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No time for surfing tonight, so it’s a reader tips day – you know the drill.
Also, I’m scheduled to be on the The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge (770 am, I think) here in Calgary at 8ish pm local time.
You can listen live here.

79 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  3. Readers tips day.
    Libs about to launch all out assault on the only growth industry in Canada. the oilsands.
    6 greenhouse gases to be tracked and administered by the people who brought you the gun registry, the
    indian affairs settlement and the adscam. -cant wait can you.
    the only industry in Canada to be exempted will be the autoplants in Ontario. the rest of the industries paying or leaving or just not setting up shop at all.
    Rick Mercier of Pravda needs to have a referendum to change Stephane to Celine for the environment ministers pronome.

  4. This country is Oprah-land when the prime minister issues the following statement:
    “Today [Nov. 25] is a sombre day and I was deeply saddened to learn of this terrible loss, which is not only a loss to The Royal Canadian Regiment in Gagetown, New Brunswick, the Army, and the Canadian Forces, but also to all Canadians.”
    http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=658
    And when a lead newspaper website story is that a Canadian soldier is killed when his vehicle rolls over in Kandahar without any hostile action.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051124.wcansol1124/BNStory/National/
    And when: “MPs stop debate to honour soldier.
    Members of Parliament put aside their pre-election bickering for a minute of silence to honour the Canadian soldier who was killed in Afghanistan yesterday in the rollover of an armoured vehicle outside Kandahar.”
    http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=9e2f0e9b-5d56-4ffe-baf4-f0cd24ec84ab
    An accident. Stuff happens.
    I wonder what the reaction will be if 20, or 50, or 100 body bags come back to Canada when our troops get engaged in serious combat in their forthcoming mission around Kandahar.
    “Local troops at top of list: To tangle with Taliban”
    http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2005/11/24/1321067-sun.html
    Mark
    Ottawa

  5. “NDP [Manitoba] all alone in punishing private MRIs”
    http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Columnists/Brodbeck_Tom/2005/11/25/1322137.html
    Excerpts:
    ‘The problem the Doer government will face if it chooses to prosecute the Maples Surgical Centre for selling private MRIs is that it will be the only province in Canada banning the service, and they won’t have the backing of the federal government.
    MRIs are sold to the general public in at least four provinces — Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia — and have been for several years…
    …No other province has said it plans to shut down any of its private MRI clinics, either…
    The main reason the federal government will not fine provinces for allowing private MRI clinics to operate is because of Quebec.
    Yes, good ol’ Quebec.
    Montreal has the largest crop of private diagnostic clinics in the country. They’ve been dubbed the Private MRI Capital of Canada by some. And people are quite happy about it there.
    Do you think the Liberal government, or any federal government, is going to walk into Quebec and fine them hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for allowing clinics to sell private MRIs?..
    Mark
    Ottawa

  7. CBC Article about the Lord of the Slums tour in Toronto.
    What I found interesting is not that they’re saying the slums are worse than New York, Chicago or New Delhi. But what is interesting is the need for the CBC to state

    “The group offers no evidence for the New Delhi comparison”..

    They didn’t offer a comparison for the NY or Chicago comparisons, either, but that’s not highlighted by the CBC.
    The slum tour’s website contains lots of moonbat reading material such as a call for the re-introduction of rent controls (which actually made living conditions worse back when Rae did it), “toughening” the TPA to make it even harder to evict tenants, and creating more social housing for immigrants.
    My favorite though is a call to ban discrimination based on employment history, income, or credit worthyness.
    I’m not joking.
    — Steve

  8. The Lie-beral’s announced that they’re doubling funding for Canada Council for the Arts to $336 million. This is under of the Ministry of Heritage and the vehicle by which the bottom rung of the Lie-beral pork barrel ladder gets their slop. That’s an increase of $168 million, pretty close to the $162 million PMPM’s CSL took from the taxpayer’s pocket. How much money from these Canada Council for the Arts Grants ends up in the bank accounts of the LPC and individual riding associations? Should the Auditor General look into these Grants to see if the taxpayers got value for money? I bet I know what the answer would be.

  10. Who is the Minister of Tax and Spend?
    Who is the Minister of Government Waste?
    Who is the Minister of Corruption?
    Who is the Minister of Vote Buying?
    Who is the Minister of Entitlement?
    Who is the Minister of Domocratic Deficiet?
    Who is the Minister of Separation (Truth from fiction)
    Who is the Minister of Whistle Blowing?
    Who is the Minister of Bag Men?
    Who is the Monoster of Envelopes full of Money?
    Who is the Minister of Choosing Justices?
    Who is the Minister of Deleating Web Sites?
    Who is the Minister of VOTE LIBERAL OR ELSE?
    I don’t know who the Minister is but HE/She is definately Librano right down to His/Her little RED Shorts.
    BY the way the Minister of STAY IN POWER AT ANY COST is PAUL (I don’t give a crap about the Canadian People) Martin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. I am all for government funding of culture to stop. Not a dime. Let it live or die by its own merits. Spending more is an absolute absurdity.

  13. Hey Phantom,
    If Aliens are visiting this planet .. they know enough to keep their distance from the likes of us.
    Good thanks for that. That’s what I call entertainment.
    Can you imagine them landing and saying “take me to your leader” then they show him Mr Dithers Bwahahaha
    For more laughs visits …Duke’s Place
    Right click and select “open in new window”

  14. And hey Prime Monster .. How about a minute of silence for each person who dies because you bungled your responsibility for health care.
    How about each person who died at the hands of criminals that you refuse to keep in jail.
    How about each person who dies because they are not allowed to legally own a gun to defend themselves agains home invaders meth and coke heads, muggers.
    and all those killed by unjaied drunk drivers, overworked medical people and the upcoming terroist attack … the list goes on.
    You have failed absolutely everyone you are entrusted to protect. That’s the main reason for governments .. to protect us from evil and incompetence .. not to embody it!

  15. I’m with Mark in his above comment. I’m retired military and although the events of yesterday are indeed sad, life goes on and the military will get on with their job and they’ll do it in a manner to make us proud.
    What makes me want to puke is the crock of crap Martin is making out of this to try to enhance his image as “a supporter of the military”. This guy would pander to the devil to get a vote.

  16. An extremely bizzare speech by Paul Hellyer is starting to get notice down here. In this speech he warns of the US getting the world involved in an “intergalatic war”.
    “Hellyer warned, “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, “The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build aforward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide.”
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20051124/bs_prweb/prweb314382;_ylt=AjGnY4oQPiuH3z4EcD7Am_as0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ
    I’m more inclined to think the aliens are from this galaxy and it would be simply an interstellar war……….

  18. It’s not on the topic of Canadian politics, but tomorrow is a day to remember the crimes of another leftist regime:
    From Withstand the Fury’s Lair:

    Before World War 2 and the massive genocidal effort undertaken by the Nazis known as the Holocaust — the extermination of some 6,000,000 Jews — there was another genocide, less well-known in modern circles, and even more frequently denied.
    Between 1932 and 1933, Joseph Stalin killed — mostly through starvation — some 10,000,000 Ukrainian peasants in a brutal campaign to make them abandon their land and join collective farms, a campaign of atrocity that has come to be known as the Holodomor. The name comes from the Ukranian terms moryty (to inflict death) and holodom (hunger).
    Tomorrow (November 26th) is the official day commemorating this under-recognized part of history.

    There’s a lot of Ukrainians who live in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Give one a hug tomorrow.

  19. …Lord of the Slums tour in Toronto…
    I think that landlords & property managers should be given equal air time to voice their complaints about some of the pigs masquerading as human-beings who’ve turned these apartments into garbage dumps.

  21. pravda headline.
    Large Print and top billing
    PM Staffer threatens Tories with Legal Action.
    small print. “publicly linking the party to organized crime”
    really it was disorganized crime.
    as for the other time of organized crime its
    been a long time association , used to be “family “tables at the Sheila Copps fund raisers.

  22. Well it’s not on the topic of the election, I thought this was kind of interesting…apparently he wants to come back – in case he needs a nice cushy jail to spend time in.
    Black wants citizenship back
    “Could allow transfer to Canada if he’s convicted in U.S. Renounced country in 2001 to join British House of Lords”
    http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132872612383&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
    Love this line though:
    “To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was to me,” Black said in his speech.
    “Renouncing my citizenship was the last and most consistent act of dissent I could pose against a public policy which I believe is depriving Canada of its right and duty to be one of the world’s great countries.”
    At least on that, he’s not too far off the truth.

  23. “To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was to me,”
    He’s right if that immigrant is a refuge. If that immigrant came over on the point system or is a doctor, teacher, nurse or other public servant they are told “Yes we want you but no, you can’t work” as is happening to my family right now.
    You know what you get for your 10 years of University education and 10 years of experience? “That only counts for immigration purposes but isn’t enough for you to get a job in your field. Go back to school you bum.”
    Thanks a lot Canadian government. You increase immigration but refuse to acknowledge eduction. What are you going to do with these immigrants when they become a burden on our social programs?

  24. I’m ex-military and I, too, regret the loss of a soldier on foreign soil.From the bottom of my heart,I regret it. I commend Parliament for taking the time to honour the dead soldier. I do have a question, though. When the last Snowbird pilot was killed and when the last CF-18 pilot was killed, did the House of Commons stand for a minute of silence? I believe not, but someone can correct me if I am wrong.
    I think the Liberals are playing politics with this man’s death and with this family’s grief.

  25. Pravda changing up the headlines
    to Martin asks Harper to retract”organized crime comment”
    Pravda(CBC) always paints the libs as the victims rather than the perps.
    Harper should ask Martin to retract the organized crime part of his government which is anyone sitting in the house at the time of ADSCAM.
    anyone running a poll on how many think the Libs are linked to organized crime.
    I vote yes.

  26. Martin is the current “chief thief” of the Liberanos.
    wonder what Warren Kinsella has to say? must be torn between being a Martin hater and being so closely link to “duh odder guy” and Alfonso.

  27. Re: Martin asking Harper to apologize.
    Love Harper’s response:
    “It’s the Liberal party that needs to apologize to Canadians,” he said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
    I also liked CTV’s commentary last night…
    They described a press conference by the Liberals saying they were delivering their “daily blizzard” of government spending.
    I was also wondering if any media pundits caught the Liberals verbatim answers last week when the opposition accused them of vote buying after they announced billions of dollars in new government spending.
    Nearly every single Liberal (Minister Graham, Goodale and some other monkey I forget the name of) when asked about this accusation said the same thing: I’ve been working on this spending program/deal for months now… SIX months. Every single minister was working on funding announcements for SIX MONTHS? Wow. It’s almost like they had a hidden agenda or something.
    My head hurts already from the election campaigning which hasn’t even officially begun.
    And btw, I’m begging the wonderful people of Regina to vote Goodale’s sorry butt back to Saskatchewan. The guy’s as greasy as the rest of them.

  29. update…. it is approx. 2:15 PM Sask time and still no “Security fence” or “poll back up by Friday” as promised.
    C’mon you guys over there, it doesn’t take 2 – 3 days to write, find or buy and implement poll software. I mean, not that it even makes sense to put it up now but where’s the fulfillment of that promise?
    I just want to know what you’ve been doing with taxpayer money for the last 2-3 days if you haven’t been working on that poll….
    I want to give the people of Saskatchewan a piece of advice from the raiseaflag.ca website at:
    http://raiseaflag.ca/home.html
    It says:
    “We deserve better. Raise your voice!”

  30. Kinsella says : [Labor omnia vincit]
    I say this, too, as a lefty Liberal In Exile (TM): the federal spending binge is one of the most irresponsible, cynical things I have ever seen – and I’ve seen plenty of irresponsible, cynical stuff in my day. All of the pain and agony we all went through in the 1990s – base closures, UI cuts, health cuts, cuts to everything imaginable – and for what? For this? For Dithers and his desperate cabal to hold onto power for a few days more? The billions upon billions being shoveled out the door is more than cynical – it is dangerous, and I’m not the only guy who thinks so.
    Paul Martin has destroyed the last positive associated with his reputation – that of prudent fiscal manager. Now, all that he resembles is a Duplessis-era road-paver. Nothing more. >>>
    kinsells.com

  33. Amazing how the “Trough People” are crying about the inferance of organized crime.
    It appears maybe the CPC have stumbled onto something not only did the Libranos get cought with paws in the jar now the Libranos are blubbering about the media repeating “Organized Crime – Liberals” / or / “Liberals Organized Crime.”
    It will be tough for them to down play this one.

  34. Cal2:
    There is no doubt that there are very close ties to the Mafia, not to mention Tamil OC and other groups.
    Alfonso G. was consigliere…oops, I mean accountant, to one of the big guys in one of the New York Mob families, wasn’t he?
    Can anyone refresh us?

  35. How come MSM’s spin on King Ralph’s anti-conservative prognostication “suddenly” turned from major story to a much more downplayed “most people expect that sort of thing from him”? I smell a “we’ll return after a short station break” rat. The liberal truth torturers must be waiting for Alberta’s la belle conservative to do another tongue trip and give up something a little more scary before setting the hook.

  37. Officially 4PM Sask time, time to go home for gov’t employees, and no modification to the raiseaflag.ca online poll has emerged as promised by Mr. Calvert and friends. One more promise down the drain.
    And not an important one either, but just indicative of their image. We can do better SK.
    Of course you know this means that no “Security Fence” has emerged either, meaning their Mercury CMS software is just as vulnerable as it was before.
    Don’t get me wrong, something could emerge at a later date, under the radar. But if it was me, knowing my employees don’t work on the weekends, I sure as heck wouldn’t promise an update to be up the day before the weekend, because no one will be there to monitor it for 2 days and it will be wide open to attack and scrutiny.

  38. RE:
    Thanks a lot Canadian government. You increase immigration but refuse to acknowledge eduction. What are you going to do with these immigrants when they become a burden on our social programs?
    Hey ..Altruistic……
    We’re going to do what France did and implode…!!

  40. Anonalogue,
    You appear to have fallen into the identity trap. That is to say, you think other people think and ‘feel’ the way you do.
    The fact is that I for one and everyone else that I know, realize that socialism does not and can not work. This is true for medicare. If it could work …. it already would. It’s been around for about forty years and still, it’s a bust.
    Therefore, it’s time to do something different!
    To continue to do the same things over and over while expecting a different outcome is purely and simply … a recipe for insanity.
    Socialism AKA Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder and perpetually flogging this dead system is proof of that fact.
    Reason, fact and logic are the only tools that can determine what will work and what won’t. Wishing won’t make it so.
    I suggest you forget the Jackal and get into the adult world of … diet, excersize, and another alternative to the failed commie system.
    I don’t mean to be cruel, but the truth is often a harsh medicine.
    And all this seriousness make me want a good laugh once in while … get that at …
    Duke’s Place

  41. Hey, B Wylie Ajax, Ont.
    You know what is sad, is when I sponsored my family to come here they made us sign a document saying that we won’t take social assistance, and if we did we would be in default and liable to pay back all money. What!?!?!?!
    So they say “Please come to Canada” and then “go back to school you bum” and finally, “no assistance for you”
    You’re right, that is a recipe for implosion! I hate to think there are other immigrants out there in that position because maybe they are taking a lesson from France….

  42. “Anonalogue,You appear to have fallen into the identity trap”
    An alternative explanation is that I can count to 155 😉
    “I don’t mean to be cruel…”
    Neither do I when I say the MSM has put you on tilt, old chap. Chin up! Martin is a chump and he’s going down.

  45. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/253857p-217343c.html
    Stoolie: Canada pol in mob
    BY GREG B. SMITH
    DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
    Alfonso Gagliano has held titles in Canada that include labor minister, deputy House leader, ambassador to Denmark and minister of public works.
    In New York he held a different kind of title, according to secret FBI documents obtained by the Daily News: “made” member of the Bonanno crime family.
    Gagliano was identified as a longtime soldier in the Bonanno crime family by Frank Lino, a former Mafia capo-turned-informer.
    Lino is now cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors as they slowly take apart the mob family to which he once swore allegiance.
    Gagliano’s name surfaced as Lino described the Bonanno family’s operations in Montreal, which has served as an outpost for the Brooklyn-based group for decades.
    He said he and a group of top Bonanno gangsters traveled to Montreal in the 1990s to let the northern branch office know the family had a new boss, Joseph Massino.
    The group met at a catering hall, and during the meeting, a Bonanno gangster, Joseph Lopresti, introduced Gagliano to Lino as a made man in the family, FBI documents state.
    Lino made a point of telling the FBI that only actual members of the Bonanno family were allowed to attend the meeting at the catering hall. Associates were banned.
    Gagliano attorney Pierre Fournier did not return calls seeking comment yesterday.
    For years, Gagliano was a fixture in Canada’s national politics, rising through the ranks of the Liberal Party.
    But his most powerful position was undoubtedly Canada’s minister of public works and government services, the office that oversees the Canadian mint and awards most of Canada’s government contracts.
    In that capacity, Gagliano found himself embroiled in a growing scandal over potential corruption in the awarding of contracts for government advertising.
    In February, he was dismissed as ambassador.
    There is an ongoing investigation into allegations that government funds were funneled to large contributors to the Liberal Party for no-work contracts.
    Lino was shown an array of photographs and identified Gagliano, the FBI documents state.
    When he began cooperating with the FBI, Lino admitted he was involved in six murders, several attempted murders, loansharking, extortion and gambling.
    Originally published on November 18, 2004
    -30-

  46. Altruistic,
    I’m a sponsor too and I take the responsibility seriously. The individual that’s over here now, in no small part due to my sponsorship, will not be a burden on Canadian society. It is my strong desire for quite the opposite: that the person in my charge will become a major positive gain for our country. But it won’t be done through dependence on any special socialistic umbrella for new immigrants. She will learn to do it all by herself and I’ll make sure she gets the encouragement and necessary resources to succeed. That’s my job as her sponsor.
    Any sponsor expecting free rides for their charges by our government should be ashamed. Free handouts are not the way to make new immigrants or Canada great. It’s those expectations that will cause much harm…just like France…to the immigrants and to the country by not allowing the will to succeed to grow in its’ immigrants. Where there is a will, there’s a way!

  47. Anonologue,
    Perhaps I drank too much scotch today … I have taken you for a leftie … if I am mistaken. I apologize … if not … then go to Rabble.ca and buy a house.
    Let me know.

  48. “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.”
    Me thinks that Paul Hellyer has watched too many reruns of Stargate SG-1. Pathetic really, although this is the dipwad who did more to screw the Canadian military than anyone else. Remember the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy or the Canadian Army? A proud history, tradition and identity of three military entities were tossed aside and handed crappy green uniforms.
    As I’m writing this I just noticed that Close Encounters was on the boob tube. Coincidence?? I wonder???

  49. So Martin B.
    We come to Canada. A Master’s Degree and tons of experience coupled with every positive aspect of a professional that would make them an asset to the people they serve. Sounds like a great recipe right?
    Wrong. My complaint is not with being a sponsor. My complaint is that the gov’t keeps increasing immigration numbers because they want “highly skilled” immigrants to come to Canada – despite offshoring. ANd then they ruin the lives of these people when the get here.
    So some of the immigrants go through the immigration system, waiting years to get accepted based on their credentials and then they get here and are told they can’t work. There was a big special on this on tv over the weekend but I missed it.
    I can only give you two examples. The first time I went to college there was a guy in my class with a Master’s degree who should have been working for the department of defence. Instead, he was changing his profession at a 2 year career college because industry and gov’t regulation and professional credentialing won’t recognize his education. He was overqualified to teach the courses but here he is a stinking student.
    Is it fair to tell someone with 10 years experience and a masters degree that they have to go back and intern when they are coming from the USA? The message we send is that the federal gov’t thinks your credentials are good enough to qualify you as highly skilled FOR IMMIGRATION PURPOSES ONLY, but the credentialing board says you have to go back to kindergarten. What the hell good is that to immigrants? I mean, we are comnig from the USA for crying out loud. Canada is basically a carbon copy of the USA!
    And the message is getting out there….by me for one. I sure don’t want to be in Canada if they are pulling off this crap again. Yes, they did it with the early settlers promising them land and then giving them some of the worst conditions in the world in which to farm. You can have all the land you want – but don’t expect to grow anything in this barren land riddled with clay-soil that you can’t till with a mule.
    The message is going out loud and clear – don’t come to Canada on a professional visa unless a company sponsors you first because your education and experience aren’t enough for you to work in your field here.

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