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Anthem issue fittingly a non-issue |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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While the Tories flip-flopped and tried to put the stopper back in the bottle, it appears the genie may have already escaped when it comes to thoughts that our national anthem is fair game for change when it comes to political correctness. It may not have attracted the same attention as the deficit cutting efforts to come in the next day’s federal budget, but in her Throne Speech last week Gov. Gen Michaelle Jean announced out of the blue that the federal government was proposing a re-examination of the gender specific lyrics of our national anthem. The line in “O Canada” of concern? The third line, which reads, “True patriot love in all thy sons command.” Perhaps spawned by the multitude of occasions where our anthem was sung at Olympic medal ceremonies — and with the majority of those medalists being women — a gender neutral version was apparently first suggested by a woman senator.
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Paralympians offer lots of inspiration |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Those who are finding it difficult winding down to a routine after the excitement of the Winter Olympics can look forward to some more international competition this month.
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Keep your guard up against fraud |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
Forewarned is forearmed, the saying goes. That adage is at the heart of Fraud Prevention Awareness Month.
Lethbridge regional police are conducting a series of public education sessions this month at the Lethbridge Public Library in an effort to arm people against the threat of fraud. And there are many ways in which fraud can ensnare the unsuspecting.
For example, online fraud, the focus of a presentation which took place Wednesday, is a growing problem in Canada. A 2008 report to the minister of Public Safety Canada from the Mass-Marketing Fraud Subgroup Cross Border Crime Forum indicated more than 221,000 complaints about Internet fraud were registered in 2007, up from about 197,000 two years earlier. Those 221,000 cases amounted to losses of more than $525 million.
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Politicians not tightening their financial belts |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
While the federal government was preparing to tighten its financial belt in an effort to trim a record deficit, a number of MPs and senators have been making plans to do some jetting around the globe at taxpayers’ expense.
The politicians, representing all parties, have made travel requests totalling almost $1.5 million in the next fiscal year to enable them to attend meetings in exotic locations ranging from India, Indonesia and Kenya to Seychelles (in the Indian Ocean), Swaziland and Trinidad.
Details of the planned trips are contained in draft budgets for a pair of parliamentary associations to which federal politicians belong, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
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Managing money an important skill |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
Bad decisions by people in North American financial institutions were instrumental in bringing about the recession that has crippled the economy for about a year and a half.
Those decisions filter down to affect average citizens and, unfortunately, there’s little Joe and Jane Public can do about them.
We can control our own financial decisions, however, and doing so requires the knowledge and skills to make wise decisions.
Helping Canadians manage their personal finances wisely is the aim of the federal government’s Financial Literacy Task Force. As one of the steps toward that goal, the task force is embarking on a cross-country fact-finding mission that will visit 15 Canadian cities from April 6 to May 13, including Calgary April 7.
The task force will also collect feedback from people via mail, fax or email until April 30. In addition, Canadians can take part online at the task force’s website, www.financialliteracyinCanada.com.
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