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Yet more proof that the socialist’s hands off approach to homelessness is not working in Toronto – beggars everywhere downtown.  When my wife and I dared venture from our suburban enclave to go see a play in the downtown area, our first greeting was at the parking ticket machine by a guy looking like the picture to the left, except with his hands out.  Because I am a tough headed conservative who refuses to pay the bum tax, I issued a stern “out of change” to the bum, who then retreated to his camp on the sidewalk. 

His camp was beside another’s camp, obstructing the wheelchair access to the sidewalk’s corner.

On our short walk to the theater, another homeless person ran by, screaming, apparently for no reason.

Clearly, this is not a safe environment for most visitors, and as such, they stay away.

It’s too bad we didn’t elect a premier who’d do something about it.

Toronto’s decay continues.

The auditor general’s report on the billion dollar gun registry is almost worth starting another category for.  We’ll see.  In the meantime, a group from CUFOA will be protesting the latest deadline on parliament hill.  Since Canada is becoming so urban, interest probably isn’t what it should be.  The fact that it cost $1 billion tax dollars and counting with no results should be a major reason for Canadians to WAKE UP – but, Canadians will bend over for another year and nothing will change.

Underlying our apparently peaceful democracies is the idea that the ultimate rampart against tyranny lies in the resistance of the people. This is not only an American and a French idea, but also a very English one.

TheStar.com – 1 dead, 2 hurt in weekend attacks… and not one gun was registered.  Now that the public is wise to the Fed’s useless and bankrupting gun registry, why don’t we scrap it?  The people of Scarborough sure can see that it hasn’t made their streets any safer.

Williams’ death is the city’s 60th homicide of the year, the 28th by a gun.

“There’s an awful lot of guns available to a lot of youth in the city, and the youth seem to take life for granted,” police Detective Gerry Cashman said.

I’ve started a petition against the Canadian signing of the Kyoto protocol.  Anyone wanting to pile on, feel free to sign it.

One of the great things about xmas is the many light shows people put on their houses.  Around the GTA, we’ve found some great ones.  A house on Terryellen Cr. in Etobicoke has his lights hooked up to a computer – and his show goes on for 15 mins before it recycles.

Another house on Eyer Cr. in Pickering has one of the best Christmas displays in the east.

A house on Benjamin Boake Cr. in Downsview has a great display.  The paper wrote that this guy spends two weeks to build his display.

Any more good displays?  Leave a comment – and we’ll save them for next year!

It’s nice to see that the Supreme Court of Canada agrees with me that marriage actually means something, and as such, the courts will treat a married couple’s assets in a divorce/breakup differently than those of a common law couple.

Thousands of common-law couples living in Canada will be affected by a new court ruling.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that common-law couples do not have the same rights as married couples when it comes to splitting up their property after a break up or divorce.

If a marriage ends in divorce, the assets are generally divided up evenly among the spouses.

According to the ruling, this will not be the case with the common-law spouses. They can only sue for those shared assets which they contributed to

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one sick of Ernie eves and his waffling and wanting to be everything to everyone….Worthington writes that he believes its the Blue Torys like myself who are going to cause Eves problems in the next election by staying away.

If Premier Ernie Eves doesn’t think his “family” life should be an issue in the next provincial election, he’d better think again.

It most certainly will be an issue—among blue Tories if not among Liberals and the NDP.

In a beat-up story in The National Post—that is, one generated in the fervid mind of the reporter—Mr. Eves said if the opposition tries to exploit his relationship with Isabel Bassett (his so-called “life partner”) it would boomerang and offend Canadians who are more “tolerant” these day about unmarried relationships.

I am not so hung up on his shacking up – although it’s wrong, even at his age – but I’m very offended by his leaving his girlfriend in charge of TVO.  I’m also offended that TVO even exists, to be honest – another sunken plan in the now thoroughly shelled SS Mike Harris.

I’ve made it public that I’ve canceled my Tory membership – whether I vote Tory or protest next election remains to be seen.

I’ve said this many times before: The Toronto Sun has some of the most lucent letter writers.  It’s too bad they don’t archive their site in any way…so I have to reprint the letter in its entirety. 

For those who don’t know, Toronto cannot seem to deal with its own garbage – and has wasted untold millions studying what to do with it.  Incinerators have been an overlooked option the whole time – for no good reason other than the powerful environazis.

AMAZING! WE spend $40 million of taxpayers’ money to dump garbage in Michigan – some 2.7 million tonnes per year, or 54,000 round-trip truckloads on Hwy 401. What’s the total bill? If the money we spend for garbage trucks and that given to Michigan was spent on electricity generating incinerators, we could generate enough electricity in the GTA to cover a great deal of our electrical requirements. Incinerators are used world wide. Instead of burying garbage, creating future water problems, beating up the roads, annoying our neighbour to the south, we could use the money to generate electricity, and be productive. Incredibly, we already have an incinerator in Peel that has been generating electricity for years and hardly anyone knows it’s there. A few years ago, we wasted another $100 million looking for a landfill south of Bolton. How much more will we waste? Where is our leadership? Tell me I’m missing something?

Blaine H. Mitton

Merry Xmas to all readers of this blog.  We’re happy to report to you that we will not be wishing you a Happy Holidays, as is politically correct.  Since Christmas is a Christian holiday, it is simply ridiculous to leave out the word Christmas.

An article in the Star a few days ago went on to say how bad gridlock will be in the GTA soon. 

Without major changes, Greater Toronto’s dependence on the automobile will endure even as gridlock worsens, a consultant says.

That means much more time sitting in traffic, says a report by IBI Group.

Well, I dug up an article on Sam Cass’ Plan – a plan that would have saved most of the mess we’re in today. 

Sam Cass is a man with a plan—a vision crafted 36 years ago that would have kept traffic off city streets and running smoothly.

Ask him why we have gridlock now and he’ll give you three reasons: Bill Davis, Bill Davis and Bill Davis.

More subways to no where or billion dollar streetcar runs aren’t going to solve anything.

Looks like there’s a new book out – Fight Kyoto by Ezra Levant. 

It looks like it’s self published, so I believe you have to order directly. 

Looks like a good read.

Reports are in for some of the first victims of the ill-conceived Kyoto disaster.

CALGARY – Fallout from the freshly ratified Kyoto Protocol hit home in the oilpatch yesterday when a major U.S. brokerage listed the climate treaty as a reason for downgrading one of Canada’s largest oil companies.

Uncertainty about the cost of complying with Kyoto, signed by Jean Chr?tien on Monday, led Lehman Bros. analyst Thomas Driscoll to cast doubt on the outlook for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and its massive $8-billion oilsands project in northern Alberta.

Now that people are already starting to lose money, maybe we’ll see a groundswell to cancel this foolish treaty.

Kenneth Green on the government’s gift of coal for every Canadian.  Green cards will trade for quite the premium in a few years if the government dares to follow through with actual legislation.

Thanks to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, which the government is expected to ratify today, Canadians are going to get a huge lump of coal for Christmas this year, and for many years to come.

I’ve got this site, The Canadian Loudmouths, in my blogroll on the left – but again, this site is truly a great read for all you Canadians who hate the Liberals as I do.

Hats off to the author.

Since it’s virtually impossible to stop the Liberals this decade and its dictatorial leader, the only silver lining in the this whole Kyoto mess they are foisting on us is that it’s a muddled, half-hearted committment.  In other words, the Liberals will probably never follow up their signing of this with any legislation at all. 

In other words, what the House of Commons did on Tuesday afternoon was to hold a purely symbolic vote on ratification, which will then be followed by a unilateral decision by the Prime Minister to ratify the protocol, even though he only plans to meet about half of its terms. All of this is being done as a gesture of support for a treaty that most of the world’s top polluters didn’t sign, which is designed to combat a phenomenon that even the world’s leading climate experts can’t agree on.