IT'S ATTITUDE BABY, ATTITUDE!
Monday, January 30, 2012
Caution Alert...
...think twice before renting out their basement apartment!
'Occupier' Accused of Strangling Parents
Magazine Calls Occupiers To Come To Chicago In 'Tradition of' 1968 Rioters...
'Occupier' Accused of Strangling Parents
Magazine Calls Occupiers To Come To Chicago In 'Tradition of' 1968 Rioters...
Mainstream Media Struggling For Fillers...
I am the 20 per cent tipper and I bet you are, too
by Jessica Allen
I’m telling you this to help explain why I’m so flabbergasted over how a Toronto Star story published last week on tipping 20 per cent being “the new normal” still has legs and I won't give it work boots...
by Jessica Allen
I’m telling you this to help explain why I’m so flabbergasted over how a Toronto Star story published last week on tipping 20 per cent being “the new normal” still has legs and I won't give it work boots...
A Must Read For McGoonty, Harper...
Stimulus-Backed ‘Green’ Bankruptcy of the Week: Ener1
Ontario approves 40 large green-energy projects - Moneyville.ca
...The new wind projects will get 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for their power, while the solar operators will receive 44.3 cents a kilowatt hour.
...currently cost per kw/hr:
Energy Retailer 5-Year Fixed Price
Bullfrog Power
Retail Price+ 3 cents/kWh
Separate bill for 3 cents/kWh for "greening" your energy. Global Adjustment won't apply if you are still an RPP customer.
Canada Energy Wholesalers
5.5 cents/kWh
You pay their wholesale cost plus 0.8 cents/kWh with a price cap of 5.5 cents/kWh over the 5 years
Direct Energy
6.99 cents/kWh
They only seem to offer 3 year contracts
MyRate Energy
7.09 cents/kWh
Ontario approves 40 large green-energy projects - Moneyville.ca
...The new wind projects will get 13.5 cents a kilowatt hour for their power, while the solar operators will receive 44.3 cents a kilowatt hour.
...currently cost per kw/hr:
Energy Retailer 5-Year Fixed Price
Bullfrog Power
Retail Price+ 3 cents/kWh
Separate bill for 3 cents/kWh for "greening" your energy. Global Adjustment won't apply if you are still an RPP customer.
Canada Energy Wholesalers
5.5 cents/kWh
You pay their wholesale cost plus 0.8 cents/kWh with a price cap of 5.5 cents/kWh over the 5 years
Direct Energy
6.99 cents/kWh
They only seem to offer 3 year contracts
MyRate Energy
7.09 cents/kWh
Sunday, January 29, 2012
This Has Been The Lynchpin Of My Blog...
George Jonas: I’m a man with one master
George Jonas says that his country, like his wife, Maya “entitled to my unhyphenated commitment.”
Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Take the government-sponsored web site Multiculturalcanada.ca, which describes me as “another Hungarian-Canadian.” I don’t mind, but I’m not. I was born a Hungarian, lived to tell about it, and when the opportunity presented itself, I became a Canadian. That was half a century ago, and that’s what I’ve been ever since. Not a Hungarian-Canadian; a Canadian.
I consider a Hungarian-Canadian a dual citizen. If I wanted to be one, I’d apply for the papers. They would be available to me. Both countries permit, perhaps even encourage, dual citizenship. Canada has been permitting it since the 1970s, and Hungary since the early 1990s. My reason for not being a dual citizen is that I consider dual citizenship a contradiction in terms. I know it’s practised in a number of places, but so is polygamy — and dual citizenship makes about the same sense to me.
The debate has flared up recently because NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair is a dual citizen. It’s totally legal and it’s his business — I just find it incongruous. Anyone who wants to derive his or her identity from, say, occupation or gender can do so without interfering with a parallel self-identification as a Canadian. It’s possible to be “a Canadian woman” or “a Canadian woman dentist” or even “a Canadian Catholic woman dentist.” But some identities cannot be hyphenated. It’s impossible to talk about a female Canadian male (even if you think you know someone who fits the definition) or a married Canadian single. Read More »
George Jonas says that his country, like his wife, Maya “entitled to my unhyphenated commitment.”
Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Take the government-sponsored web site Multiculturalcanada.ca, which describes me as “another Hungarian-Canadian.” I don’t mind, but I’m not. I was born a Hungarian, lived to tell about it, and when the opportunity presented itself, I became a Canadian. That was half a century ago, and that’s what I’ve been ever since. Not a Hungarian-Canadian; a Canadian.
I consider a Hungarian-Canadian a dual citizen. If I wanted to be one, I’d apply for the papers. They would be available to me. Both countries permit, perhaps even encourage, dual citizenship. Canada has been permitting it since the 1970s, and Hungary since the early 1990s. My reason for not being a dual citizen is that I consider dual citizenship a contradiction in terms. I know it’s practised in a number of places, but so is polygamy — and dual citizenship makes about the same sense to me.
The debate has flared up recently because NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair is a dual citizen. It’s totally legal and it’s his business — I just find it incongruous. Anyone who wants to derive his or her identity from, say, occupation or gender can do so without interfering with a parallel self-identification as a Canadian. It’s possible to be “a Canadian woman” or “a Canadian woman dentist” or even “a Canadian Catholic woman dentist.” But some identities cannot be hyphenated. It’s impossible to talk about a female Canadian male (even if you think you know someone who fits the definition) or a married Canadian single. Read More »
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Where Should Union Pension Fund Inveestments Go...
...non-profit social and environmental organizations, protest groups like Occupy and OCRAP, etc.?
Tasha Kheiriddin: Don’t scapegoat corporate Canada
It’s not a good time to be rich in North America. Millionaires and corporations have become the punching bags of both the left and the right, with Occupy protestors, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett and even Republican presidential contenders all taking their jabs.
You can now add to that list the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) — a union umbrella group — which has just released a study purporting to calculate “Corporate Tax Freedom Day.”
The CLC report parodies the Fraser Institute’s annual “Tax Freedom Day study,” which calculates the day of the year on which Canadian taxpayers start working for themselves, having discharged their fiscal burden to the government. (In 2011, it came on June 6.) The CLC pegs the corporate-tax date at February 1, earlier than in previous years due to corporate tax reductions by successive Liberal and Conservative governments over the past decade. Read More »
Tasha Kheiriddin: Don’t scapegoat corporate Canada
It’s not a good time to be rich in North America. Millionaires and corporations have become the punching bags of both the left and the right, with Occupy protestors, Barack Obama, Warren Buffett and even Republican presidential contenders all taking their jabs.
You can now add to that list the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) — a union umbrella group — which has just released a study purporting to calculate “Corporate Tax Freedom Day.”
The CLC report parodies the Fraser Institute’s annual “Tax Freedom Day study,” which calculates the day of the year on which Canadian taxpayers start working for themselves, having discharged their fiscal burden to the government. (In 2011, it came on June 6.) The CLC pegs the corporate-tax date at February 1, earlier than in previous years due to corporate tax reductions by successive Liberal and Conservative governments over the past decade. Read More »
Retirement Of The Likes Of Bob White...
...opened the gates of mediocrity in the union movement. IMHO if unions want to turn things around it will be done in the boardrooms not the streets.
Kelly McParland: Some helpful suggestions for organized labour
The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves.
The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened unions significantly during the past two decades. “If unions do not change, and quickly, we will steadily follow U.S. unions into continuing decline,” says the paper, which is marked “confidential.”
“We must reverse the erosion of our membership, our power and our prestige.”
Membership in private sector unions is down to 17.4%, compared to 75% in the public sector. In the U.S., private sector membership is even worse — just 7% — and even public sector membership is just 35%. Canada could go the same way. Read More »
Kelly McParland: Some helpful suggestions for organized labour
The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves.
The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened unions significantly during the past two decades. “If unions do not change, and quickly, we will steadily follow U.S. unions into continuing decline,” says the paper, which is marked “confidential.”
“We must reverse the erosion of our membership, our power and our prestige.”
Membership in private sector unions is down to 17.4%, compared to 75% in the public sector. In the U.S., private sector membership is even worse — just 7% — and even public sector membership is just 35%. Canada could go the same way. Read More »
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Hmmm! Two Sides To An Issue...
...but not in rabble.ca which fails to meet the basics of journalistic integrity.
Activist Communique: Take action to support KI
January 25, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Ontario is violating Native land rights by allowing gold mining company God's Lake Resources to prospect Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) sacred burial grounds without consultation or consent.
God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib ...
Oct 2011 – God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
Activist Communique: Take action to support KI
January 25, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Ontario is violating Native land rights by allowing gold mining company God's Lake Resources to prospect Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) sacred burial grounds without consultation or consent.
God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib ...
Oct 2011 – God's Lake Resources Responds to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug.
Selective Freedom Of Expression...
...not only on many, many campuses, ask Christie Blatchford, Ann Coulter, but public venues where a Toronto citizen (David Menzies) was verbally and physically "assaulted" but police took no action.
Expect the Expected
Just over a week ago Anne Marie Waters, a Council Member of the National Secular Society, was scheduled to give a talk at Queen Mary University of London as a Co-Spokesperson on behalf of the anti-Shariah group One Law For All. You'll never guess what happened next:
Before (the talk) started, a man entered the lecture theatre, stood at the front with a camera and filmed the audience. He then said that he knew who everyone was, where they lived and if he heard anything negative about the Prophet, he would track them down. The man also filmed students in the foyer and threatened to murder them and their families. On leaving the building, he joined a large group of men, apparently there to support him.
Campus security to the rescue!
He said: 'If you have these discussions, what do you expect?'
Well, in any country anywhere in the world with a substantial Muslim population you can expect to be hung out to dry by politicians and law-enforcement officials. Would-be speaker Ann Marie Waters - who is courageous by virtue of even attempting to speak out against Islamist censorship and threats - seems just a half-step away from understanding that in the relativistic, equivocating West, front-line defenders of free speech are essentially on their own:
I am left wondering what exactly we could have done. I would love to say that we stood up to him and carried on bravely in a valiant defence of free speech, but it was a frightening experience and I know that people felt genuinely threatened and upset. In any case, is it the role of speakers and students to face off against potentially violent Islamists in defence of our free speech, risking our safety in the process?
Posted by EBD at 12:04 AM Comments (24)
Expect the Expected
Just over a week ago Anne Marie Waters, a Council Member of the National Secular Society, was scheduled to give a talk at Queen Mary University of London as a Co-Spokesperson on behalf of the anti-Shariah group One Law For All. You'll never guess what happened next:
Before (the talk) started, a man entered the lecture theatre, stood at the front with a camera and filmed the audience. He then said that he knew who everyone was, where they lived and if he heard anything negative about the Prophet, he would track them down. The man also filmed students in the foyer and threatened to murder them and their families. On leaving the building, he joined a large group of men, apparently there to support him.
Campus security to the rescue!
He said: 'If you have these discussions, what do you expect?'
Well, in any country anywhere in the world with a substantial Muslim population you can expect to be hung out to dry by politicians and law-enforcement officials. Would-be speaker Ann Marie Waters - who is courageous by virtue of even attempting to speak out against Islamist censorship and threats - seems just a half-step away from understanding that in the relativistic, equivocating West, front-line defenders of free speech are essentially on their own:
I am left wondering what exactly we could have done. I would love to say that we stood up to him and carried on bravely in a valiant defence of free speech, but it was a frightening experience and I know that people felt genuinely threatened and upset. In any case, is it the role of speakers and students to face off against potentially violent Islamists in defence of our free speech, risking our safety in the process?
Posted by EBD at 12:04 AM Comments (24)
Blood Diamonds Are Illegal But People Still Crave Diamonds So...
...you have to wonder if labelling high tech gadgets "blood gadgets" will decrease parent demand's for substitute baby sitters for a more human approach and will this improve the lives of Foxconn workers in Shenzhen?
iPad factory misery leads to suicides
Corporate social responsibility is often just a quaint paragraph on a website. Apple and other...
...you have to wonder where the labour movement is, whether corporation care about workers, why don't we hear about the Shenzthen and the list goes on and on but this is just another case hypocricy of which I am guilty. I have to wonder how many "blood" gadgets I have and to be honest I am not about to give most of them up, especially my iPad, but I will give up my blender, electric can opener, etc.
Apple profit doubles, thanks largely to 37 million iPhone sales
iPad factory misery leads to suicides
Corporate social responsibility is often just a quaint paragraph on a website. Apple and other...
...you have to wonder where the labour movement is, whether corporation care about workers, why don't we hear about the Shenzthen and the list goes on and on but this is just another case hypocricy of which I am guilty. I have to wonder how many "blood" gadgets I have and to be honest I am not about to give most of them up, especially my iPad, but I will give up my blender, electric can opener, etc.
Apple profit doubles, thanks largely to 37 million iPhone sales
Like It Or Not This Is The Hot Topic Of The Day And...
...the plight of seniors, hungry children, gangsta street crime, affordable housing, etc. will have to take a back seat for the next few days. Once the hullabaloo dies down the media will concentrate on important issues like When parking is as good as gold Website helps car lovers and big families looking for a place to put their cars.
Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Fixing native education — a huge, complicated first step
The hot buttonsIn which federal politicians grapple fearfully with aboriginal affairs and same-sex marriage, and ignore abortion.
The Ottawa Citizen‘s editorialists issue the standard call for action, not just talk, with respect to the Crown-First Nations Gathering in Ottawa. And they echo the fairly common notion that the first step in a long process of improving relations and conditions should be “closing the education gap between the performances of aboriginal and non-aboriginal children in Canada, something that is both achievable and measurable.” We agree. In many cases the monetary, physical and human resources devoted to aboriginal education are indefensibly meagre. But while it’s certainly “achievable,” improving educational achievement in remote, troubled communities with no history of it is also going to be incredibly hard work.
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer, writing in the National Post, highlight some of the challenges: convincing “dedicated professionals [to] go north for prolonged periods of time”; developing “homegrown professionals (who are much more likely to stay)”; getting the community squarely behind the school; and the fact that many of “the most talented” people will always tend to leave. Challenges aside, however, they believe “the overwhelming media fixation with stories of tragedy belies the increasing number of success stories that are far less well known. Failure, like success, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Fixing native education — a huge, complicated first step
The hot buttonsIn which federal politicians grapple fearfully with aboriginal affairs and same-sex marriage, and ignore abortion.
The Ottawa Citizen‘s editorialists issue the standard call for action, not just talk, with respect to the Crown-First Nations Gathering in Ottawa. And they echo the fairly common notion that the first step in a long process of improving relations and conditions should be “closing the education gap between the performances of aboriginal and non-aboriginal children in Canada, something that is both achievable and measurable.” We agree. In many cases the monetary, physical and human resources devoted to aboriginal education are indefensibly meagre. But while it’s certainly “achievable,” improving educational achievement in remote, troubled communities with no history of it is also going to be incredibly hard work.
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer, writing in the National Post, highlight some of the challenges: convincing “dedicated professionals [to] go north for prolonged periods of time”; developing “homegrown professionals (who are much more likely to stay)”; getting the community squarely behind the school; and the fact that many of “the most talented” people will always tend to leave. Challenges aside, however, they believe “the overwhelming media fixation with stories of tragedy belies the increasing number of success stories that are far less well known. Failure, like success, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Read More »
I Don't Think Any Of My Ancestors Met Any Indians...
Native protesters dig up the road in front of their barricade as violence breaks out between white residents, native protesters and the OPP at the barricade in Caledonia in 2006.
...so hopefully they will not be the lynchpin that drives the discussions and concessions will not be made on anything they are falsely accussed of doing.
There is hope for Canada’s First Nations
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer: Harper’s meetings this week with First Nations leaders have a quiet urgency about them. It has been a long while since there was a First Nations meeting of this importance.
...so hopefully they will not be the lynchpin that drives the discussions and concessions will not be made on anything they are falsely accussed of doing.There is hope for Canada’s First Nations
Ken Coates and Greg Poelzer: Harper’s meetings this week with First Nations leaders have a quiet urgency about them. It has been a long while since there was a First Nations meeting of this importance.
John Ivison: Pragmatic PM looks ahead as Chiefs air old grievances
The Crown-First Nations gathering in Ottawa was a classic example of a failure to communicate.
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and National Chief Shawn Atleo recognized the history of Canada’s relations with its First Nations as a register of crimes and misfortunes. Both paid lip-service to the idea of unlocking the potential of aboriginal Canadians.
But they talked past each other when it came to moving forward.
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The Crown-First Nations gathering in Ottawa was a classic example of a failure to communicate.
Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and National Chief Shawn Atleo recognized the history of Canada’s relations with its First Nations as a register of crimes and misfortunes. Both paid lip-service to the idea of unlocking the potential of aboriginal Canadians.
But they talked past each other when it came to moving forward.
Read More »
Matt Gurney: A native uprising isn’t likely, but it’s possible
Led by a charismatic young leader, small groups of natives strike a series of Canadian military bases and launch terrorist attacks in major Canadian cities. While the numerically tiny and underequipped Canadian Army scrambles to respond, a second wave of attacks by native insurgents bring Canada’s petroleum industry and electrical generation capability to a halt, causing economic disruption and blackouts in the United States. Eventually, the U.S. mounts a major military incursion into Canadian territory to restore order and stabilize their own economy.
That is all confined to fiction — namely, Canadian military expert Douglas Bland’s 2010 novel Uprising. But while the prospect of a native insurgency in Canada admittedly seems a remote threat, it is a real one, and something that Canadian strategic planners, who plan for pretty much every scenario, must consider.
Read More »
Led by a charismatic young leader, small groups of natives strike a series of Canadian military bases and launch terrorist attacks in major Canadian cities. While the numerically tiny and underequipped Canadian Army scrambles to respond, a second wave of attacks by native insurgents bring Canada’s petroleum industry and electrical generation capability to a halt, causing economic disruption and blackouts in the United States. Eventually, the U.S. mounts a major military incursion into Canadian territory to restore order and stabilize their own economy.
That is all confined to fiction — namely, Canadian military expert Douglas Bland’s 2010 novel Uprising. But while the prospect of a native insurgency in Canada admittedly seems a remote threat, it is a real one, and something that Canadian strategic planners, who plan for pretty much every scenario, must consider.
Read More »
Missing From Discussions About First Nations Partnership...
...are they missing on purpose or by design?
Sunday, January 22, 2012
I Would Suggest It Be Putoff...
...this is how the leftists would have you believe the situation is in the middle east!
...until after the US Presidential election because based on past performance there is no way Obama would provide military assistance to our only friend in the Middle East.Burman: Why there will be a war in the Middle East this year
2012/01/21 10:08:30
There will be a war in the Middle East within the next several months, triggered by an Israeli attack on Iran, and this is how it will happen: (65)
2012/01/21 10:08:30
There will be a war in the Middle East within the next several months, triggered by an Israeli attack on Iran, and this is how it will happen: (65)
Anything Would Be Better Than Silly Hall Malaise...
Editorial: City lockout better than a strike
...that was the operational mode during the Miller years where if you were artsy/fartsy, had the race card in your deck, wanted to save the world (so you could start a cottage industry), etc. and you don't need anymore proof than the fact that Comrade Miller had to leave the country to get a job.
...that was the operational mode during the Miller years where if you were artsy/fartsy, had the race card in your deck, wanted to save the world (so you could start a cottage industry), etc. and you don't need anymore proof than the fact that Comrade Miller had to leave the country to get a job.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Wrapup From The Left...
rabble.ca weekly blog roundup! January 20, 2012
By rabble staff
This week the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup welcomes new blogger Mandy Hiscocks and looks at her story of the G20, as well as Toronto public service cuts and accessibility to post-secondary education.
Do You Have The Same Rights Where You Are Employed?
City Hall
Labour pains
In the city vs the unions, can we stop the time travel?
By Ellie Kirzner
There it was again, in the city’s press release on Monday, that “jobs for life” piece of deliberate vocabulary malfunction.
The mayor’s followers have crafted a language to reposition CUPE 416’s precious seniority principle as a rare entitlement, a selfish comfort at a time of scarcity and want. Oh, please.>> More
...is it possible that it is not the right to :jobs for life" but the way it is interpreted and manipulated by the unions, the workers and previous administrations who failed to MANAGE the city work force. You would think that Toronto is the only major city having problems but:
Cracks in the Socialist Reality Bubble Begin
Public sector workers in New York state are beginning to learn a few important lessons in math.
“We can no longer sustain the current pension system,” [Democrat Governor] Cuomo said, citing a projected 185 percent treasury-busting increase in pension costs from 2009 to 2015 if nothing is done.
“This is devastating to the state and the local governments,” he said of the rising costs.
“We need pension reform. We need it desperately.”
Posted by Robert at 4:21 PM Comments (26)
Labour pains
In the city vs the unions, can we stop the time travel?
By Ellie Kirzner
There it was again, in the city’s press release on Monday, that “jobs for life” piece of deliberate vocabulary malfunction.
The mayor’s followers have crafted a language to reposition CUPE 416’s precious seniority principle as a rare entitlement, a selfish comfort at a time of scarcity and want. Oh, please.>> More
...is it possible that it is not the right to :jobs for life" but the way it is interpreted and manipulated by the unions, the workers and previous administrations who failed to MANAGE the city work force. You would think that Toronto is the only major city having problems but:
Cracks in the Socialist Reality Bubble Begin
Public sector workers in New York state are beginning to learn a few important lessons in math.
“We can no longer sustain the current pension system,” [Democrat Governor] Cuomo said, citing a projected 185 percent treasury-busting increase in pension costs from 2009 to 2015 if nothing is done.
“This is devastating to the state and the local governments,” he said of the rising costs.
“We need pension reform. We need it desperately.”
Posted by Robert at 4:21 PM Comments (26)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
We Have Potential Customers...
...but Obama and his Green Buddies don't care about the jobs, dependency on Middle East oil supplies, etc.
You Have To Wonder...
...if possibly it is CUPE that is "collapsing" with their cave in on wages in order to try and appease the Ford Nation at the bargaining table. Oh! Let's not forget contracting out garbage collection and hiring freeze...
City’s rush to declare impasse latest step in Ford administration’s attack on public services
January 16, 2012
The City of Toronto’s hasty decision to declare an impasse in bargaining is the “latest step in the Ford administration’s campaign against public services.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
more
Ford Nation collapses
January 19, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Inside Toronto city council chambers yesterday, the anti-Ford cuts voting bloc was able to draft a last-minute omnibus motion to save $15 million worth of city services and programming from being cut.
City’s rush to declare impasse latest step in Ford administration’s attack on public services
January 16, 2012
The City of Toronto’s hasty decision to declare an impasse in bargaining is the “latest step in the Ford administration’s campaign against public services.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
more
Ford Nation collapses
January 19, 2012
By Krystalline Kraus
Inside Toronto city council chambers yesterday, the anti-Ford cuts voting bloc was able to draft a last-minute omnibus motion to save $15 million worth of city services and programming from being cut.
How Far Will You Go...
...to protect your internet freedom? Will you come out from behind your anon and rush the government ramparts seeking something akin to "Arab Spring?"
The Captain Didn' Desert His Post...
...but it is obvious the mushy middle on council did!Huge loss for Rob Ford? Not so fast: Podcast
Today we’re talking about three issues – the controversial budget passed by Toronto city council, a proposal...Continue reading
EditorialBoard THE STAR
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Real Battle Is Yet To Come...
Editorial: Ford’s budget a good start
Mayor Rob Ford began the long, slow process Tuesday of dragging city council, kicking and screaming, into a new era of fiscal responsibility.
...when push comes to shove and 60%+ of every $$$ goes to wages union "negotiations" will be where the real long term savings will come and the sooner Ford lockouts out CUPE the sooner the unions make more "shell concessions" like their proposed wage freeze.
Mayor Rob Ford began the long, slow process Tuesday of dragging city council, kicking and screaming, into a new era of fiscal responsibility.
...when push comes to shove and 60%+ of every $$$ goes to wages union "negotiations" will be where the real long term savings will come and the sooner Ford lockouts out CUPE the sooner the unions make more "shell concessions" like their proposed wage freeze.
James: Rob Ford loses the gamble
2012/01/18 09:53:52
It was supposed to be Mayor Rob Ford’s day of triumph. Instead, it showed councillors the big bad wolf isn’t nearly as scary as they... (63)
2012/01/18 09:53:52
It was supposed to be Mayor Rob Ford’s day of triumph. Instead, it showed councillors the big bad wolf isn’t nearly as scary as they... (63)
...and at stake is the future of ours and our children.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Let's Send That Message Loud And Clear...
Recommended TransportationMichael Coren
Canada must be Canada: We are not the North American version of Switzerland
...and start by deporting the current crop of deserters. There currently is no draft in the US and these people joined the military voluntarily.
Canada must be Canada: We are not the North American version of Switzerland
...and start by deporting the current crop of deserters. There currently is no draft in the US and these people joined the military voluntarily.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Is Anyone Surprised?
Two years later, Haiti shows few signs of shaking quake’s effects
“The absence of laws and regulations to standardize construction works ... this is what made nearly 300,000 people dead,” Michaëlle Jean wrote in sharply worded statement released Thursday
Haiti still devastated two years after the earthquake
The Haitian people mark the second anniversary Thursday of the devastating earthquake that ravaged their impoverished Caribbean country, as president Michel Martelly held out new promises to rebuild the shattered land
“The absence of laws and regulations to standardize construction works ... this is what made nearly 300,000 people dead,” Michaëlle Jean wrote in sharply worded statement released Thursday
Haiti still devastated two years after the earthquake
The Haitian people mark the second anniversary Thursday of the devastating earthquake that ravaged their impoverished Caribbean country, as president Michel Martelly held out new promises to rebuild the shattered land
A Prime Example Of The Fox Being Let Into The Chicken Coop
MOST WANTED
Never one to let a government slush fund go untapped, in 2009 the David Suzuki Foundation scored $129,200 over two years, “to develop a financing model to stimulate the green economy and energy retrofits by researching and pilot-testing Local Improvement Charges (LICs) in three to five Ontario municipalities.”
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Consumer Autumn?
Consumers Empowered by Social MediaBy Ted Kaufman January 9th, 2012 4Comments
There is something going on in this country that needs a name. For lack of a better phrase, let’s call it the Consumer Autumn.
...let's keep in mind the successes of April Spring!
Shades Of Rochdale...60s
Mission ImpossibleAcademy of the Impossible: education for the internet age
By Joshua Errett
There’s a school in Toronto that teaches YouTube, the Japanese martial art aikido, forms of hacking and running for public office. Impossible, right?
Right, but the full name of the place is actually the Academy of the Impossible, and it opens this week on Wallace Avenue in the Junction Triangle.
I Support Your Right To Be Green...
...and my solution to the political mayhem is to have a box on the income tax form and property tax forms that allow you to tell the government to channel your tax $$$ to government green projects and another box that will deduct the costs of normal energy ueage from your paycheck.
...if you are unemployed and collecting government benefits, or living on the street will you be speaking out in favour or against the pipeline?
Big Environment gets a pass on pipeline tactics, as usual
Kelly McParland: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have been getting pummeled for suggesting Big Environment might not always employ the most scrupulous of methods when attempting to achieve its goals
Kelly McParland: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have been getting pummeled for suggesting Big Environment might not always employ the most scrupulous of methods when attempting to achieve its goals
This Is Awkward
Northern Gateway "interveners" signed up without their knowledge;
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.
“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.
That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.
Gudic’s daughter, Flavia, also has never heard of the pipeline, that, if approved, would ship raw Alberta bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., to be sent to Asia via supertankers.
“Maybe the environmental organizations we donate to signed us up,” offered Flavia, a 19-year-old art student.MayBE!
Posted by Kate at 12:19 AM Comments (14)
Northern Gateway "interveners" signed up without their knowledge;
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” said the 53-year-old woman on Tuesday from her home.
“I have never heard of this pipeline and I did not apply to speak in Canada,” she said, in broken English.
That’s strange. On the federal government’s National Energy Board website, Gudic is one of a whopping 4,522 registrants who apparently applied online to make an oral application. Her name, mailing address, e-mail and phone number are included on the website.
Gudic’s daughter, Flavia, also has never heard of the pipeline, that, if approved, would ship raw Alberta bitumen to Kitimat, B.C., to be sent to Asia via supertankers.
“Maybe the environmental organizations we donate to signed us up,” offered Flavia, a 19-year-old art student.MayBE!
Posted by Kate at 12:19 AM Comments (14)
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
If You Are Italian, Chinese, Et Al The Police Are Breaking Down Your Door But...
...and we won't even touch on illegal cigarette sales, probably drug smuggling, etc.
Monday, January 09, 2012
With Allies Like This.......
...who needs enemies?Free Ethical Oil!
h/t Kevin
Posted by Kate at 2:16 PM Comments (31)
Ezra Levant on Tuesday’s pipeline hearings
By Kathy Shaidle on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 No Comments
Ezra Levant:
According to research by Vivian Krause, the U.S. Tides Foundation and their Canadian affiliate have poured millions of dollars into 36 cookie-cutter groups to oppose Canadian resource industries.
They all sound so local and real — the Dogwood Initiative, the Rainforest Action Network, the Natural Resources Defence Council, etc.
But they’re just tentacles of the same foreign foundation.
I don’t blame foreign billionaires like the Rockefellers. It’s normal for them to want to control other people, even other countries.
I blame their Canadian puppets for taking money to undermine their own country’s interests.
***Remember: you can get more info — and ways to fight back — at OurDecision.ca
And follow @OurDecision_ca for ongoing developments on this fight between wealthy foreign interests like the Tides Foundation and Robert Redford vs. Canadian jobs and sovereignty.
Gore/Suziki/McGinty Con Job...
Greenbot's, are you sitting down?
Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet, all of you.Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress it's that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.
Posted by Rob at 9:47 PM Comments (32)
Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet, all of you.Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress it's that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow, and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans, and all animal life.I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes - FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud any one time - EVERY DAY.
Posted by Rob at 9:47 PM Comments (32)
Sunday, January 08, 2012
The Upside...
...you don't have to put up with them physically, sponging off you prattling on about the lastest "music" and technology.
Should We Question CBC Impartiality?
...it is a crown corporation, funded entirely by the taxpayer and when push comes to shove it meets two of it's primary objectives; protecting the french language across Canada, most of which is English speaking and bring Hockey Night In Canada to remote parts of the country.
Great Moments In Journalism
Ombudsman who works for CBC, sides with CBC, over Chief Blair, because he works for Mayor.
Posted by Kate at 5:10 PM Comments (41)
Great Moments In Journalism
Ombudsman who works for CBC, sides with CBC, over Chief Blair, because he works for Mayor.
Posted by Kate at 5:10 PM Comments (41)
Kick Ass World Leaders A Thing Of The Past...
Vindication for the Iron Lady
Conrad Black Jan 7, 2012 – 7:05 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 6, 2012 1:46 PM ET
Though it is probably happening too late to be overly gratifying to her, events are piling on to vindicate Margaret Thatcher completely in her reservations about British integration in Europe. Her response to the proposal to reduce Britain to a local government in a federal Europe was, memorably: “No, no, no, and never.” And her reward for her refusal to get on board what was then the thundering bandwagon of Eurofederalism, was to be sent packing by her own ungrateful party, though she was the only British political leader who had won three consecutive, full-term election majorities since before the First Reform Act expanded the electorate in 1832.
She was immensely popular with millions of Britons as a patriotic and courageous leader who took Britain off financial life support, saved it from strangulation by over-mighty, almost anarchistic unions, built a prosperous, home-owning democracy, threw the Argentinians out of the little corner of the British Empire they had wrongfully seized (the Falkland Islands), and played a starring role in winning the Cold War. Read More »
Conrad Black Jan 7, 2012 – 7:05 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 6, 2012 1:46 PM ET
Though it is probably happening too late to be overly gratifying to her, events are piling on to vindicate Margaret Thatcher completely in her reservations about British integration in Europe. Her response to the proposal to reduce Britain to a local government in a federal Europe was, memorably: “No, no, no, and never.” And her reward for her refusal to get on board what was then the thundering bandwagon of Eurofederalism, was to be sent packing by her own ungrateful party, though she was the only British political leader who had won three consecutive, full-term election majorities since before the First Reform Act expanded the electorate in 1832.
She was immensely popular with millions of Britons as a patriotic and courageous leader who took Britain off financial life support, saved it from strangulation by over-mighty, almost anarchistic unions, built a prosperous, home-owning democracy, threw the Argentinians out of the little corner of the British Empire they had wrongfully seized (the Falkland Islands), and played a starring role in winning the Cold War. Read More »
History Repeating Itself...
...with countries who visited Munich in the 30s now visiting Cairo and you have to wonder whether the result will be the same..
The Muslim Brotherhood’s big moment
Robert Fulford Jan 7, 2012 – 7:23 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 6, 2012 1:50 PM ET
This is an exciting time for the editors in Cairo who run Ikhwan, the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has suddenly become popular, and there’s never a lack of news to report.
China’s ambassador to Egypt dropped in the other day for an informal talk with Mohamed Morsi, head of the Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party. Last week, it was the Russian ambassador who came to chat with Morsi — about democratic values, according to the report on Ikhwan.
Diplomats from Nigeria, Cuba, Spain and elsewhere are anxious to connect with the Brotherhood. They realize that it’s now part of Egypt’s political future, perhaps even the most important part. Read More »
Predictions: Middle East, 2012: You read it here first
The Muslim Brotherhood’s big moment
Robert Fulford Jan 7, 2012 – 7:23 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 6, 2012 1:50 PM ET
This is an exciting time for the editors in Cairo who run Ikhwan, the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood has suddenly become popular, and there’s never a lack of news to report.
China’s ambassador to Egypt dropped in the other day for an informal talk with Mohamed Morsi, head of the Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party. Last week, it was the Russian ambassador who came to chat with Morsi — about democratic values, according to the report on Ikhwan.
Diplomats from Nigeria, Cuba, Spain and elsewhere are anxious to connect with the Brotherhood. They realize that it’s now part of Egypt’s political future, perhaps even the most important part. Read More »
Predictions: Middle East, 2012: You read it here first
How Does Neighborhood Profiling Differ...
Lisa Lebitka’s murder first in Leaside in 10 years
A survey of homicide numbers city-wide, in fact, shows about one-fifth of the city’s 140 neighbourhoods have remained murder-free since 2005
...from racial profiling which The Star accussed and crucified Toronto Police Services of doing. Basically the article is saying it is safer to live in Leaside than Jane/Finch, Lawrence Heights, etc. although in fairness to the perps they commit their criminal acts with concern for imaginary boundries.
A survey of homicide numbers city-wide, in fact, shows about one-fifth of the city’s 140 neighbourhoods have remained murder-free since 2005
...from racial profiling which The Star accussed and crucified Toronto Police Services of doing. Basically the article is saying it is safer to live in Leaside than Jane/Finch, Lawrence Heights, etc. although in fairness to the perps they commit their criminal acts with concern for imaginary boundries.
This Justice Failure Is Going From Ridiculous To Sublime...
IMHO
IMHO the warrior on the left represents the majority of Canadians and many members of the "First Nations!" How much support was he given? Virtually none and Caledonia is the result.
IMHO the warrior on the left represents the majority of Canadians and many members of the "First Nations!" How much support was he given? Virtually none and Caledonia is the result.Caledonia proves some criminals are more equal than others
Rex Murphy: Justice is not, as the maxim has it, blind. Not in Canada, at least. Lady Justice very definitely peeps out from under the blindfold when it comes to certain groups
Rex Murphy: Justice is not, as the maxim has it, blind. Not in Canada, at least. Lady Justice very definitely peeps out from under the blindfold when it comes to certain groups
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Finally...
...someone is taking a stand against the leftwing social in-activists campaign to make us feel guilty for actions of our ancestors (on a personal basis I don't know of any of my ancestors who took part in henious deeds decades or centuries ago) but I am expected to feel guilty.
Nova Scotia churches balk at paying for the sins of the fathers
Nova Scotia churches balk at paying for the sins of the fathers
When Can We Expect The Legions Of Politically Correct...
...to rush to the battlefield and fight Christianphobia? They could lessen their forces that are fighting Islamphobia!
Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists targetting Christians, turning Nigeria into cauldron of religious strife
Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists targetting Christians, turning Nigeria into cauldron of religious strife
Bottom Line...They Are Winning...
OPP Comforting Native Lawbreakers
Court decision points at OPP’s failure in Caledonia
Christie Blatchford: There are so many aspects to the tragi-comedy which got its start in the Ontario town of Caledonia that only the obsessed can keep up with it all
Injustice at CaledoniaChristie Blatchford: There are so many aspects to the tragi-comedy which got its start in the Ontario town of Caledonia that only the obsessed can keep up with it all
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- 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.