sad He Had To Lower His Expectations...

...unless this is Layton's job creation program at work.

Teenager becomes youngest-ever elected MP

MONTREAL - Nineteen-year-old Pierre-Luc Dusseault planned to work a summer job at a golf course if his foray into federal politics didn't work out. 3 May 18:20

Too Little Too Late Iggy...

In Any Other Country...

...people would be taking to the streets but we have been conditioned by Premier Mon, Dulltoon "No New Taxes, McGoonty who has been elected twice and it obvious his supporters have been supplied with a large quantity of

Seers, Clairvoyants, Physics, Gypsies, Et Al Returning To...

Obsolete? Most Of The Tribal Chiefs Would Disagree...

Indian Act: New approach needed


Tue Nov 2 2010

Everyone seems to agree that the Indian Act is obsolete. Then why is it still on the books?

...news reports would seem to indicate that at present they are petty little dictators who deny reserve indians the basic rights to civil liberties.

New Version Of "I Am Selling Some Land In Florida..."

Study finds most 'green product' claims misleading

Nearly all "green" consumer products make one false, misleading or unproven environmental claim to attract eco-conscious shoppers, a new study has found.

Guilty And I do So Just To Pissoff Suzuki...

John Ivison: NDP behaviour police target plastic bags and forgetful husbands

(Aaron Lynett / National Post

Another 10¢ down the drain

Men — who among you can’t relate to the following? You’re packed off to buy the weekly groceries. As you’re walking out the door, your wife reminds you to take the re-usable shopping bags. You mumble in the affirmative, and then go back to debating with yourself whether Sean Connery drove the Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger or Thunderball (the answer is both).

When you get to the check-out and the assistant asks if you have your own bags, you are forced to admit that you do but they’re still in the hall closet at home.

It’s not that we deliberately set out to befoul the planet but we have a lot going on in our brains and don’t fancy trying to juggle 200 bucks worth of groceries back to the car. We need the option of being gouged 5¢ for the privilege of buying a plastic bag by the grasping grocery giants. Read More »

Akin To Inviting Vacuum cleaner Saleman Into The Home...

...their one and only mission is to sell you a vacuum cleaner!

George Jonas

Mullahs happily walk through doors Canadian feminists hold open


The leaves are falling, as they do every October, but LEAF, the women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, seems impervious, or at least resistant, to changes of season. This week the sisterhood is celebrating whatever role it played as intervener in (a) acculturating the quaint custom of wrapping up women like sausages and (b) legitimizing the idea of defendants having to face masked accusers in Canadian courts.

From now on, at least until a higher court decrees otherwise, shariah will gain a symbolic foothold in Canada’s justice system. Trial judges will determine case by case if a witness can testify wearing a niqab. The door had been opened by blue-ribbon feminists; the mullahs just walked through. Ironically, in Ontario the burqa isn’t the Taliban’s fashion statement but feminism’s. Read More »

THE STAR A Victim Of Leaside Con...

Enough ice follies

Sun Aug 15 2010

Few Torontonians would dispute the city’s need for more community hockey rinks. Booming interest in girl’s hockey and foot-dragging on construction of new rinks have made ice time scarce. So a new four-pad skating complex proposed for Toronto’s...

Phony crisis dealt death blow to men’s recreational hockey Aug 13, 2010 8:27PM EDT

Christie Blatchford 

Leagues fell victim to Toronto bureaucrats’ offside response to allegations that girls were being denied ice time at city-owned rinks

Hollywood Doing A Remake Of Grapes Of Wrath...

Another Failure, Another Promise...

 

More gain for those in pain?

A wasteful $150-million worker retraining program has been scrapped and replaced by a streamlined system provincial officials say will protect vulnerable workers and save money. 2 July 00:58

Bar Wants To "Stay Culturally Viable." What A Load Of Crap...

  ...unless you believe culture and profit are synonymous.

Neighbours oppose bar's plans to expand

Wrong Bar conflict is latest as city attempts to control noise that nightlife brings Jun 01, 2010

Where Are The Thousands Of Green Jobs...

We Own 11.8% Of GM. I Forgot That! How About You?

The 'truthiness' of those GM ads

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency

Political pundits owe a huge debt of gratitude to comedian Stephen Colbert for coining the word “truthiness” on The Colbert Report in 2005.
Because “truthiness,” defined by the American Dialect Society as “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than the concepts or facts known to be true” describes so much of the blather fed to us these days by politicians, business leaders and the media.
Take those television commercials by General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre boasting GM has “repaid our government loans, in full, with interest — five years ahead of the original schedule”.
Ditto his simultaneous April 21 op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, headlined “The GM Bailout: Paid Back in Full — The investment of U.S. and Canadian tax dollars worked.”
That’s pure “truthiness,” as was the subsequent crowing by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty this vindicated their decision to give GM billions of our tax dollars to bail out the company in late 2008, at the height of the global recession.
To be fair, “truthiness” isn’t lying. Technically, what Whitacre said is true, combined with a huge dose of what he hopes will be true. It’s just not the whole truth, as explained by Forbes.com columnist Shikha Dalmia, a senior policy analyst with the Reason Foundation.
What GM has actually repaid is only a small portion of the taxpayer bailout Harper and McGuinty engineered, along with U.S. President Barack Obama — a $6.7 billion loan from American taxpayers and $1.4 billion from us. (This at low interest rates GM couldn’t have obtained anywhere else, as the company was virtually worthless at the time.)
But most of the taxpayer-funded aid the U.S., Canada and Ontario gave to GM wasn’t through loans, but by purchasing an equity stake in GM. American taxpayers bought 60.8% of the company for about $43 billion, while we bought 11.7% for $8.1 billion.
So, will we ever get that money back? Who knows? Some analysts say yes, some no. It depends on what we can get for our stake in GM when it goes public again and sells shares. Let’s hope it sells lots of cars and trucks.

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Give Kinnear Credit...

...for understanding how the media and a segment of the ridership can be manipulated!

I Figure If Kate Is On The Bandwagon...

...I will climb on.

Lorrie Goldstein: 'Canada's insane refugee problem'

Racism! Racism!!

That has led to today’s massive backlog of 60,000 claimants. It now takes an average 19 months just to get an initial hearing, 4 1/2 years to determine a bogus claim.

We’ve lost track of 38,000 failed claimants ordered deported — some criminals and terrorists.

Last year, 33,000 people made refugee claims. Almost 60% will be rejected. Each failed claimant costs Canadians $50,000 in health and social service expenses.

(...) no political party is willing to stand up to the hysteria that would erupt among Canada’s chattering classes and the refugee lobby.

# Kathy Shaidle :

Good Possibility He Was Hit In The Head Previously...

Slo-pitch player sues field owner after being struck by ball

Third baseman who lost ball in the sun is hoping for a legal home run with his $1.5-million suit a

Guess Who Ends Up Paying...You And I

'Tenants from hell' avoid rent, leave trail of debt

The Williamsons leave their rented townhome in Pickering this week. (March 19, 2010)

DALE BRAZAO/TORONTO STAR

By Dale Brazao

Sat Mar 20 2010

 

If Gregory or Suzanne Williamson knocks on your door wanting to rent your property – run. That's the advice from a group of landlords who have been stiffed, stung and strung out by a couple they have dubbed the "Tenants from Hell."

Is There A Message Here For Canada?

A messiah is not enough 

Timothy Garton Ash 

Obama's outstretched hand of friendship has been bitten or brushed aside. But it's not all his fault Mar 19, 2010 3:26AM EDT

When In Trouble Gather The Citizenry In The Coliseum....

...and divert their attention with gladiators battling other gladiators, chariot races, etc. It has worked for centuries.

Restraint for everything but sports

By Linda McQuaig

Tue Feb 23 2010

 

No cost has been spared in mounting a giant spectacle of spandex-clad athletes performing dazzling feats in massive public venues.