I said, “What are you doing, they’ve just hit the car with a house brick!”
The young constable said, “Oh, they always do that when we drive past.”

Is anyone else as turned off by the Bombardier “O, Canada – as sung by the Third World Taxi Driver Choir” ad (being shown during CBC Olympic coverage) as I am? The cut at the end to a black and white TV set showing Trudeau singing the anthem is just plain creepy.
(Couldn’t find video – if someone grabs it for Youtube, let me know.)
Update – video is here. And as mentioned in the comments, it wasn’t Trudeau on the tv, but a “generic Canadian athelete”. I shouldn’t let the subliminals get to me like that…

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant more pavilions at Folkfest.

It’s “more pavilions at Folkfest day” at the CBC!

h/t to Catfur, who has a poll in which everyone can lose!

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and stoning, flogging or amputating hands – is ‘out of the question’;

The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.
He declared: ‘Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and another silly little blowup between Muslims and Islamophobes;

POLICE sniffer dogs trained to spot terrorists at railway stations may no longer come into contact with Muslim passengers – after complaints that it is against the suspects’ religion.
A report for the Transport Department has raised the prospect that the animals should only touch passengers’ luggage because it is considered “more acceptable”.
In the Muslim faith, dogs are deemed to be spiritually “unclean”. But banning them from touching passengers would severely restrict their ability to do their job.
The report follows trials of station security measures in the wake of the 2005 London suicide bomb attacks. In one trial, some female Muslims said the use of a body scanner was also unacceptable because it was tantamount to being forced to strip.
British Transport Police last night insisted it would still use sniffer dogs – which are trained to detect explosives – with any passengers regardless of faith, but handlers would remain aware of “cultural sensitivities”.

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and one man’s gospel is another constable’s hate crime;

The preachers, both ministers in Birmingham, were handing out leaflets on Alum Rock Road in February when they started talking to four Asian youths.
A police community support officer (PCSO) interrupted the conversation and began questioning the ministers about their beliefs.
They said when the officer realised they were American, although both have lived in Britain for many years, he launched a tirade against President Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Cunningham said: “I told him that this had nothing to do with the gospel we were preaching but he became very aggressive.
“He said we were in a Muslim area and were not allowed to spread our Christian message. He said we were committing a hate crime by telling the youths to leave Islam and said that he was going to take us to the police station.”

Xenophopic violence continues in South Africa– the toll so far being 62 dead and 670 wounded:

Attacks broke out in a poor neighbourhood of Johannesburg on May 11 and spread across the country, targeting immigrants including Zimbabweans and Mozambicans, whom locals blamed for taking their jobs.

The Ugandans aren’t impressed with South Africans:

We have always known South African black people to be even more discriminatory than the whites who rode roughshod over them during apartheid. We just didn’t think they’d go this far- beating and killing fellow blacks from other countries, blaming them for their economic woes.

The Nigerians are protesting at the South African embassy.
Mozambique claims there has been no retaliation against South Africans but they have absorbed 32,000 people fleeing the violence.
Of course none of this is really new to South Africa, it has just become more intense and is now making the news. Just check out the dismal photo gallery that has been documenting the death of Johannesburg since 2006.

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant more pavilions at Folkfest…

A third of London’s residents were born outside Britain, a higher percentage of newcomers than in any other city in the world except Miami, and the percentage continues to rise. Likewise, migration figures for the country as a whole—emigration and immigration—suggest that its population is undergoing swift replacement. Many of the newcomers are from Pakistan, India, and Africa; others are from Eastern Europe and China. If present trends continue, experts predict, in 20 years’ time, between a quarter and a third of the British population will have been born outside it, and at least a fifth of the native population will have emigrated. Britain has always had immigrants—from the French Huguenots after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Germans fleeing Prussian repression, from Jews escaping czarist oppression to Italian prisoners of war who stayed on after World War II—and absorbed them. But never so many, or so quickly.
To the anxiety about these unprecedented demographic changes—a substantial majority of the public, when asked, says that it wants a dramatic reduction in immigration—one can add a reticence in openly expressing it. Inducing this hesitancy are intellectuals of the self-hating variety, who welcome the destruction of the national identity and who argue—in part, correctly—that every person’s identity is multiple; that identity can and ought to change over time; and that too strong an emphasis on national identity has in the past led to barbarism. By reiteration, they have insinuated a sense of guilt into everyone’s mind, so that even to doubt the wisdom or viability of a society consisting of myriad ethnic and religious groups with no mutual sympathy (and often with mutual antagonisms) is to suspect oneself of sliding toward extreme nationalism or fascism; so that even to doubt the wisdom or viability of a society in which everyone feels himself part of an oppressed minority puts one in the same category as Jean-Marie Le Pen, or worse.

h/t Penny

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant more pavilions at Folkfest…

A followup to Thursday’s Kurds vs Turks brawl in Edmonton where factions of the banned terrorist group the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) went toe to toe with Turkish Nazi’s at the Ankara Cafe….

A SEX swap instructor at an all-female driving school was left devastated when the Sheffield husband of one of her pupils threatened to sue her firm – for sending a man to teach his Muslim wife.

What else can one say, but faster, please!

For this.

Correction: The cartoon shown is from the Halifax Chronicle Herald, who are also being dragged before a HRC for publishing it. No jail time, though.
Yet.

Anyone else check that little box on their tax return authorizing Revenue Canada to share your data with Elections Canada?

Oops.

“Most disturbingly, investigators have found sets of voters lists issued by Elections Canada that held the names of persons residing on given streets in various areas of Scarborough,” reads the affidavit. “Furthermore the lists had yellow highlighter placed on names of Tamil heritages. These lists were confirmed to be periodic lists distributed to candidates and Ministers during elections years.”

H/tip, NNW

Cheers,
lance

Remember the good old days, when multiculturalism just meant more pavilions at Folkfest?
I had to hang up on her twice.

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and “that’s my flag, too and I want it back.”

Thousands of Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices in Hollywood this morning, calling for the dismissal of commentator Jack Cafferty, whose recent remarks about Chinese goods and the Beijing government inflamed a community already angry about international condemnations directed at the host country of the upcoming Olympics.
The protesters lined Sunset Boulevard from Cahuenga Boulevard to Wilcox Avenue chanting “Fire Cafferty” and singing patriotic Chinese songs.
“We understand free speech,” said Lake Wang, 39, of Thousand Oaks. “But what if Cafferty said this about other racial groups? I think he would be fired. I think he’s jealous of China.”

Related: Bob Rae goes on the offence … “Exactly, everybody knows that Chinese leaders were much better then the Nazis.”

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and “Two-thirds of British residents fear violence as migrant tensions rise”;

A quarter of those questioned agreed that, because of immigration, “my area doesn’t feel like Britain”.
This was up from 12 per cent in 2005. Some 58 per cent said parts of Britain feel like a foreign country.
During the past three years, between 800,000 and one million Eastern Europeans have arrived in the UK to work.

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant more pavilions at Folkfest;

Ms. Kermani — who as recently as two months ago tried to reinstate her business with Loblaws — told police that her threat to shoot another executive wasn’t a real threat. Rather, it was an old Iranian expression about shooting a snake to stop it from biting you, she said.

From the comments…

Does that mean Loblaws WON’T be rolling out their new “Imam’s Choice, Die Infidel DIE Goat Swarma.” Or the new “Roasted Stomach In Hell Sauce”?

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and this little piggie went dhimmi…

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Tory-controlled) has now announced that, following a complaint by a Muslim employee, all work pictures and knick-knacks of novelty pigs and “pig-related items” will be banned. Among the verboten items is one employee’s box of tissues, because it features a representation of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. And, as we know, Muslims regard pigs as “unclean”, even an anthropomorphised cartoon pig wearing a scarf and a bright, colourful singlet.

[…] When the Queen knights a Muslim “community leader” whose line on the Rushdie fatwa was that “death is perhaps too easy”, and when the Prime Minister has a Muslim “adviser” who is a Holocaust-denier and thinks the Iraq war was cooked up by a conspiracy of Freemasons and Jews, and when the Prime Minister’s wife leads the legal battle for a Talibanesque dress code in British schools, you don’t need a pig to know which side’s bringing home the bacon.

(Note – a commentor has brought the date of this piece to my attention. I’d missed that it was written in ’05.)