July, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Date rape drug screener to hit Quebec pharmacies

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MONTREAL—Though it’s less talked about than in the ’90s, date rape has never gone away. The tools to combat it, however, are becoming more accessible. Beginning next month, many pharmacies across Quebec will begin stocking […] […]

All immigrants face mandatory language test

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Born and raised in New York, Dodi Robbins graduated from Harvard University and has been practising law for 13 years. Her first language is English. Yet like all other skilled immigrants applying to settle in […] […]

UK stroke man tests law on mercy killing

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LONDON: A man with “locked-in syndrome”, who can move only his head and eyes, has begun a legal test case to establish that his wife could end his life. Since suffering a stroke five years […] […]

Learn all the warning signs of heart attack

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Chest pain. Must be indigestion … I’ll just ignore it and it’ll soon go away …” Unfortunately, such thinking can prove fatal. Why? Because this is the popular misconception of a heart attack. “People die […] […]

Some men are , not all men are dogs

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By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE It is so easy when you find yourself in certain unflattering situation, especially when it has to do with relationships, to be so angry that you are willing to label all […] […]

No matter what, never let him start abusing you

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As Told by anonymous I AM NOW truly convinced that men are dogs. I am also convinced that when men have a woman who loves them unconditionally, they treat her with total disrespect. That happened […] […]

Lindsay Lohan heads to jail to begin 90-day term

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LINDSAY Lohan, the actress and tabloid favourite, swapped her designer outfits for a prison jumpsuit yesterday as she began a 90-day sentence for breaking her parole after a 2007 drink-driving conviction. The 24-year-old was led […] […]

Arab who posed as a Jew jailed for rape ‘by deception’

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A Palestinian man who masqueraded as a Jew to have sex with a Jewish woman has been convicted of rape “by deception” and sentenced to 18 months in prison. The unusual case underscores the racial […] […]

Man admits 31 child sex charges

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A West Coast sex offender suddenly admitted 31 offences as the second of his five child sex victims was giving evidence against him in a Christchurch District Court jury trial today. The 52-year-old man pleaded […] […]

Driver error may have caused Indian train crash

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CALCUTTA, India—A train that slammed into another in an eastern Indian station was traveling three times faster than it should have been and ignored signals to stop, railway officials said Tuesday, suggesting that driver error […] […]