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Yeah, but I know the looney left will think it's okay for a newspaper to conduct a personal vendetta against a public figure instead of sticking to issues. If someone was skulking around my house at night I'd call the cops too.

No surprise people here think it's okay to stalk and harass a public figure and his family. Maybe the question asked should be why does the Mayor need to buy property for a security fence ! I expect better from a large newspaper, not tabloid journalism, go after policy but don't make it personal. That paper lost it's integrity some time ago, they give yellow journalism a bad name.

Get real, I'd be upset if my neighbour alerted me to someone skulking around the property at night taking pictures. That paper isn't content with making stuff up about Ford, for which they have yet to apologize, stalking him and his family including his 78 year old mother, but now they send a reporter out at night. The reporter and the paper are out on a limb on this one, they need to stick to reporting facts and improving their journalistic standards (if they ever had any). http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10379303#comments

This issue is not going to go away, when this one dies eventually another one will come along. It's worth revisiting the court's decision way back when.. Maybe if there was legislation restricting abortion to say, 24 weeks as in the U.K. it would give something to the anti-choice crowd, while not affecting the great majority of abortions. Justice Bertha Wilson found herself in agreement with the Crown, that “the situation respecting a woman’s right to control her own person becomes more complex when she becomes pregnant, and some statutory control may be appropriate.” A woman had a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, she held, but like any other right it was not absolute. “I think s. 1 of the Charter authorizes reasonable limits to be put upon the woman’s right,” she wrote, “having regard to the fact of the developing foetus within her body. The question is: at what point in the pregnancy does the protection of the foetus become such a pressing and substantial concern as to outweigh the fundamental right of the woman to decide whether or not to carry the foetus to term?”

E.C. lied and misled the House, they targeted select ridings by race with phone calls intended to increase the native vote. What else have they been doing.. and while we are on about it, how about those two Dick Tracy's over at the Citizen, how come they didn't report on this, or are they just selective in what they report. Maybe it's time they told us how they get their information too.

Good question, usually increases don't take effect until the next election, so likely the same thing applies to MPs pensions. The gov't has said they will put forward legislation on this in the fall, so we will have to wait to see how much he will cut back on them (pensions). I don't think the gov't can make radical changes with setting up the pension committee (can't remember the full name). http://www.globalnews.ca/mp+pension+changes+to+be+outlined+in+fall+legislation/6442611870/story.html Changes will be made to the age of entitlement and benefit levels, though they won't take effect until after the next election in 2015. In the meantime, MPs will start contributing more to their own pensions next year and by 2016, will pay half. In advance of Thursday's budget, the Conservatives hinted they would take a hard line on MP pensions, after they raised the eligibility age for old age security benefits to 67 from 65. Guess we'll have to wait until the Fall

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/the-sentencing-decision-of-provincial-court-judge-catherine-carlson-143609826.html The judge says he has not re-offended and is rehabilitated but how do they know that, just because more victims haven't come forward doesn't mean it is so. Too bad the new crime bill wasn't in effect for this crime.

Exactly, but doing that doesn't serve the left's purpose or ambitions, heck who benefits most from this

Good news, sorta http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/03/16/john-ivison-pierre-poutine-called-voters-in-ridings-across-ontario-not-just-guelph/ A CBC Television story Thursday suggested misdirection calls were recorded coast-to-coast and interviewed people who said they received calls sending them to the wrong polling station. Yet only one person from outside Ontario said the call was a robocall claiming to come from Elections Canada. The rest were either live calls or came from the Conservative Party. There were 20,000 voting locations in last year’s election — 127 of which were moved during the campaign — so thousands of Canadians received legitimate calls from political parties alerting them to the move. Elections Canada revealed Thursday that over 700 Canadians from across the country have contacted them because they suspected “wrong-doing.” In his press release, the chief electoral officer, Marc Mayrand, urged Canadians to be “cautious about drawing conclusions based on possibly inaccurate and incomplete information.” The facts remain rarer than hen’s teeth but the news that the Pierre Poutine call was sent out across Ontario suggests the extent of the wrong-doing was more limited than some of the coverage would have us believe. Meanwhile, the search for Mr. Poutine goes on.

I generally go to my controls and turn off all avatars, signatures and graphics as I find they are unnecessary clutter and just get in the way. I would rather images not be allowed as it does slow down page loading, we can click on a link if we wish to. IMO when images are allowed, too many people don't bother resizing them, sometimes they are huge and annoying.

They are not concerned about democracy at all IMO, they are just wetting their panties at the thought of another election so are using this to push this issue, as they believe they will benefit from the 'scandal'. Of course, the 'Americanization' of politics only happens when it's the conservatives - I actually sent an email from the leadnow website, but changed their form content of course it went through cos I got an robo response from guess who - yup - Elizabeth May.

Really, and if it's a lone conservative it's still all Harper's fault of course, never mind that meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Liberals have had to apologize to Canadians twice, once for admitted illegal activities during the election. Maybe they should be saying " We are very very sorry, but It's all Harpers fault".

What's your point

That is not true at all and you know it, so please don't bring your internet drama from elsewhere over here, it's against the rules. I highly doubt anyone would care about our emails, just watch for those black helicopters now

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Oh my - shall I watch for the heavens to open up and a bolt of lightning descend or what ? The wrath of God Edited for spelling

If you think I'm going to answer a push poll, forget it - yup, you did forget a couple.

People believe the robo calls were subversive etc. so how is a foreign company manipulating Canadian citizens with robo spam to E.C. acceptable. It's not a grassroots protest, it's a manipulation and an agenda to slow up E.C.'s process/. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2012/03/06/19468066.html NDP MP David Christopherson admits the involvement of American group Avaaz in the complaints raises questions.

LOL How legal is Avaaz, it's a foreign company attempting to subvert our process - Yankee go home

Question Period is creepy, the opposition acts like a pack of starved yapping hyenas. Do they really believe that we are stupid enough to buy into their mudslinging (well yeah I guess some do). I can't imagine this bunch of loony screaming banshees running our wonderful country.

Exactly, so far it's all smoke and mirrors except for Guelph. If this were CSI they'd have Poutine in an hour, but still, I'm surprised it's taking this long. They were able to track the VL guy down to the HOC faster than this.

True, but that was in response to the 'despot' crack, I should've put a sarcasm thingy there.

Hmmm really, he's Hitler, Lenin and Pol Pot of course all rolled into one giant kitten eater...

Not so, E.C. actually said "more than 31,000 contacts have been initiated with Elections Canada by Canadians." Thirty-one thousand contacts. Not 31,000 complaints, there's a big difference. It also means form letters sent in by Liberals and NDPers complaining, but presumably it will increase with the number of programmed robo calls from those two sites. E.C. has set up an online form to fill out, that would be the way to go, not automatically generated complaints from biased sites.

Not true, all conservatives want this investigated and the truth, but from E.C. and the RCMP, not the media who often get it wrong. It was the media who fingered the NDP (Ottawa Citizen) being behind vickieleaks, they were wrong. You don't know the guy was thrown under a bus, neither do you know if he is guilty. So far - no evidence, but the websites generating robo complaints are simply muddying the waters and making it difficult for E.C. to do their job. Likely the intent, because if there's no evidence to be found, they can point to their robot complaints and say - look tousands and tousands by gar. How many people have said they couldn't vote because of it again.