This is going to be an interesting one to watch – The Criminal Code vs. The Charter.
Anyone willing to wager a bet?
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Thursday Update: Polygamy law faces stiff test under Charter – Post
Friday Update: This pretty much covers it all – Chris Selley’s Full Pundit.
The latest on the John Tory ‘Should I stay or should I go?’ debacle:
…Three senior party sources said MPP Laurie Scott (Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock) is in discussions about giving up her seat for Tory.
Insiders say Scott, a long-time party activist and former executive assistant to Conservative Senator Consiglio Di Nino, would then succeed Pringle as chief of staff at Queen’s Park.
“She is the only caucus member with a strong enough party background who could be convinced to step aside,” said one Progressive Conservative official.
Another high-ranking Conservative said Scott “made that offer in October and never fully withdrew it.”
“The plan would be to be chief of staff for two years, then go back to hold the seat in 2011 when Tory runs somewhere else,” said the insider. Scott did not return a call seeking comment...
Way to spoil a good day.
On the other hand, Warren Kinsella will be ecstatic.
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Update: John Tory should check out Kady’s Poll.
H/T to FemaleConvoter in comments for this one by Andrew Steele:
…How will the people of the small town and rural riding take to being presumed to be a safe, temporary landing spot for a parachute leader with little time for attending to the needs of the community?
How will they respond to a by-election referendum on his past call for funding private religious schools?
And how will they react to Laurie Scott when she returns in 2011?
Yesterday I asked if Sid Ryan speaks for all CUPE members.
Today’s letters page in the National Post contains many disgusted reactions, including one from an actual CUPE member who courageously speaks out against the union’s leadership:
As a member of CUPE, let me say how ashamed and appalled I am by my union’s latest antics. This call by CUPE for a boycott of Israeli academics should serve as a frightening wake-up call to anybody who values intellectual freedom. If this proposal gets passed, it will immediately transform our universities into an Orwellian gulag, reminiscent of Animal Farm, where some academics are more equal than others, depending not on their qualifications and achievements but on their passports.
This despicable motion has the unmistakable reek of anti-Semitism about it, and this rank-and-file CUPE member wants no part of it.
E. Joan O’Callaghan, Toronto
Good for you, Ms. O’Callaghan. Let’s hear from more of your fellow members.
In a feeble attempt to justify his disgraceful action, Sid Ryan submitted this letter to the Post – “I’m not a bigot!”, which the Post picked apart with an editorial on the opposite page – Sid Ryan keeps digging.
The ultimate irony in this whole episode is Ryan’s opening paragraph where he accuses the Post of trying to ‘shut down debate’.
The larger problem is the disingenuous news sources that try to ply their particular point of view with disinformation and shoddy journalism. The Great Pumpkin illustrates one example where a French network used a 2005 photograph to illustrate a recent news story. They finally owned up to the ruse.
And then we have the CNN strategy:
…The strategy is as simple as it is cynical: Provoke Israel by playing Russian roulette with its children, firing rockets at kindergartens, playgrounds and hospitals; hide behind its own civilians when firing at Israeli civilians; refuse to build bunkers for its own civilians; have TV cameras ready to transmit every image of dead Palestinians, especially children; exaggerate the number of civilians killed by including as “children” Hamas fighters who are 16 or 17 years old and as “women,” female terrorists.
Hamas itself has a name for this. They call it “the CNN strategy”…
So if Sid Ryan deliberately limits his news and information retrieval to above sources and left-leaning anti-Israel ‘authorities’, it is not surprising that he only sees one side of the conflict.
But why does he want to impose his own personal myopic view on all Ontario University students?
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Evening Update: Union representative apologizes for ‘Nazi’ reference – Post.
Charles Adler – Pictures deceive in Gaza, but the facts don’t lie.
