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Burning Garbage, Immigration Fracas, Happy Belated Birthday Muhammad
The Energy Minister has broached the controversial idea of burning instead of trucking away Toronto’s garbage. Incineration would be able to power some 200,000 homes and would mean people in the city wouldn’t be freaking out everytime politicians in Michigan get miffed about our trash. The Star goes into the debate in some detail. We wonder about the effect incineration would have on our oh-so-wonderful (readers this is sarcasm) air quality.
It was a weekend of memorials.3000 mourners jam into a mosque to mourn a cabbie who was slain last week. Hundreds of cops and members of the public salute those who fell in the line of duty at Queen’s Park.
Two opposition MPs have offered to pay the bail costs for a woman ensnared by immigration officials last week. The immigration officials used the woman’s two high-school aged children as pawns and arrested both of them to get to their mother.
Hot off the heels of that story. A Burlington woman is also concerned that her son’s school is calling to ask about his immigration status.
There’s going to be a coroner’s inquest about the death of Jeffrey Reodica who was apparently shot in the back by police three years ago.
Finally Muhammad was born on April 12, so we’re not sure why some 300 Muslims marched to celebrate the prophet’s birthday over the weekend.