Two people who were pleaded guilty from causing death by driving dangerously by driving in high speeds and collided and killed a Toronto cab driver will not spend time behind bars. The two men Wang-Piao Dumani Ross and Alexander Ryazanov both at the age of 20 were charged in january 2006 with a criminal negligence in the case involved in an accident killing a cab driver called Tahir Khan just days before he would be set as a canadian citizen.
On tuesday, the the two men were given conditional sentences of two years less a day to be served in the community. They have also been given the penility of Two years probation, 12 months of house arrest, 150 hours of community service, Bans from driving for four years.
Khan, was 46 years old an is an immigrant from Pakistan. During the time he was turning left in an intersection when the Mercedes-Benz driven by Ryazanov struck his vehicle, slamming it into a light pole. Khan died at the scene. Witnesses told the poliece that they saw the two men travelling at speeds of up to 130 and 140 kilometres an hour on a road with a 60 km/h speed limit. From the charges I think that they are given too lighlty to these men and I think they should at least be in jail for 1 or 2 years, pay the price of the accident and also given a monthly speed check for their cars this is because they neglected the safty rules of the streets causing death.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/05/29/cab-driver-case.html
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
blog 26 Ontario bans gift card expiry dates
Under a new consumer protection regulation, businesses in Ontario will have to eliminate expiry dates on gift cards plastic cards loaded with cash value as of October 1st . "Cash equivalent gift cards will never expire," Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips said on Tuesday in Toronto. We have had the support of a wide range of stakeholders, including the Consumers Council of Canada and the Retail Council of Canada." Ontario is the first province in Canada to regulate gift cards. Businesses must also clearly disclose all terms and conditions associated with redeeming the card. The law will not apply to loyalty cards or prepaid phone cards. The number of retailers offering gift cards has been increasing. In 2005, 79 per cent of clothing stores offered the cards, up from 36 per cent in 2003, according to Statistics Canada. I personally think that this is a great new requlation for consumers and for business because the people giving or receiving the cards wouldn’t have to stress about the expiry times that they got on their gift cards. Also by doing this there might be a chance in an increase in consumer demand for the cards as they have less things to worry about.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/05/29/giftcard-expiry.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/05/29/giftcard-expiry.html
blog 25Pickton talked of bodies, committing suicide, jury told
Pickton talked of bodies, committing suicide, jury told
A man Accused of as a serial killer, called Robert Pickton told a friend there were several bodies on his pig farm, then suggested they both commit suicide, the woman testified Tuesday. picton’s close friend called Gina Houston was testified at Pickton's murder trial in New Westminster, B.C., after a week long break for the Crown and defence to make legal arguments without the jury. Houston, 39, told the court about her close relationship with Pickton at his Port Coquitlam farm a place where she said she used drugs and learned to butcher pigs. It's also the place where pathologists discovered the remains of women who disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A nervous Pickton discussed committing suicide with her during a conversation while they were sitting in his car two days before he was arrested in February, 2002, Houston testified. She said Pickton told her that the two of them "had a decision to make" and that there was "only one way out." I think that rather sucide they could of told the poliec what had happened and maybe the judges would give them a better charge instead of being harsh on them.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/05/29/pickton.html
blog 24 Ottawa sued over Kyoto
Ottawa sued over Kyoto
In Ottawa the environmental group called Kyoto protocol sued Ottawa at court, they wish to be able to force the Conservative government to meet their responsibilities. Kyoto protocol challenged Ottawa in court on 2007, 5, 29. They said Canada will likely be in "flagrant breach" of it’s international obligations under the climate-change treaty.
For Christine Elwell, a spokeswoman for Kyoto, the message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper was simply "You can't just do whatever you want. You have laws. You have obligations."
A former lawyer of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund called Robert Wright, says “the group does not want to the court to impose a climate-change plan on the federal government. It just wants the Conservatives to honour the Kyoto targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions”. He also added, "We're not asking the court to tell the government precisely how to deal with climate change and greenhouse gases,".
For Christine Elwell responded, "We are asking the court to tell the government that whatever plan they do come up with, whatever regulations they do come out with, that they comply with the legal obligation."
Given the evidence before a Commons committee in the community today, Environment Minister John Baird told the court, they have respected the Kyoto but the target emission reduction level would be too hard or not achievable because if done so many people would be affected by that.
The government's other plan promises to reduce the green house gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 based on 2006 levels, with greenhouse gas emitters facing a 26 per cent reduction by 2015. As then the Kyoto protocol said that they would only agree to this act by setting 1990 as the base year for reductions and a thumbs down to 2006.
When both sides are ready to agree the government's plan was then criticized again on Monday by the Pembina Institute which are an other environmental group, they stated that “there are far too many loopholes and assumptions in the emission-reduction targets”. The courts must tell the government that it "can't cut and run," said Elwell. "You can't just do whatever you want. You're not free to decide that `I'm not going to follow our obligation."' Canada ratified the Kyoto protocol in 2002. The agreement calls for overall reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels between the years 2008 and 2012. This is important because I think that the government wanted to do whatever they want and ignore the other problems such as this one. They should of watched out for their greenhouse gas emissions through out the time, and also they can’t say that it is too impossible to meet the requirements because they signed the treaty and they should of changed anything on that treaty when there are things that are hard to keep up with.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/218923
In Ottawa the environmental group called Kyoto protocol sued Ottawa at court, they wish to be able to force the Conservative government to meet their responsibilities. Kyoto protocol challenged Ottawa in court on 2007, 5, 29. They said Canada will likely be in "flagrant breach" of it’s international obligations under the climate-change treaty.
For Christine Elwell, a spokeswoman for Kyoto, the message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper was simply "You can't just do whatever you want. You have laws. You have obligations."
A former lawyer of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund called Robert Wright, says “the group does not want to the court to impose a climate-change plan on the federal government. It just wants the Conservatives to honour the Kyoto targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions”. He also added, "We're not asking the court to tell the government precisely how to deal with climate change and greenhouse gases,".
For Christine Elwell responded, "We are asking the court to tell the government that whatever plan they do come up with, whatever regulations they do come out with, that they comply with the legal obligation."
Given the evidence before a Commons committee in the community today, Environment Minister John Baird told the court, they have respected the Kyoto but the target emission reduction level would be too hard or not achievable because if done so many people would be affected by that.
The government's other plan promises to reduce the green house gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020 based on 2006 levels, with greenhouse gas emitters facing a 26 per cent reduction by 2015. As then the Kyoto protocol said that they would only agree to this act by setting 1990 as the base year for reductions and a thumbs down to 2006.
When both sides are ready to agree the government's plan was then criticized again on Monday by the Pembina Institute which are an other environmental group, they stated that “there are far too many loopholes and assumptions in the emission-reduction targets”. The courts must tell the government that it "can't cut and run," said Elwell. "You can't just do whatever you want. You're not free to decide that `I'm not going to follow our obligation."' Canada ratified the Kyoto protocol in 2002. The agreement calls for overall reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels between the years 2008 and 2012. This is important because I think that the government wanted to do whatever they want and ignore the other problems such as this one. They should of watched out for their greenhouse gas emissions through out the time, and also they can’t say that it is too impossible to meet the requirements because they signed the treaty and they should of changed anything on that treaty when there are things that are hard to keep up with.
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/218923
Blog 23 Speaking in tones? Blame it on your genes
Speaking in tones? Blame it on your genes
Through out the generations of human the populations may have influenced languages spoken around the world today, as researchs have proved. The studies/ research says that people who carry variants of around 2 two genes involved in development of the brain tend to speak nontonal languages such as English, while those with a different genetic profile are more likely to speak tonal languages such as Chinese.
In tonal languages, such as chinese, korean, japanese, african languages, there differences in pitch can change the meaning of vowels, consonants and syllables. These types of languages are mainly spoken in South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Nontonal languages, which prevail in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, use pitch only as a way of conveying emphasis or emotion. Also new discoveries from the Universities of Edinburgh says that tonal languages that sounded more like modern Chinese or Zulu were spoken by the very first human on earth. This Meaning that languages such as english and french came a while after. “The genetic profile that appears to predispose to nontonal languages evolved only about 5,800 years ago, implying that all languages were probably tonal before that”, said one of the researchers.
From what the research results came out “This does not mean that people with one set of genes cannot speak the other type of language, or that you have to be any smarter to learn one of these groups of languages rather than another,” Robert Ladd, who led the research, said. “What we have found, though, suggests that these genes might have a very small effect on individuals, and a larger effect on the populations in which they live. As the language is passed on culturally, it would then be more likely to develop along one path than the other.” After reading this I start to wonder how languages would become after a few centries later. I thought that it was an intresting find that english was not one of the language the very first human beings spoke but rather languages similar to modern chinese.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1851794.ece
Through out the generations of human the populations may have influenced languages spoken around the world today, as researchs have proved. The studies/ research says that people who carry variants of around 2 two genes involved in development of the brain tend to speak nontonal languages such as English, while those with a different genetic profile are more likely to speak tonal languages such as Chinese.
In tonal languages, such as chinese, korean, japanese, african languages, there differences in pitch can change the meaning of vowels, consonants and syllables. These types of languages are mainly spoken in South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Nontonal languages, which prevail in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, use pitch only as a way of conveying emphasis or emotion. Also new discoveries from the Universities of Edinburgh says that tonal languages that sounded more like modern Chinese or Zulu were spoken by the very first human on earth. This Meaning that languages such as english and french came a while after. “The genetic profile that appears to predispose to nontonal languages evolved only about 5,800 years ago, implying that all languages were probably tonal before that”, said one of the researchers.
From what the research results came out “This does not mean that people with one set of genes cannot speak the other type of language, or that you have to be any smarter to learn one of these groups of languages rather than another,” Robert Ladd, who led the research, said. “What we have found, though, suggests that these genes might have a very small effect on individuals, and a larger effect on the populations in which they live. As the language is passed on culturally, it would then be more likely to develop along one path than the other.” After reading this I start to wonder how languages would become after a few centries later. I thought that it was an intresting find that english was not one of the language the very first human beings spoke but rather languages similar to modern chinese.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1851794.ece
blog 22 Ants can plug anything, even potholes
In Paris studies have been made on about ants. The Studies have shown that when a stunning amount ants with the total of 200 000 army carrying prey encounters a gaping large hole, the ants would automatically have volunteers to make an ant bridge with their own bodies. This is done to let their comrades to be able to walk over them at full speed until the day's work is done.
The Ants also have groups that the researchers found that are specialized for road –repairing. These ant are limited in size which only contains around 50 of them, but if a situation like this happened they would simply have ants from the groups to keep plugging away until a perfect ant bridge is created. “The study offers rare quantitative evidence that extreme specialization among a sturdy few with a lot of backbone can improve the performance of a majority”, conclude Scott Powell and Nigel Franks, biologists at the University of Bristol. The researchers’ test ants were called Eciton burchellii, which is also called as army ants. The researchers simply made a road filled with holes, by doing so they could test how the ants adapt to the artificial environment and how they would react in those situations. They also did a series of measurements of the army ant’s gain in productivity, they calculated the self-sacrificing behavior of the ants "results in a clear net gain in daily prey intake for the colony". Also from the studies made by the researchers if there were only 7500 worker ants in a trail, they can create a ant bridge by doing hole-plugging duty, the foraging party can increase its daily intake of goodies by up to 26 percent, according the study, to be published in June in the British journal Animal Behaviour. This is amazing as i never knew such tiny ants can plug holes that are 7000 times their sizes and how they would sacrifice their lives for the group. It is also freaky to know that these species of ants travel in such big numbers.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070529194328897C912447
The Ants also have groups that the researchers found that are specialized for road –repairing. These ant are limited in size which only contains around 50 of them, but if a situation like this happened they would simply have ants from the groups to keep plugging away until a perfect ant bridge is created. “The study offers rare quantitative evidence that extreme specialization among a sturdy few with a lot of backbone can improve the performance of a majority”, conclude Scott Powell and Nigel Franks, biologists at the University of Bristol. The researchers’ test ants were called Eciton burchellii, which is also called as army ants. The researchers simply made a road filled with holes, by doing so they could test how the ants adapt to the artificial environment and how they would react in those situations. They also did a series of measurements of the army ant’s gain in productivity, they calculated the self-sacrificing behavior of the ants "results in a clear net gain in daily prey intake for the colony". Also from the studies made by the researchers if there were only 7500 worker ants in a trail, they can create a ant bridge by doing hole-plugging duty, the foraging party can increase its daily intake of goodies by up to 26 percent, according the study, to be published in June in the British journal Animal Behaviour. This is amazing as i never knew such tiny ants can plug holes that are 7000 times their sizes and how they would sacrifice their lives for the group. It is also freaky to know that these species of ants travel in such big numbers.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070529194328897C912447
blog 21 Saskatoon health region probes release of hospital cards
Saskatoon health region probes release of hospital cards
It is shocking that Sasatoon’s health region has their blue cards sold in some auctions for money. Recently a saskatoon man went to an auction and purchased a big box full of personal health information. The iteams came in thousands of blue plastic hospital cards with many personal/ private information, including names, adresses, health status, etc. With that box many people’s personal health information said to be protected was leacked out to some stranger.
After the auction the man then gave the box labeled as recycled, to a local saskatchewan party MLA. After that it was returned to saskatoon health region. Sask. Party MLA Don Morgan said Tuesday that “people have the right to expect that their personal health information will be protected”, but after this incidant, that right was violated. “The case raises serious questions”, he said. "Does the regional health authority have good processes and good procedures in place?" asked Morgan. "[Are] there policies that will prevent this from happening in the future?" I think that the health authority should take this more seriously as it is important to everyone. It is also a serious problem to the information security as this happened I think that many of the citizens would not want to keep their records in those hospitals etc.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/05/29/saskatoon-cards.html
It is shocking that Sasatoon’s health region has their blue cards sold in some auctions for money. Recently a saskatoon man went to an auction and purchased a big box full of personal health information. The iteams came in thousands of blue plastic hospital cards with many personal/ private information, including names, adresses, health status, etc. With that box many people’s personal health information said to be protected was leacked out to some stranger.
After the auction the man then gave the box labeled as recycled, to a local saskatchewan party MLA. After that it was returned to saskatoon health region. Sask. Party MLA Don Morgan said Tuesday that “people have the right to expect that their personal health information will be protected”, but after this incidant, that right was violated. “The case raises serious questions”, he said. "Does the regional health authority have good processes and good procedures in place?" asked Morgan. "[Are] there policies that will prevent this from happening in the future?" I think that the health authority should take this more seriously as it is important to everyone. It is also a serious problem to the information security as this happened I think that many of the citizens would not want to keep their records in those hospitals etc.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/05/29/saskatoon-cards.html
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