Just one more day before Steyn gets thrown in the drink.
My day is pretty much tied up with masking tape and a race Corvette, so you’re advised to seek Andrew Coyne for the gory details.
Update – I’m beat. 9 straight hours in the paint booth (I may have photos in a few days. Depends on what they send me.). A couple of items to wrap this up – Beyond the Twilight Zone, the written submissions from Canadian Association of Journalists and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Civil Liberties Ass’n., plus, we hear again from Tarek Fatah in Coyne’s comments thread;

Dear ‘Just Living,’
Try living a full and free life instead of hiding behind a cyber-burka and a name that tells all, viz., Just Living.
To label all people on this forum as ‘bigots,’ is not surprising as it is the only tool employed by Islamists hell-bent on upholding the jihadi doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada.
I know it is difficult, but is it possible that the only people contributing to Islamophobia in Canada are the mulla-elmasry duo?
What did these twits achieve other than to embarrass all Muslim Canadians, who appear to held hostage by the blackmail of community patriotism?
Last night one of these imams came on the Michael Coren Show to discuss polygamy and made such an ass of himself, waving the Quran at the host, mocking Christianity on a Christian TV station and then claiming there was Islamophobia in this country! When I defended my faith by explaining that polygamy was a medieval Bedouin tradition meant to take care of war widows, the Imam started reading from the Quran, screaming, “My religion allows me to marry four wives…Tarek Fatah knows nothing about Islam,” then he sneered at me with ugly facial gestures, waving hands and feminine accent, “Tarek Fatah is modern … moddderrrnnn Muslim…He is not a Muslim,” as if modernity itself was his enemy!
Dear ‘Just Living’, start living and while you are at it, if you are looking for bigots, chances are you will find them in Elmasry’s mosque or Dr. Habib’s clinic, definitely not on this Macleans forum. Sarcasm? May be. Anger? Yes and justifiably so. Islamophiobia? Not a shred of it in five days of discussion.
Dear ‘Just Living,’ the notion that the US or Canada are anti-Muslim does not withstand scrutiny. The number one selling author in both countries for over two years is a Muslim: Dr. Khalid Hossieni whose novel ‘Kite Runner’ has made so many Canucks shed tears on Go Trains and in their solitudes as they embraced the young poor boys of Kabul as their very own family. There is more.
The most sold poet in all of North America is the medieval Muslim poet Rumi. Why would Americans choose to read Maulana Rumi if they hate Muslims?
The most popular sportsman in US for decades is Muhammad Ali Clay. This mischievous boxer who titillated and entertained all of us with his sly smile and political wit. And who still stings like butterfly and floats like a bee! If Americans and the US hate Muslims, why do they love Muhammad Ali, Rumi and read the Kite Runner?
Why does CNN give Ali Velshi so much airtime prominence if it is anti-Muslim? Why, if the West hates Islam, is Farid Zakaria the editor of Newsweek magazine and why is permitted to host his own show on PBS and CNN?
Right in the heart of Vancouver where the boy-band is spewing hate against Canada and its free press, lives Senator Mobina Jaffer. Does her appointment to the senate reflect an anti-Muslim bias in the West or Canada? How doe we end up electing a young Muslim lawyer from Ottawa Centre if Canaucks are anti-Islam? And if your anger is directed at the Conservative flank of Canadian political spectrum, why them would the Reform Party, then the Alliance and later the Conservatives elect Rahim Jaffer as an MP since 1993. Or do you discount him to be a good Muslim simply because he is smart, good looking, dates a lovely MP and wears stylish suits, and heavens forbid, has sense of humour that borders impish naughtiness, a trait that would help such cry babies as Khurrum Awan and Faisal ‘Joseph’ to grow up and stop sucking on their thumbs as they utter drivel.
Dear ‘Just Living,’ please start living.

Indeed. (Thanks to Lori for the catch.)

Ezra Levant will be appearing later this morning as a guest on John Gormley Live on the topic of Human Rights Commissions. You can catch the show online at the link.
And watch this space for Andrew Coyne’s live reports from the Robson Square Witch Trials.
While we wait – NRO interviews Andrew Coyne about the proceedings.

By suicide;

Tourists were shut off from the B.C. legislature’s rotunda this week as work began to hide four historical murals behind walls.
MLAs voted in 2007 to remove the murals and display them elsewhere, because some people find the colonial depictions of aboriginal people to be offensive.
Since they are painted directly on the plaster walls of deep-set alcoves, the plan has evolved to covering them until some way can be devised to take them out without destroying them.
The four murals were commissioned in 1932 as a gift to the province from Provincial Secretary S.L. Howe. They were completed by artist George Southwell to depict Howe’s desire to illustrate the “establishment of civilization” in B.C.
• “Labour” shows the building of either Fort Langley in the 1820s or Fort Victoria in the 1840s.
• “Justice” shows colonial Chief Justice Matthew Baillie Begbie holding court in Clinton during the Cariboo gold rush in the 1860s.
• “Courage” depicts the meeting of captains Vancouver and Quadra at Nootka Sound in 1792 to turn over Vancouver Island territory from the Spanish to the British.
• “Enterprise” shows Hudson’s Bay Company official James Douglas landing at Clover Point to select the site of Fort Victoria in 1843.

Unconfirmed sources indicate that consideration is being given to replacing the murals with depictions of slavery, torture and ritual human sacrifice from early American “civilizations” that eventually succumbed to oppressive European influences such as “mathematics”, “written language”, and “the wheel”.

“10:55 AM They’re back, and they’ve decided they’re going to hear her evidence. Buffy scholars everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.“

Update: Let there be no mistake about the larger goal here:

“We anticipate that success in this case will provide the impetus for prohibiting discriminatory publications in the other provinces.”

Coyne’s commentors are scouring the net, of course. A previous quote from the expert witness for the plaintiffs, currently on the stand;

“It has a lot to do with the difference in belief about freedom … the essential difference is how freedom is understood. I believe that my freedom ends where the dignity and respect for all the prophets begins.” (—Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub)

More about Ayoub at tthe MIlitant Islam Monitor. “Temple University has rejected a suspicious offer of $1.5 million by a Saudi tied, Islamist organization called the International Institute of Islamic Thought [IIIT], to endow a chair in Islamic studies headed by current Temple religion professor Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub.”
Coyne has noted that Mark Steyn is in the room.
The day ends, not with a bang, but a wimp out… – “Wait! Porter in on his feet: “If Habib and Elmasry are afraid to testify, I don’t want them as my witnesses. They’re a pair of scaredy-pants, and…” I swear to God that’s what he said. The proceedings dissolve in even more confusion than usual…”