Ontario public school elementary teachers threaten strike - Globe and Mail
sam zhang from Toronto, Canada writes: I agree that unions should be banned from having any power except to protect people's basic human rights. They should ensure the children's safety and education with minimized impact even they have a good reason ...
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Robert Burns: A racist, sexist drunk? - Scotsman
ROBERT Burns was a "racist, misogynist drunk" who is unfit to promote Scotland's 2009 Homecoming celebrations, a leading historian said yesterday. The fitness of Scotland's bard to be a role model for modern Scots was called into question by Michael ...
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Britney, Obama Twitter Feeds Hijacked Following Phishing Attack - Wired
Official Twitter feeds belonging to Barack Obama's campaign, Fox News and Britney Spears were hijacked to send out fake messages on Monday, two days after a password-stealing phishing attack targeted the microblogging service. "A number of high ...
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December 2008 - Posts - Slate
Well, I end the year with a mea culpa : I should have read the New Republic piece about Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat before piping up to defend him. But even after doing so, I agree most with this part of what one of the scholars who initially ...
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