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Hudson Bay freezes over early for third year in row. The polar bears have already headed out onto the sea ice. Which is sad news for all the tourists who arrive this time of year to gaze at and photograph the poor, overheated, starving polar bears waiting on shore for the ice to form. Maybe they better move up the polar bear tourist season to October. Or September.
United Church of Canada keeps atheist pastor. This is pretty much the definition of apathy and the perfect example of why mainline Christian denominations are failing. The United Church of Canada knows having an atheist pastor in a Christian church is wrong, they already decided she should be fired, but when push came to shove and she refused to leave quietly, they folded like a cheap tent.
Some of our Canadian friends are spinning a conspiratorial tale about foreign interest wolves in sheep’s clothing interfering in an important domestic industry. Oil, to be specific.
Some of our Canadian friends are spinning a conspiratorial tale about foreign interest wolves in sheep’s clothing interfering in an important domestic industry. Oil, to be specific.
Only the world's 26th richest man would color coordinate his giant sunglasses and his turtleneck sweater
The Toronto Sun outlines the paranoia:
An OPEC billionaire has publicly said what everyone long suspected… Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to develop unconventional sources of oil, like Canada’s oilsands.
Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, the world’s 26th richest man, worth more than $19 billion, told CNN he’s worried if oil prices stay around $100 a barrel, the West will look for other sources of oil and Saudi Arabia would lose its dominant position.
Doesn’t mpact us since non-Muslim president Obama discovered plenty of oil in Brazil, not to mention his “green energy” investments that produce quantum-particle-like jobs (they vanish when you look for them.) The Canadians, who sit on vast fields of shale oil deposits, are all wound up, however:
Prince Al-Waleed’s comments were a rare Saudi public criticism of the West. Normally, they leave that sort of thing to their allies — professional environmental lobbyists.
There are about 100 professional anti-oilsands activists in Canada, who do nothing but attack Canada’s oil industry. Typically they pose as grassroots environmentalists. But the facts are different.
Most environmental activists are actually paid professionals. And most work for foreign lobbyists.
Greenpeace, for example, is a $200-million multinational corporation based in Europe. If they don’t raise a million bucks a day in fundraising, they’d have to shut down.
Call us stupid, but we had never considered the fact that Greenpeace’s anti-oil campaign might we funded by oil interests. Duh!
Thankfully, our media has more important stuff on its mind, like reading Sarah Palin’s old emails.
The geniuses in Canada’s Liberal party thought they had Conservative Prime Minster Stephen Harper right where they wanted him…
The geniuses in Canada’s Liberal party thought they had Conservative Prime Minster Stephen Harper right where they wanted him. So they forced him to call for new Parliamentary elections in an attempt to oust him from office.
The election was held on Monday and the Liberal scheme worked about as well as most liberal schemes do.
Thumbs up for Canadian Conservatives, who now hold a majority in Parliament
Reuters has the story of today’s Liberal lamentations:
Canada’s Conservatives stormed to a decisive victory in Monday’s federal election, winning 54 percent of the seats in Parliament and securing a stable four-year term in power after vowing to focus on the economy.
The Conservatives grabbed 167 seats in Canada’s Parliament, well above the 155 they needed to transform their minority government into a majority, according to provisional results. They won about 40 percent of the vote, beating expectations.
The victory, a relief for Canadian financial markets, left support for the separatist Bloc Quebecois in tatters and the party’s leader without a seat. Bloc Quebecois advocates independence for the province of Quebec.
Things did not go as expected for the Liberals. Instead of winning the night, they now find themselves reduced to an embarrassing third place finish.
“What a great night. … Canadians can now turn the page on the uncertainties and the repeat elections of the past seven years and focus on building a great future,” Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a victory rally in Calgary, Alberta early on Tuesday morning.
American liberals are now shouting “Obama got Osama” and wishing our election could be held today.
We suspect they’d be in for a surprise almost as big as the one Canadian Liberals found.
The theory behind the strategy was that new elections would help the Liberals pick up more seats in Parliament. Oops.
About two weeks ago the Canadian Liberals pulled off what they thought was a very clever move. They wrangled together enough votes in Parliament to pass a no confidence motion, which forced Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call for new elections.
The theory behind the strategy was that new elections would help the Liberals pick up more seats in Parliament:
Canada's Conservative Prime Minister gives his Liberal opponents a double thumbs up
Oops. Reuters reports that the move may backfire:
The Conservatives widened its lead against the opposition Liberals in an opinion poll released on Monday.
The Nanos Research tracking poll of results over three days of surveys put support for the Conservatives at 42.3 percent, up from 40.7 percent in Sunday’s survey. Support for the Liberals slipped to 28.4 percent from 29.4 percent.
Under Canada’s electoral system, a party needs around 40 percent of the vote to win a majority of the 308 seats in the House of Commons in the May 2 federal election.
Let’s get into neither Canadian math, in which 40% equals a majority, nor Reuters English, in which “The Conservatives widened its lead” is proper grammar.
But let’s do get into the fact that Canada’s Liberals forced the nation’s Conservative Prime Minister to call an election in which they will lose seats.
Oh, how we wish American liberals would follow the example set by their Canadian cousins and spend more of their time mastering the art of deficit elections rather than art of deficit spending.
About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from music and coed physical education programs for religious reasons.
We’re pretty sure the Royal Canadian Mounted Thought Police have already been notified, so Professor Mahfooz Kanwar should be prepared for their arrival.
The Calgary Herald has the details:
We need more politically incorrect professors like Mahfooz Kanwar
About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis Riel School Division in Winnipeg excuse their children from music and coed physical education programs for religious reasons.
The families believe that music is un-Islamic — just like the Taliban believe and then imposed on the entire population of Afghanistan — and that physical education classes should be segregated by gender even in the elementary years…
In any event, the school district is trying to find a way to adapt the curriculum to fit the wishes of these families, rather than these families adapting to fit into the school and Canadian culture.
Mahfooz Kanwar, a member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, says he has some better ideas.
“I’d tell them, this is Canada, and in Canada, we teach music and physical education in our schools. If you don’t like it, leave. If you want to live under sharia law, go back to the hellhole country you came from or go to another hellhole country that lives under sharia law,” said Kanwar, who is a professor emeritus of sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
Thought control runs rampant in the Great White North. Canada’s Broadcast Standards Council has banned “Money For Nothing,” a 25-year old song by Dire Straits.
Thought control runs rampant in the Great White North. Canada’s Broadcast Standards Council has banned “Money For Nothing,” a 25-year old song by Dire Straits.
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits back in the day
In its supreme wisdom, the Council has decided that the song’s lyrics are unacceptable for sensitive Canadian ears because the word “faggot” is used repeatedly.
Here are the lyrics that are now scandalizing our northern neighbor twenty-five years after the song was a number one hit:
The little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy, that’s his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he’s a millionaire
There is, however, one small problem with the Thought Control Council banning “Money For Nothing.” That is, the song is a parody specifically written to put down people who express such unenlightened opinions.
Mark Knoopfler, Dire Straits’ lead singer and co-writer of the song, describes his inspiration in Wikipedia:
“The lead character in “Money for Nothing” is a guy who works in the hardware department in a television/custom kitchen/refrigerator/microwave appliance store. He’s singing the song. I wrote the song when I was actually in the store. I borrowed a bit of paper and started to write the song down in the store. I wanted to use a lot of the language that the real guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real….”
In 2000, Knopfler appeared on Michael Parkinson’s interview program and explained again where the lyrics originated. According to Knopfler, he was in New York and stopped by an appliance store. At the back of the store, they had a wall of TVs which were all tuned to MTV. Knopfler said there was a man working there dressed in a baseball cap, work boots, and a checkered shirt delivering boxes who was standing next to him watching. As they were standing there watching MTV, Knopfler remembers the man coming up with classic lines such as “what are those, Hawaiian noises?…that ain’t workin” etc. Knopfler asked for a pen to write some of these lines down and then eventually put those words to music.
So the song is actually a brilliant parody of redneck ignorance, something that the Royal Canadian Mounted Thought Police should celebrate, not ban.
But comprehending that concept would require actual thought, something that was banned in Canada at about the same time that “Money For Nothing” was a hit.
It really is a great song. Here’s the original video. Crank up the volume and enjoy it while you still can, because it won’t be long until the American thought police decide it’s unacceptable here, too.
Liberal legislators across the fruited plain looked at this Canadian case and immediately began drafting anti-crossbow legislation, saying, “The Founding Fathers never anticipated these weapons of mass destruction.”
This story has potential for the Second Amendment to run right smack dab into the middle of the fourteenth century. The Associated Press has the details:
A Canadian man was charged with first-degree murder Friday for fatally shooting his father in the back with a crossbow in a Toronto library as shocked mothers and children watched.
Forsooth, verily, Zhou Fang hath dispatcheth his father
Zhou Fang, 24, appeared in court to face the murder charge a day after Si Cheng, 52, was killed in the library about an hour after a nearby school let out for the day. The judge ordered that Fang be held without bail.
Toronto police Const. Tony Vella said Cheng was pronounced dead at the scene and Fang was arrested later Thursday in a Toronto suburb.
“The use of a crossbow is definitely a unique case in Toronto,” said Vella. “You hear about guns, you hear about knives being used, but you definitely don’t hear about a crossbow.”
Liberal legislators across the fruited plain looked at this Canadian case and immediately began drafting anti-crossbow legislation, saying, “The Founding Fathers never anticipated these weapons of mass destruction.”
The only conclusion we can draw is that the Canadian Thought Police are a very odd bunch. A very odd bunch indeed. Despite banning Ann Coulter for potential hate speech and hauling to a tribunal a comedian responding to lesbian hecklers, a porn TV network is alive and well.
The only conclusion we can draw is that the Canadian Thought Police are a very odd bunch. A very odd bunch indeed.
We can only conclude that things are quickly going south up north.
AdWeek describes the porn network’s new ad campaign:
“You won’t watch for the acting,” brags Canadian adult-entertainment network Amour in a bunch of new promos by Cossette. That’s probably true of the movies on Amour—but not of these ads, which feature bad acting by brainless bimbos honed to perfection. The hotties’ hopeless audition readings of Shakespeare and porn piffle like “It’s getting hot in here” and “Room for one more in that hot tub?” are spot-on. But the off-screen director seals the deal with his exuberant exhortations and earnest encouragement. Oddly, these spots are also satisfying with the sound off.
Maybe Coulter should have just announced that she was going to speak topless.
First Canadians took political humorist Mark Steyn before their Human Rights Commission. Then they threatened to do the same to Ann Coulter. Now a Canadian comedian is in trouble for insulting some lesbian hecklers.
Canadian comedian Guy Earle. Or one of the lesbians. We are not sure which.
What the hell is going on in the Great White Multi-cultured North?
First they took political humorist Mark Steyn before their Human Rights Commission. Then they threatened to do the same to Ann Coulter. Now a Canadian comedian is in trouble for insulting some lesbian hecklers.
This is no joke. They’re going after a comedian for responding to hecklers.
Guy Earle, a twenty-year veteran of the stand-up circuit, was the volunteer master of ceremonies for an amateur comedy night in Vancouver back in May 2007 when the disturbing incident occurred:
According to Cole, the Canadians are simply trying to develop a “safe place to think and learn” and she doesn’t feel “Ann Coulter contributes to” such an environment. In other words, this safe place to think and learn does not include thinking and learning about conservative points of view.
Think of us as equal opportunity haters, because we hate the Canadian media, too. Here’s why.
Susan Cole, a Canadian communist columnist explains to Megyn Kelly on Fox News that it’s good to stop Ann Coulter’s potential hate speech by massing protesters and threatening physical violence.
According to Cole, the Canadians are simply trying to develop a “safe place to think and learn” and she doesn’t feel “Ann Coulter contributes to” such an environment. In other words, this safe place to think and learn does not include thinking and learning about conservative points of view.
So not only are Canadians suffering through nationalized health care, they have to deal with the freaking liberal media also.
Our condolences to our friends in the Great White North. And we apologize in advance if calling it “white” is interpreted as hate speech.
Turns out that Canada’s second-oldest magazine is called The Beaver. After 90 years of publication, it’s changing its name because the old one is being censored by online porn filters that interpret it as slang for female genitalia.
Relax, perv. This story isn’t about what you may think it’s about.
Turns out that Canada’s second-oldest magazine is called The Beaver. After 90 years of publication, it’s changing its name because the old one is being censored by online porn filters that interpret it as slang for female genitalia.
In one of history’s greatest understatements, publisher Deborah Morrison said, “The Beaver was an impediment online.”
“Nearly a century ago,” she added, “it probably seemed the perfect name for a magazine about the fur trade and Canada’s northwest frontier. There was only one interpretation for the word then.
“But you’re likely to find a lot of (porn) sites now if you search for the title of our history magazine online,” she concluded.
The Beaver becomes extinct after its February/March issue. Then it will spring back to life under the incredibly boring, but unmistakable name Canada’s History.
From what we hear, the first issue of Canada’s History will feature a centerfold, Miss April, Nanookie of the North.
Uh-oh. The Canadian Medical Association believes the country’s system is “sick” and needs help from the doctors to cure it.
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” said Dr. Anne Doig.
Uh-oh. The Canadian Medical Association believes the country’s system is “sick” and needs help from the doctors to cure it.
“We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize,” said Dr. Anne Doig. The doctor added that it’s a little thing called sustainability that’s causing massive problems with the Canadian health care system.
She added, “We know that there must be change. We’re all running flat out, we’re all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands.”
Why, they’re even uttering the unutterable: They want private insurers allowed back in the Canadian system.
It’s almost like our neighbors to the north were adopting a free enterprise system. Or something.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times Nobel Prize-winning columnist and left wing lunatic, is wrong again. This time, about the Canadian socialized healthcare system.
Paul Krugman, the New York Times Nobel Prize-winning columnist and left wing lunatic, is wrong again. As usual.
During a healthcare debate at Rockefeller Center on September 16, Krugman decided to demonstrate the superiority of the Canadian healthcare system. He asked all the Canadians in the audience to raise their hands. Seven hands went up in the air.
That’s where Krugman should have stopped. Instead, he asked how many of our northern neighbors think they have a terrible healthcare system.
Dudley Dooright and his horse Horse. Janet Napolitano is merely part of a horse.
Janet Napolitano wants to kiss and make up with Canada.
The Secretary of Homeland Security caused quite a dust-up north of the border last month when she said the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States from Canada.
Unfortunately, that statement is at odds with the facts. The 9-11 commission concluded that none of the terrorists came through Canada.
Napolitano wants to forgive and forget. Or more appropriately, to have Canadians forget what she said and forgive her. But instead of saying she’s sorry and accepting the blame for her comment, the diplomatic neophyte blamed the Canadian media and said she’s sorry they continue to dwell on her misstatement.
“Jeez, these Canucks are testy,” Napolitano reportedly thought. “Now when do I get to meet Dudley Dooright?”
Democrats getting ready to fire the first shot in an international trade war
Did the Democrats unintentionally fire the first shots in what will become an international trade war? Turns out Congress inserted a “buy American” clause in the $787 billion “stimulus” package.
In order to comply with the law, the town of Peru, Indiana rejected sewage pumps made in Canada. And contractors at Camp Pendleton, California, stopped their construction project to replace Canadian pipe fittings with American ones.
Here’s how the Washington Post describes the situation:
Canadian manufacturers doing business with U.S. state and local governments say they have been besieged with requests to sign affidavits pledging that they will only supply materials made in the USA.
Outrage spread in Canada, with the Toronto Star last week bemoaning “a plague of protectionist measures in the U.S.” and Canadian companies openly fretting about having to shift jobs to the United States to meet made-in-the-USA requirements. This week, the Canadians fired back. A number of Ontario towns, with a collective population of nearly 500,000, retaliated with measures effectively barring U.S. companies from their municipal contracts — the first shot in a larger campaign that could shut U.S. companies out of billions of dollars worth of Canadian projects
Liberals love to pass laws. Thousands and thousands of laws. We just wish they had a better understanding of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Our high school Spanish is a little rusty, but we think he's ordering the #7 combination.
They had a lunatic convention in Madrid yesterday. They weren’t certifiable lunatics, of course, but they might as well have been. No matter what their mental state, it certainly made the media sit up and take notice.
One hundred or so senors y senoritas threw off their clothes and threw themselves on the ground in the Spanish capital to protest Canada’s annual seal hunt. We’re pretty sure there’s some sort of symbolism involved here, but we haven’t quite zeroed in on what it is.
The lunatics smeared themselves with a red liquid that represented the blood that’s spilled during the “massacre” (their word) of seals. Most of them were bare ass naked, but some of the more modest protestors wore red underwear.
“We want to sensitize people to the fact that animals are capable of feeling and suffering like us,” said Silvia Toval, “and to protest against the massacre of hundreds of thousands of seals which is about to begin in Canada.”
The seal hunt has been a tradition in Canada for 350 years. This year, the nation has approved killing 275,000 seals on the Atlantic coast.
Here’s our take: The hunt is brutal. We don’t want to see it. Don’t even want to hear about it.
We don’t want to know how sausage is made, either. But we’re not going to strip naked in Times Square in some sort of misguided pig protest.
Relax, perv. This story isn’t about what you may think it’s about.
