It's about time!

08 May 18
20:30 hrs.

     I read in the most recent cage liner that finally, at long last and after years of dithering on the part of business leaders and city hall, that a "New Supportive Housing Project" is to be built. It will be a 46 unit complex on city land near the downtown area. Each unit will include a private bathroom and kitchen with shared facilities, meal programs, employment and life skills training. It will be managed 24/7 by the John Howard Society.

     This facility is being welcomed by all of the groups who assist with our local residence challenged individuals. There is a rush to push this project forward as fast as possible to have the homes ready for occupancy by winter.

     Another housing program that is going forward is a Habitat for Humanity initiative. Twenty town houses are being built. Some corporations and large businesses such as Home Despot and 19 Wing Comox are challenging other large entities to put together build crews. These crews will be supervised by master construction foremen otherwise who knows what the buildings would look like or even if they would be functional.

09 May 19
08:00 hrs.

     I don't know what spring is like where you are Dear Readers but here in the Valley the leaves on the trees are out in full force. And so is the pollen for all of the allergy sufferers. My Sr. Loin Fruit calls it tree sperm.

10 May 18
05:55 hrs.

     Excuse me, it's the top of the news hour.

     I know that there is no hiding from the Super Shit Storm taking place on a daily basis South of the 49th Parallel.

     Several weeks ago two African American males were ushered out of a Starbucks, last week three African American women were detained and questioned after coming out of a house and just yesterday a white male was arrested for trying to arrange to have his African American neighbour lynched by a white supremacist group. Pretty shocking stuff for 2018. You would think that we should be beyond above all of this white/black/brown/red/yellow skin bullshit. After all, we all bleed red. Oh, but this is just in the Hugh-Ess right? Wrong.

     On the CBC news this morning was a video taken by an Afghan immigrant to Canada of a white Canadian woman verbally assaulting three Afghan men in a Dennys restaurant. I am disgusted with her display. She has come out with a formal apology - "I was impaired and I was having an off day". But, that's no excuse for being an asshole. That venom was not created by your impairment. It was already inside of you and your impairment allowed it to come to the surface - my Lobster's assessment. The incident took place in Lethbridge, AB and she was from Cranbrook, BC. She has been fired from her job in Cranbrook.

     A Canadian MP, and federal cabinet minister, was in Detroit last year and was flying back to Montreal. He went through security and was called back. He's a Sikh and they wanted him to remove his turban as the security scanner was acting wonky. So, he goes back to security zone where he says he would like to try the scanner again. Hazah! It works and he proceeds to his departure gate. Several minutes later security officers find him and inform him that the would really like to have him remove his turban.  It was at this point that the MP showed them his diplomatic credentials and guess what? They backed the fuck off! That's right. He was suspicious looking foreign person who could be a potential terrorist until he proved to be a foreign government official. Bullshit!

     It's about time that more people stand up and do the right thing. Stand up and point out the wrongs. Stand up and inform others of those wrongs.

     It's about time.