![]() ![]() Russ Wyatt authored the motion, ostensibly out of a desire to protect the noggins of nocturnal and daytime cyclists. ![]() Last June, council's protection, community services and parks committee voted to ask city staff to review requirements for cyclists to wear helmets all the time and use light and bells at night. Helmets, dedicated bike routes improve cycling safety, city report says.Bike helmets won't be the law in Winnipeg, for now.Put a lid on it? Winnipeg to study mandatory bike helmets.In the case of the city's cycling safety study, the raison d'etre has a lot more to do with the politics of funding cycling infrastructure than it has to do with the well-being of Winnipeg cyclists. You wouldn't quibble with the Winnipeg Police Service if the cops advised you to foil vehicle theft by remembering not leave your keys in the ignition.īut you would wonder about the point of the exercise. You wouldn't question the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for advising you to stop scarfing down salmonella to avoid food poisoning. You wouldn't quibble with NASA if the space agency determined the best way to keep astronauts safe is to prevent rockets from exploding mid-air. It concludes the best way to stay safe on a bike is to wear a helmet and avoid a collision with a car. This is indifference.Earlier this week, the City of Winnipeg published a cycling safety report that reads, at first glance, like it was written by Captain Obvious. Since the sport rakes in about $12 billion annually, it's hard to cry ignorance. It's a pathology, a serial sense of apathy when it comes to violence - by their own employees - against women. Why give Brown one game to begin with? Why not go wild on the other end? Give him 10 games and let the courts work it out.ĭo you think the world will shriek in horror at the idea of an abuser getting the business end of the legal and vocational stick? Would it not be better for someone getting two games above the average? Other than his legal team, who would possibly defend Brown had he gotten eight games instead of one? The NFL has this six-game template for domestic violence, yet never enforces it. The NFL didn't pause, blink or arch an eyebrow. ![]() Next we have a wife asserting that her husband had abused her on at least 20 prior occasions. What is enough? Ray Rice knocking out his wife on video didn't scare the NFL straight. Which leads to Macur's point and the source of women's mounting frustration and anger: "So Mara decided it was OK for a player to abuse his wife just a little bit?" Team president and co-owner John Mara told WFAN as much last week, that Brown admitted he'd abused his wife. But had Urquhart known it was the NFL asking, things would have turned out differently."Īnd, as Macur pointed out, the Giants knew more than enough about Brown - before they re-signed him in April. "He said that two people he considered random - but who he subsequently learned worked at the league - had made document requests, which were denied. "Urquhart told KIRO, a Seattle radio station that the NFL never officially asked for documents," Macur wrote. This is a grotesque disregard for women around the world.īut, hey, make the players wear pink socks on Sunday - but only in October - and that clearly trumps a few domestic batteries.Ī one-game suspension was the best the NFL could do, after a 10-month investigation? The league's and the Giants' journey into the Brown case was far less "Columbo" and far more "Bad Lieutenant."Īccording to the Times, the sheriff in charge of Brown's case, John Urquhart, was unmoved by the NFL's efforts to unearth Brown's misdeeds. The aggregate actions over the last few years are more than a gaffe, omission or error. As was the marquee matchup Sunday night, the league's stand-alone, nationwide showdown between the Cardinals and Seahawks, which ended in a 6-6 tie, the first tie sans a touchdown since 1972. The Eagles-Vikings game was an insult to the forward pass, with five turnovers before your popcorn left the microwave. There have been some eyesores on Sundays. And was anyone really tuning out the Dolphins or Giants or protesting the Patriots because of something that happened 3,000 miles westward? But that story has blown off the shores of the Presidio, past Alcatraz and into the Pacific.
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