The Maple Leaf Rag

Well, today is Sunday and Toronto and southern Ontario are in the middle of the worst snowstorm in 60 years. Fun, huh?

If you want to check out Toronto, and if you are online right now as in Sunday December 16th at about noon, follow this link and click on a blue camera sign. You will see what Toronto is like at the moment:

Toronto traffic cameras

The current picture is the big one, the two in the right are from the summer time and are used to allow you to see where you are as you scan the cameras. Enjoy! 

No matter how much I try to forget about this story, there is something that compels me to talk about it. I have two daughters and the horror of what happened keeps me awake at night. Follow this link, read the story and keep in mind the words of Ansar Ahmed : 

"Acts of faith, whatever they may be, have to come from within – they cannot be imposed on anyone, if they are, they are not true acts of faith," he said."

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/285180

I know this isn't the place for this type of entry but for the life of me, I can't get this out of my head. Why do I feel that this is happening all over the globe and all it would take is a bit of understanding, a bit of communication to settle these things instead of killing your own flesh and blood? Is this the way that God wanted it to be? Was this in the Great Plan? I am an atheist but I am still very much human.  The only good that will come of this is discussion  and maybe someone somewhere will be able to offer girls such as Aqsa shelter from a raging parent and raging brothers. 

Words can't express the pain I feel at this time for a young girl who was murdered by her own family just outside of Toronto. This is not the first time this has happened in Canada, certainly it is common in other parts of the world. Follow the link, read the story and feel the pain that I do. The horror of this event needs no editorial from me. 

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/284824