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Paul Dewar releases a statement calling on Vic Toews to resign.

 

Over the past week, the Minister of Public Safety has failed his ministerial responsibilities.

First he introduced Bill C-30 which undermines Canadians' online privacy. Then he accused Canadians who raised privacy concerns of supporting child pornography. Today we learned that he had not even reviewed the most intrusive provisions of the bill before introducing it in the House of Commons.

Canadians expect better. I call on Mr. Toews to step down as Minister of Public Safety.

The buck stops with the Prime Minister. He must hold his cabinet members to account.

 

Dan Savage does horoscopes for NOW magazine in Toronto (among other things) and is usually a fun read. 

 

I still don't understand why Harper's personal life gets a pass, here and across the Canadian media establishment, a 100% shut-out, its been like this for years. He trades on his contrived paleolithic morality, why can't we beat him over the head with it? We're just too fucking polite I guess; but I for one would love to see this dragged into the light.

I suppose there is the fear of very real counterattack, or is it just an appeal to decency, to avoid the gutter? Or is there an element of 'think of the children' for I suppose there are some innocents involved?

I write this because I have some pretty good Ottawa connections and I just got some fresh detail on matters Harper/homefront....a rich feast indeed.

Today's Malcom Mayes cartoon in the Edmonton Journal:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/index.html

 

Absolutely brilliant.

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He's not exactly perfect politically, for example he had supported the 2nd Iraq war for a while before it became unpopular. His advice on racial or transgendered relationship issues are often naive or wrong-headed. However, he's still one of the best spokespersons for the left in the US and isn't afraid of calling out conservatives on their hypocrisy.

People are presumed to be straight if they don't identify themselves as gay. And unless a guy is wearing a dress or a girl is holding a wrench, straight is the default assumption. (Not all dress-wearing men are gay, not all wrench-wielding women are lesbians.) But a man who goes to CPAC and insists that he's the only "real conservative" in his race, a man who IDs himself on his campaign website as a "true conservative," is going to be presumed to be straight by the kind of assholes who attend CPAC and by the kind of assholes who vote in GOP primaries. But the assumptions don't end there. In this political climate, with "conservative" now synonymous with political homophobia, a man who claims to be a "true conservative" doesn't just default straight. He defaults bigoted. Conservative voters will assume he holds anti-gay political beliefs and they will expect him to vote anti-gay should he be elected to office. So Sheriff Babeu stood to benefit politically-and may have actively sought to benefit politically-from the assumption that he was 1. straight and 2. anti-gay.

Anonymous has now gone further and revealed the name of Toews' mistress. She is, according to them, Stacey Meek, an assistant of Conservative Senator Terry Stratton. Oh how embarrassing!

Howard, look up romney. :evil

The Conservatives are so disgusting.

1.  They have no right to be complaining since as people like Craig Oliver have had to concede, the information revealed is not confidential or breaking the law and is in the public record in divorce court.

2.  Unless the Conservatives have proof of who did all the leaking, they have no right to accuse the NDP or anyone else of being behind it without solid evidence.

3.  They seem to forget Vic T. deserves to be exposed for his hypocritical behaviour anyway.  Vic T. was the Newt Gingrich of Canada - a family values man who defended traditional marriage against immorality and debasement by gays and then turns around and becomes a lying, hypocritical adulterer.  Someone who was one of the biggest opponents of our gay marriage bill in 2005 and then turns out to be a such a disgusting hypocrite should have been exposed by the press anyway.

 Someone who was one of the biggest opponents of our gay marriage bill in 2005 and then turns out to be a such a disgusting hypocrite should have been exposed by the press anyway.