Return to blogging and other news

Hi everyone,

Wow, it feels good to be back on this blog site after a 2 year hiatus.
I return to the wonderful world of blogging as a recent Broadcast and Film Graduate from Centennial College. I also completed a 4 month internship with CTV's Canada AM which went extremely well . Now after 3 years in the broadcast  program I returned to Centennial for Fast Track Journalism. 

Speaking Out the blog which I started in 2009 will continue to do as the title suggests "Speak Out". You can find all sorts of news here from weird news , entertainment, gaming, to the most talked about in Toronto and all over the world. If its "water cooler" worthy you can for sure find it here.

Without further delay to today's edition of Speaking Out :

 This story comes courtesy of The Toronto Star :http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1254063--caregiver-wants-175-000-to-give-up-claim-to-elderly-woman-s-home

For those who need a refresher,the tragic tale of the caregiver and the widow who's home was taken by her caregiver is back in the news again. Whats the big scoop? She wants $175,000 to relinquish her claim on Stella Wasiuk's home. Now I know this case is before the courts and has been in the papers a lot in the last few years but morally speaking how much more does this woman want? Is it not enough that Stella an elderly woman was forced from her own home and basically blackmailed ? You have to ask this poor woman for more money to give her back her home which was not your right to take in the first place?  You took advantage of an elderly person with no family and no friends that alone disgusts me.

What's your take on this? Speaking as a granddaughter with two rapidly aging grandmother's this case really turns my stomach.


I just can't condone this and I sincerely hope Stella gets gets her home back without paying the caregiver a single PENNY. After all she has been through enough is enough..