Ironic Paradox

Here and There and Everywhere

A Few Thoughts:

1) Huh?

It smells like a joke. And the supporting comments all sound like exactly the same person.

Either that, or someone's really desparate.

2) Judging Judges

Maurice Vellacott goes down. Because he doesn't like comments like these from SCC CJ Bev McLach:

"The rule of law requires judges to uphold unwritten constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion. There is certainly no guarantee or presumption that a given list of constitutional principles is complete, even assuming the good faith intention of the drafters to provide such a catalogue ... Judges have the duty to insist that legislative and executive branches of government conform to certain established and fundamental norms, even in times of trouble.''

See...the funny thing was, I always thought that "rule of law" implied that the law was supreme, not some judges' interpretation of "principles" that are found goodness-knows-where....yeah. I've already ranted on this so much that I better not do it again, but I did like how that editorial ended with: "...At least it would be, if our politicians truly believed in another Charter right -- free speech."

Hmm...then there are those cartoons...

3) Michael Coren

If true in the way that that story articulates it...sigh. I like Michael Coren, not agreeing with everything he says, but I like the guy, but regardless: stuff like that doesn't exactly encourage my opinion of the CBC, let's just put it that way.

posted by Jevant @ 5/12/2006 12:34:00 AM