Iggy's latest "Sky is Falling" initiative

Apparently, we're all gonna die... and the Puffin King knows just who to blame...Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is set to accuse the Harper government of lacking leadership on swine flu pandemic preparednes...

Quickly Igor... bring me a brain!!!

That's a grand total of three people with pre-existing medical conditions, right? -- In the decade from 1991-2000, there were 5,900 water-related deaths in Canada; of that total, 889 died fishing. -- **********FROM THE COMMENTS:"You might be a little less cavalier. Your brat could get it this fall."Yup......

An upside-down world

What is society going to do for Stephanie Rengel's family? -- TORONTO -- "It's almost like she hit the jackpot," said Joe Wamback, president and founder of the Canadian Crime Victim Foundation. "She's not going into the women's pen but a youth facility. She will have her education paid for, just like Karla Homolka did, and she will have free medical and free dental -- all paid for by society....

Where there's smoke...

...there's government...The city of Montreal will be forced to go before Quebec Superior Court to defend its recent ban on the installation of new wood-burning stoves after a lawsuit was filed against the city last Thursday.The lawsuit is being filed by the Association des professionnels du chauffage, which represents 225 Quebec businesses that make, distribute, sell and maintain wood-burning stoves...

Kinsella threatens lawsuit...

...must be Thursda...

James Crowley, "Skip" Gates...

...President McDreamy and a case of beer... I can see it now..."Yo mama so fat, she authorized a $700 billion bailout of Dairy Queen...

Paging Mayor Miller

Perhaps it's time "His Blondeness" took a look at that other "waste management" issue... unapologetic thuggery...Residents of a North York housing complex say they are living in fear, convinced they are caught up in an escalating gang war, after their neighbourhood was sprayed with bullets and two young men were injured early yesterday.It's the second time this month that gunfire has erupted at the...

Oh, you little flockteaser

Somewhere... Stephane Dion is pounding his head against a wall and weeping...“I have always tried to work with the government, trying to put the country first, but it's getting tougher and tougher, and that's all I'll tell you right now,” Mr. Ignatieff told CTV News Channel.The Liberal Leader did not...

Comedians pile on

"What's his black anthem? We shall overeat?" Wilmore noted that Gates had said "yo mama" during his confrontation with Crowley. "How many decades has he been holding that in?" "Did he call him a jive turkey, too?"[*]RELATED: Life 101 refresher course...As an attorney, when a police officer stops you and says, "I smell alcohol on your breath. Have you been drinking?" -- the correct response is...

Guess what, dumbstick...

...convicts have daughters too...Lawyer Jean-Claude Dubé tells CJAD News he hasn't spoken to his client yet but prison authorities tell him 18-year-old Hamed Shafia was assaulted by other inmates while they were in the outdoor courtyard in the detention center in Napanee, Ontario.It's not all bad news though, especially for fanatic adherents of Sharia Law. I hear they have "arranged marriages" in...

Yeah...

...I'm shocked...**********RELATED: Dalton McSlippery rides againThe new total of $15.3 million is spread among 26 sole-sourced contracts, meaning the agency never sought another bidder.Approximately $13 million was paid out on the contracts.Such contracts were issued in part because eHealth was told...

Dilemma in Sudan

Women... can't live with 'em... can't flog 'em to their knees...A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance today in a court packed with supporters, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan's decency laws.There were chaotic scenes as Lubna Hussein, a former journalist who works for the United Nations, attended the hearing wearing the same...

Hey, Toronto...

...just something to think about the next time you pay your municipal taxes...“I'm not prepared to endorse a deal that Mayor David Miller's made if the strike was for naught,” said Councillor Case Ootes (Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth), leader of council's right-leaning minority. “But at this point we don't know for sure what's in there...

Somewhere...

...Yassir Arafat is smiling...An Ottawa university professor accused in the deadly terrorist bombing of a French synagogue nearly 30 years ago is expected to resume teaching at Carleton University this week.Hassan Diab, who is accused of murdering four people in the 1980 bombing, will begin teaching a part-time introductory sociology course at Carleton two days a week between now and the middle of...

Maybe, just maybe...

...in fuzzy-bunny Canada, you can still get a semblance of actual justice...Judge Nordheimer rejected defence arguments that she was less blameworthy because she wasn't present when Ms. Rengel was slain.“A person who plans and orchestrates and directs another person to take the life of a human being...

Three Baptist ministers arrested in...

...huge heroin sting... er... wait a minute...Three men from the Toronto-area have been arrested in what the RCMP call one of the largest heroin seizures in Canada. More than 100 kilograms of high-grade heroin and about $650,000 in cash were seized last weekend during several searches at Toronto-area addresses. The RCMP says it believes the heroin originated in Afghanistan and was destined for a...

Even a Cyborg from the future...

...couldn't pull this fat outta the fire..."California's share (32%) of the nation's welfare recipients has been soaring since Democrat legislators severely relaxed welfare rules and eligibility while hiking benefits around 2001. The result was as predictable for welfare as California's high taxes and heavy regulations have been for jobs and business."But hell... that's just part of the problem...San...

Journalists -- our moral...

...and intellectual superiors...The real headline here should be... "Local Sociopath... nobody had a clue".**********RELATED: Apparently J-School 101 says......never let facts get in the way of a good story...What motivation was there behind torquing over three quarters of the story? Did somebody in...

For some folks, apparently...

...even plenty is never enough...A TTC ticket-taker who earned $125,000 last year is one of two transit employees collected by cops for allegedly stealing fares. Toronto Police told the Sun yesterday the two men were charged last week following an investigation by TTC special constables.Station collector Kiran Sachdev, 56, of Toronto, is charged with four counts of failing to collect a fare and one...

The Hah-vuhd Zone

Elite is sweet...A female colleague from the English department recalled a recent incident along the Charles River jogging path during her regular morning run. A confused passer-by rudely interrupted her progress and requested directions, as if my colleague were some sort of lowly campus guide or untenured adjunct. "Where does this street go to?" she demanded. Naturally, my colleague took the opportunity...

Oh, that poor misunderstood boy!

CTV mourns for a murderer... and his "HEAVY sentence"...**********FROM THE COMMENTS: Ask a doctor...Well I'm not a lawyer, but I worked on the medical side of forensics psychiatry for a while and saw some of Canada's worst criminals.Every time I hear one of these guys talk about longer sentences not...

Well Waice... I'm thinkin'...

...unless Kabul or Karachi are actually on that court designated "wish list"... you're just dog-paddling in circles...The lawyer for a member of a Montreal family that has been charged with killing other family members says he is "seriously considering" asking for a change of venue for the case due to the negative press surrounding the case in Kingston and in Montreal.Ferdoussi says the media's talk...

In the words of the bard...

..."Bidet -- or not bidet -- that is the question."Had to do a little more home repair here at "the Halls" the other day. Despite frantic disinfecting and cleaning, we'd been getting a really bad port-a-potty odor in the upstairs bathroom lately.After a failed effort at isolating the smell to any one of our drains, I pulled the toilet and installed a new wax seal on the drain. Strangely enough,...

Dalton McGuinty...

...channels Warren Buffet......gets ass handed to him....

First he got spanked by Mark Steyn

Wow... talk about the very definition of "live and don't learn."Aren't you squirming in your seat right now? Has this news not just made your entire life worth living again?? Don't lie.Yeeeeeeehaw!!! Ezra Levant rides again...They say there are two ways to really get to know someone: marry them, or go into business with them. I think there's a third: get into a lawsuit against them.I know a bit...

Remember when you were a kid...

...and people used to spring ambushes at wedding parties? -- Winnipeg -- At least two other people, including Ms. Robert's common-law spouse, were clipped by bullets in the brazen ambush of at least 100 wedding guests. Investigators and witnesses said that Ms. Robert had been perusing raffle prizes with her spouse when she was shot in the head and he in the back.Yeah... me neithe...

In other "big city crime is down" news

A 23-year-old Toronto man is dead after he was gunned down in an alley behind a popular downtown bar early this morning.The victim had been at The Brunswick House, at the corner of Bloor St. W. and Brunswick Ave. in the Annex, when he went to his car to get something around 1 a.m., a friend said.There is no indication that the victim, whose friend said lives in the Scarlett Rd. and Eglinton Ave. W....

It ain't a pretty sight when a...

...Harvard professor gets "all medieval on yo' ass"...Gates, 58, a world-renowned scholar and documentary filmmaker on black history, allegedly ranted to police at his Ware Street home, “This is what happens to black men in America!” and “You don’t know who you’re messing with!” in addition to verbally...

From better to diverse...

...that's funny... I guess there are still some folks out there, who aren't feeling dishonoured...Offers of help are pouring in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her own family in Phoenix, Arizona, after being raped by four boys.The girl is under the care of the Arizona Child Protective Service (CPS) because her parents said she had shamed them, and they did not want her back.Phoenix...

We're not talkin' brain surgery here

Paging David Miller... call up Waste Management and get them to give you a quote.It's not like they'll have trouble finding people who can throw stuff onto the back of a truck for 20 bucks an hour. -- TORONTO -- “I am a patient man, but I am close to the end of my rope,” said Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 416 president Mark Ferguson, representing outside workers.“A few minutes ago I...

Cops call out President McDreamy...

...and his buddy "Skip" Gates... on accusations of racial profiling..."President Obama said that the actions of the Cambridge Police Department were stupid and linked the event to a history of racial profiling in America," Sgt. Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association,...

The Spinal Frontier

For weeks after, we reenacted that "one small step for man" from our backyard tree house, descending the steps in Super-Slo-Mo onto the lunar crabgrass. Then we bounded out in search of our dog Buster's steaming "moon rocks" for "moon rock fights." Eventually Dad would yell at us to get out the moon-mower, but it did little to dent our enthusiasm for space exploration. Maybe it was just the model...

Mayor's office, yet again...

...strangely silent on which gun club the shooters belonged to...Bullets flew in Lawrence Heights again yesterday afternoon as gun-toting thugs shot up a house just steps away from where a man was badly wounded in a broad daylight shooting eight days earlier.But Toronto Police say they don't believe the two shootings are connected.Officers flooded the area around the home at 47 Flemington Rd. -- northeast...

8 YEARS OLD...

...and scarred for life... -- PHOENIX -- The boys, ages nine to 14, face charges ranging from sexual assault to kidnapping, police said Thursday. Authorities in Phoenix say it’s one of the most horrific cases they’ve ever seen. All five children are refugees from the West African nation of Liberia....but wait, it gets worse...The outrage over the allegations has intensified when police said the...

"Here is the mosaic..."

"...where, as a friend reminded me yesterday, years ago Greeks celebrated when Greece beat Canada at basketball, where this spring, protesting Tamils blocked a street full of hospitals in Toronto to criticize our country, where a couple of years ago, Toronto Police bragged of not uttering 'the M word' (Muslim) at a press conference held to announce the arrests of a group of young Muslim-Canadian men...

I'm from the government...

...I'm here to save you...“The Australian blacklist wasn’t written by a court,” adds Levant, himself a lawyer. “There was no hearing where evidence was brought that these sites were criminal sites...

And I'm gonna be wanting that...

...castle back too...Scottish Conservative Jamie McGrigor has tabled a motion, with cross-party support, calling on the Scottish Parliament to back a petition that demands the Westminster Parliament overturn the Acts of Attainder and clear the names of Jacobite familie...

"I had no idea what racism was..."

"...until I came to Canada." Since the incident, Phipps said he has trouble sleeping and has lost weight, affecting his other job as a personal trainer. Medication to help him sleep has damaged his eyesight. He is "teased mercilessly" by co-workers, and his wife and parents fear repercussions from the...

Meanwhile... @sympatico.msn...

...another fuzzy-bunny poll goes horribly wrong...**********RELATED: More McGuinty "rope-a-dope"Ontario's opposition parties were fuming Wednesday after the Liberal government quietly dropped a promised independent review of scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario.EHealth Ontario first came under scrutiny...

Kingston Ontario murders...

...make Dubai media...The grisly discovery of the bodies of four former Dubai women at the bottom of a freshwater boating canal in Canada has led to the arrest of a former Dubai businessman, his wife and their son.According to media reports, Mohammad Shafi, his wife, and his 18-year-old son were arrested...

Junkie thugs riot... one commits suicide...

...and apparently the Warden is sad...A massive probe into the shocking uprising and riot at Warkworth Institution that left one inmate dead and 13 others in hospital will commence immediately.A sad Assistant Warden Ann Anderson confirmed this last night -- as well as how the inmate is believed to have died: the result of a drug overdose.Nine of the 13 recovering in a Campbellford hospital are believed...

Nursing home for Liberal bagmen...

...yet again siding with career criminals..."I have been calling on Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff to do something this summer about the holdup we have in the Canadian Senate. I had a hard enough time getting that bill through the House of Commons and then when it got to the Senate at the beginning of June, we found it impossible to even get them to debate it," Nicholson said.But don't try to get...

If wishes were horses...

"If you know who did this murder," she said speaking in Tamil, "right away, tell the police. From now on, we don't want this to happen to anyone else."Except, of course, that it already did...This is the second time in a little over a week, a young Tamil man has been beaten and killed in northern Scarborough.**********RELATED: Speaking of murder...Sources say Kingston police, accompanied by members...

How do you say "playing chicken"...

...in Farsi...The operation appears to be "no more risky" than the attack in June 1981 on the Osirak reactor in Iraq, which was destroyed by Israel to prevent Saddam Hussein getting nuclear weapons.A similar attack on Iran "provides at least as much benefit in terms of delaying Iranian development of nuclear weapons," said researchers Whitney Raas and Austin Lon...

Yet again, Mayor Miller's office...

...strangely silent on which gun club they belonged to...Around that same time, "multiple confidential sources" told Canadian police an Asian drug and gun trafficking organization had obtained a large cache of firearms from Yildiz, the memorandum says.Ontario Provincial Police launched an investigation called Project Blackhawk that, two years later, resulted in the arrests of 36 people on more than...

Okay... nobody ever said...

...these guys were geniuses... -- BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP -- As many as one-third of the inmates at Warkworth penitentiary have taken control of a portion of the prison – including its infirmary – after an uprising overnight."They are burning anything they can get their hands on," a firefighter on scene said, adding he understands the inmates' recreation centre may have been torched.Thus commences "Operation...

Digging up the dead

The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted.The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their live...

Amazing new no-fail plan...

...to revive Chrysle...

Another deal with the devil?

After Homolka... would they dare? -- Woodstock -- The lawyer representing the 19-year-old woman charged in the death of eight-year-old Tori Stafford said a plea bargain may be suitable in this case because she says her client, Terri-Lynne McClintic, assisted police in their investigatio...

If this isn't the final, raspy death knell...

...of the fuzzy-bunny socialist "Red Star"... then I truly do fear for my country...This story is so pathetically Canadian and would never have been written except by someone living in a micromanaged, socialist country like this one. "Oh, whatever will we do?? We are paralyzed by indecision and helplessness until all-knowing Big Brother tells us what to do with our kitty." Before the ascent of Big...

"The Al-Fauz Institute..."

"...for Islamic Thought says its purpose is to teach young Muslims how to apply Islamic ideas to Canada’s pluralistic society and 'prepare young minds that will take up the mantle of the Muslim community'.” But Tamimi has loudly renounced democracy, explicitly praises suicide bombers, and he’s said he’d even be happy to blow himself up in Israel: “It’s the straight way to pleasing my God and I would...

"Moon in Google Earth..."

"...enables you to explore lunar imagery as well as informational content about the Apollo landing sites, panoramic images shot by the Apollo astronauts, narrated tours and much more," she explains. "I believe that this educational tool is a critical step into the future, a way to both develop the dreams of young people globally, and inspire new audacious goal...

"How long..."

"...has this been goin' on?"Well your friends with their fancy persuasions...Can't admit that it's part of the scene...But I can't help but have my suspicions...'Cos I ain't quite as dumb as I seem.**********RELATED: If you can't beat 'em...Police are asking Scarborough residents to check their lawns and sidewalks for weapons investigators believe may have been dumped after a Sri Lankan male was...

Bright lights, big city...

...gutted like a deer... -- SCARBOROUGH -- A man, believed to be in his 20s, was killed in a noon-hour swarming in the city's east end today.The man was rushed to hospital around 12:30 p.m., after he was found on Bonis Ave. – in the Sheppard Ave. and Birchmount Rd. area – suffering from stab wounds, police said. He was rushed to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.He was reportedly attacked...

"Sir, I want you to..."

"...step outta the car and put your hands... eeeeeeeeeuwwwww...." -- PORT HOPE, Ont. -- Ontario Provincial Police say a driver who was pulled over for speeding on the weekend was watching an adult film at the time.Police say they pulled over the car on Hwy. 401 near Port Hope early Saturday morning...

Hope, change and...

..."holy shit... how did that happen?" -- WASHINGTON -- The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak landscape.The release of the update — usually scheduled for mid-July — has been put off until the middle of...

A stark reminder...

...of the all-too-frequent "inhumanity of man"...The area where the remains were found has been cordoned as police working with the Ontario Chief Coroner's Office and the Centre of Forensic Sciences to try to identify the remains.**********UPDATE: -- Mount Forest -- Human remains found in southwestern...

A question for...

...Yankee Doodle Dalton...Why would Ontario taxpayers want to subsidize the purchase of a car that is manufactured in the United States? What's that do for jobs in our own auto industry? Making the batteries for electric cars will be a growth industry, but the Volt's battery pack is made in the U.S., to...

A wrinkly, constipated future?

The transformation of developed societies - either into old folks' homes (like Japan) or semi-Islamized dystopias (like Amsterdam, Brussels, etc) - will lead, in fact, to emigration"In 2055, people will come to work when they have time off from long-term care," said Kiyoaki Fujiwara, director of economic policy at the Japan Business Federation.(via ghos...

Yet another Hogtown homicide...

...must be Sunday... -- TORONTO -- An 18-year-old man was shot and killed at a house party in the east end of Toronto early Sunday morning, police said.Staff Sgt. Jim Mackrell confirmed that the male was shot in the stomach around 2 a.m. Sunday. He was found collapsed on a driveway in the West Rouge...

Wag the Dog

Give 'em an inch... they'll take the box the tape measure came in...Mohawks on the Akwesasne reserve plan to follow up their apparent victory in a dispute over the arming of border guards by pushing for sovereignty on Cornwall Island, according to Grand Chief Mike Mitchell.The international boundary line cutting through the reserve — straddling Ontario, Quebec and New York State — should also be moved,...