In the statement CIPS recommends that the Government of Canada 'prohibit access to personal information, related records/data, content, communications or records of internet use without the safeguard of a warrant.'

Not having a warrant is the whole point of the bill.

How else can Pierre Poutine scour the records of opposition candidates in order to smear them during election campaigns? Maybe find a damning email sent to the leader of the opposition by ... Pierre Poutine?

They had a 2 year long negative attack ad campaign against Ignatief prior to the last election and have already begun one against Bob Rae.

They just want to be ready for the next election -- they'll have to be a bit more careful with their election fraud this time -- but they will do what ever is in their power to win.

Free and fair elections are a thing of the past.

Quebec had their "Quiet Revolution", Canada has had a "Quiet Coup".

There's a well documented case of undercover police acting as agents provocateurs in Quebec City.

Their boots gave them away - as well as their behaviour. The other protesters noticed the boots were exactly the same as the police line the provocateurs were trying to provoke.

Some links can be found; CBC should have a fairly authoritative story on it, maybe here.

From the review link in TFS:

LET'S talk about plagiarism, innovation or the often very small adaptations of an idea that pass as evolution in the restaurant business.

[...]

MeatLiquor – that is Meat and Liquor - is hugely informed by two populist concepts on the high street for more than four decades - the Hard Rock Café (HRC) and McDonalds. The logistics are a complete rip-off of HRC – queue to get in, rock’n’roll motif, a menu of burgers, except at the same time it is a brilliant re-invention of the same. A punk version. No memorabilia on these walls, but graffiti like a hell’s angel’s jacket.

Jeeze - the review/story talks about plagiarism immediately after the copied & unattributed photo: doesn't that almost count as fair-use? /joke. Note, emphasis in quote added by yours truly.

I thought it must have been modified since this kerfuffle came to light, but it appears to be original text...

Yeah, but as an utter non-consumer with virtually zero desire to buy stuff (even when I really ought to buy stuff, like decent clothes - I'm probably an embarrassment to my non-imaginary girlfriend), it doesn't mean one won't get depressed. Unfortunately.

PS Fucking hell & god damn it.

So, based upon essentially nothing, you've got it figured out. Great.

Maybe you could solve hunger & world peace when you've got a minute, m'kay?

More seriously, you might have a point in a few, rare cases, but likely you're mixing cause & effect. Depressed people can tend to sleep until it aches to lay in bed any longer. It's not dealing with insomnia, it's avoiding the pain of being conscious.

No and no. Likely the opposite of those is true.

Agreed.

This seems more like my experience. Cannot fathom "connecting" when feeling depressed; rather to stay in the house, put phone in airplane mode, avoid checking email, hunker down & wait for the storm to pass.

Oops, just broke my own guideline, gotta go.

*Getting drowsy, dreams of banging Malik's & Young's heads together...*

South Vancouver - Killarney neighbourhood. I've got Wai Young as an Con. MP, the best thing about it is that she's useless & silent. Her entire campaign consisted of 1) accepting then later rejecting an endorsement from ?Raputamin Singh Malik? - an Air India accused terrorist bomber or associate; and 2) appearing on an "ethnic" TV interview recorded at her Mom's house, with mom, sister, and silent white guy all on couches in front of a wall covered with old family photos. Mom cried on cue about how Wai was treated meanly for ... "?" Turns out white guy was Con. party lawyer, AND... only ethnic media was invited: no CBC, CTV, etc.

She replaced Ujjal Dosanjh who occasionally annoyed me but did have some courage to stand up to Sikh separatists (and get hospitalized by a beating for it) and generally behave as an effective health critic at the federal level (deplored his position on Gustafson Lake standoff provincially).

(Cheers & End of Rant.)

I just recently discovered "Lexicon Valley" podcast through Slate.com, and they have a podcast (I think it's this one: Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals), where the guest professor makes a strong case for using "they" as a gender-neutral, 3rd person singular pronoun.

i.e. "I was talking to my friend, and they said, '...'" It's perfectly clear in that case that the friend is singular.

Otherwise, I agree with your points from both posts.

Cheers.