Edward Michael George: The Ministry of Love “Now, Barbara Hall is a notoriously stupid woman, but that doesn’t make the explicit import of her words any less disturbing”
Ezra Levant: The worse, the better? “I believe that things are going to get worse. [Barbara Hall] says so. Ordinary people who have never heard of the Ontario Human Rights Commission are going to hear about them, a lot.”
As the reporter who exposed Grant Bristow, the CSIS mole in the Heritage Front, and also revealed that group’s efforts to infiltrate the Reform Party, permit me to set the record straight where I can, and to add some opinions which your readers might find helpful. My opinions are based on four years of ongoing, contemporary research of the Heritage Front while working as a reporter for the Toronto Sun.
The controversy surrounding former Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) employee Richard Warman has a familiar ring to it. Warman has been accused of logging onto web sites and writing inflammatory statements to goad people into making similar remarks. Actually it’s worse than that. He’s accused of planting hateful statements and then using those as evidence in CHRC complaints against those who operate the web sites—in other words, fabricating evidence to convict people. Warman’s CRHC convictions then become part of the justification to suppress political debate through the use of hate laws and human rights legislation.
Ottawa Citizen: ‘Fat phobia’ feeds children’s eating disorders, experts say. “I’m not convinced that telling kids that they’re fat, or that they might get fat, is a way of solving the problem.” Dr. Leora Pinhas, child psychiatrist.
Not my fault. “People are worried but they generally know it’s a very safe community. But what makes any community in Toronto vulnerable is the proliferation of handguns in the city. The Prime Minister and others can no longer turn a blind eye.”–Toronto-Danforth Councillor Paula Fletcher in the Globe and Mail. The community is “very […]
In 2003, after the collapse of the Alberta Report, I began talking to my former colleague Kevin Michael Grace about starting an online news magazine. We were just shooting the breeze but we did manage to write down a few of our ideas.
This is a bit like shooting ducks in a barrel, but it’s a holiday and I’m up for something easy, so here goes.
I’m reading this column by Michael Byers in the Toronto Star: From rogue nation to world leader and I’m wondering, why does this guy seem to be channeling Jean Chrétien and Maurice […]
Dec. 26, CP: Canada–Limping into 2008
"When the year began, Harper’s Conservatives were sitting at 34 per cent in public opinion approval, according to Harris-Decima, just ahead of the Liberals at 31 per cent. The NDP was at 15 and the Green party at eight per cent.
As 2007 draws to a close, Harris-Decima’s rolling three-week averages […]
On the sentencing of Emmanuel Villarceau which happened back on Nov. 20, the Ottawa Citizen today: Passport fraud lands ex-public servant two-year prison term
"The court documents do not indicate how the people who obtained passports using falsified information came in contact with Mr. Villarceau, nor what Mr. Villarceau received for providing the passports."
Back on May […]