…sent along by my friend Steven Del Duca. Hearing amazing reports.

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Apparently.

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There can be no defence of it, in any context.

My long-held view:

“Possession of child pornography, whether the product of a camera or one’s imagination, does two terrible things. First, it legitimizes the sexualization of children. Decades of expert analysis shows that child pornography more than occasionally prompts pedophiles to attack children.

Secondly, as any student of capitalism will know, the desire to possess something inevitably creates a market. In this terrible case, the product of Robin Sharpe’s dark imagination creates an actual market for his ilk to violate, and destroy, those children Justice Southin referred to – the ones found on the dirty back streets of Brazil.”

That said, I’ll be fascinated to see who condemns Flanagan tomorrow. Particularly the ones who have previously published, say, this guy.

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This takes guts. More need to do likewise.

Would he get off again? Don’t know. But an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada is perhaps coming soon on Ford’s first foray into conflict of interest, and I hear that it may not end well for His Worship.

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My son taught himself code when he was 13. He’s really good at it, now.

But he has more to learn, he says, and he there’s no high school in Toronto that teaches it, from what we can see. If there was, we’d send him there in a minute.

In the meantime, he shared this video with me in the hope that I would share it with you. He thinks the Americans are way ahead of us on this (and they are).

Bonus: Chris Bosh codes!

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…I’m not there today to speak at Queen’s.

The weather hasn’t been particularly cooperative, this week. But the main reason is Son One.

That hit that he got at the London tournament, weeks ago? The one that did not result in any call by the ref?

Turns out his hip was fractured. So we finally got in to Sick Kid’s only today to see a specialist. Been waiting for a long time.

So, my apologies to those in Kingston who wanted to meet.

And my apologies to those who think kid’s hockey is in any way sane.

It isn’t.

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Oh my God this is so amazing.

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This makes me very, very happy, and alleviates a nagging concern I (and perhaps others) had had:

“Premier Kathleen Wynne says she won’t sacrifice her predecessor Dalton McGuinty to deflect blame for the $230 million scandal around scrapped power plants in two Liberal ridings…

“I am not going to pretend I wasn’t part of the previous government . . . I am now the leader of that party, I am leader of the government,” Wynne told reporters Wednesday.

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They were expected to toss out the hurt feelings stuff, and they did.

They were also expected (by sane people) to preserve non-criminal prohibitions against actual hate, and they did that too:

“Hate speech is an effort to marginalize individuals based on their membership in a group.

Using expression that exposes the group to hatred, hate speech seeks to delegitimize group members in the eyes of the majority, reducing their social standing and acceptance within society. Hate speech, therefore, rises beyond causing distress to individual group members. It can have a societal impact. Hate speech lays the groundwork for later, broad attacks on vulnerable groups that can range from discrimination, to ostracism, segregation, deportation, violence and, in the most extreme cases, to genocide.

Hate speech also impacts on a protected group’s ability to respond to the substantive ideas under debate, thereby placing a serious barrier to their full participation in our democracy.”

Good balance, good decision. A uniquely Canadian compromise. Bravo, Supremes.

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