It’s the weekend to get involved!
Another ground search is being organized to help find missing Carleton U. Student Nadia Kajouji. Please meet Sat Mar29 - 1pm - at the O-Train platform on the main campus drive.
Join the Save Brenda Fund for a rally Sat Mar29 - 2pm - at Parliament Hill to put more pressure on the federal government  to help Brenda Martin of Trenton, Ontario. Brenda’s been sitting in a Mexican prison for over 2 years without a trial.
Earth Hour is a global initiative asking you turn your lights out for one hour on Sat Mar29 - starting at 8pm - wherever you are in the world!
March 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
The Save Brenda Fund rally is just the sort of thing every wingnut in this country should attend. Let’s all get out there and scream for the rights of someone who has been out of Canada for ten years and has been working illegally in another country for a goodly portion of that time. Someone who has appealed every decision made by the Mexican courts and changed lawyers more often than most people change their bed sheets and then decries the delays. Someone who is ‘depressed and on the verge on suicide’ yet has time to take part in a prison beauty pageant. Someone who is ‘living in deplorable conditions’ yet refuses a transfer to another ward in the prison because it doesn’t have a refrigerator. Someone who has been visited by Canadian Consular personell over a dozen times and makes phone calls to the Canadian news media on a regular basis yet claims she has been abandoned. Someone who cries crocodile tears in a TV interview as she spills her woes to the world yet claims it is a breach of privacy when a news organization probes into the validity of her claims. Like Karlheinz Schreiber, she is playing the system and this makes her the perfect icon for every fruit loop in this country who has way too much useless time on his/her hands.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
hear hear! well said PL. I totally agree, there are way more important causes out there, like animal abuse.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:13 am
Good news, Foxy… from the Canadian Press:
After being criticized for having the most lax animal protection laws in the country, the Ontario government is going to change that. The province is introducing legislation tomorrow that will overhaul the 90-year-old animal protection act. The new legislation is expected to impose new rules on roadside zoos and make animal cruelty a provincial offence. It’s expected to give the Ontario SPCA the right to inspect the province’s 50 roadside zoos and hold owners to a higher standard. Melissa Tkachyk, with the World Society for the Protection of Animals, says the bill has been a long time coming. She says Ontario is the “absolute worst” in the country right now when it comes to protecting animals.