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  1. Former Quebec Cabinet Minister Marc Bellemare has launched a campaign to convince the Pope to come to Quebec City for next year’s Eucharistic Congress in June.
    Sign the online petition– MORE DETAILS HERE
    (I hope I did that okay. If not, my apologies).

  2. Japan will fingerprint, photograph all visitors
    FOREIGNERS
    TOKYO — Japan hopes to thwart potential terrorists from entering the country by fingerprinting and photographing ALL foreigners ages 16 and over on entry starting next month, an official said Friday.
    Only some permanent residents, diplomatic visitors and children under 16 will be exempt from the measures after the system goes into effect Nov. 20, Immigration Bureau official Takumi Sato said.
    Under the new system, all adults will be photographed and fingerprinted on arrival in Japan. Incoming aircraft and ship operators also will be obliged to provide passenger and crew lists before they arrive.
    Resident foreigners will be required to go through the procedure every time they re-enter Japan.
    Immigration officials will run the images and information through a database of international terror and crime suspects as well as against domestic crime records.
    People matching the data on file will be denied entry and deported.
    http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/623648,CST-NWS-japan28.article
    Heh. Here in Canada our dear Liberals are screeching over a no fly list.

  3. PMSH again proves himself to be in a whole different class than the Libs, and that’s a rhetorical question.Libs have used QP regularly to spout off without thinking.Why would they start now?
    He’s playing an amazing game of chess, they are playing tiddly winks.

  4. “Did Yamamoto really deserve what he got? Yes – and so did HIroshima. Next question?”
    In this article some Japs are complaining that Tibbets never apologised and I don’t blame him.
    http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtiRIugG8rWA_QO_4Je92Tc3s9Vg
    Considering all the war crimes these bastards commited against allied prisoners, and all the comfort women they rounded up, none of which they have apologised for, Why the hell should anyone apologise to them?
    Their PM still visits a war shrine that also commemorates war criminals, and they have tried to rewrite their war history school books.
    What happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary to stop them and save more lives. Thats war, and those bastards started it.

  5. I agree 100% with pissedoff. I have friends who say the bomb should not have been dropped.
    right.
    how many American lives would have been lost on a Normandy style raid on Japan and the following ground attack?
    I hate it when people use modern “war is not the answer” to WW2 questions like how to end it.
    It was the easiest way to end that war.
    Now………If people could see that defeating an enemy and letting them have free will and democratic society(Japan and Germany) maybe they could take that logic to Iraq and Afganistan.
    Holy smoke the world could be a better place.

  6. “Do you REALLY want me to start investigating former Prime Ministers? You guys might want to stop and think twice about that one…”
    Well now, if P.M. S-Head has dirt on some former PMs, what is he hiding? If he knows something then we as Canadians should know it too. So, time to call an inquiry or two, on both sides of the political fence if there is substance to his claims. If he has something on the Liberals then fine out with it or shut up and call an inquiry on Mulroney? He’s not playing chess as bluetech claims, he’s playing poker and it’s time he shows us his hand.

  7. It was the easiest way to end that war.
    Right. It’s also given the U.S. difficulty in upholding a moral upper ground ever since. I’m not debating… just sayin’.

  8. Lorne Calvert Economics. As a home owner according to the NDP website I will get a 390 dollar break per year on my education property taxes. I pay 920 dollars PIT per month. A renter paying 900 dollars per month will get a 648 dollar break per year. WTF. Please show me 1 renter that has received a bill from the city for property/ education taxes. The next thing the NDP will do is give money away to people who don’t work. What’s that you say? They already have this, it’s called WELFARE

  9. http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2007/10/saskwatch.html
    I used to think Calgary Grit was someone I could disagree with but still respect. Not anymore. Serge LeClerc has worked for a number of years in the Saskatoon area helping young men get off hard drugs. I’d like to see CG make those comments to the families of the people Serge has helped. That was sooo low. CG, if you’re reading this, if you had any morals you’d retract that comment in public. Wow I’m mad! I don’t have a blogger account so I can’t post on his site. That’s why I posted this here. I hope that’s OK Kate.

  10. What a solid character this guy was. One of the reasons why the United States is so strong is people like Paul Tibbets who took risks nobody but a few folks in Iraq and Afghanistan can fully appreciate. A long life of service to his country and the world, may he meet his God with a clear conscience!

  11. PMSH again proves himself to be in a whole different class than the Libs, and that’s a rhetorical question.Libs have used QP regularly to spout off without thinking.Why would they start now?
    He’s playing an amazing game of chess, they are playing tiddly winks.
    ——————————
    Tiddly winks, good one, I usually say checkers, but tiddly winks is way better! I’m going to steal that one, if you don’t mind.
    He is one of the best leaders Canada has ever seen, and looking at the EU countries, he is making an impact because not only is he smart, he’s principled.
    Think about it, what country in the world today has a better leader, I can’t think of one, although I do like Howard.

  12. NDP surrogates demonstrate their fine sense of timing. Students may not mind too much, but their parents, who are footing the bills, might draw a connection and a conclusion on Wednesday.

  13. Yes a great bloody idea, start legal proceedings against the man that received 2 million dollars and a National Apology last time the Librals tried this. Clever as a stone.
    Divert attention from the fact that the Liberal Party is DEAD!!!

  14. Woops Harper, your real ideology is showing. Better watch out Canadians are going to see that Reform Party heritage.
    “Tories decide to stop opposing death penalty for Canadians convicted abroad”
    cbc.ca/cp/national/071101/n110199A.html
    Well this should have the rednecks cons jumping and cheering while the progressive cons run to distance themselves on this one.
    Don’t think this slipped under the Canadian voter radar.
    lists.compar.com/cdn_abolition/2004-June/000516.html

  15. I saw a documentary on the post invasion strategies of Japan back a few months ago. The American intellegence were estimating another 1 million casulties on each side on a Normandy style invasion. The was American soldiers and Japanese Soldiers/Civilians. Sadly the way it did end was the least bloody.

  16. alboloss
    “”””Don’t think this slipped under the Canadian voter radar.””””
    thanks for the update, better late than never
    maybe this will help kanadians off shore think a little more about wot they do when away from home

  17. Harper, wise like a fox
    John Ivison
    National Post
    OTTAWA -Stephen Harper offered another example this week of how far ahead of his political adversaries, and the pundits, he really is. While much ink was spilled on whether Stephane Dion would bring down the government over the mini-budget, Mr. Harper was already looking ahead to the next move on the chessboard.
    That’s because he had no expectation the Liberals would vote against a $60-billion tax giveaway. Instead, he designed it to drain the government’s coffers of funds with which Mr. Dion could launch a credible election campaign. …-
    http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=71bc2065-893d-4dad-bb24-3ae82dd7b602

  19. Uh.. albatross. This piece of slime has been on death row since the 1980’s. How come it is just now that the Liberals have noticed?

  20. “Tories decide to stop opposing death penalty for Canadians convicted abroad”
    ============================
    What a misleading headline!! Not surprising it comes from CBC.

  21. Although I’m not crazy about him, I gotta admit, Harper’s response was wonderfully crafted and made a good point. Chretien and Martin both had shady business dealings while in office. It was a good move politically for Harper to call them out on that.

  22. Elites in Canada are shaken, rattled, fearful. TO Red Star is their mouthpiece.
    Multiculturalism is dead.
    No cringing when the TO Red Star speaks; here is a mesage for the TO Red Star:
    Down with the Red Star’s “goodwill”.
    Vive le Canada. Long live Canada.
    …-
    Quebec’s toxic identity debate
    Across Canada, people of goodwill are cringing as Quebec’s identity debate turns toxic. Premier Jean Charest served blunt notice this week that politicians are “fanning the flames of intolerance” toward cultural and religious minorities, and promoting a “siege mentality.” That may sound alarmist to those who have not followed the debate. But Charest had reason to speak out. And not a minute too soon.
    Consider Quebec’s two opposition leaders. Mario Dumont of the Action Démocratique party argues that Quebec is “pretty much at capacity, in terms of intake,” and wants to block increases in immigration. …- (TO Red Star)
    Italian police begin to round up Romanians
    · Shantytowns demolished amid outrage over murder
    · Anti-immigrant groups form vigilante patrols
    […]
    The prefect of Rome, Carlo Mosca, said: “I shall sign the first expulsion orders straightaway. A hard line is needed because, faced with animals, the only way to react is with maximum severity.” Italian media reports said the police were anticipating several thousand expulsions.
    Mr Mosca’s comments, which did not prompt controversy, came amid a nationwide outcry over the death late on Thursday of Giovanna Reggiani, the 47-year-old wife of a navy captain. Ms Reggiani was robbed, sexually assaulted, beaten and then dumped in a ditch near her home.
    A Romanian of Roma origin, Nicolae Mailat, 24, was remanded in custody by a magistrate yesterday, accused of murder, sexual assault and theft. His duty lawyer said he had only admitted to stealing Ms Reggiani’s bag.
    The killing was the latest in a string of ugly crimes this year blamed on Romanians, who form Italy’s biggest immigrant community. …-
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2204527,00.html

  24. My call for intergenrational equity is gaining traction:
    ***************
    University graduates will have to hand over almost half their salaries to the taxman within five years, according to a report which shows the escalating financial burdens facing young people.
    The “IPOD” generation of young people who are Insecure, Pressured, Overtaxed and Debt-ridden are the victims of an institutional bias that has tipped the balance between taxation and spending against young people in favour of older generations, the report from the independent non-party think-tank Reform says.
    It argues that while other developed nations, notably the United States and France, are beginning to address this intergenerational bias and to design their public policy around the interests of young people within an ageing population, the British Government has virtually ignored the issue.
    As a result, the young are being increasingly asked to shoulder the burden of increased public spending on pensions and health services, which are primarily used by a growing number of older people.
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2767109.ece

  25. Prohibition has effectively returned:
    *************
    On a May night in 2005, Debra Bolton, a lawyer and single mom from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, was leaving the Café Milano in Georgetown after socializing with some friends. She had driven her SUV only a few hundred yards before she was pulled over by D.C. police for driving with the headlights off. She told the officer the parking attendant at Café Milano probably had turned off her vehicle’s automatic light feature.
    Not mollified, the officer asked Bolton to step out of the car, walk in a straight line, recite the alphabet, stand on one foot, and count to 30. He checked her eyes for suspicious jerkiness and insisted on a breath test for alcohol.
    The breath test revealed that Bolton’s blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.03 percent, a level a 120-pound woman could expect after drinking one glass of wine. It was well below the 0.08 percent limit that marks a driver as legally intoxicated in D.C. It was not low enough for the arresting officer, however. This middle-aged mother of two, who hadn’t drunk to excess, who hadn’t run a red light or run a stop, was arrested, handcuffed, and fingerprinted for an innocent mistake. She sat in a jail cell for hours and was finally released at 4:30 a.m. Bolton spent four court appearances and over $2,000 fighting a $400 ticket. She then spent a month fighting to get her license back after refusing to submit to the 12-week alcohol counseling program.
    The arresting officer, inaptly named Dennis Fair, insists: “If you get behind the wheel of a car with any measurable amount of alcohol, you will be dealt with in D.C. We have zero tolerance….Anything above 0.01, we can arrest.” Fair recognized that nearly everyone in D.C. was unaware of this zero tolerance policy. Still, he told The Washington Post, if “you don’t know about it, then you’re a victim of your own ignorance.”
    Bolton’s arrest was not the result of a single cop’s overzealousness. In 2004 D.C. police arrested 321 people with BACs below the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving under the influence. The year before, the number was 409.
    http://reason.com/news/show/122456.html

  26. NEW YORK – The FBI used mob muscle to solve the 1964 disappearance of three civil rights volunteers in Mississippi, a gangster’s ex-girlfriend testified Monday, becoming the first witness to repeat in open court a story that has been underworld lore.
    Linda Schiro said that her boyfriend, Mafia tough guy Gregory Scarpa Sr., was recruited by the FBI to help find the volunteers’ bodies. She said Scarpa later told her he put a gun in a Ku Klux Klansman’s mouth and forced him to reveal the whereabouts of the victims.
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flamob1030nboct30,0,7355278.story

  27. Reports of the death of Canadian newspapers are highly exaggerated, unfortunately:
    ***************
    CanWest Global Communications Corp. posted an 18-per-cent increase in earnings in the fourth quarter, with full-year operating profit at the company’s Canadian television operations nearly doubling.
    The results in the traditionally weak summer quarter that ended Aug. 31 were helped by the sale of the company’s New Zealand and Canadian radio operations, which resulted in a gain of $252 million.
    Operating profits were $77 million in the fourth quarter, up from $65 million in the corresponding quarter a year earlier.
    Net earnings rose to $197 million, or $1.11 per share, from $155 million, or 87 cents.
    The earnings were distilled from revenue of $679 million, an increase of 11 per cent from a year earlier.
    In addition to the Canadian television operations, CanWest’s holdings include a chain of major metropolitan newspapers including The Gazette, as well as television and outdoor advertising operations in Australia.
    “All our operations showed marked improvement over the previous year, with Canadian television maintaining its momentum vis-a-vis its audience share vs. its competitors in Canada,” said Leonard Asper, chief executive of CanWest.

  28. I’d just as soon gun for all the pain and suffering rabble has caused me, because then Suzuki would have to pay.
    Must be nice to have a court as your personal plaything, some of the charges he has brought forth are really insane,
    one of the ones re the girl in Calgary was for her not wanting muslims to cover their faces to vote. So the Winnipeg sun had a poll like 90+% agreed with her and presumably should be fined.
    And I guess anyone who votes for said measure in the house of comments has hurt the feelings of “the most sensitive Canadian” and he should get a few thousand from all of them too,

  29. Largs’ comment above is significant.
    Had the libs taken any steps to get this guy off death row when they were in power???
    If not, then it is apparant that he is nothing more than a prop for the Libs:
    let him die under their watch, but under the conservatives, his is suddenly a precious life worth saving.

  31. Dear Kate, just two housekeeping comments (sorry to bother).
    You seem to have changed the default font to italics somehow…was that intentional? Also, your third tip should start “THEY miss the step…”.

  33. Albatross, it amazes me how stupid liberals can be when they think they can score points against Harper by attacking a former PM. Mulroney’s time in office was the impetus for Harper helping to start up a new party to replace the old PC’s. In fact most of the dregs of Brian Mulroney’s old party are probably loberal supporters. You know, like Garth, Joe Who etc.

  34. “Hundreds of weeping family members”.
    The above crap/bs from MSM/CP. What a gaggle of scumbags at the MSN/CP. MSM/CP: You are a sick crew of scurvy seasick scumbags. May your rusty tub sink in Toronto harbour.
    …-
    Cdn frigate leaves Halifax harbour for six-month deployment in Persian Gulf
    CanadianPress …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920410/posts

  36. Liberal Mentality Use Millions$$$$ of Taxpayer money to investigate Former(Millionaire)PM’s that have Millionaire Lawyers. Conclusion Millions upon Millions spent with an end result of Millions upon Millions being paid out in Law suits, because the tracks of lost trails will never be found.
    This because the Liberals are going by the word of a man that is sitting in jail waiting to be deported and both are as desperate.

  37. Michael Coren’s column today’s TO Sun Nov.03/07
    “Brit Leftist go Mad”
    A very good read & food for thought.

  38. Thanks for that link, bryanr. Yikes.
    As for the poor chappie on death row — didn’t the Libs ignore him for more than a decade, under Chretien’s gov’t? And didn’t the Libs also ignore another Canadian on deathrow in Texas?
    But the media will run with the “scary” Conservative them again . . . sigh.

  39. May Day! May Day! Coming in for a landing! Oooooh! Beak first, again:
    “Well now, if P.M. S-Head has dirt on some former PMs, what is he hiding? If he knows something then we as Canadians should know it too. So, time to call an inquiry or two, on both sides of the political fence if there is substance to his claims. If he has something on the Liberals then fine out with it or shut up and call an inquiry on Mulroney? He’s not playing chess as bluetech claims, he’s playing poker and it’s time he shows us his hand.”
    Like, 80 kilos of cocaine attached to the bottom of a CSL ship, moored at Halifax? Or, ownership in and familial ties to TotalFina? Or becoming a multimillionaire after a lifetime of ‘serving the public?’ Or, or, or, Power Corp?
    Another brain fart from feathers for brains.

  40. The poor Libranos are so beside themselves they’re desperately trying to breath life into dead issues.
    What business is it of anyone delving into dealings which may or may not have happened between Mulroney and the infamous Mr. Schreiber, after Mulroney left office?
    Liberals still don’t get it. They paid out our money for accusing Mulroney falsely now they want Harper to do the same?
    They’re also oblivious to the fact, or are in severe denial mode, that Harper is a clever Fox and their leader is a mere Chicken who keeps laying eggs.
    On a lighter note, the story of circumcisions not being done in Africa due to global warming is about where we could expect global warming to end up.
    Maybe an MP like Dr. Keith Martin, languishing in the Liberal fold, could take a trek over to do a study on the phenomenon. He’s a guy who’s got to be concerned about health issues and this would fall under that category.

  41. Assbatross, you want this one sent to an inquiry as well?
    ONE DAY before George Radwanski was given his $210,000-a-year patronage appointment as Canada’s privacy commissioner, Revenue Canada forgave $540,000 he owed the federal government after years of not paying taxes, according to documents obtained by the Sun. A longtime communications consultant to Jean Chretien and other clients, Radwanski filed for bankruptcy protection in 1999 with only one registered creditor — the federal tax department.
    Documents indicate that on July 26, 2000, Revenue Canada wiped out Radwanski’s tax bills totalling $606,947 for only $67,726 in payments from him.
    The next day, Chretien appointed Radwanski privacy commissioner for a seven-year term.
    You do realize under bankruptcy laws if you know of a change in your financial ability to repay debtors(taxpayers of Canada), you are obligated to divulge such information. The more amazing thing is Chretien kept him on despite of this, and he was only fired once Sheila Fraser dscovered more illegal dealings in his new position.

  42. bryanr:
    I think PM Harper, with a majority, can wrap himself in the Canadian flag and accomplish two things:
    The replacement of multiculturalism with CanadianCulturalism and the death of Liberal hegemony.
    Britain is proving to be a great test market for suicidal ideas.

  46. Kate, any way to display commenters’ names at the top also ??
    I beleive in the benefit of the doubt for anyone — a few times. But when the same mindless drivel runs up in the hundreds —– disgard as damaged goods, scroll past.

  47. cnews.canoe.ca poll;
    Should Canada bring back the death penalty?
    Yes
    67%
    No
    28%
    Not sure
    5%
    Total Votes for this Question: 1040

  48. PM Harper is in demand!
    Find the wee little 3-letter weasel word, “but”, with which Glob-Pail/MSM, hopes to negate all that has been said before.
    Glob-Pail/MSM = Weasels.
    …-
    The battle for B.C.
    Many ridings are wide open in the next federal election. How can party leaders woo voters to their side?
    VANCOUVER — The city’s board of trade just can’t wait for lunch next week with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It isn’t about the menu, but rather the attention.
    The board in Canada’s third-largest city had been clamouring for a prime ministerial visit pretty much since Mr. Harper got the job in 2006.
    He has agreed to speak on Wednesday – the last day of a three-day swing through British Columbia for the Prime Minister. […]
    “We sold out in a day and a half,” he said, referring to the $65 seats for the event for members to hear Mr. Harper’s take on crime, taxes, China and the management of the Canada-U.S. border. […]
    “Normally with 440 people, we’d have to take a week to sell. This is really good. We could have got twice that many. There’s a lot of demand,” he said.
    But …”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071103.BCPOLITICS03/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/

  49. paulsstuff at November 3, 2007 11:36 AM
    Sure let’s see it all out on the table.
    GYM at November 3, 2007 6:03 AM
    and
    Largs at November 3, 2007 6:53 AM
    Spoken like a true redneck.
    Louise at November 3, 2007 7:03 AM
    How exactly do you see that as misleading?

  50. Biff, the government, Tory or Grit can “protest” all they want about Canadian on death row, it won’t change the result one bit. This change in policy will not change a thing. Liberals made representations for other Canadians, and executions went ahead.
    Dumb issue for Liberals to pursue. Harper nailed them again by saying, while Tories not interested in gettting in Canadian capital punishment debate, Grits want to debate US capital punishment.
    If Harper is so bad, why is this best Grits can come up with, save demanding inquiry into their libel settlement with Mulroney, in light of new allegations.
    Maybe they could explain the link, I don’t see it (Mulroney received $300,000 in cash, while sleezy in itself, the money was belatedly reported to Revenue Canada, also sleazy). We already knew Mulroney was sleazy fellow, though rank amateur compared to Chretien; that’s why Reform Party cum CPC formed in the first place.
    Harper is right, Libs should be careful what they wish for. Peter Van Loan also nailed them with “we’re more interested in recovering the $40 million that went missing from Adscam.”
    Neither of those issues will resonate with voters. Liberals better come up with some policies that will increase their 25% base (which would vote Lib if Donald Duck or Clifford Olsen was their leader) to where they can challenge Tories. Otherwise they risk handing Harper majority next time around. I still can’t believe Liberal establishment (A-team so far sitting this one out) will let Dion run in general election.
    Or, they could take comfort in polls that prove that Canadians could care less about politics between elections, especially now that hockey season has started again.

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