Your Turn
Posted 5/9/2008 8:00:00 AM
It’s Friday, let’s open the mailbag.  About the tasering of the RCMP Commissioner and the Alberta Solicitor-General, Don writes to point out they were tasered only once.   He says some of those who died were tasered numerous times.   He doesn’t want these two tasered while they are handcuffed or have a police knee on their neck,  because he fears what the outcome would be.    About the 500 dead ducks at Syncrude,  and the criticism over Syncrude keeping their wor...

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Drunk Drivers
Posted 5/8/2008 12:00:00 AM
It takes a lot to shock a police officer. They've seen it all.  But some say they are shocked by the number of stupid slobbering drunks they're finding behind the wheel.  Driving charges are up a staggering 40 per cent.  Police asked you to call when you see a car wandering from a bar to the 'burbs and you supplied inebriation information.   There were so many drunks on the road at one point last week-end, they had to shut down a check-...

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R E S P E C T
Posted 5/7/2008 12:00:00 AM

 

 Sometimes a thoughtless word can cut like a knife.   A mother writes to tell me how a young man thought he’d make his peers laugh by telling some “fat” jokes.   An eleven year old girl close enough to hear is clinically obese. There’s nothing she can do about it. It’s genetic. She eats right, no fast food; she exercises; she’s in the Stollery Weight and Health Program.   And being eleven, you have to know she is concerned about being overweight...

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