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Friday January 31, 2003

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday January 31, 2003

The Excess Information Age

Imagine a Canada in which every citizen is finger-printed and retina-scanned.

Imagine massive government databases that use these biometric identifiers to catalogue people’s travel habits at home and abroad, their Internet usage, their e-mail and cell phone conversations and even videotapes them as they converse on a street corner. Such a nightmare scenario was tabled Wednesday in the staid House of Commons by the federal ombudsman appointed to safeguard Canadian privacy. And George Radwanksi says this Orwellian society could be the natural evolution of the Liberal government’s “unprecedented assault” on privacy rights. 

“A year and half ago, if anyone had described the measures now being introduced, no one would have thought it would happen,” the federal privacy commissioner told a news conference after he submitted his report. 

“It’s easy in a country like Canada to say bad things don’t happen, nobody would intrude on our rights … (but) all we have to do is look back at history.” 

Whether it be the internment of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s or the RCMP opening mail and torching barns in Quebec in the 1970s, “we’re not immune from excesses by the state,” said Radwanski (Source: Injustice Busters)

 

Thursday January 23, 2003

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator Ð Thursday January 23, 2003 The Great Flood of 2003 The old pipe couldn't take the pressure anymore and blew just before 5 a.m. For 76 years, it had ferried water from the city's main trunk line up Locke Street to fill the Beaumont Reservoir, which in turn quenches west Hamilton's thirst. But yesterday, after days of bitter cold, frost worked its way under the 30-inch cast iron pipe, right where one section connects the next under the intersection of Herkimer and Locke streets. The frost pushed the ground up until the big feeder pipe shattered like a poorly fired clay vase, blowing out a one-metre-square piece of metal. It released a geyser of water so powerful it blasted straight up through concrete roadbed and asphalt and spewed three metres into the air. Within minutes, it sped down streets into more than 100 homes and businesses, completely flooding some basements and reducing water pressure across large parts of west Hamilton. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Hamilton, Locke Street, Marvin Caplan, water, infrastructure, flood, pipe, politics

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday January 23, 2003

The Great Flood of 2003

The old pipe couldn’t take the pressure anymore and blew just before 5 a.m. For 76 years, it had ferried water from the city’s main trunk line up Locke Street to fill the Beaumont Reservoir, which in turn quenches west Hamilton’s thirst. But yesterday, after days of bitter cold, frost worked its way under the 30-inch cast iron pipe, right where one section connects the next under the intersection of Herkimer and Locke streets.

The frost pushed the ground up until the big feeder pipe shattered like a poorly fired clay vase, blowing out a one-metre-square piece of metal.

It released a geyser of water so powerful it blasted straight up through concrete roadbed and asphalt and spewed three metres into the air.

Within minutes, it sped down streets into more than 100 homes and businesses, completely flooding some basements and reducing water pressure across large parts of west Hamilton. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Thursday June 20, 2002

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday June 20, 2002

Chretien faces toughest fight

Prime Minister Jean Chretien says his opponents within his own Liberal party are underestimating him again, and he confidently predicts he has enough friends in the party to put together an organization to beat back any challenge to his leadership next February.

Chretien said yesterday he has made a political career of exceeding expectations — and he will do so again.

In an interview with The Toronto Star, he dismissed polls suggesting his rival Paul Martin is more popular in the Liberal party, saying former party leader John Turner was also once seen as the “white knight” in waiting.

“It’s easy to be popular when you’re outside,” he said.

As he prepared to do battle in his toughest fight during 12 years at the party helm, the prime minister was relaxed and animated during a 50-minute conversation in his living room at 24 Sussex Dr.

He promised to draw on the lessons of history to ensure he will leave his party in its best possible shape when he departs.

He predicted a historic deal on African aid at next week’s G-8 summit, which he chairs in Kananaskis, Alta.; he denied any intervention in Izzy Asper’s decision to fire Ottawa publisher Russell Mills, and shrugged off questions of media concentration.

He also said he personally knows that Martin’s support in caucus is inflated. A number of MPs report receiving personal phone calls from their leader as Chretien seeks to shore up support before party voting on his future begins in November. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

 

Thursday, January 10, 2002

Monday, February 17, 2014By Graeme MacKay – Monday, February 17, 2014

(Coloured version of cartoon that ran in the Hamilton Spectator, Thursday, January 10, 2002)

Hamilton Begins Camera Surveillance

Hamilton police are putting controversial video surveillance cameras into public areas of the downtown in a move they say will help prevent crime. Six closed-circuit television cameras are expected to be in operation by the end of March, initially covering public areas from James to Walnut streets.

The cameras will be controlled and monitored live from the central police station. They will also record all street activity on digital tape, 24 hours a day. Tapes will be kept, likely for 60 days, for possible use in following up a crime.

The pilot project will see Hamilton join a growing list of cities using surveillance cams against street crime.

No biometrics — such as face scans or other new technologies — will be used.

And police say the cameras will not breach privacy rights, despite a ruling in October by Canada’s privacy commissioner over public cameras used by the RCMP in Kelowna, B.C.

The 24-hour videotaping of Kelowna’s high-crime district stopped after privacy Commissioner George Radwanski ruled police have no right to do random round-the-clock surveillance of law-abiding citizens in public. (Original Source)

Saturday, January 5, 2002

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator Ð Saturday, January 5, 2002 Road hockey: A proud Canadian sporting tradition or a dangerous nuisance? A Hamilton court will weigh in Monday on a father's fate after he played hockey with his kids on their street, infuriating a neighbour while breaking a bylaw that divides neighbourhoods nationwide. "The bylaw says we stay off the street," said Nadia Ciuriak, whose garden has been invaded by countless stray hockey balls from Gary Kotar's kids over the years. "If people want street hockey, the proper way of dealing with that is to go to city council and insist that the bylaw gets removed.Ó While Kotar's kids haven't caused any damage to their neighbour's property, it's the principle of breaking the bylaw and trespassing to retrieve errant balls that bothers Ciuriak. "Initially I retrieved the balls from my garden, but then I decided I had other things to do, and I didn't want them going into my garden," said Ciuriak, who has lived with her mother and sister at the house for 40 years. Ciuriak also objects to the behaviour of some of the players on her street. (Source: Hamilton Spectator) Canada, Ontario, Hamilton, sport, hockey, play, road, road hockey, youth, exercise

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, January 5, 2002

Road hockey: A proud Canadian sporting tradition or a dangerous nuisance?

A Hamilton court will weigh in Monday on a father’s fate after he played hockey with his kids on their street, infuriating a neighbour while breaking a bylaw that divides neighbourhoods nationwide. “The bylaw says we stay off the street,” said Nadia Ciuriak, whose garden has been invaded by countless stray hockey balls from Gary Kotar’s kids over the years.

“If people want street hockey, the proper way of dealing with that is to go to city council and insist that the bylaw gets removed.”

While Kotar’s kids haven’t caused any damage to their neighbour’s property, it’s the principle of breaking the bylaw and trespassing to retrieve errant balls that bothers Ciuriak.

“Initially I retrieved the balls from my garden, but then I decided I had other things to do, and I didn’t want them going into my garden,” said Ciuriak, who has lived with her mother and sister at the house for 40 years.

Ciuriak also objects to the behaviour of some of the players on her street. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)