You are presumed to be honest and responsible without evidence to the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt… on the balance of probablilties you are justified by 51 % likelyhood.
There are about 97,000 serving members of the regular army and reserves from the 2021 census.
Veterans
The 2021 census also counted nearly half a million veterans of which 75,000 are women, that’s about 16 per cent of the counted vets. Fully 1/3 are from 25 years to 54 years, and 4 of 10 are over 65.
Minorities
There are about 5 percent of now serving CAF members that are indigenous and 2.8 percent black,2.5 percent Chinese,2.3 Asian 1.4 Filipino,1.2 Latin American, making minorities more then a token of the serving force in 2021.
Published newspapers and periodicals have editoral staff and letters to the editors are a good way to get your message out. your submission will be curate in some ways, probably for briefity and accuracy on facts but your opinion as a view should remain.
Editors have time constraints and being sensitive to those will help. research the publication time and make the maximum effort to use that to advantage.
Letters to the editor are an effective way to express your views and opinions about specific topics in published newspapers and periodicals. They provide an opportunity for readers to engage with the publication and share their perspectives on various issues. While submitting a letter to the editor, it is important to keep a few things in mind:
Be concise: Editors often have limited space to allocate for letters, so it’s crucial to keep your submission brief and to the point. Focus on your main message and avoid unnecessary details or tangents.
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Remember, letters to the editor provide an opportunity for you to contribute your viewpoint and engage with your community. By following these tips, you can increase your chances of having your letter published and making an impact through your message.
Local paper reports on strike !
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It never hurts to buy an add when doing this as publication and editorial are separate in published works. They make an issue of it.
The British Columbia municipalities convention is on in Vancouver at this moment. Convention host Anne Kang is engaged with the work of work of overseeing her first convention has the host. The convention theme is balancing act, Anne is also the minister of municipal affairs in the British Columbia government and it’s been a member of the ubcm for 15 years.
Discussions untill this time have included the decriminalization of illicit drugs and it’s difficulties and $40,000 forgivable loans to build suites on single-family dwellings.
Both items are typified as crisis.The group hosted a housing summit earlier and this is the 20th year since and drug laws were liberalized in BC.
Declaritive forum
The UBCM is a forum for discussion and getting together of municipalities across a province it will be passing resolutions that are declarative in nature and are sometimes brought back to the legislature or to the home jurisdictions of all the mayors and councils in BC. On the agenda is resolution in respect to difficulties in getting permits and to access annual allowable cuts for the forest industry.
James a Veteran NCO of the British air force, spoke of losing a son to possible Covid-19. James is concerned about staffing in the local Hospital, in particular the lack of an Ultrasound. James resides in Lower Nicola an unincorporated area west of Merritt BC, Ca, with a different postal code.
So, this is a solemn week ending on Friday with the remembrance Day observances.
The armistice was signed before laying down of arms at the 11th day of the 11th month after 11:00 hour.
So, it is on us to remember the sacrifice of people who secured our freedom over time with the military forces. However it shouldn’t be a lecture, it should be just a getting together and agreeing on the sense that sometimes over time things haven’t worked out and force was required. And that we can benefit from observing the slippery slope that brought that into being in the past.
Then taking a sober view of the remembrance knowing that it can incite all kinds of old wounds if the agreement isn’t widespread that it should never happen again.
So good luck with that, as I leave you with a quote from the character Sandra Bullock played in the movie Gravity. When she was in terrible Jeopardy trying to get away from a falling apart space station,she said I know that we all die and with tears she went on to say but I’m going to die right now.
How to live on properly.
To expound on her feeling yes everybody does die, but how they die is important,not leaving baggage, chaos or conflict, but a peace presence of thoughts of you is a noble charge.