I guess I would consider Andrew Coyne one of Canada's more reasonable columnists.

But then, it is sorta telling that many of his commenters can hold their own when discussing gov't budgets with the "high-powered" journalist.

How on earth would Taber, VanDusen, Oliver, Galloway, Boag make out ?? On ANY subject ??

I was a middleman also, back in the early 90s.

Had to threaten the Wpg free Press to get them to stop delivery. No, not even for "free". Bad for one's mental health and all that. Clogs up the incinerator. Just a waste of trees.

Did not want Frances Russel, of Michael Wilson episode, anywhere near my kids either.

Don't know anything about MSM readership in TO but I went into a local coffee shop this AM and saw an open stand full of today's Edmonton Journal saying "Free from your local coffee shop. I didn't pick one up and the clerk asked me to take one. "Why", I said, "can't you give them away?" "Yeah," said the clerk, "and the night cleaners don't like taking all that paper out to the garbage bin either".

Why not go to
http://www.boycottgas.ca/

and join the thousands of Canadians all across the country who will be boycotting a different gas company each month.
If you are getting tired of high (i.e. gouging) prices(its 1.14 in Vancouver today)this is your change to try and make a difference.

That's too funny Joe!! I have had the Edmonton Journal calling me and asking me to subscribe, I always tell them no, I'm not interested because of the papers political bias, they hang up pretty fast.

The Vancouver Sun will allow David Suzuki free reign, as editor, for a day in May.

//www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=5ea07880-3a33-4aaa-b128-a694a5595992&k=30962

I emailed the editor in chief, Patricia Graham and all (17) columnists to ask why ?? Why someone, who faithfully follows a guy like Al Gore around the Globe, spreading falsehoods and fear ??

I realize it is Saturday, but so far, 12 hrs, not one response. Zero.

March 25th is the International Day of the Unborn Child.

I have a hunch that there are more late-term abortions than the official statistics let on, and I explain why on my blog.

It's all still a hunch at this point, but it's a hunch with some basis in fact. I learned many things doing the research.

Coming up to the big 5,000,000 soon, eh Kate? :)

Readers may enjoy Tarek Fatah's response to an article about Muslim women being required to remove or lift headwear in order to vote in Monday's Quebec election:

"When will someone gather the courage to ask these masked women the question: 'Where in Islam is the Burka or the Hijab a mandatory or even a recommended attire for women?'"

http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20070323_091928_4828#comments

Ron in Kelowna,

Although I never read that POS paper we have it delivered. I'll do my part on the whole GW thing - if anyone can give me Suzuki's home address, I'll send him the May 5 paper.

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So here we go again. Another illegal aboriginal
occupation of private property.

Where is Dalton McGuinty on this one?

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One thousand years ago, we had the 'Medieval Warm Period'. A few degrees WARMER than today. Times were good, crops were good, even in Greenland.

Ten thousand years ago, ice age, most of Canada was under a kilometer of ice. A few degrees COLDER than today. Life was hard :(

~~ THE DATA NOT SKEWED POLL ~~

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Which would you prefer ??

O Medieval Warm

O Ice Age Cold

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Results, accurate 19 times out of 20

O Cold 1% -

O Warm 99% --------------------------------------

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* As with all major media polls, data and a list of those polled is not available.

Well if Gloria thinks that a hit in the polls,loosing another MP or possibly 2 to the budget and then reaching into a 7 year old garbag bin for recycled news stories constitutes a good week for the Liberals . Then I hope they have a series of good weeks just like this one before we run to the poles.

The Liberal MP's used to line up to give up their seats for a lifetime appointment to the senate, or be President of Canada Post at $400,000 a year, Chairman of Canadian Mint at $375,000 a year,or your pick of Ambassadorships, board positions etc. etc.
Only a fool would think they didn't give up their seat for the money or weren't bribed to open up a seat.

Gloriacious!! Sleeping with a Lib organizer would surely cloud anyone's thinking let alone one already clouded.
If she can convince her bedfellow to put Dion and his verbiage more in the publics face, bring him on, it's working well as it is, FOR THE CONSERVATIVES, think of what will happen when we see more of Him!

Do we need more proof the Press Gallery are living in a bubble and need to get out more?

Gloria Galloway, naked, having sex.

Thanks Kate. There's a visual i never wanted to imagine. I'm probably scarred for life now and will undergo years of Pshyco-therapy.

A Liberal is a LiberaL: The best of a liberal and a liberal finds a calling

Since this is a readers tips - I just wanted to pass along this part of a comment from a Liberal named Gayle who frequently posts on Red Tory's site and on Dark Blue Tory's site. To me, it shows the thinking of the left regarding crime.

Have at her..... by the way - she is discussing rape.

"Increasing sentences will not erase the feeling of powerlessness. Sorry to keep doing this, but this is one area where I have done a lot of research (for a paper in university). I spent some time at a sexual assault crisis centre. The counsellors there told me that they believe in the long run it is better for the victim not to report the crime, and to focus her energy on her own recovery. I will tell you something else - from my own experience I think this is sage advice, and it is advice I have given to others"

If you want to discuss it directly with her you can head over to...

http://www.darkbluetorytwo.blogspot.com/

I for one am incredulous that anyone could think this, let alone anyone in the position of assisting victims.

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Those uncivilised Albertans. We've just gotta
do something about these cowboys...

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Did anybody catch Gerard Kennedy on QP today? Again, so rude- spewing out rhetoric; talking over everybody and, one of the absolute worst social gestures in any conversation, jabbing his finger at the other panelists.

What gives? This guy may or may not have political acumen but he absolutely is a terrible panelist. If I was the NDP or Conservatives I would refuse to send reps. on any panel with this rude person unless the moderators forbid him to interupt, talk over everyone else and hurl insults without being called to task. For example -today Kennedy inplied that Harper and the Conservatives are "against" anybody in a turban. Disgusting.

Mcirosoft Drops Supplier For Being Too White, Too Male:

Employers have again been warned to tighten their diversity practices after it emerged that Microsoft UK stopped using a supplier due to its poor policy on the issue.

Dave Gartenberg, HR director at Microsoft UK, told Personnel Today that the global IT firm was increasingly looking at its suppliers' diversity policies.

"In one case, we changed provider because they were cavalier towards the topic," he said. "They were supplying a perfectly good service, but we stopped using them."
...
The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) confirmed that private firms were now increasingly insisting on good diversity practices from their suppliers.

www.personneltoday.com/Articles/2007/03/20/39766/firms-warned-to-develop-diversity-policies-after-microsoft-ditches.html

That bully, Harper, again. Edmonton gets it all; Cuebec is cut off, too. Tsk, tsk.
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This is war: Councillors furious at province

Hamilton council — except for the mayor — has declared war on the province for its budget.

Tempers flared at City Hall yesterday in the wake of Thursday’s Ontario budget. Councillors are outraged that the Liberal government gave the city less than expected to cover social services, but started to pick up the tab for richer GTA municipalities. ...-
via jack's newswatch

Lorraine. Say what you want about Gerard Kennedy (though I agree with you), and his "talk over you points," he has done a great service to the CPC and Stephen Harper. After all, he was the kingmaker that brought Dionsky to the head of the once proud, now humbled, LPC. Maybe he is compensating for that reality with his rudeness. He is above all, like many in his party, a hypocrite who can sling the mud real good, but gets "offended" when it gets returned. There is no credibility, and there is no point debating these thugs, their interest is not policy difference discussion, just using rhetorical traps and equivalencies, in a desperate attempt to get traction for their party and their leader.

Also, Goldy is not the man to be in these scrum discussions on QP; he's way too nice a guy.

Liberals can't stand that they are on the outside looking in, have lost access to the treasury for their patronage, and must know that the CPC has way more money to sling mud, bringing to light that the LPC hasn't changed its tactics, has moved seriously to the left under Dionsky, and finally are acutely aware that they have not repaid the millions they stole from taxpayers.

Everything they say or do is being logged, categorized, and organized in preparation for the mother of all mudslinging battles, the next federal election. It will be extra nasty because, if Harper gets his majority, they will control committees, thus information and investigations. Some Liberals will surely go to jail when this happens.

That is why they are terrified. Kennedy has done a great service to the CPC by facilitating Dionsky's leadership. The Liberal A-team has, and is, sitting this one out, waiting for the opportunity to jump back in and restore the LPC to its natural governing steady state. Are they concerned about CPC majority? Quite likely they are, and evidence of that will be if they get involved in the mudslinging in next election. For now, Sheila Copps wonders if Harper's "bullying" will hurt him in the end.

I'm loving every minute of this, watching Liberals hoisted on their own petard.

John Edwards gets pretty...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q

The prime minister is planning a high-profile trip to Latin America and the Caribbean this summer, government sources say, in a bid to raise Canada's profile and strengthen ties with a host of new leaders in the region. (national newswatch)

After this trip, PM Citoyen Dion is sailing to London, GB, via Paree, FR, where Dion will demand QE's resignation. ...-

A report from the "I wish I had said that*." Dept.
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Federal Fallout from Tomorrow's Election

[...]

"Outside of Quebec, Canadians will realize (if they haven't already) that Stephen Harper is our greatest combatant against separatists. Stephen Harper, more than any single politician in the land, is best equipped to send separatists scurrying under rocks and up trees in dizzy fear."
http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com

(*Walk softly and carry a big Quebec stick.)

Interesting discussion at darkbluetorytwo.blogspot.com
A pro-Dion commenter has clarified that she is 'soft on crime'in her comments re: rape victims.(claims she works on the front lines)
...encouraging rape victims to not report rape.
She is against Harper's 'tough on crime' policy.
Under:"Libs are desperate " with 'the poll' posted.
And we thought Libs had women's issues at heart...!!!

Chucker says go to Cherniak: Chow-NDP down and dirty? Let mmeeee be very clear (AdScam Paul, Jr.,);Chow's a cheat? Bully? Bigot?
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Cherniak:

Let's face it. People cheat in politics. It's not a good thing. It shouldn't happen. But it does. The rumour around TO (Let me be very clear; I am not suggesting that the rumour is true. I am only stating that it is out there.) is that Olivia Chow won because NDP supporters from across the city voted early and often at different polling stations in Trinity-Spadina. I don't know if it's true,...
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http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/

Agree with Lorraine re Kennedy. If I were on a panel with him I'd get up and leave him to it, it would make a dramatic statement on a TV program like QP with twit Taber and past his best by date, Oliver.

Shamrock, you're right when you say he did the Conservatives a favor by swinging with Dion.
He also put himself out of contention as a credible politician, the guy is nothing but an obnoxious spin master afflicted with verbal diarrhea. He has a lot in common with his leader, the more we see of him the worse it is for the Liberals.

Implying that Harper and Conservatives are against anybody in a turban can only be categorized as
pure vitriolic slime coming from a desperate person.

This is a new low, er, lower. But, the hilariest is in the comments: see the story re LBJ and the pig farmer. Klingons have landed.

Cherniak

"It is not the same as accusing her of having relations with sheep, because that is not a real rumour..."

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Where religion and security collide.

I've gotta say, I have a tad more sympathy for a religious sect
with a proven history of... pacifism.

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Source Of Hot European Summers Determined

Source of hot European summers determined

PALAISEAU, France, March 22 (UPI) -- French-led research suggests shortages of winter rainfall over southern Europe precede hot summers further north on the European continent.

Robert Vautard of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute in Palaiseau, France, and colleagues analyzed meteorological records of the past 58 years and determine dry conditions around the northern Mediterranean create a mass of anomalously warm, dry air that spreads northward during early summer.

The researchers detected the pattern while searching for previously undiscovered weather scenarios that explain heat waves, such as the one experienced by Europe in the summer of 2003.

Because dry soil inhibits convective cloud formation, the authors suggest soil water contents in Europe's Mediterranean regions play a critical role in the maintenance of climate across Europe. They also found winter and early spring rainfall frequency in the Mediterranean regions correlates with summer temperature in continental Europe.

The study appears in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. ...-

Commenter says:
No reference to global warming? I'm shocked.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806651/posts

On Question Period Gerard Kennedy who was recently hired by Dion (obviously to make drive by smears and call people racists) fulfilled his duties this morning when he said the following about Stephen Harper.

"Why was he picking on people that wear turbans, that look different?"

It was only as recent as last week that Dion was whimpering and accusing Harper of drive by smears and it turns out Dion has hired someone full time to do that for the Liberal party. It was a questionable accusation of Harper but Kennedy leaves no doubt in his smear of Harper and his racist accusation.

Journalists from Red TO Star & CBC, aka Canadian Liberal-Socialist Bank? Where? When? Why? Ye Olde Bank of Canada Exec's Club.

Say: Pass the pork, please.
Pass the pork, please.
Delicious... oink...
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"Internal records show invitees last year included journalists (Toronto Star, CBC), scholars (Rutgers University, University of Western Ontario), lobbyists (Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Canadian Labour Congress), and bankers (State Bank of Pakistan, Central Bank of Barbados)."...-
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=cp_b032511A.xml&show_article=1&catnum=0

In honor of the 25th anniversary this year of Blade Runner, I present The Great Science Fiction Movie Poll:

http://robot_guy.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-science-fiction-movie-poll.html

There's a list of 134 scifi movies there for the first round, pick your favorite 25. Polling closes in a week, the top 16 will move on to a playoff round. By the end of April the field will be narrowed down to one, the greatest scifi movie ever.

Kate, nearly 5 big ones. congrats. Stumbled across this archive about you while doing a search on something else.

McMillan found she was commenting so much on other people's blogs that she decided to start her own. "It's like hitchhiker's guilt. If you're always hitchhiking, at some point you realize the people in the cars are always recognizing you. When that happens, it's time to get your own."

Originally published:
The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Saturday, August 27, 2005

Ed, why in the hell is 'An Inconvenient Truth' not on the list ?? A shoo-in for another award.

Dionista's Dionfiberals have flipped-flopped, again.

Ken Dryden is hung out to drying. Libs cut'n'run from their socialist "Universal Child Care".

But, beware: Are the Fibs playing the takkiya game?
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Liberals Rethinking Child Care

Party denies it will kill Tory program if in power

Federal Liberals are attempting to revamp the party's child-care policy in a bid to blunt charges they would cancel the universal child-care allowance of $100 a month if they were returned to power.
national newswatch

Grits chew on nutty rhetoric

By EZRA LEVANT
[...]

According to the Geneva Conventions, the Red Cross has the right to visit prisoners of war. But Article 4 of the Third Geneva Conventions is clear: Terrorists are not considered prisoners of war, and are not entitled to the same legal courtesies as soldiers who are part of a chain of command, wear a uniform, and bear arms openly. Taliban terrorists don't meet those tests. But don't tell that to the Liberal Party of Canada, who pressed the government at length.

After a few rounds of that, Prime Minister Stephen Harper shot back. "I can understand the passion that the leader of the Opposition and members of his party feel for the Taliban prisoners. I just wish occasionally they would show the same passion for Canadian soldiers."

The Liberals exploded in a splutter of rage. Insults in Parliament are generally ignored, but this one hurt because it rang true. Nothing that Harper could say would prove that truer than the Liberal reply, though. [...]

Coderre's reply shouldn't come as a surprise. Last summer, he marched in a rally in Montreal opposing Israel's war against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.

Coderre proudly marched along with many waving Hezbollah flags -- a group that is officially a criminal organization in Canada. More recently, he engaged in a smear campaign against Rick Hillier, the chief of Canada's defence staff. Coderre should look at his party's title more carefully -- they're supposed to be Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. ...-
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2007/03/26/3836080-sun.html

"Compassion Society", aka left-liberalism-socialism: Crime & Death.
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Two charged in drug raid

The London Compassion Society, providing therapeutic marijuana, has been shut down.

Drugs worth nearly $1 million -- including 840 marijuana plants -- were found in several units of a downtown building raided by London drug squad officers.

The office of the London Compassion Society was one of four units at 343 Richmond St. searched by police on Saturday.

Officers seized 840 marijuana plants, marijuana, magic mushrooms, LSD, cocaine and $22,000 in Canadian and American currency, police said yesterday.

Peter Young, 36, of St. Thomas, and Rob Newman, 45, of London, are charged with several drug-related offences, including possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. ...-
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2007/03/26/pf-3835913.html

Vive le Canada libre.

Vive les provinces libre.

Long live open federalism, including Alberta, Sask, etc.
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Separatist movement at dead end
[,,,]

[Dumont:]
"There is now an open federalism in Ottawa and the winning thing for Quebecers is to unite around autonomy."

Wanna boost your traffic??
Be fortunate enough to get picked up by Kate.
Thanks Kate - only about an extra 600 hits with your picking up my Newman Duff Live Blogging

Say it isn't so, Ravishing Ruby says the Liberals will keep the Conservative Child Care Plan. Geeze. did she consult with Me Stop Pucks Dryden? He's been ranting against it as late as last week, what the hell's going on there???

Say it isn't so, Ravishing Ruby says the Liberals will keep the Conservative Child Care Plan. Geeze. did she consult with Me Stop Pucks Dryden? He's been ranting against it as late as last week, what the hell's going on there???

Maz2 puts a lot of good links on here and this one is an eye opener.

Go to LGF and scroll down past the nekked tree huggers to the short U-Tube UN Human Rights talk.

littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Was ex-UN ambassador Bolton correct when he said the UN was no longer serving a purpose and it should be disbanded in favour of more fair and democratic authority?

Is this the prime symptom of UN sickness? = TG