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Cops Nab Alleged Boozer on a Motorized Picnic Table

High-tech redneck…

An Ontario man is facing charges after he and his buddies constructed a motorized picnic table and drove it around town.

Police said they attached a lawnmower motor and four customized wheels to the picnic table and took it for a spin on Sunday evening.

But the joy ride came to a sudden end when residents called police to complain about the group scooting around London’s streets, allegedly with open booze.

When officers found the table parked on a sidewalk, they charged a 46-year-old South Huron, Ont., man with having an open container of liquor in a public place.

Guarding The Public Interest

Richard Anderson on why the Ontario government refuses to shut down the LCBO, and allow groceries and convenience stores to sell booze.

David Peterson promised to allow alcohol sales at convenience stores. Mike Harris made the same promise. Here we are, nearly three decades since Permatan Peterson made his historic pledge and still no beer next to the milk and eggs. When both centre-right and centre-left governments promise the same thing, and refuse to follow through, you know something is going on. In this case it’s the dark temptation of all governments: easy money.

Like all addicts government cannot refuse easy money. It beckons to them in the night. Like a long lost lover crying out for their affection. The LCBO provides buckets of money from willing suckers, I mean customers. Sorry. I’m half asleep when typing this post. I’m forgetting my political sense. You know what I’m getting at here. Every morning at the government booze outlets there are the voters, I mean customers, lining up to get their fix. You don’t see people that eager to file their taxes.

The LCBO also employs many unionized employees. Having been established by numerous scientific surveys that those who work for the government are better people, more intelligent and handsome than ordinary non-government workers, it is always desirable that more people work for the government. A study came out of New Zealand last week establishing that government employees have more powerful orgasms. Big Government leads to a more joyous society.

Veganism a Human Right, Says Law Grad

Apparently it’s a ‘creed’…

A Toronto law school graduate from P.E.I. is making a case for vegans to have their beliefs protected under human rights legislation.

Camille Labchuck recently made the argument before the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which has been holding hearings to define the word “creed”.

The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination because of creed or religion.

But the exact definition of “creed” under the legislation is not clear and Labchuck said that a person’s right to live a vegan lifestyle – that is, consuming no animal food or dairy products – is a right that all people should have.

(Oddly, the CBC spelled her last name wrong there – it’s Labchuk - though elsewhere in the article it’s spelled correctly. They need to fire their proof-reader…)

Incidentally, this isn’t the first time someone in Ontario has argued before a human rights tribunal that veganism is a creed, either; see here for a story from last November.

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is to decide whether ethical veganism is a creed, as protected by anti-discrimination laws, in the case of a Ryerson University master’s student in social work who claims senior faculty “sabotaged” her career because of her moral equivalence of animals and humans.

BTW, as an aside, why does Ontario have both a “human rights tribunal” and a “human rights commission“?  Of course, neither should exist, anyway, IMO; they’re both instruments of leftist judicial branch tyranny…