B.C boy found!

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Sam Cooper, Postmedia News: Tuesday, May 31, 2011

 

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Valor Health Howell will finally re-united with his father after seven long years of separation. Valor was taken by his mother and they ran away his parents had joint custody.Valor and his mother  were finally located in a town called Chandler which is just 20 kilometers southeast of Phoenix, Arizona. Garrett Taylor the father of Valor had last seen his son Dec 1 2004, even though Valor has been missing for eight years his family never gave up hope and always left messages on his Facebook page. Although parental-kidnapping is a non-extradible offence the U.S police is working things out with the RCMP and they are trying to get the necessary paper work done so they can get the fugitive mother and Valor back to Canada. 

I believe that even though it has been seven long years Valor and his father will move on and the transition wont be that difficult, since the have the Facebook page " help find Valor" that is proof of how much they cared about him and how much they wanted him in their life and Valor might be able to better understand it since he is 17 years old and is now a adult. Also now it wont be just him and his mother on the road, he now has his entire family with him in Kamloops and they will be a family once more, and it isn't many times you hear happy endings like this so Valor is very fortunate, and he also has his big sister to look out for him now.

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Psychiatric assessment for molestor!

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By Sheila Reynolds - Surrey North Delta Leader
Published: May 18, 2011 3:00 PM
Updated: May 18, 2011 3:59 PM

 

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kyle Berkson,36, last February was convicted for breaking into a child's bedroom and molesting her, and a psychiatric assessment has been ordered to to see if he should be mark down as either a dangerous or long term offender. The crwon requested for Berkson to be tested and it was granted this Wednesday and in Canada if you are determined as a dangerous offender you indefinitely get a prison sentence and if you are deemed as a long term offecdor you can receive prison time up to 10 years in jail. Berkson's criminal record dates all the way back to 1988 and that includes a sexual interference in 1995 which involved a five-year-old boy. Berkson's new victim is now 10 years old and testified in January and there was a man on top of her who molested her, licked her and tried to get her to perform oral sex, and she also testified that he sounded and looked a lot like Berkson, and Berkson was also a family friend who had been to their house before.

The common way these assaults happen is that the assaulters first befriend the children's parents. Many of the cases that are coming up these days have a common way of happening, the convicted already knows the family and either has been in their home or know them pretty well. This isn't the first time that Berkson's done something like this so a proper punishment should serve sometime in jail and away from society with some medical attention to help him get better. The parents of children should also beware of who they are befriending and watch out for suspicious activity if they are too attached to your child or getting to close to your child then they are supposed to, becasue that is how it all starts the first job of these molestors is to befriend the parents and then move to their children.

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Over 1700 Taliban Give up arms

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Agence-France-Presse May 20, 2011

 

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On thursday it was announced that more than 1700 talibans have given up arms and joined the reintegration program, a program started by NATO a year ago. British Major General Phil Johns, is  the director of the Force Reintegration Cell of the International Security Assistance Force said that a total number 1740 former taliban have joined the reintegration and the peace council is in negotiation with 40 to 45 more groups across the country. This program helps taliban members break from the path of violence, break all ties and live peacely under the Afghan constitution. The Afghan revolt is mostly composed of Taliban men, and the total number is around 25,000 men. The members that have put down their arms usually join the program with their Taliban chief and these are life changing decisions to give up the life of violence, and hatred and start a new peaceful life. The program is financed by the international community  coming to a toal of $141 million with $58 million coming from the United States of America, and in 2012 the U.S. plans to contribute $12 billion to build the Afghan army. When asked that if the death of Osama Bin Laden have anything to do with people putting down their arms and they arent sure that his death had that big of an impact on people joining the program.

 

I believe that the U.S is not building a army for Afghanistan but a U.S. unit in the east. The United States are helping build this country from the bottom up and they wont expect anything ni return? They will come to collect and they will collect big, Afghanistan will turn in to a nation under the United States, U.S will become the mother country of Afghanistan now they are trying to build it from scratch again and turn it into a peaceful country.

 

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Olympic Village sales rising

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NEAL HALL, VANCOUVER SUN: Thursday, May 19, 2011

 

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The financial health of the Olympic Village is improving as of Monday the occupany is 60 percent and has also determined that by July 31 the occupancy level will rise to 70 percent. It is also reported that 124 units have been sold at a price of $84 million dollars. In March when the condos went up for sale again they sold roughly 100 out of the 700 they had, but they had to reduce the price by 30 percent, there were alot of complaint of defiency's, people were getting less then they had been promised and there are lawsuits in progress against the city. While there are many cases in progress the reports stated that the Village's defiencies have been resolve as of May 5. There were big problems with the condo's as there water system had problems and other things such as major appliances were missing.

 

I believe that the city is just trying to get rid of this as soon as possible. They have realized they arent going to make as much money they had thought and there might not be a profit at all. Since you would think that people would he heads over heels to live in an apartment in which an olympian had stayed in and actually live there, its like buying a house that was previously owned by a celebrity.  The thing that the city is most worried about is returning the $740 million dollars it owes the taxpayers. The current number of people suing are 60 condo owners and how i would solve this problem is just fix the problems they have with their apartments whether its the water system or there roof is leaking you are going to make more money selling the condo and giing them a proper working water system is implied, nobody takes a shower when checking out the house.

 

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Racial profiling by Montreal police!

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Anne Sutherland, Postmedia News: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:02 PM

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Marcus Gordon filed a complaint with the Quebec Human Rights Commission (QHRC) claiming he was singled out as a gang member because of his racial profiling. Gordon happened to take a video of the incident and in this video you can see the cop cars that have decals of anti gang squad and Gordon 27 with his girlfriend was returning from a memorial concert in Montreal. Gordon claims to be targeted because of being black, having dreadlocks, baggy jeans and wearing a baseball cap, there was a shooting two blocks away from Gordon's house that still is unsloved and the police are still investigating Gordon also claims that people behind were jaywalking and didnt receive a ticket. The Montreal police denies racial profiling becuase they say that the officer handed out a total of five tickets two to black men and two to white men also one to Gordon's girlfriend who happens to be white.

This is just another incident in which the police have been found to abuse their power. The truth is still not known of what happened that night but if you look around Canada there are a lot of incidents occuring in which the law enforcement in known to be abusing their power. The media might be adding a couple of thing and rephrasing to make the story more juicy and more appealing to the readers. On the other hands Gordon must have written a complaint because some words were exchanged or expressions between Gordon and the officers. So I believe that there was something that the officers did and they may have been racial profiling, but like all the other dozen times they will get away with it.

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Surrey man related with 15 sex offences!

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By Kevin Diakiw - Surrey North Delta Leader
Published: May 17, 2011 10:00 AM
Updated: May 17, 2011 11:47 AM

46 year old James Cardno was areested for connections with 15 sex offences, with 6 of them being under 16 has been released and now is in the Fraser Heights area. Cardno was charges with 8 offences in March, but more people came forward after that, it is believed that he commited the offences by King George Boulevard and 96 Avenue in the Fraser Heights area.The charges that have been laid on him inlcude two counts of sexual interference, sexual exploitation, and one count of sexual touching and also have been charged with making and possessing child pornography. The police do have pictures of him being in contact with others but they havent been identified and it is believed that Cardno would check out the children by first making friends with their parents, his next appearence in court will be on June 9 2011, until then he resides in Fraser Heights and the mounties are asking the publice to come forth with any info they have or if there children were approached.

I believe that it isnt a good idea to keep him Fraser Heights, it isnt secure for the residents of that area or him. To place him in an area where he has been charged of commiting a crime puts the publics and his security at risk. Many people do thing when they are overcome with rage and they may do something that they regret such as taking the law in their own hands because none of accusations have been proven in court so many may be upset because of that.

Donald Trump not running for presidency !

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By Sheldon Alberts, Postmedia News May 16, 2011 5:44 PM

 

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Donald Trump the multimillionaire was just messing with Americans. On Monday May 16 2011 Donald Trump declared that he will not run for office in 2012. But his confidence still remains Trump claims that if he had run for office he would have won but has decided not to, this news wasnt broadcasted it was just a written letter to the Republic party saying he will not run. Trump got alot of attention when he questioned whether Obama had a valid birth certificate proving he was born in America, Obama replied with a long letter copy with a copy of his birth cetificate and after event Trump's popularity fell 26% down to 8%. There are also many that say this was just a way to get his NBC show The Apprentice some publicity since there is a season finale on May 22. The Apprentice is a long series running show and Trump is looking to renew the series with NBC. Political Science professors say the biggest trick that he had up his sleeve was the "birther" card which Obama triumphed over and now has lost poularity, and never really had any intention of running it was just a stunt to gain popularity for his show and it may have showed he had any interest if he talked about things that actually mattered. Now with Trump gone the republicans are now looking for a strong candidate for the presidential bid.

 

I seem to agree that Trump never took running for presidency serious. I didnt see his involvement in bringing forth topics that are important, and taking that "cheap" shot at Obama by questioning his citizenship. If that card had worked Trump would still be running for presidency but Obama was the one who had the last laugh and following Obama's reply Trump fell in the standings and now is backing out. But Trump claims if he was still running he would have won and Trump has never been wrong about ANYTHING. So as Trump has backed out of presidency bid the republics are looking for a strong contendor.

 

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