Archive for December, 2007

Soccer is not a religion

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Dear Editor:
The young lady who refuses to play soccer because the ruling was made to not allow her to wear her religious head scarf that is wrapped under her throat deeming it unsafe due to possible strangulation causes me great concern.
To insinuate that Canada, where there is religious freedom, is now violating her religious right [...]

Hockey Brawl

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Dear Editor:
Re 8-year-olds’ brawl.
The fault, dear parents, will not be found in Don Cherry or the NHL, but in yourselves, that your kids are unruly. And, according to an ancient sage, it was ever thus: “The children are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” Socrates, (circa,470-339 BC).
William Bedford