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The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is asking a judge to overturn what it calls a bizarre decision to award a North Vancouver woman more than $12 million for what it describes as a series of minor traffic accidents. Between 2006 and 2008, North Vancouver businesswoman Micheline Ciolli was involved in three traffic accidents. Her vehicle was hit once on the driver's side by a car exiting a parking lot and rear-ended twice by...

How much did that cost us?

We've got families of ATV's round these parts. They seem to think it's AOK for little ones, age 5, to ride by themselves cause they are inbetween mom & dad and the rest of the family. However they are all the same color and brand of ATV so that must mean something

As a boy in my hometown, I took part in an insanity. In the spring we went down the river on thick pieces of ice. Sometimes we crossed the river by jumping from one float to the other. We all were total lunatics and often the party ended with one of us falling in the water. Then we had to run him home quickly before he froze stiff.

It is often stated, 'yes, but they need the money.' OK. So a business man who goes out of country is not obliged to treat his staff decently according to another country's standards, nor obviously, by his own. I do not wish to patronize a producer of goods who would treat his other coloured brothers differently than he would his own in his own country. Fair is fair - no matter where on earth that is. Yes, relative wages would be...

It is great to be concerned. Three quarters of the people inhabiting the earth are often in worst straights than worrying about child labor. Haiti is as great example almost within driving distance, and little is being done there. The world has a long way to go before most people even have enough to eat, let alone living to their full genetic potential. During the heyday of the British Empire, the refrain was; Some people are poor and it will...

Don't need to read it, seen it with my own two eyes.

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Tis the nature of nature, the powerful dominate the weak, the big fish eats the little fish without remorse, nothing has changed in eons. Take a look a big corps like allianz or bayer that set up camp among others at birkenau, they did well hand in hand with the nazis and flourish to-day but I'd wager most still buy aspirin or insurance without a thought. Wal-mart flourishes cause those counting pennies can save some if they shop there,...

The Tyee has an interesting article on this: BC's Shameful Backcountry Wreckreation