According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, voluntary action is “done, acting, or able to act of one’s free will — not prompted by promise or threat.”
Volunteer plan needs change
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Volunteer plan needs work
The provincial government’s experiment to produce more civic-minded youth through 40 hours of mandatory volunteer work is a step in the right direction. It’s unfortunate that the step is small and unstructured and will likely result in some students not being granted diplomas.
Leaf private property alone
One Ottawa lawyer and at least three city councilors have a strange idea.
Road rules apply to cyclists, too
When motorists run red lights, drive on the sidewalk or trail- blaze by cruising down the wrong side of the road, they are labelled menaces, get monstrous numbers of tickets and possibly even go to prison — and rightly so.