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  1. Ok First the Good News!
    There has been a World Wide Reduction in CO2 Emissions of 3% over the last 12 months!!
    Bad News is…
    This is what the economy with a 3% drop in CO2 emissions looks like.
    Now Imagine a 80% reduction in CO2 emissions.
    Makes you feel all cold and shaky doesn’t it?

  3. I just published on my blog my thoughts about why judges like Sonia Sotomayer are potentially extremely dangerous for any democracy. I’d welcome all of your thoughts!

  4. Robert W – yes, an unelected, which is to say, unaccountable authority, is the antithesis of a democratic state.
    The democratic state operates by and only by, the will of the people. This Will is not utopian, which is to say, it does not function within a belief that society can attain a state of perfection, whose attributes are accessible and knowable only to an elite or distinctive Set of people.
    This Will is, instead, a perception that societies are piecemeal processes, whose rules must be answerable to the diverse and flexible needs of the people. The laws must therefore be answerable to and made by the people. That is why the Legislature must make the laws. Because the Legislature represents the people; they are elected.
    The Courts have a different role; they must ensure that the legislated laws developed by the people fit with the long term structure of the society, as outlined in the Constitution.
    For an unelected judge to move into judiciary activism is a violation of democracy because it denies this basic Will of the People. Instead, such a perspective operates within a sense of ‘hubris’, arrogance, elitism, a sense that the Judge has some special innate attribute of wisdom, lacking in The People that gives the judge alone direct access to Wisdom.
    Note that this perspective assumes that there is One Truth, an Essential Truth, and this moves the society into a utopian notion of ultimate purity – as found in communism and fascism or any fundamentalist sect.
    Ms Sotemayer is clearly an elitist; she assumes that her genetic identity as a woman, as Hispanic, affects her capacity to reason, and gives her unique and special access to Ultimate Truth. Such a view of cognition is invalid, and such a view of society is the antithesis of democracy.

  7. PUKE!! – For the “Take Me Obama” thread:
    ————-
    Photos of young Obama reveal a campus hunk
    He was tall and stunningly good looking, a guy who could appear pensive and serious one moment and then, with smoke from an unfiltered cigarette swirling around his face, morph into the hippest looking dude this side of James Dean.
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/05/28/9605291-ap.html

  9. Here’s my recipe for Seal Rideau:
    — kill a seal
    — rip out its heart
    — munchie munchie
    Suggested wine: white, you don’t want to overdo the red theme.

  10. Ask yourself if they would ever do this to another Religion? Much easier to go after people who won’t fight back & are looked at like crazies.
    Nice to see this Pastor is taking on the dragon.
    Pretty sad really when you have “Dog in the mangers” who can with a phone call cause this much trouble.
    http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=348483

  11. Ask yourself if they would ever do this to another Religion? Much easier to go after people who won’t fight back & are looked at like crazies.
    Nice to see this Pastor is taking on the dragon.
    Pretty sad really when you have “Dog in the mangers” who can with a phone call cause this much trouble.
    http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=348483

  14. Sorry, for me all Pingu discussion starts and ends with the episode where he’s peeing and missing horrendously. Puerile, sure, but damn funny.

  15. ET, Thank YOU for your wise words! I reposted them on that blog posting.
    I’ve also read up on the Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court and added a few words about it too.

  16. Item: Anti-Zionists banned from Pride parade (National Post, Thursday, May 28)
    The organization is called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), and it has been told to b***er off (I’m probably paraphrasing the actual message) from this year’s parade.
    Its most prominent member, film-maker and York U professor John Greyson, said he wondered whether yesterday’s decision signals that social justice activism is being “wholeheartedly cut out of Pride”.
    I note this because here we see another example of the fraudulent concept (a.k.a. anti-concept) of “social justice” equated with an extreme left-wing agenda, standing in opposition to real justice and used to obscure the truth about the Middle East.

  17. Fellow Vancouver blogger, Raphael Alexander, has published a stunning piece explaining how NDP MP Bill Siksay said he wants conscientious objectors to be able to register with the Canada Revenue Agency so their taxes can be diverted to a special peace tax account.
    OMG, if that ever passes, I have a loooooong list of programs that I don’t want my tax dollars contributing to. Anyone want to start a Top 5 list???

  18. Item: Killing that sparked Baader-Meinhof gang linked to Stasi (National Post, May 28, from the New York Times)
    The police killing of unarmed protester Benno Ohnesorg in 1967 is considered to be the start of a left-wing movement from which the terrorist gang emerged.
    Now it has been discovered in the East German secret police archives that the cop, Karl-Heinz Kurras, now 81, was also acting as a spy for the Stasi.
    The question is whether Kurras was acting as an agent provocateur, trying to destabilize West Germany. The answer is unclear at this time …
    Kurras told Bild that he had been in the East German Communist Party. “Should I be ashamed of that or anything?” he asked. (Well, yeah, considering the shame heaped upon ex-Nazis and all, you should, because it’s the same totalitarianism)
    “And what if I did work for them? What does it matter? It doesn’t change anything”. (Well, it might make you a war criminal, for one thing)
    Kurras admits firing the fatal shot, but he shows the usual communist reaction to exposure of the spying: deny everything.
    Of course, it is highly unlikely that the Baader-Meinhof gang would have been able to do anywhere near the damage it did without funding from behind the Iron Curtain, whether East Germany or the Soviet Union.

  19. Re the so-called “peace tax”: “… if that ever passes, I have a loooooong list of programs that I don’t want my tax dollars contributing to. Anyone want to start a Top 5 list?”
    The phony “peace tax” issue has been around for a while. My take on it has always been the same as yours.
    First of all, no tax is “peaceful”. Taxation is a form of violence that a civilized society should be able to do without. I note of course that even if a government were elected on such a platform, it would be many years (probably decades) before the noblest political goal of a tax-free society could be fully achieved. But there is never a bad time to start thinking about it.
    A standard left-wing tactic is to blur the distinction between voluntary and coerced. Using non sequiturs like “peace tax” is a clear example of this. Sometimes one hears lottery tickets called “a tax on the poor”; this is another.
    A second ugly aspect of the “peace tax” is that the military, which is what these NDP clowns object to, is one of the proper functions of government, while all its improper current activities like the “redistribution of wealth” continue to get a free ride.
    The best place to save on taxes immediately would be to stop funding left-wing (and other) activist groups and to abolish regulatory agencies manned by unproductive bureaucrats.

  20. Robert W., ET, don’t you think that the primary requirement that a Supreme must be a member of the Legal Profession creates an elitist class far removed from the public they are supposed to be serving?
    Is this not where the: “easy on criminals”, money making, elitist Police Hierarchy, Justice Monopoly hails from?
    The average cost to get into a court room for a day is $40K. One has to plead guilty to avoid bankruptcy. Just in the news; a jeweler makes a citizens arrest and ends up the one arrested. Only in Canader; you say?

  21. A note about US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: she is a member of the NCLR, a Hispanic civil rights organization that according to one former Congressman “supports racist groups calling for the secession of the western United States as a Hispanic-only homeland” …
    Former Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., urged La Raza to renounce its support of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan – which sees “the Race” as part of an ethnic group that one day will reclaim Aztlan, the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs. In Chicano folklore, Aztlan includes California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas.
    I note that the Aztecs were Central American natives who, according to various theories about occidental natives, may have originated in Asia. Meanwhile, the Hispanics came from the Old World. So I’m wondering how the latter group figures Aztlan should be their home territory. Maybe it’s easier than going back to Europe and fighting the Muslims for Spain?

  22. NV, I would hate to ever be a white man in Sotomayor’s court room up against an Hispanic person or group.
    Gunney, I’m with you there! And ditto re lawyers in politics. A while back I had a discussion with a number of friends about whether a given profession should be limited within the House Commons, Congress, etc. In other words, a maximum percentage of lawyers. I’m actually not in favour of quotas but simply wanted to hear their reaction.
    Let’s just say it wasn’t positive.
    Quick Joke I just thought up: A politician, a lawyer, and a liar entered a bar and sat down at a booth in the corner. The waitress came by and said, “Oh, are you by yourself again tonight, sir?”

  24. “Sowell: Government’s Current Role in Business the ‘Route’ to Fascism
    The media have lamented use of the word fascism when it has been used to describe moves by the Bush and Obama administrations and the private sector economy.
    But when examined from a purely political and economic point-of-view, that is what’s going on now according to Thomas Sowell, Stanford University’s Hoover Institute Senior Fellow and author of “The Housing Boom and Bust.” Sowell appeared on Glenn Beck’s May 27 program and was asked if the United States was still a capitalist country.
    …more (w/video)…
    “Oh, heavens, partially,” Sowell replied. “We’re not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership of the means of production. But, the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that’s the route we seem to be going.””
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259900/posts

  25. Let’s see: I don’t want my tax money going to foreign aid to China. Ditto GM bailout. The Senate if it is not elected. Pensions and salaries of Bloc M.P.’s unless the party runs candidates across Canada. Money to Radio Canada unless if shows more Canadian programmes in translation.

  26. ‘Not sure about the 7-11 thing or, rather, am sure that it did nothing for me — and wonder if it’s a “generational thing.”
    Too jerky, too tinny, and what did the dancing, driving, teaching, ironing, guitar-playing penguins have to do with 7-11? What’s 7-11? One of those gas station convenience stores?
    I like connecting dots. These ones were too far apart. The shape they made didn’t please me. :-0

  27. But, thanks, Vitruvius, for the variety you give us … ‘always good to be stretched … but maybe not first thing in the morning …

  28. Goodbye, Columbus.
    …-
    “Vikings visited Canadian Arctic, research suggests
    Artifacts suggest Norse settlement in Nunavut
    Pat Sutherland’s theory is that the Norse encountered and traded with the Dorset.
    Photograph by: Julie Oliver, The Ottawa Citizen, Canwest News Service
    One of Canada’s top Arctic archeologists says the remnants of a stone-and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers, a stunning find that would be just the second location in the New World with evidence of a Viking-built structure.
    The tantalizing signs of a possible medieval Norse presence in Nunavut were found at the previously examined Nanook archeological site, about 200 kilometres southwest of Iqaluit, where people of the now-extinct Dorset culture once occupied a stretch of Hudson Strait shoreline.
    A UNESCO World Heritage site at northern Newfoundland’s L’Anse aux Meadows — about 1,500 kilometres southeast of the Nanook dig — is the only confirmed location of a Viking settlement in North America. There, about 1,000 years ago, it’s believed a party of Norse voyagers from Greenland led by Leif Eiriksson built sod-and-wood dwellings before abandoning their colonization attempt under threat from hostile natives they called “Skraelings.”
    However, over the past 10 years, research teams led by the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s chief of Arctic archeology, Pat Sutherland, have compiled evidence from field studies and archived collections that strongly suggests the Norse presence in northern Canada didn’t end with Eiriksson’s retreat from Newfoundland.
    At three sites on Baffin Island, which the Norse called “Helluland” or “land of stone slabs,” and another in northern Labrador, the researchers have documented dozens of suspected Norse artifacts such as Scandinavian-style spun yarn, distinctively notched and decorated wood objects and whetstones for sharpening knives and axes.”
    urlm.in/cnks

  31. Justapose: I-Iggy = a pussycat pussyact; declawed and spayed in spades.
    I-Iggy is a paper pussycat: MeMeMe Mess.
    Go home, Iggy.
    …-
    “What is funny is the gaping chasm between Michael Ignatieff’s words and his, well, total lack of real honest-to-goodness messing action.
    Ignatieff says he is going to mess with Stephen Harper until Ignatieff is done. Grrrrrrrrr!
    Ignatieff actually gets a lawyer to call Americans to plead that they to do his messing for him. Meow!
    …-
    “C-SPAN’s corporate vice president and general counsel, Bruce Collins, said Canada’s Liberals called to alert him to the use of copyrighted footage of leader Michael Ignatieff in a Conservative attack ad. Collins added he doesn’t believe the short segment amounts to a copyright violation.
    Collins says he was contacted by a lawyer who said he was representing the Liberals after the ad came out.
    “He wanted to know if we were aware if our video was being used in this way,” Collins said. “If our rights were being violated, he wanted us to enforce them.””
    …-
    “Michael Ignatieff messes Stephen Harper up…by snitching on him…with lawyers
    Michael Ignatieff is the Liberal Party’s toughest leader…ever!
    Conservative ads are showing Michael Ignatieff make a heartfelt plea to Americans, claiming to be an American as he did. The clip came from C-SPAN. There is evidence to suggest that the ad is having an effect, and Michael Ignatieff won’t have any of it:
    Speaking in Gander, N.L. Saturday, Ignatieff said the prime minister must learn, “If you mess with me, I will mess with you until I’m done.”
    I know a lot of people giggled at the Massachusetts Mauler, but really, I was waiting to see what Michael Ignatieff had in mind. You don’t want to underestimate people.
    Now we know what Michael Ignatieff had in mind. He was going to snitch on Stephen Harper. You know — squeal, tattle, rat.
    Actually, Michael Ignatieff doesn’t even do his own snitching. He has lawyers who do the snitching on his behalf:”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/287877.php

  32. In Ottawa, our mayor, Larry O’Brien is on trial for influence peddling. Whether guilty or not, he gets the best line of the trial award (from Randall Denley’s column in the Ottawa Citizen):
    “At the July 2006 meeting, the two men were boasting of their relative political prowess in what O’Brien aptly referred to as a “big swinging dicks contest”.
    Ya gotta love this guy.

  33. *Wilson said:
    “Give this Kevin Page interview a listen ,
    no PMSH bashing, which is likley the reason the media have, for the first time, ignored an interview with him.”
    urlm.in/cnkt (tvoorg)
    *http://stevejanke.com/archives/287877.php

  34. I-Iggy as a head of state? Two-headed I-Iggy? In his own minds.
    I-Iggy is a bi-AmericanCanadianAmericanCanadianAmericanCan…
    Is I-Iggy a rootless cosmopolitan*?
    …-
    “Just answer the question, Iggy
    Why did he claim he was an American, repeatedly?”
    “But there’s another element in the ads that sticks better, and may be responsible for this week’s levelling-off in Liberal support: Mr. Ignatieff’s past claims that he was an American. The ads show him in a clip: “You have to decide what kind of America you want … It’s your country just as much as it is mine.” This is not an isolated aberration. In a New York Times article just five years ago, he wrote “we,” meaning Americans, six times in a single paragraph, and throughout.
    That’s pretty blatant misrepresentation and raises the question: Why did he do it, repeatedly? The answer matters to voters who have to choose.
    It could be because he’s a liar or delusional – neither of which would necessarily disqualify a person from leading his country and even leading it well. But citizens have a right to know what they’re getting. Is he forgetful, or on some medication that makes him go in and out of a foreign identity?
    So far, he hasn’t responded to this point in the ads.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/just…
    *Rootless cosmopolitan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian language: безродный космополит, “bezrodniy kosmopolit”) was a Soviet euphemism introduced during Joseph Stalin’s antisemitic …
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan

  35. *”Roswell’s lawyer, Shawn Philbert”.
    More UFO sightings of LibIAmer-ICan I-Iggy and his Nana Dhalla.
    UFO Sightings: Roswell sightings corroborated by Philbert’s cousins, Ches and Wal, aka The Nut Brothers, and Liberal MP Hezbollah Coderre**.
    *”Caregiver denies using family to get into Canada
    Ruby Dhalla’s ex-nanny wonders why another former employer is now making allegations
    May 29, 2009
    Dale Brazao
    Staff Reporter
    A nanny who has accused Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla of mistreatment says she can’t understand why a former employer now says she used him to get into Canada.
    Magdalene Gordo, 31, one of two caregivers accusing Dhalla and her family of overwork and abuse, said she left her first job with a Milton family after a month because “I was not comfortable, and I was sick.”
    “I don’t understand why they’re doing this now,” Gordo said. “I’ve never spoken publicly about this. I loved those kids and they loved me. I had no problems with the family.”
    http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/642336
    **
    1 Jun 2007 … Space case Denis Coderre claims UFO sighting! Awesome. He MUST have been kidnapped, and they tinkered with his modesty and inherent human …
    lepolitico.blogspot.com/2007/06/space-case-denis-coderre-claims-ufo.html

  36. Liberals Ignatieff and Dion: Schizo-Loyalty.
    Liberal leader I-Iggy said:
    ““You have to decide what kind of America you want … It’s your country just as much as it is mine.””
    Previous ex-Liberal leader Citoyen Dion said:
    “”Having “multiple identities should be seen as an asset,” Dion explained.”
    …-
    “If citizenship is reduced to feelings, it ceases to be true loyalty and obligation
    Ezra Levant – January 15, 2007
    In 1990, Norman Tebbit, the British Conservative politician, came up with the “cricket test” of loyalty. Observe an international cricket game, he said: “A large proportion of Britain’s Asian population fail to pass the cricket test. Which side do they cheer for? It’s an interesting test. Are you still harking back to where you came from or where you are?”
    If cheering for your home country is a test that can be put to cricket fans, surely it can be put to the man who would be Canada’s Prime Minister, Stéphane Dion. Dion, the new Liberal leader, was born in Quebec, but actively sought out French citizenship as a young man, swearing loyalty to a foreign country at the same time that he dabbled in the separatist Parti Québécois. It’s unclear just what team Dion would have cheered for back then, but it’s safe to say it would not have been playing cricket.
    Dion is no longer a Quebec separatist, but he continues to be a French citizen. That in itself is odd, especially for the leader of a party that has made a political fetish about the moral supremacy represented by “Canadian values,” especially the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Obviously, Liberal nationalism is designed to demonstrate Canada’s moral superiority to the United States–our medicare system, our peacekeepers, et cetera. But it seems that, to the Liberal party, French values are equal to Canadian values.
    Or superior, if Dion’s excuses are taken at face value. Having “multiple identities should be seen as an asset,” Dion explained.”
    http://forums.army.ca/forums/index.php?topic=55955.0;wap2

  37. Robert W I see Sotomayer as a CHRC ‘roo with real power that can actually endanger people’s lives. I am thinking of the firefighter decision that promoted people without the ability to do the job.

  38. Re the Sonia Sotomayor nomination:
    Sandra Day O’Conner, the first woman on the SCOTUS, once said that a wise old man and a wise old woman would come to the same decision on a case. I agree with that.
    Ms Sotomayor, OTOH, disagrees saying that life experience shapes judgement yada yada yada.
    Ouch.

  39. Carole L. Baker, Messiahs, Mimicry and Meaning: Lessons in Visual Literacy
    In a country that remains staunchly tied to Christian rhetoric and imagery, any artist knows the best way to draw the public’s attention is to create what is, or appears to be, a subversive use of biblical narrative. In both of these cases, each artist has drawn the attention of the media and the subsequent applause and outcries are predictable. Christians are put on edge as their beliefs are once again treated like the last standing target in secularism’s war against “mythologies.” And secularists applaud the clever use of archaic imagery to create an ironic critique of contemporary religio-socio-political sentiments.
    Beyond the obvious allusions and predictable responses, however, are two very different conversations. The messianic mimicry in these pieces comes with very different intentions—intentions that should play a role in how each of these works is interpreted by the broader culture, Christian and non-Christian…

  40. OMG, if that ever passes, I have a loooooong list of programs that I don’t want my tax dollars contributing to. Anyone want to start a Top 5 list???
    Posted by: Robert W. at May 29, 2009 12:32 AM
    How about corporate welfare and auto-bailouts Robert?
    Canadians may own 10% of new GM
    Filings paint portrait of a once mighty auto giant majority controlled by North America’s taxpayers
    May 29, 2009 04:30 AM
    Tony Van Alphen
    Business Reporter
    Canadians will soon own more than 10 per cent of the “new” General Motors under a massive restructuring of the ailing auto giant.
    Although government leaders won’t confirm the taxpayer stake because of continuing talks, Ottawa and the province will likely commit about $10 billion in loans to keep the company alive and receive preferred and common stock in return.
    The money is part of a Canadian-U.S. aid package for GM Corp. and its subsidiary here that will leave governments in both countries with almost three-quarters of the company…
    http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/642253

  41. $1.4-million for every job saved
    Konrad Yakabuski
    Thursday, May. 28, 2009 10:00PM EDT
    With the latest forecast pegging the overall auto bailout bill at as much as $13.5-billion, or more than three times the original estimate, politicians are testing the limits of recession-racked Canadians’ tolerance…
    At General Motors of Canada Ltd. alone, the rescue package could amount to a staggering $1.4-million for every job saved, with no guarantee that the bailout will ensure the long-term survival of the company’s remaining auto assembly and engine plants….
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/14-million-for-every-job-saved/article1158733/

  42. Atlantic MPs want help for lobster fishermen
    MacKay: Marketing only part of what’s needed
    By STEPHEN MAHER Ottawa Bureau
    Fri. May 29 – 4:46 AM
    OTTAWA — Atlantic Conservative MPs are pushing for the government to do more to help hard-pressed lobster fishermen, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday.
    Lobster prices are so low — down to $3 a pound on the wharf — that many fishermen in Atlantic Canada are tying up their boats rather than going fishing, which is bad news for many communities where lobster is the key catch.
    Last week Fisheries Minister Gail Shea announced $10 million in help for marketing. Mr. MacKay said the Atlantic Tories are pushing for more measures.
    “Getting that $10 million out for marketing, and hopefully having another package in the pipeline, is our immediate concern,” he said.

  43. War and rumours of war.
    …-
    “World War III has started (actual title – Israeli Opinion piece)”
    “With hints of military action, Chinese boats leave Yellow Sea”
    “Satellite spots activity at North Korean missile site, officials say(another ICBM test?)
    Friday”
    “Tim Geithner Going To China
    Friday”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index

  45. I hope that everyone is paying close attention to the article that ‘hardboiled’ linked to.
    This is an indictment of ALL of the political parties in Canada. I, for one, stated that no bailouts should occur in the first place. The proof is now in the pudding! The Conservatives should have stood firm against the bailouts, even if it forced an election.

  47. Did anyone notice that it’s very difficult if not virtually impossible to buy a decent 24″ LCD monitor for less than $400 these days?
    I happened to buy two 1920*1200 Acer monitors at Costco over last year, and now I can’t find a comparable quality monitor anymore. They are either 1920*1080, or have limited inputs (something ridiculous, like 2xHDMI, or HDMI+VGA), or terrible quality.
    Essentially the monitors have gone up in price. Similar thing happened around March 2009 with the hard drives: 1Tb went up from $90 to $120.
    The only idea I have is that the world’s currencies simultaneously took a dive.

  48. Prices can go up because of demand.
    Prices can also go up because a currency devalues. The most common reason.
    Increase the quantity of dollars (like Obama is doing by printing it) and the price goes down. Simple.)
    Ultimately, a dollars’ or Yens’ or Pounds’ or Euros’ real value is the paper and the ink. Anything more is good will from the Politicians. Just below Used Car salesmen and Hells Angels.

  49. TORedStar has let Ezra Levant into its citadel.
    Will Ezra be allowed out again?
    …-
    “Stephen Harper and Israel: Not crass political calculation
    PM’s straight talk is in stark contrast to muddy thinking of human rights panels
    Ezra Levant
    At its convention this Sunday, the Canadian Jewish Congress will honour Prime Minister Stephen Harper with its Saul Hayes Award. It’s unusual for the CJC, many of whose members have long favoured the Liberals, to give an award to a Conservative Prime Minister.
    But in Harper’s case, it’s well-deserved.
    No world leader has been as clear as Harper has been in his support for Israel’s right to defend itself. Just weeks after becoming Prime Minister, Harper single-handedly stopped a surprise resolution at the Francophonie summit that would have scapegoated Israel for its war against the terrorist group, Hezbollah. And at the United Nations, Canada has stopped bowing to anti-Israel peer pressure. Now, we’re often the lone vote against anti-Semitic resolutions at the Orwellian UN Human Rights Council, while other democracies meekly abstain.
    Here at home, Harper has been outstanding. He refused to accept the diplomatic credentials of the new Iranian ambassador, in protest of that country’s murder of Iranian Canadian Zahra Kazemi. Harper was the first world leader to cut off funds to the Palestinian Authority in Gaza when it was taken over by the Hamas terrorist group. And he was the first to boycott the Durban II international conference in April when it became clear that it would be a replay of the Jew-bashing conference in 2001.
    Harper’s support has impressed even lifelong Liberals like Gerry Schwartz and Heather Reisman, and has made many other Jews rethink their traditional support for the Liberal party.
    But Harper’s views cannot be written off as a crass partisan move. Well-heeled donors are of no advantage under today’s strict campaign finance laws that limit donations from individuals and ban them from companies.
    And in terms of sheer voting power, Canada’s Muslims are now twice as numerous as Canada’s Jews. When Harper expresses philo-Semitic views, he does so out of conviction, not because of some political payoff. So it’s proper that the CJC recognize his achievements.
    The award the CJC will present to Harper is named after Saul Hayes, the late Jewish public servant and political activist. But Hayes was more than just a civic-minded Jew: he was a civil libertarian who understood the value of freedom of speech and clashed with his own community when they insisted on censorship.”
    http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/642192

  50. Re: “Canadians will soon own more than 10 per cent of the “new” General Motors under a massive restructuring of the ailing auto giant.”
    How do I go about selling my share?
    Ownership is the right of use and disposal. If I can’t do both of those things with my “property”, I don’t own it. “Public property” is another anti-concept, i.e., a fraud. Always has been, always will be.

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