The lack of man power makes gang members and drug dealers more likely to sell drugs and carry weapons and to use them in the open. There are also not enough responding officers to quickly arrive to calls for help or to make any arrests. A former police officer named Robert, one of the officers who was laid off, noticed his car missing from his driveway. He quickly phoned his former coworkers and sought immediate help. After reporting that his car was gone, he waited 15 minutes for a patrol car to arrive, worried that each passing second made it less likely the cops would catch the thief before a successful getaway.
Idle No More protesters stall railway lines, highways 5-hour blockade of railways between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal First Nations demonstrators stopped passenger railway traffic lines between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal today, while others stalled major highways and rail lines in parts of Manitoba, Alberta, New Brunswick and Ontario as part of the Idle No More Movement's national day of action. Protesters also gathered in Windsor, Ont., near the Ambassador Bridge to Michigan, slowing down traffic to North America's busiest border crossing for several hours, the CBC's Allison Johnson reported. Activities including rallies, blockades and prayer circles were staged across the country Wednesday as part of the grassroots movement calling
Newcastle herald 23rd march 2013, More mining jobs axed, Whitehaven coal laid off 40 workers in NSW to deal with lower coal prices. The company lost $47 million in the first half of the financial year and is expected to be the same in the second half. As prices aren’t lowering and they are still trying to find ways to save money, more jobs will be redundant.800 workers have been sacked in just 6 months from Queensland, Brisbane, and NSW hunter valley. With all these job losses more and more families are having to find new homes and new jobs because they have no money. Newcastle herald 23rd march 2013, Apple blames record labels for high prices, Australia has to
As a result of this, they lose 12% of perishable stock every two to three days. One of their stores, Del Mar, located in a small town with a small population, does not do well as expected. The pay roll is high in the specialty shop that has butchers, bakers, and wine stewards. It is also difficult to find qualified people for these positions when someone quits or when a new store is open. There exists a management problem because when Kathy is sick or on vacation, no one can order replacement inventory or deal with major business issues.
Every Dr. that went through this journey with Morgan and kept track of his health are stunned and that people shouldnot eat fast food and one Dr. even says that Morgan should not eat fast food for one whole year to give his body time to recuperate. In 30 days Morgan ate 30lbs of sugar, a lb a day and managed to eat 12 whole pounds of fat. It takes 6 months for Morgan to lose the 20lbs he gained in only 1 month. It takes 2 months of detox eating to get his liver and cholesterol back to normal function. My take from this movie?
Transit strike hits Halifax CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/02/02/ns-transit-strike-halifax.html Details of the News Article: * 700 workers walked off the job after 1:30 am on Thursday. * The strike left 55000 commuters without bus or ferry service. * Lots of people in Halifax are in risk of losing their jobs and that’s bad for our economy. * Many options were offered to the workers but they did not accept them because they did not meet their wants. * This was the first strike since 14 years and will cost Halifax lots of money.
A significant date beginning on September 11, 2001 began officially the war on terror. This war was never figured into the budgets and training of local police departments. In turn these woes experienced by police departments during the Great Recession causing external events impacting police budgets. “The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Great Recession, this chapter places these events since 2000 in an economic context.” (Irwin, 2011) In addition, multiple interviews with police administrators, survey data, and news media content, are used to analyze police budget cuts. Most police administrators have already cut their budgets and report their jurisdictions anticipate more effects from the economic crisis.
Talking about the 18,000 people who die a year because they don't have health insurance and the ones that do go broke, loose their houses and even go bankrupt because of health insurance co-pays. Not to mention the one seventy nine year old man the video showed, having to work at the age of 79 to afford his wife's medicine even though he was on medicaide, and will have to work till he dies. Then the part where the video
It’s a waste because clean water is not an abundant resource and it will eventually run out. The amount of water used per year for fracking needs to be monitored. Earlier this year in Northern Ohio, over 400,000 residents were left without safe water due to widespread contamination. Residents were even advised not to shower due to the
Firefighters went on strike for four hours earlier this month in the first national walkout for a decade. The strike was a last resort after the government refused to accept bringing the firefighters pension down, and a warning shot that firefighters are serious about keeping a fair, safe and workable pensions scheme. Firefighters will not be fit enough to work to the retirement age of 60, The assess your level of fitness will be alot different at pension age. The government says the offer to firefighters is one of the "most generous in the public sector" and brings their pension age into line with the police and armed forces. This tells us that the economy as a whole is not taking in account of the fire service, and the risks of working till 66, there for the economy is not improving.