The economic down-turn and Canada

May 5, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

By Allan Chinnery

It is now official that Canada is in a depression as deep as any that it had been in before.  The Bank of Canada interest rate at 0.25% tells you that they are scared —-less and see no solution to the problem.  However there is a bigger problem.

The smart money, that of judges and lawyers was invested offshore because with Canadas judiciary it is not safe to keep it in Canada.  Such investments lost much of their equity when the banks started going down.  Most notable of interest to members of the Canadian Bar Association would have been UBS and the British banks.

Oh well, that is the nature of the investment game and it had a better chance of survivng there than being raided by Canada’s judges and tax department.  But it is high time Canada came up with a stimulus package for Canada’s divorce industry.

There are rumors floating around among the women of Canada that just stamping their pretty little feet does not add to the national product or in anyway raise the standard of living for Canadians.  What is worse, a few way-out-there females are actually saying it might be possible that Mr. Judge stomping his $400 dollar shoes and blustering about the power of his prison gangs will not produce wealth for anyone in Canada.

These terrible and seditious rumors have caused a serious slowdown in the divorce industry making it almost impossible for the afore-mentioned investors to recoup their losses.  It has been said that there are women in Canada that are working in and outside of the home, maintaining their credit ratings, being financially responsible.  I even heard of one who, for the good of her family, was driving a 5 year old car.

No wonder the auto industry is broken.  As you can see these untruths about how money is made are destroying the whole economy and are putting the judiciary’s credibility and powers into disrepute.

Stevie and the boys should immediately hold a secret meeting on how to infuse millions of dollars into the domestic violence sector to get these heretical ideas from the minds of Canadian women.  Failure to do this will undermine the power of judges blustering and foot stomping as well as perhaps resulting in calluses on the hands of members of the Law Society.

Such things will destroy the Canada that we have known for the last 20 years as it will fall backward in time to a place requiring effort not effect.

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Allan Chinnery is an expunged, squeezed-dry father who survives by working as a gardener for about ten to 15 hours a week.

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Why Men Earn More

April 9, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The pay gap between what men and women earn continues to be in the news. New legislation that aims at eliminating that pay gap is constantly and repeatedly being put into force.  Yet, as Warren Farrell explained in a 2005 speech at the Cato Institute, there are very good reasons for the pay gap.

The pay gap, where it exists, is due to women’s choices.  On the other hand, when women work just as men do — never marry, don’t have children, work in risky, stressful jobs, as many hours as never-married, childless men work at those jobs — women not only earn equal pay, they earn more than their male counterparts do, more by a considerable margin.

If you are interested in that issue and its causes, watch the video clips identified by the following.

mensnewsdaily.com
Apr 8, 2009

Why Men Earn More
By Bernard Chapin

What follows is a series of video segments from Dr. Warren Farrell’s 2005 speech at the Cato Institute entitled “Why Men Earn More.” I thank Argus Eyes for posting this last fall. A reader reminded me of it the other day. I was not yet writing the daily blog at the time in which it was originally published so I could not link back to it. By the way, if you’re not familiar with Argus Eyes check out some of his other videos and don’t forget to subscribe if you like him. He’s a fine fellow. Here’s Part I: (Full Story)

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US Government censors its own report that debunks the gender-wage-gap myth

March 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The following two excerpts from a couple of articles illustrate an instance of government censorship of information that has had a major impact on the promotion of pro-female and anti-male labour legislation.

Rather than using the truth to debunk the need for that intended legislation, the US Government pushed through the passage of that anti-male and discriminatory legislation, while at the same time removing all pointers to the report that had already been published prior to any attempts to have the legislation pass. The truth is now hidden, and the legislation that ostensibly but falsely and unjustifiably addresses non-existent inequities in wages and salaries paid to women now has the force of the law.

1. US Chamber of Commerce

January 28, 2009

Reasons for Wage Disparity - The Missing Report

by Mike Eastman

Earlier this month (before the end of President Bush’s term), the Labor Department released a report called An Analysis of the Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women – it was prepared by a contractor, the CONSAD Research Corporation and included a forward written by the Labor Department.

When the report was released, it was posted on the “highlights” section of the OFCCP’s web site (the OFCCP is part of the Labor Department’s Employment Standards Administration).The link to the file was www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/Gender_Wage_Gap_Final_Report.pdf but don’t click just yet.

After the change in administration, we noticed that the report has been removed from the Labor Department’s web site. The previous link does not function and other searches on the DOL site have not been successful at finding any reference to the report.This report is very timely – the House has already passed two bills, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, dealing with pay equity issues – one of those bills could be signed into law by the end of this week. We are disturbed that the DOL would take this step while Congress is considering these important issues – especially in light of the President’s call for a “new era of openness” in government.

Today, we filed this Freedom of Information Act request to receive an “official” copy of the report in addition to all records related to the Department’s decision to remove the report from its web site. You don’t have to wait for a response though, we fortunately have a saved copy of the analysis, take a look….(Full Story)

2. Renew America

March 12, 2009

Obama’s first cover-up: the gender wage gap myth

By Carey Roberts

Liberals never tire of convincing persons to believe they are victims in dire need of a government hand-out. But this time it’s a case of outright mendacity aided by the concealment of a high-level government official.

During the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton repeatedly made the claim that women suffer from pay discrimination. Barack Obama’s website likewise asserted, “Despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. Throughout his career, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have championed the right of women to receive equal pay for equal work.”

It was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who engineered the recent passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Act. And just a few weeks ago Rep. George Miller of California made the red-meat assertion that women earn “78 cents for every dollar that is earned by a man doing the same job with the same responsibilities.”

Democrats call it as the “gender wage gap,” but I prefer to think of it as the “scare-the-female-electorate-into-submission” ploy. Claims about sex-based wage discrimination have been repeated so often that many Americans simply accept them as fact. But a recently published — and quickly suppressed — study reveals a different picture.

Titled “An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women,” the report tallies the results of over 50 studies. No one questions the fact that on average, men are paid more than women. But turns out this is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

The paper concludes the 20-cent odd wage difference is not caused by discrimination. Rather it’s women exercising their right to make lifestyle choices. What choices are we talking about?

1. A greater percentage of women chose to work part-time.

2. Women may opt to leave the work force for childbirth, child care, or elder care.

3. Women are often willing to accept a lower paying job in return for family-friendly policies that allow them to have fewer hours, flexible schedules, and a shorter commute.

In addition, women work fewer hours than men. According to an article posted on the Department of Labor website, “Among full-time workers, 24% of the men, compared to 10% of the women, usually worked more than 40 hours per week:” http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/06/art4full.pdf

And then the fact that men tend to work in occupations that are far more likely to injure, maim, or kill….(Full Story)

The US Government is not the first to engage in such a cover-up. There was a similar cover-up of a government-published study report that debunked the wage gap myth. That was during the early 1990’s, in Canada. The report that was covered up then, after it had originally been published at the website of Statistics Canada, was a study report by Ted Wannell and Nathalie Caron, commissioned by Statistics Canada, “THE GENDER EARNINGS GAP AMONG RECENT POSTSECONDARY GRADUATES, 1984-92″ (11F0019MPE No. 68, ISBN: 0-662-22499-X).

Abstract:

This study attempts to compare the earnings of men and women on an equal footing by concentrating on recent postsecondary graduates and using survey data on a number of earnings-related characteristics. The data cover three graduating classes of university and community college students: 1982, 1986 and 1990. These data indicate that the gender earnings gap among graduates has narrowed in recent years. In fact among the most recent class, we found that female university graduates are rewarded slightly better than their male counterparts after controlling for experience, job tenure, education and hours of work. A small gender gap persists among community college graduates: about three-and-a-half percent on an hourly wage basis. For all graduates, the earnings gap tended to increase with age, even after controlling for previous work experience….(Full Story)

Carey Roberts, in his article on the wage-gap myth and on the US Government’s efforts to promote that myth and to keep it alive, marvels that,

Claims about sex-based wage discrimination have been repeated so often that many Americans simply accept them as fact. But a recently published — and quickly suppressed — study reveals a different picture.

Nevertheless, even if such revelations of the truth about such persistent myths (there are many comparable myths, such as the age-old canard about male violence) would not be so extremely and purposely short-lived, there is one aspect of such propaganda that must never be forgotten:

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan….

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.

—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter VI

There it is. The task of successful propaganda “is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly,” and therefore includes deliberate censorship of the truth.

–Walter

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2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family

February 2, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

New York Times
January 29, 2009

2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family

By EMILY BAZELON

At 5:45 a.m. on a recent weekday morning, Fran McElhill padded into her kitchen, in square-framed glasses and a knee-length cotton nightgown, and put on the day’s first pot of coffee. While it brewed, she sorted laundry — pencil jeans for her slight 7-year-old daughter, Lili, Nike T-shirts for 10-year-old MeiLin. When the girls woke up, their long hair matted from sleep, Fran gave them each a mug of Campbell’s vegetable soup and parked them in front of Nickelodeon so she could get dressed for her job as a lawyer at a regional New Jersey firm….

In 1960, unmarried mothers accounted for about 5 percent of births in the United States. Now they are having almost 40 percent of the country’s babies….(Full Story)

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Kids are being “damaged” by mums going to work!

February 2, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

TopNews.in (India)
02/02/2009

Submitted by Mohit Joshi

London, Feb 2 : A new survey suggests that kids are being “damaged” with more and more mothers going to work.

It has been said that the growing economic independence of women from their male partners is contributing to family break-ups.

As per the report from The Church of England-affiliated Children’s Society and the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams’, more mums with babies just under a year old are working, and carers are looking after their kids.

About seventy per cent of the mothers of 9-12 month-old babies do some paid work compared to a quarter 25 years ago, and family break-ups are up, with a third of 16-year-olds now living apart from their biological dad, reports the Sun….(Full Story)

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Mums suffer separation anxiety too

January 20, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

The Sydney Morning Herald
20 January 2009

By Catharine Munro

As I switch roles and become the parent leaving for work, I can’t even
score a cute little wave in response to my faux-brave calls of “bye, bye”.
Instead I am the target of the baby stare as she glides off in her father’s
arms to the car for a busy day of beach, supermarket and kid-shuttling….(Full Story)

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F4L: I read the whole article and was reminded of a little poem that was often told to me in a sing-song voice when I was about 4 years old, in 1940.  The poem can be adapted to wean just about any child that age from the habit of being greedy, unsatisfied and what have you:

Little Cathy doesn’t-know-what has everything she wants,
And what she has she doesn’t want,
And what she wants she doesn’t have.
Little Cathy doesn’t-know-what has everything she wants.

I wonder if Catharine Munro is a true feminist who is in touch and miraculously connected with all other women; have them feel what she feels and she feeling what they do.

That can hardly be so.  If she truly were so connected would she not feel what other women feel, what feminism promised: The joys of motherhood - undisturbed by her husband and father of her child; the liberated feeling of being beholden to no man, and being able to earn her own living on her own (even though her husband contributes generously through baby-sitting services and the other household chores he does); the pride of being able to do everything that needs doing in the home, as well or better as any man could?

But would she not also feel what other women not so liberated as she is feel: To love a man and be loved back by him, to be able to devote herself to her child without having to rush off to work; to have a husband do all of the things that husbands do in addition to working a full-time job earning the income for their family, to love him for it and again to be loved back by him for being appreciated?

Even if she were thus connected and were to get mixed messages, should she not be grateful for having the liberty of doing everything she wants, whenever she wants, whether she is a stay-at-home mom or whether at a given moment her husband is a stay-at-home dad?

She should feel that way, because she would also be connected with all those other liberated women for whom the liberty promised by feminism, the freedom to have it all, brought nothing but misery, varying degrees of poverty and disappointment that the liberty of having it all means that such women have to do it all — by themselves, and that work that one must do by oneself, with no one to help or take over, is slavery, not freedom, not only everlasting and wearying but just simply too much for one woman all by herself.

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Equal Rights for Men: Affirmative action firing and hiring

December 14, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

Are things fair in that respect? No, they aren’t, not for as long as a man’s family depends on what he earns, as long as there are not equal numbers of waiters and waitresses, and as long as there are not equal numbers of men and women working as miners and construction workers.

The Boston Globe

2008 12 05

Losing jobs in unequal numbers

By Robert Gavin

1,069,000 fewer men are working than a year ago. 12,000 more women are working.

The careers of Neal Boyle and Scott Hacker couldn’t be more different. Boyle, whose education ended with high school, worked 20 years crushing rocks at the US Gypsum plant in Charlestown. Hacker, who holds an MBA, changed firms several times as he moved up the management ranks in New England’s financial services industry.

But today they find themselves in the same place: laid off and looking for work. And together they represent the face of the current recession, one that is overwhelmingly male.

Men are losing jobs at far greater rates than women as the industries they dominate, such as manufacturing, construction, and investment services, are hardest hit by the downturn. Some 1.1 million fewer men are working in the United States than there were a year ago, according to the Labor Department. By contrast, 12,000 more women are working….(Full Story)

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International Men’s Day

December 8, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

It is too late now to celebrate International Men’s Day (IMD) in 2008, on Nov. 19, but it is not too late to get ready to celebrate it in 2009.

This year the Australian organization Dads 4 Kids joined Save Indian Family in promoting IMD. It appears that IMD has not yet been declared to be officially recognized by any country in the world. However, some men’s- and fathers rights organizations throughout the world are working hard to get that done.

There is a video of an announcement by Warwick Marsh of Dads 4 Kids, Australia, urging organizations and anyone throughout the world to become involved in joining and promoting the celebration of IMD. I found that video at http://www.internationalmensday.com/, a website that is owned by Warwick Marsh. (Here is a comparable 2007 statement by Save Indian Family, on YouTube.)

Warwick Marsh explains that the day for celebrating IMD, Nov. 19, is fortuitous, as that day is also the day of remembrance of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney.The HMAS Sydney, a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)), sank on Nov. 19, 1941, “with the loss of all 645 hands, which represented the greatest loss of life in an Australian warship, and the largest Allied vessel to sink with all hands during the war.” (Source: Wikipedia)

Therefore it may be a good reason for Australians to celebrate IMD on Nov. 19. However, internationally, the date is not yet quite fixed.

The sinking of ships is rare. Voluntary sacrifices by men are far more common. It is the nature of men to sacrifice their lives to save women and children or — far more common yet — to die to merely keep women and children safe and comfortable. Still, it may be appropriate that, in celebrating IMD, a date should be chosen to commemorate a single instant of voluntary sacrifices in massive numbers made by men during the sinking of a ship. The sinking of the Titanic comes to mind, 1912 04 15, at 02:20 hrs.

The behaviour of the men on the Titanic is an example of what men do when the lives of women and children are in danger. In such circumstances, even in peace times, men eagerly and without much hesitation selflessly and voluntarily sacrifice their lives to save those of women and children. Moreover, the sinking of the Titanic has less of a national and more of an international nature of men’s magnanimity in saving women and children.

Women and children are not usually present on ships of war, as it would be uncharacteristic of men to demand that women and children risk their lives in the service of others to the same extent men do that. The deaths of the men on the HMAS Sydney were due to enemy action (the enemy in that case being comprised of German sailors who killed Australian sailors). The sinking of the Titanic had nothing to do with war, winners or losers.

In the sinking of the Titanic, 1,352 men, 96 women and four children lost their lives; 338 men, 316 women and 57 children were saved. (The Men of the Titanic Disaster)

The circumstances and current status of International Men’s Day in various nations were once well explained at Wikipedia (here is a ghost of that, the archived Feb. 27, 2008 entry of the definition), but now no longer so. World-wide, and if all men wish to say “me too”, then great efforts should be made by many men to have that day of celebration, so many decades after the world’s women got their International Women’s Day. How are men to do that? At Wikipedia, no man but men like Michael Flood, a manhater, gets permanent attention.

Feminism is socialism’s primary tool for re-engineering humanity and civilization. There are many forms and varieties of feminism, but the unifying thread that runs through virtually all of them is that when one examines their ideological roots, one always arrives back at the “gospel” according to Marx and Engels and their primary object of attention, the Status of Women. Marx and Engels were the first to popularize the term “status of women”. Ever since then, self-respecting feminists, especially of the Marxist or radical or socialist variety, religiously adhered to and promoted any and all dogmata pertaining to the well-being of the Status of Women.

Mothers Day wasn’t good enough for the feminists. They needed not only a day to celebrate women with children, they needed in addition to celebrate women, whether those women had children or not. They needed the worship of the uterus. Therefore it should not surprise anyone that International Women’s Day began like this:

Started as a political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries (primarily Russia and the countries of [the]former Soviet bloc). In some celebrations, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love to the women around them in a way somewhat similar to Mother’s Day and St Valentine’s Day mixed together. In others, however, the political and human rights theme as designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

The IWD is also celebrated as the first spring holiday, as in the listed countries the first day of March is considered the first day of the spring season….

The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Now, we all know what has happened since then. To elevate someone to a pedestal causes discrimination. In the case of IWD, the discrimination became a war against men and the traditional nuclear family, and that is exactly what the socialists wanted, to cause dissent between the sexes and to create a rift between them. That rift already existed in the early 20th century and steadily deepened ever since, but a rift is not all. From the chivalry of the Victorian Age and its voluntary serfdom to women, men were made to jump into the mandatory slavery demanded by feminists and their fellow travellers.

Men’s average life expectancy, after being about the same as that of women in the developed nations at the beginning of the 20th century, fell more and more behind that of women. Now it is on average five years less than that of women, and as much as close to 14 years behind that of women in some of the developed nations, depending on for how long and how severely socialism has been at work in a given nation.

So, there is no doubt in my mind that International Women’s Day, given its origin as a political event (that was and still is its purpose), has done men a lot of harm and grief but not only men. Married women and their children who stick by their men and fathers suffer as well, as do even more so the vast majority of those who were enticed by easy divorces that followed and their children. Divorced women and their children wanted it all, and unless they went through a succession of new “husbands”, found instead that they had to do it all. It seems to me that the celebration of women on International Women’s day is not truly that but a wake for the traditional nuclear family.

Do men now want to fight back by having the governments of the world launch a day of celebration that will have a comparable impact on women, their husbands and fathers of their children? Is that why men now say, “me too”?

The reality of it all is that for good reasons no two legal-aid lawyers work on opposite sides of the same divorce or child custody case. For similar reasons it causes all governments problems to elevate women and men onto pedestals. If money and efforts are to be wasted, let the women do it — quite a few of them are good at it, as many a man can tell, especially those who were expunged from their families and need to pay child-support extortion (a.k.a. alimony in disguise) for their “right” to have been robbed of their children.

Such days of celebration don’t produce the results that the masses are made to expect, but they serve the politicians and the bureaucracy well, in as much that anything of that nature that the government gets its finger into, to promote and control, gets invariably fouled up (and that always being good for an expansion of the bureaucracy). That is what caused the fall of the Roman Empire, and it most certainly is causing our fall right now.

Instead of having government-sponsored and -promoted days of celebrating one or the other sex, let’s have more power for parents and more of the teaching of respect for them in school and at home, as well as the teaching of mutual respect between the sexes. Government-sponsored days of tax-payer-funded celebrations for one sex or the other won’t create even once a year for one day what we need to have all year around. What the government makes a duty will soon be perceived to be a chore by many who will not ever get to see it as their obligation.

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The 1989 Montreal Massacre in the context of men’s sacrifices

December 7, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

A message from Jeffrey Asher To Fathers for Life

7 December 2008

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your informative web site.  You may find the data below useful.  I have included source web sites.

Yours appreciatively,

Jeffrey Asher.

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Please forgive this lengthy comment. Please offer this data to others.

I propose another view of Canadian deaths, which are mourned only by monuments in the towns where they died.   Please place these deaths in the context of 14 women killed by a psychopath, which never happened before or since.  All men and women condemned that massacre.

The death toll of the men below remains ongoing. They die to provide their families with security and prosperity.

• 1873 Drummond Colliery Disaster, Westville -   60-70 deaths
• 1880 Ford Pit Explosion, Stellarton, -   50 deaths
• 1891 Springhill Mine Disaster, -   125 deaths
• 1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster, Alberta -    189 men died.
• 1917 Dominion No. 12 Colliery Explosion, New Waterford, -  65 deaths
• 1918 Albion Mine Explosion, Stellarton -   88 deaths
• 1938 Sydney Mines cable break in mine shaft -   20 deaths
• 1956 Springhill Explosion -   39 deaths
• 1958 Springhill Bump - 75 deaths
• 1982 The Ocean Ranger drilling rig Grand Banks Newfoundland – 84 deaths. All drowned in freezing water.
• 1992 Westray Coal Mine Explosion, Nova Scotia -  26 deaths

Omitted from this toll is the annual murder toll of men, at least twice that of women.

In 2005, the count of deaths on the job was 1,097, a historic maximum.  Few Canadians know that 97% of those deaths are men.  That means 33 women and 1,064 men killed at work.

Men who died fighting to preserve Canadian democracy

• The Boer War - 261
• War World War I – 64,944
• World War II – 42,042
• The Korean War – 516
• War in Afghanistan – 100 and ongoing.
• Female battle deaths to date: 1.

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From: Why I Won’t Wear a White Ribbon

By Jeffrey Asher

Job-caused deaths amount to about 800 per year in Canada. 97% of those deaths are men. That is typical of industrial nations.

Workplace equity is not imposed for the hazardous occupations in the mining, oil, logging, transportation, and construction industries.  Canadians grieved over the deaths of 26 miners in the Westray mine explosion of May 1992.  Since Confederation, over 1200 miners died in the Maritimes mines, and many more of pulmonary suffocation and cancers.  Few Canadians understand those tragedies as typical of centuries of work deaths.

Men commit their bodies and lives to compete for labour in the marketplace, as the irreplaceable financial support for their extended families.   A man is still expected to preserve his wife and children from the insecurity and deprivations caused by poverty.  The burdens on men of an erratic economy have rarely been examined by the media or social scientists.  Husbands and fathers blame themselves for low income, job loss, bankruptcy, and family poverty….

Fathers’ loyalty and sense of duty to their families are paid for with their physical and mental health, and years cut off their lives….

Vancouver and many other cites commissioned monuments dedicated to: “…all the women who have been murdered by men.”  What would be the public or legal reaction if those gender terms were replaced with a religious or racial slander?

No monument has been proposed for the devoted fathers and husbands who supported their families with work in mines, construction, as police officers, deep-sea fishermen or  (mostly volunteer) firefighters. They risk their lives every day.  Canadian soldiers stare death in the face as they remove land mines in the Balkans to save the lives of strangers, or rescue Afghanis from terrorists.  They are heroes, and we owe them respect and honour.”

(Full Article)

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• Ocean Ranger

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger

The ODECO Ocean Ranger was a semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit that sank in Canadian waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well in the Grand Banks area, 166 miles east of St. John’s, Newfoundland … with 84 crew members on board when it sank. There were no survivors of the accident. All drowned in freezing water….

Google search for “Ocean Ranger“

• Piper Alpha

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform … An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6, 1988, killing 167 men. [The 167 men who died were blasted, drowned and burned to death.] … To date it is the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in terms both of lives lost and impact to industry. At the time of the disaster the platform accounted for around ten per cent of the oil and gas production from the North Sea.

Please view video and photos of Piper Alpha.

Google search: Miners Canada Disaster

• Men in the Mines: A History of Mining Activity in Nova Scotia, 1720-1992

Disasters in the Mines

The miner’s life has always been a dark, dangerous and precarious one, carried out in the earth’s margins and depths, usually far underground — and in the case of Nova Scotia’s coal mines, frequently in dank subterranean tunnels stretching for kilometres out beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Sweat from the miner’s brow has often been mingled with blood on the coal or gold.

Miners live with death as a constant threat, and are frequently the victims of underground tragedies — dust explosions, falling coal and rock, asphyxiation from gas; still others drown, are caught in machinery, or are run over by coal cars. Above ground, coal miners die from silicosis, black lung and other related diseases caused by breathing coal dust, while gold miners fall victim to silicosis as well, and sometimes to arsenic poisoning.

Over nearly three centuries of mining activity in Nova Scotia, countless numbers of miners and quarrymen have been killed in disasters large and small. Major coal-mining catastrophes in the last 130 years include:

• Drummond Colliery Disaster, Westville, 1873 (60-70 deaths)
• Foord Pit Explosion, Stellarton, 1880 (50 deaths)
• Springhill Mine Disaster, 1891 (125 deaths)
• Dominion No. 12 Colliery Explosion, New Waterford, 1917 (65 deaths)
• Albion Mine Explosion, Stellarton, 1918 (88 deaths) cable break in mine shaft
• Sydney Mines, 1938 (20 deaths)
• Springhill Explosion, 1956 (39 deaths)
• Springhill Bump, 1958 (74 or 75 deaths)
• Westray Coal Mine Explosion, Plymouth, 1992 (26 deaths)

while the most memorable gold-mining accident is the Moose River Mine Disaster of 1936….

 (Full Story)

• Hillcrest Mine Disaster - Centennial Commemoration 19 June 1914

The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died.

http://members.tripod.com/~coalminersmemorial/hillcrestminedisaster.html

http://www.coalking.ca/challenges/major_hillcrest.html

• Springhill Mine Disasters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springhill_Mining_Disaster

1891 Fire

Springhill’s first mining disaster, the 1891 Fire, occurred at approximately 12:30pm AST on Saturday, February 21, 1891 … a fire caused by accumulated coal dust swept through both shafts killing 125 miners and injuring dozens more.

1956 Explosion

The 1956 Explosion occurred on November 1, 1956 …The resulting explosion blew up the slope to the surface where the additional oxygen created a massive blast which leveled the bankhead on the surface - …

In a show of heroics, Draegermen (rescue miners) and barefaced miners (no breathing equipment) entered the 6,100 foot deep shaft of No. 4 to aid their co-workers. In total 88 miners were rescued, but 39 were killed in the explosion. Media coverage of the 1956 explosion was largely overshadowed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary on October 24, 1956. However, Canadian and local media did offer extensive coverage of the

1958 Bump

The 1958 Bump which occurred on October 23, 1958 was the most severe “bump”, or underground earthquake, in North American mining history and devastated the people of Springhill with the casualties it took, and devastated the town: the mines had been the town’s economic lifeblood, and were never reopened following the disaster. …

Of the 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at the time of the bump, 74 were killed and 100 trapped but eventually rescued.

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I have not included disability, maiming or death toll of men who risk their lives daily as: construction & demolition workers, roofers, fire fighters, police, prison guards, truck drivers, farmers, loggers, power machine operators, radioactive industries, meat processing, heavy industry, soldiers.

Jeffrey Asher

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Comment by F4L:

Professor Jeffrey Asher was the first Canadian lecturer (at Dawson College, Montreal) who offered a men’s studies course.  He was also the first to be forced to leave employment by his school (in the year 2000) for the “crime” of teaching it.

• Men’s studies’ professor leaves job, citing feminist putschDawson College Administration had cancelled his courses and reassigned him 2 1/2 months ago, by Neil Seeman, National Post, August 16, 2000
• FEMINISM CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
  Jeffrey Asher transcripts from CKNW Radio Interview - Aug 23 2000

Comments and links to articles related to the issues brought up by Jeffrey Asher:

• During the preceding century about 100,000 men died in mining disasters and mining accidents throughout the world.
• Average life expectancies, by sex, various countries in the world
• US Job fatalities for selected occupations: Police, protective services, guards, firefighting
• Death by Numbers
• Gamil Gharbi (a.k.a. Marc Lepine) and propaganda, December 6, 2008, by Walter Schneider.

Please do as Jeffrey Asher asks.  Spread this information around. Send the link to this posting to your friends.  Print the posting and give copies of it to your friends who don’t have Internet access.

–Walter

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Probation in husband’s shooting

October 18, 2008 by Walter Schneider.

The Courier News

Wife gets 48 months’ probation in husband’s shooting

October 17, 2008
By DAVID GIALANELLA Staff Writer

ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP — A Huntley woman who authorities said shot her husband after a day of drunken arguments pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge in connection with the January 2007 incident.

Virginia Choromanski, 67, of 12700 block of Woodgrove Drive, agreed with prosecutors to a 48-month probation term in exchange for pleading guilty to one count of aggravated domestic battery….(Full Story)

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