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We can be heroes

May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sometimes life hands you a terrible burden.
Each of us deals with it in our own fashion, often alone or, if you are lucky, with the support of a close knit family. But every once in awhile, tragedy befalls a family in a horribly public fashion. Suddenly there is no private grief.
That happened last week [...]

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Tags: Day in the Life · Good Citizen · Toronto

Ontario Home Builders Association is in a tizzy!

April 18th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Oh the horrors! The Ontario Home Builders Association has worked themselves into a tizzy over an uber serious issue here in Ontario - the veto on banning clothes lines. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the OHBA thinks it’s a terrible thing for the Ontario government to do.
Today, the Ontario gov announced that no longer will subdivisions [...]

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Day in the Life · Good Citizen · Rants · Toronto

Another journey along Canada’s Highway of Heroes

November 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Two Canadian soldiers and their interpretor were killed in the early hours of the morning today. While we slept soundly here in Canada, Corp. Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp of the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier and Pte. Michel Levesque of the Royal 22nd were killed when their light armoured vehicle hit an IED. Three other soldiers [...]

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Tags: Canada · Good Citizen · History · War

The good corporate citizen - antidote to unending greed

October 13th, 2007 · No Comments

City Hall was set to close the rinks - all of them - to cut costs. Not once did the greed hounds of public office look to their own perks and budgets to cut costs.

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Tags: Corporate Greed · Good Citizen · Good Corporate Citizen · Politics · Rants · Toronto