Speaking of good faith, if Matas really wrote what Star reports, then he should have smarts and decency to resign from any and all organisations with which he is affiliated and wishes to protect, as he now appears a completely toxic character, and his continued participation in any group's activities would be very harmful to them. I mean, saying it, off-hand, could be understandable carelessness, and could be apologised for, but writing it? I don't see that any apology, under the circumstances, would be sufficient. My advice would be to put the collective welfare of groups and organisations with which he is affiliated above his own pride, and resign from all of them. He could always return in a year or two. But after writing this, if true, then his affiliation is doing them more harm than good.Star: In his analysis, board member David Matas even suggests that Beauregard went to bed the night he died with a heavy heart."A good faith explanation of his behaviour means that Beauregard wen...
After hearing this tragic news last night, I thought I would come out of my self-imposed hiatus to briefly pay tribute to Brendan Burke, the son of hockey giant and Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke, who died yesterday after a car accident in Indiana. According to reports, Brendan Burke was killed as heavy snow was falling on the roads north of Economy, Ind., near the Ohio border. The 2004 Jeep Cherokee in which he was riding reportedly slid into oncoming traffic and crashed into a truck going the other way, killing Burke and a friend. The driver of the truck survived. Brendan was tremendously brave last November when he told the world he was gay. The story seemed to re-start a conversation about rampant homophobia in the sports world. Although not a professional athlete himself, Brendan's admission did no doubt make a difference. He could've remained quiet like so many closeted athletes do. But instead he chose to speak out and promote the cause of equality and acceptance and, f...
What an incoherent jumble of views!Danielle Smith believes Albertans need to 'stop apologizing'.“We’re tired of being a victim, we’re tired of cowering, we’re tired of apologizing,” she said. “We have an immense amount of pride in our entrepreneurship, we have an immense amount of pride in the fact that we’re a society that take care of each other.” Smith believes that 'the science on climate change remains 'unsettled' the standard big polluter paid for disinformation trying to pretend there's a controversy on a subject with overwhelming agreement among climate scientists, but she still wants some kind of vague 'real' action on climate change just to protect Alberta's reputation.“The approach a lot of politicians have been taking is to acknowledge this is a target we want to reach, then do precisely nothing,” Smith said. “If we don’t do something material and important on the issue of CO2 emissions reductions, we will never be able to gain the credibility of ou...
Could racist whackjob Jim Pankiw pull enough votes from the homophobic but extremely hot Tory MP Brad Trost to throw Saskatoon-Humboldt to the NDP? Pankiw received 20% of the vote when he ran last.And is it wrong to support Evil to prevent a Greater Evil? How about contribute to its campaign?
... Nation, these found their way into my possession. I won't say how, but rest assured that after being fully vetted by the Premier's Office, and having passed my waterboarding interrogation session with flying colours, I've been allowed to post them by the PC Gestapo.August 3, 1979Dear Diary: Today was a GREAT day! OMG! Got to ride my new bike down the alley all the way to the end of the block - SO exciting! I LOVE my new bike!Ice cream man came down our block today - I got a Rocket - one of those Red/White/Blue ones, on a stick? SOOOO awesome! Weird thing, tho - the kid after me in line said "I want what Danielle got, too!" - was he WATCHING me? Creep. Conclusion? Jimmy Walton down the street is SPYING on me!February 12, 1981Dear Diary: SNOW DAY! No school today! Awesome. I was watching tv last night, and this show "Diff'rent Strokes" came on - pretty funny, I guess. I was talking to Suzie on the phone about how some of it was pretty lame-o. But the little guy in it (...
3. Average book sales are shockingly small, and falling fast.
Combine the explosion of new books with the declining total sales and you get shrinking sales of each new title. “Here’s the reality of the book industry: in 2004, 950,000 titles out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies. Another [...]
Tough news for the Toronto Maple Leafs and their general manager Brian Burke who's youngest son was killed in a car accident in snowy Indiana on Friday.The team issued a brief statement confirming the death of 21-year-old Brendan Burke. Brian Burke also is the general manager of the U.S. Olympic team."The National Hockey League grieves tonight for the family and friends of Brendan Burke, a young man of courage and character," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in a release. "Words simply cannot express our sorrow over his loss. We send our deepest, most heartfelt condolences to Brendan's father, Brian; his mother, Kerry; everyone in Brendan's family and all who were inspired by his love for hockey."Police in the Hoosier state told the Toronto Star that Burke was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee when the vehicle slid sideways into the path of a Ford truck. Burke's friend, 18-year-old Mark Reedy, also died in the accident.U.S. Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst said the USOC was "......
Yeah, I hate to be, like, you know, a pest or anything, but still ... I can't help but think that if Hugo Chavez's, or Fidel Castro's, or Vladimir Putin's, or Kim Jong-Il's troops had killed ten civilians (two adults and eight students), execution style, I don't think the MSM would collectively shrug their shoulders and/or assume that there was probably a good reason for this:“The delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan village in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took ten people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and ten, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead,” a statement on President Karzai’s website said. That was reported last month. Some of you may remember that.What the hell is going on? The US military offered its standard initial denials followed by gradual semi-confirmations.The long and the short of it is that ...
Yaaarrrgh! Hoist ye sails maties! We retreat westerly to ye Vancouver paradise! What's this? Great Uncle John's Corncob pipe! Politically aware Canadians on the high seas!Braid, Glover, Clement, Del Mastro to the Starboard side! Ready...aim...Talk! Talk! Talk! Talk!
http://tiny.cc/sbdec The Star analysis shows race, age and gender are big factors in who gets stopped. Looking at blacks and whites of all ages, blacks are three times more likely to be stopped. Male blacks aged 15-24 are stopped and documented 2.5 times more than white males the same age.James Morton1100-5255 Yonge StreetToronto, OntarioM2N 6P4416 225 2777
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Some Todd Bentley “stop press” items for your information.
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The evangelist’s return to the public eye continues apace, with a new TV interview. He notes on his Twitter feed…
IamToddBentley: School is going well. Just finished doing some filming with Lisa ling for a new tv series [...]
Go Australia! Stand up to the IOC bullies! It’s too bad the Canadians already folded, when we were holding most of the cards. We are hosting the 2010 games after all, we could tell the IOC to stick it, if it weren’t for limp-wristed Canadians like Dick Pound.
From 1996, this telling quote from Dick Pound:
But [...]
You already saw my post about the Big Belly, here’s another innovative concept: turbine powered street lights. And dang, they look good too!
Municipalities need to figure out how to reduce the operating cost of street lights. 1% of Milton’s property taxes go towards it.
Shorter Q & A with Con MP Stephen Woodworth on Stephen Harper's decision to shut down Parliament:Q: Why did Stephen Harper prorogue Parliament?A: I have faith in Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper is all-seeing and all-knowing. Stephen Harper works in mysterious ways, and has delivered unto us all the bounty in this world. Therefore, let us never question that if Stephen Harper chose to prorogue, then he was right in doing so.
Once again, the rhetoric of climate/weather conflation gets trotted out, raising the question... "Is this being done out of ignorance, or as part of an effort to exploit ignorance despite knowing better?"Which would be worse?Mocking the self-corrective mechanism inherent to scientific methodology as some kind of liability says more ironically about the mocker's own approach to objective truth v.s. dogma than it does science itself. The scientific debate between the Ptolemaic model and the Copernican one wasn't cause to reject either the notion of distant heavenly bodies in space or the methodology of science itself. The latter theory didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but instead improved upon it where the evidence overwhelmingly demanded so. Note the difference between that and true faith.It's only a theory! ROTFL!HAHAHA Lookit how science has corrected itself! "Settled science" was wrong again!OMG, check out the snow!These kinds of arguments might generate guffaws at th...
The Cons are apparently offering up a helpful example of the distorted balance of power between top-down parties and riding associations. But it's worth noting just how it is that they're seeking to protect Rob Anders from a riding association which wants him gone:The tumultuous history of the federal Conservative riding association in Calgary West continued this week with the Tory party's national council apparently assuming control of the association board....In a letter to the Calgary West riding association on Thursday, the national council said it would take control of this year's annual general meeting and will have the final word on any riding association spending."They haven't gone as far as disbanding the board," Anders said.So what's noteworthy about that decision to effectively take over the finances of the Calgary West riding association? Let's take a quick look at a few key terms of the Canada Elections Act as to who's responsible for the finances of an electoral district ...
Part way there, I stopped dead in my path, taken aback by what I saw. There were lots of them and they were huge and industrial looking. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, not believing what they were telling me. I think I even shook my head in disbelief. There on the horizon, dominating it, [...]
I'm guessing Rahm may be having quite the laugh over his point being ironically illustrated.Yes, the comment was probably a bit insensitive, but if you're so hard up for attention that you have to feign outrage over something like 6 months later, that says a lot.
by Patricia Grotenhuis Better Farming
A confrontational ratepayers meeting in the town of Durham last night left Municipality of West Grey council with no doubts that residents are concerned about a wind farm proposal for the area.
By the time question period rolled around, uniformed West Grey police officers were circling the crowd, reminding everyone to keep [...]
My friend Ezra Levant's sins are catching up with him. About time. This cheerful defamer, who calls torture victim Maher Arar a "liar," who refers to the respected Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui as an "anti-semite," who believes that British piracy laws should have been invoked to kill Omar Khadr and spare us all this crap about Charter rights, who engages in ugly character assassination against those who can't fight back, and mocks people for having disabilities, has run into his first roadside bomb.A complaint against him for professional misconduct has been upheld by the Alberta Law Society. Needless to say, this is being kept well under wraps by the Usual Suspects, who worship at the man's feet; indeed, we might not even have learned of it if Ezra hadn't raised the matter himself in the National Post, assuring us all that it was a minor scrape, nothing more, and besides, other complaints against him were dismissed.My pal Warren Kinsella is digging into this. Expect much.Mea...
