Look, mummy look... I'm a journalist!

Ceaseless pursuit of those larger life-changing epiphanies ••• I'm with Kathy Shaidle... skip the story, read the comments. ********** RELATED: Ask a "Journo-Canadi...

Ask Adam Vaughan

“If I’m doing something, target me. Punish me. But why are you punishing every farmer, hunter & skeet shooter, er... taxi driver? We are not the same, so why are they treating us the sam...

But, but, but... he's so McDreamy

I have never been a big fan of Barack Obama... but I had to admit he surprised the crap outta me, making a pretty gutsy call to unilaterally invade Pakistan and execute Osama Bin-Laden...Osama bin Laden steered the global operations of the al-Qaida terror network until his death last year at the hands...

More rainbows & unicorns at the G&M

I seem to vaguely recall a distant era when "professional" media organisations were content to simply report the news... instead of routinely inserting their particular bias... Wow... looks like that unrepentant, tea-baggin' neo-con Romney is ready to jump off (or speak harshly, anyway) to our Muslim...

What Elmo hath joyfully blessed...

...let no mere mortal rip asunder..."Alderman Moreno does not allege that Chick-fil-A discriminates in its hiring practices or in its customer service. Nor does he argue that business owners should not be entitled to hold opinions. Did you know that the Muppet Corporation has a position on gay marriage? Well, they do." "But Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef would be permitted to open a business in...

I'm gonna go out on a limb here...

...and guess that Michael Schmidt's little agricultural enterprise has harmed fewer people than, well... read on... -- TORONTO -- Schmidt was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $9,150 for operating an illegal cow-share business. Schmidt's conviction came after a lower court had acquitted him of the same charges in January 2010. In 1994, he was sentenced on similar charges, fined $3,500...

Pic of the Week

Solving the terrible scourge of inner-city homicide & mayhem... "After a public shooting that left two dead and 23 injured, the City of Toronto is offering Danzig Street residents free media training."********** RELATED: Some of you were asking why I started moderating comments... Some nights...

I don't get it

Why be all "Big Brother" and bend people over... when, instead... Councillor Adam Vaughan can simply announce a ban on guns & bullets? -- TORONTO -- “The search is going to be by the organizers, not the police,” Dr. Dhun Noria, acting chair of the Toronto Police Services Board said, adding organizers...

TEH CHILDRUN IS R FUTUR

Thank goodness we have the Young Offenders Act...Three teens admitted Tuesday to killing their aspiring rapper buddy by shooting him four times, stabbing him in the neck and dumping his bullet-riddled body into the Humber River. The trio, BA and DG, both now 19, and JA, now 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree...

So the political whores...

...at Toronto City Hall & Queens Park get their 30 second soundbites in yet another meaningless news cycle... but who actually pays the price here?Chris Baldwin is the Overall National Sporting Rifle 3-position champion three years in a row, National Junior prone champion, and second place grand...

Despite Stephen Harper's best efforts...

...the Canadian economy has not collapsed...The controversial stripper visa dates back to 1998 and allowed hundreds of foreign dancers into the country each year. There were 660 dancers admitted in its heyday in 2001. Most were from Eastern Europe. All they had to do was provide a Canadian job offer from a strip club and prove they were qualified to dance.They had to prove they were strippers? No...

Google Gets Gawd

"We hold these truths to be self evident, er... a racist construct of the ruling infidel oligarch...

And, hey... maybe we could say...

...they died of lead poisoning...TORONTO - Councillor Norm Kelly urged the media Friday not to use the word “Scarborough” when describing Monday’s mass shooting. Kelly sent out a press release to news outlets Friday asking them to call the fatal shooting the “Danzig shooting” rather than the “Scarborough shooting”. Two people died and 23 others were injured in Monday’s shooting at a block party...

Just something else to think about...

...as you're signing that rather opulent municipal tax cheque..."In Toronto, nobody gets kicked out of social housing for bad behaviour – not even for criminal activity, or owning a gun. With 164,000 tenants, Toronto Community Housing is the second-largest housing provider in North America."Obviously though, according to yet another man with his hand in your pocket... it's just not enough...“I think...

What's that hoary old Liberal mantra?

Oh yeah... "if it only saves one life"...The more information you have about ANY situation... never mind it involves idealogy, religion AND explosives... that's a good thing, right?"Welner interviewed Khadr over two days at Guanatamo Bay and determined he remained 'highly dangerous.' He described Khadr...

That secretive, controlling Stephen Harp...

...wait a minute..."Our reporter wanted to ask McGuinty one question at the barbecue, and that was about the security breach — Did McGuinty still feel confident that Elections Ontario could run the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection with integrity?" "But the question did not get asked. The Record reporter and photographer were told to leave. The reporter was advised to use more generic comments on the...

Let's gather up all those social workers...

...and perennial do-gooders and ask 'em to live in those "priority" neighbourhoods..."I am not suggesting that the desire to own a gun is simply a form of penis anxiety. However, in a society where some men experience status anxiety because of social exclusion – perhaps due to racism or lack of economic...

Think of all the lives saved...

...if only Toronto City Councillor Adam Vaughan had been allowed to ban bullets within city limits...I mean, everybody knows how terrified homicidal maniacs are of draconian municipal bylaws...Toronto police are investigating a shooting death in the city for the third night in a row. A man in his 20s...

When it rains...

...well, you know... C'mon, folks... safest city in the world... the Police Chief said so...A 42-year-old man is dead following a shooting near a soccer field in Toronto late Tuesday. Police responded to a call about gunshots in the parking lot of the Jane-Eglinton area field at 9:40 p.m. They found...

No, Margaret... it's not about broken...

...it's about "nonexistent"... because, let's face it... turning impregnating as many barely adolescent girls as you can into some sort of jousting contest is about as anti-family an activity as I can imagine...You do, however... make one pretty important point..."Meantime, there is one other thing...

Airbrushing the Politburo

Step one... ignore any actual pre-existing evidence that doesn't support your "buy the world a coke" narrative...Step two... find a gullible "professional" reporter... and feed them all sorts of rainbows & unicorn farts..."Shannon Longshaw, a resident of the public housing complex, said she helped...

As opposed to, say...

...a "responsible exchange"... Sorry, folks... let's call this what it is... not an "exchange", but a full-on firefight... -- SCARBOROUGH -- A barbecue ended in bloodshed as a reckless exchange of gunfire erupted in an east-end neighbourhood late Monday killing two people including a 14-year-old...

Welcome to Tahrannastan

Looks like Pierre Trudeau's multicultural chickens have finally come home to roost... "I wanted to mention that the reason why these sex attacks are continuously happening is because the Canadian laws, which gives too much freedom to women, are the cause of these sex attacks." "The reason why a woman...

Predator UAV to be renamed "Soother"

As part of the sweeping "female friendly" military update program, the air force is doing away with phallic black plastic "joystick" controls... "We're thinking something along the lines of, say... the Ford Focus... in a variety of pastel colors and fabrics," said Col. P. Whi...

When politicians go rogue

Just something to think about while you're signing that horrendous municipal tax cheque..."They want to go out and spend half a million dollars on a case that we’re going to lose. That’s what the solicitor was telling us, up to half a million dollars. You don’t get into a fight that you know you aren’t going to win."Buck up, Toronto... think of all the crime you'll be... wait a minute... here's a...

A "Cultural Relativism" primer

Remember folks... there is no "good" or "bad"...A suicide bomber blew himself up among guests at a wedding hall Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing 23 people including a prominent ex-Uzbek warlord turned lawmaker who was the father of the bride. “It was a big explosion. There were bloody bodies all around the first floor. The explosion was so strong. There were people even on the third floor...

Darwin was right

"Most people that I know don't use OxyContin to get high anymore. They have moved on to heroin because it is easier to use, much cheaper and easily available."You find a way to stop dumbass junkies from killing themselves... they immediately run out and dig up a couple othe...

When Harry Met Sally...

...the new Middle-Eastern cut...********** RELATED: That darn Religion of PeaceOfficials in Afghanistan, where the amateur video was filmed, believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders had a dispute over her, according to the governor of the province where the killing took place. Both...

NSFL

Sorry... that's "Not Safe for Lunch"... Participants were asked "How would you feel about touching this?" and rated their level of disgust on a scale of 1 (not disgusting) to 5 (very disgusting) as they viewed each image. The photo that finished highest in the "gross-out" ratings was of a person's...

In other "crime is down" fairytales

CBC's National had a crackerjack story about double-bunking in Canadian prisons... specifically how unfair it is...I guess all that other stuff, like toddlers getting shot has just become old hat..."Toronto police say a man in his 20s has serious but non-life-threatening injuries following a shooting...

So how much horse...

...can you cop for sixty dolla...

How many of your friends and neighbours...

...are overly concerned about the appalling lack of government-funded "political correctness" in their daily lives? -- QUEBEC -- I don’t mind gay groups keeping a vast database of anonymously-reported homophobic thought-crimes if they feel that’s a productive use of their time. But it is preposterous...

Ixnay on the Urdermay

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair says that the city remains a safe place to live, despite an increased number of shootings throughout this year. “There were no murders this weekend, there were a number of shooting occurrences,” he said.Not to put too fine a point on it, Chief... but "no murders this weekend" just seems to fall a little short of where you should be aiming.As of July 3, police say there...

Hey, no biggie, right Sarge?

Those darn Canucks and their holiday weekend horseplay...“It looks like it was a random round of gunfire from somewhere,” said Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Ken Boyle, noting police don’t know where the shot came from. "Sometimes people just fire bullets into the air. Maybe someone was shooting at someone else and missed, but we’re not aware of that.”So, another urban banger catches a stray round. ...

An Inconvenient Untruth

You can't have it both ways...The Supreme Court upheld the entirety of the health care law Thursday on narrow grounds, declaring that the individual mandate was legal under Congress' taxing powers.Or can you?The White House has repeatedly insisted that the mandate is not a tax.Remember when Premier McSlippery started charging Ontarians for OHIP? Yeah... right after he signed that campaign pledge...