Toronto Council, uh...members...

...look into stiffening regulations... • TORONTO • Hogtown’s licensing AND STANDARDS (my emphasis) committee got a front row seat for a pole dance Thursday. That’s when the dance, set to an opera-techno music mix started, complete with pylons marking off a safety area around the portable, pole-dancing...

THE POWER OF THE PRESS

Given the sleight of hand we've all seen the mainstream media deploy in recent days, one has to wonder what the term "professional journalist" really means. I had always thought... naively as it turns out... the word "professional" referred to a higher standard... someone who had served an apprenticeship...

No Tommy, you dumb bunny...

...there's this thing called "majority government"...Anybody else getting tired of the media highlighting the same old nonsensical, partisan rhetoric?Today's papers are full of "pronouncements" by the Opposition parties predicting utter chaos & disaster as a result of the upcoming Conservative budget.The...

The ongoing pussification of Al Sharpton

Who says there's never a "community organiser" around when you really need one? • Meet Mikhail Muhammad & friends • "We're here to make them do their job," organizer Mikhail Muhammad said on Monday. "We will support Trayvon's family, but we are military.""According to the street people's law,...

Wait a minute... I seem to remember...

...what happened the last time the Dippers were yankin' on the levers of political power...Two words, campers... RAE DA...

Your CBC in action... "We don' need..."

"...no steenkin' witness..."George Zimmerman, 28, fatally shot the black 17-year-old on Feb. 26 while on a neighbourhood watch shift in Sanford, Fla. Trayvon Martin was returning to his father's house from a convenience store with a bag of Skittles candy and a can of iced tea when the shooting took...

Dear Barack... I'm sure the...

...Brotherhood appreciates the helping hand...U.S. officials and lawmakers said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has determined that it was in the U.S. national interest to allow $1.3 billion in military assistance to flow. She also certified that Egypt is meeting its obligations to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, which frees up an additional $200 million in economic aid, they sa...

Separate AND not Equal...

...the new face of Canadian justice...“When sentencing an aboriginal offender, courts must take judicial notice of such matters as the history of colonialism, displacement, and residential schools and how that history continues to translate into lower educational attainment, lower incomes, higher unemployment,...

Well... he's a "national" something

Just ask the compasssionate, intellectual left...“To just kind of have this drive-by smear of charities with whom the government doesn’t agree is just a dangerous, dangerous way to go,” Jim Cowan, the Liberal leader in the Senate said.Yup... why can't we all be more like Doctor David & Mr C?"David...

Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe...

...the over-hyped, faux dramatic world of professional journalism..."Wrong"... wrong how, Oliver?"Talks began. The substance of several of the exchanges was relayed to the media and the suspect seems to have been 'keen' to explain his motives."Hmmm, lemme see... serial murder... public confession......

Just something to think about, Toronto...

...while you're writing that whopper municipal tax cheque..."The former chief financial officer of Toronto’s embattled public housing agency could be forced to pay back nearly $60,000 for the free “executive model” vehicle he drove while allegedly pocketing a car allowance of up to $600 per month."Apparently,...

Pay attention, mere mortals...

...here's how the "pros" do it...

You say to-may-toe...

...I say to-mah... er, well... bullshit...“Liberals are committed to co-operating with this investigation,” Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said. “We are setting the standard for openness and transparency, and we expect that all other political parties will follow suit.”Of course, there's "openness and transparency" AND THEN there's "Liberal openness and transparency"...Speaking to reporters later,...

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh

The sound of mind-boggling butchery..."At some point the slaughter of birds and bats by taxpayer-subsidized wind turbines is going to trigger serious legal action. ... If the full force of the Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act were brought to bear on these unsightly killing machines, investors would turn their backs on this artificial industry in a heartbeat."(via s...

And Grannie... what big eyes, er, teeth...

...oh, never mind...The per capita rate of new syphilis cases across Canada has soared almost 10-fold since 2000, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. Chlamydia rates, after falling through most of the 1990s, have jumped 66% since 2000, with more than 87,000 total new cases in 2009.The phenomenon seems particularly relevant to middle-aged and older people, who appear to be flooding to...

Coyne of the realm... a short thesis

Compare this to the inarticulate, hyper-partisan argle-bargle spewing out the piehole of your average "Honourable Member"..."What I believe in are a set of principles having to do with the freedom of the individual, the usefulness but not infallibility of markets, and the legitimate but limited role of the state.""So before you ask, where is conservatism going, perhaps it would be better to ask: where...

Looks like the Poutine's about to...

...hit the fan...**********ASK A LIBERAL LAWYER: We don' need......no steekin' proof..."So yes, electoral fraud occurred. Obviously. Who did it? Seems pretty obviously a few Conservatives."Yes, of course... I blame Stephen Harper. Somebody get a rope.Hey, Ted... have you passed on your "insider...

Bright lights, big city...

...don't piss off the neighbours... -- TORONTO -- A woman murdered in her North York apartment was behaving erratically and hanging around with strangers recently, a homicide detective said. He said her “erratic behaviour” included “screaming at people, unprovoked.”An autopsy revealed that blunt force trauma on the body of Linda Thomas, 60, “is consistent with a significant beating to various...

"If it only saves one life"

Liberal Party of Canada calls for "Winter Sports Registry"..."On its website in describing skicross, Alpine Canada says, 'It's been called NASCAR on skis.'""And winter sport's answer to a roller derby. However you describe it, you can't claim ski cross — or skier-X, as it's also known — is boring."...

As I grabbed my coffee and my laptop...

...I happened to look over at the floor of the passenger side and saw this..."Jesus. I think the only thing missing was a bottle of chloroform and a ra...

Oh Canada

That was then...A judge sentenced Mr. Tobin to three years in prison and a seven-year driving ban last year for his role in the death of a close friend on Christmas Eve 2010....this is now...The son of former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin has been granted day parole after serving six months in jail for a drunk-driving stunt that killed his frie...

Frank Valeriotte, Liberal MP for Guelph...

...has responded...“This was an issue based call, not a voter suppression call. It was paid for by our campaign.”So, apparently... there's good robocalling too.I look forward to seeing Peter Mansbridge devote a full episode of the National... to Liberal hypocri...

Mating calls of the lunatic left...

...a continuing series... "oh, oh... oh my gawd!!!"**********FROM THE COMMENTS:"The appropriate term is .....community organizer......"**********UPDATE: Where's there's smoke...Late today we found out that Ms. Fluke is now being repped by the progressive PR agency SKDKnickerbocker where Anita Dunn,...

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STOP... or I'll yell stop again!!!

Remember, the next time you run across a knife-wielding lunatic... forget 911... just call an aging flower child...Sewell will ask that the primary goals in any policy should be to de-escalate and defuse situations instead of exercising policies of control.Sewell is asking that use of force protocols should be suspended when dealing with individuals in a mental crisis.Ex-Mayor McPeace then cites two...

Live and don't learn

Looks like the Socialist-in-Chief is giving government by Rubiks Cube another couple of violent twists...In a move reminiscent of a process that led to the housing crisis in 2008, the Federal Housing Administration will insure refinanced mortgages for an estimated 2 million to 3 million borrowers who won't have to submit to the usual validation process.And what does that mean exactly? I guess it's...

New Democratic Party set to announce...

...new Junkie Apprenticeship Programme...That makes it hard for even experienced drug addicts to estimate what kind of a dose they're getting, Shahin said. Guess wrong and a drug user could wind up overdosing or dead.Apparently there's a right way and a wrong way to scrape & inject the goo off bootleg fentanyl patches.Darwin was right.**********RELATED: Yeah, catering to addicts......that should...

A hack named Gilles

The award is going “to the recipient of a $2.9-million parliamentary pension, the gift of a grateful nation for a lifetime of devoted service towards breaking it up,” Mr. Thomas told a news conference Wednesd...

Instead of... you know...

...government by CBC...Surely Elections Canada keeps a record of such things, and would be happy to release the number – heck, you'd think they have a duty to release the number.**********UPDATE: The nonsense behind the numbersLeadnow.ca is run by NDPers like Ian Capstick and Judy Rebick. Their "non-partisan"...

A magical, egalitarean land...

...where, apparently... your first murdered woman is totally deductible... - TORONTO - When potentially violent George May vanished in January, he showed up at Sunnybrook hospital on his own. But staff didn't tell Toronto Police he was there until the following day, hours after the 51-year-old...

Risky Business

When's the last time you really put it all out there?What is 10 micromorts equivalent to in regular life? Well, it is about the risk of death, from any cause at all, of an average 30-year-old man in 4 days of their normal life, or about 1 day for a 50-year-old. It is also roughly equivalent to the risk in the UK of a 60-mile (96km) motorbike ride, or 2,500 miles (4,000km) in a car, or having a general...

Uh, Your Honour...

...I think the phrase you're looking for here is..."crazy as a shithouse mouse"...But Judge Paget added: "The belief in witchcraft, however genuine, cannot excuse an assault to another person, let alone the killing of another human bein...

Speaking of boobs... and no, not Pat Martin

The Globe & Mail's Wendy Leung shows you how "professional" journalists do it...Hey, it ain't just me... looks like the G&M's editorial staff shares Wendy's enthusiasm for celebrity tatas.I guess it's true... the success of any great literary enterprise is in the details.**********UPDATE: Your...

How will Dalton McGuinty...

...fulfill his PRE-ELECTION promise to reinstate Ontario doctors making housecalls... when his pet ORNGE project doesn't even have enough people to run properly?"The province’s air ambulance service does not have enough paramedics to staff its helicopters and airplanes, forcing the province’s cash-strapped hospitals to often provide their own medical escorts for patients."Just a little something else...

Spring is about to sprung...

...and for all you nature enthusiasts... (like Mrs Neo)... here's a tool you might want to add to your k...

In other " love, hope & optimism" news

Libellous, big-mouth Dipper bully gets punched in the nose..."New Democrat MP Pat Martin, known for his colourful and sometimes profanity-laced tirades against the Conservatives, is brushing off a defamation lawsuit against him and his party." "The MP called the company 'rascals' in a news conference...

Alberta's startin' to look pretty good

Just another day in McSlippery's socialist paradise...Average Ontario household power rates will be the highest in North America except for Prince Edward Island by the end of 2013. The pace of Ontario’s rate increases will pick up in 2014 due to commitments already locked in.It gets better...With power rates in the U.S. trending downward, Ontario’s lead is going to widen.Yup... we're number 1.**********RELATED:...

Accused, arrested, stripped and bent over...

...or what Premier Dalton McGuinty refers to as... "a difficulty"...School officials in southwestern Ontario who called authorities after a four-year-old girl drew a picture of her dad holding a gun shouldn't be condemned for their actions, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday."While it may be difficult for this individual — and I can understand that — it's an opportunity to ... engage ourselves...

Toronto the Good

Twelve days after the brothers were back on the street, on Dec. 29, 2009, Mr. Mark was shot execution-style on his way to work.He was ...

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