Monthly Archives: June 2003

Mystery

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This story is fascinating to me…mainly because I lived in this “posh” building and had a locker on the same floor.  Eerie, to say the least.  On a moral level, all I can ask, again, is where is the father in this woman’s children’s lives?  As usual, no mention, because in 2003, the father is still not important.

There was time for a bedside confession. JoAnne Patterson knew the cancer she had fought against for seven years was going to kill her.

In fact, when she died on June 6, 2001, she had already said her goodbyes, made sure her sizable estate was in order and signed the papers that gave her best friends guardianship of her 15-year-old daughter.

Steyn Box

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More clues surface in Mark’s Mailbox that he has left the Post…I hope he lands somewhere so we can get some Canadian content to his writings…

THE BRUTAL AFGHAN WINTER HITS DON MILLS

Is it true? Have you given up on Canada?

Google and blogs

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Google is upgrading its toolbar, and adding a blog this button.

Another new feature is BlogThis, which lets people immediately create a posting on their blog about a site they are visiting. By clicking the BlogThis button on the toolbar, bloggers can automatically insert a link and highlighted text into their blog instead of having to move back and forth and cut and paste between the Web page and the blogging tools. Blogs are Web diaries that let people share their personal and professional lives through words, links, photos and so on.

Google can only raise the profile of blogs – they sure have come a long way quickly.

Darwin Awards

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Here’s a story that hopefully the kid will be around to read when he’s old enough (and far away enough from his parents) to read.

A husband thinks he should be prosecuted for his wife’s alleged failure to stop driving while she breastfed their baby on the Ohio Turnpike. Catherine Nicole Donkers, 29, is to go on trial Aug. 6 on misdemeanour charges of child

Get out

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Another story illustrating the fact that the government is in too many businesses it shouldn’t be.  Why it needs to run a now run-down theme park is beyond me.

The provincial government gave Ontario Place $2.3 million to quietly pay Cara Foods when the company wanted out of a controversial contract, the Star has learned.

Hate on government

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It’s no wonder people hate government.  They try and do too much, and what they do do, they screw up. 

After tons of effort and public posturing, a do-nothing MP named Dennis Mills who never says a thing is finally in the news – he’s confirmed the Stones for a taxpayer party.  Never mind that it will do nothing for Toronto – it makes it seem like he is doing something.

Ottawa will cough up $3 million to have the Rolling Stones headline a SARS concert in Toronto, CTV News reported today.

Meanwhile, 12 months after the first power crisis, we can’t be sure there will be any electricity to listen to these old farts.  Why the hell are we still in this power mess?  Because government is way too involved in the electric business – for no good reason.

Meanwhile, this idiot still doesn’t get that it’s not his money.

George Radwanski quit as federal privacy commissioner yesterday, accepting a four-month severance package worth about $79,000 but crying foul all the way to the bank.

Loudmouth on Gay Marriage

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A great post by the Loudmouth Canadian on homosexual marriages, and gay-speak.

Sit back in your armchair, brother; you might as well be physically comfortable while the social engineering police change your moral and social world. Of course, there are people out there cheering the government cave-in on same-sex marriage.

Reverse Discrimination

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Reader Bryan Stevens writes to me about a CHUM site (ie. CityTV) that wants you only if you fit into their long list of diverse people.  Being a white male ain’t one of them.

-must be member of a diverse* group or come with a diverse* creative team that includes a Writer and Director (the writer and director may be one and the same).

More social engineering.

Whither the Post

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Canada’s only (former) conservative newspaper, the National Post, seems to be whithering away and preparing to merge with the Toronto Star.  Enter Stage Right reports that Mark Steyn has removed the National Post logo from his website.

THIS RELATIONSHIP IS OVER: Well, since none of my other fellow Canadian bloggers have noticed this, I’m afraid I’m going to have say the Last Rites. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Steyn and the National Post are now officially finished with each other.

Christie Blatchford is also leaving, heading to the Globe.

I’d be surprised if the Post made it to the end of the year in its current form.

Brilliant discussion

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This is the greatness of the blogsphere: discovering gems like this – complete with amazing comments from great readers.

This whole Zimbabwe mess makes me think that actually something much bigger may be going on than merely the struggle between these bad guys (in power) and these good guys (not yet in power). WHat if things in Africa just keep on getting worse and worse, and what if the decision that we all, in our nice safe countries, have eventually to make about Africa is not which ones are the nice Africans whom we should be helping, but whether to try to rescue the entire place by conquering it, again.

The Samizdata post also pointed me to Kim du Toit – who has a great post on the African mess.