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Archive for May 21st, 2009

How to keep politicians away from your door

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Matt Pritchett of the London Telegraph shows us what does the trick in the UK.

We find that, around here, Atlantic Frank has the same effect.

Muslim woman jailed for forcing daughters to marry

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

A British Muslim mother has been sentenced to three years for forcing her school-age daughters to marry cousins in Pakistan.
A Muslim mother who forced her two daughters to marry their cousins in Pakistan has been jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register.
She told her elder daughter that if she didn’t [...]

Human Rights Museum running big deficit

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The place isn’t going to open for another three years, and it’s already millions of dollars in the hole.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, not set to open until 2012, is already running a deficit.
The latest corporate report for the museum, currently under construction in Winnipeg, indicates a $5.2-million shortfall in its operating budget.
Officials told [...]

Danny claims credit for averting Newfoundland nurses’ strike

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

An all-night negotiation session resulted in a tentative agreement between the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union and the provincial government.  No prizes for guessing who’s patting himself on the back.
Williams says phone call led to tentative deal with nurses
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier said Wednesday it was his late-evening phone call that broke the deadlock between [...]

The Ascension Day

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The collect for today, The Ascension Day, being the fortieth day after Easter, sometimes called Holy Thursday, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart [...]