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Tim Horton’s Mystery, Well-Paid Bureaucrats and Fining Cyclists

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

2006_4_2bombsquad3.jpgPolice are still flummoxed by the Tim Horton’s fire on Sunday. The Globe calls the events puzzling and the Star quotes the police reassuring Torontonians that this wasn’t an act of terrorism.
Both use this quote which sadly doesn’t tell us much. “We don’t know whether this was an accidental or deliberate act at this time,” Staff Sergeant Myron Demkiw said.
Harper and Co. are rolling out their agenda today with the throne speech.
The Sun are going to be having a field day with news that some GTA bureaucrats make a truckload of cash.
The CBC reports that our electricity bills might spike in the coming months. Energy Probe points out that part of this is because the province needs to recoup money from last year.
Jacob Richler, writing in the Post, wants the city to crack down on deadbeat cyclists.
Education Minister Gerard Kennedy has to announce his intention to run for the Liberal leadership by tommorow. Why? Because Dalton said so.

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  • http://www.epidemi.ca/ M-J

    huh, that’s funny, ’cause I wanted the city to crack down on deadbeat Richlers.

  • http://karigignac.blogspot.com Kari Gignac

    HAHAHAHAHAHA… I agree whole-heartedly.
    I can’t believe he called us freeloaders?!?
    Let’s talk about the consequences of his 2-tonne ass hauler… greed, filth, agression, sickness, murder, etc. etc.

  • princess

    I wrote a letter to the editor about how ridiculous Richler’s idea is. Cyclists are saving the planet…..
    I suggested that all the money going into city coffers from motorists will be used in the future on a marketing campaign from City Hall asking everyone to start riding their bikes because the environment is disintegrating and the air is unbreathable!!

  • chris

    Funny, I looked all over my tax forms for the box that says “If you’re a cyclist, tick here and pay no taxes”. Even if I never buy a car, I’m still paying for the roads. Oh, and the reason I don’t pay gas tax? I’M NOT USING ANY GAS.
    GRRR.

  • ap

    Dear Jacob Richler, National Post,
    The only thing I would suggest you is:
    Take your ass off your car and ride a bike!
    Then sit again in your office and write something up!
    You are stressed!

  • Peppy

    What is the fine for toxic polluted National Post journalism?

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    Let’s not even talk about how much harder it is to get a business tax write-off for anything other than a car.

  • http://www.jillmurray.com Jill

    oops– meant to say “transportation write-off”

  • http://www.allderdice.ca allderblob

    Jacob Richler is to be pitied, not despised. Think about growing up as he did, knowing that he would forever be known, at best, as the inspiration for a children’s book that makes him out to be a prat. Think about how he must feel, knowing that he has no hope of ever matching the level of talent or drive or imagination carried in the fingernail of his dad’s left hand. Think about how he must feel with such talented siblings. His lashing out at pedestrians and cyclists in a manifestation of a choked, closeted existence, one where he figures anyone more marginal than him (i.e. in the gutter, or on the sidewalk), is fair game for just the sort of humiliation he feels in his own heart. Jacob, I for one understand you, and all I want to say to you is: “Get help! Get help now!”