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RIP Canadian Wheat Board
07 December 2011
Now that our Happy Planet mayor is back in the saddle for another term, we can be re-assured that we can continue to convert our front lawns to grow wheat. Even better news is that, since the House of Commons last week voted to end the Canadian Wheat Board's 76-year monopoly on the sale of wheat...

U.S. anti-cruelty to animals’ legislation declared unconstitutional

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Written by Chris Green   
Friday, 23 April 2010 00:00

While the rest of the civilized world is riveted upon play-off hockey, Canada's national blood sport, where well-padded millionaires bludgeon each other, I've been occupying myself by reading recent constitutional law decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court (well, between periods, anyway). I was saddened to read, in the case of U.S. v Stevens, that the Crush Act, a piece of federal legislation enacted in 1999 to make illegal the making, selling or possession of materials depicting genuine acts of cruelty to animals, was struck down this week as being an unconstitutional limitation on the right of free speech.

Although the ruling was probably quite correct legalistically, as an animal lover it turns my stomach to think that perverts are now free to traffic in videos of dog fights, boar-baiting and even animal snuff flicks.

 
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