Panhandlers in Canada?

Do we have panhandlers in Canada? I don't know about it or any story about panhandlers or panhandling in Canada. Their strategy here is different from other countries.

Every Christmas, Salvation Army had their transparent glass or plastic kettles hanging from their outpost and they have somebody dressed nicely and neatly standing by the doors main entrance or exit doors on every department stores or malls (big box stores).

You can see on every roads and streets on cold weather situation in any city of their choice about these group of Rotarians asking for donations before Christmas.

TV News Network asking donation of any kind of toys for their TOY MOUNTAIN gift-giving for children.

Sometimes, group of sports club and their players stood by at the cashier's till section and asked shoppers politely if they can help in bagging their groceries and you as customers will have to donate money for them. The smallest amount of money being donated is $5.00 for bagging groceries at your convenience. $5 for few minutes of work. Others are generous giving more than what they can afford to give. Remember they made more money because the minimum wage is now $15/hour in Ontario.

There are so many CHARITIES IN CANADA and some of the founders are rich, wealthy people. They don't need to work, they just have to command their people to do the work for them to ask donations for their cause.

For the poor doing the fundraising or asking money or donations in kind it's called PANHANDLING.
For the rich or well to do families asking donations in terms of money and in kind it's called CHARITY.

Some people hate panhandlers because they are POOR!
They love Charity because they are RICH people asking for donations.

News Tidbits

The wind storm has just returned once again. I couldn't believe that we are experiencing too much of this bad weather since the first week of December. It's almost non-stop wind storm. Instead of snowstorm it's windstorm. It's already 9 am and yet it is quite dark outside. Some houses  already have problem with roof leaks. What kind of water is falling from the sky? Supposedly the roof shingles on most part of the houses within BC are tough and durable and could withstand the test of time for century. Acid rain probably been the culprit to this kind of weather.

I suggested to my husband to watch Mission Impossible: Fallout. Instead he watched the old movie PROMETHEUS starring Charlize Theron. Too many old movies to watch on TV and they are free.

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Currently the news on TV is about those hackers and spies from China. Allegedly two hackers targeted Canada and America in their hacking and spying.
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Canada, US, 10 Allies condemned China of hacking and espionage
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Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir  (Olympic Champs) named "Athletes of the Year."
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Heard that a co-worker accused Mike Weatherly of  a sexual harrasment. (?)
CTV News!
You mean Agent Dinozzo of NCIS ?
I don't know if it's true or not. Or it is probably a script for BULL.
Whatever!
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NICK (Public Defender) won in the SURVIVOR 2018. He won 3 immunity by winning 3 games they played. Nick (played for David's tribe) is the strongest mentally, physically and psychologically outsmart, outplay and outwit everyone including Angelina and Mike (Goliath tribe) who were also strong contenders when it comes to strategies they used to be on top 3. Angelina, the most outspoken, strong-willed, opinionated woman in this Survivor show, well experienced in the survival skills while Mike is the kind of person who is just playing along with everyone and just happy to be "stranded" in the remote island with other contestants as what he told everyone that shaming, embarrassing himself with the rest of the actors is part of the experience. Mike is a filmmaker so he is probably used to that kind of treatment. They had those dirty, filthy clothes they are wearing for 39 days and notice those teeth. I mean have you notice their teeth as if everyone had their dental care and dental works perfectly been polished at the island. I forgot what island is that. Google... It turns out the SURVIVOR: David Vs Goliath is filmed in Fijji. Fijji or Fiji?

Mike is an actor, seen him in the movie SCHOOL OF ROCK. He's a look-alike of Tori Spelling's brother. ?

SURVIVOR show will return in Spring of 2019 with new batch of competitors for million dollar prize.

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When will BIG BROTHER begins? That too is a show about social experiment but not in a remote island but inside BIG BROTHER HOUSE using one bathroom for 16 people. Yuck! That's insane!
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That 1 bathroom/house for 5 members /family is not applicable in Canada due to health and sanitation standard of law in Canada.

Sure. It must be approved now that every house within Canada should have 2 bathrooms with toilets. Or else the house-owners should pay double property tax per year. lol. j/k

Mission Impossible: FALLOUT

Mission Impossible: FALLOUT is the latest movie I had ever seen this year via Optik TV/Movie. Mission Impossible is a succession of different sequels starring the bankable star/actor Tom Cruise playing the lead character Ethan Hunt. In this sequel, Ethan Hunt read/watched the message on the screen about his next assignment to hunt the terrorist and know where John Lark and 12 Apostles and dismantle plutonium that leads to nuclear threat attack. The message was self-destruct as usual. Ethan had his two member IMF team in this spy business however you know that a story becomes complicated when other members of the bureau becomes involved in self-vested interest then the trouble begins. Their own boss was betrayed by another person in the upper chamber and that complicates everything. The Fallout is about deception. I recommend that you listen attentively or have your focus to their dialogues because it gets confusing to the very end. Who to follow when the leader is your own enemy? FALLOUT is very deceptive. How many people in that story wear deceptive masks?

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The last movie I watched at the cinema was KNOWING starring Nicholas Cage. That too, movie that you have to watch and play with numbers. How numbers can affect your life in a meaningful way.
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How many leaders should be assigned in one task? how many should lead? each country has one leader but when this leader obeys another leader from another country you have to ask where is his loyalty? To his own country and people or loyalty to the other country and its population?

Stir of Controversy

No gossip here whatsoever so do I have to create gossip and stir controversy to the delight of those who love the limelight?

The hosts (hostesses): Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst, Lainey Lui, Marcy Ien, Jesse Allen of  "The Social" show had their gossip only favored American showbiz personalities not Canadians. That doesn't mean that there's no gossip or rumors being produced here in Canada. I think the "magnets for ridicule is based in another country or because the hosts are afraid of Canadian stars. Or could it be they don't even know who are Canadians from Americans.

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OMG! Come on people please use your masks in your home and use your own true real faces.
He he just kidding. Nobody's perfect. Miley Cyrus was the special guest at SNL last night. Hasn't change... she is still naughty Miley. You wished she is still Hannah Montana. Bu you know she is very talented, smart and pretty.
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What they had provided for their Year in review gossip are the same topic they talked in their daily show, so really nothing's new. But with Rihanna wearing that proverbial "Pope outlandish wardrobe" seem tight-fitting for a female who was a real-tough action heroine in the blockbuster  movie BATTLESHIP with all the pompous loud musical background that will keep you in your seat as if you are part of the battleground. My daughter watched her movie so many hundred times.

Uhm, what if the Pope is just as tough as Marvel  action hero instead. You know having a male "Joan of Arc." We need more Ironman that will do the action for us or I'm gonna call Superman and Supergirl. By the way, those two action heroes are from another galaxy and they are aliens!

Really there's not much controversial issues unless you "fabricate gossip for the satisfaction" of those people who love the noise.

If Hollywood has WALK OF FAME, Canada finally had it too. Awards were given to the following recipients: Canadian Olympic figure skaters (dance pairs) Tessa Virtue & (Victor) Scott Moir , Astronaut: Chris Hadfield, Seth Rogen &__________ ,___________ Martin, etc, etc.


Other famous Canadians: Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Ryan Reynolds, Wayne Gretzsky, Shania Twain, Jake Gold, Ben Mulroney, former PM Brian Mulroney, former PM Stephen Harper, PM Justin Trudeau, GG Juliette Payette, William Shatner,_______, __________, _________,

Now I know why those hosts from "The Social" had problem gossiping about Canadians. I myself can't remember the names of those other  famous Canadians.

Well, unless if you do your research and google them up. However, there are writers whose topics are limited and they only allow themselves to be used or because space and time is limited and because it's according to "choice." They will only talk a topic or subject that will benefit them. In showbiz I think there is that so called "friends with benefits." Or they "talk" about these certain entities for a prize or for the benefit that they have to pay if their names are "talked about in their show." In old adage or long time ago that was  supposedly the trend of work. Artists pay for their names, stories  aired on radio and television. The production companies pay for the publicity aired on radio and on TV as a way to promote their actors and actresses and the movies they promote. So if you see so much news about the Kardashians and Jennifer Lopez maybe they are paying too much to the entertainment showbiz news network. It's not the news network paying these artists. That's a total big NO.

What Are They Waiting For?

ADRIFT the movie is for rent for a $1.00 only. I wonder what this movie is all about? Is this the same as the "perfect storm" or similar to Nicolle Kidman's first movie "Dead Calm?" I should order that video movie to find out.

Did you know that Mission Impossible: FALLOUT is also available on Optik TV for $7.00
Yeah, action movie starring the famous action hero/star Tom Cruise.

I wonder what is Ethan Hunt is up to now? Who he is hunting this time. Who are not paying the IMF? And you wonder why Tom Cruise never receive an award for some of the movies he made that went top grosser in the cinema. If there's an action there is drama and there's visibility of blood. Nose getting punched, villains getting hit and hurt, death is imminent.

What the AWARD GIVING BODY needs to see in a movie? Witty dialogue, script that made them think twice or get confused because it has deeper meaning or because they were looking for the hidden messages or secrets that they want to unravel and then answer to the messages in the next movie?  The secret...

They could be looking for something too intense for drama, gruesome, psycho thriller and horrifying so why "The Walking Dead" never receive an award? Or they are after for beautiful cinematography, gorgeous humans, lost in the visual cues, without dialogue for a moment of awe and wonder just like Hitchcock just as if the wind blows, the four seasons had been captured in the scene yet he was immobile in his seat and can't get up. Or they are after for the lead role to just talk by himself alone for the rest of the day, talking to nothing but Wilson. Or somebody left alone to conquer the Martian land by himself after being left behind due to martian storm, plant an arrays of potatoes and made gas from all of the potatoes and lifted off in space for a rendezvous in space to be with the rest of his co-astronauts. The level of difficulty, hardship, intelligence,  facing the wilderness, ALONE with no one to look up to and talk and all the malady of defeat, struggle and humility, melancholia, agony and self-reliant then facing one and only face of the Creator he longed to forgive all the sins of the world. All these mental picture, visuals, visions of insanity, depression and the will to strive to be alive...these are what they are after.

How to change a different tone of "drama?" Is it not up to the audience, viewers and the people who should decide whether that kind of movie is worthy of an award? So what happened now in our generation is there are too many award giving bodies that deal with those changes. That aside from the most prestigious OSCARS (The Academy Award), the Golden Globe's, the Emmy's, Screen Actors Guild, People's Choice, there are new award giving bodies that honor and respect the work of those worthy actors and actresses, and the many artists, workers in the production companies.

Now what? Don't you think that award giving bodies also extend to companies and business establishments outside of those who work in the television and  movie industry?
 They had their chance, awards are given but they want their 13th month pay BONUS!

For the most part it's better to watch brand new MOVIES at the cinema. I mean the latest movies that are produced for the moviegoers to see. Watching something of a revival or a replay of an old movie is like wasting money even if the stars are the people whom you like or related to. AQUAMAN is one daring adventure movie tailor made for Jason Momoa and with Nicole Kidman as one of the lead roles then that's add a lot of fun,  colorful adventures at the bottom of the sea and entertainment to meet your curiosity. Children need adds life to their boring world. Old people need new wonderful ideas. Old dogs need new tricks.

Same Old Story From the Beginning

OBVIOUSLY they are into the GAMES! It may sound like it's politics and economics combined
 but it is about the effing GAME!!!!!

Yeah, same old story from the very beginning.

When will it ends?

There's no alpha and omega.

One game is finished, another game begins.

Allegiance

What's new with the present day journalists of today? Just like most present day doctors they have to follow certain laws, rules and OATH.

The oath of Hippocrates for the Doctors and oath of  secrecy for most journalists.

For ordinary citizens what oath you have to follow? ALLEGIANCE.

Oath of allegiance to the flag, country and what?

Once you denounce your citizenship to your original country where you were born,
 you are a citizen of another country!

Your sincerity and LOYALTY is always been introspected and examined.