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Good news – the BC Court of Appeals ruled against the federal government in favour of Insite’s constitutional right to exist. Not only that, but the Court of Appeals also tackled the jurisdictional issue, and determined that Insite is a provincial matter, not a federal one. There’s still a possibility that the feds will appeal […] Cathy Crowe is running for Member of Provincial Parliament in the Toronto Centre by-election, where the incumbent, George Smitherman, is stepping down to run for Mayor of Toronto. This was the first piece of political news in a long time to give my heart a hopeful little leap. Here’s what Naomi Klein says about her candidacy: […] I’m steaming mad about Stephen Harper proroguing Parliament again this year. Mad enough that I joined that Facebook group, wrote letters to my MP and to Harper (pm@pm.gc.ca), and joined the Ottawa organizing chapter. Parliament does not exist to serve the interests of Mr. Harper, but of all Canadians. We should not be allowing […] The Conservatives are trying to take the war on drug users to another level with Bill C-15, which proposes mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. This Bill, if passed into law, will strip judges of their discretion in sentencing Canadians convicted of drug offenses. Rather than being allowed to take all factors into consideration before making […] I read with interest yesterday that in the interests of holding our tax increase to 3.9%,  the City of Ottawa is considering getting rid of Crime Prevention Ottawa. I’ve attended a couple of community meetings organized by Crime Prevention Ottawa, and frankly I wasn’t all that impressed. I’m in favour of crime prevention, but CPO’s approach to […] I spent yesterday at the Homelessness Forum, which was sponsored by the Alliance to End Homelessness. This is my third year attending and blogging about this event (see 2007and 2008). I like it because it’s free. Actually, that’s an over-simplification. Because it’s free, it attracts the kind of people who might not normally attend conferences, […]
Green Bins being delivered I got my Green Bin yesterday and I like it. A lot. The program sounds good too – from what I understand, the high temperatures achievable by the huge volume of our collective organic waste is going to make this a very efficient way of breaking down garbage. All kinds of […] Police watchdog drops blogger case (Ottawa Citizen, September 25, 2009) And so ends another chapter in the life of the Bank Street Bully. There are no surprises here. But how come, in the Citizen article, everything I said or wrote is qualified by words like “allegedly” or “claimed,” which makes it sound like I’m lying? And […] |
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