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y p 4 the tribune saturday august 30 1997 st the tribune saturday august 30 1997 vol 13 no 35 commento inions editorial be aware children are back in school theyre back those yellow school buses and children of all ages and sizes trudging down residential streets with knapsacks on their backs or darting across busy intersec tions next week is of course back to school time and drivers have to notch their mental and physical driving skills up another level residential and main roads especially near schools will be clogged with parents rushing to get their kids to school on time school buses will be making frequent stops with warning lights flashing picking up and dropping off precious passen gers most of the older students will have their parents safety lessons ringing in their ears but some of the kids on our roads will be eager little junior and senior kindergarten stu dents encountering traffic and using the rules of the roads for the first time by themselves please be mindful of children as you go about your busi ness ensure that you dont exceed the speed limit that you are alert to one or more children crossing at busy intersec tions and especially that you stop the legal distance behind or in front of school buses with their red signals flashing its every school bus drivers nightmare to see a car careen ing past the flashing lights with an innocent student just stepping into the street close calls happens every day of school season please make sure it isnt you behind the wheel cjittse tnndfcw frtoimtoieto rbmj1 website separates shysters from saints well i suppose it was only a matter of time there is now an entire website devoted exclusively to canadian lawyers actually this may be an honour the lawyers would rather live without this website is the brain child of torontonian john styles and he is no fan of lawyers over the past decade hes spent tens of thousands of dollars fight ing skirmishes with the legal pro fession he started the website as a kind of legal better business bureau separating the saints from the shysters anyone with access to a computer can visit the website httpwwwcanlawcom and find out if a specific lawyer has been the subject of a complaint were trying to provide a ser vice to both the legal profession which refuses to do its own housecleaning and to the world at large said styles the man has a point lawyers are notoriously reluctant to air their own dirty laundry last year in ontario alone there were nearly 5000 complaints reg istered with the law society of t unfair to hold us hostage dear editor i am a grade 12 student returning to high school in the fall i am angered by the fact that because the board and the teachers union insist on using the students as pawns in their giant chess game the only ones who can really lose are the students as a student i see the detrimental effect that increasing class sizes have on the quality of education when the pupilteacher ratio climbs to 30 or more to one the stu dents ability to learn is compro mised the increase in class sizes can cause some of the struggling stu dents to slip through the cracks and not get the extra help they need last year everyone felt the effects of the possibility of the teachers strike school spirit was low and many students were concerned about losing their year if university admission marks were not sent in letters once the may admissions date passed a wave of relief seemed to pass over the school i dont think it was fair to hold last years oacs hostage nor do i think it fair to hold this years class at a possible disadvantage to the other boards because of a shortened school year the past three years at my school have been quite enjoyable and i have been fortunate to have many excel lent teachers who have taken time out of their busy schedules to help me understand a particular concept i am worried that if the board insists on cutting the number of teachers the extra help will stop not because the teachers dont care but because they simply dont have the time a concerned york region secondary student upper canada the law society selfstyled watchdog of the legal profession in ontario bestirred itself to act on exactly 160 of them and then issued only a slap on the wrist more often than not will john styles website change the common perception of lawyers as pond scum in pin stripes probably not but the dumb lawyer jokes going around may help to vent some of that public spleen these are examples of less- thanstirring performances by courtroom lawyers who began speaking before their brains were in gear to wit lawyer now mrs johnston how was your first marriage ter minated witness by death lawyer and by whose death was it terminated lawyer what was your rela tionship with the plaintiff witness she is my daughter lawyer and was she your daughter on feb 13 1987 lawyer do you know how many months pregnant you are now defendant i will be three months nov 8th lawyer apparently then the date of conception was aug 8th defendant yes lawyer and what were you and your husband doing at that time lawyer doctor davis as a coroner how many autopsies have basic black arthur black you performed on dead people witness all of my autopsies have been performed on dead people to be fair lawyers might be for given for the odd mental lapse theyre not always dealing with brain surgeons on the stand lawyer mrs wilson is your appearance this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which i sent to your attorney defendant no this is how i dress when i go to work lawyer and lastly gary all your responses to my questions must be oral ok now what school do you go to defendant oral lawyer how old are you defendant oral lawyer ms delacourt would you describe yourself as sexually active defendant no i just lie there nope lawyers dont have it easy as the humourist roy blount junior once wrote lawyers must go to school for years and years often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives you can say what 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