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Ahenakew hullaballoo

Andrew Potter on an appeals court justice overturning David Ahenakew's conviction on violating hate speech legislation for his surreal anti semitic remarks several years ago.  Andrew Coyne has a comment as well.  Andrew P. points to a great article about...

Posted by AJS on June 9, 2006 at 6:43 PM | Ahenakew hullaballoo | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Andrew Potter, David Ahenakew, First Nations, hate speech, law, Saskatchewan

Nice "fact" checking

Couldn't resist here:I'm no knee-jerk Israel defender, but I can't resist mentioning Andrew's response to Linda McQuaig's piece on the CUPE/Israel tempest in a teapot:Do we as Canadians support Israel’s policy of giving preferential rights to members of one religion?...

Posted by AJS on June 5, 2006 at 7:51 PM | Nice "fact" checking | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Tags: Andrew Potter, CUPE, Israel, Linda Mcquaig, Toronto Star

Viva la revolucion?

Given my previous post about my very positive impressions of Mesh06, I hesitate to do this, but nobody's reading, right? Tara Hunt's keynote at the show was great. Enthusiastic, inspiring, uplifting. Great... Except: Right there in the middle of the...

Posted by AJS on May 30, 2006 at 11:50 PM | Viva la revolucion? | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Tags: Andrew Potter, Che Guevara, mesh06, Rebel Sell, Tara Hunt