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By Warren, on April 24, 2014, at 3:02 pm From a regular reader. This is fascinating:
Hi Warren:
Just thought I would give you a heads up about a slip up from the Tory web team. It seems that they were also involved in building a site for the tobacco industry, Stop Illegal Tobacco. How does one know that? Well, because they used the same meta description from the Subway Relief Line microsite, which they neglected to change:
Unfortunately, when you post the Tobacco site to places like Facebook, you get a John Tory talking point:
It has now also been indexed by Google, for all to see:
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By Warren, on April 24, 2014, at 11:00 am …and now you guys get it, too! It’s well done. (My earlier response, however, stands, and is here.)
The Ontario Legislative Assembly, like the House of Commons in Ottawa and other Parliaments in other provinces, provides recognized party caucuses with funding for research, communication, and administrative services. In Ontario, annual funding is provided to Liberal, PC, and NDP caucuses to support elected MPPs in their duties. The Liberal Caucus Service Bureau follows the same rules as the NDP caucus and PC caucus, both of whom use consultants and outside experts to support their elected officials. (Read more…)
By Warren, on April 24, 2014, at 10:45 am Or, um, not.
Robo-calls? Robo-nothing. Consider the source, as they say.
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By Warren, on April 24, 2014, at 9:10 am
By Warren, on April 23, 2014, at 9:28 pm Lisa’s, too (and who just became a Catholic, BTW).
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By Warren, on April 23, 2014, at 8:56 am Bjorn reminded me Da Brudders first LP – my fave ever, still – came out 38 years ago today. Here they are in Arturo Vega’s loft in 1975, around the time that a teenage misfit in Calgary was starting to hear about them. God-like geniuses. Can’t believe it’s been almost 40 frigging years.
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By Warren, on April 23, 2014, at 8:18 am This Saturday night at the Bovine Sex Club on Queen West – see it live, buy merch, help us pay for our therapists!
By Warren, on April 23, 2014, at 8:15 am
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 6:40 pm
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 3:32 pm We put our clients on our web site. Have for years.
Here’s one of the ones that, shockingly, has been there for years:
Oh, and this is where this sort of nefarious stuff all gets tracked, year after year, from the Auditor General’s web site.
Anyway, best to your Dad. Good luck and God bless, etc.
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 11:46 am
She’s in her last exam at Dal, right now, and doesn’t even know: we just got the letter announcing that she’d been picked for the Ontario swim team, so you guys get to know before she does!
Wooot! Proud Dad, here.
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By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 11:14 am Ever wonder why John didn’t quit the Rogers board while he’s campaigning to be mayor of Toronto? Me too. Raises interesting questions about conflict of interest and whatnot.
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 10:42 am From left: Bjorn Von Flapjack III, Royal Niblet, Ras Winkie Smith at CUP fundraiser – at which (we’re told) $700 came from donated merch.
This Saturday: come see us and others at the This Ain’t Ford Fest! Our new record will be on sale – and you’ll be shocked at who attends! (My nutty daughter will be staffing the merch table, for example.) (And Cola Heads, who rock, maaaan.)
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 10:35 am I don’t care if he’s orange, blue, red or green. He’s a friend and I’d vote for him if I could. If you’re in Trinity-Spadina, you should, too.
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By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 9:22 am Yesterday’s Ontario Newswatch report comes in for some particularly categorical, on-the-record condemnation from the Ontario NDP, here.
Two things: one, what else would you expect him to say? (viz., “Yes, it’s true, we are going to vote against the budget that hasn’t been tabled yet?”) Two, Bisson better hope he never runs into Sue Kelly in a dark alley one night. Accusing a veteran scribe of being a liar, as Bisson does, is something that should never be done lightly.
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By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 8:29 am Son One, who is smarter than me, spoke to me at length about this morning on the way in (in a vehicle, yes). It got me so depressed, I went looking for evidence about his claims. I found it.
Bottom line: the point at which we start to destroying the planet has been passed, pretty much.
By Warren, on April 22, 2014, at 8:03 am
By Warren, on April 21, 2014, at 7:08 pm Remember the Reform Party? The Reformers rather wish you didn’t.
Twenty years ago, the Reform Party’s fresh-faced MPs – all 52 of them – arrived in Ottawa to cause all manner of dramatic change. Twenty years later, it is perhaps only the Reformers themselves that changed.
They arrived opposing gay rights. They arrived opposing bilingualism. They arrived opposing multiculturalism. They arrived opposing the “gold-plated” MPs pension.
Two decades later, the former Reformers are indifferent to, or supportive of, gay rights. They are the most enthusiastic patrons of free government French language training. They have what is, arguably, the most racially-diverse (Read more…)
By Warren, on April 21, 2014, at 2:23 pm I don’t doubt for a minute that some Ontario Dippers told my friend Susanna what she’s reported here – she’s one of the most honest and terrific reporters around – but it’s not what I’ve been hearing. Thus this and this and this.
I’ve been wrong before, and I could be wrong again. I kind of hope I am.
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By Warren, on April 19, 2014, at 5:31 pm A year ago this month, Justin Trudeau was a candidate for the Liberal Party leadership. He gave a big speech to delegates at what was called the “Liberal leadership showcase.”
Among other things, Trudeau said this: “The only person Mr. Harper wants his caucus to serve is their leader. Well, that’s not good enough. We need to be a party of community leaders, devoted to community service. That’s why I am calling for open nominations for all Liberal candidates in every single riding in the next election.”
“Open nominations” is political-speak. It basically means what the phrase implies: (Read more…)
By Warren, on April 18, 2014, at 4:45 pm Just got back from Good Friday Mass with Lisa, to receive this photo. At St. Francis’ Easter procession, which is a very, very solemn occasion, that SOB cackles on the side of the road with his loathsome brother and some others.
Maybe he was looking to score, and he forget where he was. In any event, it reminded me of how much I despise him.
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By Warren, on April 18, 2014, at 10:44 am Bishop Carroll.
Just can’t stop thinking about this terrible thing. Know that street, know that neighbourhood, know the family names. The horror of it – it’s hard to shake.
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By Warren, on April 17, 2014, at 9:33 pm At his “historic” rally.
Back to Etobicoke with you soon, Crackhead. Soon.
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By Warren, on April 17, 2014, at 10:36 am
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