Rental Diva, an unlicensed rental agency in Brampton Ontario, is likely to face a human rights tribunal after turning away clients because they’re gay. Thiago Derucio and Christ Prentice called Juliet Stewart—operator of Rental Diva—about a basement suite, but were promptly told they could not rent the property because the
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Westwood Park (Ottawa) Off-leash Status
Hello, Just wanted to bring attention to a much beloved off-leash dog park in Ottawa’s west end. Some immediate neighbours to the park think that this should no longer be an off-leash park. I believe it is a little bit of “NIMBY”ism, but I think a wrong stance none the less.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Private Employers Access Police Database
Here’s the really strange part… the employers didn’t hack the system to gain illegal access. The police give sometimes false positive criminal record checks to B.C. citizens seeking jobs. “The best thing about PRIME, from my perspective, is the sharing of knowledge across North America,” says Insp. Bruce Imrie, who
Continue readingLeft Over: Fishing For an Alternative….?
How You can Have Your Healthy Environment and Eat Farmed Salmon Too Sue Scott, from the Atlantic Salmon Federation, has a column under this heading, in HuffPo today. It’s a bright-eyed discussion of dry-land closed-pen salmon farming, and considering who she is representing, I had to read it and comment.. I
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Show The Cards Elections Canada #RoboCon
A lawyer is trying to compel Elections Canada to release more public details of its super slow investigation into the election fraud from May 2011. Apparently the next date we’ll have any news from the Federal Court is August 8th. In the meantime, the greatest crime against this country in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Chick-Fil-H8
Last week I didn’t know Chick-Fil-A existed, or how to say it. I wish I still didn’t. That sack of meat, dirt bag owner of the chain is welcome to cluck right off. What sort of faux-Christianity is it to use the Bible to fill a capitalist business after they
Continue readingWrecking ball only fate for Mountainview Hotel
Let’s get one thing clear — I am a big supporter of local history.Which is why I think the local branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario should have it’s say on why the Globe Hotel — aka, the Mountainview — should be preserved.It doesn’t, however, mean I agree with them.There
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wood Mountain Hail
There was a bit of hail in Wood Mountain today; the ground turned white at the park. @canadogreg Friend at Wood Mountain park took this one http://t.co/dqGg1fHX— Riley Fafard (@RilesFaf) August 01, 2012 Tornado warning, and one touched down near Glentworth apparently.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: BP Doesn’t Pay
BP isn’t repairing the damage it caused in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, it was easy to predict that. Enbridge didn’t clean up the huge spill in Wisconsin. Yet these sorts of companies get billions of dollars in government subsidies, despite huge profits they are allowed to keep even
Continue readingLeft Over: Left Over 2012-07-31 11:30:07
Hundreds of women join RCMP harassment lawsuit While reading through the comments posted under this article re the pending RCMP harassment lawsuits, I ran across one comment that was so stereotypically unenlightened that I had to respond..the poster stated that he “was much more interested in finding out if the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: LBJ on Economics
“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It may seem hot to you,but it never does to anyone else.” Cited in Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (2012)
Continue readingIn This Corner: Bringing back the name (sort of) won’t bring back the Klondike Days feel.
So, K-Days is back! That should settle all the problems that have beset the ex-Capital Ex. Well, not quite. The public has spoken, and K-Days is back as the name for the Edmonton exhibition. Personally, I think it is one of the least inspired name changes ever, since the K
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Dutch disease revised
As we know, Dutch disease is about damage to industry from resource exports. As we witness the widespread drought this summer in North America and the damage to crops, Dutch disease needs to be redefined to also include the damage to agriculture. The Canadian West eats its own as it
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Ukraine Proposes Jail For Positive Gay Depictions
Lawmakers in the Ukraine have introduced an anti-gay bill that would punish “propaganda of homosexuality” with fines and up to five years in prison. Russia recently enacted a similar law this year, with expected disastrous results. Gay activists in the country have been arrested simply for marching for equal rights,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oro Lake
On Saturday my wife and I were in Oro Lake, which is SW of Regina. It used to be a Regional Park, but is now simply a community hall with some playground equipment and little-used basic camper sites. We took one of our dogs, who had a great time running
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bruce Carson Charged
Designed as expiring news on a Friday in the middle of Summer, instead of last Winter when the report on his alleged guilt was complete, these charges come a year too late. Bruce Carson was accepted into the Prime Minister’s Office and his personal influence circle despite previous fraud convictions.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bleeding Green
Mitch Alexander writes: What kind of council does the city of Regina have. You best believe that I won’t be going to that stadium. I think everyone should just boycott the new stadium indefinitely. It won’t be able to last if nobody goes… That’s not the best strategy Mitch. If
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Batman
I’m not a fanatical comic book movie watcher. I did go to see “Batman The Dark Knight Rises” [10/10] Tuesday though, and it was great. It would have helped to have recently viewed the previous movie which is mentioned to some degree, but the story can stand on its own.
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Musicians still don’t understand how the internet works
… and it’s still not made of tubes, either: Pete Townshend and Brian May attack Google over piracy. A search engine indexes the web. The web is generally an open space, where people can put up whatever they want (not that they necessarily should). Forcing search engines to block sites
Continue readingIn This Corner: Letter to America: You’re making it too easy.
Dear America: The events in the Aurora movie theatre are heartbreaking and shocking, and our hearts go our to the families of the victims, and the extended family that is the United States. Everyone in Canada is just sick about this. Just like you, we realize that there is little
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