a rolling paper a man gave her a few minutes before. The man gave her a dirty look, and turned his back on her. Annoyed by his indifference to what was obviously an urgent situation, she stormed off, but only after I got a glimpse of her face under the hoodie. She was a beautiful girl; green eyes and black hair (my guess is she was not yet twenty), then I noticed the pockmarks on her face, a sign of a heroin addict. So sad.
Behind us were two junkies, high as kites, walking super fast and animated as crack heads do. We have them in Surrey BC too, and Alfonz used to get them down at the shop trying to sell their stolen goods. He’d shoo them away like annoying flies. Most were so week from years of drugs and the paranoia that comes with, they would leave without much incident.
These two men were again surprisingly young and already lost their teeth, giving them the caved in old man face. Whatever was going on between these two friends, they were having a blast. I bet their high seemed it was going at normal speed to them while we were in slow motion. It makes sense that the film Train Spotting filmed not far from here, in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh (starring the awesome Ewan McGregor although it has nothing to do with my post on Glasgow, in my imagination Ewan and I are friends).
My sister laughed, yup that’s us, a little bit of everything. Moreover, she is right. Men on lunch breaks in designer three-piece suits walk with beautiful co-workers dressed for business. Their shirts still perfectly creased from the John Lewis box. They looked as though they just walked off a runway while they pick up their to-go coffees and hurried back to work.
The architecture too I found interesting and took photos of random buildings.
Although Glasgow is not particularly beautiful, the drive home to Cupar, Fife was. We stopped to change the baby and pulled off on a random road at the side of the highway and I snapped the last of my shots.
I talk about Scotland with friends here in France and say, it reminds me of Vancouver. After a good laugh, I explain. Not the building of downtown, obviously, but the beach in the rain and the surrounding green fields smell like home. The lush vegetation greener than green from the abundance of rain. Moreover, when I made my morning cuppa and looked out my sister’s window, I thought, if someone told me I was in Vancouver I would believe it. I watched the rain streak down the window as I looked up towards the neighbors’ tree, and the mist hung low in the early morning hours.
Cupar, Fife and Vancouver BC are not sister cities, however, the lower mainland of British Columbia, the open spaces of the West Coast sure feel a lot like Scotland. On the other hand, perhaps with my sister near it just felt like home.
I don’t have a blood sister and have no idea what that’s like. I do know, I love that I have someone who went through the last twenty-four years with me and has a whole bunch of shared memories. Maybe not exactly the same, but I feel lucky anyways…
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crap. I googled Parisian stabbings and was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers and variety of stabbings....
I wish I could learn how to use this darn computer properly so I could post the stuff efficiently....
I wish I could learn how to use this darn computer properly so I could post the stuff efficiently....
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I won't comment other than to suggest that the village idiot ask himself why he believes that story made the national news
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Hey wesw... when you quote a semi-literate chunk of writing, in future please provide the link so we know where it came from.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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hey meade.
I didn t bother attributing the second piece , it was just some travel blog or something. I just thought that it was funny.
geez, it took me like 20 minutes to get transferred what I got transferred....
but glascow is world famous for stabbings so I just assumed that you got my point. I did not realize that paris was much the same tho
I didn t bother attributing the second piece , it was just some travel blog or something. I just thought that it was funny.
geez, it took me like 20 minutes to get transferred what I got transferred....
but glascow is world famous for stabbings so I just assumed that you got my point. I did not realize that paris was much the same tho
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Thank you - I guess "some travel blog" is an authority
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The worst thing? I guess that would be having a massive stroke so I started confusing anecdotes for evidence of the effectiveness of social policy. Or a brain tumor.
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ok, I ll make it easy for you. the site where you can find out about the fame of glascow stabbings is called 'google' and the key words are 'glascow' and 'stabbings', plural form of stabbing.
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Provide your source links and stop being an arse. (In whatever order you wish)
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Well, excuse me for trying to be provocative in an effort to make the site to more interesting.Scooter wrote:I won't comment other than to suggest that the village idiot ask himself why he believes that story made the national news
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
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You can be as "provocative" as you wish. I am only suggesting you consider why the narrative you are attempting to advance does not work when the country you are using to illustrate it has so few teen homicides that every one of them makes national news.
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well meade, I m tryin'
if you check the link in the first thing about Australia, it doesn t work. my links never work. sorry.
nag nag nag,...
if you check the link in the first thing about Australia, it doesn t work. my links never work. sorry.
nag nag nag,...
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My dad used to say, "Never mind, son. There's always a job for the man who walks behind the circus elephants".
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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nah, meade, I d get fired . once I turned a few loose they d fire me......
my dad used to say, when I did something stupid, "boy, you re dumber than a goddam Abbott...."
apparently there was a feud between his family and the Abbott family some where in the annals of Deal Island history....
my dad used to say, when I did something stupid, "boy, you re dumber than a goddam Abbott...."
apparently there was a feud between his family and the Abbott family some where in the annals of Deal Island history....
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yes, jim I m a computer moron. but I do know when to use 'then' and when to use 'than'..... 
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Did I miss the part where Jim used either of those incorrectly?
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