Monthly Archives: May 2003

Adopt an Indian

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Is there anything than can be done for the Indians besides forking over millions of dollars and having them burned up, short of facilitating the adoption of these kids to “southern” Canadian families?

Innu teenagers and children, some as young as four, are behind “pervasive” acts of vandalism that have delayed completion of a $152-million community being built for former residents of Davis Inlet, police say.

Such a cycle of despair cannot be broken with billions of dollars that we give annually…

Adopt an Indian

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Is there anything than can be done for the Indians besides forking over millions of dollars and having them burned up, short of facilitating the adoption of these kids to “southern” Canadian families?

Innu teenagers and children, some as young as four, are behind “pervasive” acts of vandalism that have delayed completion of a $152-million community being built for former residents of Davis Inlet, police say.

Such a cycle of despair cannot be broken with billions of dollars that we give annually…

UK: And this is how it ends

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An amazing entry with a huge comments section on how Britain is about to cede its sovereignty to the Brussels bureaucrats.

If there are any talented graphic designers out there perhaps they might want to grasp this opportunity to design a symbol that will, from now on, represent the ‘Country formerly known as Britain’.

Expensive Witchhunt

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The costs are starting to be added up in Crouton’s political witchhunt of Mulroney…

The RCMP spent more than $2.7-million investigating Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister, over bribery allegations before closing the file last month, the National Post has learned.

Add this to the copters, the canceled Pearson airport deal…there outta be a law against this massive waste – with jail time.

Dandelions and SARS

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To me, prolific weeds all over public lands are akin to grafitti and litter, and they help promote the broken window theory.

Cocoran writes about the Dandelion festival – courtesy of no pesticides being used.

City council apparently has still another idea: Expand the city’s weed-infested public spaces to include all private property and create a permanent annual event: The Toronto Dandelion Festival.

Meanwhile, all this diversion to pesticides and putting chem companies out of business in Toronto seems to have reduced the SARS desk – there was noone to answer the phones today as SARS has flared up.

Priorities run amok, again at city council.

Break the Monopoly

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Anytime a monopoly can be broken, it should be – including the health care one.

If Montreal doctor Jacques Chaoulli and his patient, George Zeliotis, prevail before the Supreme Court of Canada, Canadians may soon be permitted to use their own money to purchase private health-care services that are also provided by the state health-care monopoly.

Cabbie Murder Trust Fund

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If you are ever going to feel sorry for someone, then feel sorry for the cabbie in this story. Feel bad for the two small kids he’s left behind – and donate to the bank in the article.  He probably had very little life insurance, too.

Marry a corpse

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A very good British Blog, Samizdata, writes about the impending death of its nation’s political autonomy.

Suddenly it is dawning on them that the battle has now reached the very last ditch almost unnoticed, whilst the mass of people sleepwalk towards the end of a thousand years of evolving political culture. Lose this one and there will be no more political means left for opposition. No doubt the perpetual growth of mass surveillance and the impending introduction of ID cards at this time is just a coincidence. Sure.

Welcome to a dying nation.

What a blog is…

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If you are a blogger and have to explain to your friends what one is, Jim Currie has a link:

A weblogger surveys the vast world of the web and carefully arranges what’s out there, presenting it in a new form. … What makes blogs work so well is that it’s a person, not a computer, doing the link picking, a person with specific taste that we appreciate.

Who cares?

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I suppose history and I will hardly care about the Monica story in 30 years – just like I hardly care about the Kennedy intern coming forward after all these years.  Great cartoon, however.

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Burned evidence

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Blatchford writes today about how the Crown’s prosecution of Stephen Williams is more about his criticism of the Crown and its publication bans/deals than of breaking these bans.

The truth is, Mr. Williams’ real offence was not in getting copy of the Crown brief…scrutinize the folks whose actions or ineptitude collectively led to the pact with the devil…

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Father of 3

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I’ve got a section in my discussion forums that lists tragedies – people that are dealt a bad hand in life through no fault of their own.  Here’s a tragedy that illustrates how someone who works hard can have his life change forever.

A freak accident has forever changed the life of a Whitby father of three who was impaled in his car by a trailer that broke loose from a hitch yesterday.

Drawback

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One of the many disadvantages of having a lame duck PM who has no relationship with his biggest trading partner’s leader is that when it comes to discussing important issues that are negatively impacting Canadians, there is very little opportunity.

No formal talks have been scheduled between Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and U.S. President George W. Bush next week in Europe even though the two will cross paths twice at international meetings.

Beef is being banned, our lumber is being taxed, our garbage is being slowed down, their CDC is cautioning Americans not to come here – don’t you wish you had a leader that could meet with the President to fix these incredibly important problems?

Win for junk science

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In a not surprising “win” for junk science, Toronto City Council has voted to ban pesticides.

Councillor Rob Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) called the bylaw “the worst thing that could happen.”

“This whole city is going to be weeds, mice, rodents. It’s already dirty as it is. We have to clean it up.

“We’re losing our rights in this city. You can’t do anything and it’s your property. That’s dictatorship,” Ford said.

How is it that the only two sensible councilors at City Hall are from Etobicoke?

Good Muslims

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Good to see that there are some good Muslims that are speaking out for ending the jihad and its offshoots.

There were 58 brave and honest Palestinian men and women who signed this appeal. They included Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem representative and president of Al Quds University, and Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, the widely respected female member of the Palestinian Legislative Assembly and human rights activist.