Monthly Archives: June 2007

Gender Segregation Upheld: Hilarity Ensues

Female non-golfers everywhere remain outraged:
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected an appeal from a group of women who complained to a human rights tribunal about a Vancouver golf club’s decision to ban women from one of three lounges.
More substantively, the SCC has refused to hear this appeal after the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned […]

The Natives:”It was certainly a good test run for us.”

That quote above came from this CBC article about today’s Native *Day of Action*. I don’t know about most of you who live out west, but frankly, the fact that the Natives were too lazy to actually do anything in Ontario is quite symbolic. If there was any action today, it came from […]

Naive Westerners and the Daniel Pearl Story

With the release of the new movie A Might Heart, Mark Steyn shares some of his earlier commentary on the Daniel Pearl saga:
…. Fisk settles on a “shameful, unethical headline” over an “article by Mark Steyn” in Pearl’s own Wall Street Journal. It was about Fisk’s bloody beating by an Afghan mob in Pakistan last […]

Celebrating Indian Action Day

…or whatever it’s called. What better way than to refer you to Kathy Shaidle?
You know the funny thing about civil disobedience? To engage in it, you have to accept the legal consequences of the disobedience instead of jumping into your pick-up truck, lighting a cigarette, and speeding back to the sanctity of the reserve. Wonder […]

Jason Cherniak and the art of Albacore

In one of the most compelling philosophical conundrums of post-modernity, Jason Cherniak asks the question on the mind of all of us at one time or another:
My question is whether my disgust at their lack of garb gives society a right to stop them from doing it.
During times like this, I harken back to great […]

The Queen and Prime Minister

On the occasion of Gordon Brown becoming Prime Minister in the United Kingdom, for those with an interest in how constitutional monarchies should work, here is a short but interesting video on the relationship between The Queen and her Prime Ministers.

Dion, One of the World’s Top Green Politicians?

More proof that the green movement is more about public relations than action:
OTTAWA (CP) - Stephane Dion has been named one of the world’s top green politicians by a Seattle-based, online environmental magazine.
At No. 10, the federal Liberal leader is the only Canadian among Grist magazine’s list of 15 politicians who impact environmental policy.
Dubbed by […]

Dear National Defence

As passed along via email.  How genuine I do not know, but it gets the point across.
A lady libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining
about the treatment of a captive insurgents (terrorists) being held […]

Stephane Dion: Lost In Translation

Stephane Dion likes to talk so much about how the Liberals have done to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, as this new video is showing, the literal and spiritual successor to Paul Martin loves to put on a good show for the international community. That’s all it was though is a show, […]

Another entry to our list of rights

Cherniak does gay pride:
Unfortunately, I also watched a large group of mostly old, naked men walk by. Even I have my limits and, frankly, I don’t think many people at the parade felt much differently. The amazing thing is that even though most of us tried to avert our eyes, nobody questioned the right of […]