Canada's evacuation plan for Libya hits more snags

A second chartered plane is reportedly coming from countries like Amman, Jordan to embattled countries like Tripoli, and Libya to pick up Canadian citizens who want to get out of the country. The flight is expected to return to Rome upon landing in these countries from there the Canadians will be either sent on a flight or boat back to Canada. The first flight today came back empty handed as there was no Canadians waiting at the airport and because these countries are so dangerous right now the plane was unable to wait for someone to show up. With thing starting to heat up in Libya the government wants to get these Canadians out of that country.

I think that these Canadians trapped in these countries should stay at the airport awaiting the arrival of the planes. If these people were able to get a hold of someone in Canada earlier to let them know that they want out of the country I'm sure that they would be able to do that again so they can determine when they should meet at the airport so they can be sent back to Canada.  

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/944741--chartered-flight-leaves-libya-with-no-canadians-aboard-second-flight-on-its-way

Pay $1,800 or Get Out

Deb Matthews has demanded that Ontario Hospitals stop threatening elderly patients with a daily charges of $1,800 so they can free up some beds. The normal pay for a patient should be $53.23 or less. The lack of nursing homes in the GTA has caused an overload of elderly patients staying in the hospital waiting for a bed to free up at a home. Some Ontario hospitals would threaten the elderly patients with outrageous fees so that they would free up that bed an get someone who very ill in. The ministry is sending out reminders to the Ontario hospitals reminding them that they are not allowed to charge these people this amount of money.


I think that what the hospitals are doing is sick, and wrong. They shouldn't be charging these people this amount of money just for a bed while they are waiting for a bed in a nursing home. I think that the government should look into building homes onsite of the hospitals this way if an elderly person comes in they can keep them there for a temporary time until they find a permanent home. They should also look at making more nursing homes in the GTA there is not enough homes for the amount of elderly residents there are in the GTA.

http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/943244--province-to-hospitals-stop-threatening-1-800-fees

How an Auto-Corrected Text Message Led to Killing

A man is going to be sentenced for manslaughter after stabbing a friend who took offence to a text message which auto-corrected itself into a threat. The man sent a text message to his friend calling him a 'mutter' which is slang for a wannabe, or a streetwise teenager, but what he wanted to send out was 'nutter' which is slang for someone who is crazy. After that text was sent from the the man the text became more escalated, eventually the man who died came over to the mans house with a knife but the man had tapped two knifes to the backs of doors. By the end of the battle the man had stabbed the other man 104 times. 


I think that phones clearly state weather or not it is going to change a word automatically. Even though victim was murdered he was also the instigator in this fight, thats why I think that they can't put the full blame on the man being convicted. I think that if the man wasn't so vicious with his attack, that he could argue that it was self defense.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/940623--how-an-auto-corrected-text-message-led-to-killing 

Ottawa too Soft on Tax Crimes: Report

An Internal report to see how Canada's efforts to stop tax fraud showed that Canada is letting way too many criminals off the hook with this crime. Most of the criminals caught doing this crime aren't even sent to jail, unlike countries like U.S, Britain, and Australia. This is because tax cops generally go after smaller crimes so that the success right is high and it is quick which results in no one with worse crimes being prosecuted. Even when the criminals are prosecuted most of the tickets go unpaid. Over the past 4 years 1,200 people were convicted with tax dodging, well at the same time 5,000 criminals got away with tax dodging getting away with $428 million dollars of unpaid tax money. The Agency said that it will try to come up with recommendations by Dec. 31 to resolve the problems. 


I think that th government needs to start to focus more on this problem. We can't allow a small margin of people to get away Scot free with this crime and make everyone else continue to pay these taxes. I think that if the government decided to spend some more money on this problem that they would get that money back very easily.

http://www.moneyville.ca/article/940042--ottawa-too-soft-on-tax-crimes-report

Man Accused of Stabbing 4 People After Farts Mocked

On Monday a man stabbed four people at a party after being made fun of because of his flatulence, he is pleading not guilty. He is being charged with murder and assault charges. At the time of the attack Higgins was very drunk. After the man farted he was ridiculed by his friends, and reports say that a women even slapped him. At one he stormed out of the house and returned 45 minutes with three knives, then started stabbing people at random. He stabbed four people Matthew Walton died of his injuries and three others were injured. Higgins told the police that he was angry and he wanted to show people that they shouldn't make fun of him.


I think that this man was obviously intoxicated and very mislead, but this is no excuse for his actions. I think that this man deserves to go to jail for his actions, but I also think that the people who were mocking him shouldn't go unpunished. I think that they think twice when they're about to make fun of someone who just farted next time.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/938932--u-s-man-accused-of-stabbing-4-people-after-farts-mocked  

Why Today's TTC Delay Was a Mystery to Many

The cause for today's delay on the TTC was to fix those quite, hard to understand speakers. TTC was planning on getting the trains out back after their repairs on time but was unable to after finding a cracked train at king station, trains were cancelled from Bloor to Union Station. Previously TTC had tried fixing the problem by sending emails and twitter alerts to passengers about delays, but this only works if a passenger can connect to the internet off their phone, and this is impossible in the tunnels. TTC hopes to put more display screens on platforms so that passengers can easily see if their are delays.


I think that TTC should decide to start to put display screens inside of the train itself, this way people can easily see if their are any delays as well place more screens outside not only on the platform but also outside of the entrances. Although we now how nice clear speakers in the trains with no background noise, and good quality it is only a matter of time until that also breaks down and another repair is due. Is it really worth the wait?

http://www.thestar.com/news/ttc/article/938418--why-today-s-ttc-delay-was-a-mystery-to-many-riders

U of T is Leasing for New Student Residence

U of T is leasing land for its first for profit student residence. The University is planning on building a luxurious 120 million dollar house which will fit 1000 students. The University is planning to fill these houses with wealthy foreign students. Although the current location of the new housing will be not very populated with business's the University is planning that the new housing will attract different business's to come to that location.

I think that building a luxurious house like this, just relying on the foreign students alone to fill this house will not work out well for the University. I think that the University will have to sell this multi million dollar house because there is not a high enough demand for these types of homes. 

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/930656--u-of-t-leasing-land-for-new-student-residence

Snow Storm Didn't Live Up to the Hype, but we Sure Did

On Wednesday February 2, 2011 the GTA was expected to get a record snow fall of up to 30 centimeters. This snowfall was not met and we only received 13 to 17 centimeters of snow. The word 'Blizzard' startled parents, schools, and daycare with almost every school and daycare canceled because of the weather parents were rushing to get someone to babysit their kid or work from home. The extreme warning for this storm wasn't a horrible thing. With all the people thinking that this storm was going to be one of the worst in years, they stayed inside and drove with greater caution, this made for less crashes. 


The federal government lowered the criteria for a storm system to be called a blizzard. I think that with more blizzards people will decide to be more cautious and the roads will become a safer place when we have bad snow storms like this. I think that if there is any doubt about a storm turning into blizzard weather reporters should say that it is going to be a blizzard so people lean towards staying off dangerous roads.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/932436--snowstorm-didn-t-live-up-to-the-hype-but-we-sure-did

Icebergs could reach Newfoundland by August

An iceberg expert in Halifax says that there is a chance of two huge icebergs from the Arctic to pass by Newfoundland as soon as August. One of the icebergs 84 square kilometers and the other 65 square kilometers both of them combined is about the size of Manhattan. All though there is a chance of witnessing this monster there is also a possibility that it might hit the Hibernia offshore oil platform. 


Well this could be a great attraction for the people of Newfoundland it also shows how global warming is affecting our poles. The affects of global warming have caused lots of loss in the amount of ice that is at our poles. The amount of ice that disappears daily is staggering.


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/931493--icebergs-could-reach-newfoundland-by-august-expert

147 Tickets a Day Issued for Breaking Ontario's Cellphone Ban

Since the banning of Cellphone usage well driving their has been over 49,000 tickets for breaking this law. Drivers are no longer allowed to call, text, email or use any other entertainment devices well driving. As of not long ago a study showed that there was an average of 147 tickets were given out daily in Ontario for using their cellphones. Even public bus drivers have been caught driving well they have been texting when on route with their passengers.


With these kinds of statistics it is obvious that people are not getting the message. They continue to use their cell phones while driving. This is not a bad thing for police as the average ticket for this offense is $155. With this outrageous amount for a ticket police find it easy to give people these tickets. I think that people who repeatedly get these tickets should consider installing Blue tooth, or consider not using their cellphone well driving because it costing them loads of money.


http://www.thestar.com/news/article/931377--147-tickets-a-day-issued-for-breaking-ontario-s-cellphone-ban