Every year or two we have to listen to Colin Thatcher tell everyone why he should be let out. Blatchford writes how we never get to hear from the brutalized victim.
Dead now more than two decades, JoAnn Wilson’s voice is only a whisper, arguably a whimper, at the ongoing early-parole hearing here of the man convicted in her savage murder.
One more reason why the faint hope clause is a waste of time and why we need the death penalty in Canada.
This is good news if it isn’t another false start to merge.
Emissaries from the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives have reached an agreement in principle to found a new party, and it now appears a movement is afoot to install former Ontario premier Mike Harris as leader.
Boy could we ever use some real opposition in Ottawa. This Liberal dictatorship is long in the tooth and needs to be derailed.
A Liberal win in Ontario may be the boost the new right party needs.
This is why Toronto taxes will never go down.
A controversial proposal to replace 41 full- and part-time cleaners in police buildings with staff provided by a private contractor has been turned down by council.
It would be interesting to know what these cleaners make per hour.
It’s also informative that banks contract out their cleaning – without incident.
Economically speaking, Samizdata discovered that Schwarzenegger is a libertarian.
I have often said that the two people who have most profoundly impacted my thinking on economics are Milton Friedman and Adam Smith.
We need a few of our politicians to read a few of Uncle Milte’s books.
If you haven’t read any coverage about the Bush speech to the UN, read Frum on the topic. He provides a link to the speech, and as usual, he makes far more sense than the mainstream media.
The press is disappointed because Bush neither apologized to the UN for ignoring it in Iraq, nor pleaded for its support. Instead, he vigorously defended American actions, and gently chided the UN for betraying its own stated principles.
If you haven’t read any coverage about the Bush speech to the UN, read Frum on the topic. He provides a link to the speech, and as usual, he makes far more sense than the mainstream media.
The press is disappointed because Bush neither apologized to the UN for ignoring it in Iraq, nor pleaded for its support. Instead, he vigorously defended American actions, and gently chided the UN for betraying its own stated principles.
I am for road tolls, if and only if they are actually used for roads.
“I know toll roads have a bad reputation,” but the public would accept them if they knew the money was going to a good cause, Pecaut said.
Like dedicated gas taxes, which are constantly being used as the saviour of gridlock, tolls will only go into general revenue. General revenue goes to the priority of the day, which in Toronto is usually homosexual theater groups or adding executive to the homeless board.
Say what you will about the 407 consortium: the road is expanded ahead of schedule every time and runs smoothly most of the time. Compare that to the pot-holed 401 or Gardiner.
Steyn has a flashback article that makes as much sense today as it did last year (nothing much changes in federal politics here). Last night, the CBC was absolutely giddy on King Paul’s ascension. Apparently CTV was too.
CTV only had time for one soundbite of the Alliance’s John Reynolds to represent the half-dozen of us who query the virtues of the one-party state.
The latest polls have the provincial Liberals sweeping Ontario.
Sad.
Just when you think you’ve heard of everything, you read this, and then you weep for the children.
A Victoria family is appealing to the public to help find their missing 13-year-old daughter, who is seven months pregnant.
Of course, there is no mention of the 13 year old’s father.
Joe weighs in on the homeless debate in Toronto. It’s really only an issue to those that live and work downtown, since every other street corner is “owned” by two or three people down there.
The issue of homelessness remains an immense source of frustration for me. Not only for the fact of their existence, but for the cowardly and cruel policies that perpetuate their misery.
Those in the suburbs don’t really care, since that’s why they’ve left downtown. It’s far easier to just to move away, since no-one seems capable of solving the issue.
Nickson says the feds won’t allow BC to develop its resources to keep them under their oppressive thumb.
Course, if I were the federal Liberals, I wouldn’t want British Columbia to be rich either. We might form common cause with that other rich province and actually force a little democracy onto Ottawa. Far better to let British Columbia slide further into structural decline, where we’re docile, and pliable.
More self-imposed self-terrorism.
Canada needs to decentralize now.
Frum reviews a book on the Susan Sarandons of the world, called Shut Up and Sing. ($US orders)
When the only ‘normal’ people you see are held back by security guards
while you walk through a rope line, you tend to get a jaundiced view of the
average American.
I am totally unimpressed with people that bite the hand that feeds them.
Ah, for the days when Miss America was judged soley on beauty in a bathing suit.
Sauerhammer is already an M.D. at age 22; Miss Virginia Nancy Redd and Miss Rhode Island Laurie Gray, are both recent Harvard University graduates; and Miss New Mexico Rana Jones, is a second-year law student.
I’m not saying it’s wrong to judge them on their education and talents, but no man cares how about long it takes a contestant to solve the quadratic equation.
Add more t&a and I’ll watch! Cut the cello playing!
Of course there were tragedies involving mothers dying before abortion was legal. Now we have the flipside, where abortion is legal – and readily available – apparently as close as your local pharmacist with a prescription. Now we have more girls dying for no reason.
The Alameda County coroner’s office is investigating the case of an 18- year-old East Bay woman who died Wednesday, days after reportedly taking the abortion pill RU-486.
If only we lived in a society where having a child and giving it up for adoption was an honorable alternative to killing a fetus. I doubt those pamphlets at Planned Parenthood were at the front and center of their display, as the RU486 pamplet probably was.
Young girls today seem to either keep their babies and live off the state, with no thought of obligating the sperm donor to contribute to the child’s welfare, or they kill the fetus.
The idea of delivering the baby and giving it to a growing legion of desperate 30-40 year old married couples seems to be very rare. No wonder couples are paying thousands for female Chinese babies.
A modern tragedy.
I am only posting this courtesy message to all because I have received the same “Newest Net Patch” from “Microsoft” at least 100 times in the last 2 days. It’s a very authentic looking email complete with instructions and a 156k file to run.
Needless to say, it’s obviously a virus. Delete it at once.
Microsoft Partner
this is the latest version of security update, the “September 2003, Cumulative Patch” update which fixes all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Update:This bulletin explains it all. I am now getting 1 email every 5 minutes. A tidal wave!
If you want my recommendation, remove MS Outlook from your system. Use Pegasus Mail instead. It’s even free.
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