If you live anywhere near Toronto then you probably watch CP24. It’s only the single greatest news channel in the country. You’ve got weather, news, and traffic on the screen, at all times! Sadly it isn’t perfect and it really bothers me.

The first is the horrible CP24 breakfast. I turn on the television in the morning to catch up on news while I eat breakfast. Instead of being presented with news I am greeted with a bunch of bullshit such as a “wake up call.” Seriously? Is this a necessary part of the show? I’m sure everyone would be able to live without it. It serves no purpose. All you guys do is piss off the people you’re calling, it’s not fun and good spirited, it’s just annoying. So many times the person doesn’t answer so they simply call back. Wow? Seriously, just sell more adspace, get rid of that bullshit segment.

The second issue isn’t really one that pisses me off, but it’s one that shocks me. It’s the fact that there is no HD version of CP24. When I watch it on my TV there is so much empty space which could be utilized. I know channels aren’t free, but I’m sure that you’ll get enough viewers on the HD version to make it all worth it.

The G20 in Toronto is over and done with. I didn’t really have a problem with it, but some people did. Natalie Gray was one of them. She is some environmental activist from BC (though other sources say Montreal.) During the G20 Gray claims to have been shot by rubber bullets, sexually abused, denied medical treatment, and strip searched. She is now suing the police for a whopping 1.6 million dollars.

At first I’d like to point out that the whole “being innocent” thing doesn’t work at all. If she in fact DID come here all the way from BC then she must have had a reason for it. She is not “an innocent bystander.” She came here for a reason, and that was specifically to protest. I’m not sure what she did, but she must have done something. She claims that the officer aimed his deadly weapon and shot her twice, if it was a deadly weapon, she would have been dead. After she got shot she claimed that she wasn’t resisting arrest, yet in the video, we see her standing up. Now when a cop says “get down,” then she is in fact disobeying the cops.

Recently in court her lawyers said that she was stripped searched and asked to remove her piercings, Gray claimed that she could not do so without pliers. According to her claims, the police said to her to “try harder or else we’ll cut them off.” However, it wasn’t until the second day of the trial when Gray claimed to have been “sexually harassed.” Apparently one of the officers made a comment about “banging her” and the lawyers interpreted that as “threatening to rape her.” Right, because everyone wants to rape a fat chick who pissed herself while getting arrested.

She is seeking 1.6 million dollars out of this whole ordeal, which to me seems very unreasonable. Even IF the police did use excessive force, I don’t think her damages come anywhere close to that much. I’d give her $300,000, which is pretty fair considering that she is still fully able-bodied and wasn’t disabled because of this. But to ask for 1.6 million? Where does she think the money is coming from? Well, from her own tax dollars. It’s funny how these kinds of people protest the government, but then turn around and abuse our judicial system in order to make money.

Now some of these rebels are making up bullshit conspiracies such as “the police cars that were trashed were fakes.” Really? Fakes? The cops created perfect working replicas of the actual cop cars just for show? The left some riot gear in the car just for show? Bullshit.

I don’t get why people protest the G20 anyways, if anything people should encourage it. The G20 is when the world leaders come together to fix problems in the world. Want shit changed? Stop throwing bricks at windows and write to your MP. Write to your governor. And if you do decide to protest, then well do so. However a protest should have a purpose, if you want to legalize abortions hold up a sign that says “LEGALIZE ABORTIONS,” give out pamphlets, or talk to people. Yelling “FUCK THE POLICE” doesn’t count as protesting, it counts of being a jackass.

For everyone crying “police brutality” give me a fucking break, what we’ve seen at G20 was nowhere near police brutality.

G20 is over and gone. But how did these “peaceful protests” actually end up? Well, as predicted it ended up in riots. People were smashing windows, spray painting shit on walls, and lighting cop cars on fire; all to prove a point, whatever that might have been. This led to the closing of several stores in downtown Toronto including the Eaton’s Centre (with some hilarious results).

Now remember that protest expert I mentioned in the last post? She was back to say “the cops just stood there and did nothing as the people lit the car on fire.” She seemed to believe that every cop in the city was in some conspiracy that all the cops did was try to make a great TV show out of the riots. So she blamed all the violence on the cops instead of the people. Makes sense right?

These same people complain about police brutality. Come Sunday, the cops were making lots of arrests. We’ve all heard the testimonials “they were just standing there and doing nothing wrong.” Yeah right, everyone is always innocent. Didn’t you hear, all the people in prison are innocent too. Just because you didn’t see them doing anything doesn’t mean they did nothing wrong. Cops have said that they arrested people for what they did on Saturday. The news were bombarded with calls from people complaining about the cops.

“THEY JUST STARTED USING TEAR GAS ON US FOR NO REASON.”

Meanwhile, it was confirmed not to be tear gas.

“THERE ARE WOMEN AND SMALL CHILDREN HERE, WHY ARE THE COPS DOING THIS?”

Why the hell would you bring small children to a protest? Oh right, it’s a tactic. People seem to think that having kids there will protect them. Terrorists use this all the time. They send women and children in front of guys with rifles.

Among these, there were reports of people who were just downtown for “no reason.” Shit, why the hell would you be down there for no reason. Would you be chilling in a battlefield in Iraq for no reason? A lot of this had to do with a “law” that anyone within 5ft of the barricade was subject to a search. People were just standing around near the barricades and getting arrested, this was apparently cops being paranoid? First of all, why would you be 5ft next to a barricade? Do you go chill in front of Walmart with in intent of going inside? Secondly, ignorance to the law is not a valid reason of breaking it.

With all the insane, complaining, bullshitting hippies; we also had the complete fucking idiots. I had one friend on my Facebook post “fucking G20 ruining my plans.” I’m sorry, we’ve only known about G20 for the past few months. It’s not the government’s fault you can’t plan around it. Sure, roads were closed, stores were closed, and it was generally a bad idea to go downtown. But we all have known about it.

So in Toronto we have this event happening now called G8 and G20.You have probably heard of it, it’s when all major world leaders come together to discuss some key issues. Sounds good right? Having a bunch of people talking about how to change the world into a better place? Apparently some people disagree and choose to protest, as a result the governemt has spent 1.1 billion dollars on security of this summit.

This 1.1 billion dollars was a reason for more people to protest. CP24 had some hippy protest lady explain. “Every time we spend more and more money on security and we don’t get more and more crime.” Well miss hippy, do you think that maybe because we spend more money we don’t get more crime? She later went on to say “at worst these protestors will smash a few windows, but that’s about it.” In my opinion destroying shit isn’t a peaceful protest.

The same lady also talked about police abusing their power: taking things that could be used as weapons, looking into suspicious people, hitting the protestors, none of which were EVER reported before. The police are also using something called sound canons which apparently can cause hearing loss. Protestors are trying to sue the police to stop using them. In reality, the protestors should simply not get violent.

So I’m pretty sure we all heard it by now: that annoying buzzing sound during the FIFA World Cup games. In case you don’t already know, this sound is caused by the thousands of fans blowing something called a vuvuzela. The simple solution? Ban it! Though they’ve already tried that and it didn’t work.

It seems that the South African community complained that the vuvuzela was a part of their culture and how you can’t play soccer without it. The FIFA commission was quick to listen to the outcries, after all South Africa is the host the the event. Oh good Lord, how would anyone play soccer without annoying horns blowing all the time.

That’s another thing I don’t get, why are the horns blowing ALL THE TIME? I understand blowing the horn during a goal or save, but all the time? Isn’t that a bit excessive?

Now, we all know how loud it is on TV, just imagine how loud it is in person. Well, it’s about as loud as a power saw at 3 feet. Now imagine thousands of these power saws all around you. It’s no surprise that all this loud noise has forced people attending the games to buy ear plugs, leaving most pharmacies in the area sold out. If it’s so distracting to the fans, imagine the players. They actually have to concentrate during the game. Some people were even as disrespectful as blowing them during national anthems.

So what can be done about these vuvuzelas? Well there are dozens of online petitions going around. They did start making quieter vuvuzelas, so hopefully that will help. Certain TV stations are also thinking of running  the audio feed through a filter to remove/reduce the noise of the vuvuzela. Godspeed.