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The little Philippino boy from Montreal is making the news. The issue here is: how he eats his lunch. According to the educators in his school he “eats like a pig” - that’s what the boy and his mother say they were told by a …
Years ago I have spent quite a long time in Chechnya. I used to work there as the head of a humanitarian aid agency’s mission. It was war, it was amidst unbelievable circumstances for …
If you spend a lot of time on the net — sooner or later you will end up having your own domain and your own website. (Domains are the “addresses” you type in the address bar of your borwser: whatever dot com, dot org and so on. I also happen …
When I was very young Brigitte Bardot was a hot thing. Then she got old (and fat) and now she is in the animal protection business. (Even the BBC puts the word “saves” in quotes when it comes about her activity.
I remember, years …
In the Kapyong Barracks there used to live army personnel. A while ago they moved out from the town and the “barracks” - which are actually normal, nice houses - became empty. For the moment our tax money is paying for their heating to protect them from deteriorating… There is an ongoing battle about the future of these houses. One proposal was to use them in an affordable housing program, among others, for immigrants and refugees. After an article in the local newspaper (Winnipeg Free Press) last week, on the weekend we had the pleasure to read the following letter:
Sat Feb 18 2006
LETTER OF THE DAY
Re: A place to call home (Feb. 16).
I have been reading with great dismay about the River Heights Ministerial Housing Action Group (HAG) wanting to take over the houses at Kapyong Barracks. I don’t know if the public realizes or not, but it was not only the 2PPCLI that occupied these houses. There are still many of us who live in these quarters (air force). As long as this land belongs to the government and we are still occupying these houses (and paying our rent each month), I don’t believe that they should be rented out to low-income or immigrant individuals. It would bring down the value of other homes in the area as the crime rates would most likely jump substantially.
I for one do not believe that these homes should be made available to any other groups or individuals unless they are with the Canadian Forces or the RCMP. If all of these homes at some point become vacated, then maybe, but not until then do I believe that they should be made available to any other groups or individuals. This is a military community and that is the way we want to keep it.
BRENDA LEBLANC, Winnipeg
At least this letter writer is sincere. When they are not a first or second generation immigrant anymore (because, don’t forget, otherwise everybody comes from an immigrant family in this country!) - so, when they are not a “new-comer” then they really don’t like the immigrants. As an “immigrant individual” my spouse got very upset by this letter and told me even if she never wanted to write a letter to any newspaper, now she felt she should. As for me, the other “immigrant individual” in the household, I just told her what I wrote above: “at least this Brenda is sincere”…
There is a classification when it comes to art - naïve art. As another definiton goes: Naïve art refers to the work done by an artist who was not trained in an academy or other traditional manner of art education. It is characterized by an unusual approach to the …
Forget the Christmas fever and all the PC madness around the “holiday trees”. Forget the usual end-of-the-year topics and discussions. We are going to have a winter election in January. The campaign has been started even before the official launch of the election season.
The good news: parties and candidates are not likely to go door to door. Who the heck would stand in the door at minus 20 and chat with a wannabe MP?
The bad news: they will probably focus on phone soliciting, so say good bye to the quiet evening hours spent with your family.
If they have just a bit of brain they would give us a break from these calls at least for that Christmas — New Year period.
This week has been spent by setting up this blog. During the short breaks all the news coming from every medium, radio, tv and newspaper - not to mention the internet. So my days wnt like this:
How should I adjust the colour of this title?
– If we spend several millions… …
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