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Sorry for the lack of posts this week, blog was offline for a bit. (For geeks out there, I now have a company managing my blog for me and we we're moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private server - I should have less down time in the future - very excited). [...]
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So.

Forest Ethics.. buddies of Corporate Ethics International, fires off a release this week saying that Levi Strauss, GAP and Walgreens are boycotting Alberta oil.

Today, we find that they are anything but ethical, clearly mis-stating the position of Levi and GAP, from today's National Post:
Gap on Monday released a letter to customers. “It has been reported that Gap Inc. initiated a boycott related to the oil sands,” the company wrote. “That’s not true.” Th...
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A few weeks ago I published a post entitled Some Thoughts on Improving Bugzilla. The post got a fair bit a traction and received a large number of supportive comments. But what was best, about the post, about open source, about Mozilla, is that it drew me into a serious of conversations with people who [...]
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Bye bye apple, hello pot is what you can say about neurotic pain. A new study shows that herbal cannabis helps with neurotic pain. The study gave people with the neurotic pain either a placebo with 0% THC (most common chemical in Marijuana), 2.5% THC, 6% THC or 9.4% THC. It showed a significant reduction in neurotic pain for people taking 9.4% THC against the people who took 0% THC. Now there were some side effects, some of which included headache, dry eyes, burning sensation in areas of neuropathic pain, dizziness, numbness, cough. Some even said that it helped with sleep. I think that the U.S should at the very least legalize medical Marijuana. Which by the way 80% of Americans agree with. Currently though Obama is against legalizing even medical Marijuana.



Smoking marijuana does help relieve a certain amount of pain, a small but well-designed Canadian study has found

"We found that 25 mg herbal cannabis with 9.4 per cent THC,
administered as a...
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Warren Jeffs..  not MY brand of conservatism!

What is a "conservative" anyway?

For me - it's less government spending, less government intrusion into our lives - and a message to the masses that your best chance of success is on your own shoulders.

And there was a time when conservatism of this ilk ruled the western world.  When Bill Clinton's claim to fame was welfare reform and a balanced U.S. budget.  When the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and our Prime Minister was a lawyer and the CEO of shipping company, Canadian Steamship Lines.

Remember Paul Martin?  As Liberal Finance M...
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1. Bloc MP Carole Lavallée is upset with Stephen Harper:

La députée bloquiste Carole Lavallée juge inacceptable que le premier ministre Stephen Harper ait écrit aux élèves du pays afin de les encourager à visiter les parcs nationaux.

Dans cette lettre expédiée en mai aux élèves de deuxième secondaire au Québec et de huitième année dans le reste du pays, M.Harper rappelle que le gouvernement fédéral offre un laissez-passer valide pour 12 mois permettant de visiter gratuitement les parcs nationaux et les lieux historiques gérés par Parcs Canada.

«Allez explorer nos montagnes, nos forêts, nos champs de bataille, nos forts, nos campings et plus encore», écrit M.Harper.

«En tant que Canadiens, nous avons la chance de vivre dans un pays qui a une riche histoire et une véritable beauté ...
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Notice he didn't mention selling off Toronto Hydro like someone else I know. Anyway, Mr.Smitherman's idea could be a winner!
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Harper today has gone into attack the coalition mode again, just like late 2008. Except this time the coalition doesn't exist. But, once again Harper doesn't focus on facts, rather trying to use the world of make-believe to lower Liberal support. The truth is that there is no coalition being planned. The new Harris-Decima poll gives the Conservatives only a ten seat lead (117). There is every possibility that the Liberals could gain a government on their own during an election. After the election, then there might be talks. But right now, no party is focused on a coalition, just getting its own support up, which so far, has worked for the Liberals. We'll see if Stephen Harper can scare Canadians into saying no to the Liberals.


“We as Conservatives are not focused on an election,” he said. “But, friends, when an election does come, Canadians are going to...
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Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is now realizing that the most important issues for Canadians are still the economic ones, but now it's the economic “survival issues”, how to pay the mortgage, how to pay for their kids’ education and how to safeguard their pensions. So now that he realizes this it is time for him to realize that his Finance Critic, John McCallum, sucks. McCallum is obviously
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I am going on vacation tomorrow for a week so my blog may not get updated while I am gone. Hopefully when I get back we will have more happening in the political world, things should start ramping up after this long holiday weekend and there should be lots of news on what's happening in Ottawa, New Brunswick, Ontario, Maitoba and Alberta.If I get a few minutes later I might try to get in one
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Even from Russia I can see the change in the tone of the election. From a strong National Post piece to some top new members of the campaign team, the Rossi campaign is gathering steam for the final few miles. Rocco is the viable, sensible alternative!
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James Bezan, MP, has put out this Gosh Awful big on the long gun registry, in a weak apeing of Dale Peterson. A few notes:

1. A spot can be 15 seconds, 30 seconds, or an epic minute, but your 4 minute ad is a yawn, Mr. Bezan. Figure out your message, and make it fit.

2. Ads need emotional, not rational, appeal. This ad was about you talking. It should have been about guns. Show me the guns. Show me attractive people, smiling, with their guns.

3. Sound editing. The sound of the wind in the trees makes your ad scratchy and cheap sounding. If you can't afford or understand how to edit out the sound, shoot somewhere quiet, indoors, like (just throwing this out there), a gun range.

4. If you want to do a parody, as you are of Dale Peterson, then do a shot by shot remake, and follow the format of the script more closely. ...
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This showed-up in my inbox the other day from Nintendo in a case of interesting timing, given current events. I found it amusing, and surely ripe for parody by someone with graphic design skills...
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U.S. as it promised said it would create tougher sanctions on North Korea. North Korea has still continued to try for nuclear weapons while everyone continues to try and stop them. Sanctions are the best way to stop North Korea from getting a nuclear weapon. The U.S and many other countries should continue to toughen it's sanctions until North Korea stops. All countries should continue to try to stop North Korea and any other nations from getting nuclear weapons, but they should practice what they preach and get ride of their own nuclear weapons.


The sanctions will hit eight North Korean "entities" and four
individuals, targeting the trade in arms, luxury goods and narcotics.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced last month that US sanctions against North Korea would be expanded.

North Korea indicated last year that any attempt to blockade the country would be regarded as an "act of war".
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If it weren't for the war in Iraq I might be persuaded to actually like this guy. Sorry about the knighthood, the EU Presidency, etc., Tony...


Mr. Blair characterizes “my friend” Mr. Chrétien as “a very wise, wily and experienced old bird, great at international meetings, where he could be counted on to talk sense, and, as Canadians often are, firm and dependable without being pushy. All in all, a good guy and a very tough political operator not to be underestimated....”
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The irony here, of course, that the Conservative government has been a coalition of the unwilling since the beginning. Both the Conservatives and the Liberals want a majority -- and the only viable government in waiting alternative to the Conservatives is the Liberals:

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper, intent on shaping the ballot box question for the next election, is adopting a strategy to gradually persuade voters they have a "stark choice" in the next campaign: a "stable" majority Conservative government, or a "coalition" government of Liberals, New Democrats and Quebec separatists.

The theme has emerged in recent speeches to the party faithful, and Mr. Harper is expected to ramp up the message as Parliament resumes later this month.

But why has Mr. Harper decided to directly ask for a majority after avoiding the word in past years? And why will he try to convince Canadians that his political rivals are bound to form a coalition?

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Prisoner’s copyright

Avatar Posted by LawIsCool 1 day 9 hours ago (http://lawiscool.com)
Inmate rights are a lost cause for an average politician. If anything, legislators are more likely to push for harsher sentences, more hurdles to parole, and less money for rehabilitation. Of course, history knows prisoners who survived jail through spirituality or by creating works of arts. But one Canadian court case shows that the state [...]
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R. v. Pare, 2010 ONCA 563 deals with the surprising common situation where someone threats to sue a potential witness for testifying. Does that amount to an attempt to obstruct justice?



This case turns on the meaning to be attached to s. 139(3)(a) of the Criminal Code, which provides that every one who, in a judicial proceeding, "dissuades or attempts to dissuade a person by threats, bribes or other corrupt means from giving evidence" shall be deemed to wilfully attempt to obstruct the course of justice.  The gist of the offence is the use of corrupt means to influence a witness. 



Attempting to persuade a witness to change their testimony, even to change the testimony to what the accused believes is the truth, is an offence where the means of persuasion is corrupt. 



Offering money to a complainant in a criminal case to change her testimony is a classic example of corrupt means.  See ...
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For starters, we already have CF-18s that are 30 years ahead technology wise over our most likely threat, the Russian TU-95s.

Secondly, as Philippe Lagassé, a defence analyst at the University of Ottawa has remarked, "it would be thoroughly against all [Russia's] national interests to ever contemplate sending a fleet of aircraft into our airspace.” Not to mention the rest of the world would be ill-advised to enter our airspace, as the US would probably view it as an action ultimately aimed against her.
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Despite all the ideological differences between the Soviet Bloc and the West, at base we agreed on quite a lot. Equality of men and women, a comfortable life, preservation of history -- perhaps these ideals were never achieved, and I don't suggest Stalin was less than a monster, but they were the ideals we hold to in the West. And that's why mutual assured destruction, crazy though it sounds, worked. We were playing the same game.
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This isn't a post about the gun registry - the obvious pros are well documented (efficient, effective, etc.) and the bogus cons have been rehashed over & over by pro-gun Tories and New Democrats.

No, this is a post about 12 gauge Jack and the state of the New Democratic Party. I couldn't help but smile yesterday as 12 gauge Jack squirmed under the pressure of trying to defend the indefensible and square the circle he had cut out for himself by sticking to an asinine approach to the upcoming vote on the gun registry.

Throughout the land yesterday, the NDP choir proudly pronounced how proud they were to be New Democrats. What is it exactly that Dippers have to be proud about? Is it a leader who is doing electoral math on the back of a napkin during a crucial debate about public safety? Or maybe it's a caucus that's ...
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- Albert Einstein
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I’ve lived in Toronto for five years now after moving out from British Columbia for a journalism job, and I’m finally starting to feel at home. I still hate the Maple Leafs, but I no longer look away from the CN Tower in an effort to fool myself into thinking I’m not really in Hogtown. I even read the Toronto Star every now and again.
Still, I’m finding it hard to work-up the energy or interest to get excited about our race for mayor or to get engaged by any of the candidates. It’s not that I don’t care about any local issues – transit is my big one – but all the candidates thus far have struck me as either crazy, timid or panderers. It’s hard to be excited about any of them in the mayor’s office, and at this point I still have no idea who I’ll mark an X for in October.
I can safely cross Rob Ford off the list, for reasons so manifold and obvious I shan’t bother to list them. As much as some of his populist pap may strike a chord that is resonating in...
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"I don't want to save the long-gun registry. I want to kill it, and I think Jack Layton is a great Canadian." - Tom Flanagan

Jack Layton, could have saved National Child-care, could have saved the Atlantic Accord, Could have saved the Kelowna Accord, now he has a chance to save the registry, which he says he believes "saves lives."

Maybe Jack hasn't learned a thing since 2006.



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Jack Layton is planning to compromise over the long gun registry. Of course, the only reason this bill is going to pass is because he refuses to whip the vote. Even though it is a private members' bill, it is clearly something all Conservatives support. I would not be surprised if Stephen Harper himself was the mastermind of this plan. I also wouldn't be surprised if the Conservatives would call an election, stating this as one of the reasons. The RCMP and ER doctors say that the registry is instrumental in saving lives. Why won't Layton make sure that it stays alive?

OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jack Layton says he’s not worried about the backlash that may come from his party helping kill the long gun registry.


“You can’t go through life in politics worrying about who is going to blame you for voting one way or another on an issue,” Layton told a news conference Monday.

Instead the party is proposing a last-minute compromise he hopes will save the...
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