Frank Klees, the runner up to Tim Hudak in the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race, has announced he will be running for speaker when the Ontario legislature resumes sitting.If you’re wondering why we should care, the answer is “math” – with Klees as speak…
Continue readingwmtc: fbi "mapping": racial and ethnic profiling at the highest levels of so-called law enforcement
I just received this from the ACLU. I will run it here verbatim, except for a few extraneous bits. This is racial and ethnic profiling at its most extreme. If the top law “enforcement” agency in the US does this, how can the police departments of New Y…
Continue readingQP: Today’s back-up Baird
It was curious to see just what the NDP
would leadoff Question Period with, with so many issues of the day. Would it be
the long-gun registry? Would it be the “you’re talking Eskimo” video? Would it
be the F-35 issues? No, Nycole Tu…
the reeves report: United Nations close to finalizing a ban on Western e-waste exports
At a recent United Nations environmental conference in Cartagena, Colombia, attended by over 170 represented countries, 50 nations have ratified an amendment to the 1989 Basel Convention which will restrict the export of electronic waste to the developing world. Only 17 nations needed to ratify the amendment in order to see it introduced, but the … Continue reading »
A Blog By James Curran: Should Ontario Start it Own Long Gun Registry?
Feel free to discuss.
Continue readingThe Harperites attempting to deport a Canadian citizen
I’ve never much favoured deporting people who came to this country as children,believing that they are our problem to deal with, after all they are products of our society. Add in the fact that doing so reeks of off loading our problems onto some one …
Continue readingwmtc: life, by keith richards, canadian content alert
This post – like its subject – is old but still relevant.Over the summer I read Life, Keith Richards’ memoirs. When I blogged about it here, I was loving it, but the book didn’t turn out to be as fascinating and excellent as that post implies. The best…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Note on the eventual Toronto-Danforth by-election…
I agree with something posted awhile back by Globe and Mail columnist Robert Silver, that the upcoming by-election is a chance to do something different – specifically, the attempt at an “open primary” in the riding.The concept is simple: anyone puts t…
Continue readingman of vanity, frank klees, goes out with a bang
The Ontario PC Party is up in arms now that one of their own, Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees, has put his name forward for the speakers chair. Dalton is just one-seat shy of a majority government, and that means neither opposition parties could affo…
Continue readingPrivacy
The unelected premier of BC. Christie Clark and her caucus are trying to ram through changes to the Privacy Act. According to an article written by Rob Shaw, of Postmedia.
The proposed legislation would make it easier for government to share people’s private information across ministries, something the current law prohibits. Government officials . . . → Read More: Privacy
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4126…Ever Heard Of K-97?
Me neither.It is a classic rock station in Edmonton and now both of us have heard of it.I found out about K-97 in this morning’s Ottawa Sun. Advertising Standards Canada, a self anointed and appointed watch dog of do gooders who have their panties on …
Continue readingRob Ford: Help! Call 911! Marg Delahunty is after my body!
Marg to cop, "Where's a man when you need him?" Cop, "Obviously not here, m'am".
Too fucking hilarious. No wonder Conservatives are so afraid of the CBC. Marg Delahunty’s on the prowl. (Video here.)
“There was a lady dressed up and she was screaming my name: ‘We got you Rob Ford, we got you,’” . . . → Read More: Rob Ford: Help! Call 911! Marg Delahunty is after my body!
Continue readingOn July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits
"Oh say dear Kate, you may want to have that growth on your head checked out."
Ah Conservatives, so in love with our country. Not! Preferring to honour war and celebrate a couple of brainless twits from some other country, rather than honour Canada’s national news and entertainment network with 75 years . . . → Read More: On July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits
Continue readingLeDaro: Herman Cain’s campaign is smoking
See his new ad. Has this man gone cuckoo?
Continue readingThe GOP field too extreme for Pat Robertson? Oh my god!
When you are too extreme for religious extremist Pat Robertson, you know you’ve crossed some kind of tenuous line into a netherworld of Beelzebub, Linda Blair’s spinning head and your dirty old uncle grunting behind the bedroom door.Come…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Criminals don’t use long guns, Tories say in scrapping registry
This is odd — I have done a number of murder and attempt murder cases and only one involved a handgun…bit.ly/ubHPcO
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: It’s Jersey Shore meets The West Wing…
In another of those coming of the Apocalypse signs, the people that brought you (not me, as I don’t watch it) The Jersey Shore are casting for a political reality show:Doron Ofir Casting, the epic star making company behind Jersey Shore, Nashville Star…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: In general in family law cases secretely recorded conversations should be excluded from evidence
Sordi v. Sordi, 2011 ONCA 665 is an interesting decision of the Court of Appeal suggesting there is a general principle that in family law cases secretly recorded conversations should be excluded: [12] With respect to the taped conversations, t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Lawrence Martin argues that with an NDP Official Opposition at the same time as the effects of inequality and greed continue to send shockwaves across the globe, there’s no time like the present for Canada …
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The American Dream: You have to be Asleep to Believe It
George at his most prescient, ranting best. How he would have loved the occupy movement.
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