Creation Of New Govt. Department L.A.R.K.

Created to meet the needs of concerned citizens especially: those who want Canada to become a haven for cowardly deserters, those who support people like the Kadhrs, those who find it easier to attack the US from the safety of Canada, etc.

Dear Concerned Citizen,

My mum sent me this.

A lady Canadian Liberal wrote a lot of letters to the government,
complaining about the treatment of a captive insurgents (terrorists) being
held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She received
back the following reply:


National Defence Headquarters
MGen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON
K1A 0K2
Canada

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of
treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces
who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are
currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National
Correctional System facilities.

Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were
heard loud and clear here in Ottawa . You will be pleased to learn, thanks
to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department
here at the Department of National Defense, to be called 'Liberals Accept
Responsibility for Killers' program, or L.A.R.K. for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to
divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care. Your personal
detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily
armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin
Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the
standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint. It will
likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will
conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed
are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter.

Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your
sensitivity to what you described as his 'attitudinal problem' will help him
overcome these character flaws. Perhaps you are correct in describing these
problems as mere cultural differences. We understand that you plan to offer
counseling and home schooling.

Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and
can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail
clippers. We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at
your next yoga group. He is also expert at making a wide variety of
explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep
those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.

Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually)
since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a
particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent
tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he
will recommend as more appropriate attire. I'm sure you will come to enjoy
the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all
part of 'respecting his culture and religious beliefs' as described in your
letter.

Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you
keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow
man. You take good care of Ahmed and remember, we'll be watching.Good luck
and God bless you.

Cordially,
Gordon O'Connor
Minister of National Defense

Why Not? They Have Awards For Everything These Days

Hey, Stella! ... Stella! ... Stella!

By PETER WORTHINGTON -- Sun Media

Ever heard of the Stella Awards?

No? Pity, because better than most things they give an idea of the insanity that increasingly has the legal system in its grip.

The Stella Awards were started in 1992 on behalf of ridiculous lawsuits.

They've sort of been taken over by Randy Cassingham whose 2005 book, The True Stella Awards, separates genuine cases from fabricated ones -- sometimes difficult to figure out -- the courts and juries being what they are.

The awards are named after Stella Liebeck who spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on her lap while in a car driven by her grandson in New Mexico and suffered third-degree burns. She sued, and the jury awarded her $2.9 million, which the judge reduced to $640,000, because she was found to be 20% responsible for her injuries.

Stella died in 2004 at age 91, but her memory lives on in the Stella Awards.

As a point of interest, in the court case McDonald's testified that coffee should be brewed at between 195 to 205 degrees Fahrenheit, and the coffee maintained at around 180 degrees.

Apparently over a 10-year span, some 700 people were scalded in varying degrees by McDonald's coffee.

However, in that same period, some 23,999,999 people drank their coffee without injury.

Anyway, Stella has since become something of an American icon -- a symbol of the American tort system gone awry. Cassingham has a website: stellaawards.com.

Summaries of cases make charming reading -- even those that are bogus. Here are several -- see if you can figure out the real ones from the make-believe:

1. Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $780,000 after breaking her ankle tripping over a youngster in a furniture store. The store's argument -- that the kid was her own out-of-control son -- was rejected

2. When shopping at a mall, Marcy Meckler was "attacked" by a squirrel. In trying to escape, Meckler fell and suffered severe injuries. She sued the mall for $50,000 for their "failure to warn" that squirrels lived in the area.

3. When Howard Grazinski purchased his new motorhome and entered the freeway to drive it home, he set the cruise control at 70 miles an hour and left the driver's seat to make a cup of coffee in the back. The vehicle crashed and overturned. Grazinski was awarded $1,750,000 on grounds that the handbook should have warned drivers not to leave the seat.

4. Shawn Perkins sued after being hit by lightning in a parking lot. He felt the parking lot management should have warned people not to be outside during a thunderstorm.

5. Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles won $74,000 in medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with his Honda, having failed to notice that Truman was trying to steal a hubcap from the Honda at the time.

6. Wanda Hudson , 44, of Mobile, Ala., sued for $10 million when she was searching in her storage locker for some papers and the store yard manager noticed the door ajar and locked it. The formerly plump 150-pound woman was found 63 days later, and weighed 83 pounds. The jury was not told she had mental problems and awarded her $100,000.

7. A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson $113,500 After she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tail bone -- a soft drink she'd hurled at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier in an argument.

8. When the four-year-old son of Ron and Kristie Simmons was killed in a lawnmower accident at a daycare facility, the parents sued the manufacturer of the 16-year-old lawnmower because it didn't have a safety device -- which hadn't been invented when the lawnmower was manufactured.

And so it goes.

For those interested the odd numbers are bogus cases, the even numbers real.

Posted on 31 July 2008 by Jack

Thank Gawd For Small Blessings......

In Toronto we don't have to worry about "brainstorming," with the operative being brain, occurring at Toronto Silly Hall.

Bye bye brainstorming

Jul 27th, 2008 by Backseat Blogger

I just came across this the other day.

I just have to shake my head. The inmates are clearly in charge of the asylum.

Council bans brainstorming

Brainstorming has undoubtedly generated some bolts of brilliance and flashes of inspiration over the years.

But in genteel Tunbridge Wells, the council decided it might lead to the traditionally Disgusted residents of the town becoming Offended as well.

So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as ‘thought showers’.

Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks. And although since the 1940s it has meant a meeting to produce new ideas, councillors are concerned it may prove offensive to epileptics.

The Act Itself Doesn't Worry Me

But the fact that the people who surround Obama are naive/STUPID enough to believe no one would notice. Is this the quality of people you want advicing the President of the United States. But on the other hand it illustrates what Harper had to put up with and he seemed to handle it pretty well.

My latest in FrontPage: "Obama's Surge Purge"

Barack Obama styles himself the candidate of “change” and “hope”. So when his website “changed” to erase his well-known opposition to the Iraq War surge, maybe the Senator “hoped” no one would notice.

In this day and age, that’s a foolish, not to mention cynical, conceit, especially coming from the young, self-proclaimed “progressive” Democrat. And it backfired. Even the Los Angeles Times picked up the small but telling story after it first broke in the blogosphere.

“This last weekend,” the Wake Up Americans blog reported on July 15, “Barack Obama's official website was ‘purged’ of his longstanding criticisms of the troop surge...”

That “surge purge” came shortly before the candidate’s belated “fact finding” visit to Iraq, his first trip in two years to the nation whose impending doom he’d so confidently and frequently predicted.

Obama aide Wendy Morigi insisted that the web site deletions were simply part of “normal activity to update the site as events and situations change.”

But what about updating one’s views on the most important foreign policy issue of the times, “as events and situations change”? Apparently, the presumptive Democratic nominee for President doesn’t consider that a priority. Obama’s denunciations of the Iraq War and the surge strategy persist, even after his trip to Iraq – a trip that would have been impossible had the surge been a failure; the very leaders he shook hands with in Baghdad would have been killed, jailed or exiled under Saddam Hussein...

(Read the whole thing here, and add your comments)

Save the neglected Obama school in Kenya!

By Michelle Malkin • July 31, 2008 05:26 AM

Conservative bloggers aren’t waiting for The One Who Is The Change He Seeks. No, they’re doing it for themselves.

Doing what, you ask?

Doing the job Barack Obama wasn’t willing to do: Helping out a little school in Kenya that bears Obama’s name and which he promised to assist.

Shocker: It was an empty promise. The school remains in dire need of help, as It’s Vintage, Duh pointed out. Via the Evening Standard last week:

This Should Be A No Brainer For McGinty

Do we need legislation to curb the use of electronic devices in cars?
Yes
	341	83%
No
	65	15%
Don't know
	3	0%

Not A Cause Celebre In My Neighborhood

Bloggers in a dangerous time

Joshua Errett

In addition to having his mug shot plastered on national daily front pages, Barenaked Lady Steven Page has become something of a fixation on the Internet lately. Or more accurately, a few bloggers

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Is There Anything That Might Not Be Offensive To Someone?

Mr T's Snickers ad 'offensive to gays'
A commercial for a chocolate bar featuring The A Team star Mr T has been pulled over concerns it could cause offence to homosexuals

Making Parents Responsible For The Sins Of Their Children

It might not be "fair" but parents and the community need to start cleaning up the garbage in their neighborhoods.

Bad public tenants facing
bum's rush

Private member's bill would make it easier to evict thugs

Updated: 83 minutes ago

Kicking trouble-making tenants out of public housing could get a lot easier if the province embraces landmark private member's legislation coming this fall, but whether Toronto Community Housing will embrace the measure isn't clear.

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Ban the users.......

Mayor's gun-ban crusade endorsed

Full Story

2.4% support doesn't seem to be a ground swell......

60,000 sign Miller's online anti-gun petition More than 60,000 people have signed Toronto Mayor David Miller's online petition calling for a national handgun ban.

Ban Stats NOT Guns

Stats are a crime
The real numbers on Canada's crime rate tell a shocking story
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

Today let's take a break from the BS we're being fed about global warming to examine the BS we're being fed about crime statistics.

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Want Advice On Fiscal Management?

Would you go to someone who can't seem to manage his personal finances?

Dion has a debt dilemma
By GERRY NICHOLLS

Liberal leader Stephane Dion wants to fight the next federal election on the environment. And for good reason.

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Not Letting Up On Toronto Silly Hall

Give property owners recall legislation and they would be more likely to give mayor more "power."

More power than he needs Mayor Miller says he needs to be able to hire his own city manager. Problem is, he just did

By SUE-ANN LEVY

Please try to follow the latest act of twisted logic from Socialist Silly Hall as I'm certainly having trouble doing so.

For more than six months now Mayor David Miller has been yapping incessantly about his quest for new "strong mayor powers" to hire, fire and direct the city manager, and to allow his powerful executive committee (of like-minded socialist soldiers) to meet cabinet-style behind closed doors.

He's even stated publicly, on more than one occasion, his intentions to ask Premier Dalton McGuinty to amend the City of Toronto Act to grant him these powers.

Yet just three days ago, His Blondness, without skipping a beat, announced his intention to do what he's said he cannot do without provincial approval -- appoint (i.e., hire) a new city manager -- current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Joe Pennachetti -- to replace Shirley Hoy when she leaves the city Oct. 6.

When asked why the city is not going through a recruitment process for the $311,000 job -- as they should under council procedural rules -- the mayor contended Pennachetti is "uniquely qualified to lead the city" and to ensure continuity.

"The work to implement my mandate must continue," Miller said. "Joe Pennachetti is certainly the right candidate to implement my mandate."

(My, my, my ... what's all this talk of me, me, me? Methinks King David grows ever more arrogant and hungry for power by the day.)

My criticism is in no way aimed at Pennachetti.

I believe he's a hardworking, no-nonsense and able administrator who is "uniquely qualified."

He particularly earned my respect last June when he calmly took the heat from residents who attended the four "consultation" sessions on the new City of Toronto Act taxes -- while the mayor and his cowardly minions chose not to show their faces.

Nevertheless, without a proper recruitment process, we'll never know whether there are other candidates as "uniquely qualified" who could bring a fresh perspective to a steadily sinking city.

"It's a lost opportunity to see who's out there that could infuse new blood, bring new ideas," notes Coun. Mike Del Grande.

That said, given the mayor's decision of earlier this week, I'm not sure what additional powers he seeks that he doesn't already have, without being called to account.

ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY

Oops, I should not have used the word "power", even though Miller has on many occasions in recent months. After all, the mayor told us earlier this week that he has "never" sought power.

"This is not about David Miller," he said. "This is about accountability, it's about building prosperity in Toronto, it's about making the city liveable, it's about bringing opportunity to every neighbourhood."

(Insert laugh track here.)

But seriously, no one is really duped by Miller's apparently ever-changing story.

While he said Pennachetti's appointment depends on the approval of his handpicked executive committee in September, we know that's a foregone conclusion.

Miller has also backed into a corner councillors who might quite legitimately question the hiring process, or rather, the complete lack of one.

After all, they'll have to work with the city manager when all is said and done.

Whether the mayor has the powers he seeks, or not -- I'd argue that he already does -- he intends to do what he darn well pleases, knowing he has bullied enough councillors and six-figure bureaucrats into seeing the world his way.

And I'm guessing his executive committee already effectively meets in secret to receive its marching orders. After all, they forever seem to be in lockstep, whenever it comes to commenting or voting on any major issue of importance to Miller.

CALL FOR REVIEW

Coun. Michael Thompson, who's spearheaded a group of nine councillors asking that the City of Toronto Act be reviewed, said the mayor "cherrypicks" what powers he wants to act on while claiming he doesn't have others so he can't be held accountable.

"As I look at it now, all that he is asking for (in the way of powers), he already has," said Thomspon. "We now have proof he can and should be held accountable."

Coun. Karen Stintz agrees this week's decision proves the mayor has already taken it "upon himself" to implement a strong mayor system.

"Councillors have been completely left out of the entire discussion," she said.

Stintz added this is typical of Miller's style. "The mayor just wants what he wants and he goes out and does it," she said. "The discussion of whether the mayor should have more powers is moot."

Let's Debate The Future Of The Country Not A New Tax Grab

The gauntlet has been thrown down by Harper and it will be interesting to see how long it will take Dion to step up to the line.......

Harper challenges Dion to act on election threats

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | 9:26 PM ET Comments214Recommend137

CBC News

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion should "fish or cut bait" on a fall election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a speech delivered to Conservative party members in Quebec on Wednesday evening.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses supporters in rural Quebec following the first day of the Conservative caucus meeting in Lévis, Que. (CBC)

Harper said his opponent should stop delaying the current work of government with futile election threats unless he is prepared to force a vote, which Dion has recently hinted at.

"Either let the current Parliament work and let us get on with our mandate, or the voters themselves will decide," Harper said to about 1,500 people at the Saint-Agapit arena, southwest of Quebec City.

Some observers have suggested that following this spring's whirl of election rhetoric and with the release of the Liberals' Green Shift environmental plan in June, Dion is preparing to go to the polls this autumn.

Last week, the Liberal leader said Canadians seemed readier than ever for a vote.

But Harper, speaking in the midst of a Tory summer caucus meeting in Lévis, Que., said he and the Conservative party are ready for anything Dion wants to throw their way.

"Friends, I see Mr. Dion is challenging me to debate his carbon tax," Harper said in French, referring to the Liberal plan to impose a tax on emissions in order to reduce the use of fossil fuels by Canadian industries and homeowners.

"If Mr. Dion wants a real debate — not just among politicians but a debate open to everybody — all he has to do is follow through on his latest threat to force an election."

The prime minister pledged that as long as he is in power, Canadians will not be subjected to any new taxes.

True nationalists 'want to build': PM

Harper also took the opportunity to woo Québécois voters in their native language, praising their culture and distinction as a "nation within a united Canada."

"Real nationalists are proud of their region and love Quebec without wanting to break up the Canadian federation," the prime minister said in French to giant applause.

"True nationalists don't want to tear down, they want to build."

Harper appeared to be trying to build on gains the Conservatives made in Quebec in the 2006 election, promoting his party as the third way or an alternative to "hard-line sovereignists and hard-line centralizers," according to prepared notes for his speech.

Harper also addressed the economy, saying Canada's economic fundamentals remain strong despite global uncertainty and Quebec's unemployment rate is at its lowest in more than three decades.

Nonetheless, he warned that no country is immune to what is happening in the United States and the coming years will require difficult decisions and aggressive actions.

Liberals Don't Lie........

......they just ignore the facts. My question is where does the $$$$ that Ottawa collects go.

Liberal Lies Concerning The So-called “Budget Deficit”

According to recent reports, the Harper government experienced a $500 million budget deficit for the first two months of Fiscal Year 2008-2009. And Liberal luminaries like Ralph Goodale and Garth Turner are setting their hair on fire, claiming that the "deficit" is due in part to tax cuts and that Canada is heading for a deficit. But sadly, they are not telling the public the truth, because they know better. [...more]

Not Only In Denmark You Say? Pity!

For Those Who Missed It

I stand and walk tall today on learning that a Canadian can take credit for the recent New Yorker magazine cover on Obama......political satire at it's finest.

Satire’s not dead, it’s just sleeping

On the Canadian-born illustrator behind the recent New Yorker cartoon controversy and toothless satire

Brian Bethune | Jul 28, 2008 | 11:56 am EST

Barry Blitt has been keeping a low profile lately, and it’s hard to blame him. The last time the Canadian-born illustrator stuck his neck out—with his now notorious July 21 New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama—the lineup to chop off his head stretched for miles. And that was just his (former) friends. Blitt’s illustration was a note-perfect capture of every paranoid anti-Obama conspiracy theory going: now president—the scene is set in the White House’s Oval Office—Barack, dressed in traditional Islamic garb, is “terrorist” fist-pumping wife Michelle, who is sporting a Black Panther afro to go with her camouflage outfit and AK-47; meanwhile, an American flag burns in the fireplace and a portrait of Osama bin Laden beams benignly down.

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Cartooning And Islam Don't Mix

Should cartoonists get danger pay? Maybe it's time. Canada's own Barry Blitt has gone to ground after his infamous, satirical New Yorker cover depicting the Obamas as gun-toting Islamic militants. Obama fans hated it. MORE... First, They Came For Jyllands-Posten There's something altogether too "informative" about this Margaret Wente column; Fortunately [the creator of the Obama cartoon cover for the New Yorker] works in the United States, where the worst they can do is denounce you. Here in Canada, they can take you to a human rights commission. That's what happened in April when Halifax's Chronicle-Herald ran a political cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon. It shows a burka-clad figure identified as Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, a woman who demanded a large amount of compensation after her husband was arrested in an anti-terrorism raid and later released. She holds a sign that says, "I want millions," and her speech bubble says, " I can put it towards my husband's next training camp." Outraged, a local Muslim group complained to the human rights commission, and, for good measure, called the police. [...] But it's Europe where cartooning and Islam really don't mix. In the Netherlands, eight police officers showed up recently to arrest an obscure cartoonist for sketching offensive drawings of Muslims that appeared mainly on his own website. He spent two nights in jail, and Dutch authorities are deciding whether to charge him with inciting racist hatred. Wente shouldn't have to expend column inches to fill in the background on these cases - they should have been reported on the front pages of every paper in the country and led every national newscast at the time they happened. That's what a responsible press would have done in the face of a force that threatens a fundamental right - but these aren't responsible times in the media industry. The Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group of 57 Muslim nations, has declared that Islamophobia is a menace and that any such defamation of religion should be criminalized and prosecuted vigorously. The OIC, which has growing clout at the United Nations, wants the UN to enact international "anti-defamation" rules that would forbid blasphemy. Islamic members of the UN's Human Rights Council have succeeded in changing the mandate of the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of expression. In addition to investigating cases of censorship and violations of free speech, this person will now "report on instances where the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination." One can only hope that the when the times comes that the crocodile comes for them, the bite is neither swift, nor painless. Posted by Kate at 10:41 AM

Cyclists Have Rights BUT....

.....they need to take responsibility for those that don't abide by the rules, both the legal and common sense ones-
- riding on the sidewalk
- ignoring stop signs
- making illegal left/right hand turns
- not obeying one way street signs

- and I am sure more can be added to the list. Also every bike should be registered, not necessarily licensed, to eliminate the current debacle where valuable police resources are being spent on finding the owners of thousands of stolen bikes.

Beware! Bikes barrelling through tunnel TheStar.com - Fixer - Beware! Bikes barrelling through tunnel

July 29, 2008

Leslie Ferenc
Staff Reporter

The Fixer has heard plenty of legitimate beefs from cyclists about inconsiderate motorists – the ones that run them off the road or open doors without looking as they cycle by and then give them the finger, or those that lean on the horn and scare them out of their spandex shorts.

But this time, the shoe's on the other foot.

Caller Tim Leclair complained cyclists are a safety hazard for pedestrians walking through the King St. underpass just west of Sudbury St.

Signs posted at the entrances of the underpass advise cyclists to dismount. Some just ignore them. They race through the tunnel, whizzing past pedestrians "and ring their bells as they pass," he reported.

With barriers erected along the raised sidewalk next to the road and the walls of the underpass on the other side, it's hard to get out of the way of cyclists.

"My 10-year-old has almost been hit a couple of times and I've seen small dogs hit," Leclair said, adding that some cyclists got nasty when he rebuked them for not walking their bikes.

One would think cyclists would be more obliging considering the hassles that confront them on city roads.

Leclair suggested the city install gates at the entrances to the underpass, forcing cyclists to get off their duffs and follow the posted rules.

On a visit to the underpass, The Fixer saw one cyclist riding in the tunnel. At the time, there were no pedestrians at peril. The cyclist was blind to the sign posted as clear as the nose on his face.

STATUS: Steve Johnston, spokesperson for the works department, said he'd make some calls to let us know who handles such matters. We'll let you know the outcome as soon as we hear back.

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Workers Might Want To Take A 2ND Look At This Gift

GM offers cash, car vouchers to Oshawa workers

Civil Rights For Indians

It is a strange solitude when it is a major news story when people are asked for their views on how they are governed.

Native reality check
Reserve residents asked for their views on governance, services

By MINDELLE JACOBS

Sometimes it takes a near tragedy to induce people to rally together and root out the malignant forces ravaging a community.

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Stage Being Erected At Nathan Phillip's Square..

Tourist Magnet

....for the annual media circus led by Comrade Miller and Dullton McGinty telling us how others are to blame and what they are going to do about gang violence. The police are doing their job, even though they have to skirt around possible accusations of racial profiling, but the judicial system is a mess. McGinty needs reduce the wait times for trials and order his crowns to fight bail on gun offences and to impose mandatory consecutive sentences.

T.O. Feared Heading For New 'Summer Of The Gun'

Taxpayers Speak Out

City manager stepping down

Would You Buy A Used Car From This Trio

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Another one bites the dust?

Departing city manager Shirley Hoy denies it, but many believe City Hall is a toxic workplace

By SUE-ANN LEVY

After Mayor David Miller gushed unconvincingly about celebrating the achievements of his top departing bureaucrat yesterday, I asked if Shirley Hoy's imminent departure had anything to do with how "toxic" I'm told City Hall has become under his watch.

Full Column Top Toronto Bureaucrat's Departure Leads To Accusations Of Discord At City Hall

What Is On The Jewish Master's Mind

Apoplectic: Your Jewish Master's Definition

Apoplectic: The state of liberal loons when their precious court doesn't do their bidding.

The Supreme Court delivers the Second Amendment by a nose. At least we now have clear language about something that was obvious!
I know what the militia is, and I'm not a college professor!

My assessment last Fall:

Faith in the gods in robes?
The Supreme Court - Be Careful What You Wish For

Racial Preferences?

Is this the same as reverse discrimination without government handouts?

McCain finally endorses campaign to end racial preferences…or does he?

By Michelle Malkin • July 28, 2008 07:13 AM

Over the past year, I’ve blogged repeatedly about true maverick and civil rights pioneer Ward Connerly’s Super Tuesday for Equality campaign to end discriminatory government race/gender preferences across the country and urged you to get involved in the multi-state initiative movement (see here, here here, and here.)

As A Conservative I Am Not Enthralled With Our Performance

But phrases like "police" state make me question the author's motivation......

Taking Tories to Task

Pierre Lemieux has an excellent column detailing the disappointment that is the Conservative Party of Canada.

Key quote: "The Conservatives have brought their own building blocks to the construction of the Police State while dismantling nothing of what the Liberals had built before them."

Most Canadians Don't Give A Damn About Khadr

The next CBC “news” personality to go to Al Jazeera?

July 27th, 2008

Michael Coren receives an email from an unbalanced (read: biased… or don’t) “journalist” at the CBC who didn’t think Omar Khadr should be anything less than sainted.

Last week I wrote about the case of Omar Khadr and how I had more sympathy for the young medic who was killed when Khadr was captured than for the man currently in custody at Guantanamo Bay. I said that he should have faced a trial by now but that much of the supposed compassion thrown at him was motivated more by hatred of the United States than love for justice and truth.

Hundreds of e-mails arrived, of course. Most in my favour, but many against, which is all a healthy indication of democracy and free speech. One, however, was particularly interesting, in that it was sent by someone who is paid by our tax dollars to be objective and balanced.

“You were kidding, right? No matter. That material is about as funny as a good old-fashioned waterboarding joke. Disgraceful.” Richard Goddard goddardr@cbc.ca. o (+001) 416-205-5950 f (+001) 416-205-5731. Q on CBC Radio ONE. Canada Qs up: Afternoons 2 - 3:30, Evenings 10 - 11. Shipping Address: Office 2H109-D, Canadian Broadcasting Centre, 205 Wellington St. W., Toronto, Ont. M5V 3G7.”

Perhaps we’ll soon have another taxpayer funded, commie, terrorist fellator leaving us for the sunnier climes of the arid and evil Al Jazeera.

Posted by: Right Girl

But it appears that a transplanted American does........

rally for omar khadr today

I forgot to post a reminder yesterday. If you're in the Toronto area and believe, as I do, that Canadian citizen Omar Khadr should be brought back to Canada and treated as every other Canadian in the same circumstances would be treated, perhaps you will join the rally and march. Details here.

The Sad, Sad Truth For Our American Cousins....

What will the left do after Bush???

A great column from the UK journalist, Nick Cohen....

In January, Bush will be history, leaving liberals all alone in a frightening world. Little else will change. Radical Islam will still authorise murder without limit, Iran will still want the bomb and the autocracies of China and Russia will still be growing in wealth and confidence. All those who argued that the 'root cause' of the Bush administration lay behind the terror will find that the terror still flourishes when the root cause has retired.

Does Accountability Mean We Wiil Find Out...

.....where the billions of $$$$ from Ottawa is being spent.

Next step: more accountable and transparent native governments

With respect to aboriginal affairs, the Conservative government is now being reminded of the truism that one thing leads to another. The aboriginal industry sees the government's re-apology for Indian.. MORE...

Angry Canadian!!! Truly An Oxymoron

Canadians growing angrier, poll finds

Soaring gasoline prices among burning issues

Richard Foot, Canwest News Service

Published: Monday, July 28, 2008

Gilbert Murphy could take it no more. The price of diesel had topped $1.40 a litre, and he knew it would get more expensive a week later thanks to British Columbia's incoming carbon tax.

Murphy was mad. The 74-year-old horse rancher and former oil rig worker couldn't understand how gas prices could climb so high, so fast, in a country so rich in oil.

"But I figured I can't bitch about it if I don't do something," he says.

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A !0 Year Plan?

This is a prime example of how the denizens of Toronto Silly Hall operate.....spend money, study things to death, make promises they won't be around to keep, etc. etc. For Gawd's Sake...how long would it take to draft and implement legislation to get affordable units built along with other accommodate. In ten years their won't be any land to build on.....

How to get more low-cost housing

A promising approach to delivering more affordable housing is being pursued by social activists, planners and politicians alike.

It's called "inclusionary zoning," and it works by requiring developers of all major new residential projects to set aside a certain percentage of units for low-income people. In return, they are offered lower development charges, increased densities and other benefits.

Society would benefit by having shelter available for people who otherwise couldn't afford it. And developers would be benefit, too, if density limits were raised to allow them to build more units. That's the way it works in the United States, where inclusionary zoning has been successfully introduced in more than 400 municipal jurisdictions.

Experts say the system works best in large cities where a strong real estate market assures developers of hefty profits, thereby making them more amenable to set-asides for affordable housing. In that regard, Toronto would seem an ideal candidate for this approach.

Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, chair of the city's affordable housing committee, says he is close to finishing a 10-year plan to boost this category of housing, and inclusionary zoning is an essential part of that vision. "This is a must," he said in a recent interview.

Some developments, such as those planned for Toronto's waterfront, already include affordable housing targets. And the city has made ad hoc deals with individual developers in the past. It would be better, however, to have a rule treating all developments equally.

Industry opposition appears to be the main reason this reform hasn't yet been introduced in Canadian municipalities. Many developers understandably prefer a system that leaves them free to make a deal on affordable housing, or not – whichever proves more profitable. But a standardized approach would ensure that low-income people have more access to quality housing.

As Carol Goar reported on this page last week, the idea makes some urban activists uneasy because it would let Ottawa and Queen's Park off the hook. The two senior governments are under pressure to provide more funding for social housing.

But there is more than one way to increase the supply of affordable housing. When Mammoliti brings his plan forward this fall, it deserves serious consideration by city council.

I Voted YES!

Is Toronto a safe city?
Yes		26%
No		74%
Total Votes for this Question: 940 I don't know what the statistics are for the possibility of a person in Toronto being subjected to violence but I will bet you it is pretty small. The secret to protecting yourself is to stay out certain parts of the city....this has always been the case. I will admit that the number of places where violence is occurring has grown from the days when there were only one or two areas. I will not allow the low lifes to force me to develope a fortress mentality. Excercise common sense.

Take To The Barricades....Timmies Is Under Attack

Dear Tim Hortons: you could be a green giant

Why Canada’s biggest coffee company should double-double down on the environment

There Is No Refuge For Ol' Timers......

I can envision a refugee camp being opened at the Allan & Shepherd Downsview Parc where ol'timers can live out their life on meat pies, jelly donuts and Sanka.

The hipsters are coming!

Having tamed the wilds of Parkdale, The Junction and Trinity Bellwoods, the cool-kid colonization ... (2)

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Let's Give Credit To Left Wing Media

At least they, and most of their readers, readily admit their sole purpose in life is to make the life of motorists as miserable as possible.....something Comrade Miller and his supporters are unwilling to do.

Bring on the traffic, baby
Let’s hope Gardiner teardown jams up streets – it’s our only chance to drive cars from the core
Mike Smith

You might think that someone like Councillor Adam Vaughan, working to corner the 21st-century urbanist niche, would welcome the $300 mil plan to dismantle the Gardiner from the Don to Jarvis.

But when the executive committee approved an $11 million Environmental Assessment on July 7 – later approved by two-thirds of council on July 15 – he left the room grumbling. I caught his eye. “We’re building a road,” he quipped. “We’ll get to the city later.”

A competing pithy offering from Mayor David Miller lauded council for “not managing the past, but trying to build the future.” “We know the results of taking down the ramps to the Gardiner,” he said, referring to the uncovered portion of Lakeshore Boulevard south of Leslieville. “You build spectacular public spaces. You transform an area. And the impact on traffic is very minimal.”

And there’s the pitch: tell the downtown lefties you’re “removing a barrier to the waterfront,” reassure the suburbs that you’re protecting (car) traffic. But here’s the problem: only one statement can be true.

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More Than I Really Want To Know BUT.....

......for those who have a passion for living vicariously this might fill in some of the blanks in their Obama persona.

FOUND! Obama Brother: 'I'm very proud'...

Brother #2 found living in China, promoting cheap exports...

Racism IS Colour Blind

So it makes you wonder why it is always the "other guy" who is the racist and the champions of blacks are the ones riding to the rescue on the black charger, paid for by the multi-coloured taxpayer, to save the non-whites.

Racial bias starts close to home

Another NIMBY Enclave.....

.....and it is another of those neighborhoods where there will be no place for a low income family unless you and I subsidize co-operative and affordable housing. I will bet if you were to track the growth of homelessness/street beggars you might find signs it started with the whitewashing of Cabbagetown.

Dalhousie 'hood ripe for rebuilding

Christopher Hume
East of Yonge, south of Dundas, Dalhousie St. isn't the kind of place you go expecting to find a neighbourhood. But in fact, in this most unlikely...

Daily Dose Of Reality On Kyoto/Green Shit

Carbon credits' dirty secret
Sun, July 27, 2008

Energy companies and speculators make windfall profits while consumers are hit hard
At the bottom of the house of sand on which the Kyoto accord and world carbon trading markets are built, there's a leaking foundation.

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Mayor Trumpets Addition Of 20 Transitional Housing For Homeless

Public potties' potential problem A toilet with as many eyes fixed on it as possible might not seem a godsend to someone who urgently needs one, but that's just the type of advice being offered to Toronto from cities that have lived with the latest generation of automated public lavatories.

Lots of money for nothing
Sun, July 27, 2008

Panhandling flourishes despite council's $5-million plan to get beggars off the streets

In early May -- following his executive committee's approval of the feel-good $5-million panhandling plan -- I asked Mayor David Miller how many beggars he expects to get off the streets by September.

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Good Advice Will Fall On Deaf Ears

Wise words from Hazel

By BRYN WEESE

Toronto needs to stop looking back at its glory days of yesteryear to stop the hemorrhaging of city jobs to the burbs, says Mississauga's Hazel McCallion, who has served as mayor of her city since 1978.

Toronto needs to figure out -- much like the 905 area municipalities have done -- what its role will be in a rapidly changing GTA.

The city, she said, needs to better adapt to the changing makeup of the region as a whole and grow with it, instead of posting job losses year after year, many of which are going to the 905.

"Toronto needs to deal with that," she said.

And that new role, she added, might be very different from what Toronto has traditionally been, though it will almost certainly always be the country's financial capital.

"When Hong Kong lost all its manufacturing to China, they decided their role would be different," said the iconic 87-year-old mayor of Canada's sixth largest city with a population of 700,000. "I think Toronto needs to look at what they've lost, and decide what role they want to play in the GTA."

Toronto is home to 164,000 manufacturing jobs, which makes up 12% of the city's workforce. Manufacturing growth has been limited to the 905, where land and taxes are noticeably cheaper.

In 2005, when commercial tax rates were only half a percentage point higher in Toronto than they are now, a 250,000-square-foot office paid $800,000 less in property taxes in the 905 than in Toronto.

But whatever role in the GTA Toronto embraces, it must find it soon and do it well, McCallion added.

"I strongly believe that Toronto has to be strong because it is the heart of the GTA. It is not beneficial to the 905 to have Toronto weakened," she said.

Enough Said!

Should Prime Minister Stephen Harper intervene and bring Omar Khadr back to Canada?
Yes		13%
No		87%
Total Votes for this Question: 4214

We Know Who Dudley George Was.......

.....how many of us can name the peace officer murdered during the Oka standoff?

Kanesatake Mohawks put up burning blockade near Oka

Updated Sat. Jul. 26 2008 3:29 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Police in Quebec are investigating after a group of Kanesatake Mohawks set up a roadblock on a provincial highway, leaving at least two police cars damaged.

Quebec Provincial Police Sgt. Gregory Gomez Del Prado told CTV.ca that native protesters erected the barricade on Highway 344 near the town of Oka shortly after midnight. About 12 to 15 demonstrators were involved.

"They put some pieces of wood on the road and lit a fire," he said.

"We entered into contact with members of the (Mohawk) band council and those members had a discussion with the (protesters), and after a while they decided to leave."

Del Prado said demonstrators left the road block shortly before 10 a.m. ET. Police then called in the transportation office to remove the charred debris, much of it from trees that had been dragged into the middle of the road.

Del Prado said no one was injured, but at least two police cars were damaged. He did not have details about how the cars were damaged.

Police made no arrests, but Del Prado said authorities are still probing the incident and charges may be laid.

The Kanesatake Mohawk reserve has made national and international headlines for nearly two decades. In 1990, some members set up a blockade near Oka to stop the town from expanding a golf course onto a burial ground. A Quebec police officer was killed during a raid to end a tense standoff that ensued. The confrontation went on for 78 days, ending after Ottawa called in the military.

This past spring, a massive police raid at three different Quebec Mohawk reserves -- including the Kanesatake reserve -- netted $2.5 million in cash and a large firearms cache, including three grenade launchers.

Okay Dalton! Make Our Lives Better......

Batman Goes Green

Verily! A Saviour Has Come Upon Us

Borne Upon A Donkey
Verily, it is said - there is nothing that the O-Child can't do! The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow. When he was twelve years old
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I Have To Be Honest Sandy......

......while I am still a Harper supporter I must admit I am a little disappointed that Harper hasn't been more spectacular at kicking opposition butt.

Sandy: Response to Toronto Sun’s Michael Den Tandt

Toronto Sun journalist Michael Den Tandt must live in a different world than the rest of us. His column today is wishful thinking at best. He is actually suggesting that Prime Minister Harper has hit a snag and that snag is Liberal Leader Stephane Dion. [...more]

An Insight Into Dion's Green Shit Plan.....

Editorial: Dion’s green protectionism

Posted on 25 July 2008 by Jack

Stéphane Dion has officially let the protectionist cat fully out of the Green Shift bag.

From the day his ambitious plan for a federal carbon tax was announced, the potential effects on international trade have been perhaps the most important corollary remaining to be addressed in detail by the Liberal leader. If Canadians are presented with a higher price for goods and services that have been carbon-taxed at the producer level in Canada, it stands to reason that they will seek out imported alternatives, as will buyers of our exports. The hoped-for “revenue neutrality” of the plan won’t do anything to mitigate the damage to domestic industries, especially since most of the prospective revenue is to be reinvested in making our tax system more progressive. And meanwhile, if the replacement carbon-based energy comes from places that have less stringent environmental regulations than we did to begin with (a reasonable assumption for anyone who’s visited, say, Nigeria or Kazakhstan), the Green Shift will actually end up having a negative net effect on the planet’s greenhouse envelope.

In other words, the Green Shift is likely to be a farce unless it is accompanied by some form of protectionism that prevents the replacement of relatively carbon-clean Canadian goods by dirty foreign ones. And that is, in fact, Mr. Dion’s answer to the problem: He says he wants to levy new tariffs on certain targeted environmental offender countries — though he’s not saying which ones. (Elect me first, then you’ll find out what I’ll do.)
But apparently, Mr. Dion isn’t quite ready to don the mantle of out-and-out protectionist. Thus, the Liberal leader is gamely trying to spin his plan as a move to counter protectionism elsewhere, rather than as an abandonment of our own NAFTA, GATT and WTO principles. “The United States,” he said to a Kanata, Ont., audience on Wednesday, “is looking more and more at carbon pricing and carbon tariffs.” If we are willing to tax our own carbon output pre-emptively, Mr. Dion suggests, that will give us the moral high ground when the Americans finally jump on the Green Shift bandwagon, and allow us continued access to American markets.

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Undercover Black Man On Obama

Matching wits with the witless

Last weekend, I decided to kill an hour by trolling amongst the hardcore Hillary-loving Obama-haters at the notorious No Quarter blog.

The commenters over there are so deliriously unhinged... it’s always fun to rattle their cages. This particular thread got good and nutty. I’m proud of myself.

A Day With Obama

Next stop, Germany: Ich bin ein beginner!

July 24, 2008 09:10 AM by Michelle Malkin

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The Tour de Farce continues.

Crowd inflation: 200,000 or 20,000?

July 25, 2008 12:01 PM by Michelle Malkin

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Lies, damned lies, and Obamedia statistics.

Up Here They Are Known As Liberals But....

....the mantra is the same.

The only place Democrats want to drill

By Michelle Malkin • July 25, 2008 08:58 AM

Scroll down for updates…Senate GOP holds the line on energy…

Painting It Green Doesn't Make It Any Less Of A Tax

Misleading Liberal Party fundraising email

Friday, July 25, 2008 at 07:05 AM Comments: 10

I received an email this week from the Liberal Party. I am being hit up for a donation in support of Stephane Dion's carbon tax.

So far, so good.

But let's say I'm one of the majority of Canadians who doesn't know about Stephane Dion's carbon tax plan. The email helpfully offers to send me to the website for the plan where I can "learn more".

But instead, I am sent back to the donation page on the Liberal Party site, where I'm expected to cough up cash.

That's misleading. Even a bit spammy.

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Statistics And The Media Don't Committ Crimes....

.....people do. Left wing social engineers and social in-activists thrive on crime statistics and crime reporting because it gives them greater access to the $$$$ made available by guilt ridden left wing politicians at the provincial and municipal level. To prove me point read the Comments.

Lessons in crime and punishment
Kathy English Jul. 26, 2008
Of all the important and interesting information reported in the Star 's outstanding Crime & Punishment series, one fact jumps out at me and calls for deeper thought from this newspaper.

It appears they are not repressive enough.....

The politics of punishment
Julian Falconer Jul. 26, 2008
I've spent time behind bars – not as an inmate. Whether it's prison inquiries or criminal trial work, I've seen the "inside" on too many occasions. Jails are not country clubs. They are repressive, violent places from which no one emerges unscathed. But do ...

I Want An Election

If for no other reason than to kick the ass of the opposition and get rid of the liberal buffoons who haven't had the balls to bring down the government on a number of occassions.

Delusional Dion Proclaims: Canadians Pining for Election!

Let"s Cut Through All The CRAP.....

.....YOU DOES THE CRIME YOU DO THE TIME and preferably under the harshest conditions possible. And let's quit blaming poverty for the root cause of crime. The vast majority of people living under the same conditions DO NOT COMMIT CRIMES.

Time to rethink jail sentences

Jul. 26, 2008
Mandatory minimum sentences sound like a good idea, at least in theory. After all, it seems to make sense that automatic jail time for serious offences would deter would-be criminals, force overly lenient judges into line ...