Scary Word: Segregation

By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”

In order to break down the cultural barriers the Canadian government introduced multiculturalism. A great idea on paper... and as always it got blown out of proportion.
Why is it that anything social that is started for the good always ends up the same as that of which it was set out to defeat.
The feminine movement. A great cause only to end up being used as a political tool against men. Turning upside dow social norms and rules in order to accommodate what was deemed a bias system of dealing with sexes in society.
The Martin Luther King movement. A great cause all to bring equality to blacks and all people of color. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Today, Martin Luther King in my opinion memory is being tarnished as equality has now turned to inequality.
During this Halloween season we are quick to be frighten by make believe entities. A season to let your hair down and be silly.
Well, as a society we can’t get any more foolish in our quest to equality. All colors fought hard to eliminate segregation and in turn we achieved it only to now have overturned and primarily people of no-color to be segregated. What is wrong with humanity. Can we this confused.
By definition - Segregation: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. "an official policy of racial segregation".
This week I received a very disturbing news released that proves my point. My first thought was how blinded are we that we do not see how prejudice good intentions can become. How they are segregating people of no color.... This includes Asians, South Americans, and most of europe genetic pool by people of color. IS THIS RIGHT?
The press release read:
The Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce Announces National Grants Program in Support of Black-owned Businesses with Facebook Canada
TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2020 /CNW/ - To mark Black Business Week 2020 in Canada, the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (CBCC) is pleased to announce their newest initiative with Facebook Canada to assist Black Entrepreneurs who have been adversely impacted by COVID-19. Facebook Canada is contributing $500,000 in funding to the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce in support of their new grants program to assist Black-owned business. This national grants program is available via online application to eligible candidates from the CBCC membership and the Black community. CBCC President, Andria Barrett, launched the program at a live fireside chat this morning with Garrick Tiplady, Managing Director of Facebook Canada, as part of C2 Online.
"We are thrilled to partner with Facebook Canada to support Black Canadian Entrepreneurs and their social media presence during this unprecedented time. With these grants, we can strengthen Black Entrepreneur's online reach and capacity. Having this announcement in the midst of a Black Business Week which coincides with a difficult time for Black communities, underscores our intentions toward positive economic solutions for Black Canadians, and to the overall Canadian economy." Andria Barrett, President, Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce.
First question: why is there a need for BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE? Does this imply that if I am white I need not apply? Do they allow non black membership?
Secondly: Are we to assume that Facebook Canada is racist? As we already know that FB practices censorship and or plays political favorites to friends and contributors.
Thirdly: By the statement above are we to assume that normal Chamber of Commerce's are all white? Are we to assume that the need for a Black Chamber that non-blacks have some sort of special status that is not being addressed by regular chambers.
Is free enterprise not about working hard. Not about government interventions in subsidies? Is FB acting as a government entity shrouded in the plight to assist one racial group over another in the name of COVID relief?
By definition - Free enterprise is a type of economy where products, prices, and services are determined by the market, not the government. It's capitalism, not communism. Things that are free are unconstrained, and a business is an enterprise. So, free enterprise refers to an economy where businesses are free from government control and or external manipulation.
We can’t never be considered to be equal as long as we have this type of prejudice in our societies. FB is clearly prejudice and backing a chamber that by it’s name practices segregation against those they try to force acceptance from they cry segregation from. Prejudice or Not?

THE VIDEO GAME OF LIFE
By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”

The other day video a game taught me a very important lesson. As I attempted to kill some time. I thought to download a game on my smart phone and give it a try.
Soon after playing a few times, I quickly became aware that computer games as any game are nothing but a set of circumstances connected by time and place. There is no real luck. There is no real skill. There is no real magic or divine intervention when it comes to accomplishing levels.
Computer games are nothing but pre-set choices that are predestined by code written to give us the illusion of chance and skill. No matter how hard you try to win. If you miss the key beacons within the code your choice will lead you to an undesirable outcome.
Is this not how life is? Perceived choices that are predestined by time and space by unknown code author we all deem to be some God. Is luck really a factor in choice or is an instinctual act of human nature? Are we in our quest to reign civil and uphold traditions becoming ignorant of the beacons of life. Beacons that have us always making the wrong decisions? Now I understand when people make statements like. ‘SMART PHONES FOR DUMB PEOPLE’.
Is life not on the same model? Is technology not only enlightening and educating us but also bringing us to the realization that we are nothing but characters in a game. Or in the computing world nothing more than one’s and two’s.
These video games are masqueraded with all kinds of colors and themes. They fill our eyes with imagination and hope. In reality it is a type of smoke and mirrors to keep us interested. The games give us goals and levels to achieve with no real tangible reward other than an arbitrary number that ranks performance.
Is this not what our education system does? We are brought up from birth to be fair. To do what is right. To not be selfish and self centered.
To treat others as you would like to be treated. All great human characteristics.... only to be face with the reality that the world is a cold uncring place that only thinks of bottom lines.
A place that achievement by hard work is only attainable by opportunity and who you know not so much what you know.
A place that changes the rule of our upbringing to the realization that success in many cases is unattainable and that most must find satisfaction on maintaining a status quo. We as a people lost the game of life before we actually get a chance to play it and or understand it’s true underlying rules.
Much like me taking on that video game on my smart phone. Leaving me to feel like a big dummy for trying and trying only to be pigeon hole at a level that I could not go beyond.
I was stuck at a level that to me it seemed unpassable only to find the key by asking my son. His knowledge allowed me to go beyond my paramounted achievement level. Once this happened. I put down the game and began to think... Why did I need help? What was the purpose of help? Then it hit me. I was on a ‘SMART PHONE FOR A DUMMY’.
It was like a revelation from the Gods. I was making all the right moves for the wrong reasons.
Much like in life. If you allow the rules of the game to oppress your thinking you will never succeed in real life.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying for people to go rouge. What I am saying is work withing the rules. Learn to manipulate the norms and set out barriers. Acknowledge your handicap and learn to over come by playing within the code of the game and that of life.
A code that looks down at you to fall for pitfalls and tests that are by design set forth to have you fail.
Success in life is the manipulation of such obstacles to overcome anything that comes up against you. The fact that I had to ask my son... much like I must rely on experts in real life to assure my ongoing success. A lawyer for legal matters, a doctor for my health, an electrician to fix my electrical problems...so on and so on. Once I had this enlightenment sent from my SMART PHONE. I picked up that phone back up and fired up that game. Every time I got stuck. I looked for that key that a professional would have that I have not yet mastered and learn it. The game all of a sudden became predictable. The game became child’s play as long as you did not think the obvious the zero’s and one’s fell into place and brought me to success. In this case master the game to their finite level. I don’t know who was prouder. Me for learning a valuable lesson or the game for congratulating me for my great achievement of beating it’s final level. Then again, the code writer may not been congratulating me after all and just giving me the finger for having wasted my time with predictable code. Live life to it’s fullest as nothing else makes sense. Game Over, You are Dead.

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MASKS ARE GOOD BUT THE TRUTH IS BETTER
By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”

By now there are two things we know for sure about COVID. One that those that wear a mask have a better chance of protecting themselves from becoming infected. Two, no one really seems to know where this silent killer is and or how it truly attacks the population at large.
We are making the assumption that it is through person to person. So far it seems to be the only sure bet. So social distancing and wearing a mask appear to be the only real solution to the never ending problem.
Right from the onset. Everyone was betting on the COVID being an airborne agent. Remember the first calls from government. Stay home. Stay indoors. The first course of action was to shut everything down in that in reality government had no clue how this was attacking.
Out of fear the world shut down. The virus attacked with extreme prejudice. It is as if Darwin’s ghost went rogue to prove his theory (Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection- More individuals are produced each generation that can survive. Phenotypic(relating to the observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.) variation exists among individuals and the variation is heritable. Those individuals with heritable traits better suited to the environment will survive.) on a global scale. The weak died by the thousands. The weak keep expiring now by the millions. No real solution on the horizon other then the development of a vaccine. The magic bullet that raises more questions and doubt then the virus itself.
My concern as a citizen is the lack of preparedness by all government in dealing with this. The lack of continue negligence to prepare for second and possibly third waves. Why are we as world government so slow to react.
The world is changing. Civil rights and freedoms are being complicated. In the name of ‘OUR OWN GOOD’. Or like they like to dress it. “IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY”. We are all being forced to catalogue ourselves and pretty much make public our private daily routines.
From the downloading of an apt... sold to you as a preventative and in your best interest tool to track the virus to the skeptics thinking that it is a way for government to trace all people’s movement.
After watching the news.... and after being a victim of self isolation for 14 days... I can openly ask this question. If this is to be followed by the population at large across the world. Why is it that a world leader like Trump is not isolating? Why is not Justin Trudea after his wife became ill not isolating for the mandatory 14 days? Or is the isolation enforced by fines and possible jail time only applicable to the population at large and not the elite in society?
Don’t get me wrong. I respect democracy and it’s many binding aspects. Such as if a person that you did not vote is elected that it is our civil duty to accept as my patriotic duty. Living in a democratic free society I have the right to basic human rights and freedoms. It is my duty as a responsible citizen to uphold the laws of the land. To assure the preservation of society, customs and traditions without compromise or expectation.
One would think that as a citizen I would respect the request to wear a mask in public to protect myself and others from this disease. One would further think that our government would be equally responsible in telling us the truth. After all masks are good but the truth is better.
I say this because in part I truly believe that the government has no clue on how to stop this spread. On the surface to me it appears that we are all doomed to catching it at one time or another. That it is unstoppable. I also believe that this virus is airborne and can be carried in our waterway. Scientists have already found traces of the virus in our sewage. If this stands true what is to say that our tap water is also compromised. This brings me to the my theory that this virus is an out of control infestation that sooner or later it will get you. The vaccine may be a way to slow the infection spread. But I do not see it as the solution to the problem.
The truth may cause wide spread hysteria...we may run out of toilet paper at the store. We may die but the thousands. But we deserve to know the truth.

Thanksgiving 2020


by Maj (ret'd) CORNELIU E. CHISU, CD, PMSC,
FEC, CET, P. Eng.
Former Member of Parliament Pickering-Scarborough East

The air is getting colder, the pumpkins are getting bigger, and the trees are beginning to turn more beautiful as their foliage turns colorful with the onset of the Canadian Fall. As we approach our Thanksgiving this year, it is important to reflect on where and why this traditional celebration has come to be. It holds a special place in our hearts, and gives each of us the opportunity to take a moment in which we give thanks for what we have, and consider those who have less.

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving this year we are confronted with many serious issues: social, political and economic. Despite all the problems that we have today, the one beacon of hope we can surely aspire to, is to celebrate Thanksgiving with our immediate family, taking all the commonsense heath precautions. While it may not be easy this year, taking time to be grateful for the simple things in life is even more important.

It is true the Covid-19 pandemic has put a strain on our day to day relations, but I hope it is also true that we will come out of this pandemic stronger in our beliefs and in our humanity.

Let us transition for a moment to the positive in our lives and try to celebrate and reflect on the full meaning of the Thanksgiving celebration as we enjoy it with our family. We can all use a little serenity in our lives these days, when we are faced with negativity on all fronts.

So let us briefly look at the history of our Canadian Thanksgiving.

First of all let us consider the meaning of Thanksgiving. It is the celebration of being thankful for what one has and the bounty of the previous year. It is deeply rooted in our countries' (Canada and US) early history and traditions. For many Canadians this long weekend really kicks off the autumn season. People across the country will spend it raking leaves, harvesting, shutting down the family cabin, and hopefully eating a delicious meal surrounded by friends and family.

The fact that we in Canada celebrate Thanksgiving earlier, has been attributed to the earlier onset of winter in the North, thus ending the harvest season earlier. Thanksgiving in Canada did not have a fixed date until the late 19th century.

According to historians, the first celebration of Thanksgiving in North America occurred during the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England in search of the Northwest Passage.

The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are also sometimes traced to the French settlers who came to New France in the 17th century, and celebrated their successful harvests. The French settlers in the area typically had feasts at the end of the harvest season and continued throughout the winter season, even sharing food with the indigenous peoples of the area.

As settlers arrived in Nova Scotia from New England after 1700, late autumn Thanksgiving celebrations became commonplace. New immigrants into the country, such as the Irish, Scottish, and Germans, also added their own traditions to the harvest celebrations. Most of the US aspects of Thanksgiving (such as the turkey) were incorporated into our Canadian Thanksgiving rituals when United Empire Loyalists began to flee from the United States during the American Revolution and settled in Canada.

Prior to Canadian Confederation, many of the individual colonial governors of the Canadian provinces had declared their own days of Thanksgiving. The first official Canadian Thanksgiving occurred on April 15, 1872, when the nation was celebrating the Prince of Wales' recovery from a serious illness.

By the end of the 19th century, Thanksgiving Day was normally celebrated on November 6th. However, when World War I ended, the Armistice Day holiday was usually held during the same week. To prevent the two holidays from clashing with one another, in 1957 the Canadian Parliament proclaimed Thanksgiving to be observed on its present date on the second Monday of October.

On January 31, 1957, the Governor General of Canada, Vincent Massey, issued a proclamation stating:

"A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed - to be observed on the second Monday in October."

In preparing the roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, sweet corn, various autumn vegetables (mainly various kinds of squashes but also Brussels sprouts), and pumpkin pie we need to reflect on the fact that we are blessed to live in Canada and we need to uphold the values and traditions this country was founded on. Those treasured values have drawn many people to settle in this country with the dream of having individual freedom, respect, fairness and responsibility guaranteed for all. Let's continue to build Canada together for a better future.

We also need to remember that this year our Thanksgiving celebrations are marred by a pandemic and we need to be safe, keeping our family and friends safe. Nevertheless, we will do well to think positive and celebrate.
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!