Hurricane Sandy (also unofficially known as "Superstorm Sandy") was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Classified as the eighteenth named storm, tenth hurricane and second major hurricane of the year, Sandy was a Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba.[1] While it was a Category 2 storm off the coast of the Northeastern United States, the storm became the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with winds spanning 1,100 miles (1,800 km)).[2][3] Estimates as of March 2014 assess damage to have been over $68 billion (2013 USD), a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.[4] At least 286 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.[5]

 

Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved slowly northward toward the Greater Antilles and gradually intensified. On October 24, Sandy became a hurricane, made landfall near Kingston, Jamaica, re-emerged a few hours later into the Caribbean Sea and strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane. On October 25, Sandy hit Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane, then weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 26, Sandy moved through the Bahamas.[6] On October 27, Sandy briefly weakened to a tropical storm and then restrengthened to a Category 1 hurricane. Early on October 29, Sandy curved north-northwest and then[7] moved ashore near Brigantine, New Jersey, just to the northeast of Atlantic City, as a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds.[1][8]

 

In Jamaica, winds left 70% of residents without electricity, blew roofs off buildings, killed one, and caused about $100 million (2012 USD) in damage. Sandy's outer bands brought flooding to Haiti, killing at least 54, causing food shortages, and leaving about 200,000 homeless; the hurricane also caused two deaths in the Dominican Republic. In Puerto Rico, one man was swept away by a swollen river. In Cuba, there was extensive coastal flooding and wind damage inland, destroying some 15,000 homes, killing 11, and causing $2 billion (2012 USD) in damage. Sandy caused two deaths and damage estimated at $700 million (2012 USD) in The Bahamas. In Canada, two were killed in Ontario and an estimated $100 million (2012 CAD) in damage was caused throughout Ontario and Quebec.[9]

 

In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city.[10][11] Damage in the United States amounted to $65 billion (2013 USD).[12]

 

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About my pictures:

 

Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”. I've got over 15,000 high-resolution pictures already uploaded and available for free on Flickr, with thousands more on the way:

www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums

Additional Chemtrail videos may be found on:

www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway

  

I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser". I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

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THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)

  

By Paul Williams

  

The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!

  

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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.

  

I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.

  

WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?

  

The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.

  

The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:

 

KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS

  

They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.

  

A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.

  

Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.

  

Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.

  

Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .

  

FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!

  

The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!

  

Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  

Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.

  

Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.

  

Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.

  

THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS

  

Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).

  

Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.

  

There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.

  

In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!

  

In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!

  

So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!

  

I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!). They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....

  

Yep I get that....

  

I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.

  

Paul Williams June 18th 2021

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty nine metres at 09:36am on Saturday 20th February 2021 off Blackheath Avenue and Charlton Way in the grounds of Greenwich Park, one of the Royal Parks of London situated in Greenwich, South East London.

  

Here we see, Sciurus Carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel or Grey Squirrel), a tree squirrel native to North America and first introduced to the UK in the 1870's. Though it was largely responsible for the decimation of our own native red squirrel population, those are now on the increase and found in certain parts of the UK including Scotland. The Greys are still an ecologically essential natural forester regenerator.

  

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Gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) is one of the most destructive invasive weeds in northern Australia, particularly across the Northern Territory. Originally introduced from Africa in the 1930s as a pasture grass, it grows far taller and denser than native vegetation, with plants reaching up to four metres high. Its rapid growth allows it to outcompete native grasses and plants, reducing biodiversity and altering the natural balance of ecosystems. This dominance has put pressure on native wildlife that rely on more open habitats and food sources, leading to long-term ecological changes.

 

One of the most dangerous impacts of gamba grass is its contribution to more intense and destructive bushfires. Unlike native grasses, which burn at lower intensities, dense stands of gamba grass produce up to eight times more fuel. This leads to hotter and faster-moving fires that are difficult to control, threatening homes, infrastructure, and human lives. These fires also damage native trees and habitats that would normally survive less intense burns, creating a cycle where gamba grass continues to spread after fire events while native species decline.

 

Economically, gamba grass also causes problems for landholders, governments, and communities. Managing infestations is costly, requiring chemical treatments, slashing, and ongoing monitoring. For pastoralists, while gamba grass was once valued as fodder, its long-term risks outweigh its benefits because it reduces overall land productivity and increases fire hazards. Local and state governments spend millions each year trying to control its spread, but it continues to advance into new areas. Left unchecked, gamba grass has the potential to fundamentally change northern Australia’s landscapes, making it one of the most serious environmental threats in the region.

About my pictures:

 

Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.

 

However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.

 

In response, I have posted thousands of full-resolution images (15,000+!), documenting the overwhelming evidence of this crime on Flickr:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums

 

I have additional Chemtrail videos posted on:

 

www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway

  

And to help generate interest, further study and assist in research, I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr (under “Chem Trailchaser”) as CC0 — Creative Commons Zero.

This removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain, which means that any of my photos designated CC0, can be used, without restriction or attribution, for any use. Isn’t that awesome? So please… download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

Rhonda M. Martin

 

Destructive Leadership: The Aftermath of the Tempest

A healthy leader–follower relationship relies on trust, respect, competency, and commitment to the organization. A leader has the power to influence and shape the employee’s job experience and the organizational culture. Destructive leaders, however, abuse their power by using coercion to manipulate for personal gain, and employ fear as a motivator. The negative impacts of a leader’s destructive behaviors are detrimental and painful to the followers in an organization, and the long-term impact on corporate culture can be costly. Followers are pivotal to the success of good and bad leaders. In Dr. Martin’s study on the Millennial generation as followers, she found they were adversely affected by destructive leaders. Specifically, they felt devalued, participated in unethical behavior induced by fear, lost faith in the organization because it implicitly condoned leaders’ bad behaviors, or chose to retaliate against these leaders. Destructive leadership will perpetuate until followers and organizations stop enabling the destructive behaviors and take action by educating, training, and empowering the workforce to be active participants.

 

The Test House provides UKAS-accredited testing services to industry. Our comprehensive, professional service includes mechanical testing, non-destructive testing, failure analysis/metallurgy and specimen manufacture.

 

We have 25 years’ experience of conducting independent, confidential tests on metals to national and international standards.

 

Testing is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of experts using state-of-the-art technologies, either on-site or in the custom-built facility we moved into in 2015.

 

In addition to testing and results analysis, The Test House offers consultancy and advice services, including weld procedure and welder qualification approvals, standards interpretation and dispute resolution.

 

Our short lead times, competitive pricing and ability to respond flexibly to our clients’ needs have earned us a reputation for responsiveness, reliability and value for money.

The Test House provides UKAS-accredited testing services to industry. Our comprehensive, professional service includes mechanical testing, non-destructive testing, failure analysis/metallurgy and specimen manufacture. We have 25 years’ experience of conducting independent, confidential tests on metals to national and international standards. Testing is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of experts using state-of-the-art technologies, either on-site or in the custom-built facility we moved into in 2015. In addition to testing and results analysis, The Test House offers consultancy and advice services, including weld procedure and welder qualification approvals, standards interpretation and dispute resolution. Our short lead times, competitive pricing and ability to respond flexibly to our clients’ needs have earned us a reputation for responsiveness, reliability and value for money.

 

For more information www.thetesthouse.co.uk/

 

If you wish to use this image each use should be accompanied by the credit line and notice, "Courtesy of TWI Ltd".

 

About my pictures:

 

Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.

 

However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.

 

In response, I have posted thousands of full-resolution images (15,000+!), documenting the overwhelming evidence of this crime on Flickr:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums

 

I have additional Chemtrail videos posted on:

 

www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway

  

And to help generate interest, further study and assist in research, I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr (under “Chem Trailchaser”) as CC0 — Creative Commons Zero.

This removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain, which means that any of my photos designated CC0, can be used, without restriction or attribution, for any use. Isn’t that awesome? So please… download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

 

About my pictures:

 

Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.

 

However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.

 

In response, I have posted thousands of full-resolution images (15,000+!), documenting the overwhelming evidence of this crime on Flickr:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums

 

I have additional Chemtrail videos posted on:

 

www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway

  

And to help generate interest, further study and assist in research, I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr (under “Chem Trailchaser”) as CC0 — Creative Commons Zero.

This removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain, which means that any of my photos designated CC0, can be used, without restriction or attribution, for any use. Isn’t that awesome? So please… download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

About my pictures:

 

Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”.

 

However, this area isn’t special in that regard. The massive chemtrailing is going on across the USA (and other countries), as evidenced in abundance on FlickR and many other sites. This incredible not-so-secret Government program, which itself is expensive and dangerous, spoils not only blue skies, but poisons our air, water and soil to unknown levels. Regardless of the purpose, weather control/weather as a weapon/mind control, it really amounts to a crime against humanity in my opinion.

 

In response, I have posted thousands of full-resolution images (15,000+!), documenting the overwhelming evidence of this crime on Flickr:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums

 

I have additional Chemtrail videos posted on:

 

www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway

  

And to help generate interest, further study and assist in research, I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr (under “Chem Trailchaser”) as CC0 — Creative Commons Zero.

This removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain, which means that any of my photos designated CC0, can be used, without restriction or attribution, for any use. Isn’t that awesome? So please… download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

The Test House provides UKAS-accredited testing services to industry. Our comprehensive, professional service includes mechanical testing, non-destructive testing, failure analysis/metallurgy and specimen manufacture.

 

We have 25 years’ experience of conducting independent, confidential tests on metals to national and international standards.

 

Testing is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of experts using state-of-the-art technologies, either on-site or in the custom-built facility we moved into in 2015.

 

In addition to testing and results analysis, The Test House offers consultancy and advice services, including weld procedure and welder qualification approvals, standards interpretation and dispute resolution.

 

Our short lead times, competitive pricing and ability to respond flexibly to our clients’ needs have earned us a reputation for responsiveness, reliability and value for money.

The Test House provides UKAS-accredited testing services to industry. Our comprehensive, professional service includes mechanical testing, non-destructive testing, failure analysis/metallurgy and specimen manufacture. We have 25 years’ experience of conducting independent, confidential tests on metals to national and international standards. Testing is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of experts using state-of-the-art technologies, either on-site or in the custom-built facility we moved into in 2015. In addition to testing and results analysis, The Test House offers consultancy and advice services, including weld procedure and welder qualification approvals, standards interpretation and dispute resolution. Our short lead times, competitive pricing and ability to respond flexibly to our clients’ needs have earned us a reputation for responsiveness, reliability and value for money.

 

For more information www.thetesthouse.co.uk/

 

If you wish to use this image each use should be accompanied by the credit line and notice, "Courtesy of TWI Ltd".

 

Rhonda M. Martin

 

Destructive Leadership: The Aftermath of the Tempest

A healthy leader–follower relationship relies on trust, respect, competency, and commitment to the organization. A leader has the power to influence and shape the employee’s job experience and the organizational culture. Destructive leaders, however, abuse their power by using coercion to manipulate for personal gain, and employ fear as a motivator. The negative impacts of a leader’s destructive behaviors are detrimental and painful to the followers in an organization, and the long-term impact on corporate culture can be costly. Followers are pivotal to the success of good and bad leaders. In Dr. Martin’s study on the Millennial generation as followers, she found they were adversely affected by destructive leaders. Specifically, they felt devalued, participated in unethical behavior induced by fear, lost faith in the organization because it implicitly condoned leaders’ bad behaviors, or chose to retaliate against these leaders. Destructive leadership will perpetuate until followers and organizations stop enabling the destructive behaviors and take action by educating, training, and empowering the workforce to be active participants.

 

الحسد داء عيان لا يزول إلا بهلك الحاسد أو موت المحسود

من أقوال الإمام علــي عليه السلام

  

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June 16th 2018 - Stunt 902 demonstration team performs on front of Maders tobacconist on Aberdeen Street KVille.

  

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The Kentville Courthouse - Longtime Kentville resident, businessman, community leader and Maders Tobacconist store owner operator loses his Constitutional Challenge ,

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Due to harsh Government rules and regulations Maders tobacconist has dark and empty store front windows in the little shop that's been on Aberdeen Street for 50 years ? Meanwhile, the liquor store up the street on Main sits on the finest piece of prime commercial real estate in town, has the largest store front display windows around, the biggest NSLC sign, and is by far the nicest, brightest, cleanest, classy-est, and most well stocked with aisles and aisles of an unlimited selection of alcohol which is the only product they sell in this massive Govt owned specialty shop single product only delux department store ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900

  

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London, Apr 22,2026 - London England, Apr 22,2026 - for the first time ever in the history of democracy, British Lawmakers have approved lifetime Governmental social control starting at birth ? A New Parliamentary bill invokes a law that allows Government to impose legal lifetime restrictions and conditions on fetuses and new born babies for as long as they might live out their life ? Canada may follow ? www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/uk-agrees-ban-on-cigarette-s...

www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadian-smoking-ban-being-...

  

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Here are some relevant news clippings :

   

Tobacco :

  

A highly disproportionate Government taxation is forced on purchasers of a singled out long time publicly sold legal product ? Tobacco users must now pay the equivalent of over 4 times the amount of Government sin tax on their product as do the users of alcohol pay on their product even though stats show that alcohol use ranks twice as much in cost to society due to substance use as does tobacco ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...

 

The Kentville Courthouse - Longtime Kentville resident, businessman, community leader and Maders Tobacconist store owner operator loses his Constitutional Challenge,

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-tobacconist-won-t-...

 

A stifling, superfluous, unimaginable shocking Sin Tax on cigarettes ? The Maders street window in downtown Kentville is allowed to display Government gambling ads but not the product he's been selling for 50 years, and so he has instead revealed the huge Government Sin Tax currently being charged to the customer on his purchases of tobacco ? He was later ordered to take it down.. www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900

 

When legally purchasing a tobacco product you are now charged a Government Sin Tax at a proportional rate equivalent to over 4 times more to that charged on alcohol even though the alcohol product is far more destructive and far more costly to society ? The extreme bias and obvious discrimination against this one singled out legal product is the direct result of years of one-sided single product only Government lobbying by those who despise smoking but do not appear to have a problem with any of the other more harmful bad habits such as smoking marijuana, alcohol, junk food, obesity, or gambling ? Over the years there has been a lot of misinformation and gaslighting submitted by radical tobacco haters in order to stack their extremely biased arguments against one particular legally sold product that they don't like ? This single product lobby has resulted in a severe over-taxation now being levied on the unfortunate paying customer ? Does this extremely unfair Sin Tax situation caused by biased and unproven radical theories constitute a form of harassment and consumer fraud against an honest paying customer ? A Class action tax recovery suit and application for a fair share of the recent 24 billion dollar tobacco reclamation suit to be returned to the customer is being considered to compensate consumers for their financial loss due to extreme over taxation charges ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...

 

August 16, 2023 - Unfortunately, cancer diagnosis rates are going way up in a new generation ? Studies find that cancer diagnosis rates are going up in younger adults, driven largely by a rise in women and in people in their 30s ? Unlike previous generations, this is a generation made up of much fewer smokers ? www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/health/early-onset-cancer-increase...

 

May 13, 2024 - May 13, 2024 - Many Smokers have quit yet while the number of persons actually smoking keeps going down - cancer rates blamed on smokers keeps going up ? Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal says Cancer is still your leading cause of premature death in Canada. Stats Canada data says it has accounted for 25 per cent of the deaths in 2022, however more people than ever are now surviving. Researchers projected there will be 247,100 new cancer diagnoses and 88,100 cancer deaths in 2024, up from last year ?

www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-cmaj-may-1.7200589

 

Sept 4th, 2023 - A tenacious, well funded, well-organized biased and somewhat radical anti tobacco lobbying campaign with its focus always on tobacco products only appears to have failed miserably in its promise of reducing heart and lung disease ? Figures now show that after many years of a strategy that had focused mainly on tobacco, that on their watch while instead of the cancer rates going down as they promised, cancer numbers have instead soared upwards especially among young adults who are mostly non smokers ?

globalnews.ca/news/9938796/cancer-cases-young-adults-stud...

  

Aug 2024 - Obesity - 17 of the 34 most common cancers are increasing in younger people and are now linked to obesity, consistent to the rise in childhood obesity ?

www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-millennials-genx-1.7287779

 

Jan 17,2024 -"Cancer incidence is on the rise amongst young adults under 50 ? Doctors searching for the answers,"

For years now cancer societies have directed their energy and their primary focus of attack on tobacco products only ? While the ongoing attack has always been against a singled-out lone product, the incidence of cancer has been on the rise as never before among young adults ? Has this blinkers on focused strategy distracted from, or even prevented the discovery of the real cause or causes of all these cancers ? If it isn't smoking, then what is it and why aren't they getting warning labels on whatever it is ?

www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/health/cancer-incidence-rising-report

 

Gender inequality ? The Female gender is now living longer ? Canada's overall mortality rate was on the increase from 2020 to 2021 ? Life expectancy inequality now being shown as life expectancy rate declines for men but increases for women ? Men are also 3 times more likely to commit suicide than women ?

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230828/dq230828b-...

 

Lawyers rubbing hands together in anticipation ? There's a pending 500 billion dollar, (that's with a 'b') tobacco industry suit still up for grabs ? www.ctvnews.ca/health/provinces-must-seek-anti-smoking-me...

 

May 31, 2023 - Canada has created a brand new Cabinet position called Minister of health and Addictions, and Carolyn Bennett has started off with yet another repeated attack on tobacco by ordering that 50 additional dire warning messages ( 25 in French and 25 in English) must be placed on or within the cigarette package that is already overcrowded with many dire warnings and graphic pictures ? This is getting interesting ? First they favor alcohol products by giving them a generous 4 times the Sin Tax break over tobacco products, and then they create and pass legislation that legalizes and enables smoking cannabis, and then they create more legislation in Bill C-218 that will open the flood gates to enable legal at home and mobile phone sports parlor betting and casino gambling as never before seen or imagined in Canada - And then after aiding, abetting and enabling all of these social vices through new Liberal legalization, they will then create a Cabinet position called the Minister of mental health and addictions, and her first order of business is to once again go after tobacco while ignoring and never mentioning sports parlor betting, on-line gambling, marijuana or alcohol ?

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Ottawa May 31, 2023 - Canada has made history, (and Guinness book of records) ? The Canadian Government has ordered that 50 dire warnings be placed on or inside cigarette packages already 75% covered with multiple warnings and graphic images and must always be hidden away from public view in drawers in stores ? Meanwhile the number 50 also just happens to be the same number of new at-home on-line gambling las vegas style gambling casinos and sports betting parlors that have quickly opened for business in Canada following this same Liberal Government's recently enacted Bill C-218 ?

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Lobbyists claim 10's of thousands of Canadians die each year from smoking but strangely enough not one of the 10's of thousands of official death certificates posted will ever list or use the word 'smoking' as an official cause of that particular death ?

www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-concerns/t...

 

Each year the Province of Nova Scotia publishes an official Government financial statement showing tax revenue collected from sales of Sin Tax legal adult recreational products. The Sin Tax products listed are : alcohol ( NSLC sales ), tobacco, gambling (Atlantic lotto/casino), and, now Cannabis (NSLC ) ? According to numbers stated and based on total purchases, the smokers appear to be paying 4 tax dollars into the Government coffers for every 1 tax dollar the drinkers pay in ? This would be equivalent to 4 times more Provincial tax now being charged to the smoker as that being charged to the alcohol purchaser ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52649460406/in/datepos...

 

Aug 23, 2023 - Absurdly over-valued cigarettes are now a top priority for armed robbers - Two similar HRM gas station robberies are under investigation . "Cigarettes", food and cash stolen during the robberies...

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/police-seek-suspect-in-halifax-conven...

 

'Why don't we just blame everything on smoking ? '

Stats Can, October 16, 2017 - The Conference Board of Canada says that although actual smokers have decreased dramatically in numbers, deaths and health care costs attributed to smoking are still increasing dramatically ? They explain that the reason for the unusual paradox may lie in the way they compute statistics . The calculations include all lifetime sickness and negative health problems (both physical and mental) ever incurred by the smoker in their entire lifetime even if they quit and were a non smoker ? And so, even if you smoked at one time or another in life and then quit, all health issues and illnesses experienced over your entire lifetime will be blamed by them on smoking and seen by them as being caused by smoking ? And so, for example, If an ex smoker dies naturally at say age 80, his death and all of his lifetime sickness and negative medical issues even if a non smoker for 50 years are counted by them as caused by smoking ? www.cbc.ca/news/business/smoking-economic-cost-1.4357096

 

Desperate anti tobacco lobbyists stoop to play the race card and weaponize the common cigarette ? In nonsensical lobbying they portray menthol cigarettes as a racist weapon specifically invented, manufactured and distributed to harm black smokers in America ? And as a direct result of such ridiculous propaganda being gaslighted to Americans, a long time freedom of choice and a guaranteed right has now been taken away from many citizens after menthol smokes were banned from sale in the USA similar to Canada ? read "How the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with menthol smokes" www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095291808/tobacco-industry-target...

 

January 24, 2025 - Trump administration withdraws the proposed menthol ban,, www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/trump-administration-withdr...

 

Why do they always place high priority only on the smoking habit only and why do they hide and never mention the many other bad habits ? Is it because those who occupy high profile political and social positions are in a position to exercise their own personal opinion on a product they themselves happen to detest ? Or has a biased radical opinion gradually become the politically correct one ? It is noticed that they they never show any such radical opinion against pot, gambling, obesity or alcohol ? It is noteworthy that in Countries where those in power do not hold a personal grudge or strong bias towards one particular product, for example Turkey, where today's price for a pack of Marlboro is $ 1.73 American when purchased at the local tobacconist ? www.thesun.co.uk/money/24653882/kings-speech-charles-rish...

 

Famous smokers at one time or another, ( and there's sure a lot of em ) from Roosevelt to Churchill to Dylan, to many other creative artists, to all or most notable physicists and mathematicians including Einstein and Oppenheimer, to many world leaders and all the Kings of England, to the greatest ever Canadian musicians like Joni Mitchel, Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen and Tragically Hip (all members), and also, to the many brave soldiers who fight in Wars for us.. www.hoodmwr.com/celebrities-who-smoke/

 

Is your home still your castle Part 1 - A worried couple seeks ban on secondhand smoke seeping in from the next door neighbor ?

nationalpost.com/news/canada/couple-seeks-ban-on-secondha...

 

Feb 9th 2024 - Is your home still your castle Pt.2 - Health Canada has floated the notion of placing a ban on all smoking in all homes in Canada for its upcoming attendance at the W H O tobacco summit ? Are they abusing Charter freedoms and invading privacy when forcing compulsory government control on your private residence ? tnc.news/2024/02/09/health-canada-ban-on-smoking/

 

Richard Vobes Show - Freedom of choice ? Should Government be telling us what to do and what not to do ? Are we all being gaslighted, and if so then what is their alternative narrative ? Richard White (author) - ' Smoke Screens the truth about tobacco' www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FPnIyC22A&t=630s

 

The $500 Million Anti Tobacco Industry ,, Pt 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkM5bssOcw

 

The $500 Million Anti Tobacco Industry ,, Pt 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbtAgvnoIE&t=13s

 

Global news 2023 - It seems strange that although smoking and smokers are way down, Rob Cunningham's Canadian Cancer Society says deaths per year caused by smokers are way up ? They also claim that 1 in 3 cancer cases in Canada are still being caused by these same smokers ? Given that in the last 10 years the actual number of smokers has gone down by half, it was interesting when Cunningham and the Minister of Health said recently that in 2022 there were a whopping 46,000 deaths related to smoking ? This is 10,000 or 30% more than it was 10 years ago in 2011 when there were only 36,000 deaths reported caused by smokers even though there were twice as many smokers smoking then ? And so the 2022 figures don't make any sense ? Are these numbers misinformation or are they exaggerated and being manipulated in order to get the results wanted ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...

 

While the number of actual cigarette smokers keeps going down - the cancer rates blamed on them keeps going up ? The latest figures from the Canadian Cancer Society May 17, 2023 says in its official public report that smoking tobacco causes about 30% of all cancer deaths ? They also say that It results in 46,000 Canadian deaths a year. ( 46,000 deaths are actually up 30 % from 10 years ago even though smokers gave gone down by 50% since then ? ) cancer.ca/en/about-us/news/2023/june/stop-big-tobacco

 

CTV news Dec 29th, 2023 : Loss of freedom at birth ? Unprecedented Government social control proposed in legislation that could be based on misinformation and manipulated figures ? If passed Government will have the power to select a publicly sold legal product, as chosen by them, and force lifetime probationary orders placed on some citizens, as chosen by them, and impose lifetime monitoring and surveillance on them to insure compliance ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/preview/82789576983846...

 

1984, a disturbing futuristic novel and dark look into the future written by George Orwell in which a Totalitarian society is portrayed where social control is exercised through the use of manipulated statistics, misinformation, monitoring and surveillance in order to rule and get the result they want ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/preview/82789576983846...

 

The obsessed by one product only, tobacco hating, radical social activist and lawyer Rob Cunningham, ( and some World Leaders ) want to establish and enforce a form of social control that will allow Governments the right to place lifetime restrictions pertaining to certain legal publicly sold products (as chosen by them), and then segregate and restrict some citizens from access to the these products without having to ask then for approval, permission or consent, and place state monitoring on these segregated individuals to insure mandatory compliance is met on the lifetime probationary orders that were forced on them at birth by their Government ? globalnews.ca/video/10194704/tobacco-free-generation-the-...

 

Caste system convention ? The National NDP Convention October 13 – 15, Hamilton Convention Centre. No smoking allowed here.

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Jan 17, 2024 - A new year and newer more horrific pictures upgraded to ultra super gruesome level ? "Cigarette warning labels in Canada are about to get even more graphic ? " dailyhive.com/canada/canadian-cigarette-pack-images-even-...

 

What if they were to advertise safe ways to smoke cigarettes ? Sound ridiculous ? But is the idea of advertising 'safe' gambling just another way to lure potential clients into the gambling vice ? Do the safe gambling ads endorse and normalize gambling which can be a dangerous and addictive vice ?

May 25,2022 - Big gambling companies run ads targeting 'limited play' and 'safe' gambling ? Is this not the same as the alcohol industry running drinking ads to encourage drinking by telling you how much to safely drink per day, or, how about the tobacco industry running ads promoting safe smoking thru a suggested amount of safely smoked cigs per day, or the marijuana industry recommending the number of joints to safely get high on each day ? Or, what if they spin : You're 'good' if you drink but You're 'great' if you safe drink, or you're 'good' if you smoke cigarettes but You're 'great' if you safe smoke only this many cigarettes, or you're 'good' if you smoke pot but you're 'great' if you only smoke this many grams per day ? ref, "All those sports betting ads you're seeing,, It's illegal says the Alberta gaming commission ?" www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728

 

Jan 22 2024 - Although smokers have co-operated with 1 out of every 2 smokers quitting in the last 10 years and numbers now down to a tolerable 11 % in Canada as compared to rates like 40% or 50% in other countries like Russia and China, some radical anti tobacco lobbyists are still unsatisfied and demanding more legislation be introduced for a total nation wide ban on all tobacco products sold ?

'It's never enough' and 'we're never ever satisfied' seems to be the standard in the never ending, blinkers on, one-product only, singularily focused attack on a social product they don't approve of, but on the other hand they always overlook and will never mention the incredible progress, innovation and continual expansion of other worse social habits (or vices) such as alcohol, pot, gambling, etc etc. that are all, while under their watch, enjoying unprecedented growth, expansion, profit and success ? www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728

 

The tobacco endgame, Canada at W.H.O. - Canada wants to impose nationwide household Government surveillance to spy for cigarette smoke ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aikvPnNYfeY&t=2250s

 

Mar 20, 2024 - Zonnic, A colorful flavored pouch style tobacco substitute and smoking cessation product is attacked by the Lobbyists ? Government responds to the lobby and orders the product pulled and issues a statement that any use of glamorous marketing techniques to lure under age young people is unacceptable ? Liberal Health Minister Mark Holland says, quote "Stay the hell away from our kids" ? Maybe Mark should talk to his Government boss about sports superstars appearing on gambling ads during CBC's hockey night in Canada, or the introduction of gambling during the Government run CBC broadcast of the Paris Olympics ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nicotine-pouches-regulations-war...

 

gambling ads = The aggressive marketing of a highly addictive social vice to sports fans both young and old ? www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/sports-betting-gambling-adver...

 

Nov 30, 2023 - A dire warning to the pot, gambling and alcohol industries ? Health Canada has issued a strong warning statement that, " Any marketing directed at youth deemed as deceptive advertising could trigger post-market compliance actions. " www.cbc.ca/news/politics/we-were-duped-health-minister-re...

 

Aug 22 2024, Minister of Health Mark Holland makes it harder to quit smoking after he bans Zonnic nicotine replacement therapy from public stores in Canada ? A dark day for freedom and an over use of a privileged position to target, politicize and ban a smoking cessation product that is currently sold only to those over 19 and always kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Holland warns, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ? what ?

www.newswire.ca/news-releases/a-dark-day-for-canadian-smo...

 

Nov 2023 London England. The Throne Speech.

Smoking and tobacco get top priority by the King and the Prime Minister in this years Throne Speech while other problems like an influx of immigrants, illegals, climate change, nuclear war, the war in Ukraine, mental health epidemic, opioid and fentanyl crisis, high levels of crime, homelessness and tent encampments, crippling inflation, Doctor Nurse shortages, the gradual loss of English identity in England, etc etc etc, are all left out ? www.thesun.co.uk/money/24653882/kings-speech-charles-rish...

 

Apr 16 2024 - The English Parliament makes history after introducing legislation ordering that no one in England under age 14, ( known as Generation Alpha ) will ever in their life be able to legally buy tobacco products as long as they live ? Question - can this mean that an entire generation are now presumed to be born with a lifetime probation order placed on them (without gaining their permission or consent) ? But, what is going to happen as time passes and as the segregated generation grows up to become family providers, Mothers, Fathers, taxpayers and legal age voters ? What will happen when now grown Adult citizens want to go into a public retail outlet in London to buy pipe tobacco as a gift, but unlike every other citizen around them, they can be arrested for doing this common everyday act because it is considered as a breach of lifetime probation and a crime ? metro.co.uk/2024/04/16/uks-proposed-gen-alpha-smoking-ban...

 

May 14 2024 - Dr Heather Morrison Chief PEI Public Health Officer - CBC Power & Politics - Morrison's notion that, "Smokers are creating long line ups in Emergency" WHA-A-T ?? Most smokers I know are out there working hard and earning a living - not sitting around on chairs in your Emergency Rooms waiting 8 hours to see a Doctor ?

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/p-e-i-considers-banning-peo...

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/p-e-i-proposes-banning-islanders-of-a...

  

Newfoundland, June 3, 2024 - A proposal has been put forth in Newfoundland that the Provincial Government be given permission to interrupt and override the current system of democracy and be allowed to deny rights and freedoms guaranteed under a Charter without attaining knowledge, attention, permission or consent ?

It is always concerning when a Government installs controlling, groundbreaking, freedom removing, undemocratic, Authoritarian or totalitarian legislation based on heavily biased radical opinion, unproven facts, or out dated, over-exaggerated manipulated figures ? www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-l-becomes-latest-province-to-eye-...

  

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Jun 01, 2024 - The number of visits by Senior citizens to E.R. units is rising ? Many Seniors enjoy tobacco products from time to time but can no longer afford the price ? And, the tobacco affordability factor has created a safety hazard for many Seniors when turning to the much stronger pot smoke ? This very strong smoke is adversely affecting their brain and lung function causing trips to emergency ? www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/cannabis-seniors-emergency-ro...

 

Smokers turning to Indians to buy tax free cigs on the reserve and side step the superfluous Sin Tax that has been forced on the white man ?

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/new-report-says-illegal-cig...

 

Nicotine may prove to curb long term covid-19 Fatigue syndrome,,

www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/12/07/nicotine-patch-long-...

 

Apr 04, 2022 - Indian Island First Nation elder passes down traditional tobacco teachings to children. Tobacco is a traditional medicine that connects prayers to the Creator, says Christopher Sanipass, www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indian-island-tobacco-teaching...

 

Tobacco: The Sacred First Nations Medicine,

www.fnha.ca/Documents/FNHA-Tobacco-The-Sacred-Medicine.pdf

 

Oct 31, 2024 - tobacco giant JTI-Macdonald Corp opposes proposed $32.5B settlement with provinces,

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jti-macdonald-settlement-oppositio...

 

Oct 17th 2024 - Three tobacco giants proposing to pay $24 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to 100,000 Quebec smokers . Could pay out $32.5 B . www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/tobacco-giants-would-pay-ou...

 

Mar 7 2025 - It's finally payday ? A settlement has been reached between JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. and creditors after five years. They will pay close to $24.7 billion to provinces and territories over 20 years, including approximately $6.3 billion upfront, according to the judgment.

dailyhive.com/canada/class-action-lawsuit-tobacco-settlement

 

Nov 13,2024 - this could be a bit rich ? The Nova Scotia Provincial Government is advertising 'safe' smoking, (of a joint that is) on public television ? This Provincial Crown Corporation is promoting 'safe smoking' in public advertisements now playing to viewers of all ages ? NSLC employee Terah MacKinnon advertises their cannabis ( an addictive and impairment causing product that is generally smoked ) in a 'safe use awareness campaign' ? These ads attemt to convince the smoker that by focusing more on the NSLC marijuana, it will make him better able to understand the importance of a safe and regulated product ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...

 

April 07, 2025 - The Government run NSLC has made a deal to supply cannabis products to Mi’kmaq First Nations reserves in Nova Scotia ?

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/nova-scotia-i...

 

Sept 9th, 2025 - for the first time ever more people are smoking weed than the regular cigarettes.

www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/XXII/pre...

 

March 19, 2026 - A sad case of SEVERE OVER-TAXATION ? Insane crippling Government Taxation applied on one select singled out legally sold product is forcing some smokers to buy from the Indians ? Every two cigarettes or 52 per cent of tobacco sold in New Brunswick are now contraband ? ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/statement-brunswick-steps-fight...

 

March 18, 2026 - $27.99 cigarettes ? "Convenience store industry backs the new Provincial Government plan to tackle contraband tobacco" ? Duh-h-h-h-h , They still haven't figured out that 'valuable' customers can't afford to purchase a simple pack of cigarettes that have cost $2.99 to produce and then Sinfully marked up to $25.99 and up after the mafia level tax is added ?

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick/article/convenience...

 

March 13, 2026 - Nova Scotia First Nation assert Indian control over cannabis-related activities on their traditional lands, tells government and RCMP to stay out of cannabis and tobacco sales ? www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/ns-first-nati...

 

Apr 2, 2026 - RCMP vehicles damaged and highways blocked following raid on a First Nations cannabis shop in Cape Breton during Provincial Government crack down .

halifax.citynews.ca/2026/04/03/highway-4-reopens-after-fi...

 

Orwell's dark prediction has just come true.

London England, Apr 22,2026 - A new UK Parliamentary bill will install a form of Orwellian Totalitarian governing in English society ordering that statutory social restrictive conditions be forced upon all fetuses and babies at birth who will then be monitored in a probationary way for their entire lifetime ? Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society are crusading for his country of Canada to enforce this same irrefusable statutory lifetime personal probation on Canadians ? www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/uk-agrees-ban-on-cigarette-s...

www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canadian-smoking-ban-being-...

 

Dec 13th, 2025 - this is a bit rich ? A doctor advertising smoking for the liquor store ? Dr. Robert Strang Chief Medical Officer of Health and top doctor for Nova Scotia now appearing in TV ads to endorse the (safe) smoking of pot on behalf of the Provincially owned liquor stores ? Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society do not appear to have a problem with this smoking ?

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4190201767960744

  

Cannabis :

  

Cigarettes don't impair you, but the others do. National Drug Driving Study 2024 - Cannabis now edges out alcohol as the most common impairing substance,

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cannabis-edges-out...

 

Oct. 17, 2018 - The Liberal government has introduced The Cannabis Act and made marijuana smoking legal in all provinces and territories for adults 18 and over, making Canada just the second country to legalize recreational use of the drug. Jane Philpott, Minister of Health www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marijuana-faq-legalization-need-to...

 

Canadian study claims smoking weed is more harmful than tobacco,

www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis-health/canadian-study-claims...

 

Studies show Marijuana use raises the risk of heart attack, heart failure, and stroke,

ca.news.yahoo.com/marijuana-raises-risk-heart-attack-2201...

 

Study finds marijuana smoke harms lungs in tobacco smokers,

www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/health/marijuana-lung-damage-study...

 

Cannabis use disorder is common where marijuana is legal,

www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/health/medical-marijuana-cannabis-...

 

Nov/2023 - A newly separated Sophie Grégoire Trudeau opens Cannabis based business ? she says, quote, "Now some of you might remember this being the month that Justin and the federal government officially legalized cannabis and like many other Canadian entrepreneurs, I saw the opportunity, as did Justin, to capitalize on this " ? nutracrazy.com/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-cbd-gummies-canada...

 

Feb 7, 2024 - Cannabis use is linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders: Ontario study,,

globalnews.ca/news/10275463/cannabis-anxiety-ontario-study/

 

June 13, 2024 - We're #1.... We're #1 ! The province of Nova Scotia is now leading the country in cannabis use.

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2940041-n-s--leads-country-in-...

 

Nov 13, 2024 - Nova Scotia Provincial Government advertises 'safe' smoking, (of a joint that is) ?

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nslc-ad-campaign-promoting-it-s-canna...

 

Marijuana may damage unfertilized eggs in female ovaries, Researchers worry may lead to infertility, miscarriage and possible genetic defects in babies. New research has linked marijuana use during pregnancy to autism, poor fetal development, low infant birth weight, dangerously early deliveries and even death.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/health/marijuana-female-fertility-...

 

A Doctor's warning about legalizing or normalizing usage of marijuana ? Marijuana is highly addictive and much more dangerous than alcohol,, Never use marijuana for mental health issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-3YaAkCa8

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2025 - impairment by pot ? 29 people were killed in crashes last year and so far this year, the highest in a decade, Calgary police say,,

calgaryherald.com/news/fatal-crashes-calgary-police-campa...

 

Dec 5th, 2025 - cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), Screaming while vomiting ? It's called ‘scromiting,' a painful side effect of chronic marijuana use: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/screaming-while-vomiting...

 

Feb 02, 2026 - Marijuana crisis ? Psychosis rates climb among young people in Ontario, researchers find People born more recently are being diagnosed with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia more often. People aged 14 to 20 are more often being diagnosed with psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, compared with those born earlier, a large Ontario study examining 30 years of data suggests.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/psychosis-schizophrenia-age-cmaj-9...

 

Apr 01, 2026 -The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation is reporting an increase in both alcohol and cannabis sales.. cannabis sales up 10% during its third quarter.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/video/2026/04/01/nslc-reports-inc...

  

Obesity now outranks smoking in health care costs and 40 % of the population now suffer from obesity ? Yet they pay zero in 'Sin Tax' to Government coffers ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-study-shows-eco...

 

Aug 2024 - Obesity and Cancer - Some cancers increasing in Millennials and Gen-Xers, with over half linked to obesity. 17 of the 34 most common cancers that are increasing in younger people are being linked to obesity and are consistent to the rise in childhood obesity among recent generations.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-millennials-genx-1.7287779

 

Obesity is a bigger social problem than smoking (no pun intended) ? Nationally, the estimated annual economic burden attributed to excess weight is now 25 percent higher than tobacco ?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-study-shows-eco...

 

Sin Tax ? Why aren't they attacking the obesity-causing products that are costing our society far more than tobacco products do ? www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/8278957698384692094/24...

 

June 18, 2024 - U.S. surgeon general calling for mental health warning labels to be placed on all social media platforms,

www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/6/17/us-surgeon-general-ca...

  

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Alcohol :

  

Cigarettes don't impair you, but alcohol can cause physical and mental impairment..

National Drug Driving Study 2024 - ,

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cannabis-edges-out...

 

Alcohol leads the nation in substance use costs almost doubling that of smoking. csuch.ca/substance-use-costs/current-costs/#:~:text=The%2...

 

"alcohol deficit" - Alcohol costs Ontario over $7 billion in health-care, criminal, justice, family, and lost productivity costs. Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation 3.0 published last year showed that alcohol generated $4.2 billion for the province, but cost $7 billion in social costs, resulting in an overall "alcohol deficit" of nearly $2 billion. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ontario-s-alcohol-deficit-t...

 

Jan 27, 2025 - Premier Ford expanding liquor sales in Ontario expected to cost the province roughly $1.4 billion by 2030, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-alcohol-beer-wine-boo... )

 

24/7 booze in 2024, Montreal plans to create a 24-hour nightlife district,

montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-plans-to-create-a-24-hour-ni...

 

1 in 20 deaths globally result from alcohol :

www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/health/global-alcohol-deaths-who-i...

 

Johnny Gaudreau and his brother are killed by an alleged drunk driver,

ottawa.citynews.ca/video/2024/08/30/nhl-star-johnny-gaudr...,

 

A record number of people died from alcohol and drug use during the pandemic, (no deaths reported from cigarettes) ; StatsCan

www.cbc.ca/news/health/alcohol-deaths-pandemic-1.6712273

 

NSLC reports a 6 % increase in 2022/23 earnings."I’m very proud says Greg Hughes, President & CEO,,"

halifax.citynews.ca/2023/06/13/nslc-reports-a-6-increase-...

 

2023 - NSLC yearly sales figures have doubled in just 10 years in Nova Scotia ? Yearly sales are now close to a billion ?

www.mynslc.com/About-NSLC/Media-Centre/2023/NSLC-Third-Qu...

 

Alcohol growing as Prime-Time Killer ! Alcohol is increasingly crippling the lives of young adults with its effects playing out in the morgue and operating room.

www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-...

 

Maders tobacconist in downtown Kentville (celebrating 50 years service this year), has dark empty store front windows due to harsh Government regulations, but the nearby liquor store located on the best piece of prime commercial real estate in town is the nicest, brightest, most modern, classiest, most well stocked and best product variety to choose from, and, by far the brightest largest street front display windows in the County ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/9344935900

 

Current alcohol tax rates. The combined amount of excise taxes and sales taxes for alcohol in Canada runs between 20% and 31% depending on the beverage in question and the alcohol quotient that beverage is expected to contain. www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/topics/alcohol-policies/a...

 

Does WEF support consumption of alcohol ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ0ixgDElH8

 

Apr 12, 2024, Dartmouth, N.S - Artificial Intelligence and robotics provide alcohol to the public ? Company launches alcohol vending machine business with conveniently placed A.I. liquor dispensing machines ? Not known at this time just how machines plan to do a proper ID check ? atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/dartmouth-n-s-company-launches-a...

 

Jun 27, 2025 - Ontario to allow alcohol on pedal pubs starting in July 2025, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-allowing-alchohol-...

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Mar 1st, 2026 - Liquor labels could save lives, U of Vic study finds,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwijJswGKZw

  

Opioid Crisis in Canada - According to the government Over 1700 opioid overdoses occurred in the first three months of 2021. That was approximately 20 deaths per day, representing a 65 per cent increase from last year ? I think we'd rather have them smoking their traditional cigarettes ? globalnews.ca/news/10216880/homelessness-and-opioid-use-o...

 

A National shame taking place daily in British Columbia ? Jan 24th 2024- Toxic drug deaths in B.C. last year were almost 7 each and every day or 2511 deaths for the year.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-grim-rec...

 

Alberta daily Drug deaths are soaring ? More than 4 Albertans died — each and every day — from opioids in 2023 ? Shame on the richest Province,,.. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-opioid-overdoses-a...

 

Apr 15, 2024 - Opioid-related deaths have now doubled in Canada ?

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2904079-opioid-related-deaths-...

 

Apr 29 2024 - Liberals legalize hard drugs ? Ottawa has allowed B.C. to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs like heroin and fentanyl starting in 2023, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/decriminalization-british-columb...

 

July 7th 2024 - Come from Away ? An epidemic of violent crime homelessness and opioid deaths are now hitting big cities in the down home and laid back Maritimes starting in Moncton and Halifax ?

atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2954811-new-brunswick-saw-72-o...

  

Gambling :

 

Betano on-line gambling ads associate words like 'good and great' with gambling ? "are you a good player, or a great player".

  

June, 2021. The Liberal Government has enacted new Legislation that serves to assist, encourage and enable far more gambling and will greatly expand the gambling industry in Canada ? Bill C-218 opens the floodgates for legalized sports bar betting and Las Vegas style casino gambling at home or on your own personal mobile devise as never before imagined ? The Provinces are now able to regulate and tax personal wagering and single game sports betting,

www.cbc.ca/sports/single-game-betting-legalized-1.5999028

 

Jun 22, 2021 - Bill C-218 passes in the Senate - Single-event sport gambling to become legal in Canada. Betting on single games of football, hockey and other sports is to become legal in Canada.

www.cbc.ca/sports/single-event-sport-gambling-to-become-l...

 

There has been a dramatic expansion of government-owned legal gambling because of governments need to increase revenue without additional taxation ?

www.cmaj.ca/content/163/1/61

 

Province of Ontario reporting massive $1.4 billion in total gaming revenue for 1st year of sports betting

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/raptors-sports-betting-1.6...

 

A breathtaking salary ? Wonder where all that money comes from ? The founder and boss of Bet365 earned a salary of around $281 million in the last financial year ending March 26, 2023. The massive figure was described as "not sensible or proportionate” by one campaign group,

www.msn.com/en-ca/money/companies/gambling-executive-s-28...

 

'Bigger issue than doping': Canada flirting with disaster amid growth of legalized sports gambling www.cbc.ca/sports/sports-gambling-industry-canada-analysi...

 

Jul 20, 2023 - Gambling revenues up 300 % in Ontario - Ontarians wagering far more on legal online casino games than on sports betting ? Together, these wagers generated $545 million in gaming revenues. Up from $162 million last year www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-online-gaming-wagers-spo...

 

read,, "Sports betting has gone full throttle - but has it gone too far" ? www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-online-gaming-wagers-spo...

 

January 12, 2021 Atlantic Lotto plans bigger better online casinos for P.E.I. and Nova Scotia ! N.B. site launched in August raises concerns around ease of access and to higher bets ? website allows New Brunswick residents to gamble up to $500 on a hand of blackjack, or up to $100 on a single pull of a virtual slot machine, all from the privacy of their own home or mobile phone ?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-ns-casino...

 

Oct 11 2023 - Atlantic Lottery records a record profit: ‘We’re very proud’ atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/atlantic-lottery-records-record-...

 

Oct 11, 2023 Atlantic Lottery - huge Online gambling casino profits brighten Atlantic Lottery's financial picture ? CEO calls lottery tickets, "an innocent indulgence ",

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei0-atlantic...

 

2026, Atlantic Lottery - Atlantic Lottery expands their gambling interests. Their new 'Live Casino' offers real dealers and hosts live from a studio and is broadcast to your home.

www.alc.ca/content/alc/en/promos/live-casino.html

 

Dec 2023 - New NDP government led by first ever First Nations Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba will consider more First Nations-run casinos and already plan to open a new casino in Winnipeg,, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ndp-ready-to-consider-mor...

 

Apr 17 2024 - Gambling in Pro Sports ? Raptors' Jontay Porter banned from NBA for betting on games . League investigation finds player guilty of manipulating games for betting purposes

www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/nba/nba-jontay-porter-gambli...

 

apr 24 2024 - Gambling in Pro Sports ? CFL suspends Shawn Lemon indefinitely for betting on league games www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nfl/cfl-suspends-shawn-lemon-ind...

 

Oct 23, 2025 - Gambling in Pro Sports ? NBA coach and player among those arrested in massive mafia-linked sports rigging and gambling probe,

www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/nba-fbi-sports-betting-probe-...

 

It's no longer Hockey Night in Canada - Now it's Gambling night in Canada ? NHL heros past and present like Wayne Gretzky, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid can be found in TV commercials, online ads and billboards promoting online gambling ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-gambling-ads-sport...

 

Betano good and great Gambling message: A sports hero and mentor adresses young gamblers, "are you a good player or a great player ?"

www.betano.ca

 

Here’s why you see so many gambling ads on TV ? Sports betting sites and online casinos and cryptocurrency dealers are now the major TV media buyers.

www.bcbusiness.ca/industries/sports/heres-why-youve-been-...

 

Nov Dec 2023 - The Gambling help line is overwhelmed ? "the number of calls to the helpline from online gamblers has skyrocketed since April 2022 when gambling became regulated in Ontario. “It went from being a relatively small percentage of the total number of people calling to the number one reason for the call" globalnews.ca/news

 

Gambling in amateur Sports ? CBC introduces gambling in the Olympic games ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC has introduced and is including gambling in coverage of 2024 Olympic games ?

2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and a Sports betting parlor that runs betting ads during the Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by Olympic Games ?

 

Oct 10, 2024 - The Online-Betting Boom Is Ruining Sports, and Lives. In only two years, online betting has changed the face of Canadian sports, lit up gambling addiction hotlines, and siphoned billions of dollars from fans to industry and governments. It’s just getting started. macleans.ca/society/the-online-betting-boom-is-ruining-sp...

 

CBC news · Sep 08, 2025 - Young people being inundated with sports betting ads that doctors warn can be harmful . Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial calls for ads to be restricted during sports broadcasts,

www.cbc.ca/news/health/youth-sports-betting-advertisement...

 

www.cbc.ca/news/health/youth-sports-betting-advertisement...

 

Student took out a $24K student loan and lost it all to the bookies in 24 hours ? What are the legal implications of spending a student loan on something else ? That’s not just free money for you to spend on whatever you want without consequence ?

www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/10h3k46/i_just_...

 

November 20, 2025 - Senators urge that Gambling ads in Canada have to be reined in.