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Cracker Barrel. But here we are. The three joined forces — two musical,
one buttery — for an a cappella rendition of Parton's "Jolene" that was
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Frances Day: the forgotten bisexual icon of 1930s stage and screen
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Stephen Lendman Understanding presidential aspirants requires knowing
who they surround themselves with and what they represent. Hillary and
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three days, I was ready to become an expatriate. “This is so much better
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6,200 years ago, did South Americans wear blue jeans?
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘People say I should be tougher. But it’s not my style’
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Cancer Immunotherapy At A Crossroads
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Russia cancels manned space launch over 'technical' issues
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LORN - ANVIL [Official Music Video]
The Year 2100. In an effort to combat overpopulation, the postmortem
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of both Japanese and Belgian comics inspirations and sensibilities, such
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invites us on a journey through the eyes of a young woman in her final
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Episode 311 – 9/11 Suspects
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mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode311-lq.mp3"][/audio] If
there were some crusading District Attorney who actually wanted to
prosecute the crimes of 9/11, how would he begin? Where would he start
to unravel a plot so immense, one involving so many layers of
obfuscation and the active collusion of some of the most powerful
members of the perennial ruling class of Ameri
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A Gripping Chronicle of Amazonian Tribes’ Struggles Against the Peruvian State
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‘A Historic Change’: California First State to Pass Overtime Pay for Farmworkers
State’s 800,000 farmworkers will be eligible for time-and-a-half pay after 40 hours of work a week phased in over four years
Capital Questions
A local university is leading the charge in transforming the food system in Washington DC
Notes From the Field, Part II: “Water is Life”
Standing Rock water protectors on what they are standing up for
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What is planning time to a teacher?
One of the things I remember most about teaching in Maryland roughly 15
years ago was the amount of time I had to do my job. In fact, I had so
much time to actually teach, plan, and grade during the day, with a
class of 32 fifth graders, that I actually took on a […]
The contradictions of reading as emancipation in the #edreform era
From Douglass: I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing
difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It
was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I
understood the pathway from slavery to freedom…I set out with high hope,
and a fixed purpose, at […]
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If you say you "over-exaggerated"...
If you say you "over-exaggerated" it means you still think you should have exaggerated, just not quite so much.
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Squeeze 'em until it hurts: The hostile takeover of the average air traveller experience
I love almost everything about a life with lots of travel in it. But
the airport and flying experience is one notable exception. I’m just
back from flights in and out of Orlando, Florida, where I went for two
weeks to visit family. I've been travelling quite a bit these past five
years, and what becomes clearer with each passing flight is that the air
industry service model is to make us suffer s
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In a Universe next door...
Things to come. Handley Page H.50 Heyfords escorted by Westland
Pterodactyl Vs, somewhere over the North Sea. Painting by Daniel
Bechennec, Fana d'Avation magazine cover, April 2010
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US “sue Saudis for 911 law” would be a geopolitical tectonic shift because…
New law approved by Congress on September 9 violates international law, would destabilize the US regime By Denis G. Rancourt
Must Watch video::: The real reason that Donald Trump is "unelectable"
Truth about US criminality in the Middle East is spelled out by Donald Trump. Source: LINK.
Will York University in Toronto go along with this latest attack by organized groups?
York U staffer under investigation for anti-Semitic posts Toronto
police investigate teacher’s comments at Al-Quds Day rally I am very
concerned by these and all such select attacks against employees,
especially in the education sector, based on an employee's expression
outside of work. I have reviewed the posts of Nikolaos Balaskas, which
are the pretext for this particular attack,
The Queen of War
Muricans: Those of you who will vote for Hillary Clinton will vote for
the greatest risk of more domestic instability and violence, and for the
greatest risk of major increased wars and destruction. It's that
simple. Any other vote will be a more humanistic and self-preserving
one. The Queen of War is not the right choice.
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After 15 Years / 9/11 Unanswered Questions Still Smoldering
Like a giant smoldering edifice the official 9/11 story is chock full
of holes in which individuals were not held responsible for their
actions, the truth was continually short-circuited and much information
was based on secondhand C.I.A. and Pentagon “torture” reports. Over 80%
of Americans still rightfully reject the official 9/11 story: Allen L
Roland, PhD " The 9/11 Commission now tells
Biden Dellivers Message To Turkey ~ It'S Not Personal , It'S Strictly Business
Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand It was a scene
straight out of the Godfather as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in
Turkey to announce that we would directly support NATO member Turkey's
incursion into northern Syria, while in July Turkey's President Erdoğan
barely survived a military coup, which is widely believed to have
enjoyed US support. Biden’s reversal was at the same
Fifth Force Of Nature Is A Unified Field Of Love And Soul Consciousness / An Urge To Unite That Exists Beyond Time And Space
“ If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible
fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe ,”
says UCI professor of physics & astronomy Jonathan Feng, including
what holds together galaxies such as this spiral one, called NGC 6814.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt. You
can well imagine my excitement when I recent
Singing Your Own Song / A Source Of True Joy And Belonging
The Robin doesn't sing because it's happy ~ it's happy because it
sings. And this is the true source of my deepest joy ~ that I am singing
my own song, as well as being in service and empowering others to sing
their own song. In singing my own song, I have integrated with a
universal chorus and we are all making a difference on this planet. In
that sense, standing alone and singing your song is r
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Mother Theresa Was No Saint
Instead she was a sadistic religious fanatic .
Thoughts on Health Care
The NHS is supposedly running out of money, so much so that one NHS
body has decided to withhold treatment to obese people and smokers : The
Vale of York clinical commissioning group (CCG) will make people wait
for up to a year for treatment for non-life-threatening conditions such
as hip and knee replacements if their body mass index is 30 or higher.
adult smokers will have elective surgery post
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Albert Woodfox speaking in Chicago IL on Sept. 18 and 21
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2pm at Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 West
95th Street, Chicago, Wright Chapel Wednesday, Sept, 21 at 6pm, at
Gallery 400, at 400 S. Peoria Street. For more information, see flyer
above and visit the event's Facebook and Eventbrite pages.
Albert Woodfox in San Francisco on Sept. 7 and in Chicago on Sept. 21
September 7: Albert is speaking in San Francisco, California on Wed.
Sept. 7, 7pm at 2969 Mission St. For more information, please visit the
ANSWER Coalition website . September 21: Albert is speaking in Chicago,
Illinois at 6pm, at Gallery 400, at 400 S. Peoria Street. For more
information, see flyer above and visit the event's Facebook and
Eventbrite pages.
VIDEO: Albert Woodfox recieves Arthur Kinoy Award from National Lawyers Guild
2016 #Law4thePeople Convention Keynote Address (8/4/16) from National
Lawyers Guild on Vimeo . On August 4, Albert Woodfox received the Arthur
Kinoy Award from the National Lawyers Guild at the organization's
convention in NYC . In this video, Albert is introduced at 26:00 and
then comes onto the stage to receive the award and begins to speak at
approximately 33:00
October 3: Albert Woodfox to speak at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA
On Monday, October 3, as part of Southern University Law Center's
2016-2017 Speakers Series, Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 will be
speaking about: "Use of International Laws and Coalitions in Justice
Movements / Prison Reform." The event will be held from 12-1 pm in 129
A.A. Lenoir Hall at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Another North Korean Nuclear Test
North Korea conducted yet another nuclear test. On a school night. New
podcast. Aaron and Jeffrey discuss North Korea’s fifth nuclear test,
what it is like to write three articles in three days, and how quickly a
toddler can decorate a television in lotion. With production assistance
by new super-producer Scott Lafoy. North Korea’s Nuke …
2016 Open Ended Working Group: Towards 2017 Nuclear Weapon Ban Negotiations?
The following is a guest post by Jenny Nielsen from the Vienna Center
for Disarmament and Nonproliferation. Three sessions of the Open-ended
Working Group (OEWG) to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament
negotiations plenary meetings were held at the UN in Geneva in February,
May and August 2016. The OEWG, established through a Dec 2015 UNGA
resolution, was tasked …
Senator Rubio and Kim Jong Un Weigh In on the CTBT
In rapid succession, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened
its first Hearing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in seventeen
years, and Senator Marco Rubio and 32 Republican colleagues made public a
letter to President Barack Obama opposing the administration’s UN
Security Council resolution and a companion P-5 statement reaffirming
the CTBT. Senator Rubio & Co. …
KN-11 and THAAD
North Korea has now tested what appears to be a two-stage, solid-fueled
ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to more than
1,000 km, probably much more. I would have thought that would garner
some attention. North Korea’s new ballistic missile, which the US calls
the KN-11, is a technically submarine-launched ballistic missile. But …
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For any of those who think that Colin Kaepernick is some kind of a
traitor and/or a disgrace to America, read the real truth below. It
exposes a little known event in American history which took place when
the young United States decided to grab Canada from the British Empire.
It is something never mentioned in U.S. schools.
Colin Kaepernick Is Righter Than You Know: The National Anthem is a
Celebration of Slavery Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of
“The Star-Spangled Banner.” When he explained why, he only spoke about
the present: “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a
country that oppresses black people and people
Paul Craig Roberts begins this all to true issue with this paragraph:
"Acquaintances of my generation are puzzled by the disappearance of the
American left. They remember when there was far less war, far less
monopoly capitalist theft, a less rich and powerful elite, less police
violence against civilians, less militarization, less privatization and
deregulation, fewer attacks on the social safety net, less propaganda
from the media, and yet, despite the milder state of affairs, the
leftwing was present raising hell about it all." NB, The bloger is of
the very same generation, and he too laments the disappeance of the left
just when we need it most.
What Became of the Left? — Paul Craig Roberts August 19, 2016 |
Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to
Original and sign up at bottom. What Became of the Left? Paul Craig
Roberts Acquaintances of my generation are puzzled by the disappearance
of the American left. They remember when there was far less war, far
less monopoly capitalist theft, a less rich and powerful
Paul Craig Roberts explains the origins of Labor Day versus what it is
today. Most Americans know little of the story ...including the blogger,
who hopes you will also visit his preceeding post with an additional
little known story of U.S. history.
Labor Day June , 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his
newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Paul Craig
Roberts Labor Day—what is it? Perhaps not many Americans any longer
know, so here is my explanation. In my time Labor Day was the unofficial
end of summer, because school began after Labor Day. Today school
begins almost a month before. When I was in school that
Wall Street tells it like it is!!! Just what is the underpinning of the
sudden pitch upward of the Standard&Poor 500, the Dow Jones
Industrial, and the Nasdaq? What are they smoking? Or are they just
stupid? Fed chief Janet Yellen keeps saying that there is 100%
employment in the U.S. ...ignoring the 23% of Americans who have wanted a
job but finally gave up because there simply weren't any. The remaining
"middle class" jobs pay very little, so those folks have little money
to spend on frivolous things. Thus, it is increasingly likely that the
fat cats of the stock markets will soon find themselves in a monumental
market crash. Don't you go down with them. Sell everything but quality
gold and silver producers.
At Ports, a Sign of Altered Supply Chains Flat import activity
indicates how retailers are adjusting as customers shop online Cargo
containers were stacked on the docks at the Port of Los Angeles in
February. U.S. ports are on pace to handle 2.2% more imports this year,
the slowest rate of growth since 2011. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon for The
Wall Street Journal By ERICA E. PHILLIPS and ROBBIE WHEL
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Conservative voices for electoral reform
Notable because we don't often hear Conservative voices speaking
publicly in favour of electoral reform. Sept 8, 2016. Colin Craig of the
Manning Centre interviews President of Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Troy Lanigan, on the benefits of proportional representation. Lanigan
compares MMP with STV, which both prefer. Yesterday ERRE committee
members CPC Scott Reid, NDP Nathan Cullen, and GPC Eliz
Dear Postmedia Editorial Board
This : is not an adequate response or apology for what was previously
published in that same space by the Postmedia Editorial Board on August
24th : "[Elizabeth] May must renounce anti-Israel resolutions ".
Excerpted : You are not RebelMedia. You are not some partisan advocacy
organization that can pass off the blame for this appalling libelous
attack on some hapless newbie book reviewe
Craig Scott's testimony at ERRE #23
Notes from his presentation at the electoral reform committee today
because Kady didn't blog this morning's meeting and the ERRE committee
is taking about two weeks to post transcriptions. Craig Scott - law
professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, former NDP critic
for democratic reform 16 of 31 Liberals voted for MMP/PR electoral
reform in the House in December. MMP is the best of
Electoral Reform Road Trip
Last week IPSOS passed on their rather depressing survey news to the
ERRE committee that only 3% of Canadians were following electoral reform
at all closely and those 3% were mostly wealthy educated older dudes.
Pretty sure that's going to change in the next few weeks. Here in BC,
there's over 30 electoral events - the ones from today on are listed
below. If you can't make any of these, you can h
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Real Madrid XI Squad against Sporting
Zidane does a Wenger and rotates his goalkeepers, though the BBC all
line up in Los Merengues’ front three. After Barcelona’s MSN took Celtic
apart, it is their turn to show they are football’s deadliest trio.
Real Madrid XI: Casilla; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro,
Modric, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo. Subs : Yanez, Pepe, James,
Kovacic, Vazquez, Morata, Danilo.
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Update: Earthquake in Italy 241 Perished
Update from earlier Italy earthquake death toll drops to 241
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-earthquake-death-toll-drops-1.3735050
August 25 2016 How Canadians can help victims of the quake in Italy
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/how-canadians-can-help-victims-of-the-quake-in-italy-1.3042454
How to help the victims of the Italy earthquake
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/world/iyw-italy-earthquake-
August Index 2016
Update: Earthquake in Italy 247 Perished Earthquake in Italy Filed under: Archives
Earthquake in Italy
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake followed by a series of aftershocks has hit
central Italy. The worst hit towns were believed to be Accumoli,
Amatrice, Posta and Arquata del Tronto, a spokesman for the Italian fire
department Luca Cari told Reuters. The tremor was felt across Italy,
from Bologna in the north to Naples in the south. There have been dozens
of aftershocks. Strong shockwaves were felt as f
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The Ponds Of Timberlea
There are a few places in Timberlea and Eagle Ridge I've been wanting
to explore and do some birding but for a number of reasons I just
haven't found the time to get over to them. Until today. With the days
getting shorter and the weather starting to cool off, I decided to bite
the bullet and get over there this afternoon no matter what. And I'm
glad I did. There were three storm ponds I was curi
Out of the Ashes
A stretch of rainy, windy and generally unpleasant weather had kept me
cooped up inside for a few days so I jumped at the opportunity to head
out yesterday to stretch my legs and enjoy what turned out to be a
pretty decent day. One of my regular birding routes I follow takes me by
a section a of a neighbouring subdivision that was hit hard by the
fires back in May and while it felt great to be ab
Oompah Loompah Doompedee Do
The film adaption of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" came out
not too long before I was born and has long remained one of my favourite
childhood movies. (The 1964 Roald Dahl book is quite likely one of the
first fantasy-type books I read when I was learning to read on my own.)
Its main character was a quirky, blue-eyed figure who made a teachable
moment without sounding preachy.
It's Really Sad The Things Some People Get Offended Over
Politics aside, I try to not delve in to too many controversial
issues. I did a lot of that with my Nunavut blog, especially when it
came to issues surrounding the seal hunt and traditional culture and if
you go to the proverbial well too many times, you end up opening the
door to all sorts of trolls and nut jobs. Let's just say that I won't be
getting a Christmas card from anti-sealing activist
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Tax cut 26, Excise tax on petrol products should be reduced/abolished, not increased
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay
taxes to a government that can't live within its income." - Robert Half
This bad tax measure has been proposed by the DOF and some legislators
many years ago but never succeeded. This time, it looks different as the
new Duterte government is hell-bent on having this become a law within
the year or next year. "The exc
BWorld 80, Declining share of agriculture in GDP
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 18, 2016. A declining
share of agriculture gross value added (GVA) in GDP (gross domestic
product) is often viewed negatively by many sectors because it implies
that a country is not prioritizing rural development and job creation.
Is this a valid observation? Let us review some agriculture data of the
Philippines and compare them to its neighbors
Energy 76, PEMC reply to my article on AEMO, WESM
The Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC) replied to my article in
BWorld, Brownouts, coal power and electricity market , August 17, 2016,
below. Dear Editor: We are writing in reference to a column written by
Mr. Bienvenido Oplas published on 17 August 2016 entitled, "Brownouts,
coal power and the electricity market". We note the persistent claims
made in your column that Philippin
Pres. Duterte and UNexit
UNexit. What a parochial, onion-skinned mind. "I do not want to insult
you. But maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United
Nations," he said. "If you are that rude, we might just as well leave,"
he said. "So take us out of your organisation. You have done nothing.
Where were you here the last time? Never. Except to criticise," he said.
Mr Duterte sai
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The Toronto Air Show, a poignant reminder of what an invasion sounds like
Every year the sounds of military jet engines breaking the sound
barrier while flying over the city of Toronto serve as advertising that
the Toronto Air Show is once again upon us. As Toronto's oldest annual
air show, it isn't going to disappear any time soon. The base tickets
bring in thousands of people, but they also offer VIP tickets which have
staggering prices of upward to $1519 per ticket,
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That's what I'm talkin' about! (Ireland)
I have argued many times (most directly here ) that, contrary to the
claims of nearly all Irish policymakers, low taxes are not what makes
the Irish economy tick. The country experienced 30 years of low taxes
with no gain on average European income; it was only after 1987 that
other policy changes (education, EU-funded infrastructure, and Social
Partnership) led to gains on the EU average. Thanks
European Commission orders Apple to repay Ireland $14.5 billion in illegal tax benefits
Today the European Commission slapped down tax avoiding Apple and
low-road economic developer Ireland with a $14.5 billion state aid
repayment order. Yes, you read that right: Apple has to pay Ireland €13
billion in back taxes, plus interest, covering the years 2003-2014.
According to the Commission's order, Apple's effective tax rate in
Ireland ranged from 1% in 2003 to 0.005% in 2014, far below
Mike Pence subsidizes offshorers
The Indianapolis Star reports (h/t Greg LeRoy) that the Indiana
Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), which is headed by
Governor/Vice-Presidential nominee Mike Pence, has given millions of
dollars in incentives to companies that have subsequently offshored jobs
to countries including China, Mexico, Taiwan, and Japan. Not only that,
but the 10 companies that outsourced the jobs sent more jobs a
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The 8 th of September- International Literacy Day The United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientifi...
The 8 th of September- International Literacy Day The United Nations
(UN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), designated September 8 th of each year to
celebrate and remind people around the world to eliminate illiteracy.
Many countries worldwide have succeeded in doing so, while other
countries have a long way to go. Unfortunately, the Arab world, w
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Failure to comply with Rules can lead to personal liability for costs
Adlair v Nunavut 2016 NUCJ 23: Lawyers have an ethical and
professional duty to ensure that the advice they give a client, and the
actions they take, are proper. In other words, every lawyer has a duty
to present the case for their client in good faith, according to the
Rules of Court and the applicable law; in this case the laws of
evidence. An affidavit may be the sworn evidence of the client,
Requirement to make transcript or detailed notes of statement
Criminal disclosure often but not way includes transcripts or at least
detailed notes of recorded statements. Such transcripts or detailed
notes can form a basis for cross-examination of a witness – they do not
govern but they can be put to a witness and if absolutely necessary the
actual recording can be played. But what if no transcript or detailed
note is prepared? It appears counsel is require
Interpretation of a Standard Form Contract not subject to appellate deference
Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp. , 2014 SCC 53 holds that
the interpretation of contracts is a question of mixed fact and law and
so an appeal court should be deferential to the decision below. Perhaps
surprisingly, the Supreme Court in Ledcor Construction Ltd. v.
Northbridge Indemnity Insurance Co. , 2016 SCC 37 held this rule does
NOT apply to standard form contracts and no deference
Why the Judge won't reply to a Facebook post
I was recently involved in a criminal case. The judge ruled on sentence
and the defendant was sent to jail for a long time – longer than I
suggested but not quite as long as the Crown asked for. It was a
difficult and tragic case but the result sensible and fair. But wow the
criticism online was brutal. No one attacked me or the Crown but the
judge was given a real shellacking. People made some re
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