Jul 01
In an effort to try and get people to stop hating them, some genius at Toronto’s CUPE Local 79 came up with the brilliant idea to distribute cheap Chinese made trinkets! This counteracts CUPE policy on a couple of levels. First, there is no mention on these goods that they are union made- this is unlikely for cheat Chinese tat. And, second, it counters CUPE’s ‘commitment’ to environmentalism- more garbage to be thrown into the landfills.
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Jul 01
There is a lot of debate on whether the Canadian Occupy movement was organic, or if it was a construct of the unions. personally, I believe it is a bit of each. It is the unions who put a lot of funding, and who sent a lot of the people who put it together. But, the soul of Occupy was brought by the individuals who were moved enough by the movement’s promise of something new that they decided to go urban camping in the winter.
Occupy was probably the closest Generations X, Y and the millennials will ever get to the spirit of the 60’s. People from diverse cultures, classes and ages banded together and built modern communes based on love and mutual respect- at least, at the beginning. But, as the NDP’s vampire union squid got a stranglehold on the movement, the soul quickly began to whither to where we are today. The movement is, for all purposes, dead.
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Jul 01
Mathew Kagis bullying the police…
I found this first-hand report of what happened at the past two Vancouver Casseroles marches on Facebook today. Read this in comparison to the radicals like Sasha Wiley-Shaw who were saying that the arrests were all a part of a Stephen Harper led conspiracy to ‘criminalize dissent’. Sounds much different- doesn’t it?
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Jun 30
http://youtu.be/0CvHwMYYP_s
Conservative Alberta blogger Patrick Ross has made a funny video in response to the attack I got from the Black Bloc guys at last week’s Toronto Casseroles march. It isn’t very flattering to them- but, I couldn’t resist sharing…
FYI, the woman at the end of the video, Megan Kinch of the Toronto Media Co-Op is the person that Anglican Priest (and daughter of former Poet Laureate & Order of Canada holder) Maggie Helwig went to and consoled after the attack. What is an Anglican priest doing fraternizing with the Black Bloc? Things that make you go hmmm…
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Jun 30
Burned-out ticket station for Stanley Park Miniature Railway…
It all began on June 21st, Aboriginal Day, when a late night two-alarm fire was alerted in Stanley Park. Someone had lit the ticket station for the parks miniature railway on fire- putting the whole park at risk of being burned down. Luckily, the park was saved, but two firefighers were sent to St. Paul’s hospital with minor injuries. The fire is suspected to be arson…
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