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Showing posts with label Real World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Real World. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Cutting Thru The Crap...
Sue-Ann Levy
Levy: Toronto's garbage fight heats up
...talk to the citizens of the old City Of York where Comrade Miller cancelled 3rd party pickup to satisfy CUPE for their support during his election OR talk to the current residents of Etobicoke.
Levy: Toronto's garbage fight heats up
...talk to the citizens of the old City Of York where Comrade Miller cancelled 3rd party pickup to satisfy CUPE for their support during his election OR talk to the current residents of Etobicoke.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Now That The Hysteria Has Diminished...
Paul Russell: WikiLeaks fail to impress, but medical bribes anger readers
Juicy WikiLeaks revelations dominated the news all week. Most letter writers, however, seemed unimpressed by what they learned.
“John F. Kennedy famously said he learned nothing from the CIA he had not already read in The New York Times,” wrote Raymond Heard. “The WikiLeaks disclosures suggest that nothing has changed in the last half century. All they show us is that diplomats still reflect to their superiors in Foggy Bottom what we already know from the media: Pakistan and North Korea are increasingly dangerous failed nuclear states. Duh! The Sunni Arab monarchs want to take out Iran before it starts lobbing nukes into their gilded men’s rooms. Duh! Prince Andrew is a mountebank — and (stop the presses!) the CBC churns out anti-American dreck. Double Duh!”
“The left wing media is much more hypocritical than the right wing,” stated Stefan Santamaria. Read More »
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Miller's Legacy Takes Another Hit...
...notwithstanding the efforts of The Star and Christopher Hume, waterfront condo owners, ndp island squatters, airport squackers, etc.
Strobel's movin' on up ...
By MIKE STROBEL, Toronto Sun
Goodbye, Queens Quay. Farewell, pink poodles.
Island airport ready to fly: Granatstein
By ROB GRANATSTEIN, Toronto Sun
With David Miller leaving office, it’s time to roll out the red carpet. And a short carpet, at that. To the island airport.
Strobel's movin' on up ...
By MIKE STROBEL, Toronto Sun
Goodbye, Queens Quay. Farewell, pink poodles.
Island airport ready to fly: Granatstein
By ROB GRANATSTEIN, Toronto Sun
With David Miller leaving office, it’s time to roll out the red carpet. And a short carpet, at that. To the island airport.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Ongoing Issues...
Natives fear renewed push for privatized land ownership
Federal study of successful reserves with rent-paying businesses prompts some bands to raise alarm over resource rightsSunday, August 29, 2010
No One Can Deny That The Needs/Desires Of Panhandlers Are...
...not much different than our needs/desires but we must remember that pandhandling and homelessness are two seperate issues. Panhandling has become a cottage industry!
How panhandlers use free credit cards
Joanne Mitchell, 60, and an acquaintance panhandle at a subway entrance at Union Station.
Jim Rankin/Toronto StarSat Aug 28 2010
The Star gave credit-card-like gift cards to five panhandlers. Each purchase, and each returned card, tells a story.
...and so does this:
...and so does this:
Toronto’s first Victoria’s Secret opens in Yorkdale Shopping Centre
Miraculous, Incredible bras touted by supermodels on hand to open first store in Toronto
Thursday, August 19, 2010
What A Wonderful World We Would Live In IF...
...if it was run by Editorial Boards, Columnists, Bloggers, etc.
National Post editorial board: Our right to tune out Dr. Laura
August 19, 2010 – 7:32 am
Laura Schlessinger — known to millions of listeners simply as Dr. Laura — will end her 30-year-old syndicated radio talk show at the end of the year because of widespread criticism of her use of the n-word with a black caller last week. She claims the criticism has been so vociferous that she needs time to work on regaining her free speech rights.
What Ms. Schlessinger doesn’t seem to understand is that no one is stopping her from exercising her free speech rights; her critics are merely using their own right to free expression to denounce what she said. Not even the sponsors who have abandoned her show — among them General Motors and the Motel 6 chain — are abridging her rights. They, too, are simply exercising their own right not to be associated with her remarks. Read More
What Ms. Schlessinger doesn’t seem to understand is that no one is stopping her from exercising her free speech rights; her critics are merely using their own right to free expression to denounce what she said. Not even the sponsors who have abandoned her show — among them General Motors and the Motel 6 chain — are abridging her rights. They, too, are simply exercising their own right not to be associated with her remarks. Read More
National Post editorial board: Private care is coming
August 19, 2010 – 7:29 am
According to a new Ipsos Reid poll, nearly two-thirds of Canadians want more and better health care without having to pay higher taxes or fork out their own money for private care. No doubt they also want tighter abs without the need to do all those darn sit-ups and wrinkle-free skin without the cost and hassle of expensive ointments or cosmetic surgery.
Kidding aside, though, those questioned for the most recent survey may be on to something. Sixty-one percent believe there is enough waste in the public health system to improve care without raising taxes if only bureaucrats would work harder at eliminating duplication. Another 28% favour finding more money for health care by cutting spending in other departments. The final 11% want more private options. Read More
Kidding aside, though, those questioned for the most recent survey may be on to something. Sixty-one percent believe there is enough waste in the public health system to improve care without raising taxes if only bureaucrats would work harder at eliminating duplication. Another 28% favour finding more money for health care by cutting spending in other departments. The final 11% want more private options. Read More
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Surprising...
Public-sector workers trail in wage pacts
...but the .09% shortfall by the public service worker is far outweighed by real job security.
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Spotlight Is Not Large Enough...
...for Haiti, Tamils, Census causing a problem for leftwing social in-activists.
- August 13, 2010ByStefan ChristoffInterview with Nomadic Massive rapper Vox Sambou on artistic solidarity and the grassroots in Haiti.
Another Insight Into The Human Race...
'Street meet' offers a window on Toronto
Window On Toronto, a new play told through the eyes of a street vendor, opens Aug. 20.
16 August 2010 07:00
Post-bar, pre-game, lunch and snack time.
Those folks working the stands see a cross-section of Toronto’s citizens like no other food service workers in the city. Their sights, sounds and smells are as much a part of this city’s streetscape as the bustle of pedestrians and the busker’s song.
A new play opening this week aims to capture their unique perspective by exploring Toronto and its diverse people through the eyes of a hot dog vendor. Call it street meet.
Window On Toronto opens Friday at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts as part of the Soulpepper Theatre Company’s Lab Series.
Nine actors play more than 150 different characters in the fast-paced play, which runs less than an hour.
Friday, July 09, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Outside Of Toronto The Big News Was...
Toronto police chief offers no apologies for G20 tactics
‘I have to tell you I've been overwhelmed with e-mails, letters and phone calls of support … certainly, advocates for the anarchists are offended. I can live with their offence,’ Chief Bill Blair says...the anniversary of the death of Micheal Jackson.
Monday, June 28, 2010
TO Makes World News...
Chatter: What we're hearing
By News Desk — GlobalPost Editors
Published: June 27, 2010 07:27 ET in home
To receive the morning chatter by email, let us know at editors@globalpost.com.Published: June 27, 2010 07:27 ET in home
Need to know: Kyrgyzstan is holding a referendum on a new constitution amid fears it could inflame ethnic tensions. The proposed constitution would give parliament more power and set the stage for a general election in September.
Want to know: The NYTimes begins a series chronicling the yearlong deployment of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, based in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. It will examine the battalion’s part in the surge in northern Afghanistan and the impact of war on individual soldiers and their families back home.
...and you have to love the headline:
Dull but important: Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful protesters at the global economic summit in Toronto Saturday, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers. Police arrested more than 150 people.
World Vision activists dressed as "pregnant with promises" G8 leaders demonstrate ahead of the G8 and G20 summits in downtown Toronto, June 24, 2010. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) 
G20 preview: What to watch for in Toronto
Expect cops. Lots of them.
...Girl On The Right:
Just because: Madonna's embrace of Jewish mysticism has transformed Israel's bohemian hub....Girl On The Right:
There are riots in downtown Toronto. Windows have been smashed and a police car set on fire. Not that I have any real issue with rioting…
In fact, if you are a Metallica fan and you have the video set A Year and a half in the Life of Metallica, chances are you’ve seen me, standing in front of a flipped police car, brushing my sweat-soaked hair out of my face.
However, I’m not 16 any more. And in both riot cases mentioned above - the GnR riot and the Stanley Cup Riot - I never went there with the intention of wreaking havoc. I went for entertainment purposes. Things just kind of… happened.
G20 protesters, on the other hand, come here with no other purpose than hell and destruction. My city is under siege, and I am resentful.
I don’t want Obama here in Toronto, but only because I think he’s unqualified to be president - not because I hate America. I don’t want a security fence in my downtown core, but only because I have no patience for anarchists. And I certainly don’t want my civil rights suspended just because I walk in the wrong place at the wrong time - but again, those decisions can be traced back to the anarchists.
I can’t put it any more clearly than “get the fuck out”, can I?
Posted by: Right GirlIn fact, if you are a Metallica fan and you have the video set A Year and a half in the Life of Metallica, chances are you’ve seen me, standing in front of a flipped police car, brushing my sweat-soaked hair out of my face.
However, I’m not 16 any more. And in both riot cases mentioned above - the GnR riot and the Stanley Cup Riot - I never went there with the intention of wreaking havoc. I went for entertainment purposes. Things just kind of… happened.
G20 protesters, on the other hand, come here with no other purpose than hell and destruction. My city is under siege, and I am resentful.
I don’t want Obama here in Toronto, but only because I think he’s unqualified to be president - not because I hate America. I don’t want a security fence in my downtown core, but only because I have no patience for anarchists. And I certainly don’t want my civil rights suspended just because I walk in the wrong place at the wrong time - but again, those decisions can be traced back to the anarchists.
I can’t put it any more clearly than “get the fuck out”, can I?
Wacky: Stressed-out city executives looking to get away from it all have the chance to buy their own rural village in New Zealand, complete with a pub and population of 40.
Let's Take A "Tea" Break...
Brunch with the G20 spouses
The Globe's Christie Blatchford talks about breaking bread with some of the world's most recognizeable and powerful women
Saturday, June 26, 2010
We Have Been Passing Ourselves Off As "A World Class City" So...
...we finally get a chance to prove it.
John Clark's (OCRAP) relatives come for a visit..
...and NP columnists comment;
John Clark's (OCRAP) relatives come for a visit..
...and NP columnists comment;
Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Won’t you shed a tear for Toronto?
June 25, 2010 – 2:20 pm
The nightmare begins…
You always wanted to be in the centre of the universe, didn’t you, Toronto? Well enjoy the next few days, L. Ian McDonald says in the Sun Media papers. He does thank us Torontonians for taking on the burden, but we can’t quite shake the feeling he’s making fun of us. (Might just be that legendary inferiority complex, though.)
The G8 and G20 summits amply demonstrate Stephen Harper’s transformation from a tax-hating, China-lecturing economic libertarian into a pragmatic statesman, Susan Riley argues in the Ottawa Citizen (though he might, of course, be faking it). Climate change and Israel are the issues where he’s still ostensibly “out of step” with … well, she doesn’t say with whom he’s out of step — with Susan Riley, perhaps! But on those issues, as she says, there’s very little daylight between him and Michael Ignatieff. (Liberals pounding their fists on climate change really is an insult to the intelligence.) So the more chances Mr. Harper gets to look prime ministerial, the less chance the opposition has of unseating him. Then again, Riley says “Canadians don’t vote based on how a leader performs at these international gabfests.” So … yeah.
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You always wanted to be in the centre of the universe, didn’t you, Toronto? Well enjoy the next few days, L. Ian McDonald says in the Sun Media papers. He does thank us Torontonians for taking on the burden, but we can’t quite shake the feeling he’s making fun of us. (Might just be that legendary inferiority complex, though.)
The G8 and G20 summits amply demonstrate Stephen Harper’s transformation from a tax-hating, China-lecturing economic libertarian into a pragmatic statesman, Susan Riley argues in the Ottawa Citizen (though he might, of course, be faking it). Climate change and Israel are the issues where he’s still ostensibly “out of step” with … well, she doesn’t say with whom he’s out of step — with Susan Riley, perhaps! But on those issues, as she says, there’s very little daylight between him and Michael Ignatieff. (Liberals pounding their fists on climate change really is an insult to the intelligence.) So the more chances Mr. Harper gets to look prime ministerial, the less chance the opposition has of unseating him. Then again, Riley says “Canadians don’t vote based on how a leader performs at these international gabfests.” So … yeah.
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Posted in: Canada, Full Comment Tags: Canadian politics, Chris Selley, Full Pundit, G20, G8, CSIS, summits, Richard Fadden
The world has no doubt already heard more than it cares to know about the G20, but as Day One dawns it’s difficult to ignore the epic silliness the Harper government has imposed on Toronto in the name of … well, beats the hell out of me what it’s in the name of.
As Don Martin ably describes — from the deck of the city’s biggest tourist attraction, which of course will be closed — $1 billion in security precautions buys you a post-apocalyptic city emptied of all normal life, where hordes of cops earning triple time wander around trying not to look bored. Read More
Kelly McParland: The summit of silliness
June 25, 2010 – 10:23 am
GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images
Now, how frightening do these cops look?
Students from George Bown College take
photographs after their convocation ceremony
n downtown Toronto, as police with riot gear
patrol the streets ahead of the G20 summit.
Students from George Bown College take
photographs after their convocation ceremony
n downtown Toronto, as police with riot gear
patrol the streets ahead of the G20 summit.
As Don Martin ably describes — from the deck of the city’s biggest tourist attraction, which of course will be closed — $1 billion in security precautions buys you a post-apocalyptic city emptied of all normal life, where hordes of cops earning triple time wander around trying not to look bored. Read More
Posted in: Canada, Full Comment, World Politics Tags: Stephen Harper, Kelly McParland, G20 summit, Maude Barlow, national security
Monday, June 07, 2010
From A Senior...One Vote For Sit!
...as you grow older the waterworks goes through a lot of changes and sitting solves a few problems; the angle of the dangle is not that critical, manipulating the equipment around the Depends, etc.
Montage: PEE! Sit or Stand?
|Sunday, June 06, 2010
FIFA Rules Supreme...
Thursday, May 06, 2010
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About Me
- 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.