...and it might make sense to seriously discuss Gelinas' proposed legislation.
Gélinas' anti-replacement worker bill defeated
Two demonstrations in support of Bill-45 were held in Sudbury and Toronto March 31 in support of Private Member's Bill-45 that would see replacement workers ...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Let's how Some Sympathy For Barack...
Stop Complaing Abour Gas Prices...
...in the middle east it is much, much higher and they have to use human litter bearers!
Pump prices have doubled under Obama...
The Majority Of Canadiansx Don't Know, And Probably Don't Care...
...about the differences and therefore there is little effort to prevent radicalization of Canadian Muslims by the radicals in the United States. In fact this seems to be occuring... Alex Wilner: Canada grows its own terrorists
Stephen Schwartz: Toronto, the anti-Islamist capital of North America
In general, the Canadian Muslim population is different from its American counterpart. Most Canadian Muslims emigrated to Canada from East Africa, India, Pakistan and other Commonwealth countries; and they did so earlier than the main influx of foreign-born Muslims to the United States. Most came to Canada prior to the onset of significant radicalization of South Asian Muslims in their countries of origin. Newcomers to Canada include many Ismaili and other Shia Muslims, whose intellectual diversity is well-known.
By contrast, numerous Arab, South Asian and Somali Muslims who arrived in the United States over the past two-and-a-half decades have brought with them a culture of grievance, especially against Israel and India but also against the United States itself, even though it has welcomed and assisted them. (These pathologies are, I am pleased to report, largely absent from the communities of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims that arrived in the United States during the recent Balkan wars.)
Dominance over American Islam by Saudi- and Pakistani-backed radical networks has rendered American Muslims confused and passive in the face of radicalism and mediocre in their religious development. This is generally not the case with Canadian Muslims. Read More »
Stephen Schwartz: Toronto, the anti-Islamist capital of North America
In general, the Canadian Muslim population is different from its American counterpart. Most Canadian Muslims emigrated to Canada from East Africa, India, Pakistan and other Commonwealth countries; and they did so earlier than the main influx of foreign-born Muslims to the United States. Most came to Canada prior to the onset of significant radicalization of South Asian Muslims in their countries of origin. Newcomers to Canada include many Ismaili and other Shia Muslims, whose intellectual diversity is well-known.
By contrast, numerous Arab, South Asian and Somali Muslims who arrived in the United States over the past two-and-a-half decades have brought with them a culture of grievance, especially against Israel and India but also against the United States itself, even though it has welcomed and assisted them. (These pathologies are, I am pleased to report, largely absent from the communities of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims that arrived in the United States during the recent Balkan wars.)
Dominance over American Islam by Saudi- and Pakistani-backed radical networks has rendered American Muslims confused and passive in the face of radicalism and mediocre in their religious development. This is generally not the case with Canadian Muslims. Read More »
Ford's Vision Given Credence By Queens Park..
Province yields to Mayor's tunnel vision
The city and province are set to announce a revamped transit plan to extend the Sheppard subway in both directions and tunnel an underground line along Eglinton Avenue that stretches from Black Creek Drive to Kennedy Road
...and it is obvious Mayor Ford doesn't believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water;
Rob Ford remakes the Makeover
The city and province are set to announce a revamped transit plan to extend the Sheppard subway in both directions and tunnel an underground line along Eglinton Avenue that stretches from Black Creek Drive to Kennedy Road
...and it is obvious Mayor Ford doesn't believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water;
Rob Ford remakes the Makeover
Much Ado About Nothing?
Saskatchewan reserve bans aboriginal version of play featuring corrupt chief
...but you have to wonder why it is only the Poundmaker chief and councilors who have a problem with the play. Is there a fox in the hen house on this reserve?
...but you have to wonder why it is only the Poundmaker chief and councilors who have a problem with the play. Is there a fox in the hen house on this reserve?
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Something To Remember In October...
Editorial: Ontario – Land of red ink
Posted on March 28, 2011 by Jack
From economic engine of confederation to fiscal basket case, Ontario has come a long way under the tenure of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government. It now is saddled with a $17,000 per-capita debt, and is spending 10 cents on the budget dollar on interest payments.
True, the Progressive Conservative administration of Ernie Eves left a pool of red ink to mop up. But since then, the Liberals just haven’t been able to stop spending. In the years since Mr. McGuinty took office in 2003, program expenditures have soared by 90.5%, well beyond the rate of inflation and population growth. The result: Ontario’s debt has reached 36% of GDP, and Standard and Poor has warned that the province’s credit rating is at risk.
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...you might also want to ask dulltoon about his promise of civil servant wage freezes; ie: how many people were frozen, how much money is being saved, etc.
Will The US Media NOW Highlight This Atrocity...
...many will not view this as an atrocity! I DO.
Were the knives used American military issue. If so, it's exactly what the American Left wants.
Two US-Trained Palestinian Officers Arrested in Bloody Slaughter of Jewish Family
Posted by jerry at 10:17 AM 0 comments
Labels: Jew hatred, murder, Palestinians
Palestinian Savages Slaughter a Jewish Family BlogWrath ...
Were the knives used American military issue. If so, it's exactly what the American Left wants.
Two US-Trained Palestinian Officers Arrested in Bloody Slaughter of Jewish Family
Posted by jerry at 10:17 AM 0 comments
Labels: Jew hatred, murder, Palestinians
Palestinian Savages Slaughter a Jewish Family BlogWrath ...
Gaza residents celebrate slaughter of Jewish family
What Right Do Students Have To Protest....
Oakwood students blindsided by Africentric school proposal
2011/03/27 18:11:52
Oakwood’s school council said it is a “disgrace” that parents, students and teachers were not consulted before the TDSB made the recommendation. (3)
Oakwood Collegiate proposed for Africentric high school
Metro - Oakwood students blindsided by Africentric school proposal
The Face Of North American Protesters...
Jessica Hume: Canadian protesters keep discrediting their causes (if any)
By Jessica Hume
Only three months in, and 2011 is already shaping up to be the Year of the Protester. From the Middle East to middle America, popular uprisings are championing causes both personal and political, from the fight against tyranny to the demand for a living wage. Some of these movements have proved more successful than others, but all have demonstrated a noble resolve in battling for their beliefs.
Alas, the same cannot be said about recent Canadian protests. Instead of demonstrating with dignity, our marchers behave more like angst-ridden teens, displaying little regard for property, the law, or even their own motivations. Read More »
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Is it Possible The Real Reason ...
...might be that he does'nt speak Chinese or one of the languages prevalent in Eastern Europe? Look at the clients shopping and BUYING in high end retail outlets.
After 21 years, door closes on Holt Renfrew’s popular doorman
2011/03/26 18:26:33
The chatty doorman at Holt Renfrew's ritzy flagship store in Yorkville is being let go after 21 years on the job. (30)
After 21 years, door closes on Holt Renfrew’s popular doorman
2011/03/26 18:26:33
The chatty doorman at Holt Renfrew's ritzy flagship store in Yorkville is being let go after 21 years on the job. (30)
This Should Garner Dressup Jack Some Votes...
...if he can entice people away from the comedy channel and the GAGS program.
Cirque du silly on the campaign trail
2011/03/26 18:23:09
An election campaign in Canada typically solemnly sets out to settle great questions — and so often turns into a gong show. (6)
Cirque du silly on the campaign trail
2011/03/26 18:23:09
Media In The West Have More Important Items On Their Plate...
...Japan, nuclear end of world, death of Liz, Junos, Hockey concussions, etc. etc. etc.
Paul Russell: More Israel news, please, but limit anti-nuclear and pro-Justin coverage
After two years of relative calm, a suitcase bombing in Jerusalem, rocket attacks from Gaza, and Israeli counter-attacks reminded the world that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still unresolved. A few readers accused the Western media of ignoring this issue.
“I have noticed that the global media no longer bothers to hide its lack of interest in Israel’s war on terror, focusing only on how many Arabs Israel kills in self-defence while publishing micro-sized articles on the murder of a sleeping [Jewish West Bank] family or a bomb placed [near] a public bus stop during rush hour,” wrote Sarah Samole, a resident of Ma’ale Adumim, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. “Could you imagine if the bomb blast occurred at a downtown NYC bus stop? But it’s just Israel, a country that has been so demonized by mainstream media — excluding the National Post, usually — that it has merited no right to defend itself, according to those who can’t even point it out on a map.”
A handful of other readers were upset by a headline on our front page on Thursday: “Bus blast heralds new cycle of violence.”
“There is no ‘cycle,’ merely deliberate Read More »
Paul Russell: More Israel news, please, but limit anti-nuclear and pro-Justin coverage
After two years of relative calm, a suitcase bombing in Jerusalem, rocket attacks from Gaza, and Israeli counter-attacks reminded the world that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still unresolved. A few readers accused the Western media of ignoring this issue.
“I have noticed that the global media no longer bothers to hide its lack of interest in Israel’s war on terror, focusing only on how many Arabs Israel kills in self-defence while publishing micro-sized articles on the murder of a sleeping [Jewish West Bank] family or a bomb placed [near] a public bus stop during rush hour,” wrote Sarah Samole, a resident of Ma’ale Adumim, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. “Could you imagine if the bomb blast occurred at a downtown NYC bus stop? But it’s just Israel, a country that has been so demonized by mainstream media — excluding the National Post, usually — that it has merited no right to defend itself, according to those who can’t even point it out on a map.”
A handful of other readers were upset by a headline on our front page on Thursday: “Bus blast heralds new cycle of violence.”
“There is no ‘cycle,’ merely deliberate Read More »
Iggy Is An Expert When It Comes To Recognizing CONTEMPT...
...and his tutors were Trudeau, Cretin and his party over the last couple of decades.
Rex Murphy: Liberals hope to sell a civics lesson as a campaign theme
Why are we having an election? According to the Liberals, it’s because Stephen Harper is choking Canadian democracy, and, most of all, because he treats Parliament with contempt. That’s ripe from the Liberal party. When it enjoyed unrivalled electoral sway, as it seemingly did forever, it inscribed the A in Autocratic. It was led by Pierre Trudeau, who thought so much of Parliament that he described its elected members as “nobodies.”
When last in power, the Liberal party went on for a full year about fixing the parliamentary “democratic deficit” without of course actually doing anything about it. Any party with Jean Chrétien at its helm for 10 years knows more than a little about playing roughhouse with the House of Commons, and has grown totally comfortable with the art of neutering its own backbench. It’s because of this history, as much as anything else, that the Liberals’ claim that the election is about restoring democracy has no force behind it. Read More »
Rex Murphy: Liberals hope to sell a civics lesson as a campaign theme
Why are we having an election? According to the Liberals, it’s because Stephen Harper is choking Canadian democracy, and, most of all, because he treats Parliament with contempt. That’s ripe from the Liberal party. When it enjoyed unrivalled electoral sway, as it seemingly did forever, it inscribed the A in Autocratic. It was led by Pierre Trudeau, who thought so much of Parliament that he described its elected members as “nobodies.”
When last in power, the Liberal party went on for a full year about fixing the parliamentary “democratic deficit” without of course actually doing anything about it. Any party with Jean Chrétien at its helm for 10 years knows more than a little about playing roughhouse with the House of Commons, and has grown totally comfortable with the art of neutering its own backbench. It’s because of this history, as much as anything else, that the Liberals’ claim that the election is about restoring democracy has no force behind it. Read More »
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Making It A Skirmish If YOU Don't Have A Life...
And it always has been. An age old skirmish between we, mostly law abiding Torontonians, trolling our fair town’s congested thoroughfares looking for parking spots, and the men and women in their little knock-off police cars with their booklets full of yellow tickets that they deposit on our windshields for committing a parking offence.
Among the most heinous of crimes is parking your vehicle next to a fire hydrant. It is a $100 no-no, a stiff slap on the steering wheel, and one that ultimately altered my worldview forever. Read More »
Nuts Don't Fall Far From The Tree...
Barbara Kay: Trudeau the multiculturalist walks into trap of his own making
An updated government information pamphlet for newcomers to Canada, “Discover Canada,” warns against such “barbaric” practices as honour killings, forced marriages and other immoral or criminal practices. Federal Liberal Immigration critic Justin Trudeau yesterday made it known that he is “uncomfortable” with the word “barbaric.” “You could say it’s absolutely unacceptable as a phrase,” says Trudeau, adding that the word could have the effect of making newcomers “defensive.”
Reaction from the blogosphere, as well as from Conservatives, to Trudeau’s reflexive political correctness was swift and uncompromising. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney responded that the language in Discover Canada is deliberate and accurate. “There’s nothing more brutal than killing a woman because of some perceived slight to family honour,” Mr. Kenney observed. Read More »
Friday, March 11, 2011
Where Were The Mainstream Media...Especially THE STAR?
TCHC: Looking beyond the spin
By Lindsey Reed
Fri Mar 11 2011
Losses on the stock market? Appliances from China? Splitting purchase orders? Holt Renfew chocolates? What was TCHC thinking?
By Lindsey Reed
Fri Mar 11 2011
Losses on the stock market? Appliances from China? Splitting purchase orders? Holt Renfew chocolates? What was TCHC thinking?
Do You Not Have To Be A Canadian?
Province ordered to explain why natives excluded from jury pools
2011/03/11 07:45:22
The Ontario Court of Appeal ordered a senior court administrator to testify about what’s being done to include people living on reserves and ensure juries reflect a cross-section of the community (4)
2011/03/11 07:45:22
The Ontario Court of Appeal ordered a senior court administrator to testify about what’s being done to include people living on reserves and ensure juries reflect a cross-section of the community (4)
EXACTLY!!!
I'M NOT AN AVID SPORTS PERSON SO COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN EXCTLY WHAT WAS WRONG WITH WHAT iSAW AS A BODY CHECK INT THE BOARDS...
Gary is taking it to extremes for effect...
Berry:Fans hold answer to NHL violence
When you’re dealing with someone who’s 6’9″, it’s not often you get to feel very high and mighty. But there’s no question that Zdeno Chara’s turnbuckling of Montreal Canadiens’ winger Max Pacioretty has left the Boston Bruins behemoth looking awfully small. When your best possible defence to very nearly breaking someone’s neck is that you didn’t really mean to, people are going to get on their high horses. As with any form of unimpeachable moralizing, though, those high horses are leaving a sizable trail of excrement behind them.
By far the largest pile belongs to the Quebec prosecutors who recommended a criminal investigation and the Montreal police that are following up on that suggestion. Either both have some die-hard Canadiens fans in uncomfortably powerful positions, or they’re both in desperate need of a cheap public relations boost, because there is no other reason to suggest why this is any of their business whatsoever. Read More »
Berry:Fans hold answer to NHL violence
When you’re dealing with someone who’s 6’9″, it’s not often you get to feel very high and mighty. But there’s no question that Zdeno Chara’s turnbuckling of Montreal Canadiens’ winger Max Pacioretty has left the Boston Bruins behemoth looking awfully small. When your best possible defence to very nearly breaking someone’s neck is that you didn’t really mean to, people are going to get on their high horses. As with any form of unimpeachable moralizing, though, those high horses are leaving a sizable trail of excrement behind them.
By far the largest pile belongs to the Quebec prosecutors who recommended a criminal investigation and the Montreal police that are following up on that suggestion. Either both have some die-hard Canadiens fans in uncomfortably powerful positions, or they’re both in desperate need of a cheap public relations boost, because there is no other reason to suggest why this is any of their business whatsoever. Read More »
Wise Move By Mayor...
Chris Selley on TCHC: Outrage comes too easily to Ford’s critics
Comment
In the least shocking news of the week, Case Ootes was officially “revealed” on Thursday as the interim managing director of Toronto Community Housing — a one-man board of directors, essentially, to replace the seven members who resigned last week in the wake of the Auditor-General’s scathing report, and the four holdouts fired by city council on Wednesday. The long-time city councillor, who retired last year only to wind up as Rob Ford’s Mr. Fix-It — he also headed up the Mayor’s transition team — isn’t taking what you’d call a conciliatory line, exactly. But compared to some of the Mayor’s pronouncements, he sounds downright Solomonic.
The big question: Will CEO Keiko Nakamura be fired? Mr. Ford’s preference is clear: He already asked for her resignation, and was rebuffed. Mr. Ootes, however, says he hasn’t made up his mind.
“I have to have a full understanding of what exactly the issues are surrounding the CEO, and I can’t do that at this point,” he says. “I will get a better feeling for that once I meet with staff and meet with her” — a process he hopes will begin Monday.
His power to terminate employees will, he says, “be used as necessary and very judiciously and with a great deal of thought.”
In a statement, TCHC said “we look forward to working together with the city-appointed managing director to implement all of the recommendations made by the Auditor General and to serve tenants.”
As for the widespread assumption that Mr. Ford intends to dramatically alter the landscape of social housing in Toronto, Mr. Ootes urges calm. “We need to leverage the moneys we have to the maximum extent possible to provide [social] housing to the greatest number possible. And that might require different [service delivery] options,” he says. But, he insists, “there shouldn’t be any worry about my feelings as to the need for social housing and the need for the city to support social housing.”
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday echoes that view. He says the much-discussed idea of “privatization” is something of a misnomer (though it must be said that Mr. Ford hardly eschews its use). “[Privatization in] its true form would be you’d sell off all the buildings, or you’d sell off the water system, and someone else would forever run that as their business and you’d take the money and go the opposite way,” he says. “That’s not what people are thinking here. We’re talking about perhaps outsourcing the property management. … If anything, we’d be attempting to have more resources available to make [tenants’] lives better.”
Some will cheer, others will scoff. That’s how it works nowadays in this ideologically riven town. Ultimately, the only way for Mr. Ford, Mr. Ootes and their allies to prove their intention not to “disrupt anybody’s life,” as Mr. Holyday puts it, is not to disrupt people’s lives. Whatever your political stripes, you might as well let them get on with it.
That’s what made the late night Kabuki city council meeting on Wednesday so bizarre.
At times, you’d have thought they were debating selling off every last TCHC building for pennies on the dollar, when in fact the outcome of the meeting was relatively banal, necessary and preordained: The board holdouts were going to be turfed. It could have happened Tuesday morning if progressive councillors had wanted it to, and we’d now be 36 hours closer to having a new board. (Council has until June 14 to install it.)
Indeed, much of the drama could have been avoided entirely if the four remaining board members — councillors Maria Augimeri and Raymond Cho, and two members elected by the tenants — had tendered their resignations like the others. They can all run again. The only thing they’ve really accomplished for their admittedly principled stand is to diminish their chances of winning.
That’s not to say they should have had to resign, or that they did anything wrong, or that Mr. Ford couldn’t have expressed his displeasure with the board and senior staff more tactfully. But the Mayor always had the votes to clear out the board.
The shouting, the grandstanding, the fist-pounding outrage, the catcalls from anti-Ford tenants in the gallery were all well and good. Democracy in action. Process is important, and this process was flawed. But people whose rhetorical volume dials bottom out at eight always have trouble being heard in times of genuine crisis.
Comment
In the least shocking news of the week, Case Ootes was officially “revealed” on Thursday as the interim managing director of Toronto Community Housing — a one-man board of directors, essentially, to replace the seven members who resigned last week in the wake of the Auditor-General’s scathing report, and the four holdouts fired by city council on Wednesday. The long-time city councillor, who retired last year only to wind up as Rob Ford’s Mr. Fix-It — he also headed up the Mayor’s transition team — isn’t taking what you’d call a conciliatory line, exactly. But compared to some of the Mayor’s pronouncements, he sounds downright Solomonic.
The big question: Will CEO Keiko Nakamura be fired? Mr. Ford’s preference is clear: He already asked for her resignation, and was rebuffed. Mr. Ootes, however, says he hasn’t made up his mind.
“I have to have a full understanding of what exactly the issues are surrounding the CEO, and I can’t do that at this point,” he says. “I will get a better feeling for that once I meet with staff and meet with her” — a process he hopes will begin Monday.
His power to terminate employees will, he says, “be used as necessary and very judiciously and with a great deal of thought.”
In a statement, TCHC said “we look forward to working together with the city-appointed managing director to implement all of the recommendations made by the Auditor General and to serve tenants.”
As for the widespread assumption that Mr. Ford intends to dramatically alter the landscape of social housing in Toronto, Mr. Ootes urges calm. “We need to leverage the moneys we have to the maximum extent possible to provide [social] housing to the greatest number possible. And that might require different [service delivery] options,” he says. But, he insists, “there shouldn’t be any worry about my feelings as to the need for social housing and the need for the city to support social housing.”
Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday echoes that view. He says the much-discussed idea of “privatization” is something of a misnomer (though it must be said that Mr. Ford hardly eschews its use). “[Privatization in] its true form would be you’d sell off all the buildings, or you’d sell off the water system, and someone else would forever run that as their business and you’d take the money and go the opposite way,” he says. “That’s not what people are thinking here. We’re talking about perhaps outsourcing the property management. … If anything, we’d be attempting to have more resources available to make [tenants’] lives better.”
Some will cheer, others will scoff. That’s how it works nowadays in this ideologically riven town. Ultimately, the only way for Mr. Ford, Mr. Ootes and their allies to prove their intention not to “disrupt anybody’s life,” as Mr. Holyday puts it, is not to disrupt people’s lives. Whatever your political stripes, you might as well let them get on with it.
That’s what made the late night Kabuki city council meeting on Wednesday so bizarre.
At times, you’d have thought they were debating selling off every last TCHC building for pennies on the dollar, when in fact the outcome of the meeting was relatively banal, necessary and preordained: The board holdouts were going to be turfed. It could have happened Tuesday morning if progressive councillors had wanted it to, and we’d now be 36 hours closer to having a new board. (Council has until June 14 to install it.)
Indeed, much of the drama could have been avoided entirely if the four remaining board members — councillors Maria Augimeri and Raymond Cho, and two members elected by the tenants — had tendered their resignations like the others. They can all run again. The only thing they’ve really accomplished for their admittedly principled stand is to diminish their chances of winning.
That’s not to say they should have had to resign, or that they did anything wrong, or that Mr. Ford couldn’t have expressed his displeasure with the board and senior staff more tactfully. But the Mayor always had the votes to clear out the board.
The shouting, the grandstanding, the fist-pounding outrage, the catcalls from anti-Ford tenants in the gallery were all well and good. Democracy in action. Process is important, and this process was flawed. But people whose rhetorical volume dials bottom out at eight always have trouble being heard in times of genuine crisis.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Why Did It Take So Long...
A leaky roof, a rotten basement and a closet full of skeletons Mar 05, 2011 9:56AM EST
At the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, just about everything that could go wrong did
The dying cry of Toronto's leftover left Mar 09, 2011 11:23AM EST
Blocking Ford’s attempt to clean house at the TCHC is defending the indefensible
At the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, just about everything that could go wrong did
The dying cry of Toronto's leftover left Mar 09, 2011 11:23AM EST
Blocking Ford’s attempt to clean house at the TCHC is defending the indefensible
THE WINNER...
and THE LOSERS!
City Hall's clearly defined battle lines
By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist
They came in droves Wednesday evening.
There were the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) tenants like Susan Gapka and Pat McEndry whose only job seems to be hanging around City Hall and making deputations.
I noted leftist consultants like Sean Meagher, president of Public Interest Strategy and Communications and Katrina Miller, who has just joined Meagher’s firm after shilling for the Toronto Environmental Alliance.
I spotted CUPE 416 president Mark Ferguson and his counterpart, CUPE 79 head Ann Dembinski as well as John Campey, executive director of Social Planning Toronto.
When I left the chambers to file this column, I saw former Federation of Metro Tenants Association (FMTA) executive director and now paralegal, Dan McIntyre out of the corner of my eye.
The Council Chamber was packed with the gravy train-enabling, public teat-sucking, union-loving crowd fighting for life as they knew it Before (Rob) Ford.
This is war, ladies and gentlemen.
Today, new Mayor Rob Ford has the audacity to remove the entire board of directors of the TCHC for sitting on their thumbs as millions of dollars were gambled on the stock market, spent on obscene visits to spas, Muskoka resorts and pricey restaurants and thrown into sole-source contracts with suppliers in China.
My goodness, shame on the new regime for wanting that money to go directly towards improving the quality of life for tenants living in bed bug-filled, decrepit, flooded units.
The people in the crowd have themselves convinced that some day soon Canada’s largest housing authority will be privatized, once CEO Keiko Nakamura is shown the door.
Not that the TCHC will be privatized.
And before the trees are in full bloom, the new regime will take the necessary steps towards contracting out half of the city’s garbage pickup.
Horror of horrors.
This is war.
Mark my words.
Last night’s show from various leftist hangers-on and despicable leftist hypocrites on council — like Adam Vaughan, Pam McConnell, Paula Fletcher, Joe Mihevc, Gord Perks and newbies Kristyn Wong-Tam, Sarah Doucette and Mary Fragedakis — had nothing to do with the fate of the tenants living in TCHC buildings.
It was about battling the kinds of changes at City Hall that will lessen their power, influence and shall we say, the good times they’ve enjoyed for the past seven years.
Yep, the party’s over and they know it.
For if they really cared about tenants, they wouldn’t have spent nearly two days blowing hot air and wringing their hands about whether due process had been followed and whether the audit report should have been debated first before council decided to remove the board.
For goodness sake, if they were so concerned, I don’t recall one of them — not Vaughan, McConnell, Fletcher, Mihevc, Perks or the three newbies — attending last Thursday’s TCHC board meeting.
They could have heard it all directly from Auditor-General Jeff Griffiths.
Did any of them actually read Griffths’ report? It’s been available for 10 days now.
Wong-Tam — who put forward a so-called “compromise” motion to keep the four people still on the board along with a new managing director — claimed she was “concerned,” about the future of TCHC and its tenants.
What a bunch of crap.
Mihevc, rushing to support her “elegant” motion as he called it, chimed in with his own thoughts about Ford engaging in an “abuse of process” for having the nerve to be decisive and wanting to clean house.
Perks insisted that public confidence won’t be restored if Ford and Co. “throw out the rules in a crisis.”
Well, I’ve got news for all of them.
They don’t care one bit about tenants and they don’t care about transparency.
They’re out of touch with public sentiment, too. A just released Ipsos Reid poll has put Ford’s approval rating at 72%.
Some 71% of Torontonians surveyed said the new mayor has the right priorities in mind.
It could have been a slam dunk.
But the leftists care only about hanging on to the gravy train.
The battle lines have been drawn, folks.
Fasten your seatbelts. We’re in for a bumpy ride.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
The Ones Who Should Be Censured Are...
News for indian giverCBC Pundit Censured for “Indian Giver” Comment
The famously brash O'Leary used the term “Indian giver” during a heated exchange with his co-host Amanda Lang about the potential takeover of Saskatchewan's ...
1) INDIAN BAND LEECHES
2) PETTY ASS POLITICALLY CORRECT BEAURACRATS
Lorne Gunter: Audit of band’s finances underlines need for accountability
As near as I can tell, the federal Indian Affairs and Northern Development department is at war with itself over whether or not to hold First Nations bands accountable for the billions they receive each year from Ottawa. About a third of the department’s bureaucrats favour greater transparency and accountability – regular outside audits, reporting of band politicians’ compensation, subjecting native governments to access to information laws and human rights complaints. The other two-thirds adhere the politically correct view that it is culturally insensitive to demand answerability – to do so amounts to an almost-racist accusation that the band councils cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs.
But as a taxpayer, I want transparency. Ottawa spends $8 billion to $11 billion annually on aboriginal programs, more than $3 billion of which is sent directly to band councils. I want to know what my money is being spent on and I am no more concerned for the cultural sensitivities of First Nations bands than I am for the bureaucratic sensitivities of federal departments and agencies subjected to scrutiny by the Auditor General. Read More »
The famously brash O'Leary used the term “Indian giver” during a heated exchange with his co-host Amanda Lang about the potential takeover of Saskatchewan's ...
1) INDIAN BAND LEECHES
2) PETTY ASS POLITICALLY CORRECT BEAURACRATS
As near as I can tell, the federal Indian Affairs and Northern Development department is at war with itself over whether or not to hold First Nations bands accountable for the billions they receive each year from Ottawa. About a third of the department’s bureaucrats favour greater transparency and accountability – regular outside audits, reporting of band politicians’ compensation, subjecting native governments to access to information laws and human rights complaints. The other two-thirds adhere the politically correct view that it is culturally insensitive to demand answerability – to do so amounts to an almost-racist accusation that the band councils cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs.
But as a taxpayer, I want transparency. Ottawa spends $8 billion to $11 billion annually on aboriginal programs, more than $3 billion of which is sent directly to band councils. I want to know what my money is being spent on and I am no more concerned for the cultural sensitivities of First Nations bands than I am for the bureaucratic sensitivities of federal departments and agencies subjected to scrutiny by the Auditor General. Read More »
Friday, March 04, 2011
Let's Give THE STAR Credit For Ingenuity...
Anarchy Is Anarchy...Ask The Residents Of Caledonia...
Lorne Gunter: Nothing will improve on reserves until Aboriginal politicians are accountable
When the subject gets around to accountability of on-reserve First Nations government, the debate always follows a familiar pattern: Aboriginal politicians claim to be in favour of greater transparency. Non-aboriginal politicians take them up on their stated aims and introduce laws that would apply accountability standards similar to those covering off-reserve politicians. Aboriginal politicians then insist their non-aboriginal counterparts failed to consult them before introducing their bills and insinuate the proposed laws are racist. This backs off the non-native lawmakers and everything goes back to Square One, which is where many First Nations politicians wanted things left in the first place.
What many First Nations’ politicians had not counted on this time was the impact revelations about their exorbitant salaries – uncovered over the past year by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation – would have the debate.
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When the subject gets around to accountability of on-reserve First Nations government, the debate always follows a familiar pattern: Aboriginal politicians claim to be in favour of greater transparency. Non-aboriginal politicians take them up on their stated aims and introduce laws that would apply accountability standards similar to those covering off-reserve politicians. Aboriginal politicians then insist their non-aboriginal counterparts failed to consult them before introducing their bills and insinuate the proposed laws are racist. This backs off the non-native lawmakers and everything goes back to Square One, which is where many First Nations politicians wanted things left in the first place.
What many First Nations’ politicians had not counted on this time was the impact revelations about their exorbitant salaries – uncovered over the past year by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation – would have the debate.
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If They Want Freedom And Democracy...
...let them spill THEIR OWN BLOOD!
Terry Glavin: From Libya to Palestine, the future is there to be helped
As the Arab revolution has rolled out from Tunisia to Bahrain and the very real prospect of a failed-state humanitarian catastrophe looms from Tripoli to Sana’a, the rest of us are hectored and harried to just sit there, do what we’re told, and don’t even think about doing anything that some Islamist crackpot might want to call an imperialist military intervention.
“Thousands of Libyans will die if America and NATO enter Libya,” we are admonished. Who said that? It could have been German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. It could have been the so-called Canadian Peace Alliance, or the alliance’s mentors in the Khomeinist tyranny in Tehran, or the usual American “troops out” retreads. That is what they all say, after all, but in this case it isn’t even Charlie Sheen. It is what Muammar Gaddafi says, and for good measure he’s tossing in the familiar spectre of Islamist terrorism as the thing we should worry about the most about the Arab uprisings.
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Terry Glavin: From Libya to Palestine, the future is there to be helped
As the Arab revolution has rolled out from Tunisia to Bahrain and the very real prospect of a failed-state humanitarian catastrophe looms from Tripoli to Sana’a, the rest of us are hectored and harried to just sit there, do what we’re told, and don’t even think about doing anything that some Islamist crackpot might want to call an imperialist military intervention.
“Thousands of Libyans will die if America and NATO enter Libya,” we are admonished. Who said that? It could have been German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. It could have been the so-called Canadian Peace Alliance, or the alliance’s mentors in the Khomeinist tyranny in Tehran, or the usual American “troops out” retreads. That is what they all say, after all, but in this case it isn’t even Charlie Sheen. It is what Muammar Gaddafi says, and for good measure he’s tossing in the familiar spectre of Islamist terrorism as the thing we should worry about the most about the Arab uprisings.
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Rex Puts Human Fraility In Perspective...
Western culture, brought to you by drunkards and bigots
Rex Murphy: In the long-running whose-life-is-more-like-spring-break competition between the Italian leader and the biggest, highest paid TV ‘actor’ it’s hard to call a clear 'winner'
Rex Murphy: In the long-running whose-life-is-more-like-spring-break competition between the Italian leader and the biggest, highest paid TV ‘actor’ it’s hard to call a clear 'winner'
The Problem Is Bigger Than The Board...
...it needs a change in philosphy. Long wait times, poor maintenance response, lifetime occupancy, etc. etc.
Housing board finally did right thing
By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist
I can guarantee you they’d never seen it before. Looking like a pack of deer caught in the headlights, the seven now deposed
Beyond the crisis: Fresh ideas on public housing
Fri Mar 4 2011
When it comes to the future of social housing in Toronto, there’s more to talk about than scandal and privatization. (2)
Housing board finally did right thing
By SUE-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist
I can guarantee you they’d never seen it before. Looking like a pack of deer caught in the headlights, the seven now deposed
Beyond the crisis: Fresh ideas on public housing
Fri Mar 4 2011
When it comes to the future of social housing in Toronto, there’s more to talk about than scandal and privatization. (2)
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
The Operative Word Joe Is "SHOULD" But...
...will it be the right heads and how about the city councillors who sat on the board while all this was going on?
Fiorito: Heads should be rolling at TCHC
Tue Mar 1 2011
Lavish contracts, extravagant spending, and no controls: the public housing corporation has a lot to answer for. (37)
Fiorito: Heads should be rolling at TCHC
Tue Mar 1 2011
Lavish contracts, extravagant spending, and no controls: the public housing corporation has a lot to answer for. (37)
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- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.