Remembrance Day November 11th

Because I'm Canadian my blog is about Canadians with no intend to offend our neighbors in the United States of America, which I do think highly of! I am very proud of my ancestors which served in this war and stood up for our Country and what they believed in. Love you Grandad and even though you passed before I was born and I never got to know you other than your picture in your army uniform I will still miss you!
 
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Canadians are asked to pause in memory of the thousands of men and women who sacrificed their lives in military service.

Also known as Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day was first held throughout the Commonwealth in 1919. It marks the armistice to end the First World War, which came into effect at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, a year earlier. 

Every year on November 11, Canadians pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace. We honour those who fought for Canada in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second World War (1939-1945), and the Korean War (1950-1953), as well as those who have served since then. More than 1,500,000 Canadians have served our country in this way, and more than 100,000 have died. They gave their lives and their futures so that we may live in peace.





 

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and continuation by Matthew Lapierre

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow between the crosses
Row on row
That mark the place and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scare heard amid the guns below

We are the dead short days ago
We lived felt dawn saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie in Flanders Fields

Take up the quarrel with the foe
To you from falling hands we throw,
The torch be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders Fields

We have kept faith ye Flanders dead
Sleep well beneath those poppies red
The torch your falling hands did throw,
We've held it high before the foe,
And answered bitter blow for blow,
In Flanders Fields

And where your heroes' blood was spilled
The guns are now forever stilled,
No moaning sound of tortured pain
Only grief for the slain
In Flanders Fields

Bullying arrests... Bout time I say!

Eight teenage girls at a high school in London, Ont., have been arrested in connection with a bullying incident involving another student, police say.
Const. Dennis Rivest of the London Police Service said the eight girls were arrested Thursday.
Police said an investigation revealed that the victim had been the target of physical and emotional bullying, and cyberbullying.

'If we can change behaviours about drinking and driving, if we change behaviours and attitudes around smoking, why can we not change behaviours and attitudes around bullying.'—Bill Tucker, Thames Valley District School Board

The arrested girls face charges of criminal harassment.
Police said information about the bullying came from individuals who came forward in person and through an anonymous reporting web portal, called "South Cares," which is on the London South Collegiate website.
Bill Tucker, director of education at Thames Valley District School Board, said they had 70,000 community members take a pledge last year to end bullying. 

Amanda's tormentor named

The tragic story of B.C. teen suicide victim Amanda Todd has taken another bizarre twist as the internet hacking and activist group Anonymous has named a man the group says was the girl's primary tormentor.

Todd, 15, of Port Coquitlam, died last Wednesday, a month after posting a haunting video on YouTube that cited the sexualized attack that set her down a path of anxiety, depression and drug and alcohol abuse.

During her nine-minute video, the teen explains in hand-written notes that she was in Grade 7 when she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam.

She says that a year later she received a message from a man on Facebook threatening that if she didn't give him a show, he would send the webcam picture to her friends and family. She says police later told her the man followed through with his threat.

Anonymous published the name and address of a Vancouver-area man that the group claims was bullying and preying on Todd via the internet.

The activist group, which often uses a caricature Guy Fawkes mask as its logo, claims the 32-year-old man has also made postings to child pornography sites.

TEEN TORMENT

 

RCMP in B.C. have confirmed they have launched a full investigation into the circumstances leading to the suicide of Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd.

The 15-year-old girl committed suicide in her family home on Wednesday, about a month after posting a video on YouTube saying how she sunk into depression while enduring years of online bullying, blackmail and physical assaults at school.

As part of the investigation, police officers are already reviewing and actively monitoring social media, Sgt. Peter Thiessen said in a statement issued on Friday afternoon.

"Serious crime teams in Coquitlam and Ridge Meadows are working together, conducting interviews and reviewing any potential contributing factors to her death," he said.

In at least one B.C.case, a bully has been convicted of criminal harassment. A 16-year-old girl was convicted in connection with the death of Dawn Marie Wesley, 14, of Maple Ridge, who committed suicide in 2000.

The Coroners Service of British Columbia is also investigating her death, but cautioned the investigation will be long and complex — and the public should not expect instant answers.

Coroner Barb McLintock said that answers will not come quickly to explain the death of the troubled teen, and issues ranging from school and mental health support, to cyber and social media bullying must be explored in order to make effective recommendations to halt similar tragedies.

McLintock says once the coroner's report is written, the case will go to a child-death review, and could even be referred to a third level for review by a multidisciplinary team of experts.

Todd's family members have said they hope her YouTube video can be used in a positive way to prevent future youth suicides.

Crisis help lines

• Crisis Centre - 1-800-SUICIDE
• Kids Help Phone - 1-800-668-6868

Friends and family are holding a memorial for Todd today Saturday October 13th in the afternoon at Samuel Robertson Technical, one of her former schools.

R.I.P. Amanda Todd

Amanda Todd: Teenager Who Had Chronicled Her Bullying On YouTube Commits Suicide

Amanda Todd posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube five weeks ago detailing her battle with online harassment and bullies. I've posted the video below. But this 15-year-old young girl gave in to the battle and committed suicide. Amanda hung herself on Wednesday October 10, 2012. 

I don't watch TV because I'd rather read, but when I was shown this vid I was angry, very saddened and in tears that another innocent has been taken by the angels to a place where the cruelty, the pain, the bullying will never touch her EVER. A place that's Eternal, but not among us. A place on earth that should have treated her with compassion, experienced first love, solid friendships and lived a good long life. 

The video below describes her experiences with bullying. The video was posted to YouTube about a month ago by Amanda Todd. Amanda was a Grade 10 student at CABE Secondary in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.

Original description:

I'm struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I'm not doing this for attention. I'm doing this to be an inspiration and to show that I can be strong. I did things to myself to make pain go away, because I'd rather hurt myself then someone else. Haters are haters but please don't hate, although I'm sure I'll get them. I hope I can show you guys that everyone has a story, and everyone's future will be bright one day, you just gotta pull through. I'm still here aren't I ?

Video Published on September 7, 2012

 R.I.P Amanda Todd - November 27, 1996- October 10, 2012

Luka Rocco Magnotta wanted

Male model and bisexual porn star Luka Magnotta.

When a suspicious package arrived at Conservative Party headquarters on Tuesday, Jenni Byrne, the party’s political director, took it upon herself to open it. The foot was inside, and there was a terrible smell, which was profoundly disturbing for everyone.

Byrne called the police, who came and took the package. Journalists soon made the link to a maggoty torso that was discovered in a suitcase in a garbage pile in Montreal.

Police traced the bar code on the package, and discovered a second package at a postal sorting station in Ottawa, containing a left hand, that was bound for the Liberal Party of Canada’s headquarters, just a few blocks from the Conservative Party.

By Wednesday afternoon, Montreal police had found an incredibly gory scene in a blood-soaked Montreal apartment and were able to put out a Canada-wide warrant for Luka Magnotta, a former gay porn performer who was born in Scarborough, Ont., in 1982 with the name Eric Clinton Newman.

Magnotta is alleged — by animal lovers who tracked him in a Facebook group — to have previously posted four videos of himself torturing and killing kittens. Killing animals is often a first step for serial killers before they turn to people.

He appears to have posted on Friday what looks like a horrible video of a man murdering, sexually assaulting and dismembering a young man. Police have not confirmed that it’s the victim in question. I don’t advise you to watch the video.

Internet amateur detectives who enjoy looking at gory videos and commenting on them tentatively identified him as the same guy who killed the kittens.

Apparently, he is a former friend of convicted serial killer Karla Homolka, who has been free from prison since 2005, in spite of her conviction in connection with the murders of three teenage girls, including her sister, in the 1990s.

Unlike Homolka’s husband and partner in crime, Paul Bernardo, who didn’t want to be discovered, the perpetrator in this case appears to be motivated by a desire for attention, which he is now receiving from a rapt media.

By mailing body parts to political parties, the suspect guaranteed that he would be the focus of intense media interest in Canada and around the world.

Like Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian psycho who killed 77 people in a publicity-seeking killing spree, this killer wants us to pay attention to him. And we don’t really have any choice, do we?

We are fascinated by serial killers. From Jack the Ripper to Russell Williams, stories about pleasure killers strikes a chord in us, because they touch on our powerful unconscious fear of death and the darkest corners of the human mind.

Magnotta has left a wide trail on the Internet, drawing attention to himself however he could.

He did a mawkish interview with the Toronto Sun in 2007, complaining that he had been unfairly linked to Homolka.

In 2009, he wrote a blog post on how to erase your traces and disappear completely, which suggests, creepily enough, it might not be easy for the police to find him.

In December of 2010, he appears to have posted his first (really, really horrible) kitten video, followed by another one a year later.

In March of this year, he appears to have launched a blog, entitled Necrophiliac Serial Killer Luka Magnotta, in which he confesses to a sexual desire for corpses.

“I don’t see myself as some creepy pervert,” he wrote. “I’m just somebody who has feelings, real feelings, for dead men.”

From the glamour shots he used to spread about to his macabre blog from this spring, you can trace his electronic footprints.

I don’t think we benefit from paying close attention to people like Magnotta, Bernardo and Williams. I don’t think they tell us much about the human condition, but we can’t look away.

Luka Magnotta wanted our attention. I wish we could turn away, and not reward him by giving him what he wants, but we won’t.