Oh sweetie, get over yourself...

National Bank of Canada v. Retail Clerks' International Union, [1984] 1 S.C.R. 269 at 290-96, Beetz J. [Re. Labour Relations Board making the Bank take the $144,000 it saved by (illegally) closing a newly unionized branch and put it into a trust fund for the union]

"This type of penalty is totalitarian and as such alien to the tradition of free nations like Canada, even for the repression of the most serious crimes."

Alien to the tradition of free nations, even for the repression of the most serious crimes. Wow. Cool.

Year-end review

Stolen from stephantom: take the first sentence of the first entry of each month. And the last sentence of the last entry of each month. What do you get?

January
Happy new year, everyone. Or not.
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And the worst at the very end of the day, as we all said goodbye to Disneyland. None of us wants to leave :(

February
Hello bonjour and we're back home again nous sommes de retour and bilingual in a different way en ingles y frances, no en espanol - bugger.
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Lookit! TeenyTinyButStillPrettiest!

March
Took the kids to Toys'R'Us last night, to cash in their $25 gift certificates for their birthdays.
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(Into the West)

April
The first song is playing incessantly because the Church has been on the news a lot lately.
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Daniel: Well, Daddy would.

May
HP fanfic quotes:
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You be the judge:



June
So I'm telling Chris last night about someone who shall remain nameless but whose lj-name rhymes with Care, who keeps pushing me to change my utterly asexual G-rated quiltfic into slashy territory despite the fact that I've already written the ending and no, slash wouldn't fit in at all, that's not where the characters are headed, it would change the whole tone of everything and their relationship and -
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(Spreading Teh Sap - lyrics to Forever Young)

July
So yesterday, Chris took the Ultimate Canadian Test and this was his result:
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Thoughts? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

August
And just the other day I was wondering at the distinct lack of fluffy memes on my flist.
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Pointed out to me by Sarah's Mennonite minister sister: http://www.idrewthis.org/2005/wwjd.html

September
Just came back from camping.
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And say hi to medee6040 for us all. Lj is just not the same without her presence.

October
Let's make it clear from the beginning that I took on home schooling as a Let's See If It Works kind of project, not as This Is The Way It Is From Now On.
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(Possible TMI)

November
Daniel: It's a celestial badger!
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Link to the article.

December
Parenthesis
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Well... so far the last sentence in this month is this. Sentence, that is. Well, it's not any more, in that I wrote a sentence after it. Make that two sentences. Actually, three. Oh, bugger. OK, six counting this one, and then there will be no more sentences in this entry.