Sean McCormick, via email;
Read this story.
There’s the “what”, the “where”, the “when”, part of the “who”, and absolutely no mention of WHY Diane Finley needs this security.
So much for the five Ws.
Think the Ottawa Sun is worried about being called “racist” for fingering some extremist minority group that poses a security threat?
Is anyone else as turned off by the Bombardier “O, Canada – as sung by the Third World Taxi Driver Choir” ad (being shown during CBC Olympic coverage) as I am? The cut at the end to a black and white TV set showing Trudeau singing the anthem is just plain creepy.
(Couldn’t find video – if someone grabs it for Youtube, let me know.)
Update – video is here. And as mentioned in the comments, it wasn’t Trudeau on the tv, but a “generic Canadian athelete”. I shouldn’t let the subliminals get to me like that…
John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama .
He should probably send a thank you note* to Vladimir Putin.
You know, if McCain pulls this off, they’re going to have to install concrete barricades around the CBC to protect the public from the cluster head explosions.
More – Buyer’s remorse?
And…“This is getting embarrassing. 300 people on Daily Kos are now discussing how Obama will word the Text Message when he announces his vice president.”
I’m launching a new conservative political movement today – “Jason Kenney for Prime Minister”.
Mr. Kenney noted that Parliament unanimously voted to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen, and said it is disturbing to think that Canada would let a foreign power dictate whom it should honour.
“I think it reconfirms that Mr. Chrétien and the Liberals have always pursued a policy in this area calculated to their own personal financial interests and those of rich and powerful friends,” Mr. Kenney said yesterday.
“It’s no mistake that Mr. Chrétien was calculating his retirement income in his relations in this area. [It was] a few weeks after he left the premiership that he was being signed on as a consultant to multinational companies with commercial interests in this area.
And what’s got into the Globe and Mail? It’s not often you see the incestuous political ties between top Liberals and PowerCorp mentioned in this context;
Mr. Kenney was clearly referring to Power Corp., the conglomerate founded by Paul Desmarais Sr. His son, André Desmarais, now the co-CEO, is married to Mr. Chrétien’s daughter, France, and Mr. Chrétien’s long-time campaign manager and adviser, John Rae, is a senior Power executive.
h/t Maz2
Jason “my law degree DOES NOT smell like Crackerjacks” Cherniak ponders his options….
I could start up a donation link on my sidebar and hold the money in trust, but I don’t want to try it only to find out that people aren’t really interested. I also don’t want to seem like a whiny person who wants everybody else to protect him. I think the answer is to put it all out there, as I have above, and let my commenters and other bloggers express their opinions. Hopefully, such an online brainstorming session will have some benefit no matter what the general view is.
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. A lawyer is considering soliciting donations from his readership to pay the bills on a libel suit. Not a suit he’s defending himself against – a suit he’s threatening to file.
Because he can’t afford a lawyer.
He does not volunteer how the spoils might or might not be divided should he prevail.
Part of me hopes he goes ahead with this. The precedent could prove quite useful around here.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Tuesday night vintage music show, here are Art Kahn & his Orchestra performing Dream Sweetheart (1932, 2:50).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Update: Tonight’s SDA LNR Cheese Plate, featuring Appenzeller, Drumloch, Dubliner, and Shropshire Blue, is now available. If you’re looking for Tomme de Montagne, Montgomery Cheddar, or Colston Basset Stilton, please see the archives.
“I need no lectures… about building things in Brandon… the people in Brandon know who is on their side“
(A site our readers from Manitoba might bookmark.)
Gloria Galloway does her best to impersonate a piece of PVC pipe. I’m not buying it:
So to Gloria Galloway, I say this: stop hiding behind the myth of journalistic objectivity, and start taking responsibility for the choices you make as a journalist – for what you choose to report, for what you choose not to, and for how you go about it. The soldiers will respect you a lot more when you take accountability for your choices.
h/t Fred M.
Adscam was small potatoes in the Libranos legacy;
A seasoned, 30-year career Canadian diplomat, Mr. McAdam’s assignments included London, Copenhagen, Barbados, Amman, Bangkok, Bogota, Dublin, Helsinki, Glasgow, Tokyo and, twice, Hong Kong.
His second Hong Kong posting, 1989 to 1993, as immigration control officer, included responsibility for southern China. He was tasked with protecting Canada from international people-smuggling rings, murderers and drug-smuggling, organized criminals from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.
It was his last posting.
Read the whole thing. Finally, Donna Jacobs is doing what the rest of the mainstream media “investigative journalists” should hang in their heads in shame over.
Flashback – to his credit, Peter Worthington wasn’t afraid to mention the Sidewinder report in an op-ed in 2005. A search of SDA will turn up other old items, though some of the links are now dead. If anyone has the link to the once available surviving copy of the original Sidewinder report (officially ordered destroyed by the Chretien government), let me know, and I’ll rehost them myself.
Update – here it is. Sidewinder: Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada.
After a day standing in the paint booth (and more ahead) my eyes are again taking a beating – the frequent consequence of staring at fuzzy lines for hours on end. Blogging may be light around here while they recuperate.
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Arts funding? Sports funding? Why not combine them?
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our regular comedy show, which has been rescheduled to Monday night this week due to the Olympics, here from The Wonderful Wide World of Notes is New Horizons in Music Appreciation, with host Professor Johann Peter Schickele and analyst Bob Dennis covering the play-by-play during a Beethoven’s Symphony #5 match between the New York Mills Philharmonic home team v. guest Danish conductor Hilega Dankezan, in beautiful New York Mills, Minnesota, from Prof. Schickele’s famous album The Wurst of P.D.Q. Bach (1978, 8:49, MP3, 6MB, see also P.D.Q. Bach).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Any questions?
UPDATE: John McCain will be the next POTUS – Part Two
“…above my pay grade”
“Democrat Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican John McCain in [Washington] Post Page 1 stories since Obama became his party’s presumptive nominee June 4. […] the disparity is so wide that it doesn’t look good.”
At 61, in his 9th Olympics, posting a clear round and Canada is into the jump-off with the US for gold in team show jumping. Woohoo!
update: USA – Gold, Canada – Silver, Norway – Bronze
Well done, “Captain Canada”.
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Richard Simmons rules the world!
Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain’s worsening “obesity epidemic”, council leaders have warned.
One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 400 councils in England and Wales, predicted social services teams would have to take drastic action to improve the health of seriously overweight children.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, we have a majestically powerful, spiritually uplifting, and emotionally draining performance; here for your delectation are the University of Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Gdansk Music Academy Strings performing Baba Yaga’s Hut on Hen’s Legs and The Great Gate of Kiev from Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky‘s Pictures at an Exhibition, Thüring Bräm conducting (2005, 9:50). To the degree that it is possible for you to listen to this through a proper hi-fi, as opposed to teeny-weeny computer speakers, and to view it full-screen, I highly recommend it.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Is there nothing nothing that Obama can’t do?
“Okay, sorry about the Presidential Seal debacle. Hey, how ’bout I rip off Harley Davidson instead? Plenty of Harley riders in PA, true. But the logo might make them more likely to rush the Secret Service and kick your ass, as opposed to vote for you.”
(Via Tigerhawk, who has more.)
