[Mb-civic] crytal meth, my apologies

[Harold Sifton]

I should have said North America has issues, not just America. Since the CBC article was about Canadian issues with Crystal Meth.

But when I came across the 2002 incarceration stats in America and the growth of gangs and I just got going, my apologies.

Cheeseburger, I will work harder at/with my thinking and writings.

Gangs are not just in the slums and urban centres, they are in corporations, political circles and governments, small towns, pretty much everywhere and the trickle down effect is devastating to all communities. (The republican party is being run by a gang of neo-cons)

There has been a rash of shootings and deaths (turf wars) in Toronto, and the community workers are saying it is the lack of jobs and the fact that the kids who are expelled from school have no where to go except the street..........The problem is universal ......... not just American.

Now Lyle, Canada did "not" support or participate the invasion of Iraq and Canada has paid dearly for it. (trade sanctions, abuse by American Medias, i.e. Fox Network, etc)  ( Canada is now helping only in the training of Iraqi Police Cadets at an academy in Jordon )

Canada however did get involved in Afghanistan and is still there.

The Mad Cow thing is a mess, every one is pointing fingers. Canada exports more cattle than it imports and the one Mad Cow found in Canada has all but destroyed the industry. Very little "American" USDA beef, processed or not is imported into Canada so it is minimal the risk of importing Mad cow from America. I do not know the stats on live cattle trade for breeding. The Canadian Department of Agriculture and Canada Health have implemented new rules and testing procedures that are now the strictest in the world.

As`far as the neutering thing, I have no knowledge, please forward me some history, for that kind of behaviour is repugnant.

Later, Harry

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