If you live in Ottawa...

You might want to look into putting together an emergency medical kit...Between December and February, there were at least 42 instances when Ottawa's paramedic service was at Level 0, which means there weren't any ambulances available.(h/t reader mi...

In other pagan news...

Scientists get to mess with the most famous pile of rocks on the planet... -- (LONDON) -- Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument...

I dunno... I'm still waiting...

For my "Highland Clearances" compensation cheque from the British Royal Family...As the clock ticks down on Monday's application deadline, many Chinese-Canadians who were forced to pay Canada's controversial head tax in the late 1800s and early 1900s have not applied for a federal redress payment.Since those people could miss out if they don't apply for $20,000 in government compensation, Chinese...

I'm gonna lay it all out there...

And make a prediction that Stephane Dion will be Prime Minister... right about the time we all get our "flying cars."Of course, not everybody agrees... but then again, that's why they call him "'Special' K."(via natnews)This is almost as hilarious... as his last "Top 10 List...

See... a PhD in religious studies...

Is good for something after all..."If the name of the game is patriarchy, if we're in a society that still places great value on women's looks, then one way to make the game work for you is by taking that which patriarchy values - your beauty, your sexual appeal - and making them pay for it."**********RELATED: Big brain... bigger ide...

Danny Millions

"Champion of 'some' of the people." -- ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's former health minister said Monday his staff made the Premier's office aware of problems with breast-cancer testing months before it became public.A spokeswoman for Premier Danny Williams's office said he is off on personal time and not available to commen...

Next time the dumbass leftosphere...

Starts cryin' about those poor fellows down at Guantanamo Bay... maybe you could spare a moment in your thoughts for Matt Maupin...Sergeant Maupin was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured on April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy, part of the 724th Transportation Company, was ambushed...

Tonights CTV Moonbat moment

Just watched five term City Councillor Diane Deans on the CTV affiliate CJOH... explain why the city of Ottawa is in such financial straits. Apparently, Diane lays this misfortune squarely at the feet of the evil Mike Harris government... very specifically citing the "downloading of social programs" to municipalities in Ontario.It seems though, that Ms. Deans is having some sort of seniors moment....

I've always loved the argument...

That the real reason MP's have to keep on raising their own salaries... is so they can attract a certain calibre of candidate..."Belinda Stronach, who rejoined the company as executive vice-chairman in May, collected about $4.3 million U.S. for eight months work while keeping a foothold in the House of Commons."I mean... who could take issue with that?**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"If we are to castigate...

Hunters, farmers and target shooters...

Totally off the hook... yet again...Wendell Damian Cuff, 25, of Toronto, was arrested at his home early Sunday and charged with one count of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder.A warrant has been issued for another 25-year-old Toronto man named Owen Anthony Smith, wanted on the same charges as Cuff.**********RELATED: Yup... it's trueIt is a lot like... riding a rocket.A downtown...

Another Day at Hypocrisy Central

"Their empty cubicle farm located at street level is always lit up at any hour of the night when I walk by on the sidewalk." "Sadly, Earth Hour was no exception."**********RELATED: In other "progressive" news..."There is no innocent until proven guilty. You are guilty once they decide you are and they will prove it no matter what."**********LAST WORD: Changing the channel“Earth Hour wasn’t ever...

I'm still waiting...

For Mayor David Miller to call for metal detectors at all subway stations..."The TTC is wound into the very fabric of the city and the life of the city goes on the TTC as well," he said yesterday. "It's important to keep this in perspective. Toronto is a safe city, but there are incidents that occur from time to time.""Incidents?" I guess that's one word.Last year, a 21-year-old man was stabbed to...

A curious double standard

Here in Canada... as our overburdened healthcare system continues to collapse under the crush of increasing demand, we are constantly being told that our emphasis must shift to prevention... rather than treatment... of illness.It's an idea that is very much in vogue in the larger world as well."At least one organization that treats AIDS patients has called for giving up on a vaccine and shifting the...

Maple Syrup Update - Day 3

No boiling today... but we had another pretty good haul of sap late in the afternoon.Got on the scoreboard, as of last night, with one beautiful bottle of the best maple syrup anybody could hope for. Some anxious moments near the end, as we were afraid of creating another batch of maple sugar. Today we also picked up a candy thermometer.We'll see if it gets any easier to work that maple magic t...

Comrades... don't be selfish

Answer the call..."Send us: Photos and video of your Earth Hour celebrations"We promise not to laug...

You can do magic...

"you can have anything...that you desire...magic... and you know...you're the one...who can put out the fir...

Laibar Singh is on a roll

Looks like he's managed to piss off all his former supporters... as well as Canadian taxpayers..."He's a liar," declares Balwant Singh Gill, president of the Guru Nanak Sikh temple in Surrey, near Vancouver. "He said he would obey the laws of Canada and go home. We think it's in his best interest to go home. We even offered him $100,000 for medical treatment in India."Half that amount was posted as...

Gives a whole new meaning...

To the TTC buzz-phrase... "Red Rocket." News reports are beginning to come in about a firefight at Toronto's Spadina subway station..."Heavy gunfire erupted on a subway train just after 8pm on Friday. Early reports suggest two groups may have been involved in a shootout and one woman was apparently hit by a bullet in the leg." "One of the shooters has been described as a black male in his late teens...

We shouldn't feel slighted

Apparently Shawn Brant doesn't give a crap for Mohawk rules and regulations either...A judge has returned control of a disputed Deseronto-area building and lands to the local Mohawk band council, but a defence lawyer says his clients will appeal the ruling.In a judgment released Wednesday, Justice Lynn Ratushny of Ontario's Superior Court of Justice ruled the building and lands must be returned to...

Free Online IQ Test

"Have you made special plans for Earth Hour Saturday?"**********FROM THE COMMENTS: A word is born..."I live in a hood that has a high percentage of 'glowtards'."**********LAST WORD: WWF throws in with Iran...Proposes return to "pre-industrial" society..."Julie Langer, of World Wildlife Fund Canada...

Yeah... you dumbass con...

I feel your pain...Is it a deterrent against bad behavior, or a way to keep weapons out of the hands of violent inmates?Some prisons are serving inmates Nutraloaf, a blocky mash of ingredients that provides all the nutrients growing convicts need to thrive — and can be eaten without a fork or a knife.Now......

This one's a no-brainer

If it pisses off Iran... I'm in.**********UPDATE: Somebody's getting a little crankyNote: Due to high traffic and DDOS attacks the site may be unusually slow. We're working on resolving these issues...thanks for your patience.**********LAST WORD: A fatwa on you and you and you"Following threats to...

You are what you eat

While most of the fuzzy-bunny left seems to be overly obsessed with, say... what's going on with the Antarctic ice-shelf... I've decided to focus on stuff a little closer to home... like what I shovel into my yap, three times a day. -- OTTAWA -- The number of organic farms in Canada increased by almost 60 per cent in five years and continues growing, though they still fill only a tiny part of...

We don' need...

No steenkin' evidence..."Tuesday's hearing probably won't change the outcome of the case against Lemire: Like a five-star hotel that guarantees its guests full satisfaction, the HRC provides handpicked complainants with a 100% success rate on hate-speech cases.""Better than that: The commission actually lets certain complainants waltz into its Ottawa facilities to fiddle with the online evidence-gathering."So...

Okay... I think I get it now

Stephen Harper is a crazy control freak... but Stephane Dion is a benevolent, fatherly disciplinarian... -- MONTREAL -- Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion moved yesterday to regain control of his Quebec troops, calling on them to show a "steely discipline," although he would not say what he would do if other dissenters pop up."I have a much better team than Harper. Not only is it better, it's united,"...

Maple Syrup Update - Day 2

Be careful what you wish for.Conditions today were apparently some sort of arboreal "perfect storm"... for the production of maple sap. Came home from a seminar on organic farming to find Mrs. N hip-deep in magic elixir.There was a mad scramble to find containers to hold the raw sap... we ended up using the flour and sugar canisters off the kitchen counter, to hold all the stuff we couldn't get...

I understand Justice MacKenzie...

Is also working on a ruling... to repeal the "law of gravity." -- VANCOUVER -- A B.C. judge has ruled that a full-patch member of the Hells Angels and two associates are not members of a criminal organization in a trial that was a key test of the recent federal anti-gang legislation.**********RELATED: Gotta respect the law, huh? -- DALLAS -- The city cannot shut down a Dallas strip club just...

How ab-nirmal...

Do you have to be... to bring a bat to a gunfight...When an officer arrived he saw a man wielding a baseball bat. The officer confronted the man. After some interaction the officer fired his pistol. The man sustained a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. 22-year-old Nirmal Bagri was taken to Brampton Civic Hospital by ambulance where he underwent surgery. Mr. Bagri is recovering in hospita...

Child sacrifice

It ain't just for crazy jihadis...On the night the protest began, as the blockades were erected and police readied themselves for a showdown, Kelley was behind the barricades with the Mohawk protesters. She said it took some convincing, but they finally agreed to let her stay with them behind their barricade lines.The documentary also shows that Mohawk leader Shawn Brant had children at the blockades....

Things that make you go...

Hmmm..."Why was Tuesday's hearing the one day that won't be transcribed and published?""Why was a trifling savings of a court stenographer -- who costs, what, a third of what a lawyer bills? -- chosen as the one area of economy to find?" "Is the Tribunal, with the unlimited resources of the government, out of cash?"Not worried yet? Maybe you should be."Do you access the internet on a wireless connection?""Well,...

Just something to ponder...

The next time the screechy, hysterical lunatic left attempts to manipulate your emotions..."An estimated 2,300 Canadians died in 2006 after contracting antibiotic resistant Staph bacteria, costing the national heath-care system between $200 million and $250,000 million that year, new figures suggest."As devastating as they undoubtedly are to friends and family of our military casualties... combat...

Well... smack me with a rutabaga

How... in the name of "goddess mother earth"... did I not think of this?"TWO things that you can find a lot of in Portland, Ore., are vegans and strip clubs. Johnny Diablo decided to open a business to combine both." "At his Casa Diablo Gentlemen’s Club, soy protein replaces beef in the tacos and chimichangas; the dancers wear pleather, not leather...

Saving Private Rinzen

So if Tibetans are the new Nazis... does that mean the Chinese army is just re-enacting D-Day? -- OTTAWA -- China's ambassador to Canada held an extraordinary news conference Wednesday where he likened Tibet's traditional governance to Nazi Germany and called the country's exiled spiritual leader a serial liar.That's weird... I guess I missed the part where Monty and Eisenhower totally crushed...

They're not really Jihadis...

They're just good ol' boys like you and me. -- BRAMPTON, ONT. -- Call it the double-double defence: Would dangerous jihadists take a break from their winter training camp to warm up inside a Tim Hortons?Yup... sounds like a pretty typical bunch of hosers - doing what any red-blooded Canadian lads would be doing in their spare time.Well, you know... except for the bits about attacking Parliament,...

You can brag about...

Your lakeshore condos and that bran' spankin' Porsche Turbo... but out here at the Halls, we're brewin' up the world's most expensive breakfast garnish.At Mrs. Neo's behest, we finally, after six years on the property... went out and bought the gear to gather and produce our own maple syrup. It's a pretty modest enterprise, consisting of a mere 6 buckets on 3 trees... but it's ours and we're proud...

Who says...

There's no entrepreneurial spirit on those native reservations?More than 300 police officers raided Mohawk territories in Quebec, eastern Ontario and New York State Wednesday morning, arresting suspects in a drug smuggling ring, police said. The raids were conducted by provincial police, RCMP, Mohawk Peace Keepers, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.Talk about busy little beavers... it appears...

There oughta be a law

If only we had some some sort of legislation "that would ban" carting around a shitload of guns and drugs...A Montreal man faces more than 60 charges after police in Ajax stopped an SUV loaded with a "substantial" amount of drugs and an arsenal of firearms, including an assortment of nine weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition and even a grenade.The officers also found a kilo of cocaine worth...

Kathy Shaidle has 600 emails...

To plow through this morning... and I'm thinkin' I know who most of them are from..."Obviously Kinsella's borderline slander is prompted by jealousy." "Steyn visits the White House and Buckingham Palace while Warren hunts for Nazis in boy's washrooms."**********RELATED: Special K's 'selective apoplexy'"I've got a question for Kinsella.""Where was his outrage a few years ago when more than 1,000 Muslim...

Another year...

Another mythical spring offensive. -- KABUL -- The Taliban has said it will use new techniques and draw on years of fighting experience to increase attacks in Afghanistan this spring.A statement Tuesday attributed to Taliban senior commander Mullah Bradar also warned Afghans working with the government to quit their jobs or risk being targeted.Translation... we're gonna keep on sneaking out in...

Camo - check... videocam - check...

Assorted room temperature IQ's - yup... we're good to go...The jihadist exhortation – a centrepiece of the Crown's case that was recovered as police seized video from one of the suspects' computers – was entered in evidence yesterday. “You go back, you're living with society and you have to put on that face, you know, that we're a bunch of peace lovers,” he said. The transcript indicates there was...

Tim Blair is human, too

"I drove to the shops a few hours ago, where I parked under heavy sniper fire. Oh, excuse me; that was a misstatement and a minor blip.""What I meant was that it was raining."So how is it... that this sort of thing gets a pass in the mainstream media?Much like Jeremiah Wright's paranoia-laced racial...

The phrase you're looking for is...

"Caught with his pants down."Finally, we get to the heart of the argument, as far as Lemire's defence: Barbara suggests that Steacy emailed Lemire to trap him into admitting that the initial complaint was made in a "vexatious" manner, and he - sort of admits that was a factor, although not really. Ahh, but if he *had* replied to Steacy's email, Barbara points out, the commission would be able to use...

Calling Gloria Steinem

It's a sad day for personal freedom... but local Dads are apparently ecstatic...Researchers at Indiana University's school of medicine plan to use cellphones to track the movements of 160 14- to 16-year-old girls over the course of a year in an effort to better understand the connection between specific...

Ezra vs Bladerunner

I'm not up on all the latest lingo... but I think this is called "declaring a fathead...""P.S.: Good lord -- look at what a commenter dug up. Young Abdullah isn't just importing sharia law to Moncton -- he's importing stilettos and other assorted weapons, too, as fast as he can. This is a picture of...

Mount Cherniak is dribbling nonsense...

Yet again..."Do you actually believe that anybody has the 'personal freedom' to 'take over the state?' This is so embarrassingly stupid, I'm shocked." "The Nazis were criminals, Jason! It's the crime that's the problem, not the personal freedom!"Don't worry, Jason... Jeffy 'Bugboy' Davidson still loves you.**********COUNTERPOINT: So Jason, let's try a big boy argument"The activists, NGO types,...

See, Dalton... it's not what you say

It's what you're actually prepared to do... and to most people, the term "high-risk offender" carries with it some built in warnings... such as "danger, avoid contact, monitor closely" and very probably... "don't let this monster loose." -- KINGSTON, Ont. -- A high-risk sex offender is back behind bars after he allegedly threatened to kill a group of children after being freed from Kingston Penitentiary.Bateman...

Paging Jeremiah Wright...

"Here's the biggest thing we 'racists' notice." "Every single immigrant group that ever came to America -- including the Chinese who came as railroad slaves -- has risen out of poverty and want to achieve prosperity and respect." "The Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Jews, the Koreans, the Vietnamese." "Every group but you.""And you're the only group we fought a war to free..."**********RELATED:...

Theocracy now!

The infelicitously named teachers union in the U.K. has come up with a novel way to solve all of Britain's social ills... let's do away with the separation of Church & State -- in its entirety... -- NUT conference, Manchester -- Head teachers should allow imams, rabbis and priests to offer religious instruction to pupils in all state schools, teachers' leaders have said.The National Union...

Beat of a different dumber

Following the recent example of evil genius bossman OBL... Ayman the Pieman continues to work that madman mojo... "Israel and additional Western targets must be attacked as revenge for Israel's aggressive policy in the Gaza Strip."I'm not sure what sort of cultural disconnect allows this guy to overlook thousands of randomly launched HAMAS rockets... but ol' Ayman, once again, trips the light craptastic.And,...

Somebody please tell me...

Why someone like Chief Clarence Louie isn't Minister of Aboriginal Affairs...The 47-year-old chief of B.C.'s Osoyoos Indian Band believes the way the federal government has treated natives is dead-wrong. "Our people have to get away from that mentality of spending money and start making money," Louie...