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| Courtesy Gadara Medya |
Technically Monday by the time the Liberal leadership results are announced, though we’re awake. Not surprised that Carney won, although impressed by the 86% of the vote he received.
Locally, donkeys are in the news again, and from a different perspective. The mukhtar (word is of Arabic derivation - means roughly village chief and is, surprisingly, used by both Turkish and Greek Cypriots) of a village in the Karpaz area has stated publicly that he would be pleased to get rid of all the wild donkeys. In the aftermath of the shooting of more than a a dozen donkeys and the attendant public outrage this seemed a distressingly cruel pronouncement.
However, he did elaborate. Donkeys are protected and their numbers are growing as is the area of territory that they roam. They are making serious inroads into grain crops on which local farmers depend for a living. Cypriots and tourists alike are happy to see them and offer them a snack but don’t pay the price for their growing numbers. And, like the deer in the gardens along the Assiniboine River in west Winnipeg, they’re attractive but do significantly damage. If the crops were being eaten by rats there would be no sympathy at all for the intruders, and even crows are not welcomed by many farmers. Though no one thinks the solution should be unlicensed shooting.
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