This blog is dedicated to those amazing enduring women who are being brutalized and tortured, humiliated and taken advantage of, every single day all over the world. Yet, these women find a way to survive, to live and perhaps live long enough to tell their stories. In India, the country where I’m from, we often hear young girls getting raped or treated badly by men. In Afghanistan and other countries, women have suffered though a male dominated hypocritical society where major crimes committed by men get unnoticed whereas women have been known to get tortured for committing even minor offences, often in response to self defence or for survival. United…
A perspective on extra school tax
Here’s a very well thought out comment from one of the articles in the media : Seniors and changing times. It seems that we all feel that Seniors are hard done by. It is certainly true that Seniors in the previous generation, especially those who were born in the early part of the 20th century, went through a period where people lost everything and they had to build from nothing. My grandparents, on both sides, lived good lives, had good jobs, yet retired quite poor, with little in home equity and little in the way of any income – such as OAS or CPP. This was very common, especially until…
Face of hypocrisy in Vancouver
These and similar signs went up in various locations around Vancouver following NDP’s announcement of the extra school tax on homes which are worth more than 3 million. Now there are several things just wrong with this banner not to say people who oppose the school tax on these grounds are just being hypocritical, selfish and entitled. This banner is so wrong in so many ways that honestly I’m dumbfounded. The extraordinary land values in Vancouver today were not earned by “hard work”. In fact, as a recent report suggest, these extra ordinary land values were generated by low property tax rate relative to the house assessment value (this reducing…