Federal government breathes sigh of relief...

...as native peoples offer to contribute corporate expertise...The head of the Assembly of First Nations signalled a renewed willingness to work with the feds on major resource development projects.I'm just happy that Canada's aboriginal communities have solved all those other pesky little problems that were stopping their communities from assuming these larger responsibilities. ********** FROM...

Murder, she wrote

In other "broad strata of society" news...Aiman “Bigz” Khiar, 24, Jerome “Germz” Bent, 22, Dellan “Young” McMorris,” 23, Shakeil Wheatle, 19; Dwayne “Mafia” Willis, 20; Amanda “White Millie” Rumbolt, 29, Jathursan “Yadi” Rajarubakumar, 22, Bershon “Bread” Roach-Ferguson, 20.Here's a parenting tip... if your kid has a way cool street name, maybe you're not gonna need that RESP. NOTE: Just noticed...

A cautionary tale from the guy...

...who brought you My Lai & Abu Ghraib... let's face it, this guy is a liberal's wet dream come true...It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".Of course, he's less celebrated when he turns his critical...

Hang on... does this mean you don't...

...get to cook and eat it? Actually, scrub that... my first question is, "What sort of new-age hippie throwback would... oh, wait..."Umbilical cord non-severance, popular with early western European settlers in America, was revived in the 1980s by yoga practitioners exploring natural birth.Ah, yes... the wisdom of the east. Another progressive practice from the poster-continent for appalling rates...

Forget about lying on the resume...

...I just wanna hear him belt out a little ditty about Mohammed... Until recently, Rolf Dinsdale was a member of the punk rock band Shit From Hell, along with longtime Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella. The band's songs include “Horny Single Mom” and “Jesus Got Wood.” The video for the latter features...

Go ahead... release Omar Khadr...

...I double-dawg dare you...A member of the Toronto 18 terror group that planned attacks on Canadian targets nearly a decade ago has died while fighting in Syria, CTV News has confirmed. Ali Mohamed Dirie served two years in prison for his role in the plot to blow up the Parliament buildings and other landmarks, assassinate the prime minister and kidnap politicians.What... 2 whole years and he was...

OK, America... your turn in the barrel

First, he organised Chicago... ********** LAST WORD: Promises, promisesIn the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama often told voters that he would lower premiums by $2,500 a year per family “by the end of my first term as president.” That has not happened, although the White House says the law has slowed...

Something tells me the guest list...

...for his Great Greenie Gitmo just got a little longer....

So You Think You Can Think

No wonder Al-Shabaab thinks we're ripe for the picking...In a body-popping bid for wider understanding, scientists from Australia to the Netherlands are making interpretive dance videos based on their Ph.D. dissertations. To make an esoteric thesis come alive, they leap, swoon, spin and krump. The performances -- all captured on video and posted online -- belong to an annual international competition...

Of course it's a fake...

...everybody knows that Obama rides sidesaddle... You know what they say... worth a thousand words... He prayed at a mosque... now he's schmoozing the military. The Liberal Party of Canada... as flexible as they need to be. ********** LAST WORD: Speaking of Justin's p...

The Redistribution (for some) Cometh

Isn't a man who will have 24/7 bodyguards for the rest of his life, a man who will be taken directly to the front of every conceivable waiting line... isn't such a man the very definition of the despicable 1 percent? $621 billion is a pretty eye-glazing number. Most readers will find it easier to think...

Nairobi ain't the only place where...

...Canadians can get shot at... ********** RELATED: Oops, there goes another...Toronto police are investigating after two people were wounded in a shooting early Monday morning. The shooting occurred near Lawrence and Morningside avenues in Scarborough, and officers are working to narrow down the...

C'mon now... how hard can it be...

...to wow a former part-time Summer Camp Counsellor? Watching Freeland talk, it’s easy to see why Trudeau finds her impressive. She has all the latest buzzwords and jargon. In a 60-second interview last week, she used the phrase “tipping point” four times. She loves talking about “millennials.” She’s...

The compassionate, intellectual left...

...reaches for a new low...Man, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the angry, foaming at the mouth knuckle draggers... I guess I was wron...

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"Well, I see nothing wrong here that couldn't be fixed with a few drums of tar and a half ton of feather...

In other "crime is down" news...

Looks like Hogtown has their own "Son of Sam" wannabe...Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate the shooting this week of a 25-year-old man who remains in "critical and grave condition" in hospital. A police report said the victim was shot through the closed front passenger window. The man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.And never mind robbing banks and going...

PC Party of Ontario officially dead

And, of course, no more astrophysics, as the term "black hole" has now been officially erased from the lexicon... -- TORONTO -- Ontario Progressive Conservatives have issued an apology for calling the Liberal Scarborough subway plan a “train wreck” on the same day that at least six people died in a bus-train crash in Ottawa.It's official... when you start to fall over yourselves about politically...

He's clarified his position on drugs...

...is this Justin Trudeau's next policy triumph?The Södertörn District Court has now acquitted the 65-year old in a judgement which stated that it "may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion". However, the court added that no offence had been committed as the masturbating man was not pleasuring himself towards a specific person. When asked if it was now acceptable...

Apparently, Justin Trudeau thinks mummy...

...is full of prunes... -- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau declined to make a connection between his marijuana policy and his mother's relationship with the drug, heavy use of which she has said contributed to her own experiences with mental illness. "Marijuana can trigger psychosis," she said. "Every time I was hospitalized it was preceded by heavy use of marijuana."Every time, Maggie? Live...

Sammy Yatim... Nabil Huruy...

...what a difference one cop makes... -- TORONTO -- A Markham firefighter has died after he was viciously stabbed in the head at a Toronto cafe over the weekend. Dominic Parker, 45, was stabbed several times while he was at the Rotana Cafe in the Danforth-Coxwell Aves. area around 2 a.m. Saturday. Nabil Huruy was initially charged with attempted murder, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon...

Conservative government in Australia...

...sends academics madly fleeing for emergency shelters...In Dr Shachar’s mind, these budgetary changes are an “attack” on Australia’s higher brain functions, of which the arts and humanities are its highest measure and most glittering jewel.Such as... you might ask...The boldly titled research project Queering Disasters in the Antipodes, which hopes to probe the “experiences of LGBTI people in natural...

Airbrushing the Politburo

All that carefully crafted spin... surely you don't think any part of that is a happy accident...Why would anyone enamored enough with an Obama administration they want to go work for do anything that might make a potential employer uncomfortable -- you know, like actually report on ObamaCare and the economy honestly, or dig into Benghazi and the IRS? The media is left-wing and crusading enough without...

Sex, Lies and alleged Videotape

Okay, so there's no sex. You'll have to settle for a murder. -- TORONTO -- A 62-year-old man was found slain in front of a home in a middle class North York neighbourhood Thursday [excerpting twaddle about locking down local high school]. Officers responded to 37 Francine Dr., near Leslie St. and McNicoll Ave., around 9 a.m. and located the mortally wounded victim on the front porch. “He appeared...

What's a little racial profiling among friends?

Hmmm, unless I'm sadly mistaken, this headline very precisely describes the Board of Directors of the Toronto Star... Somebody get me my guillotine. ********** RELATED: Don't you worry... ...the party of Justin is all over this one.A Liberal senator wants to use the power of Parliament to force...

Fumbling towards ecstasy

Who needs smarts or coherent policy when you have a slavishly compliant media willing to regurgitate whatever storyline you toss out there? Remember when Margaret Trudeau got popped for DUI? Who among us cynical conservatives was truly surprised when... not only did Canada's once-favourite flower...

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You can almost hear them start to salivate... ********** UPDATE: Not kidnapped after allOn Wednesday, Peloso’s parents Reno and Mary Ann told the Star their son "had some stresses in his life in the past, but we thought things had settled down." "The first thing I thought was he needed a break, he...

All those shameful, masculine, anglo images...

...like, you know... the Stanley Cup... And what would little MS Malice pull out of her multicultural bag-o-tricks?"Oh, we have so many images that sing out “Canada:” the Toronto skyline, the ROM, Sarah Polley in Avonlea, Alice Munro, Louis Riel, a Lawren Harris iceberg, a Joyce Wieland, the CBC logo,...

Now, if President Obama had a...

...wait... scratch that... "Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts found absolutely no national reporting of Jeffrey Babbitt, the 62-year-old retired train conductor now in a coma at Bellevue Hospital."********** UPDATE: Mr Babbitt died Monday... ...never waking from...

If Ontario Liberal government holds course...

...it will expropriate the land, erect a permanent building and hand it over to squatters... An illegal hamburger stand squatting at a rural intersection south of Hamilton, Ont., is refusing to close. And the area’s health unit is in a pickle over what to do next. The burger hut has no running water,...

Really Big Game

Forget about those Wascally Wabbits....

Exhaustive report by national broadcaster...

...leaves no stoner unturned... "When Farmers Break Bad"... I caution you, dear reader, the CBC pulls no punches, laying out every gristly detail..."Clandestine drug labs can be found anywhere, both urban and rural areas are not immune,” said Chief Supt. Mike Armstrong of the OPP’s organized crime enforcement...

Say... who was the education minister...

...under Premier Dalton McSlippery?If the latest dismal math test results for Grades 3 and 6 Ontario students prove anything, it is indeed that throwing more money at education has not added up to student success. Doretta Wilson, executive director of the Society for Quality Education, says the latest math results were achieved, or should I say not achieved, even as students are allowed to use calculators...

I just wanna know where you keep it...

...in between uses... "The invention came in the wake of a new law known as the Shenzhen City Public Toilet Management Act, which allows sanitation managers and other officials to slap a $15 fine on those caught making a mess of municipal toilets while relieving themselve...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Hit me with your journo-stick!!!"I can imagine that some genes make it harder for me to resist doing something harmful, and some make it easier. So what? I still don't get to torture kittens, no matter what my genetic makeup is. Maybe the problem is the idea that we should never be expected to do anything that isn't easy? Because that would explain a lot."Just something to consider the next time...

Mile Wide, Inch Deep

Apparently, the heir-transparent is not much of a student of history...In the 1993 election, Kim Campbell was that year’s Justin Trudeau, just 46 years old (Trudeau will be 44 in the next election). Campbell was a lawyer, a former justice minister, a woman of some accomplishment. But she pulled a Trudeau. “An election is no time to discuss serious issues,” she said. It was a turning point for the...

Yup... some murders are way more...

...important than others... •• TORONTO •• A 16-year-old boy is dead after he was shot in the neck in an apartment on Weston Road near Lawrence Avenue West late Sunday. The shooting is the latest in a spate of recent gun violence. In the last six months, at least six teens have been shot and five...

FLIP... wait, I mean FLOP

Following in Hillary Clinton's illustrious footsteps...“President Assad has been very generous with me in terms of the discussions we have had,” Mr. Kerry, as a senator from Massachusetts, told an audience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2011. He predicted that Mr. Assad would change for the better.That was then. This is now...Today, Mr. Kerry is a leading advocate for...

Little less pot... little more paperwork?

So what's up with the party of... "Dave's not here, man"..."Justin Trudeau's successful and popular visit last week there indicates that there is a lot of support to work with and we look forward to waging a strong campaign there as we will across the country," Andree-Lyne Halle told QMI Agency.Hey, full speed ahead, huh? Nuthin' gonna stop this political juggernau... wait a minute...It turns out...

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"Once upon a, well... uh... wait... ten years and another country ago....