I got a glimpse of an interview on CBC of Peter Mansbridge and the Agha Khan Saturday evening. This would be an interesting video as the Khan is cited in the MSM as the leader of modernist Islam. I could not find a link. Would appreciate if anyone else can.

Americans in Germany are being schooled in how to deal with constant questions from their German hosts of- Bush: Threat or menace?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,496731,00.html

Just saw a Decima poll that said 70% of 1000 Canadians polled had no sympathy for Conrad. Well duh.

What would you expect from a Nation that worships that friggin' Marxist Trudeau.

Apparently 4 in 10 followed the trial closely and were the harshest critics.

Wonder what trial they were following?

"I didn't like politics.” - It showed, Paul.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070727.wmartin0728/BNStory/National/home

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that inmates and correction officers at the Brickeys prison said the beatings were racially motivated, with black officers beating white inmates.

www.fox16.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=6e02bdb8-fe3a-4459-98eb-a561437771b4&rss=316

A billboard on the side of Harris' 30-foot RV read: "Attention Drug Addicts and Alcoholics. Get Birth Control & Get $200 CASH. Call 1-888-30-CRACK."

www.courant.com/news/local/hc-addicts0715.artjul15,0,3690824.story?page=1
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and defence aid to Israel.

The package would reportedly amount to more than $30bn (£14.8bn) over the next 10 years.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6920988.stm

Hello and welcome to Canada’s newest blog group/aggregator for Canadian political bloggers.

I wanted to try making a new site while keeping to the Canada theme and political blogging grabbed my interest. There are several fine Partisan blog groups like Progressive Bloggers and Blogging Tories but I wanted to make something that wasn't constricted to one political viewpoint.

http://www.bloggingcanadians.ca/

Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia".

Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland.

With its relentlessly upbeat tone, bizarre ideas and tight control, it sounds like a weird indoctrination session for a phoney religious cult.

But this organisation - known as "Nashi", meaning "Ours" - is youth movement run by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life.

Nashi's annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness.

Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale.

Bizarrely, young women are encouraged to hand in thongs and other skimpy underwear - supposedly a cause of sterility - and given more wholesome and substantial undergarments.

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471324&in_page_id=1770

Native woman assaults police officer, convicted, serves 6 months in slammer. Just kidding. The judge let her walk and scolded the cops for arresting her in the first place:

www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/News/326825.html

With a pack on his back and a website designed to accept job offers, Aiken decided to spend every week for a year working different jobs, the proceeds of his labours going toward the Make Poverty History campaign.

www.oneweekjob.com
lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/07/30/4378889-sun.html

We support our troops. NOT

The murderous Taliban robbed Master Cpl. Jody Mitic of his legs but we won't be able to blame them for taking his parking spot.

If it happens, that second atrocity is courtesy of someone right here in Canada.

It kind of reminds one of what military and international affairs columnist Stephen Brown often says: "Don't volunteer to be a hero in Canada because you might be disappointed with the results."

To be honest with you, I have never heard of a disabled person's vehicle being towed before. But that's what just might happen today.

If a letter the veteran received Friday from his condominium manager is true, his custom-made motorcycle, made with love from a community trying to get him back on his artificial legs and feet that were blown off by the Taliban, will be towed.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Warmington_Joe/2007/07/30/4379329-sun.html

Ahhhh.Gotta love Trawana.

Feds deceitful on Sikh issue

The federal government is just plain lying when it says it hasn't forced potential Sikh immigrants to change their last names -- and the proof is right there on paper. "The names Kaur and Singh do not qualify for the purpose of immigration to Canada," it reads, on official High Commission of Canada letterhead. ...-
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=2f0d941f-03ed-453e-b015-2ab25ded8cbe

Recording of Air India bombing confession allegedly surfaces 22 years later
[...]

VANCOUVER — A recording of the alleged confession of the mastermind behind the bombing of Air India Flight 182 has surfaced 22 years after the tragedy, an investigative magazine in India says.

Vancouver Sikh militant Talwinder Singh Parmar confessed to Punjab police during five days of interrogation in October, 1992, before being killed by police, the article says. The officer who arrested Mr. Parmar, Harmail Singh Chandi, was directed to destroy the tape-recorded confession but he kept them secretly, it says. ...-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070730.wairindia30/BNStory/National/home

Doggy time-share unleashed
...company that contracts out dogs by the day to urbanites without the time or space to care for a pet full-time...

www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/489404,CST-NWS-pet30.article

'Maybe I'm ruffling some feathers. If I am, then maybe it's time'

Patrick Brazeau is chief of an organization that claims to lead the country's off-reserve aboriginals. But his controversial ideas to reform native politics and funding have other native leaders fuming and even questioning his 'Indian-ness.' In the first of two stories on growing numbers of natives who live off reserve, Ron Corbett looks into the world of native identity, politics and money
[...]
Put it all together and you have this -- aboriginal people in Canada are an increasingly young, displaced, populace and yet when the federal government funds aboriginal programs and services it continues to pour eight dollars out of every nine into a reserve system that was devised in the 19th century.

To people like Patrick Brazeau, that's like maintaining a fleet of wooden ships when the Bismarck is bearing down on you. [...]

Recent posts on brazman.blogspot.com
The national day of action in June
'We do not support the national day of action ... We are concerned that protests will only shed a negatiuve light on aboriginal peoples and will not truly serve to educate Canadians'
Aboriginal accountability

'I would like to know exactly where the $10.2 billion [in federal native funding] is going ... because those funds belong to grassroots people ... not little empires created by chiefs and councils'...-
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3f7827a1-d524-4c56-a6f4-d86bb1aada68

From Tim Blair: http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/crushing_of_descent/

It seems that the Telluride (Colorado) Town Council adopted a resolution last week calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Also seems they got a quick lesson in consequences.

“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) Web site is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070725/NEWS/70725008

Remember that contest by Beaver Magazine for the Worst Canadian?

PIERRE TRUDEAU VOTED WORST CANADIAN!!!

Henry Morgentaler is NUMBER 3!

From the press release: Pierre Trudeau topped the publicly voted list, a result to which many Canadians may take exception. But it provides
further evidence of how polarizing his legacy continues to be among Canadians.

Also:

"Not surprisingly, our history panel's list provides a more considered and measured response.

BARF!

Toronto
Nice but broke
Canada's aspiring city state
The Economist

THE mayor of Toronto, David Miller, has ambitions to turn Canada's largest metropolitan area into a city state....

....Yet few would now describe it as “New York run by the Swiss”, as did Peter Ustinov, a British actor and writer, in a double-edged quip in 1987...

economist.com/world/la/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9546453

BEAVER MAGAZINE VOTES TRUDEAU #1 "WORST CANADIAN" IN HISTORY

http://tinyurl.com/23eyhy

"Attention News Editors/See CNW Photo Network and Archive:

The Beaver: Canada's history magazine releases results of "worst Canadians" survey
- On-line voters choose former prime minister Pierre Trudeau as No. 1 -

WINNIPEG, July 30 /CNW/ - The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine's August
issue hits newsstands today, revealing the results of its quest to determine
"the Worst Canadians" in history.

The online promotion made international news in May and June and garnered
just under 15 000 write-in votes. Pierre Trudeau topped the publicly voted
list, a result to which many Canadians may take exception. But it provides
further evidence of how polarizing his legacy continues to be among Canadians.
(...)

Profiles of the historian's choices along with the analysis of the results of the public vote are only available in the print edition of The Beaver. Copies are available on newsstands starting today. Readers can also purchase a copy or subscribe to the magazine at www.thebeaver.ca or by
telephone at 1-800-816-6777.

The official results of the on-line survey for the public's Top 10 Worst Canadians

1. Pierre Trudeau
2. Chris Hannah
3. Henry Morgentaler
4. Brian Mulroney
5. Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka
6. Stephen Harper
7. Céline Dion
8. Jean Chrétien
9. Clifford Olson
10. Conrad Black ""

A post at "The Torch":

"Media create fake war: Hillier et al. vs. O'Connor"
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/07/media-create-fake-war-hillier-et-al-vs.html

Mark
Ottawa

I think I was bad luck for fellow travellers this weekend. I was over on Vancouver Island, and had ridden the ferry out of Tsawwassen prior to it being shut down for a bomb threat with 21 sailings cancelled.

Then on my way home, I was sitting in a plane on the Calgary tarmac for about 30 minutes because concourse A had been locked down for security reasons.

Good times. If anyone got stuck in either of these events I appologize.

OTTAWA - A decade after unprecedented and painful cuts, the federal bureaucracy has ballooned close to its former size, increasing its overall cost to Canadians by 50%.
...
The study shows that not only are there more public servants than there were since the end of the downsizing in 1997-98, but they earn higher salaries, take more vacation, book off sick more frequently, suffer from rising rates of depression and anxiety, take more parental leave and face bigger health and dental bills.
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a80ba63a-d6e5-481f-be8b-a73323237f42&p=2

"...A decade after unprecedented and painful cuts, the federal bureaucracy has ballooned...The study shows..."

TB Study

Expenditure Review of Federal Public Sector Compensation Policy and Comparability
Volume One - The Analytical Report and Recommendation
Volume Two - Compensation Snapshot and Historical Perspective, 1990 to 2003

tbs-sct.gc.ca/spsm-rgsp/er-ed/er-ed_e.asp

Swiss to soon vote on introduction of lawyers for animals
pr-inside.com/swiss-to-soon-vote-on-introduction-r185616.htm

Only in Canada could you find someone dumb enough to call a history magazine "The Beaver" with absolutely no sense of irony. They must have been too busy applying for government grants. Glad to see Trudeau topped the list, though: now who could have been responsible for that?

Western world, globalisation made some factories redundant. Such was the case of Lykes Pasco plant, in Dade City, FL, 35 miles north of Tampa. Until 2003, that factory pressed 15 million oranges every day and sent the concentrate by rail. Then the factory closed and it all seemed to be left for rusting.

However, the factory is back, and now it's producing biodiesel. Agri-Source Fuels bought the 60,000 sq. ft. factory and expects to reach full production in four months. If they succeed, they will be able to produce 120 million gallons of biodiesel per year (sorry, Texas), becoming the biggest biodiesel producer in the US. 60 of these million gallons will be sent to Mclure Oil Co., in Atlanta, GA, in charge of distributing it to 120 pumps around the Sunny state.

Related:

No kiddin' - U.S.'s largest biodiesel refinery will be in Texas (Houston)
Biodiesel and ethanol production reaches 10.7 million tons in Europe
Biodiesel producers asking for certified oils

============ AutoblogGreen.com

Is there no slowdown in sight? = TG

NowPublic announced Monday that the fast-growing citizen journalism website has scored 10.6 million US dollars (US) in financing to fuel its drive to become the world's largest news agency.

The Vancouver-based start-up says it is growing at a rate of 35 percent monthly and has nearly 120,000 contributing "reporters" in more than 140 countries.

"I promise you, in 18 months NowPublic will be, by reach, the largest news agency in the world," start-up co-founder Len Brody told AFP.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Citizen-journalism-website-gets-multimilliondollar-boost/2007/07/30/1185647815708.html

http://www.nowpublic.com/

Hillier: The man hated/loathed/feared by Ontario Liberal Premier McGuinty.
Kinsella has harmed/injured McGuinty while boosting Hillier to a win. Free advice to McGuinty: Fire Kinsella.
Join the renegade; throw Colle-Gate McGuinty to the dogs.
...-
Tories risk the 'renegade' factor
[...]
""They [Kinsella & Liberals] have called me a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging redneck," Hillier acknowledged in the interview.""...-

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Blizzard_Christina/2007/07/30/4379331-sun.html

Could the Toronto Red Star at least TRY to be a little less obvious?

Headlines :

"Driver dies after clash with police"

"Woman driver shot in head during arrest"

Now if the stories are actually read, there is no evidence that the police fired thier weapons.

"The chase began when a man told police that his girlfriend had left, distraught and armed with a handgun"

"Bliss said the SIU could not confirm the woman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

However, she added that there was no indication at this stage that police fired any shots during the confrontation."

Me thinks that if the cops had fired, it would be pretty common knowledge 16 hours later when the story was filed.

Can't speak for anyone else, but those statements don't exactly jibe with my first impression based on the headlines.... am I alone?

So you think you're progressive, you want to seize other peoples guns, thier property.

Well stand in awe of Toronto progressives, they win, they take the "whole shooting match"

http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070730/GUNS30/Headlines/headdex/headdexNational/1/1/25/

No Jim. I got the same impression from watching the local news this morning. While not truly misrepresenting the incident, how many people will never read the follow-up story and continue
with the impression that the police shot and killed a mentally-ill female motorist?
The Red Star is pure, unadulterated tripe.

Another Globe and Mail poll going wrong beautifully!

Reuters Reporting Male Korean Hostage Executed by Taliban

Reuters
No confirmation yet. Also mentioned on Fox News...
...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873703/posts

The socialists, Taliban Jack Layton-NDP & Citoyen Dion, are mute/silent on the "detainees" executed/held by their allies, the Muslim Islamist murderers,the taliban.
What's new?

Trudeau and his commissars have done one-helluva good job at indoctrination.
Next: Police/Armed Forces to surrender their arms.
Don't laugh ... it's coming when Mao Stlong's UN Army is formed. Unless ...
How does socialism work/expand/grow? By seizing/expropriating the civic square; seizing your guns; the void is filled by socialism.
Here is but one example.
...-

The University of Toronto has closed down its 88 year old sport shooting range - stating "even the perception of tolerance of guns is seen as a negative."
Ridiculous - the target shooting sport is subject to deadbolt doors, alarm systems, video feeds and ID requirements.
84.4%
Good move. The existence of a shooting club gives the apperance of condoning the use of weapons in an illegal way.
15.5%
Total Votes: 1045 ...-
cfra.com

And a CTV poll going right:
http://www.ctv.ca/canada

"Kashechewan, a flood-prone northern Ontario reserve, has been plagued by dirty water woes. Should it be:
Rebuilt 863 votes (23 %)
Relocated 2814 votes (77 %)

Total Votes: 3677"

Mark
Ottawa

Let's burn $200 million

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/07/29/kashechewan-deal.html

... or rather sink it in a northern flood-plain

Let's burn $200 million

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/07/29/kashechewan-deal.html

... or rather sink it in a northern flood-plain

Lift your feet, up ... way up. Read all the bhkkfdwt from MSM/CP; only the best bhkkfdwt from the MSM/CP.
It's bhkkfdwt.
...-

Tories gather in Liberal P.E.I. to plot course for future

OTTAWA (CP) - After 18 months of tightly scripted, top-down communication, the federal Conservative caucus meets this week in Charlottetown to discuss the government's future and give seldom-heard MPs a voice. (canoe news)

SDA is fast approaching the 6,000.000 mark.

Guess some folks at ctv winnipeg just don't get it. Here's your chance to affirm the original poll from the Beaver magazine. http://www.cky.com

Video: Jihad the Musical

And now for a snappy little number you’re sure to enjoy—“I Wanna Be Like Osama,” from the production of Jihad The Musical, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next month.

Watch out for the dancing burqas....-
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26465_Video-_Jihad_the_Musical&only

5,999,4something.

Reefer Badness: Cut the toke. Butt out, potheads. Yer killin' me with your second-hand smoke.
It's here in Thorax.
Mary-Jane spits, too: "excessive phlegm production." Get a cuspidor, please. Yuck.
...-

Cannabis harm worse than tobacco

A single cannabis joint could damage the lungs as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes one after another, scientists in New Zealand have said....-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/6922379.stm

I think we knew this already

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070730/civil_servants_070730/20070730?hub=TopStories

GDW ="The Beaver" is a very long-standing publication in Canada (since 1929) It was originally a kind of employee publication for the Hudson's Bay Company -- and you'll remember how their original "product" was beavers for those beaver hats that were so popular with the upper classes in England -- hence the name. The mag was expanded in 1950 -- and shifted focus to Canadian history. For anyone who enjoys reading history, it's a great mag.

Never Speak to Strangers
A memoir of journalism, the Cold War, and the KGB.
by David Satter

February 1977
A bleak, overcast day in Riga had given way to a night that was clear and bitter cold. The red lights on the last car of the Riga to Tallinn overnight train glowed in the frigid air as the train backed into the station. I gathered my things and walked to the seventh car, where I handed in my ticket and boarded the train. I entered my compartment and was surprised to see a young woman seated on one of the bunks. She had black hair, which was freshly set, a heart-shaped face, pale complexion, and lovely dark eyes. I guessed she was about 28 years old.

I took off my coat, put my suitcase under the bunk, and sat down opposite her. Two other people soon joined us. The first was a tall, sandy-haired man with broad shoulders who was wearing a heavy coat and a double-breasted jacket. He said he was a boxing instructor from the Ukraine. The second was another woman in her twenties, who entered the compartment carrying several packages. She was thin and birdlike with a petulant expression. She had red hair and wore bright red lipstick. She said her name was Masha Ivanova.

As the train began moving, the attendant gave us back our tickets and brought us glasses of tea. Rivers and the skeletons of bridges passed by in the moonlight. The pale lights of occasional villages appeared and disappeared on the horizon, and the train was soon rolling rhythmically through a landscape of pine forests and snow-blanketed fields.

It occurred to me that it might be more than just a coincidence that a man and two attractive women my own age were riding in the same compartment with me. But I decided that this compartment on a train between two Baltic capitals on a quiet Saturday night--which the KGB was undoubtedly taking off anyway--was a sanctuary. I felt relaxed. Besides, I believed that members of my generation had something in common wherever we happened to be. ...-
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=13932&R=11449D23F

Visiting Carleton prof denied work permit over 1981 arrest
An American professor scheduled to teach at Carleton University this fall was denied a work permit because of his arrest during a protest 26 years ago...

...He said that when he tried to cross the border at Cornwall, Ont., last week, Canadian border agents told him his file showed he was arrested by U.S. authorities in 1981. That was during a protest on a union picket line...

...Juravich said he visited Canada more than 50 times in the past two years to work and to spend time with his partner, Teresa Healy, who lives in Ottawa.

The situation implies that young activists and protesters may have trouble crossing the border in the future, he said....

cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/07/30/ot-carleton-protest-070730.html