90th Issue CASJAFVA QuarterlyNo.90 Apr-Jun, 2012
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Table of Contents Breaking News & Cartoon
Pictures of Annual Fund-raising Dinner 2010 1. Quotable Quotes
2. Editorial
3. Inspirations & Remembrance (1) From pauper to president (2)The fall of Richmond (3) A column in the form of questions 4. Money Matters (1) HST will stick to Liberals through to next election (2) Here's a tip - It's now 20% gratuity whether you liked it or not (3) Finally: Small government (4) Davos speech a good start to addressing growing pension (5) Bill to kill long-gun registry passes easily (6) Risk lurks in unexpected places (7) Poor will lose, others will gain a bit with PST (8) Not the time to waver on taxes (9) Families' buying power eroding 5. Politics, Religion & Terrorism (enemies within & without) (1) EU steps up war on Iran's finances (2) Muslim youth group loses charitable status (3) Politics of the trivial incite nasty behaviour in Commons 6. Religion, Persecution of Religion, False Religion, Secularism, Atheism & Limitation of Human Intelligence (1) Everyone should read the Bible - especially atheists (2) A crisis of cultural confidence (3) Exemption from religious studies class not an option (4) Genital mutilation 'unacceptable' (5) Birth of a religion, death of a prophet (6) Remains of Jesus' disciples found: scholar (7) Evangelical group gets boot from Delta school (8) Left's relentless drive to remake America 7. Free Speech, Human Rights, False Human Rights & Kangaroo Tribunals (1) Networked authoritarianism (2) Planned parenthood receives $6M from Ottawa (3) The 'crime' of protecting yourself (4) Truths and consequences (5) RCMP software that finds links in violent crime under scrutiny (6) Companies and customers have a duty to protect themselves (7) Assisted suicide debate intensifies 8. Culture of Entitlement – Is There A Right To Be An Addict or A Prostitute or Demand Special Treatment or Entitlement? Should There Be A Right to Abort One’s Baby? Does Tough-love approach work? (1) Civilization in reverse (2) Newest frontier in harm reduction: free alcohol (3) B.C. welfare payments are adequate (4) Tories take aim at ex-cons on the dole (5) The ethical pregnancy (6) Harm reduction vs. don't touch the stuff (7) Movies influence teen drinking habits (8) Sex-selective abortions B H 'fairly widespread': MD (9) Don't blame the oil sands for Ontario's failure 9. Environmentalism (as a cult)/Animal Rights/Natural Disasters 10. Leftism, Sanity, Bilingualism, Feminism, Liberalism, Political Correctness, Media Bias, Media Abuse, Oppression & Cultural and/or Military Suicide (1) Liberals try to out-conservative the Conservatives for byelection (2) A way forward for aboriginals (3) The power of 'family feminism' (4) Alberta's first NDP government (5) Attempted defection puts party boss in tight spot (6) Students back job action, need for smaller classes (7) A threat to everyone (8) Bringing soft totalitarianism into the classroom (9) Abbott promises report cards after Bill 22 passes 11. Politics & Reality, Ethno-Politics, Foreign Influence, Western Alienation & Normalization of Separatism (1) The GOP's suicide march (2) B.C. chief warns Harper of native 'uprising' (3) What's wrong with a little 'eastern alienation'? (4) Vinegar and China do mix (5) Tories target 'bogus' refugees (6) Tory vagaries spur NDP fear mongering (7) Is there a conservative in the House? (8) Fault lines will frame political clash 12. Judiciary, Judicial Hegemony & Judicial Idiocy & Jndicial Decency (1) Judge OKs suit against charity tax 'scheme' (2) Victoria needs to act before 'appalling' injustice occurs: judge (3) Top court order new trial in sex assault case (4) First Stanley Cup rioter to be sentenced gets 17 months (5) B.C. criminals fail to complete rehab programs (6) Freedom of religion, R.I.P. (7) Anonymity should be granted sparingly, even in divorce cases 13. Basic Freedoms, Justice, Justice System, Political Correctness, Persecution (1) The push is on! Canadian, U.S. public schools continue to promote homosexuality (2) Guilty as charged (3) So obsessed, so closed-minded (4) Unlocked, unloaded... and unclear (5) Canada's new tyranny: that state's takeover of the family (6) A British Columbia myth about the best interests of children (7) Judges brought minimum sentences on themselves 14. Marriage, Family, Parental & Children's Rights, Polygamy, Incest, etc. (1) 'Gender-free' children: The newest fad in public education (2) The two-year window (3) Hong Kong residents bemoan influence of Chinese visitors (4) Focus on the fetus (5) Killing was 'ahmazing' (6) Political leaders protect marriage and children from homosexual/transsexual demands (7) Recipe for a good marriage: Put the other person first (8) Women forced into 'survival sex', says YWCA 15. Special Interest Groups Rule Canada (1) 'Hidden-agenda' hysterics (2) The gun-control lobby's statistical black hole (3) Hard work ahead on aging file (4) Tories on right side of pension reform (5) Teachers waging disingenuous war (6) Deficits never help the economy (7) Teachers vote in favour of strike action (8) Liberals keep one eye on the courts as they deal with B.C.'s teachers 16. Corruption, Dirty Politics, Crimes, Frauds & Scams, Superstition (1) Illegal drugs feeding off pharmacy supply chain (2) I fear my homeland: Ocean Lady claimant (3) Chinese politician mysteriously disappears (4) Could Trudeau's separate Quebec afford his priorities? (5) China has not been behaving like a friend (6) VSB 'censures' out of context: accused (7) The human right to convenient parking (8) Latest credit card scam 17. Knowledge (1) Electrical currents soothe treatment-resistant depression: study (2) Think you're not thinking clearly? It's probably true (3) Science probes hangover cure (4) Five super foods to the rescue (5) Seduced by gossip (6) Fighting Alzheimer's starts in the kitchen (7) There once was a lack of cadavers (8) High vitamin D use linked to fewer stress fractures in females (9) Study links vitamin E intake with bone loss (10) Secret to happiness: Don't be yourself (11) More colorectal cancer screening urged (12) B.C. hospitals get mixed grades in national study 18. Personalities / Heros / Big Business / Frauds/Trouble-Seekers (1) Hawking's journey through time (2) Saint Santourum (3) Alberta not learning from Ontario (4) Trudeau's gift to his father's foes (5) 'Religion must yield' to government (6) Living in a fiscal dreamland (7) Foghorn MLA Krueger an embarrassment to his profession (8) Dix has rosy view of role in '98 teachers deal 19. Economics And The Economy / Have-not Status / Ethnic Contributions / Corporate Welfare / Reversed Discrimination (1) A wage cut for Alberta's future (2) On salary disclosure, turnabout is fair play (3) We're getting older, like it or not (4) A flawed formula (5) Falcon prescribes tough medicine for uncertain times (6) Greek bailout may not work, lenders fear (7) Teachers face stiff fines for job action (8) Voter history on side of budget cuts 20. Real Education, Critical Thinking, Propaganda, Self-interest & Political Correctness (1) Teachers seek hefty salary hike (2) B.C. sex education not neutral (3) Save the school. Fire bad teachers (4) The beginning of the end of bullying (5) Vancouver School Board bureaucracy remains bloated and unnecessary (6) Resistance to government bill will continue, BCTF says (7) Teachers march in droves, back to class Thursday (8) Switching on the innovation light bulb (9) Grassroots move by teachers puts grads, sports in jeopardy 21. Demography / Demographic Winter? / Euthanasia / Genocide / Reproductive Privilege (1) 33.5 million people call Canada home (2) Population and power tilt westward (3) RCMP raid fertility consultant's office (4) Five-year sponsorship freeze aims to curb sham marriages (5) Fertility raid linked to US case (6) Meaning of marriage at risk: U.K. Archbishops (7) Pregnancy discrimination complaints on the rise 22. Morality, Ethics, Culture, Politics, Good Government, Parliamentary Process, Scandals, Racism, Unionism, Anti-Semitism, Sloth, Favouritism, Hypocrites, Slippery Slope, etc. (1) A clever lawyer, not a hidden agenda (2) Battle for sovereignty of the Arctic may be fought in scientific journals (3) Canada to France: Keep your election to yourself (4) Labour camp atrocities (5) Clark set to unveil strategy to remedy court backlog in B.C.'s justice system (6) Making Canadian citizenship matter (7) Rumours of America's demise 23. Statesman or Politician? (1) The McGuinty syndrome (2) Potty-mouthed MPs sully parliament (3) Social issues dominating U.S. election (4) Assets sale: Are Liberals making it up as they go? (5) Premier Clark touts her conservative credentials (6) Poll spells deeper trouble for Clark 24. Law & Order, Public Safety, Punishment, National Defence, Drugs, True Civil Disobedience or Opportunistic Thuggery, War Crimes, & Police (1) Lesbian couple's lawyer brews mischievous media maelstrom (2) Big love, big lies (3) Capital punishment in Canada? It's not so crazy (4) Protection racket (5) Fatal crash risk doubles with pot (6) B.C. teachers promised more money for big classes (7) Acquittal will affect future cases: prosecutors (8) Suicides increasing among young girls 25. Monkey Business, Transparency / Accountability, Bureaucracy Medicare & Crown Corporations (1) Paying MPs twice (2) Roll the dice (3) Quebec on pace to be poorest province (4) The coming war of the 'have-nots' (5) Managed alcohol program shows promising start (6) Elections Canada refuses to probe 'annoying' calls (7) Dumping the pumps (8) Former notary raised millions for Ponzi scheme, regulators 26. Oh,
Canada (1) Canada set to claim important role on the world stage (2) Can't live with China... (3) Your honour, what's with the bulletproof glass? (4) A distinctly poorer society (5) Poor record-keeping on crime is a problem (6) Robcall scandal exceeds the crime (7) Tories use majority to pass crime omnibus bill (8) When will the red-meat Tories rebel? 27. Democracy, Patriotism, Nanny State, Federalism, Capitalism, Liberalisms, Conservatism, Socialism, Dictatorship, Anarchist, Conservations, Multiculturalism, Immigration, Refugee (or queue-jumpers, asylum seekers, exploiters, human traffickers, colonizers) etc., the Senate & More (1) Immigration fraudsters exploiting new rules (2) Canada should change immigration focus to highly skilled out-of-work Europeans (3) ratcheting up the hassle factor (4) Harper takes a gamble on China (5) Ontario immigration hobbled by Ottawa (6) The last days of the 'Passport Baby' (7) Sizing up a robo-scandal (8) Time to stop bloat in the federal civil service (9) Compromise may not be pretty, but it's not bad 28. Tax-grab & Government Spending Do Matter / Gambling (1) Let's hear it for the 1% (2) Court: 'Tolerance is a two-way stree' (3) A media in the grips of Harper derangement syndrome (4) HST to drop on more new homes to help the shift back to the PST (5) Transitional tax provisions a better deal for home builders and buyers 29. Leadership (1) A weakness for the opposite sex 30. Human Dignity, Senior Rights, Self-sacrifice, Civic Responsibilities, Patriotism & International Responsibilities and Human Idiocy (1) Canadian leaders should be Canadian - full stop (2) Not a pension crisis, but reform opportunity (3) HIV/AIDS and the duty to disclose (4) Thrift is the key to retirement (5) B.C. to change care for elderly (6) Tories will double down on austerity despite political headwinds (7) East-side students pack community centres (8) Happiness index that started in Bhutan is coming to a government near you 31. BC Politics etc. (1) West Van home values soar nearly one-third (2) Struggling premier adds new adviser to her growing ranks (3) Attorney-General's qualifications questioned (4) Liberals don't inspire a lot of trust when it comes to balancing their budgets (5) A year after becoming premier, Christy Clark holds line on spending while eyeing foes on right (6) How to stop teachers' strikes permanently (7) Labour pains threaten health care (8) Absenteeism costs $20 million annually (9) Legal realities turn celebration into a wake 32. Jokes (1) A little Catholic humour (2) Time for chuckle (3) What are the differences between a conservative and a liberal, pray tell? (4) A lecture (5) Busy, busy restaurant (6) Simple Simon (7) The boss (8) Meet the parents Teen's boyfriend 33. Health Matters (1) Reduce your risk of blood clots after knee replacement (2) Hard habits to break (3) Sleep-related breathing disorders may raise your risk of dementia (4) Colon cancer: Confusion still surrounds screening (5) Bite back with tooth replacement (6) Coughing again? it could be COPD (7) Should you be tested fro prostate cancer? (8) Legionnaires' disease: Cause for concern? (9) Menopause symptoms can often linger for many older women (10) Know the risk and realities of HIV as you age (11) Take action to banish bunion pain (12) 5 steps to lower your risk of diabetes (13) Do you still need a pap test? (14) got arthritis? Get active! (15) Stay safe while you keep warm (16) Maintain function in your hands (17) Tamiflu (18) TIAs: 'Transient' in name only (19) Nuts may benefit those with metabolic syndrome (20) Advice from Johns Hopkins experts (21) Over-the-counter laxative: Safe, but use them with caution (22) Give routine cancer screenings careful consideration (23) Ask the experts (24) Statin use and the risk of developing diabetes (25) Effective way to banish varicose veins (26) Look out for your liver (27) Keeping track of your bone health (28) Bit of exercise can stave off heart attack Download all articles
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