Tuesday, August 27, 2013
The city has recently had two mayors that have been corrupt and have corrupt dealings but have denied such contacts. Tremblay stated he didn't know abnout the prefences given to certain construction groups which is unbelievable and Appelbaum has had questionable business relationships while being a borough mayor for Cote de Neiges. Now there is an interim mayor trying to push through a by law about eliminating wood buring fireplaces when for the most part pollution has been caused by car and industrial emissions.Seems silly to concentrate on this old form of heating when cars continue to pile up on outdated expressways releasing their emissions.What to do about the leadership? I think most of the concerned citizens feel helpless or detached from the making any worthwhile change and that is an old story. The history of continued corruption only fosters further apathy in the electoral process and in electing a person who will clean up the mess..including the failing infrastructure in Canada's second largest city.
On the bright side condo development is occuring in previously run down areas and should encourage investments into services that would supply the needs of incoming residents. I am thinking of Griffintown in particular where the is the William St project that is occuring all around the Montreal art Center.The downside is that the area still looks decrepit, so it would be advisable to have city landscapers come in and create some park space around the the developments to besutify the area. It would also be advisable to repair the roads too.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
There are certain views regarding the increased revenue for traffic tickets and the success of stopping traffic violations. Some feel that this is just a ploy by government to raise revenue. Fifteen million is serious cash during these hard times but there are those who say that getting off the Atwater exit into and a voiding a collision is what has saved lives lives and if that coincides with the increased amount connected to surveillance camera all the better. In the meantime the traffic speed has been reduced to 30 or 40 clicks per hour.
Having surveillance camera can be extended to school areas to reduce speeding further or poles can be implemented to discourage drivers from speeding that would reduce taxes on the setting up of those cameras that have also recently appeared in metros as big brother extends his tentacles in the city watching where you and I go at any moment. Constant vigilance is also a point of contention when it comes to not wanted to be in the eye of the city’s administration.
There is nothing pretty about the increased revenue when the money is not going to go into the building of a solid infrastructure like the replacement of a bridge but goes instead to enrich city coffers as tickets are given out only on certain days and not on others.
This is the reality of an issue which already many years old as other large cities like Rome used to have their traffic cops be more certain days and not others. It appeared that there was a demand to fill city coffers then as quotas were reported to exist. There too the money collected could have been used for the rebuilding of their metro line.
Montreal is dire need of an entire repaving of its streets compared to other Canadian cities its roads are all cracked and filled with holes and the bridges are ready to collapse except the Victoria one which is the oldest! Well that makes sense when one considers that at the end of the nineteen hundreds when it was built there was no skimping on materials as there is today. The Champlain, built in the early sixties is expected to collapse, which should there be a tremor in the city. Montreal is in an earthquake zone and has experienced tremors recently. An the supports to the Champlain bridge are so weak that a diver who works for the city’s engineering department would not want to travel across it. The Mercier has long been mentioned as a curse with recent closures due to gaping holes that allow to see the water below! It is a chronic problem that goes back to the childhood of this author as city administrations continue to patch it up here and there. Looks like were waiting for another collapse similar to the viaduct connecting Montreal to Laval, which killed 5 people in 2006. All this is said again as traffic ticket revenues are directed in to the coffers of a select few and is not being used to support the rebuilding of the roads and bridges.
Having surveillance camera can be extended to school areas to reduce speeding further or poles can be implemented to discourage drivers from speeding that would reduce taxes on the setting up of those cameras that have also recently appeared in metros as big brother extends his tentacles in the city watching where you and I go at any moment. Constant vigilance is also a point of contention when it comes to not wanted to be in the eye of the city’s administration.
There is nothing pretty about the increased revenue when the money is not going to go into the building of a solid infrastructure like the replacement of a bridge but goes instead to enrich city coffers as tickets are given out only on certain days and not on others.
This is the reality of an issue which already many years old as other large cities like Rome used to have their traffic cops be more certain days and not others. It appeared that there was a demand to fill city coffers then as quotas were reported to exist. There too the money collected could have been used for the rebuilding of their metro line.
Montreal is dire need of an entire repaving of its streets compared to other Canadian cities its roads are all cracked and filled with holes and the bridges are ready to collapse except the Victoria one which is the oldest! Well that makes sense when one considers that at the end of the nineteen hundreds when it was built there was no skimping on materials as there is today. The Champlain, built in the early sixties is expected to collapse, which should there be a tremor in the city. Montreal is in an earthquake zone and has experienced tremors recently. An the supports to the Champlain bridge are so weak that a diver who works for the city’s engineering department would not want to travel across it. The Mercier has long been mentioned as a curse with recent closures due to gaping holes that allow to see the water below! It is a chronic problem that goes back to the childhood of this author as city administrations continue to patch it up here and there. Looks like were waiting for another collapse similar to the viaduct connecting Montreal to Laval, which killed 5 people in 2006. All this is said again as traffic ticket revenues are directed in to the coffers of a select few and is not being used to support the rebuilding of the roads and bridges.
Friday, April 30, 2010
The dissimilar leisure sabotages another antique underneath the trapped crossroad.
The Use of Child Labor
Children are essential elements of society. Why then are they being used illegally in child labor camps throughout the world? The idea of child labor is repulsive to those used to sending the children to school at 5 years of age but in some underdeveloped nations there is little access to an educational system because of lack of employment to send the child to school. As a result the child has to work to help maintain the family's daily earning quota.
If earnings of a Florida farming family is not increasing to keep step with increased inflation and the economic bust that has caused a bank collapse in the US, it is obvious that farming families will still employ their youth even though they may be under age according to urban standards. A fourteen year-old would more likely be working long hours on an orange picking farm in that state rather than completing his high school,education in a big city.
The use of child labor is complicated by a reduced insurance coverage in some states where the child is not employed year round. There many causes for the loss of young person's life including accidents caused by falls from ladders, using heavy machinery, drowning, parasitic infections, respiratory diseases and farm animals.
Under more severe working conditions, camps are set up where the child is forced to work and working conditions are poorer than in the US. The ugly word of slavery has returned when it was thought to have been abolished, worldwide.In China children are moved to labor camps away from their families to help support the local economy and child labor also occurs in Africa where the child, deprived of education and a family resorts to begging in the streets. In Ghana children as young as 6 years old are leased out to help parents earnings; they may land up on the coast helping fishermen bale out their boats while being unaware of their servitude.
The Use of Child Labor
Children are essential elements of society. Why then are they being used illegally in child labor camps throughout the world? The idea of child labor is repulsive to those used to sending the children to school at 5 years of age but in some underdeveloped nations there is little access to an educational system because of lack of employment to send the child to school. As a result the child has to work to help maintain the family's daily earning quota.
If earnings of a Florida farming family is not increasing to keep step with increased inflation and the economic bust that has caused a bank collapse in the US, it is obvious that farming families will still employ their youth even though they may be under age according to urban standards. A fourteen year-old would more likely be working long hours on an orange picking farm in that state rather than completing his high school,education in a big city.
The use of child labor is complicated by a reduced insurance coverage in some states where the child is not employed year round. There many causes for the loss of young person's life including accidents caused by falls from ladders, using heavy machinery, drowning, parasitic infections, respiratory diseases and farm animals.
Under more severe working conditions, camps are set up where the child is forced to work and working conditions are poorer than in the US. The ugly word of slavery has returned when it was thought to have been abolished, worldwide.In China children are moved to labor camps away from their families to help support the local economy and child labor also occurs in Africa where the child, deprived of education and a family resorts to begging in the streets. In Ghana children as young as 6 years old are leased out to help parents earnings; they may land up on the coast helping fishermen bale out their boats while being unaware of their servitude.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Saturday, March 24, 2007
On An Opinion Article of the First Annual Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy Meeting:
From the sound of the article makes you think that university students do nothing more than smoke up! One wonders whether the meaning is set up to get the 5 bucks from each student who has no intent on ever getting hooked on hard drugs. I have met a good sampling of them and they are keen in not inheriting parental debts and living off credit cards like adults do. They are not the addicts that authorities would like to imagine!!They have assignments to do and want to do positive things with their lives..Sounds like the war on drugs is a war on what politicians prefer to see as harmful when in fact anti-depressants are just as harmful when used in large quantities by unhappy students. Besides the fuzz is still keen on busting into homes which have a singular marijuana plant while cocaine bars get through major ports like Montreal and Vancouver on a major basis. I hope we don't go the way of the Americans on their lack of compassion and human rights over drug use because we are so busy selling our resources for cheap to them. Are we going to throw opportunities away from students because of a one-time offense in possessing weed?
From the sound of the article makes you think that university students do nothing more than smoke up! One wonders whether the meaning is set up to get the 5 bucks from each student who has no intent on ever getting hooked on hard drugs. I have met a good sampling of them and they are keen in not inheriting parental debts and living off credit cards like adults do. They are not the addicts that authorities would like to imagine!!They have assignments to do and want to do positive things with their lives..Sounds like the war on drugs is a war on what politicians prefer to see as harmful when in fact anti-depressants are just as harmful when used in large quantities by unhappy students. Besides the fuzz is still keen on busting into homes which have a singular marijuana plant while cocaine bars get through major ports like Montreal and Vancouver on a major basis. I hope we don't go the way of the Americans on their lack of compassion and human rights over drug use because we are so busy selling our resources for cheap to them. Are we going to throw opportunities away from students because of a one-time offense in possessing weed?
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