September 03, 2005

We don't need to be protected from ourselves

My sentiments, exactly.

Roll through a stop sign or come back to your car 10 minutes after the meter's expired and you get nailed. Bring in a couple container loads of cocaine and nobody knows anything. They pick off the low hanging fruit while the major culprits get away scott free. by Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, Saturday, September 3, 2005, Canada Free Press



Also, check the National Post today for how Canada Post is going to survive the fact that people are sending less snail mail than they used to . . . why, in publishing. They will be able keep the advertising $$$ sluicing through the usual area and people, presumably. Canada Post is the department whose head, Andre Ouellet (check that spelling) made a phenomenal salary. . . We could ask why?


Centre for Conflict Studies: Terrorism Conference, HIV-Positive Refugees & $$$ -&- Agent Orange

TERRORISM IN HISTORY: THE STRATEGIC IMPACT OF TERRORISM FROM SARAJEVO 1914 TO 9/11 -- "The Centre for Conflict Studies announces its annual conference, to be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 14-15 October 2005."

The purpose of the conference theme is to answer the question: In what cases (if any), under what circumstances, and with what effects has sub-state terrorism ever exercised a decisive influence on the course of modern history? The kinds of impacts to be addressed in the conference papers could include causing: major inter-state wars; regional and/or global economic crises; major policy changes by important regional/global 'players'; the collapse of functioning states; or the emergence of a new state or government with major regional or global impacts. [. . . . ]

To register or for further information contact:

Centre for Conflict Studies
University of New Brunswick
PO Box 4400
Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3
Canada
phone: 506-453-4587
fax: 506-447-3175
email: conflict@unb.ca


This department has a very good reputation; they have had very informative speakers.

Check the site for the proposed program, prices and accommodation.





Do you believe this on HIV-positive refugees?

Scroll down Jack's Newswatch today for the link on this: HIV-positive refugees accepted into Canada are not a threat to public safety and are not a drain on the public health care system, Citizenship and Immigration says.


Same site: Canada "Agent Orange Updates"


Where to Donate, Fake Charity Sites, Casinos & Taxes Gone

Instapundit: List of where to donate -- plenty of choice.



Scammers hit Web in Katrina's wake -- Fake charity sites, e-mail solicitations try to cash in on public sympathy Brian Krebs and Caroline E. Mayer, Washington Post Staff Writers, Sept. 1, 2005

[. . . . ] Federal Trade Commission spokeswoman Claudia Bourne-Farrell said people should never click on any link in an e-mail solicitation because they may end up at a site that looks real but is set up by identity thieves to get confidential information. "If you get an e-mail from the Red Cross, close the e-mail and go to the Red Cross Web site as you otherwise would," through a search engine, phone or regular mail, she said.

[. . . . ] Fraud watchers said Americans who want to make contributions should stick to Web sites of established national charities. The Web site for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473 ) also lists a number of Web sites where people can securely send donations to legitimate charities, as does http://www.give.org, part of the charity-monitoring service of the Better Business Bureau. [. . . . ]





Gambling companies tally damage to casinos -- Damage from Katrina could cripple region's gaming industry for years

[. . . . ] The effect on the Mississippi economy could be severe. About 14,000 people work in the dozen casinos along the Mississippi coastline. Each casino has a land-based hotel.

The hurricane damage could cost Mississippi some $400,000 to $500,000 a day in lost gambling taxes. Last year, the state’s casinos generated $2.7 billion in revenue.
Loveman said his company intends to pay the 8,000 employees of the Grand Casino, Harrah’s New Orleans and the Grand Casino Gulfport for up to 90 days [. . . . ]




The Grievance Industry: CAIR learned the ropes, Belgium & Burka Ban Fine,

The Grievance Industry & CAIR

Why Corporations Fund Radical Islam -- "Why this sudden retreat by CIBC, when Rubin had written an accurate and patently inoffensive passage? Why did the bank not stand by its star economist?" by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com, September 2, 2005

[. . . . ] Wente concludes that the bank, in other words, "took the path of least resistance. It found a quick and dirty way to make the problem go away."

Comments: (1) Kenneth Timmerman shows in his book Shakedown how Jesse Jackson developed this racket from practices on the mean streets of Chicago. What began as street gangs intimidating local businesses ended up working with corporate boards and Wall Street. This practice has become a potent weapon in the United States and in other Western countries; Islamists are just getting started at it. Timmerman writes me that "Jackson turned the grievance industry into a lucrative money-maker for himself and his political machine; CAIR has clearly studied his tactics and is applying them with success." [. . . . ]


Search: top personnel in most corporations , The marketplace places a premium on

Worth reading the whole thing.





City to Pay Woman's Fine for Breach of Burka Ban Aug. 25, 05

That's the Expatica News headline that symbolically sums up the quandary of a newly assertive Europe.

The city council in Maaseik, Belgium on December 27, 2004 approved the so-called "burka decision," criminalized the wearing of the burka (a full body-covering that covers even the eyes) and the niqab (a face covering that covers the face up to the eyes) in its public places. Breach of the law carries a €125 fine.


Search: social security payments




Selling Jihad FrontPage Magazine -- or Campus Watch by Hugh Fitzgerald, September 2, 2005

[. . . . ] All the big subjects – the sources of the duty of jihad, the instruments of jihad, the carefully-elaborated treatment of non-Muslims in the Shari'a, the psychological pervasiveness of Islam in a Muslim society, the particular passages in Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira that have an overwhelming effect on hundreds of millions of Believers these are nowhere to be found in Peter Awn's work.

But unlike many of the other faculty members at MEALAC, who seldom deviate into sense, Awn often does. For example, he has understood that Islam is all-pervasive, all-encompassing, all-defining, for those who are Muslims in a Muslim society, and he realizes, therefore, that any voices of protest against that ruler or that regime will almost inevitably find their vocabulary, their system of allusions, their justification, their impetus, in Islam. [. . . . ]


Search: the Virginia "Paintball Jihadis"


Katrina Disaster Updates, Another Liberal Appointment in that Uniquely Liberal Manner, Good News & Donate to Our Neighbours

WesternStandard.ca: Lots of blame to go around

Next time you hear that everything is George Bush's fault, show this post from Gay and Right.

Instead of crying "racism" or "playing the blame game" , read this, Sept. 3, 05

Search: Clinton

There are various good articles on the Western Standard and on Gay and Right.



Meanwhile, back in Canada with a link to Stephen Taylor's website, and an example of Liberal "friendship" . . . again -- the "democratic deficit" is being fixed in that uniquely Liberal "appointment process" lining up the Quebec vote, Sept. 3, 05

I thought that Paul Martin put an end to the practice of appointing partisan Quebec Liberal supporters [. . . . ]


Do scroll down to the Elections Canada database information concerning the latest Paul Martin appointee. Did the PM/PMO think the midst of the Katrina Disaster would be a good time to announce this appointment? . . . That perhaps Canadians would not notice? Good show Stephen Taylor.

Search: "Let's take a look in the Elections Canada database for donations by"



Bodies on the street, seven-year-old raped and left for dead in New Orleans Sept. 3, 05 -- and a related post, The Big Uneasy with links to articles in The American Spectator and to PowerLine

New Orleans was ripe for collapse. [. . . . ]





Canadian warships set to sail -- Government and private groups waiting for U.S. to ask for help -- "Mr. Stotz went into his local Canadian Red Cross office and donated money to help victims of the deadly hurricane. "These are our neighbours " Chris Wattie, with files from Siri Agrell, James Cowan and Chris Sorensen, September 03, 2005, National Post

[. . . . ] The Red Cross plans to send 25 volunteers today to help the American Red Cross in New Orleans, the vanguard of a Canadian contingent that could eventually swell to 200 people. The Canadian aid workers will be flown south aboard a Canadian air force transport plane.

Bill Graham, the Defence Minister, said yesterday that the navy is also readying three warships to sail to New Orleans. The destroyer HMCS Athabaskan and the frigates HMCS Toronto and HMCS Ville de Quebec are being loaded with relief supplies and emergency equipment in Halifax, he said. [. . . . ]


Good news!


Update 1: Memo to PM & Canada-China Business Council, Security? Extradition, Military Clawback & Organized Crime in Canada

Update 1:

Memo to Paul Martin and the China-Canada Business Council: Download and read this before meeting with Hu Jintao

Tech Transfer Notes PDF -- Security Awareness For Employees July 2005

Part I: Thefts of U.S. technology boost China's weaponry
by Bill Gertz

China's spies use as many as 3,200 front companies — many run by groups linked to the Chinese military — that are set up to covertly obtain information, equipment and technology, U.S. officials say. Recent examples include front businesses in Milwaukee; Trenton, N.J.; and Palo Alto, Calif., Mr. Szady said. In other cases, China has dispatched students, short-term visitors, businesspeople and scientific delegations with the objective of stealing technology and other secrets.

The Chinese "are very good at being where the information is," Mr. Szady said. "If you build a submarine, no one is going to steal a submarine. But what they are looking for are the systems or materials or the designs or the batteries or the air conditioning or the things that make that thing tick," he said. "That's what they are very good at collecting, going after both the private sector, the industrial complexes, as well as the colleges and universities in collecting scientific developments that they need."


See also these articles in the PDF:

* Chinese spy exposes Chinese espionage network in Europe
By Huang Zhenzhen, Central News Agency

* Chinese students believed to be running industrial ‘spy network' across Europe

* At risk offshore -- U.S. companies outsourcing their software development offshore can get stung by industrial espionage and poor intellectual property safeguards Condensed from an article by Michael Fitzgerald

* Outsourcing update

Foreknowledge . . .




Extradition: To whose benefit?

Gotcha! Canadian Business, David Baines, 2003-09-29 re:undercover work and Cpl. Bill Majcher of the Vancouver RCMP Integrated Proceeds of Crime Unit

[. . . . Quoting Chambers,] a financial facilitator for the Hells Angels, Russian mobsters and myriad other people who worked on the edge of the law.

[. . . . ] Chambers also made some comments to Majcher that later didn't exactly enhance his bail application. "Oh, if you get arrested in Canada, the chances of the Americans getting you out of there, and then in anything under about three or four years, is zero," he said. "We don't extradite. It requires a goddamn federal cabinet, you know, the equivalent of the secretary of state, to sign the goddamn warrant to extradite you." [. . . . ]


Isn't that sad? Incompetent? Why? To whose benefit?



Military:

Liberals Break Promise on Accelerating Purchase of Search and . . . . Air force sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the statement of requirements has been written and rewritten at least four times over the past year at the request of officials in the office of Defence Minister Bill Graham. (National Post, September 1, 2005) Posted by James Hunter on 12:31:39 2005/09/01

[. . . . ] the Liberals are now clawing back the money from the Department of National Defence. Yet another promise that the Liberals have broken to the men and women of the Canadian military. [. . . . ]




Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary January to March, 2005

Assume [. . . . ] after each item in the Table of Contents

Organized Crime Activities
Counterfeiting
Drug Trafficking
Canada’s Marijuana Industry
Fraud
Money Laundering
Smuggling – Cigarettes
Smuggling – Arms
Violence
Organized Crime Genres
Aboriginal Youth Gangs
Italian
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Enforcement


An excerpt:

Counterfeiting

A global anti-counterfeit group claims Canada is home to an estimated $20 billion-per-year industry in fake designer clothes, counterfeit software and countless other fraudulent goods. In a report to the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) estimates that “20 per cent of the Canadian market is now pirate product,” and accuses Canada of doing little to stop the illegal industry. In fact, the coalition says China, notorious for being the single largest manufacturer of counterfeit items, offers better enforcement against counterfeit products than Canada. [. . . . ]


Maybe PM could talk with Hu Jintao about this when they meet.


Challenge to PM for Hu Jintao's Visit to Canada -&- Forum at U of T -- China: Children Under Persecution

Note: "violating a unanimous resolution of the House of Commons"

Yesterday, Scott Reid, [Conservative] MP, called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to demand the immediate release of eighteen Falun Gong practitioners with family ties to Canada who are prisoners of conscience in China. Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet with Prime Minister Martin next week during a visit to Canada. Sept. 2, 05

Of the eighteen individuals with close Canadian family ties, as listed by the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, three were on Parliament's 2002 list. A fourth, Mingli Lin, was released from prison, but the Canadian consulate in Shanghai has refused to grant him a visa to enter Canada and re-unite with family. Reid has repeatedly urged the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to expedite the visa, given the danger posed to Mr. Lin, and has repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that refusing to grant him an entry visa amounts to Contempt of Parliament, for violating a unanimous resolution of the House of Commons.



Background:

Forum at University of Toronto


China: Children under Persecution - September 8, 2005 at UofT Posted by Michael Mostyn on 14:06:15 2005/09/02

In the course of the past six-year's persecution of Falun Gong, an estimated 10 million Chinese children have been severely affected. They have to face harsh realities such as being denied an education, forced to leave their homes, or worse - to be beaten, tortured and killed.



Paul Martin and our Liberal Government, while loudly declaring they are against denial of human rights anywhere it occurs, rarely put those words to action. posted by Bill Narvey on 15:26:32 2005/09/02


Anti-Terror?

Follow the yellow brick road.

Listen to ravings of Paul Martin's "anti-terror" imam CCD -- link in the following post

The recent tape of London bomber who is born British Posted by Bukitdago on 19:40:38 2005/09/02


Note links, "STATEMENT BY IMAMS AT MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER" Posted by Al Gordon on 22:44:18 2005/09/02

The signatories include Sheik Ahmed Shehab mentioned in this post Aug. 31, 05, "Updated: Ahmad Shahad "Canada, One Day a Muslim Country!" Security: Police Chiefs' Trip to Israel and Muslim Demands for Apologies & More Background"



No radicals here, move along -- Listen to Sheikh Ahmad Shehab Sermon

Some in Arabic, some in English -- a barn burner.



Islamists are selling you sanitized Islam while practicing the real thing. It is terribly important to remember that lying and deceit are among Islam's most valued weapons. Posted by George Mason on 23:17:58 2005/09/01




AMERICA’S EXTREME VULNERABILITY TO ISLAM: THE RELIGION BARRIER Archived GEORGE MASON Page 4

Americans could lose their struggle against Islamic Jihad or be forced into an extreme, mutually-destructive, war, if they do not correct their most serious, and most under-recognized, vulnerability. This is the vulnerability non-Islamic Americans share and can be called their "religion barrier." It means that they accord Islam the same respect that they accord Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. simply because Islam is a religion. Americans need to reprogram this aspect of their thinking in order to see Islam for what it is and to be able to deal with it definitively.

Americans religion barrier permeates our culture.

[. . . . ] Islam is a global movement, the goal of which is to bring every living human being on the planet under its crushing totalitarian rule, the likes of which has never before been seen. Some of Islam is obvious and easy to identify. Some of it, however, lies beneath the surface, like an iceberg. The true nature of Islam sports a remarkable disguise.

No other movement, not even Fascism or Communism, has been so determined to conquer the world and rule with such rigid, detailed, complete control over the day-to-day activities of the lives of everyone on the planet. Islam has a multi-pronged plan in place to accomplish this goal, and it is being implemented with increasing success throughout the world. Islam seeks to make the rest of the world become just like it: squalid, backward, and primitive. [. . . . ]


Search: interfaces with populations , your death sentence

Lengthy and worth reading -- calling a spade a spade.


September 02, 2005

Updated: Ontario Trucking Industry & Katrina Survivor Relief

Copy of a comment from RoseMarie left with a post yesterday

An effort is being made in the trucking industry in Ontario to offer tangible relief to the Katrina survivors. The plan is getting underway and will involve each trucking company seeking donations of water, non-perishable items of food, clothing, personal care products, etc. from their suppliers and clients. Each company will have a company driver transport the trailer load to the relief site. I'll keep you updated on our progress.


Any trucking companies in other parts of Canada able and willing to join the effort? Please leave an email address and/or telephone number in a comment.

Scroll down for a post Sept. 1, 05 with links to charities for money donations: Katrina Disaster Relief: Links to How to Help -&- Global Warming.

It would be wonderful if Canadians could feel they are contributing in a concrete way to the relief of the Katrina survivors. We want to help. NJC




I have other commitments today so will post little, if anything. I recommend these sites for a start:

Newsbeat1 for Katrina Disaster information and other links

Jack's Newswatch Katrina links and up to date news links

New Orleans rocked by blasts, military move in -- and there are other items on CTV.ca worth reading.

Too soft for a new kind of war? -- excellent! -- a 'must read'

New Orleans News

There is so much more to read but time has run out.

One suggestion, would journalists stop trying to get interviewees to pinpoint the negative? CNN, for example, though I suspect it is not the only one. Let's mobilize to HELP, not waste breath on negativity right now. Of course, things are not going well; they almost never do. We must place our energy and efforts where it will do the most good right now.


September 01, 2005

Hu Jintao to Canada, Update: China, Touchy Topics -&- East Turkestan

Update to my post, Aug. 29, 05, Canada, China, Touchy Topics & Do Something About Gas Prices , in particular, this item: 'Remembering the plight of East Turkestan'.

Communists announce “anti-terrorist” center, slander East Turkestan again:, China e-Lobby, Sept. 1, 05

Communist China announced a plan for “a regional centre aimed at training policemen in anti-terror operations” (BBC). The Communists cited their usually trio of enemies – “terrorism, separatism and religious extremism” – as the subjects that will be taught at the center. Communist China has claimed – with no evidence to back it up – that Muslim Uighurs in occupied East Turkestan are bin Ladenites. Communist Ministry of Public Security deputy director-general Zhao Yongchen repeated the slander at a Congress on the Law of the World (United Press Int’l via Washington Times, second item).



China e-Lobby, Aug. 31, 05


China e-Lobby Aug. 30, 05

Ignorant Comment of the Day: Today’s winner is Harlan Ullman, Washington Times, who joins the folks calling on President Bush to make a deal with Stalinist North Korea on the latter’s nuclear weapons – largely on the latter’s terms. Will they never learn?




Each of those last four words links to an article. For example, the word "learn" leads to: The North Korea Conundrum Part IV

Part IV: North Korean Liberation Will Only Come with Chinese Liberation
Feb 14, 2005 by D. J. McGuire whose website is China e-Lobby.

Anyone looking for a solution regarding Stalinist North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has three options: negotiation, a “surgical strike,” and liberating northern Korea from the Stalinists. The first three parts of this series established liberation as the only viable option. This does not mean it will be easy: Communist China will certainly present itself as an obstacle to any attempt to free northern Korea, either through military action or the support and nurturing of dissidents (the “Poland plan,” in reference to the success America had in aiding the Polish Solidarity movement until it triumphed over Communism in 1989). [. . . . ]


Would that last one interfere with the networks making money or who see $$$ in their futures?




Hu Jintao will make talks with Canadians a priority on his first visit to North America (VS) -- Original post no longer available at the Vancouver Sun Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun, August 20, 2005

[. . . . ] The tentative schedule has the president arriving in Ottawa September 8 or 9, with a working day of bilateral meetings as well as a gala event.

Hu is then off to Toronto for a dinner hosted by the Canada-China Business Council, to be followed by a trip to Mexico, then New York for the UN address, to be followed by a stop in Washington to meet with President George W. Bush.


I read somewhere that he is going to Vancouver to meet with Chinese-Canadians, as well. Networking is important in the community; it is becoming more important to business in Canada, so it is important to know what business groups are very involved with this visit and in promoting business with China.



For more information on the Canada-China Business Council and related items, check these:

News Junkie Canada, Jan. 4, 05 which includes:

Updates & China Conference-Vancouver Port, Maurice Strong-China Car Salesman, China's Bricklin & Strong, China-Copied Chevy Design?

Business: The China Connection, Canada China Business Council--Founding Sponsors, the Networks, Connections & Other Information



The Budget 2005: Chapter 6 -- "Meeting our Global Responsibilities" -- the chapter with security information -- Note what is emphasized in chapter 6 Search:

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada -- Business News and more

Updates & China Conference-Vancouver Port, Maurice Strong-China Car Salesman, China's Bricklin & Strong, China-Copied Chevy Design?



Frost Hits the Rhubarb, April 3, 05

Canada shipbuilding in Shanghai -- CONNECTING THE POWER Frost Hits the Rhubarb, May 15, 05

For earlier items on China and Canada, the networks, et cetera, see News Junkie Canada, Mar. 1, 04



There may be more if you search Frost Hits the Rhubarb (technorati, pico) and Google.


Katrina Disaster Relief: Links to How to Help -&- Global Warming

BLOGGING FOR KATRINA RELIEF Michelle Malking, Sept. 1, 05


Very late, PM Paul Martin, yesterday, made some noises about the Katrina Disaster -- after several bloggers pointed out his duty.


`Where's the help? This is America!' Rosie Dimanno, Sept. 1, 05 via Newsbeat1

[. . . . ] New Orleans is beseeching the world for relief.

"Where is everybody?" cries a man from inside a silver SUV, marooned on some kind of elevated berm. "Where's the help? Where are the emergency people? Man, this is America! We're the country that helps everybody else in times of trouble. Now we're in the middle of a disaster but no one comes to help us." There is no point in telling this forlorn figure that others are in far more dire straits than he; that valiant rescue squads are still plucking stranded citizens from the roofs of submerged houses all along the stricken Gulf coastline and sifting sludge for bodies. [. . . . ]



I agree with this line from Michelle Malkin, I think it was, "You loot. We shoot!". It is the only response to a breakdown in law and order of this magnitude. I'm not talking about the people who simply are taking food and water; I am talking about those who saw in Katrina an opportunity to loot. By the way, is there something wrong with their brains? Where can you go with a TV when the highways are impassable or destroyed and food and water are at a premium? As for the reports of the shooting at a helicopter coming to aid Katrina victims and the shooting of a policeman by a looter, again, "You loot. We shoot!" is the only response. NJC



InstaPundit: Glenn Reynolds blogging for Katrina victims



TED FRANK on shooting looters: via InstaPundit: Glenn Reynolds



Dimanno reporting from New Orleans via Newsbeat1



Red Cross Canada -- There is mention now of Katrina victims but you had better specify that you want your donation to go to these victims in particular.



Global Warming

Dafydd: Global Hot Air From a Different Kennedy -- Trackback Captains's Quarters

According to Reason Magazine, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that if we do nothing, the rise in temperature over the next hundred years would average (among the various estimates) about 3.0°C. Full implementation of the Kyoto Protocols would reduce expected warming over the next century down to a mere 2.86°C; that is, Kyoto gives us a reduction in anticipated temperature increase of 0.14°C over 100 years. [. . . . ]



Happy Hundredth Anniversary Alberta and Saskatchewan

They joined Canada in 1905. I love what I have seen of the prairies and the foothills. From what I read of Western news sites and of blogs and bloggers, I suspect I would like the people very much, were I to live there. There is a genuine quality in Westerners that is admirable, a love of home and land and truth. We are happy you are Canadians. NJC


Canada's Governance: Satellite Radio & Language, Democratic Deficit -&- Quebec's World Role

Governance: Pushing Mediocrity

Political cronyism still alive -- "What was that he said about the "democratic deficit" some time ago? This prime minister never ceases to push mediocrity to new ... well ... middles?" comment by Mark Erwin, Toronto, Aug. 31, 05



Tune in, Ottawa, to satellite radio -- Not for us, the commercial-free joys of satellite radio broadcasting. According to recent reports, the federal government is ... Aug. 30, 05

And what is the problem? Why, not enough French-language on satellite radio, so the rest of Canada must do without?

Purportedly, Ottawa's concern is a lack of Canadian -- and specifically French-language -- content in the proposed new satellite radio scheme. But if supposed dissatisfaction in Quebec with the number of planned French-language satellite stations is indeed a major force in the plan to throw the decision back to the CRTC, the government might be leaning on a faulty premise.

According to a study released by Sirius Canada (one of the Canadian satellite licensees), a mere 20% of those in Quebec would like to see the CRTC reverse its satellite radio decision. [. . . . ]


Why is there consideration of French above all else? Another example, try to work for your own federal government if you are not bilingual (There may be exceptions made for Librano$ who make the right noises about the joys of bilingualism, esp. for the economy.); forget it. this is pervasive throughout Canada and the rest of Canada does not count if Francophone culture or language are affected. Frankly, this is short-sighted. Some of us are beginning to viscerally detest such unfairness to 80% of Canada.




The idea of Canada has already broken down

Did you know that even NB, as a bilingual province with a huge Francophone presence in the provincial government, now has an international trade representative to the World Bank? Does anyone remember the term "the revenge of the cradle"? Today, make that "the revenge of the bilingual requirement", which is much more effective. Once enough bilingual francophones are in government and the civil service, it is amazing what may be accomplished. Mouth the mantra or else; you may not be allowed to work . . . for the requirement has become pervasive far beyond the government. If enough Francophones move into an area and demand service, guess what? Very effective at getting what they want from governments heavily stacked with Francophones or those who make the same noises about the "need" for bilingual . . . whatever, and of course, translation. Anglo Canada is not supposed to notice and will be called names if they do -- often "bigots" and "racists". Remember truth is no excuse.

Well, it is time to state the obvious and to demand better. I'm tired of it, as are many others. We demand fairness across Canada. Paul Martin, note this.

Ottawa set to discuss Quebec's world role -- OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to sit down with Quebec as soon as this month to discuss expanding the province's role on the international stage. Jack Aubry, CanWest, Sept. 1, 05

[. . . . ] Mr. Pelletier said the Charest government is preparing to release a document spelling out the province's vision of an expanded role on the world stage, such as seeking standing in international negotiations that affect areas of provincial jurisdiction -- especially at UNESCO, a UN body that deals with education and cultural affairs. [. . . . ]

Mr. Pelletier, a self-described committed federalist, said the Charest government has reached agreements on parental leave, health care and municipal infrastructure and sees no reason why the province cannot have standing in international negotiations that affect areas of provincial jurisdiction such as education, culture and health care. [. . . . ]


It's over, folks; Canada is done as a united country; there is only the facade, thanks to governments catering to one segment over another. Whatever they say, it is notable that consideration for the West is dead/done/perhaps never was. There is only a government heavily Quebec-centered and leaning on Liberal hangers on and ethnic bloc voting elsewhere for its continued existence. It has taken approximately forty years but it is just about a done deal. Once Canada has provincial representatives to world bodies such as the UN / UNESCO, the francophonie, and the World Bank, it is a short step to complete separation. Of course, why bother to separate when you run things anyway, when the bulk of the Prime Ministers for half a century have been Quebec Liberals with one Quebec PC (Mulroney) and Quebec has been extraordinarily successful in garnering more and more--whether it be powers or funding such as Sponsorship funds -- and we know only the tip of the iceberg.


Touchy, When Palestinians in Canada Should be Helping with Canadian Security -&- Diane Francis: Oil Pipeline

Remember: It is NOT Jewish groups talking / practising jihad

Nor are they trying to convert us to Judaism -- or else.


Update: York dismisses Israel-trip complaints -- Toronto police board also to hear from Arab groups Melissa Leung, National Post, Sept. 1, 05

Mr. Mouammar told board members: ''When we have law-enforcement agents going to Israel, they are perceived as taking sides.... They've alienated the one million Arab Canadians.''

Five other people representing different groups spoke, endorsing Mr. Mouammar's policy complaint, which asked for a public apology and sensitivity training for police officials.

''As a Palestinian, I feel threatened by this trip,'' said Sara Amash of the Palestine House Educational and Cultural Centre. [. . . . ]


Feeling threatened? I hope that it is threatening enough to get them to curb the hatreds they brought with them from the Middle East or that they learned from parents who came from same. When I saw the hate-fest students perpetrated at the University of Toronto in January, I think it was, I can only hope they feel threatened and that they realize we won't put up with their fomenting more hatred. As for sensitivity training, could I suggest a little for Palestinian "students" who are becoming known for their hatreds, not their scholarship. I would like just once to read of one of these lauded for his/her contributions to science, invention or peaceful dialogue. Just once! Even for hybridizing a new grape vine? The best run business as a result of studying in Canada? But they never go back to run a business; they come and they stay and they hate.

For background on this: Palestinian Activism and the Immigration Board Angry GWN



Diane Francis: Oilpatch must be wary of U.S. attention -- Canada must build pipeline to B.C. to avoid bullying by American interests Sept. 1, 05, Financial Post

[. . . . ] But America's behaviour concerning softwood lumber should serve as a wake-up call to Canada's oil industry, and priority must be given to building a gigantic oil pipeline to the B.C. coast from the oilsands to avoid being held captive by an increasingly protectionist American market. [. . . . ]

But the point of the pipeline is to insure that others may compete in price for the oil -- whether Chinese, European, Japanese or Indian [. . . . ]


Why are we so anxious to sell this vital commodity abroad, one which is becoming ever more valuable to Canadians and our economy as time passes? Why aren't we buying and using it in Canada for Canadians' advantage? I know practically nothing about business, other than reading about it, so there must be good business reasons concerning costs of recovery from the tar sands, pipelines, et cetera; however, for the good of Canada down the road, is it wise to rush to sell abroad this vital resource? Would someone explain? NJC


Bud Talkinghorn

A trade war that Canada might win

Suppose Canada refused to export its marijuana to the States in retaliation for the softwood tariff impositions? Hundreds of thousands of Americans deprived of their BC bud would create a whine that might reach Washington. In turn, Canadians would keep the bud for themselves, prices would drop, and the cocaine and guns that flow up as exchange for it would disappear. It sounds like a win-win proposition to me.

© Bud Talkinghorn :) -- in jest



Film critics versus Robert Fulford

Recently I wrote a blog on the artistic limitations of Bill Murray, so I was glad to see my arguments buttressed by Mr. Fulford in The National Post. Fulford took issue with Murray's latest flaccid role in Broken Flowers. The point he made about the critics praising Murray for his deadpan performance could apply to Murray's last two applauded roles in Rushmore and Lost in Translation. In both those movies, Murray had all the dynamism of a Madame Tussaud figure. These absurd accolades for near-comatose acting only make people leery of film criticism, the way the Turner Art Prize has made "minimalist" art in England a hugh joke.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Pit bulls and public safety


So the pit bull owners want to keep their "pets". Well, I'm a cat lover, so I want the right have a tiger as a pet. I promise to keep it on a lease on our walks. Remember, there are no bad tigers; only bad owners.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Note: I simply did not have the time to post this when it should have been put up. NJC

New Orleans is devastated--Where is our Canadian government aid?

In a time of catastrophe such as this, I expect our government to immediately offer all the support it can to our good neighbours to the south. We have the DART emergency team, which could help supply tents, medical aid and water purification. Get them down to the Gulf area. The Canadian Red Cross should also be dispatched. If the banks and liquor stores could set up money boxes for the tsunami victims in far-off countries, surely we can shell out for the Americans. Even our near-useless helicopters could be deployed to airlift out the thousands stranded in the city of New Orleans.

As for the Americans, the federal government should have airlifted in thousands of their national guard. Don't they remember the mass looting in the days after Hurricane Andrew? If necessary, there should be a curfew, backed up by a shoot to wound order. There was the sickening suspicion that many didn't evacuate because they saw an opportunity to steal from their fellow citizens. And while I've never been a Bush-basher, he should be on the spot tomorrow not on Friday. Also, as soon as the hurricane was categorized as a category 4 or 5, the national guard from around the country should have been flown into the surrounding area.

© Bud Talkinghorn-- The rich European countries should also be putting their shoulders to the wheel, as well. Heaven knows, the Americans rode to the rescue enough times for other countries' disasters. Has the Marshall Plan, which revitalized Western Europe after WW11, been completely forgotten?

Security: Toronto Shooter 15, Arar -&- US: Mara Salvatrucha

Are parts of Toronto breaking down? The shooter is 15!

Boy, 15, wanted in fatal shooting -- Gregory Tailor "is wanted in the fatal shooting of Jason Huxtable, 18, around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on Sheppard Ave. W., near Jane St." Sep. 1, 2005.

A baby-faced 15-year-old boy is wanted on a second-degree murder warrant for the shooting death of another teen outside a townhouse complex. Although the suspect's identity would normally be protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, Toronto police took the extraordinary measure yesterday of seeking judicial authorization in order to identify him. Betsy Powell reports. [. . . . ]





Ex-consul grilled over what he knew, when Sep. 1, 2005

After 127 days of hearings and costing taxpayers more than $8 million, testimony at a federal inquiry looking into the Maher Arar affair has ended where it began: with accusations the government abused national security claims to hide its role in Arar's detention and deportation[. . . . ]




US Security

Michelle Malkin on Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs and their violence


August 31, 2005

Updated: Ahmad Shahad "Canada, One Day a Muslim Country!" Security: Police Chiefs' Trip to Israel and Muslim Demands for Apologies & More Background

Update 1: Lecture at the Quran Academy, Mississauga, Ontario, Aug. 8, 05

Does this tell you anything about plans for Canada?


Lecture by Sh Ahmad Shahad: Canada, One Day a Muslim Country!


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Source: Links on CCD




Appeasement Wanted? Political Correctness?

Chief's Israel tour angers York Arabs -- LaBarge met with Israeli, Palestinian security officials Melissa Leong, National Post, Aug. 30, 05

A Richmond Hill man has launched a formal complaint against York Regional Police Services Chief Armand LaBarge, charging the chief's tour of Israel this year unwittingly promoted racial profiling of Arabs and Muslims.

Tomorrow, Khaled Mouammar and a few other members of the Arab community will ask the York Regional Police Services Board to publicly apologize for approving Chief LaBarge's week-long trip to Israel in March. [. . . . ]


Search: 30 police chiefs, Monte Kwinter, world leaders in tackling security threats and potential acts of terrorism

Read on and decide for yourself. Personally, I can't think of a better place to go for advice on terrorists and how to stop or thwart them than Israel. As for profiling, it's time! It isn't Icelandic grandmothers who are committing jihad. Nor is it non-Muslim Maritimers.




List of Key Terror Attacks in Philippines -- "Key terror attacks that Philippine authorities believe used bomb designs by the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group:" Posted by Naresh on 22:36:32 2005/08/30, from AP




Update: Links to items I mentioned Aug. 30, 05 in reference to this topic: "Re: From TorontoMuslims.com (CLEAR intentions imho)" posted on the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (http://canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/9533.shtml)

Re: Ahmad Shehab linked to 9/11 and jihad in Canada? posted by Al Gordon, 2005/08/30

Don't miss this site.

Ahmad Shehab offers advice on "Death, are you ready?" and other topics Another excerpt:

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next (in goodness)? He replied, "To participate in Jihad (religious fighting) in Allah's Cause." The questioner again asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?" He replied, "To perform Hajj (Pilgrim age to Mecca) 'Mubrur, (which is accepted by Allah and is performed with the intention of seeking Allah's pleasure only and not to show off and without committing a sin and in accordance with the traditions of the Prophet)." Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 2, Number 25





Chicago's Ties to Terrorism -- In 2002, Ahmad Shehab of Canada linked to 9/11 terrorist attacks abc7chicago.com, 2/1/2002

And since 9-11, investigators have come to Canadia's Scotiabank, where Al-Marabh had accounts before moving to Chicago; accounts from which he made more than a dozen money transfers in the days preceding 9-11.

But in Toronto, Al-Marabh's uncle claims the money wasn't transferred to terrorists.

[. . . . ] Ahmad Shehab posted Al-Marabh's bail money last summer after Al-Marabh was arrested at the U.S. border hiding in a truck. At the bail hearing, a Canadian judge said Al-Marabh was "involved in a smuggling operation" and "fraudulent documents to elude" the authorities.

Shehab, a Muslim leader in Toronto, owns a downtown printing shop, one of four locations recently raided during the Al-Marabh investigation. Authorities say they are looking into whether Al-Marabh produced fake immigration papers here for himself and the skyjackers.


Should we judge by the company people keep?


Updated: Looting, PM MIA? UN?, Cellucci's Book, Katrina Donation Fund? CA Response? US NVOAD, Global warming storm surge is bunk

Update 2:

Paul Martin, MIA on the Katrina Disaster

Statement by the Government of Canada in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- words from Deputy PM Anne McLellan, Minister of Health, Ujjal Dosanjh, and Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew -- hot air but nothing specific -- via Newsbeat1, Aug. 31, 05

When a family member needs help, you just go. You see what needs to be done and you do it. You don't simply talk or offer your sympathy. In this traumatic situation, those in the midst of it hardly know what they need and cannot help themselves right now. Just do what is right and needed, PM! Maybe Mo Strong could send some Zenon bottled water? Via Kofi? Maybe you could fly down for a photo op.

Speaking of the UN, where is it on a US disaster? Jawing, as usual? Planning? Hosting an exquisitely expensive conference--including the requisite and politically correct feminist/NGO groups--to discuss plans for what someone might do . . . conferring in Paris or Beijing?


I know; that wasn't sweet, but I don't feel sweet about the UN nor about ur government's anti-Americanism, evident to the point where our PM says and, ostensibly, does nothing to help right now. NJC




Newsbeat1 has some ideas about how to help. Scroll down the site or search "Ducks" which is part of the article.



The Looting is Going Nuts

The compact of civil society August 31st, 2005
Rick Moran is the proprietor of the blog Rightwing Nuthouse

Hour by torturous hour, the news grows ever grimmer.[. . . . ] But the Noahic flood that now engulfs more than 80% the Crescent City has subsumed not just buildings and people, it has washed away the thin veneer of civilization and brought to the surface behaviors and emotions more suited to the African savannas where modern Homo Sapiens first began to dominate the planet rather than the city streets where until just a few days ago, people were laughing, walking, singing, playing music – living. [. . . . ]



For photos of a few of the looters in action, check Katrina: photos pdf nola.com via Newsbeat1



FEMA: Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should Not Self-Dispatch -- "Here is a list of phone numbers set up solely for cash donations and/or volunteers."




US: Cellucci's tell-all book bound to make waves at writers festival -- The former U.S. ambassador to Canada still has a few things he'd like to get off his chest, writes Paul Gessell in the Ottawa Citizen Aug. 30, 05

His Key Porter book, Unquiet Diplomacy, testifies to that. It is due to hit stores Sept. 24 and is bound to make waves as Mr. Cellucci offers his take on everyone from former Liberal MP Carolyn ("Americans: I hate those bastards") Parrish to a certain writer-philosopher resident at Rideau Hall and prime ministers past and present.


Both Chretien and Martin have done our relationship with the US no good. Maybe PM should offer concrete help right now.


Paul Cellucci former US Ambassador to Canada: Unquiet Diplomacy ISBN: 1552637069 · Published by Key Porter Books, Due September 2005




Update 1: I forgot to include these for more information.

Newsbeat1 links to Katrina disaster information and Jack's Newswatch for other links



Does anyone have a Canadian address for donations that will go to the Katrina Disaster Victims and not into a general disaster fund which could go anywhere in the world?

Canada: I checked the Red Cross 2005 -- but nothing is earmarked for the United States Katrina disaster victims

I have seen no offer of help from our Prime Minister. Has anyone else? Has our DART team been dispatched? It has, for example, the water purifying capability needed in emergencies. Is the government matching donations as it said it would do with the tsnumai funds?



US: National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NVOAD)

A large list. In Canada, check with your church, synagogue and the Salvation Army. Ask the Red Cross whether there is a specific fund for helping US victims of Katrina.




RE: Dictator Paul best be careful! -- on the Katrina Disaster gillanders64

This now famous "The Americans" was by Gordon Sinclair, during another US crisis.

"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans" [. . . . ]





Before Katrina is attributed to global warming, check this.

Global warming storm surge is bunk

A review of studies of the data over several years.



US: Immigration & Farah -&- Root Causes

Impeach Bush Joseph Farah, wnd.com, Aug. 31, 05

President Bush has had nearly five years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country.


Search: "guest worker" program , merger and global consolidation

President Bush really should address this problem before he loses what one would expect to be his most ardent supporters.




"Judeo-Christian miasma of guilt"
The roots of root causes August 31st, 2005

Donald Baker is a retired Professor of English at the University of Colorado.

[. . . . ] The present root causes are the Arab and Muslim psychosis of shame, the Muslims’ simmering resentment at having been expelled and repelled from their conquests of Europe – O Andalusia! – and religious fanaticism serving as a soothing balm for political and economic incompetence – in other words, as substitutes for thought and work. All this is strengthened by the West’s self-hatred and guilt for its sins of colonialism, which give the aura of justice to the Muslim dreams of reconquista. [. . . . ]



Justice, Min. Cotler, Guns and SCOC: There are none so blind as those who will not see

EDITORIAL: Lose the Liberal blindfold -- to Justice Minister Irwin Cotler via Newsbeat1

Even as Mayor David Miller -- hardly a hang-'em-high type himself -- stressed to Cotler the need for our revolving-door justice system to stop being so lenient on gun-toting gangsters, the Liberal minister clung to his mantra that tougher sentences aren't the answer.

He insisted the four-year minimum sentence for gun crimes already on the books is more than tough enough. But he failed to acknowledge the real problem -- that judges rarely, if ever, impose such sentences. So what good are they?

[. . . . ] The 20-something gangsters now shooting each other and innocent bystanders grew up laughing at flaccid laws that coddled them as youths, and now shrug as our courts fail to deliver on so-called tough sentences. [. . . . ]




MP Vic Toews, Tory critic hits soft sentencing By AMY CARMICHAEL,

VANCOUVER (CP) - Cutting a woman off e-mail and ordering her to serve two years of house arrest for fatally stabbing her cheating lover in the groin suggests there is a need for mandatory minimum jail sentences for violent crimes, says the Conservative justice critic.


And the response from Justice Minister Irwin Cotler:

Justice Minister Cotler: Justice minister backs community programs -- diversionary programs, money--no funding promises By TARA BRAUTIGAM

TORONTO (CP) - Community-service programs need sustainable funding to stem gun violence in Toronto, the federal justice minister said Tuesday after meeting with the city's mayor to discuss ways to tackle the surge in summer murders in Canada's largest city.


Search: "MP Jim Flaherty, who last week was selected to sit on a federal Conservative panel examining crime rates across the country" , "murders in Toronto this year" , "involved guns" , "fatal shootings in all of 2004."

Can't you just see the little brothers who note the drug $$$ flashed around by their older siblings and the respect awarded those with firepower responding positively to diversionary programs? Can you visualize the thugs involved in drugs and killing each other for turf and control (I assume) who make much more illegally than they would in normal jobs, given their training and education, coming to a friendly neighbourhood center for some counselling and job training?

End the "understanding", the excuses; try PUNISHMENT, INCARCERATION, HARD WORK on a road somewhere or some other worthy endeavour for thugs who haven't been civilized by the "caring approach" yet.





Appearance is everything in appointing new Supreme Court Justice

Public gets say on top court judge -- Will the public fall for the appearance of change while the PM still maintains the power to appoint while Cotler gets to present the list to PM? BRUCE CHEADLE, Aug. 31, 05

Justice Minister Irwin Cotler seeks public input into who should fill the next vacancy on Canada's Supreme Court.


Some interesting background here on how the whole charade has been carried out . . . and nothing will change. Remember the last two?




CNEWS: Comentary from some Canadians

Liberal Brian Boudreau, former NS MLA indicted for "91 counts of fraud and forgery" -- Comments indicative of our current cynicism about government Zoomie54

But from tangle2foot:

That should be good for an order of Canada and a senate seat. Maybe martin and Co will also hand out an Ambassadorship.



Equalization: Corcoran and Courchesne

Update:

Link: Federal government's Industry Minister Hon. David Emerson on funding for Bombardier's C series jets Hansard Mar. 21, 05. Search "Bombardier" to find the relevant section.




Two-tier sharing: Resource revenues pose a challenge to Canada's equalization system. A voluntary interprovincial revenue-sharing pool could create fiscal balance Tom Courchesne, Financial Post, Aug. 32, 05

It has been suggested that equalization is an essential part of the glue that binds Canada together. However, as of late this glue appears to be coming unstuck. Saskatchewan has been reeling under near-confiscatory equalization clawbacks on its energy revenues while Newfoundland/Labrador and Nova Scotia have bargained their way to the privileged position of zero clawbacks. Ontario has lobbied, successfully in part, to reduce its $23-billion shortfall in terms of the province's fiscal interactions with Ottawa (even though on a per capita basis it is less than Alberta's shortfall). [. . . . ]


He makes a good case for sharing though I tend to agree more with Corcoran (link below) on equalization. However, it works for the young, not for the older workers who have homes they cannot sell them for anything that would make the move worthwhile. One couple in their fifties with a husband who lost his job when the Nackawic mill closed are now in a quandary. They live near the Nackawic mill which has shut and the husband has moved to the Alberta oil patch for work. His wife is alone at home and he flies home every once in a while but it is not an ideal way to live. It doesn't make sense for them to sell their home at a loss in a community which has lost its major industry and to start anew in a place where housing is much more expensive. What is the answer? Probably none that is ideal. Read Courchesne's view.



If it's broke, don't fix it Terence Corcoran, August 31, 2005, Financial Post

The problem is that equalization does not fix the problems. It interferes with the economy in that it perpetuates failute. Instead of people moving to where the jobs are, they are artificially propped up in remaining in areas without jobs -- areas like the Maritimes.

Mr. Courchene isn't quite calling for a new Ottawa lunge at Alberta's energy wealth. What he proposes is a "voluntary" equalization plan whereby Alberta would, in a charitable spirit, share some of its oil money with the rest of Canada.
Well, voluntary equalization craziness is better than another National Energy Program fiasco, but not by much.
[. . . . ]



Global warming storm surge is bunk

A review of studies of the data over several years.



August 30, 2005

Order of Canada, Jealous Wife, Adil Charkaoui, Security Certificate, Sacha Trudeau, Gomery, TO & Gun Crime, "Islamists, Get Out", Demographics & Islam

Order of Canada appointments announced

OTTAWA (CP) - Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson has announced 82 new appointments to the Order of Canada . . .


Link for the list.




Comments related to one of yesterday's posts, "Canada, China, Touchy Topics & Do Something About Gas Prices" which added some information.

Yesterday's post:
http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com
/2005/08/canada-china-touchy-topics-do.html




Gomery inquiry begins tour -- in Moncton at U de M, not in the capital, Fredericton Aug. 30, 05. Anything big now comes to Moncton (this weekend, the Rolling Stones). Now why is it that the Gomery inquiry hearings are not going to the capital?

[. . . . ] Commission spokesman, Francois Perrault says they want to hear input on issues surrounding the scandal, including accountability, transparency, and whistleblower legislation.

A discussion paper is posted on the inquiry's website.

Former federal minister, John Crosbie and Derek Burney, a former chief of staff to prime minister Brian Mulroney are among the people expected to present to the committee in Moncton. [. . . . ]





No jail for philanderer's jealous killer -- Prince George, B.C. - A B.C. woman convicted of manslaughter in the stabbing death of her philandering lover was given a conditional sentence yesterday of two years less a day. National Post, Aug. 30, 05

Since when did a woman become a victim to the point that she may kill a philandering husband . . . instead of walking away from the situation?

In my opinion, Canada's justice has gone downhill for years, particularly, since Canadians decided to keep electing leftists. These governments reward those who think as they do, their friends, and assorted hangers on, by appointing them to responsible positions that, in any other circumstance, should be appointments vetted and approved by the representatives of the people, that is, Parliament. The justices, the IRB members, and other appointments are simply positions in which to put those favoured by the PM/PMO who then act accordingly.

This PM is the man who was going to bring back democracy.



Then, there is Sacha Trudeau, son of PET and friend to those who might be or are potential terrorists. I can see the political career coming.

Trudeau takes up cause of hunger strikers held on security certificates

Filmmaker Alexandre Trudeau has come to the defence of two security detainees now on a hunger strike for improved conditions, appealing to federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler to intervene on their behalf. "It's time to act, Mr. Cotler," the son of the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau told some 40 protesters who gathered outside of Mr. Cotler's riding office in Montreal at noon yesterday. Former solicitor-general Warren Allmand joined the protest, denouncing the security certificates under which they are being held as "totally illegal in virtue of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms." The Supreme Court of Canada last week agreed to hear an appeal from Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan accused by CSIS of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent. [. . . . ]



Is it time to get rid of that ****** Charter of Rights and Freedoms which renders Canada unable to use common sense in protecting the citizens who were born here and have a right to a secure homeland? Is it time to return to the British Common Law tradition English Canada / we had before Pierre Trudeau and his crowd changed our country forever . . . and in the process, rendered our country so insecure that we can't even get rid of those whom the courts have deemed should be turfed out -- or was that the intention? The British Common Law served our country well.

Do you think Canada has been improved by the kinds of governments we have had and the recourse to the law and courts that has come about as a result of PET et cetera? Think about some of the items in yesterday's posts. Think JC, PM, the LTTE, the networks of criminal gangs, the triads, et cetera.



Islamists, Get Out by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, August 30, 2005 [NY Sun title: "New Message for Islamists"]

[. . . . ] But it was the British shadow defense minister, Gerald Howarth, who went the furthest, suggesting in early August that all British Islamists must go. "If they don't like our way of life, there is a simple remedy: Go to another country, get out." He directed this principle even to Islamists born in Britain, as were three of the four London bombers): "If you don't give allegiance to this country, then leave." [. . . . ]


This is one of several examples of leaders who have come to the conclusion that Islamists and democracy are incompatible. Will there be a Canadian politician with the guts to say the same?




Diversion: Flu prevention



Note: What follow in this post were items I had planned to post previously but life intervened.

A lack of leadership -- Mayor David Miller and his left-leaning council's feel-good programs to address the 'root causes' of crime ignore the realities of our gun violence problem, writes Sue-Ann Levy Aug. 23, 05

[. . . . ] Creating a "clean and beautiful city" (Miller's mantra) involves much more than planting a few flowers or spreading the love around. Just ask former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who, when he took office in 1994, set about to reverse the city's decline by putting the "broken window" theory into practice. By clamping down on panhandlers, on the homeless, on graffiti, on litter and by finding welfare recipients jobs, the tough-love mayor successfully reduced the city's violent crime.

Not so with the Toronto troupe. They've been soft on the homeless, on aggressive panhandlers, on drug abusers, on welfare recipients exploiting a $250 special diet allowance, even litterbugs -- soft on everyone but hardworking taxpayers.

They keep trying to ram more affordable housing units into unsuspecting neighbourhoods before cleaning up crime problems at the ones that exist.

Is any wonder it feels like the inmates are running the asylum? [. . . . ]

In June, the secretariat hosted a "safety conference" featuring an aboriginal faith healer (?!?). Project manager Manjit Jheeta told me yesterday besides continuing with the "foundation pieces" of their plan, they'll now be proposing a "crisis response piece" -- that is, a team that can go into communities where violent incidents have occurred to provide "counselling or healing supports." Pending budget approval, that is.

Ford thinks this soft approach is a "bunch of malarkey" and the gun violence will only continue. "These thugs are running the city," he says. "They know they're in control and they know nothing is going to happen."


Should everyone just get together with the gun toting thugs--once the authorities have scraped up the pieces from the last shooting--and have a frank heart-to-heart about their problems . . . ending with a love in? Will they need babysitting services so their significant baby mommas may attend to share how the whole situation impacts on them . . . and on the babies? Should participants bring their own pot or will the lads with the hardware supply it, gratis? Everyone can blow smoke rings. Bah! Humbug.



Hard Work & the Modern Farm Crop

Marijuana bust nets 13,000 plants -- Multiply 13,000 by $1,000 Broadcast News, Aug. 22, 05

VIRDEN, Manitoba -- A police raid on a farm in southwest Manitoba has netted about 13,000 marijuana plants.




Truckload of pot hauled away Barb Pacholik, Leader-Post, Aug. 23, 05

[. . . . ] Beneath a harvest moon one day earlier, RCMP officers finished counting and packing up 7,592 marijuana plants found growing in makeshift greenhouses on a farm on the Pasqua First Nation, about 20 kilometres west of Fort Qu'Appelle.

A five-ton farm truck, borrowed from a local farmer, could hold only 6,000 of the leafy green stalks. The rest of the stash had to be carted off in another vehicle.

"It's certainly the largest illegal, marijuana grow operation in Saskatchewan," said Jones. It's closest rival in the province was 4,700 plants. The potential street value of this seizure is estimated at $7.5 million. [. . . . ]






Then there is the other kind of hard work

Top managers' remuneration -- original article from Le Devoir here Jean-Robert Sansfaçonm Le Devoir, 05 May 2005

[. . . . ] The Globe and Mail has calculated total remuneration for the bosses of 198 of the 245 companies that make up the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX Index.

[. . . . ] Robert Gratton, President de Power Financial Inc., a subsidiary of the Desmarais family holding company. . . . 173 million dollars!

Bernard Isautier, of PetroKazakhstan, is in second place (93 million), followed by Gerry Schwartz, of Onex (76 million), and by Frank Stonach, of Magna International (52 million). As for the President of Alimentation Couche-Tard, Alain Bouchard, he came in 11th (with 11 million), the president of the Banque Nationale, 34th (seven million), and Pierre Karl Péladeau, 65th, with barely 3.4 million dollars....

Faced with such a hemorrhaging of millions, we must ask what brings a Board of Directors to offer so much. [. . . . ]

Another weakness is that of the public regulatory authorities, such as the Québec Market Authority. The bigger a company is, the closer are its ties with expert consulting firms and the political milieus, sometimes even to the point of incestuousness.


Search: bonuses and stock purchase programs , Paul Tellier, Jean Monty and John Roth




Al-Jazeera Special on Female Suicide Bomber Hanadi Jaradat Special Dispatch Series - No. 966, MEMRI, Aug. 23, 05

The following are excerpts from a report, by Al-Jazeera TV that aired August 16, 2005, about female Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat. Jaradat was responsible for the October 2003 bombing of the Arab-owned restaurant Maxim in Haifa, Israel, which killed 19. (To view this clip, visit: http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=817.) [. . . . ]

Amjad Al-'Ubeidi, commander of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin: "It is not that complicated. We produce primitive explosives, from which we make an explosives belt, a bag, or something. You can get most of it easily these days. . . . All she had to do was push a button. . . . Hanadi, especially, being an educated lawyer, who knows what to do, who speaks English, and gets along by herself - she did not need anyone to take her.

[...]

"From the Haifa operation in which Hanadi was martyred until my capture, I did not see her family at all. What can I possibly say to console them? They deserve to be consoled, but words are not enough. They lost [a son before Hanadi]. Nothing is more precious than a son. They lost a son. Losing a son affects the soul many times more than losing a daughter in our society. Losing even 10 daughters is not as bad as losing one son. That's how it is in our society. A son is more dear to the parents than a daughter. Since his role in life is greater, the pain is heavier."


Thank you, God, that I was not born a woman in that society. I don't think I would have survived too long with such men . . . sort of a kill or be killed kind of situation.



The demographics of radical Islam By Spengler

[. . . . ] Demographics still provide vital strategic information, albeit in quite a different fashion. Today’s Islamists think like the French general staff in 1914. Islam has one generation in which to establish a global theocracy before hitting a demographic barrier. Islam has enough young men - the pool of unemployed Arabs is expected to reach 25 million by 2010 - to fight a war during the next 30 years. Because of mass migration to Western Europe, the worst of the war might be fought on European soil.

Although the Muslim birth rate today is the world’s second highest (after sub-Saharan Africa), it is falling faster than the birth rate of any other culture.

[. . . . ] Urbanization, literacy, and openness to the modern world ultimately will suppress the Muslim womb, in the absence of radical measures.



US Illegal Immigration: Two Responses

Judge Rules: If Feds Won't Enforce Immigration Laws, Locals Must Not by Mac Johnson, Posted Aug 15, 2005

[. . . . ] In a case well publicized by the national media, Chief Garret Chamberlain, a police officer in the town of New Ipswich, N.H., encountered Mexican citizen Jorge Mora Ramirez broken down on the side of the road. Ramirez, though unable to speak much English, admitted that he was in the country illegally, was in possession of forged Massachusetts identification bearing a fictitious Social Security number, and was illegally employed in a construction project in a nearby town.

In a move that the media is still grasping to understand, Chamberlain then called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division of the Department of Homeland Security (formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service or INS), with the idea that they might want to, say, apprehend and deport the unknown foreign national in possession of forged government documents and investigate the matter as a violation of so-called “law.”[. . . . ]


Brave new world! Would this type of thing account for the news that the Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist is running to replace Christopher Cox in Congress? He wants to fix the problem of illegal immigration and the insecurity which that involves.



Illegal immigration laws on books but not enforced — There's a way, but no will, experts say -- Convention featured Tancredo, Horowitz, Gilchrist, others Los Angeles Daily Bulletin, Aug. 26, 2005

Nearly four years after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government still lacks the commitment and the political will to enforce its immigration laws on a day-to-day basis, immigration specialists and politicians said Friday.

"Not only do the complexities and gray areas of immigration law make it difficult to enforce, but there's been a severe lack of resources and policies over the last decade to deal with them effectively," said Janice Kephart, a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission at a conference titled "Illegal Immigration: Its Impact on America" at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. [. . . . ]


Does Canada have any who, while running for elected office, would state the obvious -- what has been reported for a long time about the insecurity of our borders and ports? And then vow to do something about it. Nah! The usual suspects might yelp "racism".


Updated: Alberta, NEP, Marc Lalande, Natives, Quebeckers, Not Westerners, to Senate -- It's Always Quebec, Isn't It?

Update 1: Best Out of the West Today

National Post Letter to the Editor
Aug. 30, 05

So Professor Corchene says, "Alberta will have to relinquish some of its windfall billions in oil revenue or risk the destruction of the federation"?

How come for the past decade he has not been saying, "Ontario will have to relinquish some of its grasp on political power or risk the destruction of the federation?"


We have been more than patient.

John Melnick, High River, Alberta


PM may be making a big mistake. He doesn't recognize the kind of people who state what they're going to do, then do it. It is so foreign to the BS and bafflegab crowd in and around the PMO.




For years, we have not been supposed to state the obvious. The political correctness pressure has been extreme. Well, my title includes it. It's always consideration of Quebec that trumps Canada. It's always consideration of Librano$ fortunes that comes before anything else. Will no-one rid us of this government and overweaning concern for about 20% of the country? Consider that the next time you vote.

There, I said it . . . and I'm glad! Is stating what is evident now a hate crime?



Alberta in Grit sights -- NEP architect Marc Lalonde new Quebec co-chair Ezra Levant, Aug. 29, 05 -- Don't miss the commentary on Ezra Levant's article.

This is our land -- A proposed treaty by the Tsawwassen Indians will allow the band to buy up B.C. property and add it to their protected reserve -- a must read article Terry O'Neill, Sept. 5, 05

The socialists have created a wonderful new governance situation -- special groups with special . . . whatever. Read the details.

Add to that the appointment of two more Quebeckers to the Senate, one, Francis Fox, with a shady past situation involving an abortion for his lover which, one would expect, would render him not fitted for a senatorial position--if the Senate means anything to law-making--but, corruption and disregard for the law have never bothered Quebeckers nor Liberals too much it seems . . . has it? Think the Gomery Inquiry -- but there is more. If this government is ever turfed, I am sure more will come out.

These two appointments confirm that Quebeckers run our country; add this to the positioning of Marc Lalonde so as to better create a way to take $$$ from Alberta to be siphoned . . . why, guess where? . . . And Canada should prepare for Western separation. If you don't believe this, start reading some of the Westerner bloggers. The Shotgun is a good place to start. Check the names of the blogs mentioned.

All that has mattered to a succession of Quebec Prime Ministers is Quebec. The rest of Canada is just fodder, a hinterland to manipulate and tax for the good of Quebec and that part of Ontario that keeps the Librano$ in power, IMHO.





Hurricane Katrina, Foreign Aid, and Gordon Sinclair is bang on!

Americans have been so generous. Just on a personal level, in airports and other places where I was being hassled in some of those countries I would never again enter, it was Americans who came to my rescue more than once, and I shall never forget their generosity of spirit. Now, what other countries will step forward to help those affected by Katrina? Our government? Too busy courting France, China . . . and business networking. Wouldn't want to give the impression that the US is a friend. Perhaps I am too cynical? Nah!


World War III, CCD: Islamic Intentions, Hizbullah: Iran Missile into Israel, NB: Hillbilly heroin?

Must read! -- When WWIII Started -- A must read historical account of Terrorism against the US ~ Posted by Joan O'C on 21:50:31 2005/08/25

This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... That alarm has been ringing for years.

US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! [. . . . ]





Hizbullah fires first Iran missile into Israel SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Monday, August 29, 2005, Posted by Francois on 23:44:44 2005/08/29

For the first time, Hizbullah has test-fired an Iranian medium-range rocket near the Lebanese border into Israel.

Lebanese sources said Hizbullah tested the Fajr-3 rocket on Aug. 25. The sources said three Fajr-3s were launched about six kilometers north of the Israeli-Lebanese border.

This was the first time Hizbullah fired a Fajr-3 rocket from Lebanon.
[. . . . ]



From TorontoMuslims.com ( CLEAR intentions imho)

Why, how strange! Apparently, information "disappeared" from the site mentioned -- almost as if it had never been there. Has our government taken lessons from this . . . or is it vice-versa? Fortunately, good bloggers keep records for posterity.

Re: Ahmad Shehab linked to 9/11 and jihad in Canada? posted by Al Gordon

See the following links on CCD:

Ahmad Shehab of TorontoMuslims -- Canada, One Day A Muslim Country

In 2002, Ahmad Shehab of Canada linked to 9/11 terrorist attacks

Ahmad Shehab offers advice on "Death, are you ready?" and other topics



Does this disappearing act remind you of important information which DISAPPEARS from government websites; you know, the kind of information that is inconvenient . . . if remembered during the next election?




Health Canada report looks at painkiller prescriptions in Atlantic Canada Aug. 26, 05

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Although it was Newfoundland and Nova Scotia that first raised alarms about the abuse of so-called "hillbilly heroin" in Atlantic Canada, it is New Brunswick that accounts for most of the prescriptions for the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone, according to a new Health Canada report. [. . . . ]

New Brunswick generated 44 per cent of those transactions, and had the highest number of oxycodone prescribers in the region at 133 per 100,000 residents.


Who is prescribing? For what purpose? Where is the rest of the information?

Hillbilly heroin? In quiet little back of beyond the boondocks NB? Well, blow me down!




Vote for your favourite news sites and blogs

Levee: Lake Pontchartrain, BC Teacher-Drugs-Death Penalty? DND & CBC Smokey Smith Funeral, Terrorism, Oil Costs, Gun Crime

A levee in Lake Pontchartrain has broken -- a two block length. There has been another report that some buildings are under 25 ft. of water. New Orleans is uninhabitable. Check, as I just caught it and may have mis-heard.



B.C. teacher may be facing death penalty -- Mathieu Forand, 28, arrested on trafficking, smuggling counts

A teacher from B.C. is facing the death penalty in Taiwan after being arrested for allegedly smuggling and trafficking cocaine. [. . . . ]

Fool! Our young adults have had such an easy life and our whole system is designed to lull them into thinking they can get away with just about anything. People will always "understand". This may not be the case; nevertheless, anyone who knows Southeast Asia knows it is unwise to get involved in drugs and knows enough to avoid even seeming to be on the periphery. While the individual might get away with it, if caught, the penalties are severe -- especially if the authorities decide to make an example of the one caught. Puff ball sentencing is purely Canadian.

Actually, I have met two people who took a chance . . . and they did get away with importing hash in their toothpaste tubes. It seems that the idea of getting away with it was a lark to them. . . and they were young adults. Can you imagine taking a chance on your future for that? Utter fools for taking the chance.



This is sad -- politicizing the funeral of a hero.

Was someone trying to help out the CBC with this? Canada is truly a Liberal fiefdom; the only concern is advantage, in this case to its favourite propaganda organ.

CTV, Global slam DND for giving CBC exclusive rights to Smokey Smith funeral... via Nealenews

So far Ottawa has refused to intervene, saying the CBC is an arm's-length agency.


Do you believe that CBC is at arm's length? I don't. Neale News' headline for this piece is:

"Liberal and NDP voters bothered the most by CBC lockout: poll..."

It is the Lieberals and the NDP who care; the rest of us are delighted not to hear the left-wing / Liberal / NDP slant on everything.




Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre: Ottawa worries terrorists will use Canada to stage attacks on US Aug. 29, 05


Katrina paralyzes oil industry in Gulf of Mexico -- Damage to offshore platforms, pipelines may trigger supply crunch

The hurricane . . . shut nearly all the region’s oil production, more than 80 percent of gas operations and forced eight refineries along the coast to shut -- sending crude oil prices to record highs above $70 per barrel.




"Lots of hunters in Toronto"

A couple:

wagccan , 8/29/2005 18:24:58 , "DRUG GANGS" and scroll down for his second post, "Robber blows off own arm with shotgun"

CanadianGypsy , 8/29/2005 18:43:34 , "Canada needs to act to combat crime, not study it further

Our justice system's soft-headed attitude towards crime has virtually turned it into a career option for lazy people."




MIPT Terrorism- incident analysis wizard

There are several graphic displays that you can choose. All you have to do is check boxes indicating what you want to include. Just try it.




I think the following title is misleading for I suspect police want to do something but the leftists have tied their hands behind their backs. When 20 people see a shooting and no-one will talk to police, what are the police to do? What are the rest of us to think? The gun toters and their communities as "victims" is ridiculous. If the communities don't help themselves, what are police to do? Our whole system is based on a society in which there is a body of shared values against crime and most people are law abiding. Obviously, in some communities, this is not the case. Is it a hate crime to mention which neighbourhoods support crime by their silence? Another perspective, of course, is that the sentencing is ridiculous (house arrest for having a gun, for example -- just heard on CFRB); it tells the communitymembers not to get involved or they could be in danger of retaliation. NJC

Toronto police can battle gun crime--if they really want to Arthur Weinreb, Associate Editor, August 26, 2005

[. . . . ] Bill Blair became Toronto’s current chief of police after being chosen by the left leaning Toronto Police Services Board, headed by extreme left winger and professional limousine passenger, Pam McConnell. The former Toronto police chief, Julian Fantino, a real cop, was highly regarded and admired by the vast majority of law abiding Torontonians. But he was seen as being too much of a crime fighter and not into the politically correct gang members are victims theory that is so popular with the Kumbaya-singing crowd at City Hall and on the Police Services Board. Despite his overwhelming popularity among the citizenry, Fantino’s contract was not renewed.[. . . . ]