Little towns get bad names because of this kind of nonsense
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Population 8,000 + 3 potatoes factories and plenty of farms.. as I remember it has a WalMart, 3 fuel stops, and a Timmies. Blink you miss it ..
Nice community.
If you need anything, you run to Lethbridge.
That wouldn't surprise me in the least. She doesn't mind it when Bear or any other troll did it either. Go figure!
No swearing, spitting,yelling,or disruptive assembly of three or more people. Thank Gawd Almighty, that will put an end to golf, baseball, and hockey.
Laws should never be crafted where their arbitrary and subjective enforcement curtails freedom, restricts human rights, and targets groups among us who differ in age, culture, dress, religion, or belief.
That said, aren't adolescents a pain in the unmentionables?
Laws should never be crafted where their arbitrary and subjective enforcement curtails freedom, restricts human rights, and targets groups among us who differ in age, culture, dress, religion, or belief.
That said, aren't adolescents a pain in the unmentionables?
Funny that we forget that we were once a pain in our parents unmentionables. We get old and crotchety and can't handle the exuberance of puberty and hormonal imbalance. I think it so annoying because it reminds us that we are getting old and crotchety.
Why is it necessary to swear in public, especially if others can hear you?
You might start out by respecting her wishes!
The real target of Taber’s new law: Mennonites
It’s one o’clock on a damp Sunday afternoon in Taber, Alta., three weeks after the town council enacted a bylaw that imposes a curfew, fines for swearing and yelling in public, and gives police powers to break up groups of three or more people. Like every other Sunday here, pickup trucks begin pulling into the Wal-Mart parking lot. Ten guys in jeans and ball caps, aged 15 to 21, hop out and crack open their extra-large coffees from the Tim Hortons on the other side of the lot; some light cigarettes.
Many of them have come from the morning service at the Reinland Mennonite church. Young Mennonites from all over—some have travelled for more than three hours—have gathered here every week for as long as they can remember. Alternating between English and Low German, they talk about cars and watch videos on their phones. After six days spent working on farms and in factories, it’s time to relax.
A few minutes later, a Taber police car pulls up. The officer gets out and walks toward the group. “Are you boys swearing?” he asks, looking them up and down. “We got a call from a woman who says you were swearing at her.” “No, sir,” they mumble. “Any of you been drinking? Any liquor in the vehicles?” he asks, peering into the back windows of their trucks. “Are we going to get a ticket?” one asks. “No,” replies the officer, “as long as you’re not drinking or swearing at people.” He looks at the last vehicle and drives away.
They expected this. The officer will drive by a couple of more times throughout the day, they say. “I’m used to it,” says 18-year-old Isaak Froese, who attends the local Mennonite school. “But it definitely doesn’t feel good.”
Last week, the town of Taber—known as Canada’s corn capital—and its 8,100 residents were thrust into international headlines because of their new “community standards” bylaw. Social media erupted with anger and confusion, with thousands of posts gleefully comparing Taber to Footloose (the movie about a rural town that bans dancing to crack down on unruly teens). But what outsiders failed to mention, and what everyone here talks about in hushed tones, is the town’s open secret: what they see as the Mennonite problem.
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Taber’s real target: Mennonites?
It’s one o’clock on a damp Sunday afternoon in Taber, Alta., three weeks after the town council enacted a bylaw that imposes a curfew, fines for swearing and yelling in public, and gives police powers to break up groups of three or more people. Like every other Sunday here, pickup trucks begin pulling into the Wal-Mart parking lot. Ten guys in jeans and ball caps, aged 15 to 21, hop out and crack open their extra-large coffees from the Tim Hortons on the other side of the lot; some light cigarettes.
Many of them have come from the morning service at the Reinland Mennonite church. Young Mennonites from all over—some have travelled for more than three hours—have gathered here every week for as long as they can remember. Alternating between English and Low German, they talk about cars and watch videos on their phones. After six days spent working on farms and in factories, it’s time to relax.
A few minutes later, a Taber police car pulls up. The officer gets out and walks toward the group. “Are you boys swearing?” he asks, looking them up and down. “We got a call from a woman who says you were swearing at her.” “No, sir,” they mumble. “Any of you been drinking? Any liquor in the vehicles?” he asks, peering into the back windows of their trucks. “Are we going to get a ticket?” one asks. “No,” replies the officer, “as long as you’re not drinking or swearing at people.” He looks at the last vehicle and drives away.
They expected this. The officer will drive by a couple of more times throughout the day, they say. “I’m used to it,” says 18-year-old Isaak Froese, who attends the local Mennonite school. “But it definitely doesn’t feel good.”
Last week, the town of Taber—known as Canada’s corn capital—and its 8,100 residents were thrust into international headlines because of their new “community standards” bylaw. Social media erupted with anger and confusion, with thousands of posts gleefully comparing Taber to Footloose (the movie about a rural town that bans dancing to crack down on unruly teens). But what outsiders failed to mention, and what everyone here talks about in hushed tones, is the town’s open secret: what they see as the Mennonite problem.
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Taber’s real target: Mennonites?
Thanks, Cannuck. Good article. Lots of background. Worth reading if one cares to go beyond the headlines.