Where Are The Parents?

I spent all day getting my boys registered for school. Most kids had their parents with them, even though they were in grade 12. My grade twelve kid liked having me with him, but my grade nine kid didn't want me to stand in line with him until it was time to pay his fees. The point is that I was with them whether they wanted me to be or not. They know I care. They know I am interested in what they are doing, and who they are doing it with.

RCMP dismantle alleged terror cell in OttawaOTTAWA — The RCMP dismantled an alleged Ottawa terrorist cell with suspected links to al-Qaeda Wednesday morning, making two arrests and saying more are expected.

The men are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack targeting Canada. The ringleader allegedly attended training camps in the Pakistan and Afghanistan region.

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In a speech in Toronto on Aug. 9, when he would have already been briefed on the suspected Ottawa group, Minister Toews said he was increasingly concerned about the radicalization taking place in Canada.

“There are homegrown Islamists and other extremists here in Canada,” he said. “In this country, it is the right of all Canadians to hold and discuss a wide range of beliefs.

“But what we are seeing here is not about disagreement and debate. Our concern is with extremist ideologies that lead individuals to espouse or engage in violence. These individuals reject the values on which our country is based, and they must be stopped.”

Do the parents take these kids to a mosque with a radical Imam? Do they encourage them towards radical ideologies? I don't know. I do know that parents need to monitor their children, Muslim or not.

KUDOS to our police, please continue to make sure Canada is safe. Stop those terrorists before they damage our soil. Terrorists need to understand that our military and police are the best in the world, and they have proved it by keeping Canadians safe.

Will You Remember Them?

I will remember our 4 RCMP officers gunned down by a fanatic. Our judges failed those 4 men and our society. They allowed a mentally deranged man out, time after time, and it finally caught up with our police, not the judges. I hope that every judge that gave Roscoe a light sentence, lies awake at night, thinking about how they could have prevented the massacre.



What brought that remembrance on? Sort of Political pointed out a great tribute to another fallen 4, this time from Washington.



Watching the RCMP marching was awesome. Those red surge uniforms stand out in a crowd of blue, but they were there to show respect, and they did a great job.

I salute our RCMP, police and fire fighters. I include our Canadian troops in Afghanistan,

The Fallen Four!

All it would have taken to prevent this tragedy was a simple phone call.



One simple phone call by these two guys:

EDMONTON - Almost four years ago, Shawn Hennessey and Dennis Cheeseman gave ranting, cop-hating James Roszko a weapon and a ride to the spot where Mounties were tearing apart Roszko's pot farm.

On Monday they stood to face Justice Terry Macklin in the dead hush of Court of Queen's Bench and paid the price.

"James Roszko would never have been able to commit these murders without the help of these accused," Crown prosecutor David Labrenz told Macklin.

"The two accused might as well have been inside the Quonset pulling the trigger themselves."

I saw the RCMP getting ready for the memorial, I saw wave after wave of RCMP in red serge, it was shocking to me. All those officers, converging on Edmonton to mourn 4 of their own who had fallen, because of one deranged man. Now we have confirmation that two others helped him murder those 4 Mounties.

They did not pull the trigger, but they enabled the killer to do it. All it would have taken is one phone call from those involved to stop it.

Just one call, to save 4 RCMP officers. Such a small thing, one call.

Spreading Hate To Fight Hate!

Ezra is interviewed by Mike Duffy Live. Here is a video highlighting both Ezra and Mike Duffy, and a disappointing Conservative strategist response.



I am a very staunch Conservative supporter, but I'm starting to get tired of a weak Conservative response to this issue. Where have all the "reformers" gone? This issue is going to blow up in the Conservatives face if they don't stop wimping out. Take a stand, please. At the very least, come out in support of the motion to get rid of section 18 of the HRC's.

This has now gone beyond a "blogger's" issue, and is hitting main street Canada. With Mike Duffy's coverage, this will only get bigger, it is not going to disappear.

I want to see the Conservative government come out of hiding on this issue, take a strong stance, and show Conservatives that they are not Liberal lites or Red Tories. They have all summer to educate the public on this issue, while the Liberals are educating us on why we should love a carbon tax.

Quit being sissies, we all know PM Harper didn't like the direction HRC's were going, so come out, come out, where ever you are, and quit hiding behind being the government, that just doesn't cut it with Canadians.

I Call Discrimination.......

Against the RCMP. What is this guy going to do if he does become a Mountie, sue criminals? Please HRC's, I was discriminated against because the criminal only shot at me, they should have shot at only the other officers. Please HRC's, I was discriminated against because the RCMP sent me to a cold northern post, not the post I wanted in Toronto.

Mounties ordered to re-admit cadet

A former RCMP cadet tossed out of the force’s training program after enduring weeks of racial discrimination won a hefty financial settlement and a second chance to fulfil his “lifelong dream” today after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in his favour.

Fine, he gets $500,000 for his pain and suffering, and gets to re-enroll in the RCMP program. Is he happy now????? It appears not.

The tribunal ordered the RCMP to pay for lost wages, suffering, and legal costs — a figure Tahmourpour’s lawyer Barry Weintraub pegged at about $500,000.

The order to give Tahmourpour a chance to re-enrol in the cadet program came despite his request that he be installed as an officer at a level commensurate with fellow cadets.

He wants to become an "instant" officer, by-pass the training required, get a raise, and if that isn't enough, he wants to help other visible minorities also learn how to sue and win $500,000 settlements.

Given his “unique insight” into race relations, the Iranian-Canadian said he hopes to one day be in a position within the RCMP in which he can help fellow officers who may be encountering similar experiences.

Was he tortured? What happened to this poor victim, that caused him to fight for 9 years to be allowed to re-enroll in the RCMP?

Tahmourpour first took his case to the Canadian Human Rights Commission in March 2001 where he cited incidents of verbal abuse and unfair performance evaluations. Among his chief grievances was that a superior officer made comments about a pendant he wore as a symbol of his faith and that his Arabic signature was mocked.

The commission, however, dismissed his complaint, saying his firing was the result of poor job performance.

The Federal Court agreed with that decision but on appeal, the court was found to have ignored “crucial evidence” — essentially the RCMP’s own statistics — which showed “systemic discrimination.”

Gosh darn, that is so cruel, my heart almost stopped just thinking about the pain he suffered. How did he survive? Poor performance evaluations, a pendant he wore gets mentioned, and the all encompassing, verbal abuse. It's a sad tale of pain, suffering, bad manners by RCMP officers, and well lack of the level of respect this cadet obviously deserved.

This is the new face of our RCMP officers, that should make us all proud of the work of this Human Rights Tribunal, we now get:

An “advisory committee” or “multiculturalism officer” should also be appointed to make recommendations to the training centre’s commanding officer in an effort to prevent discrimination, the decision stated.


So, a real Federal Court dismissed his case, but he continued to sue until he won with, you guessed it, a HR Tribunal, better known as Kangaroo Courts. Wonder what the Tribunal will do if the RCMP assign a tough, but disabled, female RCMP officer to help him though his new RCMP experience, and she claims discrimination because he won't respect her? What to do, what to do. Does a disabled female trump a visible minority male? Oh wait, a female is a visible minority, and she's disabled, so her rights should count for more than his rights, and well white male's rights....they have none.

Get a clue HRC's, you are already under the microscope for your decisions in other matters, and you go and do this? Because of statistics that supposedly show "systemic discrimination"? Do you have no idea how easy statistics are to manipulate? Here's an example.

Insurance companies use statistics to discriminate against young male drivers. Their statistics clearly show that male drivers under 25 get in more accidents, than say, granny, who only drives one block to Church every Sunday. That's the clue.