No subject should be outside the realm of debate in a democratic society.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, November 11, 2006
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Note: Updates and any newer posts are below those for Remembrance Day
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, November 11, 2006
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Bumped up and note that two updates have been added to the Nov. 10, 06 post.. Any newer posts today will be below the ones in remembrance. FHTR
They laid a wreath at a wooden cross to honour the 42 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2002.
Surveys show that barely a third of Canadians can name Vimy as a great victory in the First World War, even when the answer is hinted...
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, November 11, 2006
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Note: for repeat and dangerous offenders
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, November 11, 2006
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Updated and a link to some background possibly of use to anyone who has not already seen it.
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
There are three compilations [....]Canada China Business Council (CCBC) -- its mandate
Mandate: The Canada China Business Council (CCBC) is a private-sector, non-profit membership organization incorporated in 1978 to facilitate and promote trade and investment between Canada and the People's Republic of China.
Companies and Organizations -- the Founding Sponsors
Selling Ark of Hope through the classroom -- Earth Charter -- UN and Maurice Strong, our PM's mentor's influence or the original article, Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com, Dec. 17, 04
Maurice Strong, mentor to PM Martin, advocate of global governance, Kyoto -- and more -- on his background and interests past and present -- oil, Power Corp, et cetera, with many links on this site to other information.
* Globalization
* China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence
* Into the Tar Pits -- Dinosaurs either evolve or die.
Pipeline-Natives, UN, Lawsuit-Arab Bank, Asian Crisis-Clinton-UN, Bin Ladin-Al Jazeera, Chinese Dragon Submerges, Sask-Aboriginals-Taxes, "Refugees"Export Development Canada -- Crown Corporation
Diamonds Fund Terrorism, Osama-Heroin Pusher, China-Russia, Racial Profiling, Border-Security-US-Canada-DART [....]
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, November 10, 2006
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Hong Kong-based Li Ka-shing of Hutchison Whampoa, Husky Energy, White Rose, Cheung Kong Construction, and many other Canadian businesses
When Li Ka-shing sold $1.2-billion worth of stock in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce last year, he made headlines by announcing plans to set up a Canadian charitable foundation.
At the time, the Hong Kong-based billionaire didn't say how much money he would put into the Canadian charity, called the Li Ka Shing (Canada) Foundation, or what causes it would support.....heralded as a major gift to Canada and Mr. Li said it reflected the “warm welcome Canada has extended to me and our group of companies over the years.”
The foundation recently filed its first financial report with the Canada Revenue Agency, or CRA, and it shows that nearly all of the charity's gifts in 2005 went outside Canada.
According to the [first financial] report, the foundation had $256.9-million in assets as of Dec. 31, 2005, making it one of the 10 largest in the country. It gave away $53.4-million, of which $47.3-million went to the University of Hong Kong and $4.9-million was donated to the University of California at Berkeley. The only Canadian institution to receive money was St. Michael's Hospital Foundation in Toronto, which got $1.2-million.
[....] The Aga Khan and U.S. billionaire George Soros have set up several foundations to give money way on a global basis and ....
In general, Canadian tax laws make it difficult for foundations in this country to donate money abroad. But charity experts say pressure for change could come soon as more foreign-born Canadians start establishing private foundations with a desire to make international gifts. [....]
Update 1: This occurred in 1986 ...
Canada Steamship Lines partnered with China in 1986 -- "There’s a stench here that smells more like nepotism than narcissus." -- "A business cooperation agreement was signed here today [1986] between CITIC (China International Trust and Investment Corporation) and CSL (Canada Steamship Lines Inc.)." Brian McAdam & Judi McLeod, Friday, December 16, 2005
Update 2: This is how to network -- how it is done in Canada
I noticed an advertorial that is worth the price of the National Post today. There is a MASSIVE advertisement of Li Ka Shing's* vast generosity to Canadians:Li Ka-shing Gift of Knowledge to St. Michael's Hospital [St. Michael's Hospital Foundation in Toronto actually got $1.2-million. Maybe the rest ... soon come? ]
St. Michael's Hospital receives transformative $25 million gift to build one-of-a-kind institute
You might want to learn more about Li Ka-shing, benefactor to Canada, to various politicians, as well as learn more of his network both in China and in Canada.
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[....] These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates.
[....] The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so....“Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” That becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?
[....] The Institute for Global Communications is another leftist communications facilitator that received Tides grant money. .... The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion of Iraq. When ANSWER was outed as a Communist organization, United for Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. [....]
The Tides Foundation has funded a number of the pillars of the radical legal establishment. Chief among these is the National Lawyers Guild, which began as a Commnist front organization
posted by News Junkie Canada at Monday, November 06, 2006
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Firearms Owners ... fyi
I have been advised by a very credible inside source that the Conservative Party has folded regarding our rights, in light of the recent Dawson College shooting involving legally-registered restricted firearms.
[....] The essence is that all currently-restricted long-guns will be banned. [....]
[.... Is the information credible? ....]7) Stockwell day reply to our members’ question whether there will be a gun ban with “I can assure you that the current government will continue to do all it can to make changes that will provide safety and security for Canadians while respecting the rights of law abiding citizens.”
8) THERE WAS NEVER A DENIAL OR RETRACTUAL BY THE CPC WHEN THEY ARE ASKED IF THEY ARE PLANNING FOR A GUN BAN.
Where there is smoke, there is usually fire….
posted by News Junkie Canada at Monday, November 06, 2006
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If you have not read this, do: Khadr-Almalki?-Arar? with links to other information in Nov. 4, 2006: Arar has "explaining to do"
With his trademark pitbull-like persistence, Coun. Mike Del Grande has at long last solved the mystery of who was behind the move to award an exclusive $710-million subway car contract to Bombardier.
Step forward, former city councillor and TTC Commissioner, long-time NDPer and now federal MP Olivia Chow.
According to the confidential minutes of a Sept. 21, 2005 TTC meeting, Chow -- at the time TTC vice-chairman -- moved the motion that began the negotiations with Bombardier to purchase the 234 subway cars on a "sole-source basis."
Slightly more than two months later -- on Dec. 7, 2005 -- Chow resigned from council to run federally. [....]
One of the comments I often read or hear when people are discussing the Islamic terrorism is that after all, didn't the West start it all with the Crusades? Here is a strong argument that no, the West didn't start it all with the Crusades
October 17, 2006 -- New Hampshire-based columnist Mark Steyn is one of the most trenchant writers in the English-speaking world today. Hitting stores this week is his new book, "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It" - a grim look at the West's fecklessness in the face of the threat from radical Islam. The Post is happy to give its readers a taste with this excerpt. [Read it online: New York Post link above]
[....] So an insurgency that lurks within a religion automatically has a global network. And you don't need "deep cover": You can hang your shingle on Main Street and we won't even notice it. And when we do - as we did on 9/11 - we still won't do anything about it, because, well, it's a religion, and modern man is disinclined to go after any faith except perhaps his own.
But Islam is not just a religion. Those lefties who bemoan what America is doing to provoke "the Muslim world" would go bananas if any Western politician started referring to "the Christian world." When such sensitive guardians of the separation of church and state endorse the first formulation but not the second, they implicitly accept that Islam has a political sovereignty too. Thus, it's not merely that there's a global jihad lurking within this religion, but that the religion itself is a political project - and, in fact, an imperial project - in a way that modern Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism are not. [....]
[....] The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, could see a rapid spread of nuclear reactors in one of the world’s most unstable regions, stretching from the Gulf to the Levant and into North Africa.
The countries involved were named by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Tunisia and the UAE have also shown interest.
All want to build civilian nuclear energy programmes, as they are permitted to under international law. But the sudden rush to nuclear power has raised suspicions that the real intention is to acquire nuclear technology which could be used for the first Arab atomic bomb.
“Some Middle East states, including Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, have shown initial interest [in using] nuclear power primarily for desalination purposes,” Tomihiro Taniguch, the deputy director-general of the IAEA, told the business weekly Middle East Economic Digest. He said that they had held preliminary discussions with the governments and that the IAEA’s technical advisory programme would be offered to them to help with studies into creating power plants. [....]
When Canadian law enforcement authorities busted a Toronto terrorist plot with al-Qaida connections, they acted with the benefit of briefings and research developed by American investigator Paul L. Williams, author of the new WND Books release "Dunces of Doomsday: 10 Blunders that Gave Rise to Radical Islam."
[....] Williams has long been investigating the link between terrorist operatives and Canada's McMaster University. Williams' research has unveiled a complex, highly connected group of radical Islamic professors – many of whom earned their advanced degrees from McMaster – strategically recruiting radical Islamic jihadists and converted sympathizers who enrolled as students under aliases for terrorist training and to steal radioactive material from the university. [....]
[....] In March of 2006 the FBI issued a 'be on the lookout' for Adnan el Shukrijumah a/k/a Ciro Vincente Vitolo, a/k/a Vitolo-Richard-El Shukrijumah-Jaf. Full name Adnan "Jaafaral the Pilot" G. El Shukrijumah. Shukrijumah attended flight schools in Florida and Norman, Oklahoma, with Mohammad Atta and the other 9/11 hijackers.... described by Time Magazine as "an accomplished Arab Guyanese bombmaker and commercial pilot". (Time Magazine, August 23, 2004). The fourth photo on the right is a picture identified in the McMaster University 1998 Engineer and Physics graduating class as graduate Ciro Vitolo. ...
[....] nuclear materials.
[....] 'nuclear spillage' .... Shukrijumah, who has both pilot training and nuclear/engineering education. [....]
Willams wrote in The Dunces of Doomsday. "In preparation for this mission, he–along with fellow al Qaeda agents Anas al-Liby, Jaber A. Elbaneh, and Amer el-Maati–was sent to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a facility that housed a five-megawatt nuclear research reactor, the largest reactor of any educational facility in Canada.[....]
Dr. Paul L. Williams is an American author, journalist, and consultant, and, for over a decade, has taught philosophy, religion, and the humanities as an adjunct professor at The University of Scranton and Wilkes University.
Paul came to international prominence in early June, 2006, as a result of his central involvement as an investigator the month prior into the suspicious activities of members of the facultyof McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. These investigations, paired with investigations being conducted by Ontario police eventually led to the arrests of 17 terrorist suspects by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). [....]
Ciro Vitolo has come forward to say he is not the FBI-hunted Al Qaeda terrorist Adnan "Jafar the Pilot" El Shukrijumah, who is believed to have posed as a student at Hamilton’s McMaster University.
At the request of Judi McLeod, Ciro Vitolo--whose picture appears with McMaster’s graduate engineering Class of 98-- checked into Canada Free Press’s Elm Street office, late Thursday afternoon.
In real life, Ciro Vitolo--who admits that he bears a striking resemblance to terrorist El Shukrijumah--is a limo driver, whose next door neighbour says puts in 12-hour shifts working at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.
[....] American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S.
Muslims living in the United States should leave the country without further warning.
The attack will be commandeered by Adnan el Shukrijumah ("Jaffer Tayyer" or "Jafer the Pilot"), a naturalized American citizen, who was raised in Brooklyn and educated in southern Florida. [....]
March 5, 2004 update: In an undated statement, the far-left Tides Foundation announces that is is funding CAIR's "Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes" project with the ostensible aim to promote peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims and decrease tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes.
[....] May 12, 2006 update: Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress addressed the Marxism-2006 conference in Toronto and told the assembled leftists:
Now, for the first time in history, the political left is working with conservative Muslims on issues of social justice, with the long-term goal of building a world that lives by peace, through justice. Communists, Marxists, socialists, and nationalists are working with civil libertarians, liberals, and conservatives to achieve this urgent goal together. [I would dispute libertarians and conservatives.]
"Another top scientist, Dr. A.Q. Khan, the man who made Pakistan's nuclear bomb and who has also been linked to assisting Iran, Iraq and North Korea weapons programs, was also hosted by the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL)." (The Asian Pacific Post)
The western world is only now waking to the nightmarish specter of China providing nuclear technology know-how to Pakistan and North Korea.
[....] Premier Li Peng (AKA the "Butcher of Beijing"). Documents were signed by Li Peng, Prime Minister Jean Chretien, as well as AECL President Reid Morden [former president and CEO of AECL] and his counterpart in the China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) Jiang Xinxiong.
[....] at least five of nine Pakistani scientists who have gone on the lam deep into the so-called axis of evil, were trained in peace-loving Canada.
[....] centrifuges to Iran, ....
[... ] used to enrich uranium ....
Pakistani scientists like Dr. Khan, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed got their uranium enrichment expertise courtesy of the accommodating AECL.
Some 50 other leading Pakistani nuclear engineers--including five of the nine on the lam--were also trained in Ontario and New Brunswick.
Pakistani authorities have been warned in an internal memo prepared by engineers of the CHASNUPP nuclear power plant, built with Chinese assistance in central Pakistan that many more of its 250 nuclear scientists and engineers were planning to make a run to other countries.
.... Saddam Hussein.
... a French-Canadian nuclear engineer ... befriended by North Korean agents seeking western technology and scientific secrets.
A second unidentified Canadian, ... also met with the North Korean spies.
The French-Canadian engineer ... CANDU reactors at Wolsong, South Korea ...
A RUTHLESS gang of Malaysian and Vietnamese traffickers who lured hundreds of women to Britain to work as sex slaves in a £2 million-a-year vice racket were jailed yesterday.
[....] The man behind the operation, Thanh Hue Thi, 44, a cook from Golders Green, northwest London, recruited women aged 18 to 24 and smuggled them in, posing as tourists, to work in brothels in Bayswater, West London, and Edgbaston, Birmingham. He admitted trafficking women for prostitution and was jailed for five years.
[....] The judge said that urgent inquiries should be made into the brothel boss’s status in this country, and that, if he were here illegally, he should be deported upon release. Also in the dock was Kenny Low, 50, a chef, of Mayfair, Central London. He, too, admitted trafficking conspiracy and controlling prostitution and was jailed for 3½ years.
Leng Loh, 25, from Hay Park, Birmingham, Choon Fong Loh, 64, of Mayfair, and Kwok Leong Hoh, 25, of Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, were all jailed for 15 months for controlling prostitution. Godfrey Wong, 21, of Rowley Regis, West Midlands, was jailed for 12 months. [....]
[....] Verse 4:34 retains a strong following, even among many who say that women must be treated as equals under Islam. Indeed, Muslim scholars and leaders have long been doing what I call "the 4:34 dance" — they reject outright violence against women but accept a level of aggression that fits contemporary definitions of domestic violence.
Western leaders, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, have recently focused on Muslim women's veils as an obstacle to integration in the West. But to me, it is 4:34 that poses the much deeper challenge of integration. How the Muslim world interprets this passage will reveal whether Islam can be compatible with life in the 21st century. [....]
[. . . .] It estimated "at least 15,000" Chinese had entered Canada illegally over the past decade. Many of those people were lured by promises of a better life, but were instead coerced into prostitution by smugglers [....]
posted by News Junkie Canada at Sunday, November 05, 2006
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