If there has ever been a more obvious personification in the Canadian context of the reality that rich white men can get away with actions and behaviour that absolutely no one else would be able to, I am not aware of it. And, not just get away with the behaviour, but get elected to office and defended by otherwise self-described “law-and-order” right wing types despite it!
Dangerous addictions: Toronto, right wing hypocrisies and Rob Ford | rabble.ca
Good argument from Michael Laxer.
Source: rabble.ca
Even as the New York Times and its ilk now use hipster-bashing to delegitimize the new political awareness among the same un- and underemployed twenty- and thirty-somethings — previously taken to task for their avoidance of politics — the same bashers employ this all-purpose dummy to ventriloquize their own refined and slightly ridiculous consumption habits.
After Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation - NYTimes.com
Nah, the hell with regulations. We’d rather just get blowed up real good.
H/t Brad Fraser.
All this makes me wonder if the game from these councillors isn’t real transit advocacy but instead just political cover. Maybe the idea behind this latest push isn’t to get a subway, but rather to provide defence from the perpetual re-election campaign of Rob Ford, who maintains a great deal of popularity in Scarborough.
Do Scarborough councillors want a subway or just political cover? | Metro
Good question from Matt Elliott.
Source: metronews.ca
NRA Vendor Sells Ex-Girlfriend Target That Bleeds When You Shoot It
No comment necessary.
(h/t @AntoniaZ and @midtowntrolley)
Private sector dynamism versus public sector inefficiency has been the dominant political narrative of the last few decades. It has supplied the excuse for repeated, one-directional upheaval in many of the services that we rely on, and which are essential to our quality of life. At best, evidence of private sector superiority is missing. At worst, such lazy assumptions can cost lives as well as money. The public sphere in its broadest sense can be more efficient, more effective and better for human dignity.
(h/t Sabina Becker)
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Source: Guardian
Company Selling "My First Rifle" Deletes Website After 5-Year-Old Shoots And Kills 2-Year-Old
After that 5-year-old marksman in Kentucky killed his 2-year-old sister, the company that makes and markets the rifle he used must have thought it had a PR problem or something. Who’d’a thunk?
H/t Brad Fraser.
Shoes and guns.
Sun News will shut down if it doesn’t get what it wants from CRTC: net | Canadian Politics | Canada | News | National Post
Ah, what the hey. Let’s pile on.
Sun News faces ‘death sentence’ without CRTC help, network says - The Globe and Mail
That coffin-lid thing again. Because, you know, @sladurantaye.
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