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Take your damn health centre...

...and shove it...A plan to install the De dwa da dehs neye's Aboriginal Health Centre at the Kanata Iroquois Village site beginning Canada Day has hit a snag - its presence is being protested again by a native group calling itself the Mohawk Nation."Nothing has changed. This is Mohawk land," said spokesman Konalonqwa Johnson. "The City of Brantford is trying to take it over and rent it to a health...

It's all fun and games, until somebody...

...loses a freedom..."They denounced me as a Zionist and told me I was not welcome in the Pride Parade which was being held in my own city of Toronto, in my own country of Canada, where my ancestors have lived since 1750.""The sponsors of Pride should think twice about having their names associated with an event that includes such groups."(via shaidle)**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"I'll have to watch...

Roll out the barrel...

...pork, that is..."Canadian governments today essentially possess only two significant powers: the power to appoint and the power to disappoint...

Yes, Toronto... you're number one...

...with a bullet..."Twenty more Toronto public high schools will each get a police officer on a full-time basis when students return to class in the fall, bringing the total number of schools with officers to 50, the police chief said Monday."Total number of schools in the Prince Edward-Hastings County district with a full-time, armed police presence?Well... that'd be, er... none.**********FROM THE...

From the "Just Desserts" file

“It is open season against my client,” said David Midanik, defence lawyer for Tyshan Riley, as closing arguments bega...

The compassionate, intellectual left...

...strikes back......

Waxman - Markey

Behold the twisted, disfigured freak behind the pretty mask...Just for the gas, the cost would be “an additional $178 billion annually, or about $560 for each man, woman and child in the U.S.”So, lessee… What kinds of manufacturing/industry uses fuel? All of ‘em. Check. Service industries? All of ‘em. Check. Financials? All of ‘em. Check. Consumer discretionary/necessities? All of ‘em. Check....

Well, whaddaya know... looks like...

...the law of the land trumps "empathy"... -- WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court gave President Barack Obama's high-court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a legal slap on Monday, overturning a controversial decision involving a group of white firefighters from Connecticut who were denied...

In David Miller's socialist paradise...

...there's no such thing as a bad boy, er... girl... well... you know...Abused women living in a YWCA facility in North Toronto say they've been forced to share showers with transsexual tenants and cope with frequent, violent behaviour from others living there. Residents in the four-storey residence and shelter for victims of domestic abuse told the Sun repeated complaints about physical assault,...

Smart money says... "Buy Candles"

Lots and lots of candles. -- TORONTO -- The Ontario government is suspending its plans to build the province's first new nuclear reactors in a generation, citing concerns about cost overruns and uncertainty surrounding the future of Crown-owned Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.Just last year, the government said it would have two new reactors up and running by July, 2018 at its Darlington nuclear station...

You can't scare me...

...I've been watching Lloyd Al-Robertson...One of the longest running and most contentious debates in Canadian broadcasting is coming to an end with the expected approval by federal regulators to allow Al Jazeera's English television network to be carried here.Sources close to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission indicate that Al Jazeera English, the international spinoff...

"Since the Supreme Leader..."

"...has refused to heed my powerfully worded warnings, I feel I have no choice but to raise the official Iranian Disaffection Meter to ‘gingerly chagrined’." "I take no pleasure in doing so, but I have been backed into a corner by the inaction of the Council. Let me say further that when I say ‘inaction’, I in no way mean to insinuate that Iranians are a lazy people. Nothing could be further from...

Bright lights, big city...

...sucking chest wound... -- MISSISSAUGA, Ont. -- Peel Regional Police are investigating this city's 13th homicide of the year after a man was shot to death at a crowded party early Sunday morning.Homicide detectives said at around 1:39 a.m., officers responded to a report of shots fired at a house party in the Malton community of Mississauga, Ont. Investigators believe the party was "well attended"...

From the voluminous...

..."criminal genius" files... -- CORNWALL –- An online forum dedicated to exposing people who allegedly have been drug informants for Cornwall police has been unearthed on the social networking site Facebook.There's just one little glitch... apparently the hundred plus members of this little cabal... also posted their real names and profile photos. Said one commenter..."I don't know much about...

So, hang on there a sec...

...what happens if you have a heart attack on "Heterosexual Monday...

Congrats, Tim

"Tim Hudak has won the leadership of the Ontario Progressives, a choice that sees the party return to its small-c conservative roots."The CBC weighs in...Hudak has promised to scrap Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal, which both Klees and Elliott warned would tank with voters and give the ruling Liberals an easy victory in the 2011 electio...

You can do...

...absolutely everything right and still pay the ultimate price...They wanted his cellphone so they stabbed him in the heart.And now three young men, who callously murdered a 16-year-old Grade 12 North Park Secondary School honours student in the fall of 2007 are heading to prison after a jury in Brampton found them guilty of murder yesterday. The courtroom was full of tears and sobbing as the jury...

It must be true...

...I saw it on TV..."The reportage, so called, is simply an immense static flowing out of the celebrity event. Its purpose is not to supply information but to indicate, by its sheer volume and continuousness, the rank of the celebrity concerned."**********RELATED: The good news is......somebody dodged...

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens

I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin...I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First we take Caledonia... then we take Brant...for...

Yet another dark chapter...

...in the brutal, shameful history of Toronto's horrible racist police force...A man who returned to Canada wrapped in bloody bandages after being repeatedly shot in Jamaica in May was arrested in a drugs-and-guns investigation. Not only is he facing criminal charges after he was arrested outside a Keele St. and Steeles Ave. liquor store by Toronto Police's Organized Crime Enforcement Unit, the man...

Karma

...it's a bitch...In a news release issued today, Corrections Canada says Gleason Bennett Williams died today at Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick where he was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.**********RELATED: Four measly freakin' years?You've gotta be shittin' me... -- EDMONTON -- The last person to be sentenced in the sex slaying of a 13-year-old Edmonton girl is going...

It's our money...

...how come we don't get to know about it...Canada's top court is taking on another press freedom case involving the sponsorship scandal.Ottawa is suing Groupe Polygone for $35-million, trying to recoup sponsorship money paid by the former Liberal government.Justice Jean-Francois de Grandpre issued a gag order against the Globe last year when it reported Ottawa and Polygone were talking out of co...

A slice of Islamic jurisprudence...

...comes to Canada with the official introduction of "blood money"...A controversial $2-million payment by gangsters to a Toronto mother paralyzed in their botched mob hit bought them silence from police and prosecutors and could soon help them get earlier parole, prison lawyers complain.“A prison officer has made substantial efforts to obtain updated information from the police but, unfortunately,...

Wednesday night CTV...

..."moonbat moment"...Lloyd and company went to town last night about a United Nations report that says Canada is pushing vast quantities of meth and ecstasy on the rest of the unsuspecting world.Well, that sure brought me up off the couch. Staid, boring, law-abiding Canadians are turning into compassless, violent drug lords?Seriously?Well, not exactly. Somebody at CTV, unintentionally I'm sure,...

Hey, who doesn't like a...

...good zombie flic...

Hope, Change and...

...Big Mother knows best...The president characteristically denies that he is doing what he is doing -- putting the nation on a path to an outcome he considers desirable -- just as he denies any intention of running General Motors. Nevertheless, the unifying constant of his domestic policies -- their...

Britain... just one more reason

Of boots and broken stuff..."Three barleycorns comprising 1 inch was the legal definition of the inch in many mediæval laws, both of England and Wales, from the 10th century Laws of Hywel Dda to the 1324 definition of the inch enacted by Edward II. Used in current UK shoe measurement."Used in current UK shoe measurement? Did I just read that? Apparently the English are currently using a unit of...

So, Anne-Marie, you're saying what?

That there's the odd vague rumour of substance & alcohol abuse within the aboriginal community?She said there have been "rare" cases when hand sanitizer has been problematic in some communities where people have alcohol addictions.When asked whether the concerns were raised by Health Canada officials or by leaders in the community, Ms. Robinson responded, "Both, over the years."You know... that...

C'mon folks, what's the big deal?

It's not like she can't slam out plenty more... -- PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. -- A Saskatchewan woman who gave birth in a Wal-Mart washroom and left the newborn in a toilet has been found not guilty of abandoning the baby. She said the baby boy was blue and not moving, so she assumed he was dead and left...

In a complete repudiation...

...of everything he's ever stood for... Toronto Mayor David Miller has declared war on scum-sucking criminals...**********RELATED: Somebody finally asked"If the mayor was on heroin and finally kicked the habit, we would rejoice, not insist he continue shooting up because that's what he's always done...

The Buck Stops...

...somewhere else...Opposition MPPs had called on the premier to sack the Toronto-area minister for failing to curtail millions of sole-sourced contracts and lavish consultant contracts at eHealth Ontario, the agency charged with making provincial health records electronic.But Mr. McGuinty will apparently stand by Mr. Caplan, who was also responsible for the provincial lottery agency when it was overtaken...

Hope, Change and...

..."Hey, Rocky... wanna see me pull a rabbit outta my hat?"... -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran. Could the writer pass along a question from an Iranian during the president's news conference on Tuesday?Of course. The...

Prez McDreamy still softpedalling...

...slaughter in Iran...Administration officials are reiterating their call for a fair and non-violent resolution of the Iranian election conflict.We think it is very important that if this is going to be an issue for the Iranians to decide, then all the voices should be heard -- that the process should be fair and that the people should be allowed to express their opinions.Curiously, the Obama folks...

Turtle with a 'tude

We rescued this little guy off the road near our place. We've been picking them up off the road and placing them back in the ditch... but some recent reptile carnage has changed our game plan.There have been at least a half dozen smashed turtles in the last week or so where the road passes through...

Police are working on the theory...

...that most of the 400 passengers were in the boat's washroom... at the time of the incident...Two men are dead, two were in custody yesterday -- and police want to question many more. Toronto's 24th and 25th homicide victims of the year had spent the night on the Enterprise 2000 party boat before meeting their fate early Sunday morning. Despite the small number of witnesses who came forward, investigators...

You just have to ask yourself...

..."What would a Liberal do?"... -- VANCOUVER -- The provincial government may have destroyed all cabinet e-mails between 2001 and 2005, opening a huge gap in the official record despite a law that electronic files must be kept for at least seven years, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has learned.Michael Bolton, who is defending one of three former government employees in a political corruption...

Murdered teen becomes...

...'voice of the Iranian revolution'...The grisly murder of a 16-year-old protester named Neda at a demonstration in Teheran on Saturday was captured by at least two different cameras and posted on the popular video-sharing Web site, YouTube.The longer video, which is 40 seconds in length, has been seen by over 60,000 viewers since it was posted Saturday.**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"We sit here in...

Apparently, contrary to popular opinion...

...France hasn't surrendered... just yet.**********UPDATE: Turning up the heatFrance is to set up a commission to study the extent of burka-wearing in the country, after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the veils reduced dignity.The French National Assembly has appointed 32 lawmakers on a fact-finding...

Justice... Canadian Style

Drown Mom... score a free university education...One of two Mississauga sisters convicted four years ago of killing their mother will be let out of prison and allowed to move to a halfway house. The woman, who cannot be identified, was granted early release so she can do university studies this fall.The sisters were convicted in 2005 of killing their mother in 2003 by drowning her in the bathtub....

In what Canadian city, and at...

...what busy intersection... can you be beaten within an inch of your life... before somebody calls the police?A 28-year-old man remains in critical condition with head injuries suffered during a weekend fight on Yonge St.The victim and a man argued and then fought on the city's main boulevard just north of Dundas St. around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Toronto Police Det. Wayne Fowler said.Investigators believe...

Lord of the Flies

But I'll bet you dollars to donuts... "His Blondeness" will show up to take all the credit after the inevitable "settlement" is hashed out..."I'm not going to comment on any particular issue. It’s not appropriate at this present time." The mayor insisted a negotiated settlement "not only can be reached but must be reached."He said he has no plans to step into negotiations himself. "My role is not...

Be still my heart

The Toronto "Red Star"... that bastion of unapologetic socialism... puts Iggy "on probation"...One veteran Liberal communications expert said Ignatieff's basic problem was that he didn't anticipate the possibility that Harper might cooperate with him."Then, when he got the answer he didn't expect, he abandoned his position and – bizarrely – started redrafting his position on the fly in media interviews,"...

Hope, Change and...

..."unprecedented transparency...

Farting through silk bedsheets

Maybe what Mayor Miller should be thinking about banning next... is unabashed greed...All over North America, jobs are being slashed as companies fail or teeter on the brink. For those lucky enough to keep their jobs, many are facing pay cuts or mandatory unpaid days off. For the unemployed, finding a new job is near impossible, and most of the available jobs are part-time or contract-only.And then...

Unrest? Sounds more like...

...all-out war to me... -- TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- State media reported Sunday at least 10 more deaths in post-election unrest and said authorities have arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran's most powerful men.The reports brought the official...

Toronto... another dead kid

Mayor's office reportedly working on plan to ban teenagers within city limits...A Brampton teen is dead after a shooting last night in the city west of Toronto. Peel region police say officers found a 15-year-old boy suffering from life-threatening injuries near an elementary school just before 9 p.m.Baden...

McSlippery Slope

The inevitable endgame of the compassionate, intellectual left...The state should cultivate children from conception in nutrient-rich artificial wombs, care for them through college, guarantee them jobs and social security as adults, furnish pensions for their senior years and wrap things up with government nursing homes, euthanasia clinics and cremation.(via s...

The capricious and unknowable...

...Will of Allah...The coach of the Iraqi national karate team has been shot dead by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, police say. It is not known why Izzat Abdullah was attacked, although sports officials and athletes were regularly targeted at the height of the Iraqi insurgency.I have to confess, I'm a little confused. If nothing in this world happens that isn't "HIS" will... does this mean...

The 6 o'clock news, hon?

"No, baby, I swear... that must'a been somebody else." -- MONTREAL -- A commercial building housing a swingers club went up in flames Friday morning forcing the evacuation of 10 people. "They had sheets on them but they didn’t have a lot of clothes on coming down (the ladder)," said fire department spokesman Gilles Ducharme."I don’t know how many of them were not dressed, but there were a few...

Forget the Incredible Hulk

You never, ever... want to make Ezra Levant angry...Neve...

"And cue the politically correct..."

"... loonies in three, two, one..."Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under their counter-­terrorism powers – simply to ­provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government's official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed."I can well understand the concerns of the police that they should be free from allegations of prejudice," he said. "But it is not a good...

Have Gun... Will Travel

Let's face it folks... only a total moron brings pepper spray to a gunfight....Toronto police are set to take over safety patrols on the city's transit system — duties now the responsibility of the Toronto Transit Commission's officers. Toronto's Police Services Board voted unanimously on Thursday...

Longing for a kinder, gentler era...

...like, you know... the 12th century...Addressing huge crowds at Tehran University, the ayatollah voiced support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the president's views on foreign affairs and social issues were close to his.C'mon Crazy-Face... just cowboy upIran should just come out and say,...

Yeah... that's what I thought

At the time of his trial, Osborne's lawyer decided not to conduct an independent and more precise DNA test. The lawyer made a strategic calculation that such a test might provide stronger evidence of her client's guil...

CTV Moonbat Moment

Apparently, it's okay to perjure yourself as long as you're a hockey legend. Guy Lafleur walks away with a slap on the wrist and Lloyd and company seem to be pleased.In February, his son received a 15-month conditional sentence for more than 20 charges, which included assault, dangerous driving and cannabis production.But hang on, folks... that's not the whole story. One of the charges was actually...

The Greatest Generation...

...has to fight yet another war...Parkin has certainly done his part for Canada. But in his hour of need, this 92-year-old great-grandfather is being treated with scandalous insensitivity.Because he won't move out of Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital into a nursing home in Etobicoke far from his family, he is now being threatened with a daily bill of $700. "Is this how we treat our veterans at...

Hey, freak... they're called curtains

If people can see your naked arse from the middle of a busy street... trust me, it ain't a Google issue...The pledge from the head of Google Canada to have extra staff on hand should be welcome news to Robert White, who has been fretting about unwanted exposure since April. That's when he stepped naked in front of an open window after taking a shower just as a Google camera car rolled down the street.How...

Well Lloyd, I call your pissy little...

...swine flu and raise you some "Black Death"...The World Health Organization (WHO) is sending an expert to Libya to look into a reported outbreak of bubonic plague not far from the Egyptian border.Hey, news-flea... you wanna actually do some good?The U.N. reports that last year 1 million African children...

Maybe he should be asking...

...what's behind door number three? -- “How did the Official Opposition fail Canadians so badly? Did Michael Ignatieff get steamrolled or does he just agree with Harper’s policies?”Hmmm...Yup... "just visiting."**********RELATED: Another CTV poll goes horribly wrong"Who comes out looking better...

Unlike the rest of those...

...warm, affable murderers...Police have identified an "extremely dangerous" man as a suspect in the city's latest murder. A man's body was found at the foot of the Barrymore Furniture parking lot by an employee around 7:25 a.m., police said.Edward Scheniman, 41, is wanted in the case. He's described as white, balding, 6-foot-2, 200 pounds with blue eyes.**********RELATED: Brampton cops get on the...

I'm still waiting for...

"Obama takes crap... wipes self, washes hands."**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"Had Michaëlle Jean done the same thing, would she have eaten its heart?"**********LAST WORD: Obama's 3am phone ca...

It's not easy...

...being Michael Ignatieff..."It is very difficult to respond to an ultimatum that contains no ultimatum... Usually you say 'do X, or else.'" "You don't just say 'or else.'"I will, however, give Iggy this... he actually earned HIS credentials.**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"As it now stands, it looks...

It always makes my day...

...when old friends drop by...**********CC UPDATE: Canadian Cynic strikes back......big surprise... by forging nasty comments about my wife...Live and don't learn, huh Bobb...

Where's Barbara Hall...

...when you really, really need her?A man from Lower Sackville, N.S., says he will take Tim Hortons to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission because he can no longer get his coffee.Dave Matthews needs a motorized scooter to get around because of a physical disability. He used to get his coffee at the Tim Hortons drive-thru in Lower Sackville. But at a new location, in Bedford, he ran into trouble.Matthews...

Remember when you were a kid...

...and you'd settle a schoolyard beef by trying to sever someone's aorta?An 18-year-old is in hospital with serious stab wounds after a fight broke out at a Markham high school this morning.The teen was on the ground suffering from a serious stab wound to the upper chest, sources at the scene said.Yeah... me neither.**********RELATED: READING, WRITING AND......RIPPING INTO SOFT TISSUE...As many as...

"Give me your tired, your poor..."

"Your disease-riddled hookers"... -- TORONTO -- A former Thai stripper who was jailed for giving her former husband HIV may have found a way to dance around deportation from Canada.Suwalee Iamkhong, 40, of Toronto, had a bid to reopen her case thrown out last Friday by the Court of Appeal but she did win a reduction of her two-year sentence to two years less a day, allowing her to appeal a deportation...