They give us free Internet services that we can hardly do without. They champion for a free and open Internet. They make great products and give consumers an alternative to Apple or Microsoft. Sometimes it seems Google can do no wrong. Until now.
A cog in the gear of the lumber industry
Allow me to construct as honest (and jaded) an image of treeplanting as I can: 10 hours of marching through brush with a 50 pound, lopsided bag uphill, downhill, through carrion piles and wasp nests, shoulder deep in botany with no ostensible purpose apart from maiming, tripping and generally aggravating you to the point of mental breakdown.
As the editor of a newspaper, I get a lot of press releases.
My mouse was hovering over the “delete” button of one such press release when this sentence caught my eye: “Now, I appreciate that The Sheaf doesn’t deal with frivolities and trivialities, nor does it ordinarily engage in the crass promotion of what is obviously a commercial website…”
Tobacco tax, a ban on smoking indoors, ad campaigns with grotesque photos of cancer-ridden lungs — the list goes on in the government’s continual efforts to deter smoking. The list of such preventive measures grew further on April 6, when the government of Canada banned certain flavoured tobacco products throughout the country.





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