Brief Sunday Tour

Reminder: Michael Yon on Pundit Review Radio

When: Sunday, October 23, 9pm EST
Where: Streaming Live at Boston's Talk Station, WRKO
Contact: Call us toll free at 877-469-4322

Michael [Yon] will be joining us live from Iraq to give us a preview of his upcoming Weekly Standard column on last weekend's historic voting, we'll also get his perspective on Saddam's trial and the overall situation on the ground

Campaign 2006 -- A regular review of the federal pre-election campaign -- bills introduced, passed, and spending announcements, etc. John Ivison, National Post, Oct. 22, 05

Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan is accused of interfering in a battle over a $200-million defence contract coveted by a firm in her riding.

Atlantic & East Coast Report -- Paul Martin, King of Canada, Strikes Again By Myles Higgins, Friday, October 21, 2005

How can we all tell a federal election is in the offing?

[. . . . ] Add to all of this the fact that just yesterday Ralph Goodale announced . . . and Paul Martin is talking tough with the U.S. over softwood lumber and you have the definite, undeniable evidence you need that an election is very close. Hell, Martin is posturing so much with our friends down south that if I didn’t know him I’d think he was actually a leader. [. . . . ]

Web Talk - Newfoundland and Labrador



KPMG asks Chinese police to find US$7.5M in diamonds

The receiver of Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. is working to get Chinese police to find Boaz Manor's sister-in-law [lives in Hong Kong] because it believes she may possess US$7.5-million in diamonds purchased with money allegedly misappropriated from investors in the failed hedge-fund firm. [. . . . ]

Tidal power study considers test sites in N.S., N.B. By KEITH DOUCETTE, Oct. 22, 05

HALIFAX (CP) - At least seven prime locations along the shores of the Bay of Fundy are being considered as test sites for a new type of underwater turbine that may one day harness the bay's immense tidal power.

Search: Among the potential test sites Hagerman looked at . . .

Check the website for the names of areas under consideration.



Public Intellectual Contest in the National Post

Irshad Manji deserves consideration for her courage; other Muslim women have faced death threats, e.g. Hirsi Ali in the Netherlands. Profile of Irshad Manji Posted by Salim Mansur in National Post on 19:38:12 2005/10/20

When Irshad Manji's The Trouble with Islam swiftly climbed the best-seller list in the fall of 2003, she found herself thrust into the Canadian and international spotlight.

Since then, Manji has become a key Muslim voice on the world stage, striving to explore a culture and civilization whose inward collapse has given rise to a militant creed at war with the modern world. [. . . . ]

Comments from Ordinary Canadians on CNEWS Forum

Savage nation 71717, 10/22/2005 06:39:38

Caught US radio program last few evenings. Michael Savage covers topics that we in Canada find taboo..such as personal responsibility,having children on welfare,illegal immigration, immigrant illiteracy,Islamo-fascism, crime rates amomg the races,etc....

Interesting stuff because we never hear those topics discussed in a public forum in Canada.

Here in Canada,Is our freedom of speech being suppressed by our politically correct left lilted [tilted?] media?

More commentary on the site.


Imagine this-Svend a tory

If Svend Robinson were a tory, the media would be full of righteous indignation at this time at the prospects of a thief vying for a return to parliament.

The press is so easy on the NDP it is disgusting.

They are treating Svend like a liberal.

It will be awful difficult for Svend to comment on crime in future or identify with the mentally ill (whom he feigns an association with), just like it would be hard for him to have an ear to a Jewish fellow given his unrepentant and strident anti-semitism. Svend has brought politically correct intolerance to an all time high in Canada. He is our most deceitful politician.

More commentary from Canadians on that site.



New drunk-driving charges reopen wounds By DAN DUGAS

[Senator Marjory] LeBreton says she is frustrated by a weak justice system and has been working on a bill to lower the allowable blood alcohol level for driving to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood from the existing 80 parts.

Surveillance, security, society: The surveillance society has arrived – how do you like it? -- more on RFID By Gary Reid, Friday, October 21, 2005

"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent." — Louis D. Brandeis.

It always starts with good intentions and meritorious benefits.

[. . . . ] The newest technology to make the work of the police, security forces, bureaucrats and educators easier, as your life is subject to more control, is RFID (radio frequency identification) This is a computer chip smaller than a grain of sand that can beam information to a chip reader as far as 10 metres away. It is being tested extensively for the packaging industry as well as port and airport security uses.

Canada's Liberals -- Ottawa's illiberal agenda: The compromise of individual imperative by Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Beryl P. Wajsman is the president of the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal.

[. . . . ] At an Institute conference a Member of Parliament once characterized Canada as a "controlled democracy". Today, Canada may well be on the road to becoming a terrorizing democracy institutionalizing a culture of victimization and fear. [. . . . ]

Next month the Martin government will bring forward legislation allowing for the monitoring of e-mail and internet communications. [. . . . ]

Listen to the Conference Board National Post, Oct. 21, 05

The federal government likes to boast about the strength of the Canadian economy. When think tanks, commentators or opposition politicians dare to suggest that Canada is in fact underperforming, their concerns are brushed off as sour grapes from the right. But a new study from the Conference Board of Canada -- a respected centrist think-tank that is not known for alarmism -- should give pause to those who think everything is going swimmingly. [. . . . ]

Search: compared 24 countries in six socio-economic categories , touches on the most urgent needs , long-term economic competitiveness



Inhumanity, Anti-semitism and The Absence of Empathy Posted by Bill Narvey on 17:46:37 2005/10/20

Empathy for others' suffering is what brings pain to our hearts and tears to our eyes and what moves us to act to help the person in need.

[. . . . ] There seems however to be an absence of empathy within us for others when it is not the suffering of one, but the suffering of a great many caused for example by mass starvation or when thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions suffer horribly and die as a result of man's inhumanity to man, as the world witnessed with the Holocaust, Uganda, Rwanda, and Darfur to mention just a few examples. [. . . . ]

Canadians in Iraq

[. . . . ] Seems that according to the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, James Judd, some Canadians are taking part in Iraqi insurgency. (Gasp!)

According to Keith Boag, the CBC's Ottawa bureau chief, the Prime Minister's Office was "flabbergasted" that such sensitive information could be released by the head of the spy agency. "They didn't know it was being spoken about publicly and for that they [the PMO] are very angry." [. . . . ]

A cynic might ask of PMO concerns: Could knowledge of this affect the election?



Operation Rudolph

Join with Canadians in saying Thank You to our brave men and women fighting for freedom and democracy in Afghanistan. Our security depends on their courage.

Please take a minute to buy a holiday gift for our soldiers in Afghanistan. You can make a secure online donation or call 1-877-383-8320. You will receive a tax receipt for your donation.

[. . . . ] Canadian troops are risking their lives in Afghanistan. They are doing so at the request of our government in support of building a democracy in that country. Afghanistan was a country that formerly provided training for terrorists to carry out their war on us and our allies. Success in the adoption of democracy in Afghanistan will provide an example to people everywhere.

This operation is more than a peacekeeping exercise. It carries with it a significant level of danger from a brutal enemy that does not want democracy to take hold. [. . . . ]

Contesting the Threat of Terrorism by The Right Honorable Charles Clarke, M.P., Home Secretary UK, Heritage Lecture #902 October 21, 2005

As we face the challenge of terrorist attack, most recently in Bali again last Saturday, it is our duty to analyze and then determine the means by which this threat can best be contested. Today, I want to clarify the values and society which we are defending; identify the threat with which we have to deal; and set out the central means by which we need both to contest those who seek to destroy us and to build the solidarity and determination which we need to succeed.

What Are We Defending? [. . . . ]

Contesting the Threat [. . . . ]

I suggest that the best way to contest this threat is by building and strengthening the democracy of our society, by isolating extremism in its various manifestations, by strengthening the legal framework within which we contest terrorism, and by developing more effective means to protect our democracy. [. . . . ]

Solidarity and Determination [. . . . ]

Liberals, Canadian Politics: Children not a precious asset to Liberals -- on By Joseph A. Gamero, Friday, October 21, 2005

From time immemorial, the leaders of the Liberal Party have stated unequivocally, that the most precious assets of the state are the children. Now carefully review the record of those leaders.

Instantly, comes to mind, the continuous refusal by the LIEberals (helped by the NDP and the Bloc in recent times), to change the age of consent from 14 to at least 16 [. . . . ]

Search: "women's rights," , promiscuity , erosion of the family unit , "unborn" , importing a great number of undesirables , the Saint Thomas fiasco , remove paedophilia from the criminal code

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