The monster is finally dead.
Clifford Olson, the so-called “Beast of British Columbia” and one of Canada’s most infamous serial murders, has died.
Olson’s death was confirmed Friday afternoon by Terry Bizeau, mother of 15-year-old Terri Lyn Carson, one of Olson’s victims, who said she received a call from Corrections Canada.
It was learned on Sept. 21 that Olson was apparently dying of cancer with only days or weeks to live, according to families of Olson’s victims, who were given the news by Corrections Canada officials.
In 1981, Olson was arrested and eventually confessed to killing 11 children in British Columbia. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
“There’s a weight lifted off of my shoulders, a 30 year weight,” said Bizeau on Friday, speaking like someone in a mild state of shock “I don’t want to talk about it anymore. I’ve had it. I don’t care. I’m finished. That’s it.”
Friday, September 30, 2011
Ontario grit official in vote buying scandal
The Ont grits have spent billions of dollars of taxpayers money buying votes. It is the grit way. apparently they think more old fashioned vote buying is also a winning strategy. Once caught they claim it was just a joke and then set about attacking their opponents. The Ontario grits continue the librano ways of their federal brothers and sisters. Its time to get rid of mcliar and his corrupt party.
Listen here.
Nikki Holland, the Ontario Liberal Party’s operational vice-president, can be heard on an audio tape of a July 16 training session talking about the need to fundraise and connect with voters.
“I have done crazy things,” Holland says in the audio recording. “Like...and if anyone repeats this I’ll deny it (until) the cows come home...I have gone to a shelter in the riding of St. Paul’s with a carton of smokes and said, ‘I’ll give you them after you vote.” I have done that...but they were already smokers...”
In an e-mail sent to Sun Media Thursday, Holland admitted she made the comments.
Listen here.
Nikki Holland, the Ontario Liberal Party’s operational vice-president, can be heard on an audio tape of a July 16 training session talking about the need to fundraise and connect with voters.
“I have done crazy things,” Holland says in the audio recording. “Like...and if anyone repeats this I’ll deny it (until) the cows come home...I have gone to a shelter in the riding of St. Paul’s with a carton of smokes and said, ‘I’ll give you them after you vote.” I have done that...but they were already smokers...”
In an e-mail sent to Sun Media Thursday, Holland admitted she made the comments.
Good News on Free Speech
Section 13.1 of human rights act is odious and should be eliminated. Indeed I would like to get rid of most of the human rights act. The hrcs are star chambers that are antithetical to a free society. I had heard this private members bill was coming, though I had heard it was going to be sponsored by another mp. I congratulate Brian Storseth and urge HM Canadian Government to restore to Canadians their right to free speech. It is clearly the will of the Tory base who voted overwhelmingly to eliminate this limit on speech at the 2008 convention.
National Post editorial board: Abolishing S. 13 would be a big win for free speech
National Post Editorial Board Sep 28, 2011 – 5:49 PM ET
Tory backbencher Brian Storseth wants to eliminate Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA). That is the provision in federal law that gives the Canadian Human Rights Commission authority to hear complaints of hate speech on the Internet. We wish Mr. Storseth, the MP from Westlock-St. Paul in Alberta, well in this campaign. Section 13 is a particularly pernicious infringement on free speech. Originally added to the CHRA in 2001 as a protection for vulnerable groups against racist or violence-promoting websites, the clause has more often been used by minority activists (or those purporting to act on behalf of minorities) to silence those who do not share their opinions.
The biggest problem with Sec. 13 is that its provisions make it far too easy for commissioners to find an alleged offender guilty. Unlike in a court of law — where the presumption of innocence, rules of evidence and bans on hearsay testimony protect defendants from wrongful prosecution — at a human rights tribunal complainants may remain anonymous and complaints may be filed by third parties with no direct interest in the case at hand. (Some folks even make a profitable hobby out of launching these complaints.) Hearsay evidence is perfectly acceptable, the onus to prove one’s innocence often falls on the accused, and tax dollars pay for the plaintiff’s lawyers while the accused is on his or her own to fund a defense...
Update I contacted Brian Storseth's office. He was on a plane but he instructed his assistant to send me this, his speech in the House of commons today!
Mr. Speaker it is an honour to rise in this House today and introduce a bill titled An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting Freedom), Freedom of Speech is a fundamental principle in our democracy and one in which Canadians have fought and died for, for more than a century.
This is not a fight that one Canadian can take on himself but rather an issue that all Canadians must engage in vigorously, in this I would like to thank my friends and colleagues such as Senator Finley and The Member from St. Catherines who have rigorously pursued a freer more open society and resisted the tyrannical instincts of bureaucracy to censor speech in our country.
Mr. Speaker Freedom of Speech is the freedom that all other freedoms are built on, it cannot be restrained to the politically correct, the best way to fight bigotry is to ensure that we protect and enhance our fundamental freedoms in this country. That is why I ask all Members in this house to support this bill a bill that protects one of the building blocks of our great democracy. The Freedom of Speech.
National Post editorial board: Abolishing S. 13 would be a big win for free speech
National Post Editorial Board Sep 28, 2011 – 5:49 PM ET
Tory backbencher Brian Storseth wants to eliminate Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA). That is the provision in federal law that gives the Canadian Human Rights Commission authority to hear complaints of hate speech on the Internet. We wish Mr. Storseth, the MP from Westlock-St. Paul in Alberta, well in this campaign. Section 13 is a particularly pernicious infringement on free speech. Originally added to the CHRA in 2001 as a protection for vulnerable groups against racist or violence-promoting websites, the clause has more often been used by minority activists (or those purporting to act on behalf of minorities) to silence those who do not share their opinions.
The biggest problem with Sec. 13 is that its provisions make it far too easy for commissioners to find an alleged offender guilty. Unlike in a court of law — where the presumption of innocence, rules of evidence and bans on hearsay testimony protect defendants from wrongful prosecution — at a human rights tribunal complainants may remain anonymous and complaints may be filed by third parties with no direct interest in the case at hand. (Some folks even make a profitable hobby out of launching these complaints.) Hearsay evidence is perfectly acceptable, the onus to prove one’s innocence often falls on the accused, and tax dollars pay for the plaintiff’s lawyers while the accused is on his or her own to fund a defense...
Update I contacted Brian Storseth's office. He was on a plane but he instructed his assistant to send me this, his speech in the House of commons today!
Mr. Speaker it is an honour to rise in this House today and introduce a bill titled An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting Freedom), Freedom of Speech is a fundamental principle in our democracy and one in which Canadians have fought and died for, for more than a century.
This is not a fight that one Canadian can take on himself but rather an issue that all Canadians must engage in vigorously, in this I would like to thank my friends and colleagues such as Senator Finley and The Member from St. Catherines who have rigorously pursued a freer more open society and resisted the tyrannical instincts of bureaucracy to censor speech in our country.
Mr. Speaker Freedom of Speech is the freedom that all other freedoms are built on, it cannot be restrained to the politically correct, the best way to fight bigotry is to ensure that we protect and enhance our fundamental freedoms in this country. That is why I ask all Members in this house to support this bill a bill that protects one of the building blocks of our great democracy. The Freedom of Speech.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Nobel peace prize becomes more of a joke...
Every year. The latest nonsense, 8 of these know it alls don't like the oil sands. Sigh. Fortunately most people will pay no attention to their babbling.
Lorne Gunter: A Peace Prize doesn’t make you an expert
Lorne Gunter Sep 29, 2011
When I read Wednesday that the Nobel Women’s Initiative had managed to round up eight winners of the Peace Prize to condemn attempts by a Canadian company to build a pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the Gulf coast in Texas, my first thought was, “I hope for their sake they haven’t resurrected Rigoberta Menchu.”
But they had.
Menchu is a Mayan who was active in the resistance by her people against the violence and repression they suffered at the hands of Guatemala’s junta in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. She won the 1992 Nobel Peace prize for her 1983 memoir I, Rigoberta Menchu, a harrowing expose of the brutality apparently inflicted upon her and her family by Guatemalan death squads. Menchu allegedly dictated the book to a journalist because she had been denied schooling and was illiterate.
Except that rather than being a poor peasant, Menchu actually came from a fairly well-to-do family and instead of being illiterate, had attended a fairly expensive elementary school and junior high. Much of the rest of her story was made up, too.
When the long list of erroneous claims came to light, Menchu’s response was to dismiss her critics as racists and insist they were motivated to undermine efforts by indigenous people around the world to defend their human rights.
Lorne Gunter: A Peace Prize doesn’t make you an expert
Lorne Gunter Sep 29, 2011
When I read Wednesday that the Nobel Women’s Initiative had managed to round up eight winners of the Peace Prize to condemn attempts by a Canadian company to build a pipeline from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the Gulf coast in Texas, my first thought was, “I hope for their sake they haven’t resurrected Rigoberta Menchu.”
But they had.
Menchu is a Mayan who was active in the resistance by her people against the violence and repression they suffered at the hands of Guatemala’s junta in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. She won the 1992 Nobel Peace prize for her 1983 memoir I, Rigoberta Menchu, a harrowing expose of the brutality apparently inflicted upon her and her family by Guatemalan death squads. Menchu allegedly dictated the book to a journalist because she had been denied schooling and was illiterate.
Except that rather than being a poor peasant, Menchu actually came from a fairly well-to-do family and instead of being illiterate, had attended a fairly expensive elementary school and junior high. Much of the rest of her story was made up, too.
When the long list of erroneous claims came to light, Menchu’s response was to dismiss her critics as racists and insist they were motivated to undermine efforts by indigenous people around the world to defend their human rights.
Ridding Canada of the grits
I have long dreamed of ridding Canada of the grits. The grits face extinction in several provinces, but the important race to rid us of the grits is Ontario. Ontario needs to throw mcliar out and I think Tim Hudak will do just that. mcliar is increasingly desperate.
Besieged Liberals must find a way to Grit and bear it
JOHN IBBITSON
OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011
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In this last week before we begin a spate of provincial elections, one theme seems to dominate: the Liberal brand is in as much trouble provincially as it is federally.
The once-grand old party that dominated Canadian political life was reduced to third place in last May’s election, leaving the Liberals with formidable challenges as they seek to rebuild. But at the provincial level, things are even worse: In some provinces, the party is threatened with extinction.
Besieged Liberals must find a way to Grit and bear it
JOHN IBBITSON
OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011
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In this last week before we begin a spate of provincial elections, one theme seems to dominate: the Liberal brand is in as much trouble provincially as it is federally.
The once-grand old party that dominated Canadian political life was reduced to third place in last May’s election, leaving the Liberals with formidable challenges as they seek to rebuild. But at the provincial level, things are even worse: In some provinces, the party is threatened with extinction.
Cut the CBC more
This is better than the initial 5% cut , but it is far from selling of this leftist propaganda machine. Still cutting 10% a year for 5 years would be a good start!
Heritage Minister James Moore wants to slash CBC’s budget by 10 per cent, The Huffington Post has learned.
Although a government decision is far from complete, Moore has discussed his wish to see the public broadcaster’s $1.1-billion allocation cut by ten per cent, sources said. Moore had earlier this summer suggested the CBC could face a cut of "at least 5 per cent."
According to Ian Morrison, the spokesman for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, that would be a devastating blow to the CBC.
“Ten per cent would have just huge consequences. It would result in station closures,” said Morrison, who warned that small stations serving rural areas would be particularly vulnerable.
Heritage Minister James Moore wants to slash CBC’s budget by 10 per cent, The Huffington Post has learned.
Although a government decision is far from complete, Moore has discussed his wish to see the public broadcaster’s $1.1-billion allocation cut by ten per cent, sources said. Moore had earlier this summer suggested the CBC could face a cut of "at least 5 per cent."
According to Ian Morrison, the spokesman for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, that would be a devastating blow to the CBC.
“Ten per cent would have just huge consequences. It would result in station closures,” said Morrison, who warned that small stations serving rural areas would be particularly vulnerable.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Real debate?
It has been one of Stephen Harper's goals to get a real debate between left and right. It is one of the reasons so much energy has been used to stamp out the grits. The grits since Pearson and Trudeau have stood for nothing. As time goes by, the grits will fade into much deserved irrelevance.
The 41st Parliament of Canada is young but already we’re seeing Conservatives and New Democrats take sharply different partisan approaches to the business of the nation.
If this keeps up for four years, as I suspect it will, it could radically re-shape the dynamic of federal politics in Canada, something I suspect both Conservatives and New Democrats would be pleased about, though it should scare Liberals who stand to be further marginalized from the national conversation.
On Monday, New Democrats voted to oppose the extension of the military mission in Libya. That’s a change because, for most of the last decade, on broad foreign policy questions such as our commitment in Afghanistan, the Liberals and Conservatives largely agreed with each other, regardless of who was in power.
On Tuesday, the Conservatives moved to limit debate on their omnibus crime bill to speed its passage into law.
NDP deputy leader Libby Davies called this “a nasty motion” intended “to stifle debate.”
Rookie Conservative MP Mark Strahl replied: “We’re just delivering on campaign promises. Get used to it.”
Meanwhile, over in a House of Commons committee, MPs were discussing how best to proceed with a study of CBC’s decision to contest an order by Parliament’s Information Commissioner that it must release records about some of its activities.
In the last few minority parliaments, this kind of “process” debate would be an invitation for all parties to frustrate their opponent’s goals using parliamentary procedure.
The 41st Parliament of Canada is young but already we’re seeing Conservatives and New Democrats take sharply different partisan approaches to the business of the nation.
If this keeps up for four years, as I suspect it will, it could radically re-shape the dynamic of federal politics in Canada, something I suspect both Conservatives and New Democrats would be pleased about, though it should scare Liberals who stand to be further marginalized from the national conversation.
On Monday, New Democrats voted to oppose the extension of the military mission in Libya. That’s a change because, for most of the last decade, on broad foreign policy questions such as our commitment in Afghanistan, the Liberals and Conservatives largely agreed with each other, regardless of who was in power.
On Tuesday, the Conservatives moved to limit debate on their omnibus crime bill to speed its passage into law.
NDP deputy leader Libby Davies called this “a nasty motion” intended “to stifle debate.”
Rookie Conservative MP Mark Strahl replied: “We’re just delivering on campaign promises. Get used to it.”
Meanwhile, over in a House of Commons committee, MPs were discussing how best to proceed with a study of CBC’s decision to contest an order by Parliament’s Information Commissioner that it must release records about some of its activities.
In the last few minority parliaments, this kind of “process” debate would be an invitation for all parties to frustrate their opponent’s goals using parliamentary procedure.
The Tyranny of Nice in Oz?
Or stupid judge tricks in Oz. Andrew Bolt has been convicted of offending people, by a judge no less. Oz seems to have the same problems with allowing free speech as we do in Canad.
More from Michelle Malkin.
In Australia, a chilling verdict against free speech
By Michelle Malkin • September 27, 2011 10:58 PM
I’ve linked to the excellent work of Australian newspaper columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt many times over the year on this blog (see here.)
So I was shocked to see that he was prosecuted and found guilty today in a federal court case over two columns he wrote in 2009 about race, entitlements, and politics.
It’s chilling. There’s no other word for it. And I shudder to think how “progressives” here in America would relish the legal bludgeon Australia’s politically correct mob used to punish Bolt’s views.
More from Michelle Malkin.
In Australia, a chilling verdict against free speech
By Michelle Malkin • September 27, 2011 10:58 PM
I’ve linked to the excellent work of Australian newspaper columnist and blogger Andrew Bolt many times over the year on this blog (see here.)
So I was shocked to see that he was prosecuted and found guilty today in a federal court case over two columns he wrote in 2009 about race, entitlements, and politics.
It’s chilling. There’s no other word for it. And I shudder to think how “progressives” here in America would relish the legal bludgeon Australia’s politically correct mob used to punish Bolt’s views.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Canada's Number One
An interesting study notes Canada has the best reputation of any country on earth. It is also worth noting that 4 of the first 5 nations are Constitutional Monarchies, 3 out of 5 ruled by Our Sovereign Lady!!
OTTAWA — Canada has the best reputation in the world, says a study measuring public perceptions of 50 countries around the world, released on Tuesday.
The Reputation Institute study measures the trust, esteem, admiration and good feelings the public holds towards 50 countries, as well as perceptions of peoples' quality of life, safety and attention to the environment.
Results from 42,000 respondents worldwide ranked Sweden next, followed by Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand, the reputation management firm said.
OTTAWA — Canada has the best reputation in the world, says a study measuring public perceptions of 50 countries around the world, released on Tuesday.
The Reputation Institute study measures the trust, esteem, admiration and good feelings the public holds towards 50 countries, as well as perceptions of peoples' quality of life, safety and attention to the environment.
Results from 42,000 respondents worldwide ranked Sweden next, followed by Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand, the reputation management firm said.
Patrick Moore, co founder of greenpeace defends the Oilsands
Its nice to see that not all so called environmentalists are insane. Capitalism makes things better environmentally with time. Most people want to live in a cleaner world. The market will provide that.
In fact, as dozens of protesters were being arrested in a demonstration against what they say is an environmentally dangerous Keystone XL pipeline that would take oil from Alberta to refineries on the Texas coast, Moore issued a statement defending oilsands development.
"You can't stop the use of oil by trying to cut it off at the source — by being against the oil production, the pipelines and the tankers that are moving it," Moore told Postmedia News. "Of course you have to move oil from one place to where the market is.
"The only way to reduce our reliance on oil is to move to technologies that don't need or use less of it."
He said that oilsands development is necessary and often leaves the production sites in better environmental shape than they were before oil was taken from the land.
These aren't the views one might expect from someone who helped start Greenpeace in 1971.
Moore served lengthy terms as Greenpeace Canada president and director of the group's international branch. He also held a chair with the Forest Alliance of B.C.
In 1991, though, Moore founded Greenspirit — a consultancy firm dedicated to "environmental policy and communications."
Billed as a "sensible environmentalist," he appeared in a recent "information campaign" by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to promote improved environmental conduct by oilsands producers.
In fact, as dozens of protesters were being arrested in a demonstration against what they say is an environmentally dangerous Keystone XL pipeline that would take oil from Alberta to refineries on the Texas coast, Moore issued a statement defending oilsands development.
"You can't stop the use of oil by trying to cut it off at the source — by being against the oil production, the pipelines and the tankers that are moving it," Moore told Postmedia News. "Of course you have to move oil from one place to where the market is.
"The only way to reduce our reliance on oil is to move to technologies that don't need or use less of it."
He said that oilsands development is necessary and often leaves the production sites in better environmental shape than they were before oil was taken from the land.
These aren't the views one might expect from someone who helped start Greenpeace in 1971.
Moore served lengthy terms as Greenpeace Canada president and director of the group's international branch. He also held a chair with the Forest Alliance of B.C.
In 1991, though, Moore founded Greenspirit — a consultancy firm dedicated to "environmental policy and communications."
Billed as a "sensible environmentalist," he appeared in a recent "information campaign" by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to promote improved environmental conduct by oilsands producers.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Defending our friends!
I congratulate HM Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird for a rousing defense of Israel!! Appeasing the enemies of freedom has always been a bad idea.
OTTAWA - Canada used its United Nations speaking slot Monday to lambaste opponents of Israel as no better than the appeasers who allowed fascism and communism to flourish before the Second World War.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird delivered Canada's views to the General Assembly in a speech that put meat on the bones of the Harper government's unflinching support of Israel.
"Just as fascism and communism were the great struggles of previous generations, terrorism is the great struggle of ours. And far too often, the Jewish state is on the front line of our struggle and its people the victims of terror," says a prepared text of Baird's remarks.
"Canada will not accept or stay silent while the Jewish state is attacked for defending its territory and its citizens. The Second World War taught us all the tragic price of 'going along' just to 'get along.'"
Baird made no direct mention of the Holocaust in which six million Jews died at the hands of Nazi Germany. But he evoked the era when he quoted Winston Churchill as saying "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
OTTAWA - Canada used its United Nations speaking slot Monday to lambaste opponents of Israel as no better than the appeasers who allowed fascism and communism to flourish before the Second World War.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird delivered Canada's views to the General Assembly in a speech that put meat on the bones of the Harper government's unflinching support of Israel.
"Just as fascism and communism were the great struggles of previous generations, terrorism is the great struggle of ours. And far too often, the Jewish state is on the front line of our struggle and its people the victims of terror," says a prepared text of Baird's remarks.
"Canada will not accept or stay silent while the Jewish state is attacked for defending its territory and its citizens. The Second World War taught us all the tragic price of 'going along' just to 'get along.'"
Baird made no direct mention of the Holocaust in which six million Jews died at the hands of Nazi Germany. But he evoked the era when he quoted Winston Churchill as saying "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Conservatives and lefties
There are already ties between many conservative parties throughout the world in an organization called the International Democratic Union. It was formed by Baroness Thatcher and President Reagan to combat the forces of socialism. There are also ties between conservative parties in the English speaking world. It is good to learn from the mistakes and success of your friends. The dippers are already party of the socialist international, so there attempts for closer ties with labour in the UK and Australia would be expected. arise you wretched etc etc... Given the poor state of labour i the UK and the crumbling gillard government, advice from these lefties may not be useful to the dippers.
NDP plans pact with Labour parties in U.K. and Australia
NDP strategist Brad Lavigne says the pact will give the NDP a direct insight into strategies and practices of Conservatives in power.
By TIM NAUMETZ
Published September 26, 2011
The federal NDP is planning a pact with the Labour parties of the United Kingdom and Australia to take on what it sees as a threat from deepening ties between the Conservative Party of Canada and conservatives in the other two countries, as well as the United States.
A senior NDP official disclosed to The Hill Times the party is working towards a memorandum of understanding between the three left-of-centre parties that will allow them to share information and strategy as they attempt to showcase alternative solutions to national and global fiscal and economic challenges while developed economies continue to totter, at risk of a second major recession in the U.S. and Europe.
NDP plans pact with Labour parties in U.K. and Australia
NDP strategist Brad Lavigne says the pact will give the NDP a direct insight into strategies and practices of Conservatives in power.
By TIM NAUMETZ
Published September 26, 2011
The federal NDP is planning a pact with the Labour parties of the United Kingdom and Australia to take on what it sees as a threat from deepening ties between the Conservative Party of Canada and conservatives in the other two countries, as well as the United States.
A senior NDP official disclosed to The Hill Times the party is working towards a memorandum of understanding between the three left-of-centre parties that will allow them to share information and strategy as they attempt to showcase alternative solutions to national and global fiscal and economic challenges while developed economies continue to totter, at risk of a second major recession in the U.S. and Europe.
2020 and beyond!!!
I think that larry matin and some of his lefty friends are in despair at the hill times. I hate to tell you larry, I see many, many years of Tory government ahead.
PM could be ensconced in power until 2020, say experts
Insiders say the PM's political strengths and divided opposition could make this Stephen Harper's decade to shape Canada.
By CHRIS PLECASH
Published September 26, 2011
After uniting the right, winning three consecutive Conservative governments, and now facing an opposition in disarray, Prime Minister Stephen Harper could be in power until 2020.
"I think he's safely ensconced for at least another eight years," predicts veteran Parliament Hill journalist and Globe and Mail national affairs columnist Lawrence Martin, who documented Prime Minister Harper's (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) consolidation of power over five years of minority government in Harperland: The Politics of Control. The bestselling book was re-released last week with a new chapter.
With both the NDP and Liberals in search of leaders who can challenge the Prime Minister in 2015, it appears that the next election is already his to lose.
PM could be ensconced in power until 2020, say experts
Insiders say the PM's political strengths and divided opposition could make this Stephen Harper's decade to shape Canada.
By CHRIS PLECASH
Published September 26, 2011
After uniting the right, winning three consecutive Conservative governments, and now facing an opposition in disarray, Prime Minister Stephen Harper could be in power until 2020.
"I think he's safely ensconced for at least another eight years," predicts veteran Parliament Hill journalist and Globe and Mail national affairs columnist Lawrence Martin, who documented Prime Minister Harper's (Calgary Southwest, Alta.) consolidation of power over five years of minority government in Harperland: The Politics of Control. The bestselling book was re-released last week with a new chapter.
With both the NDP and Liberals in search of leaders who can challenge the Prime Minister in 2015, it appears that the next election is already his to lose.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Dalton spends billions and...
accomplishes nothing. No wonder mcliar has been hiding this report. dalton needs to go !!
Ontario has the dubious distinction of having the worst hospital bottlenecks of any province, says a much-anticipated report prepared for the government.
More than 4,500 seniors are stuck in hospital beds even though they are in need of “alternate levels of care,” such as intensive home care, said Dr. David Walker, former dean of health sciences at Queen’s University and the report’s lead author.
The findings echo a Star investigation last winter.
The report was turned in on June 30 but was quietly posted on the health ministry’s website two months later, on the eve of the current election. Opposition critics Thursday accused the government of hiding its findings.
According to the report, the health of too many Ontario seniors is needlessly deteriorating in a system that relies too much on hospitals and not enough on community care, just as the Star’s Begging for Care series detailed last February.
Ontario has the dubious distinction of having the worst hospital bottlenecks of any province, says a much-anticipated report prepared for the government.
More than 4,500 seniors are stuck in hospital beds even though they are in need of “alternate levels of care,” such as intensive home care, said Dr. David Walker, former dean of health sciences at Queen’s University and the report’s lead author.
The findings echo a Star investigation last winter.
The report was turned in on June 30 but was quietly posted on the health ministry’s website two months later, on the eve of the current election. Opposition critics Thursday accused the government of hiding its findings.
According to the report, the health of too many Ontario seniors is needlessly deteriorating in a system that relies too much on hospitals and not enough on community care, just as the Star’s Begging for Care series detailed last February.
Salim Mansur on the UN
I like my friend Salim, has little use for the un.
Lying despots make a mockery of UN
BY SALIM MANSUr,QMI AGENCY
Every year around this time the world witnesses a parade of heads of state arriving in New York.
This marks the opening of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly when free people of open democratic societies are deluged with advice or insults by dictators and despots from around the world.
This year is no different than previous years ever since the failed League of Nations was given a new lease under the banner of the United Nations.
Those individuals who can recall history will remember the League was the grand scheme of progressive politicians, such as Woodrow Wilson of the U.S., who ardently believed fine speeches, lofty ideals and covenants devised by an assembly of representatives from sovereign nations could go a long way to outlaw war and herald a new age of peace.
There was urgency then, for the First World War of 1914-18 had bled the nations of Europe of its young and its able, and few doubted the genuine commitment of Wilson and his peers to never allow another such war to break out.
Lying despots make a mockery of UN
BY SALIM MANSUr,QMI AGENCY
Every year around this time the world witnesses a parade of heads of state arriving in New York.
This marks the opening of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly when free people of open democratic societies are deluged with advice or insults by dictators and despots from around the world.
This year is no different than previous years ever since the failed League of Nations was given a new lease under the banner of the United Nations.
Those individuals who can recall history will remember the League was the grand scheme of progressive politicians, such as Woodrow Wilson of the U.S., who ardently believed fine speeches, lofty ideals and covenants devised by an assembly of representatives from sovereign nations could go a long way to outlaw war and herald a new age of peace.
There was urgency then, for the First World War of 1914-18 had bled the nations of Europe of its young and its able, and few doubted the genuine commitment of Wilson and his peers to never allow another such war to break out.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
bo's war on job creators
Dr Krauthammer on the real barack obama.
In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”
A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless.
Now that he’s president, Obama has actually gone and done it. He’s just proposed a $1.5 trillion tsunami of tax hikes featuring a “Buffett rule” that, although as yet deliberately still fuzzy, clearly includes raising capital gains taxes.
He also insists again upon raising marginal rates on “millionaire” couples making $250,000 or more. But roughly half the income of small businesses (i.e., those filing individual returns) would be hit by this tax increase. Therefore, if we are to believe Obama’s own logic that his proposed business tax credits would increase hiring, then surely this tax hike will reduce small-business hiring.
In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: “Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.”
A most revealing window into our president’s political core: To impose a tax that actually impoverishes our communal bank account (the U.S. Treasury) is ridiculous. It is nothing but punitive. It benefits no one — not the rich, not the poor, not the government. For Obama, however, it brings fairness, which is priceless.
Now that he’s president, Obama has actually gone and done it. He’s just proposed a $1.5 trillion tsunami of tax hikes featuring a “Buffett rule” that, although as yet deliberately still fuzzy, clearly includes raising capital gains taxes.
He also insists again upon raising marginal rates on “millionaire” couples making $250,000 or more. But roughly half the income of small businesses (i.e., those filing individual returns) would be hit by this tax increase. Therefore, if we are to believe Obama’s own logic that his proposed business tax credits would increase hiring, then surely this tax hike will reduce small-business hiring.
Rex Murphy on Anti Semitism
Rex has a great piece on a terrible evil.
Anti-Semitism is, as many have said, the oldest hatred. It loses no force from its venerability.
Jew-hatred forms the template on which so many other hatreds are based. It teaches that one's enemies are vermin, fit for extermination. Those detested are subjected to grotesque mockeries and caricatures. Finally, the hatred escalates to such a pitch that it brings on pogroms or worse. Anti-Semitism is deeply noxious in itself, but it is also exemplary in this negative sense: It grooves the path to other hatreds.
These unoriginal thoughts came to mind easily after catching some of the remarks of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN on Thursday. He was in full 9/11conspiracy-theorist mode, delivering the kind of anti-American harangue that only Hugo Chavez could love. But, as always, he was not neglectful of Israel and the Jews. In the past, he's questioned whether the Holocaust happened. This year, he accused European countries of using the Holocaust "as an excuse to pay fine[s] or ransom to the Zionists." For all the venom poured on the United States, Israel is Ahmadinejad's perennial target. He'd embrace America in an eye-blink should Washington turn on Israel.
Anti-Semitism is, as many have said, the oldest hatred. It loses no force from its venerability.
Jew-hatred forms the template on which so many other hatreds are based. It teaches that one's enemies are vermin, fit for extermination. Those detested are subjected to grotesque mockeries and caricatures. Finally, the hatred escalates to such a pitch that it brings on pogroms or worse. Anti-Semitism is deeply noxious in itself, but it is also exemplary in this negative sense: It grooves the path to other hatreds.
These unoriginal thoughts came to mind easily after catching some of the remarks of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN on Thursday. He was in full 9/11conspiracy-theorist mode, delivering the kind of anti-American harangue that only Hugo Chavez could love. But, as always, he was not neglectful of Israel and the Jews. In the past, he's questioned whether the Holocaust happened. This year, he accused European countries of using the Holocaust "as an excuse to pay fine[s] or ransom to the Zionists." For all the venom poured on the United States, Israel is Ahmadinejad's perennial target. He'd embrace America in an eye-blink should Washington turn on Israel.
The Tears of a Clown
Keynesian economics does not work. I was very annoyed when HM Canadian Government was forced into using the old voodoo by the opposition in the last recession. I am hoping that that will not happen again. This red star columnist is terrified that the government may cut the massive state apparatus. I can only hope.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1058834--walkom-why-harper-s-ringing-economic-alarm-bells>Stephen Harper used British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Ottawa visit this week to stage a photo op for fear. Harper did so on purpose. And while it’s not yet crystal clear what his purpose was, Canadians would be wise to expect the worst.
First, remember how unusual it is for a prime minister to stoke fears about the economy. To do so is considered counterproductive. That’s why the standard Conservative mantra from both Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been deliberately muted.
Usually, they emphasize the relative solidity of Canada’s economy, avoid any reference to recession and prefer euphemisms like “fragile recovery.”
On Thursday, however, Harper and Cameron operated as a tag team for alarm.
“The most immediate test confronting us all is to avoid the devastating consequences of a return to global recession,” Harper said as he introduced Cameron to a special joint session of Parliament.
At a news conference later, the Canadian Prime Minister described the world economic situation as having reached “extremely dangerous levels.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1058834--walkom-why-harper-s-ringing-economic-alarm-bells>Stephen Harper used British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Ottawa visit this week to stage a photo op for fear. Harper did so on purpose. And while it’s not yet crystal clear what his purpose was, Canadians would be wise to expect the worst.
First, remember how unusual it is for a prime minister to stoke fears about the economy. To do so is considered counterproductive. That’s why the standard Conservative mantra from both Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been deliberately muted.
Usually, they emphasize the relative solidity of Canada’s economy, avoid any reference to recession and prefer euphemisms like “fragile recovery.”
On Thursday, however, Harper and Cameron operated as a tag team for alarm.
“The most immediate test confronting us all is to avoid the devastating consequences of a return to global recession,” Harper said as he introduced Cameron to a special joint session of Parliament.
At a news conference later, the Canadian Prime Minister described the world economic situation as having reached “extremely dangerous levels.”
Friday, September 23, 2011
Why even ask?
I can probably guess that the majority of our base does not support the cbc. I would prefer that we either sell the cbc or turn into pbs. Let the cbc raise money from the public and only get $100 million in government funding. The globe seems to be apoplectic over this. They also seem surprised that the Tories have had a policy to get rid of the wheat board from the beginning.
Very Sad
This made me very sad. Now the little sociopath who assaulted this child will go free. I wonder what the parents of this young criminal are going to do about his crime that resulted in the death of an innocent.
PICKERING - Mitchell Wilson worked so hard to be a normal, happy-go-lucky kid.
Lord knows fate didn’t make that easy. The 11-year-old lost his mom to cancer three years ago and was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy the following year. He never could run and jump like the other children. Still he always maintained that goofy grin on his face. He was a joker who loved swimming and go-karting, driving with his dad and making silly jokes with his younger stepsisters.
And Mitchell loved to walk. Six times a day, he’d be pounding the pavement around his Pickering home because the doctors told him he had to “use it or lose it” — that the only way of slowing the atrophy of his muscles was to exercise them. And while he used a walker at school — more as protection from the jostling of his fellow students — he proudly walked outside on his own, his young shoulders pressed back so that he could maintain his fragile balance and not fall.
“Everybody in the neighbourhood knew him. He walked in the rain. He walked in the snow,” recalls his dad, Craig Wilson. “Every step Mitchell had to make was like 10 steps of ours in effort. I don’t think I ever understood how hard it was for him to do the simple tasks.
PICKERING - Mitchell Wilson worked so hard to be a normal, happy-go-lucky kid.
Lord knows fate didn’t make that easy. The 11-year-old lost his mom to cancer three years ago and was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy the following year. He never could run and jump like the other children. Still he always maintained that goofy grin on his face. He was a joker who loved swimming and go-karting, driving with his dad and making silly jokes with his younger stepsisters.
And Mitchell loved to walk. Six times a day, he’d be pounding the pavement around his Pickering home because the doctors told him he had to “use it or lose it” — that the only way of slowing the atrophy of his muscles was to exercise them. And while he used a walker at school — more as protection from the jostling of his fellow students — he proudly walked outside on his own, his young shoulders pressed back so that he could maintain his fragile balance and not fall.
“Everybody in the neighbourhood knew him. He walked in the rain. He walked in the snow,” recalls his dad, Craig Wilson. “Every step Mitchell had to make was like 10 steps of ours in effort. I don’t think I ever understood how hard it was for him to do the simple tasks.
Dr Roy in D.C.
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| Jimmy LaSalvia ( GoProud) |
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| John Fund WSJ |
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I spent a few days in Washington, D.C. I was at ACU Legacy event and met many impressive GOP members of the Senate and Congress. I was supposed to also meet Senator Marco Rubio, but he was busy voting! I was quite impressed with many of these many and women. Congressman West was very impressive. he gets the jihadi threat. It was also great to meet the newly elected Congressman Turner of NY 9! Congressman Landry had a charming Louisiana accent and seems. He and Congressman Rigell are freshmen who have turned down their pension and health care benefits. I am impressed that these means women understand the US's grave problem and will work hard to save the country they love. I also got to see some of my DC friends as well.
It was a fun few days.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
A dying monster
At least he will stop torturing the families of his victims. I doubt anyone will be shedding many tears.
Serial killer Clifford Olson expected to die in 'next few days'
Postmedia News September 21, 2011 - 11:35 am
By Mike Hager and Thandi Fletcher A horrific and gruesome chapter in Canadian history could soon be coming to a close for the families of victims of notorious serial killer Clifford Robert Olson. The...
Serial killer Clifford Olson expected to die in 'next few days'
Postmedia News September 21, 2011 - 11:35 am
By Mike Hager and Thandi Fletcher A horrific and gruesome chapter in Canadian history could soon be coming to a close for the families of victims of notorious serial killer Clifford Robert Olson. The...
Quebec corruption
I railed against the federal parliament for denouncing Macleans. Their headlines were correct. All the politicians in Quebec and Ottawa owe Martin Patriquin an apology. More from my friend Eric Duhaime.
On Tuesday, the federal government tabled its omnibus crime bill. If they’re serious about bringing justice back to this country, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives should instead tackle Quebec Premier Jean Charest’s mess.
A devastating report from the anti-collusion unit headed by Jacques Duchesneau, former Montreal police chief, on the corruption of the construction industry in La Belle Province was leaked last week.
The report might as well be called “Screwing the Quebec System for Dummies.”
After more than 2,500 hours of anonymous interviews with all the major players, the report concludes that if things keep going as they have been, if nothing is done soon, we will “not be talking any more about marginal or even parallel criminal activities; we could suspect infiltration or even taking of control of certain functions of the government or the municipalities” by influence peddlers.
Public infrastructure projects cost 30% more in Quebec than they do elsewhere in the country. Is that the extra price of cost-fixing? Is it the Mafia’s cut on top of the real market price?
On Tuesday, the federal government tabled its omnibus crime bill. If they’re serious about bringing justice back to this country, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives should instead tackle Quebec Premier Jean Charest’s mess.
A devastating report from the anti-collusion unit headed by Jacques Duchesneau, former Montreal police chief, on the corruption of the construction industry in La Belle Province was leaked last week.
The report might as well be called “Screwing the Quebec System for Dummies.”
After more than 2,500 hours of anonymous interviews with all the major players, the report concludes that if things keep going as they have been, if nothing is done soon, we will “not be talking any more about marginal or even parallel criminal activities; we could suspect infiltration or even taking of control of certain functions of the government or the municipalities” by influence peddlers.
Public infrastructure projects cost 30% more in Quebec than they do elsewhere in the country. Is that the extra price of cost-fixing? Is it the Mafia’s cut on top of the real market price?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Who pays taxes?
The left in Canada and the USwhine that are tax system favours the rich but in both countries the top 10% of taxpayers pay the majority of taxes. Huge numbers on both sides of the border pay no income tax. This constituency sees tax as a good, instead of what they really are a killer of jobs and productivity. It's time for a flat tax!!!http://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/how-america-pays-taxes-vs-other-wealthy-countries/02022010-1843
Global Warming is hiding?
So the hoaxers need to explain why global warming has essentially stopped for the last 15 years. Voila! It's hiding in the deep blue sea. Perhaps it's tine to admit t.he models. Just are wrong.
Lorne Gunter: Global warming is afraid to come out of hiding
The heat's got to be down there somewhere
Lorne Gunter Sep 20, 2011 – 12:22 PM ET | Last Updated: Sep 20, 2011 12:51 PM ET
Over the past decade, global surface temperatures have flatlined. While 2010 was a warm year in the northern hemisphere and 2011 has been warm in much of the U.S., globally temperatures have failed to surpass 1998. Despite all the histrionics about man-made global warming, the predicted temperature rise has failed to materialize even as CO2 emissions have increased. Pat Michaels, a climatologist who is currently senior fellow for research and economic development at George Mason University in Virginia, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in late July, ”there has been no statistically significant warming trend since November of 1996 in monthly surface temperature records.”
So what’s happened? Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks he knows. The heat is hiding out in the deep oceans just waiting to pounce at some point in the future and make the Earth every bit as hot as he and his fellow alarmists have said it would become all along.
Anything is possible, I suppose, but of all the global warming theories I’ve heard, this is among the most far-fetched.
Lorne Gunter: Global warming is afraid to come out of hiding
The heat's got to be down there somewhere
Lorne Gunter Sep 20, 2011 – 12:22 PM ET | Last Updated: Sep 20, 2011 12:51 PM ET
Over the past decade, global surface temperatures have flatlined. While 2010 was a warm year in the northern hemisphere and 2011 has been warm in much of the U.S., globally temperatures have failed to surpass 1998. Despite all the histrionics about man-made global warming, the predicted temperature rise has failed to materialize even as CO2 emissions have increased. Pat Michaels, a climatologist who is currently senior fellow for research and economic development at George Mason University in Virginia, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in late July, ”there has been no statistically significant warming trend since November of 1996 in monthly surface temperature records.”
So what’s happened? Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks he knows. The heat is hiding out in the deep oceans just waiting to pounce at some point in the future and make the Earth every bit as hot as he and his fellow alarmists have said it would become all along.
Anything is possible, I suppose, but of all the global warming theories I’ve heard, this is among the most far-fetched.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Vote for Zach Paikin!
I do have a liberal friends and one of them is Zach Paikin. Coincidentally I was out last night with some young friends and Zach was among them. He is a great guy. He is smart, funny and understands Canadian politics far better than many older grits. He agrees with me on about 80% of issues. He is fiscally conservative and we have many common foreign policy objectives. He is running tio be policy director of the liberals. I hope iof he doesn't join us, that he will win that position. The liberal party has to exit its leftist morass and return to the party it was before trudeau and pearson. So I wish my friend Zach Paikin well , though I admit I still want to stomp out the embers of the grits.
Zach Paikin, son of TVO host Steve Paikin, is running for the post of national policy chair of the federal Liberal party at the party’s biennial convention in Ottawa in January.
The 20-year-old Paikin’s platform includes proposals for regular policy conventions at which members could influence party policy, and creation of a Liberal think tank to develop ideas for the future. National Post Comment editor Jonathan Kay interviewed him on his views:
Kay: I see from your web site that you want to “Establish an independent liberal think tank to begin developing the ideas of the future.” Sorry, but haven’t the Liberals convened about 87 different listening tours, policy conventions, retreats, and blue-ribbon policy reports since the Martin era? Isn’t that the party’s problem — that its grandees always thinks they’re ...
Zach Paikin, son of TVO host Steve Paikin, is running for the post of national policy chair of the federal Liberal party at the party’s biennial convention in Ottawa in January.
The 20-year-old Paikin’s platform includes proposals for regular policy conventions at which members could influence party policy, and creation of a Liberal think tank to develop ideas for the future. National Post Comment editor Jonathan Kay interviewed him on his views:
Kay: I see from your web site that you want to “Establish an independent liberal think tank to begin developing the ideas of the future.” Sorry, but haven’t the Liberals convened about 87 different listening tours, policy conventions, retreats, and blue-ribbon policy reports since the Martin era? Isn’t that the party’s problem — that its grandees always thinks they’re ...
More Seats for Quebec?
I believe in rep by pop, so I think the west and Ontario deserve 30 more seats.Quebec should not get more seats. It's population is not growing relative to the rest if the country. The dippers are pandering to their new base, but that is not surprising. Mad mulcair can rant and rave all he wants. It looks like he won't be dipper leader and that is probably a good thing for Canada.
OTTAWA — Federal Heritage Minister James Moore needs a lesson in Canadian heritage when it comes to the question of whether Quebec deserves more House of Commons seats, NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair said Monday.
Mulcair, who is contemplating a run for the party's leadership, said B.C.'s senior cabinet minister is wrong to accuse the official Opposition of "pandering" to Quebec because it has 59 seats in the province.
Moore levelled the charge last week when he blasted the NDP for insisting that Quebec, as well as fast-growing B.C, Alberta and Ontario, deserves more seats when electoral boundaries are next redistributed based on the 2011 census.
Update from my friend James Bowden.
OTTAWA — Federal Heritage Minister James Moore needs a lesson in Canadian heritage when it comes to the question of whether Quebec deserves more House of Commons seats, NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair said Monday.
Mulcair, who is contemplating a run for the party's leadership, said B.C.'s senior cabinet minister is wrong to accuse the official Opposition of "pandering" to Quebec because it has 59 seats in the province.
Moore levelled the charge last week when he blasted the NDP for insisting that Quebec, as well as fast-growing B.C, Alberta and Ontario, deserves more seats when electoral boundaries are next redistributed based on the 2011 census.
Update from my friend James Bowden.
Even red Tories abandon bo
Davud Brooks is what passes for a conservative at the nyt and even he can't take Bo any more.
Obama Rejects Obamaism
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: September 19, 2011
I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.
When the president said the unemployed couldn’t wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that it would be irresponsible not to come up with a package that could pass right away, I believed them.
Obama Rejects Obamaism
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: September 19, 2011
I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.
When the president said the unemployed couldn’t wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that it would be irresponsible not to come up with a package that could pass right away, I believed them.
Monday, September 19, 2011
The green scam
This could also apply to dalton.
Rogue trader in $38.6 billion 'green jobs' fraud
By James Delingpole US politics Last updated: September 19th, 2011
A rogue trader at one of the world's largest banks (USA Inc., second in economic power only to China Inc.) has been exposed as the biggest fraudster in the history of mankind. The fraud – conservatively estimated at $38.6 billion, though others believe it could be at least 20 times bigger once his secret trading accounts in a file mysteriously marked "Stimulus Package" are fully investigated – comfortably exceeds the paltry $2.3 billion losses run up by UBS trader Kweku Adoboli.
Though full details of the Uber Rogue Trader – known only by his initials B.O. – have yet to be released, he is believed to be either of Hawaiian or Kenyan birth, with a plausible speaking manner and a deceptive aura of competence and gravitas. He is said to be "coolly unrepentant" about his crime, which, he claims, he was only doing to provide "hope and change" to his 200 million victims.
Rogue trader in $38.6 billion 'green jobs' fraud
By James Delingpole US politics Last updated: September 19th, 2011
A rogue trader at one of the world's largest banks (USA Inc., second in economic power only to China Inc.) has been exposed as the biggest fraudster in the history of mankind. The fraud – conservatively estimated at $38.6 billion, though others believe it could be at least 20 times bigger once his secret trading accounts in a file mysteriously marked "Stimulus Package" are fully investigated – comfortably exceeds the paltry $2.3 billion losses run up by UBS trader Kweku Adoboli.
Though full details of the Uber Rogue Trader – known only by his initials B.O. – have yet to be released, he is believed to be either of Hawaiian or Kenyan birth, with a plausible speaking manner and a deceptive aura of competence and gravitas. He is said to be "coolly unrepentant" about his crime, which, he claims, he was only doing to provide "hope and change" to his 200 million victims.
Multiculturalism: A Delectable Lie
An excerpt from Prof Mansur's new book.
In March 2010, a rare and unusual debate took place in the Senate of the Canadian Parliament. The subject of the debate was on a motion moved by the Conservative Senator Doug Finley, the "Erosion of Freedom of Speech."
In his remarks, Finley urged his fellow Senators consider the extent to which free speech in Canada was under siege from officially appointed censors in the human rights commissions, in the media, in the universities, and those self-appointed who could mobilize a mob to shut down speech they disapproved. He reminded his peers that Canada inherited the tradition of free speech from Great Britain and France, and that it "is as Canadian as maple syrup, hockey and the northern lights."
But then Finley said: "Yet, despite our 400-year tradition of free speech, the tyrannical instinct to censor still exists. We saw it on a university campus last week, and we see it every week in Canada's misleadingly named human rights commissions."
The reference to university was the University of Ottawa's cancellation of a speaking event for Ann Coulter, a right-wing American political commentator and author, due to fears that student demonstrations against her views might incite violence. But the odd thing in this decision was even before Ms. Coulter would have spoken, she was cautioned in a letter by François Houle, the university's vice-president, that promoting "hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges."
The incremental assault on free speech, through such mechanism as Section 13.1 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, that forbids any speech which likely might cause offense to people on the grounds of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, has had an effect on public opinion in Canada.
More from George Jonas and
Pajamas Media.
Buy the book!!!!!
In Praise of HM Minister of Citizenship Jason Kenney
Tim Harper is no conservativeand I am sure this article is just a lament, but evn this lefty understands Jason is a powerful force for moving Canada to the right. Jason at age 43 has many years ahead of him to help finish the job! All I can say is thank goodness Jason is on our side!
A visitor wandering into the belly of the beast is reminded of how far right this country has moved in recent years, how deeply entrenched the conservative political ethos is becoming in Canada.
The reminder came in an Edmonton hotel ballroom late last week and it came from a man who could one day be the natural heir to the Conservative dynasty he helped craft.
The ubiquitous Jason Kenney, the 43-year-old immigration minister who appears to draw oxygen from an exhausting schedule of political rallies, policy pronouncements and punches thrown at enemies real and imagined, would be near the top of anyone’s shortlist to some day succeed Harper.
So it was instructive to parse his words from the podium as he spoke to more than 350 former Reformers and present-day Conservatives as they gathered to honour Reform founder Preston Manning and western sage and magazine publisher Ted Byfield.
Kenney looked back on the recent political history of Canada and reminded visitors of an ideological journey.
His brand of conservatism seeks to toss more dirt on the grave of the species once known as the Red Tory, just as it seeks to formally extinguish the once-proud Liberal party.
As he was maturing, Kenney said, there was virtually no conservative thought in this country.
The spectrum, he said, ranged from New Democrat Gerald Caplan on the “foaming left” to the late Dalton Camp, the Red Tory, on the “socially acceptable left.”
There was no diversity of views, Kenney claimed, only “overwhelming, narrow consensus on every single issue.”
A visitor wandering into the belly of the beast is reminded of how far right this country has moved in recent years, how deeply entrenched the conservative political ethos is becoming in Canada.
The reminder came in an Edmonton hotel ballroom late last week and it came from a man who could one day be the natural heir to the Conservative dynasty he helped craft.
The ubiquitous Jason Kenney, the 43-year-old immigration minister who appears to draw oxygen from an exhausting schedule of political rallies, policy pronouncements and punches thrown at enemies real and imagined, would be near the top of anyone’s shortlist to some day succeed Harper.
So it was instructive to parse his words from the podium as he spoke to more than 350 former Reformers and present-day Conservatives as they gathered to honour Reform founder Preston Manning and western sage and magazine publisher Ted Byfield.
Kenney looked back on the recent political history of Canada and reminded visitors of an ideological journey.
His brand of conservatism seeks to toss more dirt on the grave of the species once known as the Red Tory, just as it seeks to formally extinguish the once-proud Liberal party.
As he was maturing, Kenney said, there was virtually no conservative thought in this country.
The spectrum, he said, ranged from New Democrat Gerald Caplan on the “foaming left” to the late Dalton Camp, the Red Tory, on the “socially acceptable left.”
There was no diversity of views, Kenney claimed, only “overwhelming, narrow consensus on every single issue.”
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bo poll numbers continue to tank
Bo s poll numbers continue to hit historic polls, though dems still are drinking the socialist kook aid. Even dem advisors like James carville are saying panic! It is time for real change, Barack needs to go. I wonder if Hillary will launch a primary challenge?
CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto
As concerns about the struggling U.S. economy grow, a new CBS News/New York poll finds that President Obama's overall approval rating has dropped to 43 percent, the lowest so far of his presidency in CBS News polling. In addition, his disapproval rating has reached an all-time high of 50 percent.
Views of the president's job performance are marked by a striking degree of polarization along party lines -- the vast majority of Democrats approve (78 percent), while even more Republicans disapprove (89 percent) of how he's handling his job. But only 37 percent of independents approve, with 54 percent disapproving.
Except for a notable spike in approval after the killing of Osama bin Laden in May, President Obama's approval rating has been below 50 percent since the spring of 2010.
Not surprisingly, the down economy has had a clear impact on Mr. Obama's approval rating.
The poll also found that 39 percent of Americans say the economy is fairly bad, and another 47 percent say the economy is very bad - the highest percentage since April 2009. Meanwhile, 13 percent say the economy is fairly good and just one percent say it is very good.
In addition, 72 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track -- the highest percentage so far since the president took office. Just 23 percent think the country is currently in the right direction.
As for Mr. Obama's rating on the economy, just 34 percent approve of the way he has handled the economy, with 57 disapproving. And on the issue of job creation, 40 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove.
CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto
As concerns about the struggling U.S. economy grow, a new CBS News/New York poll finds that President Obama's overall approval rating has dropped to 43 percent, the lowest so far of his presidency in CBS News polling. In addition, his disapproval rating has reached an all-time high of 50 percent.
Views of the president's job performance are marked by a striking degree of polarization along party lines -- the vast majority of Democrats approve (78 percent), while even more Republicans disapprove (89 percent) of how he's handling his job. But only 37 percent of independents approve, with 54 percent disapproving.
Except for a notable spike in approval after the killing of Osama bin Laden in May, President Obama's approval rating has been below 50 percent since the spring of 2010.
Not surprisingly, the down economy has had a clear impact on Mr. Obama's approval rating.
The poll also found that 39 percent of Americans say the economy is fairly bad, and another 47 percent say the economy is very bad - the highest percentage since April 2009. Meanwhile, 13 percent say the economy is fairly good and just one percent say it is very good.
In addition, 72 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track -- the highest percentage so far since the president took office. Just 23 percent think the country is currently in the right direction.
As for Mr. Obama's rating on the economy, just 34 percent approve of the way he has handled the economy, with 57 disapproving. And on the issue of job creation, 40 percent approve and 53 percent disapprove.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Winnie
I went to see the world premiere of Winnie at Roy Thompson Hall. It is part of TIFF.
I must admit I am not a fan of Winnie Mandela or liberation struggles. However apartheid is stupid and I do admire Nelson Mandela's grace and dignity. The movie was very well done Jeenifer Hudson and Terrence Howard were both excellent. The filmmakers did not whitewash Winnie's crimes, but it was put in context. Winnie was jailed for many months in solitary and then exiled. In the end her husband divorced her. I hadn't expected to enjoy this movie, but I did. Most of the stars, except Jennifer Hudson were at the premiere. It was a Canadian / South African co production.
Watch the trailer here
I must admit I am not a fan of Winnie Mandela or liberation struggles. However apartheid is stupid and I do admire Nelson Mandela's grace and dignity. The movie was very well done Jeenifer Hudson and Terrence Howard were both excellent. The filmmakers did not whitewash Winnie's crimes, but it was put in context. Winnie was jailed for many months in solitary and then exiled. In the end her husband divorced her. I hadn't expected to enjoy this movie, but I did. Most of the stars, except Jennifer Hudson were at the premiere. It was a Canadian / South African co production.
Watch the trailer here
Prof Mansur also praises HM PM Harper for his brave stand against the jihadi threat.
Don’t airbrush Islamist threat
Salim Mansur – Sun Media
The remarks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a CBC interview that “the major threat is still Islamicism,” generated predictable controversy by the usual suspects on the left.
On the contrary, the PM needs to be applauded for stating without any ambivalence what most Canadians and people increasingly in the West see for themselves.
Don’t airbrush Islamist threat
Salim Mansur – Sun Media
The remarks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a CBC interview that “the major threat is still Islamicism,” generated predictable controversy by the usual suspects on the left.
On the contrary, the PM needs to be applauded for stating without any ambivalence what most Canadians and people increasingly in the West see for themselves.
The sycophantic US msm
Rex hits the nail on the head!! The American media has been a total embarrassment its worship of Bo.
The American media: failure's maidservants
Rex Murphy, National Post
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011
As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States - with a double-dip recession now all but certain - a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama's rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign - and it hasn't reclaimed them since.
The American media: failure's maidservants
Rex Murphy, National Post
Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011
As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States - with a double-dip recession now all but certain - a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama's rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign - and it hasn't reclaimed them since.
Catsmeat in the war room?
If catsmeat is really in the grit war room in Ontario or such a big player in the provincial campaign, how is it fair that he is still writing columns for the Sun? Shouldn't he take a leave of absence from SunTV and from writing Sun columns. Does this count as free advertising? Maybe he's not really such a big player for the Ontario grits. I have had many friends in Tory war rooms, they usually are pretty secretive about it. Which is it warren? If you are in the war room of the Ont grits take a leave of absence from the Sun, if not ....
Friday, September 16, 2011
Ontario Election
An interesting analysis. It is also yet another reason I want Tim Hudak to be Premier of Ontario. Besides the fact that dalton mcliar is a terrible premier, I want to make sure the grits lose another fortress.
A defeat for the provincial Liberals would be a severe setback bordering on disaster for their federal cousins, especially if the New Democrats surged. It would demoralize Ontario Liberals, brand the name Liberal as being in irreversible decline, and deprive the party of the government in the country’s largest province.
A defeat for the provincial Liberals would be a severe setback bordering on disaster for their federal cousins, especially if the New Democrats surged. It would demoralize Ontario Liberals, brand the name Liberal as being in irreversible decline, and deprive the party of the government in the country’s largest province.
Equus
I attended the Segal Cener's premiere of their Production of Peter Schaffer's Equus. It is a play abut a 17 year old who is seeing a psychiatrist instead of going to prison for an horrific crimes. It is based on a true story. I had seen this play many years ago. It was another great performance at the Segal. Dan Jeanotte who played the boy ( Alan Stang) was amazing. World-renowned director, choreographer and painter Domy Reiter-Soffer has done an amazing job. This is really worth seeing
Salim Mansur and David Harris in Montreal
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| Rabbi Poupko |
I got to see my friends Salim Mansur and David Harris in Montreal last week at Beth Israel,Beth Aaron. They were giving a talk on 9/11 Ten years later.
It was organized by my friend David Ouellette. It was also nice to see Valerie Price(a fellow member of the PA Herald) and her Husband ( we all went to her lovely home after for a visit), Alex Meterissian of the PA Herald, Eric Duhaime of the RLQ and Marc Lebuis.
It was a receptive audience. It was depressing to hear about the extent of the jihadi threat and infiltration, but the message must get out. We are lucky to have men like Salim and David who understand the jihadi threat.
Tarek Fatah interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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| Avi Benlolo |
I had the great pleasure of seeing my friend Tarek Fatah interview an obviously pregnant Ayaan Hirsi Ali at an event for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthaml Center for Holocaust Studies. It was a well attended event and it was wonderful to chat with some classmates from medical school, some political friends, Senator Frum and of course Tarek and his daughter, Natasha Fatah.
It was wonderful to see Tarek and Ayaan so clearly delineate the jihadi threat. Tarek started of the interview by asking about the baby. Ayaan replied everything is going well and the baby is due Christmas Day! Ayaan has become an atheist, while Tarek said he was still trying to hanging on his faith. It was nice to see that Ayaan is still associated with the American Enterprise institute. She cited the lack of real right wing media in Europe as one of the reasons the jihadis are having such an easy time. Both railed against the secular left. I had the chance to ask a question and spoke of Salim Mansur's book Multiculturalism , a Delectable Lie( read the great interview Salim did with the Prince Arthur Herald.) I said I though much of the problem was white guilt and the tendency of the liberal left to feel offended on the behalf of people like Ayaan , Tarek and me. Ayaan said it was really just racism. Tarek called it the racism of low expectations. They both said we have to tell our co citizens that we are capable of defending ourselves, if we thought we needed defending. I congratulate both Tarek and Ayaan Hirsi Ali for emending Western values and fighting Islamacism! Thank you to the friends of Simon Wiesenthal for hosting this important event.
I willtry and post the video f I can find it
Castle!
Wow a Canadian court says you can feel safe in your own home. The right to self defence is strongly endorsed. This is is good news. I believe as does the common law that one has the right to defend one's home, self and family. It is good to know that even some judges believe that
Matt Gurney on an Ontario court’s strong endorsement of the right to self-defence
Matt Gurney Sep 15, 2011 – 11:51 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 15, 2011 11:57 AM ET
Last weekend, in the small town of Arnprior, Ont., a father and son confronted a man apparently trying to force his way into their home. During the struggle, the alleged intruder, 41-year-old Corey Blaskie, was fatally stabbed. Blaskie had prior criminal convictions, and the family (not yet identified) had already suffered a spate of property crimes against their home in recent months.
It’s too early to draw any conclusions from this unfortunate incident. But it is worth noting that even while local police have said that charges against the father, a retired Canadian Armed Forces officer, and his son may be pending, a recent ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals suggests that if charges are laid, the two potential defendants have cause for optimism.
Matt Gurney on an Ontario court’s strong endorsement of the right to self-defence
Matt Gurney Sep 15, 2011 – 11:51 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 15, 2011 11:57 AM ET
Last weekend, in the small town of Arnprior, Ont., a father and son confronted a man apparently trying to force his way into their home. During the struggle, the alleged intruder, 41-year-old Corey Blaskie, was fatally stabbed. Blaskie had prior criminal convictions, and the family (not yet identified) had already suffered a spate of property crimes against their home in recent months.
It’s too early to draw any conclusions from this unfortunate incident. But it is worth noting that even while local police have said that charges against the father, a retired Canadian Armed Forces officer, and his son may be pending, a recent ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals suggests that if charges are laid, the two potential defendants have cause for optimism.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Nobel Laureate denounces warmists at APS
More evidence of the false consensus:
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
Published September 14, 2011
The global warming theory left him out in the cold.
Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
Published September 14, 2011
The global warming theory left him out in the cold.
Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that "global warming is occurring."
Poll Abuse?
A good piece by Darryl Bricker and John Wright of Ipsos Reid, given the huge swings in polling in Ontario. The grit media in Ontario is trying to give mcliar momentum by using dubious polls. The people of Ontario should not be fooled.
Evaluating the Polls: an Open Letter to Ontario’s Journalists
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Toronto, ON – We’ve all seen over the last few days a confusing cacophony of polls on the Ontario election. Depending on what poll you read, McGuinty's Liberals are on a roll, Hudak and the Tories are comfortably ahead, or the Grits and Tories are neck and neck. How can this be? It is because all polls are NOT created equally. And, in spite of what you may assume, pollsters are never held to account for their indiscretions, incompetence and mistakes (there is no “polling police”). Some marginal pollsters count on your ignorance and hunger to make the news to peddle an inferior product. Others are using your coverage to "prove" that their untried methodology is the way forward for market research in Canada. Instead of being their own biggest sceptics (which is what our training tells us to be), they've become hucksters selling methodological snake oil. Remember, the term "pollster" is derived from the term "huckster".
Journalists are no mere dupes in this process. We've also seen a disturbing trend of late in which questionable polls find their way into an outlet’s coverage because they appear to match an editorial line, or present a counter-intuitive perspective. After all, if a poll is wrong it’s easy to throw the pollster under the bus and walk away with clean hands.
All of this MUST stop. We are distorting our democracy, confusing voters, and destroying what should be a source of truth in election campaigns - the unbiased, truly scientific public opinion poll.
To be clear, this is not about banning media polls during election campaigns. That would just take us back to the old days of backroom boys leaking false polling, and to the practices we see in less stable democracies around the world. What we need is better, more informed reporting of polls. Here are six easy rules to get us started.
Evaluating the Polls: an Open Letter to Ontario’s Journalists
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Toronto, ON – We’ve all seen over the last few days a confusing cacophony of polls on the Ontario election. Depending on what poll you read, McGuinty's Liberals are on a roll, Hudak and the Tories are comfortably ahead, or the Grits and Tories are neck and neck. How can this be? It is because all polls are NOT created equally. And, in spite of what you may assume, pollsters are never held to account for their indiscretions, incompetence and mistakes (there is no “polling police”). Some marginal pollsters count on your ignorance and hunger to make the news to peddle an inferior product. Others are using your coverage to "prove" that their untried methodology is the way forward for market research in Canada. Instead of being their own biggest sceptics (which is what our training tells us to be), they've become hucksters selling methodological snake oil. Remember, the term "pollster" is derived from the term "huckster".
Journalists are no mere dupes in this process. We've also seen a disturbing trend of late in which questionable polls find their way into an outlet’s coverage because they appear to match an editorial line, or present a counter-intuitive perspective. After all, if a poll is wrong it’s easy to throw the pollster under the bus and walk away with clean hands.
All of this MUST stop. We are distorting our democracy, confusing voters, and destroying what should be a source of truth in election campaigns - the unbiased, truly scientific public opinion poll.
To be clear, this is not about banning media polls during election campaigns. That would just take us back to the old days of backroom boys leaking false polling, and to the practices we see in less stable democracies around the world. What we need is better, more informed reporting of polls. Here are six easy rules to get us started.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The shrinking state
All I can say about this article is faster!!! I am glad Canada is at the forefront of the shrinking state.
Canada’s enviable shrinking of the power of the state
NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail
OTTAWA— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011 6:40PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011 6:22AM EDT
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Economist Vito Tanzi predicts the shrinking of the modern state, asserts that it has already begun and regards Canada as an early leader in the process. How far will it downsize? In a sense, Mr. Tanzi says, it could return to the roles it once played in the 18th and 19th centuries – “though in a modern version.” Government spending would be higher than in days of yore (when Sweden’s government, for example, spent 5 per cent of gross domestic product). But taxes would be much lower than they are now.
Canada’s enviable shrinking of the power of the state
NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail
OTTAWA— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011 6:40PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011 6:22AM EDT
225 comments
PrintDecrease text sizeIncrease text size
Economist Vito Tanzi predicts the shrinking of the modern state, asserts that it has already begun and regards Canada as an early leader in the process. How far will it downsize? In a sense, Mr. Tanzi says, it could return to the roles it once played in the 18th and 19th centuries – “though in a modern version.” Government spending would be higher than in days of yore (when Sweden’s government, for example, spent 5 per cent of gross domestic product). But taxes would be much lower than they are now.
Not surprising
an interesting study, but hardly surprising. I get almost daily emails to go work in the US at substantially more than I make here. I do make a good living in Canada. I also have family ties and I like living in Canada. It is a Constitutional Monarchy! Allowing some private care may entice some of the doctors leaving for the US to stay in Canada.
Despite recent fee hikes, Canadian doctors still lag dramatically far behind their American counterparts in income, according to a new study that underscores the wide pay gap in both countries between front-line "primary-care" physicians and much-wealthier surgical specialists.
Orthopedic surgeons in Canada make less than half the $440,000 average net income of colleagues in the States while doing more procedures, two U.S. health-policy professors concluded in one of the most detailed looks yet at the differences in doctor compensation between nations.
The U.K. also pays its surgeons more than Canada, while both it and Germany better compensate primarycare doctors, like family physicians and pediatricians, the comparison of six industrialized countries suggests.
Canada should not ignore the wage gap, as a sudden shortage of certain specialists in the States could trigger a drain from here, said Dr. John Haggie, president of the Canadian Medical Association. Canada saw a net loss of doctors to the U.S. in the 1990s, as provinces instituted doctor pay caps and tried to rein-in fee increases as a way to corral health costs.
But Dr. Haggie voiced no particular envy Tuesday at the statistics just published in the journal Health Affairs, saying that factors other than money influence where doctors settle, including for some the appeal of Canada's universal, government-funded health system.
"A good salary package is an attractor, it's a magnet but it doesn't always have the same effect at the other end when you're trying to retain people," said Dr. Haggie. "The system in which [physicians] work is part of the attraction of working here."
That migration to the U.S. has reversed in the last few years, with a small net influx of MDs from south of the border as incomes rose here, according to statistics and the accounts of medical recruitment agencies.
Despite recent fee hikes, Canadian doctors still lag dramatically far behind their American counterparts in income, according to a new study that underscores the wide pay gap in both countries between front-line "primary-care" physicians and much-wealthier surgical specialists.
Orthopedic surgeons in Canada make less than half the $440,000 average net income of colleagues in the States while doing more procedures, two U.S. health-policy professors concluded in one of the most detailed looks yet at the differences in doctor compensation between nations.
The U.K. also pays its surgeons more than Canada, while both it and Germany better compensate primarycare doctors, like family physicians and pediatricians, the comparison of six industrialized countries suggests.
Canada should not ignore the wage gap, as a sudden shortage of certain specialists in the States could trigger a drain from here, said Dr. John Haggie, president of the Canadian Medical Association. Canada saw a net loss of doctors to the U.S. in the 1990s, as provinces instituted doctor pay caps and tried to rein-in fee increases as a way to corral health costs.
But Dr. Haggie voiced no particular envy Tuesday at the statistics just published in the journal Health Affairs, saying that factors other than money influence where doctors settle, including for some the appeal of Canada's universal, government-funded health system.
"A good salary package is an attractor, it's a magnet but it doesn't always have the same effect at the other end when you're trying to retain people," said Dr. Haggie. "The system in which [physicians] work is part of the attraction of working here."
That migration to the U.S. has reversed in the last few years, with a small net influx of MDs from south of the border as incomes rose here, according to statistics and the accounts of medical recruitment agencies.
Why was this predator on the streets????
The alleged kidnapper if the 4 year old in BC has repeatedly tried to kidnap young boys. Why was he not declared a dangerous offender and held at Her Majesty's pleasure.
I of course blame liberal judges. His repeated crimes demand dangerous offender status. Tim Hudak would have at least kept this predator on surveillance.
Storied past for alleged abductor Hopley
Hopley known to Police
RCMP
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By Dave Hamilton - The Free Press
Published: September 11, 2011 8:00 PM
Updated: September 12, 2011 1:56 PM
While Randall P. Hopley is still at large, The Free Press in partnership with the Cranbrook Daily Townsman dug up some old articles about Hopley from our files. See below for five disturbing past articles.
hopley, randall 2007-11-26
By DEAN BASSETT Townsman Staff
CRANBROOK - An area resident will remain in custody pending his trial for attempting to snatch a young boy from a residence. On Monday, 42 year-old Randall P. Hopley appeared before Judge Ron Webb in the Cranbrook Law Courts.
Hopley appeared by video from Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre and was represented in the court room by venerable public defender Greg Sawchuk.
Hopley is charged with one count of break and enter, one count of unlawful confinement and one count of abduction of a person under 14 years of age. Crown counsel Andrew Mayes sought and received a publication ban for the bail hearing to both protect the victim. Mayes was also concerned that any evidence published at this early date could jeopardize a jury trial if the case goes that route.
Details of the accusations can only be published at the conclusion of the file.
Sawchuk noted that the accused doesn't have any convictions for failing to attend court, which is the primary grounds for keeping an accused in jail.
"There is no basis for detention on the primary grounds," Webb said. "Detention is necessary on the secondary and tertiary grounds." However having regard to all the circumstances, Webb ruled detention was necessary for the protection of the public and to prevent the possibility of a further criminal offence.
"The community would be appalled if the accused was out and had the possibility to contact this young person," Webb said. Mayes also produced the accused's previous criminal record for the court proceedings.
I of course blame liberal judges. His repeated crimes demand dangerous offender status. Tim Hudak would have at least kept this predator on surveillance.
Storied past for alleged abductor Hopley
Hopley known to Police
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By Dave Hamilton - The Free Press
Published: September 11, 2011 8:00 PM
Updated: September 12, 2011 1:56 PM
While Randall P. Hopley is still at large, The Free Press in partnership with the Cranbrook Daily Townsman dug up some old articles about Hopley from our files. See below for five disturbing past articles.
hopley, randall 2007-11-26
By DEAN BASSETT Townsman Staff
CRANBROOK - An area resident will remain in custody pending his trial for attempting to snatch a young boy from a residence. On Monday, 42 year-old Randall P. Hopley appeared before Judge Ron Webb in the Cranbrook Law Courts.
Hopley appeared by video from Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre and was represented in the court room by venerable public defender Greg Sawchuk.
Hopley is charged with one count of break and enter, one count of unlawful confinement and one count of abduction of a person under 14 years of age. Crown counsel Andrew Mayes sought and received a publication ban for the bail hearing to both protect the victim. Mayes was also concerned that any evidence published at this early date could jeopardize a jury trial if the case goes that route.
Details of the accusations can only be published at the conclusion of the file.
Sawchuk noted that the accused doesn't have any convictions for failing to attend court, which is the primary grounds for keeping an accused in jail.
"There is no basis for detention on the primary grounds," Webb said. "Detention is necessary on the secondary and tertiary grounds." However having regard to all the circumstances, Webb ruled detention was necessary for the protection of the public and to prevent the possibility of a further criminal offence.
"The community would be appalled if the accused was out and had the possibility to contact this young person," Webb said. Mayes also produced the accused's previous criminal record for the court proceedings.
Another letter to the editor
I wrote this letter in the Montreal Gazette in defense of the Crown and private health care! It was in response to my colleague's letter.
Re: "Taxes better spent" (Your Views, Sept. 13).
I am quite pleased by Her Majesty's Canadian government's moves to reverse republicanism by stealth. Canada already has an official portrait of our sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. You can get one yourself by writing to the Department of Canadian Heritage. There will be virtually no cost to having portraits of our head of state in all our embassies. It will show to others that Canada respects its tradition, history and constitution. It also shows that we expect those who come here to respect these things as well.
As to funding for health care, I think it is high time the government allowed some private health care, to give the public system some competition. Health care is increasingly consuming our budgets at an unsustainable rate. Canada is a capitalist country. Competition will help make the public system better, thus reining in runaway costs.
Roy Eappen
Côte des Neiges
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
Re: "Taxes better spent" (Your Views, Sept. 13).
I am quite pleased by Her Majesty's Canadian government's moves to reverse republicanism by stealth. Canada already has an official portrait of our sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. You can get one yourself by writing to the Department of Canadian Heritage. There will be virtually no cost to having portraits of our head of state in all our embassies. It will show to others that Canada respects its tradition, history and constitution. It also shows that we expect those who come here to respect these things as well.
As to funding for health care, I think it is high time the government allowed some private health care, to give the public system some competition. Health care is increasingly consuming our budgets at an unsustainable rate. Canada is a capitalist country. Competition will help make the public system better, thus reining in runaway costs.
Roy Eappen
Côte des Neiges
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
Killer Morons
Unfortunately this is not the first case of moron parents starving their kids ti death because of their nutty dietary habits. Most Indians are vegetarians , but you don't see them voluntarily starving their kids to death. These fools didn't know enough about nutrition to keep their baby alive. They were too caught up in their whacky lifestyle to get help for their child. Poor kid, he didn't have a chance.
Ga. high court upholds life sentence against vegan couple in death of their malnourished baby
By Greg Bluestein, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Mon, 12 Sep, 2011
PrintATLANTA - An Atlanta vegan couple whose malnourished 6-week-old son starved to death after they fed him a too-limited diet of soy milk and apple juice will have to serve their life sentences for murder, Georgia's top court ruled on Monday.
The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous decision rejected appeals by Jade Sanders and Lamont Thomas.
The two first-time parents in their 20s at the time lived in Atlanta's Buckhead neighbourhood. They rushed their infant, Crown Shakur, to the hospital in April 2004 after he began to have trouble breathing. Doctors who couldn't resuscitate him determined he died because of extreme malnourishment or starvation.
Ga. high court upholds life sentence against vegan couple in death of their malnourished baby
By Greg Bluestein, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – Mon, 12 Sep, 2011
PrintATLANTA - An Atlanta vegan couple whose malnourished 6-week-old son starved to death after they fed him a too-limited diet of soy milk and apple juice will have to serve their life sentences for murder, Georgia's top court ruled on Monday.
The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous decision rejected appeals by Jade Sanders and Lamont Thomas.
The two first-time parents in their 20s at the time lived in Atlanta's Buckhead neighbourhood. They rushed their infant, Crown Shakur, to the hospital in April 2004 after he began to have trouble breathing. Doctors who couldn't resuscitate him determined he died because of extreme malnourishment or starvation.
obama in big trouble
bo's polls are tanking and now the dems lose NY-9!!! This is a very , very den seat. The GOP easily took NV-2. Obama was a huge drag in this race. If the GOP could come up with a better candidate, obama won't have a chance.
Although the district may well be eliminated by Empire State line-drawers tasked with cutting down New York’s congressional delegation by two seat before 2012, the result will buoy Republicans hopes heading into 2012 and spur anxiety among Democrats.
Republicans also easily held a seat in Nevada’s GOP-heavy 2nd district, which has never elected a Democrat. State Sen. Mark Amodei (R) beat state Treasurer Kate Marshall (D) in a special election for the House seat left open by Sen. Dean Heller (R), who was appointed to replace Sen. John Ensign (R). Ensign resigned earlier this year over a scandal involving an aide.
The New York seat, which was vacated by Weiner earlier this year following relevations of his involvement in a series of online liaisons with women who were’t his wife, was initially considered safe for Democrats.
Although the district may well be eliminated by Empire State line-drawers tasked with cutting down New York’s congressional delegation by two seat before 2012, the result will buoy Republicans hopes heading into 2012 and spur anxiety among Democrats.
Republicans also easily held a seat in Nevada’s GOP-heavy 2nd district, which has never elected a Democrat. State Sen. Mark Amodei (R) beat state Treasurer Kate Marshall (D) in a special election for the House seat left open by Sen. Dean Heller (R), who was appointed to replace Sen. John Ensign (R). Ensign resigned earlier this year over a scandal involving an aide.
The New York seat, which was vacated by Weiner earlier this year following relevations of his involvement in a series of online liaisons with women who were’t his wife, was initially considered safe for Democrats.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The ADQ youth wing..
Is showing more good sense than many of their elders. They have come out strongly against Francois Legault and his fantasy party. Legault recently announced he will be touring rural Quebec and will change his ideas yet again based on the tour. Legault and his imaginary party is trying hard to be all things to all people. jean Charest will just wait until his caq collapses under it's own weight. The young Adequistes are right!! Merger with this fiction is a terrible idea.
MONTRÉAL – La Commission des jeunes de l’Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) s’oppose « catégoriquement » à une fusion avec la Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec (CAQ) de François Legault.
« Nous souhaitons le maintien de l’Action démocratique du Québec comme parti politique autonome sous le “leadership” de Gérard Deltell, que nous appuyons sans réserve », a indiqué à l’Agence QMI le président de la Commission des jeunes de l’ADQ, Denis Claveau.
MONTRÉAL – La Commission des jeunes de l’Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) s’oppose « catégoriquement » à une fusion avec la Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec (CAQ) de François Legault.
« Nous souhaitons le maintien de l’Action démocratique du Québec comme parti politique autonome sous le “leadership” de Gérard Deltell, que nous appuyons sans réserve », a indiqué à l’Agence QMI le président de la Commission des jeunes de l’ADQ, Denis Claveau.
The Crown
I wrote this letter in response to this column in the NP.
Freedom wears a Crown in Canada
National Post · Sept. 13, 2011 | Last Updated: Sept. 13, 2011 6:02 AM ET
Re: Canada's Royal Rebrand, Sept. 1.
I am a monarchist. I also happen to be an immigrant, Christian, gay and Tory. I have watched for many years as a campaign of republicanism by stealth has robbed Canada of a vital symbol, the Crown. I am very happy that Her Majesty's Canadian government has stopped this slide into republicanism and constitutional vandalism. I was also pleased that Jack Layton understood the value of our institutions and regularly referred to himself as Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
The recent moves of the government should only be a beginning. We must again teach the central role of the Crown in our history. Canada was a monarchy since its beginning. It is not a coincidence that the fleurde-lis of Quebec is the symbol of the Bourbon family. We must teach about the Mother of Confederation, Queen Victoria.
We must also teach more about our traditions of liberty, which date back to before the Magna Carta. Canada was founded not in revolution but by Burkean evolution. I suspect that is why Canada is a kinder, gentler place.
Forgetting these traditions has set much of the country adrift. We must tell all those who immigrate here that our traditions of freedom and liberty are fundamental to who we are.
In Canada, freedom wears a Crown.
Roy Eappen,
Montreal.
Freedom wears a Crown in Canada
National Post · Sept. 13, 2011 | Last Updated: Sept. 13, 2011 6:02 AM ET
Re: Canada's Royal Rebrand, Sept. 1.
I am a monarchist. I also happen to be an immigrant, Christian, gay and Tory. I have watched for many years as a campaign of republicanism by stealth has robbed Canada of a vital symbol, the Crown. I am very happy that Her Majesty's Canadian government has stopped this slide into republicanism and constitutional vandalism. I was also pleased that Jack Layton understood the value of our institutions and regularly referred to himself as Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
The recent moves of the government should only be a beginning. We must again teach the central role of the Crown in our history. Canada was a monarchy since its beginning. It is not a coincidence that the fleurde-lis of Quebec is the symbol of the Bourbon family. We must teach about the Mother of Confederation, Queen Victoria.
We must also teach more about our traditions of liberty, which date back to before the Magna Carta. Canada was founded not in revolution but by Burkean evolution. I suspect that is why Canada is a kinder, gentler place.
Forgetting these traditions has set much of the country adrift. We must tell all those who immigrate here that our traditions of freedom and liberty are fundamental to who we are.
In Canada, freedom wears a Crown.
Roy Eappen,
Montreal.
Monday, September 12, 2011
The natural consequence to abortion on demand?
So now killing babies is ok? DISGUSTING. Do the third wave feminists think this is another victory for women?
A judge ruled Friday that Wetaskiwin baby killer Katrina Effert should be handed a three-year suspended sentence and put on probation on her conviction for infanticide.
However, the sentence was put on hold until next week after a technicality arose over a 90-day jail term earlier given to Effert, 25, on her additional conviction of unlawfully disposing of a body for tossing the strangled new-born boy over a back fence into a neighbour’s yard.
Queen’s Bench Justice Joanne Veit rejected the Crown’s call for a four-year prison term – which she described as “essentially” seeking the maximum five-year punishment when taking into account the time Effert has already spent behind bars and under strict bail conditions.
A judge ruled Friday that Wetaskiwin baby killer Katrina Effert should be handed a three-year suspended sentence and put on probation on her conviction for infanticide.
However, the sentence was put on hold until next week after a technicality arose over a 90-day jail term earlier given to Effert, 25, on her additional conviction of unlawfully disposing of a body for tossing the strangled new-born boy over a back fence into a neighbour’s yard.
Queen’s Bench Justice Joanne Veit rejected the Crown’s call for a four-year prison term – which she described as “essentially” seeking the maximum five-year punishment when taking into account the time Effert has already spent behind bars and under strict bail conditions.
If Quebec had known?
I had suspected for months before the last federal election that Jack Layton was very illl. Indeed it is one of the reasons I kept predicting no election. Lysiane Gagnon asks some very relevant Questions.
This issue is particularly acute in Quebec, since most of those who voted for the NDP didn’t vote for the party, let alone for its unknown and invisible local candidates. They voted for Jack Layton – a sharp contrast with the other provinces, where the New Democrats have roots and long-time followers. The personality of the leader didn’t matter as much as it did in Quebec.
Last week, La Presse columnist Patrick Lagacé didn’t mince words: “Mr. Layton ran for the highest office knowing that the crab was gnawing at his bones. We should have been told. This would have changed the vote of thousands of people, that’s clear. And it’s someone who voted for the NDP who’s telling you this.”
Did Mr. Layton know about his “second cancer” before the election campaign? In March, he began to suffer hip pain. Tests showed he had a fracture and required surgery. Was this due to bone cancer?
Last week, Olivia Chow, Mr. Layton’s widow, told the CBC that she didn’t want to reveal what type of cancer killed her husband because it might “discourage” other cancer sufferers. This is preposterous. Cancer patients are not stupid. They know that there are as many cases as there are individuals, and that some of them will survive and some of them will die. Why treat them like children incapable of making a distinction between Mr. Layton’s fate and their own?
I can understand why Mr. Layton did not acknowledge his condition at the outset of the election campaign. He would have had to resign, thereby throwing his party in disarray. And for him, campaigning was certainly the best therapy he could have. Indeed, for a while, the flow of adrenalin trumped the disease. Still, his story should come as a lesson.
Maybe, as Mr. Picard concluded, it’s time for Canadian politicians to adopt the rules that prevail in the United States, where health records must be disclosed.
This issue is particularly acute in Quebec, since most of those who voted for the NDP didn’t vote for the party, let alone for its unknown and invisible local candidates. They voted for Jack Layton – a sharp contrast with the other provinces, where the New Democrats have roots and long-time followers. The personality of the leader didn’t matter as much as it did in Quebec.
Last week, La Presse columnist Patrick Lagacé didn’t mince words: “Mr. Layton ran for the highest office knowing that the crab was gnawing at his bones. We should have been told. This would have changed the vote of thousands of people, that’s clear. And it’s someone who voted for the NDP who’s telling you this.”
Did Mr. Layton know about his “second cancer” before the election campaign? In March, he began to suffer hip pain. Tests showed he had a fracture and required surgery. Was this due to bone cancer?
Last week, Olivia Chow, Mr. Layton’s widow, told the CBC that she didn’t want to reveal what type of cancer killed her husband because it might “discourage” other cancer sufferers. This is preposterous. Cancer patients are not stupid. They know that there are as many cases as there are individuals, and that some of them will survive and some of them will die. Why treat them like children incapable of making a distinction between Mr. Layton’s fate and their own?
I can understand why Mr. Layton did not acknowledge his condition at the outset of the election campaign. He would have had to resign, thereby throwing his party in disarray. And for him, campaigning was certainly the best therapy he could have. Indeed, for a while, the flow of adrenalin trumped the disease. Still, his story should come as a lesson.
Maybe, as Mr. Picard concluded, it’s time for Canadian politicians to adopt the rules that prevail in the United States, where health records must be disclosed.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Thank Goodness
I am very pleased that this child is home safe. I was almost certain this was going to end badly and I am thrilled that I was wrong. This whole episode seems very odd, but thank God that the child is safe!
Three-year-old Kienan Hebert found safe, returned by suspect: police
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press
CBC - Fri, 9 Sep, 2011
SPARWOOD, B.C. - The stealthy abduction of a three-year-old boy from his bed in Sparwood, B.C., and his subsequent undetected return to the home under the cover of darkness has many in this peaceful mountain community fearfully looking over their shoulders.
Police received an anonymous 911 call around 3 a.m. local time Sunday morning and were told where to find little Kienan Hebert. The most troubling thing was that the caller, believed to be convicted sex offender Randall Hopley, 46, told police they could find Kienan in his own home.
"Taking the child undetected and then placing him back undetected certainly is a chilling prospect," Moskaluk admitted.
Three-year-old Kienan Hebert found safe, returned by suspect: police
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press
CBC - Fri, 9 Sep, 2011
SPARWOOD, B.C. - The stealthy abduction of a three-year-old boy from his bed in Sparwood, B.C., and his subsequent undetected return to the home under the cover of darkness has many in this peaceful mountain community fearfully looking over their shoulders.
Police received an anonymous 911 call around 3 a.m. local time Sunday morning and were told where to find little Kienan Hebert. The most troubling thing was that the caller, believed to be convicted sex offender Randall Hopley, 46, told police they could find Kienan in his own home.
"Taking the child undetected and then placing him back undetected certainly is a chilling prospect," Moskaluk admitted.
Ten years after 9/11
Prof Mansur and David Harris will be in Montreal tomorrow to talk about 9/11 10 years later. They will be speaking at:
Congégation Beth Israël Beth Aaron
6800, rue Mackle
Côte-Saint-Luc, QC
Admission is free. Both are excellent speakers.
I remind people to buy Prof Mansur's recently released book A delectable Lie.
Congégation Beth Israël Beth Aaron
6800, rue Mackle
Côte-Saint-Luc, QC
Admission is free. Both are excellent speakers.
I remind people to buy Prof Mansur's recently released book A delectable Lie.
9/11
Matthew 22:35-3935Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
I have many thoughts today. I pray for the victims and their families. It was a monstrous evil and yet there is hope. As I have said many times before I love the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. They truly love their neighbours as themselves. Perhaps the jihadi killers, who make a mockery of their own faith, should pay attention and see who will really go to heaven
On Sunday there will be memorial services in three area communities. The U.S. ambassador and Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will be in Gander, where a piece of steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be officially presented to the town.
Locals say just about everybody in town ended up helping in some way that day. Many say that the hospitality came naturally – and that the international attention it sparked has been kind of embarrassing.
Thelma Hooper and her husband Bill, then the mayor of Lewisporte, hosted several people, including Ms. Brooks-Jones. She believes the fuss over the area’s reaction is a bit much.
“I feel like, why all this attention?” she said. “We only did what anybody would do to help these people. But I realize people think it’s something impressive.”
I have many thoughts today. I pray for the victims and their families. It was a monstrous evil and yet there is hope. As I have said many times before I love the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. They truly love their neighbours as themselves. Perhaps the jihadi killers, who make a mockery of their own faith, should pay attention and see who will really go to heaven
On Sunday there will be memorial services in three area communities. The U.S. ambassador and Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will be in Gander, where a piece of steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be officially presented to the town.
Locals say just about everybody in town ended up helping in some way that day. Many say that the hospitality came naturally – and that the international attention it sparked has been kind of embarrassing.
Thelma Hooper and her husband Bill, then the mayor of Lewisporte, hosted several people, including Ms. Brooks-Jones. She believes the fuss over the area’s reaction is a bit much.
“I feel like, why all this attention?” she said. “We only did what anybody would do to help these people. But I realize people think it’s something impressive.”
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Martin Short on osama bin laden
"BASTARD IN THE SAND"
"Goodbye, Al Qaeda's Rose
Your beard never seemed too clean to me
So I'm glad they washed you off
Before they dumped you in the sea.
In the afterlife
Six dozen virgins sure sounded swell
So it must've burned your ass
When you ended up in hell.
It seems to me you lived your life
Like a bastard in the sand
Never knowing when the U.S. Navy SEALs would land
They caught you by surprise inside your secret base
Could've shot you anywhere
But why not in the face?
Goodbye, Al Qaeda’s Rose
To the world you were mad
And to your kids and 22 wives
You were also a deadbeat dad.
Multi-million dollar bounty
Placed on your head
You were wanted 'dead or alive'
But in the end we went with 'dead'."
"Goodbye, Al Qaeda's Rose
Your beard never seemed too clean to me
So I'm glad they washed you off
Before they dumped you in the sea.
In the afterlife
Six dozen virgins sure sounded swell
So it must've burned your ass
When you ended up in hell.
It seems to me you lived your life
Like a bastard in the sand
Never knowing when the U.S. Navy SEALs would land
They caught you by surprise inside your secret base
Could've shot you anywhere
But why not in the face?
Goodbye, Al Qaeda’s Rose
To the world you were mad
And to your kids and 22 wives
You were also a deadbeat dad.
Multi-million dollar bounty
Placed on your head
You were wanted 'dead or alive'
But in the end we went with 'dead'."
Federalist NDP?
This gives me pause. though I knew several dippers had close ties to the radical, Marxist, separatist Quebec Solidaire, I didn't know the ties were this close. Even the pq is mocking this.
NDP staffer to run for sovereigntist party Quebec solidaire in byelection
Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press : Friday, September 09, 2011 6:5 PM
MONTREAL - A political aide for the federal NDP will run for a provincial sovereigntist party in an upcoming Quebec byelection, opening the door to further scrutiny of the allegiances of its MPs.
Patricia Chartier, a staffer for Quebec MP Philip Toone, confirmed to The Canadian Press she will be the Quebec solidaire candidate in the provincial riding of Bonaventure.
The Parti Quebecois, Quebec's biggest sovereigntist party, used Twitter to attack the apparent contradiction in Chartier's political loyalties.
"Federalist at work and sovereigntist on the campaign?," Pascal Berube, PQ member of the national assembly, wrote Friday.
Berube questioned in a later post if Toone would openly throw his support to his political attache running for a sovereigntist party.
The NDP and Toone did not return calls placed Friday afternoon.
NDP staffer to run for sovereigntist party Quebec solidaire in byelection
Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press : Friday, September 09, 2011 6:5 PM
MONTREAL - A political aide for the federal NDP will run for a provincial sovereigntist party in an upcoming Quebec byelection, opening the door to further scrutiny of the allegiances of its MPs.
Patricia Chartier, a staffer for Quebec MP Philip Toone, confirmed to The Canadian Press she will be the Quebec solidaire candidate in the provincial riding of Bonaventure.
The Parti Quebecois, Quebec's biggest sovereigntist party, used Twitter to attack the apparent contradiction in Chartier's political loyalties.
"Federalist at work and sovereigntist on the campaign?," Pascal Berube, PQ member of the national assembly, wrote Friday.
Berube questioned in a later post if Toone would openly throw his support to his political attache running for a sovereigntist party.
The NDP and Toone did not return calls placed Friday afternoon.
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