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...

The Pam McConnell, Adam Vaughan Effect...

We want more. We want it free. And we want to feel good about it. Park's turf makeover could be done by week's end

Because They Knew Their Progeny Would Follow In Their Footsteps...

...fair weather activists

...the squatter movement!

Gwyn: Score one for the Occupy movement It has tapped into something fundamental by identifying the unfairness in the economic system.

Created by their parents and grandparents who put away the sandals and tie dye clothes, as a legacy, who took everything out of the system they could and expected their progeny to do the same.

Nease Says It All...

...the alternative when mommy/daddy kicks them out of their basement.

What News From Occupy Bejing, Occupy New Delhi, Occupy Dibai...

To Help Identify The "Protestor"

A Position You Won't See In The "occupy toronto" PARADE...

Not one of the "99 Percent"


As a follow-up to this & this, SDA commenter 'Bemused' posted a link to the following image. Absolutely brilliant!

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Very Cold Winter Forecast...

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It Was Comrade Miller And His Band Of Leftwing Clown's Vision

...that has got us in trouble:

*champagne taste-softdrink change
*party time and no need to byob
* John Street Homeless Condo while public housing going down the toilet
* let them eat cake festivals while working families are lucky to put day old bread on table
* funding groups that purport to deal with "social issues" that turn into cottage industries for the founders
Budgets are not just about numbers

Thu Jul 21 2011

Toronto needs a spending review but it also needs a vision. (10)

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 »

Homelessness Is A Cottage Industry...

...and the recipients of taxpayer $$$ now have a headquarters similar to Politicians, Board Of Trade, Granite Club, UN, etc.

A homeless shelter – in the club district

Your Tax Dollars At Work...

...but not for you but rather for social in-activists.

Rights group tripled fees paid to consultants after cutback vow


After promising to clean up spending practices at Rights and Democracy, directors of the federally funded human-rights centre have overseen a tripling of the amount paid to consultants.

Never-used whistleblower panel has an $8.1-million budget


Tribunal hasn't heard a single case since it was set up in 2007. A little-known, never-used government tribunal will spend as much as $8.1 million of taxpayers' money by the end of 2012-13, federal documents show.

That's Been My Contention For Years...

...it is easy to be popular and a hero of the downtrodden when you create a cradle to grave mentality on the backs of the middle class.

Lorne Gunter: Trudeau’s impact is obvious. It’s also mostly bad

Gary Hershorn / Reuters

Pierre Trudeau died 10 years ago this week, so of course the tributes and legacy analyses have been coming thick and fast. Among my favourites was offered up by Chantel Hebert, one of the few people worth reading at the Toronto Star.

Well, I have one, too. But unlike most commentators, I come to bury Trudeau (or at least make sure he’s still buried), not to praise him.
While he certainly had a profound impact on Canada, it was mostly destructive. Even the few positive changes he made might be called inevitable; they were the type of changes that were coming to every western society by dint of cultural evolution anyway. Read More »

Poll Speaks Volumes About The Fear Among Special Interest Groups...

...that their spot at the trough will disappear.

Miller Tops Voter Support: Poll
  
'Liberal' T.O. finally is PO'd

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency

Anyone across Canada who considers Toronto a liberal (and Liberal) la-la land filled with sheep-like residents meekly accepting every new tax imposed on them, hasn’t been paying attention to its race for mayor.

Poll Shows Impressions of Rob Ford Change

Grassroots endorsement for Ford 

By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun

Talk about return to sender.

Last place. That's got to sting

Kelly Grant

Mayor's race reduced to mudslinging: Mammoliti

By DON PEAT, Toronto Sun

Hey mayoral candidates, where’s the beef?

 

A Much Need Program HIGHJACKED...

...by John Clarke, OCRAP and social in-activists who counseled many that did not qualify to apply and for their short term gains those who need the program will probably suffer.

Don’t slash food assistance

August 22, 2010

In March, the province announced that it intended to replace a food supplement program for eligible welfare recipients because it was “not sustainable” and “not achieving the intended results.” Now, Ontario’s most needy are waiting to see what the new program will look like when it is introduced as early as next month.
But the government has yet to reach out with any formal consultations among advocacy groups — let alone with the poor who will be directly affected. That has fed fears that Queen’s Park is not interested in producing a better program, just a cheaper one.
Such a move would hurt some of Ontario’s most vulnerable — those who suffer the twin scourges of poverty and illness — without even succeeding in saving any money.
Ontario’s special diet allowance currently provides $10 to $250 a month to some 165,000 welfare and disability support recipients, enabling them to buy specialized foods to better manage medical conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes. Restricting their access to those extra funds by tightening the rules will only make them poorer and, consequently, sicker. All that does is transfer the costs, plus additional ones, from the welfare budget to the health-care budget.
Surely the government recognizes it is better to improve someone’s ability to manage their illness through proper diet than it is to sit back and wait for them to arrive in a hospital emergency room.
It is understandable that a government already running a substantial deficit would have concerns about a program whose costs have risen dramatically — from $6 million to $221 million since 2003.
But the underlying problem is not the design of program itself or the alleged fraud suggested by the provincial auditor last fall in a report the government seized on. It is need.
At $585 a month for a single person, the current welfare rate is clearly inadequate to keep a roof overhead and buy food — let alone nutritious food.
For it to do any good to anyone — including taxpayers — the new program must meet the needs of those it purports to serve: welfare and disability support recipients with medical conditions. It is difficult to see how that can be achieved without, the two ministers involved — health and social services — talking to them.

A Much Needed Program Hijacked...

...by John Clarke, OCRAP and social in-activists who counseled many that did not qualify to apply and for their short term gains those who need the program will probably suffer.

Don’t slash food assistance

August 22, 2010

In March, the province announced that it intended to replace a food supplement program for eligible welfare recipients because it was “not sustainable” and “not achieving the intended results.” Now, Ontario’s most needy are waiting to see what the new program will look like when it is introduced as early as next month.
But the government has yet to reach out with any formal consultations among advocacy groups — let alone with the poor who will be directly affected. That has fed fears that Queen’s Park is not interested in producing a better program, just a cheaper one.
Such a move would hurt some of Ontario’s most vulnerable — those who suffer the twin scourges of poverty and illness — without even succeeding in saving any money.
Ontario’s special diet allowance currently provides $10 to $250 a month to some 165,000 welfare and disability support recipients, enabling them to buy specialized foods to better manage medical conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes. Restricting their access to those extra funds by tightening the rules will only make them poorer and, consequently, sicker. All that does is transfer the costs, plus additional ones, from the welfare budget to the health-care budget.
Surely the government recognizes it is better to improve someone’s ability to manage their illness through proper diet than it is to sit back and wait for them to arrive in a hospital emergency room.
It is understandable that a government already running a substantial deficit would have concerns about a program whose costs have risen dramatically — from $6 million to $221 million since 2003.
But the underlying problem is not the design of program itself or the alleged fraud suggested by the provincial auditor last fall in a report the government seized on. It is need.
At $585 a month for a single person, the current welfare rate is clearly inadequate to keep a roof overhead and buy food — let alone nutritious food.
For it to do any good to anyone — including taxpayers — the new program must meet the needs of those it purports to serve: welfare and disability support recipients with medical conditions. It is difficult to see how that can be achieved without, the two ministers involved — health and social services — talking to them.

And let's not forget the promises of Dulltoon McGinty abolish the cuts to welfare that Harris was forced to implement thanks to the stellar performance of Rae and the NDP

He Took Us From The Brink Of Bankruptcy BUT...

Natives protest Harris's honorary degree

Former Ontario premier Mike Harris has a "black market history" and is not worthy of an honorary degree from Nipissing University, the Union of Ontario Indians says.

They Are Invited To Our G20 Party...

...and it is a safe bet it will not be a BYOB party!

My Definition Of Advocacy...

...Social In-Activists who latch on to a perceived "injustice" and turn it into a cottage industry.

 

ADVOCACY = Money Sucking Special Interest Groups!

The lefties use words like "advocacy" to make it seem like they are actually helping people, too bad they are only words. Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an ...

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