Below is a form email calling for an independent inquiry into the recent G8/G20 Summit. Please feel free to recirculate it. To find out who your elected official in Ottawa you need to send it to, click...need to be answered. Gross abuses of power and allegations of torture cannot be ignored. We need to send a clear message that this behaviour will not be tolerated in Canada. Sincerely, YOUR NAME HER

... Also, this is very much a stream of consciousness post so I apologize if I ramble or my points don't always flow clearly. I just had to get this out.] I'm not tweeting this because I try to keep my political opinions out of my twitter feed so as not to bring politics into my website but this is *my* blog and damn it I have to share somewhere (also this is gonna be WAY over 140 characters). I've...

So tomorrow is The International Day Against Homophobia Apparently this lil' fact is lost on the parents of Williams Lake, BC... The students of Columneetza High School , planned a week of events...against homophobia. The staff were apparently good with it, but the parents weren't. The parents were afraid that it might gay the students... I'll post an article link as soon as I find one..

Seriously?! http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/canada/article/517894--senator-drops-f-bomb-over-g8-abortion-controversy-shocks-aid-groups Let your government know that this isn't acceptable. Their contact info is here: http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

The slug line says it all. Vancouver Catholic School Teacher Fired For Being A Lesbian Can we spell 'lawsuit'? One would think that Vancouver would be more enlightened, but apparently not. Once again, the Catholic Church is spreading its infinite wisdom around... Seriously, What. The. Fuck?! Bigotry/Discrimination in the name of religion is UNACCEPTABLE.

BC Liberals LIED again: HST Pre-collection STARTS May 1st! Things bought in advance for after July 1st will be charged with the HST! The full story is here: http://www.theprovince.com/Dodge+collection+period/2941914/story.html Tell me again, why do we bother with these parasitic maggots?

Does anyone else find this wrong on so many levels? What the Hell were they thinking?! Sooo , it's ok to distribute videos with animal cruelty/torture... Freedom Of Expression! WTF?!?! The... Holocaust Deniers and hate-mongers can just say, " Gee , you're infringing on my Freedom of Expression " and say whate'er they want. What. The. Fuck?! So is this the swan song before the iceberg

And The VPD Wonder Why They Aren't Trusted... VPD Come A Knocking...

The future king... homeless Sleeping rough Although I'm a lil' skeptical that anyone was left in the area to harass him, but he was trying.

Wind back the clock to Easter Sunday, April 23rd, 2009. It's a cold, rainy and generally miserable morning. I had an 8 am opening shift. I got to the corner of Broadway and Commercial. Since it was a sleepy...receive a reduced fine/penalty. It requires a great deal of patience; the wheels of bureaucracy turn e'er so slowly. If you miss your court date, it is assumed that you have decided to plead guilty