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Tag Archives: Crime
Jun
30
2010
The Dishonour of Honour Killings
Recently, here in the Great White North, a murder trial ended and the accused were sentenced to life. A father and his son killed his daughter, all because she was too progressive to be a good little Islamic girl. Muhammad Parvez and Waqas, his son, murdered Aqsa Parvez on December 10, 2007, in the guise of [...]
Posted in Battle of the Comments, Current Events, Dating, Dimestore Philosophy, feminism, freedom, keeping it real, Laws, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Religion, sexuality, Society, Specifically Steff, Women's Department Also tagged aqsa parvez, burkas, burqas, culture clash, fundamentalism, hijab, honour killings, immigration, islam, life sentence, muhammad parvez, murder, muslims, pakistan, parvez family killing, pierre elliott trudeau, saudi arabia, traditionalism, trudeau, waqas parvez 4 Comments
Sep
08
2006
When Will It Change?
I work a couple blocks away from one of the nastiest parts of my beloved city, Vancouver, Canada. It’s like a whole other world when you stumble into the Downtown East Side, just two blocks east of my office, a place that held, in the early ‘90s, the highest urban rate of AIDS and HIV [...]
Posted in Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics Also tagged 2010, AIDS, des, disenfranchised, downtown, downtown east side, Drugs, hastings, HIV, main, murder, olympics, pickton, poverty, Vancouver, willie pickton 2 Comments
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