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1. DanM_2681
   
   I will donate 300 dollars to a charitable organization decided by members of the Jerry Agar’s listening group if this woman ever gets found guilty. If you ever hear of this case again anywhere that this woman has been in front of a judge and she has been found guilty remind me to walk to CFRB during Jerry Agar’s show and I will have a 300 dollars check in my hands to be deposited into an account of an organization so decided by Jerry Agar’s listeners. This system was so built to be so anti poor people, anti-blacks and anti-Natives to a level that I can raise such a bet today. I am in Toronto watching and listening to Jerry’s program just remind me to where you need the money. Some of us have lived under this duress all our lives way long to learn how this society functions.
   
   If you are poor, black, not conservative, grow up and shut up.
   
   EM
   Toronto

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2. Paul Alton
   
   It is you that really gets to my very poor nerve. The laws are structured to go after the poor the weak and blacks. This counselor by all standards is a conservative and in a The mayor’s camp, and let me state this today, this case is silly and it is not going to be heard from again for it Is going to be thrown out. Had this woman been black, the entire city would have gone all over her as a dirty shirt. Question yourself why Jerry Agar has not raised this issue today? And trust me I listened to him all day for I wanted to know how he will manipulate this one. Nope It never took place. A counselor drunk at a mayor’s function, did the mayor buy the drinks? Did he care to know who is drunk and not drunk let alone to know who can drive or not? Now imagine if a non-conservative counselor was arrested drunk, he would have declared city hall destroyed. Now this is what is frightening me as a black man in this city. The mayor has stated that she had a bad day……….” Well does this mayor know any black poor city dweller that has ever had a bad day and drove drunk? But when the mayor makes such a statement, when he is the overall manager, he pays the Police Officer that arrested, he pays the prosecutor, he pays the judge, he pays the guards, who can go after this woman? Enjoy this case for this is the last day you will ever hear about it. A couple of months ago there was a Police Officer arrested on DVP in a morning drunk and driving, can you tell me what happened to that case? No you cannot for it will never ever be heard from. And that is why it is so comforting to some of us from Africa that have lived in this city as long as I have, for we understand how democratic Iddi Amin was, for this is what he was doing, he protects his own people. In a civilized democratic society poor and black people with Natives get arrested for drunk driving, talk radio stations as CFRB go after them but if you’re rich and if you’re a conservative you are a free bird. Only that Iddi Amin failed to understand that serving in such autocratic system you have to talk and talk much by owning radio talk shows.
   
   It is the hypocrisy that gets to my silly nerve.
   
   EM
   Toronto

   posted to Local News: *UPDATE* Bailao Arrested For Impaired Driving
3. Island girl
   
   Who has access to them except TCHC?
   
   EM
   A Parent

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4. Richard Collins
   
   As parents that have fought this drugs issue in TCHC long enough we one-time decided to target a crack house. It was a very known crack house by TCHC by Police by city counselors and Greenwich that was managing the building. On seeing that they refused to go after it and close it, and we see the damage it does to our kids, we decided to target it. We started to make their lives unbearable for they are kids and we are parents. There are very many things that frustrated us to drop the entire issue, and I am not going to go into all of them for I have been accused of posting very long postings in the blog. One of the things that frustrated us the most on targeting it was that even the security guards of TCHC were getting their own supply from that crack house. I walked into TCHC and talked to an administrator that the security guards were also buying their supply from the very same safe house. She wobbled off her face and she went I am not going to believe that they also buy it. She stopped there and never wanted that discussion to continue. We dropped the issue. Richard, let me ask you a very simple direct question, where do Police Officers actually buy their crack supply? Now stand up and sell TCHC and we see what politician will ever support you. What gets to me is the hypocrisy of the Jerry Agar arm chair critics that go after the single mothers, the satellites on the TCHC buildings, the fathers that are very rightly absent, oh there is a very nice one, I don’t see myself as a parent and my son has a gun and I refuse to report him to Police. But they always and all of them never question how drugs come and remain into TCHC. And they bleat how they can shut off TCHC, who loses the most? The single mothers? No it is the users of the crack and it is not the black kids for black kids are simply suppliers. Stand up and shut it down and you will get my 5 bucks bait, for trust me it will never happen in our generation, TCHC is the best thing ever happened to Toronto, the kids that die that an accident just make sure it is not yours shot.
   
   Yes we all can bleat how blacks are a failure parents and how Africans bring crime in this city, but understanding the drug problem we have in Toronto takes a very different brain.
   
   EM
   A black parent

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5. Warren
   
   Very well put, yes we need searches and we need stricter laws on enforcement. Now let me put it to you as an African for I know both sides of the game. Even if you turn half the population into enforcement officers, you will never succeed in stopping the drug supply in this city until when the law is enforced fairly. This is a very good country and a very good developed society, but it has those that must never drive while reading a paper and those that can drive when reading a paper. And the reason the very good mayor gave is “I am a very busy man” So he is standing in Toronto as a very busy man and the rest of us that have got the tickets for driving when we are doing something else are bums. Now never ever delude yourself that the law can treat you with Rob Ford the same manner. At the rate he is going, this Mayor is going to kill a pedestrian or a biker on a Toronto street, and his charges will be thrown out of court. And trust me I have seen it happening.
   
   If you want to enforce those stricter laws, how are you going to arrest a supplier when he is a retired Police Officer? He knows all of them and he knows the system as the system knows him so well. So a black kid will stand up and state that this is the supplier, and Christie Blatchford will stand up and write a piece of how a dedicated Police officer this man was and how many arrests he made and how we are glad to have him, when inside your silly heart you know he is a cause of several deaths in society, and Blatchford will end her piece with it must be understood that the black kid that made the allegations has a criminal record. There you go now you are done like dinner. You stand up and sell that story to a Canadian society when you are black and see how twisted you will become. Drugs are here and to stay, and they are getting very better and large. The crimes you are seeing out there in small towns are only getting better for you will never ever touch the suppliers. You know way back in the 80’s some of us as parents started to fight this nambi bambi of bringing up kids as kings in this society for we knew that they can never be responsible when we bring them up as bandits, and that is what Canadian grown kids are, yes bandits. Society refused to listen and today we have the Husbands to show. Society is refusing to go after the suppliers today, but fifteen years down the road, this city is not only going to be worse than Detroit but small towns like Waterloo like Peterborough Hamilton are also going to start to be fierce in defense of territories. So you might as well cut health care into half and build more jails for you will truly need them. And may God help me to be only wrong on this prediction for trust me I have made many and they have all came through.
   
   Let me repeat myself. There was a drug problem on Martin grove and Rexdale Finch area, Police organized an operation to arrest every one they knew had the guns and weapons. The night Police walked into them, they found nothing for the people knew of the operation and took the drugs and guns out for the night. CFRB read that information as I have stated it. The question I have today is very simple, why no one pushed to know how the drug dealers knew that Police was going to do an operation into the area? How did this information leak out but why no one ever bothered to follow it up? Why did CFRB as a radio station read it in the news but refused to follow it up with investigations? Isn’t that what radio stations do? Stricter laws and enforcements are about terrorizing we the innocent people, but you have a huge internal problem man that you need to work on, or leave my kid if he has an ounce of crack to sell to a white addict.
   
   It is the sheer hypocrisy that really gets to me.
   
   EM
   A black parent

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6. Steven_10
   
   Even if you sold those apartments to the tenants today you would have solved a whack of problems, the problem is that this can never be done for the conservatives want their friends like Greenwich to remain making billions of dollars. And TCHC has a whack of money for you manage it without implementing anything, there is no accountability and no one cross checks anything, you get the millions of dollars when the structures fall apart. There is this reasoning that the buildings were abandoned and not repaired, and I have got that fallacy from Jerry Agar’s program as well.
   
   Can he tell us when the city of Toronto did not budget money for TCHC ever? Where exactly did it go?
   
   EM
   A parent

   posted to Jerry Agar's Blog: Let's sell community housing
7. When I started to discuss the crime in youth kids in the city, I listed the things we need to do to create change, I am glad that the shutting down of TCHC has been raised up again. And this is not the first time it has been raised, but it will never ever be discussed let alone agreed upon by any political party. This is actually a very old discussion for I think some of us started it way back in the late 80’s, the danger you always find is that if you close them you pull a whole whack of cash out of society, for TCHC is about manufacturing crime. There is no entity that creates jobs in these cities than public housing. I stood very strongly to reject the redevelopment of Regent park, and we were squarely beaten down for this time around Regent park is going to be a mixed income housing. But when you think about it, what kind of housing system has a waiting period of 10 years? What does that tell you exactly about the system its self? Get a day and listen to the Police radio one day, and almost half of the calls sent out are heading to TCHC addresses all way from down town to Scarborough to North end of the city. Do you want to cut down the Police calls in half? Strangely many people do not want that for you are affecting many industries. It is very bizarre.
   
   But let me state too. When you get the government out of housing and shut down TCHC, we need to raise up and fight the drug problem in this city. What many people fail to address is that in cities of this size, Toronto has simply too much drugs on market for a city of 3 or so million people. We have accepted to have way over board supply of drugs and we are not taking the necessary steps to combat it. Black kids on streets do not bring drugs in this city they simply run it from suppliers to users. Note also that those very same black kids actually do not use the drugs they simply sell it. Yes you will find a black kid drug addict here and there, but by and large they are not the end users but pushers. We are targeting the pushers but not the suppliers and end users. If TCHS shuts down, the crime problem you have in Woodbridge will not end, the problem you have started to get in Mississauga condos will not end, the problem you have started to get in Oakville will not end, I was watching the news last night out of Peterborough and drugs are also very high now. Keswick has a problem as well. Woodstock same thing, Hamilton same thing. We need to start to attack the drug problem for Toronto as a supplier has way passed what it should have, and that is compared to the problematic cities this size can handle.
   
   EM
   A black parent.

   posted to Jerry Agar's Blog: Let's sell community housing
8. Proton
   
   Your argument seems to indicate that Mayor Ford decided to out contract the garbage collection to get rid of the unions that have very terrible contracts. Had that been the Mayor’s purpose, then we would not pay for the people that no longer pick the garbage. But let us look closely at the Mayor with his dealing with the unions. He handed a very nice contract to the Police Union way more than they were even expecting. Why are we only talking about the garbage union and not the Police union? Is the Police union not with a very terrible contract or they are paid with shells? You are today paying for the union workers that no longer pick the garbage and Mayor ford’s friends have a contract to collect the garbage.
   
   I think it is you the tax payer that got nothing but lost by paying more.
   
   EM
   Toronto

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9. Richard Collins
   
   It is the reasoning of Torontonians that gets to me. Does it matter who picks up your garbage? The answer is no, what matters is it is gone. Now let us go back where we are coming from, The conservatives created the Mega city because it will run better and it will be economical we are not duplicating services. Can you tell me how much money you have actually saved as a tax payer due to the creation of Megacity? The conservatives sold 407 to a Swiss company, can you tell me how you as a tax payer gained? The union was very expensive and it lost the West side of the city and you are laughing today. But today you poor soul are paying for the union workers as you did before, only that on top of them, you are paying for the private company as well. If the conservatives are not only playing on your very weak mind, they should tell you that we have contracted the garbage out for half the city, and 2,000 union workers are laid off, BECAUSE IN THE REAL WORLD PEOPLE LOOSE WORK WHEN THEIR JOBS ARE CONTRACTED OUT. That is what I call saving. We are paying the all the union employees you are crying about today as they were doing a shabby job, when they are not picking your garbage but you are paying the private collector on top of it. And God help me you are going to buy them the Tim bits too.
   
   And you blame Ford for becoming a mayor of this city? Geez I am next in line !!!!!
   
   EM
   Toronto

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10. I have never loved Jerry Agar’s program as the one today, and trust me I am all on ankles with him regarding the crime and kids in this city, but had he only carried this discussion at a half pace he is going after blacks and they are societal failures, I would already had a lunch with him. And I’m not going to write allot, only two points on this issue.
    
    1} When I came into this country, my children were bullied for they were responding to their teachers with yes sir and yes mom. It became very complicated that we were called to school and we faced a 21 year old then social worker than wondered if these kids are abused and if they are we can easily loose them. As new immigrants we started to shake our heads on how this developed country brings up children, and we saw the danger we are walked into. 2012 the seeds are starting to show in The Eaton center and all over the place. Parents can never be the kids and kids can never be the parents. Now through Agar’s program we have reached this level of understanding, how do we put this into reality and bring up kids as kids? That is the question for you today.
    
    2} Jerry thank you for getting the strength to raise this issue, you have created very many enemies for much of them are making a killing through wasted kids, find a day and follow this up with how can we change and what have we done that is wrong? We are in a society that prefers to state that all is alright and it is immigrants that are poor parents and let us deport these kids out of Toronto. They fail to question what part they have played in creating these kids that have been born and grown up here.
    
    On record, I am not so worried about Husbands, but the 8 and 9 year olds I see out here, worry the heart out of me, trust me we need to raise up and retake our children back or we will run out of this city when we are senior citizens.
    
    EM
    A black parent

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