Thursday, June 20, 2013

6167...Ixnay Selling Cats And Dogs In T-Dot

CITYNews reports that "Toronto city council voted Wednesday to ban the sales of dogs and cats in pet stores, becoming the second Canadian city to do so."

File photo of dog. Timo Jaakonaho, The Canadian Press.

Richmond, B.C., was the first.

"Council ruled that pet store owners will now be able to take in shelter or rescue dogs and adopt them out, much like local humane societies."

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

6166...Tony Soprano Dead

Every media outlet in the world is reporting that James Gandolfini has just died in Italy.



He was 51.

Light a candle.

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6165...Miami Heat Fan Changes Jobs

That would be Bob Rae.

Bob Rae served as an NDP MP for four years, 1978-82.

It has been widely reported that the man who shoulda been the leader of the Liberals in '06 has decided to pack it up and pack it in as the MP for Toronto Centre.  CBC says that "Rae recently accepted the role of chief negotiator for First Nations in talks with the Ontario government about development of the Ring of Fire, and is to tour the nine Matawa communities in the mining and resource-rich area of Northern Ontario this summer."

A wizard, a true star.

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6164...Cronuts: This Year's Food Trend

You read it here first coz I read it first on NBC's today.com.  The cronut is the faddiest of the faddiest foods in New York City.  Made at the Dominique Ansel Bakery in SoHo this is Mr. Ansel's brain flash of taking a croissant and a donut and marrying them.

A cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid, the brain child of French pastry chef Dominique Ansel, sits on a plate at Ansel's bakery shop in New York on Ju...

How hot a trend is this?  Scalpers, baby, scalpers.  "The third-party service, Premium Cronut Delivery, which is not affiliated with the bakery, charges a whopping $100 for delivering a single Cronut, $200 for two, or $3,000 for 10 of the pastries. At the bakery, Cronuts sell for $5 each."

Just a matter of time before Tim Horton's rolls these guys out, eh?

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6163...Peterboro Weighs In On Dean Del Mastro

From The Peterborough Examiner comes this letter to the editor regarding that town's second favourite son.

Masterful performance suspended the facts
Re “MP wants his name cleared” (June 14) –
Dean Del Mastro gave a stunning performance in the House of Commons last week, asking for the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to, in effect, use its muscle as overseer of Elections Canada to remove the cloud of allegations hovering over him. He, like all Canadian voters, is impatient with the progress of Elections Canada in its ongoing investigations of voter fraud during the past two federal elections.
Clearly, his next profession should take him to the theatrical stage. He is that good. We are to suspend all the facts at hand and to let our hearts simply hear the impassioned wobble in his voice and his earnestly compelling cries of victimization at the hands of a malicious and contemptuous agency of the Canadian government.
Court documents reveal that Elections Canada alleges Del Mastro and his financial agent, Richard McCarthy, exceeded spending limits in the 2008 campaign and that a falsified document was allegedly included in the return.
Indeed, Elections Canada called in the RCMP to assist with two separate investigations into the 2008 Del Mastro campaign: the one above and equally damaging allegations of fraud. Some employees of Deltro Electric Ltd. have claimed that they were induced to donate $1,000 to Del Mastro’s campaign, all of which they were reimbursed, together with a stipend of $50, by their employer.
Elections Canada and the RCMP are apparently still investigating.
About the only thing on which I would agree with Mr. Del Mastro is that Elections Canada is taking a very long time. However, given the additional burden of investigating so many other Conservative candidates and the situation of alleged voter fraud in over 200 ridings across Canada, well, one can see why thorough investigations can take so long.
After all, didn’t it take six years for the Conservatives “in and out” fraud case to be resolved?
LEXY CAMERON
RR 2, Lakefield
Bob Gainey, of course, is number one.

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6162...PMO Budget Plan Revealed

By Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper.



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6161...Saving Montreal

Julien Feldman from Montreal Comiccon on Facebook.




Of course they would have to trade in the Batmobile for something sturdier coz as Wade Alexander of Montreal points out "Our roads would totally wreck the Batmobile."

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