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The LCBO will start charging an extra 10- or 20-cent deposit on wine and spirit bottles in February in order to encourage recycling. Bottles can be returned to The Beer Store along with your Red Cap empties. Save up enough of them and those bottles can be recycled right back into your hand, chilled and containing a delicious elixer of satisfaction that you are doing your part for the environment.
A software tool called psiphon is being released today at U of T's Protect the Net event which will allow users in countries where the internet is government-censored to view URLs freely and undetected.
Speaking of a government-censored internet, Andrew Cash applauds Stephen Harper's unexpected stand on human rights issues in China in this week's issue of NOW.
"Seems that Ontario's children's aid societies were having more fun with flashy SUV's and all-inclusive Carribean vacations than aiding children," revealed an investigation by Ontario Auditor-General Jim McCarter. The leaked report can't be taken to legislature until Tuesday, but some major wrist-slapping is to be expected.
It turns out that Michael Di Biase had exactly 94 votes less than his opponent Linda Jackson in a costly recount for the Vaughn mayoral elections. Di Biase, sorest loser in a 50 km radius, still rejects the election results, citing "numerous irregularities."
After the death of a 23-year-old man from meningitis C, Toronto Public Health encourages anyone potentially potentially exposed to the virus at Crews and Tango Bar on November 17 and 18 to get a free vaccination today at Church Street's 519 Community Centre from 3 to 7 p.m. You should go -- meningitis is seriously uncool.
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Wasn't DiBiase claiming to have evidence of winning by over 200 votes? I suppose the next step is for him to take his ball and go home.
And hooray for UofT!
It was something about one ballot box being left unsealed for a second, therefore spoiling the entire batch. But the people running the election were like, "There is no reason to think that the box was tampered with, asshole."
I don't think the people of Vaughan are being served the best they can be, no matter who "wins" that mayoral seat. It's a sad story.
Given the population of Vaughan, 94 votes is a miniscule margin. That there wasn't a mandatory recount is shocking and horrifying.
Lots of time you don't even need to count the votes in municipal elections (Mississauga being the prime example... Hazel will probably still win for 2 or 3 elections after she has passed on: aspiring Mayors should change their name to Hazel McCallion and pull a "Distinguished Gentleman"). But to oppose a recount in an election that was that close highlights the kind of people that are on the Left and write Torontoist. Not interested in Democracy, only concerned with the Revolution and eliminating your class enemies.
Hey Hey,
What the fuck? What's with the rancour? Who on Torontoist is opposing a recount?
Di Biase being a "sore loser" has nothing to do with the fact that he requested a recount (which, I agree, should have been mandatory) but rather with the fact that he's been a massive dick about it. Of course any "irregularities" must be investigated, but neither Di Biase's current attitude nor his history leave any reason for him to be given the benefit of the doubt that his complaints are genuine and not desperate manifestations of denial.
I highly recommend the article by Royson James (certainly not part of the "Left") from Friday's Star:
http://tinyurl.com/yknc4s
Yeah, Hey! I'm with Jonathan. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with the reason I was giving Di Biase a hard time, which was that he has indeed been a massive dick about the recount.
Geez, why can't anyone ever give anyone the benefit of the doubt that they're not anti-democracy and just think the candidate is a douche?