Juliet, oh Juliet – wherefor woudest thou turn from marriage for fear of the unknownest? What is life if shorn of risk? On yon balcony and down yon street, I shall proveth mine love to thee! Here – hold my pants.
Learning the lesson of Caledonia – if you lose in the courts, there’s always extortion to fall back on.
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is hosting a lunch featuring Rev. Harry Lehotsky on June 19th. (Winnipeg)
The Reverend Harry Lehotsky leads an inner-city Winnipeg church called
New Life Ministries, founded in 1983. From its humble beginnings in a west-end home, the church under his leadership grew into a powerful force in its challenged neighbourhood, not only serving its spiritual needs but, through a proactive involvement in community development, becoming its economic and political voice as well. Through his extensive involvement in the church’s social housing program, Harry learned about public sector barriers to development and played a prominent part in his neighbourhood’s calls for improved public safety. Hear how both the public and private sectors can improve their delivery of services in context of high-crime, poverty and despair
click here for details, if you want to attend.
The charade of raising human rights issues with the Chinese government.
Captains Quarters;
the British capture of al-Qaeda’s chief online resource, Irhabi007 […] eight months ago allowed Western nations to make almost 40 arrests around the world, including important links to the 17 Canadians arrested in Toronto last month
Combat Jump Star on the logicstics of winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan;
I actually saw an old woman break down and begin to sob because her son had believed we were invaders there to destroy them, and he had gone away to fight against us with the Taliban. She felt that her son would never return, and for what? For a lie, for propaganda.
Comments are open for your own suggestions.
maz2: “We’ve been had, folks.”
BIG-TIME. Thanks PET and PET PUPPETS.
Hartley Stewart’s right on the money when it comes to Canadian smugness. He writes in his column today in the Sun (see maz2 above):
“So, have you dropped the idea of sewing a cute little Canadian flag onto your backpack to endear yourself to strangers when you holiday this year?”
I ran into this practice, along with the accompanying smugness, years ago when I was hitch hiking through Europe. I’d go into youth hostels, where I’d be welcomed very coolly by the proprietors until I signed in and they saw I was from Canada. “Well, that makes all the difference.”
That would have been OK, that’s their opinion, but the problem was the gloating of other Canadians, and the knee-jerk assumption that “we Canadians” were wonderful people and the Americans, in particular, were scum.
My experience, however, was that the Americans were far better companions than most of the Canadians on the road: They were politically aware (‘possibly because of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam), they were articulate, and they were more FUN than a lot of deadwood Canucks with whom I had the misfortune of sharing a train car or a hostel dormitory.
I got sick of Brits and Europeans assuming that because I was not an American, but a “wonderful Canadian,” I was somehow a better person. How would they know? I also got tired of the smug gloating of my fellow-Canadians, many of whom were boors and know-nothing jerks. To deal decisively with this chicanery, I took the Canadian flag off my backpack.
I never regretted it. Either you liked me for who I was, as someone who happened to be a Canadian, or you didn’t. Much better.
Ontario Provincial Police are now a UN Peace-Keeping Force in Ontario, Canada.
Liberal Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty assumes the mantle/burden of PeaceKeeper, from Lester, aka Mike Pearson, erstwhile Liberal Prime Minister of Canada:
McGuinty is officially named as the UN’s Peace-Keeper-in-Chief in the fourth world nation of Canada. Let us be the first to congratulate Dalton. (Applause)
G-G is reportedly anxious to visit Caledonia to convene a “weeping ceremony”.
The Dalton Gang (1892) is also jubilating at the news. …-
canoe news reports:
CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) – It’s been thankless work for police along the front lines of Canada’s latest aboriginal standoff, a difficult and dangerous assignment that has so far yielded little more than sullied reputations and daily doses of abuse, union leaders say.
In conversations at coffee shops and on reserves, police are being blamed for allowing tensions – including violent clashes between aboriginal protesters and town residents – to reach the boiling point, said Karl Walsh, president of the Ontario Provincial Police Association.
“Our reputation has suffered throughout Ontario, but most notably in the community we’re policing, Caledonia, and I think that’s an awful thing,” said Walsh.
“We’re caught in the middle of it. We’re supposed to be the law enforcers and somehow we’ve ended up in a United Nations peacekeeping mission.”
If I were running things, the Caledonia militants would be sitting in cells at camp Gagetown. Canada*s Gitmo in N.B.
They are often masked and carry weapons. The obvious badge of terrorist militants and they have earned the respect required to make them worthy of military prison.
When I spent two weeks detention there as a young maverick in the sixties, the staff were PROFESSIONAL and I was proud that Canada had smart and wise guards for our real enemies.
I hope they are as sharp these days.
Harper is doing well and law and order is a priority.
If Harper fails to crack the whip when weak kneed provincial leaders fail to enforce laws, then being loyal to Canada, one will have to point out the obvious fault. TG