Am I the only one that thinks that the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear this case is wrong?
The English-speaking owners of a Quebec antique shop have lost a bid to overturn a section of Bill 101, the provincial language law, that requires French to be predominant on commercial signs.
Who says our courts are unbiased? To me, this smacks of not wanting to interfere in a sovereignty issue.
Newsday.com – Grandmother mauled to death by family’s pit bulls.
Oh ya, they’re safe dogs.
These dogs need to be banned in Toronto, at least. They’re bred for one purpose: to kill. How many more stories do we need to read about these dogs killing before something’s done?
An 80-year-old woman was mauled to death by two pit bull dogs that she had known since they were puppies, Bergen County authorities said Tuesday.
Here’s the real reason the Liberals set up and continue to push the gun registry – despite its massive cost overruns.
But saving lives was not the point. Pandering was the point. How else to understand the Liberals’ despicable defence of the indefensible? Is it ideology that makes Mr. Rock and his cronies so dishonest? Or is it cynicism and opportunism? And can they even tell the difference any more?
A great article by Margaret Wente on the 1984
like propaganda that is the Kyoto debate in Canada today.
But the real eye opener is their account of how the politics of global warming has produced a doctrine of certainty in public discourse. It starts with pressure from environmentalists and the public, who convince policymakers that something should be done, who appoint sympathetic experts to head up massive studies, who hire like-minded people to carry them out, which are then synthesized by bureaucrats into executive summaries from which all doubt and uncertainty have been stripped away. These summaries are said to be the “consensus view,” and are used as the ultimate authority invoked by politicians to justify their calls for urgent action.
Dr. Essex and Dr. McKitrick call this phenomenon “the convection of certainty.” This certainty is then amplified by the media, which search out stories that appear to further prove the doctrine. Is the ice melting early in the Arctic? Must be global warming.
Go buy their book, Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science,…, if you want to get a real idea of what is going in.
The first casualty here is truth…and believe me, this is a war on the Canadian citizen…
GM, after sending out pink slips in London this week, is warning Kyoto will hurt Canadian auto sector.
“It’s one integrated industry,” Grimaldi said.
“As soon as the government potentially starts separating markets by putting in place different regulations, you tear at the very heart of the basic strategy that underlines how all the manufacturers do business here in Canada as well as across North America.”
Email the MP for Oshawa and tell him what you think of this accord. Especially you autoworkers at the Big Plant.
As usual, some of the best commentary is found on Letters to the Editor pages across this country.
SO KING Jean has decreed all will be well if each Canadian reduces his/her “greenhouse gas” emissions by one tonne per year.
Where would I make the cuts, Jean?
I don’t own a car any more (relative income has fallen over the years), I don’t have an air conditioner sopping up kilowatts (I simply sweat and suffer), I rarely cook at home or use my oven, and when I do cook, I use my microwave. I only watch about four hours of TV per week, and I read using a 25-watt bedside lamp.
I run my dishwasher once a week. I never put my laundry in a dryer – I hang-dry it in my apartment. I don’t use dry-cleaning services.
I don’t smoke.
I don’t fly around for vacations. I paddle a canoe, instead of using a power boat (but I’d love to be able to roar around the lakes … ).
How much farther down the lifestyle rungs must I descend, to find my share of the cut?
Per UN data, Canada produces approximately 2% of the world’s total greenhouse gases. But “Mr. Legacy” feels the requirements of Kyoto are “worth the costs.”
Will he personally be willing to tell the holders of the 244,000 jobs to be lost (Liberal figures) that they must lose their jobs so Canada can cut 6% or 10% of the 2% we put into the atmosphere?
What possible difference will this make to the planet, when China, India, Venezuela, etc., are running unfettered?
Billions lost, hundreds of thousands of families impacted, so we can cut three tenths of a percent of the world total output?
Larry Grosfield
Peterborough
(Chretien’s headlong rush to embrace the Kyoto protocol could prove the biggest Liberal disaster yet. Some legacy!)
Every now and then, some letter writer says it way better than I can.
Time to get rid of Rock.
TheStar.com – Thanks to Rock, I didn’t get shot
Thanks to Rock, I didn’t get shot
Allan Rock says that he is proud to be associated with the $1-billion gun registration program because it saves 300 lives a year.
Although I would be fascinated to learn the mathematical formula he used to come up with this number, I will, for the sake of argument, give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he has acquired some sort of amazing Star Trek-like abilities and can now tell what would have occurred in alternate realities.
It’s comforting to see that there is another uprising in the Liberal party, this time against the arrogant Alan Rock.
Ontario Liberal MPs Beno?t Serr? and Alex Shepherd both said that Allan Rock, the Industry Minister, should resign over the cost overruns because the former justice minister was the architect of the registry.
While it doesn’t look like the government will fall over this, it still is good to see the most effective opposition to the government is from within.
Never thought I’d say this: a liberal that makes sense.
A Liberal MP is calling on Industry Minister Allan Rock to resign over the $1-billion federal gun registry fiasco.
Benoit Serre said Rock is responsible for the nearly $1-billion cost overrun in the program because he was the architect of the registry when he was justice minister.?I think that this whole fiasco rests squarely on the shoulders of Allan Rock,? said Serre, who represents the Northern Ontario riding of Timiskaming-Cochrane.
?He was given that file and everybody told him what was going to happen and he did not listen. … He?s cost the treasury close to $1 billion unnecessarily.?
…bridge from our little man from Quebec? If you’re making multi-million dollar decisions, would you risk capital based on his words? At a speech yesterday, he wanted everyone to know that everything would be alright.
Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien says it is time to “put aside the rhetoric” on the Kyoto protocol and focus on making it work for all Canadians.
Chr?tien, who said yesterday MPs will vote on ratification of the climate-change accord on Monday, tried to reassure Albertans last night they will not pay a heavy price for its passage despite dire warnings from oil and gas industry executives and Premier Ralph Klein.
“We will not sacrifice the Canadian economy
This from the man that said he would scrap the GST – but didn’t.
This from a man who said that the gun registry would cost 2 million, then 100 million, and now we learn its over 1 billion.
He said the $1-billion Liberal gun registry was “an example of what happened when the government sets targets without a plan.
“How can Canadians trust the government on Kyoto or anything else when it is running 500 times over budget on the gun registry?” he said in the Commons.
Mr. Harper said he blames “the entire Cabinet” for the mess.
Why aren’t Canadians rioting in the streets over this waste?
Another victim of Canada’s foolish justice system was claimed on the weekend. The suspect, who had been on bail release on charges of attempted murder, killed the victim in a fight.
A former actor on the Degrassi television series was out on bail on an attempted murder charge when he was arrested Saturday in the beating death of a stranger.
Tyson Stewart Talbot, 30, who appeared on four episodes of the popular Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Jr. High TV series, is charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of Christopher Shelton, 23, a University of Toronto student and a bartender at the Hilton hotel.
Shelton, who was engaged, died at St. Michael’s hospital after suffering blunt force injuries to the head. The former model, who had worked in Milan and New York, was knocked unconscious and then kicked in the head at 3:30 a.m. Friday by a man after an argument erupted at a Broadview Ave. and Gerrard St. Chinese restaurant.
A source said Talbot had been released from custody on bail pending the resolution of a charge of attempted murder in connection with a stabbing on Danforth Ave. March 23.
One of the few things our government should be doing is protecting its citizens. What a pity they think someone who stabbed another in the neck is safe to roam the streets while awaiting a trial.
What are our judges doing?
The gun registry sinkhole is costing a fortune, and Canadians are not one bit safer knowing what gun owner’s gun has killed them.
The amount spent on the controversial federal program established in 1995 — expected to reach $1-billion by 2004 — is more than 10 times its original price tag, critics complain.
Critics complain? If the general public knew what a sinkhole this was, with really no measurable results, they would be outraged. It appears that the government isn’t going to advertise the fact that they’ve wasted all this money in any advertising campaign (as they’re doing with Kyoto).
The auto industry is finally speaking out against Kyoto. Not that the industry needs another reason to leave Canada to the subsidized south.
Canada would be placed at a competitive disadvantage because our major trading partner, the United States, has rejected the environmental agreement, Mr. Power said. Southern U.S. states such as Alabama, Mississippi and others already have an economic advantage because of huge financial incentives they’re willing to dole out to attract auto makers.
Parts makers are already following those customers south, with Decoma itself a case in point. The subsidiary of Aurora, Ont.-based Magna International Inc. will construct a plant in Georgia to supply a Mercedes-Benz assembly facility in Alabama.
The truth about the actual cost of Kyoto is slowly leaking out, despite the PM. Surely the PM and Martin would not support this foolish agreement if the ignorant public was not for it, since this government makes policy by poll.
Among U.S. investors with a particular interest in Canadian industry, 90% warned Kyoto’s ratification would hurt the energy sector and 60% said they would re-evaluate their investments if the treaty moves ahead by year-end as Mr. Chr?tien has vowed.
At risk are Alberta megaproject investments by U.S. interests eager to secure a reliable energy supply for the U.S. market.
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