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The Daily Photoist: November 9, 2009
Amazingly, Maher Arar is still on the US government's terrorist watchlist. No, seriously. No joke. He's still on it.
Metro police place three closed circuit cameras around Dundas Square for the holidays. Remember, nothing deters criminals determined to shoot at people in the busiest intersection in Toronto like cameras.
Ontario Hydro's combined costs have risen 50 percent in five years; during the same time period revenues have increased only 15 percent. At the press conference, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan tried to speak really fast so people would think he was repeating the same number twice.
24 Peel Region cops charged under the Police Act for holding an on-duty "drinking party" and then threatening witnesses who caught them doing it. It's understandable that they'd use the term "drinking party" to describe what happened - it's accurate if nothing else - but does anybody else hear that term and just flash back to high school?
Stephen Harper says he doesn't want an election. Given that the newly-led-by-Stephan-Dion Grits have a sizable lead in the polls, file this right next to Lance Bass being gay in the "incredibly obvious" section of the news.
A Toronto judge has banished a Christmas tree from the Ontario Court of Justice lobby, citing it as a religious symbol. (This is because Jesus Christ was crucified on a pine tree, you understand.) Dalton McGuinty courageously condemned the judge's action as wrongheaded once it became obvious that the general public reaction to this was "that's dumb."
Finally, the world's tallest man has saved the lives of two dolphins. And quite possibly given an AP headline writer the single best day of his entire life.
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A few things:
- the AP isn't responsible for headline writing. They are just responsible for the copy. Since the Star took the story and published it, The Toronto Star copy editor writes the headlines
- I don't think it's "incredibly obvious" that Stephen Harper wants an election right now. I think he does, but still wants to work on some policy and get the caucus a bit more in line. The House is extremely fractured right now, so it plays straight into Harper's hand. Polls also should have nothing to do with it -- the Cons. were behind the Lib's a few weeks before the start of the last election. And we all know how that turned out.
- You misspelled "court" in the second-last story.
"I don't think it's "incredibly obvious" that Stephen Harper wants an election right now."
Which is why he said it's "incredibly obvious" that Harper doesn't want an election right now.
So our police love the idea of putting cameras in public places to make it easier to capture criminals in the act and prosecute them. But when it is cops themselves who are filmed breaking the law, suddenly they don't like it so much. Funny how that is, huh.
I thought that dolphin headline was sheer genius when I saw it last night.
And does anyone think that under that nerdy exterior, Dion has a bit of swaggering brawler to him? His rhetoric towards Harper has pretty much been nothing but Dorkese for "Any time, any place, let's do this."
Election! Election! Election!