CAPTCHA, begone!
Hey, remember the plugin that I used to have running in the comments section of this site? The one that made you type a bunch of random letters and numbers just to prove that you were a human being whenever you wanted to post something? The one that basically sucked and didn’t even work half […]
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Cheliak’s report will be presented, despite his politically motivated dismissal
I have to admit that when I first heard about Marty Cheliak’s suspicious dismissal from his post as director of the Canadian Firearms Program, the main question on my mind was what, if anything, was preventing him from presenting his report about the importance of the gun registry in spite of his removal. Well, as […]
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AIDS Walk Update: Less than a month away
Things have been a bit quiet on the AIDS Walk for Life front lately. The walk is happening less than a month from now, and although you guys have been extremely generous already, we’ve still got a fair way to go before we reach my revised goal. It’s been a couple of weeks since I […]
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Link of the Day: Mark Holland
Mark Holland is the Liberal MP for Ajax-Pickering, as well as the Liberal Opposition Critic for Public Safety and National Security. I keep seeing his name in all the right contexts, and I’m starting to think he might be an MP to watch. When the Conservatives tried to block an inquiry into G20 policing, it […]
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“Scrapping Canada’s long gun registry is the wrong thing to do”
The Canadian Labour Congress has a page on its website urging you to take action on the gun registry vote. “After weeks of testimony at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety, from groups representing doctors, police, police chiefs, unions, victims of domestic violence, and women’s shelters – all in support of maintaining […]
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Link of the Day: Halo 2600
I’ve been getting pretty serious around here lately. So let’s lighten things up a bit with a link to that mock Atari 2600 version of Halo that’s been floating around. Go on, you deserve a little retro fun.
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Hey, you know what I think’s a big deal? This gun registry thing
I’ve been writing an awful lot about the gun registry lately, and I thank you for indulging me. As you may have guessed, it’s an issue that I care very deeply about, for a wide range of personal and political reasons. So I do want to thank you all very much for taking the time […]
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The institutional rejection of undesirable voters
I’d like to follow up on a recent post with another excerpt from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, the latest book from Michael J. Fox: “TV talking heads proclaim every election cycle that pollster data predict apathy among college-age voters,” Fox argues. “Young voters have heard over and over again […]
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Link of the Day: Shelter, Support, and Housing Adminstration
This is the section of the City of Toronto’s official website that deals with housing matters. Unless I’ve been missing out, we haven’t been hearing a lot from the mayoral candidates about homelessness, housing and related issues. And I think you’ll agree that they’re important issues indeed.
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In which my girlfriend challenges Jack Layton to crack the whip
Hey, you know what’s a little bit shameful? In spite of all my talk about writing to the twelve NDP MPs who voted to scrap the gun registry on the corresponding bill’s second reading, and about writing to Jack Layton to encourage him to crack the whip in favour of saving the registry, I have […]
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