"he's [Graham] an honourable man" says the Liberal source.

The Hill Times, May 8th, 2006
NEWS STORY
By F. Abbas Rana
Libs in no hurry to bring down Harper's government

"I don't think it's to anybody's advantage to defeat the government. Who are we going to the election with? Bill Graham? Nothing personally against him, he's an honourable man, but he's an unelected appointed interim leader. Why would anyone want Bill Graham to be Prime Minister. Forget it. You are going to see leadership camps asking their people [MPs] not to show up for the vote if there's a danger that the government will be defeated," said the Liberal source."
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13276.8

FrontPage magazine.com :: Bill Graham: Canada’s Latest Shame by ...
Does the Prime Minister sit in Cabinet and say: “Ok, we need Bill Graham to ... but has simultaneously had, and still might have, a 15-year-old boyfriend? ...
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=221 - 37k - 6 May 2006 -

Aunty-American/Canadian blogs at countmeout.ca . +

Bloggers link Canadian Census to Iraq War

Blogs spreading census conspiracy theories and a passive-resistance movement linking the census to the Iraq war are complicating matters for Statistics Canada as the May 16 deadline for filling in the data forms looms. + nealenews

Excerpt:
"That hasn't satisfied critics like Rogers, a former city councillor in Kingston, Ont., and founder of CountMeOut.ca.

He said he fears the U.S. government could somehow still access the data.

"There's (also) a moral repugnance to using public money to contract out to a weapons manufacturer," he said.

"It's another manifestation of the road to deep integration with the U.S. and the loss of Canadian sovereignty. It's also a loss of census jobs for Canadians."

Rogers' website advocates a new type of civil disobedience "minimum co-operation" with the census. That could involve stalling asking for large-print forms, filling out one form per person rather than per household and not filing online.

Or it could involve "creative" ways to thwart the scanners, such as spilling coffee on a form, not writing answers in the provided areas, putting a sticker over the bar code or writing upside down."
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13276.9

Posted by bigroy:

love it .... love it .... just looooooove it!!

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=d43fddba-14d0-460f-8565-8bd4ee56272b

Yesterday, under blue skies, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, including 30 veterans, defiantly marched along Sherbrooke St. W. despite orders from the city of Montreal that the 74-year-old traditional route be changed to de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. and Ste. Catherine St. W. for security reasons +
http://www.voy.com/178771/9080.html

Defiant Black Watch takes traditional parade route

SUE MONTGOMERY, The Gazette
Published: Monday, May 08, 2006

Canada's oldest Highland regiment fought city hall and won.

Yesterday, under blue skies, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, including 30 veterans, defiantly marched along Sherbrooke St. W. despite orders from the city of Montreal that the 74-year-old traditional route be changed to de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. and Ste. Catherine St. W. for security reasons.

Bystanders cheered, clapped and snapped photos of the pipers, drummers, cadets and veterans as they made their way along the forbidden route. +

Motto of the Black Watch:

Nemo Me Impune Lacessit/No One Touches Me With Impunity

Nickname: The Ladies From Hell (WW I)

The Black Watch is the oldest highland regiment in Canada. Volunteers have served since the regiment's inception in Montreal on January 31st, 1862 as 5th Battalion, Royal Light Infantry. The rise of American military strength during the Civil War concerned Canada. The government authorized formation of militia regiments. Each of six Montreal Scottish chieftains responded by raising an infantry company for the 5th Battalion. Eventually, eight companies were raised for border service. Since then, thousands of Canadian citizens have served in the Black Watch.

In addition to Canadian border security, they have fought in the Boer War, WW1, WW2, Korean War; bolstered NATO operations in Europe and UN peacekeeping worldwide; and provided aid-to-the-civil-power, most recently during the Quebec and Eastern Ontario ice storm disaster.

In the year 2000, the Black Watch battalion earned the distinction of being selected as the best unit in Québec's 34 Brigade. This important award, called the Dubuc trophy, was again won for 2002, a second time in three years. +
http://www.blackwatchcanada.com/en/index.htm

test

"The first of the two firearms contracts." Hmmm- and how many 'firearms contracts' did these maggots get? And where the hell is Sheila Fraser's report on the gun registry?

Seems I have to put in the email address after *post comment*.

Probly because I may not have filled it in completely previously.

It makes an effective auto-spam foil in any case. TG

The natural end result of Librano$/NDP socialist hug-a-thug "laws". +

Father, 91, beaten, in his house, by 4 maggot/rats. +

A Son's Outrage
Melody Strano
Monday, May 8, 2006

Ken Hyde wants to know "what the hell is wrong with society?"

Hyde is fuming today following the beating of his elderly father on Friday night.

Harold Hyde is still in hospital today after four men broke into his Blossom Park home, beat and then gagged him.

His son Ken, who found him lying tied up on Saturday, says he wants the suspects prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Hyde is being treated at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital.

He's reported to be in good spirits. +
cfra.com

B.C. bus driver badly beaten over 50-cent dispute

Updated Mon. May. 8 2006 6:32 AM ET

CTV.ca News

The colleagues of a British Columbia bus driver are demanding better security after a violent daylight attack over a 50-cent dispute.

Two teenagers allegedly attacked the 57-year-old driver in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam when he asked a third teen to get off the bus because his fare was 50 cents short. +
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13276.11

Can a non-partisan write a more glowing article about a politician? WOW! Read it all. Cheers. And down, Chantal, down!!!. LOLOL

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Harper on a roll in Quebec
Attracting more mainstream candidates in province could mellow Conservative party's hard-right edges
May 8, 2006. 01:00 AM
CHANTAL HÉBERT

It has to be a new era in Canada when the Prime Minister and the federalist premier of Quebec actually look happy to be together in the same room while the premier of Ontario cannot even get a photo op out of a get-acquainted session with his new federal counterpart.

In stark contrast with the furtive atmosphere that presided over Stephen Harper's first meeting with Dalton McGuinty in a Toronto hotel last Thursday, the mood in the Salon Rouge of the National Assembly was positively ebullient the next day at the signing of the first Canada-Quebec agreement of the Conservative mandate. + more
http://www.voy.com/178771/9271.html

"The new Conservative traction in Quebec may also be comforting to the many Canadians who are uncertain about the true character of the Harper government. Nothing stands to mellow its hard-right Conservative instincts more than the potential injection of a strong contingent of middle-of-the-road Quebecers in the next election.

Harper is presiding over a climate change in Quebec. If he is successful, it also stands to transform his party in ways that even he, a remarkable tactician, may not yet totally foresee."

TRANSLATION: "Quebecers seem to be flocking to the Conservative Party even more than they did in the election. That's good because they'll stop Harper and his neo-con right wingers from implementing their hidden agenda."

I'd opine that more and more people, and not just from Quebec, are flocking to the Conservatives because they're now seeing (contrasted to the desperate, hysterical Liberal pre-election lies) an honest, responsible, principled government in action.

After more than a decade of Liberal dishonest, irresponsible, unprincipled government, that change is even more refreshing and in more sharply contrasting relief.

Poster: Anonymeme. +

babble.caca in Trouble now

Even though they banned me from babble.caca, it appears I am still on their email list and they sent me the following appeal ... LOL:

From: mayday@rabble.ca
To: babble-members@rabble.ca
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006
Subject: [babble-members] Mayday! Mayday!

Dear Friend,

We are in trouble: that’s for sure. Wherever you look there is harm to the planet and its people. And then there is Stephen Harper.

But May Day is also a time for celebration, whether you choose a dance around the Maypole, a demonstration to celebrate workers’ rights and people’s power or just the delight in flowers that still manage to pop up from the ground.

We at rabble.ca are writing to you on May Day for both reasons. We need your help and we want to celebrate. Please donate now

With the help of people like you, rabble.ca has become the leading alternative online news service in Canada - with hundreds of thousands of visitors a month. We just celebrated our fifth birthday. We have become the progressive online news source that people can rely on. They come for the journalism, they stay for the community.

Over the last six months, we have expanded into a multi-media platform through the rabble podcast network with 35 podcasts on everything from movie reviews, to children’s stories, to the incisive political commentary you’ve come to expect from rabble. We’re challenging corporate control of book distribution by providing a book lounge with book reviews and an online bookstore featuring progressive books you won’t find in the mainstream.

We’ve initiated new revenue generating programs to make sure that we are here for five more years and into the future. And thanks to contributions from readers and supporters, we’ve been able to do all this and maintain open access to the site and discussion forums, keeping to the principle that access to news and ideas and participation in dialogue should be free and accessible to all.

We dream big at rabble. We imagine a time, soon, when we can bring you original investigative stories, on-demand news feeds, timely video and audio, more fresh content and a diversity of voices from coast to coast to coast. We want to push our boundaries and provide keen-edged tools for social change. We are also planning a major site redesign maintaining rabble’s clean good looks but making site navigation much easier.

Here is what we need:

Investigative reporting and diversity: $25,000 for a writers’ fund
On-Demand News Feeds: $5,000
Timely video and audio: $10,000
Site redesign: $20,000
Campaign tool kit: $5,000
On-going monthly expenses: $22,000

To move into the next generation of rabble.ca we need $65,000 so that is the goal of this fundraising campaign. We also need money to help us cover our monthly expenses as we build our revenue generation initiatives.

If everyone reading rabble could donate even $10 each we could make rabble a significant challenger to the corporate media but we know that won’t happen. So we are asking you to think about how much an independent media source means to you.

How much having a publication that tells it like it is without fear or favour means to you. How much having a community where you can discuss ideas with others who share your values means to you. How much having a consistent place on the web where everyone working for social change can meet each other, get the information they need and organize for change. And then donate here to donate online or send us a cheque to:

rabble.ca
PO Box 73560
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Toronto, ON M6C 1C0
Canada

We want to be a voice of reason, fairness and justice and make a difference our children will feel. We don't act from fear, we dream from hope.

And, we need your help.

Judy Rebick +
http://www.voy.com/178771/9262.htm
(Too hilarious just to post an excerpt; will not repeat)

Rabble.caca indeed....

Here is what we need:

Investigative reporting and diversity: $25,000 for a writers’ fund
On-Demand News Feeds: $5,000
Timely video and audio: $10,000
Site redesign: $20,000
Campaign tool kit: $5,000
On-going monthly expenses: $22,000

Get a *blogspot*.. economize! TG