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I thought, when he disappeared last summer after his Kangaroo Kourt proceedings were at an end that he’d be back in the fall with a new book on the subject, but it’s this year that he’s come back with a new book on the subject:

Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West

Peculiarly, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Here’s an article that Target might be expanding into Canada. They have Costco and Walmart and Sears, but no Target. I just find it interesting how some stores go across the border and others don’t.

And I heard on my free-for-six-months-satellite-radio-feed-of BBC Radio 1 that they’re allowing product placements on TV shows in the UK (but [...]

Categories: Business & Media

I’m catching up on my Macleans, and find Mr Optimist outside a Jewish cemetery in Tangiers, full of talk of sanctity from the Moroccan government and the groundskeeper’s laundry…

Macleans – Mark Steyn: The lesson of a Jewish cemetery

By 2005, there were fewer than 150 Jews in Tangiers, almost all of them very old. [...]

Categories: History

The Globe & Mail – The immigration debate we don’t want to have Aqsa’s murder raises some extremely troubling questions about integration, by Margaret Wente

The Parvez family history is not uncommon. Aqsa’s father and her oldest brother arrived in Canada in 1999 as refugees from Pakistan. In those days, it was easy to buy [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

A tale of two borders:

The Corner – Mark Steyn: That Ain’t Hay, It’s The USA

In effect, the sovereignty of the United States of America no longer applies in this territory – and John Morton and the Department of Homeland Security are entirely cool with that.

That’s the southern border. The northern one, the [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

In the Corner:

I’m a bit late weighing in on the British election because I’m not quite sure I can put into words sufficiently politely my contempt for David Cameron.

And:

Cameron was supposed to be Blair ‘97. All the irritating metrosexual modishness, but without the electoral results.

And:

[C]ould he function as [...]

Categories: Politics

Ohh. Ehm. Geeee:

Autoblog – Canadian police pull over entire Mini convoy

Every year, the Southern Ontario Mini Club organizes two charity drives – one in the Spring and one in the Fall. Over time, the event has grown from a handful of participating cars to over 30, and as such, this year the organizers [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

A hilarious bit from a Mark Steyn article I barely didn’t link to the other day:

In 1993, government spending averaged 52.2 percent in Europe, and 70.9 percent in Sweden. The Swedes have reduced government spending (as a fraction of GDP) by almost a third in the last 15 years. Their corporate tax rates [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Airport money. AIRPORT MONEY.

Here are a couple of things of RC2’s I was reading in very wee hours and feeling really, very low about:

Stupak Caves:

Watching the presser as I type in which he swallows the Executive Order hocus pocus. A week ago I was prepared to eat crow and be proud of him. [...]

Categories: Politics

Telegraph – Canadian women’s ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice The all-conquering Canadian women’s ice hockey team has apologised after players celebrated winning Olympic gold by quaffing champagne and beer, and smoking cigars, on the ice.

Victorious players emerged from the dressing room, still in their uniforms and with gold medals [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

National Post:

The Winter Games in particular are a hotbed of weirdness. You say that not enough women play hockey internationally to make it legitimate? How about the sport of nordic combined, in which participants both cross-country ski and ski jump? Are there leagues devoted to the pursuit of such an odd combination of [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

National Post – Last known Canadian First World War veteran dies, aged 109

Categories: War and Peace

This is awesome: BBC Sport – 2010 Winter Olympics Inuit Animation

It almost makes me wish I had cable so I could watch on the CBC instead of *spit* NBC *spit spit*.

Categories: Sports and Leisure

National Post – Symphony refuses to mime at Olympics

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra refused an invitation to record music for the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies because VANOC wanted other musicians to “mime” the live performance. VSO conductor Bramwell Tovey was asked to conduct the recording session, but was told [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

National Post – Adrian MacNair: Jennifer Lynch gets human rights advice from Cuba, Kyrgyzstan

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has revealed the costly travel expenses of Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch, as she went abroad to consult dignitaries from such beacons of human rights as Cuba. In travels to Geneva, Dublin, Copenhagen, Malaysia, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events