Jack Layton and all the Lefty clowns should be coming to his rescue very soon.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer (NDP) fella. Looks good on him.

Should have been charged with making crappy music years ago.

Yep, I expect Lisa Laphlem-ball hosting an expose on the failed neo-conservative, George Bush led, draconian anti-drug laws sometime around 2:00pm with continous loop coverage on all the music stations playing BNL dribble over and over again. Peter Mansbridge will lead with George Bush's 'so-called' war on drugs nabbed one of our Canadian singing legends...we must repatriot this poor lost soul as obviously this was cry for help.

On a ligher note. The BNL just released a kids album called "Snacktime"....must resist the urge..must not give in.....LOL

Gee, a Canadian musician arrested for drugs? How can this be?

We need to have a protest! Let's block traffic and sing songs of freedom for poor Steevie! Kumbaya... hey, pass that joint over here, man!"

Oh, dear. lokks like my first comment on this issue didn't make it past the SDR HRC.

Slimy Steve can go **** himself and take his leftist crap to a NY jail with him.

Soccermom - I agree 100%. The only reason they get publicity is because of their commie politics.

Oh, dear. looks like my first comment on this issue didn't make it past the SDR HRC.

Slimy Steve can go **** himself and take his leftist crap to a NY jail with him.

Soccermom - I agree 100%. The only reason they get publicity is because of their commie politics.

Folks I'm not sure where your coming from - but your being really nasty. Let's not take joy in someone elses sorrow. We believe in the rule of law and that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Give him a break...

Apologies for double comment

As with every socialist, he condemned us all as exploiters. Smug, sanctimonious, hypocrite.

WTF should we cut this remarkably untalented TO turd any slack?

If he had cocaine on him I personally think he should spend at least the next decade in a cage.

Why would we be surprised that he supports Layton and his love terrorists. He is afterall supporting them by buying cocaine. Maybe he should be charged with supporting our enemies.

FREE - ROHFL

Drug laws are dumb and should only be enforced when there is some sort of cummupance involved.

Unless I missed something I don't think Steve Page is a bad guy, even taking his leftist politics into consideration.

That said, I still cannot fathom why anyone would put cocaine into their body, especially someone with children.

I do like Kate's point however. The Canadian media were gleeful to have an American judge find Black guilty; don't expect them to cheer on Page's prosecution.

Send him to Gitmo where he can serenade Omar with a few BareNaked tunes. That would teach the wee terrorist the true meaning of torture.

I have an ex business partner that smoked over $80G's of my money in his crack pipe. I know what that crap is doing to our society. If you have any on you don't let me be the one to catch you with it. Cokeheads will do whatever it takes for the next flap. F%^& Em.

Jim O'Brien: "Let's not take joy in someone elses sorrow."

Why not? It's a guten German word.

"The historian Peter Gay -- who felt Schadenfreude as a Jewish child in Nazi-era Berlin, watching the Germans lose coveted gold medals in the 1936 Olympics -- has said that it "can be one of the great joys of life."
-- Edward Rothstein, "Missing the Fun of a Minor Sin", New York Times, February 5, 2000"

Don't know this guy and could care less who he is.
The fact is he got busted in NY State for possession of cocaine. He will be tried and, if convicted, face the penalty for such an offense per that state's law.

Canadian Press headline: "Ladies" frontman Page told police he was snorting cocaine, court documents

Did he at least shred them first? Must have a formidable honker otherwise.

Maz2 - its a free world and you can believe what you want. However, from my Presbyterian perspective I can't see how Schadenfreude "can be one of the great joys of life."
I suggest you try beer...

It's tough to run for the NDP when you're in jail in New York state.

If I had a million dollars, I could find better ways to pass my time than to snort cocaine and run around with cheap hookers.

P. S. I actually liked "Maybe Katie" that came out a couple of years ago ...

Oh well, there goes another one of my children's heroes. They all listen to his music, I can only hope that they don't follow his example.

In this case, I think it is very important that he does some serious jail time, that way, at least the kids will see that there is consequences for such stupidity!

Once again, a person with almost everything one could hope for on this earth risks it all for a snort and a poke.

Note to all other potential perps. If you must do coke, crack, meth or x - do it in your own home, in your own country, with your own money, and do it without attracting attention to yourself.

Geeeeeeeez!

I don't think the Germans felt too bad considering they won more medals than every other country combined at the 1936 games, including more gold and silver..we see what we want to see i guess..

In the bare naked boob's case, i am sure i can muster up some glee, seeing as how their sanctimonious views always came across as preaching..holier than thou etc..

I used to hang out with a guy whose girlfriend was a hanger on in the downtown T.O. music scene..clean living, health food addict, ran marathons, and was a HUGE lefty..she also snorted massive amounts of heroin on the side, and could never see the harm in her actions, nor square the fact that her buying the drugs was harming some of those 'little brown folk' she professed to care so much about.Not to mention her supporting organized crime and it's associated evils..

Heard she kicked it though..now she chugs cheap red at parties, and bores everyone to tears with her take on leftist politics.

Seems that he left that one off of his "Million Dollar To Do" list.

He is very lucky to get caught.

Despite their apparent success, this entertainer could easily binge away all his good fortune.

Getting caught, especially in the USA, will make this guy face his problem a lot quicker than in the sheltered world of apologists and backslappers he lives in.

Court-appointed rehab is good for you, because if you don't go, you go to jail.

Voluntary rehab is a joke.

Cocaine is pure evil. it destroys not only the user, but everyone in contact with them gets some of the collateral damage as the user flails away within the addiction and its' all-consuming nature.

One more thing, in this post-Clinton era where lying and denial take the place of responsibility:

Why doesn't he make a statement that he made a mistake, and that snorting Cocaine is an evil pastime of idle hands?

Instead, the band takes the route of "contesting" the accusation, and announcing all is well.

Typical Scarberians.

Typical rocker!

This s**t doesn't happen in rap music. Whether its OD'ing or suicide, rockers are a bunch of F'ups and they don't contribute ANYTHING to society through their music. Just a bunch of anti-this_and_that clichés.

Live by the smug, die by the smug.

He's a musician? I'm plesed to hear they did a children's record. Most of their "adult" tracks are about as sophisticated as "B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-0 and BINGO was his name-o"

re Malcom Cross: 'The fact is he got busted in NY State for possession of cocaine. He will be tried and, if convicted, face the penalty for such an offense per that state's law.'
I'm not so sure about that...chances are he could be transferred to Canada and serve whatever sentence he gets in one of our "Club Feds"...

and if Canada's famous socialist singer is convicted of a cocaine offense he will serve his sentence in America
and once he has served his sentence he will never be allowed back into America

maybe Jack and Olivia can hold a fundraiser for their NDP singer propagandist

Steve Page, cokehead - what a tragic end to such a boring career

Brad - boring end to such a tragic career

The BNL's new kids' album SNACK TIME can now be catalogued as CRACK TIME.

I couldn't help think when I heard about this bust, "What an idiot." I knew he had kids. You've got to wonder what makes a highly successful guy throw everything up to snort powder up his nose. Spending time with your kids should provide you with a high--or, at the very least, you should factor in your kids and what the effect of their dad becoming a coke addict is going to have on them.

Dumb. Dumber. Dumbest.

And I agree with Klondike Mike that this may be the best thing that ever happened to Page. His band mates should not be covering up for him. They should not be co-dependents. They should help him admit how desperate he's become and help him get back on the wagon.

Coke addiction's no joke. The cost to the individual is appalling. The cost to his family is devastating. The cost to society and the health care system is crippling.

GET. PAGE. TO. REHAB. FAST.

SO are we going to have a contest to rename the BNL childrens album from "snacktime" to.......

1) Snortime
2) Snowtime
3) Snacktime with coke on the side
4) Hardtime

If I had a million dollars
I'd be in the Big House
But not a real big house thats cruel
If I had a million dollars
I'd buy some blow oh oh oh

Every time I hear a reference to the Barenaked Ladies that million dollar tune starts playing in the back of my head. That's bad but, the lyrics I hear are from the lads in Minnesota and their global warming song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=related

Now that's good.

Dunno if the NDP would get behind them, seeing as their name is not only sexist but racist ("Are we to assume they're white ladies? Why aren't they black ladies?!?") and homophobic ("why aren't they the Barenaked Men?!?")...

;-)

I know it's like slowing down to witness the aftermath of a car wreck...
but,
the National Post has the mug shots of these 2 lovelies

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=661817

interesting that he drives a Toyota Prius, because you know gasoline is so expensive these days...

I assume it was Fair Trade Cocaine,

I assume it was fair trade cocaine.

I have to agree...
No sense being nasty

The man is considered innocent...
Until proven guilty

15 years...wow
What a dumb-ass

Some pretty bad time for coke possession in the US. As an "entertiner" ( and I use the term loosely) he'll never make it to the big time because he'll never be allowed back in the USA.
I didn't know they sang that excretable song " If I had a Million Dollars". Last time I heard that one was in the late '50's. I believe it was by the Kingston Trio or some such hippie group.
He deserves what he gets.

Jezzus! I just saw that picture of him and read the article. Good God, they describe him as having a "clean-cut image". By his picture he looks like some homeless nut-case we find on the streets of Hamilton every day.
If that's what passes for clean-cut, then I'm a monkey's testicle.

This is an absolute out rage we must start writing letters to our pm this instance he could be tortured down there in yanke ville and not allowed to sleep.Can you imagine how they would have treated him,they probably asked him torturous questions like"is this relly calcium or do you use for medicinial porposes"
I really hope david suzuki pulling in all his resources for this one

new lyrics
If i had a million dallars
if i had a million dollars
i would buy me some coke
but not real coke thats cruel

On the positive side for Steven Page, if he hasn't already received the Order of Canada, this should guarantee it for him!

Bold indicates corrections to a post written demonstrating a poor grasp of the english language:

"Folks I'm not sure where you're coming from - but you're being really nasty. Let's not take joy in someone elses' sorrow. We believe in the rule of law and that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Give him a break...

Posted by: Jim O'Brien at July 17, 2008 12:35 PM"

Jim - The same rule of law exists in the USA. You are wasting your time crying for a dipper here. We'll rejoice every time that we here he has come one step closer to an American Jail. Don't forget, if he had enough dope on him he could be charged with intent to traffic and spend a Looooooong time in the slammer. Aawww, That's so Sad.

I remember when Canadian musicians did their rather limp spirited concert for 9/11. The barenaked boys went out of their way to assure people they weren't angry or against anybody or blaming anybody...

The fat kid who fronts for the Bare Naked Lardos ... (I just love saying that) In the land of war mongers and meanies, snorting cocaine and smoking pot.

Busted!

Bwaaaahaahahahaha

What a hypocrite!

Okay, I feel better now.

"This s**t doesn't happen in rap music"

Nah, it doesn't ... let's ask Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. about what happens in rap music.

He's lucky. see john belushi. Dope is tragic, no matter who succumbs. There should be a Death Penalty for Dealers, and a Death penalty without appeal for suppliers. Dealers being 2 gm or more, suppliers being 2.1 gm or more. Why warehouse them, and let them run their empires from jail, KILL THEM AND END THE PROBLEM.....

NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS!
You bet, Charge all involved with distributing drug paraphenalia! If you sold this stuff in a store that's what'd happen. Why different rules if you are an enabler in an EGADZ van, you are still a DEALER!

If you provide condums to Hookers you're still a PIMP, even if you are in an Egadz van.

Either way, you are still either the scum of the earth or an enabler of the scum of the earth.

F**k Off, I don't pay taxes to keep you in business.

Why isn't SIGA paying for some of this?

Have you ever heard the prostitute beater, Lawrence Joseph ever complete a statement without using the term "FUNDING"?

Have you ever heard LJ admit that the FSIN is racist?

C'mon down LJ. You ARE Saskatchewan's premier racist.

I'm glad I still have my Mark Steyn piece from "Punch" to remind me that not all conservatives have lost their brains to the phony "War On Drugs".

"In America, as in Britain and most Western countries, there are two problems: drugs and the "war on drugs"; and the "war" is the bigger one. Yes, drugs can be a danger to society-- though they're not as big a threat as America's number one addiction: food".

-- Mark Steyn