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  6. Two more human heads found in N.E Mexico City.
    TheCanadainSentinel.blogspot.com
    Your holiday already booked? Better switch to Belize or Panama. . . I would.
    At least avoid Tijuana and Mexico City. = TG

  8. It looks like the fastest growing group in Canada are our aboriginal peoples. They now make up 3.8% of the Canadian population. Their median age is much lower than the average Canadian; their birth rate is much higher. There is also politics at play concerning natives who live on and off reserves.
    See
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=241823
    (Also has links to several related articles from yesterday’s National Post.)

  9. Nice to see tne msm giving Steffi a big pass on his idiotic ‘invade Pakistan’ theory! Have been watching both cbc/ctv this a.m.,and other than a throw-away one-liner in the middle of another story(ctv)there has been nada,zero,zip!If a Cons.had been reported as saying this,every no-name politician,would have been trotted out for numerous opposing positions..there would be countless analysts slamming how ludicrous an idea this is..it would be front page news on every paper.I checked G&M,little wee blurb,(no comments allowed)…and where are the usual mouthpieces that have lots of ‘opinions’ i.e.Travers,Delacourt,Weston,Taber etc.NOTHING! MSM is too busy hiding once again,the puffin-excretement.CBC can drag out Coderre to slam PMSH for not responding more forcefully for Gates remarks,yet not mention Dion’s asinine thots.Putrid indeed!

  10. Toronto school board considering Afrocentric school
    Toronto’s public school board is a step closer to opening a black-focused school – possibly as soon as next September – after a discussion paper obtained by the National Post yesterday listed the controversial idea as a way to address the disproportionately high dropout rates among black students…
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=242313
    One-third of pupils at T.O. native school suspended
    All Grade 3s failed literacy test
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=232058

  11. Where’s Ralph?
    Citoyen Dion’s Liberals splinter.
    Liberal Metis rebellion in Saskatchewan; 200 Liberal troops form own caucus.
    Letters sent:
    “The group sent a letter to Dion Wednesday demanding he repeal Beatty’s appointment. Another letter was sent to Beatty asking her to resign from the position and file nomination papers if she wanted to run in the byelection.”
    “The letterhead featured the official Liberal logo, along with the party slogan.”
    …-
    Northern Grits splinter over Beatty appointment
    http://tinyurl.com/2oug29 (starphoenix)

  12. Keen was in a conflict of interest; both cook and bottle-washer; both hands in the soup; coming and going at the same time. Perfect heaven for a bureaucrat.
    Hers was a bureauc-rats’ paradise. No longer.
    TO Red Star smothers this by using this headline:
    “Concerns on rise over nuclear safety”
    […]
    “One such issue was the conflict inherent in the two roles Keen performed, Hawthorne said.
    As president, Keen was the chief executive officer responsible for overseeing the 400-member commission staff. But she also chaired the six-member tribunal board that makes the formal licensing decisions. In most organizations those two roles are split.” http://tinyurl.com/2s33tz

  13. We are going to hear lot’s more about Keen and her Liberal buddies. For too many years Crown corp beaurocrats sat back and collected their fat paychecks with no accountability.PMSH is cleaning up and the biased media is trying desperately to spin this…very predictable.Fife and Oliver are in attack mode.
    Does anyone think for a minute that Lunn and PMSH would do this without a huge file on Keen’s mistakes?

  14. The “huge file” goes beyond Keen. The dots lead to:
    Mao Stlong, aka Maurice Strong, et al.
    …-
    Oil for food, Canada
    Tongsun Park, Maurice Strong, Reid Morden at Atomic Energy of Canada
    By Judi McLeod
    Friday, June 30, 2006
    […]
    “That’s the kind of joining of the dots bound to have some running for the antacid.
    The kind of dot joining that leads back to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan point man, Canadian Maurice Strong, a place Strong most likely doesn’t need to be.
    According to the prosecution in the first case related to the oil-for-food scandal to be tried in America, Mr. Park had strong connections to such UN luminaries as Mr. Boutros-Boutros-Ghali and Canadian oil tycoon and environmentalist Maurice Strong. “He sold his access,” said Assistant District Attorney Michael Farbiarz, “for cash by the bagful”.
    “The money from Iraq, `that traveled from Baghdad to Canada, `$1 million in a cardboard box’ was given to Tongsun Park by Saddam Hussein’s former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, according to the (Paul) Volcker document released on Wednesday.” (Marinka Peschmann, Special to Canada Free Press, Sept. 8, 2005), “In addition to the $1 million, Saddam’s top aide, Aziz, who has been in U.S. custody since April 2003, provided Park with an “escort” to safely accompany him out of Iraq into Amman, Jordan.” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/3ybumg
    (canadiancoalition)

  15. AN AUDIO DOWNLOAD FOR ECONOMICS JUNKIES:
    http://tinyurl.com/3xh7ny
    Preface: This is a speech given by Sir James Goldsmith given to the US senate in 1994 concerning the negative impacts the “most favored nations status” would have on western industrialized nations productivity, the working middle class, balance of trade and the western labor market. He explains that this clause was a “trap” inserted onto the GATT by transnational monopolists to get production to China and sell the goods back to the Americas at maximum profitability.
    In light of what has happened the last 8 years his predictions were prophesy.
    Sir James Goldsmith is a British industrialist and billionaire who was a major force in opposing the EU.

  16. Chretien /Martin government malfeasance would have had difficulty existing without the complicity of top most civil servants.
    Enabled by the leftist MSM it afforded more than a decade of vile corruption, perpetrated on Canadians.
    Good on Harper for cleaning out the rot that obviously still exists in pockets of the Liberal politicised civil service and RCMP as well, for that matter.
    Too bad we do not have an aggressive conservative media in Canada, because the leftist MSM continues to champion the former governing miscreants.

  17. PMSH to make big announcement from Prince Albert within next hr..cbc making big issue re the ‘new’ close relationship with Premier Wall,as opposed to poor old Lorne.I can’t wait to see if there will be a Q&A after,and his comments on Doofus Dion’s latest faux pas.

  18. If I’m not mistaken, I believe that PMSH is guessting on Gormley at 10:45 this morning.

  19. UK to take terror fight online – Home Secretary
    Internet security experts reacted with scepticism today after Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, promised to broaden the online battle against terrorism.
    Ms Smith told a London conference on terror that techniques developed for use against paedophile grooming could be extended to tackle those who use the web to groom young British Muslims to become terrorists…
    Related: How online extremists evade capture

  21. Joe Molnar said:
    “Enabled by the leftist MSM it afforded more than a decade of vile corruption, perpetrated on Canadians.”
    Correct Joe. No corrupt governing regime can exist in a democratic nation this long without the help of a compliant or cowed media…and front and center in the Chretien-Martin ass-covering brigade was CBC.
    Do a little googling on “Terry Milewski” and the Pepper spraying of civilians in the Vancouver demonstrations against Suharto.
    ..this incident said it all to me…there’s our Powercorp PM snuggling up to a despotic butcher because his boss at Powercorp has major investments in Indonesia…kind of like one power freak psychopath relating to another…so Chretien’s innate “pettiness” makes him order a RCMP pepper spray attack on Canadians peacefully protesting Suharto’s brutal regime.
    Chretien denies it, in his typical craven way, and hangs a low ranking mounty out to blame for the media to roast…Terry Milewski was the lone Canadian journalist doing an invetigation following the pepper trail right back to the PMO….this caused the media to ask “Da Boss” if it was true he issued the orders causing Cretch to blurt out that famous line ( “Wal for me, I put da peppers on da plate”)
    Previous to the “peppergate” scandal, Milewski was the unnamed reporter that had traced the paper trail from Chretien’s golf course sale back to a coerced BDC loan guarantee…we all know the can of worms that opened.
    Obviously the peppergate scandal was the last straw, so the “boss” has CBC brass demote and suspended Milewski from Mothercorpse…as a warning to other “investigative reporters” in the MSM who may be following the many spoor trails from multiple scandals back to the PMO.
    If anyone took the trouble to read the transcripts of Adscam hearings, you will note that the keeping of an unaccountable “slush fund” in the PMO which was the impetus for the CSP grant seed money was known about by the media as early as 1994…. but media sources decided that telling the Canadian people about the unaccountable money to fuel an on-going political bribery scheme was just not newsworthy until the corruption became so obvious and whistle blowers appeared in 2004.
    Yeah we live in a nation where the media is almost totally controlled.

  22. Goodale suffers from amnesia: “He doesn’t remember.”
    …-
    At the time, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale was responsible for overseeing AECL as minister of natural resources. The Auditor-General’s report said a copy of the document was delivered to the minister’s office for review. However, it is unclear whether Mr. Goodale made any attempts to improve relations with AECL or aid in its long-term planning problems.
    Yesterday, a spokesman for Mr. Goodale said he declined to comment on the issue “for the simple reason that this goes back 10 years,” the spokesman said. “He doesn’t remember.” …-
    Documents show history of problems
    Managerial and systemic ‘deficiencies’ at AECL go back more than a decade, say Auditor-General’s reports
    http://tinyurl.com/2m55rm

  23. Sammy,
    If you dig deep into the CTV site, you can find an interview panel with some MP’s on Steffi’s comments. The link is very long, and I’m too inept to add it correctly….
    JCL

  25. “Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Ezra. This bold renegade carves a E with his blade, a E that stands for Ezra. Ezra, the fox so cunning and free. Ezra, who makes the sign of the E.”
    I can just see the video wtih our crusader on his rearing horse…

  26. (PDF warning) C. Christine Fair (RAND Corporation), U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy
    Testimony presented before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on January 16, 2008
    The comments on the Federally Adminstered Tribal Areas (pp. 11-14 of the PDF) are particularly interesting. They include this nugget (notes omitted):

    Similarly, political parties are not allowed to operate in FATA as the problematic Political Parties Act has not been extended there. Failure to extend the act has denied regional and non-Islamist parties the ability to cultivate and mobilize supporters in FATA, while permitting Islamist parties unfettered access to the public through Friday sermons at mosques and through access to FATA’s numerous madrassah. Thus, when adult franchise was first exercised in the 1997 elections, the residents of FATA overwhelmingly and without precedent elected religious scholars (ulema) to represent them in the national assembly. Since 1997, FATA has consistently voted for Islamist in the general elections. Without legal reform and political liberalization, I am skeptical that economic investments will help bring the hapless residents of FATA into Pakistan’s mainstream society. At some point, FATA must become part of Pakistan’s legal, political and social structure. FATA must have functioning police and courts and other amenities that Pakistanis elsewhere enjoy. Thus economic investments need to be accompanied by political liberalization and legal reform.

  27. “Diana’s mother called her a whore: court”
    LONDON (Reuters) – Princess Diana’s former butler told the inquest into her death on Monday that her mother had called her a whore for dating Muslim men.
    Paul Burrell said Diana broke off relations with her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, after she had “expressed herself in extremely forceful terms about Diana’s consorts, especially if they were Muslim.”
    Burrell, revealing the contents of a call Diana asked him to listen into, said Shand Kydd, who died in 2004, “called the Princess a whore and she said that she was messing around with f-ing Muslim men and she was disgraceful and said some very nasty things.”

  28. “Don’t rile the natives, or what do Canada and Chechnya have in common?”
    Jan 14: Canada’s version of The Minority Report: pre-crime and presumption of guilt in Section 13 cases
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    If I thought medication would help, I suppose I would tell a psychiatrist that I’m always on the lookout for the British counterinsurgency. I don’t like admitting this to you — paranoids generally don’t unburden themselves for obvious reasons; you could be a Redcoat spy. But as there is no other way to explain the reasoning behind my view of Section 13 of Canada’s Human Rights Act (see the last two Pundita posts about Section 13), I have let you in on my secret.
    I am not prejudiced against the British, you understand; I’m waiting for them to make another try. There is a difference.
    Section 13 is a direct consequence of Canada’s official multicultural policy, which is written into their Charter of Rights and Freedoms under Section 27.
    But what is multiculturalism and how did it come about in Canada? Here is the Canadian government’s explanation. Yet mountains of books and scholarly papers have been published in the attempt to answer the question. None of them are worth a plug nickel in my view, unless they explain that multiculturalism was a British invention for managing native populations.
    So when I review published criticism of the Section 13 complaints against Maclean’s magazine, I can only shake my head in wonder at such blindness. The critics, whether from Canada or America, are doggedly determined to pin blame on human rights commissions, or Liberals and the Political Correctness movement.
    Let us be clear. The war between the American colonies and Britain ended, but the ideological struggle never did. That struggle has been played out most recently in Iraq, which saw the British approach to managing the natives in Basra in open conflict with the US attempt to block Iranian weapons from entering Iraq. My nightmare is that it’s being played out in Afghanistan as well.
    What are the two sides in the struggle? The British colonial model (BCM) is that you allow the natives you rule in foreign lands to keep to their own ways as much as possible without your losing control over them. This approach arose out of practical needs to keep tribal rivalries from spilling into wars that the British home office would find hard to control.
    To read the rest: pundita.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-rile-natives-or-what-do-canada-and.html

  30. It appears Beria is posting under one of his other personalities, “the envelop please!”
    Unlike his regular personality, modeled as it is on a Communist mass-murderer, this personality conveniently allows him to use expletives and personal threats.
    More proof that seriously demented multiple personality disorder runs rampant amongst leftards.

  32. Situation Normal: AllNotFU.
    SNANFU. …-
    Current Sea Ice Synopsis
    Posted: January 7th, 2008
    As of January 1, 2008 Environment Canada analysis indicates sea ice cover over the Northern Hemisphere has recovered to near normal extent. However, much of the thick multi-year ice in the eastern and even central Arctic Ocean has been depleted and replaced with thinner more newly formed first year ice. (Click here to see a comparison with the last 4-years). …-
    http://www.socc.ca/seaice/seaice_current_e.cfm

  33. More SNANFU.
    “‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.”
    …-
    Jan 17, 2008
    Ice Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet
    On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade. “The ice is up to 50cm thick,” said Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute who has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the Royal Arctic Line. ‘We’ve had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.’ Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.
    Temperatures plunged to -25C earlier this month, clogging the bay with ice and making shipping impossible for small crafts, according to Anthon Frederiksen, the mayor of the town of Ilulissat, where Disko Bay is located. The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing temperature indicated that global warming claims were overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had retracted more in the past two decades than in recorded history. But he noted “‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.” …-
    http://www.icecap.us/

  34. Irwin,
    one can imagine that a person who makes threats and always sides with the anarchist may well be an ex-con who has a hate for the state.
    Joining a cell at the local mosque in SanDiego California gave a group of ex-cons the validation to go on a robbery spree in Los Angeles.
    They were rounded up due to a dropped cell phone. Turns out their apartment held plans to hit some federal building with explosives.
    Just bucking *the system*. We will always have *system buckers* in the crowd. = TG

  35. Virtual murder, virtual education
    A British Muslim IT student and son of a Moroccan diplomat was accused of being “al Qaeda’s top cyber terrorist” by British authorities. Younes Tsouli, 23, “posted included messages from Osama bin Laden and images of the kidnapping and murder of hostages in Iraq such as American Nick Berg.”
    What’s interesting about the Younes case is that it marks “the first time anyone in Britain had been prosecuted for inciting terrorist murder purely based on the Internet” […]
    When the real Fyodor Dostoevsky described Ivan Karamazov’s frustration with the insubstantiality of the Devil in the Brother’s Karamazov he might have been talking about the virtual Jihad. Ivan denies that evil ideas matter, that they have a life of their own, but realizes to his dismay that he’s talking to the Devil.
    “Never for one minute have I taken you for reality,” Ivan cried with a sort of fury. “You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom. It’s only that I don’t know how to destroy you and I see I must suffer for a time. You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself, but only of one side of me… of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them.”
    We disbelieve in phantoms at our peril. They can take shape, as they did above Manhattan on a bright autumn day oh so long ago and come down for blood. We can jail Younes Tsouli easily enough but to fight the lie, the illness, the phantom, the hallucination, we must must unleash spirits of our own. Ivan’s problem was that he couldn’t believe in the Devil and consequently kept talking to him.
    Do you believe in the Devil? Let’s just say Younes Tsouli believed in the Internet Jihad.
    http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/01/virtual-murder-virtual-education.html

  37. Re: Linda Keen’s so called “firing”.
    She was not fired at all. Just demoted from the head position. Get this – she still has a job on the board and still collects more than $240,000 per year!
    So, a person can make a bad decision that needlessly causes chaos in health systems around the world and puts hundreds of thousands of lives at risk and we can’t even fire them!!!!
    And, how about this – Linda Keen’s degree in plant nutrition somehow qualified her (in the mind of Ralph Goodale who appointed her) to call the shots for the entire atomic energy industry in this country.
    Add that to the fact that Ralph Goodale called up his little protogee (who probably covered his butt for him when he was minister) and advised her to “stand her ground” when Lunn and others were trying to get her to see the logic in restarting the Chalk River plant.
    Of course, Ralph would know this would cause a political furor against the Conservatives either way but it would appear Linda Keen was easily swayed by Mr. Goodale (who now conveniently says he does not remember all of the bad reports from 10 years ago when he was minister of AECL).
    It would appear that if a full inquiry was done on this many many fingers would point back at Ralph Goodale using Linda Keen as his front girl to cause political chaos for Harper – dam n the poor sick people who would be hurt by Goodales hateful spiteful political games.

  40. Goodale is in high desperation mode, it’s almost blowing his mind. Jeeze, keep watching for a few straggly hairs to fall to his forehead, escape the slickum goo.
    Ralphy should retire to ‘spend more time with his family’ soon, if things keep going as they are for the Liberals.

  42. Melanie Phillips, Slouching towards dhimmocracy
    According to Phil Johnston in the Telegraph:

    Ministers have dropped the term ‘war on terror’ and will now refer to jihadis as ‘criminals’ in an attempt to stop glorifying acts of terrorism. ‘As you disrupt radicalisation you must be aware of how you describe it and must not do so in a way that is inadvertently inflammatory,’ said a Whitehall source.

    Yes, the phrase ‘war on terror’ is conceptually incoherent; but the government’s intention is not to describe what we are facing more precisely. On the contrary, its intention is to make it impossible to describe the situation truthfully. We are being subjected to an onslaught from Islamic jihadi terrorism. First the government decided to ban the use of the word ‘Islamic’ in relation to terrorism; now it is banning the word ‘terrorism’ itself…

  43. MDS is not the only company that supplies isotopes, and it also has a risk management plan in place to deal with situations like this. Afterall AECL unions have gone on strike previously shutting down the NRU requiring MDS to have a backup plan.
    The 1998/2002 reports regarding AECL have been posted on the Auditor of Canada government website for all the public to see since they were first issued. The media needs to get their facts straight.
    This entire episode has made both parties look bad, to Canadians and potential investors. If it turns out that AECL is in the process of being privatized, hopefully all of what’s happened doesn’t have a negative impact on it’s saleability or price.

  44. WL Mackenzie Redux’s reminder of Terry Milewski’s travails over his “pepper on my plate” reporting of the Chretch in Vanacouver.
    Like the traffic “memory” that lingers after an accident on the 401, the internet has exactly the same effect on issue’s such as the Milewski punishment by the CBC.
    Quite enlightening when placed alongside of the recent CBC acting as ‘assistant of talking points’ for the Libs at the opposition dominated parliamentary “ethics commission”, eh?

  47. According to Herb Dhaliwall in a recent interview HE tried to privatize AECL when HE was Liberal minister.
    So what has changed? Nothing. There is still no viable buyer for a white elephant that is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to sustain because it is a medical neccesity and also the main employer in Chalk River.
    Surely there is an option. Could another country take over and build an isotopes plant and take the burden off the Canadian taxpayer?
    We obviously have not got the skilled beaurocrats who can manage this properly.

  49. Base finally getting new Hercs
    After long decades of service, CFB Trenton’s workhorse airplanes are getting exactly what they need: reinforcements.
    Federal ministers announced a contract to buy 17 new C-130J Hercules transports for $1.4 billion Wednesday.
    The planes are to begin arriving in 2010.
    Col. Mike Hood, commander of 8 Wing-CFB Trenton, was part of a crew flying one of the base’s older Hercules to Ottawa Wednesday.
    He compared the effect of the announcement to the recent arrival of the CC-177 Globemasters in Trenton.
    “It’s a real morale booster,” said Hood. “People want to be part of an organization that has the best equipment (and) great capability. This is just the next step.”
    Though older Hercules models are flown elsewhere in Canada, Hood said the new J-models will be based in Trenton. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2ltraq (bellevilleintelligencer)

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