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The other is in the Albert Hall.

Sir Winston Churchill: The Rarely-Seen Photos

"How Marine le Pen is winning France's gay vote."

h/t Instapundit

Shamrock posted in yesterdays Readers tips a link to Fifer asking Trudeau if he would 'hide in a closet' like PM Harper did.
No regard for RCMP protocol. Trudeau answers like a limp fish.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-regrets-in-expelling-mps-for-alleged-sexual-misconduct-trudeau-1.2171730

Related:

http://globalnews.ca/news/1798649/liberal-party-stands-by-candidate-who-sent-harper-hiding-in-a-closet-tweet/

Note to turdo la doo: tough guys don't brag.

http://canadianlandowneralliance.blogspot.ca/2015/01/hey-justin-wanna-bet.html

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/27/watch-obama-refer-to-himself-133-times-in-a-33-minute-speech/

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/climate-change-deniers-are-completely-insane/

“I am the infidel your Imam warned you about,”

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/01/28/jan-morgans-arkansas-muslim-free-gun-range-business-is-booming-and-even-the-justice-department-is-ignoring-cairs-demands-for-investigation/

If money changes everything then this could be California's greatest chance at salvation.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Koch-brothers-cash-will-wash-over-California-6044288.php

Michelle Obama learns the true status of women in the country her husband adores. Even her title of destroyer of school lunches carries little weight as a second class citizen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama/11373787/Michelle-Obama-causes-outrage-in-Saudi-Arabia-by-not-wearing-headscarf.html

Toronto Star, Wed., Jan. 28, Carol Goar tries to pull a fast one.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/01/27/public-investment-gives-private-ingenuity-a-springboard-goar.html

CG: "A generation ago, Canada’s capital was a talent magnet, a place to think big, work with smart people, take policy risks and steer public money into projects that would shape the nation’s future."

What were those projects and how did they work out? All I can think of is the waste, like Mirabel and Pickering airports. For every government project that works out fairly well, there's a bunch that don't.

Toronto is Ontario's capital, and look at how much damage a vast excess of government is doing to that province.

CG: "[Italian-born economist Mariana Mazzucato] is making an all-out effort to debunk the myths underlying the private-sector-good/public-sector-bad mindset, starting in the U.S. where it is most deeply entrenched."

Look, there is one big difference between the private sector and government. Government is coercive. It can push you around if it wants to. It can take your money at gunpoint if it wants to. There are no special insights or mystical revelations that government workers are exposed to that make their efforts superior to those of private sector workers. And unlike in the private sector, where everyone has to produce or get out, government workers often are protected from suffering the consequences of their actions when they go sour, which they frequently do. There is simply no reason to think that government can outperform the private sector over the long term, and not a shred of evidence.

CG: "... she demonstrates how cellphones, hydraulic tracking, the Internet and many other innovations Americans attribute to the genius of private entrepreneurs are actually adaptations of government research done in the 1960s or earlier."

True, but irrelevant. That research was not more productive by virtue of being done (or funded) by state personnel. Had that government research not been done, other uses for the money, including private sector research, would have been found instead. Some of the innovations might not have shown up so quickly, but others might have shown up earlier, and there might have been some heretofore unknown ones. There are no crystal balls to gaze into to play what-if.

The bottom line is that government is coercive, and coercion has no place in a free society. Government's job is to step in when citizens forget the rules against coercion.

cbc shooting bullshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Iraq_%282014%E2%80%93present%29

" A man from Tiny Township, Ont., has been charged with an indecent act for allegedly exposing himself to fellow drivers on Highway 401, near Chatham."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/man-exposed-genitals-while-driving-on-highway-401-opp-say-1.2932157

Toronto Star, Wed., Jan. 28. Commentary on the recent death of Makayla Sault, the aboriginal girl who refused chemotherapy, by Christopher Alcantara, professor of poli sci at Laurier.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/01/27/why-makayla-sault-was-allowed-to-die.html

CA: "Unlike the majority of commentators in the media, however, I was not outraged by her death or by the refusal of the courts to choose provincial legislation over Aboriginal rights. Instead, this outcome was simply the logical product of how Canada has chosen to balance and protect different and competing individual and group rights."

The right to life is an individual right. Each person should have the ultimate say over his or her own life. In this case the person was a child rather than an adult, but the law sometimes allows a child judged to be fairly mature to have a say over important decisions regarding their individual lives, even to their ultimate detriment.

We broadly respect the concept of "human life" and regret when a person loses theirs under questionable circumstances. But first and foremost it is an individual right at stake. Thus I can sympathize with his lack of outrage over the case.

However, I disagree strenuously that there is any such thing as "group rights", and I find it shocking that our fundamental legal documents should have any mention of these abominations. I would hope the wishes of a fairly mature 11-year-old from any other background would be treated with the same respect as Makayla Sault. Anything else would be discriminatory, and should be rejected out of hand.

CA: "The Charter of Rights and Freedoms gives all of us a set of individual rights by virtue of being citizens of Canada. At the same time, some Canadian citizens enjoy additional rights that accrue to them on the basis of their membership in one or more demographic or cultural groups. For instance, French-speaking Canadians have the right to communicate with the federal government in French whereas I, as a Filipino-Canadian, do not have the right to use Tagalog, a Filipino dialect, to do the same."

The Charter lists a number of individual rights (not necessarily enjoyed only by citizens), but unfortunately the Supreme Court of Canada, despite its frequent pretense to the contrary, has been engaged in a long campaign of narrowing many of the legitimate ones to the point of near-elimination (freedom of speech and expression, for example). It also lists a number of fake "rights" that shouldn't even be in it, which are often used to wreck the legitimate ones. Spurious group "rights" based on "membership in one or more demographic or cultural groups" are at the forefront of these.

The language example he uses is a poor one. Every person in Canada may communicate with the feds in either English or French. In this we are all equal; it is not an "additional right". If his own native language is neither of these founding languages of Canada, that he cannot use it for the same purpose is not an example of inequality.

CA: "... legislation like the Child and Family Service Act can rightly and justly be ignored by Indigenous community leaders and members. The special group rights that Indigenous groups have through Canada’s Constitution and through their treaties with us means that they have the right to make unilateral decisions affecting their communities and members within the confines of their traditional and evolving customs and practices."

All legislation, including the Child and Family Service Act, should either apply to everyone or to no one. Anything else is discriminatory. Again, if phony "group rights" give some people special privileges, they must be rejected.

In this case, they amount to a "right to die", which is nothing to be pleased about, but it's a unique situation.

There is some irony that many Canadians deplore the fact that First Nations trail the rest of Canada in demographic indicators like lifespan. Then a situation like this one comes along, which only makes the numbers worse (though very slightly for each single case).

We might inquire as to exactly which federal and provincial legislation Alcantara believes that First Nations or other designated groups have the "right" to ignore. The Criminal Code?

Bill Gates and global governance:

Gates went on to stress his position further, stating that a global government was “badly needed” in order to combat an array of issues ailing the planet.

“Take the UN, it has been created especially for the security in the world. We are ready for war, because we have taken every precaution. We have NATO, we have divisions, jeeps, trained people,” Gates said. “But what is with epidemics? How many doctors do we have as much planes, tents, what scientists? If there were such a thing as a world government, we would be better prepared.”

The billionaire made headlines last week after introducing a plan to implement a cashless system in multiple third-world countries, a program that would undoubtedly give financial elites total control over monetary systems.

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http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-calls-for-global-government/

Ontariowe: Home of Bolshevik Wynne.

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"Why is Premier Wynne being investigated by Elections Ontario?

In case you haven’t heard, and chances are you have not, the provincial riding of Sudbury is in the midst of a byelection.

And what started out as a simple democratic exercise and an opportunity to pick up a seat quickly turned into a political firestorm for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Here’s why."

http://www.canada.com/news/Premier+Wynne+being+investigated+Elections+Ontario/10761580/story.html

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"Ford confirms deal for former southern Ontario site is dead

LONDON, Ont. — Ford Motor Co. confirmed Tuesday a deal to sell its shut-down St. Thomas, Ont., assembly plant, which proponents say could have brought 1,500 jobs to the site, is dead."

http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/

PET Cemetery Report.

H/T Justiney, Kathy, and Benny.

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http://test435.sunnewsnetwork.ca/media_files/levin1.jpg

http://eyecrazy.blogspot.ca/2015/01/kathleen-wynne-pushes-ben-levin-kiddie.html

As it was in das Weimar, so shall it be in Ontario.

http://canadianlandowneralliance.blogspot.ca/2015/01/town-vs-country.html

Doesn't matter what happens. At the end of the day, Ontario will continue to get the same high level of government competence they voted for.

This will be a major controversy in our society. How can the government through judges change our wills to meet their perspective. What is the sense of making a will if your wishes are just overturned by the government?

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/28/newmarket-judge-sets-aside-racist-will

Mao* Strong Report.

"China*, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide,".

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"The air pollution that's choking Asia"

"In 2010, 40% of the world's premature deaths caused by air pollution were in China, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, according to a survey published in the Lancet. The University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health reported more than 3,000 premature deaths in the city in 2013, and the situation in many mainland Chinese cities is reckoned to be far worse."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/27/asia/asia-air-pollution-haze/index.html

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"Beijing smog makes city unliveable, says mayor"

"Polluting factories and skyrocketing vehicle ownership blamed as report finds tourism to Chinese city falls 10% on year before"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/28/beijing-smog-unliveable-mayor-wang-anshun-china

*Liberal Justine's favourite dictator.

Anyone surprised? 90% of the twisty bulbs are winding up in landfills.

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/energy-saving-bulbs-tossed-in-trash-leaking-mercury-into-environment-1.2209110

So of course the Liberal solution is to ban the disposal of the bulbs in landfills. No idea how they are going to accomplish that. Maybe they will hire trash police to go through your garbage. I suppose they will push for a deposit or a recycling fee when people buy them. Or maybe people could just box them up and send them to their MPP.

"Judge rejects Ontario man’s ‘racist will’ that disinherited daughter for having ‘bastard white son’"

"“In September 2002, Verolin’s relationship with her father came to a dramatic end. She told her father that she was pregnant and that the father of her child was Caucasian."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/judge-rejects-ontario-mans-racist-will-that-disinherited-daughter-for-having-bastard-white-son/

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"Political Correctness is the Essence of Leftism"

"“In a widely praised piece for New York Magazine, liberal writer Jonathan Chait says the leftist language police are perverting liberalism,” Sean Davis writes at the Federalist. “Chait is wrong. The politically correct language police don’t pervert modern liberalism; they embody it. And amateur leftist thought cop Jonathan Chait himself is proof.” Read the whole thing, including this passage:

Now, some will say that Chait has been unnecessarily provocative in his writing. That he should’ve made a better effort to reach out to the people he’s criticizing."

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2015/01/27/jonathan-chait-anti-pc/

How many times and for how long will the Grits keep propping up this corpse? No I don't mean Scott Brison.

More government waste and incompetence - weaker economy:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/scott-brison-more-infrastructure-stronger-economy/

Media Party bs:

"The answer is that the Harper government finds itself in the unusual position of having the support of a majority of the Canadian people."

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http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/29/john-ivison-tories-open-about-iraq-mission-because-the-majority-of-people-actually-support-it/