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 place. Martin was not armed.

There have been suggestions the killing was racially motivated.

Oh, wow... big bad racist shoots unarmed black kid holding a bag of candy. Pretty powerful imagery. All that's missing here are mounted Klansmen and a flaming crucifix.

In addition, a large component of the story here is the allegedly racist Florida police department not charging Zimmerman with murder. The chief of the department has been forced to step down. But, is it possible... just possible... that not charging Zimmerman had something to do with their investigation... or evidence?

"The Florida neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin told police that the teenager punched him to the ground and began pounding his head into the pavement, it has emerged."

Of course, you don't wanna simply take the word of the shooter... I mean, what else is he gonna say?

But how about testimony (a decidedly non-CBC account) from an eyewitness?

One man's testimony could be key for the police.

"The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help'... I told him to stop and I was calling 911."

Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.

The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera. His statements to police were instrumental, because they backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.

"When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.

Apparently, prior to being shot, poor defenseless little Trayvon was the aggressor in this conflict.

Just another little factoid you aren't gonna see highlighted on Canada's national broadcaster.

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RELATED: Tried & convicted by CBC Radio

"If Trayvon Martin really did attack George Zimmerman, he did it armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles."

Well... not exactly....

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch crime captain who shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, originally told police in a written statement that Martin knocked him down with a punch to the nose, repeatedly slammed his head on the ground and tried to take his gun, a police source told ABC News.

Which, not to tweak anyone's liberal sensibilities too hard... is supported by the physical evidence AND an eyewitness.

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LAST WORD: The 8th stage of grief

And, hey... how about that "healing" community support? Here's another story you aren't gonna see on CBC...



I guess it's just "unfortunate", because... as we all know, racism is a one-way street... even if you're Latino.

(via BCF)

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 said.

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, higher rates of substance abuse and suicide, and, of course, higher levels of incarceration for aboriginal peoples.”

Orwell was right.

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RELATED: In other "cultural relativism" news...

...and yes, that'd be in Toronto...

In terms of physical punishment, the book advises that a husband may scold her, “beat by hand or stick,” withhold money from her or “pull (her) by the ears,” but should “refrain from beating her excessively.”

The store’s manager, who didn’t give his name, said the book had been sold out for some time, and the store’s owner, whom the manager identified as Shamim Ahmad, refused to comment for the story.

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 Suzuki has called for political leaders to be thrown in jail for ignoring the science behind climate change.

Apparently the good doctor is, yet again, confusing the government of Canada with the Junta in Myanmar.

Have your say...

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... and an expeditious sentencing...

"Mr. Merah died moments later after tumbling from the bathroom window, still firing."

Yes, Oliver... "keen" is a very good word. I'm sure Mr. Merah was enthusiastic about his, uh... work. Especially the murdering children part of it.

Funny, though... not a single mention of the word "justice."

I'm thinkin' this one worked out just fine.

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UPDATE: They had to dust this guy...

...to cover up their unbelievable incompetence.

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, the housing isn't the only thing that's "affordable."

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, Mr. Rae acknowledged the bounty of materials provided to Elections Canada did not include information on a Liberal robo-call in Guelph that attacked Conservative candidate Marty Burke for his stand on abortion.

Hmmm... didn't the Liberal Party also not acknowledge that they were behind this attack... in contravention of Election Canada laws?

Stand by for opposition mouthpiece Ted Betts to jump to Mr Rae's defense in three, two...

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RELATED: Dirty tricks... it's a Liberal thing

“Mr. Carroll remains willing to voluntarily appear and respect the invitation that was originally extended to him on March 8, 2012,” the letter said. “Ultimatums and threats without legal foundation are unnecessary, undignified and abusive.”

You know... unlike splashing someone's messy divorce all over the internet.

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 sda)

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 dating websites, and are generally less apt to practise safe sex, suggest some analysts.

It's a brave new world.

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 has it gone?"

Lucid, coherent, principled.

We, as Canadians, desperately need more of this.

(via sda)

Looks like the Poutine's about to...

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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 knowledge" to Elections Canada yet?

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UPDATE: The plot thickens...

A fake video confession was posted on YouTube in which someone falsely claiming to be former Conservative staffer Michael Sona took the fall for the infractions to the Elections Act.

Sources who know Mr. Sona told The Globe it was not him on the video and the person making the false confession is obviously not the same Mr. Sona whose pictures adorn the Internet in the company of a number of senior Conservative ministers.

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 parts of her body,” Browne told The Toronto Sun.

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RELATED: Register this, copper!!!

-- TORONTO -- Two men are facing a total of 36 weapon and drug-related charges after sharp-eyed Toronto Police officers became suspicious of a parked vehicle.

Abdiweli Abdullahi, 23, of Toronto, faces 18 charges, including possessing pot, unauthorized possession of a restricted firearm with its serial number altered, two counts of having a gun contrary to a prohibition order, possession of ammo, carrying a concealed weapon and six counts of breaching court release orders.

Co-accused Siyadin Abdi, 27, of Toronto, was charged with possessing pot, unauthorized possession of a firearm, having a gun with an altered serial number, possessing ammunition contrary to a prohibition order and carrying a concealed weapon.

"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."

"Zoricic is the second Canadian freestyle team member to die in a skiing accident this year."

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 rag."

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 friend.

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 hypocrisy.

Mating calls of the lunatic left...

...a continuing series... "oh, oh... oh my gawd!!!"
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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"The appropriate term is .....community organizer......"

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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, the former Obama communications director is the managing editor.

Have your say

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 recent incidents as an indictment of Toronto police... unfortunately leaving out a few pertinent details.

So let's fill in the blanks, shall we?

Meet Michael Eligon...

"After leaving the hospital, the 5-foot-11, 160-pound man is believed to have injured someone (the Globe & Mail has a witness saying Eligon stabbed a shopper and injured a police officer) inside a nearby convenience store before trying to hijack a car."

And Sylvia Klibingaitis...

SIU director Ian Scott said Sylvia Klibingaitis made a 911 call saying she was armed with a knife and was going to commit a crime.

“She went directly toward the subject officer holding the knife in a threatening manner,” he stated. The officer pulled out his service pistol and pointed it at Klibingaitis while stepping backward toward the street.

Sorry, folks... you're out in public with a deadly weapon and moving towards an armed copper with speed & intent... all bets are off.

Except, of course, if you're one of John Sewell's merry band of Yoko-channeling anarchists.

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 one of those hopey-changey deals...

Departing from the normal underwriting process, the FHA will insure the mortgages without verifying whether the borrowers hold jobs or receive income.

Ah, yes... trust... AND don't verify.

The mating call of the lunatic left.

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.

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RELATED: Yeah, catering to addicts...

...that should be our number 1 priority...

The most recent and urgent warning has come from B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor whose analysts estimated that public health spending could consume 71 per cent of the provincial budget by 2017.

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Typical fascist, destroy our social support system, revert to dog eat dog and command anyone who disagrees to personally take responsibility for everyone that the fascists are destroying."

Unlike your merry band of society-enriching junkies, whores & thugs, huh nonny?

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LAST WORD: Party of love & forgiveness...

...finds it's inner Nixon...

"NDP sources said Thomas Linner wasn't doing anything untoward when he signed out Toews' divorce file on his lunch hour Feb. 17."

Just a little light reading, huh Thomas?

But isn't that a blatant violation of "Dear Leader's" deathbed declaration?

Court of Queen's Bench Justice Rick Saull also said there needs to be some level of accountability for those who tamper or "make mischief" with the contents of court files.

Hmmm... forget about a Judge's ruling... let's ask a dipper loyalist...

NDP MP Pat Martin said he thinks the judge was wrong to grant Toews access to the information.

It's Animal Farm all over again.

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 Wednesday.

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.

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UPDATE: The nonsense behind the numbers

Leadnow.ca is run by NDPers like Ian Capstick and Judy Rebick. Their "non-partisan" website has generated thousands of clicks on the Elections Canada website ­- just like clicking "like" on Facebook. It's enough for the NSM to scream that thousands of robot "complaints" are flooding in.

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"moron"
Posted by Anonymous to halls of macadamia at 11:53 AM, March 07, 2012

Well... it's a refreshing change from "heil harper."

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 man sat unattended for about eight hours before leaving.

Police later found him in a coffee shop.

Potentially violent? Potentially!!!?

We know this guy's a killer... but he gets to roam Toronto streets at will?

On Monday, the psychiatric patient who was found not guilty because of diminished capacity for the 2001 murder of a woman, vanished again, this time from CAMH in the Queen St. W.-Lansdowne Ave. area.

Yeah... let's just wait for him to kill again... so CBC can do endless rounds of interviews with people who "never saw this coming."

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RELATED: Poster boy for noose...

...continuing to make demands...

• TORONTO • A killer who’s serving life in prison for shooting a Napean cop has lost a fight for parole and deportation to his native England where he could live unsupervised by authorities.

Frankly... I'm surprised he wants to leave...

A Canadian Human Rights Tribunal last year ordered the Correctional Service of Canada to pay Collins $9,500 for making him stand up for a daily head count even though he suffers from severe chronic pain.

He was also presented the 2008 Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.

That omnibus crime bill can't pass soon enough for me.

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 anaesthetic.

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RELATED: Meet Alex Honnold

There is no climber alive whom Honnold admires more. Yet Caldwell echoes Anker's conservatism. "I've never tried to free-solo anything really grand," he says. "I've fallen completely unexpectedly lots of times - maybe a dozen - on relatively easy terrain, when a hold broke off or the rubber peeled off the sole of my shoe or something."

"If I'd been soloing, I'd have died."

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 being."

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.

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UPDATE: Your Globe & Mail...

...from celebrity breasts to outright chicanery.

It's what they do best.

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RELATED: It's way past time...

...to privatise the CBC...

Anybody see the CBC report on election fraud in the U.S.? It focused on alleged fraud by Republicans only -- not a word about the Obama/Acorn scam. The CBC does not represent political diversity at any level -- Nationally or Internationally -- it is clearly a Left lobby organization that has little to do with objective journalism.

Why should Canadians have to pay for that? Freedom of the press and media is guaranteed under our Charter and the CBC violates that freedom by allowing only one voice although all taxpayers are forced to fund it.

Need an example?

The guy currently on CBC representing "Canadians Against Electoral Fraud" was also a spokesperson for Occupy Ottawa. I'm just sayin'.

...and I'm sure that the CBC didn't know this. /sarc.

A billion taxpayer dollars per year. It's time to stop the madness.

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 to ponder... as you're sitting waiting for 6 hours in your local hospital emergency room...

"Not only are hospitals dipping into their operating budgets to pay the nurses’ wages, including overtime, they also have to backfill their shifts when they are short staffed themselves."

Hey, don't blame me... I didn't vote for him.

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UPDATE: Don't worry, there's always a solution

"How soon can you get over here? It's a surprise for my wife."

(via Maggies Farm)

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 kit.

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 and accused it of making 'hundreds of thousands of phoney phone calls' that were part of a 'massive conspiracy to defraud the electoral system'."

Pat Martin is the poster boy for everything that is wrong with Canadian politics.

Perhaps he'll learn that this sort of behaviour is unacceptable AND costly.

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A READER WRITES:

In light of the robocall stuff ramping up, I have 3 questions:-

1) Was all the adscam money repaid?

2) All the libs that were to repay campaign/leadership loans according to EC rulings.....have they done so?

3) If the massage parlour that Layton attended was giving therapeutic massages, one would think that all the employees would be licenced.

Were such licences issued for employees there and did the business have a licence permitting therapeutic services?

Wouldn’t it be timely if Conservative bloggers were to start investigating the above (and any other unfinished business) and mercilessly ‘held the exposed feet to the fire’?

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LAST WORD: Much ado about Pat Martin

"Turnout in neighbouring untainted ridings does not seem to have been significantly different. If these allegations of voter suppression tactics are indeed true, they do not appear to have been very successful."

(h/t bcf)

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.

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RELATED: Dalton's green agenda tanking

Ontario’s largest propane tank processor says it will pull out of Stewardship Ontario’s recycling program this spring if rates aren’t increased, adding pressure to a government-mandated review of the not-for-profit recycling corporation announced last month.

Caledon Propane’s only significant competitor – Hotz Environmental – quit the program earlier this year for the same reason. Hotz was also the province’s largest paint recycler.

Isn't this the same government that gave 81 million dollars to a casino in Windsor? I guess we know where that money came from, huh?

In January, Stewardship Ontario took the contracts out of municipalities’ hands and began offering service providers a fixed rate for their work – one that many decried as artificially low.

Hmmm... kinda like screwin' over Ontario farmers by reneging on ground-based solar remuneration.

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 in a very important conversation about where do we draw the line in those kinds of things," he said.

An opportunity, huh? We should all be so lucky... right Dalton?

The girl's father, Jessie Sansone, was handcuffed, stripsearched and told he was being charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

It gets better. His wife gets reeled in and his kids get scooped up by the CAS.

His pregnant wife — at home with their 15-month-old daughter — had to go to the police station while their other three children were interviewed by Family and Children's Services.

Now don't you worry... this is simply another example of Dalton & company looking out for your interests.

The cake has to go to Gregg Bereznick, the superintendent of Waterloo Region District School Board.

“We do work hand in hand with the families because we co-parent,” Bereznick told QMI Agency reporter Kris Sims.

Funny, I don’t recall signing any document giving any teacher or school official permission to be the co-parent of any of my children.

So Dalton... where do we draw the line about arresting and stripsearching innocent citizens?

Surely not at an innocent conversation with a four year-old child... and a plastic toy gun.

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 30.

Welcome to Twin Valley Homes

The only thing we ask is that you bring... your own ovaries.

Rest in Peace... and obscurity

You start shilling for the Breathe-Rite Nasal Strips of the television world... you've gotta know your days as a serious journalistic enterprise are truly over...

"The Real Housewives franchise comes to Canada for the first time with the promise of 'all the juiciest storylines, drama, power, wealth and glamour that viewers love about the huge, international hit franchise'.”

How exactly is it... people refuse to recognise that "reality" tv is the most over-manipulated, cynically manufactured string of dog turds in the entire media universe.

I mean, you've seen someone eat their first donkey penis... isn't it all really downhill from there?

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RELATED: Stand by for breaking news...

...on gravity holding shit down...
Your taxpayer-funded CBC in action.

Move over Oxycontin withdrawal...

...make way for digitally deprived second-class citizens...

"Once a number of zoos have iPads, Zimmerman hopes orangutans can get to 'know each other' via a video chat app. He has no doubt orangutans can recognize other orangutans when they see their images."

Say, Toronto Star... not to be horribly humanist... but how about an update on Dalton McGuinty's promised doctor housecalls?

Don't blame me...

...I didn't vote for 'em...

• TORONTO • "Before Ontario can start reducing the web of business subsidies it distributes, it has to first figure out exactly how much money is going out — and to whom - Liberal Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid said Tuesday."

Hey, Brad... maybe you can start over here...

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

Hang on a sec... isn't one of the the definitions of insanity... doing the same thing again & again while expecting different results?

• "The United Nations' main human rights body was set to condemn Syria on Tuesday for using heavy weapons on residential areas and persecuting opponents, its fourth rebuke to Assad in an 11-month uprising." •

Just curious... how many starving children could you feed with the billions of dollars the UN pisses away every year?

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UPDATE: Weasel words keep on coming

"Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told a Senate subcommittee that President Bashar al-Assad fits the definition of a war criminal. But, Clinton said, an official designation by the international community may make it more difficult for Assad to step down from power."

I'm guessing that random artillery fire might be making things more difficult for Syrian civilians... but apparently that's not the Obama administrations problem. They just have to pretend to be concerned.

Hope, change and turn the other way.

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RELATED: Another lefty suckfest unmasked

So much for the myth...

...of the criminal mastermind...

“Who is this person?” Ms. Simone asked.

“I can’t tell,” said S.M., then added helpfully, “It’s my clothes.” A minute later, he elaborated: “My shoes. My cousin’s shoes. I have a hoodie like that too.”

It gets better...

She showed him another picture, this of a stack of money, a bank card and a scale; S.M. said half the money was his, the remainder belonging to his older brother.

Ms. Simone showed him another picture. “What’s this?” she asked. “Plastic bag with ammunition,” S.M. said. “Whose ammunition?” she asked. “I don’t know,” said S.M.

Then he peered more closely at the picture.

“Is that a .22?” he asked, then answered himself: “I think it’s .22 calibre.”

“Do you know what .22 calibre is?” she asked. “No I don’t,” S.M. said, adding a minute later, “Why would I have ammunition?”

Thank gawd for morons.

And they had the audacity to do it...

...in February too ••• Toronto's National Post about to lose its rainbows & unicorns codetalker credentials...

That evil, controlling Stephen Harp..

...wait a minute...

Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says one of his staffers was responsible for a series of anonymous Internet attacks aimed at Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

“I was advised yesterday that an employee of the Liberal research bureau in fact is responsible,” the chagrined Liberal chief told the House of Commons Monday.

Rae, Rae... that sounds so familiar...

“The prime minister has created a Nixonian culture. This stuff doesn’t happen unless the boss lets it happen.”

“He has allowed to seep into his party and into his organization a culture of attack and, frankly, a culture of deception and dirty tricks, where almost anything goes.”

I look forward to seeing Mr Rae fall upon his not so ethical sword.

Yeah... I know.

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COMPASSIONATE INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Bob Rae set a trap. And you BTs are too stupid to realize it."

A trap, huh? I dunno Nonny... what say we get a second opinion...
Hmmm.

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LAST WORD: CTV's Lisa LaFlamme...

...breathlessly announced there would be "explosive revelations" about robo-calling on the 11 o'clock news. When it came to the actual item... she changed her terms of reference to how "murky" things were... which, if you'll pardon me for pointing out... is almost an antonym for "explosive."

The item itself proved to be neither... but instead featured yet another Pat Martin diatribe... this time, comparing the Prime Minister to Tony Soprano.

The gist of the whole thing was the implication that Lisa and Bob Fife were on the verge of cracking some 23 year-old Conservative campaign worker from Guelph... who apparently had the goods on the PM.

It was, in its entirety... a donkey-load of innuendo & misdirection... or as it's known in Toronto... news, CTV style.

Maybe it's time to actually ask someone who has more than a passing familiarity with the process and what's actually within the realm of possibility.

The life of a modern Toronto teen

Apparently, it ain't all sockhops, sodas and greased back hair...

The police dog search led police to the accused who was hiding under a porch.

Police say they also found a nine-millimetre handgun.

A 17-year-old is facing charges.

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RELATED: Your CBC Moonbat moment

CBC Radio is still beating the sacred victimhood drum over the reformulation of Oxycontin. For those not in the loop, said reformulation is designed to make the pills harder to shoot & snort.

That's a good thing, right? Well, not according to CBC. Apparently making junk harder to shoot will cast a biblical plague of misery across the land. Well... somebody's land, anyway.

I confess I had some difficulty deciphering the code. For instance...

"There are 10,000 addicts living on aboriginal reserves."

My first thought was, whoa... there's hospitality and then there's HOSPITALITY... until I realised what they meant was that there were 10,000 aboriginals abusing oxycontin.

My favourite quote, though, has to be... "Clients are using alternative sources of supply"... which translates, roughly, into... "I bought it off Biker Bob at the bar"... which, not too surprisingly, has very little to do with health care or Big Pharma.

But that won't stop the dedicated professionals at the Mother Corpse.

Just you wait & see.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"One of the interesting theories is that northern communities are being intentionally flooded with Oxycontin."

"The gist is, when they couldn't get us with smallpox and TB, they're trying again, this time, with pharmaceuticals."

I swear... there are boneheads...

...and then there's liber, er... 'nonny'...
I usually make it a point to ignore the various iterations of mindless trollery that any blogger worth his keyboard must come to expect.

Sometimes though, my biggest fan goes one toke over the line and I just have to share...
The blue [click] will take you to my long established commenting policy... but you can also click on the second comment directly above to see just how far this dumbstick will go to try get my attention.

Once again, the compassionate, intellectual left shows us what's really behind the mask.

You can almost...

...smell the science.

"Let them eat hypocrisy"

Cause...

“My friends, love is better than anger; hope is better than fear; optimism better than despair. So let us choose love, hope and optimism.”

...and effect...

“The prime minister has created a Nixonian culture. This stuff doesn’t happen unless the boss lets it happen.”

“He has allowed to seep into his party and into his organization a culture of attack and, frankly, a culture of deception and dirty tricks, where almost anything goes.”

I guess rainbows & unicorns farting sunshine just weren't getting the job done.

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RELATED: Hang on, Bob...

...who's gonna save us from you & your friends?

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COMPASSIONATE, INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"Calling the CPC MPs bastards isn't just hyperbole. Some really are illegitimate."

Nonny also throws in a "Heil Harper" and accuses someone of child abuse.

Thank you comment moderation.

But, he's so McDreamy

Who cares if he doesn't give a crap about some silly Syrians?

Well, I guess... Marie Colvin...

She concluded the interview, saying: "The Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." The report featured an account of the death of a small child -- a child who died in front of her -- after a previous military attack.

"What is going on and why is no one stopping this murder in Homs?" she said. "This is happening every day."

And Barack continues to fiddle... as Homs burns.

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RELATED: He's apologising for what?

That a large percentage of the Afghan population is criminally insane?

In the deadliest day of unrest so far, at least 12 people died across the country, as mobs charged at US bases and diplomatic missions.

More than 20 people have been killed since the unrest began, including two US soldiers who died on Thursday.

President Barack Obama has apologised for the Koran-burning incident.

Once again, the capricious and unknowable "Will of Allah."

Seriously, now... it's a "migrant tragedy?"

I wonder how the widow of non-migrant transport driver Chris Fulton feels about that...
Ah well, enough blather... here in fuzzy-bunny, politically correct Canauckistan... "diversity" is Job #1 & Only ...

"Over the weekend, she journeyed out to the fateful intersection. She discovered no smoking gun. Only a stop sign that should have prevented the van from entering into oncoming traffic but somehow failed to do so."

The stop sign?!!! You're gonna blame the freakin' stop sign?!!! 'Cos it should have been, what... more forceful? More stoppy?

Or is it just possible... even in a culture that apparently values diversity above common-sense... to apportion some of the blame here to van driver David Blancas-Hernandez?

Yeah, you know... the guy who apparently blew through that stop sign... a man who, in violation of Canadian law, had been driving without the proper license for years.

And what of Chris Fulton, by all accounts a hard-working family man and professional driver... a man who played by the rules and was on his way home to celebrate his wedding anniversary?

Pointedly, he gets mentioned, only once by name... and I quote...

"Chris Fulton, the Canadian truck driver whose rig hit the van."

Well, the inference there seems pretty clear, if not actually libelous.

I guess balanced, "professional" journalism truly is a thing of the past.

Thank you, Globe & Mail.

In other "Crime is Down" news

• TORONTO • "One of the two brothers executed in a North York apartment building recently became a dad."

"Jerome Waterman, 22, and his 18-year-old brother, Justin, were found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in an apartment complex on Family Day."

And while we're on families...

Toronto Police have charged two Scarborough brothers with the murder of popular barber Chris Thompson.

Kevin Perez, 27, and brother Christopher Perez, 22, are each charged with first degree murder.

You mean like the coal plants...

...Dalton McGuinty keeps promising to shut down?

• NATURE - Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 • One of the world’s top climate scientists has calculated that emissions from Alberta’s oil sands are unlikely to make a big difference to global warming and that the real threat to the planet comes from burning coal.

“The conventional and unconventional oil is not the problem with global warming,” Dr. Weaver said. “The problem is coal and unconventional natural gas.” The paper concludes that burning all the globe’s vast coal deposits would create a 15-degree increase in temperature.

Burning all the oil in the world would only raise temperatures by less than one degree, the paper concludes.

Bright lights, big city

Detectives busily rounding up farmers, deer hunters & skeet shooters as we speak...

"A man was rushed to hospital after he was shot in the arm in Etobicoke Sunday afternoon. Police say the shooting took place around 4 p.m. on Tandridge Crescent near Islington Avenue and Elmhurst Drive."

"Police haven't released any information about a possible suspect and say it's too early to tell whether the shooting is related to a similar incident that took place in the same townhouse complex."

In other local news...

"A suspect was shot near Lansdowne Avenue and Dupont Street after officers were called to the area for reports of a person with a knife, police said Monday."

Happy "Family Day" Toronto.

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UPDATE: Another dead dumbass...

In Monday's incident, Josh Pimentel said, his wife watched a plainclothes police officer shoot a knife-wielding man who was wearing a mask. Pimentel said he wasn't home at the time, but his wife called him in a panic because a knife-wielding man was in their backyard.

Police have offered little information about the incident, but said officers were in a foot pursuit with at least two males, including one who may have been armed with a gun.

Hey... must've been some big score to risk your life, right?

It's not known why police were chasing the suspects, but people who live in the area told CP24 the pursuit may have originated from a robbery at a nearby church.

Yup... sheer criminal genius.

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UPDATE2: Miscreant identified

"A man shot to death during an alleged showdown with Toronto Police was identified Wednesday as 48-year-old Frank Anthony Berry."

Well, of course they did...

...it's British Columbia.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Asinine nannystatism. Where the alcholics go to live in sunshine and the fog of free drinks."

And...

"So now that B.C. has determined that penalties for alcohol consumption don't work, are they going to get rid of the 'sin tax' associated with it?"

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MORE WEST COAST STORY:

"For the next two years, the recipients will report to a heavily secured safe injection site in Vancouver's downtown Eastside three times a day, seven days a week. Once there, they will be given their physician-approved fix and allowed to inject themselves under the supervision of a nurse."

Junkie see, junkie do

I'm thinkin' Oprah and Diane Sawyer had better start hustlin' if they wanna get that crucial... "How I turned my life around" interview...
Before it's too late.

Once again, compassionate, intellectual...

...left manages to ignore Jack Layton's message of love & respect...And look who decided to pile on...

Most MPs kept their distances from the Twitter attack but Liberal MP Justin Trudeau quickly embraced it and made a point of republishing the account name of the anonymous feed for his more than 110,000 followers.

Later Wednesday afternoon Mr. Trudeau followed up with a plainly sarcastic message that once again rebroadcast the anti-Toews Twitter account to his readers.

Hmmm... I wonder how the heir transparent would feel if people started publishing pictures of a certain partially-clad flower child partying with the bad boys of rock & roll?

Oh, right... that's different.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I would like to know the details of the Trudeau/Sinclair divorce - or perhaps the dissolving of Jack's first marriage. Here is mud in you eye - turnaround is fair game. Cheers."

Playing by big city rules

"It’s alleged that Mr. Mark was killed – shot once in the back of his head as he walked to work on Dec. 29, 2009, headphones on — purely and simply because he had broken the code of silence, co-operated with Toronto police and testified in court against Mr. Skeete and his brother in an earlier proceeding."

The Toronto Star aka X'pertz R'Us

Now, I'm no "addiction expert"... but would a hooker shortage be classified as a "social relations" emergency?

• Megan Ogilvie - Health Reporter • "The narcotic painkiller OxyContin will soon be pulled from pharmacy shelves across the country, and 'addiction experts' warn the move will spark a public health crisis in Northern Ontario where thousands of people in remote communities face involuntary and potentially dangerous withdrawal from the addictive drug."

Oh my gawd... some evil corporation is refusing to send a crucial medication to aboriginal communities?

Well... not exactly.

"Purdue Pharma, the company that manufacturers OxyContin, is set to replace the controversial medication with a new formulation of the drug called OxyNEO at the end of February. The new drug is formulated in such a way that it is more difficult to crush, and therefore less likely to be abused through injecting or snorting."

So, experts notwithstanding... what Purdue Pharma is actually gonna do is make it harder for people to abuse oxycontin to get high. If you merely ingest the medication as prescribed... the world will surely keep on turning.

That still leaves the question though, of white corporate North America making scurrilous... indeed racist... inferences about addiction in our aborigin... wait a minute...

"Among the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, or NAN, which represents 49 First Nation communities in Northern Ontario, at least half of residents are addicted to OxyContin, said Grand Chief Stan Beardy."

Uh, Stan... are you sure? I mean, if I said something like that, I'd have Peter Mansbridge poundin' on my front door demanding an explanation.

"'In some communities, it’s as high as 70 to 80 per cent of people addicted to OxyContin, including kids as young as 9 years old to people as old 65,' Beardy said."

And there's a problem with, what... trying to remedy that situation?

Thank goodness for the Toronto Star and their never-ending grab bag of experts.

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UPDATE: CBC Radio piles on

Ditzy talkin' head (who refers to the new non-crushable pill as Oxy-Neon) interviews a Deputy Grand Chief who claims that addicts in the community will be suffering withdrawal en-mass.

Apparently these folks will all choose to quit cold-turkey rather than simply swallow the new pills.

Dumb bunny interviewer characterises this situation as a "failure of Canadian healthcare."

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LAST WORD: A soft, fuzzy-bunny world

More special rights for special people. It ain't just the MSM... the federal bureaucracy buys in.

I miss the meritocracy.

Uh... transparency is for "little people"...

...or what the legal system refers to as "consciousness of guilt."

Compassionate, intellectual future...

...is closer than you think...

"The newspaper reported that the four-year-old girl brought a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, potato chips and apple juice in her packed lunch from home. That meal didn’t meet with approval from the government agent who was on site inspecting kids’ lunches that day."

Government intervention in our children's lives? That sounds so familiar...

"No wonder little Emma doesn’t know her times tables. She’s way too busy learning how her Western position of privilege entrenches gender relations. Or something like that."

The NEW New Democratic Party

...making it up as they go...

Rathika Sitsabaiesan, at 31 the youngest MP in the Toronto area and the first MP of Tamil heritage, was elected last year to represent Scarborough-Rouge River. She won the seat previously held by Liberal Derek Lee quite handily (by 5,000 votes).

Now I'm guessing there's nothing a newly minted Member of Parliament wants more, than to really shine on their first taxpayer-subsidised international junket. Rathika was likely pumped to stand up and do Canada proud.

Which makes me wonder how she could screw up a fact most Canadian primary school kids could recite in their sleep.

Of Tamils living in Canada, she said: “When united in Canada, we’re about 300,000 strong. But Canadians united in Canada, we’re a huge force to be reckoned with — almost nine million, if I remember the number exactly.

“That’s nine million Canadians standing together to fight for human rights.”

Except, of course, that it isn't.

In fact, that's not even in the ballpark.

Someone in the audience interjected and said Canada’s population was 33 million. Sitsabaiesan seemed a bit flustered, but recovered quickly: “You know what I was thinking of … I was thinking of the people that came out and voted in the last election.”

Sorry, ma’am, you’re 4.8 million out. According to Elections Canada, 14,823,408 Canadians voted in the federal election that gave Sitsabaiesan her seat in Parliament.

In fairness, Ms, Sitsabaiesan belongs to a party whose most infamous shot-caller apparently couldn't tell a government-licensed medical clinic from a seedy Chinatown bordello.

Still... it's something to ponder the next time some dumbstick tries to tell you..."we don't pay these outrageous salaries & pensions, we won't get the best qualified candidates."

Hey... at least she actually lives in her riding... which is more than you can say about some of her NDP colleagues.

Iran, yet again, scampers up on EU porch...

...yells grade school threats through open window... and runs away...

Iran’s Mehr News Agency said that the ambassadors of six European nations had been summoned by the foreign ministry to warn they must extend their long term oil contracts or face having imports cutoff.

Earlier, Iran’s English language Press TV had said Tehran has stopped exporting oil to France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Netherlands and Spain, a report later denied by Iran’s Oil Ministry.

Ah, yes... we've seen this sort of wily Iranian tactic before... better known as "Operation Kick Yourself in the Balls"...

"Unperturbed European officials said they were looking for other suppliers anyway, mainly Saudi Arabia, which has promised to make up any shortfall in the market from curbed exports from Iran."

Hmmm... now that President McDreamy has nixed the Keystone pipeline... doesn't Canada have a little extra dino-juice?

Carry on, Ahmadinejad.

I dunno... maybe all those Occubots...

...have some sort of magical immunity...

"A 400-milligram vial of Avastin — the size that was counterfeited — costs $2,400, according to the Genentech spokeswoman."

Anyway, enough about boring ol' cancer... let's get back to fighting the oppressors...

"Occupy Wall Street supporter Russell Simmons was quick to make amends after he and a brunette model briefly occupied a bathroom stall together at a glamorous Fashion Week party."

"The vegan Def Jam founder has been sober for years, so we can only assume the bathroom break was to get to know the model better."

Hey... somebody's gotta do it.

Playing by McSlippery rules

Don't blame me... I didn't vote for him...

The subdivision– festooned with warrior flags, still occupied by militants, featuring a burnt-out tractor trailer and hydro tower barricade– sits undeveloped and untouchable, as do nearby yet-be-wired hydro towers, as a reminder of mistakes made and perpetuated.

It has been six years of lost economic opportunity across Haldimand, Brantford, and Brant as businesses, homeowners and investments continue to be scared away by threat of confrontation and violence.