Monitor the Monitors

Take the dubious case of Hydro1
Number one with a bullet                                                              

The confrontation between City News
 reporter Shauna Hunt and fans
 at Sunday’s Toronto FC game featured
 several bystanders mimicking a
viral trend seen across North America,
 in which on-air reporters are
 harassed with the phrase,
“F--- her right in the p----.”

And a smoking gun
Let's state your case
You be the one
If the press is the place
Freedom's on the run!

Shawn Simoes
Beat up in the press
Hydro One knows
It's an ugly game of chess

But who'll monitor Hydro One?
Certainly not the Ombudsman;
With him, they're just having fun;
How many Liberal messes, must we shun?
                                                                                                             

Andre Marin says his office was
flooded with 10,700 complaints
from Hydro One ratepayers about
over-billing or estimated bills.
(CP File)

Swear your oath of loyalty,
On the capitalist bible.
Off duty employee,
Recently gone viral;
Like the Senate appointee,
Flushed down the "pishadoo" spiral;
Surely, not us,
No, we're not in denial!

Top level men, willfully obstruct,
Laws that regulate them; they purposely destruct.
Along with codes of conduct, ethics and trust;
Nigel Wright, fills many with disgust!

The press hide him,                                                                                    

Why Mike Duffy is facing charges,
 and Nigel Wright isn't
Jonathon Gatehouse explains how
 it might be a criminal act
to take that 90,000 cheque-
but not to write it Jonathon Gatehouse
July 17 2014

Like a Russian defector;                                                        
Now a corporate god,
Who drinks of the nectar.
That's why Hydro One,
Set off our bullshit detector!
Not your usual thievery,
Of the average bill collector!

The high and the mighty
Say minorities blame whitey
Their immense love of money,
Rivals, that of Aphrodite!
It's not their survival,
Our matters taken lightly,

‘We are at risk of turning into
a surveillance society’:
Alok Mukherjee

Their ethics need revival,
Officials come off flighty!

Monitor the monitors,
Of social conformity                                                                
Keep you in line
Like corporate uniformity;
A social experiment
Not the first of its kind;
Only works well,
On the double blind!

Concerned Citizens to End Carding
 demand end to controversial
 policing tactic'
The message has been received,'
 said Mayor John Tory in response

Wait for it;
The unethical part,                                                                  
His livelihood;
Publicly torn apart.
Hydro One eviscerated,
Shawn Simoes's heart;
It beat in their hand,
Like a ghastly work of art!

Oh don't go yet,
It gets even better!
Did your mouth water,                                                                
And make you get wetter?

Ontario Tories ask police to investigate
 allegations Hydro One misled government
The Progressive Conservatives asked
the OPP for a probe after the
ombudsman complained he
was lied to by Hydro One officials.

Meet the CEO
A lean, mean, go getter
That's Mr. Carmine Marcello to you
He'll make Ontarians a debtor!

One Hundred Thousand billing errors!
This is prior to Hydro One's private terrors;
Liberals at the helm of bad news bearers
Ontario Hydro rates, sure ain't getting fairer!

NDP say privatization,
Means an increased Hydro rate;
Liberals act like it's their realization,
Ontarians can handle the weight!
Yet the Ombudsman still got, thousands of complaints
Hydro One's more like Satan, than a modern day saint!

Who is Hydro One to judge,                                                                    

Toronto Mayor
John Tory calls for end to
 cardingCalls controversial
 police practice 'illegitimate,
disrespectful and hurtful'
CBC News Posted: Jun 07,
 2015 2:19 PM
ET Last Updated: Jun 07,
2015 6:35 PM ET

Employee behaviour as of late?
When Hydro One tried to fudge
Paying out customer rebates;                                                                        
It took bad publicity to nudge
Them, into fixing erroneous rates;
Now consumers hold a grudge
Over threats to their power cut fate!

Andre Marin likened it to; "Wrestling with a slippery pig".
Block out this painful reality,
Have yourself a healthy swig,
Spare us your childish mentality
If payoff beer is what you dig
Stop pretending it's only formality
And this issue, really ain't big!

Ontario opens sales of beer to grocery stores

A Provincial Liberal led monopoly,
A Hydro One oligopoly;
They're selling it off so sloppily,
Even Provincial Conservatives,
Could have done it more properly!

Old, blackouts, keep on rollin' ♫♪♫♫♪
Mississauga moon won't you keep on shinin' on me...  ♫♪♫♫♪
Is a Canadian take on a Doobie Brothers' hit

Mixed in with a bit of "Weird Al" wit
Wait till the lights go out,
You won't see shit!
Freeze in the dark!
Or pay for it!

War on the Poor: The Legacy of Chief Bill Blair, the Press and Canadian Apartheid

TIMING OF BILL BLAIR'S
 LIBERAL BID
GETS CURIOUSER

Now that it's out in the open

Blair in the press
His future plans spoken;
Like he's a success
A legacy broken
He will egress,
A Liberal token,
Another political chief,
Good grief!
Are Canadians willing to settle for less?

Will we ever tire of the politician cop?
You say Blair will be different!                                                      
Come, come, now, stop!
Once a police - never can you swap

Always a police - it's a one stop shop!                                                                  

Justin Trudeau, Bill Blair
 defend record over
 handling of G20 protest

Blair's predecessor Julian Fantino
Threw temper tantrums,
Like a hungry bambino;
Julian Fantino, a controversial cop
Another Conservative, who's been a big flop
Fantino's behaviour, no stroll in the park
He roughed up our vets
Like on his beat after dark.
Back when he was a brass to the narcs
When Toronto police were circling like sharks
Illegal wiretapping and robbing drug dealers
With Julian Fantino pulling the levers

Ombudsman Andre Marin slams SIU
 over pro-police bias in Michael Eligon
caseThree investigators are disciplined
 for wearing police insignia and
offering premature conclusions
 to a TV crew.
By: Curtis Rush Police Reporter,
 Published on Fri Apr 27 2012

Convenient heads stuck in the sand
The political flames, Bill Blair fanned
Police corruption during G20
Civil rights violations reported aplenty
After women were violated by Toronto's Finest
Ontario Liberals, showered Blair with kindness
Do we have to ask how Bill Blair will lead?
His minions made Adam Nobody bleed!


No charges laid in Rob Ford's scandal                                

Blair's flat feet
Couldn't fit Ford's sandal!
A whitewash, where Blair
Could never hold a candle
Like the Toronto Police Services Board
Can never seem to get a handle;
Similar to Ontario's justice vandals
OIPRD and the SIU,
Two expendable cover up panels

Man wins lawsuit against
Toronto police board after
'carding' incident

Bill Blair's legacy gave Toronto carding                                         

It's not white people cops are bombarding 

Nor minority safety, that cops are guarding
It's the role of the villain
Where the press have Blacks starring

Bill Blair's legacy is colonialism
Every Western nation
Is plagued by this schism
Apartheid ideology, has once again risen
Located in the penal system
Of the North American prison;
Economically, socially and psychologically driven                            

Known to police:
Toronto police stop
and document black
and brown people
 far more than whites

     

The White Man's Burden
Like the Battle of Verdun                                                                

Is a doctrine for certain
To pull the wool over your eyes, like a blackout curtain!

Toronto's carding of visible minorities                                     

Reeks to high heaven of colonial priorities
It fails to seriously address, root cause
By imposing a set, of fake, draconian laws

What came first the chicken or the egg?
In this case the chicken, break us off a leg
Cowardly carding of the law abiding
Came before the truth
The pusillanimous press is hiding
Amid police justifications coinciding
And a lily-livered leadership that isn't even chiding

You either believe in people or you don't
Does Toronto want to elevate people, or is it that they won't?
Toronto's carding regime hysteria
Flies in the face of
Neighbourhood Improvement Area

Pathetic officials say what needs doing                                                              

Julian Fantino

To pacify interests they're persistently wooing!
Then suddenly the momentum just stops
And from the news cycle
The story just drops!

It's the city of Toronto
A class action, should start suing
If you're no immediate suspect 

The police are pursuing;
Carding is the controversy Toronto's got brewing
We must fight for our rights,
Before another police shooting!

La Nostra Cosa Grasso

Mike Duffy trial: Key players and likely witnesses
From left to right
starting at the top:
 Irving Gerstein,
Donald Bayne,
Nigel Wright,
Ray Novak,
Carolyn Stewart Olsen,
 Marjory LeBreton,
David Tkachuk,
Benjamin Perrin.

The PMO said "we're good to go"                    
G2G, on a need to know                
Keep family business on the low
Keep up appearances, just for show

And-away-we-go politico
Conservatives love to hit below-
The belt even though, the PMO
Had deniability;
Now that there's nowhere for them to go;
Maybe they'll claim senility.

We do, after all,
Have an aging population,
Who Conservatives attempt to woo,
With insincere adulation.

The 90G question, come to call
Did "the kids in short pants down the hall"
Allow a political heavy weight to take the fall?                                  

The path to Mike Duffy's day in court

Mr. Wright's actions, got little appall
Mr. Fixit man's still walking tall!

13th Chief of Staff,
Public sector, sociopath.
Unafraid to get his hands bloody,
Shielding his boss, got his knees muddy
Wright's tax write off, of private money
In hindsight is kinda funny.

Had him a soft landing at Onex Corporation
A public post for a private host,
Was an error in delegation,
Government needs less lawyers                                                            
And more human adoration
We get the government we deserve
One shot at a healthy nation.

Suspended Senator
 Mike Duffy is sketched
sitting in court during
 his fraud and bribery trial.
 (Greg Banning)

Is the suspended senator from PEI
Really a stand-up Ottawa guy?
Everybody deserves a fair trial
But how long will voters remain in denial?

If the Senate iceberg tip was Mike Duffy
This sonofabitch is gonna be puffy
Why only Duffy took the fall,
When senate malfeasance was wall to wall and
Liberals and Conservatives have the gall
To pretend this kangaroo court isn't meant to enthrall?

Nobody thinks the Ol' Duff will see a day in jail
30 slaps on the wrist
Plus 1 kick in the tail
Conservative asses are there for voters to nail                                                      

Camembert is named for
 the Normandy village
 where it was first made.

When it comes to justice, the ol' courts continuously fail

No senate reform is the real issue here
Conservative promises just disappear
Conservative legislators made Canada worse!
On Canada the Conservative Party's a curse!

Senator Nancy Ruth, didn't care
For free broken crackers and cold Camembert
Someone give Rosedale Nancy
Something else free she won't fancy,
Like a bucket of Main Street chicken
And a can of warm beer!
Because a Conservative feminist strikes many as queer!
No public inquiry, is still cavalier

Canada used to be a country that was fair
How will we pay for pensions and healthcare?

Sgt. Greg Horton of the RCMP
 arrives at the Ottawa courthouse
 for day 8 of the Mike Duffy trial.
Horton was lead investigator
 on the Duffy case. (CBC)

Universal pharmacare is part of it too
When Canadians can't pay,
They're told to make do.

Bad legislation, is a burden on the system
There is no such thing as political wisdom
How will we help families dealing with dementia,
When our leadership is done mostly in absentia?

Who will create jobs for our youth
When Feds are busy politicking

And economically uncouth?

What about issues facing our environment?
It's time to put these Feds into early retirement!
Canadian voters have much to consider
Lest Canada be bankrolled by the highest foreign bidder!                            

Feb. 11, 2013Duffy sends email
to prime minister's chief of staff
Nigel Wright apparently containing
advice from his lawer. It outlines certain
scenarios for repayment of the expenses
 and the "assurances" he would require.

Cars Are From Mars And Transit Is From Venus

The car is bad for the city                                                        

Is the TTC the priciest transit system
 in North America?
Posted by Guest Contributor /
DECEMBER 17, 2011

And isn't it a pity
The only reason people drive                      
Is to keep failed industry alive

Are cars the necessary evil?
Supporters of filthy oil,
Bad at moving people;
More cops to police the roads,
And meter maids out in droves

Cars drive the ego greedily
"Look out for number one"
And get to work more speedily
Every amber you're going to run

Alas, but not no-more                                                                  

Public Transit Is Underfunded
Because the Wealthy
Don’t Rely on It
BY KEITH BARRY
 12.16.13 | 6:30 AM |
 PERMALINK

If sitting in traffic, is what you deplore
Government built bridges
And roads galore
Fixing city gridlock, is political lore!
To get you to vote for
The slick talking suit,
The one you adore!
The big ol' baby kisser
Getting your pocket picked's
A real pisser!

The way the Beer Store
Bought off the province
Is a possibility why,
Car moguls hold providence

Money and power,
The timeless god;
Can turn the most righteous                                                      

The end of the car is coming

Into a fraud
It's mass transit,
Commoners applaud
All abroad!

Transit's more suited
To the digital age
Urban cars,
Keep us locked in a cage
Stuck in an age
When driving fair Miss Daisy
Was all the rage

No texting while driving
Phoning behind the wheel                                                              

Man charged `because of his race,' judge finds

Is down right conniving
And many lives did it steal

Look at what the car is depriving!
Not just your sleep
Home late you'll be arriving
If the drunk driver misses
Then you'll be surviving

We need a mass transit strategy
Instead of a pipeline mentality
Leaders who are true visionaries
Not coal-mine testers, with little pet canaries
Mass transit to link all of North America!
Would not only create jobs, but keep mobility dear to ya
                                                                                                                 

Car Buying Guide

Leave the car at home
Or take a drive in the country
On a nice autumn day
When the leaves go all crunchy
Driving in the city
Got your underwear all bunchy
Driving, drove you mad
Now you're stupider and punchy

After all's said and done
Cars used to be quite fun
Now they're made for utility
For you to drive until senility

One day we'll reminisce
How driving was such a fad
Oh to get those keys
Off of dear old dad
Made sure to gas her up
Put the coolant in the rad
Sex on the backseat,
Made a young kid real glad

Friday night was a blast
Hit the clubs, got all gassed
But before we got real drunk
Had a two four, popped the trunk                                                

Woman killed in downtown hit-and-run

After the club,
Got stopped by R.I.D.E
Couldn't get passed our liquid pride
We just had to drive
Some licenses were deprived

Time eventually caught up to us
Today we do our part
We take the bus
In spite of the frustration in our heart

The Feds, and the province, betrayed our trust
Commuter fortunes have all gone bust
Transit delays leave many with disgust
For some taking transit is a must

Others wish cars
Would simultaneously combust
Driving while Black was far too unjust
Hit and runs made people targets
Dead in the dust
The victims of cars were told to adjust
Our leadership today is depleted by rust!

IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE

What's it like to be homeless?                                            

JONATHAN HAYWARD /
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Park rangers walk
past a homeless person
 sleeping on a bench
in Oppenheimer Park
 in downtown
Vancouver, on Oct. 16.
A June mental health
study found providing
 housing, and backing that up
with support
services, was more
effective and
cost-efficient at getting
people off the streets than
trying to treat them first.

Hair a mess

Because you're combless
Body aches
The ground is foamless
Nowhere to go
Means you roam less
Your gleam is gone
Dull and chromeless
When not in Rome
Do as the Romeless

Collateral damage for the Western life
Nobody wants to know your plight;
Unless you got kids, a job
A house, a car and a wife
There's no pie left, for your slice
Reality cuts deep, like a knife
Many are a pay-check light
From being labeled a social blight

Mr. good shoes said, get a job                                                    

All his life, been a working slob;

He frowns on your luck after dark;                                    

At Queens Park Station, near Queens Park 

A lady with a good bag threw spare change
But our loonie went down the drain

Hunger pangs

Canada failing homeless
youth, report charges

On a belly descend
Cold subway fangs
Passerby, ain't no friend

Dope sick feeding time                                                                        
You're on the mend
Spare change for your veins
This hurt won't pretend

Light the way
Like flame to paraffin
Chase the day

Blaming lack of homeless services
for recent deaths is jumping the gun
MARCUS GEE
The Globe and Mail

With sweet Ms. Heroin

Nod your head
Scratch your nose
In the darkness
No one knows
How the loneliness
And despair just grows

No homeless shelter
Will pass for a home
When winters cold, cuts to the bone
Or summer's, sweltering heat, has grown                                           

The Homeless Hub, a research
 library and information centre
at York University, says that
close to 200,000 people are homeless
 each year in Canada but more
than 1 million Canadians have
experienced homelessness
at some point in their lives.

Why don't police just leave them alone?

Ate a bag of day old donuts
On a sour stomach, made you go nuts
On the ground, picking up butts
Your day is spent riding the bus

The local library, ain't no home
No fixed address, no books on loan
Security chased you, from the Eaton Centre
Because you're neither a homeowner,
Nor a renter
Those with no home
Are labeled - offender

Anyone, can become, mentally ill
Does that mean, your life, should go downhill?
Some are elderly, some are young
Yet many drop, an economic rung

Many are sent to the house of detention
In admin seg, with no medical attention
Others are homeless, and under housed
Living under bridges, where they caroused
By homelessness, is your apathy aroused?                                      

Two outdoor deaths prompt
Toronto to review how
 it treats the homeless

Like the so called values, our elected espoused

Housing needs to be more affordable
Using subsidies remaining portable
So existing housing is supportable
So the lives of many are not deplorable
Canada's less progressive, than Portugal
Where drug decriminalization became historical

Today's Canadian values are less exportable!

A Street Car Named Dire

TTC boss Byford 'not happy'
about new streetcar delivery delays

Toronto streetcars are so old...
How old are they?
The TTC forgot Canada was cold                              
What's more, and even quite bold
Bombardier was paid for
New streetcars not sold

Usually when you make a purchase
You expect prompt, reliable service
3 out of 43 streetcars, 

Makes us feel worthless
Broken promises 

Makes all of us nervous,
By 2019, 

We could lose our shirts and go shirtless

Toronto streetcars are so old...
How old are they?                                                                                    

How do TTC promises stack up?

They hired a blacksmith to have the metal parts rolled
The TTC forgot: 

The Battle of York did unfold
Andy Byford's attempts were put on hold

Toronto strives hard to be world class
So why is the TTC stuck in the past?
Why is transit in Ontario so damn incompatible?
The Toronto Transit Commission is so intractable
Political fixes, so far, have been laughable
In spite of this, Ontarians remain affable

In the Greater Toronto Area
Transit causes mass hysteria
One of many a problem
With no willingness to solve'em                                                    
Municipal funding is bad for transit
In B.C., the province was willing to chance it
Could a provincial transit system be the answer?
So fare box funding doesn't spread like cancer

Come on Ms. Wynne 

Don't shirk!
Put our income tax cheddar to work

"Toronto’s streetcars are so old,
the TTC has a blacksmith make
 parts for them because
they aren’t available
anywhere else."

TTC fares done gone berserk
Come on Ms. Wynne 

Give dem purse strings a jerk!
Give your government booty a twerk!
Entice a TTC subsidy from the provinces bank clerk!

"Hop on the bus Gus"

"We [do] have to discuss much"
In Ontario the fare box is a crutch
Government is way out of touch
The province and the feds need to go Dutch
Conservatism means, government don't pay much!

Toronto streetcars are on a street named Dire!
Under politicians
"Come on baby, light [a] fire"
By next winter,
Toronto's streetcars will need a funeral pyre
We want "A Streetcar Named [what the people] Desire"

Koenig's Minions

Instant Serial
Like Rice Krispies cereal                                                              

EXCLUSIVE: JAY,

 KEY WITNESS FROM

 ‘SERIAL’ TELLS HIS 

STORY FOR 

FIRST TIME, PART 1

Light on new material
Substantively ethereal

The consumers of dread
Ate their Serial like bread
Not caring about the dead
Self absorbed, swollen head

Hook, line and sinker
Serial, fans point the finger
To free Adnan from the clinker
Was not for the freethinker

Staring host Sarah Koenig
And Jay Wilds, her villain, prey "nig"

JAY SPEAKS PART 2:
‘HAE WAS DEAD BEFORE
 SHE GOT TO MY HOUSE.
ANYTHING THAT MAKES
ADNAN INNOCENT
DOESN’T INVOLVE ME.

High recognition or high pay gig?
Unearthed Hae, in a grave dig

The bloodthirsty in the end
Did not want to pretend
They really wanted to send
Jay upstate, with his "friend"

After all of America's past hatred
American equality, still is outdated
This American Life, still is ill fated
While African America,still is degraded                                            

America needs a distinct Black region
Run by an elected Black legion                                                          

JAY SPEAKS PART 3:
THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE
OF AN EXTREMELY
POPULAR PODCAST
ABOUT MURDER

Like Europe's denial, of Jewish social cohesion

Racist Americans are not peaceful like Norwegians

American society is not like life in Dijon
The U.S. declared Black open season
Black succession, has very good reason

At the behest of Rabia Chaudry
On Jay's head, Koenig put a bounty
Like a Sharia stoning by a Saudi
Serial fans became quite rowdy
Now Jay's looking pretty dowdy

Serial made second, the real cost
Hae Min Lee's, life was lost
Adnan's plea, became embossed
Carved in minds, Serial did accost
Painting Adnan as innocent and double crossed

EXCLUSIVE:
PROSECUTOR IN
‘SERIAL’
CASE GOES
 ON THE RECORD

Whatever is "The Deal With Jay"?                                                  
A young boy in the time of Hae
Serial fans want Jay to pay
Like a brainwashed chorus all of them say
Helping bury a body, still is foul play

This is true but to what end?
The courts tried Jay and his friend
Judgement passed, sentence given
The murderer ended up in prison

Evidence against Adnan, found                                                      
Cell records and Jay's testimony were grounds                                                    
Nothing new, compelling or profound                                            
Emotional manipulation got Serial fans wound                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Blacks are political targets in America
If it's not police terror striking fear in ya
Then inequality's provoking, daring ya
Or federal legislation is legally ensnaring ya
Live free! Or death'll be staring, square at ya!