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Drivers from Hill

Posted June 19, 2013 by John Klein

@davidakin Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I did not intimidate the officer. Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I received a ticket. I immediately paid the ticket. Ctd— Eve Adams (@MPEveAdams) June 18, 2013 @davidakin At no time did I identify myself as a Member of Parliament and since I do not wear an MP pin, I could not have […]

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Wind Mobile backer withdraws application to get control

Posted June 19, 2013 by The Canadian Press

Orascom interested in working with government on another approach

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Canada

‘This is not about money, this is about time’: Bob Rae resigns from Parliament to focus on First Nations work

Posted June 19, 2013 by Michael Woods, Postmedia News

Bob Rae is expected to announce he is stepping down as a member of Parliament Wednesday

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Canada

Orascom withdraws application for complete control of WIND Mobile

Posted June 19, 2013 by Ian Hardy

Six months ago Tony Lacavera, WIND Mobile’s Chairman and CEO, declared that he would step down and “enter into an agreement to transfer” his share of the business to Orascom Telecom, which is owned by Netherland-based VimpelComm. This procedure was still pending all the necessary approvals, but today puts a completely new spin on its [...]

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Canada

30,000 people homeless on a given night, first-ever national tally suggests

Posted June 19, 2013 by The Canadian Press

OTTAWA – Homelessness in Canada affects about 200,000 people every year and comes with…

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Canada

Indiegogo defends campaign for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s alleged crack video

Posted June 19, 2013 by The Canadian Press

TORONTO – A campaign that raised $200,000 dollars to purchase an alleged video appearing…

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Canada

‘Shocking’ study finds half of First Nations children are living in poverty

Posted June 19, 2013 by Colin Perkel, Canadian Press

Half of Canada’s First Nations children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics that pegs the cost of easing the problem at $580-million a year.

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And they’re off …

Posted June 18, 2013 by The Canadian Press

House adjourns for the summer after bitter spring session

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Canada

The only G8 member with any in-depth knowledge of Sunni Muslim insanity is Vladimir Putin ….

Posted June 18, 2013 by MariaS

there’s no doubt, in my mind anyway, that any of the other nincompoops know anything of anything that’s going on in the Muslim countries of the Middle East, leave alone Syria.  It’s a sad day when one has to admit that the leader of one’s own coun…

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Canada

High praise for the Barrie Advance

Posted June 18, 2013 by Aaron Hutchins

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Alberta

Village Rim Trail – Kananaskis Country – Hiking Alberta

Posted June 18, 2013 by hikingwithbarry

The Village Rim Trail is a short, wide, paved, nearly flat, easy path wrapped around the east side of the Delta Lodge at Kananaskis just south of the Nakiska Ski Resort in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Access is by a right … Continue reading

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Africa

Regina Refuge #StopURdeportations

Posted June 18, 2013 by John Klein

It’s been a year since a Regina Walmart illegally hired two foreign students, and triggered a drama with them confined to churches granting them sanctuary from the Harper Government’s punitive mean streak. For Immediate Release June 18, 2013 One Year Anniversary: University Students Still in Hiding This week marks one year since two University of […]

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Canada

Project "Refugees dumped on Canada by United Nations"

Posted June 18, 2013 by MariaS

Project Traveller has arrested the following, mostly Somalis and other riff-raff  that the wannabe One World Governance body of this planet, mandates that Western countries should give refuge to because the Muslim countries will not take in their …

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Canada

Canada’s ‘gay marriage tourists’ stuck in wedlock

Posted June 17, 2013 by Aaron Wherry

The future of Bill C-32 is in limbo, and that’s bad news for non-residents trapped in matrimony

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Canada

Montreal and the Applebaum arrest: From bad to worse to ‘What next?’

Posted June 17, 2013 by Aaron Wherry

Martin Patriquin explains why the arrest of interim mayor Michael Applebaum is just one of the city’s problems

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How Canadian universities act as fronts for the Iranian govt by taking their funds

Posted June 17, 2013 by MariaS

And, before any of you start throwing darts at Canada … look in your own backyard.   The USA, UK, France, Germany, Australia and each and every Judeo-Christian nation in the world …. without a single exception …is complicit in force-feeding the propaganda .and the ideology of the islamic curse, from both the Sunni and the Shiite Muslim nations, to the young citizens of all these non-Muslim countries.  Shame !!  Who are the traitors now?  Is it individuals like Snowden or whole entities like the governments of the people?

From YahooNews:  Michael Petrou writing at McLeans:
….Canadian universities are receiving funds   from what U.S. prosecutors allege is a front for the Iranian government.  
A foundation that American authorities say is a front for the Iranian government continues to fund McGill University and a Toronto Farsi school, years after U.S. federal prosecutors went to court to seize the group’s assets and alleged it was channelling money to an Iranian state-owned bank sanctioned by Canada.


The Alavi Foundation is a New York-based non-profit that has given more than $300,000 to Canadian universities, and more than $200,000 to the private Toronto Farsi School, since 2004.
In November 2009, U.S. federal prosecutors filed an amended civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of the foundation’s interest in a lucrative Manhattan office tower, from where it derives most of its income. The property was built in the 1970s by the Pahlavi Foundation, which was controlled by the shah of Iran to run the country’s charitable activities in America.


The claim, which is not resolved, alleges that, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s new government took control of the property and the foundation, which it renamed, running them through Iran’s ambassadors to the United Nations.


It alleges that the Iranian state-owned Bank Melli, through an offshore shell company, owns 40 per cent of the Manhattan property, while the Alavi Foundation controls the remaining 60 per cent.
Under Canada’s 2010 Special Economic Measures Regulations on Iran, Bank Melli is a designated entity with which Canadians cannot do business. The United States and the European Union have also blacklisted the bank, alleging it funds terrorism and Iran’s nuclear missile program….


…..At the time, the Alavi Foundation already had a long-standing funding relationship with several Canadian universities, as well as the Toronto private school. Its charitable tax records indicate it gave $5,000 to the University of Alberta in 2004 and 2008, and $10,000 to Ottawa’s Carleton University in 2007. The Toronto Farsi School, which has charitable status and claims it can provide credits toward an Ontario secondary-school diploma, received more than $200,000 between 2004 and 2010. The largest beneficiary in Canada, however, was McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies, which received $270,000 between 2004 and 2010. Christopher Manfredi, dean of McGill’s faculty of arts, told Maclean’s he believes Alavi has been funding McGill since 1987.


Carleton University and the University of Alberta say they have not received money from the Alavi Foundation since 2007 and 2008, respectively. The Alavi Foundation gave McGill $30,000 last August…….

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Russia’s Vladimir Putin makes perfect sense, unlike the others at the G8 …

Posted June 16, 2013 by MariaS

including our own honcho, PM Stephen Harper.  What happens when one loses respect for the person one voted for and rejoiced at his victory?  Does it mean that come the next election, I sit home and not go to the polls or should I go vote for Elizabeth May of the Green Party or one of the other two?  So many choices and none of them include Harper !!

What Vladimir Putin said:
….The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, rounded on Britain on Sunday, accusing David Cameron of betraying humanitarian values by supporting Syrian rebels with “blood on their hands”.


In harsh and undiplomatic language, Mr Putin accused the UK and other Western powers of attempting to arm rebels who “kill their enemies and eat their organs”. He insisted that Russia would continue to arm what he said was the recognised “legitimate government” in Syria and called on other countries to respect the same rules……….

What Stephen Harper said:
Prime Minister Stephen Harperhas ruled out Canada’s support for arming rebel forces in Syria and lashed out at Russian President Vladimir Putin for supporting the “thugs of the Assad regime.”


“We want to see the opposition in Syria become more representative, less sectarian,” Mr. Harper told reporters after meeting Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in Dublin. “We do worry about extremist elements in the opposition, we’re very clear about that.”….


…..Mr. Harper took exception to Mr. Putin’s stance.
“I don’t think we should fool ourselves. This is G7, plus one. That’s what this is, G7 plus one,” he said.
He added that the West has a very different view than the Russian President.
“Mr. Putin and his government are supporting the thugs of the Assad regime for their own reasons that I do not think are justifiable and Mr. Putin knows my view on that.”…..

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Alberta

Terrace Trail – Kananaskis Country – Hiking Alberta

Posted June 16, 2013 by hikingwithbarry

Hiking the Terrace Trail along a plateau beneath Mount Kidd, from the Galatea trailhead on Kananaskis Trail (Hwy 40),  is a beautiful, partial-day hike on good, undulating path, predominantly through forest, to Kananaskis Village in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The hike … Continue reading

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Canada

Cleaning up Toronto plagued with Muslim immigrant gangs

Posted June 15, 2013 by MariaS

“Project Traveller” has been able to scoop up a lot of scum from immigrant gangs in Toronto and also arrest some of their facilitators in Windsor.  Windsor seem to have become the connecting point for import of guns and drugs from down south.  This operation was in the making for over a year …. so,  the Toronto Star, the CBC and the Globe & Mail,  were wrong in insinuating that the police department were coming down hard on gangs only after the Rob Ford fiasco.  Nothing and nobody is ever able to shame these three amigos. Disgusting !!

Trevor Wilhelm writing at the WindsorStar:
…About 300 charges laid, more arrests coming after police raids.  Police say more arrests and gun seizures are likely here after a series of dramatic raids targeting a murderous Toronto street gang that used Windsor as an illicit firearms pipeline.


Investigators said they must also move to fight the invasion of others intent on filling the criminal void left with the crackdown on the Dixon City Bloods.


“Make no mistake, Toronto violence comes into Windsor all the time,” said Insp. Pat Keane with Windsor police. “We work collaboratively with Toronto all the time on a lot of our stuff.”


“There’s always a vacuum. It’s all about money and the misaligned prestige of the world these people live in. So we just have to continue to be vigilant and see where go from here.”
Investigators still haven’t revealed the names of the 28 people arrested Thursday during Project Traveller. But many of them were big players.


“The way that the gangs work is everything filters down to street level people,” said Keane. “This enterprise focused on the people at the top that were moving the guns and the ones that were putting the organization together.”


Police from across southern Ontario converged on Toronto and Windsor for a series of raids that began around 5 a.m. Thursday. Authorities laid about 300 criminal charges for murder, attempted murder, drugs, gun trafficking and participating in a criminal organization.


Keane said one of the people now in Toronto police custody has also been linked to a robbery in Windsor. All of the nine people arrested in Windsor were previously known to police.


About a dozen handguns were seized in Windsor. A next step in the investigation will be tracing where they came from.


In total, police said they seized 40 guns, $572,000 in cash and $3 million worth of drugs including cocaine, crack, crystal meth, LSD and marijuana……..

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Canada

ConCalls: Elections Canada Keeping Secret Files Illegally

Posted June 13, 2013 by John Klein

Sixth Estate pointed this out long ago, but CBC is starting to realize the pattern where Elections Canada is breaking the law, and denying the public (and media) access to candidates’ election files. Eve Adams’ files are not right. Elections Canada must explain. Penashue records removed from election spending file Letters from party lawyer to […]

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