Category: Canada

After the resounding success of the “red Friday” rally in Ottawa last week, Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington now tells us in his column last Saturday that we can look forward to the same in TO next week:

Next week, it will be our turn to see red.

And even Jack Layton is invited. Every Torontonian who cares is. No politics. We’ve had all we need of that. Just support for our men and women fighting for freedom.

The only requirement (and even that is optional) is to wear something red to send a message to our soldiers in Afghanistan that Canada’s largest city cares. All of us. Left, right, centre. Canadians.

Click here for the full article.

UPDATE: Joe has more details in his article in today’s Sun.

The original story appeared in the Ottawa Citizen. Several blogs have already put this one out there, all being very careful to say that there is nothing in the article to indicate that the individuals involved are Muslims but seriously, look at the names. It doesn’t require any huge leap of logic.

Either way, Muslim or not, this does not bode well for the direction this country is heading in:

The brutal shooting death of a 20-year-old Ottawa woman and the wounding of her fiance early Tuesday morning provided one more shock yesterday: the suspect is the bride-to-be’s brother.

Police said yesterday they are on the hunt for 20-year-old Hasibullah Sadiqi of Ottawa in connection with the death of his sister, identified by her fiance’s family as Khatera Sadiqi, and the wounding of the fiance, Feroz Mangal, 23.

The full article can be found here.

UPDATE: More of the disturbing details of this case have been posted by Steve over at Angry In the Great White North:

A young Muslim woman was murdered by her brother in Ottawa. He was upset about her engagement. An honour killing? Very possibly, especially when you dig a bit deeper into the background of this particular community.

Complete post here. Just who (and, more importantly, WHAT?) are we allowing into our country these days?

[Because of the perverse glee that I get from watching Debbie and Alex poke at each other, this has become one of my favourite threads. As a result, it is the only one to be migrated from the old blog with comments intact (manually, no less). It’s just so much fun…]

This didn’t take as long as I thought. Taliban Jack!, Canada’s answer to Neville Chamberlain, was seen in the company of the talking high foreheads at the Ministry of What You Should Think today mewling that he didn’t want Canadian troops to bugger off out of Afghanistan after all. Seems that poor Jack! only said that our boys should just be moved to the northern part of the country and that the MSM just twisted everything around to make him look like a disloyal doofus.

Right. And David Duke’s just a misunderstood civil rights champion.

Lyin’ Layton is, of course, so full of shit that his hair hasn’t room to take root anymore. There was no doubt whatsoever as to what he was saying at the recent Dipper convention. The only thing that has changed is that his gutless disloyalty is now threatening to come back and bite him on the ass at the polls. And let’s face it, this was never about respect for our troops, Canada’s image, or any of the other bullshit that the Dippers will toss out.

It was about scrounging a few more votes out of the anti-Bush crowd, period. So now the Not Democratic Party will do what all good little Lefties do when they realise that their balderdash will cost them more than it will gain: flip and flop as they twist in the wind of public opinion from the extreme left.

Yes, indeed, ladies and gents, the hill was quite the busy place today. The ball got rolling realitively early, beginning with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s address to Parliament (including, I assume, Jack! Layton; which is likely as close to a meeting with Karzai that the Smirkin’ Gherkin is gonna get):

Afghanistan’s president offered his personal thanks Friday to the families of Canadian soldiers killed in his country and told them their loved ones have died for a great cause.

Hamid Karzai also met families of Canadian 9-11 victims after being welcomed on Parliament Hill by an honour guard of soldiers who’d served in Afghanistan. (more)

And then there was the huge rally, beginning at noon, which drew out damn near ten thousand in support of our troops overseas:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged again to rebuild Canada’s military during a speech Friday to thousands attending a rally on Parliament Hill to support Canada’s troops overseas.

The subdued colours of official Ottawa were replaced with blazing red shirts, red ties, red hats, red jackets – even flashes of red thongs among the crowd – all intended as a morale booster first proposed by the wives of two soldiers from the nearby Canadian Forces base at Petawawa, Ont. . . The rally took on a life of its own as local radio stations in Ottawa pumped it up, promoting it on air. (more)

All in all, quite a day. CTV footage of Karzai’s address to Parliament can be found here and articles on the rally can be found here and here.

I came across this over at PTBC and won’t bother trying to explain it. Suffice it to say that this is something that every true Canadian should watch and think long and hard about whenever thinking about what we’re doing in Afghanistan…

Click here to see the video.

Good news from the Hill! The Tories, in keeping with both their election promises to get tough on crime and their typical don’t-give’me-bullshit style, have announced today that they will be introducing a bill this fall to enact a “three strikes and you’re out” policy against violent offenders.

From what I’ve heard so far, the bill would work hand in hand with the existing dangerous offender designation but with one difference: reverse onus. After three violent convictions, it would then be up to the scumbag to prove that he isn’t dangerous instead of up to the crown to prove that he is. Makes sense to me. If you have a habit of commiting violent crimes, you’ve pretty much done the crown’s job for them in the burden-of-proof department, haven’t you?

Now, if we could just get ol’ Vic Toews to consider revisiting one other good old idea whose time seems to have come back again…