Oh my God but it's so sad , so pathetic and so incredibly funny all at the same time. First of all I will be sending at least a few of my recent Blog postings to regional councillor Joe Gowing not because his saying one good thing is going to convince this political skeptic that he's an honest man but because it's the first intelligent thing I've heard so far from any regional councillor. Go suck a lemon Barry Vrbanovic. I will also of course be sending this one to the usual guilty parties but also to Brent Jolly of mediacouncil.ca. He's the twit who apparently decided that reporter Terry Pender shouldn't have to make corrections and or retractions after writing his story last November about Lanxess Canada and the failure of the groundwater cleanup here in Elmira, Ontario.
So why am I laughing so hard? Well when you in writing advise a newspaper (Waterloo Region Record) that their reporter (Mr. Pender) has written and had published a story with multiple inaccuracies in it and neither that newspaper nor the governing body for newspapers' accuracy (National Media Council) make even the slightest attempt to learn about, clarify or rectify those errors; and then the same reporter shortly afterwards makes some incredibly blatant (and public) errors in another story; well you just have to break out with the belly laughs.
So what did the divine Mr. Pender do this time? More importantly will the K-W Record actually publish the corrections or retractions? Should I really rub their noses in it here and now or should I wait for the corrections/retractions to appear. Or not. The thing is it's really not a bad article overall. It's title in today's Record is "Councillor wants to halt permits for gravel pit to draw groundwater". It's just unfortunate that the nasty and guilty parties will likely exert even more pressure on the Record to do their bidding. Bidding such as no longer publishing quotes from me for example. Bidding such as intentionally undermining knowledgeable citizens credibility when they are told to do so. Sorry K-W Record but you've been asking for this for a very long time. Just like the Woolwich Observer in Elmira I've tried very hard to be friends but you've behaved like ass*oles and clearly I'm fed up with you.
I'll give readers a very strong push in the right direction here. Do the math. Yes Terry Pender, Joe Gowing etc. are correct in that it is asinine to continue issuing new Water Taking Permits for industry, gravel pits and golf course until we know that we've absolutely got enough water to cover current permits plus commercial and residential needs. That said however Mr. Pender is undermining his story by pretty egregious and blatant mathematics failures. For example is 9.7 million litres per day, ten times greater than Toyota's water useage at 24 litres per second? I don't think so. Also is the 9.7 million litres a day water taking actually the same as 240 litres per second that he claims? Again I don't think so. Do the math folks. Apparently it's hard for both politicians and reporters to do math and certainly the former doesn't surprise me at all. Just look at M.P.P. Mike Harris Jr. Jr.. We all know that there are no qualifications required to be a parent (in his case five times) and we know the very same is true for politicians. That makes him a double winner. Newspapers' mathematical failures do surprise me somewhat. I'm more interested in their integrity however. Will they publish a correction or retraction???
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