editorial: Being safe sometimes means listening to your own instincts
KJ Mullins-Toronto: Have you ever been to an event and seated by someone that rings your internal alarms? That happened to me this week at a dinner. The person I was seated by seemed ‘off’ and I was getting increasingly uncomfortable. Then he touched me. Granted the touch as on the arm and leg but [...]
KJ Mullins-Toronto: Quietly on Thursday the Harper Government cut funding to the National Aboriginal Health Organization before Good Friday. Canadian citizen tax dollars appear to be needed more for military expenditures than for one of the most important Aboriginal programs in the nation. In 2000 NAHO was founded overseeing research and outreach programs that deal [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: Health Canada has made sure that those who smoke have large warnings on their cigarette packages of the dangers associated with tobacco use. One of those images has a woman that looks like a zombie. The new larger images that are on cigarette and little cigar packages in Canada warn those purchasing the [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: Bullies on the playground can grow up to be bullies in the workplace. While some who are bullies grow up changing their ways many remain highly aggressive. Aggressiveness can be a positive trait, it gives them a drive that others may not have. That drive can lead them into leadership roles. Some of [...]
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There is no doubt that Joseph Kony is a bad man. He’s #1 on the ICC’s most wanted people for global crimes against humanity. His name is on the tips of everyone’s tongues because of a viral video, Kony 2012, Stop At Nothing. However, is the group behind the video on the up and up? [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: For the past year each problem that Toronto has faced has had a big target: Mayor Rob Ford. For some of those problems the blame may indeed lay at the man’s feet but if Toronto is to fail it can’t be put solely on Ford’s mantle. While Mayor Rob Ford may have his [...]
Continue reading …editorial: Are Canadian university students safe when it comes to campus crime?
January 18, 2012 No Comment
KJ Mullins-Toronto: Campus crime is a factor of life. How are students warned about crimes that take place on campus in Toronto? Do they know when there is a real threat to their safety? In the United States schools are required by law to disclose certain timely and annual information about campus crime and security [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto: Stepping up and reporting crime is the only way that a city can become safe in modern times. We shout that we want to live in a safe city but if you see a crime do you make sure the police are aware of it? This morning was spent writing up the little [...]
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When preparing a family budget the numbers are pretty quick and dry. You have a certain amount of money that gets different allocations. When you’re budgeting for a city it’s a little different. Trying to decide which programs to cut or expand can change the dimensions for more than one area. Let’s take a look [...]
Continue reading …editorial: City Hall is a political battlefield with the residents paying the price
December 13, 2011 No Comment
The kids in Toronto could be the breaking point for the City Council. As the City Councillors discussed five water pads that are posed to be closed fights broke out between the wards inside the downtown and those in the suburbs. When the consultants finished their recommendations this year for Toronto there was no mention [...]
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