No subject should be outside the realm of debate in a democratic society.
These go along with one of yesterday's posts: May 5, 2006: #2 -- Coincidence
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, May 06, 2006
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Just heard and reports include, from a couple of sources, but nothing is certain:
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, May 05, 2006
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Thanks, J, for these future shots.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, May 05, 2006
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Found on the way to searching something or other, I found the following which mentions Maurice Strong and the Aga Khan, among many others.
[. . . . ] There are 2 types of parks: nature parks and strategic parks. The official purpose of the nature parks is the protection of nature. Often, these parks contain important minerals like diamond or uranium. Locals are encouraged to leave or simply chased away. Type 2 are the strategic parks. If you look carefully you'll find that these parks are either located on certain ridges useful for military observation, or they are border transcending parks like for example those in South-Africa and Mozambique... It is remarkable that corridors have been projected in such a way that they cleverly combine the preservation of nature with the gaining of a military advantage... [. . . . ]
[If] you take a look at Pakistan, our 'ally' in the War on Terror, you'll see 5 major national parks in the north of the country. One is located at the border with India, another at the border with China, and yet another one at the border with Northern Afghanistan. The management of these parks is working closely together with the IUCN and the WWF. The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) of 1001 Club member Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan is another partner in many of the same projects in that area.
[....] Founded by 1001 Club member Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. According to the World Bank in 2002: "By many measures the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) is a highly successful NGO-run rural development program. It reaches some 900,000 people in about 1,100 villages in the Northern Areas and Chitral District of Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border."
Maurice Strong & Friends
UN Internationalist & Global Arranger/Fixer/Do-Gooder/Authoritarian ... and More
Mau-ist Revolution -- re Maurice Strong in the current edition of the Western Standard ....
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, May 05, 2006
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Poll: Accountability
19:38 (AEST) A PAKISTANI woman beheaded her husband, chopped up his body and dumped the dismembered parts in a sewerage drain after he announced plans to take a fourth wife, police said today. [. . . . ]
[. . . . ] The proposed reforms would prohibit the use of conditional sentences for offences prosecuted by indictment and punishable by a maximum sentence of 10 years or more. Those convicted of serious violent and sexual offences, as well as other significant crimes, such as major drug offences, would be ineligible to receive a conditional sentence.
The reforms will help ensure a cautious and more appropriate use of conditional sentences, reserving them for less serious offences that pose a low risk to community safety.
A conditional sentence is a sentence of imprisonment of less than two years that may be served in the community if several pre-conditions are met. The offender must then abide by other conditions, including house arrest or curfew.
[....] Reducing New York's murder rate by 70 per cent during his two four-year terms ....
[....] looking at crime statistics the way you would look at profit and loss in a business [....]
[....] workfare initiative - which focused on finding able-bodied residents jobs before giving them welfare - cut the welfare rolls by 60 per cent [....]
Bayes' Theorem -- named for the Rev. Thomas Bayes, a Presbyterian minister who died in Tunbridge Wells, England, in 1763 -- lets you judge the effect of a new piece of evidence, E, on the probability of your previous theory, [. . . . ]
The controversial legislation will impose:
five-year minimum sentences on first-time weapons offenders;
seven years on second-timers; and
10 years on multiple offenders.
Other firearm-related offences such as trafficking and smuggling and cases of robbery with a stolen weapon will also be subject to escalating minimum prison sentences of three to five years.
Examples of such products recently seized in Canada include: Expired baby food with counterfeit best-before dates attached, counterfeited brand-name batteries containing elevated levels of dangerous chemicals, children's stuffed toys filled with hair and what appeared to be fibreglass, and safety boots with inadequate protection and fake safety logos.
[. . . . ] Canada's weak legal framework for cracking down on counterfeit goods starts at the border, where Canada Border Service Agency officials do not have the same power to search and seize bogus products as they do with illegal substances.
Police action is often limited to specific complaints under the Copyright Act or fraud provisions in the Criminal Code.
Further, police cannot go after the assets of a counterfeiting organization under the Proceeds of Crime laws as they can for most other serious crimes because copyright act crimes are exempt.
The RCMP says these points have not been lost on gangsters, who always appreciate high-profit, low-risk criminal ventures; the result is that almost all major organized crime groups are now involved in product counterfeiting.
"Parents, caregivers and all people involved in modelling are advised to use caution especially when meeting people over the Internet," Wilcox said.
The suspect has an account with onemodelplace.com, a Florida-based website that caters to the modelling community.
Brett Cramer, CEO of onemodelplace.com, said his site is the safest place for models and photographers to meet because everyone must have a paid account.
"Every time a user logs on, there's an IP address and a time stamp." Cramer said.
Karim Remtulla, 37, faces numerous charges.
[....] Both the Liberals and the New Democrats say they will not back legislation that is not accompanied by community-based crime prevention programs. The budget set aside $20-million over two years to discourage young people from a life of crime, which falls short of the amounts proposed by the Liberals and NDP.
Mandatory minimum sentences are controversial because they take away flexibility for judges to impose sentences as they see fit. Criminologists contend such sentences are expensive and do not reduce crime.
Mandatory prison terms for drug trafficking alone could put thousands more prisoners into the federal system, which currently houses 12,400 inmates at an estimated $82,000 each per year.
Ottawa won't commit itself to funding cost overruns for the 2010 Winter Olympics until it gets a full picture of the financial management plan, Trade Minister David Emerson said yesterday. Mr. Emerson who is also the minister responsible for the Olympics, said he was "very comfortable" with the decision not to include in Tuesday's budget the $55-million sought by the B.C. government and Olympic organizers to help cover cost overruns. He said Ottawa needs assurances there won't be "uncontrolled cost creep." Growing concern over the costs coincides with Vancouver's decision this week to replace one of its two nominees on the 20-person board.
Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler accused the Tories of short-changing real needs in areas like child care in order to fight an imaginary crime surge.
"I was stunned," Cotler said of the prison initiative.
"I've never calculated the cost of something like this . . . because (as justice minister) I was against the idea that would require these costs."
In addition to scrapping a $5-billion child-care program [A PLAN - NEVER PASSED INTO LAW] - replaced by a $1,200 taxable parental allowance - the budget came up short on the environment, economic productivity, post-secondary education and aboriginal issues, Cotler said.
[....] Cotler said the Tory plan will keep people in jail while they could otherwise be contributing to society.
He spoke of meeting in Regina with former gang members who were mowing lawns and painting houses they once vandalized or used as crack dens. [....]
Paul Martin delivered a scathing attack on the Conservative government's child-care plan
[....] Martin, an MP for Quebec's LaSalle-Emard riding, criticized Tuesday's budget announcement for scrapping a $5-billion national day-care program his government designed. [talked about, never passed into law]
[....] NDP MP Wayne Marston, from Hamilton, Ont., said Martin's argument was hard to believe considering "the former Liberal government traded on child care since 1993 to achieve three majority governments."
Marston then took the opportunity to remind Martin of his party's election loss, saying "You lost the confidence, we did not." [....]
[....] Liberal Leader Bill Graham said his party wants a "balanced" approach to curbing gun violence that imposes stiffer penalties but also tackles the roots of crime and helps youth.
"We see nothing of that here; we see only the repressive side," Graham said.
But the NDP's Joe Comartin said his party will initially support the bill but press for changes when it reaches committee. He wants to narrow the field of offences now targeted for mandatory minimum sentences.
The tougher sentences were graduated to address concerns from opposition parties and ensure the laws comply with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Comartin doesn't believe the legislation as presented would survive a constitutional challenge. [. . . . ]
Opposition Leader Bill Graham denounced Tuesday's federal budget on the grounds it's "ideological." Hah! I wish.
The budget does cut taxes -- mainly the hated GST, which Mr. Graham's Liberals ran a whole campaign against in 1993. But it also subsidizes farmers, forest companies, apprentices, soccer moms, bus and subway users, textbook buyers, daycare workers (with $225-million for institutionalized daycare in addition to the famous $1,200 a child), 100% Canadian vintners (my Lord!), small brewers, small business, university researchers, the big banks, tool buyers, infrastructurists, "fishers," people who live in social housing, people who live on native reserves, artists. You name it -- almost -- and it's subsidized. Which ideology are we talking about exactly?
[....] But we're forgetting some first principles here. Where does it say beneficial activities need to be subsidized? When was it conceded government will be allowed to indulge its insistence on shaping society? In fact, when did this government develop that insistence? [Listen to the mainstream media even now ..... people expect government "input" not independence from government. Perhaps, in time, this will change.]
[....] For most of us here, the long-term goal is not to win the game but to change the way the game is played.
In its billions, the budget heads in the right direction. Taxes do fall. But in its millions it reinforces the hurtful lessons of Liberalism. Denouncing soft paternalism, a letter-writer to the Economist this week quoted Henry David Thoreau: "If I knew of a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." In its first budget, the blue team is far too do-gooding.
reduced by 2200 "officers" and CSIS was reduced by 700 agents during the Liberal tenure? Now that the Conservatives are in government , the media wake up to the fact that the RCMP have had their resources reduced over the years?Where have they been? [....]
The extra resources being provided by the Conservative government will help bring the RCMP back to a more effective level and restore their reputation as one of the best crime fighting organizations in the world- not the paper shuffling bureaucracy the Liberals were content with. Does the Lib friendly media have a problem with Canadians being protected from predators?
"Mr. Kevin Sorenson (Crowfoot, CPC): Mr. Speaker, one of the first things that the government did upon taking office was to slash 2,200 positions from the RCMP, a loss that has never been recouped.
If the Deputy Prime Minister wants to quote the RCMP commissioner, I will as well. He openly admitted that 2,000 officers were moved off organized crime files and other duties to respond to the terrorism crisis. The Canadian Police Association pleaded with the government to provide better funding after it identified serious shortfalls in local, provincial and national policing."...
[....] James Morton, vice-president of the Ontario Bar Association, suggested the Tories are low-balling the cost of their measures.
There may be a need for more judges, courtrooms and Crown attorneys, he said, since offenders facing longer terms could insist on going to trial rather than copping a plea.
"If you're going to have a more law-order based system, you're going to have to pay for it," said Morton. "Building more prisons is only part of it." [. . . . ]
According to the Edmonton Journal, a 12-year-old "Goth" girl and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Allan Steinke of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada were reported to have been [. . . . ]
Almost every day I come across some weepy-eyed journalist with tears running down their cheeks ruminating fondly about the communist SOB that took this country for a 40 year walk in the wilderness and in many cases they dare to compare our current PM with him. Richard Gwyn does it again today in the Star…
Start: May 3 2006 - 6:30pm
End: May 3 2006 - 8:30pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT+5
Date & time:
Wed, 05/03/2006 - 6:30pm
Location:
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) 252 Bloor Street West (at St.George Station)
Details:
Building momentum on a number of very successful immigrant/refugee rights demonstrations over the last few months, No One Is Illegal-Toronto and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Campaign in collaboration with Solidarity Across Borders-Montreal, No One Is Illegal-Vancouver and a number of other immigrant/refugee rights groups from across "Canada" are organizing towards a National Day of Action calling for Status for All on May 27th.
We invite anyone interested in helping to organize this National Day of Action to attend our next organizing meeting which takes place Wednesday May 3rd at OISE.
Stop the Deportations! Status for All! Access Without Fear! No One Is Illegal!
No One is Illegal (Toronto) is a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect. We believe that granting citizenship to a privileged few is part of a racist immigration and border policy designed to exploit and marginalize migrants. We work to oppose these policies, as well as the international economic policies that create the conditions of poverty and war that force migration. At the same time, we also work to support and build alliances with our Indigenous brothers and sisters in their fight against colonialism, displacement and the ongoing occupation of their land.
WE DEMAND:Regularization of all non-status people in Canada
No deportations / No detentions
No racial or religious profiling
Recognition of the right to free movement
Recognition of indigenous sovereignty
Each year the United States grants citizenship to a quarter of a million children of illegal aliens. There is a common misconception among the public that such citizenship is a constitutional guarantee. The fact is that the constitutional question of whether the 14th amendment grants citizenship to children of foreigners born on U.S. soil was addressed by the Supreme Court over 100 years ago in the Slaughter House Cases and, again, in 1971 in the case of Rogers v. Belle. All existing case law confirms that the Fourteenth Amendment does not automatically grant citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants. The reality is that it was Congress, through immigration legislation, which created this prize of citizenship for the children of people who violate our laws by entering our country illegally.
Between 1997 and 2001, the unfortunate byproduct of our current immigration code has been a cost to the tax payers of the United States of billions of dollars to support these children who are popularly known as "anchor babies". They are named so because their legal status ties their illegal parents to the United States. During this time period, U.S. taxpayers have spent more than 4 billion dollars just to provide Medicaid to these children whose parents do not even pay into the system. Medicaid coverage, free education, and protection from deportation for the parents of "anchor babies" are a primary draw for many people to enter this country illegally. The time has come for our Congress to side with the majority of U.S. citizens and heed the calls for real immigration reform by repealing the INS legislation that makes the United States such an attractive residential destination for illegal aliens and their families.
A good place to begin would be to follow the example of the majority of Latin American countries and stop granting citizenship to the children of those who come into our nation illegally. [. . . . ]
LEADING environment group WWF Australia says it accepts the Federal Government's push to expand uranium mining and exports.
WWF chief executive Greg Bourne said it was a reality that all Australian governments would mine and export uranium to a growing world market.
"The key issues are, if we're going to be a nation exporting uranium, we have to know absolutely it's only being used for peaceful purposes and waste products are being stored safely," Mr Bourne said. [. . . . ]
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, May 05, 2006
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Thanks, R, for the rose.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Thursday, May 04, 2006
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I googled Where is Paul Martin?; Apparently, news has not got around the web that Canada has a new Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Wednesday, May 03, 2006
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Budget:
[. . . . ] The Nerve is described in an April 2005 review of its own show as being "a dramatic change in the way we entertain young audiences." Joel Johannsen recently discovered about the show's content is clearly not news. It shares more in common with MTV’s Jackass than it does with actual news.
So why was Tony Burman in court to testify about "news" trust issues when a racy CBC teen entertainment show's footage was in question? [. . . . ]
Why is CBC News pretending The Nerve is a news program? [. . . . ]
In Brief:
* Norway House Cree Nation’s election campaign for a new Chief was a dirty contest.
* The established leadership tried buying votes and intimidation in a desperate bid to hold on to power.
* Despite the corruption, dissident band councillor Marcel Balfour carried the vote.
* His long campaign for transparency and accountability has a chance to succeed. [. . . . ]
The Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings and Vice Lords were born decades ago in Chicago's most violent neighborhoods. Now, their gang graffiti is showing up 6,400 miles away in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods -- Iraq.
Armored vehicles, concrete barricades and bathroom walls all have served as canvasses for their spray-painted gang art. At Camp Cedar II, about 185 miles southeast of Baghdad, a guard shack was recently defaced with "GDN" for Gangster Disciple Nation, along with the gang's six-pointed star and the word "Chitown," a soldier who photographed it said.
The graffiti, captured on film by an Army Reservist and provided to the Chicago Sun-Times, highlights increasing gang activity in the Army in the United States and overseas, some experts say. [...]
This week Iran presented the US with the ultimate challenge and Washington must now make a decision. Is it fighting to win?
[....] Iraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.
Israeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.
So rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations. [. . . . ]
America cannot, and it will not accomplish any of these goals if it continues to abide by strategies and frameworks that serve only to strengthen its enemies and permit its "allies" to behave perfidiously. It cannot and will not defend the world from evil, demonic regimes like Iran's if it continues to allow the likes of the EU, Russia, Egypt and China to undercut its will at every turn. [. . . . ]
[....] Burma vets -- mostly RCAF -- have always been forgotten, not only by the public, but by the media, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), and now by the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. [....]
Adams says a "real shocker" was VAC's packet of brochures sent to all high schools, declaring "May 8, 1945, to be the end of the Second World War." [I would bet this will change during the mandate of this new conservative government.]
Says Adams: "No atomic bomb, no war with Japan and, of course, no mention of the Burma vets." [....]
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said he "put the cards on the table" about such issues as respecting human rights during two meetings Sunday with Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.
[....] Mr. Martin described the dictator as a man with a profound sense of history, "who understands that with the changing world, abuse of human rights cannot continue.'While Col. Gaddafi made an extreme about-face a year ago by renouncing support for terrorism and abandoning his program for weapons of mass destruction, outward signs of the old regime remain.
[....] Mr. McTeague said privacy concerns kept Canadian officials from identifying which specific cases were raised Col. Gaddafi and Libyan officials, but it's thought that about a half-dozen cases interest Mr. Martin.
[....] The Prime Minister also lobbied for increased Canadian business dealings with Libya. He defended the move, saying trade generally opens doors to greater respect for human rights.
Mr. Martin, who cut short his visit by one day so he can attend Monday's funeral for Liberal MP Lawrence O'Brien in Goose Bay, Labrador, also attended a ceremony at which SNC Lavalin signed a $1-billion memorandum of understanding on further work for the Great Man Made River project.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Wednesday, May 03, 2006
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The Federal Court ruled that Canada's passport policy is neither discriminatory nor a violation of freedom of religion to refuse to list Israel as the birth country for Eliyahu Yoshua Veffer, a Toronto Grade 12 student.
Mr. Veffer, the 18-year-old son of a rabbi, was born in the disputed city and moved to Canada with his family eight years ago.
[canadahoser ....] If found guilty of the crime, the young 12 year old girl faces a period of incarceration no longer then 7 years, to the best of my knowledge.
This gives her the time required to complete her education and attend upwards of 2 years university teaching, all at the expense of the taxpayers of Canada. [. . . . ]
[lied to ....] The "hug a thug" crowd honestly believe that they are doing the right thing, that every life is precious and that everyone has the right to a second, third, fourth, in fact unlimited chance(s). [. . . . ]
Under Dithering Paul there was NO progress on softwood lumber, NO deal for trade and the country was out 5 BILLION dollars. Now, in 3 months Harper has a deal, has trade flowing , has made the exporting provinces happy and recovered 4 BILLION dollars. 80 % recovery, by any measure, is a helluva lot better than the FIBERAL's 0 !!! It's call progress .... "
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the appointment of retired Supreme Court Justice John Major as a Commissioner to look into certain aspects of the 1985 Air India bombing, including key questions raised in Bob Rae’s November 2005 report.
The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, established under Part I of the Inquiries Act, will be free to hold public or in camera hearings while at the same time ensuring that the inquiry does not jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations or proceedings. [. . . . ]
[....] Harper's Conservatives concluded Canadians voted for change, not a continuation of the incestuous relationship between politicians, grantees and the sympathetic bureaucracy that puts the two together.
In particular, the government is not about to fund groups that would seek to undermine the mandate upon which it was elected. The government's action in cutting these people off seems natural. So do their laments.
daycare advocates
environmental activists
Court Challenges Program
National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)
200 separate organizations through NACSOW.
Human Resources Development Canada
Heritage Canada
It is not "isolation and despair" that cause men to abandon their children -- but rather the disgraceful fact that such behaviour is accepted by certain sub-cultures. The enormous discrepancy in crime rates among Toronto's ethnic communities is matched closely by discrepancies in fatherlessness. Overall, the percentage of Toronto households containing young children that are headed by a single parent is about 19%. Among economically successful minorities, such as Jews, it is closer to 10%. But among Jamaican-Canadians, the figure is an astounding 54%. [. . . . ]
[....] "My fear is that we're going to fall more and more into the pocket of the American war-on-drugs approach," says Eugene Oscapella of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy.
"We're doing a bad enough job on our own but we don't need to go ahead and make it worse by getting more deeply involved in that punitive criminal justice approach, which doesn't work." [....]
The keynote address will be given by Stephen Lewis, the UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, who has been badgering world leaders for years to do more to save lives.
Once again, time is running out for Andrea Clark. Starting at 12:01 AM, tomorrow, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital has made it clear that they may pull Andrea Clark's life support at any time after giving her family a "reasonable" notice. This is despite the fact that the family and Andrea herself do not agree with the diagnosis, oppose pulling the plug, and have found a doctor with privileges at St. Luke's who disagrees with the medically futile ruling. [. . . . ]
[....] Raising Babies -- Should Under 3s Go to Nursery? is the latest offering from Australian psychologist Steve Biddulph. He argues that day care is damaging to babies' brain chemistry.
[....] in line with leading academic work gathered in Canada, the U.S. and England.
Neurobiological research indicates that brain development in children under the age of two is best served with one-on-one care, claims Biddulph. [....]
Just last week the Toronto Star breathlessly reported on the upcoming renewal of the NORAD treaty with the U.S.—as if it were a sort of sneaky secretive conservative hidden agenda government version of the Toronto Star’s favorite Girls Gone Wild video. The ominous headline was this: "Tories quietly expand NORAD". Then there was a sub-head which ominously stated this: "Signing ceremony kept under wraps". (Hat tip: conservativegal)
They went on at length about the “secrets” and the “under wraps”, and the “calls… were not returned” and the secret sources revealed that... -type blather. [. . . . ]
[....] The memo, issued by Tony Burman (editor-in-chief of news and current affairs) urges journalists to consider more "neutral" terms. [memo issued after the London bombings]
"Rather than calling assailants 'terrorists,' we can refer to them as bombers, hijackers, gunmen (if we're sure no women were in the group), militants, extremists, attackers or some other appropriate noun."
[....] What about child abuse? Will it now be fashionable to refer to pedophiles as "people who perpetrate an act of love considered immoral by a certain segment of the population?" [....]
The board's African-Nova Scotian advisory committee found students and parents often feel unwelcome and picked on at their schools. They also say there are not enough black role models or diversity among teachers and administrators. Survey results also showed black students scored below average in literacy.
Powerline’s John Hinderaker takes on the New York Times today, pointing out how the Gray Lady is always ready to post corrections on trivial matters - as in this morning’s reference to a conflict of interest in the paper’s Sunday Styles article on “male socialites” - but is less forthcoming with serious subjects. [. . . . ]
[....] Police pressure often causes gangsters to migrate. From Toronto to Hamilton, to Brantford and London. Or from Toronto to Durham to Peterborough. [....]
[....] As Shawn declares in his introduction, "I am disgusted by the fact that the altruistic efforts of so many U.N. staff members are undercut by the greed, corruption, and ineptitude of the bureaucracy they serve."
Veteran newsman Eric Shawn is a senior correspondent and anchor for the Fox News Channel. He has covered stories everywhere from the Persian Gulf to Somalia to the White House to the O. J. Simpson trial.
[....] So let's take a quick look at the Hamas charter, unveiled in 1988, to better understand the organization Harper is being called upon to support with the tax dollars of Canadians in the interests of taking a "balanced approach" in the Mideast.
The following quotations are all taken from the charter:
- "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." [....]
... U.S. District Judge James Moody sentenced former University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian to 57 months in jail, the maximum allowed under Al-Arian’s guilty plea for “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Specially Designated Terrorist.” [. . . . ]
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posted by News Junkie Canada at Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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English-speaking Canadians are not supposed to notice, let alone mention, this type of activism. Consider yourself forewarned ... your tender sensitivities may be offended ... or you may agree ... enough, already.
The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, April 29, 2006
French health networks approved -- Francophones in Ontario to have more of a say
Dave Rogers
The Ontario government has approved a recommendation to create four new health planning bodies giving francophones more control over their health care.
Madeleine Meilleur, the minister responsible for [provincial] francophone affairs, said yesterday the province will create four local health integration networks responsible for the planning and delivery of health care for francophones in different regions of Ontario.
The new francophone networks would have the same powers and responsibilities as the 14 current health integration networks the province has created to administer health care for other Ontario residents. The networks will be responsible for spending on a full range of services from community support agencies to hospitals.
Ms. Meilleur said the province is paying special attention to improving health care for francophones because they are in poorer health than anglophones as they have less access to primary health care.
Canadians for Language Fairness
April 30, 2006
Whoever thought that 4.5% of the population [I assume this refers to the percentage in Ontario] can have so much power? I guess that if you have political clout, you can demand just about anything!! Madeleine Meilleur has managed to achieve her goal - the 4.5% French-speakers will now control the quality of care for themselves and can demand more health-care services in French. So not only will we have to bilingualize all medical facilities, "French-only" clinics will now be increased, depending on the demands of French-speakers. What criteria will be used to create such clinics where Francophones will have a shorter waiting list? What is the cost of such facilities per client? You can bet your bottom dollar that it will be more than for the rest of us. Just like the right to education in the French-language - schools are being built to accommodate smaller numbers and where English-language schools will be closed for being economically non-viable, French-language schools are kept open. To educate a child in French costs more than to educate a child in the English system. We can look forward to the same higher cost for medical services to the French-speakers of Ontario. Wonderful for the French, not so wonderful for the rest of us as the already under-funded medical services are further cut back.
It won't be long before Ontario is declared "officially bilingual" - something that Madame Meilleur has promised the French-speakers of Ontario. The McGuinty Liberal government has promised to cooperate to the fullest. The trouble is that the Provincial Conservative Party won't have the power to do anything about it. The Conservative government of Mike Harris capitulated on the Montfort and now that hospital is getting large amounts of funding. Any advertisement for more public funds never mentions the fact that this is a French hospital and even if the service is provided in both English & French, the administration will be in French and few (if any) unilingual English speaking nurses will be employed.
Time to look for a political party that will take our issue seriously? Check out the Freedom Party!! How about the Libertarian Party?
posted by News Junkie Canada at Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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Ted Byfield, Apr. 30, 06
The same contempt was apparent earlier this month when the presidents of three Ontario public school unions denounced the Harper proposal as "a hollow public relations exercise." What other explanation could there be?
To them, the notion that Harper could be acting on the sincerely-held principle that the education of children is primarily a parental responsibility, not a state one, was obviously incomprehensible.
We should also be conscious that these are the same public school educators who view it as their obligation to disabuse children of the "bigotries" of their parents, teaching them "what it means to be a Canadian"-- that the narrow prejudices of their parents must be discarded if they are to live in the New Canada, etc.
If the Harper bill survives, parents will be able to put their kids in private day cares, or in church day cares, or let mothers stay home and care for their children themselves, an abhorrent negligence in the view of these teachers' unions.
OTTAWA - The Institute for Canadian Values is calling on the federal government to end direct funding of daycare advocacy groups that engage in lobbying for what it calls “a partisan Liberal policy agenda”.
“Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been ploughed into pro-Liberal advocacy organizations every year for years,” said Joseph Ben-Ami, Executive Director of the Institute for Canadian Values. “Many of these groups are little more than partisan lobbyists for Liberal party policy that haven’t created a single daycare space with the huge quantities of money they receive. Continuing to fund them is simply wrong. [. . . . ]
"Not so happy was I, watching the Liberals soil the poppy for a cheap and sleazy parlor trick."
BRITISH diplomats in Baghdad have asked Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, to help an investigation into allegations that George Galloway was given cash by Saddam Hussein under the Oil-for-Food programme.
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Warning: This is a Mike Adams column. It may contain language that may be offensive to some readers.
Last week, several leftists at the University of New Hampshire tried to have my speech cancelled on the grounds that it might be too offensive. They tried to convince some administrators that a number of my offensive statements rendered me ineligible to speak in a climate that focuses on tolerance and diversity. Since they were unsuccessful, I thought I would give them a hand in the future.
With the help of a former College Republican President at Auburn University, I am planning to develop and market a new Mike Adams Action Figure. The figure will summarize my positions on various issues in my presidential campaign with the push of a button. It will also give liberals access to my most offensive statements as they try to cancel my speeches on campuses across the nation. [. . . . ]
Parents today shouldn’t just worry about whether or not their kids are consuming porn; they should worry about whether or not their kids are participating in, producing and selling it.[....]
make thousands of dollars a month [....]
Nonetheless, it is obvious from the contortions of the appeal court that human rights codes suppressing certain opinions are not only inimical to free speech; they're also incompatible with legal equality. And the consequence of Owens vs. Saskatchewan is not that, in Lorne's words, "Canadians are slightly freer again to voice their beliefs." It's simply that one special interest has won a provisional victory against another.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Owning marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by the Congress.
Police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine, under a bill passed by senators late on Thursday and earlier approved by the lower house.
People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan.
The government says the measure allows police to focus on major drug dealers, and President Fox is expected to sign it into law.
Kathakali is the classical dance-drama of Kerala, South India, which dates from the 17th century and is rooted in Hindu mythology. Kathakali has a unique combination of literature, music, painting, acting and dance. In the following pages we have placed photographs and videos of Kathakali performances and songs by famous Kathakali singers. [. . . . ]
Will the politicians show some backbone and put an end to the incessant rounds of Native land claims and stop rubber-stamping dubious demands? Will they, one day, realize that ceding lands does not improve the lot of an individual Native one whit — unless there are oil or precious minerals on the land?
Almost every political “stakeholder” group in the country seems to have a stake in this budget. Many fear they may lose out in how the federal purse is divided. All this during a period of imbalance in media commentary which is hostile to Harper. This budget’s approval is a very dicey proposition.
[....] Brian Mulroney won the Tory leadership before he was elected to anything, but Brian was loquacious, a schmoozer and at home in the back and front rooms of party politics -- unlike Ignatieff, who is disarmingly gauche.
[....] Looking at the fragmented state of the Opposition parties, especially the Liberals (even after they choose a leader!), I'll be surprised if PM Stephen Harper waits long after Dec. 2 before calling an election. Harper is no Joe Clark and can count.
He may have irritated the media of late with his autocratic style, but not the country. For better or for worse, a Conservative majority is waiting to happen. [....]
Mr. Guite's claim of empty pockets is a complaint that is echoing through family and civil court as well.
"Lawyers are pricing themselves right out of the business," said Stacy Robb, founder of DADS Canada, a Toronto service that helps mainly men prepare to handle their own divorce and child custody cases in court.
[....] Frank Addario, vice-president of the Ontario-based Criminal Lawyers Association, attributes the high cost of a legal defence to two sources.
"Litigation is more complex now for a variety of reasons based on the ways police investigate, Crowns prosecute and defendants defend," he said. "Governments haven't kept pace. They increased funding to police and to prosecutors -- which necessarily means better prepared cases against defendants. But they haven't likewise increased funding to legal aid."
[....] Judges also find themselves negotiating a sensitive minefield of interests
[....] married the child on her 10th birthday.
[....] Hitting the shelves are some 43 reds and 11 whites. Of the whites, if I had to choose one, it would have to be Pipers Brook Vineyards' Ninth Island 2005 Pinot Grigio (683193) at $19.95, which was my highest-scoring white.
[....] Vintages Essential Greg Norman 2003 Limestone Coast Shiraz (575092), [....]
I also see hope when the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Calgary, the Calgary Council of Churches, with representation from: Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and United Church Communities, the Hussaini Association of Calgary, the Ismaili Muslim Council for the Prairies, the Jewish Council of Calgary and the Muslim Council of Calgary can issue a joint statement which states:
"The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities have common roots and share common values. It is this shared heritage that reminds us of the importance of holding what is sacred with the utmost respect.
I've always believed that in most cases of so-called mercy killing, it's an act performed not because the patient couldn't stand it, but because the person standing next to the bed couldn't stand it, and was -- in essence -- a selfish act.
All in all, the court made it clear that serious offenders will have to get used to the idea that the state’s interest in obtaining their DNA supercedes their individual rights. [. . . . ]
The larger our DNA data bank, the more thugs will be caught. [. . . . ]
[. . . . ] Otellini said he is confident Intel will regain market share in the second half of the year, once the company starts shipping chips based on a new blueprint. Dubbed the “Core” microarchitecture, the design will deliver as much as 40 percent better performance while consuming 40 percent less power compared with Intel’s current top-of-the-line offerings.
Core chips will start shipping in June when Intel introduces a processor code-named “Woodcrest,” for server computers. A month later, Intel will start selling its “Conroe” processor for desktops. A Core chip for notebooks will follow in August. [. . . . ]
Ms. Fallaci speaks in a passionate growl: "Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty." Such words--"invaders," "invasion," "colony," "Eurabia"--are deeply, immensely, Politically Incorrect; and one is tempted to believe that it is her tone, her vocabulary, and not necessarily her substance or basic message, that has attracted the ire of the judge in Bergamo (and has made her so radioactive in the eyes of Europe's cultural elites).
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder," the historian Arnold Toynbee wrote, and these words could certainly be Ms. Fallaci's. She is in a black gloom about Europe and its future: "The increased presence of Muslims in Italy, and in Europe, is directly proportional to our loss of freedom."
Investigators said the animal parts were being sold for artistic and ceremonial purposes. Eagle talons and feathers are used in traditional native regalia such as head dresses and fans.
[....] The accused are James Carl Joseph, Gary Abbott, Ralph Leon, Reynold Collins, David Essary Bill, Wesley Francis, Thomas Lawrence Shaw, Francis James, William Michael Visser, Jerome Richard Seymour and William Arthur Seymour.
Meanwhile, two Ontario men who were in possession of illegal animal parts were arrested last weekend at the Washington-B.C. border. Investigators would not say whether they were connected with the B.C. men facing charges.
But the cardinal from Belgium goes even further. He calls sex by an infected person without a condom a sin -- since that person is violating the commandment "thou shall not kill." He also said women have a right to insist that their infected husbands wear a condom, because women have a right to self defence.
[....] 3. A learning demonstration for primary education should be developed using best-practice models from around the world. Organizations such as IDRC, CIDA, the Aga Khan Foundation, SchoolNet, BRAC (Bangladesh), and the Tele-Learning Network of Centres of Excellence should be involved, in collaboration with the private sector. Such a package should provide information on best practices to educators in North and South. This learning demonstration could have a positive effect on development education in Canada and internationally. The next step might be for CIDA to provide a short write-up to BRAC or similar organizations to see if there is an interest in collaboration.
There is great difficulty having a conversation across the public sector/private sector divide. Canada should develop new techniques for these conversations.
Next Steps
The concluding session was chaired by Arthur Hanson, President of IISD. He pledged early action by the sponsors to expand the Steering Committee and the process to include more representatives from the private sector and others not present at the search conference. The process would eventually be expanded to include potential clients from developing countries.
IISD, IDRC and NSI will continue to take the lead in developing and implementing an Action Plan. CIDA will be invited to become a core member of the group. The Action Plan should include a focus on protocol diplomacy at the global level, as demonstrated in the environmental field. It should also include a leadership role in information and communications and the creation of virtual institutions to tie together pockets of expertise from across Canada.
The Steering Committee needs to further develop ideas on how to link Canadian capacity to international demand in fields such as basic education, health and sustainable development. In the case of health, a clear model needs to be articulated and to develop it, additional participants need to be involved. The goal should be to develop a cost-efficient way of building health care systems, using Canadian experience from both the private and public sectors.
In the case of education, the workshop has recommended a focus on primary education, distance education and tele-learning. This needs more work and consultation with existing educational institutions. A follow-up meeting could be held in the fall, with the private sector. It is important that such a gathering be a success from the perspective of business. This will require careful planning by the Steering Committee.
The Steering Committee needs feedback from participants in this workshop on the process and substance for future events and activities. Suggestions for new relationships with the private sector are needed. The term 'knowledge broker' should be forgotten or replaced.
DFAIT will be fully briefed on workshop discussions and their relevance to the Canadian International Information Strategy, especially in relation to international development. The three sponsors will work together to plan a schedule of steps during the summer, including meetings with the private sector. CIDA will be invited to join the sponsor group and the Steering Group will be expanded to include other key institutions. It may be useful to set up a series of specific dialogues or meta fora; a business forum, a health forum, an education forum, etc., to explore each area by having a public conversation about Canada's role in global development and to design international plans of action.
[concan] April 26, 2006
Day of Silence
—Albert Mohler
Thousands of schools all over America are expected to observe the "Day of Silence," an event sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN.
[bulldog905] "Homosexuality has gone from "the love that dare not speak its name" to "the love that won't shut up."
Patrick J. Buchanan
[shiva] "I'd say the people who are being silenced are the parents who are not allowed to object to GBLT issues being insidiously brought into the curriculum. If you dare object you become a bigoted homophobe and that's the end of the discussion.
Is it not possible for people to grasp that just because we don't want our children indoctrinated does not mean we "hate" or wish to "silence" homosexuals? There's a huge difference between "acceptance" of homosexuality and the need to immerse children in the details of the homosexual lifestyle."
[rwebb] They're saying that society as a whole is silent about violence against gays.
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