From the bulging “junenile insults” file: Kid Kodak lashes out

— 02.17.2016 08:31 AM

My sense he is unhappy about not being reappointed. Um. Er.

Here’s his (typically) tweeted response to Your Humble Narrator’s post of yesterday, which he posted at three o’clock in the morning. I’ve done a screen shot of it in case he decides to disappear it into the Internet ether:

  

What’s he referring to, there? Well, he and his cabal made a complaint to the Law Society of Upper Canada, no less, to have me disbarred for being critical of him. I’m not making this up. 

As I this morning told a fine National Post reporter (who has also been attacked by Marin), if the Law Society accepts this bogus complaint, they will be setting a very dangerous precedent – for themselves. They’ll thereafter get an avalanche of complaints about lawyers getting mad at refs at hockey games, lawyers having marital problems, lawyers’ personal Facebook posts, lawyers getting tipsy at Christmas parties. If you accept one complaint about non-lawyering activity, you have to accept all of them. It will be a disaster.

I was critical of Marin because I think he is a vain, thin-skinned bully. Because I think he didn’t act like a representative of the Legislature, he acted like a six-year-old with a bad temper. Because the senior people around him facilitated all that.

I was critical because Marin and his senior team have been the subject of several human rights complaints, all settled with secrecy agreements. Because he used public money to buy himself wide-screen TVs for his home and body wash and whatnot. Because he has given contracts worth a quarter million dollars to a friend. And because he – a quasi-judicial officer of the Legislature, with more power than any judge or MPP – repeatedly acted like a child on social media.

Every newspaper in Ontario, pretty much, has editorialized against him at one time or another, and for good reason. Good riddance, we say. And good luck with your attempt to silence your critics, pal – same sort of thing isn’t working so well in Alberta for Rachel Notley, is it?

(Oh, and if you want to contribute to my legal defence fund, feel free to use the “donate” button to the left!)


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Ten reasons why the Notley government is really stupid to bar Ezra and The Rebel

— 02.16.2016 04:14 PM

  1. Ezra lives for this stuff. In a battle with bureaucrats, he always wins. He always has the last word, and his audience is bigger than you think.
  2. Media who dislike Ezra are starting to come to his defence.
  3. Political people who dislike Ezra are starting to come to his defence.
  4. The Notley folks look scared shitless when they pull a stunt like this. Or, worse, like thugs. Same beast.
  5. The Notley folks embraced The Streisand Effect when they kicked out Ezra et al. – so, now everyone wants to hear from Ezra, even those who dislike him.  Well done, Dippers: Martyr-Makers, just add water. Good job!
  6. Governments should have no role – none – in deciding who is media and who isn’t.  Ever.
  7. The Supreme Court of Canada, no less, has held that what Ezra does online – and even little guys like me – enjoys actual, you know, constitutional protection.
  8. Accreditation should be decided by press galleries, not hacks.  In Ottawa, that’s how it works.  And it works just fine.
  9. As Romeo LeBlanc used to say to me: when you’re hunting’ bear, don’t get distracted by rabbit tracks.  The Notley folks should focus on the many big and real problems they have, not the chickenshit puny ones.
  10. I have fought Ezra more than any of you have, or ever will.  We’re not besties.  But on this, he is right.  And you, Premier Notley, are so wrong.

 [About to do Arlene Bynon Show on this subject, on Sirius XM Canada Talks.  Tune in!]


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Savages – Adore

— 02.16.2016 10:27 AM

Boring video, genius of a song: “I understand the urgency of life.” No kidding. There’s Sleater Kinney in here, Siouxsie, Pauline Murray’s Penetration, Bikini Kill. All good, good things.

Brit bands come and go. Will be interesting to see if they make good on the promise of this epic.


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