Archive for October, 2006
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Canada's National Institute for the Blind says the white cane is a good enough symbol for all its clients, thank you very much. But Libby Thaw, founder of the CheckeredEye Project, states that for the majority partially sighted people the cane is not a tool and is mostly only ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
So, apparently Canada Post is pro-hate mail.
Well, maybe it's just the management.
Or, maybe they're just really, really anti-censorship.
It just seems to me that a pamphlet entitled: "The plague of this 21st Century: the consequences of the sin of homosexuality (AIDS)" is a bit much; even for a Canadian crown corporation.
Letter ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
One in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, according to one professor at the University of Toronto. That is not a small number.
214 lotto "insiders" - people who work as vendors in locations which sell the tickets - have won prizes in excess of 50Gs since 1999. Two thirds ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
It's new policy week in Canada. Our self-styled, capital-N-capital-G, New Government has defined it's Kyoto alternative. A home-grown environment policy that fits Canada's outlook on the future (read: it's what we can pull off 'cause they screwed around for too long on the Kyoto agreement). The cleverly ...
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
How disturbing? Two boys, aged eight and nine, pushed another boy, fourteen, in to a burning shed on punishment of being beaten up. The fourteen year old victim was born with spina bifida and had been the subject of ridicule before the fire.
These kids live in a public ...
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