Squeegee-kid ban upheld (Toronto Star) and Court of Appeal upholds ’anti-squeegee’ law (National Post) Rose Bhullar The Mike Harris Conservative government introduced The Ontario-wide legislation in 1999‚ after hearing several complaints from drivers about the squeegee-kids. According to the Ontario Court of Appeal‚ ’regulation pedestrians and traffic and reducing dangers on the streets’ is more important than having a homeless (squeegee-kid) earn money by cleaning your car’s window. After
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cleanest vehicle‚ so people sometimes should think it over to change their cars to a public transport device like train or bus. But people are lazier then to take a couple steps to the bus stop and wait for the bus‚ so they rather spend hours in traffic jams (rush hours) and pay hundreds for the petrol‚ not mentioned the car crashes. There is a high number of accidents on the roads which are caused by careless drivers. The possible solutions to reduce the transport’s disadvantages and dangers
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The debate over whether red light cameras are effective or not can cause a great divide among any group of people. Proponents of the cameras say that they are effective in reducing accidents and those against them are adamant that they are only in place to increase revenues for local law enforcement. Red light cameras are cameras that are placed at intersections and connected to traffic signals. The camera is triggered by any vehicle entering the intersection above a certain speed and after
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less -homework revolution How fed-up parents are changing the way sehools think—and how you can‚ too By Nancy Kallsh Photographs by Brooke Slezak used to be extremely pro-homework. In fact‚ I once wrote an article for this very magazine telling readers how to get kids to stop whining and knuckle down to work. Back then‚ I could afford to be smug; My second-grader was happily zooming through her ten minutes a night. But a few years later‚ Allison started coming home with four hours of homework
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)Concept Of Operations The city X wants to have a traffic system which shall sense the traffic flow‚ integrate the traffic lights together so they can react to the pattern to improve traffic flow‚ and provide a way for the traffic light system to be monitored and controlled. which will be connected with each other. The city X currently has 24 standard traffic lights. The locations of the current lights can be seen in Figure 1 in Appendix A. The signals all operate independently and are of the traditional
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Smoking should be banned from public places. Studies show that smoking can lead to cancer. Not only does this put the smoker’s life at risk‚ it also affects the lives of non-smokers‚ including pregnant women. Smoking all together is a dangerous thing to do. It began thousands of years ago with the use or tobacco in South America (Libal 11). No one knew about the long-term health effects of smoking tobacco before the twentieth century. It was decades of cigarette use before society began to realize
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Use of surveillance cameras in public areas Surveillance cameras are used all over the world in public and semi-public areas for a range of reasons. About three-quarters of small businesses record who comes into their location on CCTV. CCTV stands for closed-circuit television. There are systems that recognize license plates on moving vehicles and systems that monitor traffic flow and catch people violating traffic laws. Examples of relevant public places that CCTVs are used include: Public parks
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In Molly Ivins says to simply “Ban the damn things. Ban them all.” Her solution is to “Get a dog.” In this essay I will debate for and against gun control What do we really need guns for? Protection? In a world with guns many people feel that because they can’t beat them they might as well join them. If you were confronted by someone in a dark alley with a gun‚ wouldn’t you like to have one as well to make it an even fight? You need guns to protect yourself‚ but if we all didn’t have guns we would
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The question of body cameras for police officers has historically been a pressing issue in America‚ but after the recent incidents it is being taken into serious consideration. Body Cameras should be provided for all law enforcement personnel so that citizens can get a clear understanding of how they are implementing their force onto the citizens of United States. A lot of evidence and claims have been brought up by citizens saying that police officers have taken wrong actions while in pursuit of
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While I do understand that surveillance cameras have many practical purposes in today’s world‚ I still find the very notion of them disturbing and unnerving. It is too easy to slip over the line between necessary and invasive . That line is just too thin. While I realize that many of the surveillance cameras are installed in buildings for sound reasons‚ the idea that I am being watched as I walk through a store‚ across a parking lot or
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