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The smoke clears by Ezra Levant Did you know that, when he was in high school, Barack Obama was a member of the Choom Gang? Don’t worry. It wasn’t violent. Sort of the opposite. Choom is Hawaiian slang for marijuana. Back then Obama was pretty laid back. He went by Barry, not Barack. His specialty [...]
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Mugabe welcomes you! UN cites Zimbabwe’s dictator as tourism leader by Lorrie Goldstein Now that the United Nations has asked Robert Mugabe to be a global leader for tourism, I’m trying to come up with a good ad campaign for Zimbabwe to help it attract more international visitors. How about: “Zimbabwe: Come for the fixed [...]
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West won’t warm to Mulcair’s sanctimony by Lorne Gunter Thomas (call me “Tom”) Mulcair, leader of the federal NDP, will be in Alberta today. But, he assures us, he has not come to disparage our region. Rather, he claims, he is here to explain to us the need for Ottawa to intervene in oilsands development [...]
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Another Liberal shocker by Christina Blizzard It’s tempting to call it a shocking new tax, but the new fee that’s being imposed on electricians will hike the cost of electrical work to consumers — and that isn’t funny. Worse, say electrical contractors, they can’t get a straight answer as to what’s being done with the [...]
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We have a real problem with bureaucrats in this country thinking they rule the roost. Think of the back door gun registry which continues despite laws passed by Parliament. Think of the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa which thinks it runs Canada’s foreign policy regardless of who is actually running the elected government. But I’m [...]
COLUMN: Levant – Barack on the Choom Gang
The smoke clears
by Ezra Levant
Did you know that, when he was in high school, Barack Obama was a member of the Choom Gang?
Don’t worry. It wasn’t violent. Sort of the opposite. Choom is Hawaiian slang for marijuana.
Back then Obama was pretty laid back. He went by Barry, not Barack. His specialty was finding new ways to smoke dope — including in an enclosed van, so not a single whiff of smoke was wasted.
Barry Obama called that TA — total absorption.
Obama loved drugs so much, that’s what he wrote about in his comment published in the school’s yearbook.
“Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”
Ray was his drug dealer. Read more…
COLUMN: Goldstein – Mugabe appoint shows rot at the UN
Mugabe welcomes you! UN cites Zimbabwe’s dictator as tourism leader
by Lorrie Goldstein
Now that the United Nations has asked Robert Mugabe to be a global leader for tourism, I’m trying to come up with a good ad campaign for Zimbabwe to help it attract more international visitors.
How about: “Zimbabwe: Come for the fixed elections, stay for the ethnic cleansing”?
Or, “You’ll leave your heart in Zimbabwe … along with various other body parts.”
Or, “Zimbabwe’s economy will surprise you … because it doesn’t have one.” Read more…
Pulling back the pogey
The government has been hammered from the left and the right for the proposed EI changes. Many of the comments I’ve had emailed to me by viewers of this program are of the opinion that this is a program fully funded by workers and so workers can take what they want from it.
Not quite so.
I’ll give you some straight numbers on this and then get to the story of Little Lizzie May and her pogey lifestyle.
This year, the maximum amount that any Canadian paying into the EI system will contribute is $839.97. Their employer will contribute 1.4 times that amount to a maximum of $1,175.96. If you live in Quebec the numbers are different so I’ll just focus on the rest of the country. Read more…
Sick, twisted, bastard
Help police find this man
This is going to be one of those stories that I wish I knew less about every day.
What started with a bizarre story of a severed foot being mailed to Conservative Party HQ in Ottawa has morphed into so much more – as if getting a severed foot in the mail wasn’t bad enough. Now police are looking for a man with a bizarre history that includes links to Karla Holmolka, claims of being a male model and a bi-sexual porn star. Here’s some detail from the Sun News story…
In a grisly twist to the case, a graphic and deeply disturbing video has emerged which is purported to show the murder and dismemberment. A Montreal police source confirmed cops are in possession of a video, which also includes cannibalism, but would not say if it is the same video.
The graphic video online shows a man being stabbed to death with an ice pick and then being cut into pieces. The video was shot inside an apartment that bears a close resemblance to the unit in west-end Montreal that’s at the centre of the homicide investigation.
In a strange twist we already had footage of this man in our files. Magnotta had been interviewed by the Sun’s Joe Warmington back in 2007 when there were claims he was dating Homolka, claims he denied.
You can read Warmington’s column from the time here.
I was asked why we would give this freak the time of day and the attention that he so obviously craves. The answer is simple. He’s still on the loose.
If Luka Rocco Magnotta is responsible for these crimes then he must be brought to justice. If he is not, then he has some explaining to do about the bizarre videos he has posted online that seem to show a murder.
COLUMN: Gunter – Mulcair’s arrogance won’t help him in West
West won’t warm to Mulcair’s sanctimony
by Lorne Gunter
Thomas (call me “Tom”) Mulcair, leader of the federal NDP, will be in Alberta today. But, he assures us, he has not come to disparage our region.
Rather, he claims, he is here to explain to us the need for Ottawa to intervene in oilsands development to protect the environment.
He has also promised to share with us the Quebec model for sustainable development that he helped devise when he was the Liberal environment minister there. Read more…
COLUMN: Blizzard – McGuinty’s mantra is tax, tax, tax
Another Liberal shocker
by Christina Blizzard
It’s tempting to call it a shocking new tax, but the new fee that’s being imposed on electricians will hike the cost of electrical work to consumers — and that isn’t funny.
Worse, say electrical contractors, they can’t get a straight answer as to what’s being done with the cash they’re being gouged for.
The Liberal-created Ontario College of Trades will soon require journeymen electricians and electrical contractors to pay an additional $200 and $600 respectively annually to the College for unspecified services. Read more…
Did Barbara Hall change the law while no one was looking?
But I’m still stunned to see Barbara Hall, the Chief Commissar of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, change the law by decree.Hall was appearing before the Queen’s Park Social Committee which was conducting hearings on Bill 13, the Liberals “anti-bullying” act which manages to bully anyone that gets in its way. There are few things wrong with what she said but here is the key paragraph.
“Ontario’s Human Rights Code is, in a sense, Ontario’s highest law. All schools—including public, Catholic and private—have a legal duty to provide students with an educational environment free from harassment and other forms of discrimination because of their race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status, disability and sex, including gender identity.” Barbara Hall, May 15, 2012
Wow!
First off Ms. Hall, the highest law in Ontario is still the Constitution of Canada and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms but nice try. Secondly, you will notice that Ms. Hall says that her vision applies to all schools, including private ones. That means that even if Catholic schools stop taking money over the imposition of gay-straight alliances they will still have to allow them in Barbara Hall’s world.
But the biggest wow in there has to be the last bit, “…including gender identity.”
Ummm, when did the legislature pass a law making gender identity a prohibited grounds of discrimination?
The answer is that they didn’t but Barbara Hall wants it in there so she’s putting it in. Now there is a bill to insert “gender identity” into the act but it has not passed yet. This was even mentioned at the hearing by NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo.
Ms. Cheri DiNovo: Thank you, Barbara, for your presentation, and also thank you for your support for “gender identity” and “gender expression” as explicit words in the Ontario Human Rights Code and your letter to that effect. As you know, Toby’s Act passed second reading. We’re hoping to get it in place by Pride.
Barbara Hall does not make the laws in Ontario despite what she may think. She is a mere public servant, there to do the bidding of the legislature, not direct. This is another reason that Hall has to go and her Commission be scrapped.
Global gun registry
The United Nations is huge beyond my comprehension. Most people think of the general assembly, the peacekeeping duties, the diplomats that try to stop war andUNICEF. Maybe they think of the humanitarian aid that goes out through the UN.
But the organization is just huge.
We’ve talked about this a bit lately what with Scooter coming to Canada and telling us that we are all fat and have food insecurity – maybe because he wants to take away our bag of Lays and have us adopt European socialism.
We’ve talked about the UN chat shop made up of countries like China – a pillar of human rights – investigating Canada’s human rights record when it comes to Omar Khadr. Then there was the lecture on refugees. Sure we take in one of the highest rates of refugees in the world on a per capita basis but because we won’t accept people from the US or Britain any longer we are big meanies.
And of course we’ve begun discussing the ridiculous sounding but absolutely real UN plan for land use control known as Agenda 21.
COLUMN: Solberg – Don’t let facts get in the way of Mulcair’s story
Facts a cure for Mulcair’s disease
by Monte Solberg
One of the best parts of a bona fide world financial crisis is it forces us to come face-to-face with reality, though that first meeting almost never goes well.
For instance, the Greeks are finally facing up to the unpleasant reality they’re broke. When this sad fact first became apparent, the Greeks rioted because they were mad about reality being so mean to them.
But now at least some Greeks are accepting reality, if not exactly celebrating that it has moved into the spare bedroom as a way to save money. Anyway, the people of Greece will be better off once they accept that for the next few years they will have to be worse off. Read more…
