Archive | May, 2008

Susan Aglukark - Hina Na Ho

Popularity: 20% [?] [...more]

Video Comments (1)

Al Qaeda to Muslim Extremist Women: Stay Home, Raise Kids

CAIRO, Egypt — Muslim extremist women are challenging Al Qaeda's refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam. In response to a female questioner, Al Qaeda No. 2 leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri said in April that the terrorist group does not have women. A woman's role, he said on the Internet audio recording, is limited to caring for the homes and children of Al Qaeda fighters. [...more]

International, News Comments (2)

Sask. tribunal fines Regina marriage commissioner for discrimination *

REGINA -- Saskatchewan's marriage commissioners will be directed to abide by the law and perform same-sex marriage ceremonies after a human rights tribunal fined a Regina commissioner $2,500 for discriminating against a gay couple. "Assuming there isn't an appeal . . . our intention will be to confirm with all of the people that are commissioners that they comply with the legislation," Justice Minister Don Morgan said Friday. He added that most of the commissioners have had no trouble complying. Orville Nichols is one of the exceptions. [...more]

Canada, News Comments (9)

Families of soldiers serve their country too — it’s time to help them

This is a real story. Young Canadian soldier, serving overseas. Never mind the bad guys over the hill: Things are falling apart on the home front. "I was deployed for seven months. Our only son at the time was three years old. In the middle of winter, the car broke down constantly, despite being a brand new car. My wife was sick herself, and our son has asthma, and was in and out of the hospital." That situation would tax a family where dad was home every night. In this case, the mother was not only trying to cope with everything on her own, she was doing it in a place where she didn't know anybody, while she was worrying about who might be trying to kill her husband. [...more]

Canada, News Comments (0)

Editorial: Premier’s pay hike outrageous

In 1989, Alberta MLAs voted themselves a 30 per cent pay increase, sparking an outrage so great it probably marked the beginning of the end for then-premier Don Getty's career. Nearly 20 years later, Alberta politicians are still giving themselves fat salary hikes, behind closed doors, no less. True, the deficit and debt dragons of the Getty and early Ralph Klein years have long been slain, but Albertans have every right to be furious at Premier Ed Stelmach and his 23 cabinet ministers for topping up their salaries by 30 to 34 per cent. [...more]

Columns, News Comments (4)

Canada to send Chinooks, unmanned planes to Afghanistan

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Canada will move helicopters and unmanned aircraft to Afghanistan to increase surveillance of roads, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Saturday, as the Taliban stepped up attacks in spite of a large NATO force in the country. [...more]

Canada, News Comments (0)

Sowell: When in doubt, keep on firing *

'Killing an Unarmed Man." That is how the front-page headline in the New York Times characterized an incident in which a man tried to run over a policeman with his car and was shot by three policemen on the scene, including his intended victim. An automobile is a deadly weapon. If you are killed by an automobile, you are just as dead as if you had been shot through the heart. [...more]

Columns, Must Read, News Comments (2)

Granatstein: Only fools want China influencing our future

Canadians don't like the United States today. A British Broadcasting Corporation opinion poll in 34 nations published at the beginning of April found that, while the view of the United States was improving in most countries, in Lebanon, Egypt, and Canada it was worsening. [...more]

Columns, News Comments (1)

Editorial: Handgun ban

Toronto Mayor David Miller has raised the ire of Canada's Olympians and law-abiding hobby shooters for embracing an ill-considered proposal to ban handguns that would effectively shutter gun ranges and clubs in the city. Miller might as well ban shooting the breeze or fish in a barrel because a handgun ban, especially one that only applies within municipal limits, will do little to curb crimes committed by thugs and gangs with smuggled handguns. [...more]

Columns, News Comments (1)

Drug Massacre Leaves a Mexican Town Terrorized

VILLA AHUMADA, Mexico — A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves. On the night of May 17, dozens of men with assault rifles rolled into town in several trucks and shot up the place. They killed the police chief, two officers and three civilians. Then they carried off about 10 people, witnesses said. Only one has been found, dead and wrapped in a carpet in Ciudad Juárez. [...more]

International, News Comments (0)

Chances dim for climate-change legislation

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor. [...more]

Environment, International, News Comments (1)

Sandy: Secret documents or Liberals addicted to scandal?

As Josh Freed asks in his Gazette column today: Does Canada actually have "secret" documents containing national secrets or information about our national security? Could it be that the missing documents were "high-level Canadian defence secrets, such as the design of our latest snowball-throwing machine?" [...more]

Comment, Sandy Comments (5)

Daily Blogger - Saturday, May 31st, 2007

Ezra Levant | Government to launch inquiry into CHRC -- The Conservative government has introduced a motion to Parliament's Justice Committee proposing an investigation into the abusive, corrupt practises of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The motion specifically refers to public "concerns" about the CHRC's "investigative techniques" and their "interpretation and application" of the section 13 thought crimes provision. [...more]

Blogs, News Comments (7)

Daily Column - Saturday, May 31st, 2007

Telegraph | Editorial: A shift in opinion that MPs ignore at their peril -- It is safe to say that the Government will not return from Parliament's week-long recess feeling fit and relaxed. Yesterday this newspaper published a YouGov survey showing that support for Labour is at its lowest level for 65 years; even Michael Foot did better. As Prof Anthony King commented, it looks as if the Government and the electorate are heading for a bitter divorce at the general election. But the significance of the poll goes much deeper than the likelihood of a Conservative victory in (probably) 2010. The survey reveals a profound shift of public opinion now - a shift that MPs of every party ignore at their peril. [...more]

Columns, News Comments (0)

International - Saturday, May 31st, 2007

Times | Party leaders signal the end of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton duel -- Hillary Clinton, who began the race for the Democratic nomination as the seemingly unstoppable choice of the party establishment, is ending it as an outsider railing against the perceived injustices that have taken her to the brink of defeat. [...more]

International, News Comments (0)

No nets, no rice, no hope ***

When a cyclone kills 130,000 people in a few hours, the world recognises a catastrophe, but in the history of a woman such as Daw Aye it was just one low point in a lifetime of misfortune. There was the disaster of her fisherman son, drowned at sea in a storm that was never noticed outside Burma. There was the disaster of widowhood: her husband died six years ago of an illness to which Daw Aye cannot even put a name. [...more]

Featured Comments (1)

Canada - Saturday, May 31st, 2008

National Post | Mother died protecting children in Calgary murders -- CALGARY -- Alison Lall fought to protect her two young daughters as her husband, Joshua Lall, went on a murderous rampage armed with a knife, police revealed on Friday. [...more]

Canada, News Comments (0)

Are reconciliation and ‘truth’ compatible? *

On Monday morning, when the three commissioners gather for the first time in an Ottawa office to begin their monumental five-year task of leading the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into aboriginal abuse in the residential school system, Canada will take its historical place alongside such tarnished regimes as South Africa, Chile, El Salvador and Sierra Leone. [...more]

Featured Comments (5)

Scientists sign petition denying man-made global warming

More than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition denying that man is responsible for global warming. The academics, including 9,000 with PhDs, claim that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are actually beneficial for the environment. The petition was created in 1998 by an American physicist, the late Frederick Seitz, in response to the Kyoto Protocol a year earlier. [...more]

Environment, International, News Comments (6)

China earthquake: Education official speaks of school deaths shame

A senior Chinese education official has spoken of his shame and feelings of guilt for the deaths of thousands of children in poorly built schools in the Sichuan earthquake. Lin Qiang, the deputy head of the provincial education bureau, called on his fellow officials to accept responsibility for the collapsed schools, which killed thousands of children and teachers across the province 19 days ago. [...more]

International, News Comments (0)

Prisons crisis: 5,000 violent offenders released early

Five thousand violent prisoners have been freed onto the streets early, new figures have revealed, as the Government's release scheme far exceeds original estimates. The controversial early release programme was one of the first acts of the new Gordon Brown government last June and estimated that 25,500 prisoners would be released early over the course of a year. [...more]

International, News Comments (0)

Voters in Ireland baffled by treaty *

Not even the most ardent Europhiles would claim that the Lisbon treaty is a rip-roaring read. But in the Irish Republic - where a referendum in a fortnight will decide the treaty's fate — it seems that hardly anyone has bothered to cast an eye over it at all. [...more]

International, News Comments (2)

Outrage as French judge annuls Muslim marriage over bride’s virginity lie

President Sarkozy's party called today for a change in French law after a judge annulled the marriage of a young Muslim couple because the bride was not the virgin that she claimed to be. [...more]

International, News Comments (2)

CDC Warns of Deadly Amoeba in Lakes After Six Deaths

A rare brain infection spread in freshwater lakes, rivers and hot springs killed six boys in three states last year, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; it is being reported by newsday.com. The infection, which is known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis, struck 121 people in 15 southern states in the last 71 years. It usually affects boys, and in the months of July, August and September, according to newsday.com. [...more]

Health, News Comments (0)

Powerful Quake Leaves Iceland Residents Homeless (Followup)

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Residents of southwest Iceland cleaned up Friday after a powerful earthquake left some homes uninhabitable and caused injuries to about 30 people. The injuries included a couple of broken legs and fractured hands, said Vidir Reynisson, manager of the Civil Protection Department. [...more]

International, News Comments (0)

Daddy’s Little Girl **

TEENAGE revellers trashed a Spanish mansion worth £4.4 million - after the schoolgirl host posted an open invite on Facebook. Over 400 youngsters gatecrashed Jodie Hudson's 16th birthday bash in Marbella, Spain, then stole £6,000 worth of jewellery, swiped designer clothes and chucked a TV in the pool. [...more]

International, News Comments (5)

Two teens arrested in Ontario fire

Two teenagers have been arrested after a fire razed a heritage site in St. Thomas, Ont., this week. Politicians in St. Thomas, south of London, pledged to push to rebuild the facade of historic Alma College, a former school for girls, after it caught fire Wednesday. [...more]

Canada, News Comments (0)

Gunter: T.O.’s handgun ban defies logic

It never ceases to amaze me how many politicians can convince themselves that criminals who are prepared to murder or beat their victims, steal cars, rob banks and convenience stores, and deal drugs will nonetheless cower in the face of a new gun-control law and hand in their firearms. That's essentially what Toronto Mayor David Miller is proposing, though. [...more]

Columns, News Comments (11)

Turley-Ewart: Sharia by stealth

It’s an issue the Liberal govenrment of Ontario, led by Premier Dalton McGuinty, doesn’t want to deal with — polygamy in the Muslim community. Last week the Toronto Star told the story of Safa Rigby, a 35-year-old mother of five children who recently learned her husband of 14 years had two other wives. Ms. Rigby’s life is in tatters. She followed her husband’s advice that she leave Toronto and live in Egypt for a year on the grounds that it would be better for their children to spend more time in a Muslim country. Now she knows it was a ruse. He used her time there to marry two other women. [...more]

Blogs, News Comments (6)

« Previous Entries
Advertising information

Popularity: unranked [?]

Popularity: unranked [?]

Popularity: unranked [?]

Popularity: unranked [?]

Popularity: unranked [?]

Popularity: unranked [?]

Recent Videos

Categories

Archives

Related Sites

Advertising information

Jack's Poll


No Poll At This Time