Why?

Why is Manitoba spending millions trying to find the remains of Indigenous women who went missing from downtown Winnipeg in a local landfill?  I know, I know, this sounds callous, but why?   

The precious, immortal souls of these women are now with God.  That's the important thing; the bodies in which they were housed are not.

A number of years ago, a loved one was travelling alone in Europe.  When I could not reach her for a number of days, I assumed she had been killed somehow.  This is due to my natural anxiety, which is always high.  I decided then and there I would not scour Europe to find her remains.  I decided to focus on knowing she was in Heaven with The Lord because that's what I believe.  (Note:  She was fine; just a temporary phone glitch.)    

The four Manitoba women, however, led very dangerous lifestyles on the streets, so knew the lives they were living carried huge risks.  Take Ashlee Shingoose.  She was the 30-year-old Indigenous mother of three, whose kids had been removed because of the neglect and harm her lifestyle was causing them.

Shingoose's parents on the front page of 'The Globe and Mail' today.

The guy who murdered her has been caught, tried and incarcerated, so continuing with the torture to her family by dragging it out is pointless, in my opinion.  Naturally, no one will ever say this, but, as usual, I do.  

Note:  That's why I have a blog -- so I can express taboo opinions.  As I said to a woman I met at a cocktail party a few years, who haughtily looked down her nose and told me she didn't agree with a lot of my blogs, "If you don't like them, don't read them."  By the way, I didn't even know this woman, so her disdain made me burst out laughing!

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Speaking of taboo, why is Donald Trump continuing his assault on Canada?  Worse, how can he get away with ignoring legal contracts and treaties with impunity and gay abandon!?  It seems no one -- and I mean no one -- can stop him.  There's something very wrong when the president of the United States can turn into a dictator while laws, governments and courts are powerless to stop him.

As for our "saviour" Mark Carney, I predict Trump will take an instant dislike to his elite, buttoned-down persona.  That's just the way Trump is:  He either likes you or he doesn't.  And God help you if he doesn't.  What began as a bit of a giggle, is now getting very scary.

I also predict that Bob Fife's words of a few years ago will come true.  "The NDP are toast," he said on 'Power Play'.  It's taken a while, but Singh should have stopped supporting the Liberals a year ago and triggered an election.  At least then he might have at least held onto his seat.  He won't now and the NDP will go the way of the Conservatives in 1993, when the latter's huge majority crumbled to just two seats and they lost official party status.  That's what's in store for Singh, thanks to his determination to hang on until he was eligible for a multi-million-dollar pension.

That was dumb.

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A word about the verbose and turgid Andrew Coyne.  Slogging through his tortuous column today, I alit (or is it "alighted"?) on one word:  "Arguably".  Why use this word?  Either you stand behind your point, or you don't.  Saying something is "Arguably a cause for.....", as he wrote today, weakens your point and turns it into a puzzle.

Ah well, that's the sonorous, bombastic and pompous Coyne for you.  All his columns appear to be defending some sort of PhD thesis.  Please, Andrew, pare your thoughts down to one or two clear sentences, have a point and push yourself away from the keyboard.  With his work, I read nothing but the last paragraph to get his point -- if he has one.  

Oh how I wish I were his editor!