...these dishonest little wankers...
There is, apparently... no limit to how low they will go.
And the forged comments continue...
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RELATED: Ah yes... Alexander Pannetta
(via sda)
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LAST WORD: A little more selective outrage...
It is shameful, however, that Obama did not take a moment Monday to issue an equivalent statement of moderation to elements within the American Muslim community who might claim solidarity with the Little Rock shooter.*
...give you advance warning like this... but let's take them at their word and start bringing up reinforcements...
-- AKWESASNE, Ont. -- Mohawk Warriors from the Akwesasne reserve near Cornwall, Ont. say they will storm a Canada Border Services Agency post on Monday and shut down the international border crossing unless their political leaders receive a commitment from the federal government not to arm border guards at the post, which stands on reserve territory.Of course... it's all about community.
“We are going to clear them out,” said Thomas Stacy, a middle-aged former professional wrestler who stood across from the border post with a small group of young men carrying large Mohawk Warrior flags on Saturday.
After Monday, he said, it will be “in the hands of the community.”
*
Looks like there's a bit of a speedbump in the road to... implementing Sharia Law... in Ontario...
Minutes earlier, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on two counts of first-degree murder against 23-year-old Sadiqi, who gunned down his 20-year-old sister, Khatera, and her fiancé, Feroz Mangal, 23, in the early hours of Sept. 19, 2006 while the couple was sitting in her parked car.**********
Prosecutor Mark Moors said Sadiqi was motivated by a “perverted notion of honour and respect … for the sole purpose of restoring the family’s reputation and respect in the Afghan community.”
“Your crimes have shocked and bewildered the people of 'almost every community' in the nation’s capital,” said Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford.That, of course, prompts the logical follow-up...
"Only 'almost' every community?"That's the $64,000 question isn't it?
"Does this imply that somewhere out there exists a community that more or less approves of this barbaric murder?"
...is justice denied...
Anyway... I guess it wasn't the CIA after all.
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RELATED: Yeah... who needs democracy anyway?
President Barack Obama will offer his personal commitment to “change the conversation” with the Muslim world in a long-awaited speech in Cairo this week.It's not like a robust medieval theocracy can't keep the trains running on time.
Obama has put President George W Bush’s democracy agenda on the back burner in an attempt to strengthen the alliance between America and moderate Arab states against Iran and radical Islamic groups and to revive the Middle East peace process.*
...rainbow-filled, unicorn-inhabited world...
...versus, you know... stark, unbending scumsucking reality...
"Terri-Lynne McClintic turned Michael Rafferty in to police -- telling officers about the abduction and murder of Victoria 'Tori' Stafford -- only after she learned he was dating another woman while she was in jail, said the dead girl's mother."*
..."black hole"...
tar baby - n. - "A situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself."**********
[After “Bre'r Rabbit and the Tar Baby,” an Uncle Remus story by Joel Chandler Harris.]
"When the opposition parties refer to Alberta Oil Sands as Tar Sands are they attacking the "people of color" that work in the Oil Sands?"**********
Liberal MP Marlene Jennings, who is black, also denounced Mr. Poilievre's remark as offensive and insensitive, adding it was “the equivalent of the n-word.”You know what's demeaning, Marlene?
Oh, in that case... it looks like those brave "holy warriors" are totally off the hook...
A provincial official in Iran has accused the United States of being behind Thursday's bombing of a mosque that killed at least 19 people.And, apparently the BBC is good with that contention...
Jalal Sayah, deputy governor of Sistan-Baluchestan province, said three people had been arrested following the attack. "According to the information we obtained they were hired by America and the agents of arrogance," he said.
Jalal Sayah, in comments to the semi-official Fars news agency, accused the attackers of being mercenaries hired by the US.
It is a common accusation from the Iranians, the BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says, and the facts of this case may never be known.Oh, man... this is so confusing.
But it is an open secret that former US President George W Bush directed large amounts of money to try to destabilise Iran and there is no sign the policy is any different under President Barack Obama, our correspondent adds.
It's worth a shot...
Convicted killer Richard Raymond Babinski -- claiming that Ojibway blood somehow courses through his mother's family tree, this sudden revelation coming only after spending years in prison -- sat at his parole hearing in Kingston, his long hair in a braided ponytail, a Native elder at his side, and called himself a "concrete Indian."**********
Some 300 km away in Toronto, in a second-floor Correctional Service of Canada office on Dundas St. W., Jeremy Mead, the 27-year-old man who Babinski turned into a six-year-old orphan when he raped and then strangled his mother, scoffs at the theatre he is witnessing -- all coming to him via video conference.
"The Indian act is bogus," he later says. "All I saw on that screen was a coward, a rapist and a murderer.
Thursday's hearing will take place at his minimum-security prison, Kwikwexwelhp Healing Village, which puts aboriginal spirituality at the centre of its rehabilitation program.**********
Munro is not aboriginal but has converted to native teachings.
"Why is it that fundamentalist Christian crap like "creationism", etc., is readily made fun of by the left, but fundamentalist native crap like "Turtle Island" and "Great Spirit" is sacrosanct?"*
"...I'm here to save you..."
For Mr. Milke, the auto bailouts are typical of political decisions that benefit relatively few people at the expense of millions.**********
But because the risk of a cross-Canada taxpayer revolt is small compared to the potential payback from voters in hard-up communities in Southern Ontario, the decision to bail out the auto companies is an easy one for politicians.
-- OTTAWA -- Four top executives of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board pocketed nearly $7 million in bonuses this year despite losing $24 billion of taxpayers' money in bad investments, according to the board's annual report released yesterday.**********
...that's us...
-- WOODSTOCK -- The spectre of Karla Homolka’s “deal with the devil” has arisen in the Victoria (Tori) Stafford case because the two people accused of the girl’s slaying will now get separate trials.No.
Under the Criminal Code, abduction carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison while kidnapping carries a maximum of life.
Taxi driver Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for raping three women as he suffered a condition called “Don Juanism” which made him addicted to sex, his barrister said yesterday.*
"In Jer-u-sa-lem... bomb the one you're with."
-- TEHRAN, May 28 (Reuters) -- An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported.*
The attack was carried out on a public holiday honouring the first Shi'ite Imam, Ali Ebne-Abitaleb, after whom the mosque is named. Zahedan is a mostly Sunni city.
"This hurts my head. Who out there is thinking, 'You know what would go perfect with this book about how to live with my giant crank?'"*
"'A terra cotta Obama with a green afro'."
"I would have guessed the answer would be 'nobody,' but I would have been wrong."
...the sheeple don't notice...
McGuinty confirmed yesterday that the change is on his radar. That's something that's been talked about," the premier said. "It's not something that's been actively considered at this point in time."Gee, Dalt... what part of hiding this tax increase is transparent?
"It wasn't part of our original proposal," he said before pointedly leaving open the possibility of just such a move. "It might end up being there."
"But what ... I certainly made clear that, whatever we do, we'd want transparency to be there."
"Lost in the liberal tumult of ecstasy over her nomination is the simple fact that Judge Sotomayor had the undoubted blessing of attending private schools."**********
"All her life."
"Her most high-profile case involved New Haven’s decision to toss out tests used to evaluate candidates for promotion in the fire department because there were no minority candidates at the top of the list."**********
"She was part of a panel that rejected the challenge brought by white firefighters who scored high but were denied promotion."
...the judge from Planet Crazy?
-- EDMONTON -- Hart told court a security official at the remand centre called MacDonald the "most difficult inmate" among the 860 housed at the downtown facility. Court heard MacDonald has used illegal drugs, assaulted virtually every inmate bunked with him, "feces-bombed" other inmates, flooded his cell, urinated on the floor, set fires and assaulted and spat on guards regularly.And the punch line?
Court heard MacDonald allegedly started a fire in his cell on Dec. 3 and was then combative with guards and had to be pepper sprayed to get him under control.
On March 3, MacDonald got upset after being told he was being transferred due to his "unacceptable behaviour" and then punched two guards in the face when they went into his cell after he barricaded the door.
The judge ruled he would only consider bail if there is a treatment facility or other suitable place for MacDonald, 27, to live. Malin adjourned the matter to next week.I fear for my country.
"Last night was horrible – waiting to see if she would live," he said, stroking her back. "I'm so angry, "I want to find a lawyer."*
This oughta be interesting...
On Thursday, the South Korea-U.S. combined forces command increased the surveillance to level 2 from the present level 3, Defense Ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae said.*
He said that was the highest level since 2006, when the North conducted its first-ever nuclear test.
The North has long warned it would consider the South's participation in the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative as a declaration of war against North Korea.
...you'd just have to invent him...
He received spontaneous applause just three times, once for making fun of his boss, President Barack Obama, after wind knocked over a teleprompter screen.[*]
"What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken," Biden joked, hitting a theme that has been fodder for conservative talk shows.
"What will he do then?"
...that the Puffin King was screeching about loosening the government purse strings?
And wasn't Iggy also demanding more action on the auto bailout?
Canada's contribution to the bailout of two Detroit auto makers could soar to more than $13-billion with the increasing need for cash by General Motors Corp., which has moved a giant step closer to filing for bankruptcy protection.The Liberals... they're flexible.
The numbers are viewed as still in flux.
"The Liberals voted to support this budget. So I also could care less about hypocritical Liberals screeching. Its what they do."And look what happens when the socialists get pouty...
Oh, Libby... you gonna challenge me to another duel?...who get absolutely insane, every time I mention Toronto's burgeoning crime problems. They start screaming about racism... or calling me a nazi. Of course, the fact is, I don't make any of this stuff up.
It's all taken directly from local news sources, word for scary word.
I guess some folks feel it's best to just avert their gaze... to pretend there is no problem. Unfortunately, shooting the messenger really isn't any sort of a strategy.
Or, how about the lunatics who believe that the problem is... lord love a duck... the horrible, racist police? Or that legalising drugs, or setting up government-subsidised whorehouses will magically fix everything?
The simple truth is, the crime problem in Toronto... is criminals.
Case in point...
Toronto Police were called to the Zellers department store at Sheridan Mall in the Wilson Ave. and Jane St. area around 6 p.m. after receiving reports a 43-year-old woman had been stabbed.And this isn't, as some folks would like you to believe, an isolated incident.
"Six months ago, a customer at the mall got stabbed," he said. "It's very scary. The management here doesn't invest much money in security because business is down from the economy."
Last October, three men were shot in the mall's parking lot. Two days later, Burrell Bennett, 26, died leaving his daughter, 3, without a father.Now this isn't really my fight anymore... we moved out to Hastings County in 2001.
In 2005, four days before the Boxing Day gunbattle that claimed Jane Creba's life, a man was injured by a shotgun blast outside Sheridan Mall.
And in August of 2004 a mall security guard was stabbed in the head during a confrontation at a Pizza Pizza in the mall.
A 19-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with a stabbing that nearly claimed the life of an undercover security guard at a North York mall less than 24 hours earlier.*
Duong Nguyen was taken into custody around 2:30 p.m. at a bus stop not far from Sheridan Mall, Toronto Police say. He is charged with aggravated assault and numerous weapons, theft and other offences.
...I'm here to save you...
After catching him, Mr. Chen said he and his employees tied the man up and put him in a delivery truck, intending to hold him until police arrived. But someone else called 911 first.So where do you draw the line here? Obviously the cops can't be everywhere.
Mr. Chen said he spent 24 hours in a holding cell at 52 Division, paid $7,500 bail, and that the suspected shoplifter – also charged – got out of custody before he did.
Nearby shopkeepers fed up with thieves are rallying to his defence, saying police are too slow to respond when called about shoplifters and often let them off with a warning.**********
“We hope police can protect us and keep out businesses running,” Mr. Chen said in an interview. “Now, they are … on the criminals' side, not our side.”
Toronto police have released a photo of a man wanted for allegedly shooting a gun in a Scarborough strip mall in the middle of the day.*
Police have issued an arrest warrant for Timothy White, 19, of Toronto. He is wanted for discharging a firearm endangering life, careless use of a firearm, using a weapon dangerous threatening public peace and possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition.
-- LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- A large bomb has exploded in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and an official says it has caused a large number of casualties.**********
The blast mid-morning Wednesday was powerful enough to shear walls off buildings in the main business district of Lahore.
Khoro Pervaiz, the commissioner of Lahore, cited "a large number of casualties" though a tally was not exactly known.
-- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 27 -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 250 injured Wednesday when an explosives-ridden car blew up outside a police building in the Pakistani city of Lahore, government officials said.*
The attack also involved unknown gunmen who fired shots at and around the targeted police office, known as Rescue 15, just before the car detonated.
...than good...
The proprietor of a Caribbean restaurant on Morningside Ave. near Lawrence had just finished preparing some jerk chicken outside in anticipation of the dinner rush. He came back into his diner when the hair on the back of his neck stood up.And this one gets better... the shooter chases the guy into the store next door and throws a shot. Said master criminal then jumps into his nearby car.
He heard a clicking sound, like the one made when someone cocks a gun.
As he turned around, he got the shock of his life - a man was standing behind him pointing a weapon straight at him. Without waiting for him to pull the trigger, the owner raced out of the building and into the convenience store next door.
But this drama was far from over. An observant witness got the licence plate of the fleeing car and cops quickly traced it to an apartment building at 90 Mornelle Ct. After a waiting game of several hours, they finally took their suspect into custody.Thank goodness most of these guys are such morons.
Reports from the scene indicate he didn't go quietly.
...is hunting only inhumane when the rest of us do it?
When it was over, the Governor General wiped her bloody fingers with a tissue, saying it is difficult to believe anyone would characterize the traditional hunting practices as inhumane.Or... is hunting still a bloody, unnecessary ritual... but we're giving these folks a cultural "get out of jail free" card?
I've received a couple of emails splitting hairs about using the term aboriginal here. I respond thusly...And hey, as soon as the GG comes out and enthusiastically endorses hunting for the non-aboriginal population... I'll kiss her ass too.
aboriginal - characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; ie. "the aboriginal peoples of Australia"
"I've seen you growing everyday...*
I never really looked before...
But now you take my breath away."
-- JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. -- A New York toddler still in diapers has a growing reputation as a pool shark with a mean bank shot - even though he has to stand on a chair to reach the table.*
Two-year-old Keith O'Dell Jr. from upstate New York has pool shooting videos posted on YouTube, has his own website and is the youngest member of the American Pool Association.
His parents say his learning hasn't been limited to billiard games.
Pool is also teaching him colours and how to count.
...40 billion dollar deficit does Michael Ignatieff not understand?
It’s a generous nanny-state concept. Work just eight weeks anywhere in Canada and, if terminated, the Liberals want you to collect unemployment benefits for up to 50 weeks.**********
Graduating students with a summer job that contributes to Employment Insurance, rejoice. Start work after exams, finish in the spring and by Labour Day, 360 work hours later, you qualify for pogey.
"Brit public rebels against EU taxes and control. Yo, Cousins. Been there, done that."(via maggie's farm)
"We can tell you how, but it involves firearms."
The big problem for the Liberals is that the Tory ads, while exaggerated, are largely true: Mr. Ignatieff left the country, more or less permanently, in the 1970s, lived away most of his adult life and showed no intention of returning until he was seduced back by the idea of becoming Liberal leader in 2005.*
Here's where the Liberals are their most hypocritical about the Tories' ads: Imagine their reaction if it were Mr. Harper who had spent 34 years outside the country, moved back only to take a shot at being PM, said the only thing he missed while away was a provincial park and referred to himself as an American many times.
...fatal beating...
Three teenagers were charged Monday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of 67-year-old Kim Ngu Lieu, who was attacked in Montreal North last weekend.Who are these animals?
Ngu Lieu was at a bus stop at the corner of St. Vital and Henri Bourassa Blvds. late in the evening on May 17 when police allege the three youths surrounded her, brutally beat her, and tried to steal her purse.
...and you could rent teenage girls by the hour?
Yeah... me neither.
A 40-year-old man is under arrest and a 15-year-old girl is in protective custody after York Regional police infiltrated a prostitution ring.Pimping a minor? How about a mandatory ten-year minimum?
Members of the police Drugs and Vice Unit were told Friday that the teen was allegedly working as a prostitute under the direction of the male suspect. Their investigation led them to a condominium in Toronto where they found the girl and the suspect.
Renan Gazzali Esahak, a Richmond Hill resident has been charged.
**********One man is in hospital and nearby Brampton schools were locked down after shots were fired at a nearby community centre.*
Peel Regional Police found an injured man behind the Cassie Campbell Community Centre after responding to reports of gunshots just after 2 p.m.
...Stephen Harp... uh... wait a minute...
As his government grapples with the ailing economy, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has lost his economic development minister, Michael Bryant, in a move blamed both on a notorious speech Mr. Bryant gave espousing “reverse Reaganomics” and on his leadership ambitions.Looks like Michael Bryant got his ass "subdued" right out the door.
A source close to the Premier's Office said that Mr. Bryant's wave-making speech given to at least two audiences earlier this month played a major role in his departure, clearly upsetting a Premier who prefers his ministers take "a more subdued role".
...your move...
"North Korea had been expecting the new U.S. administration to mark a shift from the previous administration's stance, but is realizing that there are no changes."**********
"It may have decided that a second test was necessary."
Uh-huh... enough posturing & bullshit... call us when you're actually prepared to do something.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran will not hold any further talks with world powers on its controversial nuclear program.*
Mr. Ahmadinejad told a news conference in Tehran Monday Iran will only agree to discussions with major powers about cooperating in managing global problems.
He said Iran will not participate in talks about nuclear issues outside the framework of the U.N. nuclear agency.
In yet another shameless and incredibly hypocritical defense of Canada's first wannabe American Prime Minister... CTV featured a soundbite from Warren "Special K" Kinsella... the man one Liberal organiser recently described as "Human Shrapnel."
Apparently the Puffin King is the political equivalent of, and I quote... "Wayne Gretzky" or "Celine Dion."
Yet another journalistic coup for Sandi Rinaldo and CTV.
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RELATED: Canada... it's for "the little people"
"We should just all be grateful for the little time that he is able to spend with us on our humble Canadian soil."**********
Ignatieff’s future with the Kennedy School remains dependent on whether he is elected.*
“If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back,” Ignatieff said. “I love teaching here, and I hope I’ll be back in some shape or form.”
“He is still affiliated with the Carr Center and will remain so,” said Executive Director Fernande Raine. “We hope he will come back at some point depending on how long this run in politics actually takes.”
I guess we know what Dalton and company needed that new health care premium for.
Ontario's auditor is probing spending at the delay-plagued provincial agency responsible for developing electronic health records. eHealth Ontario has spent $146 million on consultants since 2003, despite commitments to reign in billings for outside expertise.*
And overall agency spending has ballooned to $839 million while the delivery date for province-wide, electronic patient health records has been pushed back to 2015.
This province continues to lag behind other Canadian jurisdictions that have spent far less money and made more progress on electronic health card systems that have reduced medical errors, prescription overdoses and health-care costs.
"Steele says MSM didn't vet Obama because of race. I disagree. They didn't want to vet a Lefty."*
"They do colonoscopies on black conservatives."
...whatever your little heart desires...
The human rights case launched by a federal scientist who claimed his former boss hired Chinese researchers because of their willingness to tolerate abuse has been dropped quietly.Yup... the guy who won a landmark "human rights" decision against his employer, the NRC... is being taken to the same tribunal by an underling. The CHRC snake is apparently now eating its own tail.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal had been scheduled to hear this month the case of Ming Zhou, 46, a Chinese-born scientist who alleged Chander Grover and the National Research Council of Canada had discriminated against him.
The case promised to spotlight the deeply dysfunctional relationship between the NRC and Grover, an Indian-born research physicist who became a senior manager after winning a landmark discrimination case against the federal research agency in 1992.
Those events have outraged Grover, who believes the case against him had been "trumped up" by the NRC as part of its campaign to oust him.
"I am disappointed and upset, yes, because I have been deprived of the opportunity to tell my side of the story," said Grover, who has repeatedly battled the agency in human rights tribunals and courtrooms since 1987.
I once had a friend... a computer programmer, who married a farmer's daughter (no, this isn't the start of a joke).
These two had been together for a decade... had a nice new house and a couple of lovely kids... but my friend's father-in-law just couldn't wrap his head around a man who sat and typed all day for a living.
The fact that my buddy likely grossed at least four times the farmers annual income did not seem to come into play.
This identification of masculinity with hard physical work (no empathy required) is deeply embedded in the history of the human race. For eons, it has been the most common way to be a man.It seems, in today's rapidly evolving world, there's a sort of intellectual snobbery burbling not too far beneath the surface. We somehow imagine that white collar jobs are always much more valuable and difficult than manual labour. (Try assembling your own car, or growing all your own vegetables for just one year.)
People are pretty adaptable, and education can work wonders. But no matter how much education and retraining we offer, we are not going to transform factory workers and high-school dropouts into customer-care representatives or nurses' aides any time soon.And don't get me wrong, this isn't about slagging farmers, or steamfitters, or autoworkers... or about a disparity in intelligence.
"You are cordially invited to celebrate the marriage of Zaynab Khadr and Bilbo Baggins..."
*
I guess Michael Bryant finally got tired of Dalton crappin' all over him...
-- TORONTO -- Premier Dalton McGuinty says he will take over as Ontario's economic development minister once Michael Bryant steps down from the post.**********
McGuinty says Bryant told him Friday that he will be leaving politics to become CEO of the new Invest Toronto corporation, chaired by Mayor David Miller.
The colourful minister has been Ontario's point man in negotiations to save the domestic auto industry, and his departure would be a blow to the provincial government.
He had also been considered a top contender to succeed McGuinty, despite his sometimes frosty relations with the premier.
"McGuinty doesn't appreciate dissent in his ranks. We see that in the backbenchers on a regular basis -- preferring to sing from the premier's hymn book than listen to what their constituents are saying about this (harmonized sales) tax."*
Mayor's office, yet again, strangely silent... on which scout troop, er... gun club... he belonged to.
-- TORONTO -- A 13-year-old boy was found with a loaded handgun in Toronto's northwest end, police said this morning. The boy was being investigated as part of a shooting investigation in the Jane St. and Falstaff Ave. area, south of Wilson Ave., when cops found the gun around 6:45 p.m. yesterday, Toronto Police said in a news release.Of course, under the Young Offenders Act... he was home before bedtime.
He was charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, possession of a prohibitedfirearm with ammunition and carrying a concealed weapon.
Inside the low-income building and on surrounding streets, police continued to probe the latest, and perhaps most disturbing, blast of gun violence in the 12 Division patrol area.*
So far this year, eight of Toronto's 20 homicides, including four shooting deaths in the past month, have taken place there.
Whatever happened to... "One People, One Law"?
One inmate named Darcy, who murdered his in-laws and his wife, says, “I'm not going to let their deaths be in vain.”And while a typical Canadian would likely be angered and appalled by this taxpayer funded adventure in social engineering... English film-maker Hugh Brody is simply thrilled to pieces.
Murderers, rapists and contract killers, they have spent much of their adult lives behind bars. But this place, known as Kwikwexwelhp, has no bars. It barely has fences.
An author, anthropologist and filmmaker who has been shuttling between England, his birthplace, and Canada for 30 years, Brody initially asked permission to visit Kwikwexwelhp and talk to some of the younger inmates.**********
What he found when he arrived startled him: “I was immediately surprised by the openness,” he recalls. “Not just the beauty of the setting, but the way you couldn't tell who was on staff and who was imprisoned.”
Thursday's hearing will take place at his minimum-security prison, Kwikwexwelhp Healing Village, which puts aboriginal spirituality at the centre of its rehabilitation program.*
Munro is not aboriginal but has converted to native teachings.
"The first thing we do... is hang all the lawyers."
**********It was fortuitous that I included the full text of the original article here in the comments. Apparently the Red Star has disappeared the original article that refers to McClintic's lawyer's comments about "helping Tori's family."Funny how that works, huh?
"...in a boat on a river...*
...with tangerine trees...
...and marmalade skies."
...sure aren't what they used to be...
"It is not a moral standpoint but a fiscal one," an official said. "Prostitution is not an illegal act in Germany, but not paying tax on earned money is.*
"Consequently we are assessing her case and it looks likely she will have to pay around half of the sum she gained."
It also emerged she will most probably be liable for a hefty VAT bill too, even if not registered for VAT, because sold "goods or service" with a 19 per cent VAT rate.
...draconian "gas and matches" prohibition within city limits.
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UPDATE: Bullets fly at Scarlett & Weston
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LAST WORD: No one steps up... shooter walks
The shooter was chased by a Toronto Housing security guard before he disappeared into a ravine bordering Humber River.*
About 30 minutes later, a 34-year-old man was cornered when he became stranded on a dirt mound in the middle of the river. He was wearing the same clothing described by numerous witnesses but did not have any weapons.
He has since been released without charges.
Hey, Mayor Super Dave... maybe we should be working up a "National Crazy People Registry"...
"He seemed a little off," said one man, who lives nearby and didn't want his name used. "I think he might be mentally ill."Unfortunately, Mayor Miller is too busy chasing after Olympic target shooters to focus on doing something about mentally-ill killers...
"I'm scared of him," said another neighbour, who also didn't want her name used.
After removing the woman from her home, paramedics worked feverishly to save her as residents watched in shock. The woman was rushed to hospital, where she was pronounced dead, becoming the city's 19th murder victim of the year.**********
Police didn't immediately release the slain woman's name.
A 43-year-old man is Toronto's latest murder victim.**********
Toronto Police found the body of Tony Colantonio inside a home on Westglen Cres., in an upscale Martin Grove and Burhamthorpe Rds. neighbourhood, yesterday just after 11 a.m.
Rafferty's co-accused, 18-year old Terri-Lynne McClintic was abandoned at a young age by her biological mother, who worked as stripper, and moved around Ontario before coming to Woodstock a few years ago.No. Just stop.
...GE foods do not need to be labelled...
It would be a watershed moment - there are currently no genetically engineered animals approved for sale as food anywhere in the world - and opponents are predicting a wave of consumer outrage.In other "we have the technology... almost" news...
"If all households were stocked with the more efficient equipment, Canadians would cut five of the 6.3 terawatt-hours of standby power they consume each year, which is enough to power all the homes in New Brunswick."Well, it would if... like the heavily touted electric car from General Motors... actually existed.
"Not sure what you are talking about Neo, but General Motors did make and produce the EV1 back in the 1990's."Hmmm... that sounds so familiar...
In 2006 Sony Pictures produced a Michael Moore-type “documentary” film entitled, “Who Killed the Electric Car”. Among the “villains” in the EV1’s death were GM, the U.S. federal government and even CARB.And...
But the real killer was the apathy of a public that was not interested in electric cars with the limited driving range provided by the available battery technology.
"Let me see if I get this straight: they want me to wait until 9PM to put on my dishwasher, but everything would be hunky-dory if 100,000 commuters plugged in their electric cars at the same time?"And...
"Or as I like to call it, the coal fired car."*
...they want to kill your infidel ass... are you just not getting?
-- NEW YORK CITY -- The men ordered and accepted delivery of materials they believed were bomb-making ingredients, authorities said. But investigators said they made sure the materials the suspects received were inert.Another attack foiled, but guess what folks... this is a question of when... not if.
The four men are in custody and are expected to be arraigned Thursday in White Plains federal court on terrorism-related counts.
Since the 9/11 attacks, authorities have arrested suspects in a number of alleged plots against area targets including the Fort Dix New Jersey military base, John F. Kennedy Airport, the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.And, of course... there's the usual colouful noms des guerre...
The suspects were identified as James Cromitie, also known as Abdul Rahman; David Williams, also known as Daoud or simply DL; Onta Williams, also known as Hamza; and Laguerre Payen, also known as Amin and Almondo.**********
In a strange almost anti-Obama bipartisan moment the U.S. senate voted 90-6 to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and also denied the Obama administration the funding to close the place down.**********
"Even when this process is complete, there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States."*
Some human rights advocates criticized Obama for adopting the idea that some detainees are not entitled to a trial.
The president stopped short of saying he would institutionalize indefinite detention for future captives.
...hasn't actually read Ezra's new book...
"Why on earth would we want to expose ourselves by plunging recklessly into such a controversial issue?" said the 53-year-old Whitby lawyer, who is married to federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.Hey Christine, how about... because it's the right thing to do?
Ezra Levant's Shakedown, and his three-year advocacy, have been the "blast of the trumpet" against this trespass. And we should be grateful for his effort. Support him, too. Buy the book.**********
Rex Murphy speaks freely as a commentator with CBC-TV's The National and host of CBC Radio's Cross-Country Checkup.
"Does Christine Elliott support the tribunal or is she playing politics to distort Randy Hillier's and Tim Hudak's positions. Christine tell us if you support the tribunal and paying the salary of Barbara Hall."*
...are hysterical, conflicted heads... exploding all over the leftosphere...
-- "Aboriginals on the west coast of Vancouver Island are planning to kill one per cent of sea otters per year for ceremonial reasons." --Aboriginal cultural needs... or protect an endangered species... oh Gaia... hear our prayers!.
"Yeah this is just totally different, because when the aboriginals kill animals they do it with... respect, or something. It's all very mystical and cultural and wonderful."And...
"I wonder what those things taste like."*
...in Toronto... must be Wednesday...
Two men are in hospital following a shooting in North York Tuesday night.**********
Police were called to the north end of Wendell Ave., just south of Highway 401 near Weston Rd., around 10:30 p.m.
A 15-year-old girl lured from her group home, provided with fake identification and forced to serve up sex in a Mississauga strip club is likely one of several girls victimized by area pimps, say Peel Regional Police.**********
A man is in hospital with severe burns after being set on fire during a dispute at a home in the city's west end yesterday.*
The victim was involved in a "disagreement" with another man around 8 p.m. at 20 Jasper Ave., near Weston Rd. and Black Creek Dr., Toronto Police said.
The other man allegedly doused the victim with gasoline and then lit him on fire.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the case of missing 8-year-old Victoria "Tori" Stafford, according to reports.**********
The Woodstock, Ont., girl went missing on April 8 and was last seen walking away from her school with an unidentified woman.
Police sources close to the case confirmed a man and woman were arrested last night but released few details about the charges they are facing -- or the identities of the suspects.
Michael Thomas Rafferty, 28, and Terri-Lynne McClintic, 18, were arraigned on the charges and abduction charges in a Woodstock, Ont., court.More details at the 3pm presser.
The relationship between the two accused was unclear, but there are reports the pair is known to one or both of Tori’s parents.
"I believe McClintic may be familiar with Tara McDonald," OPP Det.-Insp. William Renton said. "I believe they're familiar with one another."*
The news conference was stopped abruptly after Renton made the statement, leaving questions about the nature of the relationship unanswered.
"His capacity to exercise terror from beyond the grave is zero, and I think for that reason as well, he will rapidly become a kind of ghost, or has become a ghost already."*
...absolutely no raging gun-battles in progress this sunny Tuesday... yet again...
Toronto police are investigating a late-night shooting in north Scarborough that left one man in hospital with serious injuries and another in police custody. Shots rang out just before midnight Monday in a parking lot of a shopping plaza located on Finch Avenue, just east of Kennedy Road.Curiously, once more, Mayor Miller's office strangely silent on which gun club the shooters belonged to.
Authorities say they are investigating whether the gun battle that erupted between a two groups of men was caught on a surveillance camera that was set up in the plaza. Investigators say they found numerous shell casings in the parking lot.
The plaza remained closed throughout Tuesday morning while police examined evidence at the scene.
-- TORONTO -- Toronto police have identified a 19-year-old man accused of firing shots toward officers just after midnight on Sunday.*
Abshir Abdirashid of Toronto faces nine charges, including two counts of attempted murder, and is scheduled to appear in court today.
Herein lies the dichotomy, the decision to focus on reducing suffering is made only after life-prolonging treatment has been ineffectual and death is imminent. It's very hard to switch gears - to let go of the rope.*
It's a lot easier when you have a clear sense that this is what the person would have wanted.
...they stimulated the economy by selling a sh!tload of newspapers...
Alfie Patten, the boy who was reported to have fathered a child when he was 12 years old, is not the baby's father, DNA tests have shown.Unfortunately, on the flip side, the girl in question is now revealed as an infamous country-wide liar and tramp.
Alfie, now 13, from Eastbourne, in East Sussex, told a national newspaper in February that he believed he had made his 15-year-old girlfriend pregnant.
But the tests established in March that a 15-year-old boy from Eastbourne is the father of Chantelle Stedman's baby.
...who says it's just for politicians?
-- VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Vancouver sex trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters and will be offered media training leading up to the 2010 Olympic Games, an advocacy group said.Hang on a sec... hooker journalism is gonna be an integral part of the Olympic television coverage? What's up with that? Is this some new marketing plan to reverse the CBC's failing fortunes?
"We find sometimes that media attention to the area can be a little less than compassionate and we don't want them to feel like animals in a zoo during that time."Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
It is a harsh, but necessary thing to point out that, in reality, children are hostages to their parents. They are vulnerable, both physically and psychically.**********
If parents teach their children that the world is flat, the children will not only uncritically take that on as a personal belief, but they will fight others psychologically, even physically, who disagree, because disagreement is an indirect attack against their parents on whom they are one hundred percent dependent.
The correlation is nearly total: If parents believe in a particular religion, their children, as adults, will as well.
"Bless my folks: one agnostic, the other atheist, but saw that I got to catechism and church until I made up my own mind that, as has been said, "Its not that I don't believe in god. Its just that I don't trust his ground crew".*
See, Iggy... an old hand wouldn't have "rolled the dice" here...
It would appear that Iggy.me, Judy Sgro and IRuby were hoping against hope that the whole thing might blow over.*
Michael Ignatieff could have asked IRuby to step down as Critic for Multiculturalism and Youth immediately - but he didn’t. Instead he obviously decided to take the wait and see approach.
All of which raises a few questions. One is the curious appearance of Ms. Dhalla front and centre in the photo-ops at the Convention.
Whose idea was that?
...Crawford, Texas...
The shifting policies of the Obama administration on national-security issues have left reporters and White House officials exasperated with each other.Funny how that works, huh?
“You started out on Monday questioning why we were being so opposite of George Bush in all these questions,” Bob Gibbs, Mr. Obama's amiable if syntactically challenged press secretary, complained on Friday.
"And on Friday I'm answering questions about why are we so much like George Bush on all these questions."
"I am not by any means a political pundit, but it appears to me Barry and his crew are winging it."*
"We got change alright, every other day!"
...he was right about one thing...
The broadcast quoted military officials as saying Prabhakaran had been killed along with his intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Soosai, the head of the rebels' naval wing.Ironically... the news appears to have sparked mass demonstrations...
They were shot dead in an ambush in the Mullivaikal district while trying to escape the war zone in an ambulance, the general added.
Earlier, at least three senior rebel leaders were killed, including Prabhakaran's eldest son, Charles Anthony.
The announcement sparked mass celebrations around the country, and people poured into the streets of Colombo dancing and singing.*
Now, everybody please join me in saying a heartfelt prayer... that they never, ever let him anywhere near anything... remotely involving missiles.
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BEST HEADLINE BAR NONE:
"Biden speaks at Wake Forest - does not disclose nuclear launch codes"*
Of course the murderer's rights come first.
-- OTTAWA -- The son of a woman who was raped, strangled and left to rot in the woods has been blacklisted from the killer’s parole hearing.Yeah... let's penalise the guy who is scarred for life because his mother was brutally murdered... that makes sense.
Jeremy Mead, who was six years old when he watched his mom brutally assaulted at gunpoint, is barred from the May 27 hearing in Toronto because he wrote a victim’s impact statement deemed “disturbing” by officials at Correctional Service of Canada.
Mead wrote the first impact statement this past December, after learning Richard Raymond Babinski was permitted day passes to attend cultural events. It was the first time Mead had put pen to paper to express how his mom’s murder traumatized him for life.
CSC refuses to reverse its decision - a position Mead calls a “slap in the face” to him and his mother’s memory.**********
“They’re going to give him a second chance, but they’re not going to give me a second chance,” he said. “His rights are overpowering my rights.”
She did everything you're supposed to do when you run up against someone scary and dangerous -- got in touch with the police, filed charges, and helped the police gather evidence against the man who had sexually assaulted her (and who was later convicted of murdering her).And now Eva Marie Mead's son is being re-victimised by the system.
In the end, obsession trumped common sense.
Well, Zorph... at least this time, you're not using a false trolling id... or shittin' on gays...
"It's a little past ironic that compassionate, intellectual, progressive Zorpheus considers... "whining, spineless nancyboys"... to be the ultimate insult he can throw at us knuckle-draggin' neocons."*
-- CALGARY -- The release of a double-murderer onto city streets occurred despite the contention of the federal government that the convicted killer should remain in custody, immigration officials said yesterday.Hang on a sec... the IRB?
Elvir Pobric, who escaped a Bosnian prison more than 10 years ago and hid as a fugitive in Canada, was released last week, days after his detention review hearing was closed to the public.
The fact Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Lee Ann King made the decision to release Pobric pending another hearing, without offering any reasons, has left politicians and police asking questions.
Pobric was sentenced to 20 years in a Bosnian prison following the April 1992 murders of two men. After shooting them execution-style, Pobric burned and buried the bodies and a car in a garbage dump.He was arrested two days later.Oh Canada.
In November 1996, he escaped from jail. Pobric claimed refugee status when he arrived in Canada in 1999.
An outstanding fraud charge against Pobric has to be dealt with before officials with Canada Border Services Agency can find him inadmissible.
But Canadians will not learn how immigration officials will deal with him. Removals are reported to the public only after the removal has taken place.
"At his detention hearing, his Vancouver-based interpreter introduced herself over the speaker phone and said she was fluent in both Bosnian and Serbian.*
“'Can you tell me your name?,' asked Pobric, clad in a blue jumpsuit and handcuffed. “'I’m sorry, I don’t like to have a translator who have a Boza first name OK?
"That’s a Serbian name."
"The case was adjourned until Tuesday in order to find a Bosnian interpreter and to give the media time to make an application that the case be opened to the public."
God forbid they should be insensitive to this murderer's religious and ethnic sensibilities.
"...are just about as safe as the people who are their custodians," says Hoodbhoy. The threat comes not from the "mountain barbarians," he says, but from "Al Qaeda, together with their Islamist allies within the Pakistani state and society."*
"These are urban people, engineers, technicians, people in fairly high offices."
...be Darcey...
[*]
And then, there's this...
Who would you choose to have breakfast with?**********
A moderate Muslim with an award winning book who consistently speaks out on behalf of Canada and a man who gave up his community to put his country first or a bunch of hard right Islamists who you have nothing in common with?
Having shared bread with the two 'outsiders' I can tell you first hand that it is not a conversation to be missed.
Mr Pathmanathan said the LTTE was "prepared to silence its guns if that is what needed by the international community to save the life and dignity of the Tamil people".*
...and university campuses...
Witnesses told the Sun the young shooter was allowed in The Underground club with an "underage" wrist band ahead of the shooting just before midnight Thursday.**********
Once inside the bar, in the lower level of the Student Centre, the young man ripped off the wrist band so he could drink, witnesses said.
When he was confronted by a security guard who tried to escort him out, the youth pulled out a gun and fired off three or four rounds, an employee of the bar said.
A suspect has been arrested and a handgun seized after police officers were shot at in a troubled North York neighbourhood.*
Officers were called to an address on Driftwood Avenue, in the city's Jane Street and Finch Avenue area, just after midnight Sunday after a shot was fired into a townhouse.
..."Will of Allah"...
In the decade since the fighting ended, the wave of unregistered nikaah marriages has been followed by a corresponding wave of "talaaq" or Islamic divorces, leaving thousands of Tajik women and children destitute and completely unprotected by the law.*
...it's not working.
-- TORONTO -- A crowd of thousands of Tamil-Canadians has shut down the intersection at Yonge and Dundas Sts. to protest the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka.That's funny... CTV skipped over the part about them fighting with the cops.
As of 9 p.m. any in the crowd are sitting in the streets, despite police pleas for them to keep moving. The demonstrators say they will stay put until they hear from the federal government.
"I say find out who's organizing this campaign and send them a bill for the whole shebang. Police, ambulance, fire dept, city services and clean up. Hit em in the wallet where it hurts."And...
*
...apple pie...
It's not just that Ignatieff has lived more than 30 years out of Canada (though that alone should disqualify him), Mr. Wells. It's that the only reason he's back is to add another line to his resume.*
And therein lies Iggy's real "pronoun problem".
Canada - not worth living in unless they'll make you Prime Minister.
...say we have to continue to suck up to the barbaric regime in Communist China... Zhao Ziyang disagrees...
Just weeks before the 20th anniversary of the bloody Chinese government crackdown on demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, the leader ousted for opposing the crackdown has broken his silence, with a posthumous memoir that condemns the 1989 killings as a "tragedy."And just what was it that turned Zhao's head around?
In 1989, Zhao Ziyang was the highest-ranking leader in the country - the chief of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
Zhao says on the night of June 3, while sitting in the courtyard with his family, he heard what he described as intense gunfire. He said "a tragedy to shock the world had not been averted, and was happening after all."*
The gunfire he heard was government troops firing on protesters around Tiananmen Square, actually in the early hours of June 4.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people, were killed.
-- ABBOTSFORD -- In their final semester of high school, teenagers Dilsher Gill and Joseph Randay made a fatal decision to take over a Red Scorpion drug line that had been run by two other young men gunned down in March, The Vancouver Sun has learned.*
Four weeks later, the popular students were also shot dead — all because Scorpion rivals wanted to kill anyone perceived to be linked to Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie Bacon and their notorious gang.
...you actually think multi-national corporations and our own beloved elected representatives would lie to us...
In February, GM Canada promised the federal and Ontario governments that it would maintain its current share of production in order to receive a long-term bailout loan of $6 billion -- about 20% of what it had requested from the U.S. government.*
AutomotiveCompass president Bill Pochiluk said the closure of GM's truck plant in Oshawa, which produced its last vehicle yesterday, is a harbinger of things to come.
Pochiluk said he expects some production at the GM-Suzuki CAMI joint-venture plant in Ingersoll to move to Mexico by 2014.
...you've got a better chance of being strangled by your own pants...
From 2002 to 2007, nine people died in Canada after being hit with an RCMP stun gun.Of course...
In the decade from 1991-2000, there were 5,900 water-related deaths in Canada; of that total, 889 died fishing.**********
Det Con Joe Holness agreed to act as a guinea pig in a demonstration of the device at the Police Federation's annual conference on Wednesday.[*]
His stunt raised more than £1,000 for October's National Police Memorial Day, which Det Con Holness founded himself.
The conference voted 95% in favour of all officers being armed with the guns.
...trots out his defense...
“You know and we know that no matter where we come from, where we live or have lived, we are all of us proud Canadians.”See, professor... I'n not so sure about that. What about the tens of thousands of folks who just got finished paralysing Toronto for the last week or so?
Mr. Harper's press secretary, Dimitri Soudas, said last night the issue is not the years Mr. Ignatieff spent abroad, but that he came back only to try to become prime minister.Michael Ignatieff, after 34 years on the road, rolls back into town at 58 years of age... because he's suddenly feeling patriotic?
“Canadians who chose to work outside the country don't pretend that Canada is not their country.”
"Is Ignatieff's current wife a landed immigrant or a citizen of Canada or ?*
I read that the "family" home was in Florence, Italy? Are they citizens of Italy?"
...maybe next time... you wanna get all that stuff in writing...
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UPDATE: Hope is cheap... go nuts
"It is certainly the intention of this administration not to play hide and seek or not to release certain things in a way that is not consistent with other things."*
"It is not our intention to try to advance a political agenda or to hide things from the American people."
...what colour thong the Puffin King was sporting?
-- VANCOUVER -- The highlight of the convention was the closing party.And what political shindig is really complete without a full contingent of transvestites?
Thanks to Vancouver MP Hedy Fry and her B.C. team, the biggest cheers of the weekend, not including those aided by noise-making blow-up thunder sticks, went to an outrageous and hilarious lineup of talent in a big tent set up in Stanley Park.
Fry sang a duet with local drag queen legend Bill Monroe, who proudly showed off his “Tina Turner” legs. Drag queen Carlotta Gurl did a number as Wonder Woman and tied up MP Rob Oliphant’s aide with a golden lasso.The Liberal Party of Canada... all oiled up and ready to go.
The show also included saucy burlesque performers who stripped down to their pasties.
...massive barbwire-topped security wall... all the way around it.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"What could "the province of trana" possible have to offer confederation???"*
Whew... that was a close one...
In other news ... the Association of Lions, Tigers and Other Large Felines has called an emergency session to discuss any necessary actions against this proposed name change.**********
A spokesman indicated that there is concern that there may be a negative backlash against Lions, in general. As well, lawyers for the Association are considering legal action concerning the use of the name. Copyright infringement is a primary concern.
Association President Simba (from Lion King fame) stated that large Felines are oftentimes presented in a negative fashion in the media, and that the use of the name would potentially be construed in the same way.
Association Good Will Ambassador Tony the Tiger reiterated that they were great - whatever that means.
"Uh, isn't there also a connotation between Lions and Christians?"*
...the Natural Governing party...
Man, that's spooky... these guys can read us like a book....
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RELATED: The Puffin King... he's flexible
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I was under the impression it was the law of the land...
Signs reading "LTTE is our sole representatives" and "LTTE fights for Tamils' right in Sri Lanka," referring to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – widely considered a terrorist organization – were prominent across the front lawn of the legislature.Oh, right... it's the Red Star.
"Protect Canada, stop the Tamil Tigers."[*]
This was a statement that was legally spoken (from all indications) by protesters holding signs and shown as a banner behind a plane circling over Queen's Park in Toronto today.
The result? An investigation into a possible hate crime.
In broken, lawless Toronto...
A crucial Crown witness who was supposed to begin testifying at a first-degree murder trial today stunned a downtown Toronto court this morning by refusing to take the oath.*
"I'm not testifying," Marlon Wilson said shaking his head as jurors looked on in Superior Court.
"You're required to testify sir," Justice Michael Dambrot told Wilson.
"I'm not going to say my name ... I ain't taking no oath," Wilson replied.
...shades of Nancy Pelosi...
-- WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is seeking to block the immediate release of hundreds of new photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.**********
An administration official said today that the president told his legal advisers last week that releasing the photos would endanger U.S. troops.
Obama wants the issue to go back to court, although federal appeals judges have ruled the photos be released.
The biggest news story on the issue now is whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, knew about the tactics and approved using them.Yes, America... wake up and behold the kinder, gentler Democratic regime.
Mrs. Pelosi says she learned about the tactics in 2002 but understood they would be used in the future.
So... the protesters don't support the Tamil Tigers? Check out the sign in the picture below... it doesn't get any clearer than that...
Tone deaf Tamil Tiger supporters rev up the threats & blackmail... one more time...
“We can only control the people for a couple of times. If their emotions get enraged even more, it’s not in our hands,” said Priyanth Nallaratnam.Of course... like Iggy and company, ol' Priyanth is gonna try lay this one at the feet of, wait for it... Stephen Harper.
“If the Prime Minister keeps on ignoring this, his ignorance of the community’s plight is just going to fuel the people even more. The people are going to get even more enraged.”Sure thing, pal... just not enraged enough to stay in Sri Lanka and actually fight for the cause.
Toronto is bracing for another Tamil mass protest today, with tens of thousands of people expected to descend on Queen's Park to form a human chain at noon, possibly targeting the downtown subway as well.**********
Tamil Facebook groups and radio stations have called for Toronto's Tamils to go to Queen's Park today to continue the public protests that exploded onto the Gardiner Expressway on Sunday night.
There was also talk of protesters targeting University Avenue and Yonge Street, from Union Station up to Bloor Street.
Toronto police closed the southbound lanes of University Avenue between Queen and Dundas streets, around 3 p.m., saying they "will remain closed until further notice."**********
-- TORONTO -- The protests have angered some commuters caught in the traffic but McGuinty said "THE INCONVENIENCE" has to be weighed against a moral obligation to oppose injustice.Of course, Dalton just has a short limo ride from Queens Park to his Liberal Party-subsidised mansion in Rosedale.
"I think we also have a higher responsibility to find a way to speak out as responsible global citizens in the face of a significant breach of human rights."
Isn't it about time... somebody freed the slaves?
-- OTTAWA -- According to parliamentary rules, MPs are allowed to miss 21 days of work within one parliamentary session before they are fined. MPs are then to be docked $120 a day if they fail to show up to work without a good excuse.Oh, the huge manatee!
MPs self report each month and are given a free pass if they are sick, working in their riding, or on “parliamentary business” elsewhere in the country or the world.
...must be Tuesday...
Two men are in hospital after separate shootings in North York within the span of an hour. Around 5:30 p.m., a passerby came across a young man lying on the ground bleeding on Toryork Dr., an industrial road in the area of Weston Rd. and Finch Ave. W.**********
Another shooting occurred about 40 minutes later outside a high-rise complex on Sheppard Ave. W. near Jane St. A man, believed to be in his 20s, was walking from his car to an apartment building when he was shot in the leg, said Staff Sgt. Mike Stones.
Officers responded to a third shooting nearby on Chalkfarm Dr., in the Jane St. and Wilson Ave. area, around 8:40 p.m. But when they arrived, there was no victim.
Several bullet casings were recovered near the lobby of an apartment building.
A man wanted for a 1991 shooting death of a Scarborough businessman has been returned to Toronto after being arrested in Jamaica.*
Horace Tazman Headley, 40, is charged with first-degree murder of Stanley Shearer, who was gunned down 18 years ago in his music production office near Midland and Sheppard Aves.
...will grab at a sword...
"But my favorite little desperate gesture from the Tamils is the way they’ve reached out to Sonia Gandhi, the big Indian politician, to ask for help. Which is funny because Sonia happens to be the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, who was killed by a suicide bomber in 1991. And who sent the bomber? Nobody but the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Tamils’ great liberation army."Meanwhile, Ontario Premier Dalton McSlippery offers up this sage advice... "Just pretend you don't really support the terrorists."
"Yup, they didn’t like Rajiv’s policy on Sri Lanka so they sent him the LTTE version of a strip-o-gram: a zombie girl who shimmied right up to Rajiv at a rally and pulled her own string. It stripped her all right; it stripped the flesh off her and Rajiv and anybody else within the blast radius.'
"Scorched-earth erotic dancing. The ultimate Bollywood closing number."
Christy Blatchford has an article worth reading entitled "Whose rights are really being trampled?" which I found on the same page as the story in your second link.*
Here's an experiment, folks... try dragging your children out onto a busy highway and see how long it takes Children's Aid to scoop them up.
Why exactly are Tamil protesters exempt from child protection laws?
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"I'd just like to point out that the GTA is also home to a large number of people from Pakistan and Somalia. There are wars there that are killing hundreds of civilians. Where do we draw the line?"*
"Are Tamil deaths more important than those in the Swat Valley, or Africa?"
...but I think I'm gonna go with...he was a scummy crackhead who tried to take a gun off a cop...
“He was under control. There was no reason for that.” Why did she have to pull out the gun? Why didn’t she just use the Taser?”...and oh yeah... tasers are dangerous... haven't you heard?
...we'll just crucify the victim...
A guy sees some kids stealing his car and takes off after them. The kids pile into a tree.
Guess who police are gonna smash with the legal shithammer?
Quebec police are investigating a high-speed car chase that ended with the death of a teenager Sunday night.Yeah... they "allegedly" stole it, according to the CBC.
A 16-year-old boy died in the passenger seat of a car he and a friend stole in the Laurentians town of Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, police said.
The two allegedly stole the car just before midnight and were tailed by its owner, who used another vehicle to chase them down the highway.
...and everybody else...
Canada's health system will be short 60,000 registered nurses over the next 15 years unless urgent action is taken, a new study warns.You think a six hour wait in the local hospital emergency room is a hard go... trust me... it's about to get worse. Try starting your car without the pistons in the engine.
There are currently 217,000 registered nurses in Canada, the single largest group of health care providers.
...and schoolyard spats were settled by disembowelment?
Yeah... me neither.
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UPDATE: Another dead kid... must be Monday
Police are investigating a shooting in the west end that has left 14-year-old Adrian Johnston dead.*
The location is also about 400 to 500 metres from where two suspects shot Jarvis St. Remy to death at a Dundas Street West bus stop, just west of Scarlett Road, on the evening of May 1.
...of a soft, fluffy "Casey & Finnegan" world...
"Why shouldn't York University accommodate Ashif Jaffer?" The word "accommodate" seems to have acquired the same status as "love," "tolerance" and "peace" -- things that are always good and desirable. Canada is a just society, after all.Because, in Pierre Trudeau's socialist paradise... "If you want it... it will, most assuredly, come."
Recently I wrote about Ashif Jaffer, a man with Down syndrome whose mother is determined that he earn an undergraduate degree and who is suing York University in Toronto for refusing to make that happen.
"It's not fair that university degrees only be awarded to the academically gifted. They should be equally distributed amongst all the various protected categories of citizens."*
"To reward those with aptitude and diligence at the expense of those lacking such attributes is a clear violation of our rights."
"When I was young I thought the villains in Ayn Rand's novels were ridiculously over the top. I don't think that anymore."
I guess Dawg and company will be thrilled... more "Christian Crusaders" bite the dust.
-- BAGHDAD -- A U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops and at least five were killed today, the Pentagon and U.S. Command said.*
It was unclear if the shooter was among the dead in the incident, which the U.S. Command said in a brief statement occurred in the afternoon at Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport.
...attempting to, yet again, shut down Toronto... and blackmail the Prime Minister...
7:30pm: A massive Tamil demonstration has closed traffic in both directions on Toronto's busy Gardiner Expressway. At approximately 6:50 pm this evening, protesters marched up the Spadina westbound on-ramp and spread out across the highway.It's a miracle that nobody was killed or maimed here.
Police arrived on scene immediately, closed intersections and contained the demonstration.
Chief Blair expressed frustration at the difficulties faced by the police in finding a Tamil spokesman with whom to negotiate. "We are not getting much co-operation," he said.And it looks like they're actually holding people hostage...
The shutdown of the Gardiner quickly rippled across the entire city, as the Ontario Provincial Police, in a backup role to Toronto police, blocked off southbound access to the Don Valley Parkway into the city.
Transit riders were also trapped: Three streetcars were pinned down by protesters at University and College; the Spadina streetcars were turned back at King Street; and there was reduced service along Queen's Quay.No fear, though... it looks like "His Blondeness" is pulling out all the stops...
Mayor David Miller issued a statement last night calling for calm, urging the Tamil demonstrators "to peacefully relocate their protest to a safer location."C'mon Mr Mayor... can you say "pretty please"?
Some Tamils said they decided to end their protest after Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff promised to take up the cause in the Commons.*
Another Tamil protest near the Ontario legislature ended just before midnight, opening up University Avenue and College St.
Apparently... CTV has unearthed political plutonium that puts Jason Kenney on Nannygate's "grassy knoll"...
Oh... hang on a sec... it's just more of their ongoing tradition of uber-partisan drive-by smears.
*
...three wise men bearing... wait a minute...
An overnight shooting at a birthday party in Etobicoke has sent six people to hospital. Three are in critical condition.**********
Around 3 a.m., the party was in full swing at a townhouse complex on The West Mall, near Rathburn Rd. and Highway 427, when three men dressed in dark clothing arrived.
The men appeared to be looking for a specific person, but one of them started firing indiscriminately in an attempt to hit his victim, according to unconfirmed reports from the scene.
Neighbours reported hearing up to 10 gunshots.
"Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE) is the leading not for profit youth violence prevention organization in Canada.Say... what about the thugs who are fomenting murder?
LOVE helps youth who have lived with violence end violence in their lives, and then become community leaders of violence prevention."
...Allah just throws up his hands and says. "That's it, I'm outta here"...
Witnesses in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, say fighting between rival Islamist groups has killed at least 39 people and injured dozens more.Well, as long as they get rid of those evil... wait...
Somalia's current government has the backing of moderate Islamists but hardline groups have vowed to topple it and install an Islamic state.
A new fatwa published in Egypt determines that the source of all the existing pigs in the world is Jews, who were cursed by Allah. The new edict was issued by Sheikh Ali Osman from the Egyptian Waqf ministry.**********
Due to their Jewish roots, Sheikh Osman says, it is permissible to slaughter all the pigs.
The religious scholar was quoted as saying by a Jordanian newspaper that he personally believes the source of the pigs is Jews and thus the consumption of pork meat is banned in Islam.
Land of broken dreams...
The low point for Michael came just this week, when his coronation ceremony was interrupted by reporters asking questions about one of his associates.**********
Michael told us that the 'snakehead', or handler who had promised to protect him from this kind of thing had suddenly disappeared for mysterious 'surgery'.
Left alone to face a hostile press for the first time, Michael did the only thing he could - he ran away.
"Well, we know for sure there will be no early election."**********
"It will take months for the liberals to wash the Ruby off the bottom of their shoes."
Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948.*
...is so good... people fly here from all over the world...
An alleged Toronto gang member won't be charged by police after flying to Canada in bloodsoaked bandages to seek medical treatment hours after being shot in a gunfight in Jamaica that left one man dead.Welcome home Curlew.
Toronto Police officers from 31 Division were called to interview gunshot victim Curlew Devon Moulton, 35, aka Skellion and Tall Man, at Humber River Regional Hospital on April 22, a day after he returned from Jamaica.
Moulton, a Canadian citizen who's well known to Toronto Police, is reportedly a member of the Boys in the Woods gang in North Etobicoke. Moulton was shot several times in his foot April 21 in a gunfight outside Kingston, Jamaica, police said.
Const. Tony Vella said police were called by hospital staff because the patient was a gunshot victim.
"We responded to the hospital regarding a person who was shot," Vella said yesterday. The person was interviewed by our officers."
No charges were laid since the man appeared to be a victim in the shooting, Vella said.
...from pushing somebody under a train?
“Melchert-Dinkel believes he has advised and encouraged approximately 5 persons to commit suicide via the Internet...” Sgt. Haider's affidavit says.*
He admitted using two e-mail addresses, falcongirl507@yahoo.com and li_dao05@yahoo.com, as well as the alias Cami, all “to advise, encourage and create suicide pacts, typically via hanging, with persons on Internet ... for the past four or five years,” it alleges.
Every Friday night, CJOH, the Ottawa CTV affiliate... runs a segment called Gallery Talk which focuses on that weeks most interesting political stories.
Well... guess which item didn't make the cut tonight?
Tonight we had, in order... the Liberals proposed EI changes, an Afghanistan poll, the EU kerfuffle over the seal hunt and, believe it or not... how Stephen Harper feels about dijon mustard.
Not word one about "Nannygate".
Bravo CTV... you've outdone yourselves.
*
...indentured servants... some folks just want it all...
-- OTTAWA -- Ruby Dhalla's mother requires a live-in caregiver but that doesn't appear to have stopped her from travelling the world with her Liberal MP daughter.And, in true Liberal fashion, it looks like Mrs. Dhalla senior feels she's "entitled to her entitlements"...
And according to the rules for hiring foreign live-in caregivers, she doesn't have to be house bound or incapacitated to qualify for the federal program. In fact, there are no medical criteria at all.
Dhalla, 35, has declared her mother, Tavinder, as her "designated traveller," according to House of Commons records. A designated traveller is entitled to use some or all of an MP's 64 annual travel points, which allow them to fly free in Canada or abroad.The good life... courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer... yet again.
All of the allegations aside, why is a well paid MP and a doctor brother, with multiple chiropractic clinics, using a government program and being cheap cheap cheap to boot?*
Omar and all of his terror lovin' brood belong in deepest, darkest Waziristan... it's that simple...
-- OTTAWA -- The Harper government is appealing a court order in the Omar Khadr case.**********
Officials confirmed today that Ottawa has filed an appeal of a Federal Court ruling that it seek the return of Mr. Khadr from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
That'll be cold comfort to the families of these two guys...
-- PICKERING -- Police have identified two men who were found dead in the trunk of a rental car abandoned in Pickering earlier this week.*
The bodies of Harjinder Singh Sandhu, 28, of Brampton and Puneet Singh Chhina, 26, of Ottawa were found in the car on Tuesday.
Police add, however, they do not believe the killings were random and suspect the two men were the likely victims of gang hit.
It’s tempting to respond, “Oh, bugger off, you ridiculous poseur,” and pass on to something more rewarding, like Paris Hilton’s Twitter feed.Mr. Ignatieff's brand of smarmy socialism puts me in mind of yet another fuzzy-bunny policy in effect at my young son's public school.
But the sedating pretentiousness of Mr. Ignatieff’s prose style shouldn’t disguise the fact that this may be the most morally contemptible statement by a Canadian party leader since Confederation.
“And there's absolutely no reason why I would have something done to my child, you know kidnap or other, and if I was going to have one child kidnapped, why not the other one?”[*]
We're ALL saying it, you dumb lowlife...
"I'm actively searching for employment but I find that because a lot of things have been written about me, I find the doors closed quite a bit," she said in a telephone interview.*
"Nobody says it, but I feel it."
...could introduce a private member's bill... and bring Canada up to snuff like, I dunno... these guys...
Bahrain has announced it will scrap its sponsorship system for foreign workers - a first in a region often criticised by rights groups over the issue.Geez... that sounds so familiar.
The current system, which is common to all Gulf countries, has long been criticised by human rights groups for placing workers at the mercy of their employers.
Employers usually take employees' passports when they enter the country and sometimes use possession of the travel documents to extort a large fee before the workers can leave the country.
-- OTTAWA and TORONTO -- Four days after she was pictured hoisting Leader Michael Ignatieff's hand in triumph at the Liberal coronation convention, Ruby Dhalla was in hiding from public politics for a second straight day.**********
And Mr. Ignatieff wasn't talking about her at all.
Ruby Dhalla told her she would get her proper documentation, Alvarez said, adding that Dhalla told her: "I work at the Parliament. I have a friend in immigration that can help me regarding your papers."*
It begins with a small, seemingly insignificant gesture...
-- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- There are no such displays in ultra-strict Saudi Arabia, where until "Miss Beautiful Morals" was inaugurated last year, the only pageants were for goats, sheep, camels and other animals, aimed at encouraging livestock breeding.**********
The public has roughly one month to tell the federal broadcast regulator what it thinks about a proposal to allow Al-Jazeera English to broadcast in Canada.*
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is considering an application to grant the all-news channel space on the digital airwaves.
Part of the review process includes a call for comments, in which Canadians can submit their opinions to the CRTC through its website, by mail or by fax.
Comments must be received by June 8.
CBC gets all wild and crazy... cutting edge investigation highlights... "doesn't look good" quote...
Premier Dalton McGuinty admits it "doesn't look good" that his labour minister did not investigate complaints against Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla — so from now on he'll have to take a ministry official with him to public meetings.Unfortunately, Dalton... this isn't about how anything looks. It's about an obvious breach of public trust involving three high profile Liberal politicians.
In such a meeting two weeks ago, Ontario Labour Minister Peter Fonseca and Education Minister Kathleen Wynne heard complaints that Dhalla illegally hired and then mistreated two caregivers.
The two women claim Dhalla seized their passports and forced them to work unpaid overtime, shovel snow, shine shoes — even clean the family's chiropractic clinic.
Fonseca first heard the allegations at Wynne's constituency office during a meeting with about 30 nannies and caregivers.
In spite of the numerous concerns expressed, the labour minister did nothing to investigate.
But what is truly laughable in this statement is that the Ethics Commissioner's job is not to investigate potential wrongdoing by MPs except where conflicts of interest might exist.*
The Ethics Commissioner is not called in when an MP is caught speeding down the highway, or writing nasty emails to critics, or illegally hiring nannies.
I wonder if Christie Blatchford gets all kinds of crazy hate-mail about "bombing the brownies"...
-- TORONTO -- For anyone who has ever wondered what on Earth gang violence has to do with them and why they should care, the trial now going on at the main Toronto courthouse offers a sharp lesson.And... sigh... I suppose I do actually have to say it again...
**********Toronto Police are probing yet another shooting in the city, this time at an apartment building in North York. There's still a lot of mystery about exactly what took place in a unit at 1210 York Mills Rd. E. near the DVP.*
...yet another glowing report card...
-- VIENNA -- The United Nations' nuclear agency says its inspectors have found traces of weapons-grade uranium in Egypt.(h/t reader rich)
A restricted report from the International Atomic Energy Agency says the particles were detected last year and in 2007, and remain under investigation.
That's funny... all of a sudden I don't hear Bill Ayers and company screaming about prosecuting those evil American war criminals...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a meeting with the Afghan president that America "deeply, deeply regretted" the reported deaths....wait a minute...
...is more government-funded Viagra spam and pictures of the grandkids."The One"... he's there for you.
...not so fast with that "free speech stuff", bubba...
Obama has nominated Cass Sunstein, who he knows from the University of Chicago, to be "regulatory czar."And, what exactly would "Dear Leader" and his ol' college pal be "regulating"?
Apparently, Sunstein has proposed that web sites be required to link to opposing opinions. He has argued that the Internet is anti-democratic because users can choose to view only those opinions that they want to see, and has gone so far as to say:(via sondrakistan)
"A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government," he wrote. "Democratic efforts to reduce the resulting problems ought not be rejected in freedom’s name."
Yes, yes, CC... we all know how kind & compassionate you are. Say, while we're at it... let's revisit your pet theory about those dastardly, evil Jews."With all due respect, Wanda, fuck you and your grief. It's not the job of the rest of Canada to continue to let its soldiers die just so you can sleep better at night."Oh, Mr CC... you're so kooky.
...for Garth Turncoat...
Perhaps Garth Turner thought it would be great fun to have Michael Coren and the people at CTS think he would be appearing until it was too late.Yessirree... good ol' reliable Garth.
I suppose you could call it a prank of sorts. Like ringing the doorbell and then running away. Still, if this was a lame sort of prank, I doubt the people at Key Porter Books think it was very funny.
...about the bullet flu?
-- PICKERING -- Durham Regional Police homicide detectives are searching for suspects after two bullet-riddled bodies were discovered in the trunk of a car in Pickering.**********
Patrol officers found the corpses of two adult men stuffed into the trunk of a late-model Nissan in the woodland area of Taunton Rd. and Rosebank Rd., near Whitevale Park, around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The car is a rented vehicle from Toronto, he said. Police have not released the identities of the victims.
Durham police are reportedly looking into a separate homicide after a woman was murdered in downtown Oshawa.
A subset of a Toronto street gang would drive to "enemy" territory and shoot at anyone who appeared to be a rival as part of a "ride" program of revenge, testified the star prosecution witness at the trial of three men alleged to be its key members.*
"They would look for anybody who looked like a gangbanger. If you looked a certain way you would be targeted."
Here's a thought... how about we leave that one up to the doctors and the family?
But, no... it seems David Swann thinks he should be driving this particular clown car...
The Opposition Liberals are accusing the Stelmach government of not revealing enough information about the province's most severe H1N1 flu CASE.More political fun & games from the "natural governing party".
...it "could never happen here" files...
A young Toronto man – Saad Khalid – has pleaded guilty to aiding a terrorist plot to build bombs to explode in the city's downtown core.To absolutely no one's surprise... Count Floyd & CTV lead with... wait for it... the Euroweenies crappin' on the seal hunt.
...singing & dancing... but Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla is definitely back in the media limelight...
The allegations surfaced two weeks ago at a public meeting where nannies told two Ontario cabinet ministers that placement agencies and employers are using the federal Live-In Caregiver Program to keep them enslaved.And she seems to have been hoist by her own party's petard...
Prompted by Wynne to speak their minds, nanny Gordo stood up and accused Dhalla, MP for Brampton-Springdale, of holding her passport and refusing to pay her when she quit.Steve Janke has more.
“This morning I called the leader to personally tender my resignation as Multicultural and Youth Critic in order to focus my attention on clearing my name,” the statement said.*
“I will work with the appropriate officials to ensure the facts of the matter are clarified and corrected regarding my family’s experience with live-in caregivers and will work vigorously to defend my reputation.”
Well... that sure explains a few things...
Among the names on the list is Clayton Matchee, the former Canadian soldier who last fall saw charges of torture and murder of a Somali youth in 1993 dropped by the military because he was unfit to stand trial due to brain damage.(via sda)
It was unclear whether Matchee had agreed to join the party.
"...Diminishing Returns..."
One coffee drinker after another sat next to the bullet-damaged window, never once raising an eyebrow.**********
It was like this horror scene was not there at all. How could they miss it? Has this city become desensitized to gangland murder, shootings and constant violence?
One person is in custody after a fatal stabbing in the city's west end early this morning. Area residents talking about the stabbing out front of a neighbourhood sports bar said both the victim, a Brazil native, and suspect lived in the rooming house.*
The otherwise quiet neighbourhood has attracted some "shady" characters, said local photographer George Pimentel, who recently had some construction equipment stolen from his place. "When I got robbed, everyone pointed to that place (where the man was stabbed)," he said.
Residents discussing the stabbing seemed convinced that it stemmed from a drug dispute, leaving few shocked by the homicide.
"Well the first thing you know ol Kate's a millionaire...And speaking of killing capitalism...
Kinfolk said, 'Kate move away from there'...
Said, 'Sussex Drive is the place you oughta be'...
So she loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly...
Hills, that is. Foreign fools, movie stars."
In a vote on an opposition motion in the House of Commons in March, the Liberals, Bloc and NDP also supported getting rid of the two-week waiting period, allowing the self-employed to participate in the EI plan and expanding payments from 55% of your best work weeks to 60%.(via sda)
What this would do in essence is give some Canadians 52 weeks of EI payments for 9 weeks of work. Someone who worked during July and August could get EI payments until the end of the next summer.
It's not like he was the chief of the Anti-Murder Commission...
"A love triangle gone awry may result in the end of Antasari Azhar's career as Indonesia's most feared corruption fighter."*
...is in the details...
"According to one soldier, it was as if the pink Energizer drumming bunny had frozen in place at the end of the commercial."*
...Dalton McSlippery's not gonna "raise your taxes"... he's gonna "harmonize" them...
In addition to housing, the blended 13 per cent tax will boost the price of hundreds of items, such as gasoline, heating fuel, fast food, newspapers, magazines, taxi fares and dry cleaning, among other things, that are now only subject to 5 per cent GST.Hmmm... maybe if Dalton hadn't pissed away a billion taxpayer dollars to his buddies in the construction industry...
Even though Liberal MPPs and cabinet ministers privately share Runciman's concern about the change, the premier insists it is full-steam ahead with the reform.
"Ontario has consistently said it would not agree to harmonizing with the GST if that would increase the tax burden on Ontario taxpayers, particularly with respect to basic essentials such as home heating and children's clothing."*
~ Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, February 2008
...interwebs inventor Al Gore... or some dumbass group of international eggheads?
Ice in the Arctic is often twice as thick as expected, report surprised scientists who returned last week from a major scientific expedition.**********
The scientists - a 20-member contingent from Canada, the U.S., Germany, and Italy - spent one month exploring the North Pole as well as never-before measured regions of the Arctic.
I'm sorry guys... unlike this weekend's unashamed and undemocratic Liberal suck-up, we're gonna have to insist on having a vote before Iggy actually gets a shot at driving the bus...
-- VANCOUVER -- Calling it a crisis situation, Michael Ignatieff says he will introduce reforms to employment insurance that the Prime Minister can choose to accept or face the consequences.Now, unless Iggy has some magical powers that will resurrect and reprogram the disastrous "Coalition of the Swilling"... he's just talkin' out of his ass here.
...and people used to be "snatched off the street and tortured?"
Yeah... me neither...
Retribution for cooperating with police led to a young man being kidnapped, confined and tortured for hours before he escaped early yesterday morning, investigators say.[*]
The victim, in his early 20s, was involved in a robbery a few years ago, but decided to cooperate with police by giving statements against his co-accused, Toronto Police Det. Alex Broadfoot said this morning.
"There's a very good possibility he could have ended up dead," he said. Cops are looking for Anheim "African" Bol and Luis "Sluggs" Sampedro, both 19.
Police are hunting for a gunman after a west end home was left riddled with bullets yesterday.**********
The Weston Rd. and Eglinton Ave. area home was hit by several bullets just before 5:30 p.m., a 46-year-old resident reported to police.
A trial is finally underway for three individuals alleged to be members of the Galloway Boys, one of Toronto's most feared street gangs, accused of shooting two men who were totally unconnected to the criminal underground.Of course, like any self-respecting thug, they've all got street names...
Crown prosecutor said Monday in its opening remarks that Tyshan Riley, Philip Atkins and Jason Wisdom were part of a "ride squad."
Neither Brendan Charlton, who died, nor his passenger Leonard Bell had any ties whatsover to the gang activity plaguing their neighbourhood at the time, police said.
Riley had a street name of "Greezy," said Ellis. Atkins was known as "Stacks" or "Brubbs," while Wisdom had the nickname "CD" — his older brother was known as "LP."*
Ah yes... time to really get this clown car on the road...
"I'm going to become the prime minister of this country, as sure as I'm sitting here."Well... not exactly.
"Am I an imperialist? Never, never. I'm a Canadian!
"I could have spent my life in the United States, I didn't. I came back here because this is my home."
...you never wanna let a good crisis go to waste...
Pig-farming and consumption is limited to Egypt's Christian minority, estimated at 10% of the population.*
"The authorities took advantage of the situation to resolve the question of disorderly pig rearing in Egypt," spokesman Abdelrahman Shahine told AFP.
...it's not just about Hezbollah anymore...
Many in the Green Party might be surprised to discover that the Green Party of Canada now supports the legalization of prostitution, through the adoption of Resolution G08-p014 by internet voting last summer, and recently ratified at the February policy convention.[*]
...than the illness...
-- MONTREAL -- The great swine-flu scare of 1976 is remembered in the United States as a costly public-health fiasco during which more people died from vaccinations than the dreaded influenza.[*]
In Canada, it's hardly remembered at all, though it remains vivid to Marc Lalonde, who as federal health minister in 1976 ordered some 10 million doses of vaccine.
"Out of an abundance of caution, I have also asked Congress for $1.5 billion, if it is needed, to purchase additional antivirals, emergency equipment, and the development of a vaccine that can prevent this virus as we prepare for the next flu season, in the fall," he explained.*
...strangely silent on which gun club they belonged to...
A 17-year-old boy has died following a shooting in the west end overnight.**********
Toronto police found the teen lying on Dundas Street just west of Scarlett Road after responding to a call about gunshots before 11 p.m. on Friday.
Police are looking for at least two suspects. The murder is Toronto's 16th homicide of the year.
A young man waiting for a bus home last night is Toronto's latest homicide victim -- and the third to be gunned down in the city's west end in less than two weeks.*
Jarvis St. Remy, 18, was waiting for a bus after a night of watching TV at a best friend's apartment on Dundas St. W., west of Scarlett Rd.
Never mind the buff biceps... what about her incredible empathy for the less fortunate among us?
**********...will that be cash or Chargex?
-- TORONTO -- A parts shortage resulting from Chrysler's restructuring under U.S. bankruptcy protection has forced the company's Canadian branch to shutter its assembly operations indefinitely, putting about 8,700 people out of work.So... billions in taxpayer dollars... and no end in sight.
"Due to the restructuring announcement made yesterday by our parent company, Chrysler LLC, a number of suppliers have stopped shipment of parts to our manufacturing facilities," Chrysler Canada spokeswoman Mary Gauthier wrote in an email.
"This has halted operations in our Canadian assembly plants."
Yeah, sure he does... for his successor...
-- VANCOUVER -- "Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is urging Liberal members to change the way the party picks its leaders by adopting a one-member, one-vote selection process."Funny... even the unapologetic socialists at the "Red Star" aren't buying this one...
So, to s
