Now is the time at SDA when we told you so!
White City, SK – 2005 – A Saskatchewan town has asked hunters for help amid reports that unusually aggressive coyotes bit at a small girl’s pants and carried off a pet.
Cape Breton Highlands National Park – 2009 – “Taylor Mitchell, an up-and-coming singer-songwriter from Toronto, died this morning after she was attacked by two coyotes while hiking….
When the White City incidents occurred, we know nothing prairie bumpkins were treated to media-borne fingerwagging lectures about no-kill strategies from a Toronto Humane Society “coyote management expert”. (I will continue to search for his name).
I trust he’s had the good sense today to keep his trap firmly shut.

An “independent” think tank closes its doors.

“It is with sadness that I must announce that after 15 years of quality public policy research, Canadian Policy Research Networks [CPRN] is no longer financially viable and will cease operations,” announced Dr. Sharon Manson Singer, President of CPRN.

Among the CPRN policy research areas now left orphan: “Diversity”, “Labour Market / Vulnerable Workers”, “Social Protection”.
You’d think all those “our values are Canadian values” folks would have stepped forward with their chequebooks before now, what with them vastly outnumbering us knuckledraggers and all.
Update. This is just plain cruelty.

Via KevinB, whose comments you should read upon conclusion of the video.
But first, pour yourself a stiff drink.

Canwest News;

People with outstanding warrants will be denied income assistance in British Columbia as soon as next year if legislation introduced yesterday is passed into law, said Rich Coleman, Minister of Housing and Social Development. “People who have outstanding warrants shouldn’t be getting welfare until they clean up the problem,” said Mr. Coleman, adding that to qualify, warrants must be for indictable offences such as murder, sexual assault and drug trafficking. But Mr. Coleman said the government will not run criminal background checks on welfare applicants to enforce the policy. Instead, it will rely on criminals to disclose their outstanding legal issues when they make an application.

h/t R. Black

“Bad cocaine on the streets”

“Not What They Had In Mind”. (pdf)

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Breaking: ACORN suspends operations. (link fixed)
And another epic fail for a gatekeeper media that has failed to notice the walls are tumbling down around them.

Four.
Update: And now, the House.

G&M;

Another celebrity has thrown his Hollywood clout behind animal-rights activists who want the Edmonton Valley Zoo to move Lucy, a 33-year-old ailing Asian elephant, to a sanctuary.
Canadian-born actor William Shatner, best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on Star Trek , sent a letter to Mayor Stephen Mandel requesting that the beloved pachyderm be retired to “better circumstances.”

Via Sean, who suggests – “I’m thinking that we should let the elephant go if Shatner agrees to take her place. It’s not like anyone will notice much of a switch, except for the fact that the new elephant eats nothing but All Bran cereal and takes bigger dumps.”
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The hoarding begins…

So how did it come to pass that critical components of both the private and public communications infrastructure for a major metropolitan area all ended up on one hill, surrounded by kindling?

Since the law’s enactment in 2005, pit bulls have killed fewer Ontarians than former attorney general Michael Bryant;

“Burrows could not explain why the driver crossed lanes of traffic and drove up onto the curb.”

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(h/t Mike)

His legacy is fondly remembered by both American media and the KGB.
Related – the fondly forgotten.

Jules Crittenden;

Meanwhile, listening to ”Reflections on Sen. Kennedy … Lion of the Senate” on the Diane Rehm Show on the drive home last night, I was deeply moved to hear Newsweek’s Ed Klein tell guest host Katty Kay about Kennedy’s love of humor. How the late senator loved to hear and tell Chappaquiddick jokes, and was always eager to know if anyone had heard any new ones. Not that Kennedy lacked remorse, Klein quickly added, seeming to intuit that my jaw and perhaps those of other listeners had just hit the floorboards. I gather it was a self-deprecating manuever on Kennedy’s part, exercised with the famous Kennedy charm, though it sounds like one of those “I guess you had to have been there” things.

Jackson rumours swirl as negotiations with GoldenPalace.com drag on….

“… despite the outrage of owner Kevin Spaans, amused bystanders posed with the flipped car and snapped photos with their cellphone cameras.”
h/t Edward Teach
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