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A phrase to be banned from the English Language.
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1/30/2012 11:11:00 AM
Every year Lake Superior University comes out with the words and phrases that should be banished from everyday language. There is one I’d like to add: “Honour Killing.”
It comes to mind because of the three Shafia family members convicted by a jury of four counts of first degree murder in the deaths of three daughters and the first wife in a plural marriage.
The Crown’s case centered on the theory that the women were killed because the daughters broke the family rules against dating, wearing western style clothing and that the actions motivated the father, his second wife and their son to commit a co called “honour killing”. I know that a distinction has to be made but as we all know there is no honour involved in this kind of action. It’s simply murder.
Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has said the practice is ``barbaric and unacceptable in ...
The downtown half way house to mass transit
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1/23/2012 10:06:00 AM
I’ve got a call in to Ward 2 councilor Jason Farr to get his comments on the latest violence offender to just walk away from the Hamilton Community Corrections Centre on York Boulevard in Hamilton.
He signed himself out on Thursday and hasn’t been seen since. What I want to talk to Councilor Farr about is the 2004 federal promise to move that facility out of the downtown core.
There is no sign that it’s going to happen anytime soon.
This facility is one that takes the parolees other facilities won’t.
Great, right near Jackson Square and the Library which has a Children’s section.
Something like this has to be moved in the interests of public safety and for the really hard cases should be put somewhere not so close to mass transit and a ticket to ride out.
It's garbage not rocket science.
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1/13/2012 10:54:00 AM
I am continually amazed at how council can be the follower and not the leader on civic issues. In this case, the one bag limit and a monthly garbage amnesty is dumb. There has been an outcry about unfair limits and illegal dumping.
I agree the city should crack down on it but going backward is not the way to do it.
I live in Niagara and we’ve got the one bag limit. Yes, one has to deal with recycling more diligently in order to get true waste down to the level of one back but if you really do it you can get your garbage down to even less. My husband and I routinely put out one green bag a month.
It’s not impossible or difficult. You just have to do it.
Some of the comments by councilors about how the recycling calendar looks like a Mayan calendar with ...
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