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11/17/2009
10:00 Hogan’s Peanuts
The article, called "It's just nuts," appears in the December issue of Chatelaine. It focuses on peanuts and suggests parents are overreacting to food allergies, anaphylactic reactions aren't as common as people think, and that death rates are low. Groups such as Anaphylaxis Canada, and over-concerned parents are trying to ban foods such as peanut butter, milk, and bread from schools. What is like in schools now? Are students lined up at the start of the day, like the prisoners in Hogan’s Heroes, and checked for banned foods?
11:00 Too Successful to Deport?
A failed refugee who became a successful Markham businesswoman says she might have to lay off 19 Canadian workers and shut two firms if she's deported to her native China. Miaomiao Wang, 26, the mom of two Canadian-born girls including one two months old, owns and operate a travel agency and a car rental firm in Markham, which she founded after arriving in Canada. She arrived here in 2003 as a student and filed an unsuccessful refugee claim and appeal. She pursued this new life of hers with the possibility of being deported looming in the background – isn’t that her fault?
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1:00 She Wants To Drive. What Do You Do?
From The Globe & Mail’s Andrew Clark: There are two times when it is okay for my wife to drive our car: I've had one of those evenings, or I am not in the car. Judging by the couples I see driving by me every day, I'm not alone. Rare is the sight of a lady sporting around her squire. Credit our trademark masculine insecurity or chalk it up to survival instinct but men don't like their women operating their vehicle. It's not that we are afraid of female drivers, per se. Most of us, for instance, have no problem with a female pilot or trucker. No, men have trouble with female drivers they know
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