The fact is, despite massive ongoing U.S. aid programmes... Egypt can't even feed its own people..."I have many coptic Christian friends that tell me stories that will make me pi$$ my pants. People there have dreams about eating meat, they even have songs about it, lol "Anna aiz lahma, anna aiz lahma, etc."And please don't give me that, "Lebanon is the Paris of the Middle East" nonsense.
-- TORONTO -- A few hours later, the York University student was dead. He was run down early Saturday by an SUV police say was deliberately driven into him by one of a group of people he and his friends had gotten into an altercation with at the club.**********
Naveen Ariaratnam, 26, a former resident of St. Catharines who was convicted of fire bombing a home in that city, has already been named by police as the alleged driver.
Based on images seized from the cab the group briefly rode in, police claim detectives have identified one passenger as Kim Allen Cacao, 20, of Toronto.
A father came home to find his son shot to death in their River Street townhouse on Monday afternoon, Toronto police say.**********
The shooting was called in about 2:20 p.m. Monday at 124 River St., which is just south of Dundas Street and at the eastern edge of Regent Park.
Police identified Nicholas Yombo as the victim of the city’s 58th homicide of the year on Tuesday. He was 18 years old.**********
Yombo was known to his friends as Frenchie. But he was also known to police. His mugshot, was taken two days after his 18th birthday for theft-related charges. His lengthy rap-sheet also includes drug-related charges.
East York Collegiate was locked down for about 90 minutes Tuesday morning because of concern about a gunman.
Officers from 54 Division were called to the high school at Coxwell and Cosburn Aves., just south of O'Connor Dr., around 10:30 a.m. to investigate a report of a person armed with a gun, police said.
The McGuinty government’s relations with the incoming mayor of Toronto are off to a bumpy start, with Ontario’s Finance Minister calling on Rob Ford to stick to his penny-pinching ways when it comes to provincial funding.Except, Dwight... you dumb bunny... this is an agreement you already made with the socialist chuckleheads who ran Toronto smack into the red zone......
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan suggested that Mr. Ford, who campaigned in the mayoral race on reducing “waste in the system,” should be agreeable to lowering the city’s funding request.
For his part, Mr. Ford declined to discuss the funding request made by his predecessor, saying he will address the matter next month when he meets with Premier Dalton McGuinty.I dunno, Stuart... sounds like they pulled one over on you too.
Stuart Green, spokesman for outgoing Mayor David Miller, said he fully expects the province to meet its obligation.
-- WASHINGTON -- "Clearly this is a difficult decision," Mr. Zients said, lauding federal workers as dedicated civil servants. "The president is clearly asking them to make a sacrifice."
So they settled for immolation.
FROM THE GLOBE COMMENTS:
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"So when Hanoi Jane Taber teams up with National Liberal Fund director Adam Smith... to rage against deconstruction of the 2 billion dollar "Farmer Bob Rifle Registry"... why exactly do they lead off with a picture of a prohibited assault rifle with an illegal 30 round clip?"
DePinho said none of Harvard's mice developed cancer after the treatment. The team is now investigating whether it extends the lifespan of mice or enables them to live healthier lives into old age.
The shooting — the highest toll for NATO forces since nine Americans died in a Sept. 21 helicopter crash — was the latest in a series of shootouts in which Afghan security forces have turned on their NATO partners.Hmmm... that's some Religion of Peace.
There have been a number of incidents in which Afghan police officers turned on their trainers in deadly shootouts.
-- OTTAWA -- Canadians paid out to settle workplace harassment lawsuits at the CBC but the state broadcaster is refusing to say how much money taxpayers spent to settle the claims.C'mon, now people... you really think $1.1 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies, somehow makes these folks accountable?
At least 30 invoices were submitted to the CBC for harassment claims in the fiscal year that ended last March.
Details on amounts paid to each firm and whether the bill was for workplace harassment, sexual harassment or another matter have also been removed.
In the fiscal year ending in March 2009 — a month when 61,000 Canadians lost their jobs — the top 10 executives at CBC split a performance bonus kitty worth $888,699. The individual bonuses ranged from $4,300 at the bottom end to $165,090 at the top end, which is almost 3.5 times greater than the average Canadian salary, according to Statistics Canada.**********
"The mind boggles! It's like discovering that the CAW union pays their office staff minimum wage."
Pages from the German newspaper Der Spiegel were leaked early, before a mass publication of thousands of secret cables by the whistle-blowing website.Yeah... I'm shocked.
Der Spiegel also quoted the State Department as saying that President Barack Obama "prefers to look East rather than West," and "has no feelings for Europe".
They go up to 28 February 2010, offering a potential window on Obama’s foreign policy which may well not show it in the sainted light he would prefer.
It seems to me that Assange is teasing Obama, letting him know what WikiLeaks has and making him sweat.
“So you’re healthy, healthy, healthy, and then at some point you kick the bucket,” Tarnopolsky says. “It’s like the Neil Young song: better to burn out than to rust.”
Prisons Minister David Hanson said: "This is a valuable tool towards identifying mobile phones.And, I daresay, swollen prostates.
Adult club owners say Ottawa is shutting the door on foreign dancers and they could be forced to recruit students to strip from GTA colleges and universities.**********
If the plan is approved there could be scouts in schools by the spring, he said, adding about 20% of the city’s 5,000 dancers are students.
“Right now we are obtaining legal advice on what we can do,” Lambrinos said. “The government is creating a labour shortage and we have to hire new girls.”
-- OTTAWA -- (Liberal) Immigration Minister Judy Sgro is defending the government's policy of admitting foreign exotic dancers to work in Canada, saying the strip club business is "a strong industry" with "lots of customers."
-- TORONTO -- Five people were shot in three separate incidents across the GTA early Saturday morning in the latest spate of gunplay to rock local streets.**********
A steady hail of bullets has been heard across Toronto for the last couple weeks.
Though many shootings, like those Saturday morning, were non-fatal, over the span of a week ending Wednesday, four people were killed by gunfire: Tyrone Bracken, 16, Melvin Gomez, 24, William Nathanson, 19, and Carl Cole, 45.
Peel Regional Police are running into some obstacles as they investigate a double shooting in Malton early Saturday morning that sent two Toronto men to hospital.Yes, this is obviously a case for... Officer Twitter.
"Investigators are having a challenge getting some information from the victims," Cst. Adam Minnion said this morning.
"A study conducted by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Living Standards has concluded what many Canadians have long believed: That Toronto is the most miserable city in the country."Hey... what's not to love?
"Here I was, an educator and great promoter of his books, looking for help with the generation he claimed was most important, but because I was not spending money (other than the $45 I spent to hear him lecture), I was waved off."Well, Jenn... don't take it too hard. It could have been worse... just ask journalist Licia Corbella.
I approached Suzuki to get a quick quote about the importance of saving this wilderness from logging.
He was curt. "Not now," he said. Silly me, but I took that to mean later. So, a little later and a lot more sheepishly, I approached the renowned environmentalist again and again he snapped, "not now."
Shortly before I was slated to get back on the helicopter and head back to civilization to file my stories, I approached Suzuki one last time. This time he was clearer.
"Fuck off," he snapped.
Some questions still lingered about why a white male, George Brown Jr., was chosen as her replacement, a move parents and community members felt was 'insensitive'.I'm with the JFCCO. I just thank the gawds his name wasn't George White, 'cos that would have been a real thumb in the eye. Obviously, if you're any sort of "concerned citizen" in the GTA... this week anyway... "optics" have to be the biggest item on the agenda.
“I'm sure he’s a nice man, but the optics are bad and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time,” said Winston La Rose, executive director of the Jane and Finch Concerned Citizens Organization.
“The fact is, is that it’s young black males who are dying,” Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, a crime victim advocate, said Thursday.Hey, Winston... way to keep your eye on the ball.
“Until we find a way to get our youth engaged, they’re just going to keep shooting each other,” Omololu-Olunloyo said bluntly.
So far this year, there have been 28 gun murders in Toronto. Shockingly, 25 of the victims are black males. There have been 12 arrests in those cases, all black males, many just teenage boys, she pointed out.
-- TORONTO, Ont. -- Some local hip-hop artists have vowed to stop mentioning guns in their music to try and reverse the recent trend of young black males being shot and killed on Toronto's streets.Alrighty... problem solved.
A man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Scarborough Wednesday night, the latest in a string of shootings that have plagued the city over the last week.
There were few details available about the city’s 56th murder of the year.
This is the eighth shooting since Nov. 16. Four of them were fatal.
“I have people touching my private parts all day long,” Michael Ignatieff said Wednesday in the foyer of the House of Commons. --Well... that sure explains a few things.
Homicide detectives say it's too early to determine if a teen's murder is tied to his charge of trying to kill someone last year.Geez... if only there was some giant, magical database...
Billy Nathanson, 19, was shot to death in an ambush involving two male suspects outside his father-in-law's home around 9:45 p.m. Monday as he returned from work.
The victim was on $15,000 bail on charges of attempt murder, discharging a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing a firearm without permit and using a firearm to commit attempt murder.
Police are trying to figure who killed a Toronto man and put his body in a blue plastic barrel by the roadside in rural Milton.And...
Friends say the victim, Garfield Steele, was a gentle giant who was nicknamed G*KATT after the orange cartoon feline of the same name.
A man wanted in the murder of a Mississauga pimp is the brother of a recent Toronto murder victim, but police said Wednesday there is no known connection between the killings.
Donald “Don Kartel” Grant, 27, was gunned down outside the Holiday Inn Express, on Ambler Dr. in Mississauga, on Nov. 7, nearly one month after his alleged killer’s little brother died in a double murder in Regent Park.
Toronto Police has opened its doors wide to all applicants in an effort to be more representative of the communities it is serving. In this ongoing effort, it is also seeking to enlist its first hijab-wearing officer, Superintendent Cyril Fernandes had told Focus this summer.What exactly is the message here? More to the point... would a non-hijab wearing Muslim woman get the same consideration?
"Sorry Aisha... we're not really concerned how you feel about being a Police Officer... we just need someone who really looks the part."I can't wait to see the musical promo for their "Officer Hip-Hop" initiative.
"Just as long as they don’t spy on Muslim Terrorists making international phone calls to the U.S."**********
"That would be wrong."
...they're still holding all the Once Harbor Police arrested Wolanyk, he was handcuffed and paraded through two separate airport terminals in his underwear to the Harbor Police office located inside a different terminal at the airport than Wolanyk had originally gone through during his TSA security process.Yet another marvelous triumph in the "War on Terror".
-- OTTAWA -- A bill to do away with the faint hope clause that allows murderers like notorious B.C. serial killer Clifford Olson to apply for parole has been sent packing from the House of Commons.Seriously, Mr. Ignatieff? You're coming down on the side of convicted killers?
Opposition parties joined forces late Tuesday to pass a series of amendments to Bill S-6.
The Liberals proposed the five amendments and secured the support of the Bloc Quebecois and NDP to pass four of the motions over Conservative objections.Well, it's official... Stephane Dion has been supplanted as the "Rainman" of Canadian politics.
NDP justice critic Joe Comartin said that while his party supported the bill initially, they have changed their minds and want to keep the faint hope clause.
“The system as it is now works. It’s as close to a perfect system as there is when dealing with rehabilitation,” Comartin said.
El-Gamal allegedly cursed at Vassiliev, called him the Arabic curse word "sharmouta" and punched him in the face, breaking his nose and cheekbones.This is now...
When he was arrested, El-Gamal denied he socked Vassiliev, but conceded, "Vassiliev's face could have run into my hand."
NBC will honor the Ground Zero Mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal as one of its People of the Year on Thanksgiving night.It's like magic.
“Mr. Harper cannot keep standing by while the wealthy tax cheats and the biggest corporations ... essentially take tax dollars out of the pockets of hard-working Canadians,” the NDP Leader told reporters Tuesday. “It’s not right.”Yoo-hoo, Janie... over here...
Last year, Chow claimed $530,000 in expenses, Layton claimed $629,000.**********
Uh, huh..."I remember that steamship guy - Marvin? - Martine? - something like that."
"At least 80 aboriginal chiefs and band councillors made more money last year than Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and at least 200 were paid more than their provincial premiers, according to newly released federal figures."
"It's not anything she did," said Jim King, the national executive director of Am Vets. "She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people."
King would not say whether the organization had had other layoffs.
In Canada, you’d better watch what you say if you want to criticize The Man. You’d better make sure every word is the literal truth, and that you can back it up with records.
Ask Ezra Levant.
Two teenaged boys are awaiting their day in court on murder charges for last week’s execution of another youth at a North York apartment building.**********
Tyrone Bracken, 16, was found shot to death last Wednesday in the stairwell of a Toronto Community Housing Corporation lowrise at 135 Neptune Dr., southwest of Bathurst St. and Hwy. 401.
A 19-year-old man is dead after a shooting in Toronto's north end on Monday night. The man was shot multiple times at around 9:45 p.m., according to Toronto police.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital from the townhouse complex near Sheppard Avenue West and Jane Street, but later died.
The death marks the 55th homicide in Toronto in 2010.
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was "not a good policy", weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.Thing is, it isn't just financially and ecologically unsound... it's actually driving up the cost of food.
U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel even when it is more expensive than gasoline.
The U.S. ethanol industry will consume about 41 percent of the U.S. corn crop this year, or 15 percent of the global corn crop, according to Goldman Sachs analysts.
"The size, the percentage of corn particularly, which is now being (used for) first generation ethanol definitely has an impact on food prices.
"The competition with food prices is real."
**********Striking down Canada’s polygamy law would make the country a magnet for polygamous immigrant families and open the door to societal harms resulting from the practice, a lawyer for the B.C. government said in opening remarks for a landmark case.
-- "Hey bigcitylib, why don't you come out and meet all us violent, racist terrorists? See for yourself how crazy dangerous we are!" --C'mon out... the Cat Fur will be flyin'
Toronto police are investigating after a 16-year-old boy was shot in the west end, Sunday.**********
The intersection of Dufferin and Dupont has been shut down as police investigate.
This is the second time a teenager has been shot in the city this week. On Wednesday, Tyrone Bracken, 16, was shot to death at an apartment building in North York.
There were at least four separate gun incidents in Toronto over the weekend — including the city's 54th homicide and an alleged attempt to shoot a police officer.If only there was some sort of gigantic magical database.
Male prostitutes, for example, could be justified in using them to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
-- BERLIN -- German authorities have launched a large-scale search in Berlin for two suspected suicide bombers, according people close to the investigation.**********
Concerns of an imminent attack prompted a public warning by Germany's interior ministry this week that terrorists plan to strike one or more crowded public locations in major German cities by the end of this month.
German authorities have also received indications that a second group of terrorists is planning to travel from Waziristan via the United Arab Emirates to Germany in the coming weeks, according to a person briefed on the investigation.
-- Caledonia, ON -- As then-OPP deputy commissioner Chris Lewis wrote Haldimand County Mayor Marie Trainer in March of 2010, there had been “a verbal agreement” among the OPP, the Haudenosaunee and the Six Nations Police that, as “an interim measure,” Six Nations “would police the DCE property, as well as the 6th and 7th Lines.”**********
That “interim” measure lasted one month shy of four years.
-- TORONTO, On. -- Two shootings in the city have left one person dead and four injured. A shooting at a bar killed one man and two others were sent to hospital. Police told 680News they responded to a call just before 3 a.m. Saturday at 3030 Don Mills Road.**********
Earlier, police were called to a double shooting in the city's west end. A call came in just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday after a shooting at Jane and Lawrence, police said.
Two men were shot and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Melvin Gomez, a 24-year-old from Toronto, succumbed to his injuries.**********
According to police, a 38-year-old man was slashed in the neck inside a Queen Street bar. The victim reportedly stumbled out of the bar with blood gushing from his neck.
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said the party is "sorry to lose Ross" as a candidate.Geez, Ross... like what... maybe being a responsible adult human being?
Rebagliati announced in October 2009 he would seek to run as a Liberal candidate in the B.C. Interior riding. The decision withdraw was made for "personal and family reasons," Rebagliati said in a release.
"The time has come for me to focus on new life challenges."
He was unable to collect his mail, go shopping, or pay his taxes. "I was completely unable to function. I was in shock, actually, coming back."Yeah, Michael... I can see why you'd be mourning the loss of such a star candidate.
He has had more ups and downs in the years since: lawsuits and money problems.
-- BRAMPTON, Ont. -- He insists he was just defending his property. The authorities accuse him of acting like Rambo.**********
And now John Hutchins is facing assault with a weapon charges for chasing down and "subduing" a young thief he caught in the act.
"Basically, if we can't trust the cops to get the right perp every time, I ain't gonna put my faith in the Bubbas of this world to get it right every time either."
The prize piece in their display window is a coffin decorated with images of mostly naked, muscular young men in athletic poses inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings.A life defined by what you did with your genitals?
“We believe you should be able to have a coffin that lets you embark on your last journey in a way that reflects how you lived your life,” undertaker Thomas Brandl told Reuters on Thursday.
The gay couple also sell coffins and urns in rainbow colours — the international symbol of the gay and lesbian movement — and offer burials around a tree reserved exclusively for homosexuals.And the dulcet tones of The Village People offer a last touching memory.
"Would it bother you if a movie fan wanted to be buried in a movie inspired casket? Or if a car buff wanted to be buried in a metallic coffin with chrome trim?"Yeah... there's a clear-cut equivalence.
"Fewer feather boas... more David Sedaris."**********
"Oh, yeah, you(sic) concerned about how such things would affect the 'grandparents'."**********
10:23 AM, November 20, 2010
"Though I do understand your deep concern for "grandparents" and their impressions of such things."
10:57 AM, November 20, 2010
"I was getting your deep and honest concern about "grandparent" sensibilities."
1:40 PM, November 20, 2010
"Those poor "grandparents". Thankfully someone honestly has their best interests at heart."
10:29 AM, November 21, 2010
"Are we to assume you no longer care about grandparent feelings? If that's the case, then why do you care about the availability of these caskets?"
8:34 AM, November 22, 2010
Thanks to an amendment supported by a group of African and Muslim nations — which passed by a vote of 79-70 — the reference to sexual orientation has been struck from this year’s resolution.Nah... what was I thinking?
The effective message is that killing someone because they’re gay just isn’t that bad.
-- AMSTERDAM -- If the idea ever becomes reality — it would be legally complicated and politically divisive — it would be the latest of the country's liberal policies to be scrapped or curtailed as the Dutch rethink the limits of their famed tolerance.**********
Amsterdam has resisted enforcing some of the conservative trends. For instance, it rejected a 2008 ban on marijuana cafes near schools that would have led to the closure of nearly all the bars, commonly known as "coffee shops."
But it has accepted others. In 2006, the city shut down a third of its legal brothels, saying they were a magnet for criminals.
"people fornicating and shooting people in the streets"Yeah... thanks for that, nonny.
-- Wednesday November 17 -- Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky is steering clear of the debate and repeatedly refused Wednesday to say what she thought about the proposal....just wait 24 hours...
It's up to the board to make a decision about whether it wants to pay kids for good grades, she said.
-- Thursday November 18 -- Ontario's governing Liberals will do whatever it takes to stop Canada's largest school board from paying poor students to do well in class, Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky said Thursday.Meanwhile, out in La-La land... it's the usual complement of idiots, explosives & falling anvils...
Outside the chamber, the minister insisted that she always opposed the idea and wasn't swayed by critics who compare it to bribery.
What all these shenanigans mean, however, is quite possibly a death knell to the hopes of those in the cabinet contemplating a run to replace Mr. Campbell, who seems to have gone from lame-duck to dead-as-a-dodo Premier in very short order.Remember... friends don't let friends vote Liberal.
Something is very wrong with Canadian campuses these days.**********
Left-wing students and outside agitators get away with shouting down speakers they disagree with, smashing windows to prevent lecturers they don’t want to hear, even chaining themselves to a stage and screaming “racist, racist, racist” at the University of Waterloo to prevent Christie Blatchford from talking about her new book.
Student unions routinely decertify pro-life clubs, and administrators frequently cater to the demands of a handful of vocal socialist anarchists.
But when right-of-centre student groups attempt to protest the censorship they face, or demonstrate against leftist speakers and those they believe are hateful, they are met with threats of lawsuits or expulsion by administrators or student unions.
"As Kissinger once said, the reason why university politics are so vicious is because the stakes are so small."
While detectives have not established what motivated the teen’s slaying, tenants of the complex said local youth, calling themselves the “Goons,” have been locked in a battle with gangsters from the Lawrence Heights “Jungle” to the south-west.**********
One resident said the boy’s name was Troy, and that he had moved there with his family after being displaced from Regent Park by construction last year.
Tyrone Bracken was a boy who always helped carry his neighbours' groceries and occasionally took time to read the bible.Hmmm... the bible. Not a single mention of that "known to police" thing they had on the 6 o'clock news.
Bracken, 16, was found shot to death around 4 p.m. Wednesday in a Toronto Community Housing Corp. lowrise at 135 Neptune Dr.
"I gave him a bible earlier this year," said Andy Osazuwa. "When I see them outside, I preach to them. They'd be playing sports and he was the only one who actually responded to me and said, 'Can you give me a bible?'"
"Students who knew Bracken were tight-lipped about why they thought he was targeted."Curiouser & curiouser.
Police have charged a Markham man with first degree murder after a fatal shooting in the summer of 2004. Gaurav Bazaz, 31, died on June 19, 2004, after suffering a gunshot wound. His body was located at 2610 Weston Rd.
Vinjay Singh, 30, was arrested on October 6, 2010. He is charged with first degree murder.
Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010 -- Although he scrupulously avoided the word “default,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said on Thursday that Millennium Development Corp. paid only $192-million of the first payment due on Aug. 31....GONE...
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 -- After several weeks of tense negotiations that nearly led to an all-out legal battle, the troubled Olympic village has been put into receivership at the request of the city and the private developer.You hear that Vancouver?
City manager Penny Ballem and Mayor Gregor Robertson said the settlement was good news for the project and provided stability for the future.
Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky is steering clear of the debate and repeatedly refused Wednesday to say what she thought about the proposal.Yeah... that payoff thing.
It's up to the board to make a decision about whether it wants to pay kids for good grades, she said.
Aye Jay has put together 48 pages of the biggest names in hip-hop, everyone from Biggie to 2pac, and placed them right at the tip of your Crayola. Thick black outlines of 50 Cent, DMX and many more await your stylistic eye.
Toss it on your coffee table before pouring gin and tonics and cracking the 40’s at your next house party or just indulge in some childish fun.
Dhalla said she also took offence to the defence department advertising on websites that promote violence, such as hockeyfights.com.So, Ruby.... you're all about respecting women?
"The buck stops obviously with the ministers, whether they have contracted those (the advertising) out, the buck stops with the…government."
“I don’t think that any Canadian out there wants to have these types of keywords or websites identified which are objectifying and insulting and demeaning to women.”
Why? And for Whom? -- is a six-year-old Hindi film that tells of a man poisoning his wife to collect insurance.Let's not even get started on "Canadian values"... like, say... pensions for recent immigrants or indentured servitude.
-- Port-au-Prince, HAITI -- There was turmoil on Monday in two cities in the north of Haiti, Cap-Haitien and Hinche, with protesters setting cars and a police station on fire, as well as throwing rocks and bottles at UN troops. One protester was shot to death by a UN soldier.Okay... I think I see part of the problem here...
In Cap-Haitien, the country’s second city, the operations of Oxfam remain suspended on Tuesday because of the violence.
Although cholera is relatively simple to prevent, this relies on the population being educated in how to respond and practising good hygiene.You don't fully appreciate the importance of "don't shit where you eat"... maybe burning cities to the ground is your inevitable destination.
"A whole corridor of the mall was cordoned off with police tape. Tristan Cox and Francis Koroma face charges, including robbery while armed with a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm and aggravated assault."Oh, man... if only there was some sort of giant magical database.
Regent Park is reeling after a string of shootings left three dead in as many weeks. Parents say they are afraid to let their children out after dark, even for the area’s free tutoring programs.**********
Police in the area started noticing an uptick in calls over the past year, but won’t say what might be driving it. “Radio calls, for sure,” are up, said Constable Joe Jaksa. “For everything.”
A shooting at an apartment complex at 135 Neptune Drive has reportedly claimed the life of a young man.
The victim, believed to be a teen male, was pronounced dead at the scene near Bathurst and Wilson.
-- OTTAWA -- He led two rebellions against the government of Canada, set up a provisional government for Manitoba and took part in the execution of Thomas Scott, but the NDP's Pat Martin says Louis Riel has been wronged by the history books and it's time to set things right.Apparently, in Canada, there's no such thing as a bad boy anymore.
“Louis Riel is a hero, not a traitor,” Martin told a news conference in Ottawa Tuesday.
B.C. spent more than $102-million dollars to put serial killer Robert Pickton behind bars for life.Yeah... here's the thing... you had me, back at... "severed head in a bucket."
Seventy-million dollars was spent on the RCMP investigation, including the meticulous sifting of dirt and debris on Mr. Pickton's farm – where the DNA of 26 victims was found.
Thirteen demonstrators organized by the GetEQUAL campaign for gay rights -- including nine veterans, a Catholic priest and other advocates -- were arrested after shouting they were "proud to serve" and vowing: "We will not disappear."Oh, Barry.
Once again, does anyone know what Mr. Ignatieff is talking about? Is he really suggesting that the Conservatives should have fielded a non-Filipino candidate to make it a fair fight for the Liberal contender?
Environment Minister John Wilkinson says he won’t even consider banning TV and computer trash from landfills until the province’s electronic waste diversion program is in stronger shape.Yeah... let's have three cheers for Dalton McSlippery's bright, shining socialist paradise.
Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) is improving but it would be premature to expect that all provincial residents have access to its diversion programs, he said.
OES, which levied $45 million in Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) fees in its first year, missed its collection and recycling targets by as much as 59%, its annual performance report revealed.
"This town sort of represents the world nuclear problem. I've heard remarkable stories of animals being born with congenital defects."Hey Dalton... are you listening? Helen's heard some spooky stories.
"We don't allow enough room for the inexplicable in our lives."Holy crap... it appears as though the CBC switchboard has lit up.
The Climate Exchange was created by a professor named Richard Sandor. In 2002, Time magazine called him a “Hero of the Planet” for that act.
But as the exchange’s own website suggests, companies bought and sold carbon as a public-relations exercise — to greenwash their operations in the eyes of the gullible media.
Don’t worry about poor Prof. Sandor, though. The Investors Business Daily reports he managed to sell his stake in the exchange for $98.5 million.
-- TORONTO -- A newly released intelligence report says hardline Islamist groups want to build a “parallel society” in Canada, which could undermine the country’s social cohesion and foster violence.
The de-classified Intelligence Assessment obtained by the National Post says extremists have been encouraging Muslims in the West to reject Western society and to live in “self-imposed isolation.”
The report was written by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, which monitors threats to Canada’s national security and is composed of representatives of CSIS, the RCMP, Foreign Affairs, National Defence and other agencies.
It was circulated internally last year after Hizb-ut-Tahrir invited Muslims to a conference in Mississauga, Ont., to discuss the establishment of an Islamic caliphate.
"By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights," countered the TSA supervisor.**********
-- HARTFORD, Conn. -- A driver who's serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim's parents, blaming them for their son's death because they allowed him to ride his bike in the street without a helmet.**********
"Christie writes a book about a police force paralyzed by gutlessness and political correctness and her speech is hijacked by protesters who are allowed to disrupt it because of the university's gutlessness and political correctness."
-- OTTAWA -- A Liberal MP is continuing a lawsuit against former OPP commissioner turned federal Conservative candidate Julian Fantino even though a good part of this lawsuit is based on another lawsuit and criminal trial now long over.Who is Mark Holland?
Mark Holland, the Liberal MP for Ajax-Pickering, launched his suit against Fantino in August 2008 seeking $350,000 in damages plus legal expenses.
That lawsuit ended in October with an out of court settlement and Holland apologizing.
“The Christian people should leave their beloved land of our ancestors and escape the premeditated ethnic cleansing,” he said in a statement to CNN. “This is better than having them killed one by one.”
Many Christians have already left Iraq; almost 150 were recently granted asylum by the French government. Those who cannot afford to do so have found some measure of refuge in the Kurdish north.
“The victim has not co-operated with police at this point, but we’re hoping that will change,” said a police spokesman."Affordable housing", huh?
Lawrence Heights has been deemed a “priority neighbourhood” by the City of Toronto for projects including affordable housing.
Christies believe the machine will sell for between £100,000 and £150,000.
It cost $666.66 when it was bought in 1976.
Prof. Carasco, a one-time NDP candidate who teaches family and immigration law at Windsor, has asked the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to stop the search for a new Dean, appoint her to the position and award her compensation for “injury to dignity” of $60,000 from the school, and $15,000 from her colleague, hate-speech expert Richard Moon.
-- KENORA, Ont. -- Rose Allin has had enough. It's one thing for the deer to scrounge around in her yard, eating all her flowers.**********
It's quite another for them to come up to the front step and ring her doorbell.
“I just wish they'd stop," she said, looking very cross.
"She should build them a basketball court."**********
“Look, I do note that the Liberal party, Mr. Ignatieff, Mr. Rae have indicated for the past several months that they favour a training mission,” he said. “If they have any specific ideas they want to share, I’m not resistant to having debates on that matter in the House of Commons."**********
A deal between the Conservatives and Liberals allows Stephen Harper to break his promise and extend the mission in Afghanistan without approval from Parliament, New Democrats charged Friday.Hang on a sec... what do the Dippers actually want?
“That’s really deplorable,” NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said.
The NDP supports the option of supporting transitional justice, aid, development and governance, which Mr. Dewar says would cost about $500-million over three years.Geez, I'm just not seein' the big hairy-ball problem here.
Michael Ignatieff has proven to be the Wile E. Coyote of political strategy when it comes to boxing in Stephen Harper – forever being burnt to a crisp atop his own pile of Acme Corporation dynamite.
“What I can say is that in the organized crime division, for several months, there have been several multidisciplinary teams on the ground in different locations.”Sure thing, Clouseau... how's that working out for you? Better than for the Rizzuto gang, I guess.
Last year, Chow claimed $530,000 in expenses, Layton claimed $629,000.So, Olivia... what you're telling us is... you're "entitled to your entitlements?"
Chow's sensitive, caring-for-the-average-working-stiff response when asked about her above-average expenses? "It's within the law," she told the Toronto Star curtly.
Parliamentarians -- especially those such as Chow and Layton who make such a big deal about being the voice of ordinary working Canadians -- should not be shielding their expenses behind the letter of the law. They should be leading by example by offering full disclosure of their expense records.**********
The Layton-Chows act more like the Duke and Duchess of Downtown Toronto.
Not only did Liberal MPs Raymonde Folco, Carolyn Bennet, Rob Oliphant, Andrew Telegdi and Tom Wappel meet with the designated terrorist group Mojahedin e Khalq, their travel costs to France was included.Friends don't let friends vote Liberal.
Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?