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worm said:
well-respected around the league/commons
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I especially loved his own creation, the "Shawinigan Handshake:"
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This is dispiriting. You needn't be convinced of the Conservatives' involvement to harbour some serious concerns, and with reason: as I've said before, the presumption of innocence does not require us to be deaf, blind and stupid. Yet the institutions we trust to hold government to account in this country are so weak - well, do we trust them any more? I'm not convinced that there are such systemic issues raised here as to warrant a public inquiry, and I'm not sure anyone has really made that case. Rather, it seems that people have so lost confidence in these other institutions that a public inquiry becomes almost their fallback response.

What everyone needs to do first is go back to square one: the riding of Guelph. We now have two crucial pieces of information. One, that the calls giving out false information on where to vote came from a cash-prepaid cellphone registered to a bogus name ("Pierre Poutine"). That tells us the caller knew he was doing wrong. And two, that the Conservative campaign in Guelph was a client of the same automated calling outfit that the infamous Mr. Poutine used, having called it more than 30 times during the campaign - and, what is more, didn't report it on its expenses. That strongly suggests the anonymous crank caller had some ties to the party.

Presumably he did not pay out of his own pocket. So the question then becomes: who paid his expenses? And, broadening out, who footed the bill for similar operations in other ridings? As in any such investigation, "follow the money" and you cannot go far wrong.
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Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life...nd+robocalls/6231777/story.html#ixzz1nsbIFYLP
 
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TORONTO — The Ottawa Senators hockey organization will be put out of business if the province of Ontario scraps a tax exemption allowing businesses to write off sports tickets, says team president Cyril Leeder.

Leeder says the decision announced Wednesday by Ontario’s Liberal minority government is poorly thought out and clearly favours sports teams in Toronto.

The Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors and Blue Jays would likely survive without the tax credit, says Leeder, whereas the smaller-market Senators would not.

“We need that to survive,” Leeder said in a telephone interview. “We cannot have another whack to our ability to operate here. You could take away incentives in bigger cities in sports and those teams would find a way to make it work, but the ones that are not in the major markets won’t survive.”
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No wonder there are no Sens fans that like McGuinty. He's in on the "conspiracy" against the Sens...
 
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Investigators probing the weekend’s Via Rail train crash west of Toronto say the train changed tracks at more than four times the authorized speed immediately before it derailed. The Transportation Safety Board is in the early stages of an analysis of what went wrong and offered a limited update to reporters Thursday.

They revealed that the train was travelling at approximately 67 miles per hour (107 km/per hour) when it derailed. In that area it should not have been going faster than 15 miles per hour (24 km/per hour).

“Though we know the excess speed caused the derailment this is not the end of the investigation,” said lead investigator Tom Griffith.
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I read that one of the three Via staff members killed was a new employee to Via. The two vets were "showing him the ropes," as it were. He was not new to railroading, just new to Via. I wonder if that had anything to do with this?
 
corksens said:
Any proof yet?
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Oh you just now it's coming....people are going to dig and dig. Going to be an interesting story for a while yet.

You seem to be taking great offense to these stories....aren't they alarming to you, irregardless of which candidate/party/individual directed it?
 
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blacksheep said:
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No wonder there are no Sens fans that like McGuinty. He's in on the "conspiracy" against the Sens...
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There is no conspiracy against the Sens, just another example of short-sighted policy that further proves to everyone that McGuinty and the Liberals have been a complete disaster over the past 8 years.

If this actually happens then I expect McGuinty to cut all arts/culture funding immediately as well. Essentially they should be out of every business except for health care.
 
I'm going to wait until their is proof to address any allegations. As of now there is no evidence of Conservative wrong-doings. Actually, the Elections Canada official report states that although there were reports of some irregularities none of them have an impact on any riding across the country.

Sounds like a non-story getting life from the usual sources (The Star, CBC, ect).
 
SundinsTooth said:
Think they might have been showing off a bit?

Sunday run, new guy, let's push it?
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Not showing off as much as making certain the "new guy" knows this stretch of track is a dangerous one, where he must lower the speed. The vets possibly failed to ensure the greenhorn was aware of the intricacies in this particular run.
 
corksens said:
I'm going to wait until their is proof to address any allegations. As of now there is no evidence of Conservative wrong-doings. Actually, the Elections Canada official report states that although there were reports of some irregularities none of them have an impact on any riding across the country.

Sounds like a non-story getting life from the usual sources (The Star, CBC, ect).
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Cool.

Is it ok if the rest of us discuss the story? Will your sensitive political leanings allow us that? Hell I voted conservative and I will be pissed if they betrayed that trust with some illegal shenanigans.
 
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corksens said:
Any proof yet?
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Rattled.
FACT: "Pierre Poutine" used a Guelph call center that was also utilized by Harper's party several times during that campaign. That strongly suggests ties to the Tories. A virtual smoking gun, as it were.
FACT: After multiple elections, the Tories couldn't turn their minority into a majority. That suggests they had more to gain from screwing with election results than any other party in this past election.
That you're so offended and defensive of these actions is very telling. This deserves the microscope regardless of which party did it. ****ing with democracy is something we need to stop no matter what.
 
SundinsTooth said:
Is it ok if the rest of us discuss the story? Will your sensitive political leanings allow us that? Hell I voted conservative and I will be pissed if they betrayed that trust with some illegal shenanigans.
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That's the main point being lost on Corks here. ****ing with election results in a democracy is serious shit that deserves this kind of attention. It MUST be stopped, and it doesn't matter who the party is.
 
I'm happy to announce that duplicitous bastard, prick and special pile of human excrement, Andrew Breitbart is dead.
 
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