C'mon Gene, negative, uh... stuff?

Is that what we're calling it now?

“Let’s make something positive with all the negative stuff, because there are a lot of positive things,” TCHC president and CEO Gene Jones said at the barbecue at the Swansea Mews housing complex, located in the Windermere Avenue and The Queensway area, Sunday afternoon.

Sunday afternoon’s barbecue comes just hours after a double shooting in the community.

Swansea Mews... that sounds so familiar. Hang on, wasn't that the place where... good grief.

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ASK A COMMUNITY ORGANISER:

Meet TCH president and CEO Gene Jones...

"Galloway questioned Jones about reports that a security light was not working at the spot where Montaque was shot. There are reports the light had been out for more than a week."

“'There’s a process that we have to go through,' said Jones. 'We have public dollars that we have to protect. There’s a procurement process that we have to go through. We can’t just go up there and pull out a light bulb.'"

Wait... there's more...

Gene Jones, president and CEO of Toronto Community Housing told reporters he said he doesn't have any magic solution, but finding jobs for disenfranchised youth could go a long way to keeping them out of gangs.

That's funny... we find jobs for people these days? So they won't shoot people? On what page of the Capitalist Pig manual did you find that little gem, Gene?

It's interesting to note that Mr Jones, who makes $200,000.00 a year, was brought in from the United States to "organise" the TCH community. I wonder if Mr Jones will be getting his 10% performance bonus this year...

-- TORONTO -- Less than two months into the new year, three young people — including a nine-year-old boy — have died from gunshots.

Apparently the poverty industry pays really well. Watch out Gene, a couple more community barbeques and you'll put yourself out of a job.

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UPDATE: Does Gene deserve a bonus?

"Although Toronto Community Housing has provided police with surveillance footage from the town house complex’s 69 cameras, the one facing the scene of the crime had been spray-painted black and a number of others were not functioning."

It's a jungle out there.

That hateful, warmongering George W...

...wait a minute...

"Military sources suggested the early hours of the 2011 campaign against Col Muammar Gaddafi could form a template for any operation. The Libya campaign began with a blitz of Tomahawk cruise missiles from US warships and from a British Trafalgar Class submarine."

Oh... it's St Barack of Chicago whose finger is on the button?

Well, carry on, my friend.

Bright lights, big city...

...Toronto media downcast, disappointed as double homicide reveals absolutely no police involvement...

Two teens are dead after a shooting near Jane and Finch on Friday afternoon.

Emergency services were called to an apartment building at 287 Grandravine Dr. at 1:30 p.m. where one teen, identified by friends and family as Oshe Whyte, was pronounced dead.

On Friday evening, after he was rushed to hospital with life threatening injuries, police confirmed the second teen had died.

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UPDATE: Two murdered teens id'd

One died on scene and was identified as O’She Doyles-Whyte, 16. The second teen, identified as Kwame Duodu, 15, succumbed to his injuries in hospital a few hours later.

No word yet on whether Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin, Alok Mukherjee, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, various & sundry union heavyweights and the Ontario Coalition against Poverty will be inserting themselves into these latest investigations. No public demonstrations or parades have been announced.

Heck, as long as the Ontario Liberals...

...have all that extra healthcare cash lyin' around... wait a minute...

"Their work permits expired Dec. 15, 2012, but they didn't return to Jamaica. In November 2012, they applied to stay here on visitor's permits."

Both were receiving workers' compensation benefits from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), as well as medical care funded by the WSIB. Beginning in September 2012, Mr. C. encountered other health issues unrelated to the accident.

Hmmm... if the Liberals are gonna give gratis OHIP to folks on visitors visas, that money'll have to come from somewhere.

Here's a thought... how about snatching it back from those gimpy old retirees? It's not like they can put up much of a fight, right?

With health ministry changes to OHIP-funded physio for seniors that were set to kick in Aug. 1, 77-year-old Doreen Smith has no idea what’s in store for her.

Designated Physiotherapy Clinics Association executive director Tony Melles countered no matter how the ministry spins it, their contentions about extending services to 200,000 more people just don’t make sense.

“The funding for physio is being slashed and they think the only way they can improve access is by putting seniors in exercise classes.”

Almost no notice was given to those most impacted, namely seniors receiving such services in either clinics or in retirement and long-term care homes, and the 1,000 physiotherapists who work in DPCs.

And what do our Liberal Overlords have to say about all this?

“Wait a minute ... there are no cuts, we are enhancing care,” Health Minister Deb Matthews insisted, her voice rising.

Yeah, Deb... I know a couple of guys from Jamaica who would probably agree.

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LAST WORD: How's that poll going?

It has been estimated that there are as many as 18 million OHIP cards in the province, but we only have 12 million citizens.

How much of our health care budget is spent on services provided to people with counterfeit cards. The budget this year is $25.5 billion dollars, a 7.3 % increase over last year.

Now people won't have to lie and cheat... we'll just bestow our "free" healthcare benefits on anybody who walks in the door.

Well... except maybe all those whiny old folks.

If President Obama had a grandfather...

...would he look like... oh, never mind.

FWIW: PLAN Z

Anybody got a better idea?

PLAN Z is a three-part plan that reeks of simplicity and facts. It will also infuriate bedwetters, people who love Jesus, and those who make decisions based on being “compassionate.”

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FROM THE COMMENTS: Time for a paradigm shift

Business as usual...

1. Homeless People; A. Ignore them and let them run amock
2. Violent Criminals; B. House/clothe/feed/educate them
3. Animals; C. Perform medical and product testing on them

or...

1. Homeless People; B. House/clothe/feed/educate them
2. Violent Criminals; C. Perform medical and product testing on them
3. Animals; A. Ignore them and let them run amock

Hmmm, as long as it's all or nothing... sign me up.

Ask a Journo-Canadian...

...cause they know all the experts.

In other "9 meals from anarchy" news...

If things went to shit, just how long would it be before your neighbours were munching on a broiled haunch of, well... YOU...

"You can only assume that these glitches are going to continue into the future," says Todd Schoenberger, managing director of the BlackBay Group in New York. "This is a huge, huge negative. It's another black eye for Wall Street. This is not good for the retail investor. How are they supposed to trust what we do?"

Knight blamed the malfunctions on a software upgrade and said the episode would cost a whopping $440 million, a burden that will force the company to raise capital to cover.

The price tag on a market that already had been bleeding investor money is yet to be determined.

Toss in the Car-Salesman-in-Chief's ongoing trillion dollar boondoggle and you have the recipe for the perfect financial storm.

You can't use Tasers...

...you MUST use Tasers... I wish the lunatic left would make up its uber-elastic hive mind...

It’s pretty clear that there are many who want a piece of poor Sammy Yatim now that he’s dead and can be made into a cause or useful instrument.

Worse, the only justice they have anything to do with is the sort preferred by the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. “No! No!” she cried. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.”

The fact that young Mr Yatim had been exposing himself and brandishing a knife in a very public venue continues to be seen as irrelevant. The fact that Mr Yatim had, at the moment he was shot, charged at police, screaming like a madman with a knife in his hand is similarly glossed over.

Perhaps they'll have to rewrite the procedural manual at the Ontario Police College. Apparently, coppers are supposed to wait for the club to land, the gun to fire, or the knife to penetrate their person. Until that's cleared up, the next time you encounter a raving lunatic with a knife, I suggest you call Andre Marin or Alok Mukherjee.

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RELATED: Just a kid with a knife, right?

While trying to help this apparent victim, Constable Garrett was suddenly attacked with a knife and suffered a mortal wound to his throat. Although dying, Constable Garrett somehow managed to draw his firearm and pursue his attacker, firing off his entire clip of 17 bullets. Constable Garrett was able to wound his murderer with his last shot before he succumbed to his injury.

Which of the two endings above do you prefer?

Sure, it's easy to ignore Fox news...

...but when one of Obama's biggest media cheerleaders stops sippin' the kool-ade...

Think about three recent presidential declarations. A few weeks back, the president appeared on CBS to claim that the secret FISA court is “transparent.” He then appeared on NBC to claim that “We don’t have a domestic spying program.” Then, as mentioned above, he held a press conference on Friday to suggest there was no evidence the NSA was “actually abusing” its power.

I guess it’s possible Obama has merely been “wrong” but has not been lying. But the implications of that would be just as bad — albeit in a different way — as if he were deliberately lying.

It would mean that he is making sweeping and wildly inaccurate statements without bothering to find out if they are actually true. Worse, for him merely to be wrong but not deliberately lying, it would mean that he didn’t know the most basic facts about how his own administration runs.

Not all unicorns and fairy dust after all.

No Whore like a Politician

Friday: Legalise dope... Saturday: Pretend to be a Muslim...

"I have the extraordinary privilege of representing the community of Montreal, the riding of Papineau, that is one of the two most lucky ridings of Quebec, because we have the highest number of Muslim Canadians living in the riding."

So, now... "luck" equals "Muslims?" Not sure what that even means, but I guess that makes Yemen the luckiest place on Earth.

Say... you think Justin talked about how dope makes people smarter and better looking... or how homosexual communities add to the vibrant cultural mosaic in Quebec?

Call me cynical, but I'm guessing he has a slightly different version of that speech he trots out at the synagogue.

(via Blazing Cat Fur)

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RELATED: I bet he didn't ask Sophie first

"I could go on and on about how there is still an imbalance between the "masculine" and the "feminine" in our society and world. Women are still being violated, trafficked, raped, beaten and deprived of their most basic human rights because of one reason: they are women."

She's gotta be talking about those stuffy old Mount Royal Protestants, right? Hmmm... did Justin even bring Sophie to the mosque? I'm not seeing any pictures.

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LAST WORD: Has Justin converted?

No non-Muslim is permitted to participate in our ritual prayers unless he has taken the oath of Islam and declared that Muhammad is the last Prophet of God and that the worst sin is ‘shirk,’ the belief that Jesus is the son of God.

C'mon, Shiny-Pony... fess up.

Ask a Journo-Canadian

When police shoot a knife-wielding 18 year-old lunatic on public transit... it's a national tragedy worthy of parades & protests and allegations of police death squads. When yet another 15 year-old is gunned down in Toronto's vibrant ethnic northwest paradise, it's just business as usual...

A 15-year-old boy who was shot at a shopping plaza in north Toronto last month has died in hospital, police said on Thursday.

The unidentified teenager was taken to hospital on July 28 after he was shot Yorkwoods Gate Plaza near Jane and Finch at around 10:15 p.m. ET.

In a release dated July 31, police said the teen was approached by two men in a vehicle who shot him “several times” before fleeing the scene.

And in other obscure Toronto shooting news...

Two men who were wounded in a shooting in Toronto’s east end are now in stable condition after surgery, police say.

The suspects are described as four black males who were wearing dark clothing.

No parade here either.

Remember... it's only a tragedy when Canada's national broadcaster gets to shit on the cops.

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Every single policeman you see, every clip he has on him has 15 rounds. Every time they pull their weapon, it’s attempted murder."

Yup... death squads.

TEH CHILDRUN IS R FUTUR

"Every time a young person tells me what they would do if they were in power, I think of Piggy and his conch shell from Lord of the Flies."

WKILL is calling for further fratricide...

...interspersed with intermittent bouts of grievous bodily harm...

"The death toll, which stood at 525, according to the latest Health Ministry figures. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled el-Khateeb put the number of the injured on Wednesday at 3,717."

That's some Religion of Peace.

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RELATED: Walk softly, and carry...

...a hopey-changy magic wand...

Hagel’s tepid response falls in line with the commander-in-chief’s own wait-and-see reaction to the deepening Egyptian crisis. President Barack Obama has refused to call the military takedown of Morsi’s elected government a coup, and will continue to send the $1.3 billion in military aid that the U.S. gives to Egypt each year.

With the Obama administration clearly still willing to write a $1.3 billion check, the Pentagon seems to have had little influence in prevention the Aug. 14 massacre. And Hagel’s telephone diplomacy may have even less influence on directing whatever steps al-Sissi may yet take.

From the same guys who outlawed the use of the term "Islamic terrorist."

In her master's McSlippery footprints

Another Wynne-ing strategy by Ontario's Liberal overlords...

"On April 18, the government announced its plan to eliminate OHIP-funded physiotherapy, a cost-cutting move that will greatly reduce the amount of physiotherapy care available for thousands of seniors in long-term care homes, or house-bound in retirement homes."

Say... is OHIP still on the hook for the Liberal Party's "dicks for chicks" program?

Monica Lewinsky... an insignificant hiccup

Your own "non-profit" foundation... now that's forever...

The nexus between Clinton Foundation donors, foreign governments, and corporate interests has long been a concern to government watchdog groups. As of 2008, the Clinton Foundation raised at least $46 million from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, and other foreign governments — the very governments Secretary of State Hillary Clinton eventually negotiated with.

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RELATED: Obamathematics!

You don't like those numbers... just stop counting.

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LAST WORD: It ain't just Detroit

Hamilton isn’t the first economist to say the government understates how much it owes. Claims that the real liability facing the government is $70 trillion date back several years.

“The earthquake will come via a collapse in the market for U.S. government bonds as domestic and foreign investors realize that the only way Uncle Sam can meet his future spending obligations is to print massive quantities of money. It will happen here just as it has happened in every other country that tried to spend far beyond its ability to pay.”

Hope and change, my ass.

Never a Community Organiser around...

...when you really, really need one...

"At 6:12, police reported that a 23-year-old man was shot and critically wounded. At 6:15 a 21-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman were shot in the same incident. Then at 6:20 a young man, 17, shot himself in the groin by accident. Next a 13-year-old boy was shot at 6:47. And by 7:13 sixth person was shot."

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RELATED: Six degrees of Barack Obama

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hull’s sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.

And everybody lived happily ever after.

Ask a Journo-Canadian

WTF!!!? You're saying it's a "glass half full" thing?

Of course, it's more than a little unfortunate it's half full of blood, brain matter and broken teeth...
Let's ask a "COMMUNITY" advocate...

“We can say that we are becoming more tolerant. And thankfully that’s because of people like Dwayne who have helped push the envelope.”

Sure thing, I guess you CAN SAY THAT. In fact, you can put on your ruby red slippers and sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" 'til the cows come home... but what miniscule part of "BEATEN, STABBED, SHOT AND RUN OVER BY A CAR" are you missing here?

"International advocacy groups often portray this Caribbean island as the most hostile country in the Western Hemisphere for gay and transgender people."

Just another journalistic journey you ain't gonna see featured on Canada's national broadcaster.

Because it's your job, Canada...

...to make Paul Bernardo feel good about himself...

Notorious local thug, Angus McTartan...

...charged, once again, with... wait a minute...

Mohamed Salim, 28, of Toronto, faces nine charges including attempted murder, discharging a firearm endangering life and unauthorized possession of a firearm.

Abdiweli Abdi, 25, of Toronto, is charged with assault with a weapon and weapons dangerous.

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RELATED: Angus has been busy

A man in his 20s is being rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries following a shooting in the city’s northwest end.

The northwest end... right in the heart of Toronto's little Glasgow, right?