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Ford took the unprecedented step Monday of invoking the “notwithstanding” clause of the Charter and Rights and Freedoms to override a court ruling that it was unconstitutional for him to cut the number of councillors from 47 to 25 in the middle of the municipal election.

The clause, which is found in Sec. 33 of the Charter, was intended to give Ottawa or the provinces a mechanism to overrule charter rights that conflict with their legislative agenda.

“I was elected. The judge was appointed. He was appointed by one person, (former Liberal premier) Dalton McGuinty,” the premier said, though his aides later clarified that Belobaba was in fact named by former prime minister Paul Martin because Superior Court justices are federal appointments.

“A democratically elected government, trying to be shut down by the courts — that concerns me more than anything,” he said, adding the courts have made him feel like “I’m sitting here handcuffed, with a piece of tape over my mouth, watching what I say.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/toronto...y-council.html

09-10-2018 , 06:35 PM

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Lol Ontario

09-10-2018 , 10:21 PM

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Yeah, this is some solid ass bull****.

I don't even care about Toronto but I care about the precedent. It's too bad that MPPs have even less spine to stand up to their party then Republicans.

09-11-2018 , 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

Yeah, this is some solid ass bull****.

I don't even care about Toronto but I care about the precedent. It's too bad that MPPs have even less spine to stand up to their party then Republicans.

The notwithstanding clause has a built in bias that favors the shameless.

09-11-2018 , 07:57 PM

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Yeah, it’s been really disturbing to discover that shame was the only thing keeping Western democracy afloat this entire time.

09-12-2018 , 03:39 PM

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Ontario legislative assembly looks like a ****ing CIRCUS

09-13-2018 , 02:43 PM

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The **** show continues. City clerk has ‘huge concern’ whether she can fairly administer the Oct. 22 vote.

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Ms. Watkiss said the city was at a “tipping point” regarding its ability to run a fair election amid all the confusion about what the city’s ward boundaries would be – with just weeks to go before voting day.

“I am frankly at that point. ... Every hour that goes by, every day that goes by creates greater uncertainty and raises in me a huge concern over the proper conduct of this election,” Ms. Watkiss said. “I have to let council know that.”

She also said she had retained her own independent counsel, and would be consulting her new lawyer about, among other things, whether she has the power to postpone the election.

09-13-2018 , 02:46 PM

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Holy ****

All this because Ford got beat out for mayor four years ago

09-13-2018 , 05:27 PM

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So now the city is taking the province to court over the province invoking the "notwithstanding the constitution" clause after the city took the province to court and won. Meanwhile the province is appealing the ruling over which they invoked the notwithstanding clause. Earlier all of the Toronto area federal liberal MPs (many of whom are in cabinet) signed a statement condemning the province for invoking the clause. And don't forget that former PM Brian Mulroney also condemned the province for doing this, oh and his daughter is the provincial attorney general.

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09-13-2018 , 06:14 PM

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This is a giant clusterf***, Ford's an embarrassment, the city is embarrassing themselves, and the judge is also an embarrassment albeit less so

10-16-2018 , 08:53 PM

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https://www.apnews.com/6a6a14065a7c45e9a482e810fecb4865

A senior Canadian official says the government will pardon those with a pot possession record of 30 grams or less.

10-16-2018 , 09:28 PM

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Lol @ pardons, USA gives no ****s when it comes to the war on drugs:

A former Canadian army captain who was in the United States and waiting to get a green card after marrying an American woman has spent the past 75 days detained in a U.S. jail as a result of a decades-old marijuana conviction for which he was pardoned in Canada.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...n-decades-old/

10-17-2018 , 11:03 AM

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History

would like to see JT smoke a joint at a press conference

11-07-2018 , 09:40 PM

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https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ott...just-try-them/

11-07-2018 , 09:43 PM

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if a mall map ever watched me, my life would be over, i would be so upset.

11-07-2018 , 09:53 PM

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I want to know how Wayne Gretzky dissed me

11-07-2018 , 10:51 PM

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I appreciate Ford putting effort into looking exactly like the third rate mafia don wannabe he is.

11-08-2018 , 01:41 AM

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A hearty lol Maclean's. Does anyone even read that piece of trash?

Lol Scott Moe go **** yourself

11-08-2018 , 08:05 AM

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What an embarrassment for Maclean’s. Reminds me of one of my favourite tweets:

11-08-2018 , 05:01 PM

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If you[re looking to Stick it to Ford, here's your chance

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Ford's vision for Ontario is a grim one for ordinary people: where we are paid less but must pay more for services; where business executives and owners get richer by forcing the rest of us to work with fewer job and unemployment protections; where the rich unite in their quest to exploit and pit the rest of us against each other in a struggle to survive.

On November 17, we will demonstrate that attempts to "open Ontario for business" on this basis will be blocked. To make sure Ford gets the message, we'll start with an action at Ford's own business: Deco Labels and Tags.

It's time to defend our communities. Join us.

https://www.facebook.com/events/324212428131475/

11-08-2018 , 05:39 PM

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Anti-Muslim blogger facing hate crime charge ran for mayor of Mississauga and came in second place (Mississauga borders Toronto and is the 6th largest municipality in Canada)

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Johnston continues to produce videos targeting Muslims, LGBTQ+ persons and others and said he plans to run more political campaigns in the future, as well as finish a documentary that denies Myanmar is carrying out a campaign of what the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority. Johnston was allowed into the country to work on this ‘documentary’, escorted by military handlers, while Reuters journalists were imprisoned.

Johnston livestreamed our interview on his Youtube and Facebook channels. In the same video he says that “LGBTQ laws” would legalize the rape of four-year-olds by adult men. At other points in the interview and his subsequent monologue, Johnston said Islam is not a religion but a political ideology, and that he refuses to eat halal meat or fly on airplanes with Muslim pilots. In response to a viewer question, he encouraged parents to train their children to respond to bullying with extreme violence such as breaking bones, adding that the children’s criminal records would be expunged at age 18 anyway. In arguing for the superiority of “Western culture,” Johnston said: "African culture right now is to just walk around the country and kill white people. Rape them first, then kill them second." He described new immigrants from Muslim-majority countries as violent “psychopaths.”

11-08-2018 , 05:58 PM

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That's a bold stance for one of the most diverse cities in the country.

11-08-2018 , 06:18 PM

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The boy ain't right.

11-08-2018 , 07:22 PM

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11-18-2018 , 08:19 PM

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The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party passed a resolution to not recognize gender identity this weekend.

The resolution calls on the party to recognize gender identity for what it allegedly is — a "highly controversial, liberal ideology." The resolution will also see gender identity issues removed from all provincial school curriculums.

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ontario-pc...tity-1.4181651

Social conservatives still crying anyway

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Heading into the convention, prominent social conservatives expressed concerns that their voices were being ignored, once again exposing cracks in a coalition that helped propel the party to a massive election win earlier this year.

Jack Fonseca of the social conservative group Campaign Life Coalition and Granic Allen, a parental rights advocate and former Tory leadership candidate, have both expressed frustration that dozens of policy resolutions with a social conservative bent were blocked from being debated by party members at the event in Etobicoke, Ont.

The exclusion of the proposals has rekindled fears amongst some social conservatives that their voices will once again be marginalized, as they said the party had done under former Tory leader Patrick Brown.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/11/...ry-convention/

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