TORONTO — Canadians living in homeless shelters and rooming houses have a much shorter life expectancy than the general population – and poverty is not the only factor contributing to their premature deaths, researchers conclude.
In a 10-year study, researchers found the chance of surviving to age 75 among the homeless or inadequately housed is 32 per cent for men and 60 per cent for women, compared to 51 per cent and 72 per cent respectively for the lowest income group in Canada’s population.
To put that in perspective, the probability that a 25-year-old man living today in marginal housing would make it to age 75 is equal to the life expectancy of the average young male in 1921 – long before the advent of antibiotics and other life-saving treatments.
For homeless or poorly housed females, their chance of surviving to 75 is the same as women in the general population of Canada in 1956.
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Beer... Weed... Money for beer and weed?
(se: Always surprises me that people are always doing studies on the obvious things. Did you expect that homeless people were living longer? The streets make them invincible? Noting that people in 3rd countries are usually homeless and don’t live long, wouldn’t that give you an indication of what is happening here to homeless people? How here’s one for you. Factor in drugs and alcohol. Does that have anything to do with it as well? Why are we doing a study on homeless people anyways? We pay taxes, homeless people get shelters, but don’t want to be in them because they don’t allow drug and alcohol use.. I wonder how long people that conduct stupid survey’s live? Hrmm…)
On the eve of the biggest immunization program in Canadian history, a new poll suggests roughly half of Canadians do not want the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.
According to a Strategic Counsel poll taken for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, 51 per cent of Canadians do not plan on getting vaccinated.
However, 67 per cent of those polled say they believe the vaccine is safe for adults and 59 per cent said the vaccine is safe for children.
The poll, which questioned 1,000 Canadians between Oct. 22-24, suggests most of the country is not overly worried about the H1N1 flu, even if people are taking precautions.
While 63 per cent of respondents say they have taken precautions against the H1N1 swine flu, 67 per cent of respondents say they are only a little worried or not worried at all about catching the flu.
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The H1N1 vaccine might turn you into a NEWER mutant..
(se: Whoa. I believe that. I don’t want to get the shot either. What kind of testing has been done on this shot? It’s only been on the market as of late, and with H1N1 being under a year old, who knows what could happen. Maybe you begin to mutate, who knows.
Sure, people are going to die, and a lot of people would be sick, but look at bird flu. Whatever happened to that? Remember SARS? Wasn’t that supposed to come back and start wiping out mankind? I think I will pass on this..)
I can sure tell you it’s not sitting on a packed train going downtown.
I would like to be somewhere hot looking for my daily adventure to keep me busy.
Being able to sleep anywhere in any position can be rewarding.
To think that all these people are going to work every day no matter what the weather so they can survive long enough to do it again every day until they die. Retirement? That is just a lie. I don’t think there is such a thing anymore.
Did you know that in Canada, missing one paycheque could put a household in jeopardy? Sad but true.
What can you do to keep yourself happy, and live without this bullshit? Either take all your money to a 3rd world country and spend slowly until you catch polio and have to come back, or quit your job right now and do whatever you want to do in life.
You’ll either succeed or fail. At least if you fail you can always try your hand at robbing a bank, cause by that time, what do you really have to live for? It’s not like you have a job anymore.
The streets are not safe for prostitutes. Yet the streets are where Canada’s laws force them to work. While prostitution is legal in this country, nearly everything surrounding the activity is criminalized, particularly where the service can be provided: Not indoors, not in one’s home, and not under a roof shared with a spouse, partner or bodyguard, any of whom can be charged with living off the avails.
That Catch-22 is at the heart of a constitutional challenge which finally opened Tuesday before Ontario Superior Court Justice Susan Himel, and largely on the efforts of students from York University and Osgoode Hall Law School.
Few others, it would appear, care much about the lives – too often, deaths – of sex trade workers. As rewritten in the mid-’80s, Canada’s legislation is far more preoccupied with marginalizing prostitution, keeping the nuisance of solicitation off the streets, yet simultaneously denying its practitioners a secure environment that would discourage both predatory assaults and the visible street presence that many citizens find objectionable.
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(se: What is this country coming to? Have you ever drove around some of the scummy parts of Toronto at night? You see all sorts of crap, especially tonnes of dirty ass hookers. We are not talking about the girl next door turning tricks. These are some old ass, busted up, drug/alcohol addicted nasty ass hookers. I don’t even know how they make money. However there must be some desperate guys. I would be completely pissed off if I had hookers wandering around my neighborhood. I can’t see why the Government would even consider legalizing any of the filth that goes with prostitution, or prostitution itself. They should ban prostitution and attach a 10 year minimum sentence to it. Let’s work on cleaning up the streets. While they are at it, they should ban panhandling. The problem with this country is that they make it so easy to sway their morals. Hookers aren’t doing anything good for society, and should be forced to get real jobs instead of making our city, and society dirty. It’s easy to see no one cares when hookers get killed, just other hookers and the morons that support them.)
Oddly enough, I was in a bar a few years back and ended having a conversation with an older guy from the Middle East here on vacation, he told me that it was so weird to see so many gay people in Toronto, and that it’s rare to see them back home. He said that the problem in the west was that there are so much contamination in the water from different prescription drugs that it messes with the chemistry in peoples brains.
He told about the birth control pill. He said that it’s basically an overdose of female hormones. He said what do you think happens when you have millions of women passing extreme amounts of female hormones into the water system.
I didn’t think much of it until today when I saw this article. They say that “A sex hormone was detected in the drinking water of San Francisco, California” and “male fish are being feminized, creating egg yolk proteins, a process usually restricted to females”
I’m not homophobic, I’m not a bigot, I’m not trying to hurt anybodies feelings…but…
hrmmm…
Prescription drugs found in drinking water across U.S.
(AP) — A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Officials in Philadelphia say testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit, Michigan, to Louisville, Kentucky.
Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major California suppliers said the public “doesn’t know how to interpret the information” and might be unduly alarmed.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get that much more retarded…
Stallone was on major roids to get ready for his new Rambo movie, and I remember him getting busted trying to enter Australia with them.
Come to think of it…see this picture of Rambo? Stallone is what…60 something years old….do you see the pain in his eyes? Oh yea…that hurts…
Actually, do we really need to see a senior citizen in a shoot em up action movie? Like seriously? It’s like watching my dad battle terrorists…
Ok, not picture him telling people over 40 to hop on the roid wagon like it was some sort of seniors yoga class?
Whoa…
“Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,” Stallone tells Time magazine in its February 4 issue. “Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter.”
Stallone says he gained 41 pounds to play the famously-muscled Rambo by using prescription testosterone.
Sources are now saying the fat Eminem rumour that has been circulated in the past few weeks is nothing more than a hoax.
Really?
Who knows?
Eminem hasn’t been seen in public for quite a while now, and with most poor-gone-rich stars you always see them getting fat cause now they’re getting used to some good food, and lots of it.
Here is what I’ve seen pop up lately…
Reports claiming Eminem’s weight had ballooned out of control are well wide of the mark, according to his collaborators.
It had been reported around Christmas that the rap star had been hospitalised in his native Detroit with a number of health problems, and that his weight increase (Shady was rumoured to be weighing close to 250 pounds) had become such an issue as to affect his health.
Rapper Trick Trick was quick to shoot down the reports however this week, after working with the star and Dr Dre on his own album.
“He’s nowhere (near) 250 pounds or anything like that,” he reveals. “He picked up a little weight. He ain’t walkin’ around obese or some sh*t though. He can still run two miles if you want him to and still out-box the majority of them. My man still gets down”.
Eminem is thought to be working on new material for a planned release later this year.
I knew Amy Winehouse was a crackhead, come on! Everyone knew she was a crackhead. It was only a matter of time before she got caught on film smoking crack.
Start watching CNN every day so that you can catch the breaking news when this crackhead finally keels over and dies.
Way to go Amy. You couldn’t just smoke Weed and chill out…
I have been hearing lately about the new and improved fat Eminem.
Ok, that’s a lie. Definitely not improved,but that’s quite new indeed.
It’s been a while since anyone has seen or heard from the white rapper, which for a while there was an idol to all the white gangsters in suburbs all over the world. It was almost every week that you heard a new diss song against one of his many hip hop rivals, his ex-wife Kim, or his mother. All of a sudden, *POOF*
No Emimen..
Rumour has it that between all the problems with his ex-wife Kim, everyone trying to get a piece of his cash, drug addiction, and the death of his friend Proof he has been in a horrible state.
Just as stated in my previous post on Heath Ledger, sometimes fame isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. I remember in numerous articles Eminem stating that if he has know this is what fame would have been like, he would have preferred to stay non-famous, and live the ordinary life.
So, what i’m hearing is that the small framed rapper is apparently pushing over 200 pounds right now, and you would probably run into him, and not even notice. Kind of like a Jared before Subway.
This seems a little more depressing than fat Tyra, cause Tyra is quite proud…
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