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• Council Scorecard: how did your councillor vote on food trucks and the island airport?

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  REMEMBER You Are The Owner

JUST A FEW MILES EAST ON QEW...

Sam the Record Man is still spinning – far from Toronto

DAVID TOPPING

The Globe and Mail

You can spot the sign from the food court. In a corner of Belleville, Ont.’s Quinte Mall, past the chain stores that populate what must be every mall in Southern Ontario – a Peoples Jewellers here, a Claire’s there, a Winners down the hall – are three chunky red capital letters that mark the very last outpost of a Canadian retail-music empire: SAM. A good two hours’ drive east on Highway 401 from the corner of downtown Yonge Street that a chorus of spinning neon discs once lit up, in a city with a population of 49,454, is what’s left of Sam the Record Man.

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Hmmm! TOO DEVIOUS FOR WYNNER LIBERALS

TAKING THE HEAT OFF OBAMA???...

EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW OF THE LAND...

...not the interpretation by self serving busybodies!

Christie Blatchford

When date rape is alleged, women are too often coddled by justice system

Perhaps if women were more often treated within the justice system as fully capable adults — instead of being assumed to be truth-tellers — we...

LEFTWING ECONOMICS...

Kelly McParland 

Ontario Liberals hope $29 billion in mystery money will buy them re-election

Ontarians will have to wait for the budget to find out where the money is coming from. But Kathleen Wynne's government isn't waiting to start spending it.

NO SURPRISE...COMMUNIST PARTY NOT RUNNING...

Councillor Adam Vaughan could be leaving City Hall for Ottawa

Vaughan is expected to be the federal Liberal candidate in the upcoming Trinity-Spadina byelection, according to media reports.

The Trinity-Spadina (Ward 20) councillor has been one of Mayor Rob Ford's most vocal opponents at City Hall.

Wynner's Liberals experts at governing badly

Think of it as the trifecta of bad government — a perfect storm of scandal, poor fiscal...

...adding another EXPERT!

 

WHEN DID YOU LAST ATTEND A PTA MEETING?

WYNNER PANDERING...

Today In Vote Whoring: Batshit Crazy Liberals Wasting 25 Million To Make Roads Cyclist Friendly

 

For God's sake, we need recall legislation in Ontario. Now. Link as soon as one is up regarding the announcement.

Meanwhile - Ontario Liberals to target ethnic voters with demographic database software

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NORMAL...

NO NEW TAXES!

WYNNER using McGoonty strategy knowing many of her "supporters" thrive on the liberal Vaseline opiate!

 

Promises, promises: Toronto mayoral candidates on Wynne’s $29B transportation plan

ARTFUL AIR BRUSHING REMOVED McGOONTY PUPPET STRINGS

 

rabble.ca IS LESS THAN AN OBJECTIVE SOURCE

CUP needs to survive to help student PROPOGANDA journalism thrive

AS ALWAYS THE LEFT NEVER GIVES YOU ALL...

 ...the rest of the goal is "FOR EQUAL CONTRIBUTION!"

 

Get ready for Equal Pay Day

It Is ALWAYS In The Best Interest Of The Animals...

WE HAVE CANADIAN AUNTIE ZEITUNIs

The legacy of Obama’s illegal alien aunt

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 11, 2014 08:00 AM

The legacy of Obama’s illegal alien aunt
by Michelle Malkin


Zeituni Onyango, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt, died this week of cancer and other complications. I hope she rests in peace. America, however, should be up in arms.
Auntie Zeituni is an enduring symbol of all that is wrong with this country’s immigration “policy” — or rather, its complete lack of a coherent, enforceable system of laws and rules that puts the national interest first. She was a beneficiary of the welfare state run amok, enabled by bipartisan fecklessness. To the bitter end, she bit the hand that fed her with predictable ingratitude and metastatic entitlement.

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NEPOTISM?

Premier Wynne's brother-in-law named interim CEO of eHealth

By Christina Blizzard ,QMI Agency

First posted: Monday, April 14, 2014 10:33 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, April 14, 2014 11:03 PM EDT 

 

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s brother-in-law has been appointed “interim” CEO of eHealth, the Toronto Sun has learned.

David Rounthwaite, brother of Wynne’s wife, Jane, was appointed to the $210,000-a-year job effective March 7.

A spokesman for eHealth said Rounthwaite has been general counsel for the giant agency charged with getting health records online for more than four years — before Wynne became premier.
Rounthwaite’s appointment has not yet been confirmed by cabinet.

“There hasn’t been any attempt on the part of eHealth to not be transparent about this,” spokesman Rob Mitchell said Monday.
“It was communicated to staff very clearly in an announcement. We had a town hall for all staff last Wednesday,” he said.

SPELL VIOLATION - L-I-B-E-R-A-L

Ontario Liberal appointee accused of violating Elections Act

TORONTO — Elections Ontario has been asked to investigate whether a member of the Ontario College of Trades' board of governors violated Ontario election law.

At issue is whether union president James Barry — a resident of Quebec — inappropriately and repeatedly donated money to Ontario Liberal riding associations using his Ottawa union address.

Ontario election law prohibits individuals who live out of province from making donations to provincial riding associations.

It also prohibits an individual's name to be listed on behalf of a corporation or trade union.

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IS OMB RESPONSIBLE FOR...

 

... St. Clair Right of Way debacle

... Homeless Hilton

... Wychwood Barns

... Gentrification of Bloor & Yonge

... Homelessness becoming a subsidized COTTAGE INDUSTRY

... ADD YOUR FAVORITE!

 

 

Councillors demand end to OMB control

 

Arms-length board undermines council’s ability to plan communities, critics say

INVITING QUEBEC HOME...

Each week the Post imagines the life of a notable newsmaker. This week, ex-Quebec Premier Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois Dear Diary: 'What stings the most is that I lost to a Quebec-hating federalist zombie'

TOP TEN...(Colbert???)

DEFINE "INJUSTICE!"

* from perspective of  first nation elected officials

* from perspective of second nation voters asking what happens to the $6 billion sent from Ottawa each year 

Ravina Bains, National Post 

Turning a blind eye to injustice at home

How can Canada champion democracy abroad while ignoring dysfunctional elections on First Nations reserves?

• John Ivison: First Nations education deal the best sign Conservatives are finally focused on governing
• Attawapiskat band member vows to appeal Theresa Spence’s re-election amid voting controversy

FIRST THE SCAPEL, THEN REHABILITATION...

WYNNER, McGOONTY, VOTERS, VASELINE POLITICS...

Dates, details key to who knew what — and when — in gas plants scandal
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Liberals tout billions in Toronto area transit spending 
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Kathleen Wynne insists alleged gas plants 'coverup’ didn’t occur on her watch  
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Gas-plant scandal exposes Liberal rifts  

 Kathleen Wynne insists alleged ‘coverup’ didn’t occur on her watch

 
Premier Kathleen Wynne insists the alleged destruction of government emails happened on former Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty’s watch, not hers.

Wynne was answering a question on Newstalk 1010 radio Sunday about her role in the ‎so-called gas plants “coverup” and whether her own computer had been wiped clean.

“The allegations that have been made, the allegations that have been in the public realm now, are allegations against the former premier’s chief of staff,” she said.

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Low on cash and ideas, Liberals recycle old plans: Cohn 

POLITICS A LA LAYTON/LEFTWING...

Put On A Costume And Get Ethnic Vote

• Justin Trudeau: Riding high after one year as Liberal leader 

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DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH YOUR BIC MAC?

Rex Murphy on Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Universities have become factories for reinforcing opinion

...they have to be prepared for their future jobs!

UNIVERSITY GRAD

  Summer jobs in the age of the screwed generation: You might as well give up now

Now that summer break has arrived for you university and college students, it’s time to decide what your dream job is, because you’ll be thinking about it a lot while you rot in some summer-job cesspool. That’s probably hard to … Continue Reading

RUSH FINALLY GET'S ANOTHER SHOT AT CENTER STAGE...

CBS has 'declared war on America's heartland': Rush Limbaugh furious at Stephen Colbert hiring

Rush Limbaugh has blasted CBS for giving the Late Show to Stephen Colbert, the comedian who made his career playing a right-wing blowhard partially based on Limbaugh

Cleaning ALL The Dog Poop Off Your Shoe...

...is the task of WYNNER dealing with poop & stoop Mcgoonty style of governing.

Scott Stinson: NDP has little to worry about, Ontario governments lose their nerve for privatizing when they actually try to do it

Ontario governments of all stripes have ultimately lost their nerve when they get past talking about privatization

• Kelly McParland: McGuinty sell-off plan resurrected as Liberals scrape for cash

DIVERSITY, DESIGNATED GROUPS, ETC. DESTROY DEMOCRACY...

Canada is not a smorgasboard where new arrivals choose the bits they like

...and allow many people a free ride to the benefits/protection that CANADIAN CITIZENS fought and died for and who pay the bills.

CRA ALWAYS GETS IT POUND OF FLESH...SO GET

SO GET OUT THE CHEQUEBOOK

BEING A HOSIER...

PRIORTIZING LIFE

FACING REALITY

YOU'RE PLAYING IN THE REAL WORLD NOW...

KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS,,,

Slacktivism: Is something better than nothing?

By

Megan Stacey

| April 11, 2014

Changing the world, one Facebook post at a time. Does that sound wrong to you too?
Activism is such a fluid concept. There are a million ways to contribute to a cause or be a part of an activist community, and every day we see new strategies for generating engagement and excitement. And that's awesome. Activism is not an exclusive club.
The use of Facebook, Twitter, and new media is an awesome way to merge education, entertainment, and activism. It's accessible, it's 24/7, and it's attractive to young people and other hard-to-reach demographics.

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HEARTBLEED...

THREE R'S & FN...

Learning the hard way

A look at the chronic shortages that plague Canada’s First Nations schools. A SERIES OF ARTICLES THAT MIGHT ENLIGHTEN U...

Will My Taxes Go Down...

...it IS TIME to start looking at REAL public broadcasting (PBS)

Reality 1     CBC Staffers 0

Fiscal reality has hit the CBC and some people are freaking out.

h/t Plainzdrifter and Robert of Ottawa

By Robert on April 11, 2014 10:00 AM |

Ten percent, Two years

Lacroix, you let this 'crisis' go to waste. So much for the much hyped, cuts at CBC.
When my job was eliminated, the percentage of cuts were much bigger and had about 2 months of grace. I feel bad for anyone let go, it sucks. I'm a three time veteran, four if you count the one that was deserved. I've found though that usually it's the best thing that happens.

By lance on April 10, 2014

Thanks GARY...

KUDOS TO PARENTS...

...the examples of your success with your children's vocabulary can be heard on public transit at the end of the school day, etc.

Christie Blatchford: If you are going to swear, at least do it well

The key to successful swearing lies, as with much else, in practice. It is only when the speaker is fully at ease herself that she will be able to employ, for instance, that most glorious Anglo-Saxon expletive

• Barbara Kay: Swearing in public? That’s fuddle-duddle
• Are swears becoming so common they aren’t even profanity anymore? F— that!

REX MURPHY...IMHO can be truly called a JOURNALIST!

Rex Murphy | April 12, 2014

Universities exist to challenge ideas. Nowadays they're more likely to reinforce prejudice

• Barbara Kay: Brandeis core values are offensive to the core
• Islamophobia pales beside Muslim anti-Christian actions, Ayaan Hirsi Ali says

Northbound Allen Expressway could close for nearly two years 

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Councillor Joe Mihevc said construction is already making life difficult for people who live and work along Eglinton. 

“I am very supportive of this project as are people in our community. We would look at this request from Metrolinx very seriously. We want to see (the Eglinton Crosstown LRT) done as quickly as possible,” he said.
  (This is the councilor who ramrodded The St. Clair Right Of Way Project and we all know how this debacle impacted on the city budget and the livelihood of the local residents.)

R.I.P. THANK YOU...

Flaherty a stabilizing force

QUIT BITCHING AND COMPLAINING...

Our loss is heaven’s gain’: Kayla Baker dies on New Year’s Day

PRINT & PUT ON FRIDGE DOOR

Frank Baker lifted his daughter Kayla out of her hospital bed and softly placed the teen into a wheelchair.
That was last Easter Sunday.
It was a simple, yet touching display of fatherly gentleness and strength.

“It was the way he did it,” said Cambridge Mayor Doug Craig, who handed Kayla a snuggly blanket at Sick Kids Hospital that day.
“It was loving and tender.”
Three days later, Kayla got a new donor lung. Nine months later, she’s gone.
Her new donor lung, holding the promise of a long life after her own lungs had hardened into uselessness, slowly failed. Cancer, which she had beaten as a baby, returned. Her kidneys shut down. The breathing tank she worked so hard to shed, returned to her side.
Late on New Year’s Day, Kayla Baker died.
Her family and friends surrounded her. She was immersed in their love on her final Christmas, like french fries smothered in gravy and cheese in the poutine she so adored.
Now, a city is in mourning.
Many of the green ribbons put in place to show her support during her transplant and during the city’s Santa Claus Parade – she was absentee grand marshal – remain in place.
City flags lowered in tribute to Kayla on Thursday.
“She might not physically be here, but she will still continue to inspire,” her mom Susan said.
Susan said the family was doing as well as they could be expected to.
The city – with the old, emotional partitions of Galt, Hespeler and Preston crumbling in the powerful wake of Kayla’s cheerful charm – was unified in its grief.
The Compassionate Care team at her high school, St. Benedict, met in the afternoon. The entire student body, decked out in green, had gathered outside for a group photo showing their support in April. An entire school now mourns.
The tears of 11,000 Facebook page followers have poured post-after-post into her massive electronic memory book.
Kayla, who turned 15 in hospital, never returned home after the lung transplant.
She had been unlucky, her mom suggested last month, after cancerous lumps appeared in Kayla’s body. She had beaten a two-year wait for a new lung.
Why must she fight cancer again? Why does each hurdle lead to another? The staggering steeplechase of her life never got her down, her friend Sarah Taylor said.
“I rarely saw a negative in her,” said Taylor, whose own husband Keith is doing well after his own lung transplant a year ago.
Try to deny Kayla her daily poutine and she might shoot you an evil look, said Taylor, who visited Kayla a week ago after Christmas.
But otherwise, she was full of positive energy. She embraced her role as a poster child for organ donation. She began her own charity www.runalung.caand her name helped raise money for Sick Kids Hospital.
“She was given lemons and she was making a boatload of lemonade,” Taylor said.
And when doctors allowed, she ate a boatload of poutine, too. She opened bushel loads of cards from well-wishers around the world.
Celebrities came to see her. Television vampires, puck-chasing Maple Leafs and professional boxers were drawn to her little corner of the world.
“Because she was in the spotlight, so many people wanted to help her,” Taylor said.
“And yet, she would be posting pictures of lost dogs or reading stories about families that didn’t have something for Christmas.”
Then, she would turn to her mother and ask a question.
“What can we do? How can we help?” she asked.
Maybe one day, someone will receive a donor organ because Kayla’s efforts to raise awareness led someone new to sign a donor card. Maybe it’s already happened.
With more than 1,700 new donors registered between last April and September, Cambridge has a donor rate of 30 per cent. The provincial average, according to www.beadonor.ca, is 24 per cent.
“She and her story made a difference,” Taylor said.
From Easter Sunday until New Year’s Day, it was an emotionally overwhelming experience for a city deeply invested into a young girl’s fight for life.
Nine months ago, a wave of green-ribbon euphoria covered the city as a donor lung was found after a long two-year wait.
On Thursday, Cambridge had the wind knocked out of it. Kayla Baker was gone. Her supporters, like Carol Thorman, put on a face as brave as Kayla’s.
“Our loss is heaven’s gain,” Thorman said.

ANOTHER SIGN LATENIGHT IS GOING IN THE DUMPSTER...

Colbert to replace Letterman as Late Show host

CBS has announced that The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert will be taking over for David Letterman when he retires as host of The...

WHY HAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT...

Eglinton LRT plan calls for $150 million in streetscaping

...LET THE TAXPAYER ENJOY THE HOLISTIC NATURE IN THE $150M STREETSCAPING!

 

 

IS THIS A SURPRISE TO ANYONE?

Ten percent, Two years

Lacroix, you let this 'crisis' go to waste. So much for the much hyped, cuts at CBC

When my job was eliminated, the percentage of cuts were much bigger and had about 2 months of grace. I feel bad for anyone let go, it sucks. I'm a three time veteran, four if you count the one that was deserved. I've found though that usually it's the best thing that happens.

By lance on April 10, 2014 1:30 PM

IS LAXER SUGGESTING DISBANDING TTC UNIONS...

Free transit: Three reasons it is an idea whose time has come 

Apr 11 2014 |  

Michael Laxer

Free transit is an idea whose time has come and there are three truly significant reasons it needs to be front and centre as an ultimate objective in any left municipal agenda in Canada.

 

YOUR Taxman Under ATTACK?

Heartbleed bug prompts disabling of federal government public websites

R.I.P.

Putting aside politics to mourn Flaherty

BOWING DOWN TO THE EAST...

...makes us willing participants to religious sodomy!

 

Too many still fear offending Islam

Allowing sharia law sets dangerous precedent

In a genuinely shocking decision it was announced this week that sharia principles are to become enshrined in the British legal system, with the Law Society of the United Kingdom publishing guidelines for drawing up documents according to Islamic rules. These rules would allow lawyers to, for example, write Islamic wills which will have the power...