Scott's DiaTribes

Not to steal Galloping Beaver’s thunder, but I think this bears repeating:

Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montreal man who was stranded in Sudan for six years, has been given the green light to sue the federal government and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. In a written ruling released on Monday, the Federal Court gave Abdelrazik [...]

A few things today:

The Sun Media chain, apparently not content with its one loathsome editorial on the G-G, decided to engage in an almost similar loathsome one on Omar Khadr today (I’d rather link to my progressive colleague Pogge then directly to it).  Kory Teneycke has been rather bored, it appears, and decided [...]

So the PRIDE Toronto parade is over for another year. The topic of controversy again this year was whether or not QuAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) should be allowed to march into the parade or not. First, they were disbarred; then after considerable pressure, they were reinstated, much to the dismay of some folks [...]

No doubt many of you have seen this today, where in an exclusive TV interview with CBC, the director of CSIS levels serious accusations that a couple of cabinet ministers in provincial governments and perhaps in BC’s municipal governments are suspected being in the control of “foreign governments”.

I find the public timing of [...]

Random thought #1: Maybe it’s just me, but it looks to me to be a tad paranoid to be ripping out trees, saplings, bushes or any other random plant because the security units for the G8/G20 summit are afraid branches will be used as weapons by protesters. All of this tree cutting is presumably [...]

No surprise that Harper would do so; he’s done it before where he talks about some aspect of domestic politics while he’s abroad. I guess he feels that everyone is watching his trip, so they’ll be paying more attention. Today, in the UK, the talk arose of coalition government there, and the parallels between [...]

- PM Harper sure seems to get tripped up by his foreign policy stances he takes, sometimes by bad timing, sometimes by bad design. We’ll have to see which of those it is today (or if it’s a bit of both) when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this AM following an Israeli navy [...]

I’m kind of ripping this off of Twitter, but since I again am not feeling well and feeling unmotivated  to do my own blogpost (being up half the night and then being on Predozone/Benadryl tends to lose one’s motivation quickly), I’m gonna direct you elsewhere to other folks.

First, an excellent electoral reform column [...]