We are animal rights people. Not those goofy people that go running around spraying people wearing fur with paint, but rather, we believe that if you own an animal it should be integrated into your life. If you own a dog, it should live in the house so that it can be with its pack [...]
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Animals Left in Cars in the Heat – Check if the Air Conditioning Is On!!
Posted in Birds, Bees and Dogs, Social commentary, tagged air conditioning, animal rights, animals, cats, dangerous, dog, good citizens, heat wave, intervention, left in car, windows rolled up on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Does Forced Community Service Do Any Good?
Posted in Social commentary, tagged mandatory community service, obligation, Ontario, youth on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m very curious about how its going with the Ontario Government’s test project that has high school students perform 40 hours of mandatory community service prior to graduating. As in, are the kids taking part more or less likely to be adult volunteers? Mandatory service is not volunteering as the choice has been removed from the individual. [...]
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Remove Police Forces’ Ability to Use Tasers with Impunity
Posted in Social commentary, tagged abuse, Canada, conduct, cops, death, how to deal with police, human rights, misuse, police, RCMP, tase, taser, taze, tazer, torture, Western Canada, zapped on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I couldn’t stop shaking my head as I read the latest in Canadian cops and their use of tasers. So not only are we the country that tasers non-English speaking tourists to death in airports, apparently we also tase 17 year old boys to death, and use repetitive taser shots to subdue an 82 year old man who [...]
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