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Boys Don’t Cry – Is It Time We Start Talking About Our Murdered And Missing Indigenous Men?

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Grace Lafond-Barr’s son, brother, and half brother were all murdered in a 12-year span. Her son, Jaron Tyler Jahnke, was shot in the stomach in Saskatoon in a case of mistaken identity. Indigenous people are seven times more likely than non-aboriginal people to be a victim of homicide.

By Jeremy Warren | The StarPhoenix

Indigenous men are more likely to be murdered than anyone else in Canada – possibly more than 2,000 in a 30-year period.

Grace Lafond-Barr believes healing starts in the home, so she moved her family to Muskeg Lake Cree Nation from Saskatoon two years ago to escape the city where murder took away her two brothers and a son.

She hopes the distance between the city and her grandkids will mean a quieter life without the spectre of violence and vice following them as they grow into young men. Lafond-Barr has seen enough of that: in…

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WATCH: A Brinks Truck Door Flies Open And Makes It Rain On Motorists On A Texas Freeway

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Imagine you’re minding your business riding and all of a sudden it starts raining…. money.

This wishful scenario happened to quite a few lucky dumbstruck motorists down in Texas when a Brinks money truck’s door flew open as it was traveling at highway speed down Interstate 20. The “money rain” created pure chaos and multiple fender benders on I-20 as motorists when into sheer pandemonium trying to “get to the money”.

Surprisingly, the truck rode for 7 miles leaving behind a trail of nothing but cold hard c-a-s-h.

Remind me to get behind Brinks on the highway! 

Via Cox Media Group National Content Desk:

At first, Joel Aldridge though the sudden reduction in speed on Interstate 20 in Texas was due to an accident.

But then he saw people stopping their cars and rushing to the side of the road. When a man passed by him with two handfuls of cash, Aldridge began filming the chaotic scene.

According to a statement from the Weatherford Police Department, the door of a Brinks Armored truck flew open while it was traveling on the highway.

A “substantial” amount of cash was lost over a 7-mile stretch of I-20.

Police officials want to remind everyone that “finders keepers” does not apply in this case.

According to the police statement, “Weatherford Police will investigate and potentially prosecute any individual that has picked up any of the loose money and not returned it to either Brinks or the Police Department.”

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World’s Oldest Woman Gives The Key To Her Long Life Before She Died

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Misao Okawa was a few weeks shy of 117 years of age when she did on April 1, 2015.

Japan mourned the loss of the world’s oldest person Misao Okawa on 1 April [2015].

Born on March 5 1898, Okawa finally died of heart failure just a few weeks after she celebrated her 117th birthday.

But not before she revealed what she considered to be the secret to her long and happy life. And it’s something many would probably agree they could get used to doing more of.

“Eating delicious things is a key to my longevity,” said Okawa she told The Japan Times.

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