Thank goodness for the CTV...

If it wasn't for Lloyd and Bobblehead at CTV... that scary Stephen Harper would have slipped another one past us.

The Conservative government has announced the creation of a 10-million hectare national park and wildlife sanctuary -- an area roughly twice as large as Nova Scotia.

"Truly, a gigantic conservation initiative, not just in Canadian history but indeed around the world," said Environment Minister John Baird, who made the announcement during a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday.

The designation would protect the massive swath of the boreal forest from diamond and uranium mining in the region that threatens to encroach on the area, would ban sales and leases of property and put new limits on hunting in the area.

Native leaders and environmentalists have applauded the news.

It's curiously absent from their on-line article... but it seems not everyone saw this as a good news story.

On the 11:00 pm television segment on the CTV News... uber-correspondent Bob Fife let us in on the dark side of this development... apparently Prime Minister Harper only did this to cover up his failure to implement Y2Kyoto.

I just about fell outta my chair.

Technorati Tags: Lloyd Robertson, Bob Fife, leftwing media bias

Less than Honourable Members

The same old fiberal smoke and mirrors...

Ever since recent revelations by The Globe and Mail and the CBC made the public aware of new facts and allegations about the relationship between Mr. Mulroney and Mr. Schreiber, opposition politicians have rushed to judgment.

You've gotta love the irony... of the party who perpetrated Adscam on the Canadian taxpayer... screaming about thievery and misbehaviour.

Recklessly, they have used innuendo, loaded language and guilt by association to blacken the reputation of people against whom there is not the slightest evidence of wrongdoing.

The accusation of a "cover-up" presumes a crime. But what crime was committed and covered up?

Nothing is offered but cowardly innuendo and guilt by association.

Misdirection... it's what they do best.

Baby Boom

How long you figure all the "holy warriors" had to sit around brainstormin' at the mosque, before somebody cried out... the Islamic equivalent of eureka...

Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last month.

Investigators from Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said yesterday they believed the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father.

Well... I guess if this was truly the "Will of Allah", this guy didn't really have a choice, huh?

They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms Bhutto's vehicle as she drove in a late-night cavalcade through the streets of Karachi.

Congratulations, once again, religion of peace.

Thank goodness for the CBC...

I almost missed out on... "National Transgender Remembrance Day."

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I was also relieved to hear about the CEEB's further, ongoing, close cooperation with the Chinese government...

"The notion that CBC would pay any attention to Chinese concerns is evidence they've lost all perspective," said Mr. Matas, who represented Mr. Zhung.

"The CBC becoming a vehicle of Chinese government propaganda -- even under the notion that it's balanced coverage -- is not responsible journalism."

Root causes, my ass

Even babies know the difference betwen right and wrong...

Babies as young as 6 to 10 months old showed crucial social judging skills before they could talk, according to a study by researchers at Yale University's Infant Cognition Center published in Thursday's journal Nature.

The infants watched a googly-eyed wooden toy trying to climb roller-coaster hills and then another googly-eyed toy come by and either help it over the mountain or push it backward. They then were presented with the toys to see which they would play with.

Nearly every baby picked the helpful toy over the bad one.

I just don't get it

There's never any of those nasty, little gits from PETA around... when you need one.

-- BARRIE -- Three aboriginal hunters are now on trial facing more than 50 offences including the commercial sale of moose, bear and deer meat, as well as black bear gall bladders.

Canada has the largest remaining black bear habitat in the world and their gall bladders are sought after for use in traditional Asian medicine.

Yup... nothing says "respect for Mother Earth" quite like procuring mythical "stiffy meds" for gullible people on other continents.

You think this is draconian?

Just wait until Osama's merry band of pranksters lets the other shoe drop... that's when the excrement will truly hit the air-conditioning.

-- NARITA, JAPAN -- Japan began fingerprinting foreigners entering the country on Tuesday in an anti-terrorism policy that has sparked complaints from human right activists, business travellers and long-term residents.

“At a time when terrorism is occurring throughout the world, we want foreigners entering Japan to co-operate, and to understand that it is better for them as well that Japan be safe,” said Hisashi Toshioka, head of the Immigration Bureau at Narita airport.

Security experts worldwide agree that it's not a question of if... simply a matter of when... we have another incident on the magnitude of 9/11.

You're gonna be screaming for maximally torqued-up security the day after that happens... trust me.

Of course, by then it'll be too late.

And guess what... it ain't just the Japanese who are battening down the hatches.

Britain this month began requiring people applying for British visas to have their fingerprints scanned and photographs taken digitally.

And, closer to home...

-- Washington -- The Bush administration said yesterday it will install 10 new fingerprint scanners at all Canada-U.S. border crossings -- including pre-clearance facilities at Canadian airports -- by the end of 2008.

Most Canadians are exempt from being fingerprinted under the expanding US-VISIT program. Paul Morris, who runs Homeland Security's admissibility programs, said "very few Canadians" will be affected the changes.

It's the future folks... get used to it.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"stoogeleft fantasizes... their government approved rubber glove, your national RFID tube, and a jar of KY jelly"

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RELATED: While we're at it...

Fingerprint these terrorists too.

France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a "concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail operator has said.

It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge delays to TGV services already hit by a long transport union strike over reforms.

Mr Sarkozy said reforms were overdue and that they were necessary "to confront the challenges set by the world".

"We will not surrender and we will not retreat," he said.

Even people from other countries...

Are trying to figure out what Steffi's pullin' here...

A top German justice official says he expects his country will find a way for Karlheinz Schreiber to testify at a public inquiry in Canada — even if he is extradited to Germany before then.

Reinhard Nemetz, who heads the regional court where Mr. Schreiber faces criminal charges, says it's up to the federal justice departments in both countries to work something out, but he doesn't think there would be any problems.

See... the Germans know all about Schreiber's very calculated stalling tactics... they've been trying to get their mitts on him since the last millenium. So when Dion and company get on the "save poor Karl" bandwagon... they don't know what to make of it.

Mr. Nemetz said Mr. Schreiber's latest argument is just another example of his “salami tactics.” “He always ends up slicing off another thin excuse when he needs it, so the salami never runs out, and it's another whole debate as to whether there's any truthful taste to it.”

Mr. Nemetz says German authorities are frustrated that Canada's justice system has allowed Mr. Schreiber to avoid extradition for more than eight years. “I just can't understand why this is taking so long,” he said.

Well, Mr. Nemetz... you could just come out and ask Steffi and his fiberal friends what they're trying to accomplish here.

Of course... trying to stick a thumb in Stephen Harper's eye... isn't going to be a very satisfying answer.

Technorati Tags: Stephane Dion, Karlheinz Schreiber, fiberal smoke and mirrors

Exquisitely tutored, undeniably neutered

Oh, Steffi... why don't you just go off and lick your, uh... well... place where your balls used to be.

"What I can say is that when the Leader of the Opposition alleges vast conspiracies and then votes by abstaining to keep the government in office, nobody takes his allegations seriously."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Harper is like a cat playing with a mouse. Iggy is the vulture waiting for the carcass."

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RELATED: Bad news for 'Bangers'

“Drug producers and dealers who threaten the safety of our communities must face tougher penalties,” Mr. Nicholson said in a release.

“This is why our government is moving to impose mandatory jail time for serious drug offences that involve organized crime, violence or youth.”

Who'da thunk it?

"It’s almost as though humans have some sort of capacity to adapt."

Raccoon-o-gram

When you care enough to send the very best...

"I ... thought, God, that looks like a raccoon with a spear in it, and a sign on it," he said.

"So I tiptoed out there and, sure enough, that's exactly what it is."

I'm thinkin' the cops should be checking local video stores... for angry guys who recently rented "Godfather Part I".

Back in style

Apparently fur is no longer ecologically, or politically incorrect... funny how that works.

“Now, you see the young women in their 20s coming in. They want the short jackets. You can wear them over cocktail dresses. Or you can wear them with jeans. And they come in fun colours.”

Which raises another surprising factor in the fur resurgence: Unlike all the disposable fashion out there, fur is a surprisingly green product.

Well, who knew... fur even redresses "root causes" inequities as it greens the planet.

According to the Fur Council, 60,000 aboriginal and traditional trappers in Canada practise sustainable harvesting. Few, often safe (such as alum), chemicals are used to dress hides, and any dyes are monitored closely to cut effluents. And fur lasts a long time.

This means it can be reused. “Remodelling is a big part of the business,” Papaevangelidis says. “Young girls are dying to wear their grandmother's furs. And grandmothers are dying to see the treasures they once prized so highly worn again.”

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RELATED: It's all green... these days

Suspicious of marketing claims that a product is "eco-friendly" or "kind to the earth?"

A study released by a Toronto firm yesterday suggests you're right to be. A survey of environmental claims involving more than 1,000 products found all were false or misleading.

Another one bites the dust

Just like all the recent hysteria over Taser related deaths... it turns out the supposed rising tide of hate crimes in North America... is a myth.

Less than 10,000 total hate crimes of any kind in an entire year, in a country of over 300 million people? Only 7,330 known hate crime offenders?

That means that hate crimes are a drop in the bucket. They are the least of our problems.

The two-thousandths of one percent (.002%) of Americans who committed hate crimes against anyone in 2006, including Protestants (35 complete losers) clearly need help.

While we're playing around with numbers I have one final factoid for the Taser Death Squad Hysterical Society.

There have been 16 taser related deaths in Canada over the last four years.

That works out to 4 instances per year... which, my paranoid friends, is statistically insignificant.

In 2002 alone, twenty-nine Canadians were killed in avalanches.

I'm betting more than 4 Canadians per year, manage to run over and kill themselves with their own cars... and nobody's setting up a public enquiry into that totally predictable and avoidable stupidity.

You're being taken for a ride, folks... which sells a shitload of newspapers and commercial airtime.

Think about it.

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UPDATE: The RCMP speaks up

Many comments we have received seem to suggest that the use of a TASER is never justified based on the likelihood of inflicting serious injury or death.

In fact, our experience and that of other police services over the course of many years and thousands of incidents, as well as existing research, have shown that deploying a TASER is often the fastest and safest way to gain control of an individual.

We and other police services teach our officers that it is less likely to cause serious injury than other tactics.

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LAST WORD: A very special welcome...

To readers of noted humanitarian and progressive brown-noser "Canadian Cynic"

Little CC is the piece of dreck who told Wanda Watkins... the mother of a slain Canadian soldier... to "fuck off." Now he tries to wipe some of that shit off on yours truly.

Just another disgusting performance.

Make sure you check out his greatest hits.

Note to Canadian Cesspool... back to tasers yet again, huh?.

Are you sure you're feeling okay?

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Because he's all about the women...

Neo, since there is obviously no hope of reasoned discussion with a fuckwad like you, congratulations for demonstrating what a fucking wanker you are. Now you and your posse go out there and beat up some teenage girls so that you can feel like real men.

Hey... I recognise that lilting prose.

Technorati Tags: hate crimes, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski

AP reporting grave injustice...

Against star AP photographer.

-- NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented.

An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a "sham of due process." The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months.

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RELATED: Who is Bilal Hussein?

Hussein’s photos have raised serious, persistent questions about his relationship with terrorists in Iraq and whether his photos were/are staged in collusion with the enemy.

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UPDATE: Blogger helps bag Bilal

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LAST WORD: Back here at home...

The Canadian media is turning tragedy into a parlour game.

Technorati Tags: Bilal Hussein, Associated Press, leftwing media bias

Remember the good old days...

When Mom used to fly out the door with a Louisville slugger... to beat on the ladies down the block???

Yeah, me neither...

Four people suffered cuts and bruises when a group of women got into a fight outside a west-end housing complex last night.

"We don't know what they were fighting about, but it sounds like they're at it again at the hospital," said one officer as police headed to the Humber River Regional Hospital's Church St. site following the melee in the area of Humber Blvd. and Alliance Ave. about 6 p.m.

A baseball bat and frying pan – both of which may have been used as weapons – were also found at the scene.

Yup... those west-end bangers don't get it from anywhere strange.

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RELATED: I guess the rules...

Didn't say anything about a 14 year-old having a car...

The victims... were on a strict 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. schedule that included prayers five times a day and memorizing the Koran, in addition to their Grade 10 classes and chores, school administrator Atif Din said.

Hey, Bobo...

Let me explain something here... if they've got guns... we can just shoot them...

"The Canadian Press earlier reported that three out of four suspects stun-gunned by the RCMP were unarmed."

Stand by for a four-part CP series on why burning witches hardly ever works out.

No chakras or healing crystals here

Guess what, progressive dipshits... sometimes the answer isn't "blowin' in the wind."

-- Sangisar, Afghanistan -- The gunfire started at sunrise Saturday and continued until noon. It was a bitter fight on both sides.

As insensitive as this may sound to Steffi, Gilles and Taliban Jack... sometimes you gotta call in tough, courageous warriors... to break stuff and kill people.

The Taliban resorted to using children as human shields, according to soldiers who witnessed the tactic, and the encircled Canadians called in artillery and air strikes so close to their own positions that a soldier suffered shrapnel wounds from friendly fire.

“Why Sangisar?” Major Moffet said. “It was a node for the Taliban."

"Now it's ours.”

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UPDATE: Meanwhile, back at home...

Jacko and Steffi go to bat for the troops... uh, wait a minute... the Taliban?

"Opposition parties hammered the Conservative government over allegations of detainee abuse Tuesday, accusing the Conservatives of doing nothing for months while being fully aware that torture was taking place in Afghan prisons."

So, unless I'm missing something here... Frick and Frack are defending the guys who are shooting at our soldiers... and using children as human shields?

The inmates are truly running the asylum.

Technorati Tags: Sangisar, Mullah Omar, religion of peace

The times, they are a changin'...

Sitting in sight of her father and grandfather, both Lutheran ministers, Jen Rude on Saturday became the first ordained lesbian pastor since the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America urged bishops to not penalize congregations who violate the celibacy requirement for gay clergy.

Steffi better bring his raincoat...

Seems there's a hard rain comin'.

-- OTTAWA -- The federal Conservatives will launch a flurry of law-and-order anti-crime legislation next week to crack down on illegal drug use, identity theft and young offenders.

The Tories are also expected to introduce a bill to toughen penalties for youth crime and give police greater powers to detain alleged young offenders.

I'm lovin' this... use a gun -- you're done.

Critics expect the legislation would see youths accused of serious or violent offences, as well as repeat offenders, automatically transferred to adult court.

The minister also indicated the legislation will make it more difficult for youths accused of crimes to get out on bail and toughen sentences for youth gun crimes and auto thefts.

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RELATED: Yessir... there's new Sheriff in town

One of the changes Mr. Nicholson plans is to reduce the credit given to convicted criminals for time spent in custody awaiting trial. Many judges now give them double credit, which often means they serve significantly less than their original sentence.

He also agreed to propose changes to the Criminal Code to make every gang-related homicide qualify for a first-degree murder charge, not second-degree murder or manslaughter - a measure requested by British Columbia and other provinces.

Imagine...

If Stephane Dion drove a motorcycle...