Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi is the sort of candidate my dad would have voted for: his proposed policies are ideologically right-of-centre, pro-business, pro-suburb.

The Empire Club apparently loves him.
( Cut because Toronto is not the centre of the universe. It's just where I happen to live. )

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The Weatherill report on the causes of and factor influencing last year's Listeriosis outbreak (the one that resulted in the deaths of 20 people) was leaked to CTV last night. Impolitical has picked up on several really bad decisions, and gives cogent explanations of why they're bad.

In a nutshell, the Harper government, and Harper appointeees

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There's a Tim Horton's almost across the street from my house. This means that at any hour of the day or night, I can look out my kitchen window, across the laneway and the parking lot, and see a police cruiser parked across Danforth. At eight o'clock in the morning, when parents are dropping their kids off at the school across the street, there's ( Read more... )

Dear Michael Coren,

Fuck you you sanctimonious, condescending coward.

Dave said it best:

I can't recall when I've read anything so sexist and so wrong in this century.

Last week a young girl dressed up as a soldier died in the increasingly futile and pointless war in Afghanistan. She was 21 years old, had been in the country for two weeks ( Read more... )

You're seriously going to accept Michael Ignatieff as your leader? Pro-torture (oh, but only as an intellectual exercise), pro-war-in-Iraq (but only so he wouldn't lose cred. with the Hawks at Harvard?) pro-business, Republicrat Michael Ignatieff ( Read more... )

human_loser skools me in writing letters to politicians:

To: Stephen Harper
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Jack Layton ,
Stephane Dion ,
Gilles Duceppe Subject: Dudes! Have we prorogued equal rights now, too? Not cool ( Read more... )

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Dear My Fellow Canadians ( Read more... )

The following just came out as a letter. I meant it to be a rant.Dear Mr. Harper ( Read more... )