yeah, there's nothing there, but i'm going to call the privacy commissioner back before i send the contact an email asking if a hearing date is set that i can plan around.

sgt pinkerton?

are they making up fake cases to make it look like they're a real body, or what?

https://www.oiprd.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/PinkertonChristopher-Decision-10.17.2018.pdf

so, i talked to somebody at nexus in fort erie (there's no line to the centre in toronto) and they claimed i can fax it, but they want me to call them tomorrow. it sounded like a cell phone. i dunno.

it states pretty clearly in the documentation that i need to present myself.

but, i'll call them tomorrow.

if i'm going to london to file, i'd like to file everything at the same time, so it would be nice to know the result of the oiprd review board panel hearing thing first. i won't be surprised if the review is a little more critical than the police investigation, but i do expect to appeal it. i need to keep an open mind, of course, but i'm realistic about it.

the letter provided a deadline for submissions of evidence by april 9th, but didn't give a hearing date. it suggests searching the website for updates, so i guess i'll see if i can find a date. if i can put this off for another week or two, i can get it all done at the same time.

to be clear: i am going to need to get to at least london to file. that's necessary. it's just a question of not wanting to make multiple trips.

my fps number is indeed on file and will be until the file is expunged.

the destruction process should remove both the fps and the record of disposition from the cpic database. until such a time, i cannot travel.

so, i will need to get to toronto to present myself to nexus, and i will need to file the constitutional grievance with the court in london on the way back.

if i'm going to toronto, i might as well make a day out of it. so, i'm going to check concert listings.

first, i should call the nexus office in toronto and ask them how this is actually going to work. do i get to present a case?

the liberals shouldn't get complacent about it.

but, despite the media's best efforts, the signal isn't separating from the noise, here; the liberals are actually up this week, technically, but it's just fluctuations in the margin.

no movement at all, according to nik.

that said, there's still evidence of wandering, and the liberals still need to be concerned about voter apathy and anything contributing to it.

http://www.nanos.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Political-Package-2019-03-29.pdf

ok, regarding the beards, in isolation from the gender issue, which i think is spurious.

is a beard a religious symbol? sometimes, sure, but any attempt to write a law that states as much would be overly broad, as it frequently isn't. so, you'd end up banning a fashion choice, and that won't hold up. as mentioned, i think the opposite argument - that scarves aren't necessarily religious - is more likely to be successful. that is, the grey area is with scarves, rather than with beards.

that said, there is another reason to ban beards at work, and that is hygienic, or just basic presentation. if i was doing hiring, i would be pretty open about not hiring people with beards, because beards are gross. if i was in the private sector, i would make the argument that i don't want my company represented by bearded people.

again: a policy of clean-shaven men in a work context isn't exactly radical, is it? and, i don't have a problem enforcing it as a part of a basic dress code in a business environment, on purely hygienic grounds, even if a law banning beards on religious grounds is unlikely to stand up in court.

i hope that clarifies my views on this - i didn't mean to suggest that i think beards are less egregious than hijabs, only that you couldn't really enforce the law. frankly, if i had the choice to ban one or the other, it would be the beards that i would ban first.

i'm just going to create yet another blog, and then sync them up after.

i had no initial intention to do that, but the more i think about it the more it makes sense, anyways.

so, the new blog will be related to travels - anything typed from out of the house. and, i will rebuild it from 2013 like the rest of them. so, we'll start with hitchiking and include any show reviews and whatever else moving forwards.

so, i'm posting from the fake account on the netbook, and it's certainly more like an operating system, all of a sudden. the web cam does work, so i guess i can "skype" over it if necessary. there's word processors and stuff...

it's really more like an android phone, though, in the way it throws the apps out at you.

i've got a pin installed, and it seems to be functional, even if i can't really turn the thing off. i guess we'll see what performance is like in the long run.

the issue with the chrome store was indeed just the guest account, which i kind of guessed - the button magically appeared once i logged in. so, i got the basic toolkit of internet survival - ad blocker, javascript blocker, html5 blocker. these are pre-requisites for getting used to this...

the other extensions don't seem to want to work, though. i think it's the mail server that seems to be stripping the information out, as it previews correctly but doesn't show up in the sent items, or if i sent it to myself. so, i don't think it's that blogger isn't getting it, i think it's that it's not getting past gmail; it's less that it "doesn't work" and more that it's being removed. i've tried editing it through the inspection, as well - nope.

but, it takes whatever i insert in the gui.

i wonder if it's the browser. so, i'm going to try a few things from firefox on the other machine.

right now, i can at least type from here, and it may be enough. but, i'm imagining myself sitting in a coffee shop overnight after a show and not being able to embed files into the review; it's kind of not really good enough.

another idea may be to start another blog for travelling and to copy things over when i get home. i'm so remarkably ocd. yikes. but, it might be the best way out.

the integration into google could potentially be ideal from the blogging perspective, but i don't know if it's as good for the vlogging, or for youtube in general. even if the machine were a little more powerful - and this is really just a glorified phone, remember - i'm going to quickly get frustrated by the lack of hypervisors, the inability to edit media, etc. is there a flac player?

for right now, migration is a non-starter - this device needs to be quarantined once i get it out of the house again. but, in the long run, if i were to get some kind of mobile internet connection (one of those flash drives or something) with a more safe connection, could i switch over totally?

it's not clear.

we'll have to do the experiment....

at the least, it's finally set up, even if i end up with some kind of workaround for it.

i'm also realizing that the fingerprint destruction request doesn't mention a disposition purge, and should have. so, i've asked for clarification on that, too.

for now, back to the chromebook.

i tried to log in today and realized i had a 100 character password and no way to cut and paste it. i'm left with the option of changing the password to something i can remember - which is a bad idea, even in the context of a fake account - or setting up a pin, and just never rebooting. i guess i could login as a guest in a pinch, right...

regarding the extensions, it wasn't hard to find a way to download them, and i should be able to install them locally. if i keep them on the external media, it should be easy enough to set up for blogging. right now, we're looking at an extension for embedded video, an extension for general html editing (and i'll need to figure out what to do to get the location in) and, of course, the ad blocker.

so, let's see what i can get to work, then...

the legal argument i'm using is going to rely on the precedent that came out of the case that legalized abortion in canada, and it's a different argument than in the united states.

stated tersely, what the decision in morgantaler stated was that if the state isn't going to provide for timely access to abortion, then it needs to eliminate all regulation around it because the amount of time it was taking to process decisions was infringing on the right to "security of the person". the court basically told the government to speed the process up or abolish the law - and the government eventually abolished the law (after a standoff in the senate, which isn't supposed to happen). this precedent has created some issues around the legality of the monopoly on health insurance in the country.

i want to apply this to travel rights. my argument is that because i didn't do anything wrong - and the case was completely withdrawn - it follows that any delays on deleting the prints are completely unjustified and a consequent infringement of s. 6, which states that canadian citizens have the right to leave the country. the precedent would state that if the government cannot speed the process up, the law should be abolished, so long as the infringement is not justified. but, who could argue the infringement is justified?

that would give the government the choice between speeding this up or rewriting it's legislation around fingerprinting.

the technology exists to delete these prints within minutes. there is no reason it should take months, and i should be compensated for it if it does.

i still don't know if the prints are accessible or not. this argument won't work if they aren't, but if they are then i will refuse to travel until they are destroyed, and send the government the bill for it.

everything is always complicated...

i took a run down to the ambassador bridge this evening to see if they could check the system for me, and they wouldn't do it. that means i'm going to have to check via the windsor police. i've sent an email to see if they'll do it that way; i'll probably have to go in in person.

i'm simply not going to risk exposing my prints until i'm sure they've been destroyed, but i need to get to a nexus centre. i thought the closest one would be in buffalo (fort erie, ontario), but the way the bus system works makes it a 20 hr ride. toronto is further, but i can get there in under five hours. it's relatively cheap if i book it for next week, and if i have to wait it out then i'll be stuck on this side of the border for probably most of the year.

if i end up doing that, i'll plan to file the court papers in london on the way home, with a s. 6 breach and a seven or eight figure request as a result of it.

i keep pointing this out - the more complicated this is for me in the long run, the more expensive it's going to be for the city.