John (St. Catharines,Ont), 1 month ago

Our NDP MP is going on about porouging parliament. Obviously he is not aware that 17 Prime Ministers have done in over 140 times. Even former NDP Premier Bob Rae did it 3 times. But he said it was different. I called Malcom Allen's office to talk to him about his lack of knowledge on Canadian history but, his office was closed for the day! Porouged?

Jane Buick (Port Colborne,Ontario), 1 month ago

Here we are in the year for another municipal election. And on the front page of the Standard on January 27, we have a young man concerned with the need for a regional transit system and the MAYOR of St. Catharines worried about whether St. Catharines is mentioned on the latest monopoly game. Regional transit was spearheaded by the then-Mayor Rigby and here we are how many years later, with a Mayor worried about his Monopoly game or whether NRP will take their 6 buildings outside the city limits or not. Is there anyone who wants to work out there or is St. Catharines going to be stuck with another mayor who just wants to play games?

J (St. Catharines,Ontario), 1 month ago

The coverage of Haiti's crisis has not shown the work up close of our Canadian Forces. Our military should be applauded for the fast and great work. It is even more impressive because of their new resources and their leaders. Within a couple of hours the commanders of the military were preparing. Add to that the new heavy lift C17's that allowed them to get alot of equipment there fast. Let us not forget the tsunami which took the Martin government two weeks to respond. Let us also remember the liberals led by Denis Cordere opposed the C17 purchase. The same planes used to bring Canadians home. Give the military the resources and the task and they will
get it done.

Paul K. (Port Robinson,ON), 1 month ago

John of St.Catharines

You have every right to expect more from your government. Problem is that they listen to the "special interest groups" before they listen to you. And those special interests tend to be lefties who are well organized and know how to lobby government. They like you to foot the bill emotionally and financially for their pet projects. There are hundreds of special interests that receive funding in Canada. Perhaps people such as yourself should be given priority status John. But unfortunetly you're probably not a criminal, terrorist, or a security threat. So you must take a number and suck it up. My sympathies.

John (St. Catharines,Ontario), 1 month ago

The Liberals have begun a series of ads critisizing the Tories over closing parliament. As an unemployed over 50 worker I want my politicians working to help me. The problem is the Liberals are more concerned about terrorist prisoners than Canadians. These are the same liberals that spent money on a snap election to outdo Stockwell Day, they canceled a Somali inquiry while dismantling the proud airborne yet they want an inquiry about the prisoners. The liberals found half a billion for Tsunami relief and fifty million for Pakistans earthquake yet Canadians and their infrastructure got nothing. When the politicians get back to work lets put Canada FIRST! To heck with the Taliban!

jay (st. catharines,ontario), 2 months ago

Oh joy to the world. The same bunch of incompetent councillors and Brian McMullan are running again.

jay (st. catharines,ont), 2 months ago

My 2010 wish for the year is that the mayor and council never ever run for public office again.

Linda Randall (St Catharines,Ontario), 2 months ago

http://twitter.com//submit?phase=2&url=http://stcatharinesstandard.ca/Blogs/ViewCommunityPage.aspx%3fBlogID%3d5862%26amp;title%3dBlog+Entry

Has anyone checked the twitter link lately?

I wanted to tweet my blog and this is what I got?

Is this from a hacker, or are we supposed to follow this dude to post our blogs from the standard onto twitter?

Confused!

Irish Hammer (Niagara Falls,Ontario), 2 months ago

I think it's a good thing Maggie DeVries can portray the "other" side of the life of a sex trade worker and drug addicts. The average citizen needs to understand what causes their houses to be entered, and their property stolen.

I agree on some fronts regarding these girls. I agree it’s a bad life for them.
I agree they need to get out of the life style.
I agree that lifestyle often results because someone has been damaged early in life and can’t cope.

However.....I strongly disagree that with the generalizations that law enforcement is "loathe" to solve the cases of missing sex trade workers, and only react when there is pressure to do so. I have seen the efforts and lengths the local police have taken when one of the local girls has wound up killed.

Maybe Ms. DeVries should look at the bigger picture, especially if she is traveling around talking about the subject.

The laws are not aimed at deterring the behavior. The political climate in British Columbia is very "huggy feely". Heroin use is tolerated and hardly a criminal act in BC. Maybe the focus that police have a "loathe" attitude identifies the attitude by the entire spectrum of society in BC.

You are also comparing apples and oranges when you start comparing the Bernardo murders to Picton's serial prostitute murders.

If you have any ideas on how to solve the crimes of missing persons when they are not noticed to be missing for a week, are transient in nature, witnesses have strong reliability because drug addiction aids the brain's ability to recall and describe events, and never use their real names....please, come forward.

Thanks for articulating the experience you went through, but there is a larger issue at hand.

Thomas (St Catharines,ON), 3 months ago

The old no-train whistle policy to go into effect in St Catharines too? Gee, thought that was just to satisfy the spoiled Barrie MP that the Go-train was silenced..