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Health and safety zealots tell youngster her 2ft paddling pool needs a lifeguard
Seeded on Tue May 27, 2008 6:01 AM EDT (the Mail online)
For nearly a quarter of a century, Lourdes Maxwell has celebrated the arrival of summer by putting a paddling pool in the garden. This year, however, her two grandchildren and the children of her neighbours may have to find another way to cool off in the heat.
Ontario Premier: Cigarette store display ban about saving lives
Seeded on Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:51 AM EDT (CBC)
Ontario smokers will soon have to thumb through a binder to pick the brand of their choice at convenience stores as the province ushers in a ban on cigarette displays, which the government says is necessary to save lives, despite growing concern among store owners. While Ont …
Justice: Let's get serious about steroids | Jon: Do we need Congress for that?
Seeded on Mon Jan 7, 2008 9:21 AM EST (The Houston Chronicle)
If Congress really cared about steroids, it would have passed meaningful legislation years ago.
Woman told not to put up security because it may harm returning burglars
Seeded on Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:36 AM EST (rugbytoday.co.uk)
A CHURCH Lawford woman recovering from a multi-thousand pound raid claims she was refused permission by police to install tighter security measures - in case it injured returning thieves.
Censorship In The Name Of 'Human Rights'
Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:12 PM EST (National Post)
The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) is taking Maclean's magazine to a human rights commission. Its crime? Refusing the CIC's absurd demand that Maclean's print a five-page letter to the editor in response to an article the CIC didn't like.
Government Spent $1 Billion Against... Sex?
Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:16 PM EST
Every once in awhile in my internet browsing I find something particularly angering, and to be honest it usually involves the government. The upset today comes from Wikipedia, specifically the article on Abstinenc e-only sex education. Scroll down to the Rise in the U.S. section.
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The ladettes who glorify their shameful drunken antics on Facebook
Seeded on Mon Nov 5, 2007 8:36 AM EST (the Mail online)
Drunkenly dancing on tables or collapsing in the street used to be a source of acute embarrassment for young women the morning after the night before. Today, they are more likely to boast about it - to the world, with pictures - on social networking sites.
Proposed new British law: teens who aren't in school, or have a job, or in training for one, will face on-the-spot fines.
Seeded on Mon Nov 5, 2007 8:19 AM EST (The Times)
The measures are designed to enforce a new law which will be outlined in this week's Queen's speech. It will say that all teenagers must remain in education, training or employment until they are 18.
When selecting staff for redundancy, you can no longer take into account their attendance record because it might discriminate against the disabled, lazy
Seeded on Fri Nov 2, 2007 9:29 AM EDT (BBC News)
In total the group was awarded compensation of £1.3m. Richard Ascough, GMB regional secretary, said he was "delighted" with the ruling, as his members had "been very shoddily treated by the employer after many years of loyal service".
Family wants plastic pen tops ban -- Yeah, well, I want stupidity banned
Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:21 AM EDT (BBC News)
The parents of a County Durham schoolboy, who choked to death on a plastic pen top, are stepping up their campaign to get them banned. Ben Stirland, 13, from Consett, died in January, after swallowing the pen top while doing homework.
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