Video of a Problem: Cigarettes on the Ground

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Freedom of Information request

Alexander Vaz
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72 Ave,
Surrey, B.C. V3W 2M8
604-345-4367
alexander.vaz@kwantlen.net


February 28, 2016

ICBC Privacy & Freedom of Information

151 West Esplanade

North Vancouver, BC V7M 3H9

To whom it may concern:

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I formally request that you provide me with:

•  A detailed list of all vehicle accidents at all intersections in Richmond, B.C. from the years 2009 to 2015, including the following information about each accident:
• Location 
• Date
• Time
• Crash Type (Casualty or PDO--Property Damage Only)

If possible, please forward the information in electronic spreadsheet form, with the location, date, time, and crash type as columns, either mailed to my address on a CD or emailed in any format (such as Microsoft Excel, or PDF) easily accessible by a Windows computer, to alexander.vaz@kwantlen.net.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at 604-345-4367 or by email.

Please notify me when the material is available for release. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Alexander Vaz
Kwantlen Polytechnic University


Explanation for my request:
Richmond, B.C. has become notorious for its bad drivers and synonymous with bad driving. The numerous instances of bad driving in Richmond more than likely end up on social media. There is a Twitter account designated specifically for this very thing--to let people know about the bad driving in Richmond. There are even a couple of YouTube videos which show firsthand accounts of bad drivers at work. These videos entitled "Bad Drivers in Richmond, BC 1 and 2, were uploaded in 2012 by the same person whose videos of bad drivers in Vancouver were featured on a CTV News telecast. There is also a Facebook page about parking in Richmond, and this page was featured in a Huffington Post article. With all these instances of bad driving in Richmond, it's no surprise that there are accidents, and I want to see if Richmond driving has been getting better or worse over the past few years. Obviously the bad driving does not automatically equate to accidents, but it is definitely a big factor. Another source I have as an explanation for my request is an interactive crash map from the ICBC website. This map shows the number of accidents at each intersection from 2009-2013, as well as the type of crash, but it does not show any specifics such as date or time. With my request, I will find out about the dates and times of each accident, furthering the information already provided by ICBC's map, as well as gather information from the years not included in the map, 2014 and 2015. I will then be able to see if car accidents at intersections in general, as well as at specific intersections in Richmond have been increasing or decreasing since 2009. Also, with the information gathered from this request, I will be able to produce a similar interactive crash map as ICBC's, but one that has specific information about each crash.

Abortion: a death sentence for babies

Abortion is murder. Put aside your own personal thoughts and opinions that have more than likely been swayed by feminism and the media, and really think about it for a moment. What else could abortion possibly be? The sole purpose of abortion is to terminate a pregnancy, and the last time I checked, a pregnancy involves another human being, as a woman has yet to give birth to anything other than a human. According to Merriam-Webster, a fetus is, "a human being or animal in the later stages of development before it is born." The sheer fact that the dictionary states that a fetus is a HUMAN BEING is evident enough that abortion is murder, as murder is killing someone, and if a fetus is a human being then you are in fact killing a human being, and it is thus murder. Everyone who is reading this right now, and every single human being that has ever walked the face of the earth, and everything else that has ever lived, is made up of cells. You were once not only a fetus but a "clump of cells" as some "pro-choicers" like to call it, as well, and you still are. So why is it that when the cells and fetus are inside the womb, they're subject to murder?
   

Abortion based SOLELY on the fact that the baby has a disability is very common. As if abortion wasn't bad enough as it is. In The Telegraph's January 18, 2016 article, Tim Stanley states that "Down's Syndrome people risk 'extinction' at the hands of science, fear and ignorance," as "around 90 per cent of pregnancies that involve the condition end in a termination." Stanley also states that the 692 abortions in 2014 due to Down's Syndrome is a 34 per cent leap since 2011. If these babies are not alive or even human beings, then how are they being diagnosed with Down's Syndrome and other disabilities? They are very much alive and human, and to abort them based on a disability is nothing short of barbaric and murder.

In this National Post article, Tom Blackwell outlines how "better testing for birth defects has given rise to [the] growing rates of abortion ending in 'accidental live births.'" To ensure that the baby is "stillborn," doctors will "inject a substance to kill the fetus first," and "when they decline the injection, accidental live births sometimes occur." When this happens, the live babies are NOT resuscitated. Babies that are "accidentally" born, after lethal injections failed to kill them, are simply left to die. They are murdered while inside the womb and die either inside or outside.
    

A Tennessee woman who attempted self-abortion was charged with first-degree attempted murder. This Murfreesboro Post article states that the woman "went to her upstairs bathroom, filled the tub with water, got in and tried to 'self-abort' her pregnancy using a coat hanger." The baby survived, but will suffer severe medical problems. If the woman had gotten a proper abortion, if would have been legal. A baby was born after a botched attempt at an abortion, and would have been murdered if the abortion had succeeded, as evident by not only the attempted murder charge, but by the life of the baby as well.

First, second, and third trimester abortions are all murder. Need more proof? Just type in "first trimester abortion" into Google Images. In fact, type in "fetus abortion" as well, take a long, hard look at all of those images, and try to say to yourself with a clear conscience that abortion is anything other than murder.

Photo Credit
First photo by American Life League
Second photo by Joris Louwes
Third photo by Steve Rhodes
Fourth photo by American Life League

Search Engine Optimization
By using Google Trends, I was able to research which terms would be best suited for my headline. 'Abortion' is an obvious keyword, but I had to research the others. 'Death' outnumbered 'murder' by an almost five to one margin, 74-15, 'sentence' has outnumbered 'penalty' since 2009, and 'babies' was extremely higher than 'unborn,' 84-3, thus making my headline SEO-friendly.