An international watchdog group says Afghanistan and Iraq, two countries that receive billions of dollars in international aid, are among the world's most corrupt nations.*
"Telling us more about Ignatieff's organizational team than we know about his policies doesn't seem like a good start to me."**********
It appears that Mario Laguë was not only hired by Paul Martin to put a brave face on the sponsorship scandal, but Ignatieff’s new D.Comm was also part of a three-man panel with Chuck Guité that hired then Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano’s Chief of Staff to replace Guité, who was retiring.*
"All I did was drive past and take pictures out the window, they pulled me over for a chat. Full tactical stop, with shotgun."Funny how that works.
"Scary stuff. Meanwhile the "Mohawk protesters" otherwise known as organized crime, are using the DCE and Dave Brown's back yard for a motocross track, shooting range, pissoir, and generally behaving ugly 24/7."
"No tactical stop with shotgun for them."
Cheating can make someone a "better partner" and in fact lead to an improved relationship, says the founder of a website that facilitates extramarital affairs.This guy sounds so sure of himself... I guess he must be basing his thesis here on personal experience?
Biderman, who has been married for seven years and has two children, says both he and his wife have never cheated because they are "very honest with one another about what we need and how our relationship will work."*
Experts, on whom the incompetent depend to explain the complicated world they fail to understand, are unanimous. "It's Reagan's fault," says Professor Wilton Chumpley, a consulting sociologist from the University of Twerp in Belgium.*
"Remember how in the 1980s that actor-president mislead people into thinking they could spend their own money and run their own lives without expert help?
“We want the broadcasters to put 6% of their revenue into original, Canadian scripted drama and comedy,” said Mark McKinney, former star of Kids in the Hall. “There’s a good argument for it.”And hey, CTV... good luck with that blackmailing the public thing.
"I get over 100 channels on my cable. You could go off the air and I doubt I would notice."**********
Sincerely, the public.
CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein asked the public broadcaster why it should be allowed to collect money from consumers, if the idea was approved, since the TV and radio broadcaster already gets more than $1-billion in federal funding for its various operations, and also collects advertising revenue on TV.**********
The CBC has admitted it inadvertently displayed the jacket of an anti-Sarah Palin book during a story about the former vice-presidential candidate that aired on The National .*
A CBC spokesman confirmed that the network mistakenly put up a graphic depicting the cover of Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare.
Tickets are still available for the Belleville and District Chamber of Commerce's breakfast with MPP Tim Hudak.*
Hudak, Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, will be the guest speaker at the chamber's breakfast on Thursday at the Ramada Inn.
It may come as a surprise, but there are no toy guns in my house. We do, however, have sticks, markers, plastic hammers and, yes, thumbs and fingers.**********
Almost every day, one or both of my sons will approach me and ask in their sweet baby voices, "Mommy, do you know where my gun is?" I invariably reply that I do not and that I hope they are not shooting at anybody who doesn't want to be shot at.
"No, no," they reply. "We're shooting the bad guys."
That's funny... this one shows up just as "Liberal Supporter" starts his daily bombing of a couple other comment threads.Residents on a quiet High Park-area street lined with yellow maple leaves were fearful yesterday as they talked about the gunshots that rang out in their neighbourhood the previous evening.Meanwhile, strangely enough... Mayor Miller's office was once again unable to say which Toronto area gun club the shooters belonged to.
Neighbours too frightened to give their names said crime doesn't normally happen in their peaceful enclave -- a neighbourhood where people measure home ownership by decades.
"My husband thought he heard eight shots," said a woman, who added she saw a car go "ripping up backwards" the length of Elora to Clendenan Ave., while a black SUV with chrome wheels and tinted windows fled along a neighbouring street.
CTV News has learned the federal Conservatives plan to ban public agencies from hiring lobbyists to influence the federal government.*
Crown Corporations are already forbidden from using lobbyists to influence decision makers in Ottawa. But on Monday, Treasury Board President Vic Toews is expected to extend that rule to 90 other federal bodies.
The Toronto Port Authority, the Canadian Televison Fund and the Canadian Wheat Board will be among the agencies affected.
Those agencies "don't have to hire someone to talk to the government when they can talk to us themselves," a senior government adviser told CTV.
-- TORONTO -- The Toronto Centre Liberal riding association raised nearly $430,000 for George Smitherman in 2008 -- the same year its president, Jason Grier, lobbied ministries Smitherman led for a long list of corporate and government clients.*
Grier, a former executive assistant and senior policy adviser to Smitherman, left the then-health minister's staff in March 2005.
He started his lobbying career a year later.
On June 9, 2006, an elderly couple had stopped their car to have a look into the now-famous occupied lands. They were followed by protesters into a nearby Canadian Tire parking lot, surrounded and bullied. The man suffered a heart attack.*
Two local cameramen arrived and began filming the scene; OPP officers who were watching it all, but not stopping it, advised them not to get too close. When the protesters spotted the TV crew, the cameraman was assaulted and videotape removed.
Insp. Haggith arrived to see the cameraman with his bloodied face and heard from spectators what had happened.
The turning point came when he overheard a woman talking on the phone to a police dispatcher, saying she wouldn't give her name because she was afraid. "The police won't do anything," the woman said, "Who is going to help us?"
It was, he said, "a perception I could share."
"Last year I wrote to Zellers expressing my outrage at the fact that their advertising had banished the word Christmas, referring instead to some nebulous feast called 'Holiday Joy'."**********
"I also pointed out how they had prominently had the word 'RAMADAN' in their advertising just a few months ago for the muslim feast."
"Sears Canada call centre for catalogue orders in Regina, SK. closed on September. 17/09. That left 250 people out of a job. The call centre in Belleville , Ontario. was also closed leaving 230 people without jobs."*
"Now when you call your order in you will be speaking to people in the Phillipines. That’s right folks Sears has moved it’s call centre to the Phillipines because it is cheaper."
"I don’t know about you people but with the way the economy is I know I will no longer be shopping at Sears. If they can’t keep the jobs in Canada then they can move all their stores to the Phillipines."
"Please pass this on. We need to make a stand. Our economy is not going to get any better unless these big companies start sourcing in the country that they do business."
-- NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The scandal-hit liberal grass-roots group ACORN sued the U.S. government on Thursday, saying it did not have the right to cut off ACORN's federal funding because the group had not been convicted of a crime.*
The U.S. Congress voted in September to cut off federal money to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), after conservative activists secretly filmed employees in several cities giving tax and housing advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute.
ACORN, which has also suffered an embezzlement scandal involving the founder's brother, has separately sued the makers of the videos.
"The defendant was on parole at the time of this homicide and had been released from jail slightly over two months earlier.**********
He had been convicted in Toronto on Feb. 8, 2006 on charges of pointing a firearm, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm and ammunition, assault with a weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle."
For committing these crimes with "loaded .45-calibre and .38 calibre handguns, "his global sentence had been two years and three months."
Each time, after serving laughable time, the court set Bourne free!
Police are looking for a group of suspects after two men were stabbed near the Guvernment nightclub early Saturday morning.*
Police have a vague description of the suspects, and have conflicting information so far but say this was a confrontation between two groups of men.
The group of suspects was armed with a knife, and may also have a gun.
"...because my rabbit just lost his member last week in a lawnmower accident."*
-- Posted by: PhilM at November 14, 2009 7:15 AM
On Thursday, the McGuinty government paid a few hundred million to cut its losses.*
