^^^ That's refreshing, but also concerning.
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Yep. Like all populist pandering, it's just about whatever sounds good at a particular moment. The Fords talk a lot about sticking up for 'the little guy' and representing 'the common folk', but economically they haven't been those things for a generation or so. Their whole shtick involves having a blind spot about their own privilege and counting on their supporters to have a blind spot too, hence DoFo going on swanky European vacations
while railing against 'wine-sipping elitists'. There is such a thing as raging so hard against perceived elitism and pretentiousness that the pendulum swings back the other way towards affectation ...
Which of course is exactly how this group of individuals would behave online and in person under the guise of "the real". No surprise how the Fos and Trump resonate with that crowd - in fact, the over-the-top rhetoric of those two felt a little artificial - no doubt because of the need to whip that crowd into a feeding frenzy.
AoD
It's very heartwarming to see Mr. Starkovski (aka Muzik's big gun, aka Rob's good bud) support victim services, with the blessing of TPS...
http://www.chiefsgala.com/#about
Details! Robbie doesn't worry about the details. He just throws crap out and hopes it sticks.
how has he worked for trump?Why am I not surprised?
graeme @graemeTO 9 mins9 minutes ago
I may be the only person in the world who has not only met, but worked for both Donald Trump and Rob Ford. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Why am I not surprised?
graeme @graemeTO 9 mins9 minutes ago
I may be the only person in the world who has not only met, but worked for both Donald Trump and Rob Ford. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
how has he worked for trump?
here's a random claim...It's very heartwarming to see Mr. Starkovski (aka Muzik's big gun, aka Rob's good bud) support victim services, with the blessing of TPS...
http://www.chiefsgala.com/#about
By giving the police the power to control the flow of information, holes in crime reporting begin to appear.
For example, compare the way police handled the entertainment district shooting of Kwasi Skene-Peters with the killing of Andrew Loku. Both men were shot by police, but Skene Peters was wanted for murder and the need for police to use deadly force was clear. Journalists were granted full cooperation.
Loku, on the other hand, was a mentally distressed father who was shot by police in his own apartment building. In that scenario, police went into lockdown mode, granting journalists as little access to the crime scene as possible. The details surrounding his death remain clouded.
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“What the public is interested in is not always synonymous with the public interest. People think because they want to see that they have a right to see it, and I don’t think that’s the case.”
And according to Doucette, Pugash isn’t alone in that belief: citing a meeting he and other journalists had with former chief of police Bill Blair last year on the topic of scanners going encrypted, Doucette said that Blair made a particular comment that he says “solidified the issue” for him.
“One thing that sticks out to me that I’ve never forgotten, when [Bill Blair] said, almost word for word: ‘The officers of TPS operations will decide what’s newsworthy’.”
I tried to ask Bill Blair if he actually said that. His staff told me he would not be talking about police matters now that he is running for Parliament.