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In-depth research confirms the obvious
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009“‘Extreme’ College Drinking And A Sensation-seeking Disposition Lead To Injury” — Science Daily, 25 May
Archive for May 26th, 2009
Man charged with drunk driving causing death claims his rights were violated
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Cry me a river.
Alexander Beers is charged with impaired driving causing death in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Moncton girl in July 2007. He has told a judge that the RCMP violated his rights on the night he was arrested, but the RCMP rejects his version of events.
James Fowler, Beers’s lawyer, said [...]
Kenney denounces “new anti-Semitism”
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Speaking in Israel last Sunday, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney (at right) condemned the new anti-Semitism arising from an alliance between Western leftists and Islamic extremists, calling it even worse than the “old European” anti-Semitism.
“The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western civilization,” said [...]
Another shining moment in Canadian justice
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009A man charged with criminal negligence causing death following a street-racing incident was supposed to be under house arrest at the time.
One of the men charged after a woman died in a racing incident in eastern Newfoundland earlier this month had been instructed to stay at home under house arrest, CBC News has learned.
Ryan Watkins, [...]
Canadian Dalits call Vienna attack “an act of terrorism”
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Sikhism officially rejects India’s caste system, but the murder of a Sikh religious leader at a Vienna temple is believed to have been motivated by caste-based prejudice. The mayhem in Vienna sparked rioting in Punjab state, northwest India.
Dalits in Vancouver have denounced the killing, calling it an act of terrorism.
Outraged by the killing of [...]
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009The collect for today, the Feast of St Augustine (d. c. 605), first Archbishop of Canterbury (source):
O Lord our God, who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst call thine apostles and send them forth to preach the Gospel to the nations: We bless thy holy name for thy servant Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, whose [...]