THE MESSAGE:
Reading the newspapers on most days can be extremely depressing. In this blog I have chosen 3 recent articles from 3 Toronto papers that boggle my mind. Why don’t people concentrate on saving humanity instead of the planet?
THE BLURB:
FROM THE NATIONAL POST
1. Utah police say a man cites virginity as the reason he planned to kill 'as many girls' as he could.
Christopher Wayne Cleary, 27, is also on probation in Jefferson County, Colorado, for stalking and threatening women.
THE SCRATCH: Probation? Seriously?
2. America's most expensive home, a New York penthouse, sells to billionaire Ken Griffin for $238 million.
Daytona Beach-born hedge fund manager Ken Griffin bought the top four floors of JDL Development’s unfinished Chicago condo tower, No. 9 Walton, for $58.5 million.
The deal, which took place in November 2017, is the most expensive home sale ever made in the Chicago area. The bill could climb even higher to around $80 million as the expansive unit still needs to be finished.
The purchase in Chicago comes amid a spate of big buys over the past several years. His under-construction Palm Beach estate to date has cost him almost $230 million. When complete, the 55,800-square-foot mansion on Blossom Way will be longer than a football field. In 2015, Griffin snapped up three floors of 220 Central Park South in Manhattan for $238 million. As of this year, Forbes pegged his net worth at $8.7 billion.
THE SCRATCH: How much room does one man need?
3. Victoria B.C. announced plans to launch a class action lawsuit against the oil sector for canada’s high emissions level.
THE SCRATCH: Tough talk from a city whose economy is dependent on cruise ships.
FROM THE TORONTO SUN
1. “I am entitled to my entitlements”
When it comes to politics, and particularly the B.C. legislature, pigs at the trough are not an endangered species. In fact, they thrive, driven by the gall that a $3,000 wood splitter billed to the taxpayer is a perfectly legitimate expenditure by the chief clerk of the legislature and its sergeant-at-arms that would not raise eyebrows. The wood splitter was allegedly expensed and shared by Chief Clerk Craig James and Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz.
2. I hate your guts?
A judge has found the editor and publisher of a free newspaper in the Toronto area guilty of peddling hate. The judge says James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine clearly promoted hatred against women and Jews.
THE SCRATCH: Why is hatred so prevalent?
3. Pardon me madam it’s time for your next dose.
PHOENIX — A nurse who was supposed to be looking after an incapacitated woman at a long-term health care facility was charged with raping her, weeks after she stunned her caregivers and family by giving birth to a baby boy . Nathan Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse, has been arrested and charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse, according to court records.
THE SCRATCH: What about the baby?
FROM THE TORONTO STAR
1. A Toronto doctor is stripped of her licence after a panel hears that she had sex with a cancer patient in his hospital bed.
In 2015, frequent flirtatious texting turned into hugging and kissing and eventually progressed to the Toronto doctor masturbating and having intercourse with her patient in his hospital bed while he was being treated for his illness.
THE SCRATCH: Would some ask if the guy had brain cancer?
2. No mass eviction planned for people living under Gardiner, says the city.
Richard Smith, a man living in a tent under the Gardiner, said he had not received a notice from the city asking him to remove debris and personal goods in 14 days or face “further enforcement.”
THE SCRATCH: Leave these people alone!
3. A Florida man is accused of killing five people in a bank. His ex-girlfriend said, “He had this fascination with death."
Zephen Xaver opened fire inside a Florida bank killing several people before surrendering to a SWAT team, police said.
An ex girlfriend said last week that Xaver told her he had purchased a handgun,“no one thought anything of it” because he had always liked guns, she said. A friend who also knew Xaver, said that he wanted to join the military “because he wanted to kill people.”
THE SCRATCH: Is this not evidence of the need to place him in a mental hospital?
THE QUESTION:
Are newspapers truly a source of reliable info or should we look further for details and truth?
THE LAUREL:
Awarded to Christie Blatchford for always telling it like it is!
THE QUOTE:
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
Carl Jung
THE CLIP:
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