*Or, save the maggots!
Union workers and local residents have lost the battle to keep insecticides out of Christie Park:
…Lawyers representing the city spent most of the day in Ontario Superior Court Saturday seeking the order, which area residents oppose because of health concerns…
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…Toronto police officer Sgt. Winston Tso told the court that when picketers prevented a pest control truck from entering the site Friday evening, he and other officers refrained from enforcing the order.
“My job is to keep the peace,” he said.
And aren’t maggots just part of the circle of life?
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Sunday Update: Down in the dumps - Toronto Sun:
…Neighbours said the pregnant, new immigrant from Sweden who lived next door to the dump had packed her bags and was seen getting into a taxi yesterday morning.
Signs on her lawn read, “Your waste in park space is a disgrace.”
“She said, ‘I’m done,’” confided Himy Syed of the Friends of Christie Pits Park. “She couldn’t take the smell anymore and now that they’re going to spray pesticides there, she couldn’t stay.”
Now where’s my friend Jean? I have a few questions for her.
Judge says: Spray! – Toronto Sun:
… Sgt. Vince Tso testified he recommended managers seek an injunction to allow McKeown’s order, advising police would “not take sides” by ordering pickets to stop blocking the truck and were there “to keep the peace.”
Howard Goldblatt, a Toronto civic employees union lawyer, suggested the city wanted an injunction and “put on a sham attempt” to get Orkin onto the site.
Kennedy insisted the city did not want a confrontation and used “discretion.”
Invited to address the court, resident Boris Steipe said garbage should not be in any park, but Christie Pits is special because of surrounding homes.
The University of Toronto faculty of medicine biochemist said the neighbourhood feels “caught in the crossfire for political expediency” and became concerned when an Orkin staffer refused to tell them about the pesticides he would use.
Steipe said he realizes they are now needed, but while the chemicals are regarded as not harmful to humans, there could be environmental damage...
Well, not to worry. K. Jean Cottam is an authority on this:
…Insecticides have been with us for centuries and tend to stay put…
But for some reason Uncle Dalton says we can’t use them on our lawns.
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Monday Update:
Pesticides sprayed at Christie Pits – Toronto Sun. Where’s PETA when you really need them?
Toronto mayor plays children’s card during strike - Arthur Weinreb, CFP
This post dedicated to “Toronto police officer Sgt. Winston Tso” and his superiors up to and including the Chief Magistrate of Toronto, Mayor Miller, and the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty; socialists.
“Toronto police officer Sgt. Winston Tso told the court that when picketers prevented a pest control truck from entering the site Friday evening, he and other officers refrained from enforcing the order.”
““My job is to keep the peace,” he said.”.
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>>> Keeping the peace in Soviet Russia where the Chief Magistrates were Lenin and Stalin.
“Prisoner: Boris Chetverikov
“When my doorbell suddenly rang at night, I somehow understood that they had come for me. I decided to hold them back for a little while. The night was cold, and I didn’t open the door for a long time. They tried to break the door, but couldn’t do it. So they went one floor down to the apartment of Kratt, a writer, to get warm. Finally, I couldn’t bear it longer. “Why haven’t you been opening for such long time?” I said: “I sleep deeply. People with clean consciences sleep well…” The search went all night long. The witness, the wife of writer Peter Kapitsa, was nodding off…”
“Introduction
Soviet citizens during Stalin’s reign lived in constant fear of arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment. Once arrested, the accused had no rights to protest their incarceration and no access to a fair trial. Prisoners were either sentenced to death or to years of hard labor in the Gulag.”
“When citizens of Stalin’s Soviet Union climbed into bed at night, an uninterrupted sleep was never a guarantee. The secret police’s sharp 2 a.m. knock often launched an odyssey into the hellish depths of the Gulag. Many would never return alive.
When that 2 a.m. knock came, only one set of lights burned in an entire apartment building—that of the arrested man or woman. In cramped communal apartments, nothing remained secret, and neighbors would peek furtively out their door trying not to be noticed, trying not to be next. Frightened family members would watch as the secret police searched for potentially incriminating materials—anything that might indicate independent thought. Most new prisoners believed their arrest to be a mistake.
The Soviet police operated unpredictably, arresting people not only in the dark of night but also in the light of day. No matter when or where arrest occurred, special trucks outfitted with tiny prison cells hauled the new prisoners to their tormentors in an interrogation prison. The crushing loneliness of solitary confinement awaited some. Crowded cells smelling of sweat, urine, and feces greeted others. Prisoners only escaped their cell for marathon interrogations, enforced sleeplessness, and other forms of torture designed to elicit their “confessions” to often invented crimes. Interrogations concluded with a farcical trial that lasted perhaps several minutes before pronouncement of a predetermined verdict. For many, this was the end—a death sentence carried out almost immediately. The “lucky” found themselves boarding a stinking, crowded cattle car with just a hole in the floor for a toilet. Days or weeks later, they arrived to begin their sentence in a Gulag labor camp, usually with a weakened body and confused mind.”
http://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/days-and-lives/arrest/1/
Won’t the city garbagemen have fun scooping up all those maggots, when they get back to work!
Wilson, yeah. They’ll probably demand danger pay.
““My job is to keep the peace,” said Toronto police officer Sgt. Winston Tso
And here I thought it was his job to enforce the law. Which in this case was a lawful order from the Ontario Superior Court and the local board of health.
Silly me.
Uggg! This is getting so disgusting by the day.
Doesn’t anyone wonder what the garbage personnel
(politically correct, ha) do with their own personal garbage?
In the heat and humidity that I can imagine Toronto is experiencing in July, wow the images.
O’Lead-er, check under yer kitchen sink. There is organic lead lurking there. And Big Nanny State says: wash yer hands after.
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“Lead found in Michelle Obama’s White House vegetable garden
It was meant to be a show case for healthy living, with the first lady, Michelle Obama, personally putting hand to pitch fork in a crowd of school children to dig up the first White House vegetable garden in more than 50 years.
Instead, an embarrassed White House admitted today that the plot – whose lettuce, herbs and other produce have been consumed by the first family, visiting dignitaries, local school children and a women’s homeless shelter – had tested positive for elevated levels of lead.
A spokeswoman for the White House said the soil in the garden had lead concentrations of 93 parts per million of lead. Health experts say it is safe to raise leafy vegetables in soil with concentrations of 10-50 parts per million, and urban gardens typically have raised lead levels. However, it is advised for young children to be tested for exposure to lead if they play in areas where lead concentrations exceed 100 parts per million. The Environmental Protection Agency puts the threshold for dangerous lead levels at 300 parts per million.
But even though lead levels in the first garden are far below that danger zone, the disclosure is awkward for a White House which has made prominent use of the vegetable garden to define Michelle Obama’s role as First Lady,and to encourage sensible eating habits in children.
Children are expecially vulnerable to exposure to lead, which can cause neurological and kidney damage, and stunt their growth.
The vegetable garden was an important symbolic break with the George Bush presidency, and it became a cause for environmentalists and the organic food movement in America who had urged the Obamas to use the White House to set an example of healthy eating.”
http://u.tv/News/Lead-found-in-Michelle-Obamas-White-House-vegetable-garden/2a08515c-e3c7-4523-9d9c-182bb9ee0ab0
Part of their settlement will be to subcontract out the first clean up.
New scam going around, this one from a girl from Sudan, and should I marry her (she has researched me and knows I am good persons) she will share the 8.5 million thaat is in a bank in Spain. Girls name is Yak.
Sending the email to the rcmp site.
Anyone else get this.
They’ll be getting over-time pay and wearing face masks.
Uggg! This is getting so disgusting by the day.
Doesn’t anyone wonder what the garbage personnel
(politically correct, ha) do with their own personal garbage?
In the heat and humidity that I can imagine Toronto is experiencing in July, wow the images.
As a resident of Toronto, so far things aren’t too bad. I hope this garbage strike makes people realize how much they throw away.
Most of us have missed 2 garbage collections. Surely we’re creative enough to find ways to cope.
I’m composting and freezing organic stuff and it’s easy to reduce cardboard and such to a much smaller size.
I feel for the folks that live near the temp dumpsites though. It does get rather stinky.
Fortunately, it’s been a cool summer so far.
Hi Joanne!
“Maggots Invest Christie Park”
Did you mean infest?
Invest works too – Toronto – Maggot Capital of Canada. Works for me. What tourism director isn’t up to programming around THAT?? “Can you smell us yet?”
At first blush when I read the title I had visions of an infestation of the political kind, not bugs.
Richco – thanks. Typo corrected.
But yes, the ‘maggots’ could indeed be taken on a symbolic level.
Toronto – Maggot Capital of Canada. Works for me.
Seems a little mean-spirited and childish? It’s been my home for my lifetime. What does this kind of thing do besides create division?
Lighten up Sharon.
It is what it is.
Division? You mean between the rest of Ontario and Toronto? That division has been created long ago my dear.
As a born and raised Torontonian I can say with certainty that I’m glad I left.
invest to cover completely envelop
merriam webster dictionary
it works
fh
“Girls name is Yak.”
MaryT, that is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time!!!! LOL!
Sgt. May and its Green Pepper Spray Marching Band.
Green is also the colour of Islam.
The Red-Green motto of socialism:
Let Us Prey.
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“Environment Agency sets up green police (The UK Green Shirts are Coming)
The boys in green are coming as the Environment Agency sets up a squad to police companies generating excessive CO2 emissions.
The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.
Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286483/posts
It’s becoming almost intolerable to survive with all the interference into our everyday life by the growing out of control environmental fascism.
What’s next? Are we going to be metered soon for the amount of air we breath in and out?
Water meters were installed in our town to save water use so when we saved too well we got to pay more, rates went up. Money grab, no common sense.
There’s no shortage of power but our bills are over the moon to help pay for their years of bad management.
Soon they’ll be hiring an Oscar the Grouch combing our garbage to insure it’s all safe to toss into the land fills.
If they had any common sense they’d incinerate all of it,the technology is available, it’s clean and it’s never going to cause any harm to the environment. Sure beats creating mountains from massive amounts of garbage being buried at landfill sites.
Maybe we will have to take a page or two from the Mennonites who’s way of life goes back to the days of private wells, a pump in every yard, no electricity, an outhouse out back…….
“Maggots infest Christie Park”
OK, I just have to say this: What, the NDP Party is having a picnic there??
Tsk,tsk, Soccermom #19, naughty but nice one!
Liz: Thank you, thank you very much !(said in my best Elvis voice)