Québec: “When will the RoC wake up and smell the poutine?”
Meanwhile this mother country may have increasingly to rely on…
Good froggies!
Frankly, My Dear
“Fighting And Dying In Afghanistan. For What?”
A lot of readers did not like this post of mine yesterday:
How has the Canadian government’s Afghan policy come to this? “All hat, no helmet. And no skillet neither.”
What think you of this one by Damian Brooks (founder of now-defunct The Torch) at The Propagandist? Its conclusion:
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In fact, the Afghan mission should have represented the perfect opportunity to meld the compassionate idealism of the political left with the hard-nosed practicality of the security-conscious political right and stand firm in our commitment – to our own national interests, and to the people of Afghanistan. This should have been the one mission we could all agree upon. That support for such a potentially bi-partisan effort has been allowed to slowly decompose to such embarrassingly meagre levels is an indictment of Canadian leadership across the political spectrum.
With this in mind, perhaps my friend’s question should be rephrased one more time: “If Canadian soldiers are going to continue to bleed and die in the dust of Afghanistan for the betterment of both countries, shouldn’t Canadian politicians be willing to invest a fraction of the commitment that our soldiers so willingly give?”
Why I am not a big “C” Canadian conservative
Because they are not small “c”:
How has the Canadian government’s Afghan policy come to this? “All hat, no helmet. And no skillet neither.”
We don’t need no stinking Security Council seat
Do we (with audio at link)?
Does Canada deserve Mickey I.?/Bobbity’s smooth move
John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen wonders where the Mickster’s brains are at, and why we should even bother to care about winning a (temporary) seat on the UN Security Council…
This Is Only A Test
A anti-statist website is demanding a state inquiry into police actions at the G20, and they’re hosting a poll to that effect – but something seems to have gone horribly wrong. The total votes cast seem to have hung at around 60.
Maybe it’s a server malfunction, maybe it’s because the story over two weeks old and most people outside media don’t give a rats ass. But if you have a few moments, head on over and push some buttons. Let’s see if we can get it working again.
(And as SDA commentors – contrary to popular myth – are pretty much split down the middle on this, it might be interesting to see how an actual “vote” rattles out.)
Tart
It takes some gall for the “Tart” columnist to talk about closure about an event that happened twenty years ago, over a sum of money one twentieth in size of the missing Adscam monies.
An exchange neither illegal or criminal; an exchange deemed inappropriate.
Maybe in 2030, you will get around to that Adscam column, eh, Tabatha?
“She noted the event also included a tribute to pop singer Michael Jackson”
If there was a “White History Month”, I’m guessing Hitler posters would be just fine.
h/t Mystery Meat
Poor Adolf
The Führer’s spirit rotating uncontrollably in his body’s temporary grave: a continuing Bundeskanzlerin
with a gay (in the new sense), free market liberal (in the old sense) as her main coalition, er, partner. Guido! Gasp!
Der Volksschmerz.
Don’t go “overboard”/Update: “Dear Beverly”
What, Beverly McLachlin worry?
I mean, what’s the big deal about murdering some 3,000 people in one morning?
Mark
Ottawa
Update: Dear Beverly,
Pity no going “overboard” here:
Crown, defence want 7-year term for man guilty in Toronto terrorism plot
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Even after his incarceration, Dirie still considered himself an active member of the group and was devoted to the jihadist cause, court heard.
He continued trying to get guns for himself and others, tried to get false passports for himself and other group members, and tried to indoctrinate fellow inmates at Ontario’s Collins Bay penitentiary to the extremist cause.
Court heard how the co-leader attempted to send him a package of books and CDs containing violent videos of attacks and bombings on military personnel and other jihadist propaganda.
“Dirie was recruiting people . . . to join the jihadist group,” Bond said.
He also encouraged and advised the co-leader in a series of phone calls but rejected suggestions he take over leadership of the group.
During the calls, Dirie bragged about the pleasant conditions in jail – including his access to a basketball court, showers and work.
“This place is luxury, man,” he said during one call, court heard.
He also decried moderate Muslims and professed his readiness to “take orders.”..
So what now? In fact two/three years before parole? Yikes. Earlier:
Little truth in sentencing…
