Sound Off! — Oct.15, 2016
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This article was published 15/10/2016 (3259 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Our military deserves our support
John Fefchak nailed it with the lack of support, understanding and respect we Canadians are showing our military. Get in touch with your MP and make sure they understand that money must be invested in our Forces! Canada is great because we were willing to do more than expected. Give the brave and well-trained soldiers the tools and a chance. Remember!
Get the heck out of the way
I saw it again today about 5:25 p.m. What’s wrong with Brandon drivers? Don’t they know enough to let emergency vehicles with lights flashing and sirens blaring to make room to let them through intersections? At 18th Street and Kirkcaldy Avenue North, an ambulance had to wait through half a red light because no one would move to allow it through. One intersection further north, it had to wait through a full red light again as still no idiot driver would allow it through. Idiots, can you not move over even into the intersection to let it through? Remember, the ambulance could be rushing to save a life — it could be my wife or your kids!
Many have suffered over the years
There has been a lot of news on the aboriginal story of missing women. I tried a few years ago to get some information on the story around the turning of century 1890 over 1900 of the St. Barnardo children who were sent to Canada from Scotland and England — ages five years and up as parents could not raise them. My dear father — 11 years old and just the clothes on his back and he was sent to an abusive farmer at Arrow River, Manitoba. He had to do hard work and was only fed dry bread and water. He tried to run away and a man caught him and beat him up. On his second attempt, he crossed Arrow River and walked towards Virden. A farmer saw him on the road and gave him a ride back to Virden. He was very upset at the time. He found employment in the area. One time he delivered for a company in Winnipeg in the early ’90s and then he farmed near Virden. This story was just as bad as the aboriginal missing women. Others have suffered as well. Barnardos was run by Dr. Thomas Barnardo from the old country. As England was in poverty at that time and a widowed mother of 10 children could not manage to raise my dad.