Dec. 8, 2006: Renewal

Renewal begins with the admission that there has been and still is a problem.

These might help in the search for the problems and, also, remember that the problems do not include every member of all policing services, nor every member of the RCMP and CSIS, which is the way some would like Canadians to view them. If any more scandals surface, it would be advantageous for the corrupt ones that Canadians be suspicious of their security services ... suspicious of anything they say ... In my opinion, this is a pre-emptive strike, in order to protect the guilty. There has been a phenomenal rise in drug and related crime over the years in Canada because there has been a complicit mainstream media helping to hide or downplay any problems, perhaps to avoid embarrassing government(s), problems which should have surfaced years ago ... problems which should have been parsed as sex scandals are ... or doggygate ... or the Stockwell Day - skidoo arrival -- or the CBC's "Doris" attempt to destroy a good man's political career (the better to help their friends, my dear) ... or some other utterly silly subject of media frenzy ... Do you really believe so much criminal activity could survive without the help of one, and probably a few, complicit politicians?

Don't take my word for it. Read for yourself. There is more on the websites listed but these are a few highlights to help in your search for where truth lies. There is even more ... maybe later.

If there is a God, now is the time for Him to make an appearance ... or to goad people along to learn the truth ... if He would prefer to avoid the corruption ... While you're at it, God, help all the unbelievers; they're not all bad, just somewhat lost in the wilderness. Remember, they're the products of a Canadian education.

Good luck and God help us all - Bonne chance et priez pour nous

Frost Hits the Rhubarb October 14, 2004
Taking Care of Business: Criminal Gang Activity in Canada, Prostitution, Medical Pot

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2004_10_10_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Update Note: Dec. 9, 2006

This is information previously posted on another site; the site is now defunct. There is a copy of the information on FHTR Oct. 14, 2004. For that reason, the link mentioned from News Junkie Canada, Sept. 20, 04 is useless.

List of Articles:

* Police struggle to keep ahead of pot growers -- 'Disturbing trends': Deadly traps being used to protect huge marijuana crops -- Sept. 20, 2004

* OMG: Police attack motorcyle gangs' PR efforts -- OMG's want to be viewed as "businessmen" and "good for business" -- Aug. 22 2004 [OMG = Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs]

* B.C.'s H**** Ang***: Rich and Powerful -- Canada is a haven for the outlaw motorcycle gang, with more members per capita than any other country. B.C's Angels have mounted an effective public-relations campaign that portrays them as harmless motorcycle enthusiasts, but they maintain a fearsome reputation in the criminal underworld -- Sept. 11, 2004 [Note Dec. 9, 2006 Fill in the stars with the obvious ... ell's ... gels ... I was warned to be careful, hence the ***'s -- More below today. ]

* I had no choice but to kill -- A former member of the 'Indo-Canadian mafia' in B.C. admits he had a hit put out on his boss -- "Bal Buttar, now a 28-year-old blind quadriplegic" has "found God", is talking, but not giving the necessary details -- figures not much more can be done to him -- Sept. 17, 2004

* Gang violence hits home -- The Times Colonist and the Vancouver Sun are investigating organized crime in B.C. in a series of stories. Today we examine the threat of Indo-Canadian gangs -- Sept. 18, 2004

* Thought Provoking: Safe strolls and brothels would reduce risks for prostitutes -- Sept. 17, 2004

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One link above includes information on RCMP Staff Sgt. Stenhouse.

* Pot laws need thorough overhaul -- Coleman should be pushing Ottawa for change, not harassing B.C.'s municipal politicians -- Sept. 13, 04

[....]

October 11, 2004
Background for CNN, "Northern border and terrorists"

1999: LAW ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS AT THE BORDER BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: DRUG SMUGGLING, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND TERRORISM

commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary
/hju63123.000/hju63123_0f.htm

2004: Remember the above problems were in 1999 prior to Ressam and 9/11. Today, law enforcement are still short about 2500 RCMP officers. Take this in context with the CNN program at 10:00pm tonight. [2004]

.... Link and read the whole or at least, skim this.

LAW ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS AT THE BORDER BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: DRUG SMUGGLING, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND TERRORISM 2000 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND CLAIMS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, APRIL 14, 1999, Serial No. 17

[.... header] Bud: CNN Program, Ribbons, Corporate Rats Leave Toronto, Throne Speech, The Overrated

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2004/10/
bud-cnn-program-ribbons-corporate-rats.html

The Throne Speech--a modest critique [by Bud Talkinghorn]

Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 15, 2006: Stenhouse & Read

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/06/
june-15-2006-stenhouse-read.html

What follows is the result of a search: Hells Angels, RCMP, Stenhouse

Don't embarrass the 'carpet cops'
In 2000, RCMP Staff Sgt. Bob Stenhouse

Leo Knight: Senior RCMP used for political purposes

.... former foreign services officer Brian MacAdam and then RCMP Insp. Garry Clement ....

See also:

The Asian Triad Affair [ex-RCMP Cpl. Robert Read]

primetimecrime.com/Articles/
RobertRead/Robertreadasiantriads.htm

PrimeTimeCrime: Don't embarrass the 'carpet cops' By Leo Knight (This column was published in the North Shore News on Feb. 25, 2004)

....Yves Levigne for his book Hells Angels at War.

[....] Julian Sher and William Marsden's book The Road to Hell

reports.fja.gc.ca/fc/2004/pub/v4/2004fc34308.html [Note: no www]

Stenhouse v. Canada (Attorney General) (FC)
[....]

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Books for those who have just discovered there might be problems that don't make it to the mainstream media in Canada, or if they do, their import has been downplayed.

A search engine such as Google will bring more information location and availability, though I have included a bit extra in case it is needed.

Julian Sher and William Marsden -- "The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Conquered Canada", Knopf Canada/Vintage Canada, June 2004, ISBN:0676975992

Yves Levigne: "Hells Angels at War" - ISBN 0002000245 January 1999
Publisher: Harper Collins Canada.

Paul Tuns': "Jean Chretien: A Legacy of Scandal", ISBN: 0973275723 -- the first of what is sure to be many more books on the legacy and the era of Jean Chretien

www.amazon.com/Jean-Chretien-Scan
dal-Tuns-Paul/dp/0973275723

Information was posted on The Shotgun, too. [See the Western Standard for it.]

Paul Palango -- "The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP" -- McClelland & Stewart, ISBN:0771069081 -- on the politicization of the RCMP -- available at www.corpa.com/Palango.html

Stewart Bell -- "Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World", John Wiley & Sons Canada, February 2004, ISBN:0470834633

"The Cons And The Pros" by Willie Gibbs, former chairman, National Parole Board -- Note that you order from: 1.800.859.7474


Website: Nathanson Centre for the study of organized crime and corruption -- Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary -- October to December, 2003 at York University.

Nathanson Centre Oct. - Dec. 2003

www.yorku.ca/nathanson/
CurrentEvents/Oct-Dec03.htm

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Hells Angels at War

Re: RCMP , Stenhouse , Hells Angels , undercover officer

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/
06/june-15-2006-stenhouse-had-been-top.html

June 15, 2006: Stenhouse had been a top undercover officer ... who lost his job with the RCMP has negotiated a settlement and some good news ... a vindication for his efforts in that he gets his leave and his full RCMP pension -- "Truth has been exposed and truth prevailed" -- "Former Mountie abandons job fight", Charles Rusnell, The Edmonton Journal, June 08, 2006

www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news
/cityplus/story.html?id=264fc404-d9
e2-4213-8540-d377de03b4ee&k=30267

Search: evidence the court found had been purposely withheld

Whistleblower Profiles 2004

Search: fipa.bc.ca/library/Whistleblower_Profiles_2004.doc, Notes from Edmonton Journal, Oct. 19, 2000

[....] Memory Lane: Frost Hits the Rhubarb: October 02, 2005: Compare how ex-RCMP Cpl. Robert Read and ex-Staff Sgt. Robert Stenhouse ....

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Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 2 - Oct. 8, 2004

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2005_10_02_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

October 8, 2005
More Chicanery, Hypocrisy, & Corruption

When dedicated civil servants like Cpl.Robert Read, Brian McAdam, Staff Sgt Stenhouse, Allan Cutler, Selwyn Pieters lose their careers when they try to protect the public, there is something terribly amiss. [. . . . ]

October 6, 2005
Scam taxpayers, get half a million -- But RCMP Get Fired for Doing Their Jobs -- Perhaps Too Well

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/10/
scam-taxpayers-get-half-million-but.html

Compare how ex-RCMP Cpl. Robert Read and ex-Staff Sgt. Robert Stenhouse were treated with the treatment accorded David Dingwall. Even the suggestion that Paul Martin's government would give him half a million dollars sticks in Canadians' craw.

Reports hint at fear that Dingwall, a Chretienite, might turn on Paul Martin & Team. The suggestion is that he was paid off after being fired.

Licia Corbella on Dingwall

Why would the feds agree to pay severance to someone who willingly quit their job?

The feds didn't pay any severance to other Crown corporation heads even after they were fired, and they never feared being sued. So why pay someone who left willingly?

Dec. 8, 2006: Media love-in with Stephane Dion

Bumped up
Update and correction Dec. 9, 06: I had mistakenly written Ivison instead of Ibbitson below. It has now been corrected. My apologies to John Ivison who writes for the National Post. I read both newspapers often ... no excuse for my sloppiness, however. Mea culpa, again. FHTR



A CBC interview this week, Heather Hiscock and Liberal MP Mark Holland

Tories should drop Liberal sleaze cudgel

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/LAC.20061205.IBBITSON05/TPStory/National&sa=X&oi=
news&ct=result&cd=1&usg=__-nxfR1emh-8CQQ8kSFs8laFtL6w=

John Ibbitson in the Globe and Mail Dec. 5, 06 A7--Tories should drop Liberal sleaze cudgel--claims everyone has moved on and Mr. Dion is a new broom who has swept aside any taint of corruption associated with the Liberal Party; he warns that if PM Harper mentions corruption and Liberal in the same sentence, it will be a big mistake. The Liberal Party leader is actually surrounded by those who have been on the taxpayer dole before and want to return. Mr. Dion, even in backpack eviro-keen green disguise, will be a very smart operator for his interests, and theirs:

* Kyoto -- Alberta will pay for Quebec - See Ezra Levant's article on Kyoto - Dion announced -- in Quebec and in French of course -- that Alberta and Saskatchewan would be picking up most of the tab on Kyoto

* Mr. Dion's clarity bill, from my reading, actually set out on paper the conditions for Quebec to separate, a bar set too low, in my opinion. Of course, it doesn't say anything about land, infrastructure, military and much more. He infuriated the separatists who, nevertheless, will fall in behind a Quebecois PM, should it come to that ... but Alberta will actually do more than talk about separation, if goaded any more by a greedy East. Quebec's elites will be stunned and scramble for some way to recover advantage. Maybe words actually have meaning?

* Mr. Dion will play the game in Parliament in typical Liberal fashion, I fear. I listened to one exchange in the House of Commons where, to me, Mr. Dion twisted what has been happening with Chief Zaccardelli to try to pin anything that would stick on PM Harper. Mr. Dion knows what he is doing and I would have more respect for him if he displayed his vaunted reason more than his deliberate (Liberal sleazy) attempt to blacken the PM who had nothing to do with the Arar/RCMP/Zaccardelli issue. Frankly, I expected a more cerebral leader who would work for Canada. Again,

* Mr. Dion's dual Franco-Canadian citizenship will play well in Quebec -- so sophisticated, as befits a France-leaning Liberal, duo-cultural Quebecois. Ezra pinpoints how dual citizenship will be handled by the media propaganda organs.
Stephane Dion is the new leader of the Liberal Party. And he is a citizen of France.Ezra Levant, Dec. 4, 06

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra
/2006/12/04/2621199-sun.html

Imagine the shrieks from the media if the Conservatives were to elect a leader who is a dual citizen of the U.S. He would be called a U.S. poodle at best or a spy at worst. Every time he opined on a subject, it would be scrutinized through the lens of Canada-U.S. relations. Everything from military spending to foreign treaties like Kyoto would be looked at through the question: Was the Prime Minister of Canada truly pursuing Canadian interests, or was his loyalty to his other homeland at play?

CBC's Heather Hiscock--card-carrying Liberal qualifications in her "news" interview and delivery--has "moved on" from the ADSCAM corruption stories--so old-hat, Liberals like Ibbitson claim. Hiscock was moving the "news" away from the reality--that there is more to come. Now, Hiscock created through her questions for MP Holland, the effect of questions and answers sounding suspiciously scripted by LibPropHQ. Their effort was intended to taint PM Harper with the budding scandal over the RCMP Chief Zaccardelli Arar issue. I feel there is more to that than has come out yet, so maybe Heather had a big agenda requiring a scripted "interview" with MP Holland to get out to the public the way the story is to be played. God, she's obvious! Bring back Carla Robinson and, maybe, her sister.

Memo to Heather: Try journalism for a change ... or was getting your job something like applying for a civil service position where skills and aptitude play second fiddle to a created "need"? Aside from presentable looks, the ability to use tone and other tricks in the service of leftist propagandizing, what is the salient qualification needed for your job? How did you and your colleagues demonstrate the ability to fulfil the political potential of CBC "news" as propaganda? Liberal membership card? A boyfriend or husband anxious to return to the trough? Or are these CBC types reflective of biased hiring over years? Heather, are you really a true believer in Liberalism as taking from Steve's tax payers to give to Stephane's tax slurpers, where it has to be laundered through their ideological goo before their pretense of helping / aiding / doing good / investing in ...... ?



When is the MSM going to explore the negative, not just the positive, of massive immigration? Start with what I hear is about to happen in the Maritimes.

For a peek at Canada's future under Liberal government, read at least the last three paragraphs: Liberal intefadeh, Ezra Levant, Nov. 14, 05, via newsbeat1

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Levant_Ezra/2005/11/13/1305602.html

This is the same article as the above, it seems.

Liberal pipe dream -- or "Nation's troubles could offer glimpse of a future Canada", by Ezra Levant, Oct. 30, 2005

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Levant_Ezra/2005/10/30/1285541.html

The international media no longer start the news with France's riots, though they continue nightly.

[....] France, by contrast, has done everything it can to mask the true nature of its own problems -- a large and unassimilated mass of Muslim immigrants, in which a hard core of Islamic fascists operate.

Estimates vary as to the number of Muslims in France. The CIA's world factbook estimates it to be as high as six million. Other social scientists put the number as high as eight million. In 2004, French counter-intelligence estimated al-Qaida alone had 40,000 recruits in France that were engaged in paramilitary training. [....]

Search: an average that masks two realities , importing close to a million extra immigrants

Note: Liberal Immigration Minister Judy Sgro was followed by Joe Volpe but exactly which one decided this, you'll have to check. I think it was Volpe.

Dec. 8, 2006: Arlington at Christmas

Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.


Know the line has held, your job is done.


Rest easy, sleep well.


Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.


Peace, peace, and farewell...

Readers may be interested to know that these wreaths -- some 5,000 -- are donated by the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington , Maine . The owner, Merrill Worcester, not only provides the wreaths, but covers the trucking expense as well.
He's done this since 1992 A wonderful guy.
Also, most years, groups of Maine school kids combine an educational trip to DC with this event to help out.
Making this even more remarkable is the fact that Harrington is in one the poorest parts of the state.

Please share this.

You hear too much about the bad things people do. Everyone should hear about this.

Thanks to a friend for this. I do not have an url.

Dec. 8, 2006: Forum discussions ...

Punted Posters -- discusions of interest


Utterly out of control -- unbelievable: AnnieO: Must be nice to work for us taxpayers. Who in h#ll do they think they are and who is watching the hen house. They get the gold mine we get the shaft... in reference to: Keith Leslie: Ontario Auditor General blasts perks [posted by AnnieO: @###$ $@#@# $&%$$# government]

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1267&mforum=elwoodpdowd

TORONTO (CP) - Luxury sport utility vehicles, Caribbean vacations, leather jackets, chocolates and flowers were among the taxpayer-funded perks that child welfare, energy and education workers treated themselves to last year, Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter reported Tuesday.

The annual auditor's report, which for the first time scrutinized spending at the energy utilities, hospitals, school boards and the Children's Aid Society, also uncovered millions in expenses that neither public employees nor their managers could account for. [....]

Search: $127 million worth of goods and services using corporate charge cards, Ontario Power Generation , Hydro One , hid $18 million worth of mystery expenses , one teacher spent $52,000 over two years on a purchasing card, four he examined , Thames Valley District School Board , purchases of SUVs , a $600 a month tax-free car allowance , gym membership worth $2,000 , quarterly personal trainer fees of $650


NO more tattoos for inmates -- and a discussion on rights -- Canadiana

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1261&mforum=elwoodpdowd

OTTAWA, December 4, 2006 – Today, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety announced that Canada’s new government will not continue the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) one-year tattooing pilot program.

Do we have the right? -- Discussion on rights, incompatible societies, foreign aid ... , tangle2foot

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1264&mforum=elwoodpdowd


Seminole Indians buy Hard Rock Cafe, hotel and casino "Rank sells Hard Rock to Seminole tribe" by Mark Bridge, The Times December 07, 2006

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1277&mforum=elwoodpdowd

The Seminole – who operate five casinos in Florida – are buying for Hard Rock’s attractive gambling operation. The tribe has estimated that revenue at its two Hard Rock casinos in Florida alone could top $770 million.

The Seminole opened the first casino on Indian land in 1979 ... a multibillion dollar gaming industry on reservations.

...And we think we have problems with natives -- A feud between two families in a remote Northern Territory [Australia] community ... Families attack with axes and spears 05 Dec. 06 N.T. posted by starboardside

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1271&mforum=elwoodpdowd


Mount Pearl NL A decision to bar Newfoundland's auditor general from ... More misspending uncovered in N.L. ... John Noseworthy issued a new report ... , Dec. 5, 06 posted by AnnieO

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
1268&mforum=elwoodpdowd

.... accuses a fifth politician - former Liberal cabinet minister Percy Barrett - of exceeding his constituency allowance limit by $117,286 between 1998 and 2004.

Also, here:
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/12/05/2637487-cp.html

Dec. 8, 2006: Forum discussions ...

Punted Posters -- discusions of interest


Utterly out of control -- unbelievable: AnnieO: Must be nice to work for us taxpayers. Who in h#ll do they think they are and who is watching the hen house. They get the gold mine we get the shaft... in reference to: Keith Leslie: Ontario Auditor General blasts perks [posted by AnnieO: @###$ $@#@# $&%$$# government]

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1267&mforum=elwoodpdowd

TORONTO (CP) - Luxury sport utility vehicles, Caribbean vacations, leather jackets, chocolates and flowers were among the taxpayer-funded perks that child welfare, energy and education workers treated themselves to last year, Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter reported Tuesday.

The annual auditor's report, which for the first time scrutinized spending at the energy utilities, hospitals, school boards and the Children's Aid Society, also uncovered millions in expenses that neither public employees nor their managers could account for. [....]

Search: $127 million worth of goods and services using corporate charge cards, Ontario Power Generation , Hydro One , hid $18 million worth of mystery expenses , one teacher spent $52,000 over two years on a purchasing card, four he examined , Thames Valley District School Board , purchases of SUVs , a $600 a month tax-free car allowance , gym membership worth $2,000 , quarterly personal trainer fees of $650


NO more tattoos for inmates -- and a discussion on rights -- Canadiana

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1261&mforum=elwoodpdowd

OTTAWA, December 4, 2006 – Today, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety announced that Canada’s new government will not continue the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) one-year tattooing pilot program.

Do we have the right? -- Discussion on rights, incompatible societies, foreign aid ... , tangle2foot

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1264&mforum=elwoodpdowd


Seminole Indians buy Hard Rock Cafe, hotel and casino "Rank sells Hard Rock to Seminole tribe" by Mark Bridge, The Times December 07, 2006

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1277&mforum=elwoodpdowd

The Seminole – who operate five casinos in Florida – are buying for Hard Rock’s attractive gambling operation. The tribe has estimated that revenue at its two Hard Rock casinos in Florida alone could top $770 million.

The Seminole opened the first casino on Indian land in 1979 ... a multibillion dollar gaming industry on reservations.

...And we think we have problems with natives -- A feud between two families in a remote Northern Territory [Australia] community ... Families attack with axes and spears 05 Dec. 06 N.T. posted by starboardside

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1271&mforum=elwoodpdowd


Mount Pearl NL A decision to bar Newfoundland's auditor general from ... More misspending uncovered in N.L. ... John Noseworthy issued a new report ... , Dec. 5, 06 posted by AnnieO

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
1268&mforum=elwoodpdowd

.... accuses a fifth politician - former Liberal cabinet minister Percy Barrett - of exceeding his constituency allowance limit by $117,286 between 1998 and 2004.

Also, here:
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/12/05/2637487-cp.html

Dec. 8, 2006: Bud: Milwaukee Explosion

The Milwaukee plant explosion--sabotage?

I try desperately not to join the conspiracy nut crowd, but sometimes I see a possibility of government cover-up. I watched a CNN report on that Milwaukee plant explosion and wonder how a 1.5 million square foot building could be so flattened. Without any real investigation, some "authority" is hinting strongly at a propane tank exploding. You are looking at the damage that a DaisyCutter bomb might inflict; not a single propane tank. This blast blew away two and a half blocks and set fire to a nearby warehouse. If the propane excuse is true, then we are all in deep trouble, living next to neighbours who use this fuel, as does my neighbour. Unbelievably, the day after the explosion there is no news about it at all. Three people were killed and 30 injured. Yet, it has disappeared from prime news headings. Very suspicious I think. Is the government hiding a failure to protect key infastructure? It is worth thinking about.

This tragedy reminds me of several other plant explosions, about which there was, subsequently, no or little explanation. There was the oil refinery "accident" in Texas that drove up the price of oil in North America. For some inexplicable reason, America has not built any new refineries in 20-odd years. Therefore, the existing infastructure is old, but precious. The exact cause of that explosion was never made clear by the media. Then there was the chemical plant outside Atlanta which, when it blew, could have had dire consequences if the wind hadn't cooperated. I never heard the results of that investigation either. There have been others that disappear into the ether. I know that genuine accidents happen, but we shoud be told the facts. It was interesting that when the Atlanta plant blew, the authorities also called it an accident within hours.

Is it possible that the government doesn't want to alarm/alert the public? After all, the Patriot Act is supposed to protect Americans from internal sabotage. The ease of unauthorized entry into these time bomb plants was shown on 60 Minutes. Their reporters breached the security of a chemical plant which, if successfully attacked, could kill hundreds of thousands in New Jersey and NYC. Why the terrorists haven't done this already is a mystery. They must be planning something even bigger.

In Canada we were shocked to learn that professional criminal gangs operate freely in our airports and seaports. So entrenched have they become, that the Vancouver dock workers' union threatened to go on strike if their members had to submit to a criminal check. This security lapse was brought out by Sheila Fraser's audit of the situation a year ago. This week we learn that police have busted a gang at Trudeau Airport, that involved custom officiers and baggage handlers bringing in drugs. Why wasn't something done long ago to weed these criminals out? * How easy would it be to pretend you were a drug smuggler, when your real product is stinger missles? The corrupted custom agent is only interested in the pay-off. But like the Yanks we are told "don't worry, be happy. Everything is under control here." Both of our countries have to be more diligent about who man the key targets for terrorists.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Comments: FHTR

* Bud, I think the money to be made from drugs is so phenomenal that it might be easy to corrupt someone chronically short of money. One of the people who has given herself up lately is in her twenties. It wasn't many years ago that people in most villages and towns went through a lifetime not knowing about drugs, not knowing anyone whose life had been ruined by addiction. Even if they read of drugs, they lived in a world where "It's just not done". How innocent a time. Then, the kind of people seeking that life left town for bigger cities, or were so sidelined that the young were relatively safe until they grew up and moved to the big cities. Now, our children have access while at our schools. The money to be made is phenomenally high. In fact, the drug scene has grown exponentially, and the money involved is unimagineable. That fact is that this is the only arguement I could see as possibly convincing enough to consider legalizing everything. Let the heavy duty addicts overdose, the rest learn from example, and live. It is worth discussing, in view of how it has grown, is ruining our young, and is funding terrorism and our economic downfall, I believe. Children who could see a few examples who chose to pursue their vice to its end would learn the cost. I am almost reaching the point where any solution better than what is going on now, is worthy of discussion. I wish others would comment on the positive as well as the negative.

Bud, don't forget our society has been taught through various means and media that we must have it all, not later, but now, and it should come with little work, easily. Just go into debt, sign a mortgage, pay with a credit card or zip through a purchase with a bank card--none of which seem like spending money or placing oneself in hock, if not forever, then serially, for the big items, while paying off the little ones, Christmas purchases, in July.

Also, the idea of right and wrong, good and evil, have gone the way of the dinosaur. Now, the individual may justify just about any actions with a call to individual interpretation and self-actualization in a world where it is the individual who decides right or wrong for that individual at that time, that there are no eternal truths sent down from on high, though we might be able to make a case for evil percolating up from below, considering the base activities now seen as, if not mainstream, then mainstream enough that they are almost normal. Think of the raunchy videos, the online pornography, the fact that gambling is now available through or sanctioned by governments. There may or may not be a God, but I think life for the individual and for the society was better in many ways for the belief in a God. Not all of us are equipped for deep thought, having to work out the positives and negatives in every situation. Sometimes, it is good to be subject to a call to something higher than one's own instincts or personal satisfaction. Sometimes also, to be subject to strict sanctions from the society when one steps beyond the society's boundaries.

Instead, now, we have the "root causes" crowd excusing, so society's sanctions, its punishment, may mean house arrest. If the hoosegow, it comes with a television, three squares, and an education ... at least, and body building, the better to pursue your life's work when you leave. Society is as deconstructionist in its group think, its interpretations, its explanations or rationalizations, as are the individuals. But I am not really mainstream ... so I do not understand. Perhaps with my perspective I have fossilized, but am unaware ... I am stone; therefore, I am not. Ergo, my thought is not. Sounds post, post modern ... blogger as pet rock.

Dec. 8, 2006: On the PM

He's exactly right, and why didn't I think of that?

www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=
story&full_path=/2006/december/4/quebeccaucus/&c=1

[....] "Many times when we're having a caucus discussion, it doesn't matter what the issue is, we always have a divergence of opinion. Some people come up and say, I think we should be doing this, others say I think we should do this. At the end of the day, the Prime Minister usually gets up in about a two-minute wrap up and says, 'You know, here's what I think we should do and why.' And it consistently leaves me sitting back and saying, 'He's exactly right, and why didn't I think of that?'" [....]

Dec. 8, 2006: Climate change

Thatcher economist de-hypes climate debate , By Peter C Glover, (www.americanthinker.com/peter_c_glover/), via newsbeat1

www.americanthinker.com/printpage
/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com
/2006/12/thatcher_economist_dehypes_cli.html

Peter C Glover has highlighted the failure of the British media to question the climate science "consensus" in this article in British Journalism Review magazine. A free copy of Lord Lawson's lecture (or a copy of the text) The Economics and Politics of Climate Change: An Appeal to Reason can be obtained via, can be heard, or a text of the address obtained online here.

In November economist and former British Lord Chancellor Nigel Lawson in Maggie Thatcher's government rose to give an address at the Centre for Policy Studies in London. What his audience were privileged to experience was nothing less than a rare phenomenon: sheer force of reason in public debate. I adjure anyone concerned about the lack of emphasis on reason in current public debate to read the text of Lawson's address: The Economics and Politics of Climate Change: An Appeal to Reason in full here. However, for those who struggle to read even eighteen reason-injecting pages.

[....] the science of clouds is "clearly critical" yet ...

[....] "the extent to which urbanization has contributed to the observed warming".

The lack of correlation between the steady rise in carbon emissions in the twentieth century and the up and down variations in global mean surface temperatures, for which there is "no adequate explanation", and ... natural variation ....

Dec. 8, 2006: Diverting blame 101

Diverting attention from the guilty ... tarnishing the whole ... pre-election?

There must have been a lot of money to be made with the planned income trust business or if the appointed members of the CRTC made the "appropriate" rulings, to have the media so uniformly biased. Must dig a bit more ...


Mounties' top cop resigns -- and the responses from the Liberals, NDP, Bloc sound as though any problem indicate that there must be a problem with the conservative government , Meaghan Fitzpatrick, CanWest, December 06, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=
708c79fb-997c-49fa-afac-f96a1337f90c

[.... Representing the party on whose watch the whole sorry saga happened, in high dudgeon, yesterday, we had:] Liberal MP Mark Holland, who Tuesday accused the commissioner of perjury, said the matter is not over just because Zaccardelli gave up his job.

“I think the government very badly wants to consider the matter closed and just say ‘we’re doing the recommendations, the commissioner has resigned, it’s the end of the issue.’ It is not the end of the issue. There is a lot more work yet to be done here and they do a terrific disservice to Maher Arar and to the Canadian people if they stop here,” Holland told reporters after question period.

Did the Liberals apologize and pay back money absconded from taxpayers for their own part in creating distrust in the population? To suggest that the government wants this case closed ... when it occurred and continued so long under a previous administration? Surely, Mr. Holland must be joking. The whole thing occurred under a Liberal administration, Mark. Where were you during that period? And since? Before more revelations were you and your colleagues getting on the "Maher Arar was really a saint who happened to meet with persons of interest" soapbox? Given the Western guilt about targetting and never casting a jaundiced eye on the peaceful ones ... Mr. Arar may yet come out of this far ahead ... millions of dollars ahead. Is there any point at which it will be over, or has this, somehow, become a cudgel with which to beat Conservatives and completely discredit the whole of the RCMP and CSIS? Maybe tarnishing them is necessary before the next revelation? Just guessing but ...

And what do we really know of truth, even now? Maybe some of these Opposition protestors should join Sacha's love affair with tyrants and potential terrorists, and with the No One Is Illegal, DAD crowd, perhaps create another activist group, the "No looking at anyone as a potential terrorist" contingent. Mr. Arar may be innocent; he might be from a religion now protected from scrutiny, from a terrorist supporting area of the world ... and we couldn't have that. Mistakes are made in any organization, by any individual, but it is how the media play it in relation to the whole that is instructive ... pre-election ... in a politically correct world that bends to the superior wisdom of Turtle Bay. I'm waiting for the sequel.

Should we ready ourselves for more of this Liberal commentary in the press? They have yet to accept blame for their own part ... and much else.

New Democratic Leader Jack Layton said Zaccardelli’s resignation is an important “starting point” and that whoever takes over must work hard to rebuild Canadians’ confidence in the RCMP.

Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe agreed that Zaccardelli’s resignation does not mean an end to the ordeal. [....]

As with poverty, the media make certain we will always have Jack Layton with us ... emoting ... this time about rebuilding confidence in the RCMP. Would this be the media's ploy to cast aspersions on all members in order to convince the populous that anything these services would say about security must be suspect? Would that be useful for the next election. Yes, I'm a cynic.





Pre-resignation: RCMP's Zaccardelli appears to be on thin ice, MSN/CTV.ca/CP, Dec. 6, 06

news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPost
ing.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20061204%2farar_zac
cardelli_061205&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True

Dec. 8, 2006: Media Creativity 101

Building to a crescendo of poisonous innuendo

Another in the series


Is this news or creativity? See the smear parts in bright blue; you decide.

Who are these "anonymous sources", "Tory insiders", "government sources" , insider info from a "senior Tory", "privately expressed" ?, Alexander Panetta and Jim Bronskill, CNEWS, Dec. 6, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/12/06/2654764-cp.html

OTTAWA (CP) - Giuliano Zaccardelli's last conversation with his boss, Stockwell Day, was curt but civilized. It was also lethal to the top Mountie's career.

... Melisa Leclerc, spokeswoman for the public safety minister.

[....] It was not the first time Day ....

Sources said ....

The Tory insiders said ....

Day, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, and Justice Minister Vic Toews all expressed their wish that Zaccardelli be turfed.

Is this from the anonymous sources? Perhaps the disgruntled Hill contingent led by that lad from Radio Canada? Who heard? Who reported this if, publicly, the ministers said nothing?

They all toed the government line in public but privately ... two government sources said [....]

Building up the fiction that PM Harper is authoritarian? It seems this way from this and other articles I read.

[....] one of the government sources said.

[....] Late Wednesday, the prime minister's office vigorously denied

Use of "deny" implies an accusation which requires a denial ...

[....] The two government sources, however, said [....]

"Nobody could understand why Harper ....

i.e. Something is fishy here.

... particularly befuddling, coming from Harper.

Before becoming prime minister, Harper ... privately expressed ...

[....] said a Tory insider.

... among rank-and-file Tory MPs, many of whom have expressed ...

A prominent Conservative said ...

[....] Zaccardelli must have (incriminating) pictures," said one Tory insider.

... theories about why Harper ...

... until he had no choice ...

... the Tories' claim to represent the law-and-order constituency?

... income-trust investigation ... Liberals' election bid?

Does Zaccardelli have dirt on anyone?

"Is Harper afraid of him? I don't know," said the senior Tory.

"Nobody seems to know."

Isn't that a dirty little piece of suggestive smearing, created out of whole cloth? Would that senior Tory be a "progressive" who is trying to resurrect the Progressive Conservative Party? ... and the normal order of things ... Maybe a fan of Joe and a Red Tory? Who are these anonymous sources, anyway, and why are they leaking? They must have a reason but these journalists won't be digging for it to inform the rest of us. If they can kill this Western upstart ... things can get back to normal. Capiche?

Dec. 8, 2006: Reading 101 - Between the lines

No early word on RCMP chief's flip flop: Day -- RCMP chief had 'no choice' but to come clean, Globe and Mail, Dec. 7, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20061207.wday1207/BNStory/National/home

Note the choice of language. Does it detract from or build confidence in the present government and maintain confidence in the rank and file, at least, of the RCMP? To allay citizens' fears -- that maybe corruption runs throughout the security force? Is that the purpose I am sensing? Is this balanced? Would you trust the choice of the majority of the Opposition MP's who actually could have accomplished what they are now "demanding" of the present PM, years ago ... Or is the gang creating a strong offence, before they have to go into defensive mode? ... But link, read the whole article and decide for yourself, after I draw your attention to what I noted.

[....] forced to resign ....

... he did not intentionally perjure himself ...

... Mr. Day ... denied [....]

Mr. Day also dismissed suggestions [....]

[....Liberal MP] Mark Holland accused Mr. Day ...

[....] Mr. Holland demanded [....]

[....] formal compensation discussions with Mr. Arar and his lawyers

[....] investigation into who specifically was responsible [....It won't take a Royal Commission to learn that it isn't the Conservative government, folks. I'm telling you for nothing ... though a cheque for half of what it usually costs would set me up for the winter.]

... Justice Dennis O'Connor's inquiry [....]

... speculation is rife [....]

Tim Killam, a former undercover drug cop ....

... Bev Busson in B.C., and Barbara George, originally from Newfoundland ... first female deputy commissioners ...

But Opposition MPs have called for someone outside the RCMP ranks to take the job in order to put a fresh face on the embattled forces.

Is the whole force "embattled"? Do Opposition MPs suddenly think the whole RCMP is tainted? If so, how did that happen since, less than a year ago, the Liberals had been in power and responsible for the RCMP for many years. Who should be blamed for the situation today? The present government? Ridiculous! Yet, note the language, whether it is designed to inform or to create an unwarranted response at this time, suspicion in readers.

Would I be remiss in suggesting that Opposition MPs might have someone in mind, someone from "outside the RCMP" who would take the job of reform, now that the media have assumed the whole force is tainted? Any suggestions? Who would be perfect?

Think about the qualifications for top cop, even one from outside the force:

* Language -- which linguistic group? From which province or territory? That's been settled ... or is it time for an aboriginal? ... Maybe an immigrant, recent, untainted, who would add a third language?

* Ethnicity -- preferably not white, in this era of diversity and multiculturalism ... perhaps an immigrant from some group subjected to profiling or racism? CBC could be a model, redressing the "balance" ... perhaps ... Maybe from Scarborough? Or Waterloo? Surrey or Northern Alberta's resource patch? Newfoundland - Labrador's developing area? The UN? Now, that would be inspired. And we have two UN-experienced women right here in Canada.

* Philosophy -- hold views acceptable to those Opposition MP's -- politically correct views -- The overseer of the RCMP must not allow profiling nor have the security services consider taking a second look at the activities of anyone from any group that has been involved in terrorist activities previously (racist, profiling) in searching for what could be dangerous activities. Prepare for little old ladies to be scrutinized more ... in the interest of security ... from the pc crowd's little red book on how to do pc policing sensitively. Sensitivity to the community? I hear there's an ex-MP underemployed. He's been on stress or is it a mental health break from public service ... but it would cover the need to have the West represented somewhere, sometime, somehow.

* Leftist -- no-one of a "hard right" philosophical bent need apply -- perhaps an "appointee" -- Watch for words like "root causes" and "sensitivity training" for cops -- Maybe they could prepare a booklet illustrating how normal (what we used to consider) thugs really are -- that they are simply misunderstood and if we would just get together for a pickup game ... or a motorcycle ride in the country with the gang ... Oh, the possibilities are endless.

Dec. 8, 2006: Officers shot

Three officers shot in Winnipeg, police confirm, Updated Fri. Dec. 8 2006 7:20 AM ET, CTV.ca

www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews
/20061208/manitoba_police_shoot
ing_061208/20061208?hub=Canada

What is most galling is that the shooter(s) will probably be out of detention before the officers' wounds are healed ...perhaps an exaggeration, but not much and happening too often ... another gift of our impartial justice system. If a youth ... house arrest? Community service? The media will look for and maybe find some niggling little aspect so they may trash the police again for the proles. Police bad, thugs good. It sells, and influences voting patterns ... good for some politicians. MSM and judges, prove me wrong this time.

Dec. 6, 2006: SSM & Globe Journalism

Is the Globe and Mail (BCE / Bell Globe Media) so negatively impacted as a result of the income trust decision--losing money or the potential to make even more--that it cannot explore in a balanced manner an issue over which reasonable, decent Canadians are divided? ... Or at least give it a less biased header?, entitled "Harper's shoddy motion", December 6, 2006, Page A30

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been trotting out argument after argument to justify his decision to resurrect the issue of same-sex marriage. He promised to do so, he says. It is time the House of Commons had a truly free vote on the matter, he says. And so, probably tomorrow, the Commons will be asked to "call on the government to introduce legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages" -- which would leave the 12,000 gay and lesbian couples who have legally married in Canada as members of a stranded club.

There was an excellent defence of traditional marriage this afternoon on TV by a Liberal MP (?) MacKay, not Peter MacKay. Perhaps it was John MacKay. I heard about it only but he is supporting reconsideration of this issue which has ramifications far beyond the public, official acceptance of homosexual unions under the umbrella of ... whatever term is used ... and there will be ramifications for children, we know. Let the arguments pro and con be publicly debated without the ham-fist of a PM enforcing his will, as Paul Martin did for the last vote. Apparently MacKay was simply excellent. Surely, a national newspaper should explore all the arguments. Is money power the only God, now?

Dec. 5, 2006: Kyoto -&- Correction

Bull's eye on our backs -- Feds plan to make West foot bill for Kyoto fiasco , By Ezra Levant, Nov. 7, 06

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Levant_Ezra/2005/11/06/1295507.html

While the nation's eyes were on AdScam, federal Environment Minister Stephane Dion quietly made an announcement about the Kyoto Protocol.

Quebec, he promised, will only have to bear 7% of Canada's pain to implement the pact.

[....] The means to achieve this desire is the Kyoto Protocol. .... precise choice of words.

[....] When today's Liberals say they would never bring in the National Energy Program again, they make the same mental reservation. They'll bring in a National Environmental Program that has the same effect. But it will be about Kyoto, they'll say. Totally different, they'll say. They weren't lying, they'll say.

In August, Lapierre explained the desire: Take the West's money. Last week, Dion explained the plan: Make Alberta pay for Kyoto. Anyone still think they don't mean it?

There is also a correction below.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Aug. 30, 2005

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/08
/order-of-canada-jealous-wife-adil.html

Trudeau takes up cause of hunger strikers held on security certificates -- Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan accused by CSIS of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent, and Hassan Almrei.

www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=62e899a8-fe89-4999-beec-f7ab10c0977e

The National Post information is no longer available online but it is mentioned here, No One Is Illegal -- Their campaigns also support Mohamed Cherfi

noii-van.resist.ca

noii-van.resist.ca/security_certificates_campaigns

There is more here and there are references on the webpage to other activism and activities: May 31, 2006: #3 No one is illegal! Anti-Capitalism Convergence

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/05/
may-31-2006-3-no-one-is-illegal-anti.html

International Manifesto of The Undocumented
No one is illegal?
Why were Members of the Parliament of Canada, MP Olivia Chow (NDP) and MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Liberal) participating in supporting illegal aliens in Canada?

Error: The following should have been News Junkie Canada, not Frost Hits the Rhubarb - FHTR

There is a link to information on Palestinians being brought to Canada and then-Immigration Minister Denis Coderre.

Correct link: News Junkie Canada Sept 19, 03: Why Does “fairness, openness and flexibility” Mean Lower Immigration Standards, Mr. Coderre?

newsjunkiecanada.blogspot.com/
2003_09_19_newsjunkiecanada_archive.html

What does happen to history and factual information in a wired world if there are not paper copies or if the information is deleted?

Dec. 5, 2006: Ring around the rosie ...

Caveat emptor: Please note that, even as I was putting this up, the first link developed some strange extra marks ... maybe normal, maybe Gremlins.


Based on the Liberal leadership fest, yesterday, Dec. 4, 06, I posted "CTV interrupts convention coverage to interview Alexandre Trudeau in Havana". Intrigued, I searched and found the following; you might be similarly intrigued.

Table of Contents

* Background: Sacha Trudeau - Fidel Castro - Jonathan Kay - Human Rights Watch -
Update post added, Dec. 8, 06 - Barbara Amiel

* The Pierre Trudeau Foundation - Scholar in Mining Engineering Grant - Global Citizenship - Canadian Taxpayers' Contribution

* A "Private" Foundation for "advanced research in the humanities and the human sciences"

* Allan Rock Announces Advanced Fellowship Program in Honour of Pierre Elliott Trudeau [Industry Minister Rock gives an endowment of $125 million fund from the taxpayers of Canada - research - travel - mentoring]

* Directors of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation [They administer the $125-million endowment from taxpayers - ]

* Sacha Trudeau - Security Certificates - No One Is Illegal - Adil Charkaoui - Hasan Almrei

* Illegals - Security Certificates - a Russian spy - Arar - RCMP

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Background: Sacha Trudeau - Fidel Castro - Jonathan Kay - Human Rights Watch

Great intellect runs in families

First, a little Memory Lane: The last days of the patriarch, by Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, Aug. 13, 2006. 07:38 AM

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs
/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout
/Article_Type1&call_pageid=
971358637177&c=Article&cid=1155420635589

Pierre Trudeau had a friendship with Fidel Castro that went beyond politics. It was a mutual admiration between two men who put their unmatched intellects at the service of their country. [....]

Cubans remain very proud of Castro, even those who don't share his vision. They know that, among the world's many peoples, they have the most audacious and brilliant of leaders. They respect his intellectual machismo and rigour.

With the possible exception of Nelson Mandela, already well into retirement, Fidel is the last of the global patriarchs. Reason, revolution and virtue are becoming more and more distant and abstract concepts. [....]

Not everyone was so enamoured: Sacha's love letter: His father gave us the Charter of Rights. So what is Sacha Trudeau doing writing obsequious agitprop for a communist thug? , Jonathan Kay, National Post, August 15, 2006 -- or here

www.omnivore.org/jon/orwell
/2006/Sacha/Sacha.htm

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, this messianic propaganda style has survived in just two places -- North Korea and Cuba. Or so I thought, until I woke up on Sunday and spotted a museum-quality specimen devoted to Fidel Castro .... ("Sacha") Trudeau -- apparently meant every word.

The legacy of Castro is well-summarized in a recent report by Human Rights Watch: "Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. President Fidel Castro, now in his 47th year in power ... continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, long- and short-term detentions [and] mob harassment ... The end result is that Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law."

.... When Michael was eight years old, we learn, he complained to his mother that he had fewer friends than his brothers. Reports Sacha: "My mother told him that, unlike us, he had the greatest friend of all: He had Fidel."

Such soothing words. Would that we all had a communist tyrant to call our pal. [....]

Update inserted Dec. 8, 06:

Weird bedfellow Sacha Trudeau and me
Hard cases make weird bedfellows. Consider Sacha Trudeau, Diana Ralph and the imprisoned Hassan Almrei. -- or here , Barbara Amiel, August 29, 2006, macleans.ca

www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists
/article.jsp?content=20060904_132727_132727

When Alexandre "Sacha" Trudeau went to a maximum security remand centre to visit Mr. Hassan Almrei, imprisoned under a security certificate, he found the experience "cool," "titillating" and "stimulating," as he wrote in Maclean's in June. .... Trudeau felt him to be "kind and gentle," a man he would trust "at the ends of the earth." So he offered to post surety for Almrei while he appealed deportation.

Almrei ... from Saudi Arabia on a forged United Arab Emirates passport, ... forged Syrian passport. .... Afghanistan and Tajikistan ... Wahhabist brand of Islam ...

... made a name in the tenderloin of Canadian life as a man who could procure false documents, which he did for ... security certificate .... Madame Justice Layden-Stevenson called "unacceptable" conditions. [....]

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The Pierre Trudeau Foundation - Scholar in Mining Engineering Grant -- Global Citizenship - Canadian Taxpayers' Contribution

Consider who and what Sacha Trudeau, representing this private foundation, apparently admires; then, note who are choosing the recipients of the following Pierre Trudeau Foundation academic grants--their political and other backgrounds. Consider the subject of Sacha Trudeau's UBC speech (below). Of interest, as well, are the bona fides of the members of the Board of Directors administering grants made possible by ordinary taxpayers ... grants ranging from $35,000 to $74,000 up to $100,000 a year including travel grants.

Would this first Trudeau Fellowship in mining engineering be "advanced research in the humanities" or in the "human sciences"?


I'm just surmising, but would this mining engineering grant or others be related to sustainable development ... the environment ... good governance ... civil society ... helping the natives / aboriginals in the North maintain their traditional ... whatever? ... You halped pay for these grants ... may even be paying into them now ... The original was an endowment to a private foundation ... It may to your advantage to know more ... and whether your child would be eligible ... perhaps what would be required for your child to be eligible.

Sacha Trudeau on Global Citizenship , UBC Report, Nov 3, 2006, Public Affairs, UBC / University of British Columbia

www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubc
reports/2003/03nov06/03nov06.pdf

Documentary filmmaker tells UBC AGM it’s never been more difficult to understand each other as humans.

Speaking at UBC’s annual general meeting, Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, filmmaker and board member for the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, .... research foundation that bears his father’s name. The challenges facing our global community were addressed by a range of speakers, including Ginger Gibson, a UBC PhD student in mining engineering and Trudeau Foundation scholar [first recipient of the Trudeau Foundation grant], who described her research experiences in Northern Canadian and Latin American communities impacted by harmful mining practices. [....]

More here: Influencing a New Generation of Global Citizens . You may recognize cliches-buzz words and be able to remember where you have heard them before.

www.ubc.ca/annualreport

The cynic in me questions whether this kind of research is helpful in a "making the right noises and garnering support from academe" kind of way when Liberals are in office, but may be even more useful when they're not -- in another way -- in the "stall, tie up, hinder, even stymie" economic activity when a Conservative administration is in office.

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A "Private" Foundation for "advanced research in the humanities and the human sciences"

How you and yours came to pay for this--only one example--and many more aspects of educating ... socially engineering ... for the leftists, not only in Canada, but internationally ... and you thought universities were educating, not indoctrinating, your children. Check out the Board of Directors and also note how much each recipient receives for making the right noises holding acceptable leftist socialist political views ... where the rubber hits the road ... the nexus of Liberal-NDP-Red Tory "civil society" concerns ... which may also ensure the longevity of their own concerns ... incidentally.

Not exactly how it all began, my son, but moving in that direction , a bit of Memory Lane from Industry Canada, 2002.

www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcome
ic.nsf/558d6365909929428
52564880052155b/85256a22005
6c2a485256b66005ee1ef!OpenDocument

Allan Rock Announces Advanced Fellowship Program in Honour of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

OTTAWA, February 20, 2002 — Industry Minister Allan Rock today announced the endowment of a $125 million fund [ from the taxpayers of Canada ] to encourage promising young students to undertake advanced research in the humanities and the human sciences.

This fund ... commitment made in Canada's Innovation Strategy ... fellowship program to encourage exceptional students from Canada and abroad to conduct advanced work on current issues of social and public policy facing Canadian society.

The fund will be administered by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, [....]

... promote excellence ... the values, rights and beliefs that inform Canada's sense of identity, our public policy and our place in the world.”

“My father ... vision of excellence. ... I want to thank the people of Canada for this tribute.”

The work undertaken by fellowship and mid-career award winners will be expected to cover specific themes reflective of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's personal interests, including: human rights and social justice, federalism, responsible citizenship, Canada and the world, and humans and their natural environment. [....]

“These fellowships will encourage the exchange of knowledge by these leading scholars using modern technology network. We will also see a sharing of ideas as the best and most experienced scholars will train our best new minds,” said Mr. Rock. “Eminent practitioners in public policy, law and academia will be encouraged to act as mentors and sounding boards for these students and scholars.”

“I also want to thank the distinguished group of Canadians who took up the Government's challenge to recommend a fitting tribute to the former Prime Minister,” Mr. Rock added. “Members of the committee included James Coutts, the Honourable William Davis, the Honourable Jacques Hébert, Roy Heenan, Edward Johnson, Robert Lacroix, the Honourable Marc Lalonde, Dr. Joseph MacInnis, Robert Murdoch, Dr. Martha Piper, Senator Michael Pitfield, Dr. Sean Riley, the Honourable Roy Romanow, and Sacha Trudeau.”

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is an independent, non-profit corporation which will be administered by distinguished Canadians from all parts of the country and varied academic, professional and political backgrounds. A list of the Board of Directors is attached.

Visit http://
www.trudeaufoundation.ca ... (514) 846-1212.

Backgrounder

Advanced Research in the Humanities
and the Human Sciences Fund

The Government of Canada will provide $125 million, to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, to finance the Advanced Research in the Humanities and the Human Sciences Fund. This fund will be used to support up to 100 doctoral fellowships, 20 mid-career achievement awards, and 15 mentor relationships in the humanities in any given year.

The work ... will cover themes reflective of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's personal interests, including: human rights and social justice, responsible citizenship, Canada and the world, and humans and their natural environment. Winners will work in fields of the humanities and human sciences like: Canadian Studies, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Political Economy, Political Science, Sociology and Urban and Community Studies.

Up to 25 fellowships each year ... $50,000 per year for up to four years, and ... a stipend of $35,000 and an allowance of $15,000 for tuition, fees, and travel expenses. [ That could be $100,000 a year. ]

... five awards per year will recognize eminent scholars at Canadian universities ... internationally recognized. They will receive $50,000 per year for up to four years, and an annual allowance of $25,000 for travel and expenses, such as participation in an annual conference to be organized as part of the fellowship program. [up to $75,000 per year]

Up to 15 mentors will be appointed in any one year, to provide advice, counsel and reflection to the fellowship winners. Mentors will receive a retainer of $20,000 per year, plus an allowance of $15,000 for travel expenses. These mentors will also participate in the program's annual conference. [up to $35,000 for mentoring and travelling]

... 75 per cent ... to Canadian citizens ... [ i.e. 25% will go to non-Canadians and you and your children have helped to pay for it ... whether you can afford university for your children or not. ]

Fellowship recipients will work with experts .... international students will be encouraged to study in fields relevant to the future of Canada.

The Foundation will deliver an annual report to the Minister of Industry, which will detail, for example, its investment activities for the year, the number of applications or nominations for funding, actual funding activities, and its financial statements.

[....]

Directors of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The Honourable William Davis
.... Premier (1971-1985) ... Ontario ...

Louise Fréchette
... the first Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. ... chairs the Steering Committee on Reform and Management Policy and the Advisory Board of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP).

Roy L. Heenan
... of Montreal ... appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ... law firm of Heenan Blaikie.

Dr. Chaviva Hosek
... Ph.D. from Harvard ... arrived at CIAR [ Canadian Institute for Advanced Research which is connected with / links to CITA] following an outstanding career of public service and academic achievement. Most recently the Director of Policy and Research for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, ... Minister of Housing for the Province of Ontario ... Professor of English Literature at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Robert Lacroix
... Montreal ... Rector of Université de Montréal ... a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Louvain, Belgium, ... a professor in the Department of Economics at Université de Montréal since 1970.

The Honourable Marc Lalonde
... a partner at the law firm of Stikeman Elliott in Montreal ... Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of Finance, Minister of Health and Welfare, and Minister of Justice. ... participated in a large number of international meetings.

Dr. Paule Leduc
Until very recently ... rector of the Université du Québec à Montréal. ... president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, and president of the Conseil des universités du Québec.

The Honourable E. Peter Lougheed
... [a former] Premier of Alberta from 1971-1985 ... energy and constitutional issues ...

Dr. Martha Piper
... President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.... former director ... School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University, Dean of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Vice-President of Research at the University of Alberta.

The Honourable Bob Rae
... a partner at the Goodmans LLP law firm. His clients include companies, trade unions, charitable and non-governmental organizations, and governments themselves. ... negotiation, mediation and arbitration ... Ontario's 21st Premier ...

Dr. Sean Riley
... President of St. Francis Xavier University ... Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation ... government, finance, and business ... a ministerial advisor on policy in the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and the Privy Council Office.

Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau
The son ... a director of his father's Foundation. [Besides this, more below]

Milton K. Wong
... Chancellor, ... Chairman of HSBC Asset Management Canada Limited. ... philanthropy, ... founding Chairman of the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival, ... BC Cancer Foundation Millennium Campaign. Mr. Wong is founder and chair of the Laurier Institution, an independent non-profit institution dedicated to advancing knowledge of the economic and social implications of cultural diversity.

Dr. Marc Renaud
... President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ... on the boards of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, the steering committee of the Networks of Centres of Excellence, and the executive committee of the Interim Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. ... chairs the Steering Committee for the Canada Research Chairs Program. ...

Dr. Alexander Himelfarb
... Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage ... Ph.D. in Sociology ... a Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick ... Head of the Unified Family Court Project at the Department of Justice, Executive Interchange. [ Is there / was there not a Himmelfarb in the PCO? ]

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Sacha Trudeau - Security Certificates - No One Is Illegal - Adil Charkaoui - Hasan Almrei

With the Trudeau name, does Sacha Trudeau need any other qualifications for the Board of Directors of the Pierre Trudeau Foundation and for his work helping to administer such a large gift from the taxpayers of Canada? For more on the views he supports, see:


Frost Hits the Rhubarb Aug. 30, 2005

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/08
/order-of-canada-jealous-wife-adil.html

Trudeau takes up cause of hunger strikers held on security certificates -- Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan accused by CSIS of being an al-Qaeda sleeper agent, and Hassan Almrei. That is no longer available but it is mentioned here, No One Is Illegal -- Their campaigns also support Mohamed Cherfi, noii-van.resist.ca

www.canada.com/national/nationalpost
/news/story.html?id=
62e899a8-fe89-4999-beec-f7ab10c0977e

That webpage is longer available--What happens to history and factual information in a wired world?--but there is reference to Sacha Trudeau's concerns for those on security certificates here. What do Canadian taxpayers want? This? No One Is Illegal and the related organizations, perhaps networked via computers?

noii-van.resist.ca/secur
ity_certificates_campaigns








No One Is Illegal -- or here

Is it any wonder that these websites tend to disappear as soon as some people find them ... such a quick, computer network of information maintained by someone with extensive computer skills. Get any information while it's hot. There is or was also a website for the group, Don't Ask; Don't Tell (DAD)

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Illegals - Security Certificates - a Russian spy - Arar - RCMP


No longer alleged, it seems, though he gets "privacy".

Alleged spy to be deported -- actually, it is "may be deported", CNEWS, Dec. 4, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/11/21/2433014-cp.html

[....] Justice Pierre Blais ordered the man's deportation ... agreeing to hide his real name from the public.

... safety of (his) family ...

The Russian waived his right to further hearings. Blais said the man revealed his true identity behind closed doors. He asked that it be kept secret in return for his admissions.

[....] cut a deal after hearing the evidence against him.

[....] The Russian was carrying a fraudulent Ontario birth certificate, a Canadian passport and the equivalent of $7,800 in five different currencies when he was arrested at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. [....]

Arar

RCMP chief backtracks on Arar -- Arar went to Tunisia because the mother of his wife was ill, Jim Brown, CNEWS, Dec. 4, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/
2006/09/27/1905839-cp.html

[....] Arar, a Syrian-born telecommunications engineer who now holds Canadian citizenship, came to RCMP attention because he had been spotted talking to another man who was a target of an anti-terrorist investigation.

The Mounties later exchanged information about the case with U.S. officials, including a request for American border guards to be on the lookout for Arar.

[....] In fact, although the Mounties wanted to interview Arar, they never considered him more than a peripheral "person of interest" in an investigation targeting others. His trip to Tunisia was undertaken because his mother-in-law, who was living there, had fallen ill.

Arar did not refuse to be interviewed; he left Canada for Tunisia because the mother of his wife was ill. The cynic in me asks: if your mother were ill, would you send your husband, her son-in-law, to minister to her, or would you go yourself? Is that what Muslim families do normally? Or just when they become persons of interest?