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Hosni Mubarak is a horrible dictator. He runs a country where constitutional rights are suspended, censorship is legalized, religious freedom is hampered, and democracy is passé.

And for those reasons, it is unfortunate that the low life is stepping down.

Even the largest minority religion and most persecuted of Egyptians groups – the Coptics – agree. Under what would likely be an Islamic fundamentalist government, Egypt’s seven million Coptic Christians could be at risk of suffering a similar fate to six million Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals - this in addition to the Holocaust of sorts that the Copts have already faced.

Has it really come to this? Has it become so bad that bad is the new good?

 
 
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Here we go again.

If you thought it was dangerous when Elisabeth Hasselwhocares was armed with an Emmy and an opinion, you better watch out, because…

Whoopi Goldberg is now armed with an Emmy, a Tony, a Grammy, an Oscar, and an opinion – which she touts as fact.

(Geez, I’ve got to start watching C-Span or the Business News Network instead of The View whilst at the gym.)

Now, I must apologize in advance, as I’m (briefly) about to bring up some of the Melvin Gibson story (both figuratively and literally), but I promise, this goes far beyond that chunk of overused Kitty Litter.

 
 
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How many times have you gone into a cab to see a cross hanging from the rear view mirror or mini-saints standing on the dashboard?

Many cabs display some sort of religious or personal paraphernalia (sometimes seat belts however, may seem hard to find).

Today, news agencies across Canada are running a story about a Montreal Jew, Arieh Perecowicz, a cabbie challenging the constitutionality of the city for issuing him six tickets for violating taxi regulations.

Perecowicz is in his fourth year battling the case.

Thirty-four years ago this month, the Montreal Gazette ran a front page story about two other Montreal Jews, in their 10th year battling their own futile case against discrimination.

For a province that inscribes “Je me souviens” (I remember) on its license plates, it sure seems to forget a lot and forget about a lot of minorities.