I suppose the daycare industry is cheering about this.
Children who attend daycare or other preschool programs seem to have a sharply lower risk of developing Hodgkin’s disease, a common childhood cancer, according to a new study.
So let me get this straight: your child getting a new disease every week, before he even hits public school, is good for his health. Can’t get more oxymoronic than that.
An excellent website for anyone considering daycare or anyone in the minority that needs affirmation of their decision to “sacrifice” and raise their children themselves.
Everyone knows it’s true… but almost everyone’s afraid to say it: Daycare institutions don’t care about or love your child like you do.
For years, many experts have been warning us about the detrimental consequences for children placed in day care.
This website contains an extensive index of their publications on this topic.
From that site comes another great link spelling out the dangers to society of widespread daycare.
Hattip: Jared Schwartz
What? The Star supporting incineration? Why, that’s practicality and common sense over its usual socialist ideology. What’s going on at 1 Yonge?
But recycling and composting have their limits. Incineration should also be considered. Anti-pollution technologies have made this a far cleaner option than in the past. A Brampton incinerator disposes of 60 per cent of Peel Region’s residential garbage and, in the process, generates enough electricity to power 6,000 homes. Toronto generates too much trash to eliminate with one incinerator. But such an operation would, at least, reduce this city’s dependence on Michigan’s dwindling goodwill.
More by Sue Anne Levy on the sewer that is downtown Toronto, from the perspective of a beat cop.
TORONTO POLICE Constable Mike Case is fed up with city officials “bending over backwards” to look after the homeless.
A wonderful thank you note to a soldier’s wife. I should cc. it to the many Canadian soldiers’ wives that are similarly sacrificing, albeit at a more impoverished rate.
(This is a letter I wrote to the newsletter of an Army unit called The Strykers, stationed in Iraq out of Ft. Lewis, Wash. The editor asked me what I would say to make the wives feel appreciated while their husbands are in Iraq. This is what I wrote to one soldier’s wife.)
via LGF
Here is one growth industry in Toronto:
The city used to cut the field a couple of times a year, said Gunzel’s father, Alfred Gebert. That kept the weeds down, but it hasn’t been cut at all in at least two years, despite complaints from residents.
…and here’s another.
“We are as much part of this city as anybody else. We have as much right to be respected,” says Dale, the 18-year-old self-proclaimed “Mayor of Shantytown.”
Toronto is world class alright. It’s turning into a world class dump.
Speaking of dumps, we may need one again.I wonder if socialists will ever be booted out of City Hall? It seems conservatives just don’t participate in local democracy.
More proof that medical science is shaping the abortion debate more than any Canadian politician: it’s getting harder and harder to argue that life does not begin at conception.
Madeline Mann once weighed less than a can of pop as the tiniest surviving newborn known to medicine. Next week, she enters high school as an honour student who plays violin and likes to Rollerblade.
Sad when we have to go back 45 years or so to recall the building of some of the most useful roads today in Toronto.
IT WAS on this day in 1959 that the newly completed Bayview Extension opened to traffic. Built at a cost of $3.2 million, the 5.1 km highway was described in the newspapers of the day as running from nowhere to nowhere, dumping traffic into busy intersections, i.e. Moore and Bayview avenues at the north end and Gerrard and River at the south.
Now if they would just link the extension to the Leslie St. stump at Eglinton. Ya, dream on.
Once more, a Sun letter writer provides my view of photo radar and red light cameras.
ARE THE proposed red-light cameras a cash grab? Absolutely. Should they be installed at as many high-volume intersections as possible? Absolutely. Red-light runners are, for the most part, habitual. Keep taking their money and they will start to think about what they are doing. Is photo radar a cash grab? Absolutely. Should it be implemented just as it was all those years ago? Absolutely not. People driving at 120 kph are not the problem. Morons weaving in and out of traffic at 120 are. Raise the limit and we may see a significant drop in these kinds of accidents. Oh, there will always be idiots out there, but we can’t help that now, can we? Hell, we keep re-electing some of them.
V. Czaplinski
(We couldn’t agree more)
The best way to make sure your kids are safe in the day may be to look after them yourself, but it’s good to see the day care centers are so worried.
When Dale Shipley, director of Ryerson University’s early- childhood education centre, decided to cancel field trips two months ago for her charges, half of the centre’s parents were furious.
Good to see there is 1 adult for almost every 2.5 children.
For every 10 children that the daycare looks after, there must be at least four adults for supervision if the children are leaving the grounds.
It’s no wonder the day care business needs so much government money.
In a perverse way, I’d rather pay mothers to stay at home and look after their kids, even welfare moms. Seems to be the lesser of two evils.
Most alarmists say that the poor countries’ exploding populations will overrun the first world. Looking at this report, it appears at least the European first world will have to invite these poor into their countries just to sustain themselves, let alone grow.
Many of the world’s largest industrialized nations will lose population between now and 2050 as low birth rates, struggling economies and curbs on immigration stifle growth, says the author of a world population report.
I guess the US growth is mainly illegal aliens flowing into California and the south.
The United States is the biggest exception among developed countries, with its population forecast to rise by 43 per cent from 293 million now to 420 million at mid-century.
The accomplice who pissed on a dying, begging cop wants to come back to Canada. That should tell you something about how attractive our incredible injustice system is to criminals.
Munro’s brother, Craig, 52, who fired the bullets that wounded Sweet and left him lying unattended during a 90-minute hostage drama, was convicted of first-degree murder with no parole for 25 years. He is eligible for full parole in February 2006.
Sweet, 30, was shot in the face and a lung after he tried unsuccessfully to surprise the Munro brothers in George’s Bourbon Street restaurant and tavern on Queen St. W.
I suppose his next step will be to go on welfare and maybe get a 10K training grant to learn a new job. Oh, for real punishment.
I’d love to know what the Sweet family thinks of this latest insult.
I can’t be the only one in Canada (since Nortel was the most widely held share at one point) who thinks stories like this conjure up bad memories of one of Canada’s largest stock swindle.
Investors: Nortel may axe 5,000 jobs
Operating costs said to be out of line with competition; braces for another investigation.OTTAWA (Reuters) – Nortel Networks Corp. investors predicted Tuesday the telecom equipment giant will again slash jobs when it reports long-overdue results this week, and shrugged off news of another criminal probe into its high-profile accounting woes.
This is easy to predict: Nortel will never recover. Not only is their name garbage now, but the chances of its products dominating like they used to is remote. The amount of money almost everyone I know has lost is staggering.
Thanks to Republicans in Canada, I’ve got everything lined up to send to my home state to register to vote. Time is running out, as they will be mailing out the ballots in mid-September. Go register!
The free military lunch is ending for Europe, writes Mark.
A wealthy continent liberated from the burdens of military expenditure is also liberated to a large degree from reality. Poor peoples have no choice but to live in the real world: if a drought wipes out their crops, they starve. Likewise, rich, powerful nations have traditionally required great vigilance to maintain their wealth and power.
Say what you want to about Bush, but he has no problem making decisive moves.
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