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  2. Border Patrol officials struggling to keep up with the increasing number of minors illegally crossing the Mexican border are not turning away persons with known gang affiliations. Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, explained that a Border Patrol agent he represents helped reunite a teenage gang member with his family in the United States. Cabrera notes the young member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), a transnational criminal gang, had no criminal record in the U.S., but asks, “If he’s a confirmed gang member in his own country, why are we letting him in here?”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380337/teenage-latin-border-horde-ryan-lovelace

  7. This is certainly a real representation of the populace, isn’t it? Twelve thousand out of 35.4 million. I think that’s 0.03389% of the population. It shows how irrelevant the “Canadian Bolshevik Collective” really is.
    I can’t say that I’ve been inspired by any of them, although I respect the accomplishments of some of the ten listed.

  8. I weep for this country that such luminaries as Frederick Banting (Insulin) and Louise Poirier (Wonderbra) aren’t on the list, not to mention Joseph-Armand Bombardier (Snowmobile) in favour of politicians, some of whom never accomplished anything positive.

  11. @north of 60: Nor do I. Sorry, did not mean to imply that you did. Cheere.

  12. Terry Fox should be number one on the list (and the August long weekend in 5 provinces should be a national holiday named after him). Billy Bishop, Frederick Banting, Alexander Graham Bell… all of them accomplished something in their lives. Jack freaking Layton?

  15. Yep math is hard for me …I meant that 12,000 would include employees and f&f.

  16. “I have no sympathy for Caleb Rossiter.”
    “Where was he when Rachel Carson condemned at least 90 million Africans to death because she falsely accused DDT of causing cancer and her husbands death?”
    …-
    “Tim Ball (Canada)
    Professor of Geology
    “I have no sympathy for Caleb Rossiter. He is not a victim. He got thrown into a small club of people who have been demonized for daring to question, for daring to practice skeptical science, for daring to speak out by default. The sad part is we wouldn’t be hearing about him now if it wasn’t for the termination of his fellowship.
    Where was he when Rachel Carson condemned at least 90 million Africans to death because she falsely accused DDT of causing cancer and her husbands death? Where was he when I and Paul Driessen (EcoImperialism) were writing about thousands of Africans dying because of high food prices caused by US farmers growing corn with government subsidies to drive American cars?
    Now we read about his concerns as if he is the first to discover what has been going on for years.”
    “Caleb S. Rossiter Fallout: Academics Worldwide Condemn “Dark Age” Intellect Of Institute For Policy Studies”
    http://notrickszone.com/2014/06/15/caleb-s-rossiter-fallout-academics-worldwide-condemn-dark-age-intellect-of-institute-for-policy-studies/

  17. What, exactly, did Terry Fox accomplish? He didn’t make it in his run across Canada.
    Steve Fonyo had the same handicap, took up the same cause, and did finish, but who remembers him? Rick Hansen accomplished his goal, but no one runs/rides for his cause, not is he the object of outpourings of affection, however maudlin.
    Two guys with handicaps tackle, and finish, very difficult tasks, and we put them on the back shelf, but the guy who tries and fails, for him we break out the band, and want to declare him a national hero? No thanks.

  18. They night he fell, an impromptu telethon was hosted by Anne Murray and Bryan Adams, and in one night raised over $20 million for cancer research. Every year since then millions of dollars are raised annually at Terry Fox runs worldwide.
    As for Steve Fonyo: Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. Without looking it up, who was the first Apollo 12 astronaut to walk on the moon?

  19. Here’s an online poll about the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline
    http://www.cfax1070.com
    (scroll down a ways, and look for the poll on the left side of the page).
    SDA readers might like to participate in that one?

  20. O’s snowballs.
    …-
    “Medtronic Is Biggest Yet to Renounce U.S. Tax Citizenship”
    “Such transactions have begun to snowball within parts of the health-care and oil industries as companies still without a foreign domicile try to catch up with those that have gone offshore.”
    “Medtronic Inc. (MDT), the globe-spanning medical device maker founded in a Minneapolis garage in 1949, is poised to become the biggest company yet to escape the U.S. tax system by shifting its incorporation abroad.
    Medtronic said yesterday it plans to take a legal address in tax-friendly Ireland as part of a $42.9 billion takeover of Covidien Plc. (COV) Although Covidien is run from Mansfield, Massachusetts, it’s been incorporated in Ireland since 2009.
    Minneapolis-based Medtronic joins some 44 American companies that have reincorporated abroad or struck plans to do so, including 14 in a recent wave of moves that began in 2012.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-16/medtronic-is-biggest-firm-yet-to-renounce-u-s-tax-status.html

  21. “thousands of Africans dying because of high food prices”
    Prior to independence from colonialism Africa fed itself and exported food to the world. Don’t blame Africa’s inability to feed itself on anyone but Africans. They can feed themselves or starve, it’s THEIR problem.

  22. O’narcissist’s Saigon.
    …-
    “West evacuates Iraq staff as US-Iran talks broached”
    “Western embassies began evacuating staff from Baghdad on Monday despite Iraq’s claim it was repelling militants who have captured vast amounts of territory in a lightning offensive that has shaken regional stability.”
    “The diplomatic evacuation, confirmed thus far by the United States and Australia, was coupled with the announcement from Washington that the country’s sprawling embassy — which sits in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone — would receive even more security.”
    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/west-evacuates-iraq-staff/1165140.html

  23. Talk about an on-line poll having gone terribly wrong! I don’t know what bright spark at the Department of Heritage had that bright idea, but Minister Glover should turf him or her as soon as possible. It is claimed that 12,000 people — most, no doubt, CBC groupies — responded to the poll while most of us were busy working to pay for this nonsense.

  25. “‘Foreign Legion’ in Iraq and Syria may bring jihad to West
    CNN”
    …-
    Belmont Club:
    “The horrifying implications of treating Islam as an enemy akin to Nazism were explored in 2003 in my essay The Three Conjectures.”
    “Long before 3,000 New Yorkers died on September 11, Iraq and Iran killed 500,000 Muslims between them. The greatest threat to Muslims is radical Islam; and the greatest threat of all is a radical Islam armed with weapons of mass destruction.
    Conjecture 3: The War on Terror is the ‘Golden Hour’ — the final chance
    It is supremely ironic that the survival of the Islamic world should hinge on an American victory in the War on Terror, the last chance to prevent that terrible day in which all the decisions will have already been made for us. That effort really consists of two separate aspects: a campaign to destroy the locus of militant Islam and prevent their acquisition of WMDs; and an attempt to awaken the world to the urgency of the threat. While American arms have proven irresistible, much of Europe, as well as moderates in the Islamic world, remain blind to the danger and indeed increase it.”
    http://belmontclub.blogspot.com.au/2003/09/three-conjectures-pew-poll-finds-40-of.html

  26. “Kelly McParland: The West is again caught flatfooted by Islamists’ bottomless tolerance for blood”
    “Almost 13 years after 9/11 the West can still be caught flatfooted by the Islamist world’s bottomless tolerance for blood.”
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/06/16/kelly-mcparland-the-west-is-again-caught-flatfooted-by-islamists-bottomless-tolerance-for-blood/
    …-
    “Conjecture 2: Attaining WMDs will destroy Islam”
    “The most startling result of this analysis is that a catastrophic outcome for Islam is guaranteed whether America retaliates or not. Even if the President decided to let all Americans die to expiate their historical guilt, why would Islamic terrorists stop after that? They would move on to Europe and Asia until finally China, Russia, Japan, India or Israel, none of them squeamish, wrote -1 x 10^9 in the final right hand column. They too would be prisoners of the same dynamic, and they too have weapons of mass destruction.
    Even if Islam killed every non-Muslim on earth they would almost certainly continue to kill each other with their new-found weaponry.”
    http://belmontclub.blogspot.com.au/2003/09/three-conjectures-pew-poll-finds-40-of.html

  27. KevinB – I remember sitting with Mr. Fonyo at a pub in Whiterock, and him complaining about how mistreated he had been (I was buying, but not for long). A while later he could be seen in New West straggling along with the rest of the crackheads thereabouts. It seems that things went from bad to worse for him, and his wife, paramour, whatever. Haven’t seen or heard from him since, but hope he finally got his act together and accepted the fact that life is pretty much what we make of it – I’ve had to, though it never involved anything much more than beer and cigs.

  28. One Canadian I’ve often thought of, was Joe Borowski. Though he died young, he went from a committed New Democrat (we all make mistakes) and moved all the way to the right, condemning the land’s abortion laws, and discredited by his former buddies.

  29. Christy IMF’s gone fishing in O’s reeling.
    “On Monday, Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, told U.S. reporters that the effect of spreading Iraqi violence on oil markets could send the U.S. economy reeling.”
    …-
    “Northern Gateway pipeline decision awaited anxiously by world desperate for secure oil”
    “The U.S.-based IHS Energy think tank sees three primary countries as key oil export sources over the next decade or so: Canada, Brazil and Iraq. And it is the brutal sectarian civil war currently roiling Iraq that has energy markets reacting violently to the risks to supplies from that country, which was expected to provide the majority of new OPEC production over the long term.
    On Monday, Christine Lagarde, the IMF’s managing director, told U.S. reporters that the effect of spreading Iraqi violence on oil markets could send the U.S. economy reeling.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/06/16/northern-gateway-pipeline-decision-awaited-anxiously-by-world-desperate-for-secure-oil/?__lsa=66dd-8955

  30. “Casey Kasem, Anti-American, Anti-Israel Creep, Buh-Bye – RIH”
    “**** UPDATE: Casey Kasem Hosted Anti-Semitic Palestinian Event Featuring Jew-Hater, Holocaust Denier ****
    So, radio disc jockey Casey Kasem is dead at 82. No tears from me. As recent readers will note, I pointed out that Kasem has a long history of anti-American, Israel-hating activism, which includes support for HAMAS and its terrorist activity against Israel.”
    “Kasem supported Islamic terrorists and publicly opposed Israel’s efforts to fight them, every step of the way. Kemal Amin Kasem (his real name) was a Druze Arab who was a constant presence at Arab and Muslim rallies and events against Israel. He was also a frequent participant in anti-American protests. He was a darling of the left. Read all the details here.”
    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/72484/casey-kasem-anti-american-anti-israel-creep-buh-bye/

  31. You can call me Mo, you can … Moh, you … Moham… you … Mohamm …
    “#iraq . Some people call it the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Others call it the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Why does the Al Qaeda splinter group have more than one name?”
    …-
    “You can call me Ray, you can call me Jay…
    Ahh, ya doesn’t has to call me Johnson! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ… but ya doesn’t hafta call me Johnson.”
    http://bobcongdon.net/blog/2003/09/you-can-call-me-ray-you-can-call-me-jay/

  32. Pretty crass there Keven. Remember, Terry Fox was the first to attempt this awareness stunt and the fact that he didn’t make it was because of the disease he was fighting.Mr Fonyo did a great job but his personal life gave him an alternate image that didn’t help his image or legacy. Rick Hansen should be in the list of Great Canadians.He was and still is an inspiration for all of us.
    As to the survey, I guess they only picked twenty something eco-green leftoid university poly-sci students. They must not teach Canadian history anymore. Like what did St Jack of Layton contribute to Canada besides pushing a woman out of the way for a camera shot in a pub?

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