Profile of Pam Frampton

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• Warning: slippery slope up ahead
  “The reality is, Your Worship, and you’ve said time and time again, if it takes $15 million to keep the city free of snow, we’ll spend what it ...
• There’s nothing sexy about sexual assault
  “She stepped over a line — a line drawn in concrete.” — Justice Julie-Ann Parfett, quoted in The Ottawa Citizen on Oct. 28, 2008, in sentencing a ...
• Tweet restrictions
  “… Our courts must be open to members of the public because history teaches that when things go on that are hidden from the public, people tend ...
• Invasion of the body scanners
  “Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.” — Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist and author, ...
• Neutering the truth
  “What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” — Sigmund Freud ...
• Where’s the welcome mat?
  “There is a jingoism of small places as well as of large. And Newfoundland is more susceptible to it than most.” — Rex Murphy, NewfoundlanderIn ...
• The bus stops here
  “Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public ...
• We’re separating, and loving it
  “And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could ...
• The most wonderful time of the year
  Now to the Lord sing praises,All you within this place,And with true love and brotherhoodEach other now embrace— From “God Rest Ye Merry ...
• Prisons aren’t mental hospitals
  It’s interesting that in the same week a lengthy standoff ended in Bay Bulls and Leo Crockwell was appearing in court, a national report was ...
• Christmas card kerfuffle
  “Elaine: I sent this card to hundreds of people! My parents. My boss. Uh, Nana and Papa.Jerry: Didn't you look at the picture?”— From the ...
• Power looks good in a skirt and heels
  “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. … We have seen the future, and the ...
• Governments, get your eyes off my fries
  Homer: “I’ll have the smiley face breakfast special. Uh, but could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon moustache, five o’clock shadow ...
• All the rage
  “There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys.There’s only you and me and we just disagree.”— Lyrics by Dave Mason, English musician,from ...
• One for the boys
  “So,” I asked Dr. Lee as I touched the lump, “what the hell is that?”— Glenn Deir, from “Sick Joke”Information is power, they say, so when I felt ...
• Curb your tongue
  “I think the politics has become hurtful and hateful, and that’s not what we’re about. And that’s not what we should be about.” — Rural ...
• Turning the cameras on the courts
  “You know, the courts may not be working anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.” — Marge Simpson on ...
• Wasting our money? Now that’s a crime
  “Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.” ...
• Partymobile? What partymobile?
  “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”— Frédéric ...
• Ain’t nothing like the real thing
  “The morning sun, when it’s in your face, really shows your age. But that don’t worry me none, in my eyes you’re everything.” — From “Maggie May” ...
• Turning inmates into outmates
  “Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.”— Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialistWe’ve all seen old American movies ...
• Storm warning
  “Real discoveries come from chaos.” — Chuck Palahniuk, American novelist and journalistAt one point during the apex of hurricane Igor, I thought ...
• Make punishment fit the crime
  “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish philosopher, novelist, poet and essayist ...
• Judge, jury and Facebook
  “Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” — Martin Luther King Jr.When I was a kid, rumours were spread through hushed ...
• The loved and the lost
  Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle.Everything I do is stitched with its color.— From “Separation,” from ...
• Memorable moments in customer service
  Since my column, “Adventures in tourism,” ran on July 17, I’ve been collecting customer service stories from readers — some horrible, some ...
• Getting an education from Eminem
  Next time? There won’t be no next time I apologize, even though I know it’s lies — From “Love the Way You Lie,” by Eminem, featuring Rihanna ...
• Slipping into a comma
  The roadside sign in front of the pizza place in St. John’s proudly proclaimed: Big Lice $2.99.Not exactly enticing.As it turned out, the culprit ...
• Aging: an insider’s report
  In fact, I like this better than 25. I am happy, I’m working on getting fit and I have more energy than I ever did.If — as Forrest Gump so sagely ...
• Warning: smoking can be hazardous to your logic
  Seriously, there are people who believe this stuff.What I didn’t quite grasp until recently is that there are actually people out there who say ...