Racism in Keswick

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A Keswick man has received 45 days in jail for a hate crime. He hung a black skeleton under a confederate flag. York Regional Police investigated a complaint and requested that the display be taken down, Luke Granados refused and the “decoration” stayed up until December when a warrant was received to have it removed. [...]

8 Year Old Shoots Self with Uzi

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An eight year old boy attending a gun show with his father shot himself in the head with an Uzi after losing control the weapon. The gun show held in Westfield bills itself thusly, “No age limit or licenses required to shoot machine guns, handguns, rifles or shotguns!!!” Well then what could go wrong? At [...]

Poverty Important to Canadians

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While our neo-con governments would have us believe that all Canadians feel as they do that poverty is but a moral failing it turns out that “The vast majority of Canadians want the federal and provincial governments to lead a war on poverty, including raising minimum wages and creating more low-cost child care” [survery by [...]

Palin’s Plank

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Now, finally, we have very solid planks in the platform that will allow us to build an even stronger foundation for our country. It’s all good and it’s encouraging. You would maybe have assumed that we would have gotten further away from those strong planks. But no, they’re there, they’re solid, we stand on them [...]

Reporting with Non-Sexist Language

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A group of journalists in Argentina have hashed out a ten point guideline of non-sexist reporting. Covering things like stopping referring to partner murder as “crimes of passion” to perpetuating the Madonna myth when reporting on female violent crime. Among other evidence for sexism in news coverage, PAR mentions “detailed descriptions of what a woman [...]