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economist suntribune saturday nov 6 1999 i stouffville tribune a metroland community newspaper 37 sandiford dn suite306 stouffville ont l4a7x5 opinion telephone 9056402100 fax 90s 6405477 email newsroomstoufftribcom publisher ian proudfoot general manager alvin brouwer editor in chief brenda larson director of advertising debra weller deputy editor debora kelly classified manager ann campbell editor alshackleton retail sales manager stephen malhieu production director cheri kay inside sales manager staceyallen distribution director barry goodyear business manager margaret flem ing online publishing manager brian kirlik office manager vivian oneil letters suleman inquest should seek truth without prejudice re debora kellys column inquest must focus on whyfaraz suleman died nov 4 this column is misleading kelly is extremelyonesided and judgmental about a mother whose son was shot dead by a york regional police officer shaheen kamadia is a mother whose con cern for her firstborn son and society at large compelled her to carefully arrange a safe sting operation with police for his arrest the media reports a botched takedown resulting in the harshest of sentences for 16- yearold faraz suleman death the coroners inquest underway into sulemans death and the jury of five are to inquire diligently and without fear or affec tion prejudice or partiality towards any per son the issues before them the objective is to focus public attention on preventable deaths and to satisfy the publics need to have the facts known about sulemans death preventing such a tragedy from happening again is the key element of the inquest we must wait and see what information presents itself at the inquest and the resulting recommendations made by the jury to avoid a preventable death under similar circum stances this is a learning process for all concerned our society only stands to benefit from this nonjudgmental process of seeking the truth withotit prejudice joyce riettie markham kind and caring stouffviue residents thanked for help just a few days after moving to stouffville in august i took anasty tumble off my scooter at the northeast corner of musselmans lake breaking six ribs a collarbone arid collapsing alung as i lay in the road unable to move or speak two cars immediately stopped to help and the people in them somehow got me home i want to express my heartfelt thanks to them as well as everyone who helped me after the accident they are paramedics linda and ryan the nurses and doctors at markham stouffville hospital especially petronelle becky julia and dr whelan and prudence and the home care nurses from the community care access centre special thanks to our new neighbours george and helen for their concern about me and comfort to my wife it isnt how we would have chosen to meet our neighbours but if there is a silver lining it is meeting so many kind and caring people from the stouffville area thanks again to everyone vic fleming stouffville ravine lands do not belong to area homeowners my family and i live in the green lane and huntington park drive area of markham it possesses a bounty of beautiful ravines and a scarcity of accessibility to them unlike unionville residents who enjoy a system of pathways through natural areas bur neighbourhood has next to nothing unless youre lucky enough to own a house adjacent to a ravine if a member of the unwashed pub lic wishes to brave entrance to the ravines by say climbing down the hill from green lane that person is assailed by tenacious burrs and prickly weeds at the markham council meeting on oct 12 several homeowners whose houses over look a ravine area near huntington park protested against the plari for a pathway that would take a pedestrian through the park and onward to little german mills creek one homeowner adamantly stated a per son who wants to walk to a destination doesnt letters policy stouffville tribune welcomes your letters all submissions must be less than 400 words and must include a daytime telephone number name and address the newspaper reserves the right to publish or not publish and to edit for clarity and space v write utters to the editor 37 sandiford 0rsuite 306 stouffville ont l4a 7x5 email lettersstoufftribcom stouffville tribune serving the community since 1888 ee3 dde canadian circulations i audit board member ontario press council stouffville tribune published every tuesday thuisday and saturday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing ltd group of newspapers which includes tlieajavpickering news advertiser alliston heraldcourier barrie advance barrys bay this week bolton enterprise brampton guardian burlington shopping news burlington post city parent collingwoodwasaga connection east york mirror erin advocatecountry routes etobicoke guardian flamborough post georgetown independentacton free press kingston this week lindsaythis week midlandpenetanguishene mirror milton canadian champion milton shopping news misslssauga news newmarket- aurora georgina erabanner northumberland news north york minor oakville beaver oakville shopping news orillia today oshawawhitbyclaringtonport perry this week peterborough this week richrnond hillihamhillvaughan liberal scarborough minor stouffville tribune todays seniors oxbridge tribune and city of yoik guardian phone 95 6402100 fax 905 6405477i classified 18007433353 distribution 9056402100 heed a pathway to get where theyre going well my husband and i beg to differ we found out in a rather unnerving manner one consequence of the lack of a public pathway just before the meeting the two of us pleased with the prospect that there would finally be a decent ravine footpath in our neighbourhood wanted to check out where the proposed little german mills creek path- way was going to be we trekked through a grassy weedy area that we had heard would be regenerated and beautified adjacentto this field was anumber of hous es none of which sported fences separating the backyards from the wilderness making sure not to come anywhere near these open backyards we followed a troddendown grass path that we figured would take us to the creek when we got to the end of the grassy trail we caught sight of a creek but failed in our attempts to get to it because of the abun dance of prickly weeds on our way back toward the park my hus band and i heard the barking of a dog we both looked in the direction of the increasingly fren zied yapping and noticed a dog about the size of a boxer comingloward us from oneof the open backyards we couldnt go back to the creek so bur only option was to move forward and away from the dog who continued to fol low us barking frantically all the while the entire experience was both frightening and infuriating the people who live adjacent to little german mills creek seem to think the ravine exists for their private use only as a taxpayer i am entitled to the use of public lands judith fono thornhill ivtili si vawy m frank daggett the trick is to know why not when a woman is angry si ometimes its not as simple as leaving the seat up on the toilet f i wont even pretend to have the insight or discernment my parents have after more than 30 years of marriage but after 312 years of mar riage i know when my wife is angry so maybe im an exception to the findings of two evolutionary psycholo gists who according to a recent report have asserted that men cant quickly tell when women are angry apparently although no specific sta- tistical information was provided anger turned out to be the one emotion the female subjects recognize more quickly than men usually whent sense the anger one word she says when i ask whats wrong confirms my suspicion nothing the trick is to know why shes angry york university professor irwin silverman and graduate student lisa gobs should consider that point in addition to exploring why men have trouble telling anger in womenis facial expressions silverman and goos used a tachisto- scope to gauge men and womens abili ty to quickly identify emotions the device flashed photos of both sexes in 30 millisecond bursts before 114 subjects 58 female 56 male but my question is this whose pic tures were flashed before the eyes of these subjects who were the subject matters used in this test by the york university researchers homer and marge simpson tarzan and jane that to me would be more reveal ing xhomer and marge simpson lucille ball and desi arnaz archie and edith bunker pamela arid tommy lee tarzan and jane ok so maybe figures of pop culture were not used in the experiment although using tarzan and jane would be the most appropriate considering silverman and goos theory is the first that points to evolution as the cause of rhenfe inability to be emotion detectors rather than spend too much time arid energy on figuring put if women are mad especially my wife ill concentrate on one of the emotions we males are said to have quicker response in identi- fyirigr enjoyment y 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