Fraud Seminar in case your are interested. This is with the Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario

On June 29th, EAPO will be hosting a webinar, "FIGHT FRAUD" presented by the Ontario Provincial Police - Community Safety Services and Serious Fraud Office. The focus of the FIGHT FRAUD presentation is to promote fraud prevention through community engagement and public education; build awareness of frauds that threaten the safety and security of Ontario seniors; and to educate Ontario seniors to recognize, reject and report fraud. One of the important messages of the presentation is to slow down—to take time to think about a demand for money or personal information before complying. The presentation highlights a campaign from the United Kingdom called Take Five which also promotes this message. In addition to the Take Five strategy, the presentation will cover specific fraud scams that are most common, specifically: romance fraud, emergency fraud, CRA fraud, bank investigator fraud and spoofing. Be sure to register today to reserve your spot! #FightFraud Register Today! The best way for everyone to avoid becoming a victim of fraud and scams is to  be alert, aware and informed. FRAUDS AND SCAMS - RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre If you suspect or are experiencing a fraud/scam, re port it. 1-888-495-8501 Competition Bureau File a complaint about a false or misleading advertising 1-800-348-5358 Crime Stoppers Report crimes anonymously. 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) For more information: Better Business Bureau Canada Revenue Agency Competition Bureau of Canada Consumer Protection Ontario Government of Canada  Seniors Guidebook to Safety and Security - RCMP Little Black Book of Scams SCAM ICON.png

Ethical Reflection on Pastoral Practice (Theology- RC) notes

The learning and teaching - Church person Jesus: Life in the spirit. Humane Vitae - issues concerning birth control. Majority report- there is no theological problem changing view of birth control. Minority report - very conclusive. Accepted not specifically on birth control but if the church teaching could change - it would be comparable to be error in other cases.This would alter the authority of the Church, and accepted with a lot of stress. Jesuit said the Church had no business in the bedroom. What happened was the Canadian Bishops put in a conscious clause, what married people could do. Informed decision: Role of Authority - Physician - treatment proposal. Potential benefits in partial solution. Potential risks. Apostolic mandate - Jesus said he would not leave us. Peter, rock of the Church comes from scripture. Lumen Gentuim, n.4, speaks of the role of Bishops in the Church. Note 37 - The laity should disclose their needs etc…should tell Pastor regarding what is good for the Church. People may be duty bound to speak about to Bishops. Vatican 1 did not meet criteria for infallibility. Controversial questions were raised. Sensus fidei - baptized person has a sense of faith when collectively understood - sensus fidelirum. Prayer - sense devine presence. Next theology notes continues with Care for those who are dying. End of Life Issues

Word On The Street was a success!

Word On The Street was a success. I sold more books than ever. It was also exciting seeing familiar faces returning and new bushy tails approaching as well. We were back at Queens Park and though two days are rather long, it was worth it. During my first day, I was surprised at how many books I sold because there were 200 authors. I wasn’t sure if it was the location, my sunny disposition, or merely the sun welcoming all book enthusiasts back. During my second day it was more like other events which again matched the weather, but not with the abundance of rain that had been forecasted. I was asked if I had a newsletter and then it hit me. I am not up to date with what I should be doing as a writer. I recently read from a book where the author has a movie series that writing is the easy part and then there is the business side of the house. She thanked her agents and publishers etc……..I have completed writing my fourth book and I need to get it out by next year. That is the business side of the house. I need to contemplate if I should seriously consider having an agent, a traditional publisher or continue in my comfort zone with self-publishing which provides me with all my rights to my work but also suffers at the selling portion because aside from writing my blogs which I scatter here and there I am also conscious that I do not do enough. Joining Sisters of Crime has really opened my eyes to the business side of the house which also includes an abundance of scams. Writers are very generous with sharing information. It’s great company to be among people who wish others success and want to help them get it. Virginia Woolf said that to write you need a room of your own. I don’t remember her saying anything about the business portion. COVID hit us hard and I could see it with the general public. They have and some are still suffering. I am already thinking of my next book after this one. I want to keep thinking until this one is finalized, because I don’t want to disturb the flow. I still have one in the making in memory of a friend of mine who died from cancer and wanted me to write about two older women in a comic murder mystery. I am not there in my mindset. I have to get a bit older and perhaps after the next book, I shall finally do her justice. When someone is dying and they ask you to write something, well you simply do it but I want to also do it justice, so Anne Marie Mair please be patient with me. I shall write it in your memory. I have met so many aspiring writers and my advice is always the same. Write…….just write and keep writing. Don’t stop, go to jail or otherwise…..just keep writing. I shall begin to share the writing portion as well as I learn it. As I figure it out, I shall share. After all are not many of us diamonds in the rough? For every person who has bought any of my books, I wish to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Here is the Exhibitor Listings for the Weekend. Note me Silva Redigonda at E24A

Exhibitor Listings A.J. Vrana E21b ABC Bookstore W15 Afro 101 E25b Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing E17 Annick Press N01 Another Story Bookshop N05 Arc Poetry Magazine E16b Bakka Phoenix Books E11 Book*hug Press W06 Brick Books W09b Brick, A Literary Journal E14a Broken Pencil: Magazine of Zine Culture and the Independent Arts E14b Canadian Children’s Book Centre W20 Children’s Book Bank W17 Christina Strigas W05a Coach House Books W08 Colour Happy E24b colour their world E27b Cormorant Books E06 Darrell Epp E19a Doodle Paw Press KS2a Dundurn Press E08 East Within West E18a ECW Press N01 EDGEUKID KS6 Elgin House Press E22b Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore KS5 Exile Editions / Exile Quarterly E04 Eye of Newt Books E19b First Book Canada W21 Flamingo Rampant KS8a Frontier College W16 Get Outside KS2b Glissade Productions W04b Happily Ever After Books E05a HarperCollins Canada E01 House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books W10 Humber Literary Review E13b Immigrant Writers Association W02b Inkblot Press E03a International Dyslexia Association Ontario KS7 Invisible Publishing W09a Jeff Cottrill E21a Judy Cook E26a La Marelle Bleue KS8b Latitude 46 Publishing E07b Literary Press Group of Canada E09 Maisonneuve E15b Mansfield Press W12b Maple Leaf Publishing Inc W14 Mesdames of Mayhem W02a My Best Life Books KS9a Ontario Teachers’ Federation KS4 OWLKIDS KS1 Pandora Skyes W05b Penguin Random House Canada N03 Phyllis Bordo Books E27a Poniard Press E23b Porcupine’s Quill E07a Press Pause TO E03b Pulp Literature Press E15a Queen Books W11 Rachel Greening Writes E25a Read Between The Vines E20b Renaissance Press E10b Renat’s Left Hand E20a Ripple Foundation W18 ROM N04b Russell Brooks E23a Second Story Press KS3 Serenade Jewels and Accessories E02b Sheridan College W03a Silva Redigonda E24a Simon & Schuster N06 Snookbooks W13 Stelliform Press E10a Story Planet W19 The FOLD (Festival of Literary Diversity) N04a The New Quarterly E13a The Queensway W04a The Walrus E12 TO Comix Press E18b Toronto Public Library Workers Union Local 4948 KS4 Toronto Romance Writers E05b Vallum Society for Education in Arts and Letters E16a West End Phoenix W01 Willie Handler E22a Wolsak and Wynn Publishers W07 Write Bloody North W12a Zelpha Comics E02a Zenia Wadhwani E26b Food Vendors 169 Juice Fleets Coffee Truck Happy Twist Mis Amigos Mr Cool Ice Cream Ontario Corn Roasters Fried Chinese Buns The Hungry Moon (Saturday only!) The Ultimate Food Truck Yinhe Canada Plus the Muskoka Brewery beer garden! open-book unnamed(1) West End Phoenix ciut govt-canada govt-ontario City of Toronto canada-council-arts ontario_arts_council toronto-arts-council Ontario Cultural Attactions Fund Ontario Trillium Foundation logo Fondation Trillium de l'Ontario ontario-creates Toronto Star diaspora-dialogues Toronto Metropolitan University The Chang School of Continuing Education University of King's College - Halifax Sheridan

Hey Guy Buy Me - selling for five bucks you say? On sale forever.............Did not make me rich after all....Why?????? Word on the Street, Sat % Sun (11&12 Jun 22) www.silvaredigonda.ca

Preface Ok, I should not call you an idiot. I am sorry. Am I really sorry? Let me think…. (Thinking)…..Nope... but I am going to help you. We are going to develop an honest relationship. I am going to help you learn how to talk to women without making a complete fool of yourself. Now I am the teacher and you are the student. I am a woman and you are (well I don’t know who you are, do I?) ..Hopefully, you are a guy who bought my book, not to make me rich, but to make yourself rich….No, not with money (not for you, for me? Maybe….if enough of you exist and buy my book……who knows?) You will acquire the ability to talk to women without blowing it constantly. I know a lot of you exist but I don’t know if you are brave enough to buy my comments. I am not going to be sensitive about this. Ok I am going to try, so I am not going to call you an idiot, geek, etc…. You may pay for my tuition, so I can learn more about how to help you. Perhaps I can become more sensitive so I don’t hurt your feelings……Let’s get real! You should buy this book if girls (women) scare you. You should buy this book if you need four beers before you can talk to a girl (woman). You should buy this book if you want to learn from the Master. Actually I don’t have my Master’s yet…..Will a Bachelor of Arts do??????? I hope I don’t traumatize you, but maybe you need a little wake up. Well, enough chatter. Let’s get on with it. (Come and see me at my booth rain or shine or snow E24A.)

For Love Of Country - Military Policewoman continues (Word on The Street, booth E24A, this weekend - Toronto)

“All Military Police of Land Force Command are joining their thoughts in wishing good luck and farewell to MCpl Silva Redigonda on her announced retirement following completion of twenty years of loyal and dedicated service to the Canadian Forces and the Security Branch. It is always with great regret that we say goodbye to a highly professional and dedicated Military Policewoman. Hopefully we can stay in touch through the Canadian Military Police Association. The army wishes you, Silva, all the best in future endeavours whatever you choose to do. Have a nice mess dinner, good health and God speed. LCol Smith, Provost Marshall, Land Force Command Headquarters LCol Smith, a long way from the school… memories… . I looked at my two friends, Sandy and Rebecca, at a table at the far end of the room. I had only one other close friend, Chris, and he was unable to attend due to school exams. If I had told him about my retirement party, nothing would have kept him away, but his exams were too important for me to allow that to happen. I did not realize that Rebecca too had an exam the following day. Sandy and Rebecca appeared to be having a good time. Sandy loved parties and people, but for Rebecca, any function was a chore to be endured. Baby Sergeant was entertaining them. Once everyone had been seated, Bill and Baby Sergeant joined my two friends. It reminded me of high school dances where the boys would grin and move in for the kill. Silva, upon learning of your pending retirement from the Canadian Forces I had to stop and reflect at how old I am getting, since our days together in Germany. I remember many of the firsts within the trade which you were involved in: One of the first women in the Military Police, one of the first female Military Police in Europe and one of the first female Military Police with the Multinational Forces and Observers. Having survived Toronto for so long, I have no doubt that you will do well in retirement. MWO J. Williams The first in Europe… the first in the Middle East… not the first Military Policewoman… . We had been in for about a year already. Oh, Jim. You wanted to come up for a weekend and I was so busy with things to do; I must remember to call you.” Excerpt From: Silva Redigonda. “For love of country : military policewoman.” Apple Books.

The Internet Murders continues www.silvaredigonda.ca

“There’s a coffee shop right across the street from the victim. It was closed.” Robert appeared deep in thought as he spoke. “They have cameras inside, but one faces the cash register and the two others are both facing inward. No one thought of having a camera face outward?” Paul responded. “Well, maybe the neighbours don’t like having their lives on camera? People want their privacy, not some peep show clown looking at them.” Robert didn’t really hear Paul. He was still talking. “What if the guy didn’t slip? What if he stopped his car and walked to pick up coffees and then saw something that got him killed?” “Well!” Paul perked up. “Now that doesn’t make sense at all, Robert. Why would the guy park a few blocks away to pick up a coffee? Why wouldn’t he just park at the donut shop, get his coffee and go? That doesn’t make sense at all Robert.” Paul was pleased with himself. Robert was not so smart after all. Robert continued to speak to himself aloud. “Why would he park two blocks away?” *** Excerpt From: Silva Redigonda. “The Internet Murders.” Apple Books.