Updated: The Peaceful Ones Being 'Peaceful' -&- More

Update:

'Radical Islam week' sparks U of T furor -- Safiyyah Ally: "I'm concerned that Islam might be demonized and vilified unfairly." -- Question: Would she accept fair comment? Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post, Feb. 6, 06

[. . . . ] "The ability to question, examine and comment on issues of the day, even when such commentary may be repugnant to some, is central to the mission of the university," Mr. Farrar wrote. He added, "without being illegal or otherwise prohibited, some speech may be perceived as hurtful because of the pain that it surfaces."

"Know Radical Islam Week" appears to be Jewish students' response to "Israeli Apartheid Week," organized by the U of T Arab Students Collective.

Mr. Jaffit attacked the Arab event, saying, "They'll be discussing how to destroy the Jewish state. Last year they put up maps of Israel and said it should be wiped off the map."

Memory Lane:

Last year the Islamic students held Israeli Apartheid Week in Canada FHTR, week of Jan. 23, 05
Related articles:

* Canada Continues its Love Affair With Terrorists -- Canada's "crazy double standard"
* Hate-crime charges won't be laid against Muslim magazine -- "called the Holocaust a lie and accused Jews of being responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Great Depression, and both world wars. "
* Taking jihad seriously
* Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists -- one response? "Watch them all apply for refugee status in Canada......"
* Should the University of Toronto host "Israeli Apartheid Week"?

Search:

P.F.L.P. terrorist
Abbas
hijacking of the Achille Lauro
the family of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid
The Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Studies (IWSGS) at the University of Toronto


Related: Tongue Tied
http://tonguetied.us/archives/cat_ethnic_pride.php


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Fear is alive and well: Google in Canada

Google's Blogger will not allow uploading of images showing cartoons and photographs of the "religion of peace" howling mob calling for their usual peace overtures from their brethren:

The photos feature those representing extremist madness, protesting the Jyllands Posten cartoons by calling upon the usual suspects to:

Slay ...
Butcher ...
Behead ...
Exterminate ...
Massacre ...

Peace ... and tolerance, Muslim style. They have made my argument for ending Muslim immigration to Canada. These guys want respect? Is everyone afraid of these barbarous so-called believers?

Today, Irshad Manji had a good article in the National Post on them, telling them to lighten up. There is another one by another writer on the topic, as well.



Film: "Maria, full of Grace" is the story of a Colombiano girl who becomes a drug mule, Bogota to New York. The poor used and abused, again. It will bring tears to your eyes. Absorbing, heartbreaking, excellent -- Spanish, with English sub-titles. If I had a teenager who might be enticed to try drugs, I would show this one and Jungle Fever, also totally absorbing. That should do the trick.



Memory Lane:

Who from DND was in charge while this was occurring? Sensforever, 1/31/2006 10:10:08

Three Ottawa men are facing charges in connection with an elaborate billing scheme through the Department of National Defence that cost taxpayers more than $100 million.

Fired from DND in September 2003 for his alleged involvement in the scheme, Paul Champagne is now facing seven charges including fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and possession of property obtained by crime.

Ignatius (Cholo) Manso, a former DND officer and president of local technology company Netlano Services Inc., and Peter Mellon, a longtime acquaintance of [Paul] Champagne, are facing similar charges.

[. . . . ] they fired over 300 Liberal supporters ... by passed the employment act and gave each and every one of them a very high position without competition in the French Public Service. [. . . . ]

Guess who some of his guests were? From DND? Yes!

This sounds like someone who knows what has been going on but the writer says he cannot reveal the source. Note that. Still, whistleblowers are not protected ... yet.

The problem is that for more or less 35-40 years, one group has been more equal than others; it breeds something ... is it corruption ... a sense of entitlement ... a feeling that the rest of us are rubes to be fleeced?

If there were at work freedom and the merit principle, this might be cleared up. Of course, the important non-elective positions including the SCOC have been stacked ... so ...



The freedom of choice ... ah, we should have it in Canada. Please, Stephen Harper, give us the freedom to choose in as many areas as it is possible that your government may achieve. I might even support Canadian artists ... even CBC radio. By the way, did you know that CBC owns 40% of Sirius? Well, that is the clinching argument to end taxpayer financing. Get busy! Get its bias off the teat. I have developed a visceral hatred for CBC.

While you're at it, hire on merit after a competition in which political affiliation does not enter into the equation. Of course, first, you must get rid of the ones parachuted into positions without having to go through a competitive process; ever the Librano$ way. To repeat: see this but there is no corroborating evidence; yet, instinctively, what do you think based on your experience? They fired over 300 Liberal supporters ... by passed the employment act and gave each and every one of them a very high position without competition in the French Public Service. Sensforever, 1/31/2006 10:10:08



“I met with an RCMP officer this week who was told by his superiors to stop sending requests to the gun registry before attending domestic disputes because he ‘was putting his life in danger’. The RCMP officer was told the usual ‘no guns’ response to his query ‘creates a false sense of security’. The young officer was also told that if he ever criticized the gun registry publicly his career would be over,”

The Gun Registry -- from those who know something about it, the police involved, those who use it



Ottawa kills building selloff -- Plans to consider future options for $3B federal land holdings put on shelf Garry Marr, Financial Post, February 04, 2006

[. . . . ] The study was to consider a range of options on how the government should deal with its massive property portfolio, which comprises 327 buildings with a total area of 75 million square feet. This does not include such high-profile properties as Parliament Hill. [. . . . ]

Border guard flees post after alert Feb. 2, 06

[....] On Wednesday night, U.S. police warned an inexperienced, unarmed female guard working alone that a fugitive was believed to be headed for her post. A union official said the man had told American police that he would not be captured alive and escaped in a high-speed chase.

[....] "That's how they decided to deal with it. 'I'll call you every 15 minutes to see if you're alive.' There's an acknowledgement from everyone that the border officers need to be armed, especially in these remote locations," Moran said.

A more senior officer came to relieve her in the morning, learned of the situation and walked off the job. [. . . . ]

B.C. Games $110M over budget -- organizers: Taxpayers asked to cover Olympic cost overruns Jason Kirby, National Post; with files from CanWest, February 04, 2006

VANCOUVER - With the Winter Olympics here still four years away, organizers say the price tag for building venues for the games has already shot up 23% because of higher construction costs -- and they are asking taxpayers to provide another $110-million.

But the province indicated it might not hand over its $55-million share of the funding increase unless the newly elected Conservative government in Ottawa agrees to do the same.

John Furlong, the chief executive of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), unveiled an updated capital budget for the Olympics that estimated venue costs will be $580-million. That compares with $470-million, the proposed amount submitted in 2002 to the International Olympic Committee as part of the city's bid to win the games.

There was a group who argued that this would happen.

Search: No Games Committee (or something like that)



More Memory Lane: The CRTC's willing stooges Andrew Coyne -- excellent

The RCMP's background check on Alfonso Gagliano Ezra Levant, Jan. 21, 06

Is Peter MacKay the heir apparent? Dec. 8, 06

Whilst admiring CBC's blog reportage, I came across this rather interesting item:

"I want to put one thing to rest: I am not dating Jennifer Aniston. I told her, 'It's too soon and you're not ready.'"

[Former] Conservative Deputy Leader Peter MacKay, who used to date Belinda Stronach and has been recently linked romantically to Sophie Desmarais, daughter of Quebec billionaire Paul Desmarais.

Border Woes

$5 million value -- Drugs found in airplane food carts CNEWS, Feb. 3, 06

MONTREAL (CP) - A routine search of a commercial flight from Venezuela has resulted in the seizure of more than 40 kilos of cocaine at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.

The seizure was made earlier this week by agents of the Canada Border Services Agency, but details were not made public until today. An official with the agency says the 38 bricks of cocaine were concealed in airplane food carts. The aircraft arrived from Porlamar, Venezuela and was headed to Ottawa.

The federal agency says no suspects were arrested on the flight and the file has been transferred to the RCMP's Airport Federal Investigation section. [. . . . ]

Justice Abella of the Supremes

Rein in the bench Frank Casey, Calgary

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this Supreme Court of Canada decision involving Air Canada, is the fact that its co-author, Justice Rosalie Abella, was even allowed to sit on the case.

Granted, she may not have been in a conflict of interest in the usual sense. Nevertheless, ever since writing her groundbreaking report for the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment in 1984, Justice Abella has been closely associated with, and a well-known advocate for, the principles of pay equity as outlined in her report and as then legislated into law. [. . . . ]

Pay Equity? It is too difficult to decide what are jobs of equal value. Let the market decide. Even I can see arguments for the fathers of children with stay-at-home wives who mother being paid a bit more than single women. I know; it's heresy coming from a woman. But ...



Rein in the bench Dr. Judy Verbeeten, Financial Post, February 04, 2006

Re: Supreme Court Equity Flight, Terence Corcoran, Jan. 31 [....]

Having studied labour law and therefore having been exposed to her previous judgments, I am not at all surprised at the dogmatic direction of this decision that was co-authored by Justice Rosalie Abella. However, I would have thought that Justice Abella, as the new kid on the Supreme Court block, might have exercised a little more restraint before firing up the steamroller to start imposing her personal agenda on the Canadian public.

I shudder to think of the unilateral proclamations that will be emanating from the bench in the near future. Notwithstanding Paul Martin's pre-election shenanigans, I would guard the notwithstanding clause carefully -- it may be the only instrument left for Parliament to use to rein in a solipsistic bench that has lost sight of its real responsibilities.

Proportional Representation vs First Past the Post

The beauty of our first-past-the-post election Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, February 03, 2006

Under Germany's PR system, in which fringe parties get representation in rough proportion to their popular vote, minority government is the rule and confusion the all-too-common result. With deal-making among the fractured parties expected to take weeks or months, the leaders of both major parties claimed they would head the next government. No one knew what parties might end up in what constellation or whether any coalition could be formed or whether another election would be needed within weeks. As a result, the country faced a limbo that saw financial markets drop, the euro fall, Standard & Poor's warn of a credit downgrade, and the European Union's head warn that, until Germany's crisis was resolved, all of "Europe cannot recover."

In the end, an ugly "Grand Coalition" of Germany's two leading parties -- hated rivals of each other -- became the bizarre outcome. If Canada's election had operated under rules of PR, and Canadians had cast their votes as they did two weeks ago, the result would have been no less bizarre.

Coincidentally, the seat distribution that we saw under our first-past-the-post system would have been quite similar under proportional representation. [....]

"A support group for sex workers wants to turn a former Moncton brothel into transitional housing for prostitutes."

[. . . . ] Kelly Steeves works with PEERS, a resource group that helps prostitutes get off the streets.

[. . . . ] "Women just keep on continuing in the cycle if they don't have transitional housing. They're suffering from poverty, post-traumatic stress, abuse, violence from men. We have lack of rooming houses in Moncton. A lot of rooming houses are set up for men … they're not set up for women and they're not affordable " [. . . . ]

Children of Divorce -&- Dissolving Marriage

I have read this at least three times; it is very affecting. If only adults, having had children, would consider the effect upon their offspring if they divorce. Since children of divorce often end up with the mother, they are poorer, monetarily, and in that they may lose half of their heritage. I cannot imagine what my life would have been without knowing my father. Not a day goes by that I don't think of this man I respected and adored. He is responsible for the best part of me, the part that I appreciate most, my mother for what homely virtues I hope have: frugality, appreciation for nature and growing things, but most of all to know and be satisfied without the things usually considered necessary, along with a soupcon of common sense. The negatives are my own contribution to the mix. How much poorer my life and my self would have been without both of them. How could two adults not consider the child and work out some accommodation?

Half of all children will sleep tonight in a home where their father does not live November 02, 2005 -- See also the following:

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-parker0205nov02,0,6282338.column?coll=orl-opinion-headlines

"Feminism's devolution from hoaxers to whores" by Kathleen Parker ....



Dissolving Marriage -- If everything is marriage, then nothing is. Stanley Kurtz, Feb. 3, 06

Canada, you don’t know the half of it. In mid-January, Canada was rocked by news that a Justice Department study had called for the decriminalization and regulation of polygamy. Actually, two government studies recommended decriminalizing polygamy. (Only one has been reported on.) And even that is only part of the story. Canadians, let me be brutally frank. You are being played for a bunch of fools by your legal-political elite. Your elites mumble a confusing jargon to your face to keep you from understanding what they really have in mind.
Language Exam

Let’s try a little test. Translate the following phrases into English:

1) Canada needs to move “beyond conjugality.”

2) Canada needs to “reconsider the continuing legal privileging of marriage and other conjugal relationships.”

3) Once gay marriage is legalized, Canada will be able to “consider whether the legal privileges and burdens now assigned to marriage and other conjugal relationships can be justified.”

4) Canada needs to question “whether conjugality is an appropriate marker for determining legal rights and obligations.”

[Answers: The English translation of #1,# 2, and #4 is: “Canada should abolish marriage.” The translation of #3 is: “Once we legalize gay marriage, we can move on to the task of abolishing marriage itself.”]

This argument was very publicly made to Canadians in 2001, when the Law Commission of Canada published its report, “Beyond Conjugality.” But nobody got it.

Subheadings:

The Plan
The Coalition
Tactical Multiculturalism
The Slope Slips ["Not only does Bailey call for decriminalizing polygamy, she directly links her legal argument on polygamy to same-sex marriage."]
Ultimate Goal

A must read.






Arcelor chief executive says company is ready to fend off Mittal takeover bid CP, January 30, 2006

[. . . . ] With revenue of $36.3 billion last year, Arcelor is the world's second-biggest steel company. It was created in 2002 through the merger of Usinor SA of France, Arbed SA of Luxembourg and Aceralia Corp. Siderurgica SA of Spain.

Mittal Steel's Chairman and CEO, Lakshmi Mittal, was meeting French Finance Minister Thierry Breton on Monday morning to discuss the takeover bid.

Mittal is due to meet with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday. [. . . . ]

No state investment Rob McVey, Financial Post, February 04, 2006

Re: Indian Officials Join Scramble for Oilsands, Feb. 2

India's state-controlled oil companies should not be allowed to invest in Canada, for the same reasons that state-controlled China Minmetals should not have bought Noranda.

For one, private industry should have its property rights respected and not be subject to competition from a coercive state. For another, Canadians should respect the individual rights of India's taxpayers by declining to accept coerced financing. [....]