May 1, 2008
TTC Offers Refund, United States Offers Lower Interest Rate, Red Sox Offer Blue Jays A Beating
TTC riders can get a refund after last weekend's strike (see Torontoist's story here). If you bring your pass to a collector's booth, you will get $7.50 back. Torontoist personally plans to invest its Metropass refund in the stock market, purchasing 1/95th of a share of Google.
The United States Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point. On second thought, maybe Torontoist should invest its $7.50 in a wheelbarrow factory. (Obscure reference to Weimar Republic Germany! Ten points!)
The railroading of Omar Khadr continues as a Guantanamo judge deemed his former child-soldier status to be irrelevant, and so allows Khadr to proceed to trial. Khadr will now proceed to his trial for crimes where little to no evidence exists against him, which he committed as a minor. In other news, Guantánamo Bay really sucks ass.
The Tories affirmed their interest in getting around Supreme Court rulings limiting the use of drug-sniffing dogs for random searches. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, for example, suggested repealing section seven of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while Stockwell Day firmly argued for putting all judges everywhere in concentration camps.
And the Blue Jays lost to the Red Sox again, and continued to be tied for second-worst team in the league. Moral: be thankful the Texas Rangers exist.
Photo by sniderscion from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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This Omar Khadr situation constantly pisses me off. Any other war and he would be treated like a child soldier, but thanks to the "War on Terror" (oooooh, terror) he's a piece of propaganda for the US government. "Look guys! We got one!" If he's a guilty-as-sin terrorist, why has it taken them 6+ years to prosecute him?
Brenda Martin's case was easy, and our government is afraid to take on the American government in a more critical case. After what happened to Maher Arar, how can we trust the U.S. government to provide any justice.
Tuds