I remember watching the decision making vote back in 2001 when the IOC, the governing body of the Olympic games, back in 2001. It was a pre-9/11 world still back then and Boris Yeltsin had just retired a year and two months earlier, making Vladimir Putin an unknown quality at the time. Toronto, […]
In light of the recent savagery committed by Serbs in their own streets, Canadians should recognize Kosovo independence and tell Russian politicians to go to hell. The Russian ambassador to Canada has the unmitigated gall to give the following insulting advice:
“We are both federal states and when you live in glasshouse you don’t throw […]
Paul Wells speaks, Jan 29, 2007
President Bush has had a difficult time lately in Iraq. He lost the mid-term elections, fired his defence secretary, and is about to launch his presidency’s last stand — a “surge” of thousands of fresh troops in one more desperate attempt to take and hold Baghdad.
Norman Podhoretz speaks Jan […]
My colleague Shane has started the first post here on the black school that was approved by the Toronto District School Board this month, and while I still need to do an abortion post as well as a few others I’ve been planning for months, I couldn’t help but jump into the fray of this […]
I’m scheduled to do an interview with former Canadian Armed Forces General, Lewis Mackenzie, and I’m providing visitors to Maple Leaf Web the opportunity to submit potential questions to the General.
The topic of the interview will be general military affairs and issues relating to Canada’s role as a peace-keeper. If you’re interested in submitting a […]
A lot of secular libertarians are talking up a storm this month since decisions are coming down the line now on whether a B.C. businessman, Marc Emery, should be extradited to the United States at that country’s request to face charges over selling marijuana seeds through the internet to U.S. customers. The libers are […]
Who is the bigger jackass? The guy who encourages morons to brawl or the cop who thinks its worth his time (or the courts’ time) to do anything about it?
The RCMP: Instilling virtue in a mass of unworthy humanity somewhere near you.
PS: Remember the public service announcements that came at the end of G.I. Joe […]
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And just in case you have a generally non-compliant dog:
What sadistic worldview justifies the use of tasers for pain compliance, even when they can result in the sort of agonizing death that Robert Dziekanski suffered? Here is a few snippets of that worldview, from the Blue Line Forums (h/t):
“Why in God’s name should a copper get hurt just to avoid tasering or OCing […]
“I want to get out, help me find the way…Police! Police! Can’t you help me?“
The RCMP, an international embarrassment.
A Polish immigrant tasered to death by Canadian police appears to have been asking for their help in a non-violent fashion, when he was tasered.
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