Friday, September 10th, 2010
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Speeding through school zones is an ongoing and madening traffic issue in Toronto, Canada. Every year the police, accompanied by children stop speeders near their schools, but it seems nothing changes. Everyone agrees that speeding through a school zone in very dangerous for kids, but drivers are too self absorbed and arrogant to change their behaviour. Preventable.ca is running a small test in West Vancouver where they adhere a sticker of a child on the road. From far away the sticker looks like a little girl fetching a ball. This is to remind drivers in a school zone to pay attention to the road in order to keep kids safe. It is a small test, but well worth trying. I think preventable.ca for their effort in improving road safety for children in BC, but hope that they will also reach out to Toronto.
Tags: ball, BC, Canada, car, distraction, girl, image, inattentional blindness, Ontario, pedestrian, Preventable.ca, road, safety, school, school zone, speeding, Vancouver
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Robert Dziekanski holds a small table at the Vancouver Airport in this image from video. He was then killed by the RCMP.
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It comes as no surprise that the four RCMP officers that repeatedly tasered Polish visitor Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver Airport, Canada over two years ago were deemed negligent in oh so many ways. Unprepared, uncoordinated, tried to cover up and lied to a Canadian Royal Commission. At least the Commission came to the same conclusion of most other people who watched the video: The RCMP was clearly out of control.
Tags: Braidwood Inquiry, Canada, death, incompetence, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski, taser, Vancouver, violent
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
A picture is worth a thousand words. This everyday saying was proven true when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s national police force, shot and killed a newly arrived Polish immigrant at the Vancouver International Airport in October 2007.
Robert Dziekanski did not deserve to die a violent death by the RCMP
___Here is the intro from today’s Globe and Mail:
A bulletproof vest, handgun, baton and pepper spray were not enough to quell the fear RCMP Constable Kwesi Millington says he felt when confronted by Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski during a fatal October 2007 incident at Vancouver airport.
Tags: Canada, death, incompetence, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski, taser, Vancouver, violent
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