I have to confess, I'm more worried...

...about the billions of dollars they piss away on purpose... but still...TORONTO — The Ontario [Liberal] government says a glitch with social assistance transfers that queued up $20 million in overpayments has been fixed — though efforts are underway to retrieve $300,000 that did end up being received. Amber Anderson says around 6,000 of the wrongful direct transfers and cheques did make it out...

I'm sure Ghenghis Khan had his reasons too

...but, c'mon Mr President, perhaps it's not the best time to be talking about "Justifiable Anger"... The nation’s self-styled healer of souls was mum in response to black radical grievance-mongers’ calls to vengefully burn Ferguson to the ground – a seething sentiment echoed the next day by Brown’s stepfather. Mr. Hope and Change stayed silent about the lynch-mob instigators calling for Wilson...

Two classes of firearms in Canada

Guns that protect politicians... GOOD. Guns that protect ordinary people... BAD.Previously, only some House of Commons guards carried guns. NOW ALL WILL, though it is unclear when the training will be complete and the new policy fully in pla...

Conscience and fortitude

What happens to "The Community" when there are no more Church ladies? ********** DEAR "PROFESSIONAL" JOURNALISTS: Stop embarrassing yourselves. What happened in Ferguson was not a "protest." A protest is a lawful assembly of citizens who wish to raise public awareness. Looting and burning, shooting at First Responders and carjacking and robbing (two news crews at last count, btw) are acts...

I guess this is some of the...

...constitutionally protected speech the President keeps talking about...Meet the Justice Seekers. It's a hard, lonely road, but somebody has to do it. ********** UPDATE: Truth, Justice and... ...the Fergusonian w...

Never mind not guilty... Darren Wilson...

...is lucky to be alive... Wilson also describes the moment he says he felt overpowered by 6 foot 5, Brown, who weighed upwards of 300 pounds. ‘When I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding Hulk Hogan.’And then "gentle giant" Michael Brown started wrestling...

No, that's not the Grand High Poobah...

...of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan... that's Missouri Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadali" crying out... "YES WE CAN"... throw gasoline on an already incendiary racial brushfire..."We didn't have a race war like other cities throughout the country. This is our race war... I know people in my own party,...

I can see the headline now...

...Ghomeshi found guilty... gets 20 to life managing Vancouver S & M club...

We are all Peshmerga

Ask Patrice Vincent or Nathan Cirillo...

Buying an election

Remember Dalton McGuinty's tough stand on teachers? Turns out, surprise, surprise, it was a very temporary political ploy to get his successor past the post. Let's pick up the story from there...In February 2013, Wynne took over, repealed the bill, and re-opened negotiations with the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. The two sides eventually...

Less Justin Trudeau...

...more Dillon Hillier. ********** THE JIHADIS ARE CALLING THE TUNE: ISIS is claiming that last month’s attacks that killed two Canadian Forces members in Quebec and Ontario were “the direct result” of its call for violence in countries that had joined the international military campaign against...

Barack Obama's "Yes We can" America

What do you think would happen if a howling mob showed up outside a police station and started demanding a black man be lynched?“What do we want?” “Darren Wilson!” “How do we want him?” “Dead!”These are not "protesters." This is a bloodthirsty lynch mob and should be treated as such. ********** ASK...

That horrified "can't look away" feeling

...homegrown media & blogosphere hold their collective breath as Trudeau Liberals check gun is loaded... by looking down the barrel...Oh gawd, oh gawd... he's not gonna... I mean nobody's that... even a part-time drama teacher... please, please, please... ********** FROM THE COMMENTS: If anybody...

FROM THE MAILBAG

Reader Dennis writes..."While at Chapters today, I thought that I'd do a little book shuffling. I'm helpful that way. ...

Take two minutes...

If the CBC is gonna continue to suck billions of dollars out of taxpayers pockets... then we should, at minimum, hold them to account to report actual truth.The CBC, like CNN, owes it to Canadians to fully explain how such a disgraceful and myopic headline got incorporated in their news coverage and disseminated wide and far. Just like CNN did, CBC should apologize for its journalistic shortcomings...

Rules are for little people

What exactly does this say to the millions of people who followed the rules and have been waiting for years to become citizens?President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them...

Unhang 'Em High?

Two female NDP MPs who allege improper conduct by a duo of male Liberal MPs will not be formally laying a complaint to launch an investigation, says a senior New Democrat. The decision could leave Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau with a political dilemma: Without an investigation, does he allow his two MPs back into caucus after suspending their membership because of the allegations?Hey Justin... just...

Ask a Palestinian President

Three Israeli-U.S. dual citizens and several others were killed or wounded in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning. Police said the assailants shot at people as they prayed, while also using meat cleavers and axes to assault those attending the morning service. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, but blamed Israeli “provocations.”Think it couldn't happen...

No "Weasel Words" here

We will attack you, destroy your homes and workplaces and steal whatever's left. It's "burn baby, burn" in the land of gentle giants.The Ferguson Mike Brown protesters are not ruling out violence or looting. “Rioting and looting are the tools of those without a voice."Funny how all those "folks without a voice" are making front page news on a daily basis. Meanwhile, on the other side of the "discussion"......

Meanwhile, back at Al Capone's Vault

No matter that there are no actual reported missing boys nor a single scrap of physical evidence that points to a crime or a location. Hells bells, it's got CBC written all over it... sexual abuse, incest, recovered memories of multiple murders and an old racist white guy. Hey, they've even got a sacred fire. Not too shabby for an outfit that can't seem to ever offer up a description of a shooter...

Altercation and Production

Followed by the cessation of life...“There was an altercation with two or three suspects and two black males produced firearms,” said Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux. Tariq Mohammed, of Mississauga is Toronto's 50th homicide victim this year.You'd almost forget someone was murdered. Never seems that restrained when there's an officer-involved shooting. Funny how that wor...

Too many Shamans...

...not enough common sense..."We know we can save this child’s life. We can’t give up on this child," hospital president Peter Fitzgerald told CBC Hamilton.Wait for it...The girl’s doctors said she has a 90-95 per cent chance of survival on chemotherapy, but that they didn’t know of anyone who had survived Acute Lyphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) without the treatment.Whaddayamean... political pawn?The decision...

I'm from the Government...

...I'm here to save you...Here are three crucial changes that the president clearly didn’t want you to know about: 1. HUGE DEFICITS AND NEW TAXES. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the latest projections for the net cost of ObamaCare over the next ten years are just over $1.4 trillion. Whereas President Obama promised in 2009 that it would cost less than $1 trillion over ten years. In...

Pubic Service Announcement

File this one under... 'Stuff you might wanna consider before you chop off yer' old/ stitch on yer' shiny new dick.' ********** RELATED: Dying for attentionThe downside of the new interest is that women desperate for cheap options have risked their lives, going to phony doctors that inject silicone,...

A Way to Remember

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada? -- Search the WWI CEF database -- Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country? -- Search the Commonwealth War Graves database -- My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt)...

From the folks who brought you...

..."The Land of Gentle Giants"...

Shshhh... nobody tell P-Spawn

It comes to lame-ass dick jokes... less is definitely more. ********** RELATED: Justin in three words... ,,,honour thy father..."Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. He traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda...

Try, try again

What makes the Liberals think they can shove this thing down taxpayers deep throats? This time, Wynne’s government says it will have 4,000 hand-picked parents chosen by school principals participate in an online survey on the sex education curriculum before it is introduced. Most are expected to be the chairs of school councils. But their purpose, other than providing a rubber stamp of approval,...

Those Redneck Tea Partying Westerners

The CBC solemnly reports..."Both the the victim and suspect in the shooting are from Edmonton."Papyrus... that's a trippy name for a cowboy bar. Oh well, as long as they have a mechanical bull. ********** RELATED: Homicidal Hogtown Apparently Torontonians are terrible too...Toronto Police said the 33-year-old victim was shot in the head while walking along Eglinton Ave., near Keele St., around...

Hey, Waneek... just a heads-up...

They start building a big camp with watchtowers and tall barbwire fencing... I'd say it's past time to get outta Berlin, er... Dodge City...The culprit is not some errant racist landlord trying to throw one tenant out of a building. It’s the Kahnawake Mohawk council, which has a law that bans all “mixed...

Lessons not learned

In a city of two and a half million people, the odds are pretty good you're not gonna get snuffed on any given day. So what are the chances one family hits the trifecta? Call me provincial, but in my five plus decades on this planet, I don't even know one person who has been murdered. As for the...

From the folks who brought you...

...melamine fortified baby formula...Meanwhile, in other "never let a corpse go to waste" news... The practice of burying “ghost brides” also remains very much in the headlines. The old ritual involves burying a deceased young female alongside a dead bachelor, so the male will not be without a companion...

Geez, that's weird... I could've sworn...

...there was an election... not a coup d'etat...More "zippo journalism" from the folks who warmed up Ferguson, Missou...

FROM THE COMMENTS

"Thanks for the info about Jian's degree in 'women's studies'. Why any male would 'study' this topic is now answered by his post-grad behaviou...

Oh... the Ursinity

"Grrr... damn ecotourists... I say, first we identify 'em... then we eat 'em...

There are no terrorists, right, Tom?

So who are you really afraid of... Rex Murphy... or Conrad Bla...

The Right Stuff

But now it is clear that much of the Ford message resonated well with hundreds of thousands of perfectly respectable voters. They appreciated his responsiveness (the mayor always answered every phone message personally), avoidance of extravagance (even the Star conceded that he cut $638-million over four years from the City’s expenses), and a jovial, if sometimes laddish demean...

You wouldn't understand, it's...

...a Canadian thing...The Security Service Employees Association requested last year that they be armed when working outside the Parliament buildings. The association said there would be an expectation from parliamentarians, the RCMP and the public that guards would respond in the event of a security crisis, but without guns, guards would not be able to respond to any armed attack that put lives...

Strike three for Obama & Holder

The trouble with playing the race card is that it's usually more emotional than evidentiary... from Skip Gates to Trayvon to "gentle giant" Michael Brown, the Whitehouse has been consistently misreading the table...As the official autopsy report obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch demonstrates, Brown was shot in the hand at close range—with gunpowder residue in the wound. Both findings seem to...