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Capital Punishment, Rebranded
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Canada did away with Capital Punishment in 1976 with Bill C-84. Prior to that Capital Punishment was reserved for planned murders and the killing of Police and Prison Guards.
It seems, when you think about it, fair enough - we have an obligation to protect those who protect us.
But - the myth is that we did away with Capital Punishment. What we did away with was the right to a fair and unbiased trial. Canadian Police - and Calgary Police especially, have executed far more people in the decades following the suspension of Capital Punishment than every were executed with it. Seldom have they been offered the kind of lethal force that justifies it, and never have they been so well prepared with less violent means - with Kevlar Vests, tasers, pepper spray, etc, yet they continue to kill people at a rate that make the most generous implementation of capital punishment seem civilized by comparison.
It's overdue that we re-imagine policing in our country - things are safer than ever they've been, yet police are executing more people than ever for comparatively trivial offences. Without the benefit of judge or trial. It's a myth that we've done away with Capital Punishment. What's true is that we've made probably the least qualified people in our population both judges and executioners.
"A lemon for my water..."
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This is one of those things that pissed me off, and I could never quite figure out why, like people demanding hot water instead of cold, it's a trifling inconvenience, and then it dawned on me. You bring someone a water - for free - and they immediately begin to bargain with you. They want the water for free, now they want a lemon for free. If you let them they'd demand their meals for free (and some have). It's just fucking bad manners. If I owned a restaurant I'd throw it on the menu - "Add a lemon to your water - only $5.00", an upsell for everyone that didn't know to leave well enough alone...
A UFO Over Tofino
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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By that I mean probably not a flying saucer, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, but looking at the stars, satellites, and I see two moving - towards me, and the rising moon, and as they approach they diverge somewhat, between them circles another light.
Quick, the whole thing maybe 4 or 5 seconds before they disappear into the light of the moon. Now curious, it's not a plane, or two planes, so then...?
It reminded me of once before, when my son was young and we were camping at a lake north of Cranbrook. And - looking at the sky, 3 lights - dim like stars, flying south in a triangle. And high and so you think maybe they're planes flying in formation, but the stars disappear behind them.
Again, no explanation. Sometimes you just got to accept it.
I know of people that swear as to the existence of flying saucers and ET and regularly spot wonders in the night sky, but it's usually a sign of other things. Nelson is home to a lot of alternative thinking, if you get my drift. But I'd consider myself pretty - well, dry and in this - Open, but skeptical.
Just a little mystery I thought I'd share.
A rectangular hole in a rock
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I thought it was curious, spotted while beachcombing, speculating what caused it - perhaps a crystal long since eroded? Who knows.
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