Yes, it's true... you're paying the freight here

Just something to think about, Toronto... the next time you're writing out that obscenely excessive municipal tax cheque to the folks down at Nathan Phillips Square..."While people in different contexts can experience prejudice or discrimination, racism, in a North American context, is based on an ideology of the superiority of the white race over other racial groups."Hey, does that also apply to...

From our voluminous...

..."the world still has too many professional journalists" file..."I put pictures up on Facebook of the final total and was getting messages from people saying, 'I remember you collecting this stuff when in high school.'"**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"I bought a $300 TV stand last month with CT money....

Bless his Noodley Goodness

An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons.Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism.**********RELATED: Come visit the Church**********LAST...

That arrogant, know-nothing George W...

...wait a minute...Mr. Obama told Pelley "this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out."Or not, huh Barry?That's funny... there was all that money to bail out Wall Street & the car companies... but you're gonna put the squeeze on disabled vets?I'm guessing that's not...

Too many Chiefs...

...not enough Kevlar...Hobbema, Hobbema... that sounds so familiar.**********RELATED: Unlike all those other......acceptable, business-as-usual murders?“We have reached out to the family and the leadership ... they really feel that this is the most horrific, terrible setback,” Mr. Atleo told hundreds...

No more Mr. Nice Guy

This is why I wanted to see a Harper majority... so the kid gloves could really come off... -- OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is set to announce Monday that Canada is boycotting the United Nations Conference on Disarmament over North Korea’s involvement, a senior government source told Postmedia News.“The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations committee focused on disarmament...

Drugs... the victimless crime

-- MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday.**********THE COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:"Do you enjoy all the bloodshed in Mexico knowing you are partly responsible for i...

From the same folks who brought you...

...a billion dollars in hospital construction cost over-runs... -- TORONTO -- Ontario taxpayers will shell out $20 million to compensate businesses and residents caught up in the Caledonia land claim crisis.Attorney General Chris Bentley said the government was pleased to reach a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought in 2006 by residents and business owners who suffered losses as a result...

A Tale of Two Torontos

“My concern is the Toronto District School Board is using tax money to tell girls that they are second-class citizens,” Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress said Thursday. He charged that proponents of the prayer sessions are allowing them to happen because of “white, liberal guilt."“Deep inside is a racist view that Muslims are not considered equal human beings, and that they can...

A little unclear on the concept...

...democracy, that is... -- ISLAMABAD -- The allegation by the top U.S. military officer that Pakistan’s government sanctioned the killing of a journalist who wrote about the country’s powerful security establishment was “extremely irresponsible,” the Pakistani state-run news agency said.You'll notice that this isn't... in any way, shape or form... an actual denial of the allegation.Of course,...

It's all relative, I guess

So I open up my email this morning... and in with the usual nonsensical trolls... (seriously, your hobby is to heckle members of a small conservative blogroll?)... I find out a friend of ours has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.If there is a gawd... he's sure got a shitty sense of humo...

Yo... Tiny... Mad-Dog...

...I hav'ta spell it out for youse? -- TORONTO -- "The Hells Angels adhere to a strict set of rules and guidelines. No rape is one. No shooting firearms at clubhouse functions is another."Hey... you only have to be at one gun battle/mass sexual assault to appreciate those words of wisd...

Another icon of the lunatic left... revealed

Sorry, bradass87... maybe, just maybe... you should have been considering the ramifications of treason... rather than your superfluous genitalia...(1:13:10 PM) bradass87: i just... dont wish to be a part of it... at least not now... im not ready... i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of me... plastered...

The trendy, intellectual Globe & Mail...

...never afraid to ask the really hard questions...**********POP QUIZ: When is shooting a baby......just "an incident"?Meet the professional journalists at C...

Oh, c'mon... this guy could get acquitted...

...like the NDP could get elected to... oh my gawd... -- QUEBEC -- A jury has found Guy Turcotte, the Quebec cardiologist who admitted he stabbed his two children to death, not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.The judge had instructed jurors that acquittal was not an option, as Turcotte admitted he stabbed his children, Anne-Sophie, three, and Olivier, five, in February 2009.**********RELATED:...

Who's Zoomin' Who?

You think the biggest threat to the western world was some middle-aged, blanket-wrapped, has-been jihadi sitting on the floor watching himself on tv? -- Think again. -- “Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan’s journalist community and civil society,” said the official, who like others spoke on the condition...

"Land of the Brave..."

"...Home of the..." wait a minute...In other words, the government could simply have cut a $100,000 check to everyone whose employment was allegedly made possible by the “stimulus,” and taxpayers would have come out $427 billion ahe...

Sheesh, there's just no pleasing some folks

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's stunning last minute reversal on Gay Pride Parade universally condemned as... "too little, too late"...**********RELATED: Running the numbers"A woman police sergeant who worked the parade for three years told me that the number of sexual assault charges was incredibly high,...

Dalton spends half of all our tax dollars...

...on medical care...I'm thinkin' we deserve bett...

Ontario stock tip: Time to find a company...

...that makes caramel corn and buy big...The mid-July deadline was recently extended when federal government lawyer Kevin Wilson successfully argued the need for the current pot laws and regulations to stay in place until Ontario’s highest court could hear the appeal, likely in November. In granting the deadline extension, Court of Appeal Justice Robert Blair noted:“The practical effect of the decision...

Of course... why wouldn't Mayor Ford...

...want to be a part of such a distinguished & enlightened event? -- TORONTO -- A religious sect that believes the swastika was hijacked by the Nazis will try to "remove the negativity attached to it" at the Gay Pride parade Sunday.Members of the Quebec-based International Raelian Movement will...

Hey, it's just politics... right?

When Dalton McGuinty says something, you can take it right to the mosque, er... to the bank... I mean bank! -- The last Ontario General Election was Oct 10 2007. John Tory lost because of campaign plank supporting public funding to all religious school. In fact, Ontario voters overwhelmingly rejected this. Even McGuinty on election night took a shot at Tory because of it: "We do not want to see...

Meanwhile... in other...

..."putting out fires with gasoline" news...On Tuesday, the United Nations again made itself an international laughing stock – except perhaps to the American taxpayers who continue to foot 22 percent of the bill – by appointing North Korea chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament.Just another reason, my frien...

Libya commences...

..."Operation Kick Myself in the Balls"... -- TRIPOLI, Libya -- A defiant Muammar al-Qaddafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe against "homes, offices, families," unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.Yeah, Mo... that oughta do the trick.**********RELATED: Everything you need to know......about dysfunctional Africa... -- MALABO, Equatorial Guinea...

In other "non-traditional medicine" news

It seems booking yourself into a recognised rehab facility... isn't the only way to deal with a substance abuse problem...And apparently, things were proceeding swimmingly...“Until the cops showed up...the bastards,” he said, inciting laughter from the pews.And this is funny... how?Anybody?**********FROM...

It's a soft, fluffy Oprah-fied world

As a friend of mine once famously said, "Put her in a Tim Horton's uniform... and nobody'd look twice"..."Everybody", huh? -- Seriously... anybody else miss actual news?**********RELATED: Well... it's a startUnder new legislation announced on Thursday, the Queen’s finances will be subjected to the...