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Archive for November 20th, 2008

Last Yugo rolls off the assembly line

November 20th, 2008 | 2 Comments

It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production. The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more. The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac. [...]

Marijuana grower convicted of child endangerment

November 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment

In a precedent-setting court case in Labrador, a man who ran a marijuana grow-op in his house has been convicted, not only of drug offences, but also of child endangerment. Two children were living with him in the home. RCMP seized 37 marijuana plants from the Happy Valley-Goose Bay resident Corey Saunders in November 2007. [...]

Religious freedom does not apply to Muslims in Malaysia

November 20th, 2008 | Comments Off

So says Datuk Faiza Tamby Chik, a retired high court judge, speaking to an international symposium on comparative law. Citing the case of Lina Joy’s renunciation of Islam, Faiza said the high court in its decision ruled that a Malay under Article 160(2) of the Federal Constitution remained in the Islamic faith until his or [...]

Saint Edmund of East Anglia

November 20th, 2008 | Comments Off

The collect for today, the Feast Day of Saint Edmund (841-869), King of the East Angles, Martyr (source); O eternal God, whose servant Edmund kept faith to the end, both with thee and with his people, and glorified thee by his death: grant us the same steadfast faith, that, together with the noble army of [...]