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The Fredericton Police Service’s blatant intimidation of blogger Charles LeBlanc

Whether or not a person is annoying is not just cause for them to be harassed by police, yet that is exactly what is happening to Fredericton blogger Charles LeBlanc. Charles LeBlanc is, by many accounts, an annoying blogger.  He has been called rude and  belligerent as well as names that are for worse on [...]

John Stossel on how everything, including common sense, has become illegal in America

Every day there is another asinine law passed, and every day there is another story of how some bureaucrat has abused a citizen because some rule buried in a regulation handbook says he can. John Stossel has made a career out of exploring all of this stupidity, and his latest entry into the absurd is [...]

The Day Fisheries and Oceans Lost Its Fish

According to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Keith Ashfield and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, the Stephen Harper Conservative government proposes to amend the Fisheries Act. An article posted April 24 by Margo McDiarmid, CBC Environment Unit, quoted Gerry Ritz as telling reporters on a conference call that farmers and landowners have been pushing for [...]

Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds: Taking Insensitivity to an All-New Low

Thomas Bounds is a sheriff with the Alberta Sheriff’s Service.  He requires, at a bare minimum, a severe reprimand and retraining to learn how to act like a human being, since he clearly has no clue at the moment.  For his blatantly abusive and potentially life-threatening treatment of Bill Berry, a 52-year-old deaf and mute [...]

Tom MacLachlan: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1 sucks, doesn’t it?

Tom MacLachlan was just doing what I’ve personally done numerous times…  he was dropping coins into parking meters to prevent a couple of total strangers from getting a parking ticket. I must admit, there is an odd pleasure that comes from knowing you’ve prevented someone from getting a parking ticket.  That feeling is enhanced, even [...]

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