Sean Shaw writes about Mayor Don Atchison’s recent comments on gang violence. To suggest that gang violence in Saskatoon is near the point of “drive-by shootings” is irresponsible on a number of fronts. First and foremost, such a statement plays on the fears of safety that many Saskatoon residents have. Secondly, it grossly overblows the [...]
justice
Indoors isn’t safer: Former prostitutes
From the Toronto Sun Katarina MacLeod, who has been out of the sex trade business for the last two years but spent 17 years working in a bawdy house, disagrees with the premise. “Indoors isn’t safer,” MacLeod said. “It is complete hell inside and the customer is always right. They can beat you and take [...]
Angelgate
Michael Arrington’s blog post leads to a FBI investigation into price fixing and collusion among angel investors. I have a lot of respect for Arrington for doing this, taking a stand against friends is never easy but he’s right, what those angel investors was doing (if true), was wrong and I would be enraged (although [...]
From Stilettos To Moccasins
I spent a day this week out at Waneskewin Heritage Park and took in a seminar on Creating Choices put on by the Correctional Services of Canada with a couple of co-workers. The conference was on women’s corrections but in Canada, women’s corrections is quite a bit more progressive then men’s corrections. One of the [...]
Saskatoon has a substance abuse problem
Last night Wendy, Mark, and Oliver came along as I picked up Christmas kettles at the malls and collect them to be counted. As I was driving from Wal-Mart in Confederation Mall along 22nd Street to Midtown Plaza. A women just walked out in front of three lanes of incoming traffic. Below is a screen [...]
Note to Self:
If I am ever on the run and fearful of extradition to the United States, don’t have my lawyers taunt the District Attorney’s office for lack of effort in having me extradited. Roman Polanski’s attorneys helped provoke his arrest by complaining to an appellate court this summer that Los Angeles County prosecutors had made no [...]
How Somali Fisherman Became Pirates
This article by Time Magazine says it all. Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia’s last functional government in 1991, the country’s 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the [...]
No one really cares that much…
Mike Todd is talking about the western church and the western world. He quotes Bono speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative talking about the $700 billion bailout. "It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can’t find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who [...]
