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Such a hypocritical move for both parties involved.

Don't you think Public Wifi at businesses don't already have porn firewalls? I'm sure the last thing businesses want is to have people viewing porn while sipping a coffee at their establishment. It was news recently that the Tim Hortons Wifi had to apologize for blocking a Gay News website. I doubt it was malicious homophobia. It was likely just due to an overzealous firewall. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/07/19/tim_hortons_blocks_customers_wifi_access_to_gay_news_website.html Which also begs the question, if you try to block all porn sites, how many legitimate sites might get blocked due to some risky, non-porn, content?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErxnWwMUYf0 This video isn't conclusive but it appears that a group of police executed a teenager on an empty TTC streetcar. Even if he had a knife, I can't see that this treatment was justified. Should be an interesting story going forward. Apparently social media has exploded in outrage over this shooting. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/07/28/toronto-ttc-streetcar-fatal-police-shooting-siu.html?cmp=rss

I see Netflix like just another network I subscribe too. I actually haven't watched much of the original content because my bandwidth limit is rather low and I already watch plenty of TV shows. Caught some of a Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition on the weekend on Netflix. Lots of great stuff to see on Neflix but there are already plenty of sources I have for great original scripted programming.

Wynne has done a decent job trying to put out some of the fires Dalton set. But she's starting new fires. It's clear she was lying about her involvement in Gas Plant cancellation and the subsequent cover-up. If she decides to run an election on the Metrolinx Revenue Tools her party is doomed to failure.

Except Dalton accused opponents if being Nimbys and went full speed ahead on these plant. In the case of the Mississauga plant, construction had already been started. He wasn't listening to opponents because it was right, the party finally listened for political gains, at a great cost to the rest of the province. Then when the outcry was the greatest, Dalton quit. Then it's come out him and his party have been trying to cover their tracks. Had Stephen Harper done something like this people would be on the streets.

Cuz that's not the point. For a premier that says she wants to be transparent, this isn't transparent at all.

$3.5 million to recover deleted emails. Nice transparency Wynne. Polls show the NDP are a lock for the Windsor seat. PCs are leading in Etobicoke and shockingly in Mcguinty's old seat. London seat is up for grabs.

Yeah because people steal all their stuff. And. Not everything on TMN/HBO is mature. The channel that shows the porn shows normal stuff during the day.

Also there wouldn't be a way to block bit torrents from distribution of porn. They already distribute pirated content. Clearly it's difficult enough to stop piracy how hard would it be to censor porn?

Let's say you don't feel like telling your IP you like porn. You can get a proxy IP or, and I'm sure this will happen, you'll get sites that doesn't label itself as a porn site so it can't be blocked. Filters only really block big sites anyway.

Effectively they are until you opt in.

The cable comparison isn't Apples to Apples. In subscribing to get TMN/HBO so I can watch Game of Thrones or Dexter I get hardcore port past midnight thrown in. There are plenty of subscription services for Internet porn but like with anything Internet related people want it for free. Eliminating free porn on the Internet would be about as difficult as removing streaming sites that broadcast licensed sports or premium cable.

Sure they are. People just starting out in the workforce, people who supplement another family member's income. Often service sector/retail jobs can lead to management positions that pay much more than the minimum wage. Or a minimum wage can be used for a base salary where commissions or tips increase the wage.

So if you say you want Porn, will you be part of a Porn Registry that the government can access at anytime?

Again with a grain of salt. It's Forum Research. But if they lose 2 or 3 of these elections it'll be a damning indictment of the government. http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/23/gas-plant-scandal-sticking-to-liberals-new-poll-finds BTW New Education Minister Liz Sandals is an idiot. http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/23/education-minister-should-read-what-policies-shes-pushing I miss Laurel Broten.

You can put on filters if you don't want children to be exposed to legit porn sites. But there are many of non legit porn sites that they would still have exposure to. Another example of the government trying to compensate for poor parenting.

That's assuming his dad lives a long life. George the 6th only lived to 56. Just sayin'

His brother was apparently ranting on the radio Sunday that one of the crack video reporters has been snooping around their condo in Florida compiling info for what appears to be a book. Reporters will follow Ford anywhere.

Who thinks it would be funny if they named him Joffery?

Big entertainment news yesterday was that a Netflix series got nominated for a handful of Emmys. This marks the first time a series only available on the Net that was nominated for such that honour. I'd say a much larger story was the fact the top rated cable program of the year, The Walking Dead, was pretty much shut out. Lots of people are saying that cable TV is for dinosaurs, and this proves it. I completely disagree. House of Cards was apparently made hoping it would be shown on HBO but they declined so they went to Netflix. There are countless stories of networks turning down, what ended up being, very successful series'. I see this as no different. Netflix is a cool service, it pretty much killed your local video store. But cable TV will be a much more difficult giant to slay. Other than a handful of movies and these original shows everything on Netflix is at least a year old if not older. Studies show that only about 15% of Canadians have actually "cut the cord" meaning they only pay for internet and don't subscribe to cable of any kind. Of course young people lead this trend but I argue this is a decision based on finances, not the convenience and choice internet viewing provides. Netflix has produced a grand total of four seasons of original programming to date. I know it's early but how much will an $8/month subscriber model go in created original content? I guess we'll see. The $8 is one thing but an watching a series on Neflix takes up a fair bit of bandwidth. The main challenge with cable TV, and it's nothing new, is people who steal content. They wait until the next day to download on a bittorrent. Many of my friends do it because the $21/month for TMN/HBO just isn't worth it. I personally find great value in TMN/HBO. This Saturday Zero Dark Thirty is finally coming to TMN. That's less than 6 months after being in the theatres. On Sunday I can watch True Blood and The Newsroom. I can watch those shows in full HD and onDemand after it's first broadcast. That's far more convenient than downloading a bittorrent streaming it to my Xbox and watching it in lower resolution. It's a matter of cost though. That's the question surrounding Television, not the internet. If people are unwilling to pay cable companies who therefore pay channels who pay content providers, great shows won't be produced. Other than Sports and Reality TV, OTA Network rarely show critically acclaimed programming anymore because advertising is it's only source of revenue. At least with cable you have people that actually subscribe to watch the channels. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Pundits who think these Emmy Nominations really mean anything are being sensationalist. Thoughts?

Ontario is debating raising the minimum wage. It's been frozen at $10.25 for 3 years. Some are saying it should be raised to $14. Here's the thing. Minimum wage earners are usually low-skilled and/or young people just starting out in the working world. When I was 18 and got my first job it was a dollar or so above minimum wage. I think it was $6.85/hour at the time. The problem isn't with the minimum wage, it's with middle income earners and their jobs disappearing. The minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage. If you make the minimum wage, a living wage, the cost of living will rise to the point where in will no longer become a living wage. But then you have middle income earners who drop down closer to the level of a minimum wage earner if their salaries don't rise with the minimum wage. So if the minimum wage goes up to $14/hour, someone making $20/hour suddenly takes a hit on their disposable income if they don't receive a comparable wage hike. Why don't governments lower the tax rate on people making the minimum, so they get to keep more of the meager income they do get?

Well Ford ran on Subways so his stubbornness can be seen as understandable. But it's the other councillors that said "NO WAY" to a Scarborough subway 2 years ago and are now for them, they're the ones that are really embarrassing themselves.