In other "victimless crime" news

At the time of his death, Mr. Nguyen was on bail under house arrest, accused of possessing cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Thuan (Tony) Nguyen was shot five times and was found face down in the parking lot of the North York club shortly after 5 a.m. Sunday.Let the detecting begin...“This was a targeted execution,” Detective Tam Bui of the Asian Organized Crime task...

Too many chiefs...

not enough leadership... "In a 32-page decision issued Thursday, Justice James Russell ruled against Nelson's claims that he was illegally removed from office." "'The evidence before me suggests that the Nelson Respondents knowingly flouted the rule of law in order to retain and/or regain power and...

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"Not sure what to do. The guy I think is the most useless and unelectable is the guy most likely to win. What about the lady Pierre knocked up? Is she a good one to vote fo...

The Age of Aquarius... again

When will University of British Columbia establish a sino-sensitive law school to redress all their cultural sins?“What I want to do is ensure that indigenous studies, aboriginal issues, are front and foremost in terms of our program, and I think that's achieved by making it a law course,” said Lakehead University Law School Dean Lee Stuesser. The law school is set to open this fall. In 2011, Lakehead...

I'm from the government... I'm here to...

...squeeze you dry...The Fraser Institute study, to be released Wednesday, found that federal, provincial and local government employees working in Ontario earned 13.9% more wages, on average, than their private sector counterparts in April, 2011. Government workers are also three times more likely to be covered by a pension plan, far less likely to lose their jobs and, on average, set to retire...

Get real, folks. You can't just...

...rush in there and change a lightbulb..."Galloway questioned Jones about reports that a security light was not working at the spot where Montaque was shot. There are reports the light had been out for more than a week." “'There’s a process that we have to go through,' said Jones. 'We have public dollars that we have to protect. There’s a procurement process that we have to go through. We can’t...

Another left-wing icon...

...grappling with "health problems"... Remember... it's not theft... it's "inappropriate use"..."Historically, there have been members of Congress who either inadvertently or maybe purposefully, but not to this magnitude, used campaign funds inappropriately." "Documents filed with Jackson Jr.'s plea...

Airbrushing the Politburo

After a decade of Liberal government, it's a little tricky to be blaming anything on Mike Harris...I guess that won't stop them from trying, though..."The Ontario government led by Premier Kathleen Wynne will remain focused on creating jobs and improving the economy, but will take care to ensure that...

Jamestown Triangle claims another life

Introducing Toronto's eighth homicide of 2013, and the third to involve a victim under the age of 16... I don't get it... the left-leaning rabbloids keep telling us crime is down. Apparently, though... it's worse than you might think.“My kids are like, ‘Why are all the good kids dying?’ ” said the...

Every bit as McSlippery...

...as the last guy... "It was the only time Wynne mentioned the scandal, instead, she shifted the focus to job creation and trad...

Remember SARS

These pandemics come in 80 year cycles... which means we're overdue...Britain's Health Protection Agency said the latest person to contract the virus was a relative of two other cases announced earlier this week. The first member of the family, who was confirmed on Monday as having the virus, had recently travelled to the Middle East and Pakistan. The two relatives had no recent travel history. A...

If only Toronto City Council...

...had been allowed to declare a gun-free zone. -- TORONTO -- A 19-year-old Brampton man has died five days after being shot in a chaotic incident that saw three other men wounded, two by cops, near a nightclub on CNE grounds. Toronto Police say the city’s latest murder victim, now identified as...

Just another selfless public servant

-- OTTAWA -- Justin Trudeau has charged school boards and other publicly funded organizations tens of thousands of dollars for speeches he's given since becoming an MP.********** UPDATE: It gets better..."Some of his speaking clients, like the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, paid him $20,000 for one speech in 2010. It's illegal for unions (and corporations) to give a dime to Trudeau's...

TEH CHILDRUN IS R FUTUR

It was a little difficult to get financing, because his bank manager didn't see there was much of a market for condors...There's also a "Discrete Delivery" option, in which McCabe delivers the condoms to the student's door without the blue siren on his head.Perhaps the poor lad means "discree...

Tiptoe through the journalistic tulips...

...with the Toronto "Red Star". Remember when people used to use the words "hard-hitting" and "journalism" in the same sentence? Apparently, now, it's all about sensitivity and understanding."St. Aubyn Rodney, just 15 years old, was hanging out with friends inside his Jane St. and Finch Ave.-area...

A rose by any other name...

...probably doesn't involve possible decapitation or immolati...

I say we let Councillor Adam Vaughn...

...declare this part of the city a "bullet free" zone... If it only saves one life... right? ********** RELATED: That Community Policing thing... ...how's that working out for ya? -- TORONTO -- Less than two months into the new year, three young people — including a nine-year-old boy — have...

A simpler time

Build one of these babies and watch all the "bubble-wrap" mommies spin 'til they drop...Ahoy, cap'n..."Got a little fellow who yearns to captain his own craft? Take a cue from this pint sized inboard. The Little Fellow is only 78 inches long, has a beam of 36 inches and weighs about 125 pounds. The...

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"She's a cruel mistress, Diversity i...

Okay, everybody calm down...

..I'm sure the Toronto Police "Service" is rounding up farmers, skeet shooters and deer hunters as we speak...Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has been called in after police fired several gunshots at a car leaving the scene of a west-end shooting early Sunday morning. One person was injured in...

Regent Park, Regent Park... that...

...sounds so familiar... -- TORONTO -- A 45-year-old man was blasted with gunfire as he opened his apartment door early Wednesday in Regent Park. The victim of the shooting, the third such frightening incident in the area in less than three weeks, is expected to survive. Police describe the shooter as black, about 5-foot-11,, wearing a waist-length, thick, black jacket and a black tuque. Regent...

That murdering, neanderthal George W...

...wait a minute..."For example, it states that U.S. officials may consider whether an attempted capture of a suspect would pose an 'undue risk' to U.S. personnel involved in such an operation. If so, U.S. officials could determine that the capture operation of the targeted American would not be feasible, making it lawful for the U.S. government to order a killing instead, the memo concludes."Community...

All I'm sayin' is...

...it's a good thing he didn't own a gun store. Hey, everybody loves a funny fish tale, right? -- SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT. -- A judge gave a commercial fisherman the option Monday of donating 200 pounds of fish to Batchewana First Nation as part of his probation.Now, here's where things get funny, er... wait...The court heard Ian Agawa assaulted and threatened to kill a couple, and burn their house...

Aboriginal pride, Black pride, Gay pride...

...silly me... I was under the impression there was no such thing as shame anymore. I guess it was only a matter of time before we started to recognise, well... "Addict pride"..."People form addictions that MAY come from shame, it’s a painful emotion and drugs help to alleviate their pain. It COULD BE that feeling shame in general in other events in their life causes this problematic cycle to occur...

Tonight's CTV Moonbat moment

Using the same impeccable logic that irrefutably proves spoons are responsible for North America's epidemic of morbid obesity... "He survived four tours in Afghanistan, only to be killed by a semi-automatic handgun."C'mon Sandi... the mentally ill veteran he was trying to help had nothing to do with this? I'm so confused... are there good guns as well as evil guns? Who exactly is it at CTV that...

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"William Shatner has really let himself g...