CTV;
A Toronto art student charged in connection with a bomb hoax at the Royal Ontario Museum that triggered an evacuation and cancelled a prestigious AIDS fundraiser has been granted bail.
Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson’s Ontario College of Art and Design profile is a little less entertaining than it used to be…
(Google cache)
(h/t reader Dana.)
Update – OCAD-Linked Videos surface.
“You can trust me – I’m a reporter.”
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When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”.
“I realise folks don’t want to know this, but the average IQ in Sudan really is about 72.”
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More: Today’s Featured Ebay Auction: “Burned cheese toast with image of the Virgin Mary.”
Did you walk to work this morning, Canada? A politician without a mandate needs the carbon credits;
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says he will travel to Bali, Indonesia, next month for the United Nations climate change summit to ensure that the Harper government doesn’t push the world in the wrong direction in the fight against global warming.
“I will do everything possible to make sure this conference works well,” Dion said. “I don’t have a mandate to negotiate, but I know a lot of people [from other foreign delegations] and I take the cause of climate change to heart.”
For what is a man profited, if he gain the Liberal leadership, and lose the world?
“We are speaking about the worst ecological threat that humanity is facing, and I will do my best.”
Did you work an extra few minutes today, Canada? A politiican without a mandate needs your tax dollars.
He did not say, however, how he would pay for his trip if the government refuses.
Because planet saving ends at the wallet’s edge.
Uncommon Sense;
These opposition media whores are making this country a complete laughingstock internationally. You do not see Condolezza Rice berated in Israel by Hillary Clinton who followed here there to state the Democratic platform. You don’t see Gary Kasperov waiting in the hallways of the UN building in the hopes that he can grasp the coat-tails of some NBC news crew so he can deride his governments position on the state of Georgia. If Dion, or any other member of the opposition, Liberal, NDP, Greens or Bloc want to spend their own personal money and travel as John Q Public to whatever, meeting wherever, then fine, there is no way to stop them but it should be crystal clear that these people do not speak for Canada and do not speak for Canadians.
Tips thread.
They used to just move the goalposts. Now, they reverse them.
Let’s see. We still have troops in Kuwait, so we must have lost the Gulf War.
But we pulled our troops out of Mogadishu so we beat Somalia.
No American troops in Vietnam. Yeah, we won.
But we still have troops in Korea. Darn it, we lost the Korean War.
Troops still in Japan? We lost World War II.
Troops still in Germany? We lost World War I.
Troops still in the Philippines? We lost the Spanish-American War.
Troops still in the South? We lost the Civil War.
Related – mapping of Al Qaeda in Iraq, before and after.
Looks like you’re moving to higher ground.
Are said to hang on his every word…
CNN’s “Youtube” Republican debate may have set some sort of record…
… for its number of Democratic plants;
Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers
He’s the Garth that keeps on giving;
My seatmate, feisty Robert Thibault from Yarmouth, stopped drawing me a diagram of how the Mulroney-Schreiber affair massively implicates the Harper government, long enough in QP to level a blast at Nicholson. Fed with some notes on extradition which Michael Ignatieff threw across my desk at him, Robert demanded to know if the minister would exercise his power and keep Schreiber in Canada long enough to testify, first before Parliament, then before an inquiry.He delivered the question like a rolling volley of thunderous cannon fodder*. Around him MPs jumped to their feet, applauding. “Thi-bault, Thi-bault,” they chanted.
That’s when, rising, obviously draining of passion, Rob said he would not and could not. He slumped down.
Minutes later Paul Szabo stood up behind me, the chairman of the House of Commons ethics committee. He read a brief motion the committee had passed asking the Speaker to issue a rare warrant to command Schreiber to appear.
And now, for the rest of the story…
Thibault is on the House of Commons ethics committee.
From the comments – “The mere fact that Schreiber sent Harper a letter has the news people going wild… But Thibault has 2 meetings with the guy, and one has to read it on a Blog.”. Indeed.
Update: This information turns up buried at the bottom of a Bruce Cheadle report on Nov.14th. Now that the dog and pony show has been shown up for fools by Schreiber’s refusal to testify, perhaps they can make some use of the time left open to put Thibault in the chair.
Update 2: A reader writes “I believe that Garth changed the comments he made re Thibault on his blog. I read it in the beginning, and then I went back several hours later and the reference was changed to what you have reported. So I went into the comments because many times people quote him, and thankfully I found where someone quoted what was originally said by Garth.”
The passage that appears to have existed and then pulled ;
I am with Robert Thibault in caucus right now. Thibault says: “There were two people who knew about the cash – KHS and BM. I had the opportunity to talk to KS and then disclose what I found out during QP – that the first hundred thousand was paid to BM while he was still an MP. Harper met with BM numerous times, and has never disclosed anything – only when he was shamed by the KS affidavit did
he temporarily close off relations with his former close advisor.” – Garth
Tips thread.
Borrowing an idea spotted at The Corner – help Ted Kennedy name his memoirs,
Update: The suggestions are beginning to roll in…
“Memories of Dead Things” – My liver and my lovers
Driving Miss Kopeckne
The Bridges of Chappaquiddick County
And the early frontrunner –
TEDDY: Not even worth shooting
What stroke of brilliance made him choose Chavez as a mediator?
In theory, a mediator should persuade two sides to each give up something to achieve a common end. The only one who gave up anything, however, was [Columbian President] Uribe, who watched Chavez cavort with terrorists before TV cameras, giving them a legitimacy in Caracas they never had known.
Even worse, Chavez proved to be acting as an agent of the terrorists. Uribe’s sudden cutoff of the mediation effort at a hastily organized press conference last Wednesday suggested disturbing new information.
On Sunday, Chavez confirmed it: “I think Colombia deserves another president, it deserves a better president,” he said.
That followed a discussion in a U.S. prison between extradited FARC terrorist Ricardo Palmera, aka “Simon Trinidad,” and another mediator and Chavez ally appointed by Uribe, Senator Piedad Cordoba. They discussed “a transitional government” with the terrorist as a bargaining chip for the hostage swap.
On Monday, Chavez repeated what he had in mind to make sure Uribe understood. “Reconciliation is impossible,” he said. “We have to wait for a new government in Colombia we can talk with. I hope it arrives sooner rather than later.”
No wonder Uribe lashed out, saying Chavez was less interested in mediating than in overthrowing Colombia’s government. That may have sounded far-fetched, but it’s what the guerrillas have been fighting for since 1964, and Chavez’s admiration for them is no secret. Uribe, who has come down on the guerrillas harder than any other Colombian leader, is the president they want gone.
“You seek continental domination” Uribe said, and “a Marxist FARC government” to replace Colombia’s elected one. He also pointed out that it was prime time for Chavez to be trying this, with the Venezuelan’s public support at home flagging just one week before a constitutional referendum to grant him absolute power.
What better way to make Venezuelans forget their problems than to whip up populist sentiment against Colombia. It also is noteworthy that he’s rousing military support against the neighboring state, something he may really find use for as rebellion grows at home.
A distinguished member of the gated community community speaks power to truth;
“Judges view this kind of legislation as a slap in the face.” […] “it’s an implied criticism when Parliament imposes mandatory sentences,” Gomery says. “It leaves the impression that judges aren’t using their discretion wisely or in accordance with the wishes of the legislature.”
So now he’s the subject of a dangerous offender hearing.
That, took, let’s see, one assault with a frying pan coupled with stabbing avec kitchen knives, one sexual assault coupled with attempted murder, and one aggravated assault which rendered the victim (a single mother of two) paralyzed from the neck down. Tally that all up, and now, finally, maybe, he’ll actually be put away for meaningful time. But only if a judge agrees with the application (of course, don’t worry, every seven years Dangerous Offenders get to argue that they should be paroled). Seeing how the judiciary has acted in the past in regards to this offender, would you be willing to bet the house on a successful DO application?
I’m actually on the side of Gomery in this argument. We don’t need mandatory minimum sentences.
We simply need to relocate every halfway house in the country to inside the security gated confines of luxury housing developments and high-end apartment buildings – and let the problem of lax sentences solve itself.
When she read the Throne Speech slumped on the arm of her chair, it was a clue, I guess.
Turks who kill Christians become “nationalists”
It’s car-b-que season in France once again, where rambunctious youths are upping the stakes – with hunting rifles.
“Why would any Westerner think that our civilization is worth fighting for? ”
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