An Ontario court has found that Canada Post’s authority to place mailboxes where they want trumps the jurisdiction of municipalities to have a say in the matter.. It is an old federal rule dating from the days when the mail was more important than anything the government did. And before mail boxes turned into super mailboxes, many of which are the size of a bus shelter. None of this mattered however to the judge who found that Canada Post was “entitled to make decisions which go to the benefit of its survival.” Hamilton and other cities across the country have been fighting the placement of these large installations under pressure from homeowners.

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The Supreme Court of Canada says its legal to consume marijuana for your health by way of home cooking as well as by smoking it  Like Brownies. Brownies are a sure cure for anything. As it stood,  the government had said that the use of the drug was legal only if it was smoked. The court took seriously the concern that smoking marijuana was not good for the lungs. Did the justices worry at all that marijuana Blondies or Lemon Squares may start to show up church fairs?  If they did, their ruminations are not recorded. Globe and Mail 

There has been no conclusion reached and no vote taken on the future of the Gardiner Expressway. City Council has debated the matter all day. Demolish, Hybrid, Boulevard, Tunnel or keep it the same. There are large groups of Councillors supporting each of the Hybrid and Boulevard ideas. They seem to be weighted suburbs vs downtown respectively. There has been a lot grandstanding too with Councillors supporting one or none of the concepts wanting to score a point or two on the mayor. They do it again Thursday. All leads

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The Bayview Ave. extension is open after earlier flooding during dinner hour. The Rosedale Valley Road remains closed this evening however for unspecified cleanup.

There is no way to know (at least not at the moment) but suspicion runs high among reporters that someone at the CBC told Kevin Donovan about the arrangement that Evan Solomon had to sell art to wealthy acquaintances he made through his job at the corporation. If Solomon may be believed, the number of “customers” in the matter is exactly two. They have been identified as former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Jim Ballsillie, former head of Blackberry. Maybe they blabbed it all around but it doesn’t seem likely because as the story goes the customers didn’t even know about the rich commissions paid to Solomon  So how? Solomon has explained that he went to his employer earlier this year and confessed his secret business.

CBC A NEST OF WHISPERERS

Oh oh. This is the CBC were talking about and such an admission in that nest of whisperers is probably a lot like going to the hospital and getting sick. Today (Wednesday, June 10, 2015) Donovan told Stephen LeDrew on CP24 that Solomon dissembled a bit when the Star’s scandal man put it to him. Then he came clean. LeDrew did not ask nor would Donovan have told him how he learned of the story. There would have been nothing wrong with asking. It is what people want to know. Maybe Donovan will say that it didn’t come from the CBC. LeDrew however probed the conscience of his sombre guest.  Donovan said (in a kind way) that he did not feel badly for those he exposed. It was they who were doing wrong, he said. He said he found it unfortunate (our word) that the CBC did not ask Solomon “the hard questions.”

EVAN SOLOMON THE SOLE VICTIM

That may have been a cheap one. Evan Solomon is not Jian Gomeshi  The fearsome fire of the Toronto Star no doubt spooked Solomon’s bosses. They had already bungled the Gomeshi affair so badly that a reprimand and warning, even to the immensely talented Evan Solomon, could not be contemplated. Make no mistake. Solomon’s judgement failed him badly. One supposes that $300,000 can fog the mind. Nonetheless, this is a transgression with no victim but Solomon.