– not having to listen to opinions you don’t want to hear during public consultations.

According to CFRA’s Steve Madely if drug addicts are arrested and jailed enough times they will voluntarily seek help for their addictions rather than go back to jail….. you’d think if that actually worked they might have tried it, wouldn’t ya?

OC Transpo seeks feds’ help to resolve clash with transit union

“How do I erase everything I’ve said so far?”

The Lord’s Prayer and it’s fate in the Ontario legislature set off a fresh round of debate Thursday after politicians quietly launched public consultation on whether the province should fall in line with other Canadian jurisdictions and strike the Christian tradition.

Updated April 2, 2008 the Conservative hypocrisy continues

Updated April 2, 2008 to give proper tribute to the hypocrites

And, my friends, our Great Financial Father Flaherty is concerned. And verily, in that great institution known as the Canadian Parliament, he did open his great federal pie hole speak of his concern for the well being of the good citizens of Ontario; for apparently the closer one gets to ones actual home, the less one is able to look after oneself….. an unfortunate situation that requires the benevolent guidance of those in Ottawa who know so much better than those who hold stations in life below them.

0 means 0 except when it mean 5.4

In the wake of a shooting in Toronto the mayor has called for a ban on handguns guns — what magic wand does the mayor think can be waved so that in one great national puff of smoke all the handguns in Canada disappear….. and what magic wall will he order built to stop any more from entering the country?

Mayor Larry O’Brian campaigned, and got elected, on a “0% tax increase” platform, and now we know what that entails….. “Ottawa City Council would have to take an axe to $63.2 million worth of services and programs to deliver a property tax freeze in 2008.”

Section 53 of the Ontario elections Act: An elector who has received a ballot and returns it to the deputy returning officer declining to vote, forfeits the right to vote and the deputy returning officer shall immediately write the word “declined” upon the back of the ballot and preserve it to be returned to the returning officer and shall cause an entry to be made in the poll record that the elector declined to vote. R.S.O. 1990, c. E.6, s. 53.

Facing an uphill battle to change Ontario’s voting system, a group of leaders of all political stripes yesterday lashed out at Elections Ontario and the media for failing to properly inform the public about the province’s referendum next Wednesday.

– when ya can’t do something worthwhile, at least do something.

Our local upper-right-quadrant-WingNut (Lowell Green) has decided to offer a new take on the (not so slowly, and thankfully, dying) provincially funded faith based school system Conservative leader John Tory is pushing — it’s all to benefit the kids.

Ad seen in the Metro regarding the upcoming referendum

On October 10^th the people of Ontario will be called to the polls, what will you be voting for?