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 CropMarijuana 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 workTop 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.
