The TTC doesn't help alleviate the stereotype of Torontonian arrogance. Following public outcry at their inefficiency, TTC employees are rambling against the public and apparently want to add insult to injury through some work-to-rule action. Where on earth does the TTC find them? Every public transit system will have its ups and downs, as much as every business has good and bad employees. Co...

So I was watching something on my local channel about some proposed changes to the City bylaws regarding pets/owners. One proposal was to fine people $350 if they were out walking their dogs but did not have a 'doody bag' with them to clean up after their animal.Sorry but I find that ridiculous. I've stepped in dog poo. Just last week I went out to shovel my front walk and found a GIANT pile...

Ryerson University One of the most predictable effects of anti-racism policies can be found in the law of unintended consequences, in that after a while they tend to foster and perpetuate the very racism those policies aim to defeat. After all, cataloging and enumerating every shade of skin pigment in a University is more than just [...]

Faced with increasing criticism after a spate of pictures and videos showing TTC employees not doing their job, operators at the public transit syndicate have decided to fight back: This is a group where Operators can give suggestions on how to fight back to the recent photo and video harassment from passengers just looking to make [...]

Chatelaine magazine has an on-line photo spread of six of Canada's male winter Olympic athletes in various stages of undress. The picture at right is of skier Kyle Nissen, skis strageically placed. So here's an idea - lets start staging the Olympic games with all nude athletes, just like they did in ancient Greece. I think it would do wonders for TV ratings.The ancient Greek Olympic games we...

I’ll believe it when I see it but apparently the trial involving Liberal insiders may actually start in April. “David Basi and Virk face breach of trust and fraud charges for allegedly accepting benefits from lobbyists representing one of the bidder for BC Rail in exchange for providing confidential provincial government information about the sale. Aneal [...]

Quebec Liberal Jean Charest thinks it’s perfectly OK to ship asbestos to third world countries and he washes his hands of any responsibility for the health of workers in these countries: “There are no perfect products … No products have zero impact on the environment, either. Everything humans do has an environmental impact.” (see story here) Also: see [...]

Claudette Carbonneau et les syndicats sont négatif ces temps-ci. Pourtant la mode spirituel est au positif, plus on pense positif plus il y a de choses positives.Premièrement, on peut voir dans cette lettre quel est contre tous les nouvelles choses apportés par le comité du gouvernement Charest sur les finances publiques ici (Joanne Marcotte fait une excellente analyse de cette lettre ici),...

Keywords: Shroud of Overland, Shroud of Turin II, Saint Obama, Democrat Cult Given the vexing mystery currently surrounding the provenance of Shroud of Turin, it is hope that future archaeologist will stumble upon this post, which should help them in resolving the mystery surrounding the Shroud of Overland.  First the background to the story.  Barrack Hussein [...]

If we're the ones doing all the polluting... ...how come Toronto has all of the smog?...

It seems the marxist dictator hugo chavez thinks Canad is run by an ultra right wing govrnment. I guess he is now in coalition talks with iffy and jack.The bolivarian revolution is receding throughout Latin America and Venezuela is an economic basket case. iffy and jack must be so proud of their new ally who also insults HM Forces ."I am talking of a Canada governed by an ultraright that cl...

...is to have the right tool for the job at hand.

One of the oft repeated remarks during the US presidential campaign was the Obama was qualified to be the president by virtue of managing the presidential campaign.  It was another one of long list of self-referential statement during the campaign which was devoid of common sense.   Financial Times wrote an interesting article that examines the [...]

Hello Canada,For family and friends, and all those who are interested, here is another update on life in Ottawa.Stability has comeKoliah and I have entered our most stable time yet in Ottawa. Last week I received my first pay cheque as an intern, a lump sum payment, that really put us over the top financially. We instantly went from making "just enough" (and sometimes "not enough") to "mor...

The other day Africagate exploded onto the world stage, and now it turns out that not only will AGW likely not harm parts of Africa, it may actually help:Desertification, drought, and despair—that's what global warming has in store for much of Africa. Or so we hear.Emerging evidence is painting a very different scenario, one in which rising temperatures could benefit millions of Africans in ...

Climategate.com alerts readers to a battle royal shaping up in California. Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times reports: Effort underway to suspend California's global warming lawRepublican politicians and conservative activists are launching a ballot campaign to suspend California's landmark global-warming law, in what they hope will serve as a showcase for a national backlash against climate...

As we prepare to discuss the health and rights of impoverished women and children abroad with our industrialized allies, it was comforting to see Jack Layton take a different road than his Liberal counterpart. Instead of insisting on funding foreign abortions, Jack would like us to instead focus on the women and children here in Canada living under poverty. To hear Jack tell the story, you'd t...

Yesterday I heard this Toronto municipal news tidbit from a source close to Rob Ford’s camp who says that the conservative city councilor is “definitely in” for a shot at taking over the mayor’s office, a post to be vacated by David Miller in the next year. Today, I called Ford himself and confirmed [...]

In 1997, Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan jointly penned an essay titled “Our Benign Dictatorship” in which they laid out why the Liberal government of the time was essentially undefeatable, as well as what would be required for it’s defeat.  Namely, they pointed to electoral co-operation (between Reform and the PCs) in the form of [...]

Please share this video from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

Oh my, the greens are pulling out all the stops and are now falling back on standard leftist boilerplate ... somewhere, somehow, they'll blame Exxon ... I can't wait to see how they tie Haliburton in:A complicated web of relationships revolves around a number of right-wing think-tanks around the world that dispute the threats of climate change. ExxonMobil is a key player behind the scenes, ha...

The question of the day:Who sends who the talking points? Does Iggy send them down to Hugo Chavez? Or is Hugo Chavez enlisting Michael Ignatieff into the Chavezification movement?At this point, we can't tell. But we know they each share an abiding dislike of Stephen Harper. They are both alight with anger over the move to prorogue Canada's parliament. And they are both interested in, to ...

When the Court system allows this, something seriously needs to change... From The Winnipeg Sun on February 5th - Despite having killed and decapitated his parents with an axe in 2007, Alain Piche will still get his inheritance after Quebec's Court of Appeal overturned a 2008 Superior Court decision by Judge Ivan Godin. The decision was based on the Civil Code, which states that a per...

I wonder how long it will take for the Liberal Party of Canada or its leader, Michael Ignatieff, to stand up for Canada and respond to the slanderous allegations by Venezuela’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, Roy Chaderton Matos, that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are guilty of torture and assassinations. I doubt we’ll hear any defence of Canada from Jack Layton or th...

I want to talk very quickly about abortion before I try to wrap my head around the above question. If there are people who wish to be world leaders in our society today, who advocate access to "safe terminations" and the right to not live in "misery," which I can only assume means nine months of having something you don't want in your body, then what has this world come to? And this par...

I walked over 15 K this morning from my temporary lodgings in Dalhousie along John Laurie, up into the mist that cloaked Nose Hill and back again. Sharp hooved white tail deer glared back but I glared back in a threatening way and they retreated to an aspen grove. The fog was completely encompassing, yet I carried on. I'm pretty sure I am the first human to the top of Nose Hill, at least...

Welcome to Liberalland, Alice.  My name is Michael.This is how things work in Liberalland.It's kind of like Alice in Wonderland, where to see what "is", you can only look at what "isn't".In Ontario, while in the midst of a massive Provincial deficit, Dalton McGuinty reaches farther into debt and pulls out a few white rabbits, including a bailout for the Nortel Pension fund (why milli...

A whistleblower finally came forward (and was promptly sacked) for reporting on Amnesty International’s odd relationship with Cageprisoners, an organization that advocates on behalf of the “innocent victims” of the war on terror at Guantanamo — many of whom return to the battlefield to wage jihad as soon as they are released. It may [...] Related posts:OuterLimit...

The Tea Party movement in the United States is probably the most significant new North American conservative movement in decades, and although I question its long-term significance, it does seem to be off to a fast start. In about a year of existence, the movement already has two notches on its belt to mark its relevance on the national stage: the highly successful September 12 demonstration i...

Long before the redevelopment of the Woodward’s building was completed—to offer a mix of market and social housing reinvigorating Vancouver’s oldest neighborhood—there were skeptics of the plan; not least from the potential buyers: “I got a call from a guy who was from L.A. and who had expressed interest in buying a unit, and he was [...] Related posts:MyLife: A Day at V...

When the climategate emails started to come out last fall, I wrote to a warmist colleague of mine for whom I have a high regard.  He deals in such matters as user-owned networks and other net-headed concerns. We have been on the same side in several carrier versus net-head issues. He is also obsessed with AGW [...]

This is the trial of the century. The increasingly popular Dutch politician, Geert Wilders is on trial for saying offensive things about Islam, and truth, apparently, is not going to be a defence. And what does our National Post do? Show Wilders snubbing his own nose with a pencil. The letter about Wilders which the Post [...]

A commenter on my post “The anti-Israel ‘Rights & Democracy’ funded by Canadians” takes exception to my label of the Rights & Democracy organization as an NGO and as anti-Israel. And so I quote John Flag (emphasis mine): Uhm, Rights & Democracy was created by Parliament, reports to Parliament and its President and Board are appointed [...]

Everyday that ticks by brings the Harper CPC closer to crossing the line between simply being political game-players, to being wilful participants in defrauding Canadians out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The BC, Quebec, and Ontario governments may have already crossed that line.In America the class action crowd are sharpening their knives ... daring the EPA to take action on CO2 ... dari...

What have MPs been up to while Parliament is not sitting? Not much according to Kelly McParland. He even questions the value of question period. Shouldn't they not be busy at work in their constituencies tending to the concerns of their constituents? I'm sure some are. Not so sure others are though. We pay these clowns just to gripe and complain all the time? How about working together t...