If you ever thought nothing interesting happens in Canada....

Glaucus said:
I still don't understand how Toronto ever elected that guy. Great city otherwise.
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I think your confusion may stem from your belief that elections are the way that the people choose their government.
 
On a national level - two very different headlines for the same thing:

Fraud Occurred in Election of Prime Minister Harper, Canadian Court Rules

Federal Court upholds 2011 election results in ‘robocall’ ridings

The finding is that fraud did occur but the courts have decided that it wasn't enough to swing the election (of course that is hard to really know. It's likely that more occurred than was reported as with any crime). However, the court also found that it was not proven that it was official policy of the conservative party - but that is fairly standard practice these days. Most of the dirty work is kept at arms length and the perps always try to keep themselves clean - look at the financial industry. "The company I was in charge of stole billions of dollars from a bunch of rubes? I had no idea."

The conservatives have learned a lot of this stuff from the US election fraud machine - and they are probably using many of the same people judging by the connections they have.
 
Now all we need to do is drag this scandal out to 2015. I sure hope Trudeau can keep his act clean until then!
 
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...d-apartments-in-massive-guns-and-gangs-sweep/

They search the house, they handcuff me, [but] they found nothing,” Mr. Chaudry says. He believes his home was targeted because his nephew, who was imprisoned some time ago for drug offences, may be facing fresh charges.
Piles of clothes from an emptied dresser cascade across Mr. Chaudry’s bed. Shortly before 5 a.m. Thursday, he recalls hearing a “flash bang” before police stormed in — seeking what, he does not know.
One floor down, a group of about a dozen Somali women perch on couches inside a first-floor apartment unit. The top half of the door is missing, blown off by police. A shopping cart sits outside along the wall in the green-carpeted hallway.
Glaucus said:
Now all we need to do is drag this scandal out to 2015. I sure hope Trudeau can keep his act clean until then!
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you are about to get your wish... if your courts work like ours this ought to take at least another year

Rob Ford lauds drug raids while police chief silent on any link to alleged video of mayor

In an afternoon news conference at police headquarters on College Street, Chief Bill Blair lauded the work of his officers, whose overnight sweep through a Dixon-Kipling apartment complex and nearby properties netted 40 guns and $3-million in narcotics. But when the subject turned to Mr. Ford and a cellphone video that allegedly shows the mayor smoking crack cocaine — purportedly filmed in the Dixon-Kipling neighbourhood and possibly stashed inside one of the targeted buildings — Chief Blair went silent. He would not say whether police seized any cellphone footage, or whether Mr. Ford was in any way linked to the overnight raids.
“We will be turning all of that evidence over to the prosecuting attorney [and] it will come out in court where it belongs,” Chief Blair said. “To do otherwise would, quite frankly, jeopardize the prosecution of those who we allege to be responsible for some very serious criminal offences.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/0...silent-on-any-link-to-alleged-video-of-mayor/
gee.. that sort of makes him sound like a suspect... i mean if he had no involvement why would they leave it like that?
 
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