Opinion
Question; “Is City Council’s inconsistency a sign of preferential treatments?”
A developer was denied a development, in Deer Park, because 15 people submitted concerns about an increase of traffic (18 cars) from 39 Street. There were concerns that if the development went to residences you might see 15 more cars in the area.
7 streets south is 32 Street, and the city is talking about increasing traffic by the thousands. I am talking about the city not extending Molly Bannister and making 32 Street 6 lanes. Submissions were submitted from almost 1800 people with the majority supporting the extension, and not increasing 32 Street into 6 lanes, and not increasing traffic by the thousands on 32 Street.
7 blocks apart, same Deer Park neighbourhood, 2 different developers, and 2 different trains of thought.
When considering 32 Street you heard condescending remarks, about it not being even close to Edmonton traffic, or the Deerfoot Trail.
When considering 39 Street, they talked about an accident, years ago and the intrusion of 18 cars on a neighbourhood.
The city’s politicians are considering restricting traffic flow by removing the Molly Bannister Extension even though the majority disagrees and their own planners recommend the Molly Bannister Extension.
There have been some discussions about this hypocrisy of city council, some using adjectives like erratic, weak, fearful, out-of-date, inconsistent and words about preferential treatment.
The downtown was brought up in this denial of development along 39 Street, but that point was mute when the developer announced he would thus move to the county.
The environmental corridor was mentioned in the supporting of expanding 32 Street, but that point is mute because the increasing traffic on 32 Street severs access to the northern sections by animals.
Staying with the environment, building 50 houses backing onto Piper Creek would restrict wildlife movement, and the lawns and non-native plants of homes would affect the environment along with all the fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides used on household landscapes.
I was asked if I thought the city would ever grow again or continue on this road of stagnation and decline. We worry so much about the downtown that we lose opportunities, business and growth.
We spend big money on experts but ignore it often for superficial and out-dated rationale.
1 development proposal denied because of 15 opposing submissions but another development proposal may be approved despite a 1,000 opposing submissions.
No inconsistency here? Must be the developer?
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Peckford: The legality and morality of our country are no longer aligned
From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy
“Our legal system may find me/us guilty, but the legality and morality of our country are no longer aligned.”
This is a part of the statement by Marco Huigenbos of the Coutts three after being found guilty of mischief for behaviour at the Alberta border during the Covid protests.
The “Coutts Three,” Marco Van Huigenbos, Alex Van Herk and George Janzen
Mr. Huigenbos hits the nail squarely on the head – – –
This country through its so called legal system has ignored the Charter of Rights and Freedoms opening words —‘Whereas Canada is founded on principles that recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law ‘ and abused Section 1 of this same Charter by violating ‘ demonstrably justify’ and in ‘a free and democratic society ‘ and hence no longer has the decency or respect towards its people that is characteristic of a democratic nation.
Thousands have been injured and many hundreds dead as a result of Governments’ mandates and lockdowns and blatant coercion and lies to use experimental health damaging vaccines. Peoples’ rights and freedoms have been trampled on and our Constitution destroyed.
These Coutts men are to be lauded for their courage, their faith and their tenacity in the face of the country’s leadership, at all levels, that has lost its way.
This present leadership political, judicial in our country, at federal, provincial and municipal levels have abused the efforts our early 19th century reformers who were fighting for our rights and freedoms and have insulted all those who fought for our country’s freedom in the great wars.
Mr. Huigenbos’s wisdom shines forth today.
The Honourable A. Brian Peckford P.C. is the last living First Minister who helped craft the Canadian Charter of Rights
Opinion
Transgender ideology has enabled people to ‘identify’ as amputees
Jørund ‘Viktoria’ Alme, a Norwegian man who believes he is a paralyzed woman
From LifeSiteNews
Those who challenge the view that a person can identify as an amputee despite being healthy must also challenge the assertion that one can simply identify as the opposite sex.
Almost ten years ago, I wrote a column in this space on the phenomenon of the so-called “transabled” – people who identify as amputees or suffer from a mental illness that causes them to loathe one of their healthy limbs. In 2022, a high-profile (alleged) example of this emerged when a 53-year-old healthy, non-disabled Norwegian man began identifying as a woman paralyzed from the waist down and took to a wheelchair to give media interviews.
Those who found his claims to be somewhat suspect were in a bit of a bind – which of his assertions, after all, is more ridiculous – that he is a woman, or that he is paralyzed? Our culture has accepted that he can claim to be a woman, and that we must all nod solemnly in response. “How brave of her,” we must all say in unison as his loyal wife pushes him away from the cameras in his wheelchair. “No, not the wife. The other one.”
A grimmer but no less disturbing profile was published recently by the National Post titled “Quebec man has two healthy fingers amputated to relieve ‘body integrity dysphoria.’” It’s a sad story; the young man said he had “intrusive thoughts about his left hand’s fourth and fifth fingers, the sensation they weren’t his, that they didn’t belong to his body” since he was a child and would even have nightmares about them. He fantasized about cutting them off himself. From the Post:
Instead, a surgeon at his local hospital agreed to an elective amputation in what is being called the first described case of ‘digits amputation’ for body integrity dysphoria, or BID, a rare and complex condition characterized by an intense desire to amputate a perfectly healthy body part, such as an arm or a leg. The Quebec case involved an ambidextrous 20-year-old whose attempts at ‘non-invasive’ relief, including cognitive behavioural therapy, Prozac-like antidepressants and exposure therapy, only increased his distress.
What is significant about this case is the way it was described by Dr. Nadia Nadeau of the department of psychiatry at Université Laval in a case study published in the journal Clinical Case Reports. Nadeau describes the young man’s mental and emotional distress, and notes that this distress apparently ceased after the “elective amputation” and that “he was able to pursue the life he envisioned as a complete human being without those two fingers bothering him.” One month post surgery, he had no regrets.
The particularly significant conclusion came towards the end of the report. According to Nadeau: “He is now living a life free from distressing preoccupations about his fingers, with all his symptoms related to BID resolved. The amputation enabled him to live in alignment with his perceived identity.” This, of course, is precisely the argument used by transgender activists making the case for sex change surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers – that these “treatments” will help the recipient “live in alignment with his perceived identity.” Although they wouldn’t call it a “perceived” identity – they’d call it his real identity. This perceived identity, however, was considered real enough that a surgeon removed two of his fingers.
The justifications for these “treatments” that include bodily mutilation are similar, as well. The Post noted that “Nadeau’s patient, after doing some research, ‘related his condition to gender dysphoria’… People with BID often feel their physical body doesn’t align with the image of the body they have in their minds.”
Furthermore, although “cutting off healthy, functioning body parts for psychological distress raises ethical concerns, BID sufferers sometimes resort to self-mutilation or ‘black-market’ amputations, risking their lives.”
A similar argument is made for “transgender care”: if extreme medical intervention does make the mentally ill person’s body resemble the image of reality in their minds, they might harm themselves. That’s the catch-22, of course. Isn’t surgical mutilation also harm, by definition? Not if you redefine it – that’s why trans activists no longer refer to sex change surgeries, but “gender-affirming care.” According to Nadeau: “Recognizing and addressing the unique needs of (BID) patients can lead to a future where they can live with more dignity, respect and optimal well-being.”
Who can disagree with a campaign to increase understanding and dignity for the mentally ill? I wonder, however, what the limiting principle is here. If a young man who believes himself to be a woman can get himself legally castrated by a surgeon, why can’t a man who believes he is an amputee have a leg removed? Or an arm? If we have accepted that people’s self-perceptions are more important than actual reality, where does it stop?
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