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Liberal Ties at Apotex .... Check this out - "Road Kill Diaries" http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003163.html Elie Betito: Massaging The Message dated: December 19, 2005 Elie Betito is the campaign director for Bonnie Brown, Oakville (Liberal) Elie Betito is the riding president for Liberals Oakville Elie Betito works at none other than Apotex kinda makes you say hmmmmm

It is exactly like censorship, and an abuse of power.

Well, hey, its a plot you know, Harper, RCMP and CSIS are all in on it. 3 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate, and other materials for making explosive, are we still sitting ducks, or will the naysayers continue to deny it.

Nonsense, Israel uses violence only to defend itself from extremeist hostile neighbours.no surprise though, blaming Israel while ignoring the Islamist atrocities such as the terrorist attacks launched against Israeli school children in the towns of Kiryat, Shemona and Maalot. Let them dance in the streets over the blood of innocent civilians while chanting no peace and I promise you they will find none. If palestinians are orchastrating suicide bombings against israeli civiilians, they have to act to defend themselves. It is not Israel's fault that palestinian terrorist choose to live among innocent civilians, using them as hostages - its a pretty rough balancing act for Israel. Maybe the PLO should try out a democracy like Israel. You know, try building and engineering stuff insted of blowing them up, it might work for them, and they might like it.

There was a funny website going around, but look at this they had it shut dow. I wonder on what basis it was shut down, talk about suppressing freedom of speech. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...PStory/National Early yesterday, the website address was flying into the inboxes of politicians, political staffers, journalists and even the strategists from other leadership campaigns. Mr. Volpe's campaign had the site shut down without knowing, it seems, who put it up: "Hi Everyone," wrote Brenden Johnstone, who is with the Volpe campaign, in an e-mail to other leadership campaigns. "There has been concern about how the issue of the Volpe donations was reflecting on the leadership race. "My Office has had the website suspended through CIRA [Canadian Internet Registration Authority] and CDNS [Canadian Domain Name Services] and it will be down as soon as 6 p.m. I think the issue with the website has been dealt with. . . ."

A great piece the NP today, by Israel's Ambassador. methinks CUPE has shot itself in the foot http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/ed...0e-fa839ca2abd7 An invitation to CUPE There seems to be a general consensus that the curious resolution adopted by the Ontario wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE-O) last weekend, calling for a boycott of Israel, was politically misguided and damaging to CUPE, inasmuch as it was based on factually inaccurate and misleading premises and questionable law and was unjustly one-sided and selective. -snip- If they wish to play a constructive role in advancing the peace process rather than a partisan and destructive one, then they might consider reconvening and nullifying their ill-advised and hostile boycott resolution and replacing it with a positive and forward-looking resolution inviting Palestinian, Israeli and public employee unions from other Arab countries (if such exist) to come to Canada and to learn from CUPE how to cope -- together -- with the challenges and vicissitudes of a dynamic labour movement. As Israel's ambassador to Canada, I would be the first to convey any such positive resolution and invitation to Israel's public service union and to Israel's Histadrut National Labor Federation with a view to actively promoting such a joint meeting and seeking constructive and viable contacts between Canada's unions and those in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. Just think of the benefits of such a prospect, with CUPE contributing in a positive and professionally substantive manner to building dialogue, mutual trust and labour unity and affinity between Israelis, Palestinians and other neighbours, and Canadians. This, rather than sowing hatred, disunity and false accusations that serve solely the partisan inclinations of the boycott initiators, would be constructive. Is there anyone in the Ontario wing of CUPE or in its national leadership prepared to take up this challenge and regain some semblance of honour and bona fides for CUPE?

Petition here to sign http://www.bnaibrith.ca/CUPEPetition.php http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3257424,00.html Anti-Defamation League Director Abe Foxman says in response to Canadian Union of Public Employees resolution to support international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel ‘once again, a labor union has voted to take the deplorable and offensive step of attempting to isolate and vilify the State of Israel while taking a strongly one-sided view of the conflict Ynetnews"

Read more about Jaggi Singh here, all round nice fella http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/featurestories/protest/jaghi.html http://www.rabble.ca/in_his_own_words.shtml?x=33784 http://www.caw.ca/news/videonews/archives/...obalization.asp

From a letter to the editor: CUPE's method of dealing with the "injustice" is to sign on to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's agenda. Like him, they want Israel to remove the security barrier -- the "apartheid wall" -- that protects Israelis from suicide bombers. And like him, they insist that millions of Palestinians have a "right" to "return" to Israel and transform it through sheer numbers into yet another Arab nation. What's most disturbing is that, in the name of "human rights," Mr. Ryan and his union have been inveigled into supporting a well-orchestrated international effort, Palestinian in origin, calling for measures that would inevitably spell Israel's doom. Mr. Ryan and his union have a right to criticize Israel, and they have a right to disagree with Israel's policies (though they haven't chosen to criticize of the policies of many other nations in the world: Sudan, Iran, China, etc.). However, CUPE does not have the right to sign the death warrant of the Jewish stat

I nearly whoopsed my cookies when I read that one, a reduced sentence for raping a baby...mein gotte - what is Canada coming too !!! The judge certainly could have left the sentence as it was within his juristiction to do that...

Why the double standards, why no condmenation of Palestinian terrorists etc. etc. etc. Maybe a better question would be: Why does the world resent this speck of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/G...20040718.shtml (Ihad this saved but the link doesn't work now) Yet if one were to read world press accounts or daily condemnations from the United Nations or the recent decision of the ICJ criticizing the construction of the fence, you might conclude that Israel is a world power intent on destabilizing Middle East affairs. Why, it might well be postulated, does the world resent this speck of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean? Although my comments are speculative, I suspect they could be borne out empirically if historical accounts were fair and objective. Israel is a thorn in the side of the Arab world because it is a remarkable technological phantasmagoria. Almost every Israeli is engaged in a software scheme. The Jews in this arid nation have made the deserts bloom; they have converted brain power into technical marvels and consequent wealth. By contrast every nearby Arab nation is dysfunctional. Their governments are tyrannical; the people are poor and uneducated and local officials have been unwilling to convert oil revenue into social benefits. Resentment is the natural result of this contrast. Afterall, Israel has all of the geographic disadvantages of its neighbors and it doesn't have any oil fields. Yet it prospers, while others falter." Oh, and BTW, Egypt, which owned Gaza, waged an "illegal" war with Israel in 1967 which Egypt lost, along with Sinai and Gaza. Jordan, which owned the West Bank also waged an "illegal" war with Israel in 1967 losing that one, and the West Bank. Syria, which owned the Golan Heights, waged an "illegal" war with Israel in 1967and also lost, along with Golan Heights. Under International Law, Israel was entitled to take these lands which is why the borders of the West Bank were deemed to be "contested" by the U.N. Later, via negotiations Israel gave back 93% of that land , but fat lot of goo that did Israel, because Egypt, Jordan and Syria started another "illegal" war against Israel in 1973. - And here its always Israel being condemned.

Can't resist posting this letter from the NP National Post Published: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Re: CUPE Joins Boycott Of Israel: Union's Ontario Wing Condemns 'Apartheid Wall,' May 29. As a social worker at an Ontario Children's Aid Society and therefore an obligatory member of CUPE, I am outraged at CUPE's recent "unanimous" vote to boycott Israel. I was never consulted about CUPE's concern with the problems of the Middle East. What hubris on the part of the union's executive. What a flawed and uninformed assessment. Why is it that when Jews try to protect themselves from terrorist slaughter, people like Sid Ryan and the CUPE hierarchy feel they need to intercede on behalf of the terrorists? Is Canada so bereft of social issues that CUPE needs to focus outside our borders to express social concern? I am ashamed that I am obliged to count myself a member of Sid Ryan's union. ......... Toronto. © National Post 2006

Yes it is isn't it.What is it about Israel that the left hates so much - maybe its because indirectly it enables them to vent their hatred towards the U.S. http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0389 With all of labour’s supposed grievances, why the urgency on this issue? Because according to CUPE(Ont.) Israel does not " recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination." Let us put aside the fact that Israel was the only country to recognize the future Arab state of Palestine after partition in 1947; put aside the fact that within one week of the 1967 war when Israel defended itself from invasion by five Arab states and still offered total withdrawal and recognition in return for peace and was greeted with the Arab states’ Khartoum resolution of “No negotiation; no recognition; no peace”; put aside the fact that Israel has recognized Palestinian self-determination at Oslo, at Madrid and at Camp David and been refused each time by Palestinian leadership; what makes this resolution so egregious in nature - such an affront to truth and transparency - is that it comes at a time when the Palestinian Authority’s own President has challenged the Hamas government to renounce violence and recognize Israel or face a referendum. President Abbas’ own actions put the lie to the pretense that this CUPE (Ont.) initiative was done in the tradition of labour’s fight for universal social justice. The Palestinians don’t question Israel’s acceptance of their right to self-determination. They question only their own capacity to manifest it. It’s time to call a spade a spade. CUPE (Ont.)’s action is, at worst, a primordial example of a hypocrisy unmasked revealing the true face of anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, and, at best, a knee-jerk Canadian antipathy to any American ally. An antipathy that at its heart is fuelled by a self-doubt driven by a jealousy of others self-belief." wow, right on. To Lost: Arafat was a liar and a thief, and Hamas does not recognize Israel. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...L&type=politics Israel, the U.S. and Europe demand that Hamas recognize Israel, accept previous peace accords and renounce violence. Hamas has refused. Its ideology does not have a place for a Jewish state in the Middle East, and over the past decade it has sent dozens of suicide bombers into Israel.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...7/cupe-sat.html CUPE in Ontario votes to boycott Israel Last Updated Sat, 27 May 2006 19:48:20 EDT The Ontario division of Canada's largest union has voted to support an international campaign that is boycotting Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Delegates to the Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario convention in Ottawa voted overwhelmingly Saturday to support the campaign until it sees Israel recognizing the Palestinians' right to self-determination. The Ontario group represents more than 200,000 workers. The global campaign started last July and has been supported by many North American churches, 20 Quebec organizations, and others, Canadian Press said. CUPE also condemned what they called Israel's "apartheid wall," saying it is illegal under international law. "Boycott, divestment and sanction worked to end apartheid in South Africa," said Katherine Nastovski, chairwoman of the CUPE Ontario international solidarity committee. "We believe the same strategy will work to enforce the rights of Palestinian people, including the right of refugees to return to their homes and properties." We know what that part means don't we - complete demographic anniliation of Israel - kinda shows CUPE's bias doesn't it .

I tried Harper is scary, and got Results 1 - 10 of about 1,550,000 for Harper is scary. (0.14 seconds) LOL

Actually, I heard something on the radio this morning about not smoking in your home and vehicle if children are present, so maybe someone else can verify it or not. It is illegal to smoke in your own home if there is a healthcare worker present. Also, what about truck drivers - their cab is their workplace, are they out of luck now?

That's because they got it before turning 35. Check out how much it costs if you try and get it later in life. Or many of those who don't have it prefer to have a second car or a larger mortgage - whatever. Sometimes people make choices.

That could never happen. Too many Canadians hate the US no matter what. If you were to listen to some of them you would swear that they're not just our neighbor, but also our worst enemy. Others still call them a necessary evil. Nobody wants to admit it, but without the US this socialist's wet dream of a country could not exist as it does. I don't know about you guys but my lumbar needs a lot of support these days and my obus form doesn't do iit.

The only time that fixed election dates might not work is with a minority gov't, with a majority gov't it would work, unless for some reason the governing party voted against its own financial bills or somehow engineered its own defeat. It won't effect this minority gov't but would any future majority gov't. A fixed date could take away a government's ability to call an election because of a legislative impasse. NDP Nystrom put forward a similar bill in 2004, so the NDP should support it I don't see much of a downside to it at all. Senate Reform is a larger issue, but IMHO its overdue, baby steps here, one step at a time.

Disgusting, why is it that these useful idiots always seem to support dictatorships and terror. This should give a wake up call to the sheeples who follow them. I'm betting it won't, the hate for the U.S. and allies seems to transcend all reason.

It seems he is listening to the people and acting accordingly - isn't that what we expect or want? However, I'm not sure that the father was being right to byu asserting his political opiniond about the war and bashing the gov't for being against "freedom". Seems to me the father was using his daughter's death as a political weapon.

There's a good column on this here: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2FjY...mViY2M5M2U4MTE= Dear Useful Idiot On Cindy Sheehan’s Dear President Bush. By Catherine Seipp My teenage daughter, who is a more sympathetic person than I am, thinks baldly calling Cindy Sheehan an idiot is a bit harsh, so I'll amend: Cindy Sheehan is a useful idiot, a rattle-headed tool of everyone from Not In Our Name, who even as the Twin Towers were still smoldering worried more about retaliation against the poor Taliban than about women oppressed by the Taliban; to pro-Palestinian terrorist apologists; to your friendly neighborhood Stalinists at various branches of International ANSWER, whose objectives range from freeing Mumia to putting a bright and happy spin on daily life in North Korea. And yet the most idiotic statement in Sheehan’s new book, Dear President Bush, comes not from Sheehan herself but from Howard Zinn, who writes in the introduction: “A box-cutter can bring down a tower. A poem can build up a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution.” A box-cutter can bring down a tower. By now, I suppose, we should be used to the hard Left’s extending underdog status to the worst of mass murderers; still, the sheer gall of beginning a series of David-and-Goliath metaphors with that one is breathtaking. So a spunky little box-cutter took on those big old capitalistic towers, the same way that a brave little pamphlet like Dear President Bush takes on Bush and his evil policies. (The publisher is City Lights’s Open Media Series; City Lights is the San Francisco bookstore famously dedicated to free speech, although it won’t carry anything by Oriana Fallaci because she’s “fascist.”)

BTW, WTH is this thread doing in Federal Politics? [NDLR: We need a new category for such threads... ] I put it here because it was a general question to all Canadians, maybe it should have been in moral issues. IMHO the attitude of climbers is that of extreme self indulgence and hypocrisy. While I don't think the guides should have left their charges, surely one guide and a couple of others could have had some humanity about them and helped the chap.

I think the only people who won't like it are those who think its okay to call a snap election based on how high the gov't is in the polls. I'm guessing the liberals won't like it, but it sure wouldn't look good on them during the next election campaign. If McGuinty can bring in fixed election terms provincially it would be great to see a permanent election office with one returning officer in charge. The returning office would be hired based on merit, not given the job as a patronage appointment. Training of election staff would be able start earlier hopefully resulting in better quality. Enumerating could also be ongoing and data bases kept up to date.

Finally, but will it pass ? http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...?hub=TopStories Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday he plans to introduce a bill to set fixed dates for federal elections, as part of a wider movement towards democratic reform. "Fixed election dates stop leaders from trying to manipulate the calendar," Harper told reporters in Victoria, B.C. "They level the playing field for all parties." The bill will be introduced next week and proposes to set fixed election dates every four years. The next election would be set for fall of 2009.