Angus Reid says that Canadians want the Green Party to win a seat in Parliament:

Many adults in Canada would like the Green party to have representation in the House of Commons, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 58 per cent of respondents think it is important for the country to have a Green party member of Parliament. — AR

This may be the case, but I’m pretty sure it’s only for the entertainment value. Elizabeth May is such a complete whackjob that she probably has plenty of older Canadians feeling nostalgic for the Rhino Party.

In my humble opinion Israel’s consulate is doing a lot of good promoting Israel’s image abroad with this invitation showcasing Miss Israel and celebrating the “Women of the Israeli Defense Forces” Maxim issue. For some reason female Knesset members disagree.
Unfortunately I can’t make it to New York tomorrow.

We would be remiss in our duties here at the Roadkill Diaries if we failed to mention this incident at the Canadian Grand Prix:

Briton Anthony Davidson blamed a collision with a beaver for costing him a possible first Formula One points finish in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix.
The Super Aguri driver hit the animal while in third place behind the safety car at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
He finished 11th after making an unscheduled pitstop to replace a damaged front wing.

Hitting a rodent on the pit straight with a Formula 1 car yields one highly splattered animal. But as others have noted, it’s highly unlikely the animal was a beaver – a groundhog is much more likely.

More here.

The Paris Hilton Prison Diaries.

Father of abandoned newborn turns himself in;

The man who allegedly abandoned his newborn child in a Wal-Mart bathroom stall has come forward to Prince Albert police and his fate is now in the hands of Crown prosecutors.
“He was very distressed and very upset, of course, over the whole thing,” said Prince Albert Police Sgt. Curtis Halcro, noting investigations are on-going.
The man received medical treatment and was interviewed by investigators, but no charges were laid and he was not taken into police custody, police said.
Accompanied by family members, the man turned himself in Friday after the incident the previous Monday when a newborn baby boy was discovered in a toilet.
The identity and age of the man still remains uncertain. Police confirmed that he is over 18 years of age.

Discuss.

Mark Steyn on oddities in the news:

News, news everywhere — so much one can hardly take it all in:
Item One: In Gaza, Islamic Jihad is planning to send waves of female suicide bombers into action against the Zionist Entity. Asked by an Israeli reporter whether self-detonating ladies enjoy the same 72-virgin deal as the lads, an Arab scholar said no, but that the gals will be served in Paradise by “dwarfs.”

It’s good to see young boys enjoying the outdoors:

An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

Calgary girls did so much to promote their city as a wild and fun place to visit during the Flames’ drive to the Stanley Cup finals. Just google “flamesgirls” to get an idea of the atmosphere on the Red Mile in Calgary during that wild time (sorry, links would be definitely unsafe for work, so no links).
Now that Ottawa is in their own drive for the cup and starting to party I thought I’d get my digital camera out and do some original reporting.
I know people have this misconception that somehow Ottawa is a boring stuffy place populated mainly with bureaucrats whose idea of fun is dreaming up new ways to spend our money and tell us how to live our lives. But I thought I’d trudge over from nearby Gatineau and snap some Sensgirls pics, so you’d have some evidence that Sensgirls are having just as much fun as those Flamesgirls were.
So click the extended entry to see the Sensgirls!!! cheering on their team—

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I am delighted to see that Terry and Brian LeBlanc escaped the clutches of Revenue Canada:

Two brothers who made millions playing sports lotteries won’t have to give Revenue Canada a piece of their winnings.
In a decision issued Thursday in Ottawa, Tax Court Chief Justice Don Bowman ruled the multi-million-dollar fortune Brian and Terry Leblanc accrued by playing sports lotteries may defy explanation, but it was exempt from taxation.
Revenue Canada had claimed the brothers, former window-washers, had somehow found a way to beat the system, and demanded they be taxed as a business.

They are fortunate judges don’t study statistics, as these guys were buying $200K-$300K worth of tickets per week and won millions in the process. Suffice to say if they are winning like that over a long period of time it isn’t luck, and they certainly aren’t compulsive gamblers as the judge described them.
I hesitate to comment on this, lest Revenue Canada appeal the case, but far from defying explanation, their winnings are perfectly logical. The brothers are in fact skilled players who are exploiting poorly calculated odds set by incompetent gaming corporations. In some cases they were likely betting both sides of the same game in different jurisdictions, hedging the odds between different lottery corporations. Good for them, and what they’re doing is perfectly legal, but one has to say Revenue Canada was likely correct. Professional poker and blackjack players have to pay tax on their winnings if they gamble for a living, and this type of skilled sports betting is essentially the same.
While Revenue Canada likely had the stronger case, I’m delighted to see the judge failed to understand basics of the case. I wonder if Justice Bowman would like to join in in a friendly game of poker.

In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be beer.” And there was beer.
Followed by agriculture, the invention of the wheel, girlymen and the domestication of cats. Amen.

EXCLUSIVE – MUST CREDIT SDA

Update – A media source confirms: ” Just for the record, CKBI ran the story at 10:59 am SK time. You had the post at 10:46. No one IN THE WORLD had this story before you did.
AND, like Drudge, long may you demand attribution for your world class scoops!”
Still awaiting reaction from Liberal MP Ralph “The biggest savings will go to the biggest spenders” Goodale ….developing

(Drudge screenshot.).

The funniest thing I’ve seen in a very long time.

SDANewsNet;

The top United Nations aid official said today that Canadas’s military offensive in the Panjwaii region of Afghanistan is a “disproportionate use of force” but he again emphasized that all sides were guilty of violating humanitarian law.*.
Jan Egeland, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinatorwas was reacting to reports that “as many as 72 Taliban insurgents were killed in fighting with Canadian and Afghan forces in Panjwaii that began in the early evening Saturday…”
There were no Canadian casualties.
Egeland pointed to the unequal loss of life as evidence of Canadian heavy-handedness in the conflict.
“This was clearly a disproportionate use of force,” he said during a visit that included an inspection of mud huts destroyed by a NATO air strike. Thousands of civilians have fled the conflict.
“Canadians must take responsibility for not limiting the losses inflicted on the Taliban to numbers more in line with their own paltry losses in this conflict.”
No attempt was made to contact Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department officials for reaction, but the Harper government came under heavy criticism from opposition members who expressed concern with their “apparent lack of diplomatic efforts” to resolve the conflict.
When asked if he were in favour of the Taliban being taken off the terror list, Etobicoke Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj said: “Yes, I would be.”

Editor’s Note – prompted by one of our readers, I would like to recommend the well known blogsite Scrappleface as supplemental reading.

PETA – This road must to be restored to wilderness so that chickens may again migrate free of the destructive effects of humans on their natural environment!

I was one of the few to break from the pack, and rise to his defense when David Emerson crossed the floor.
I stood fast in my support during the “Harper is a cold parent”, “Harper is fat”, and “Harper wears frumpy vests” controversies.
I did not waver during the barring-the-media-from-CFB-Trenton crisis.
I have been as steadfast and reliable a defender of Stephen Harper as a dyed-in-the-wool partisan could hope for.
But no more. The news that a contingent of Celebrity Activists®, Gulfstream socialists, and legacy-challenged politicians are in Toronto to attend the most important photo-op* on the planet – and that my Prime Minister is nowhere to be seen – is simply too much.
This is not the behavior Canadians have come to expect – and deserve – of their Prime Ministers. Not at all.

(Original “Passion Of The Toys”)

A little something to brighten your afternoon.