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BURLINGTON, Ont. 鈥?A Toronto woman who gave water to pigs on a truck headed to slaughter committed an act of kindness similar to when people gave water to Jews transported on cattle trains during the Holocaust, her lawyer said in closing arguments at her trial Thursday.Defence lawyer Gary Grill also compared Anita Krajnc actions 鈥?and the resulting legal battle 鈥?to the experiences of historic rights activists such as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Susan B. Anthony.Anita is acting in the public good, Grill told a packed courtroom in Burlington, Ont. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Though pigs are not recognized as persons under law, they have the same capacity to suffer as humans, Grill argued.
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OTTAWA 鈥?The federal website advertising volunteer positions for students hoping to earn money for their educations through a $900-million government aid program contains hundreds of positions that do not actually exist.Among the student-volunteer positions advertised as available on the I Want to Help website are 1,500 spots with YMCA Canada to help create online exercise regimes for kids and seniors in their communities.Yet the YMCA says those positions were actually the brainchild of WE Charity, the organization originally tapped by the Liberal government to administer the Canada Student Services Grant, and that the YMCA never agreed to
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