Court's disclosure ruling a reasonable compromise
      THE RECENT RULING by Ontario's highest court, which required The National Post to give the RCMP a document and the envelope it contained for forensic testing aimed at disclosing its source, has been wrongly attacked as diminishing our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press.
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Local road allowances shouldn't be sold
      AS WE SEE IT, municipal councils should look long and hard before even considering the sale of "surplus" road allowances to an abutting property owner. The question that ought invariably to be asked is whether such a sale is in the long-term public interest, and the answer should almost always be a decided "No!
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Easter Trivia, FYI
      Next Sunday is Palm Sunday in the Christian world. The coming week will be Holy Week. Thursday evening, Good Friday and Saturday until after the Great Vigil are known as the Easter Triduum (Three Days) on which the daily services recall the Passion (suffering) of Jesus, preparatory to Easter Day, March 23, 2008. The Easter season continues until Ascension Day, May 1.
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