Ontario is taking steps to introduce gender neutral birth certificates. At the moment, there is work being done to ensure these legal documents will be accepted in other jurisdictions. If it wasn鈥檛 already, inherently, obvious: we have lost our minds. The plumbing you are born with is what needs to be used for legal identification. If, later in the life, you wish to change your gender or do something that makes you genderless then you can do so and the rest of us will respect that. But, legally, absolutely not. Imagine the person goes missing and a description needs to go out. Worse yet, imagine this individual is a criminal and needs to be assigned a male or female jail. I suppose that will be next. Non-binary prisons. I鈥檓 sure there will be no manipulation to get into one of those. It鈥檚 gotten me to wonder why do we even have birth certificates? It鈥檚 not cool to know the year someone was born. That鈥檚 nobody鈥檚 business. And, who cares what town you were born in so long as it鈥檚 Canada?聽 Nothing more needs to be said. Now that I think about it, birth certificates are offensive. Just ban them. What鈥檚 really happened is we鈥檝e lost our ability to tell people 鈥榥o鈥�.
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar found himself in hot water for using a word that is deemed to be homophobic after he struck out in a game against Atlanta. Before you jump to conclusions, I鈥檓 not condoning the use of the word; but suspending him seems silly to me. Is that what we will do now every time two guys exchange words? 鈥淵our Mom wears army boots.鈥� Need to suspend him because some players out there may not have a mother and a phrase like that could cause tremendous mental anguish for a professional athlete. I guess it鈥檚 not enough to look at a guy like Pillar and just make up your own mind if he鈥檚 the type of person you wish to cheer for or not. The word isn鈥檛 illegal. Insensitive, sure.聽 Does it indicate what type of human you are?聽 Definitely. But, you can鈥檛 suspend people for being bad humans otherwise there wouldn鈥檛 be many professional athletes left.
I realize this is a dead horse, but the roads in this city are deplorable. I drive in a lot of different cities and towns across Saskatchewan and we should be embarrassed.聽 Yes, it costs money and times are tough; but what a sad state we are in. I鈥檓 debating creating a Facebook page to have people vote for the worst street in Yorkton and maybe we can enact real change and get one street a year completely redone, properly. 聽
The decision to close 7th in favor of a lumber yard continues to look more and more ridiculous. Forget the fact you have plastic bags and similar type garbage blowing around downtown (I saw one in a tree that was so high up, it鈥檚 never ever coming down) or the fact you have streetlights just tossed to the ground very close to the sidewalk (apparently, this is acceptable beautification). But, closing off 7th and then spending however many years it鈥檚 been now on Dracup has resulted in massive logjams on 8th and 6th because there are no stop lights. Not to mention the condition of 8th is worse than a Dominican backwoods trail. I鈥檓 also thankful that 6th was repaved last year (for selfish reasons). But, it wouldn鈥檛 have been on my top five list of streets to fix. I don鈥檛 know how much longer officials can ignore the landmine that is the merge lane from Broadway onto Highway 9 麻豆视频.
Furthermore, these scattered reports I鈥檓 getting from newer businesses being pressured by City Hall to bring their surroundings up to beautification code lack credibility to me when there are other businesses that have had a lot of time to straighten out and just aren鈥檛 complying. I look at my own situation, where I was given 10 days to ensure tree branches were four metres high and not at all infringing on the back lane. There are many city streets where this is very stipulation goes ignored, but maybe it鈥檚 only a bylaw for homeowners and not the city itself. Who cares if branches hit the top of the truck on Dunlop Street, for example. And, then there are many other back lanes who are breaking the bylaw, but for some reason it was me that got singled out.
Here鈥檚 my other road gripe: last week I was driving on Highway 10 near Melville and came across a 60km sign because of construction. It was a good 5km before I saw anything at all and then it was one half ton truck working in the ditch and not on the highway. Then, later in the week, I am travelling on the same highway with no signs anywhere and an entire crew working on the shoulder of the road. 聽
Nice person mentions this week: Jessica Riley, Tracey Alcorn, Rob Kozak, Lea Nakonechny, and Brent Zimmer.
