QOTW

"There isn’t enough money on the planet that could make me confess to being beaten up by Liza Minnell...

I'm so confused

Didn't Toronto's last Mayor say he was gonna stop all the violence by closing down all the shooting ranges?"The victim, believed to be 19 years old, was shot in the back while in the Lawrence Avenue East and Galloway Road area, a spokesperson with Toronto EMS says."Galloway, Galloway... that sounds so famili...

No wonder Dalton picked up and ran away...

...to the United States..."At the end of August, physiotherapy services provided to frail elderly in retirement and long-term care homes and in the community — simply to keep them mobile and active — were delisted from OHIP to save $67 million a year."And this is where Premier Wynne thinks she should start chopping? I thought the Liberals were supposed to be the "healthcare" par...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Where does it say in the Constitution that the government can steal from me and give it to somebody else? It doesn’t, which mean MY rights are now being trampled."AND..."This is a bit more 'compassionate' than my position. If they can’t work, help them. If they won’t work, f&ck them."(via S...

Taking a page from the...

...First Nations playbook..."When organizers thanked the OPP for their understanding and patience at their act of civil disobedience, the crowd responded with warm applause."Is taking advantage of the erosion of lawful civil authority a good thing? It'll be interesting to see where this sort of thing...

Talking in code is so tiring

C'mon, go ahead & say it... St Jamestown. Police say the victim was found with three gunshot wounds outside a highrise apartment building (at Wellesley and Parliament Street) around 10 p.m.Geez, I thought Mayor Moonbeam had solved that problem before he moved on to greener pastures..."Nobody can...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"By the time the campaign rolls around she'll be swearing she flew one of the helicopter...

Ask a Journo-Canadian

It's just like OJ Simpson told us. Somebody simply has to be brave enough to get out there... and chase down the real murderer...

A breath of fresh air. Less cheerleading...

...more actual reporting..."In this case, the [Canadian] government – one that Mr. Greyson and Mr. Loubani viscerally despise – applied the heat at the highest level. Foreign Minister John Baird even met with his Egyptian counterpart. These two should kiss Mr. Baird’s feet. But I wouldn’t hold my breath."Here's a newsflash for John Greyson. Come the new Caliphate, I can simply grow my beard...

Rules are for the little people

It seems David Suzuki has expensive tastes for someone who wants to shut down the carbon economy within a generation. His primary residence is valued at around $8,200,000.00. Suzuki owns four properties in some very exclusive areas. One of his properties includes part of an island he shares with an oil company, among others.And yet Suzuki still manages to present himself as a humble little eco-David...

I blame Mike Harris

Yet again, wasteful, eco-terrorist neocon greedheads... wait a minute... Miller’s annual report also slammed the Liberals for gutting the ministry through budget cuts and regulatory changes that weaken important safeguards for provincial parks, species at risk and hunting. Cuts to regulations, staff...

Well, I'm betting somebody got rich

Robbing banks is for dimbulb, troglodyte thugs... meet the American cousin of Canada's "Long Gun Registry." Remember, there's gold in them thar hills. ********** UPDATE: Hope, change and... OMG!!!On Oct. 4, the debt held by the public — not including Social Security and Medicare — had risen 89.3 percent since Mr. Obama took office, according to FactCheck.org, a nonprofit project of the Annenberg...

Dalton McGuinty will be remembered as...

...the Green premier... you know, the guy who gave all that taxpayer green to his friends. Why all the sad faces? The good news here is that somebody walks away with a billion dollar windfall."When Mr. McGuinty pulled the plug on the Oakville plant in the fall of 2010, Auditor-General Bonnie Lysyk...

Where, oh where would we be...

...without "community organisers" and "society columnists"..."Lobbying for the release of extremist activists may be noble. It may even be just. But it’s not reporting. It’s cheerleading." "And 99% of Canada’s media did that. And they told the one guy who wasn’t to fuck off."Go Ezra. ********** RELATED: Wisdom of the EastNot sure what particular scientific discipline the Kuwaitis will be pursuing,...

Students will, instead, be issued a...

...daily allotment of medical marijuana and encouraged to assemble in small, easily managed groups to embroider flowery handkerchiefs and sing heartwarming show tunes. ********** RELATED: And Winston Churchill wept We will fight them on the, uh... beachwear... Click on picture above for the story. More...

As McSlippery as the last guy

In Liberal-run Ontario... everybody is a "Wynner"...The large salaries and bonuses drawn down by 2015 Pan Am Games executives were necessary to win the major sporting event, Premier Kathleen Wynne says.How large, you ask?Games CEO Ian Troop pulls a $390,000 base salary but could see that figure topped by a $780,000 bonus if he completes his term and meets budget and timeline targets.Yes, that's right......

If you looked in Justin Trudeau's closet...

...how many Che Guevara t-shirts you think you'd find... ********** FROM THE COMMENTS:"Brings to mind the Occupy idiocy where all those basement-dwellers were running around wearing Guy Fawkes masks. Guy Fawkes... The loser who couldn't carry out his assignment and ended up offing himself before he...

Idiots, explosives and falling anvils

"The clip would be hilarious if it wasn’t a tragic reflection of how dumbed down and ignorant of basic facts Americans have become in the modern era. Given that a substantial percentage of them don’t even know that Obama is a Democrat, how could they possibly hope to understand things like Obamacare or the government shut down?"The scary, scary truth about the great unwash...

I dunno... maybe something in the water?

Canada's national broadcaster nails it yet again... just what exactly is it about compassionate, intellectual Toron... wait a minute... "Prosecutor Matt Miazga said George was shot five times in ten seconds with a .22 calibre Smith and Wesson handgun. He managed to make it across the street before collapsing....

Once again, not surprisingly ...

...the real story is in the comments...Charles Schumer, "We must do more to keep these violent CARS out of the hands of criminals."********** RELATED: MSM to the rescue... ...if only we had listened to the President..."Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak uses her piece today to implicitly make the case that Obamacare and gun control might have been able to prevent yesterday's police shooting...

The Pablo Escobar of broken promises

From the folks who brought you... "Never let a crisis go to waste"... "Honor Flights, which bring WWII veterans to the nation’s memorials, are planned a year in advance and cost anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000." "How low can you get with playing politics over our nation’s veterans?"(via SDA) ********** FROM...

Federal government breathes sigh of relief...

...as native peoples offer to contribute corporate expertise...The head of the Assembly of First Nations signalled a renewed willingness to work with the feds on major resource development projects.I'm just happy that Canada's aboriginal communities have solved all those other pesky little problems that were stopping their communities from assuming these larger responsibilities. ********** FROM...

Murder, she wrote

In other "broad strata of society" news...Aiman “Bigz” Khiar, 24, Jerome “Germz” Bent, 22, Dellan “Young” McMorris,” 23, Shakeil Wheatle, 19; Dwayne “Mafia” Willis, 20; Amanda “White Millie” Rumbolt, 29, Jathursan “Yadi” Rajarubakumar, 22, Bershon “Bread” Roach-Ferguson, 20.Here's a parenting tip... if your kid has a way cool street name, maybe you're not gonna need that RESP. NOTE: Just noticed...

A cautionary tale from the guy...

...who brought you My Lai & Abu Ghraib... let's face it, this guy is a liberal's wet dream come true...It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".Of course, he's less celebrated when he turns his critical...

Hang on... does this mean you don't...

...get to cook and eat it? Actually, scrub that... my first question is, "What sort of new-age hippie throwback would... oh, wait..."Umbilical cord non-severance, popular with early western European settlers in America, was revived in the 1980s by yoga practitioners exploring natural birth.Ah, yes... the wisdom of the east. Another progressive practice from the poster-continent for appalling rates...

Forget about lying on the resume...

...I just wanna hear him belt out a little ditty about Mohammed... Until recently, Rolf Dinsdale was a member of the punk rock band Shit From Hell, along with longtime Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella. The band's songs include “Horny Single Mom” and “Jesus Got Wood.” The video for the latter features...

Go ahead... release Omar Khadr...

...I double-dawg dare you...A member of the Toronto 18 terror group that planned attacks on Canadian targets nearly a decade ago has died while fighting in Syria, CTV News has confirmed. Ali Mohamed Dirie served two years in prison for his role in the plot to blow up the Parliament buildings and other landmarks, assassinate the prime minister and kidnap politicians.What... 2 whole years and he was...

OK, America... your turn in the barrel

First, he organised Chicago... ********** LAST WORD: Promises, promisesIn the 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama often told voters that he would lower premiums by $2,500 a year per family “by the end of my first term as president.” That has not happened, although the White House says the law has slowed...

Something tells me the guest list...

...for his Great Greenie Gitmo just got a little longer....

So You Think You Can Think

No wonder Al-Shabaab thinks we're ripe for the picking...In a body-popping bid for wider understanding, scientists from Australia to the Netherlands are making interpretive dance videos based on their Ph.D. dissertations. To make an esoteric thesis come alive, they leap, swoon, spin and krump. The performances -- all captured on video and posted online -- belong to an annual international competition...

Of course it's a fake...

...everybody knows that Obama rides sidesaddle... You know what they say... worth a thousand words... He prayed at a mosque... now he's schmoozing the military. The Liberal Party of Canada... as flexible as they need to be. ********** LAST WORD: Speaking of Justin's p...

The Redistribution (for some) Cometh

Isn't a man who will have 24/7 bodyguards for the rest of his life, a man who will be taken directly to the front of every conceivable waiting line... isn't such a man the very definition of the despicable 1 percent? $621 billion is a pretty eye-glazing number. Most readers will find it easier to think...

Nairobi ain't the only place where...

...Canadians can get shot at... ********** RELATED: Oops, there goes another...Toronto police are investigating after two people were wounded in a shooting early Monday morning. The shooting occurred near Lawrence and Morningside avenues in Scarborough, and officers are working to narrow down the...

C'mon now... how hard can it be...

...to wow a former part-time Summer Camp Counsellor? Watching Freeland talk, it’s easy to see why Trudeau finds her impressive. She has all the latest buzzwords and jargon. In a 60-second interview last week, she used the phrase “tipping point” four times. She loves talking about “millennials.” She’s...

The compassionate, intellectual left...

...reaches for a new low...Man, I thought conservatives were supposed to be the angry, foaming at the mouth knuckle draggers... I guess I was wron...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Well, I see nothing wrong here that couldn't be fixed with a few drums of tar and a half ton of feather...

In other "crime is down" news...

Looks like Hogtown has their own "Son of Sam" wannabe...Homicide detectives have been called in to investigate the shooting this week of a 25-year-old man who remains in "critical and grave condition" in hospital. A police report said the victim was shot through the closed front passenger window. The man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries.And never mind robbing banks and going...

PC Party of Ontario officially dead

And, of course, no more astrophysics, as the term "black hole" has now been officially erased from the lexicon... -- TORONTO -- Ontario Progressive Conservatives have issued an apology for calling the Liberal Scarborough subway plan a “train wreck” on the same day that at least six people died in a bus-train crash in Ottawa.It's official... when you start to fall over yourselves about politically...

He's clarified his position on drugs...

...is this Justin Trudeau's next policy triumph?The Södertörn District Court has now acquitted the 65-year old in a judgement which stated that it "may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion". However, the court added that no offence had been committed as the masturbating man was not pleasuring himself towards a specific person. When asked if it was now acceptable...

Apparently, Justin Trudeau thinks mummy...

...is full of prunes... -- OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau declined to make a connection between his marijuana policy and his mother's relationship with the drug, heavy use of which she has said contributed to her own experiences with mental illness. "Marijuana can trigger psychosis," she said. "Every time I was hospitalized it was preceded by heavy use of marijuana."Every time, Maggie? Live...

Sammy Yatim... Nabil Huruy...

...what a difference one cop makes... -- TORONTO -- A Markham firefighter has died after he was viciously stabbed in the head at a Toronto cafe over the weekend. Dominic Parker, 45, was stabbed several times while he was at the Rotana Cafe in the Danforth-Coxwell Aves. area around 2 a.m. Saturday. Nabil Huruy was initially charged with attempted murder, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon...

Conservative government in Australia...

...sends academics madly fleeing for emergency shelters...In Dr Shachar’s mind, these budgetary changes are an “attack” on Australia’s higher brain functions, of which the arts and humanities are its highest measure and most glittering jewel.Such as... you might ask...The boldly titled research project Queering Disasters in the Antipodes, which hopes to probe the “experiences of LGBTI people in natural...

Airbrushing the Politburo

All that carefully crafted spin... surely you don't think any part of that is a happy accident...Why would anyone enamored enough with an Obama administration they want to go work for do anything that might make a potential employer uncomfortable -- you know, like actually report on ObamaCare and the economy honestly, or dig into Benghazi and the IRS? The media is left-wing and crusading enough without...

Sex, Lies and alleged Videotape

Okay, so there's no sex. You'll have to settle for a murder. -- TORONTO -- A 62-year-old man was found slain in front of a home in a middle class North York neighbourhood Thursday [excerpting twaddle about locking down local high school]. Officers responded to 37 Francine Dr., near Leslie St. and McNicoll Ave., around 9 a.m. and located the mortally wounded victim on the front porch. “He appeared...

What's a little racial profiling among friends?

Hmmm, unless I'm sadly mistaken, this headline very precisely describes the Board of Directors of the Toronto Star... Somebody get me my guillotine. ********** RELATED: Don't you worry... ...the party of Justin is all over this one.A Liberal senator wants to use the power of Parliament to force...

Fumbling towards ecstasy

Who needs smarts or coherent policy when you have a slavishly compliant media willing to regurgitate whatever storyline you toss out there? Remember when Margaret Trudeau got popped for DUI? Who among us cynical conservatives was truly surprised when... not only did Canada's once-favourite flower...

ASK A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST

You can almost hear them start to salivate... ********** UPDATE: Not kidnapped after allOn Wednesday, Peloso’s parents Reno and Mary Ann told the Star their son "had some stresses in his life in the past, but we thought things had settled down." "The first thing I thought was he needed a break, he...

All those shameful, masculine, anglo images...

...like, you know... the Stanley Cup... And what would little MS Malice pull out of her multicultural bag-o-tricks?"Oh, we have so many images that sing out “Canada:” the Toronto skyline, the ROM, Sarah Polley in Avonlea, Alice Munro, Louis Riel, a Lawren Harris iceberg, a Joyce Wieland, the CBC logo,...

Now, if President Obama had a...

...wait... scratch that... "Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts found absolutely no national reporting of Jeffrey Babbitt, the 62-year-old retired train conductor now in a coma at Bellevue Hospital."********** UPDATE: Mr Babbitt died Monday... ...never waking from...

If Ontario Liberal government holds course...

...it will expropriate the land, erect a permanent building and hand it over to squatters... An illegal hamburger stand squatting at a rural intersection south of Hamilton, Ont., is refusing to close. And the area’s health unit is in a pickle over what to do next. The burger hut has no running water,...

Really Big Game

Forget about those Wascally Wabbits....

Exhaustive report by national broadcaster...

...leaves no stoner unturned... "When Farmers Break Bad"... I caution you, dear reader, the CBC pulls no punches, laying out every gristly detail..."Clandestine drug labs can be found anywhere, both urban and rural areas are not immune,” said Chief Supt. Mike Armstrong of the OPP’s organized crime enforcement...

Say... who was the education minister...

...under Premier Dalton McSlippery?If the latest dismal math test results for Grades 3 and 6 Ontario students prove anything, it is indeed that throwing more money at education has not added up to student success. Doretta Wilson, executive director of the Society for Quality Education, says the latest math results were achieved, or should I say not achieved, even as students are allowed to use calculators...

I just wanna know where you keep it...

...in between uses... "The invention came in the wake of a new law known as the Shenzhen City Public Toilet Management Act, which allows sanitation managers and other officials to slap a $15 fine on those caught making a mess of municipal toilets while relieving themselve...

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Hit me with your journo-stick!!!"I can imagine that some genes make it harder for me to resist doing something harmful, and some make it easier. So what? I still don't get to torture kittens, no matter what my genetic makeup is. Maybe the problem is the idea that we should never be expected to do anything that isn't easy? Because that would explain a lot."Just something to consider the next time...

Mile Wide, Inch Deep

Apparently, the heir-transparent is not much of a student of history...In the 1993 election, Kim Campbell was that year’s Justin Trudeau, just 46 years old (Trudeau will be 44 in the next election). Campbell was a lawyer, a former justice minister, a woman of some accomplishment. But she pulled a Trudeau. “An election is no time to discuss serious issues,” she said. It was a turning point for the...

Yup... some murders are way more...

...important than others... •• TORONTO •• A 16-year-old boy is dead after he was shot in the neck in an apartment on Weston Road near Lawrence Avenue West late Sunday. The shooting is the latest in a spate of recent gun violence. In the last six months, at least six teens have been shot and five...

FLIP... wait, I mean FLOP

Following in Hillary Clinton's illustrious footsteps...“President Assad has been very generous with me in terms of the discussions we have had,” Mr. Kerry, as a senator from Massachusetts, told an audience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2011. He predicted that Mr. Assad would change for the better.That was then. This is now...Today, Mr. Kerry is a leading advocate for...

Little less pot... little more paperwork?

So what's up with the party of... "Dave's not here, man"..."Justin Trudeau's successful and popular visit last week there indicates that there is a lot of support to work with and we look forward to waging a strong campaign there as we will across the country," Andree-Lyne Halle told QMI Agency.Hey, full speed ahead, huh? Nuthin' gonna stop this political juggernau... wait a minute...It turns out...

ASK A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST

"Once upon a, well... uh... wait... ten years and another country ago....

FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Just think, this kind of 'leadership' is coming our way when Shiny Pony becomes Prime Minister of this country. There'll be some international crisis brewing, and Pony will be busy tweeting pictures of himself high-fiving Justin Bieber to his throngs of adoring fans and swooning women." "Makes you...

Dateline 2038

"CFN, the Celebrity Funeral Network, is reported to have won the bidding rights to the Obama funeral, and plans are underway to hold a three day funeral, to be broadcast from the spot where Chicago once stood. And corporate sponsors have already lined up to cover ad buys for the flowers, vehicles for...

In other "dope makes you smarter" news...

...Justin plays the Mandingo card...At an event this week, Trudeau used the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech to lambaste the Charter of Quebec Values, suggesting a link with segregation. “Oh, my god,” said Bernard Drainville, the PQ government minister responsible for the charter, when asked for a reaction Thursday. “I think he should make a little bit of an effort...

"Shaykh, Rattle and Roll"

ROCK ON...

Did he pull out his penis before or after...

...he started waving that knife around? The point is, I don't think cops were dealing with a man who was gonna respond to "pretty, pretty please"... Alok Mukherjee, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, took a similar view. “I always worry about the possibility that if we give more hardware,...

That hateful, racist George W...

...wait a minute...The West Wing has thus far brushed off suggestions Obama make a symbolic trip to the predominantly black, bankrupt city of Detroit — because “there’s not a goddam we can do right now to help them,” according to one Obama hand.Just another story you won't see on the CBC. ********** COMPARE & CONTRAST:Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind," written in 1962, hit No. 2 on the Billboard...

Justice in Junkieville

Of course, a society that resorts to vigilante tactics, however successful, is a society in decline..."The incident prompted Vancouver police to caution residents against taking matters into their own hands, even though Ms. Smith’s bike might have been lost if not for her sleuthing."The police can't...

In other "crime is down" news

Saturday afternoon, one of the busiest intersections in the city, just down the street from the largest police station in the city...Toronto Police are searching for video footage to help identify a suspect in the brazen daylight attack of a woman whose nose was severed. The 76-year-old woman was transferring from the streetcar to the subway at Dundas station on her way home shortly before 2 p.m....

Senator Mac Harb... unlike Duffy or Wallin...

...he's the scumbag you don't see every night on the CBC...Liberal Senator Mac Harb could no longer realistically count on keeping his generous pension if he was charged and convicted of any wrongdoing related to the Senate expense scandal. So he quit and that means even if he is found guilty in a court of law his pension is safe.Mr Harb also wrote a letter of resignation to the Governor General......