The Philadelphia Experiment

Sometimes, I guess... you just do what you can... The plan to put 10,000 men on the streets for an initial period of 90 days starting late this year is the latest effort by Philadelphia’s black community to curb violence that drove homicides to a nine-year high of 406 in 2006.This is a brave, if somewhat...

Somebody better tell Hamid Karzai...

If he wants to negotiate with the Taliban... he'd better bring his kneepads...Afghan President Hamid Karzai's offer of peace talks has been rejected by a Taliban spokesman, who on Sunday repeated a position he anounced earlier this month, saying there would be no negotiations until foreign troops withdraw...

In other Non-CBC news...

Two dozen terrorist sons of bitches get to meet their maker. -- BAGHDAD -- U.S. aircraft killed more than 20 al-Qaida fighters who opened fire on an American air patrol northwest of Baghdad, the military reported on Sunday."The aircraft observed about 25 al-Qaida personnel carrying AK-47 assault rifles, with one of the men brandishing an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade), and walking through an area...

UPDATE: Hunting Humans

There's a wolf pack on the loose... in Brampton. -- BRAMPTON -- Honours student Akila Badhanage was knifed to death during a random swarming by "cowardly" young men, leaving even seasoned homicide detectives seething at the senseless violence.Akila Badhanage, a Grade 12 student with an average mark...

And Charles Manson...

Had a thing about over-population..."We talked about how some people have different ideas about animals," teacher Lori Peters said. "Some people don’t think they should be in cages."A better lesson for those kids... "some people are thieves."...

Denis Khadr...

Wants to visit Afghanistan... I say let the troopers give him the deluxe tour...Mr. Coderre shrugged off any suggestion that he's about to embark on an intercontinental political stunt.“It's not a stunt. I'm doing my job,” he said.Many of you will remember Denis from such patriotic job-related pronouncements...

Sing a song of hatred

"Battyman fi dead!/Please mark we word/Gimme tha tech-nine/Shoot dem like bird".Kool Haus has pulled the plug last minute on the concerts of two controversial reggae and dancehall artists.Entertainers Elephant Man and Sizzla were scheduled to perform Sept. 28 and Oct. 5 respectively, but both men have...

A publicly funded Mennonite school...

In Ontario...A public school in St. Catharines that for two decades has offered chapel services and Bible classes for its Mennonite students proves Dalton McGuinty's arguments against funding religious schools are "nonsense," according to the Progressive Conservatives.Eden High joined the public system in 1988 during the Liberal government of premier David Peterson.So what does that have to do with...

If you can't trust the Syrians...

Who can you trust? -- DAMASCUS, Sept 29 (Reuters) -- Syria accused Israel on Saturday of making excuses for war by spreading what it described as false reports that an Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction.Damascus says Israel launched the air raid on Sept. 6, bombing an empty area after air defence systems confronted the aircraft.Yeah, that makes sense. I mean,...

Getting your moneys worth

We sometimes forget how long nuclear power generation has been around. -- LONDON -- Explosive charges leveled four giant cooling towers at the world's first commercial nuclear power station Saturday, as engineers began the planned decommissioning of Calder Hall, a 62-building site on Britain's west coast.Although smaller research reactors had been used previously to generate energy, Calder Hall...

Larger than life...

Larger than death..."The American people must know we too lost a close friend and brother this day," said Iraqi Army Col. Ali Jafar, Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Iraqi Brigade, who previously spoke at Manion's memorial service. "May his family know we too lost family, and we share their...

The Sport of Kings

Straight from the mean streets of Toronto... another episode of "Hunting Humans." -- TORONTO -- Two people are dead and three more are wounded after a spate of violence across the Toronto area.Police found three men in their 20s with stab wounds when they arrived at an east-end house party around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.The three men are suffering from non-life-threatening injuries, and police say...

Why Email is like a Gun

All guns are always loaded... never let the muzzle cover anything you're not willing to destroy... Some CTV employees got an accidental -- and personal -- edition of eTalk Thursday night.Employees at Canada's largest private broadcaster's building in Agincourt were sent an e-mail by Dawn Fell, CTVglobemedia's vice-president of human resources, that revealed some news about upcoming changes in the...

It's spooky, it's like...

He's got a special gift... Tuesday, June 13, 2006Blogging Tories not conservative enoughThis is worth noting. One of the top Tory bloggers, Bound By Gravity, has chosen to leave the Blogging Tories because they are not real conservatives. How long will it be before conservatives start leaving the actual Conservative Party again?Flash forward to September 2007... The internal bickering comes following...

Reach out and touch someone

Narrowly focused strikes continue to reap big rewards. -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the suspected terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad,...

All veneer... no hardwood

It isn't only Omar Khadr who gets to be forever young -- Note: on the left, from Michael Ignatieff's website banner.On the right... the actual corpus.The Liberal Party of Canada... because style is what really matte...

It's not the size...

Of the dog in the fight... it's the size of the fight in the dog that matters. -- TAIPEI -- Faced with a threatening military buildup by China, an increasingly outgunned Taiwan is quietly pushing ahead with plans to develop missiles that could strike the mainland, defense and security experts say.The Taiwanese are very aware that a war with mainland China could turn them all into "crispy critters"......

BREAKING NEWS:

PMO Insider...Reveals... in excruciating detail... exactly how Stephen Harper views combined Dion/Layton thre...

Dalton ducks another one

Slippery, evasive and not too bright...Play this game with a friend. Name Canadian prime ministers in reverse chronological order, starting with Stephen Harper. How far back did you get?John Tory: Meighen (ed.'s note - Arthur Meighen was the 9th prime minister).Dalton McGuinty: Sorry. I'm so busy on the campaign trail, I could only play this game with Terri, and if she won, I might never hear the...

C'mon... it works for Dalton McGuinty

A little baksheesh for all the screaming protesters... and then you ran away and hide again. -- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian officials have moved quickly to assure Afghan officials that their troops played no part in this week's shooting deaths of a local religious leader and his brother.But military officers say they won't rush to use development projects to appease simmering public anger...

Shawn Brant's 'other' trial

Let's face it... in Shawn Brant's world, you're only as credible as your last "death threat."Stringent security measures were in place as the trial of three men accused of confronting Canadian military personnel during a native protest last year began Thursday.Shawn Michael Brant and Jerome J. Barnhart are facing several charges of uttering death threats stemming from the Nov. 15 incident east of...

Let's be magnanimous...

And call it a draw...As early preparations for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 get underway in Canada and the United States, organizers in Canada have run into an unexpected hitch. Their American counterparts seem to think they w...

Somebody had better stop...

Those eco-warriors... before they kill us all. -- BEIJING, Sept 27 (Reuters) -- Most crops grown in the United States and Europe to make "green" transport fuels actually speed up global warming because of industrial farming methods, says a report by Nobel prize winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen.The findings could spell particular concern for alternative fuels derived from rapeseed, used in Europe,...

Who cares about the National Debt?

Not Taliban Jack and the loony left. -- OTTAWA -- Pumping almost all of the $14-billion surplus into debt-reduction rather than investing in Canadians is the kind of rigid conservatism that makes it likely the NDP will vote to topple the government next month, Jack Layton said Thursday.It's true, this kind of windfall could put safe-injection sites in every city in Canada. It could set up government...

Just to change things up a little

Wanna hear about a kid... who isn't ever gonna end up in the middle of a knife fight? -- THE LAST AMAZON -- Just before I left work for the day, Montana called me to add a little more pressure to my decision. Montana’s friend Peter would not be allowed to go to the game store unless Montana was...

Balancing the equation

See... where I come from... 'gun control' is being able to hit your target.This really is a no-brainer... you're breaking into my house at four in the morning and approaching me and mine with speed and purpose... you need to know just one thing... me and my friend "Buck" are gonna change your freakin'...

Sharia Law?

Sorry folks, it's already here...Upon arriving at the cemetery in September of last year Zakaria was shocked to see that his mother’s tombstone had been removed. As had the flowers. He found a part of it discarded in a corner of the cemete...

Death and well, you know...

You had to know this was only a matter of time...The Canada Revenue Agency has won a Federal Court order requiring eBay Canada Ltd. to turn over the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all high-volume sellers on the popular website. The CRA wants to find out whether those individuals or companies are reporting the income they made from online sales in 2004 and 20...

A verb and a noun...

You never wanna see in the same sentence... amputate + woodchipper. -- MONTREAL — A firefighter was forced to saw off the arm of a Quebec man caught in an industrial wood chipper.The French-language television network TQS says the 23-year-old victim was working at a factory south of Montreal when his left arm became trapped in the machine.Firefighters and ambulance technicians were the first to...

Hey Dalton... no biggie

He probably wasn't voting Fiberal anyway. -- OTTAWA -- On a day when the Liberals wanted to tout their plans to hire more nurses and reduce surgical wait times, Dalton McGuinty got a pointed rebuff today from a terminally ill cancer patient who upbraided the premier for refusing to fund certain new cancer drugs.During a Liberal campaign visit to an Ottawa hospital, patient Mike Brady refused to...

Allah not so Akbar

Where is your God now? -- KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led forces used artillery and airstrikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said Wednesday.Better stick...

A poor little lamb...

Who has lost his mind...Stephen Harper's Conservatives must make major changes to the upcoming throne speech or the opposition Liberals will vote against it, Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion warned Wednesday."This hidden agenda will be stopped," Dion said after a meeting with Quebec caucus members in Montreal.Stopped??? You mean like Steffi's political career?A CROP poll commissioned by La Presse indicated...

Francisco Chimoio might wanna...

Check this one out with head office...The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique has told the BBC he believes some European-made condoms are infected with HIV deliberately. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quickly the African people". "They want to finish with the African people. This is the programme. They want to colonise...

Growing support for NDP position...

As... coincidentally... Afghani tribesman seem to be getting their information from the same unimpeachable source as Taliban Jack. -- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of protesters blocked the main highway west of Kandahar city today, claiming that foreign soldiers killed two local clerics in an overnight raid.The Canadian military says it wasn't involved in the operation last night in Senjaray,...

While David Miller raises taxes...

And cuts services to the citizens of Toronto... will he still be shelling out for a city subsidised nightclub? -- TORONTO -- The City of Toronto is reviewing the leasing terms of a building it rents to a community group for 7¢ a year following a complaint from Councillor Rob Ford that the facility is not being used for its intended purpose.Mr. Ford said the Marcus Garvey Community Centre for Leadership...

Does the Mohawk model...

Come with steel toes? -- BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates.Nike said it is the first time it has designed a shoe for a specific race or ethnicity. It said all profits from the sale of the shoe will be reinvested in health programs...

I'm betting Ahmadinejad wishes...

He'd stuck to his original itinerary...Noon: To protest barbaric U.S. exploitation of women, dine at Hooters, accompanied by writer Noam Chomsky.1 p.m.: Tour Midwestern town of Smallville. Visit meteor site where alien boy is said to possess superpowers.2 p.m.: Meet with political prisoner O.J. Simpson. Exchange autographed sabe...

Why we're over there

Though it's relatively easy to argue that it's best for us to leave Afghanistan, it's difficult, if not impossible, to argue that our doing so would leave Afghans better off."Afghanistan will fall back into anarchy," Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a group of Canadian journalists recently. "Leaving Afghanistan alone now will bring back all the evils that were here under the Taliba...

Liar, liar

While Premier Dalton McGuinty shook hands and thanked supporters during a brief stop in Belleville, there was one small boy who waited anxiously to see Ontario's leader but failed to get his attenti...

Coppers wrangle Rapper Ripper

And surprise, surprise... he's another graduate of Dalton McGuinty's politically correct "catch and release" programme...Cleavon Joseph, 31, was arrested yesterday in Mississauga.He's charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jermaine Alexander Malcolm, 24, a rapper and self-proclaimed member of the Meadowvale Bloods gang. Barely three months before Malcolm was found dying from stab wounds...

Another Toronto school stabbing

Eventually the code talkers just have to spit it up.A fight between rival groups of students yesterday in a north-east neighbourhood sent three teens to hospital, one with stab wounds. Toronto Catholic District School Board Chair Oliver Carroll said violence hasn't been a problem at Mother Teresa, but most high schools deal with some fighting."In any high school these days, you're going to have gangs,...

The Price of Freedom

A Canadian soldier has been killed and four wounded as Canada's battle group pushed into a zone of Taliban control and tried to establish a police checkpoint on Monday.Corporal Nathan Hornburg, 24, a reservist who worked as a mechanic for the King's Own Calgary Regiment, was trying to repair a broken tread on a Leopard tank about 4:30 p.m. local time Monday when he was struck by the blast from a mortar...

Harm reduction my ass

In the wake of the "let's give junkies a safe, clean place to inject poison into their veins" controversy... I've been trying to imagine the next silly-ass wave of nanny-state, government sanctioned assininity... Ms. Davis said the co-operative brothel would keep sex workers safe and give the workers access to drug treatment and other support. She said if it opens, the cooperative brothel would likely...

Welcome Back Khadr

Chalk up one for the good guys... Omar Khadr is gonna get his day in court. -- WASHINGTON -- A military appeals court sided with the Pentagon today, overruling a judge who threw out terrorism charges against a Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee.The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review ruled that a military court set up by the Bush administration was the proper venue for deciding whether Omar...

Bollinger 1... Ahmadinejad 0

Well, well, well... looks like Madman Ahmadinejad isn't gonna get a free ride after all. -- New York -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the stage at Columbia University to a blistering welcome from the president of the school, who said the hard-line leader behaved like “a petty and cruel dictator.”Mr. Ahmadinejad smiled as Columbia President Lee Bollinger took him to task over Iran's...

Pinko Howie...

Been smokin' Maui Wowie. -- WATERLOO, WALKERTON and OAKVILLE, Ont. -- The New Democrats will insist the ruling party take on its six key election pledges if the Liberals or the Conservatives want the party's help to form a minority government in Ontario.NDP Leader Howard Hampton said Monday that...

It's gotta be all or nothing

Maybe a Catholic Premier, whose kids go to Catholic schools and whose wife is a teacher in the Catholic system... shouldn't be the final arbiter of this controversial matter.The Ontario government should stop funding Catholic schools, according to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.Ontario is the only province where taxpayers pay 100 per cent of the costs for students who attend Catholic schools...

Lead, follow...

Or get out of the freakin' way...Tensions are increasing near Hollow Water First Nation after a local man used a logging machine to circumvent a roadblock, damaging the barrier in the process.“I wanted to go for a nice quiet beer at the bar,” said Ivon Saber, who broke through the barricade Friday night with his skidder, a vehicle used to haul logs out of the bush.You've gotta love this guy's style....

Now lemme see, what Federal party...

Is actually pushing a tough on crime agenda right now? -- MONTREAL -- A Quebec victims' rights group is calling on federal politicians to serve tougher justice in Canada, demanding an end to concurrent sentences for offenders who commit multiple violent crimes.Victims' rights advocate Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu says Canada should force violent criminals to serve sentences consecutively to ensure each...

Allah denied

Seriously wounded still beats having your head sawed o...

Crazy talkin' fundamentalist freak...

Has brief moment of lucidity. -- NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a U.S. television interview on Sunday that Iran did not need nuclear weapons and his country was not heading for war with the United States.Ahmadinejad also took issue with U.S. charges that Iran supports militants in Iraq, providing weapons and training, saying: "We don't need to do that."Of...

Not to rush things here...

But... when exactly Mr. Layton... will you be heading over to Afghanistan... to fire up your, uh... "peace negotiations"? -- KABUL, Afghanistan -- Italy's defence ministry said on Sunday it believed two Italian soldiers missing in Afghanistan had been kidnapped.The soldiers went missing while on patrol in western Afghanistan, Italian authorities said earlier on Sunday. Police in the country's...

The reality of a Liberal Ontario

That was the day Mr. Brown, watching from his house, realized that he and his family were on their own... “When the sun goes down behind my home, I don't live in Canada, I live in Beirut.”**********UPDATE: John Tory steps upIf elected Oct. 10, Tory says he would change provincial laws to broaden the definition of trespassing and double existing fines for those who defy the order.Individuals would...

Hang on a minute... I'm confused

Everything I've seen or heard about Iran in the last couple of years... had led me to believe that surly, hormone soaked teenage boys were already "calling the shots."Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his government is planning to reduce the minimum voting age in the country to 15 years.“When the voting age was 15, we saw how our young people acted with fervor and helped choose the right...

This time... I'm not lying

Dalton McGuinty makes another promise.Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, whose 2003 campaign promise not to raise taxes dogs his Oct. 10 re-election bid, said Ontarians should read his lips."We will not have to raise taxes, because we're in charge. We know exactly where we are," he said yesterday on Global's Focus Ontario.So Dalton, what you're saying is, after all the lies you've peddled to us over...

No Rap... No Funeral

Anybody out there have Attorney General Michael Bryant's cellphone number? • MISSISSAUGA • A young rapper who called himself Tactix and who rhymed about violence on the streets was killed in an apparent stabbing early yesterday at a townhouse.The 24 year old man, whose non-street name was Jermaine...