Over the last few months, Conservatives were shocked when they realized that a Canadian movie entitled “Young People Fucking,” received federal subsidies, (like most Canadian productions).

Later on, Harper’s government made some cutbacks to artists travelling abroad, the case of a band named “Holy Fuck” was invoked by a Conservative official to explain that the program deserved a revision.

Conservatives do not like the word “fuck”. But apparently they do not have any problem with one of their B.C. candidates, Sharon Smith, former mayor of Houston, B.C., who grabbed worldwide attention five years ago when her pictures of her wearing nothing more than a smile and her mayor’s silver collar were widely circulated on the Internet.

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Harper needs to stop treating other parties as elitists, that look down on “working families”, and just admit he does not like them because of something they have – that is a real plan for average Canadians. Other parties are being criticized because the reality is that Tories DO NOT CARE about the middle class. Tories care about big businesses, period.

In his speech in Nanaimo, Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused Jack Layton of being “out of touch with the concerns of the Island’s working families“. What a joke! It doesn’t matter to Harper that his characterization is fictitious; it’s the role that Jack Layton must play if the party of plutocrats is going to win over the little guy.

Jack Layton can’t help it if he has a reputation of being on the side of “working families” and the middle class (something that Harper does not give a rat’s ass about) and Harper has the elegance and the charisma of a Costco shopper who resurfaces driveways. Canadians are so dummies that our Prime Ministers have to look and sound so boring and unimaginative like Stephen Harper. And that’s where the Conservative camp gets its campaign strategy: Paint other parties with our own defects and wait for Canada to vote them off, like the good guy in every reality show.

And finally: As for “Working families,” you know who’s caring about families? I am, by supporting someone else than Harper, because a victory this fall for the Costco shopper and his Tories would make my blogging task in the next 5 years very easy.

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” Next Wednesday, MEPs will vote on the Telecoms package. Two amendments have been tabled which in particular will ensure the new telecoms regulations protect European citizens from unreasonable surveillance and censure. If you have half an hour this weekend, why not write to to your MEPs and ask them to support these amendments? [...]

Amendment 138 ensures that sanctions cannot be imposed on end-users without judicial oversight. It will add the following text to the Directive: “applying the principle that no restriction may be imposed on the rights and freedoms of end-users, notably in accordance with Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union on freedom of expression and information, without a prior ruling by the judicial authorities, except where dictated by force majeure or by the requirements of preserving network integrity and security, and subject to national provisions of criminal law imposed for reasons of public policy, public security or public morality.”

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What’s in the news today? Translink cops use tasers on fare evaders, Vancouver Island Cocaine Sailor wants mercy and natives want to riot like Tibetans in case they don’t get enough money before the Olympics.

Is Translink Police, who’s the only armed transit police in Canada, electrocutes fare evaders? The force’s board of directors now has a majority of senior police officers on it, which has been adding to concerns about the force’s use of Tasers on SkyTrain passengers.

The Canadian Press reports that B.C Natives plan to use same strategy as Tibetans in the upcoming Winter Olympic games. Canada’s top native chief says the Vancouver Olympics are a potential target for First Nations protest much like Beijing has been a flashpoint for Tibet supporters.

Vancouver Island cocaine sailor asks for mercy - Court martial continues for former navy officer who used drug off-duty

Vancouver Sun reporter John Mackie says that Developer Marc Williams wants to restore the old Pantages Theatre at 144 East Hastings and this at the cost of $26 million. Up to 136 units of social housing may be built in a new building adjacent to the theatre.

The City of Vancouver OK’s automatic toilets after testing these for one year and 20,800 flushes later, the City’s self-cleaning toilet near the Main Street SkyTrain station has been judged a success worthy of further expansion.

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“Over here on E Street, we’re proud to support Obama for President,” The Boss said. Citing the need for a “great American reclamation project” to restore the damage done to the United States during the Bush administration, Springsteen writes on his website that Obama is the candidate best able to bring a “new moral purpose” back to the country.

“At the moment, critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships. While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man’s life and vision, so well described in his excellent book, Dreams From My Father, often in order to distract us from discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of our environment.”[Bruce Sprinsteen]

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