BBC;

Ipswich Hospital, in Suffolk, which is more than £16m in the red, accidentally breached an agreement to ensure all patients had similar waiting times.
Ipswich Hospital agreed with the East Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, which fund treatment, that patients should wait at least four months for treatment.
However, doctors had treated patients inside that time and the trust refused to pay the £2.5m cost of treatment.
This will now have to come from the hospital’s own budget, adding to its financial difficulties.
An Ipswich Hospital spokeswoman described the incident as a “local glitch”.
[…]
The hospital spokeswoman said it was thought the agreement would be the best way to ensure that no-one jumped queues and that everyone was waiting a similar length of time

Not satire.

Caledonia Wakeup Call website has what appears to be an outline of leaked plans by the Ontario Liberal government to “… resolve the Caledonia Illegal Land Reclamation”

1. The Douglas Estates will become an Economic Enterprise Center with the main item a CASINO. The Province will run the place and share revenue with the CONFEDERATE CHIEFS and Haldimand Council. No word of the Casino will be given to the public until after 2007 election.
2. Item unresolved: Approximately 33 lots owned by individual builders of the Douglas estates will be negotiated for 9 to 12 million.
Lands Provided to Natives to assure Native Cooperation
1. The Natives will be given ownership of Port Maitland property some 1500 acres
2. The Natives will be given ownership of property in South Cayuga by Dunville some 4700 acres
3. The Natives will be given ownership of property in Townsend some 1000 acres.

Lots more at the link. The source is not named but described as reliable, so consider the information accordingly.

Brussels Journal

The case is one of the first to find that that a comment not made directly to another person can be construed as racism. Moreover, the court ruled that using the term “foreigners” is racist. The verdict also indicates that the mere fact of “disliking” foreigners constitutes a crime, even if one’s dislike is purely private and is not shown directly in one’s behaviour towards a foreigner.

Scratch a socialist and underneath you’ll find an anti-Semite;

[Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos] who was once the EU’s Middle East peace envoy, angrily denied an accusation at the conference by a former Spanish Jewish community leader that Zapatero’s remarks were anti-Semitic.
During the question-and-answer session at the breakfast, Mauricio Hatchwell, a member of Spain’s small Jewish community, accused Zapatero of being antisemitic.
Moratinos reacted sternly, saying one could be a loyal ally of Israel and still criticize it without being antisemitic. He addressed Hatchwell personally and told him not to repeat such criticism of the government.
“Let this be the last time you publicly denounce and condemn and express yourself saying a Spanish government is antisemitic,” Moratinos said.

He said he was not worried by the diplomatic effect of photographs in Spanish newspapers on Thursday of a grinning Zapatero wearing a black-and-white Palestinian scarf passed to him by a student at Wednesday’s meeting.

Emphasis mine.
A reader sent the following item by Ignacio Russell Cano via email. I’m looking for an online source to link to, but in the meanwhile, will reprint in its entirety; (Update – Source found).

Spanish Jews knew there were hard times ahead. Prime Minister Zapatero has not disappointed them
Madrid: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain and Secretary General of the Socialist Party, arrived to power at a time nobody expected, not even inside the Party.
Keen on populist tirades against the United States “Dickhead Bush” and “Ketchup Queen Kerry”, his whole campaign did not bring much attention until the moment Al-Qaeda decided to blow up Madrid trains, killing almost 200 people and bringing to an end Spain’s membership of the West.
From that moment on, everybody knew nothing would be the same, and Spanish Jews knew there were hard times ahead. Prime Minister Zapatero has not disappointed them.
‘Understand Nazis’
Although many experts had foretold of the imminent disappearing of European Jews, nobody expected such a virulent explosion of anti-Semitism in Spain, not even under a Leftist government.
The first signal came on Monday, 5 December, when during a dinner with the Benarroch family, Zapatero and wife began claiming what Vidal Quadras, member of the European Parliament, described on the radio as “a tirade of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism”.
By the moment the Benarroch couple had left the table to express their regrets, Zapatero was explaining his lack of surprise about the Holocaust: according to the people present, Zapatero claimed to understand the Nazis.

(More in the extended entry.)

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A reader sent this scan described as “the back cover of a CD-ROM distributed to Indians by Elections Canada last winter”.


Click for larger version.
I guess it’s a small thing. But one can’t help but notice how helpful it was of civil servants to rhetorically direct First Nations voters towards specific matters they ought to concern themselves with. Conpicuously absent are mention of “rebuilding the military”, “reforming the justice system”, “tax relief” and other issues typically associated with conservative values.
It’s no secret that low turnout among native Canadians in elections has been a long standing problem – but did no one at Elections Canada ask if it was not just a little presumptious to link voting preference with racial identity?
If you’re stiill having trouble putting your finger on what’s wrong with this, turn the question around and imagine the reaction had Elections Canada directed advertising at an middle class neighborhood of predominantly European extraction to suggest that concerns over land claims and casino gambling might be a good reason to get out and cast a ballot.

Then close down the critics.
According to the site owners, the Caledonia Wakeup Call website has been served with a demand that it be shut down by 5:00 pm today, from the OPPA, the union for the OPP officers.
Ordinarily, I might side with the OPPA on this. But as they’ve shown precious little concern for the safety and security of the residents of Caledonia, (much less the repeated demands of the judge to execute a court order) I’m taking a pass on this one.

On further reflection, one wonders why Curtis Dagenais chose such a antiquated course of action to settle the land claim he had with his parents, when today’s enlightened police forces deal with attempts on the lives of police officers” in a way that’s reflective of 2006.”
Had Dagenais only had the presence of mind to set up a roadblock using downed SaskPower transmission towers, cover his face with a scarf and set fire to a few tires and bridges before his deadly assault on three officers, the RCMP might well be surrounding the area south of Spiritwood this afternoon, keeping a wary eye on the angry residents of the Mildred area now forced from their homes.

The number one threat to our western way of life isn’t Al Qaeda.
It’s mission creep.

Boston Herald;

A memo sent to the Globe’s Boston Newspaper Guild members, and obtained by the Herald, states that Massachusetts gay Guild employees can extend their benefits to their partners only if they marry.
“An employee who currently covers a same-sex domestic partner as a dependent will have to marry his or her partner by Jan. 1 for the employee benefits coverage to continue at the employee rates,” the memo states.
The policy change at the Globe, which devotes extensive coverage to gay issues, opens a new can of worms in the Bay State as employers rethink their domestic partner benefits in the wake of the legalization of gay marriage in 2004.
Benefits for domestic partners were originally offered to gay employees because they couldn’t legally marry, said Ilene Robinson Sunshine, a lawyer at Sullivan & Worcester.
Now that gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts companies that offer benefits to gay employees’ partners risk hearing cries of discrimination from unmarried straight couples.

That’s going to be nothing compared to the cries of foul from gay couples who were benefiting under the previous policy, but had no intention of getting married.
I hope they remember who to complain to.

Via email;

Citizens Of Caledonia have confirmed today in a meeting of town’s poeple that Homes on Argyle St. And Sixth Line are being purchased by McGuinty. People must move out by the end of October. People are being offered above market value for their homes.

From the comments, a quote from Canadian Sentinel worth stealing (hence the change in title) – that the actions of Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government amount to “ethnic cleansing with compensation”

Update – a few commentors have objected to the characterization of this as “ethnic cleansing”. Really? Let’s review the facts and the history of this conflict:
The home-owners being selected for buy out on the basis of race. And if they refuse – what? Will McGuinty enforce the law if they are assaulted or their property damaged by “Six Nations” aboriginals? He certainly hasn’t to date. The OPP have refused to enforce court orders, they have refused to enter the reserve to apprehend persons alleged to have attempted to murder their own officers. There have been reported cases of arson, theft, extortion, assault, and desctruction of property.
The message being sent by the Ontario government in appeasing these criminals is loud and clear – “either we buy you out, or they’ll burn you out.”
A reminder for those commentors who seem ignorant of the history of the illegal occupation of Caledonia, via Dust My Broom;

The continued occupation of a disputed tract of land in Caledonia by aboriginal protesters in the face of an earlier finding that they are in contempt of court means that rule of law has still not been restored in the community, says the judge who issued the order.
And in a democracy, when court orders are not obeyed, “the court is not hurt by it. It is destroyed by it. There will be a return to rule of law,” Mr. Justice T. David Marshall of the Ontario Superior Court said at a hearing yesterday as he ordered parties to return to court on July 24.

Update A statement has been released by Ontario PC leader John Tory;

“The rule of law must return in Caledonia on all fronts,” said Tory. “Dalton McGuinty must finally show the leadership necessary to bring an end to the continued lawlessness. That means no occupation of any land by anyone; no lawless behaviour by anyone; and no defiance of court orders by anyone.

And the reason Tony Blair’s Labour Party needs to go;

Mr Ternouth’s thriller flooded back to me this week when I read of the Government’s plan to spend £224million of your money and mine on setting up a database, recording details of the lives of all 12 million children in England and Wales.
Among other things, the Children’s Index will record whether a child’s parents are providing a ‘positive role model’, how the child is performing at school — and even whether youngsters are eating the daily five portions of fruit and vegetables recommended by the Government.
Presumably, children will be questioned at school each morning on what their parents fed them the night before.
The database, we are told, will be made available to social workers, teachers and doctors, who will have the power to flag up ‘concerns’ when they think that children are not meeting the criteria laid down by the state.

A special article for those who are dismissive of those of us who warn about the caring totalitarianism that creeping into our lives in the guise of the benignly misnamed “Nanny State”.

From a noble member “of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights*“;

Flash! (Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco and Firearms) agents, US Border Control vehicle, eye in the sky, encircling and victimizing the Indigenous people. It suddenly occurs to us that US President George Bush might be testing his killing machine in Canada before he does it on his own people. He wants to make sure his network of spies, deportations and killings work out somewhere else first. We Indigenous people are the only ones publicly standing up to this. Everyone else has been scared into silence. It looks like he’s got the cooperation of his puppet, Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. People like us are dangerous to anyone with these kinds of designs. It might be too late for Canada. Bush’s plan seems to already be in motion.

Reporting from the Marxist-Leninist Daily;

To Ontario Premier Dalton “Mike Harris/Ipperwash Copycat” McGuinty:
Your clowns are really putting on a show, aren’t they? Friday June 9th was a bad day for the “Keystone Cops” of the Ontario Provincial Police OPP and the U.S. Border Patrol. All our suspicions have been confirmed. Ontario’s representatives are sell outs to the Americans and they’ve been dealing with us in bad faith. So what else is new? Dalty, your henchmen were caught red handed. They were trying to cook up a storm and got caught in their own tornado. What goes around comes around.

These are the people Dalton McGuinty has set out to appease. What the hell. It’s not his money.
(More here on Kahentinetha”Hitler was a 20th Century pioneer of the social welfare state who went too far” Horn.)
Related: Lorne Gunter – “What’s the Iroquois phrase for ‘aiding and abetting’?”

During my stint at the CBC Election Roundtable earlier this year, I critiqued Jack Layton’s plan for “focused, targeted steps to support creative people and to make sure Canadians see themselves in our culture.”

I can’t continue. My eyes are bleeding.
And before you, dear reader, object – be advised that I am an artist. In fact, the most common type of artist, a living, breathing, working one of the unheralded “commercial” variety. Unlike our cousins in “the Arts,” we manage to make a living at our craft without seeking comfort from the nanny state wet nurse.

I forgot to add – “or offering it.”;

The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar is partly funded by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

That moaning you just heard was the sound of John Williamson curling up in a fetal position on the floor.

(Update – Several readers have emailed privately to ask about the device he is holding in his hand – Saskatchewan residents will recognize it as his Andrew Thomson* remote.)

Another chapter in the noble struggle of members of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights*;

Earlier yesterday, two CH TV cameramen were assaulted, allegedly by natives occupying a disputed piece of land.
About 90 minutes later, a witness said a group of natives dragged four American tourists from their SUV after they snapped a few photos of the native-occupied land despite remaining on public property.
“Two of them were off-duty New York State troopers,” said a resident who lives near the attack site. “Two of them were dragged from their truck and (the natives) drove off and (went) back into their own area.”
Witnesses said they drove around in the tourists’ vehicle for about an hour before returning it.
The CH TV camera operators, one of whom needed stitches to close a head wound, said Ontario Provincial Police did nothing despite their pleas for help.
[…]
Lawn signs reading, “Have you seen Diane Finley’s leadership?” made reference to the lack of action by the federal government.
Other residents wondered what happened to the provincially appointed mediator, David Peterson, who they haven’t seen since a near riot broke out last month.
“Somebody is going to have to die before someone actually does something about this,” one resident said echoing the thoughts of nearly everyone living near the border of the disputed land.

For the sake of the tax-payers, pray it’s not one of the Mohawks, or there will be another 20 million bucks down the drain in a pc attempt to assign blame to anyone but those responsible.
More from Jamie West.
See also, Mullahs of Caledonia;

The aboriginals in Caledonia are not engaged in a protest. Protests do not last two months and do not involve the seizure of large swaths of land. If anything the events in Caledonia are closer to an insurrection, or the actions of an attempted succession, than a protest. The aboriginal occupiers have never conceded the legitimacy of their opponents, the local residents and the civil authorities. The removal of the road blockade was described as “good will gesture.” In other words the local residents had no right, legal or moral, to their property, no right to travel on public highways, no right to a continuous flow of electricity, all these things are only allowed by the permission of the occupiers.
The Caledonian Aboriginals have established, to borrow Trudeau’s words from the October Crisis, a “parallel power” in southern Ontario. There is, however, nothing of the widespread danger posed by the FLQ. The occupiers represent a small minority which in turn is a small minority of the Canadian population. Yet in substance they have gone much further than the FLQ ever did.

RTWT.
Update – The power of publicity. Now there’s an investigation.
Update #2 – News of police looking for several people with an eye at attempted murder charges;

An Ontario Provincial Police officer suffered serious injuries Friday after angry aboriginal protesters surrounded a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle and dragged out its three occupants.
The injured officer was pulled out of the path of the stolen vehicle as it was driven deliberately at him, OPP Const. Doug Graham said Saturday.
“They were forcibly removed after they were swarmed,” Graham said.

The once “disappointed” Dalton McGuinty is now reported to be “angry”. One presumes an apology to former premier MIke “Ipperwash” Harris is in the offing.
Updates via Nealenews, who’s doing a great job staying on top of developments.

A sad case of liberal left anti-gun brainwashing – another family heirloom is turned in under the Langley “gun amnesty”.

“If this gun had killed somebody, I would have felt terrible.”

No shotgun shells exist that fit the piece, which is estimated to be over 130 years old.