Hey Mayor!!!!!! The Toronto Police would like a raise? Apparently they are being ignored. You wouldn't do that, would you?

Aw, Toronto, the land of the brave - my home town, that has grown, especially the crime. Why on earth would our police want a raise? I mean really? Why would the Mayor ignore them? But, that is me. What do I know about running a city? I am not a politician. I am just one of many others, who call Toronto home. After all everyone has an opinion. Now let's get back to Toronto Police who want a raise and perhaps some other benefits. The Police Chief reported that this year 550 Officers were hurt. Is that all? I believe it is their Association head telling us that Police are leaving Toronto and that other neighbouring Police Forces are getting 5000. more. Boy, I was sure that in the past, Toronto Police was the best paid - what happened? I am not going to talk too much today about this, but I do want to say that there is rarely a weekend, I don't hear gun shots and I never report it because I want to protect our Police. They do so much with so little appreciation. I have always lived in Toronto unless my work took me elsewhere and my work certainly did that. Retiring here in my third career has certainly been an eye opener. I have seen crime rise in the city and the news excusing it, reporting that it is good compared to other places in the world. Well, I don't live in those other countries, I live here. I believe that the majority of Torontonians are great people. We are a diverse city, rich in both tradition and newcomers. We are friendly and love everything the city offers. We do have a criminal element but I believe that they are the minority and with a few changes in the law, we can surely get that in control. We need to support our Police. Olivia Chow prove me wrong. Give the Police the raise and resources they desparately need. Do a happy dance for them please and at least show them that you may care. After all they keep you safe too.

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RCMP Cadet Mental Health by Dr Nick Carleton, Psychologist

I just attended this EHN hour lecture and found it very useful for all police and emergency personnel. I will be getting the video and posting it here. I do hope that all emergency response persons watch it. There are about 13 emergency response persons to each 1500 Canadians. Keep in mind that the 13 is across the board. One may be a fire fighter, another a paramedic and etc..and so it is not a collective 13 of each such as 13 police. The one police officer and another firefighter is included as a separate number so that if you have one police officer responding, you now have 12 others which includes all job responses. It is obvious to me in Toronto that we don't have enough police and that is what is needed for their personal wellness. Dr Carleton reported that more personnel is required. There is a demand do more and more, with less. Since I will be posting the video here as soon as I get it, I won't go much further. I will give you some resources however for the study and resources. University of Regina. Sleep 101 Tablet; Suicide fact sheet; health promotion and chronic diseases in Canadian Journal. RCMP Study; self monitoring, www.rcmpstudy.ca www.saskptsisstudy.ca Of course I am behind due to the leg thing. I have another video that was sent to me by York University because I had to cancel a seminar which is about PTSD. Once I have the opportunity to watch it I will also post it here. I know that people read my blog worldwide. This will also apply to all of you. I will have to miss the conference with the American Association of Famly Therapy this year because they are going live at Disney World. Can you believe it? My favourity place in the world and I can't go. I am still on crutches and I can't travel because Mr Attitude is still alive. I could have mixed work and play, but the timing is not right. Yesterday I went to city hall in my area for the proof that I paid my taxes for revenue Canada and I decided to sit in and watch the Justice of the Peace in action. Of course my crutches set off the alarm and my purse contents are now all over the place but it was interesting and it actually felt like home. I have been in a few courts in my day but I never saw anything as small as this. It was cute. Now I did try to send off the proof today on line to Revenue Canada but of course I can't remember who my favourite history character is and I think I spelled my favourite author's name wrong so now I probably have to find a different route so it appears I may have to ask for an extension which I wasn't able to do because there was a 30 minute to 60 minute wait. Really? Really? Come on people, hire more!!!!!I will have to try to get this sorted tomorrow. So have a good day; have a good weekend. And please, please, if you are an emergency response person keep a look out for the video. Good talk.

OAMFT DISSOLUTION

I just attended the meeting to vote and it was passed. The Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapy is an organization I joined as a student and will be sorry to have it gone. Due to decreasing membership through out the years and lack of volunteers for Executive positions it had no choice. A scholarship will be set up with the American Association of Couple and Family Therapy for students from Ontario. There will be one final Annual General Meeting Oct 5, 24 at Tyndal College where all members and previous members and executives may attend. Of course I will be there with or without crutches. We will all be getting our invitations tomorrow. I will be able to catch up with previous students, colleagues etc....and saying goodbye to OAMFT is going to be difficult. We are also going to have a speaker and the topic is Organizational and Personal Goodbyes. I do volunteer for one organization for many years and due to my injury am paused as Eucharistic Minister due to the stairs at the altar. The calf is healing, however now the muscle by the knee is painful and after that heals, I should be good. I may just give up the gym. When Mr Attitude dies, I shall be focusing on condo's. I just bought a St Margaret lottery to see if I can win the condo by the waterfront. Yeah right! Oh guess what? Revenue Canada has once again reached out to me to prove that I paid my property taxes. I wish Revenue Canada was a lottery. They keep telling me I am randomly selected each year. It took 30 minutes to get 611 to disconnect me after such a wait. After another 30 minutes I finally got a woman with a sense of humour. I was the only person who paid my taxes who was calling. I complained due to the wait time and I did get a call about that. I suggested that perhaps the city should not send out notices to the entire city at the same time so the wait is not as long. They thought that was a good idea. Should I send them a bill? I am not going to be able to hop along my city hall to have the stamp and receipt Reveue Canada wants right now. However, Revenue Canada informed me I could ask for an extension. I am hoping to have more energy next week. For now, I am trying to get physio twice a week to expedite my healing. Should I try swimming? Yup, I tried to suspend my gym membership while I heal but they want a doctor's note. Can you believe that? Just to suspend? I won't be doing that unless my doctor calls me in because he is obviously overworked and I am not going to ask for something a high school student may need. So, have a good weekend you all!!!!! If you want to read one of my books, make it an ebook please at https://www.silvaredigonda.ca Later.

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