Nine protesters arrested in Caledonia standoff

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested nine protesters at the site of an aboriginal demonstration at a housing development in Caledonia.

I think that the situation with the aboriginals is getting ridiculous. There have been too many protests in the last few years that it is starting to get stupid. The aboriginal people keep asking for more money which is making them more and more relient on the government. The more money they get from the government, the less they have to work. There are two feasible solutions that I can think of; they lose the reserves and government grants and live lives like everyone else, or they could support themselves. Although it isn’t entirely the same situation, you don’t see mennonites protesting and asking for money from the government. They support themselves and I think the natives could learn a little from them and try to follow suit. Too many people are being hurt and/or arrest, this needs to stop.

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Day firm on police warrants for access to internet user data

Public safety ministry recently announced that they would not introduce legislation forcing internet service providers to give customer information without a warrant.

This is extremely shocking to me - not because they denied the legislation but because someone would even think of allowing personal data to be given out without as much as a warrant. I am extremely happy that they did not introduce the legislation because that would be a severe invasion of privacy. It is disgusting that people would want to have personal information given out that easily. This is a growing trend around the world, people want to be in control of whatever is happening on the internet. They are, essentially, control Freaks. Another example of this trend is Microsoft recently issued updates to its Operating systems secretly despite if the user had updates turned on or off.

This is an awful trend and needs to stop.





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Teen fatally stabbed outside Toronto high school

A 16 year old student of Winston Churchill Collegiate Institute was fatally stabbed in the stomach at about 12:20 PM o yesterday. He was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital but died a short time later.

What suprises me is not the stabbing, but the fact that only two schools were given the upgraded security. I don't see the logic in this, are we going to wait until someone dies to upgrade security? Does it have to come to the worst case senario to even entertain the thought of having increased school security? This is certainly not being pro-active. My question is, why is the process so passive?



Here is a disturbing image that I stumbled across



This shows all the homocides in Toronto in 2007. It further shows that we are waiting for someone to be attacked before we take action.

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Elections Canada chief won't back down on veiled voting

Elections Canada has decided to stick with their decision to allow veiled women to participate in the polls despite Primeminister Harper's disagreement.


While others may disagree, I believe that Harper's complaint is in fact a valid one.  Even though Canada is extremely multicultural, common sense and security measures should still be put into play. I can also understand Election Canada's decision with Canada being what it 
is, a very multicultural country.



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