The Same Government That Is Bringing You The HST

* the eHealth debacle, OLG scandal, the Smitherman diaper insult, etc.

Kelly McParland: Politics and the despair of Dana Chatwell

Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:00 PM by NP Editor

There is something about the despair and humiliation endured by Dana Chatwell and her husband David Brown at their home in Caledonia that's just impossible to comprehend. It's not just that an innocent, ordinary Canadian couple could be subjected to this kind of treatment, but that it could take place in plain view, with friends, neighbours, police and politicians watching, and continue nonetheless.

In a way it's like those appalling moments when people hear the screams of someone in distress, but are too fearful of their own safety to intervene. Except in this case the abuse went on and on, plenty long enough for people to know what was happening, consider the situation at length, and still not come to the rescue. And it's not that they were afraid to help, or didn't want to, but that they couldn't, because someone somewhere had reached the pervserse conclusion that abandoning the Browns to their fate was justifiable if it furthered the policy aims of the government.

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It Just Goes On And On....

*special gun possession courts
*no bail for possession of a gun
*maximum of two remands within 30 days
*mandatory sentencing for illegal possession of a handgun
*no concurrent sentencing
*no parole or reduction in sentences
*special gulag type of camps for those convicted

One dead, 3 injured in west-end T.O. shootings Updated: Fri Dec. 04 2009 6:27:21 PM ctvtoronto.ca One man is dead and three others are in hospital after a late-night shooting spree in west-end Toronto Thursday. Multiple "persons of interest" have been taken into custody though no charges have been laid, according to Duty Desk Insp. Howie Page. Homicide investigators took control of the investigation after one of the victims, 19-year-old Aeon Grant, died in hospital early Friday morning. The three other victims are believed to be in their teens or early twenties. They are all in hospital being treated for serious injuries. Police are calling the shooting an isolated incident and say the men were targeted in the attack. The shooting was reported to authorities just before midnight in the area of Jane Street and Highway 401. Police arrived at 30 Falstaff Avenue to find Grant lying on a 15th-floor stairwell with critical injuries. He was rushed to a local trauma centre where he later died. While he was being treated by emergency crews, police received a report that a man had stumbled into the Humber River Regional Hospital with serious but non life-threatening gunshot wounds. Investigators believe the teen was shot outside Falstaff Avenue as well. A short time later, police received a call about two more shooting victims found lying on the ground in a plaza parking lot, blocks away from the original shooting location at Jane Street and Beverly Hills Drive. Police believe the men ran away from the shooting scene on Falstaff and collapsed in the parking lot. Authorities are not saying how many guns were used in the shooting or what may have lead to the violent outburst. Should Canada's prison farms be kept? 90% 516 votes Yes 10% 56 votes No

Judicial System An Ass

Murder accused's gun ban

By ROB LAMBERTI AND CHRIS DOUCETTE, SUN MEDIA

A Toronto man who was arrested four years ago in a sweep against the Ardwick Blood Crew and who has a lifetime ban from possessing weapons is now charged in last week's murder of another young man at a Scarborough housing complex -- a killing believed to be a botched street robbery.