Friday, April 24, 2009
Young Driver's
What I think is that if a teen is responiable enough to drive and know the percautions they should take 3 driving courses all at once to be able to get their license for proof or they aren't responiable they should take it. For example (practise for 5 hours for G1=taking G1 test=if passed G1 test move on to the next level=practise for G2 license for 5 hours=taking G2 test=move on to the next level for full G if passed G2 course=practise for 5 hours for full G course=take full G course=if passed full G course you have your license) if the person looses (example=taken away by the law) their license they would have to retake the course again and repay it. If the person fails 1 course they would have to retake the whole course again and have to repay it & they wouldn't have their license until they pass the course. I think the price of the full course should be cheaper which should be about $70. Beacsue of the fact that it's so expensive.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Vaughan firm threatens to move 2,500 jobs
A Vaughan equipment distributor, being forced to relocate as Toronto's subway creeps north, is threatening to leave the province – and take 2,500 jobs with it – if it's not allowed to build a replacement facility on fertile farmland north of the provincial Greenbelt.
Toromont Industries, which assembles and distributes heavy tractors as well as grading and mining equipment, has set conditions that may force the province to choose between losing those jobs or rejecting anti-sprawl principles enshrined in its legislation.
Negotiations are quietly proceeding between the province and two major developers over a proposed 700-hectare industrial-commercial zone off Highway 400, where Toromont would be an anchor resident.
Provincial planners have questioned whether development in the area, linked to housing, could be justified under the internationally praised Places to Grow plan. There are concerns about what will follow if this first major challenge to the plan succeeds, allowing development to "leapfrog" north over the newly protected Greenbelt.
Provincial planners were set to challenge the proposal at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. But the hearing was abruptly adjourned last year.
The Star has learned the key reason the province agreed to "settlement" discussions with the developers and their municipal supporters was Toromont's threat to move to Manitoba if it was not allowed to consolidate its operations on the Highway 400 corridor.
Ironically it's mass transit, touted as a sprawl-fighter, that has created the dilemma. Toromont's Vaughan facility will be displaced within a few years from the Highway 7 and Jane St. area, which has been earmarked for the future city centre and new terminus of the University-Spadina subway line.
The proposed new home for the company is about 40 hectares on the east side of the 400. But servicing that small property with sewer and water would be too expensive without bringing into play about 688 hectares of farmland around it as well as residential development to the west in Bond Head. There is also pressure for more development to the north.
The province is struggling to curtail sprawl, in part by capping the number of homes allowed to be built in the next 25 years. That limit is almost half of what the developers who have speculated on vast swaths of Simcoe County want.
Shoring up the jobs-creation argument has been one counter-strategy for developers, particularly those involved in the Highway 400 site, such as Metrus Developments, owned by Fred DeGasperis, and Geranium Corp., run by Earl Rumm, who made headlines recently with his controversial resort development on nearby Big Bay Point.
Doug White, mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury and a strong supporter of the highway industrial node, wouldn't comment on Toromont's threat but acknowledged urging the province to come down on the side of jobs.
"The situation is what it is," White said. "That's who we are hoping to attract to our town, because they are the ones who want to come here. They've made it clear what their times are."
In October 2007, a representative for DeGasperis said the company was working on a deal with a major employer as an incentive for the province to allow building there. Pressure on the province, with Toromont as a lever, continued last year.
But it was the autumn downturn in the economy that emboldened local politicians like White to push the province to abandon the board hearing.
In a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson and deputy premier George Smitherman, White and Simcoe County warden Tony Guergis didn't mince words.
"It is critical to recognize, as you know, that a major GTA employer needs to relocate its existing industrial operations and has identified lands within the OPA 15 area ... as ideal for its head office, training, manufacturing and distribution operations," they wrote.
"This company has made it known that if it cannot relocate to this area, its next preferred operation is out of Ontario. In these times of economic uncertainty, Ontario cannot afford to lose these jobs."
Shortly after, the province announced it had appointed provincial development facilitator Paula Dill to mediate a settlement between the province, developers and municipalities. Amy Tang, a spokesperson for Smitherman, who handles the Places to Grow file, would not comment on why, pointing out that negotiations are sensitive and putting them into the public realm could affect the outcome.
"The decision to call in the provincial development facilitator was motivated by the confidence the parties could avoid a costly hearing and reach a resolution that preserves jobs while fulfilling growth plan principles," Tang said in an email. Toromont vice-president David Wetherald responded: "If we are unable to move operations to Bradford we would reconsider all our options, including moving part of our operations (including training and northern mine support) to Manitoba."
A political source familiar with the negotiations told the Star Toromont officials are serious. Toromont serves markets stretching from Alberta's oil sands to Nunavut and Newfoundland, and the site near a major highway is suited to distribution operations.
"They absolutely mean it. And they need the province to okay this by June or they are gone," the source said. "Period."
The company is said to have been hunting for a new site for several years as it became apparent the subway would arrive by 2015.
The conflict arises as many developers and speculators are finding themselves seriously limited by provincial smart-growth plans.
Under Places to Grow, the population of Simcoe County, including Orillia and Barrie, will be allowed to grow by only 247,000 (above today's 420,000) in the next 25 years. Residential building applications in the pipeline would have brought in 1.2 million people in the same period.
The provincial cap all but vaporized the most ambitious plans by developers.
That has brought proposals for industrial-commercial zones between the Greenbelt's northern edge and Barrie into focus – even though planners in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing contended last year there was an "oversupply" of designated employment lands in south Simcoe.
Deputy ministers in municipal affairs and infrastructure in the past have challenged the county to justify its enthusiasm for the Highway 400 employment nodes.
White acknowledges that plans to build tens of thousands of homes in his municipality won't see the light of day. But the focus now is on jobs, he said.
"You would think the province would do everything they possibly to keep 2,500 jobs in this province in this economic climate."
Toromont Industries, which assembles and distributes heavy tractors as well as grading and mining equipment, has set conditions that may force the province to choose between losing those jobs or rejecting anti-sprawl principles enshrined in its legislation.
Negotiations are quietly proceeding between the province and two major developers over a proposed 700-hectare industrial-commercial zone off Highway 400, where Toromont would be an anchor resident.
Provincial planners have questioned whether development in the area, linked to housing, could be justified under the internationally praised Places to Grow plan. There are concerns about what will follow if this first major challenge to the plan succeeds, allowing development to "leapfrog" north over the newly protected Greenbelt.
Provincial planners were set to challenge the proposal at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. But the hearing was abruptly adjourned last year.
The Star has learned the key reason the province agreed to "settlement" discussions with the developers and their municipal supporters was Toromont's threat to move to Manitoba if it was not allowed to consolidate its operations on the Highway 400 corridor.
Ironically it's mass transit, touted as a sprawl-fighter, that has created the dilemma. Toromont's Vaughan facility will be displaced within a few years from the Highway 7 and Jane St. area, which has been earmarked for the future city centre and new terminus of the University-Spadina subway line.
The proposed new home for the company is about 40 hectares on the east side of the 400. But servicing that small property with sewer and water would be too expensive without bringing into play about 688 hectares of farmland around it as well as residential development to the west in Bond Head. There is also pressure for more development to the north.
The province is struggling to curtail sprawl, in part by capping the number of homes allowed to be built in the next 25 years. That limit is almost half of what the developers who have speculated on vast swaths of Simcoe County want.
Shoring up the jobs-creation argument has been one counter-strategy for developers, particularly those involved in the Highway 400 site, such as Metrus Developments, owned by Fred DeGasperis, and Geranium Corp., run by Earl Rumm, who made headlines recently with his controversial resort development on nearby Big Bay Point.
Doug White, mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury and a strong supporter of the highway industrial node, wouldn't comment on Toromont's threat but acknowledged urging the province to come down on the side of jobs.
"The situation is what it is," White said. "That's who we are hoping to attract to our town, because they are the ones who want to come here. They've made it clear what their times are."
In October 2007, a representative for DeGasperis said the company was working on a deal with a major employer as an incentive for the province to allow building there. Pressure on the province, with Toromont as a lever, continued last year.
But it was the autumn downturn in the economy that emboldened local politicians like White to push the province to abandon the board hearing.
In a letter to Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson and deputy premier George Smitherman, White and Simcoe County warden Tony Guergis didn't mince words.
"It is critical to recognize, as you know, that a major GTA employer needs to relocate its existing industrial operations and has identified lands within the OPA 15 area ... as ideal for its head office, training, manufacturing and distribution operations," they wrote.
"This company has made it known that if it cannot relocate to this area, its next preferred operation is out of Ontario. In these times of economic uncertainty, Ontario cannot afford to lose these jobs."
Shortly after, the province announced it had appointed provincial development facilitator Paula Dill to mediate a settlement between the province, developers and municipalities. Amy Tang, a spokesperson for Smitherman, who handles the Places to Grow file, would not comment on why, pointing out that negotiations are sensitive and putting them into the public realm could affect the outcome.
"The decision to call in the provincial development facilitator was motivated by the confidence the parties could avoid a costly hearing and reach a resolution that preserves jobs while fulfilling growth plan principles," Tang said in an email. Toromont vice-president David Wetherald responded: "If we are unable to move operations to Bradford we would reconsider all our options, including moving part of our operations (including training and northern mine support) to Manitoba."
A political source familiar with the negotiations told the Star Toromont officials are serious. Toromont serves markets stretching from Alberta's oil sands to Nunavut and Newfoundland, and the site near a major highway is suited to distribution operations.
"They absolutely mean it. And they need the province to okay this by June or they are gone," the source said. "Period."
The company is said to have been hunting for a new site for several years as it became apparent the subway would arrive by 2015.
The conflict arises as many developers and speculators are finding themselves seriously limited by provincial smart-growth plans.
Under Places to Grow, the population of Simcoe County, including Orillia and Barrie, will be allowed to grow by only 247,000 (above today's 420,000) in the next 25 years. Residential building applications in the pipeline would have brought in 1.2 million people in the same period.
The provincial cap all but vaporized the most ambitious plans by developers.
That has brought proposals for industrial-commercial zones between the Greenbelt's northern edge and Barrie into focus – even though planners in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing contended last year there was an "oversupply" of designated employment lands in south Simcoe.
Deputy ministers in municipal affairs and infrastructure in the past have challenged the county to justify its enthusiasm for the Highway 400 employment nodes.
White acknowledges that plans to build tens of thousands of homes in his municipality won't see the light of day. But the focus now is on jobs, he said.
"You would think the province would do everything they possibly to keep 2,500 jobs in this province in this economic climate."
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:27 AM -0400
7 Adjectives:
1)That guy looks like he's crazy
2)That guy sounds like an idiot
3)That girl smells like flowers
4)This cheeseburger tastes like chicken
5)This blanket feels soft
6)This gold dress feels like I'm a billion bucks
7)That guy is dressing up to try and look cool
1)That guy looks like he's crazy
2)That guy sounds like an idiot
3)That girl smells like flowers
4)This cheeseburger tastes like chicken
5)This blanket feels soft
6)This gold dress feels like I'm a billion bucks
7)That guy is dressing up to try and look cool
Bad boys of Canadian fashion
This is going rogue, vogue-style.
Two of Toronto's biggest fashion labels pre-empted Toronto's LG Fashion Week, which starts Monday. And one has opted out entirely.
"Our way, we have more creative control," says Kirk Pickersgill, part of a duo with Stephen Wong behind it-label Greta Constantine, which staged its fall fashion show last night at The Courthouse. "From the moment we put pen to paper right up to the runway show ... we are control freaks."
And there's this: "That whole tent situation (at Fashion Week) always has the same people," says Pickersgill. "Our way, we get to pick and choose the people we want to invite."
Toronto Fashion Week, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a bi-annual event with a mandate to showcase local talent. So what happens when the local talent stage their own shows instead?
Fashion Week organizers yesterday did not return numerous calls for comment.
Thien Le, however, renowned for couture-level craftmanship, wasn't shy to share his view.
"It's a lot of money and you know what, I'm not going to get anything out of it. What's the point?"
The no-nonsense designer caters to jet-set clients at his downtown studio. "A lot of people live on hype. I don't. My clients don't care."
Le showed his collection at Fashion Week last season but won't participate next week.
Designer Philip Sparks, whose Thursday show at the Burroughes Building near Queen and Bathurst Sts. evoked the Russian musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, was careful to attribute his pre-Fashion Week staging to esthetics and scheduling, not politics.
"We wanted that hardwood floor, that raw industrial space instead of the slick look of the runway at the tents," he said, noting buyers enjoy the laid-back vibe.
"A lot of our boutique buyers are more inclined to come to a smaller, off-site show than to the tents, which can be overwhelming."
Fashion Week has a few hurdles, most notably price.
A new designer pays $2,500 to show at Fashion Week; a designer label can pay up to $10,000 and a retail chain can pay up to $25,000.
"You are basically a no-name and you're trying to compete at a price point with companies that have major advertising budgets," says designer Izzy Camilleri, whose business is currently on hiatus. "You think that putting yourself on the stage of Fashion Week will help. It does help get you press. I've had a tonne of press. But it doesn't help with sales." In fact, Camilleri says she showed at Fashion Week for four consecutive years but the exposure didn't lead to a single order.
Joeffer Caoc, a well-established designer who has been showing at Fashion Week for nearly a decade, begs to differ. "The media that we get out of it – that is our marketing for the season."
And if what fashion-watchers have witnessed so far is any indication, you can't see the controversy for the clothes. At Greta Constantine last night, feathers, lamé, neoprene and car seat belt celebrated the female form.
Ceri Marsh, editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine, hailed the collection as "lovely and glamourous."
"That's the great thing about fashion, there will always be designers who want to do their own thing," she said. "And people who love fashion and follow fashion will always go wherever they show."
Two of Toronto's biggest fashion labels pre-empted Toronto's LG Fashion Week, which starts Monday. And one has opted out entirely.
"Our way, we have more creative control," says Kirk Pickersgill, part of a duo with Stephen Wong behind it-label Greta Constantine, which staged its fall fashion show last night at The Courthouse. "From the moment we put pen to paper right up to the runway show ... we are control freaks."
And there's this: "That whole tent situation (at Fashion Week) always has the same people," says Pickersgill. "Our way, we get to pick and choose the people we want to invite."
Toronto Fashion Week, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a bi-annual event with a mandate to showcase local talent. So what happens when the local talent stage their own shows instead?
Fashion Week organizers yesterday did not return numerous calls for comment.
Thien Le, however, renowned for couture-level craftmanship, wasn't shy to share his view.
"It's a lot of money and you know what, I'm not going to get anything out of it. What's the point?"
The no-nonsense designer caters to jet-set clients at his downtown studio. "A lot of people live on hype. I don't. My clients don't care."
Le showed his collection at Fashion Week last season but won't participate next week.
Designer Philip Sparks, whose Thursday show at the Burroughes Building near Queen and Bathurst Sts. evoked the Russian musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf, was careful to attribute his pre-Fashion Week staging to esthetics and scheduling, not politics.
"We wanted that hardwood floor, that raw industrial space instead of the slick look of the runway at the tents," he said, noting buyers enjoy the laid-back vibe.
"A lot of our boutique buyers are more inclined to come to a smaller, off-site show than to the tents, which can be overwhelming."
Fashion Week has a few hurdles, most notably price.
A new designer pays $2,500 to show at Fashion Week; a designer label can pay up to $10,000 and a retail chain can pay up to $25,000.
"You are basically a no-name and you're trying to compete at a price point with companies that have major advertising budgets," says designer Izzy Camilleri, whose business is currently on hiatus. "You think that putting yourself on the stage of Fashion Week will help. It does help get you press. I've had a tonne of press. But it doesn't help with sales." In fact, Camilleri says she showed at Fashion Week for four consecutive years but the exposure didn't lead to a single order.
Joeffer Caoc, a well-established designer who has been showing at Fashion Week for nearly a decade, begs to differ. "The media that we get out of it – that is our marketing for the season."
And if what fashion-watchers have witnessed so far is any indication, you can't see the controversy for the clothes. At Greta Constantine last night, feathers, lamé, neoprene and car seat belt celebrated the female form.
Ceri Marsh, editor-in-chief of Fashion magazine, hailed the collection as "lovely and glamourous."
"That's the great thing about fashion, there will always be designers who want to do their own thing," she said. "And people who love fashion and follow fashion will always go wherever they show."
Friday, March 6, 2009
Adverb and Adjective
Adverb:
any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means.
Adjective:
Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
Describing Adjective:
1)earrings:
-sight: pink, black, white, zebra print, plastic, round
-feel/touch: smooth, hard
-taste: plain
-sound: dangling
-smell: plastic
-emotion: pretty, hot, good looking, fun
2)necklace:
-sight: pink, plastic, rubber, silver beads
-feel/touch: rubbery, smooth
-taste: cardboard box, rubbery
-sound: none
-smell: rubber
-emotion: pretty, hot, creative, good looking, fun
3)cat (cassie):
-sight: cute, mixed color, tail, pointy ears, whiskers, fat, fuzzy
-feel/touch: soft, smooth, fuzzy
-taste: hair
-sound: cat
-smell: nothing
-emotion: having a friend
any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by the ending -ly, or by functioning as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, also as modifiers of adjectives or other adverbs or adverbial phrases, as very, well, quickly. Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, attendant circumstance, degree, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, or means.
Adjective:
Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
Describing Adjective:
1)earrings:
-sight: pink, black, white, zebra print, plastic, round
-feel/touch: smooth, hard
-taste: plain
-sound: dangling
-smell: plastic
-emotion: pretty, hot, good looking, fun
2)necklace:
-sight: pink, plastic, rubber, silver beads
-feel/touch: rubbery, smooth
-taste: cardboard box, rubbery
-sound: none
-smell: rubber
-emotion: pretty, hot, creative, good looking, fun
3)cat (cassie):
-sight: cute, mixed color, tail, pointy ears, whiskers, fat, fuzzy
-feel/touch: soft, smooth, fuzzy
-taste: hair
-sound: cat
-smell: nothing
-emotion: having a friend
questions of Stephan King and othe definitions
Define the following terms in either a word perfect document or on your BLOG.
Humour
1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
] 2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit] 3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" [syn: humor] 4. the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance] 5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" [syn: humor] 6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humor]
-"ha ha you like men"
Allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. the act of alluding. Obsolete. a metaphor; parable
-"to be or not to be that is the answer"
Irony
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
the incongruity of this.
an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
-"Look how nice this place is!"
Using our textbooks located on the side table read the Stephen King essay
"Why do we crave Horror Movies" on pages 22-25.
-Because they are interesting, intense, awesome, and violent
Answer questions #1,2 on page 25 in your blog.
1) With a partner, discuss some of the reasons each of you listed as you read. Do you think King’s reasons are good support for his thesis? Why?:
-Yes, because it’s good for people of not being scared of anything and plus horror movies are intense, awesome, violent and interesting. People want something to entertain them to scare them and basically horror movies are like a roller coaster.
2) a) Discuss with you’re your partner what you have learned about Stephan King. What perspective do you think he is writing from?:
-Portland, Maine, United States
b) How does King benefit from having an audience for horror?:
-Basically he was getting people to know that horror movies are like a roller coaster and plus they are really intense and exciting.
Humour
1. a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
] 2. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit] 3. (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile" [syn: humor] 4. the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance] 5. the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it" [syn: humor] 6. the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humor]
-"ha ha you like men"
Allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare. the act of alluding. Obsolete. a metaphor; parable
-"to be or not to be that is the answer"
Irony
the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
(esp. in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., esp. as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.
an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
the incongruity of this.
an objectively sardonic style of speech or writing.
an objectively or humorously sardonic utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
-"Look how nice this place is!"
Using our textbooks located on the side table read the Stephen King essay
"Why do we crave Horror Movies" on pages 22-25.
-Because they are interesting, intense, awesome, and violent
Answer questions #1,2 on page 25 in your blog.
1) With a partner, discuss some of the reasons each of you listed as you read. Do you think King’s reasons are good support for his thesis? Why?:
-Yes, because it’s good for people of not being scared of anything and plus horror movies are intense, awesome, violent and interesting. People want something to entertain them to scare them and basically horror movies are like a roller coaster.
2) a) Discuss with you’re your partner what you have learned about Stephan King. What perspective do you think he is writing from?:
-Portland, Maine, United States
b) How does King benefit from having an audience for horror?:
-Basically he was getting people to know that horror movies are like a roller coaster and plus they are really intense and exciting.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
different things of adjective
not able to stand alone; dependent
Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive ).
(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive ).
Law. concerning methods of enforcement of legal rights, as pleading and practice (opposed to substantive ).
(of dye colors) requiring a mordant or the like to render them permanent (opposed to substantive ).
Adjective
Grammar. any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English by having comparative and superlative endings, or by functioning as modifiers of nouns, as good, wise, perfect.
pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.
pertaining to or functioning as an adjective; adjectival: the adjective use of a noun.
Accused apologized after mutilating body, trial hears
WINNIPEG–A man accused of beheading a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus apologized to police when he was arrested and pleaded with officers to kill him.
The details are in an agreed statement of facts being read in a Winnipeg court at the start of Vince Li's second-degree murder trial.
McLean fought to escape and suffered defensive wounds before he died.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Assignment
Discussion - Descriptive Writing.
Using Adjectives.
IN a word perfect document or on your BLOG
Write a definition for the term adjective.
Create a description for something, but do not reveal the name of it.
Complete work from yesterday.
Read chapter 5 from the novel, "Into the Wild"
Answer the following questions in a word perfect document or on your webpage.
1) In a minimum of three sentences, describe what happens in Chapter 5.
-Christopher’s camera got ruined and then he stopped taking photographs
-In September 1991 Christopher hitched down U.S. Highway 101 in California and then headed east into the desert again.
-In early October 1991 Christopher landed in Bullhead City, Arizona
2) Describe the setting of the mobile home where Alex is staying. Be sure to include some of the descriptive words the author uses.
-Where he stayed is he camped out in the desert at the edge of town
-Denuded mountains, curiously, therefore
3) In the top portion of page 43 Alex mentions again the term "plastic people." What do you think this term means. Explain.
-By that term it will mean by stupid, strict, and rude people
When finished, check to make sure you are up to date on all assignments.
Below is a list of assignments that should be completed.
Feb 20 news - 1 News report summary for last week, be sure to include a HEADLINE, a three sentence max. SUMMARY, and an IMAGE.
Hockey Day in Canada Questions, visit the 02 20 blog entry on the class webpage.
If you are finished all assignments....
Using Adjectives.
IN a word perfect document or on your BLOG
Write a definition for the term adjective.
Create a description for something, but do not reveal the name of it.
Complete work from yesterday.
Read chapter 5 from the novel, "Into the Wild"
Answer the following questions in a word perfect document or on your webpage.
1) In a minimum of three sentences, describe what happens in Chapter 5.
-Christopher’s camera got ruined and then he stopped taking photographs
-In September 1991 Christopher hitched down U.S. Highway 101 in California and then headed east into the desert again.
-In early October 1991 Christopher landed in Bullhead City, Arizona
2) Describe the setting of the mobile home where Alex is staying. Be sure to include some of the descriptive words the author uses.
-Where he stayed is he camped out in the desert at the edge of town
-Denuded mountains, curiously, therefore
3) In the top portion of page 43 Alex mentions again the term "plastic people." What do you think this term means. Explain.
-By that term it will mean by stupid, strict, and rude people
When finished, check to make sure you are up to date on all assignments.
Below is a list of assignments that should be completed.
Feb 20 news - 1 News report summary for last week, be sure to include a HEADLINE, a three sentence max. SUMMARY, and an IMAGE.
Hockey Day in Canada Questions, visit the 02 20 blog entry on the class webpage.
If you are finished all assignments....
Former nurse probed in university student's suicide
Nadia Kajouji who was a student from Carleton University disappeared on March 9 2008. A nurse from Minnesota is under investigation encouraging Brampton University Student Nadia Kajouji to commit suicide. Ottawa police have been in discussions with the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task force since mid-January.
The individual being investigated, who is very active on the Internet, had already been examined by the organization. Sources familiar with the investigation indicated the man might have had similar online conversations with other vulnerable youth. If found guilty, the man could face, under Minnesota law, up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $30,000.
Both Panos and Ottawa's lead investigator, Sgt. Uday Jaswal, would not reveal details about the individual or even confirm he was a nurse. Nadia, a first-year-student at Carleton University, was reported missing on March 9 last year. Her body was found in the Rideau River in April. Unbeknownst to her family, the 18-year-old had beenFormer nurse probed in student's suicide suffering from depression, taking antidepressants, and seeing a campus counsellor.
Friday, February 20, 2009
redpaper clip guy
1) Provide a brief summary of what you've read
-I read about this guy Kyle has a red paperclip house which is Located at 503 Main Street in
Fully furnished. Two floors + basement Three bedrooms Two bathrooms Refinished hardwood floors. Fridge, stove, sinks, drawers, shelves...all the regular kitchen stuff. Electricity! Large grass front yard + large grass backyard. Gas hot water tank + gas furnace. close proximity to schools, restaurants, grocery stores, hospital, etc. Kipling has most services in town. Giant red paperclip on the front lawn. located a stone's throw away from the world's largest red paperclip.
-He is looking to get a Dodge Caravana
2) Tell me what you think about this story.
-Well I think its kind of stupid to sell his house for a veichle because if I was him I rather keep the house because a house has more space and everything you need like cleaning, sleeping, washing up, eating and etc.
3) What do YOU think we can learn from this story?
Be sure to explain why and how Kyle was able to achieve his goal.
-He used the internet and the blog to achieve his goal to create a book and provide a movie so he can make money.
-I read about this guy Kyle has a red paperclip house which is Located at 503 Main Street in
Fully furnished. Two floors + basement Three bedrooms Two bathrooms Refinished hardwood floors. Fridge, stove, sinks, drawers, shelves...all the regular kitchen stuff. Electricity! Large grass front yard + large grass backyard. Gas hot water tank + gas furnace. close proximity to schools, restaurants, grocery stores, hospital, etc. Kipling has most services in town. Giant red paperclip on the front lawn. located a stone's throw away from the world's largest red paperclip.
-He is looking to get a Dodge Caravana
2) Tell me what you think about this story.
-Well I think its kind of stupid to sell his house for a veichle because if I was him I rather keep the house because a house has more space and everything you need like cleaning, sleeping, washing up, eating and etc.
3) What do YOU think we can learn from this story?
Be sure to explain why and how Kyle was able to achieve his goal.
-He used the internet and the blog to achieve his goal to create a book and provide a movie so he can make money.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
'I couldn't let this guy get away:' Subway hero (from Toronto Star)
Sitting in the ticket booth at Dufferin Station last Friday, Russell Cormier was idly chatting with his partner when he heard a rumbling screech from the tunnel below.
"It was this loud screeching sound, steel on steel, as the brakes went. Then all of a sudden we heard screaming. People started running upstairs. They were yelling, `Kids! He pushed the kids!'"
By this time, Cormier was out of the booth trying to make sense of what was happening. That's when he saw a middle-aged man bounding up the escalator from the eastbound platform. He looked vacant.
"Someone yelled, `That's him! That's him!'" Cormier lunged at him as the suspect dashed for the exit turnstiles.
By this time, Cormier's partner, Joe De Gabrielis, had jumped into the fray. The suspect wrestled away from Cormier, then swung at De Gabrielis. He bounded outside and began sprinting down the street, with Cormier at his heels.
"I just needed another six inches of arm's length. I was right behind him, but couldn't quite get hold," he said. At this point, Cormier began questioning whether he should even be chasing him at all. Cormier, 47, is a large man, and suffered a heart attack a year and a half before.
"But I just thought of those kids and my own kids and I couldn't let this guy get away," he said.
Just as the suspect was about to slip inside a restaurant, Cormier pounced on him, sending the man to the concrete below. "I told him to stay down or he's going to get hurt."
And he did. Cormier, who many have hailed as a hero, recounted the harrowing tale yesterday afternoon outside Sick Kids hospital.
Cormier, along with his wife and daughter, had just been to visit one of the victims from the attack, Jacob Greenspon. The 15-year-old was one of two teens pushed from the Dufferin subway platform by a stranger during rush hour Friday.
The attack was unprovoked. The teens survived because of the quick thinking of Greenspon's friend, who rolled to the crawl space as the train was approaching, pulling Greenspon along with him.
Greenspon miraculously survived, but the train crushed his foot. He is due back in surgery today and is doing well, said Cormier.
The hospital room was crowded with Greenspon's classmates and friends. Everyone seemed in good spirits, said Cormier.
It's been a difficult year for Cormier. Almost a year ago, a woman threw herself under the streetcar he was driving. Then last month, he was attacked by a man at the Dufferin station after asking for a fare. The man threw the Metropass in his face, then assaulted him.
"The TTC is very safe, but stuff like this happens with the collectors all the time," he said. "Ideally, there'd be two constables at every station."
Adenir DeOliveira, charged in Friday's incident, is to appear in Old City Hall court this morning
"It was this loud screeching sound, steel on steel, as the brakes went. Then all of a sudden we heard screaming. People started running upstairs. They were yelling, `Kids! He pushed the kids!'"
By this time, Cormier was out of the booth trying to make sense of what was happening. That's when he saw a middle-aged man bounding up the escalator from the eastbound platform. He looked vacant.
"Someone yelled, `That's him! That's him!'" Cormier lunged at him as the suspect dashed for the exit turnstiles.
By this time, Cormier's partner, Joe De Gabrielis, had jumped into the fray. The suspect wrestled away from Cormier, then swung at De Gabrielis. He bounded outside and began sprinting down the street, with Cormier at his heels.
"I just needed another six inches of arm's length. I was right behind him, but couldn't quite get hold," he said. At this point, Cormier began questioning whether he should even be chasing him at all. Cormier, 47, is a large man, and suffered a heart attack a year and a half before.
"But I just thought of those kids and my own kids and I couldn't let this guy get away," he said.
Just as the suspect was about to slip inside a restaurant, Cormier pounced on him, sending the man to the concrete below. "I told him to stay down or he's going to get hurt."
And he did. Cormier, who many have hailed as a hero, recounted the harrowing tale yesterday afternoon outside Sick Kids hospital.
Cormier, along with his wife and daughter, had just been to visit one of the victims from the attack, Jacob Greenspon. The 15-year-old was one of two teens pushed from the Dufferin subway platform by a stranger during rush hour Friday.
The attack was unprovoked. The teens survived because of the quick thinking of Greenspon's friend, who rolled to the crawl space as the train was approaching, pulling Greenspon along with him.
Greenspon miraculously survived, but the train crushed his foot. He is due back in surgery today and is doing well, said Cormier.
The hospital room was crowded with Greenspon's classmates and friends. Everyone seemed in good spirits, said Cormier.
It's been a difficult year for Cormier. Almost a year ago, a woman threw herself under the streetcar he was driving. Then last month, he was attacked by a man at the Dufferin station after asking for a fare. The man threw the Metropass in his face, then assaulted him.
"The TTC is very safe, but stuff like this happens with the collectors all the time," he said. "Ideally, there'd be two constables at every station."
Adenir DeOliveira, charged in Friday's incident, is to appear in Old City Hall court this morning
Kaberle a good bet to stay with Leafs: GM (from Toronto Star)
Tomas Kaberle isn't likely to go anywhere.
While Kaberle has provided the Leafs with a list of 10 teams he'd prefer to be dealt to in exchange for waiving his no-trade clause, Leafs GM Brian Burke sounds as if he'd rather keep the skilled, puck-moving defenceman.
"I like this guy. Bet on him staying," Burke told the Star yesterday.
Kaberle – who remains on the injured reserve list with a broken right hand – says he'd rather stay.
"My main focus is being a Leaf," said Kaberle. "I love being a Leaf. That's how it stands. I want to do my best here."
Kaberle, who had his cast removed and skated prior to the main Leafs practice, was clearly uncomfortable talking about the prospect of being traded. Those who know him socially say he loves playing hockey in this city.
Kaberle refused to waive his no-trade clause last season, when interim GM Cliff Fletcher had worked out a deal to send him to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter and a first-round pick. Kaberle was taking his cues then from Mats Sundin, Bryan McCabe, Darcy Tucker and Pavel Kubina – all of whom refused to waive their no-trade clauses.
This year, with a new regime in place, things have changed. Only Kubina and Kaberle remain from that five. Both have softened their stances on waiving their clause.
"If I'm not a part of the future, I won't mind to waive my no-trade clause," said Kaberle, echoing Kubina's comments from Sunday. "You don't want to do anything (to stand in the way) if you're not part of the team in the future.
"I want to play for the Leafs and win the Stanley Cup. If it's not going to happen, then I have to move on."
If the Leafs fail to make the playoffs – a likely scenario this year – there are clauses in both Kubina's and Kaberle's contracts that will allow Burke to trade them this summer without their consent. In that case, they'd have no control over their destiny.
By providing a list of 10 teams – mandated by Burke – they maintain some control.
"Two keys," Burke wrote in an email. "One, Kaberle wants to stay. He could not be clearer. Two, (it's) hard to believe I will get what I need to move this guy. (He's a) quality person, great stats, good salary.
"I did not ask him to waive no-trade. (His) agent suggested looking at this vehicle because it allows him and Tomas to retain some level of control over where he goes. If we miss the playoffs, he has no control over where he goes."
The Leafs don't have another defenceman with Kaberle's skill set – a strong ability to pass or carry the puck and to anchor the power play. The power play – rated 12th in the league – is one of the team's rare bright spots. In addition, Kaberle is only 30 and under contract for another two seasons after this one at the cap-friendly price of $4.25 million (U.S.).
It promises to be a bumpy ride for this team that is closer to the bottom than the playoffs. Burke is likely to be among the busiest general managers heading into the March 4 trade deadline. In addition to Kubina and Kaberle in the trade speculation, it's widely believed pending unrestricted free agents Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore could be on the move.
In any deal, the Leafs will be looking to restock some of the 2009 and 2010 draft picks they've traded away. They've already parted with a second-rounder (part of the deal to land Luke Schenn), a fourth-rounder (part of the Vesa Toskala deal) and a fifth-rounder (Ryan Hollweg) this year and a second-rounder (the Mikhail Grabovski deal) and fourth-rounder (the Mike Van Ryn deal) in 2010.
"All I can really foresee in this is (acquiring) draft picks," coach Ron Wilson said. "We have to build this team through the draft."
While Kaberle has provided the Leafs with a list of 10 teams he'd prefer to be dealt to in exchange for waiving his no-trade clause, Leafs GM Brian Burke sounds as if he'd rather keep the skilled, puck-moving defenceman.
"I like this guy. Bet on him staying," Burke told the Star yesterday.
Kaberle – who remains on the injured reserve list with a broken right hand – says he'd rather stay.
"My main focus is being a Leaf," said Kaberle. "I love being a Leaf. That's how it stands. I want to do my best here."
Kaberle, who had his cast removed and skated prior to the main Leafs practice, was clearly uncomfortable talking about the prospect of being traded. Those who know him socially say he loves playing hockey in this city.
Kaberle refused to waive his no-trade clause last season, when interim GM Cliff Fletcher had worked out a deal to send him to Philadelphia for Jeff Carter and a first-round pick. Kaberle was taking his cues then from Mats Sundin, Bryan McCabe, Darcy Tucker and Pavel Kubina – all of whom refused to waive their no-trade clauses.
This year, with a new regime in place, things have changed. Only Kubina and Kaberle remain from that five. Both have softened their stances on waiving their clause.
"If I'm not a part of the future, I won't mind to waive my no-trade clause," said Kaberle, echoing Kubina's comments from Sunday. "You don't want to do anything (to stand in the way) if you're not part of the team in the future.
"I want to play for the Leafs and win the Stanley Cup. If it's not going to happen, then I have to move on."
If the Leafs fail to make the playoffs – a likely scenario this year – there are clauses in both Kubina's and Kaberle's contracts that will allow Burke to trade them this summer without their consent. In that case, they'd have no control over their destiny.
By providing a list of 10 teams – mandated by Burke – they maintain some control.
"Two keys," Burke wrote in an email. "One, Kaberle wants to stay. He could not be clearer. Two, (it's) hard to believe I will get what I need to move this guy. (He's a) quality person, great stats, good salary.
"I did not ask him to waive no-trade. (His) agent suggested looking at this vehicle because it allows him and Tomas to retain some level of control over where he goes. If we miss the playoffs, he has no control over where he goes."
The Leafs don't have another defenceman with Kaberle's skill set – a strong ability to pass or carry the puck and to anchor the power play. The power play – rated 12th in the league – is one of the team's rare bright spots. In addition, Kaberle is only 30 and under contract for another two seasons after this one at the cap-friendly price of $4.25 million (U.S.).
It promises to be a bumpy ride for this team that is closer to the bottom than the playoffs. Burke is likely to be among the busiest general managers heading into the March 4 trade deadline. In addition to Kubina and Kaberle in the trade speculation, it's widely believed pending unrestricted free agents Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore could be on the move.
In any deal, the Leafs will be looking to restock some of the 2009 and 2010 draft picks they've traded away. They've already parted with a second-rounder (part of the deal to land Luke Schenn), a fourth-rounder (part of the Vesa Toskala deal) and a fifth-rounder (Ryan Hollweg) this year and a second-rounder (the Mikhail Grabovski deal) and fourth-rounder (the Mike Van Ryn deal) in 2010.
"All I can really foresee in this is (acquiring) draft picks," coach Ron Wilson said. "We have to build this team through the draft."
Black family beat Depression-era odds (from Toronto Star)
Being black in Toronto during the 1930s was one thing. Being black and buying a three-storey Victorian house downtown when most of your white neighbours couldn't afford rent – that got a lot of backs up.
"My father would hear, `Clarke is stupid to move. West Indians don't own houses in Canada!'" says Claire Clarke, 95. She was 17 at the time, the younger of two daughters.
Critics, many of them friends, thought the Clarkes were reaching way beyond their station. Barely eight months had passed since the stock market collapsed. It was the beginning of the Great Depression, though no one knew how long it would last. Canada was in the midst of an election with Mackenzie King's Liberals losing popularity faster than the workforce – mostly white men – was shedding jobs. Toronto's population hovered around 630,000 people; fewer than 3,000 were black. And who in their right mind would settle in a country covered in snow and ice half the year?
But Henry Clarke owned his own house in Barbados and intended to put down roots in Toronto. He had found steady work as a moulder making train wheels at an iron and steel foundry.
His wife Louise had earned a reputation in Kensington Gardens as a gifted dressmaker. She had even used some of the money she earned to buy her daughters a Newcombe piano so they could learn to play.
Where pessimists, or realists, saw a tiny black community, the Clarkes reminded them it included social clubs like the United Negro Improvement Association, one doctor, two lawyers, a grocer and three churches. They saw opportunity for their girls.
"We decided he was going to throw whatever money he had in the bank on the first shack he found and that shack was at 76 Robinson St.," Clarke recalls.
The Clarkes bought the property near Queen and Bathurst on Monday, June 9, 1930 from a Jewish couple, Abraham and Fannie Reisberg, for $3,600 – the equivalent of $46,350 in 2009 dollars.
Though Clarke says race relations in Toronto weren't as tense as in the United States – "you could play with their children but you didn't go into their houses" – dark-skinned immigrants had a hard time finding rentals, let alone buying property.
She recalls Jews being especially empathetic. "The other people would slam the door in your face and that's it."
When she walked into the house at 76 Robinson St. for the first time, Clarke remembers a bed set up on the main floor in the dining room. She thought back to the first flat they rented in Kensington Market nine years before, when they arrived in Toronto.
That apartment had three rooms. Her parents slept in one. Another held the piano and fancy furniture reserved for company. A curtain drawn across part of the kitchen cordoned off the area where Claire and her sister Eileen bunked.
In the new house, the girls shared the entire attic floor, which had dormer windows facing the street and smaller ones overlooking the backyard. They slept in a double bed.
"It was always a fuss who was going to sleep on which side," Clarke says. "One side, you could get out faster and you were closer to the Quebec heater ...
"We had lots of fun at that house," she adds.
Her sister started piano lessons at a music conservatory. Henry tried to teach Claire himself "but I hated it. It interfered with me reading."
Within two years of moving in, Henry's work schedule at the steel foundry was cut in half. Claire, who had just graduated from Central High School of Commerce on Shaw St. with top honours and specialized skills in stenography and typing, began looking for a clerical job. She devoured classified sections and sent out resumes. An engineering firm invited her for an interview. "But you see, they didn't know I was black. So when I showed up, that was the end of that job."
Undeterred, she approached an influential "light-skinned coloured man" who worked at City Hall for advice.
"He said: `Well, you won't get a job in the city because the white girls won't work with you.'
"That was his answer for me! He didn't even try. I said, `Well, that's not a good answer for me.'"
Like her seamstress mother, who could copy any design in the window display at Eaton's, Claire worked wonders with a needle. The family needed extra income fast, so Clarke shifted her search to the garment district.
"One morning I woke up. I said, `Well, today, I'm going to get a job.' And I went knocking on every door."
The only one that opened belonged to a Mr. Wise. He owned a hat shop.
"I remember the pieces were cut on the bias so they would pull," Clarke says.
The money she earned making hats went into the family pot. It helped pay for the coal in the Quebec heater that kept the attic space warm. It helped pay for the cornmeal and okra her mother used to make one of her favourite meals – what Claire called kuku as a child.
"It would be turned with a spatula until it stood up on your plate," she recalls.
As the threat of war began to pull the continent out of its Depression, Clarke continued to write letters to employers outlining her skills and eventually found work with the federal government that fit her qualifications – first as a secretary in a naval supply store and later as a training officer at an employment insurance bureau.
When she retired, she enrolled as a first-year student at University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the age of 71.
For 75 years, she lived at 76 Robinson St. She raised a son, whom she named Henry, there.
Just a few winters ago, a bad fall outside a downtown school landed her in hospital. When the stairs in her grand Victorian became too much for a bad hip, she moved into a retirement home in Kensington.
She entertains visitors most days of the week and chats up a retired economics professor in the dining room at suppertime.
Last month, after years of deliberation, her family put 76 Robinson St. on the market.
It belongs to someone else now. Gone for half a million.
She's wistful but matter-of-fact:
"Bought in a Depression, sold in a Depression."
"My father would hear, `Clarke is stupid to move. West Indians don't own houses in Canada!'" says Claire Clarke, 95. She was 17 at the time, the younger of two daughters.
Critics, many of them friends, thought the Clarkes were reaching way beyond their station. Barely eight months had passed since the stock market collapsed. It was the beginning of the Great Depression, though no one knew how long it would last. Canada was in the midst of an election with Mackenzie King's Liberals losing popularity faster than the workforce – mostly white men – was shedding jobs. Toronto's population hovered around 630,000 people; fewer than 3,000 were black. And who in their right mind would settle in a country covered in snow and ice half the year?
But Henry Clarke owned his own house in Barbados and intended to put down roots in Toronto. He had found steady work as a moulder making train wheels at an iron and steel foundry.
His wife Louise had earned a reputation in Kensington Gardens as a gifted dressmaker. She had even used some of the money she earned to buy her daughters a Newcombe piano so they could learn to play.
Where pessimists, or realists, saw a tiny black community, the Clarkes reminded them it included social clubs like the United Negro Improvement Association, one doctor, two lawyers, a grocer and three churches. They saw opportunity for their girls.
"We decided he was going to throw whatever money he had in the bank on the first shack he found and that shack was at 76 Robinson St.," Clarke recalls.
The Clarkes bought the property near Queen and Bathurst on Monday, June 9, 1930 from a Jewish couple, Abraham and Fannie Reisberg, for $3,600 – the equivalent of $46,350 in 2009 dollars.
Though Clarke says race relations in Toronto weren't as tense as in the United States – "you could play with their children but you didn't go into their houses" – dark-skinned immigrants had a hard time finding rentals, let alone buying property.
She recalls Jews being especially empathetic. "The other people would slam the door in your face and that's it."
When she walked into the house at 76 Robinson St. for the first time, Clarke remembers a bed set up on the main floor in the dining room. She thought back to the first flat they rented in Kensington Market nine years before, when they arrived in Toronto.
That apartment had three rooms. Her parents slept in one. Another held the piano and fancy furniture reserved for company. A curtain drawn across part of the kitchen cordoned off the area where Claire and her sister Eileen bunked.
In the new house, the girls shared the entire attic floor, which had dormer windows facing the street and smaller ones overlooking the backyard. They slept in a double bed.
"It was always a fuss who was going to sleep on which side," Clarke says. "One side, you could get out faster and you were closer to the Quebec heater ...
"We had lots of fun at that house," she adds.
Her sister started piano lessons at a music conservatory. Henry tried to teach Claire himself "but I hated it. It interfered with me reading."
Within two years of moving in, Henry's work schedule at the steel foundry was cut in half. Claire, who had just graduated from Central High School of Commerce on Shaw St. with top honours and specialized skills in stenography and typing, began looking for a clerical job. She devoured classified sections and sent out resumes. An engineering firm invited her for an interview. "But you see, they didn't know I was black. So when I showed up, that was the end of that job."
Undeterred, she approached an influential "light-skinned coloured man" who worked at City Hall for advice.
"He said: `Well, you won't get a job in the city because the white girls won't work with you.'
"That was his answer for me! He didn't even try. I said, `Well, that's not a good answer for me.'"
Like her seamstress mother, who could copy any design in the window display at Eaton's, Claire worked wonders with a needle. The family needed extra income fast, so Clarke shifted her search to the garment district.
"One morning I woke up. I said, `Well, today, I'm going to get a job.' And I went knocking on every door."
The only one that opened belonged to a Mr. Wise. He owned a hat shop.
"I remember the pieces were cut on the bias so they would pull," Clarke says.
The money she earned making hats went into the family pot. It helped pay for the coal in the Quebec heater that kept the attic space warm. It helped pay for the cornmeal and okra her mother used to make one of her favourite meals – what Claire called kuku as a child.
"It would be turned with a spatula until it stood up on your plate," she recalls.
As the threat of war began to pull the continent out of its Depression, Clarke continued to write letters to employers outlining her skills and eventually found work with the federal government that fit her qualifications – first as a secretary in a naval supply store and later as a training officer at an employment insurance bureau.
When she retired, she enrolled as a first-year student at University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the age of 71.
For 75 years, she lived at 76 Robinson St. She raised a son, whom she named Henry, there.
Just a few winters ago, a bad fall outside a downtown school landed her in hospital. When the stairs in her grand Victorian became too much for a bad hip, she moved into a retirement home in Kensington.
She entertains visitors most days of the week and chats up a retired economics professor in the dining room at suppertime.
Last month, after years of deliberation, her family put 76 Robinson St. on the market.
It belongs to someone else now. Gone for half a million.
She's wistful but matter-of-fact:
"Bought in a Depression, sold in a Depression."
Friday, February 13, 2009
Journal Entry #2
Dear Mom and Dad it is April 1992 I hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. I was given $25,000 in savings for charity that you gave me thank you very much. I abandoned my car and most of my possessions, I burned all the cash that was in my wallet and then I invented a new life for myself. I hope I make it back home safe though I feel like I'm dying because there is no food or water around which really sucks. I hope i make it back home safely and soon enough have a good day Mom and Dad I miss you and love you lots too xoxoxoxxoxoxo
Your Son Christopher Johnson McCandless xoxoxox
Your Son Christopher Johnson McCandless xoxoxox
Journal Entry #1
My name is Maggie Brantnall I go to St. Dominic Catholic Secondary School I’m 17 years old I was born on January 6, 1992 in Bracebridge, I live in Gravenhurst, I have 3 sisters 1 brother and 2 step sisters my parents are separated and they both met other people my dad got married the second time. I’m from Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada I grew up in Gravenhurst I lived in Gravenhurst for the rest of my life. My hobbies are swimming, partying, shopping, hanging out with friends, spending time with family, spending time with my boyfriend, glow-in-the-dark bowling, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, arcades, going to a movie theater and seeing a movie, Canada’s Wonderland, theme park, amusement parks, water parks, hot tubing, going to the beach, tanning, doing my nails, taking baths, taking showers, watching tv, playing on the computer, playing my Wii system, playing my XBOX 360, seeing my sister and spending time with her, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I can’t think of.
What I like doing on my free time is songwriting, dancing, doing homework ( just to get it done), doing chores (something to do), reading a book, reading my driver’s book, watching tv, bathing, playing video games, chatting on msn, facebook, and other chatrooms on the computer, playing on the computer, watching movies at home, exercising, and doing stuff what I have to get done what I can’t say or think of. My Dad works for CN rails and my Mom works for the Government of Canada. I’ve been dancing for 6 or 7 years. My Mom hasn’t been working for a few years because she was on disability and that reason why is because of her condition of migrans, but she is back to work but she is working from home right now and she only heads to Barrie once a week. My Dad he has to go down to Toronto and work from Friday-Monday. From Tuesday-Thursday I’m with Friday-Monday I’m with my Mom. My parents been separated for about 5 years by now but at least I get to see both of them.
I’ve had a very harsh life but everybody has their own problems. I try to be good person and I try to be respectful to everyone, but usually I can’t because like getting into fights with my Dad because my Dad doesn’t really care about me he just makes me do chores around the house, he’s very strict, and he doesn’t let me have any meals or gives me any food. My Mom she always there for me she feeds me, and well she pays me for doing chores around the house and she’s really easy to, but when it comes to work she’s not real easy with that.
The thing is with my parents is that my Mom is really easy going, but my Dad isn’t though he gets mad at me for nothing and he tries to kick me out and I’m glad that he is paying child support and it’s better than my Mom paying for it. I’m more close to my Mom than my Dad because he’s never there for me and he usually doesn’t want me around what kind of Dad is that anyways? A good Father would be feeding his children, not yelling and threatening to kick you out all the time or not trying to kick you out and always spend time with his children and be there for his children.
Every summer me and my family go to Canada’s Wonderland, go camping, go swimming and go to Wasaga Beach. Every winter me and my family go down to Barrie to go glow-in-the-dark bowling, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, go shopping, go see a movie and go tubing at Snow Valley. Usually every year for Christmas and Birthdays we go down to Vaughan Mills to go shopping. Once in a while I go and see my sister and spend time with her, and what I think is that I think my sister is the best sibling but that’s all I have to say
What I like doing on my free time is songwriting, dancing, doing homework ( just to get it done), doing chores (something to do), reading a book, reading my driver’s book, watching tv, bathing, playing video games, chatting on msn, facebook, and other chatrooms on the computer, playing on the computer, watching movies at home, exercising, and doing stuff what I have to get done what I can’t say or think of. My Dad works for CN rails and my Mom works for the Government of Canada. I’ve been dancing for 6 or 7 years. My Mom hasn’t been working for a few years because she was on disability and that reason why is because of her condition of migrans, but she is back to work but she is working from home right now and she only heads to Barrie once a week. My Dad he has to go down to Toronto and work from Friday-Monday. From Tuesday-Thursday I’m with Friday-Monday I’m with my Mom. My parents been separated for about 5 years by now but at least I get to see both of them.
I’ve had a very harsh life but everybody has their own problems. I try to be good person and I try to be respectful to everyone, but usually I can’t because like getting into fights with my Dad because my Dad doesn’t really care about me he just makes me do chores around the house, he’s very strict, and he doesn’t let me have any meals or gives me any food. My Mom she always there for me she feeds me, and well she pays me for doing chores around the house and she’s really easy to, but when it comes to work she’s not real easy with that.
The thing is with my parents is that my Mom is really easy going, but my Dad isn’t though he gets mad at me for nothing and he tries to kick me out and I’m glad that he is paying child support and it’s better than my Mom paying for it. I’m more close to my Mom than my Dad because he’s never there for me and he usually doesn’t want me around what kind of Dad is that anyways? A good Father would be feeding his children, not yelling and threatening to kick you out all the time or not trying to kick you out and always spend time with his children and be there for his children.
Every summer me and my family go to Canada’s Wonderland, go camping, go swimming and go to Wasaga Beach. Every winter me and my family go down to Barrie to go glow-in-the-dark bowling, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, go shopping, go see a movie and go tubing at Snow Valley. Usually every year for Christmas and Birthdays we go down to Vaughan Mills to go shopping. Once in a while I go and see my sister and spend time with her, and what I think is that I think my sister is the best sibling but that’s all I have to say
Definitions
1) Plot -Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story.
Genre -of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type
2) Setting -the act of a person or thing that sets.
3) Mood-a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
4) Theme-Grammar. the element common to all or most of the forms of an inflectional paradigm, often consisting of a root with certain formative elements or modifications.
5) Character-the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
6)Protagonist -hero
7)Antagonist-villain
8)Point of View -opinion
9)Conflict -a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.
10) Foreshadowing-the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot. The disastrous flood that occurs at the end of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), for example, is foreshadowed by many references to the river and to water in general throughout the book.
11) Suspense-a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
12) Flashback-recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.
Genre -of or pertaining to a distinctive literary type
2) Setting -the act of a person or thing that sets.
3) Mood-a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
4) Theme-Grammar. the element common to all or most of the forms of an inflectional paradigm, often consisting of a root with certain formative elements or modifications.
5) Character-the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
6)Protagonist -hero
7)Antagonist-villain
8)Point of View -opinion
9)Conflict -a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.
10) Foreshadowing-the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot. The disastrous flood that occurs at the end of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860), for example, is foreshadowed by many references to the river and to water in general throughout the book.
11) Suspense-a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
12) Flashback-recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.
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