Decreased equity with which to purchase that second house in the current economically uncertain environment combined with slowed economic growth in Canada and on going bad news from the American housing recession has eroded consumer confidence in the current buying conditions. Making people, who were considering buying a new home, take a step back in their plans and revaluate the increasing costs of their life styles, in the light of their current income.

The impact of the increased fuel and food costs has been felt the greatest in B.C.’s Okanagan and Kootenay regions where more people have been sitting on the housing market sidelines. Many of B.C’s real estate markets have fallen over the edge into the buyers’ category of the real estate market as the number of houses for sale out paces the numbers that are being purchased.

The hottest markets in 2008 are currently the big urban real estate markets in the Lower Mainland and Victoria, but this will change as conditions and costs change in this balanced market. Greater Vancouver sales dropped almost 31 percent in May, compared with last year, while house listings increased by 38 percent.

In the Fraser Valley, where I live, sales dropped 25 percent, while listings went up by 38 percent. A large number of Fraser Valley residents have recently put their house on the real estate market as a response to the changing economic conditions in the Province and Canada.

The number of sales has dropped across the British Columbian real estate market, while the number of available units for sale has reached levels not seen since around 2000. The average sale price has continued to increase during the past few months, with the average price currently being around $475,000 in British Columbia.
It appears that Canada’s six year housing boom has come to an end, this year activity in 19 or 20 real estate markets was below 2007 levels.

Many Canadians will be selling their homes this year, me included, in an attempt to get some of the money we paid for our house originally, before it’s gone forever. I like many of my fellow British Columbians’ came to this conclusion after losing about 30 percent of equity on my house last year due to the changing real estate market.

If I sell it now and get my money out, then I can buy another house later when conditions are better in the province, like next year or the year after, instead of losing another 30 percent this year, if I try to hang onto it. I’m willing to bet I’ll be able to buy a comparable home to the new one I am currently living for less than I sold it for in a few years.

After all the idea in a market economy is to sell high and buy low, even if your have a limited budget this is a sound policy and one sure to make you money, provided your able to do so.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health’s recent study looked at coffee drinking and the associated risk of dying from heart disease, cancer or any other life ending causes. The study indicated that people drinking more coffee were less likely to die during 18 years of continual documentation in men, and 24 years in women.

The study indicated that drinking up to six cups of coffee per day doesn’t increase the risk of an early death and appears to protect women from strokes and fatal heart attacks. The effects were most noticeable in women who drank two to five cups of coffee a day, with a 26 percent less chance of dying than Canadians preferring a different morning tradition; this was mainly due to a lower risk of death from heart disease.

Women who consumed two to three cups of caffeinated coffee during the day were 25 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease than Canadians choosing a different beverage. Those who drank additional cups over the four of five daily ones had their risk of cardiovascular disease decrease even more, by 34 percent. The study found no correlation between coffee drinking and dying of cancer in either gender.

Researchers did indicate that the numbers for men were similar, but that the numbers didn’t have any statistical significance. The study was published in this week’s Annals of Internal Medicine, the new study suggests that coffee drinkers can be reassured that coffee doesn’t increase the risk dying early.

Unfortunately, previous studies have been inconsistent with the findings of this study; some studies found that coffee increases the risk of heart disease and others found the opposite findings. People who drank large amounts of decaffeinated coffee also died at a slightly lower rate, indicating or at least suggesting that something other than the caffeine in coffee at work in those who are dying early.

People who drank large amounts of decaffeinated coffee also had slightly lower death rates, suggesting it’s something other than the caffeine in coffee at work. Could there be something else at work here, other than caffeine, that is beneficial and possibly detrimental to human health, time and research will tell.

It’s too early to say coffee is beneficial for the health or not, I guess we better wait for the next study.

Severed human feet have been appearing on the beaches of the Gulf Islands along B.C.’s coastline in the last few months, with five being found since last year in August.

Monday a human left foot was found on Westham Island in Ladner, the fifth disarticulated foot discovered, the last one was found just up river last month.

Delta Police and the B.C. Coroners Services are currently trying to establish the identity of the remains and determine whether they can be linked to the other four recovered feet, but they say it’s too early in their investigation to verify whether the feet are connected somehow.

Officials say that during this time of year it’s not usual to find human remains washed up on beaches in the area, that the unique part is that these five cases are all human feet. Police officials say it will be sometime before police will be able to identity the remains and match it to known missing persons or any of the four previously found feet.

Oceanographers working the case have stated that the latest discovery points to their idea that the feet came down the Fraser River, then out into the gulf steam. The pattern they say is one where they were all washed down the river and then dispersed to the areas where they were found.

Police around the world have taken note of this case for its uniqueness, working with local authorities to try to understand the situation better. Statistically police compare the finding of five human feet with no corresponding body parts to drawing a straight flush five times in a row.

The rate at which body parts are appearing on B.C.’s beaches lately makes me want to stay away from the water, and I’m sure I’m not alone in my concerns, as all British Columbians will be.
There must be a killer disposing of bodies somewhere in B.C., there could be other reasons, but it’s unlikely and I sure can’t think of any reason for human body parts to be washing up on B.C.’s beaches, other than the work of some sick individual or individuals. We have our share of possible guilty parties who would be more then willing to carry out such sick and nefarious work.

It maybe that the killers didn’t want these body parts to appear and are currently worried about police following a trail that might lead them right to the guilty party.

I for one think the police will be hard pressed to solve the mystery of the washed up feet on B.C.’s beaches, especially if they stop appearing. If the killers are concerned about the body parts leading police back to them, they will probably find another way to dispose of the bodies. I guess well know, if and when they do or don’t find anymore human feet.

Nothing illustrated this more clearly than recent events in my personal relationship with what we refer to as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whose members are given far to much individual leeway and power in situations to allow their personal views to determine their choices, especially when everybody should be given the same level of “professional” law enforcement service.

The laws are the laws and they should be enforced equally for every body, not individually determined by the personal beliefs of RCMP members, and this does happen, at least in Prince George, far too often. Police officers are human and there certainly are situations where individual choice will have to come into their decisions, but this is not what I am talking about.

Let me illustrate with an example that happened to me recently in Prince George. My opinion about racism in our society and in my fair city has been known for sometime, I have always consistently called a spade a spade in this Canadian city. Consequently, I have been treated to a helping of the local racist views on occasion, just because of my attitude and actions in the community when I witness or know this kind of human bred insanity is occurring and of my visible minority status.

Last month, I was walking about our city, doing my thing, when for no obvious reason, other then insanity; I was approached by an irritated individual I had never met before, although he was screaming at me like he knew me. Spewing racist innuendo about native Canadians, he obviously thought I was a native, he kept referring to me as chief, and I will admit if you’re ignorant of the facts, you might think a Chinese Canadian is a native Canadian.
I tried to go about my business and ignored the gentlemen, but this made him madder and he immediately threatened me with physical violence, which is funny considering the human ability to fight in most cases.
I walked over to the RCMP office in our city and asked to talk to a police officer, after a few minutes a police officer approached me and asked me what I wanted.

I explained the situation to the officer, it was obvious even he thought I was a native Canadian (I felt like telling him I was a member of the Chinese tribe from up North), so much for our intelligent and highly trained police force. After informing the officer of the situation that just occurred with the gentlemen I had just met, he explained that uttering threats is not a crime and he could do nothing for me.

Knowing that he was wrong and not sure why he would say this, I decided to check the facts, after which it became obvious to me he was using his own personal beliefs to determine whether this gentlemen’s accosting of me was against the law.

This officer was abusing his power to implement his personal beliefs, not implementing the laws of the land, but then after you live here long enough you get use to double standards, and it does prove just how superior some people are.

Canadian citizens of visible minority status in Prince George quite often receive different treatment then other individuals from our highly trained, honourable RCMP force, but usually it’s from a specific officer who has a history of this kind of abuse. The system the RCMP has in place to police the actions of their own officers is totally inadequate for doing the job, they police themselves, using their personal views and assumptions about the job and the officers involved. They protect one another, even when they are obviously breaking the law in many cases; no wonder the level of abuse and racism in the Prince George RCMP force is so high, since officers committing these offenses know they can do as they want without legal repercussions.

Changes need to be made to the way the RCMP are managed and monitored; an independent board of citizens should be involved in the disciplining and monitoring of RCMP abuses, one from every perceived racial group in the country, not just the blue bloods or the status quo.

One can extrapolate to get an indication of the damage this kind of insanity has birthed in Canada over the years, how many lives has this cost, how many people have been destroyed and then reacted to their destruction with more destruction, well probably never know.

I do know that this would mean, if it was extrapolated around the country, that thousands, maybe millions of Canada’s visible minorities have been subjected to this kind of insanity for decades and considering the attitude of many around my city, this isn’t going to change soon.

Since I don’t drive, my information concerning the fluctuation at the gas pumps in the last few months comes mainly from the people I talk to every day, and I have talked to a number of Canadians lately who are a little suspicious of the consistency in gas prices in locations that are in different cities.

These thoughts started running through my mind after learning that 13 people and 11 companies in Quebec were recently charged with fixing the price of gas in four cities in Quebec.

Three members and one company of what is being called a cartel pleaded guilty Thursday in Quebec Superior Court in Victoriaville, to conspiracy to fix retail gas prices. Apparently, they phoned each other and agreed to a fixed price. Penalties of over $2 million were imposed against the guilty parties who operated in the cities of Sherbrooke, Victoriaville, Thetford Mines and Magog, which are all south of Montreal.

The Competition Bureau stated that information they obtained suggests that an overwhelming majority of gasoline retailers in these markets took part in the agreement to fix prices.
The companies that were dragged into court are Les Petroles Therrien Inc., operating the Petro-T sign, Distributions Petrolieres Therrien Inc. and Ultramar Inc.

This news sends a direct message that the Competition Bureau will take immediate action to bring to justice individuals and companies depriving Canadians consumers of the benefits of competition, like lower gas prices.

The Competition Bureau’s investigation into price fixing of gas used wiretaps, searches and information provided by individuals that were given immunity from prosecution for testifying.

The Competition Bureau has said that their investigation into price fixing at the gas pumps will continue in all markets in Canada, suggesting in their news releases that Quebec wasn’t the only province where gas price fixing was suspected.

Conspiracies to fix retail prices of a product are difficult by their very nature to detect and prove since suspicions and evidence of identical prices are not sufficient to indicate an illegal activity has occurred. Securing a conviction under Canadian law requires the Bureau to dig up evidence that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that competitors have agreed to fix prices and that any agreement will have a noted impact on the level of competition for their product.

It probably doesn’t surprise a lot of Canadians and gas consumers around the world that companies would consider making an agreement to fix the price of their product with their competition at a level that allows both to milk the public at a rate that most companies would kill for.

Many after reading this many consumers will be paying greater attention to the price of gas at different geographical locations they choose to purchase gas at. The unearthing of this gas fixing cartel may cement beliefs that many gas buyers have believed for many months when they approached the pumps. That gas suppliers were artificially controlling the price of gas at an unnecessarily high level and that suppliers may have made an agreement to fix the price of gas and in the coming weeks we may find out just how deep this rabbit hole goes.

Canada –

Canadians that like to partake of a little alcoholic beverage on a daily basis are on the minds and thoughts of Canadian officials concerned about the abuse of alcohol in Canada.

According to Canadian researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, who are tasked with monitoring Canadians consumption of alcohol, alcohol abuse costs each Canadian an estimated $463 per year.

The report just released by the centre, The Avoidable Cost of Alcohol Abuse in Canada 2002, indicated that direct health care costs for alcohol abuse in Canada surpass those of cancer and create an additional economic burden for Canadians in access of $1 billion.

Scientists and health professionals have suggested six intervention techniques that would save upwards of 800 Canadian lives each year and more than 90,000 acute-care hospital days annually. Additionally, they point out, implementing these policies would decrease productivity losses by about $600 million, health care costs by $250 million and crime-related costs by upwards of $180 million.

The scientists and health care officials say that Canadians don’t take alcohol and its possible effects on Canadian society as a serious issue, that alcohol abuse is one of the prime factors increasing costs in the Canadian health care sector, and that it’s preventable, providing Canadians take the issues seriously.

Officials have suggested increasing taxes on alcohol; studies have shown a link between increases in the price of alcohol and a marked decrease in Canadians consuming alcohol, suggesting that a hypothetical 25 percent increase in alcohol related taxes could reduce alcohol consumption by up to 4.1 percent. Scientists also say that lowering the legal blood alcohol concentration limits to 0.05 percent from 0.08 percent to combat alcohol abuse and increasing the legal drinking age in Canada to 21 years of age could have a notable effect on alcohol related motor vehicle fatalities.

Scientists propose a zero tolerance rule for drivers under 21, programs to educate servers of alcohol to recognize intoxication and additional screening by health care officials for drivers who have a history of drinking and driving.

The Canadian Medical Association, recently, urged the Canadian government to decrease the legal blood alcohol concentration levels, suggesting that such reductions have been shown to result in fewer fatalities and could reduce alcohol related fatalities in Canada by about 185 to 555 Canadians.

Currently, provinces issue 12 to 24 hour suspensions for blood alcohol levels over 0.05 in Canada, but under the new legislation that takes effect in Ontario later this year, a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.05 percent will be suspended for three days, up from twelve hours.

The problem of alcohol abuse in society is an old one that has been a part of human life for thousands of years and I would agree the only way that no damage will be done by individuals consuming alcohol is for alcohol to not be available. This is of course not feasible considering the current laws in place; people should have the right to live their lives the way they want, provided their choices aren’t damaging others.

The suggested changes are just the same old ideas implemented with a new level of monitoring, no new ideas have come forward to help alleviate this problem, but then the problem is deeper then just people drinking.

The consumption of alcohol in society has a lot of origins, from stress relief, to an escape from reality, to a never ending supply of money for suppliers and like all human inventions alcohol is relatively harmless if we control the amount we consume.

Humans are creatures of habit, we will continually come back to a familiar feeling, and this includes alcohol, even when the benefits are out weighted by the problems. It’s easy to fall into one of these human pitfalls, the hard part is realising the hole you’re in and getting yourself out of it.

If you drink daily, it’s likely you have lost control of your alcohol consumption and you should seek council from those who have been down this road. Your not alone, many humans have suffered from alcoholism and the help exists to let you escape from the alcoholic-spiral your in, you just have to realise you need help and reach out for it.

Ottawa -

Have you been routinely copying music to your iPod or computer without having to pay a fee, then your daily ritual of listening to the newest sounds and bands for free, maybe about to come to a crashing halt if Canadian officials have their way?

A new bill introduced by Industry Minister Jim Prentice in Parliament on Thursday is about to make it harder and illegal to attempt to or actually circumvent digital locks that a company might apply to their products to protect their copyrights.

The new legislation continues to exempt Internet service providers from liability from copyright violations by their customers, only requiring them to pass on notices of violations rather than to actually remove the copyrighted material from the infringing site as required by American law.

The new rules would continue to allow Canadians to record television and radio programs, so they can play them later, a practice called time-shifting, but would make it illegal for Canadians to keep these recorded shows in their personal libraries of copied material.

A touchy subject drafting new legislation, balancing the rights of content creators with the every day reality of life in a digital world, while keeping in mind the difficulty that will ensue trying to implement and police any infringements.

Certainly, many individuals are of the opinion that they should be able to download whatever content they can get, and shouldn’t have to pay for it, but then they forget that there won’t be any music if it wasn’t for the talent of individuals able to create beautiful tones that reach the soul of the beast. The music will stop if musicians can’t make a living at their chosen profession, they’ll do something else to earn the money they need to live.

Groups opposed to such new legislation have appeared on the horizon, Fair Copyright for Canada was set up on Facebook ahead of the new bill to protest the government’s new copyright legislation, and at the moment they are 40,000 strong and growing. Expect to see additional groups opposed to this new legislation to make their opinion known.

The next time your on a site and your thinking about downloading content make sure you read all the fine print or you could be wishing you did, once content is locked down, your rights evaporate and your potential for legal entanglements hits the roof.

Canada’s coalition of Canadian entertainment industry organizations, which represents Canada’s 21.000 professional performers, 15,000 musicians and the rights of the Canadian music industry, applauded the introduction of the new legislation.

The new laws reduce individual liability to $500 from the previous maximum of $20,000 for making illegal copies of music or movies for your private consumption. The new legislation includes penalties or fines of up to $20,000 for circumventing or hacking a company’s digital lock to make unauthorized copies of a computer game. These higher monetary penalties also apply when you’re posting music using the Internet or peer-to-peer technology, posting copyright-protected material, like videos or pictures onto a web site such as Facebook, YouTube, or MySpace.

Companies that sell or import hacking tools designed to work around a company’s digital locks will be walking on thin water if they continue to provide people with the tools to circumvent a company’s protection. The new legislation makes it illegal to sell or provide Canadians with such products.

There are a few problems with implementation and successful monitoring of whether or not people are building up personal collections of copyrighted material from the internet, television or wherever, the legislation makes no mention of this and government officials have been unable to answer our questions concerning this area of the new legislation.

Groups opposed to the new legislation spent the day pointing out that the legislation is a half-baked measure that only included the thoughts and opinions of a portion of interested sides. They asked how the government was planning to enforce their new legislation when the existing laws don’t allow for legal authorities to enter someone’s private domicile to determine whether someone has been illegally downloading copyrighted material.

The government for their part has been quiet on these points so far and I don’t expect any answers to appear anytime soon.

The initial day in the existence of the newborn calf of Qila, the Beluga whale kept in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium, went off without a problem Wednesday.

The, as yet, unnamed newborn weighted into the world at about 100 pounds and approximately 53 inches of vigorous life, she spent the first hours quietly, before nursing about three to five times an hour. A sight that allowed aquarium personnel to breathe easier and head home knowing the calf was in good hands. Can we expect the calf naming contest that inevitably follows such new arrivals at the aquarium, without a doubt; just get your suggestions ready.

Stopping for a breath, the newborn would dart across the big pool, stopping occasionally to sneak a peak into an adjoining pool through a grate at her curious grandmother Aurora, smiling back at her. The newborn would occasionally vocalize to the delight of the crowd in response to the vocalizations of her mother and grandmother.

Qila seemed comfortable with the feeding calf and took on the mothers’ role quickly, instinctively taking the time to replenish her fish supplies with huge quantities of herring in order to produce the high-fat milk the calf needs to live, when not feeding the calf.

The joy the sight of the newborn calf brings to the kids and families that come down to the aquarium cannot be deigned, but at what cost, does an animal like this deserve to be in captivity?
This is a question that is being juggled by aquariums more and more, every day, in a world where animal species are disappearing daily. How do we balance the human desire to learn about the world and the animals in it, with the welfare of the animals in question?

Newborn calves should ideally be born and reared in the wild, not a human designed habitat, which can never truly be the same. Many would say that the calf would never know the difference having been born in captivity, but this doesn’t excuse disrespecting such a beautiful animal. Beluga whales were meant to swim free not kept as entertainment for humans, it’s demeaning towards Beluga whales and arrogant of humans to think there’s nothing wrong with such behaviour.

It’s true that we will need to create even larger artificial habitats in the future if we keep destroying the natural habitats that exist on the Earth. Especially, if there are going to be any animals for future generations to enjoy and coexist with, we may need to design and create habitats that would make the current ones seem like a petting zoo. I just question whether this is an answer or just a stalling measure that only forestalls the inevitable demise of all wildlife on planet Earth. Maybe the answer hasn’t been invented or thought of yet; at least we can hope so, for the sake of all life on spaceship Earth.

Somewhere, a talented young mind is reading this and thinking about the problem in away never dreamed of before, at least that’s my thought.

My subconscious thought that Mr. Harper was at least unenthusiastic about having to apologize.

His mannerisms and energy reminded my conscious mind of a man who had looked in the mirror recently and didn’t like what he saw.
Mr. Harper should be given credit for doing his job, standing up on behalf of us all and making an apology of this sort wasn’t something he anticipated he would be doing as the Prime Minister of Canada. The pressure to apologize on behalf of Canadians must have been too great to resist, since it was apparent he would have preferred to stick needles in his eyes then make the speech.

The 800 first nation’s leaders, residential school abuse survivors and aboriginal families assembled in North Vancouver’s Chief Joe Mathias Centre Wednesday stood listening carefully to every word Mr. Harper had to say in silence. When he was finished children grew restless, grandmothers wiped the tears from their eyes, and young men crossed their arms and stood quietly, not one person clapped.

My subconscious mind reflected at that moment on the attitude many people in Prince George and British Columbia have toward what they referred to as “the problem of the natives’ and how in consideration Mr. Harper’s attitude would probably be indicative of at least a small percentage of Canadians, geographic considerations given.

Granted natives in Prince George and British Columbia have, like all ethnic groups, their share of individuals deemed as undesirable by Canadian society and its true these individuals behaviours is at times indicative of the belief in natives being a problem. This in no way excuses the way many treat natives in my community or their belief that natives are for the most part a problem. Painting all members of an ethnic group with one colour because of the actions of a small percentage of the group is just a form of bias.

The apology by Canadians is nice, but over due and for many not as heart felt as many of my fellow Canadians might think, especially in a many parts of British Columbia. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the cases of abuse originate in British Columbia and for many here the same attitude that fostered the original treatment natives felt at the hands of Canadians still exists.

Many British Columbians are still guilty of referring to natives in tones and terms disingenuous and totally disrespectful of individuals they don’t really know anything about. The attitude that created the abuses of the past still lives in many British Columbians and the apology doesn’t close the door on the racist attitude that allowed the abuse of native peoples to exist.

Don’t get me wrong this is a time to celebrate for all Canadians, not just aboriginal peoples, maybe even the dawning of a red horizon for relations between native peoples and their fellow Canadians.

If you want to help, pay attention to the attitude of people around you and when you see an attitude toward any person that is wrong, say something. Standing up for the rights of others is standing up for your own rights, we all need a helping hand at times and believe me anybody with a racist attitude needs our help, really needs our help.

But what do families, loved ones and the authorities do when a Canadian trucker and his truck go missing within the borders of our biggest and nearest neighbour, the United States of America?
Langley trucker Clark Sutherland and an 18 wheel truck have disappeared from the face of the Earth after calling home from somewhere in Wyoming about nine days ago. How does a truck of this size disappear without notice? Somebody saw or knows something, they’re just not saying anything or they don’t know what they saw.

Clark Sutherland, 67, who has two teenage children and a wife, last checked in on May 30, at the time his wife said he complained of feeling ill, so she thinks he may be in trouble. She could hear him being physically ill in the background and this was the last anyone heard from the missing trucker.

“This is absolutely not like him,” said Mrs Sutherland, a Langley school teacher. “I’m afraid he didn’t wake up and now he’s in his truck somewhere.”

Records indicate that Clark Sutherland has been driving long haul rigs since 1961, and has never missed a delivery, so where has this reliable father and professional trucker gone?

His truck manifest indicates he was carrying a load of unspecified railway related material for Langley-based Road Rider, could this load have been valuable enough for highway-pirates to target his load for their nefarious needs? The load was due in Pueblo, Colorado, on May 31, so he was on the last part of his haul, could he have been followed and targeted?

American police have found no indication of where Sutherland and his self-owned 2000 Freightliner might be, but say they will continue to search, but that he may have just wanted to take off. Sutherland’s truck has a white cab and black hood, with a B.C. license plate P7-1796, and a blue canopy with B.C. license plate 21884Y. Police say records indicate Sutherland’s credit cards and debit cards have not been used, while his cell phone accepted messages for a few days but since has been silent, they say the batteries may have simply died. Before disappearing off the face of the Earth, Sutherland did swipe his card for points at a fuel dock in Cokeville, Wyoming, say police, and his last phone call was traced back to a cell tower in Wamsutter, Wyoming.

Mrs Sutherland says this is not like her husband, he has always been faithful about calling home each day, and that he phones his 90 year old mother every day and she hasn’t heard from him.

Mrs Sutherland and a friend made the trip down to the U.S. and searched fruitlessly for four days, receiving no information that was useful.

The family is holding in there according to reports, but this time is hard on them, it’s like he just turned into smoke and disappeared into thin air. They are concerned about the attitude of the U.S. police, whose attitude they say has been, it’s a free country, he’s free to go missing.

Mr. Sutherland and his truck are somewhere in the area, hopefully someone with a conscience and perception will notice it and report in. He may have pulled off on a side road to take care of his illness and passed out, sicker then he realised and is now in need of help. He may have gone over a steep embankment on one of the roads, people and 18 wheel trucks don’t just disappear, and obviously someone knows something.

This gentleman is not likely lost because he wants to be, but then of course it wouldn’t be the first time someone wanted to get away. The problem is we just don’t know and for people who care this can often be the worst part, hopefully he will be found and is okay and will be able to get back to those who love him and are missing him.

Problems of this kind are likely to increase as the amount of goods we transport on the roads of the world continues to increase, the danger increases proportionally as well. Solutions aren’t easy to implement, but maybe the time has come for a change in the way we protect the truck drivers who bring us the goods we cherish.

The creation of a system of check points across the continent, like a truck-watch program similar to block-watch or any of the similar programs implemented across North America could help alleviate part of the problem. Maybe a series of well known truck stops on each truck route between truck stops, where each truck and trucker checks in periodically, would allow for better tracking of trucks on our dangerous highways.

This is the perfect opportunity for the inventors to create systems that can be used to protect truckers and their loads while they move along our highways.

Are there predators lurking on the highways of North America, without a doubt and they are always looking for opportunity to carry out their plans to take the easy road to wealth, at least that’s probably what they’re thinking?

Mr Sutherland could be sitting somewhere having a quiet drink, he could also be in need of help, the problem is we really don’t know and we need to find this person and help bring some closure for his family.

We can only hope it turns out for the best for all.