Apr. 1 Bad
parenting: I found this on Yahoo. Here is a "Photo of an Infant Left Alone in Locked Car." Then it gets worse:
"A note, seemingly written
from the baby's perspective, is attached to
the chest and reads, 'my mums in doing the shopping, call her if I need
anything.' There is a phone number written at the end."
I
remember watching Oprah years ago when I was a kid in like elementary
school. Oprah was talking to some expert about taking your kids into
the store and not leaving them in the car. It could get really hot in
the car.
I also have read a couple of news stories where a car gets stolen with a baby or a child inside the car.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/photo-infant-left-alone-locked-car-goes-uber-172923624.html
Death on Survivor: I found this on Yahoo. On the French version of Survivor,
24 yr old Gérald Babin died of cardiac arrest. That is so sad. They
cancelled the 16th season of this show. In the article, it did say
there was extensive medical tests for all the
contestants.
http://ca.omg.yahoo.com/news/french-survivor-canceled-death-25-152900312.html
Gay sperm banned: I found this article I clipped out way back in Jan. 29, 2007 in the Edmonton Journal.
It's about the Ontario court says it will ban gay men from donating
sperm to sperm banks. They can't donate because they could risk
spreading HIV to women and their unborn children. I did find this
article where you can read more about it:
http://gaylife.about.com/od/stdsgeneralhealth/a/spermdonation.htm
Sugar babies:
I found this article in 24 on Jan. 25, 2013. It's about sugar babies
at the University of Alberta. It's by Allison Salz. I wrote about
sugar babies before last year:
http://badcb.blogspot.ca/2012/03/productive-fertility-sugar-babies.html
Petros Kusmu, vice-president external at U of A Student's Union: "I think the whole sugar daddy story is
representative of the fact that students are having to make tough decisions to make ends meet."
The
U of A is 4th out of 20 Canadian universities by the website
SeekingArrangement.com. A sugar daddy is a wealthy and generous guy who
gives financial help to a young person in return for friendship and
companionship.
Me: Reading this article was an eye-opener. If
you read that other post, I only seen it on fictional TV shows and an
American young woman talking about it on 20/20. It's to hear that it happens in Edmonton was a little closer to home.
To Catch a Predator: I
found this article in 24 on Nov. 22, 2011. "Quebec father takes to
Facebook to expose predators." Dany Lacerte joined Facebook and posed
as a 13 yr old girl. He says he catches about 5 men a day.
Lacerte: "One time it took about 2 min. before someone offered me sexual favors."
He and his 2 friends goes and
meets the men he tricks, films them and then writes about it on Facebook and calls it "Against cyber predators in Quebec."
He
does it because he has 2 daughters. He had put two videos and then has
to take them down because the faces weren't blurred.
Lawyer
Alandre Gilbert Vanasse: "To publicize someone's face, to make it
identifiable and associate it with pedophilia- which is extremely
socially reprehensible- exposes you to legal action, whether the person
is a pedophile or not.
Lacerte is going to blur the video and then it put it back on.
I Google his name and all I get are a bunch of French websites. lol.
Apr. 3 Charity: I got this article "Toward better, smarter foreign aid" in the Globe and Mail, Mar. 30, 2013.
"There
are 800 million fewer people living in poverty today than there were in
1990. Some of the emerging economies are growing at a faster rate than
Canada's. The proportion of people who lack dependable access to good
sources of drinking water has been halved- two years ahead of the time
frame set out in the Millennium Development Goals."
Apr. 4 Save the ocean: Ginny Grimsley emailed me this article from Veronica Grey. Grey gave these tips:
• Americans buy 2 million bottles of
water every five minutes; ditch plastic bottles and use glass or recyclable
cans.
• Carry a cost-effective canvas bag
instead getting disposable plastic bags at the grocery store. We waste 10
billion plastic bags every week!
• Do not line your trash cans with
plastic bags. Use paper bags or nothing.
• Skip the lid on your to-go drinks.
The paper cup is normally recyclable but the lid usually isn't.
• Remember that each and every time
you flush; it all ends up in the ocean. Be mindful of what you toss in your
toilet!
Apr. 9 Kidnapping: My friend Sam emailed me back about this. I asked her if I can quote her on it, and she says yes.
This is about the grandparents kidnapping the grandson.
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/01/michael-landers-dad-breaks-silence-about-sons-abduction-says-he-forgives-parents-for-taking-him/
Sam: he seriously believes his grandparents were in the right, but were
they? i suspect he is very prejudiced against his own parents. assuming
that the grandparents in now way abused him, it is still sad they they
should decide that a handicapped mother who had had to allow them
custody while she was in a group home and found an apartment, going
through all the legal proceedings (proving she was not THAT badly
handicapped) to regain custody first for weekends then applying for more
is considered unfit to the point that they removed her from the child's
life rather than finding proof if she was unfit and going through the
proper authorities if they felt she was that poor a parent.
they had
disappeared after their son refused to allow them to fully adopt his
son. the father was unemployed at the time, but visiting regularly. it
is, all in all, a very grey area and only time will show why the
grandparents felt they 'had to do it' - by whether or not the son ever
agrees to see either parent and how he treats them.
Apr. 10 Rehtaeh Parsons:
Last night I was watching TV and after it was the 11pm CTV news. I saw
the part about this 17 yr old girl named Rehtaeh Parsons who committed
suicide from cyber bullying. First she was gang-raped by 4 boys at a
party. Then a picture of her circulated on the internet and everybody
harassed her for it.
This morning I read more about in the Globe and Mail article by Tu Thanh Ha and Jane Taber. She changed schools and couldn't concentrate in her classes. She did see therapists.
Feelings:
I feel so sorry for her and her family. I read the 24 news everyday so
I know what's going on in the world like Margaret Thatcher, the first
female British Prime Minister passing away, and also about the Keystone
Pipeline talks. However, this story about Rehtaeh really got to me
emotionally.
What can I do? Tell people, specifically teens:
Don't rape.
Don't cyber bully and harass people.
Don't be mean.
In the Globe
article, Wayne Mackay a Dalhousie University law professor says there
should be better education in schools and guidance counselors.
I know I just sent an email/ blog post yesterday, but I feel this is very important to write about.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/cyber-bullying-claims-another-sexual-assault-victim-nova-212003391.html
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