In throwing out search warrants used by the RCMP to search the home of Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill, a judge has truck down three sections of the Security of Information Act, a post-9/11 piece of legislation.

Heading south on the Bathurst St. car this morning, I went right to the back for a seat -- and the front row for observing some guy's TTC Hell experience.

BBC: Can a change in Afghan tactics bring peace?

BBC: Afghans killed in NATO strikes

CBC: Chretien government rejected military's advice on Afghan deployment: ex-Army chief

CBC: Afghanistan mission 'successful' but demanding on troops: Hillier

Globe and Mail: Typical Afghan mess ruins Canadians' day

G&M: Afghanistan won't be revolving door for troops, minister says

G&M: Pay attention to this voice in the Afghan wilderness (Jeffrey Simpson column)

A BBC World poll asked 27,000 people in 25 countries about using torture under certain circumstances. Twenty-nine per cent would support it versus 59 per cent who wouldn't.

As you may have heard, Tory MP Garth Turner from the Halton riding west of Toronto got indefinitely suspended from the Conservative caucus, ostensibly for blabbing about the contents of caucus meeting. However, it's more probable his views about some of his colleagues may have really triggered this event.

I did some poking through his blog. Here's a feature I wrote on what I found. Here's the CTV.ca news story on the affair.

If you're in Taranna and a vota, check out Campaign Bubble, by Marc Weisblott for globeandmail.com.

From the blog:

A fresh and sometimes irreverent look at political behaviour leading up to the Nov. 13 Ontario-wide municipal elections. Marc Weisblott blogs the local races, focusing on the Toronto area.

If you're not in sub-Saharan Africa but are interested in what's what there, check out The Sub Saharan African Round Table, Canadian expat Blake Lambert is one of the contributors and principals.

He explains in one post why Robert Kabushenga is bad news for Ugandans (Mr. K is a former government spokesman who now heads the state-owned New Vision newspaper. Former managing director William Pike "left" the paper after running a story that enraged the gov't. More from this BBC story).

Lambert himself was forced from Uganda for doing, er, journalism.

And who commented on his expulsion on behalf of the Ugandan government? Robert Kabushenga!