6181...Silvio Berlusconi Gets 7 Years

They don't play in Italy; former Prime Minister or not if you get convicted you are going down.  Hard.

Reuters breaks the news that "A Milan court sentenced Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday to seven years in prison after convicting him of paying for sex with a minor but he will not have to serve any jail time before he has exhausted appeals. With two appeals possible, it could be years before a verdict is final and Berlusconi lawyers announced they would file an appeal against what his counsel Niccolo Ghedini called a 'completely illogical' verdict."

Mr. Berlusconi is 76 so there is a good chance that he will get promoted, that is Catholic for die, before his appeals are exhausted.

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6180...Happy Jean Baptiste Day

Amazing innit that Quebec would have a different National Day than the Rest of Canada.



July 1st of course is moving day.

Viva La Belle.

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6179...Laurel Broten Says Good Bye

CFRA, among others, reports presently that Ontario's minister for Intergovernmental Affairs, is packing it in July 2.



That's four who have opted out of Premier Wynne's caucus to date.

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6178...Rob Ford 2014 Lawn Signs Revealed

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6177...Design A [Bacon] Doughnut

QMI reports that for the first time ever Tim Horton's is going to let you design your own doughnut.  And win 10K.



Just go to duellingdonuts.ca or TimHortons.com/DuellingDonuts.

You have til July 21.

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6176...2013 Is Not 2015

Hey I am/is/are/was as excited as anyone when I just/just/just  read in the online edition of The Ottawa Citizen that our man Justin Trudeau is looking good.  Your capital's fave birdcage liner breaks out a Leger Marketing poll that shows that, for the first time, Mr. Trudeau bests our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, in popularity.  27/23 is the score.



Also the poll which was done "...for The Gazette and Le Devoir, showed the Liberals under Trudeau would have rocketed into a majority government had an election been held this week.  With distribution of the undecided vote, the Liberals now stand at 37 per cent in the polls - up seven points from March - followed by the Conservatives at 29 per cent - down two from March - and the NDP at 21 per cent - down three points from March. Green Party support is pegged at eight per cent - the same as in March.
The Liberals are ahead in Quebec. Support is pegged at 46 per cent among decided voters, compared with 26 per cent for the NDP and eight per cent for the Conservatives. Support for the Bloc Québécois is 15 per cent."

Let us try to remember that 2013 is not 2015.

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6175...What About Elizabeth May?

Honestly I expected more from the leader of The Green Party when she finally got herself a seat in The House of Commons.



Before she became an MP she was ubiquitous; now it is like she has gone into the Witness Protection Program.  She took out a minister.  I really did expect more from her.

You may recall that before she was elected I posited that she was only running for the dental plan.  One has to admit that her choppers be looking fine these days.

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