Is Rob Ford useless? Does he everything he touches turn bad?
(By the way, unless a store returns to recyclable paper bags, I won’t be shopping there. I don’t carry containers around with me, as a general rule, and this is going to be a pain in the ass for lots of people.)
Thanks, Rob Ford. You are totally, completely useless.
UPDATE: Rob Ford says it’s your fault. Quote: “It’s the people’s fault.”
Why is it a mistake? Why is it a disgrace?
1. The Cons had no election mandate to do what they did.
2. In fact, until they got a majority, they’d always defended the section.
3. It now means our only tool to fight online hate is the Criminal Code. Criminalizing all hateful speech is going way too far.
4. It means we are the one of the only Western democracies without a cheap, non-criminal means to combat online hate.
5. It leaves minorities without any meaningful recourse when facing hate. Will they take the law in their own hands?
They might, and it’d be hard to blame them. Canada has declared you are now free to say whatever hateful thing you want about someone’s race, ethnicity, orientation, disability or religion online.
Welcome to Stephen Harper’s Canada. It’s ugly and about to get uglier.
Taken a few minutes ago in Toronto by a pal.
They’ve been there for a couple nights, too, at Nike’s Yorkville store. Anyone know why?
His protests notwithstanding, I’m told he is in fact running.
Comment away!
The Globe’s Stephen Wicary and the Post’s Steve Murray have blocked me on Twitter, presumably because I had the temerity to object to the fact that they were joking online about Jun Lin’s death. (The Chronicle-Herald’s Paul McLeod, another MSM jerk who defended making light of Magnotta’s crime, hasn’t, yet, but the day is still young.)
I’ve returned the favour, and blocked them, too. But they still read (and re-read) what I’ve had to say about them on this web site. As such, I ask this trio of addled donkeys: Wicary’s employer has published extensively, already, about the Vancouver developments. So, too, Murray’s. Also McLeod’s.
So when are you fellows going to continue to make jokes about it?
We’re waiting.
As I confessed in a column in the Sun a few weeks ago – I’ll find the link eventually – those of us who insisted Stephen Harper had a hidden agenda to outlaw abortion need to consider this:
We were wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
He’s not doing what we said he would, is he?
I don’t know what your strategy was, but it has been a failure on a truly epic scale. If it’s any comfort, Tim Hudak and his Ontario PC caucus agree with you.
Congratulations.
…of the Post, Globe and Chronicle-Herald, respectively, here’s some comedic fodder for you again. Have a laugh, fellas. You certainly did, earlier today.