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Summer camp season is around the corner

There?s a breed of summer camp that doesn?t involve the outdoor activities we usually associate with the camping experience. No campfire, no mud, no bugs but the kind of camp that usually take place indoors. ? Page 22

ARTS...ETCETERA

Guitarists gather for international competition

The Montreal International Classical Guitar Festival and Competition prestigiously raises the bar for Montreal as a festival city. ? Page 29

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The GMAA rugby season began for the Midget Lindsay Place and Macdonald High boys Friday afternoon at Lindsay Place High School. ? Page 46

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?All I want to know is why??

Woman hit with police force and fines for putting a bag on a bench

By Beryl Wajsman, Editor The Suburban The Arabic name Amal has three meanings. Hope, expectation, aspiration. Those three words are a good synopsis of what Pointe Claire resident and Concordia human relations and psychology student Amal Asmar dares to dream of these days after police harassed her, roughed her up and left her with some $1,000 in fines. She hopes for justice; expects an apology and aspires for an answer to her poignant plea of, ?all I want to know is why?? As she completes her studies and continues with her job searches, the mental scars she still carries compel her to keep this dream alive. Her ?crimes?? Sitting on a bench in front of Alexis Nihon Plaza with her bag on the bench and yelling when police officers twisted her arms and wrists as they hustled her into a police cruiser because of it. She suspects that there may be one other ?crime?: that she had the wrong looks, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Amal, born and raised in Montreal, is perfectly bilingual with no trace of an accent in English or French. She loves to walk her beloved Black Lab Freddy in the See AMAL, page 3 Amal Asmar with her dog Freddy, an 8 year old Husky/Labrador mix.

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