What would PM Ignatieff have done?

On the one hand we have these repentant Canadians and their sad families...

"It’s going to be tough because we’ve got a government that’s proven to be somewhat unresponsive to prisoner-transfer requests in circumstances of offences that are arguably much more minor offences."

On the other side of the fence we have that "unresponsive", hard-hearted ogre... Stephen Harper.

After all, it was just that single "offence"... you know... executing a major arms purchase for a violent terrorist group.

I mean, c'mon... it could happen to any one of us... right?

Wrong.

These men had access to every advantage this country had to offer, including post-secondary education and a bright, shining future... but they tossed that aside to deal guns & explosives...

"Sarachandran earned a computer science degree from the University of Windsor in 2002 before returning to Toronto to work at the Tamil Youth Organization, a non-profit group he now acknowledges was “part of” the Tamil Tigers network."

And, if it hadn't been for post-911 scrutiny... you could have been reading a totally different... bloodier story.

Language... and spin... are more important than ever. Don't count on the MSM to give you the whole story.

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RELATED: Those darn "Montrealers"

-- KINGSTON, Ont. -- Jury selection begins Tuesday in preparation for the trial of three Montrealers accused of murdering four family members who were found dead in a submerged car at Kingston Mills Lock in 2009.

Note that the "four family members" were his first wife & three daughters... yet curiously, there's not a single word about "honour killing".

You know that old saying...

..."Only a fool brings a knife to... "an interaction"...

The Special Investigations Unit said Sylvia Klibingaitis, 52, was shot once in the chest following an interaction with an officer. An ambulance took her to Sunnybrook Hospital, where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.

“It’s my understanding that she did pursue the officer with a knife,” said Const. Wendy Drummond.

How come there's never a taser around, when you really, really need one.

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UPDATE: Hey, two sides to every story, right?

"Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be lawyers."

“This lady was a devoutly religious woman who volunteered at nursing homes to help elderly people,” Goldkind said. “She was upgrading her education at the U of T and she was raising a teenaged daughter. She was a good person. This is disheartening for me."

Yup, me too... if only she hadn't tried to disembowel a cop.

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LAST WORD: Enough with the lawyers...

...let's just have the facts...

SIU director Ian Scott said Sylvia Klibingaitis made a 911 call saying she was armed with a knife and was going to commit a crime.

As an officer approached the Wedgewood Dr. home, a grandmother who struggled with mental illness most of her adult life, rushed out onto the porch wielding a large knife.

“She went directly toward the subject officer holding the knife in a threatening manner,” he stated. The officer pulled out his service pistol and pointed it at Klibingaitis while stepping backward toward the street.

Scott stated the officer repeatedly yelled to put the knife down, but Klibingaitis responded, “No.”

Sorry, Peace Moonbeam... religious granny notwithstanding... this one's got suicide by cop written all over it...

“The in-car video camera recordings showed her less than two metres away from the subject officer with the knife positioned above her shoulder and continuing to close in on him when the subject officer discharged his firearm three times in rapid succession causing Ms. Klibingaitis to fall on the roadway.”

Remember back... you were a kid...

...some oldster told you what to do... you'd just beat him 'til he toppled?

-- Yeah... me neither...

-- OTTAWA -- A 57-year-old Gatineau man who was badly beaten while trying to stop a young man from stealing a pumpkin in Aylmer last week died in hospital on Thursday.

After the cyclist told the young men to leave the pumpkins alone, one thief attacked him and inflicted serious head injuries, police said.

But don't you worry... the "justice" system is all over this...

On Saturday, police arrested a 19-year-old Pontiac man and charged him with assault causing bodily harm. The teenager was released following a promise to appear in court.

Upgraded charges against the 19-year-old are now being considered by Crown prosecutors.

Hey, Peace Moonbeam... those prisons all the leftbots are screaming about... you actually believe they're for the highschool pothead down the block?

Wake up and smell the homicide.

Hang on a second... I could've sworn...

...this came down to a 2% difference in the popular vote, but that's not anywhere close to how our "professional journalists" are torquing the headlines, is it?

Is there a mandatory "Obfuscation 101" course at J-school?

I swear... there's more "bait & switch" in the MSM than all my weekly junk mail combined. To present any of this as objective journalism is an insult to my intelligence.

Go ahead and be a partisan... but you don't get to call it journalism.

Gawd... I miss actual news.

We're not Toronto...

...and it shows...

"PC newbie Todd Smith elected MPP for Prince Edward-Hastings, unseating 12-year Liberal MPP & 3-time cabinet minister Leona Dombrowsky."

That savage, homicidal George W...

...wait a minute...

In an ironic turn, Obama, who ran for president denouncing predecessor George W. Bush's expansive use of executive power in his "war on terrorism," is being attacked in some quarters for using similar tactics. They include secret legal justifications and undisclosed intelligence assessments.

Liberals criticized the drone attack on an American citizen as extra-judicial murder.

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to discuss anything about the process.

A second $469,000,000 loan?

Say... isn't that just about the same amount of taxpayer eco-cabbage... Premier McSlippery's gonna use to bribe that foreign multinational corporation to set up shop in Ontario?

Congratulations, America... on beating the...

...nationwide scourge of childhood obesity...

"The iconic kids show is set to unveil a new impoverished puppet named Lily, whose family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issues."

Yeas... I remember when Neophyte was a toddler... he was constantly hungering for social justice...Of course, in any crowd, there's always a naysayer or two, as evidenced in the EW comments...

"She has enough money to afford that tart eyeshadow and that tacky magenta foundation. I bet she smokes too."

This is so exciting... I can't wait for Big Bird to start discussing gender issues with Chaz Bono.

With apologies to Biggus Dickus

I dunno... is it just my imagination... or is it always the guys with the way-cool names who keep getting all the gun-related headlines?

-- TORONTO -- Maximus Williams, 21, is charged with careless storage of a firearm, knowingly possessing an unauthorized firearm, possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm obtained by crime, careless storage of ammunition, failing to comply with an undertaking, possessing a prohibited device, and altering a firearm serial number.

That oughta be good for a couple days at the Crowbar Motel.

Well, he still made out better than ol' Jefflin.

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RELATED: Pop goes the, well... you know...

Toronto... another day, another dead guy..

"People in the west-end neighbourhood say the man who was shot goes by the nickname Weezy. He hasn't otherwise been identified."

The total legacy of a human life?

So sad.

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LAST WORD: In other "crime is down" news

Psssst... wanna beat that 6 hour wait at your local germ-infested hospital emergency room? Try showing up at this place...

Inside, the building is bright and airy. The 12 injection stalls are kept scrupulously clean, with new needles, water and antiseptic wipes laid out on a table in front of a mirror for each new client. Nurses attend to wounds, abscesses, vein and skin conditions.

I've gotta say... these places sound way more engaging & hospitable than the hospitals I've been to recently...

“A lively and warm place,” as its website advertises, “where people of all stripes come to get injection equipment, condoms, crack pipes, counselling and even to draw a picture or play an instrument.”

And they go out of their way to make a person feel welcome.

You are all invited to join in the seasonnal(sic) seringe(sic) picking in your community.

You might as well reap the benefits, Canada... after all, you're paying for it.

You need one good reason?

Forget all about all the many & varied financial scandals... forget about rollin' the billion dollar dice on that Samsung thing... just remember what happened to the good folk of Caledonia...I get that Tim Hudak hasn't exactly set the world on fire... and I admit that I was wrong about Julian Fantino... but can you really endorse another four year romp through the garden for Emperor, er... Premier McSlippery?

Think about it... then, tomorrow... make sure you go vote

There's gotta be a really profound lesson...

...in there somewhere... right?

-- OTTAWA -- The city has paid out more than $330,000 in contribution rebates for last fall’s election campaign, according to the city clerk’s office, and expects to write cheques worth about another $27,000 in the months to come.

Lemme see... yet another tax on people who choose not to have a fiscal relationship with political parties? We're actually bribing people (with their own money, no less) to make political contributions?

I don't get it.

In an effort to encourage residents to get politically involved, the city offers partial refunds on contributions to local election campaigns — up to $187.50 on a contribution of $300.

I guess it's no worse than, say... Premier McSlippery using resident's money to buy shiny new syringes & crackpipes, eh?

Anyway, Ottawa... just something else to think about while you're writing out that beefy municipal tax cheque.

Well... if anybody knows from crazy

In a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The Israeli government sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Tuesday."

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RELATED: "What is it good for?"

"Absolutely nuthin'"...

Susan Rice, who walked out after the vote, said opposition to the resolution was a "cheap ruse by those who would rather sell arms to the Syrian regime than stand with the Syrian people".

More than 2,700 people have been killed across Syria since the crackdown began in March, the UN estimates.

Two words... Rwanda... Darfur.

The United Nations... a standing excuse for standing by and doing nothing.

Subsidising political parties should be...

...a choice... not a tax...

-- OTTAWA -- The Harper government on Tuesday introduced legislation to scrap direct taxpayer subsidies for federal political parties. The move, to be implemented over three years, will eventually save nearly $30 million annually.

The public subsidies were first introduced by the Chretien government in 2003.

You wanna financially support the political party of your choice... it should be a choice. Taxing me to further the agenda of the NDP... or the Bloc... is adding insult to injury.

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RELATED: I am a Bonehead.ca
You ever wonder how many of our tax dollars these guys spend on frivolous stuff like this?

Okay, Peace Moonbeam...

...exactly how, on Gaia's green earth, does eyewitness testimony, unimpeachable physical evidence... AND A CONFESSION... not totally annihilate a belated "not guilty" plea?

" -- Detroit -- Prosecutors have his hospital-bed confession, dozens of witnesses, remnants of the explosive and an al-Qaeda video featuring the 24-year-old explaining his suicide mission."

Of course, we all know, defying all logic & reason... this thing will drag on forever and a day.

No wonder the crazies just keep on coming.

In other "Don't need a Weatherman" news

Is Canada that far behind?

Hope, change and...

..."because I say so"...

Months ago, the Obama Administration revealed that it would target al-Awlaki. It even managed to wriggle out of a lawsuit filed by his father to prevent the assassination. But the actual legal reasoning the Department of Justice used to authorize the strike? It's secret. Classified. Information that the public isn't permitted to read, mull over, or challenge.

Obama hasn't just set a new precedent about killing Americans without due process. He has done so in a way that deliberately shields from public view the precise nature of the important precedent he has set.

It's time for the president who promised to create "a White House that's more transparent and accountable than anything we've seen before" to release the DOJ memo.

Oh, c'mon... who really cares about this sort of thing? Nice clean surgical strike... thousands of miles from home.

It's not like it's a Bush/Cheney "war crime"... you know, like waterboarding.

Obviously, some animals are more equal than others.

Right, America?

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RELATED: And it ain't just Republicans

Your own people start takin' shots... it's time to take notice...

“They can’t see around corners; they anticipate nothing,” says House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of the president and his advisers.

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

...scour your arteries...

Apparently, though... they only serve...

...left wings...

Nuit Blanche gets a little Rouge

TORONTO - A man was shot near Trinity-Bellwoods Park overnight, Toronto Police said Sunday.

A 911 call was made around 3 a.m. and when police arrived they found a man in his mid-20s suffering from gunshot wounds.

He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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FROM THE SUN COMMENTS:

"There is something fishy about this story. I distinctly remember David Miller declaring Toronto a 'gun free' zone."

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UPDATE: Latest victim identified

"Jefflin Beals, 25, of Nova Scotia, found was lying between two homes on Crawford St., north of Queen St. W., around 4 a.m."

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UPDATE2: CBC gets their investigation on

Jefflin Beals of Dartmouth, N.S., was described as a 23-year-old with a checkered past — a former all-star basketball player at Dartmouth High School who also had three convictions for drug possession, two for breaching release conditions and one for causing a disturbance by fighting.

It is unclear if both Beals are one and the same.

Hmmm... seems pretty clear to the local Halifax paper...

In May of 2009, he was charged with numerous weapons offences, fleeing from police, impaired driving, dangerous driving and refusing the breathalyzer. He was allegedly driving a car that fled from police at Windmill Road and Elmwood Drive and police found a Hi-Point CF-380 handgun in the vehicle.

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UPDATE3: Only a matter of time...

-- TORONTO -- Toronto Police have made an arrest in last month’s fatal shooting of a Nova Scotia man near Trinity Bellwoods Park.

Darnell St. Clair Wright, 32, of Toronto, was arrested without incident Thursday at 8:45 p.m., police said in a news release Friday.

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LAST WORD: Airbrushing the politburo...

...it's what the CBC does best...
Professional journalism... it's a sacred calling...

"He was very smart," (cousin) Gary Beals said. "He graduated from high school."

Yeah, Gary... he's a regular Stephen Hawking. And, what's that... he knows ASL too?

What else is the CBC not telling us?

Yet another little report you'll never see...

...on the taxpayer-subsidised Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans were eliminated -- they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate.

Not surprisingly, the national media have been completely silent about this news.

Which is why it's nice to have alternatives to the "lap it up" Lloyds & Lisas of the journalistic world...

"This study failed to demonstrate a beneficial association between legislation and firearm homicide rates between 1974 and 2008."

(via sda)

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RELATED: Mind you, it's a very selective silence

"If you’re a left-wing Christian politician, your beliefs are commendable. If you’re a right-wing Christian politician, your beliefs are scary and you have a “dark and dangerous vision.”