That used to be how we built hospitals and paid for road improvements: they're called things like "local business improvement areas".

More correctly, they want to control the news. One man controlled roughly 1/3 of the news at one point, and pushed for his preferred party and leader. The leader face-planted on a seadoo and the party had to do an unfriendly takeover of another party (mine!) to get into power. The newspaper chain in question is barely alive any more.

Odd, all three parties at various times said the CRTC was in bed with the big corporations. The current government genuinely hit them with a clue-stick, mind you!

Right now, the government needs votes, and telecom behaviour has annoyed a large enough minority that they're worth campaigning to. Pitching to minorities has been a priority for the government since they got in, as they previously had been criticised as being composed entirely of white western farmers and oilmen.

He's probably on Rogers, where all of the above is trivially true.

This is a classic way to get a proponent of X into trouble: get them to say under what circumstances X would be breaking the law, and assert they were a proponent of breaking the law. Another is ordering someone not to do something legal, then charge them with disobedience. A third is to ask them if they had (ever) broken the law, then charge them with lying if they had but the statute of limitations had run out.

All are hard to defend against, as they're constructed half-truths. None addresses the propriety, truth or desirability of the original action, only the consequent, so a court can sometimes be tricked into ruling narrowly on the second part alone.

The OPP doesn't listen to the Ontario government. It listens to it's leaders, like Julian Fantino, now a minister in the Federal government that very much disagrees with the Courts about people having rights.

The Minister agrees, too:(:-))

The former head of the OPP at the time of the G8 in Toronto is Julian Fantino. He is now Minister of Veterans Affairs in the government that so objects to personal privacy, so I'm not surprised at the OPP position.

Our ballot was an 8 1/2 by 11" sheet, mostly covered with cantidates for mayor. The number of candidates and seats are limited only by the paper and font size (;-)) It's not perfect, but it does scale.

Personally I'd like to draw lots for who gets stuck with dog catcher.

A different percentage than the exit polls report...