Glad to see the Post is covering this. It will be amusing to see how the other's spin it.
or frightening.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=c5acba97-179b-45d0-aadd-3cf525c4b5c8

Canadian activists consort with terrorists at an anti-Zionist conference in Cairo.

It's official. I'll be marking my ballot "none of the above" after seeing this announcement from Manitoba PC leader Hughie McFadyen:

"We need to increase Manitoba's cool factor if we want our young people to stay. The first step is to bring back the Jets."

Right. It's the "first" step. And what about lower taxes, a better regulatory environment that might attract jobs and industry to Manitoba, or roads that don't trash your car's suspension? Those things are irrelevant to keeping young people in our province. After all, the only reason that everyone under 30 goes to Fort McMurray to work is because of their NHL franchise, right?

No doubt about it: Hughie's pretty much a complete idiot.

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His father's looks, his mother's brain.

Along with AGWN's "Chakmate", surely a contender
for "Pithy Title of the Month."

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Actually, I agree with Justin Trudeau. What his father's Charter did with regard to language, is deeply divisive to Canada.

Bilingualism defines people as members of a distinct and closed group, defined as members by their hereditary language. That rejects language as a method of communication and sets it up as a political attribute. The group then uses this identification to garner political authority over the behaviour of its internal members and over the behaviour of others to it. And, it uses that political clout to obotain taxpayer dollars to fund its ongoing existence.

Result? People locked into isolate communities, adversarial with each other, competing for power and money.

Before the Charter, we didn't define Canada as 'Quebec and the ROC'. Now we do - and that division has been achieved by locking people into linguistic communities.

I agree with Justin; the schools should be integrated; Canadians should use their languages to communicate with each other. Not to isolate themselves into adversarial groups.

I just had to be sure, so I checked both CTV and CBC and neither one of them (as of 10:40) had anything on their websites about the riots in France.

It makes it really easy for the Left to overcome such despicable behavior when it's not reported. Just imagine if it were the other way around.

Also nice to note that the Yahoo story also used the standard refrain "Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative who beat Socialist Segolene Royal in a runoff Sunday, is a divisive figure..."

So very angry...

Peace frog Lacombe sez: "For us it's just a question of dialogue and clarity, of being able to meet with people who have experienced war over the course of the last few years,"

Then they might want to "dialogue and clarify" with some Israeli, Iraqi or Afghani civilians who have been wounded or lost loved ones due to terror bombings from the criminal swine Lacombe is nuzzleing up to.

Bloody craven butt-wipe!

Seems every generation produces a cult of academic dyslexics that are unable to tell friend from foe, or right from evil.

"I had a pony. My sister had pony, my cousin had pony, EVERYONE had pony."

Breaking news from cbc. Just announced that the PQ leader will announce his resignation later today.
Also, terror plot discovered and stopped in New Jersey.

The word "activist" has got to go.

I admit that "extreme-left terror enabler" is more of a mouthful, but it's also more accurate.

ET:

The LIEberal narrative for Canada has encouraged a tribalism and led to approximately a 30 year flirtation with separatism.

Further, as the election in France demonstrates:

Some 730 cars were burned nationwide Sunday night and 592 people arrested, police said.

per our previous discussion:

Revolution is evidence of a cultural failure in adaptation.

In short, from the Canadian perspective one could quite strongly make the case that separatism is evidence of the failure of LIEberal political culture.

The recent election in Quebec show that separatism is waning for the first time in 40 years with separatist leaders criticizing each other.

In contrast, the PQ and Liberal reversals show a rejection of a false political dualism. Quebecers are waking up to the fact that the old tribal dualisms are not working.

It suggests that the political culture that PMSH has been working at by recognizing "Quebec as a nation within Canada" completely undercuts this old narrative of Canada and suggests a new narrative of Quebec within a dynamic federalism.

Socialism's borrowings of the Marxist state of constant revolution may challenge existing political structures but it doesn't ever offer a "steady state solution"

Citoyen Dion is a French citizen; Citoyen Dion is leader of the Canadian Liberal Party.

Citoyen Dion of France, hopes to become Prime Minister of Canada.

Citoyen Dion must "give up French citizenship"; or, resign.

Citoyen Dion: We await your renunciation of your French citizenship. Choose, Citoyen Dion.
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Jean persuaded to give up French citizenship: book

Raising the spectre of a Canada-France military conflict, emissaries dispatched by former prime minister Paul Martin convinced Michaelle Jean to renounce her French citizenship before becoming Canada's Governor General in 2005, a newly published book reveals. (national newswatch)

Mr. Trudeau was quoted as saying in local papers. “It is dividing people and affixing labels to people.”

Whoa hold on there!

Did Justy take the short bus to socialist mind control camp?

Ironically, I agree with Justin's comment about the divisiveness of the two language system. I don't agree with his apology.

Denis Codere says that we need a duo system. That
alone tells me it is a bad idea.

If Trudeau listened to his heart, instead of his advisors or trying to live up to his father's "legacy"....he MIGHT, MIGHT stand a minor chance of actually doing something good and maybe, just maybe, he might get elected.

...Nah.

Trudeau's reflections actually were very refreshing from a Liberal - at least it seems he is understanding just how divisive most of all the legislation brought in by his father - beginning with the schools - has been over the past few decades.

Not the way to win friends/influence people in the Liberal ranks these days and he has basically retracted most everything he said to remain a good little Liberal. Nevertheless - his comments have generated a lot of opinion and it illustrates just how close below the surface this issue has been and will remain.

The Cons/provincial govt's should have the guts to take the same tack since they don't have to reflect the Liberal ideology.

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Parental involvement is so, well... old school.

"Three-month-old babies are too little for solid food.
They can't sit up by themselves and many can't sleep
through the night. But 40 per cent of them are already
watching television, according to a study published
today."

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Houston Chronicle: It's "natural habitat near the North Pole"? Really? Yup. Down the lane about 3 blocks from the North Pole, (magnetic pole?), "near" the house of Teddy, the Polar Bear, on an ice floe. Seal went south where it's cooler: Florida.
OTOH, maybe the seal came from Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island. The seal is a magnificent survivor; a marvel of nature's works.
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Arctic seal is found in Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Arctic seal found in Florida far from its natural habitat near the North Pole has been taken to SeaWorld for treatment.

The bearded seal is thin and dehydrated, responding when touched by staff members but otherwise resting quietly, Dr. Christopher Dold, a staff veterinarian at SeaWorld, said late Monday.

Rescuers used two nets to remove the 6-foot-long, 250-pound seal from a canal in a residential area Monday. Veterinary staff at SeaWorld will attempt to rehabilitate the animal so it can be returned to the North Pole.

Scientists do not know what has caused the seal to travel so far south. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830174/posts

Comment #1:

"Let me be the first to say this was caused by Global Warming and is all Bush's fault."

I guess Trudeau has just learned his first lesson in hardball politics. Welcome to reality. Learn and yearn.

Unbelievable. Get a load of how AP justifies leftist violence in France and then demonizes Sarkozy before he even takes office!!!

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070508/France_sarkozy_070508/20070508?hub=World&s_name=

"While the unrest has been small-scale, it sent a message to Nicolas Sarkozy: He may have won the presidency, but he hasn't won over the many French who consider him -- and his free-market reforms and tough line on crime and immigration -- frighteningly brutal."

Adieu Andre. Don't let la porte hit you in the a$$ on the way out.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=b7bdd312-58e7-431d-999c-419c50b0af8a

"The NDP government has confirmed former caucus chief of staff Jim Fodey will get severance following his resignation yet offered no details Monday on the amount or how he's eligible for such a package."

Give me a break, he resigned and they are paying him a severance. On top of that they are keeping the amount secret.

NDP not saying how much they are paying Fodey for taking the fall

Justin Trudeau does a drive-by political shooting in New Brunswick and apologizes after getting spanked by Stephane Dion.

Caledonia McGuinty is AdScam McGuinty now.

Where does AdScam Chretien-Martin-Gagliano, et al, fit into this scandal?

It's Casino/Ponzi McGuinty, Tonto.
Ugh, Kemo Sabay; you betcha.
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Shades of Adscam

The whiff of a slush-fund scandal hangs over the Liberals, and this time it's not in Ottawa. Ontario's Liberal Premier, Dalton McGuinty, has for several weeks dodged demands to explain how his provincial government rapidly disbursed $32-million in taxpayer money this spring through Ontario's Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration. (national newswatch)
...-

McGuinty calls for independent land claims body
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says the federal government is in a conflict of interest when it comes to settling aboriginal land claims. (national newswatch)

Ici, the uomo from Hope.*
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Andre Boisclair steps down as PQ leader

Andre Boisclair announced today that he is stepping down as leader of the Parti Quebecois, effective immediately.

“I would like to finish on the note of hope for millions of Quebecers,” Boisclair said Tuesday in Quebec City. “I will keep on supporting them.”
(jack's newswatch)

* H/T El Clinto, aka Willy.

I can't believe I agree with the son of P.E.T. but I do. Quite a surprising revelation. Wonder if the old man rolled over.

All three of my kids are in F.I. I have seen the divisiveness/attitudes of francophone families and teachers who have moved here from Quebec (and elsewhere) and expect to have a francophone school. There is some snootiness amongst teachers and parents depending on where they learned their french.

The propaganda piece here by Joan Bryden-Canadian Press is a biased spin-piece for/on behalf of the Liberals. CP is a mouthpiece/shilling/pimping for the MayDion Liberals. Bryden is a presstitute.

CP-Bryden cannot give the news without editorializing on behalf of their masters/patrons, aka Liberals.

The MSM are/is a write-off.
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Tories tighten screws on political loans - and Liberals (CP)

hans - I certainly don't agree with the notion of constant revolution (Trotskyite Marxism), but sometimes, a sociopolitical structure becomes so embedded within power that a revolution is the only way to destroy that system. That is, not all systems have an internal self-organizing capacity for change.

By the way, I think it's important that Harper did NOT recognize Quebec as a nation within a united Canada. He recognized the Quebecois as a nation within a united Canada. That is entirely different. It is a 19th c definition of 'nation' as referring to the people not the geographic territory.

I think that Harper's decentralized federalism is the correct path for Canada's future. Whether the majority of citizens, brainwashed for a generation into the mindlessness of centralism, and a 'kept' welfare state population, will agree - is another thing.

I agree with the heir apparent (Trudeau) about bilingualism. It has now gone beyond schools. In Ottawa, because of the bilingualism law, we have community centres just for "francophones" and day care spaces just for "francophones". Go figure. Nothing like division to help the leaches milk the cow.

Now they have the audacity to complain that they are under represented when over 40% of the federal jobs in Ottawa are held by "francophones". Trouble is that the the vast najority of the "francophones" aren't Vietnamese, Gongolese, Lebanese, etc. who also have French as an official language in their homeland.

I say enough is enough. Time to have everyone pull their weight equally and we have one country which we all share and is not divided among ethnic laws. Were we not all British subjects when Canada was founded? Thus there was only ONE founding culture with two languages since France abandoned Quebec because they felt they weren't worth the cost to maintain... Sounds familiar.

Rioting is something of a French tradition. Regardless of that it's still a safe country.

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How about that Dalton "You can't get there from here" McGuinty?

Hey, Dalton... you were elected Premier of Ontario because you
claimed you could fix problems... not run away from them.

See... if it was easy, the janitor could do it.

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In Canadian politics being forced to apologize invariably means you've gotten off-message and blurted out the first thing that came to mind - the truth. Justin Trudeau's father was actually quite refreshing that first campaign in 1968. He used to say things like: "I'll give you whatever you want, just remember you have to pay for it." Then he got power. The alacrity with which J.T. retreated suggests he inherited his, ah, gumption from his father.

Here is a new website, just discovered and I do not know or endorse it yet, but it does seem like a good Idea.

Not the current question of **Protesting high gas prices** so much, as the website idea itself, giving voice to many various issues to Mps and MLAs over time.

This is their about policy statement:
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Vote On It . ca !

This site is not affiliated with any political party and will never be, we just want to see democracy work well in Canada one issue at time. Voteonit.ca was born in the mind of its' creators as a response to people's feelings of powerlessness to have any real say or control over the issues which concern them. Many of us live in a state of 'learned apathy'. Thinking we have no say, we do nothing. Many of us have no idea where to start or think it is too time consuming or just say it is useless anyway. We believe that much of this prevalent attitude has grown from a lack of a simple tool to quickly access the people in the issue as it is happening. Now people have that in Voteonit.ca.

By your participation in voteonit.ca your views will be heard. More importantly, the people of the current issue will get the emails of what people are saying.

Use the best tool available to you... Your opinion voiced in an e-mail to the people in the issues. (we have done all the hard work for you). All you have to do is send the email
and cast an automatic vote saying yes or no on the issue.

It only takes a minute of your time....

... IT'S THAT SIMPLE
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A fellow in Europe said, ** You Americans should stop whining. we pay almost $7 for our gas.**

Well, it*s a free country so those who feel a right to protest are free to do so.

Is this site a good idea?? = TG

"Like night follows day - the right wins, the left riots."

Sort of reminds you of Harper and Hamas, doesn't it?
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20061221/CPACTUALITES/61221020/5025/CPDMINUTE

"As Hertzberg explains, the cyclical heat effect of all of these variables was worked out in great detail between 1915 and 1940 by the Serbian physicist, Milutin Milankovitch, one of the giants of 20th-century astrophysics."

The sin of CO2

Alexander Cockburn, Financial Post
Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2007

In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the 10th century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet's rapid downward slide.

Then as now, a buoyant market throve on fear. The Roman Catholic Church was a bank whose capital was secured by the infinite mercy of Christ, Mary and the Saints, and so the Pope could sell indulgences, like cheques. The sinners established a line of credit against bad behaviour and could go on sinning. Today, a world market in "carbon credits" is in formation. Those whose "carbon footprint" is small can sell their surplus carbon credits to others, less virtuous than themselves.

The modern trade is as fantastical as the medieval one. ...-

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=89c7f41a-8626-4706-9146-e6efd1764176

National Post - FULL COMMENT BLOG - Barbara Kay:

The unholy alliance between radical Islam and the hard left

In English Canada, the name Françoise David is not exactly a household word, but, however little credibility she has even in Quebec, she is still a major presence in, and co-founder of a legitimate – that is to say, politically legitimate, not morally - political party, “Québec Solidaire”. An ardent extreme left-wing feminist, you’d think that David would be all about the rights of women everywhere, not just in Quebec.

But by now we are used to some very illogical behaviour by these types. David is lending her name and prestige, such as it is, to the “Marxism-Festival of Resistance” taking place in Toronto May 10-13, a conference that is designed officially to unite Islamists with the radical Left. Islamists are no friends to women, but that’s a mere bagatelle when considering the larger and more important issue to leftists of denouncing Israel. Two of the participants, Wahida Valiante and Ausma Malik, were members of the Task Force of the Canadian Federation of Students, who issued the Report on the Needs of Muslim Students that recommends, among other things, the “integration of Islamic perspectives into courses such as marketing, nursing and finance – areas where there are specific differences between Western and Islamic perspectives”. (This report, the thin end of the wedge in introducing sharia law on campus, has been given a blessing by Barbara Hall of the Ontario Commission on the Rights of the Person. )

Another speaker at this “conference” will be Mohammed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, of which Wahida Valiante is vice-president. Mr. Elmasry gained infamy when he told a television audience that it was acceptable for Palestinian terrorists to blow up Israeli civilians.

Mme David cannot claim to be ignorant of her co-participants’ insalubrious ideology. David participated in a conference held in Cairo last April whose goal was to effect an alliance between the radical Left and the Muslim Brotherhood – i.e. terrorists - in order to combat capitalism, imperialism and Zionism.

I trust the National Post will be on the job covering the nuptials of this odd couple. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1830387/posts

2 Toronto councilors being audited ... because they aren't spending enough!

w3.thestar.com/News/article/211423

... Holyday (Ward 3, Etobicoke Centre) and Councillor Rob Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North) have been targeted by other councillors because they regularly submit tiny expense claims.

... Councillors on the executive committee, led by Giorgio Mammoliti (Ward 7, York West), complained that the two may be violating city policy by paying some expenses out of their own pockets.

The Secret Chord

Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post describes the radical Islamic challenge to the humanity of women: where girls may be killed rather than educated and wonders if there's a man among us who will stand with Hirsi Ali, who has been sounding the warning for years. Glick writes :

A series of incidents this week placed the forces she battles in stark relief. Sunday Muslims shot up the Omariyah elementary school in Gaza. One man was killed and six were wounded in the onslaught. The murderers attacked because the UN-run school in Rafah had organized a sports day for the children, in which little boys would be playing with little girls.

The idea that that boys and girls might play sports together was too much for the righteous believers. It was an insult to Islam, they said. And so they decided to kill the little boys and girls. ...-
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/

"But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." (H/T Matthew)

"It's official. I'll be marking my ballot "none of the above" after seeing this announcement from Manitoba PC leader Hughie McFadyen:

"We need to increase Manitoba's cool factor if we want our young people to stay. The first step is to bring back the Jets.""

I'm sorry Denis, but Manitoba doesn't stand a chance as politicians in BC are also appealing to former residents to move back to B.C. But its obvious than when I hear the message I don't seem to hear it all. Whats seems to be missing is advice to bring a million dollars with you to be able to afford to live here.

I guess ALL politicians are just plain stupid.

Hotny toad

Hey Albatross, your comment doesn't make any sense. You link to a French article, that according to my admittedly poor French says that Harper denounces Hamas and Hezbollah. What the hell does that have to do with the riots in France?
Stupid.

Jethro, do I really have to spell it out for you? Even if your French is poor you should be able to flesh this one out.
There is no need to call yourself names, (ie. stupid) you just need to think about it for a minute. Here's the key word- Hamas

I guess you do have to spell it out. I still don't have a freaking clue what you're talking about.
Although in fairness, I would point out that I don't really care that much about trolls anyways.

I'm wondering what your definition of a troll is? Is that all people who disagree with warped right-wing philosophies?
But anyway, ask yourself how Harper reacted when Hamas was democratically elected in January 2006.

hey, Albatross thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten that Harper set a car on fire when Hamas got elected.