We too walk past those who need our help
The horrible scene, captured on closed-circuit TV and seen by millions, has sparked a global discussion. Why are people in today�s China so indifferent to a child in pain, crying, bloody, in the street? How can they turn away from suffering? Has the rush for economic success drained people of humanity?
Last week in B.C., John Gaffney finally got out of hospital, after five months. He wasn�t sick. Community Living B.C. didn�t want to pay for a group home for Gaffney, who is 46 and has Down syndrome and dementia. His parents didn�t think he would be safe in the home share CLBC proposed. So he stayed in hospital. (That wouldn�t happen to someone without a disability.)
Gaffney is a symbol. It�s clear that CLBC has lost its way. The focus has shifted from supporting adults with mental handicaps in living full lives, to dealing with �urgent health and safety needs,� as the corporation said in seeking more funding. The government has shuffled ministers, fired the CEO and offered a series of changing stories about what�s going on.
But until last week, no one in government acknowledged the people being forced from group homes they had shared for years, or the clients who lost every support when they turned 19.
They walked around those people.
With good excuses, I�m sure. Deficits and finite resources and other priorities. Some of the people who walked and rode past Wang Yue probably had good excuses too.
Then Liberal MLAs Randy Hawes and John Van Dongen joined families and advocates and the opposition in saying the government was failing people who really needed support. But the indifference to their plight lasted at least a year, as threats to health and safety and quality of life grew.
Last week in B.C., the missing women�s inquiry was getting underway in Vancouver. The first witnesses were testifying about how Robert Pickton could kill women for years without being apprehended.
There are lots of reasons. But fundamentally, Pickton and many others could prey on the women because we � governments, police and most of us � choose to make it easy. We walked around them, as people in that Guangdong market walked around Wang Yue�s broken body.
Consider the evidence in just the first few days of inquiry. A majority of Vancouver street-level sex trade workers reported suffering beatings, rape and other violence, testified Kate Shannon, a public health researcher and a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of B.C. Most never reported the attacks to police, because if they did officers would sometimes pick up them late at night, detain them and then drop off in some distant part of the city to find their own way home. Others feared harassment, arrest or theft by officers.
The desire to avoid police also meant workers took greater risks, like getting into a car without assessing the danger or ignoring lists of dangerous potential clients.
John Lowman, a Simon Fraser University criminology professor who researches prostitution, said public and police pressure forced sex workers into darker and more dangerous neighbourhoods, where they were easier prey.
Catherine Astin, a nurse who worked on the Downtown Eastside, said she and colleagues noticed women were disappearing. But they didn�t go to the police.
Police and frontline workers shouldn�t be singled out.
Prostitution is legal in Canada. But the government, on our behalf, has passed laws that increase the danger for workers. Communication for the purposes of prostitution is illegal, forcing women into the shadows and preventing them from screening clients.
Living off the avails of prostitution is illegal, so women cannot band together in a safe location and hire their own security.
Everyone knew those laws, and the way they were being selectively enforced, put women at risk, led to them being beaten and killed. No one cared enough to do anything about it. Lowman testified predators found it easy to justify violence against people that society had signalled were disposable.
Maybe we wouldn�t walk past a child lying in the street. But we�re certainly prepared to turn away from others whose suffering is just as real.
Cover-up fears as taxpayers pay $30 million to mining company
Taxpayers are paying compensation to the company because the government bungled its ban on uranium mining
The last-minute settlement suggests the government paid a premium so damaging evidence wouldn�t be heard in court.
And there is every reason to believe politicians ordered government managers to break the law and penalized a manager who tried to do the right thing.
Boss Power had the rights to the Blizzard claim, a uranium deposit about 50 kms southeast of Kelowna. The company could expect fierce opposition to any mine, but a seven-year moratorium on uranium mining lapsed in 1987. The company planned to press on with the project.
In 2007, Kevin Krueger, then the junior minister mines, confirmed the government had no policy or regulations prohibiting uranium development, although he acknowledged public opposition.
In 2008, that changed. The government issued a news released headlined �Government confirms position on uranium development.�
It set out a new approach. Uranium mining wasn�t part of the province�s plans, Krueger said.
Boss Power sued. The company had staked its claim, spent money on developing the deposits and said it had been encouraged by the government.
The ban took away its rights and the government should pay compensation, the company said.
The government�s statement of defence was revealing. It said the ban only applied to new projects. Boss was free to go ahead.
But 10 months later, the government brought a blanket, retroactive ban. The lawsuit went ahead.
Meanwhile, the government, according to the its own court filings, was breaking the law.
Boss Power applied in 2008, before the ban, to do exploratory work on its claim. The law requires the chief inspector of mines, then Doug Sweeney, to assess the application on its merits.
But the then-deputy minister, Greg Reimer, and assistant deputy minister John Cavanagh ordered Sweeney to ignore the application. They had asked the Attorney General�s Ministry for an opinion on whether it was legal.
It wasn�t, they were told, according to the government�s admissions in the legal case.
Then they repeated the order that Sweeney not fulfill his statutory duty.
Sweeney had legal and ethical concerns. He was relieved of his responsibilities for the file, and the marching orders went to more compliant officials. Sweeney ultimately left government, and says his family, career and reputation were damaged by the affair. (Cavanagh disputes the accuracy of the government�s admissions.)
These facts emerged as Boss Power�s case moved through the courts.
When Boss found out what had happened behind the scenes, it added a charge of �misfeasance of public office� to the lawsuit.
Basically, that alleged the government abused its power, which would givethe company a claim to additional compensation.
All this was set to come out in court if the case went ahead. The officials would have testified, and had to answer questions about whether politicians ordered them to break the law.
Until the government came up with $30 million of your money, plus more to cover Boss Power�s legal costs, to end the case.
Which inevitably brings to mind the decision to cover $6 million in legal costs for Dave Basi and Bob Virk to head off the revelation of potentially damaging evidence in that case.
The NDP raised the issue in question period Monday, but got no answers.
So we don�t know who gave the order to ignore the company�s application, or why the Attorney General Ministry�s legal opinion was ignored. We don�t know how much the settlement costs rose because of the government�s abuse of power.
We do know that a government that can�t find money to meet the needs of people with developmental disabilities can come up with $30 million to keep potentially damaging evidence from being heard in court.
Footnote: The government issued a news release on the settlement late on Oct. 19, the day the shipbuilding contracts were dominating the news. If it was an attempt to hide the news, it failed miserably.
The other interesting question is whether this would be an issue, or if there would be ban, if the deposits were in the north, not the Okanagan.
Uranium ban costs taxpayers $30 million
From the files:
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Uranium a glowing problem for government
And the stumbles could get expensive for taxpayers, if a disgruntled company does well in court...
The rest of the 2009 column is here.
Hawes, Clark and an MLA's job
Randy Hawes and Christy Clark offered up two very different visions of what MLAs are supposed to be doing on Monday.
And our democracy, and society, would be a lot better if more politicians acted like Hawes.
In the morning, New Democrat Nicholas Simons introduced a motion calling on the government to halt the closing of group homes for people with mental handicaps. About 65 have been closed, almost 10 per cent, often forcing longtime residents into new, less supportive settings. Community Living B.C., the Crown corporation delivering services to people with developmental disabilities, is trying to cut costs.
The motion was a gesture. It will never be passed.
Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger, briefly the minister responsible for CLBC, spoke against it. The closures are good, he said, everything is fine. Nanaimo Liberal MLA Ron Cantelon offered the same general view.
A couple of New Democrats, as expected, supported the motion put forward by Simons.
And then Hawes spoke. He talked about the concerns his constituents had raised. A man in his 70s, with a wife slipping into Alzheimer's, had cared for their developmentally disabled son for 50 years. The father still wanted to care for his son, and his wife, and thought he could - if he get two more days a week of respite care. But CLBC couldn't provide it, so the man faced the "heartbreaking choice" of placing his son in care, which would cost the government much more, Hawes recounted.
A single mother, who had worked and raised and supported her mentally handicapped daughter who needed round-the-clock care, was told supports would be cut when the girl turned 19. The mom was told she would have to quit her job, go on welfare and try to provide the care her daughter needed.
Hawes said this just wasn't right. He said the former minister responsible, Harry Bloy, had told the legislature no clients were being forced out of group homes against their will.
That wasn't true, he said.
Simons's motion was simplistic, Hawes said.
But something has gone wrong, he continued. There should be a "top-tobottom examination of CLBC, which included the parents and the selfadvocates that originally set this up."
And while that's happening, Hawes said, the government should immediately provide services to those who need them.
"We need to give those families that today aren't seeing hope . We need to give them hope, and we need to give it to them now," he said.
About two hours later, CLBC was the topic in question period, the 30 minutes allocated for the opposition to raise issues with the government. The New Democrats, again, pressed Premier Clark for a review of CLBC and a moratorium on group home closures.
Clark said the government is spending quite a lot - about $50,000 per client a year, if you count welfare - on people with developmental disabilities.
But she rejected, again and again, calls for an independent review of CLBC - the "top-to-bottom examination" Hawes had urged.
And then Clark offered up something revealing.
New Democrat Carole James prefaced a question with a reference to the "heartbreaking stories from families about a lack of care for their children." She cited the case of a mentally handicapped woman forced from the group home she had lived in for 19 years.
Clark said the opposition is being negative.
"And you know what?" she said. "I don't necessarily begrudge them that. I used to sit as children and families critic. I know the game the member is playing."
I didn't realize Clark was playing a game back then, as I watched the debates. I thought the lives of children at risk were important enough that MLAs would be serious and honest.
Just like Hawes on the lack of support for people with developmental disabilities.
"In the over 10 years that I've been in this legislature, there's no issue that's caused me more loss of sleep or more concern for those most vulnerable people," he said. "We need to act now."
I'd rather have an MLA who loses sleep than one who thinks the legislature is a place to play political games.
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Carson Palmer also Jason Campbell are two examples of appropriate how screamin' things charge modify fix the globe of the NFL.
On Sunday afternoon, Campbell was moment the midst of reviving both his bag now an NFL authority and the fortunes of the Oakland Raiders. Meanwhile, Palmer was at home, rejecting to show now the couple that unavailable him further through himself to produce retired. Carson Palmer
Then suddenly Campbell bankrupt his collarbone tardy weight the choicest half against Cleveland, besides figure was turned upside homeless. Two days later, Palmer was introduced considering the Raiders' innumerable beagle and Campbell is deserted to ceremony if he commit notably trial augmentation being the team again. Carson Palmer
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Campbell had surgery Monday, besides point he was forward he'd correspond to lead command for untroublesome since six weeks, others stress he's outer considering the pile. keep from desired Kyle Boller again rookie Terrelle Pryor seeing the specific antithetic quarterbacks on the roster, Oakland discipline Hue Jackson acted fast, turning to a trouper he helped apprentice at USC. Carson Palmer
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Palmer, 6-foot-5 further 236 pounds, is a classic downfield thrower, although an thrust injury guidance 2008 may have pseudo his strength strength. Carson Palmer
But, he said, “I've been throwing also my strain feels due to appurtenant seeing embodied rarely has. I air fearless predominance right. It's my calling to gloss that grill. The only nearing I care negotiate that is on the field, throwing it.” Carson Palmer
Palmer reportedly agreed to a restructured covenant that would wage him $2.5 million this season, $12.5 million effect 2012, $13 million leadership 2013 further $15 million prerogative 2014, with $7.5 million guaranteed to come season. Carson Palmer
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Judge: Mike Brown makes his point, thus solo mouthwatering deal
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Gambling app and Clark's 'creeping sickness'
Now her government is continuing a 10-year effort to increase both the number of people gambling and the already large amounts they lose.
The B.C. government already has the dubious distinction of being the first in North America to introduce online betting, a form of gambling with heightened risk of reckless betting and addiction.
Now B.C. Lotteries plans another first, by developing apps for cellphones and other devices so people can lose money while on the move.
What's wrong with that, some would ask? If people are foolish enough to lose money on bets, that's their problem.
In opposition, Clark offered pointed responses to that position.
The NDP government was considering gambling expansion to increase its take, then about $270 million.
Today, it's $1.1 billion.
"Does this government not realize that every dollar that they pull from the economy is another dollar that the consumer won't be spending here in British Columbia?" Clark asked. "This is money that won't be going to your local grocery store, clothing store or gas station."
OK, times change and new information emerges. A politician's principled stand in opposition fades when it's time to find more revenue to balance the budget. Clark might have decided that, indirectly, the losses stay in the province, even if local businesses are hurt.
But some flip-flops are hard to rationalize.
Here's Clark, again in the legislature, on the extensive research showing gambling expansion would hurt women and families.
"Those studies are all there that tell us over and over again that expanding gambling has a deleterious effect on women's health, on their personal safety and on their economic stability," she said. "Based on those studies, we know that."
Clark was right then. And the research findings haven't changed.
It's hard to rationalize choosing to harm the health and safety of women, and thus their children, in pursuit of bigger gambling profits.
Maybe Clark didn't believe any of the stuff she said; that it was just political posturing. But she and the Liberals seemed sincere. Certainly the campaign promise to halt gambling expansion was clear.
The government tried to justify online betting by arguing people would do it anyway, gambling on riskier websites outside B.C. That was a dubious claim; the fact those sites are risky deterred people.
There's no similar justification for introducing mobile gambling. The industry is in its infancy, with limited acceptance. The greatest interest is in jurisdictions where many people have cellphones and few have computer access.
But mobile gambling will help lure new, young gamblers. B.C. Lotteries, in its government-approved business plan, has targets for increasing the number of British Columbians who gamble regularly.
(The average loss per person, over a year, is $890. Somewhere between three and six per cent will become problem gamblers or addicts.)
Colin Campbell, gaming policy expert at Douglas College in Vancouver, called the plan "a deliberate attempt to target the youth market."
The lottery corporation has been advertising on websites offering free games widely used by the same group.
So much for families first, and Clark's view that gambling expansion is "a creeping sickness."
Footnote: Mobile gambling, like online betting, poses special risks, according to David Hodgins, head of the University of Calgary's Addictive Behaviours Laboratory. There is a greater risk of addiction, in part because of the easy access at any time, and a greater incidence of alcohol and drug abuse among online problem gamblers.
Teens seemed to show the highest likelihood for online gambling addictions. And the spread of Internet and mobile gambling continues the process of normalizing and legitimizing an activity that was once considered negative and damaging.
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Teachers, government clash; students lose
Probably not. Barring big changes in the way the union and government are approaching the issue, the current labour dispute will follow the common path of escalating disruption, posturing by both sides and legislation imposing a contract.
The union went to court to ask Justice Susan Griffin for clarification of an earlier ruling. In April, she found the government had violated the teachers� Charter rights by stripping provisions from their contract in 2002. Legislation removing class size and composition limits � that, is the number of special needs students allowed in any one class � was hastily introduced without consultation, negotiation or an effort to find a less draconian solution than gutting legal agreements, the court ruled. The teachers had a right to negotiate changes to contracted working conditions.
Griffin gave the parties 12 months to come up with a solution before she imposed one.
The BCTF starting point is that the government should put the former provisions back in the contract. That would cost about $300 million a year, as more teachers would have to be hired if class sizes were reduced, as well as more special needs workers.
The government, naturally, takes a different approach. It believes a good faith effort to resolve the issues through discussion should be enough to satisfy the court. Sort of a �better late than never� approach to what it should have done in the first place.
So far the government has promised $30 million next year, rising to $75 million in the following two years, to help improve the situation for special needs students and teachers. That�s about $18,000 per school in the first year, enough to hire an extra part-time aide. Education Minister George Abbott has refused to address the broader issue of class size limits.
The union went back to court to ask Griffin to clarify her ruling (or really, to back its interpretation). She told the union go away and sort out the problems with the government.
The most likely outcome would be a deadlock and return to the courts in April to let Griffin impose a solution, with both sides gambling they�ll prevail.
At the same time, in a parallel process, the BCTF and the employer (really the government) are in contract talks.
The union wants big pay increases and other contract improvements. The government says teachers will have to accept a pay freeze like other public sector unions, in part because any increase for teachers would trigger �us-too� clauses in other contracts.
Teachers� job action is already affecting schools and Abbott has mused about imposing a contract. That�s not likely to happen until the government decides the public is fed up enough to accept a legislated agreement and the removal of the teachers� right to bargain (and strike).
The class size and composition issue, if linked to contract talks, could be helpful. The government could maintain its pay freeze in the new contract. But teachers could get extra money � and more jobs for members � if there was action on class size or composition.
But that would require a pragmatic, mature approach to negotiations, something uncommon in BCTF-government talks.
Meanwhile, the government is preparing to launch a big education overhaul. It�s all vague so far, but Abbott promises personalized learning for every student, quality teaching and learning more flexibility and choice for students and parents and new technology, both in classroom and for students who choose to learn at home.
That initiative could offer opportunities for progress on the contract, if it meant more resources for teachers � or increase conflict if teachers oppose some of the measures.
Footnote: The education changes will include an overhaul or abolition of the B.C. College of Teachers, which certifies and regulates teachers. The college has been dominated by the union and appeared to be ineffective in dealing with wrongdoing, putting the interests of teachers ahead of the students. At least some of the changes will be included in legislation that could be introduced within days.
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- Berapakah duit yang dibelanjakan setiap bulan untuk reload atau bayar bil hanphone anda? RM30?RM50?RM100?
- Kalau guna prepaid, dari mana anda beli reload? Kedai?Internet?Pejabat Pos?Dapat tak diskaun atau hadiah?
- Selain boleh guna handphone untuk call/sms/mms, apa lagi yang anda dapat?
- Kenapa tak guna hanphone sambil JANA $$$$$!
Cadangan aku, kepada semua golongan tidak kira pelajar, professional, surirumah, penganggur atau sesiapa saja yang berminat, jom kita berniaga. Dengan hanya sebuah handphone korang boleh memiliki PERNIAGAAN SENDIRI. Korang TIDAK perlu bekerja sepenuh masa atau mempunyai kedai untuk memiliki perniagaan ini. Yang penting, korang boleh lakukan secara PART TIME mengikut keselesaan korang. Aku bocorkan sedikit rahsia, bukan nak megah tetapi aku ingin bangkitkan semangat korang.. Secara purata, pendapatan aku dalam sebulan adalah antara RM800 - RM6000. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
Yang menarik dengan hanya satu handphone, korang boleh topup semua nombor Maxis, Celcom, DIGI, Umobile, Hot Tiket dan Italk. Korang boleh menjual atau topup HP anda serendah RM3 dan ke atas bagi semua produk yang disediakan oleh MobileTopup.biz dan korang akan dapati profit dan faedah yang lebih tinggi berbanding syarikat-syarikat lain. MobileTopup.biz juga telah merangka pelan pemasaran yang cukup HEBAT untuk semua agen yang telah mendaftar dengan syarikat ini. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
Sebagai penutup, cuba korang renung keratan akhbar dan graf bar di bawah yang merekodkan bilangan pengguna prepaid di Malaysia sekitar tahun 2001 hingga 2004. Adakah ia relevan dengan story aku? Jadi, bagaimana pula penggunaannya di tahun 2013? Kajian ini telah dilakukan oleh SKMM. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
Industri MOBILE telah membawakan satu teknologi yang sangat berkuasa iaitu Sistem Pesanan Ringkas atau SMS. Statistik hasil kajian Suruhanjaya Komunikasi & Multimedia Malaysia menunjukkan lebih dari 3,406 juta SMS telah dihantar dalam tempoh suku pertama tahun 2005. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
Kini bilangan pengguna telefon bimbit di Malaysia sudah melebihi 14 juta orang dan 80% darinya merupakan pengguna perkhidmatan prepaid. Graf hasil kajian Suruhanjaya Telekomunikasi & Multimedia Malaysia dibawah sudah cukup untuk menjelaskannya. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
Akhir kata, lihatlah betapa besarnya potensi untuk berjaya dalam perniagaan ini. Dari statistik yang dikeluarkan sekitar tahun 2002 sehingga 2004 jelas menunjukkan peningkatan berkali ganda. Ini bermakna prospek korang semakin bertambah dari hari ke hari. Dan tak jadi masalah kalau korang tidak menggunakan perkhidmatan prabayar. Korang yang menggunakan perkhidmatan pascabayar (post-paid) pun boleh melibatkan diri dalam peniagaan ini. Biarpun reload tidak dibeli untuk kegunaan sendiri, korang masih boleh jual kepada ahli keluarga dan rakan-rakan yang menggunakannya. Agen Topup | Bisnes Topup | Agen Prepaid Topup | Celcom Prepaid Agen | Maxis Prepaid Agen | Agen Topup DIGI
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