The writing is on the wall for Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials. [...]
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When police go bad
Okay, is this disturbing to anyone else? As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.” As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed [...]
Former Reform and Canadian Alliance MP Jim Pankiw to face charges
From today’s StarPhoenix Former MP Jim Pankiw has been charged with impaired driving, driving with a blood-alcohol content over the legal limit and failing to go for fingerprinting. The incident occurred July 26 in Saskatoon. Pankiw, 45, served as MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt from 1997 to 2004 – first as a member of the Reform party [...]
10 Things That Make Your Home a Target for Thieves
From Consumer Reports A home is robbed every 14.6 seconds and the average dollar loss per burglary is $2,119, according to statistics just released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And that’s the good news because burglaries were down slightly in 2010 compared to 2009. Sure you lock your doors and windows when you’re not [...]
Another approach to licensing escorts in Saskatoon
The City of Saskatoon is looking at licensing escorts in Saskatoon. As Dave Hutton reports Licensing the escort industry would create a distinction between legitimate massage businesses and illicit parlours, says Saskatoon’s mayor. "What I want to do right now is make sure we in fact have businesses in our community that say they’re in the [...]
Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective
So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]
The hypocrisy of the Terrelle Pryor decision
Some of you know I am a big fan of Yahoo! Sports’ Mike Silver. He has a great column on Terrelle Pryor’s entrance into the NFL Supplemental Draft and the hypocrisy that is shown by the NFL by punishing Pryor and letting coaches like Pete Carroll to move on from programs under suspension to the [...]
The Game
The Toronto Star had a fascinating piece from 2006 about gang life in Toronto. One successful drug dealer said the teens he sees are uncontrollable. "It’s going to be very hard to reach them," he said. "Somebody has got to create more programs for kids. They’ve got to keep them busy. They’ve got to teach [...]
The News Corp. Coverup
This is from the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s structured in a way that you want to read and watch all of it. My question is how did everyone not see this coming? You have a news organization that has made it’s name being intellectually dishonest and selling sensational stories and now they seem shocked that [...]
Someone think of the hamsters
Especially in France where they have been found guilty of not protecting the Great Hamster. The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had failed to protect the Great Hamster of Alsace, sometimes known as the European hamster, the last wild hamster species in Western Europe. If France [...]
What happens when a Supreme Court justice performance declines?
From the Globe and Mail Alarmed by the chief justice’s wandering concentration and a fall on the stairs of an Ottawa restaurant, the other eight Supreme Court judges banded together and gave him a gentle prod toward the door. Besides shedding light on a fascinating chapter in Supreme Court history, the story of chief justice [...]
I am 60% that I don’t like Tony Kornheiser. No, make that 100%
I have never been a Tony Kornheiser fan. I thought he was a waste of booth space on Monday Night Football and Pardon the Interruption seems to be totally devoid of any serious reflection or research. Here is Kornheiser on NASCAR Did NASCAR rig things so Dale Earnhardt Jr.could win the pole for Sunday’s Daytona [...]
