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Re: News from the North
« Reply #780 on: July 30, 2013, 01:18:09 PM »

I'm not sure if I have to point this out or not, but hiring mercenaries is kind of unsanctioned now.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #781 on: July 30, 2013, 01:49:35 PM »

I'm not sure if I have to point this out or not, but hiring mercenaries is kind of unsanctioned now.

As I understand it, some countries forbid their citizens from hiring themselves out as mercenaries, but many others have no legislation against it or against the hiring of same. There are also weird exceptions, such as the British Gurkhas and the French Foreign Legion, which on the surface look like mercenaries, but who are actually not fighting for purely financial reasons and so are not considered mercenaries under international law. 

In the US, employment of mercenaries is supposedly forbidden by the Pinkerton Act, but are numerous grey areas and a case that was raised by a captain in the US army against the employment of private security contractors in the Iraq war is currently before the courts.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #784 on: August 17, 2013, 03:35:13 PM »

Saw this headline in the Montreal papers this evening: "Mayoral candidates agree city needs change"

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. What? You mean nobody said the city should stay the course?
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #785 on: August 20, 2013, 11:08:22 AM »

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Re: News from the North
« Reply #786 on: August 20, 2013, 11:17:51 AM »

clandestine operations in the Arctic

Who are we defending against up there, exactly?
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #787 on: August 20, 2013, 12:00:27 PM »

Abominable snowmen.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #788 on: August 20, 2013, 12:26:15 PM »

If they were going for a defense against a possible Elder Thing uprising, they've got the wrong arctic.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #789 on: August 20, 2013, 12:38:35 PM »

Well, we don't own the other one.

Yet.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #790 on: September 08, 2013, 12:27:42 PM »

Naheed Nenshi and Ezra Levant were having a twitter slapfight this afternoon that was mildly entertaining.

Hee hee~
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #791 on: September 18, 2013, 10:47:39 AM »

Netflix CEO describes Canadians internet service as being "almost as bad as the third world"

I've got news for him. The third world actually makes us look pretty damn bad when it comes to ISP access costs.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #792 on: September 18, 2013, 07:40:22 PM »

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Re: News from the North
« Reply #795 on: October 23, 2013, 02:30:55 PM »

Senate expense scandal now starts in with direct accusations against Harper.  Is this a thing that matters?  A fight over legislative travel expenses seems unlikely for easily-digested opposition campaign slogans, but then again, the U.K. had its own such scandal grow until it killed the careers of several MPs, all the way up to their equivalent of the Minster of Justice.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #796 on: October 23, 2013, 02:47:18 PM »

It's all up in the air, I think.

Duffy seems now determined to drag Harper down with him, but Duff is now pretty much classed in that layer of scum just above pedophiles in the public mind, so his word may not be taken for much. The people who already have a dim view of Harper have already assumed that he knew all about it (and to be fair, given his character, the alternative seems pretty hard to imagine), so that won't change their attitude. It'll take something far more explosive than what Duff and Wallin went on about today to really start to crack that shell. Though it's not impossible that Duff could hammer away at this in an attempt to convince people that Harper is "as bad as he is", but he doesn't seem smart enough to play that angle.

There are of course the unknown unknowns, to quote Rumsfeld. The biggest one being the rumbling chance of a caucus revolt amongst the Conservatives, but I think dear leader's iron control is still more or less intact for now, in spite of the dings he's gotten. "The man who brings victory in battle is prized above all others" and all that (Apologies to Anthony Quinn).

If anything, every day of this spectacle reinforces the broad desire for the Senate to be completely abolished.


EDIT: Also in regards to a potential caucus revolt: While it's becoming ever-more inescapable that Harper will cut anyone at any time, that is actually old news. The Harper caucus is still dumb enough to let each other hang separately, still rationalizing "It won't happen to me. I'm loyal!" That's the real fallacy Duff needs to target if he really wants to hurt Harper.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #797 on: October 28, 2013, 02:05:01 PM »

Check the news: Duffy must've been sitting on this bombshell just WAITING for the right moment.

This afternoon, Duffy produced the stub of a second cheque, this one for $13,560, to cover his legal fees, signed for by Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton.

Ohhhhh holleeee sheeeeet.
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Re: News from the North
« Reply #798 on: October 31, 2013, 01:44:29 AM »

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Re: News from the North
« Reply #799 on: October 31, 2013, 03:46:29 AM »

Remember everyone's favourite morbidly obese mayor?

Well, there's been a hell of a pile of news this morning.

Background: One Alex Lisi, a man with a dubious past who was known as an "occasional driver" for the mayor was arrested several weeks ago on drug-related charges. Since that time, various news agencies have pressed and pressed for the release of all information relating to the probe that led to Lisi's arrest. Yesterday, the courts ruled that the information would have to be released, and so this morning it has.

Key points so far:

- The probe was not actually originally into Lisi's activities. It was into the mayor's activities.
- The mayor has been flipping his shit this morning, screaming and shoving guys off his property who were too slow to back up (they couldn't back up faster because of the MASSIVE CROWD at Ford's house).
- The mayor was under surveilliance for several months.
- Every couple of days the Mayor and Lisi would meet at a gas station down the block from Ford's house. Ford would go into the gas station bathroom and Lisi would leave little baggies in Ford's Escalade, along with two cans of orange juice (must have been his lunch! What a nice guy!).
- Many of the former members of Ford's staff were straight up concerned that Lisi was supplying Ford with drugs and making the mayor's position worse or otherwise harming him.
- Ford knew he was under surveilliance; the police discussed moving to airplane surveilliance due to unspecified "counter-surveilliance measures" by the mayor.
- Ford tried to use members of his staff to probe the Toronto police service. Police investigators concluded that the efforts to retrieve such information was evidence of Mayor Ford “utilizing his position and the powers of the Office of the Mayor, to obtain information not available to regular citizens.”
- The police have the infamous crack video; police state that there is nothing in the video itself which would lead to criminal charges against the mayor.
- The day the high school kid who was associated with the video was shot, the mayor and Lisi spoke on the phone seven times
- The day after the shooting, Lisi spoke on the phone with the owner of the sketchy drug house (where the video was taken) five times
- Lisi called Mohamed Siyad, (who the Star reported is the person who attempted to sell the video) the day after the Gawker report
- Lisi was stuck with additional charges of extortion yesterday
- Comedy note: There were also calls between Lisi and something called the "Anger Management Center" during those same days


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