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Saturday August 24, 2015

August 21, 2015 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator - Saturday August 24, 2015 "I am very sorry:" They smoked, he sprayed Glade Ed Steel says, quite simply, that he couldn't take it anymore. After what he says was weeks of having to wheel his common-law spouse through a constant crowd of smokers every time he went in or out of Dundurn Place, and after complaining to everyone he could think of Ñ the long-term care home's administration, the police, the health department, even a city councillor Ñ nothing had changed. "It's illegal Ñ there are signs right there. But it all just goes into a dead ear. Nothing happened." His frustration arises, he says, not just from the disregard for the law, or the health of those who have to pass through the smoke, but because of his first wife, who he says died from a smoking-related illness. So on Monday, Steel brought a can of aerosol air freshener with him from home and as he passed through the smokers gathered by the front door in their wheelchairs and scooters, he let off blasts from his air freshener "to show them that I deserved some fresh air." On his way out, one of the smokers challenged him, he says, told him "he'd better not spray that again." So out came the Glade. "I sprayed it at the ground, not at anybody's face É if the wind blew it her way, I am very sorry." Police tell a different story and unfortunately for him their witness Ingrid Boiago, the centre's director of clinical nursing, was until very recently a Hamilton police officer. Steel was charged the next day with two counts of assault with a weapon; in their press release police allege Steel sprayed the women in the face. In an interview Boiago declined to go into specifics of what she saw. Kevin McDonald, a manager at Hamilton's Public Health Services, says Dundurn Place "is a challenging location" for the department partly because some of the long-term care residents have a diminished capacity "and it's a challenge for them to understan

By Graeme MacKay, Editorial Cartoonist, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday August 24, 2015

“I am very sorry:” They smoked, he sprayed Glade

Ed Steel says, quite simply, that he couldn’t take it anymore.

After what he says was weeks of having to wheel his common-law spouse through a constant crowd of smokers every time he went in or out of Dundurn Place, and after complaining to everyone he could think of — the long-term care home’s administration, the police, the health department, even a city councillor — nothing had changed.

“It’s illegal — there are signs right there. But it all just goes into a dead ear. Nothing happened.”

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His frustration arises, he says, not just from the disregard for the law, or the health of those who have to pass through the smoke, but because of his first wife, who he says died from a smoking-related illness.

So on Monday, Steel brought a can of aerosol air freshener with him from home and as he passed through the smokers gathered by the front door in their wheelchairs and scooters, he let off blasts from his air freshener “to show them that I deserved some fresh air.”

On his way out, one of the smokers challenged him, he says, told him “he’d better not spray that again.”

So out came the Glade.

“I sprayed it at the ground, not at anybody’s face … if the wind blew it her way, I am very sorry.”

Police tell a different story and unfortunately for him their witness Ingrid Boiago, the centre’s director of clinical nursing, was until very recently a Hamilton police officer.

Steel was charged the next day with two counts of assault with a weapon; in their press release police allege Steel sprayed the women in the face. In an interview Boiago declined to go into specifics of what she saw.

Kevin McDonald, a manager at Hamilton’s Public Health Services, says Dundurn Place “is a challenging location” for the department partly because some of the long-term care residents have a diminished capacity “and it’s a challenge for them to understand the requirements.”

Enforcement staff have issued 11 tickets (minimum fines start at $365) and these have yielded some convictions, but also some charges have been withdrawn because of diminished capacity. McDonald said staff have met with Dundurn Place staff this week in light of the incident.

Ironically, the Mary Street facility is the only long-term care home in the whole city to have a legal, indoor smoking area, a specially ventilated room that meets provincial requirements and is inspected annually. It also has a rear patio that can be used for smoking.

Friday, October 25, 2013But many residents, McDonald says, prefer the front entrance because that’s where all the action is.

Leslie Watson, Dundurn Place’s administrator, acknowledges smoking at the entrance “is an ongoing issue. We continue to go out and ask the residents to go down the ramps (away from the front door). I take it extremely seriously and we work very hard to get the residents to understand the requirements.”

For his part Steel, 67, hopes the attention this incident has generated will lead to a more permanent solution and in the meantime he’s looking to move his spouse to a different facility to finish her rehabilitation so she can come home.

“If this is all for nothing, then I’m going to be really upset.” (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: aerosol, Aerosol Man, anger, comic, Comic Book, glade, Hamilton, lysol, smoking, superhero, temper, tolerance

Saturday October 4, 2014

October 3, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Saturday October 4, 2014Saturday October 4, 2014

Comic Con Meet the Council of Canadians

“My parents weren’t your biggest fans.”

That’s what Lou Ferrigno followers tell him when they meet him at comic conventions.

It’s nothing personal, but it has to do with the number of shirts they ripped as kids, imitating his Incredible Hulk.

If you can relate, Ferrigno is in town Saturday for the second annual Hamilton Comic Con. The event features Ferrigno, who played the Hulk on TV during the ’70s and ’80s, the original TV Catwoman Julie Newmar, Ken Osmond who played Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver, and many more.

Saturday, September 6, 2014We don’t just have him for the weekend though. On Friday, Ferrigno, who lives in Santa Monica where he works in show business and acts as a Los Angeles Deputy Sherriff, was to be sworn in as an honourary Hamilton Police Constable. It’s part of Crime Stoppers’ ‘Be a Hero’ anti-bullying campaign, a cause close to his heart. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

Growing up, Ferrigno had partial permanent hearing loss and a resulting speech impediment. He says he read Hulk comics from a young age because he identified with the superhero.

Meanwhile, More than 300 Council of Canadians supporters from coast to coast are gathered in Hamilton this week as they begin a one-year countdown to the next federal election.

Representatives from environmental, health, youth, Indigenous and labour groups are all in town to share ideas and prepare for what the group is a calling a “crucial year.”

“This is exactly what we need with our uninspiring Conservative government one year before the next federal election,” said Maude Barlow, the council’s national chairperson.

The group plans to hold discussions on topics such as the Harper government’s fiscal policies, the elimination of door-to-door delivery by Canada Post, and mining and pipeline projects they say threaten the environment.

A “Rally For Good Jobs” will be held on Friday beginning at the Sheraton Hotel on King Street at 5 p.m. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)


 

LETTER to the EDITOR

Hamilton Spectator, Tuesday October 7, 2014

Saturday’s editorial cartoon would seem to suggest that only people who are not part of the mainstream would attend either a Council of Canadians conference or a ComicCon.

The values espoused by the Council of Canadians at its recent conference in Hamilton — good jobs, strong public services and renewed democracy — are much closer to the values held by a majority of Canadians than are the values held by the Harper Conservatives. These values — precarious, low-wage jobs for Canadians; reduced or eliminated public services; a democratic process compromised by robocall-style election fraud — are the reason the Council of Canadians calls for the removal, via democratic means, of the Harper-led Conservative government in Ottawa.

Similarly, while it may be news to your editorial staff, ComicCons have gone mainstream in the last few years, offering an opportunity for those who share a passion for comics, graphic novels, science fiction and fantasy a chance to meet with others who share similar interests.

It comes as no surprise that The Hamilton Spectator would offer up such an editorial slant on the Council of Canadians, given its long-standing support for the Conservative Party. It is, however, surprising that your editorial cartoonist, Graeme MacKay, an accomplished comic artist himself, would portray ComicCon attendees in such an unflattering light.

Edward Reece, Hamilton Chapter, Council of Canadians

 

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: Canada, comic, comic con, convention, Feedback, Hamilton, Hulk, Maude Barlow, superhero

Monday May 7, 2012

May 7, 2012 by Graeme MacKay

By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Monday May 7, 2012

Rob Ford versus the Toronto Star

The great thing about Toronto is how sophisticated it is. A World Class, big league city, as it continually reminds itself, right up there with New York, London and Paris. Major league. So-o-o-o-o cosmopolitan. Hip and cool. Celebrities come here all the time.

So here’s what’s going on in the New Paris right now: The mayor and the city’s biggest newspaper are having a feud. It actually started well before the mayor, Rob Ford, won the last election, when The Toronto Star did everything it could to defeat him, based on their contention that he’s an ignoramus. Ford won anyway and The Star, sulking, has spent much of its time since then lampooning his weight. Yes, the newspaper that’s all about human dignity and respect for the individual can’t shut up about the fact the mayor weighs 300 pounds.

Ford, figuring The Star’s never going to give him a fair hearing anyway, refuses to talk to them. Everything gets very childish, with The Star constantly moaning about being shut out of the communications loop. It’s all about freedom of the press and the mayor’s responsibility to represent all voters, not just those he likes, or the ones who voted for him. They take every opportunity to belittle him, and he gives them lots of material to work with, making a big show of refusing to attend the annual gay pride parade, and treating council like a rubber stamp until its members get fed up and rebel against him, shooting down his cherished plan to expand the subway system.

The Star isn’t satisfied with attacking the mayor’s political record, though. They want to go at him personally. They send a reporter up to snoop around his cottage, because he said he’d prefer to be there rather than at the gay pride parade. When he applies to buy some park land near his house so he can build a security fence, they send a reporter to sniff around the neighbourhood and take pictures.(Source: National Post) 

 

Posted in: Ontario Tagged: Avenger, book, comic, comics, DC, Journalism, Marvel, mayor, Ontario, reporter, Rob Ford, star, Toronto

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