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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2016-11-02, Page 44 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, November 2, 2016 rtm www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com Nuran Expositor PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 P.O. Box 69, 8 Main Street Seaforth Ontario NOK 1 WO phone: 519-527-0240 fax: 519-527-2858 www.seaforthhuronexpositor [p] POSTMEDIA r NEIL CLIFFORD Advertising Director neil.clifford@sunmedia.ca SHAUN GREGORY Multimedia Journalist shaun.gregory@sunmedia.ca DIANNE MCGRATH Front Office seaforth.classifieds@sunmedia.ca NANCY DEGANS Media Sales Consultant ndegans@postmedia.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 YEAR $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GST) 2 YEAR $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GS1) SENIORS 60 WEEKS $50.00 (47.62+2.38 GS1) 120 WEEKS $95.00 (90.48+4.52 GST) Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Canada Steroids are everywhere and used in almost all sports Steroids in sports. The cheating drug, an enhancement to improve athletes' overall performance to the extreme- the disturbing part of it is, they're used in the better part of any competitive contest that involves a pay cheque with a bunch of zeros. It very well might take me a straight week of researching day and night to list all the people, who instead of bust- ing their butt limitlessly working on their craft took the path of juice (slang term for anabolic steroids). But I did gather a list of some of the most notable users: - Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1968-1980 won Mr. Olympia seven times, admit- ted to previous steroid use, go figure -no pun intended. - Upon the release of Jose Canseco's printed paperback "Juiced," when it hit the shelves, he named off slug kingpin Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa, as well as many other MLB players and himself for alleged abuse of performance enhancing drugs. Column Shaun Gregory -Canada's most decorated professional wrestlers, Chris Benoit murdered his wife by strangulation and did the exact brutal fate to his seven- year-old son. He finished off the job by hanging himself. From toxicology reports, there were elevated levels of testosterone in the blood stream. The names con- nected to steroids in that sport are astonishing, even the organization's most nota- ble superstars with 24 -inch pythons -Hulk Hogan revealed to the public that he took steroids for years. The NFL, UFC, MLB and athletes in recent years at the Olympics have failed test after test involved with anti - doping programs. The sad reality of the situation is it has become normal to read about these individuals who took the easy route. You scroll through a story on the Inter- net, so and so has tested pos- itive. It's expected. What frustrates me the utmost is the males and females that eat and sleep such physical activities. Instead of putting an illegal supplement in their body, a diet regiment follows, this trail we're talking about is far from a walk in the park. No breads, no red meats and no fried foods. They balance meals to a science. These dedications involve very little fun time, which means no partying and little extracur- ricular events. This is their meaning of existence, the only thing they do is this, with the outcome of becom- ing a champion hopefully. It's an obsession, so when they compete against individuals with an upper hand and lose, it breaks them down emo- tionally. If and only if, after a How far should police dig in the digital age? A/� t some point last Thurs- day, 7,500 cellphones ere set to receive a text message from the Ontario Pro- vincial Police, simplybecause the owners happened to be near an Ottawa -area intersection nearly a year ago, where Freder- ick (John) Hatch was last seen. These text messages raise a question: How far, in the digi- tal age, should police be allowed to go to solve a crime? Hatch was last seen in a dol- lar store; then his torched body turned up hundreds of kilome- tres away. Police are stumped. So they requested cellphone numbers of everyone who was in the Nepean neighbourhood. It's a massive dragnet, gather- ing up numbers in order to find witnesses. It's not uncommon for police to request data from cellphone companies, says Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the Univer- sity of Ottawa. For instance, Rogers disclosed information, due to court order or a warrant, more than 70,000 times last year. What's odd here is that the police are using the informa- tion to contact witnesses, not track down potential criminals (who, by the way, could try to object to police practices in court), and that there are no real safeguards in place to ensure personal privacy. "What's the forum for (people) to raise issues, to raise their pri- vacy concerns?" says Scassa. Getting this data did require a justice of the peace to sign off. But the OPP won't say where or when that happened. While this instance involved only phone numbers, police have, in the past, requested names and addresses of cell- phone customers. And the scale of this particular opera- tion would startle most people. It isn't particularly difficult to trackpeople down with a cell- phone number as a starting point. Yet the police defend the tactic, saying "If it was your loved one, would you not expect the police to do everything possible to identify the person or persons responsible?" The answer for many, maybe most, is yes. But ends urine or blood sample, an anti -doping agency detects that these people have bro- ken the rules will the driven athletes know they were cheated. Does it make them feel bet- ter? A little I guess. In the moment when they thought they lost, that feeling can never be erased. Some will say, "but the other person was stripped of their medal, or a loss is added to their record:' Big deal. In that specific point in time, the person who injected himself or herself with an oil based muscle builder or muscle cutter was the victor. And sadly, that's often what everybody remembers. Signing out from my house where six kids are running around in Halloween cos- tumes because Gav is having a shindig, Shaun, AKA the man who salutes the pure competitors in the world who grind and give their every- thing without using enhancements. don't always justify means; this could be the start of a slippery slope. We leave digi- tal data everywhere, through many of our actions. This time, police are dealing with cellphone data, but next time, theoretically, they could request information about purchases or transit card uses. It's not that the police should never use such tac- tics. It's that we don't know what the safeguards are and how securely or for how long police are storing the data. As far as we can tell, there will be no one in court arguing for the public's privacy inter- ests in such cases. Far, far more information and assurances are needed. 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