Note to the media: If you fail to tell the whole truth, then you’re still lying!! That’s why the courts ask witnesses to swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Omitting a crucial fact when reporting a story can…
Category: Pit Bulls
Sarnia and "pit bulls": city on shaky legal ground
There’s a little thing going on in Sarnia, Ontario, this week that illustrates some serious problems with cities being far too eager to apply the vague, unenforceable, and unconstitutional Dog Owners’ Liability Act.The Sarnia Observer has four related stories: Dog census underway in city Seized…
No pets please, we’re PETA(ish)!!
I know some readers are having trouble wrapping their minds around the possibility that various animal rights organizations are not only anti-breeding, but can also be anti-<place breed name here>, anti-dog, and anti-pet. So, I’m going to try again. Not all animal rights organizations are…
Definitely all brawn and no brains
It’s not enough that Michael Vick is being investigated for dogfighting. Now two of his NFL co-Neanderthals are defending him.Now, considering the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”, I could understand comments like “I don’t believe that Vick would do that” or “He didn’t know…
New date for Ontario legal remedy: June 28, 2007
Lawyers for both sides will be back in front of the judge on June 28, 2007.When I find out time and location, I will post it here. The basic decision of the judge, as far as I understand it, is that the following parts of…
Date for remedy has changed – stay tuned
UPDATE April 30 June 14 will NOT be the date for the remedy. Waiting for new date from lawyer.Click here for original post
Date for remedy re Ontario constitutional challenge
UPDATE April 30June 14 will NOT be the date. Waiting for new date from lawyer. Lawyers for both sides will be back in front of the judge on June 14, 2007.When I find out time and location, I will post it here. The basic decision…
We can spend your money and you can’t find out where or how much!
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario recently asked the province’s Attorney General (of the Liberal Party) to give them some information about how much it has cost Ontario taxpayers to ban a non-existent dog.Below is the response, printed with the permission of the PC party….
How much public money has been wasted on the Ontario dog ownership ban?
How much public money has been wasted on the Ontario dog ownership ban? We are asking EVERY ONTARIO RESIDENT to contact their MPP and ask them how to file a Freedom of Information request with the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Ministry of…
Voting without knowledge or understanding
Don’t know how I missed this before. The Ontario committee hearings on the Dog Owners’ Liability Act were a constant flow of politicians (members of provincial parliament), with no one day containing the same nine members of the committee. I really don’t know how they…