“Ottawa insists the IMF exists to help the world’s developing countries, not Europe, and Canada takes the position that it is standing up for non-G20 countries that are uncomfortable with IMF funds going to the euro zone.”

If this is truly his motivation, he’s right. The Third World before should come before serially incompetent First World governments.

Now, I need a drink.

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So, he’s broken his promise about not running, and they’ve broken their own rules about him running.

Business as usual, in other words.

And they wonder why they’re in the second year of being stuck in third place. Wonder no more, etc.

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A family member with a very big and very steady source of income, and a property with tons of equity in it, is getting majorly jerked around by a major chartered bank. The only rational explanation for their behaviour is rank sexism – she’s a single mother.

Calling all smart bankers: if you want a big book of business, and lots of Warren goodwill, contact me directly or in comments.

Oh, and my readers will be watching, too. Most of them use banks.

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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.”

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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.

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Taken a few minutes ago in Toronto by a pal.

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They’ve been there for a couple nights, too, at Nike’s Yorkville store. Anyone know why?

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His protests notwithstanding, I’m told he is in fact running.

Comment away!

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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.

 

 

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Wow.

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?

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