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Ever since I appeared on the CBC in early December to argue about Climategate, a mountain of evidence has come forth to indicate that the story the CBC ignored for so long, has genuine scientific evidence backing it. Whether it be Glaciergate or Africagate or Naturaldisastergate [sorry, I made that last one up myself], the [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 40 minutes ago
South Park will be spoofing a real incident in an episode in which notorious conservative Eric Cartman goes to Afghanistan in order to divert up to 500 AK-47 assault rifles from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan meant for the police force. In the clip, Eric Cartman shows up in a U.S. weapons bunker in [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 2 hours ago
This is reminiscent of the excellent video from April 24, 2009, in which a YouTuber explained in pennies just how bankrupt the United States is. The above video also does a pretty good job, since people tend to visualize a lot better than they conceptualize. Even without the visual aid, it’s easy to demonstrate just [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 hours ago
Have you seen the film Avatar? If so, then you probably remember the psychedelic plants and trees during the night scenes, and the varying hues of greens and blues. To a certain extent, I think that the coastal British Columbian rainforest is even more incredible than anything presented in that film. I’ve never been able [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 19 hours ago
Aislin/Montreal Gazette
A cartoon referred to as “controversial”, and the Islamic faith, are both back in the news together today, after the Montreal Gazette ran an editorial cartoon on the Muslim woman expelled from school for refusing to remove her niqab in class.
The cartoonist, Terry Mosher, who draws under the name Aislin, crafted a picture [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 22 hours ago
Tasha Kheiriddin, who appears to have become a regular contributor at the National Post, writes about the Manning Centre’s report on Canadian values in today’s Full Comment. Conducted by Canadian pollsters Allan Gregg of Harris/Decima and Professor André Turcotte of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, Ms.Kheiriddin writes that the results suggest that Canad
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Photograph by: Chris Wattie/Reuters
CPAC has a video feed which allows Canadians all over the country who don’t live in Ottawa, to view the proceedings of the House of Commons. This live feed, previously available on television, has migrated to the internet, and can be viewed by political observers of all stripes. This fits in well [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Photo: Master Corporal Angela Abbey, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Matthew Fisher, Afghan war journalist for Canwest, writes that one of the primary reasons that Canada ended up in the situation it’s in is because the Paul Martin government “dithered” [a very unsubtle reference to his monicker] for so long about what to do. By the [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee co-founder Terry Glavin and Nasrine Gross, an Afghan-American writer, sat down with CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen to talk about the current Afghan detainee affair, and the future prospects for Afghanistan. Wait for the video to start and then skip to 23:40 to begin the interview.
As discussed in the video, the real story [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
A cautionary tale of woe by former Blogging Tory and good all around guy, Darcey Jerrom. He left Manitoba a Métis and returned an outsider, stripped of his status.
I guess that means if the work dries up in Manitoba, it’s best to go on welfare and keep your Métis status than grab a job across [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Even in the face of tough economic choices, Canadians don’t want to reduce military spending in order to control the deficit when the mission in Afghanistan wraps up. This, according to a poll by Innovative Research Group conducted for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.
A majority of Canadians [57%] see the military as serving [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Photo: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff gives a thumbs up while eating a seal meat appetizer on Wednesday. By Chris Wattie / Reuters.
If there’s one thing that’s united many Canadians from all political stripes, it’s fighting back against the self-righteous, ignorant animal rights activists passing themselves off as the European Union. Practically all of Canada’s political
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Where are the Canadians against Sitting On Your Hands in Parliament Facebook Page? Photo: Matt Campbell.
As has been well reported on by now, 30 Liberals MPs sat on their hands during the federal budget vote, allowing it to pass in the House of Commons. What’s particularly interesting are some of the big-mouth big-names in that [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 1 day ago
Royal Canadian Dragoons, Bravo Squadron, Corporal Judd Walsh mans the front gate of Patrol Base Marianne using a 50 caliber machine gun attached to a Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV). Photo credit: Master Corporal Matthew McGregor
Despite the myriad sources of information from which to draw in order to write a column that has a grain of [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 2 days ago
Beautiful day to go to the park. Click on the numbers below the picture to toggle between images.
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Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 2 days ago
Photograph by: Jon Murray, The Province
The west coast radio station CKNW is reporting that Vancouver’s City Councillor Geoff Meggs has been in a serious accident in south Vancouver, and is now recovering in Vancouver General Hospital.
According to CKNW’s Nafeesa Karim, Mr.Meggs was riding his bicycle near West 51st and Granville when a car hit him. [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 2 days ago
I like the annual Teddies awards put on by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Not just because it’s a lighthearted way to poke fun at the very serious problems of waste and excess, but because they highlight the absolute worst offenders, the absolute worst of what our overpriced government has to offer us in exchange for [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 3 days ago
You know, the photo-op’s great, but I’m sure the people would rather have the money. Photo: Corporal Pierre Thriault
Michael Petrou paints a fairly disturbing story of CIDA’s absolute incompetence in the face of human tragedy, today in Macleans Magazine.
As of the cutoff date, the 14 Canadian charities reporting donations to CIDA raised $154.4 million, of [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 3 days ago
Photo: Globe and Mail
People across Canada were understandably angry yesterday when former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, caught speeding in Ontario last fall while under the influence and in possession of cocaine, was handed down a relatively lenient sentence of $500 by Judge Doug Maund. Immediate reaction ranged from disbelief, to accusations of Conservative influence peddling. [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 3 days ago
Afghan National Army soldiers. Photo credit: Master Corporal Robert Bottrill, Canadian Forces
The opposition attacked the federal Conservative government over Afghan detainees in Question Period again today, with the NDP picking up on the word “rendition” that had been used by federal MP for Vancouver South, Ujjal Dosanjh, the day before. The increasingly exaggerated language is [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 3 days ago
Almost 60 per cent of Vancouverites to be a visible minority by 2031: StatsCan
At what point will boring, generic, white Canadians of European descent be allowed to call themselves a visible minority?
Of course when you throw everything from Armenians to Yugoslavians into one big category and call them “white people”, it’s not too difficult to [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 3 days ago
As everyone knows by now, former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer pleaded guilty to careless driving this morning and was given a rather tiny fine of $500. The former Edmonton MP was charged in September with possession of cocaine and driving under the influence after being stopped for driving 93 km/h in a 50 zone.
But the [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
The same Muslim woman who was banned from an “integration” class funded by the Quebec government for refusing to remove her Niqab, has been removed from another class for the same reason.
The immigrant from Egypt is launching a “human rights” complaint after provincial Immigration Department officials expelled her from a government-sponsored language course after she [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
For your consideration:
1. Adrian MacNair found driving 93 km/h on the on-ramp to a highway in Vancouver with a posted speed limit of 50 km/h in June of 2008. Given $360 speeding ticket.
2. Rahim Jaffer found driving 93 km/h in an area with a posted speed limit of 50 km/h zone in Palgrave, Ontario, while [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
Thanks to this story, we know that the BC government hired James Roy Taylor, a man who would have been caught by a background criminal check. Seems like this sort of thing happens a lot under the BC Liberals. How hard is it to run a background criminal check on people with the power to [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
The people of British Columbia have been waiting since December 28, 2003, to find out the details of why the B.C. Legislature was raided by the RCMP. We have some idea of what happened, and I detailed it in my article in the National Post in late February. But now, according to Bill Tieleman, who’s [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
The headline reads: “Military relies on CSIS information in Afghanistan, MacKay admits.” But if you read the article, Defence Minister Peter MacKay did not say that the military “relies” on CSIS in Afghanistan. What he did do was acknowledge that the Department of Public Safety has been involved in Afghanistan:
“Officials from the Department of Public [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
American war reporter and former Green Beret, Michael Yon, who made his name as a correspondent during the Iraq war, has changed targets from bashing Canada, and is looking at Spain. The proverbial fertilizer hit the fan last week when Yon claimed that the Canadians has shirked their duties by watching the gold medal hockey [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
Photo: Ian Smith/ PNG
In July of 2008, mass murderer and terrorist, Inderjit Singh Reyat walked out of prison and into a heroes welcome in Surrey, B.C., after serving just 20 years in prison for “manslaughter”. That charge came for building the Narita bomb that was destined for a second Air India flight when it exploded [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 4 days ago
I may be the only person who finds this remotely interesting, but when I punched in the previous graphs from 1951-2005, I felt like I wasn’t fully addressing the Arctic melting claim, since the years in which most of the melting were claimed, specifically 2006 and 2007, were absent from the graph. That wasn’t on [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 5 days ago
I was watching the Oscars last night and sort of keeping an eye on Twitter, when I noticed an update from a woman I follow in North Vancouver. Her name is Michelle Evans, and although we’ve only exchanged a few conversations with one another in the past, I read her updates regularly. She told me [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 5 days ago
Sometimes life doesn’t just imitate art, it imitates Saturday morning cartoons. Omar Khadr, notorious terror apprentice apprehended in Afghanistan in 2002, is on Twitter. No, I know it’s not really him, but somebody who has obvious taken it upon themselves to take on Omar’s internet identity for the purposes of fighting for his repatriation.
It’s not [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 5 days ago
Call me crazy, but I ran the average annual temperatures from Environment Canada for Alert, Nunavut, through a graph to see what the trendline would look like. I figured that Alert would be much more immune to regional greenhouse effects as a result of cloud cover, which Toronto obviously suffers from, as well as other [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 5 days ago
Photo: Combat Camera, Canadian Forces
The Canadian Press has released what will surely add to the brushfire burning over the allegations of Canadian complicity, at times changing to direct involvement, in alleged torture of alleged Taliban detainees. But as though the somehow sinister speculation that JTF-2 has been involved in apprehending “high-value” targets, an oft-repeated term [
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 6 days ago
Wow. What did I do to get on Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore’s bad side?
Well, other than point out what an absolutely horrendous job his party is doing of balancing the budget, I mean?
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 6 days ago
The latest allegations against the Conservative government being circulated in the media are based on unsubstantiated, uncorroborated assertions made by none other than Amir Attaran, law professor at the University of Ottawa. The entire premise to this story is that Mr.Attaran has seen portions of the unredacted documents, so he says, and that within them [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 6 days ago
Switzerland to vote on legal rights for animals:
Is fishing as cruel as bullfighting? Antoine Goetschel thinks so. The Swiss lawyer carries the distinction of being the first man in the world to stand up in court on behalf of a dead (and eaten) 22lb pike.
The crucial issue, according to the sole animal advocate in Europe, [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted 6 days ago
I could be wrong, and I stand to be corrected.
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted March 6th
Michael Ignatieff gave a speech in the House of Commons yesterday, which attempted to capitalize on the subsiding anger over prorogation, and the resurgent Afghan detainee affair.
The very first thing he does is accuse the Conservatives of shutting down Parliament to avoid blame for “credible” reports of torture in Afghan jails, saying Mr.Harper “did [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted March 6th
Photograph: Jeff McIntosh, Macleans Magazine
The Alberta Teachers’ Association has been attacked for letting a speaker offer integrationist views pertaining to Canada’s aboriginals at a convention in Edmonton last week. Frances Widdowson is a co-author of the book, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry, and an assistant professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She delivered a speec
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | posted March 6th
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