As it’s not enough to curse the darkness, I shall light a candle.
Dear Saskatoon Inner City;
If those of you in the “left behind during an economic boom community” want a grocery store in your neighborhood, the following economic stimuli are guaranteed to produce one a lot more quickly than a government funded “free” dental clinic and housing project:
1. Put the cap back on your used needle and take it to a safe disposal site. Failing that, share it with your friends. It’s a quicker solution to your problem, anyway.
2. Cross your legs.
3. Put down the spray can.
4. BINGO!
And no, I don’t have any change. There’s a McDonalds over on 22nd where the average kid working behind the counter is a 55 year old women. I doubt they’re pushing you out of the job market.
On second thought, maybe they are.
(A few details the CBC left out of their report – the Station 20 West project was announced by a failing Lorne Calvert government just a month before the 2007 election call – while the $9 million in funding was to be allocated from the health budget).
*The first version of this post was accidentally deleted. This is a repost, and I apologize for any comments that were lost.

Ezra Levant’s analysis of the Lemire vs Warman hearing must be read in its entirety. It’s difficult to exerpt, but I’ve chosen a couple of points as teasers;

The Tribunal’s decision to nix transcripts is transparently biased: the one day that the hunters became the hunted — where the CHRC itself was being grilled — was the one day that accurate, typed, searchable transcripts were omitted. Try to “search” an eight-hour audio recording for a key word, as opposed to searching a written transcript. Try to hear words that are spoken quietly; try to learn the spelling of unusual names of words; try to skip to important matters and avoid others. It’s yet another irregularity in a system where arbitrariness and capriciousness have replaced the rule of law.
That’s offensive to anyone, like me, who cares about the openness of our legal system. But it’s more than just offensive — it’s unfair to any defendant who will now not be able to rely on such transcripts for his appeal when he’s convicted.
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It gets worse. After Goldberg’s examintion last year, he disclosed a further 300 pages of documents. That might mean nothing to non-lawyers, but it’s very important, and it goes to the unlawful, unprofessional, abusive manner in which the CHRC conducts itself. Goldberg was subpoenaed, as were his documents. Subpoenas are not invitations; they carry the weight of the law with them. They can be appealled, of course, if the recipient of a subpoena thinks they’re improper. At least that’s what a law-abiding agency would do. But not the CHRC. They waited until after Goldberg’s examination to disclose the 300 pages. And, wouldn’t you know it, Goldberg was exempted from answering questions about those pages, too. Bogus objections and defiance of disclosure obligations: if that happened in a real court, the judge would blow his stack, order the offending party to comply, assess costs against the offending party, and censure the lawyers, too. But of course, this isn’t a real court.

Exceedingly well written, as usual, but more importantly, its exceedingly well explained for the lay reader. And it’s one of those pieces that I’d ask you copy, print and forward to acquaintances and family to make them aware of what is going on on their dollar, and in their name. It’s particularly important if you have family in the legal profession proper. My suspicion is that most have little knowledge of the investigative procedures and lack of procedural integrity of these commissions and their investigators.
And the time may be right;

Last night, one minister’s aide reported that his office alone had received, in the last month, 40 letters about human rights commissions, and 0 letters about the Chuck Cadman matter and 0 letters about the Obama/NAFTA leak, for comparison.

Ezra’s post includes contact numbers where you can turn up the heat.
But that doesn’t concern you, because you don’t surf Stormfront.
Well, that depends on where you live.
Let’s wander a block down the street from the CHRC office, to the apartment of private citizen Nelly Hechme. How does she figure in the investigation of hate-inciting speech on the internet? She doesn’t – her wireless internet connection does.

During later testimony by Dean Steacy, he testified to having no knowledge of who Nelly Hechme was or how that person got access to the “Jadewarr” account on Stormfront. Just what on earth was going on. The IP address and everything matched. What is going on here?
Until, the National Post’s Joe Brean called Nelly Hechme and asked what she knew about this. The poor Nelly was shocked. I am sure it’s a pretty odd day when the National Post calls and asks if your a government agent posting racist messages on the Stormfront website, especially when you have no idea what Stormfront even is.

That’s right. Do you access the internet on wireless connection? Well, your government thought protectors may be borrowing your internet identity to play-act as white supremacists on foreign internet forums – if you’re lucky.
Because if they can play-act as “Jadewarr, jew-hater”, they can play-act as “Jadewarr, child pornographer”, or “Jadewarr, bridge blower”. He may be a doughy little ex-union boss when he arrives at the office, but when the door closes behind him, he tears off that suit and bursts forth as Jadewarr! Hate Fighter! charging that keyboard stallion into the darkest of places, armed with the sword of Canadian law enforcement, and holding you up as his shield.