Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
To the Editor:
A 91-year-old Ottawa man is tied up, beaten and robbed by four masked men. Police officer John Atkinson
of Windsor, Ontario is shot dead in broad daylight. Both of these crimes occured this past Friday.
A Vancouver bus driver is badly beaten over the weekend by two thugs over a 50-cents dispute.
Then there was [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Dear Editor:
There is some concern that Stephen Harper’s intent to sentence criminals to longer jail time will stretch the prison system to breaking point unless he comes up with the money for new prisons. Actually there is a far cheaper way to go. There are thousands of minor offenders languishing in prisons across the country [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Dear Editor:
There is some concern that Stephen Harper’s intent to sentence criminals to longer jail time will stretch the prison system to breaking point unless he comes up with the money for new prisons. Actually there is a far cheaper way to go. There are thousands of minor offenders languishing in prisons across the country [...]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Dear Editor:
American proponents of a 700 mile wall on the Mexican border should use a little imagination. Why settle for a measly 700 mile wall when, taking their cue from the Great Wall of China, they could build a wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, then top it with a toll [...]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
April 26, 2006
Dear Editor,
I too was an admirer of the excommunicated Catholic priest Rev.
Cachia. I too liked his engaging charm and personality. I too could
have been fooled. But Hollywood taught me long ago that morality and
personality are not necessarily synonymous. The Lord taught me to
‘beware [...]
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Friday, May 5th, 2006
Dear Editor:
Recently I was reading an article on animal species, such as the dodo and the dinosaurs, that have become extinct. Some of these disappearances are easy to explain, the passenger-pigeon, for instance, was hunted to extinction, while others, like the late dinosaurs, remain a mystery. According to scientists, of course, nothing really [...]
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