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Licenses Are The New Passports, Harper Slags Bains’ Family, Google Flips Microsoft The Bird

By Karen Whaley

Toronto’s overwhelming reception of Al Gore yesterday prompted David Miller to toughen his stance on climate change. Mayor Miller promised an aggressive change in policy on pollution, transit and construction, which will be formally proposed in late March.
The Ontario government may have come up with a way around the new U.S.-Canada passport rules. A new super-secure driver’s license is in talks, which would feature “laser engraving, holograms, currency-like print quality and other security measures invisible to the naked eye”.
It’s official. Ontario’s Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Gerretsen isn’t giving David Miller any help with the Queen West Triangle condo project.
Stephen Harper made some inappropriate remarks about Mississauga-Brampton South MP Navdeep Bains’ father-in-law, who was interviewed by the RCMP in connection to the Air India bombing. Liberals were outraged, and mass booing ensued.
Prince Harry is being deployed to Iraq this spring. Hello Magazine will follow.
Google to Microsoft: “Suck on this, bitches!” Google is releasing a paid version of their web-based applications, a.k.a. Google Apps, just as Microsoft is persuading businesses to upgrade to the latest version of Office. Microsoft Office is notoriously sucky, and Google’s new software includes e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and calendar management. I wonder which one I’ll choose…
Photo courtesy of 2.8.

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  • Mark Dowling

    It’s time David Miller stopped crying to the Province and the Feds to fix his booboos. You would think that if this was so important that the file would be under supervision yet only one lawyer knew anything about it, and this is only one of several ways listed in the article in which the city could have “saved” this illegal and unsafe residence.
    How many other important files could fall through if a single Toronto employee gets sick or resigns or whatever? How many more “Miller toonies” will they cost?
    Good god, I’m agreeing with a McGuinty minister. The sky must be falling.

  • x_the_x

    Without considering the merits or demerits of the building in question, one wonders if the startling incompetence on display at City Hall is genuine. A cynic might say that our great charlatan mayor is merely doing what he does best: advocate a view consonant with our city’s leftish artistic community (substitute environmental community, social housing advocates, ad nauseum and infinitum) and privately arranging matters to achieve the result he genuinely prefers (i.e., the big bully Province is the party of blame to those same communities).
    Or it could be startling incompetence. We have come to expect both from our Mayor and his administration.

  • Craig MacBride

    It was Navdeep Bains’s father-in-law, not his father.