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Veiled Voting Still OK, Which Middle-Aged White Man Are You Voting For?
After weeks of non-campaigning, the provincial election campaign officially opened with a bang yesterday, as Dalton McGuinty warned voters that if they don’t vote Liberal, the Tories will form the next government. While true, the comment seems unnecessarily hurtful to poor Howard Hampton.
Muslim groups say they didn’t ask for it and don’t need it. Parliament says they don’t like it and didn’t legislate it. Regardless, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand stands by the controversial Elections Canada decision to allow veiled women to vote. What a peculiar country we live in.
134 Toronto rec centres will be closed to the public every Monday between now and the end of the year, although full-time staff will be going in and hanging out behind locked doors anyway. The move will save around $700,000 in wages, but will cost the city about $1 million in reimbursements to groups who had already booked the centres. Still, this should teach those community groups to think twice before they squawk about the mayor’s tax increases.
Body Shop cosmetic store founder and social and environmental activist Anita Roddick has died at the age of 64. Long before environmentalism became trendy and everyone from Stephen Harper to Exxon started painting themselves green, Roddick really walked the walk. Safe home, Anita.
Photo by undomestic from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.