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I often slag the Conservatives. But when they do something right they deserve to be recognized: Government to close legal loophole threatening gay marriage: http://bit.ly/wpm4kv "The Harper government moved quickly to quell the controversy, promising it had no intention of revisiting the debate on the definition of marriage. Justice Minister

What’s that? Telecoms and ISPs will have to spend lots of money to create spy infrastructure and backdoors for police as part of the Lawful Access bill, and those costs will be passed on to consumers? You don’t say! Meanwhile, here are some “inconvenient truths” about the bill on both sides of

Let’s take a little break from the heavy for a while by enjoying some music by one of Canada’s finest rock n’ roll bands: The Headstones. Seen em’ live three times and they have torn up the stage each time. Here are a few videos to remind everyone how great

. Not bloody likely. But I do have to admit….. For once Gary Mason actually made me laugh out loud.* Gary Mason @garymasonglobe Close I’m hearing that in a bid to shut him up, Prem Clark will name Alex Tsakumis her new press secretary. Retweeted by csmithstraight 9RETWEETS 3:47 PM

…paper is mandatory sentencing. Except the Stephen Harpers forgot that judges are often sane and, In Our Home And Native Land, are not elected and are nobody’s baby. Check this out from Monday’s Globe and Mail: An Ontario Superior Court judge has refused to impose a mandatory three-year sentence on

…but…in reality it is going to cause a sh*t storm and a half. Megan Oglvie in yesterday’s Toronto Star opened her piece with this: The narcotic painkiller OxyContin will soon be pulled from pharmacy shelves across the country, and addiction experts warn the move will spark a public health crisis

In my opinion the Drummond Report is, like many other a c t i o n s of its kind [see Mike Harris; Stephen Harper] short sighted and seems to be written by someone who is both ivory towerish and won’t personally be impacted by the report. An example thereof

…you are just minding your own business flying your little biddy one engined Cessna from here to there in Southern California and out of no where two F 16 fighter planes roll in and force you to land. Steve Gorman of Reuters goes on to write that when you land

AllTheRestructuringThatFits (not)PremierVille As Laila notes, Christy Clark’s Press Secretary, Mr. Chris Olsen, has been fired. Errrrr…… Restructured. So. Does this mean that the current Deputy Press Secretary, Ms. Rebecca Scott, will now become the big cheese? And if so…. Does that, in turn, mean that CBC Legislative Bureau Chief, Mr.