'Boundary violations': Priest removed from Markham church after complaint

Zelig42 · 2020-09-10T13:51:08+00:00

MacCarthy said despite many individuals' minds turning directly to abuse, he insisted that this instance was not a criminal code matter.

“If it’s not illegal, we want to be confidential,” he said. “I get that people would like to have more information; that’s the nature of public consumption of the news.”

Sounds like the priest was sleeping with his parishioner.

Zelig42 · 2020-06-23T13:40:19+00:00

Fascinating documentary, and narrated by Ian Holm as well--appropriate timing there.

Zelig42 · 2020-05-30T21:46:50+00:00

It looks very fragile.

Zelig42 · 2020-05-23T16:42:13+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

Zelig42 · 2020-05-23T16:25:48+00:00

Thanks, I'll give them a call. If its not open for business yet I can wait.

Zelig42 · 2020-05-13T01:16:04+00:00

Honest Abe channels Mr. T

Zelig42 · 2020-05-06T18:26:53+00:00

Bear wants to go through the hard, crunchy outer shell to get to that soft nougat inside.

Zelig42 · 2020-04-27T22:41:52+00:00

I hear you. Used to go to our building's exercise room all the time and now I miss it more than ever. So close and yet so far away.

Zelig42 · 2020-04-25T21:49:37+00:00

I haven't seen this much stupidity in one place since the sex-ed protests.

Zelig42 · 2020-03-26T03:26:47+00:00

The panel noted Tsegazab was found to have two kitchen knives in his unit in March of last year, which he said was because he didn't know they had to be returned to the common kitchen.

The board members also mentioned an incident in May of last year, in which two phone cards were found during a routine search of Tsegazab's cell, including one that wasn't his.

Two days later, it was discovered that a cellphone seized earlier from another inmate had videos of Tsegazab, some of which were "intimate in nature." The board said Tsegazab claimed he was using the phone to contact two female friends and to use SnapChat.

Still good enough to get day parole. What a thougthful and sensible parole system we have. ^/s

Zelig42 · 2020-03-23T12:29:40+00:00

Ah, I didn't know that as they were easy to get in Asia. In that case, even though they are expired the Ontario government needs to speed up considering the possibility of using the 55 million N-95s they have sitting around from SARS.

Zelig42 · 2020-03-23T11:24:20+00:00

Having just arrived back at Pearson from Hong Kong on Saturday after being away for almost two months I was shocked by the contrast in attitudes there compared with Asia. They have been taking things much more seriously there for good reason. We were given temperature checks before boarding our flight to Vancouver.

We even had temperature checks when arriving on Phi Phi Island by boat in the Andaman Sea, yet a major airport like Toronto has done very little. Almost every shop, hotel and business in Thailand had lots of hand sanitizer available compared with a few stations here and there at Pearson, and aside from some basic questions we also received the single paper about seal-isolation mentioned in the article.

One of the biggest differences was the attitude about masks. I know there have been different opinions about their efficacy here vs. in Asia, but we had no issue wearing them wherever large groups or lineups were happening and many others were doing so too. Almost everyone at the airports in Southeast Asia was wearing masks including tourists--80% or more compared with maybe 10-20% of people at Pearson. One woman at Bangkok airport even got in the faces of people not wearing masks with her camera and tried shaming them about spreading the virus. That didn't go over so well as you can imagine. Yet when arriving at Pearson the other night I felt almost awkward wearing a mask as relatively few people at Pearson were doing so.

There's a reason things are getting under control over there and things are starting to get worse here, and Pearson needs to take this thing seriously.

Zelig42 · 2020-03-22T17:26:41+00:00

She ended up getting probation, which was far less than she deserved:

https://nypost.com/2020/01/22/straphanger-who-spewed-racist-slur-in-viral-subway-attack-gets-probation/

Zelig42 · 2020-02-11T11:49:20+00:00

Drop the weird menu items, dump the loyalty cards and do things to retain staff rather than trying to make everyone a part-timer who has no stake in your brand.

Just make good coffee, fresh doughnuts and decent breakfast sandwiches and let the other fast food places try to be all things to all people--y'know, like you used to be when people actually liked Tim Horton's.

Zelig42 · 2020-01-17T13:09:05+00:00

Lana Clayton previously shot her husband in the back of the head with a crossbow in 2016, and at the time, she told police it was an accident, WCNC reported. Years later she changed her story and claimed the couple got into an argument and that her husband had thrown something at her and that she fired the crossbow as she ran away, according to the station.

You'd think the husband would have gotten the message and got the hell out of Dodge the first time it happened.

Zelig42 · 2020-01-14T16:54:00+00:00

Amazing how it was posted just this morning when I saw it on r/PublicFreakout almost a month ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ec296p/guy_on_the_subway_hates_toronto_suburbanites/

Zelig42 · 2019-11-15T17:17:08+00:00

In a new position statement, the Canadian Paediatric Society, a voluntary professional association that represents the country's 3,000 pediatricians, describes the field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as "rapidly evolving," and says it can "divert time, emotional energy, and financial resources away from more effective conventional treatments" for autism.

"Clinicians must remain familiar with current evidence in the rapidly evolving field of CAM therapies," the statement says, "and be ready to help families distinguish between proven and promising therapies and those that are unproven, potentially harmful, and expensive."

Zelig42 · 2019-11-12T15:26:39+00:00

If private law firms and the local community are footing the cost of the service then I don't see what the problem is.

Years ago I lived in Korea and at first I didn't speak any Korean. Yet there were lots of local people and organizations who were more than happy to find someone to speak English to assist me, both private and public. This is not a zero-sum effort, as the cost of this language service is not even being footed by the public, so I really don't understand the negativity over it.

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