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For some of us in Canada, especially those out in Vancouver where I live, it has been an extraordinary week of up & down emotions. For Vancouverites, perhaps we need to look into the past to find our future … a very proud & free one! With that in mind, I offer this & this to help start your weekend off on a most positive note. To all SDA regulars, I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful & safe weekend!
The comments are open, as always, for your insightful Reader Tips.

23 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. You know Robert, even during what seems to be stormy times, there is beauty and goodness around.
    Love your pictures.

  2. Right here “http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/13043-Woman-Says-Shes-Too-Educated-to-be-Kicked-off-New-York-Train.html” it says:
    ….’highly educated class,’ acting like assholes:….
    After the altercation, the conductor ….reminded people to keep conversations quiet, “especially those people who went to Harvard or Yale or are from Westport.”
    Via Instapundit

  3. Lost in all the news about the riots, and on a sad note, Betty Fox, the mother of Terry Fox, died from an undisclosed illness on Friday. She did a great deal to support cancer research in Terry’s name over the past thirty years and as the premier rightly said, she displayed the qualities that British Columbians admire.
    The one good thing about it would be that it helps us to realize that British Columbia is a place of extremes, and while the nation has seen an example of the extreme negative, it is also possible to find examples of the other extreme in the human condition here.

  4. The riot in Vancouver was going to happen if they won or lost. If anyone is/was surprised – whatever.
    It’s going to happen in any Canadian city in the final – period, win or lose.
    Don’t encourage large crowds to congregate in a core area – police it from the get go, and smack the offenders hard (Glock 9 mil) when they come accross them.

  5. I’m not going to dwell on the Vancouver riots anymore because it has run its course for now, I think. But I thought this discussion between Charles Adler and David Menzies was spot on. They also touch a lot on what has happened in Toronto the past few years.

  7. It is strange that CBC has not interviewed David Suzuki with regard to Civil Disobedience/Riots
    If you goggle Suzuki & disobedience the hits are numerous…He seems to be an Expert…His PR company must be busy

  8. “Alberta set for growth supercycle”
    “EDMONTON — Two years after the Great Recession ended, Alberta’s energy-fuelled economy is again flexing its muscles.
    With oil prices tripling from their 2009 lows, drilling activity on the upswing, unemployment falling and oilsands investment surging, Alberta looks poised for a new growth supercycle.
    In fact, compared with the beleaguered U.S., the debt-ridden economies of Europe or the sluggish growth in Ontario and Quebec, Canada’s energy superpower looks like a rising star once again.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/06/17/alberta-poised-for-supercycle-growth/

  9. The Cancer Industry?
    Ugh. The Human Rights Industry.
    H/T “David Langtry, acting chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.”
    Where/who is the Chief?
    …-
    “First Nations gain same rights other Canadians already enjoy
    Winnipeg Free Press – Mia Rabson – ‎27 minutes ago‎
    OTTAWA — As of today, First Nations people have access to the same human rights protections as all other Canadians. “This is a historic day,” said David Langtry, acting chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission.”
    http://news.google.ca/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q&js=0

  11. After the G20 riots in Toronto a hockey buddy with ties to the police mentioned that police cars contain a lot of ammunition. Usually. If so, why is it that police cars that are burned by rioters in different cities do not seem to have any ammunition in them? Or are police using the non-flammable kind?

  12. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/vancouver-chief-to-civilians-im-sorry-we-could-not-back-you-up/article2066313/
    Un-bee-lee-vable:
    Tom Stamatakis, head of the Vancouver Police Union, said Friday in an interview that police needed to get their equipment and change clothing to effectively intervene in the burgeoning riot, since it is part of the “meet and greet” strategy to avoid displaying riot gear.
    So, meet and greet strategy takes precedence over the public’s safety?
    “That’s all part of a strategy, in terms of deployment. It’s a balance we have to strike,” he said. “If we deployed at the highest level, all geared up with our riot gear … batons, tear gas, right at the outset, then we would be accused of overreacting and instigating the crowd.
    It’s obvious the crowd didn’t need any “instigating” to initiate a full-blown riot. It’s also obvious that the police have got to disregard being accused of overreacting. Now, police departments, routinely, underreact, thereby endangering public safety.
    … Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu told reporters police failed to anticipate the size of the crowd of more than 100,000 people and apologized to those who tried to stop the hooligans smashing windows and stealing merchandise. “I’m sorry we could not back you up and get to you earlier. We have training and protective gear and all of you did not” … “We were just overwhelmed by the large number of people that were not anticipated.
    So Chief Chu and his VPD were “overwhelmed”? That really inspires confidence, doesn’t it? Bottom line? Chu and his force didn’t do their homework. Neither did they have intelligence on the ground, as it had to be obvious that as tens of thousands of people poured into downtown Vancouver, the police were going to have, at the very least, a crowd control problem and, at worst, a riot situation on their hands. They knew from their experience in 1994 that there would likely be trouble, so why did it take them so long to “ready” themselves?
    Jim Chu should resign.

  15. Our CRTC/CBC: CCCC.
    http://www.cbc-consultation-src.ca
    “And it didn’t take long for comments to begin rolling in Friday, with user tbloggins writing: “the heavily biased journalism, practised by the CBC, can only happen because they survive on handouts from the taxpayer “¦ CBC doesn’t ‘report’ news. Their so called jouralists (sic) manufacture it.”
    Others called for the CBC to be privatized, while others still came to the defence of the public broadcaster, saying it serves a valuable role in Canada.”
    …-
    “Broadcast regulator wants to know what you think of the CBC”
    “Is the CBC relevant? Does it meet the needs of Canadians? What kind of programming should the CBC provide, and what should it do differently?
    If you’ve got a gripe or something good to say, now’s your chance.
    And it’s a rare chance at that for Canadians to stand up for, or sound off against the public broadcaster that receives $1.1 billion from taxpayers every year.”
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/06/17/18299711.html

  16. Boston resident – Hockey fan. Vancouver, you can do it. We had a victory the other night – almost no vandalism, 7 arrests of drunks, great police presence and control. Today’s parade, family event, duck boat parade, good clean fun for an amazing sport and remarkable series…
    If rowdie Boston can behave, Vancouver, you are Canadians, this should be easy.

  17. … others still came to the defence of the public broadcaster ~ macd at 11:02 AM
    But an overwhelming majority of the comments are negative; and it’s a CRTC site not some right-wing blog.

  18. macd – that CBC link is great fun! Everyone make sure you go and make your voice heard!

  20. Alex Tsakumis at Rebel with a Clause explains that the police tried to warn city officials of impending trouble well before the riot, and were tut-tutted by Gregor Robinson and his granola patrol. Of course, there is sometimes light moments during riots like these; I mean didn’t Svend Robinson once get a rubber bullet in the ass?

  21. Socialism’s natural end result.
    …-
    “UK banks abandon eurozone over Greek default fears”
    “UK banks have pulled billions of pounds of funding from the eurozone as fears grow about the impact of a “Lehman-style” event connected to a Greek default.”
    “Senior sources have revealed that leading banks, including Barclays and Standard Chartered, have radically reduced the amount of unsecured lending they are prepared to make available to eurozone banks, raising the prospect of a new credit crunch for the European banking system.
    Standard Chartered is understood to have withdrawn tens of billions of pounds from the eurozone inter-bank lending market in recent months and cut its overall exposure by two-thirds in the past few weeks as it has become increasingly worried about the finances of other European banks.
    Barclays has also cut its exposure in recent months as senior managers have become increasingly concerned about developments among banks with large exposures to the troubled European countries Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Portugal.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8584442/UK-banks-abandon-eurozone-over-Greek-default-fears.html

  22. Buddyro @ 10:42 Sorry didn’t see your reference earlier. Apparently he got this from officers who got “what for” from various city hall harridans. Alex generally has a way of getting the truth out, because his sources trust him more than their own politically compromised superiors.

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