Canadian physician shot in legs by the army of the "only democracy in the Middle East"

Dr. Tarek Loubani of London, Ontario, lucky to be alive.  The Israeli Nazis didn't get their man, this time.



Description at video: As Palestinians vow to continue protesting against the Israeli occupation of Gaza, we speak to a Canadian doctor who was shot by Israeli forces in both legs Monday while he was helping injured Palestinians. Israeli forces shot dead at least 61 unarmed Palestinian protesters taking part in the Great March of Return Monday, including one doctor. Canada, Britain, Germany, Ireland and Belgium have called for an investigation into the killings. The United Nations Human Rights Council has announced that it will hold a special session Friday to discuss escalating violence in Gaza. We speak with Dr. Tarek Loubani, an emergency room medical doctor, one of 19 medical personnel shot in Gaza on Monday. Loubani is an associate professor at Western University in London, Ontario. He is a Palestinian refugee and a member of the Glia Project creating open-source medical devices for low-resource settings.

#cdnpoli #TOpoli I wonder why @CBCNews never has open comment section for items abt adverse news on Israel? Is Israel more sacred to @CBCNews than Canadian citizens getting shot by IDF killers? "London, Ont., physician Tarek Loubani shot in leg... https://t.co/k2J7rfPvMU

— MariaS Nunes (@Dodocanspell) May 22, 2018

Eva Bartlett, a Canadian freelance journalist putting the so-called "journalists" at CBC, Globe&Mail, Toronto Star,etc. to utter shame

Truth teller Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett at a Press Conference on Syria situation.

Requiem for the Canadian $

*sigh* *sob* ...  I am planning my vacation to parts unknown and now with our $ slipping towards who knows where, everything looks way beyond the budget I had set for myself.  *sigh* *sob*

Canada shows you can't get away kidnapping Canadians OR The Amanda Lindhout story continues

Amanda Lindhout is a good woman and on hearing that the leader of the gang that kidnapped and tortured her, was in Canadian custody and awaiting our "special" brand of soft justice, she thanked the RCMP over and over again.   Someone like moi would have screamed at the RCMP for taking this long and would have demanded that I get a big raw bloodied piece of the Somali so I could feed it to my dog.

One of my previous posts on Lindhout  dated August 2013  is here and I am glad to see I haven't changed my views much besides no longer ranting at "lefties" whose opinions, at least a good chunk of them,  I now take pretty seriously.

From CTVNews:
Amanda Lindhout thanks Mounties for arrest of alleged kidnapper

Amanda Lindhout crumpled to the floor, crying, as RCMP investigators broke the news to her on Thursday about the arrest of her alleged Somalian kidnapper.

One officer who had stuck with the case over the past five years asked her "Are you sitting down?," Lindhout recalled Sunday on social media.

"There were several RCMP officials on the line as he delivered the news. I was stunned that they'd made the arrest. I was even more stunned that the accused kidnapper was in my home country."

 "I had forgotten to sit down, and my knees gave out. I lay on the floor crying, saying the words, "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much," again and again," said Lindhout in a statement that was posted on her Facebook page and was also released by her publicist.

The RCMP announced Friday that they had arrested Ali Omar Ader in Ottawa.

Authorities are saying little about how the Somalian national made his way to Canada, where he now faces a criminal charge of hostage-taking.

But seeing Ader in news coverage of the arrest sparked a range of emotions for Lindhout.

"I find it difficult to describe what it felt like to see his face again," she said...........

582 First Nations in Canada?

This number is news to me.  I am floored.  So many First Nations and First Nations communities in Canada? What does it all mean?  
Love the names ... tried pronouncing a few of the tongue twisters,  failed miserably.

As far as the "transparency law" goes, that's a good thing.  It's a known fact that many of those at the top in First Nations are siphoning the Govt. funds, meant for their communities, into their own private pockets. 

Susana Mas writing at CBC:
52 First Nations risk losing funding  for not complying with transparency law.
Kashechewan First Nation given more time to comply; sanctions will not target 'essential' services....

....Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said in a statement that 529 out of 582 First Nations — over 90 per cent — have met the new requirements, appearing to leave 53 that are not in compliance.....

.......In a letter obtained by CBC News and sent by Aboriginal Affairs, the government said it would consider cutting funding to essential services beginning Dec. 12. 
But in his statement today, the minister said the government would only consider cutting new or existing funding to "non-essential" programs.
"I have directed that the sanctions not target essential services that support band members," Valcourt said in a written statement Thursday afternoon.......

The 52 First Nations on the government's revised list are:

Quebec
Algonquins of Barriere Lake

Ontario
Wahta Mohawks
Weenusk First Nation
Wabauskang First Nation
Ginoogaming First Nation
Gull Bay First Nation
Whitesand First Nation
Bearskin Lake First Nation
Fort Severn First Nation
Chapleau Ojibway First Nation
Kashechewan First Nation

Manitoba
Hollow Water Band
Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Government
Little Saskatchewan Band
Norway House Cree Nation
Ebb And Flow Band
Dakota Tipi Band
Wasagamack First Nation
Bunibonibee Cree Nation
York Factory First Nation
Fox Lake Band
Shamattawa First Nation
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation
Northlands Band
Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation
Lake St Martin

Saskatchewan
Onion Lake Cree Nation
Poundmaker Band
Thunderchild
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation
Cowessess Band
Ochapowace Band
Fishing Lake First Nation Band
Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation
English River First Nation Band

Alberta
Sawridge Band
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
Cold Lake First Nations Band

British Columbia
Skatin Nations
New Westminster Indian Band
Semiahmoo Indian Band
Chawathil Indian Band
Popkum Indian Band
Peters Indian Band
Takla Lake First Nation
Gitxaala Nation
Oregon Jack Creek Indian Band
Boston Bar First Nation
High Bar Indian Band
Tl'etinqox Government

Yukon
Liard First Nation

Northwest Territories
Acho Dene Koe First Nation...........

The new norm in Canada?

Why do I have this sinking feeling that this kind of one-man jihadi action will be seen again and again?

Thank you dear Government  for importing  religion-crazed Muslims and letting them and their way of life radicalize Christian Canadians to convert to satanic rites; 
Thank you dear Government for not stopping imams from visiting prisons even though you know fully well they go to those dens for the sole purpose of converting the feeble-minded to their depraved creed;
Thank you dear Government for not introducing a law making it illegal for Muslim prayers in the streets of Canada;
Thank you dear Government for not introducing a law making it illegal to wear full burqas in our streets;
etc.etc.etc.

Keep pampering Muslims, dear Government .... it's sure to work in getting many more non-Muslim Canadians killed.  The more non-Muslims killed, the quicker Canada can be caliphated, right dear Government?  That must be your goal, eh dear Government .... otherwise why would you not impose laws to keep non-Muslims safe?

From CBC:
Soldier struck by Martin Rouleau in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., hit and run dies
Martin Rouleau's Facebook page shows increasingly radicalized beliefs, behaviour
One of two soldiers wounded in a hit and run involving a "radicalized" 25-year-old man in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., has died, provincial police say.
Martin Rouleau, the 25-year-old suspect, was fatally shot on Monday after hitting two soldiers in a parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a city about 40 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
The family of the soldier who died asked that his name not be released.
Police do not fear for the second soldier's life......

......The RCMP said they suspected he had become radicalized after converting to Islam about a year ago.

"This individual was known to federal authorities, including our integrated national security investigations team in Montreal, who along with other authorities were concerned that he had become radicalized," the RCMP said in a statement Monday evening......

Egyptian lawmakers and Egyptian courts are playing with fire

I have said this before and I will say it again:  Egypt is going into a deep and terrible civil war in the very near future.  It's great that the new government has been able to curtail the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood but the unreasonable and totally devastating sentences passed down on the Muslim Bros and those associated with them are far too harsh and unbelievably hard.... that's not going to go down well with the supporters and sympathizers of that group.  There are many of those, not only in Egypt but in other Sunni nations ... heck ... not just the Sunni nations .... look at the American government,  they sympathize with the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama, the Clintons and that entire gang are of the opinion that the MB means Moderate Muslims.

Moreover, what the new Egyptian government is doing to freedom of the press is deplorable. If we would not like similar stuff happening in our own countries of the West then we should not remain silent and condone when such behaviour is seen in other countries. 

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy who was working for Al Jazeera, was one of three journalists given harsh sentences and as another journalist said yesterday, that harsh sentence of 7 years in an Egyptian jail was   "for the crime of committing journalism."

My crystal ball tells me that there's gonna be lotta trouble in Egypt if the new government there does not put a lid on this tyranny and put a lid on it pronto.

From CBC:
....The elderly parents of Australian reporter Peter Greste, one of three Al-Jazeera English journalists sentenced to seven years in prison by an Egyptian court, told reporters the judgments were "a slap in the face and a kick in the groin to Australia as well as all fair-minded people around the world."

An Egyptian court on Monday convicted Greste as well as Egyptian-Canadian acting Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed on terrorism-related charges. The case has prompted an outcry from human rights groups.
Mohamed also received an extra three years in prison on separate charges.........

Immigrants to Canada used to be made of strong stuff ....

now we have whiners and government-teat-suckers everywhere you turn.  There was a time in Canada,  I am told by friends whose grandparents came to this country in the late 1800s, that the government would warn prospective immigrants that life was hard in this Northern land  but hard work and determination would give them a better future than they have at present.  The new immigrants of those days could either lease or buy farm land which was anywhere from approx.3 -7 British Pounds an acre. Immigrants had to grow their own food. Above all. the government left you alone in peace. It was up to you to either survive or die. Those immigrants survived and how they survived!!  They not only produced produce they also produced the next generation of people with strong backbones and work ethics like the lady below. Now we have a government who insists on taking care of you from birth to death .... which death is far sooner because of the government's interference.

From CTVNews:
...No one was searching for Verna Zwarich, 89, as she lay on the floor of a farm shed with a broken hip for three nights in freezing temperatures.
But the Saskatchewan woman never lost hope.
“I just thought about good things,” she told CTV Saskatoon. “I thought how nice and warm it would be to be home.”

Zwarich left her family home in Hanley, Sask. on Oct. 9 to do yard work at her farm, which she has been managing by herself.
While cleaning the yard, she fell and broke her hip. She crawled to her truck and tried to lift herself into the vehicle, but the pain was overwhelming. She was helpless and alone, with no cell phone and no family nearby.
She waited as cars drove by on a nearby gravel road, but no one stopped to help her.
“I thought surely somebody’s going to stop,” she said. “But they go so fast.”
Temperatures dropped as the day went on, and Zwarich managed to drag herself to a nearby shed where she stayed from Wednesday night until Saturday morning.
She found two thin blankets, but no food and no water. She fought off mice with a stick and listened as coyotes howled in the yard...........

Dumb Canadians travelling to terrorist lands ....missing, kidnapped or killed

Try as I might, I can't dredge up any sympathy for these numbskulls.  

The piece below is from a year ago. The list of Canadians travelling to "terror" lands and doing a disappearing act, must have increased a hundred-fold by now .... given that Syria has become a magnet for gore lovers.

From Globe&Mail:
....Without a trace: Canadians missing in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Rajvinder Kaur Gill
Age: 41
Went missing in Lahore, August, 2012

Josh Boyle
Age: 29
Went missing near Ghazni, Afghanistan, October, 2012

Colin Rutherford
Age: 26
Kidnapped in Ghazni, Afghanistan, October, 2011

Beverly Giesbrecht
Age: 57
Presumed dead; missing in Miran Shah in North Waziristan, Pakistan, February, 2009

Ferid Imam and Miawand Yar
Alleged radicals last spotted near Miran Shah in North Waziristan, Pakistan

Death Panel ghouls in Canada lost in the Hassan Rasouli case....

but this case should make one wonder how many other times the Death Panels has won, not only in Ontario but all over Canada.  If  Hassan Rasouli, the man on life support, did not have such determined family members, determined to keep him alive in spite of the Death Panel ruling to have his life support taken off, the man would have been six feet underground today because the Ontario Death Panel would have had their way.  Kudos to the women of the Rasouli family.  This was a landmark case but few are really taking notice in Canada itself because this kind of health care has become the norm here ... not so in the USA.  They have taken note and many now realize that Sarah Palin proves herself  to be right again and again much to the dismay of dimwits.

In my opinion,  when it comes to the lives of Canadians in Canada,  saving money on care should never be the objective. If the government can throw away billions of dollars on people and projects in countries outside Canada,  the government  can bloody well spend money on Canadians in Canada.  Period!!

Adam Goldenberg writing at Slate:
Last week Canada’s Supreme Court  ruled that doctors could not unilaterally ignore a Toronto family’s decision to keep their near-dead husband and father on life support. In the same breath, however, the court also confirmed that, under the laws of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, a group of government-appointed adjudicators could yet overrule the family’s choice. That tribunal, not the family or the doctors, has the ultimate power to pull the plug.
In other words: Canada has death panels.
I use that term advisedly. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made it famous in the summer of 2009, when Congress was fighting over whether to pass Obamacare. As Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over health care, we should pause to wonder why millions of Canadians have come to accept the functional equivalent of an idea that almost sank health care reform even though, in this country, it was imaginary.
Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act has been on the books for nearly two decades. Like similar laws in many Canadian provinces—and American states—it sets out the process for making treatment decisions when a patient........

From Macleans:
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal that would have permitted doctors to end life support for a severely brain-damaged man without the consent of his family or a substitute decision maker.
The ruling effectively upholds existing legislation in Ontario and several other provinces that says disputes over end-of-life care decisions must go to an independent tribunal for resolution — and are not the sole purview of either doctors or of patient’s families.
In a split decision on what the top court called a “tragic, yet increasingly common conflict,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote for the majority that, under Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act, treatment cannot be confined to something that doctors consider to be of medical benefit to the patient.
“If death is considered harmful or a manifestation of ill health, then life support serves a preventive purpose so long as it is effective in preventing death,” the court dryly observed.
The case involves 61-year-old Hassan Rasouli, who has been kept alive on a ventilator and feeding tube since brain surgery in 2010 went wrong.
Doctors at Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital have determined there is no therapeutic hope of recovery and that keeping Rasouli on life support will result in a series of progressively worse medical complications as his body deteriorates.

However Rasouli’s wife, Parichehr Salasel, refused consent to end life support, citing the couple’s Shia Muslim religion and a belief that her brain-damaged husband’s movements indicate some level of minimal consciousness.
Salasel screamed in approval when the decision came through Friday, saying she was “happy for all humans,” not just for her husband, who she said shows clear signs of consciousness.
Physicians involved in the case had argued that consent under Ontario’s 1996 consent act was not required, because withdrawal of life support does not provide any medical benefit to the patient. For the same reason, they felt the decision was not subject to the independent tribunal process set up under the Ontario law.
Two lower Ontario courts disagreed and the Supreme Court, in a 5-2 ruling, upheld those lower court rulings.....

Jessica Barrett, Postmedia at NationalPost:
....The Supreme Court of Canada   has ruled that doctors cannot unilaterally choose to end life support services for Hassan Rasouli, an Ontario man who has been comatose since 2010.
In a 5-2 decision, justices for Canada’s highest court ruled doctors must first obtain consent from the man’s family, or, failing that, apply for permission from Ontario’s Consent and Capacity Board, a quasi-judicial body that addresses matters of consent under Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act.
The court stressed, however, that its ruling applied only to cases in Ontario, and did not address the broader ethical question of who has the final say — doctors or family — in end-of-life care for incapacitated people. In effect, it said that Ontario has a board set up for determining such matters, and that Rasouli’s case should have been brought before it.........

I definitely like Russia .... now even more after their arrest of Greenpuke activists

Let's hope our nitwit politicians in Ottawa don't start screaming and railing at Russia, demanding the  release of the deadwood Canadians spending some restful time in Russian jails.  They need the vacation.  Who are we to spoil their fun.  Didn't we spoil the good time  the two other Canadians were having in Egypt recently? 

Dave Johnson writing at SunNewsNetwork:
...One of the Canadian Greenpeace activists jailed   in Russia says he's running low on his medication and is only given a tea cup of water at a time in his tiny cell.
Paul Ruzycki, in a letter received by his family on Sunday, said he has been in a 4x5 jail cell by himself for a week and now has a Russian cellmate who doesn't speak any English.

"He says the jail is a loony bin, with people screaming and yelling day and night and craziness everywhere," Patti Stirling, Ruzycki's sister, said on Sunday.

He also claims he was forced to give blood and have X-rays.

Ruzycki, of Port Colborne, ON, is one of the so-called Arctic 30, 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, being held in Murmansk, Russia, after protesting against the Gazprom-owned oil rig, Prirazlomnaya, two weeks ago in the Pechora Sea.
Ruzycki, who has been with Greenpeace for 25 years, is chief mate on board the Arctic Sunrise, the Dutch-registered vessel seized by Russian officials.
He and the rest of the crew, including fellow Canadian Alexandre Paul, of Montreal, were charged with piracy last week. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 years.
"We are non-violent peace activists not criminals. We have had people visit our ships around the world, from the Dali Lama, Bishop Desmond TuTu," said the letter released exclusively to QMI Agency.
Stirling said the letter is dated Sept. 30 and written from jail cell 421 in what appears to be Ruzycki's writing.
"It was big news to wake up to," Stirling said. "The family was a mess this morning."
Stirling said the note was printed on paper and someone took a photo of it. Greenpeace sent the photo to the family.....

Movie Time .... The Snow Walker

Canadian movie released in 2003.   The movie has won numerous awards.  The filming was done entirely in Manitoba, BC and  Nunavut   Watch it ... well worth your time.  Keep a look-out for Michael Buble.

Mini-globalist would like to see Canada and the USA merged into one big country

Man-o-Man!  Just when we want to keep far, far away from the madness down south, a mini-globalist pops up with dreams of merging Canada with the USA.  Diane "Bonkers" Francis!   

On second thoughts, if the merger would mean that we Canadians would be able to buy martini ingredients at the fraction of the price we pay now ... I am all for it!

Jonathan Kay writing at NationalPost:
Veteran National Post columnist Diane Francis has written 10 books. Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country is easily her most ambitious.

Perhaps a little too ambitious, many readers might conclude.

It is also, in a way, her most personal. As an American-born dual citizen, Ms. Francis writes passionately about the many historical and cultural ties that bind her ancestral and adopted countries. Merger of the Century makes the case for erasing the formal distinction between the two entirely. “After all, we’re both melting-pot societies,” she says. So why not turn the whole continent north of the Rio Grande into the world’s biggest pot?.......

Sun News' Brian Lilley gets owned by an ideal Canadian-Muslim

Live and learn!
Get with the program, Sun News network !   Just because the idea to ban religious symbols in public-funded entities has stemmed from the Left does not mean you guys have to keep harping on how bad the idea happens to be.  I hope the initiative from the Quebec govt. gets passed into law.  

Can Canada play the game of thrones ?

Anything to do with the monarchy and Canada,  Canadians divide themselves into two very vocal groups.  I will STFU myself because the last time I said something it had upset both diehards on the Right and the Left. However,  many of the comments at the link  say many of the things I think.

New citizens would be swearing an oath to Canada rather than to the Queen had former prime minister Jean Chretien not gotten cold feet at the last minute, his former citizenship minister said Friday.

As three permanent residents and the federal government argued the issue in court, Sergio Marchi said he had been poised to scrap the pledge of allegiance to the Queen two decades ago.

"I was very much of the belief that while we're a constitutional monarchy, we should be swearing an oath of allegiance to Canada," Marchi told The Canadian Press from Geneva.

"We were very close to doing this."

Under citizenship laws, would-be Canadians must pledge to be "faithful and bear true allegiance to Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, her heirs and successors."

Marchi, who served as citizenship and immigration minister under Chretien from 1993 to 1995, recalled watching people's eyes "glaze over" as they recited the oath, often pledging allegiance to her "hairs" instead of heirs.

More importantly, he said, changing to a pledge of allegiance to Canada — Australia had taken similar measures — would be a forward step in the country's growth begun a decade previously with the patriation of the constitution.

Marchi took his views to the then-prime minister.

"I believe fundamentally this oath is outdated, but more than that, the amending of the oath would be another step towards Canada's full maturity and independence," Marchi said he told Chretien.

"He seemed to like it and buy it."

With Chretien's blessing, Marchi said he assembled a group of writers and poets in Vancouver who produced oaths to Canada he described as beautiful, simple, powerful and modern.

Marchi said he prepared a document for a cabinet committee reflecting the changes and believed the oath to Her Majesty would soon become a relic of Canadian history.

Until the phone rang.....

The Singing Astronaut

Commander Chris Hadfield  has rekindled an interest in space travel....that's for sure.   He's posted more than a dozen videos to YouTube on his experiences and "antics" in the space capsule.... but none has grabbed more views than the one below.

Shelley Fralic and Peter Rakobowchuk writing at VancouverSun:
....Now safe on Earth, multi-talented Chris Hadfield deserves his due for somehow making the cosmos even more compelling.



Could it be any more Canadian, any more apparent that we are a populace not given to overt patriotism or unabashed admiration of those among us who possess extraordinary qualities?

Is it any wonder that in order to achieve recognition, the most talented among us often leave our land to seek fame and fortune elsewhere? Celine Dion to Vegas. Michael J. Fox to Hollywood. Alex Trebek to Jeopardy. James Cameron to anywhere he wants.

Chris Hadfield had to go to outer space..........

Rex Murphy on the unethical Al Gore and his eager beaver fans ....

at the Globe & Mail.   In my opinion, Mr.Murphy is one of the last  clear-headed intellectuals remaining at the National Post.  National Post  used to be a bastion for conservatism, but sadly, not any more.

Rex Murphy writing at NationalPost:
....Because this column is written on Friday, I have no idea   what luminary graces the front page of today’s weekend edition of the Globe & Mail newspaper. But I am still recovering from their choice for the marquee spot last Saturday, when I saw, gleaming at me from a newsstand, a full, front-page photograph of Al Gore.

Such iconography suggests world importance on the scale of Nelson Mandela. Al Gore falls short of that level of epicness by several orders of magnitude.

In truth, Mr. Gore’s star has been fading for years, which is why the Globe’s front-page looked a decade old. His eco-alarmism is stale. The urgency of his early appeal has decayed into mere stridency. The very subject of global warming has grown more complicated.

Which raises the question of how relevant Al Gore is anymore. Has he been saying anything new to earn such a front-page tribute?

As far as I could tell, out of the fogbank of predictable platitudes and eco-mush he served up to his eager Canadian interviewer, the big “news” was that Gore slagged Alberta and the oil sands. He accused Alberta and those who support its oil industry, and the thousands and thousands of Canadians who work at it, of treating the atmosphere of sweet Mother Earth as an “open sewer.” He insisted on the point repeatedly.

Well, stop the presses indeed. Bashing Alberta is every lazy global warming environmentalist’s equivalent of morning prayer. Fort McMurray has been cast to play Hellmouth, the emblem of all that is..............

Why did it take 4+ years for the Canadian legal system to rule that face coverings are not allowed when testifying in court cases????

Of course I am relieved to know that within our legal system there are a sprinkling of judges still able to judge wisely but I would love to know why it took so long to rule on something which even a mere 7-yr old would be able to rule on without batting an eyelash.

The first ruling in October 2008 given by Justice Norris Weisman  would have been the final one if not for the lawyer David Butt getting his client to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. And they are not done yet, even after the SC has ruled that the woman cannot testify wearng her mask, the lawyer and his client will continue their circus in the Ontario Superior Court.

I would so love to know how much of taxpayers' money this lawyer has leeched off us during the 4+ years of the legal back and forth and how much more this circus is gonna cost us.

This situation is totally ridiculous and I hope Minister Jason Kenney updates the Welcome to Canada Guide to reflect the need for all newcomers to understand and accept our laws in Canada.  No individual religious shit should enter the courtroom.  All Canadians are to be treated equally.  The moment an immigrant brings up the need to abide by their religious belief over the laws of the land, they should be deported within 24 hours of their claim.

From TheStar dated Feb 2, 2009:
....In October, Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman reached his "admittedly difficult decision" to force the complainant to testify with her face bared after finding her "religious belief is not that strong ... and that it is, as she says, a matter of comfort," he wrote in his ruling.
Lawyer David Butt is representing the woman and next month in Superior Court will argue that the Oct. 16 ruling should be overturned.
"For complainants in sexual assault cases, courtroom testimony is extremely difficult and often traumatic," he said last week. "During such times of great anxiety the courts should respect religious rights and practices that bring comfort and sustenance, particularly when they do not undermine the fairness of the proceedings."
When the complainant indicated last fall she wanted to wear her veil while testifying at the preliminary hearing, defence counsel told the judge that assessing her demeanour was of "critical importance" when tailoring questioning.
Weisman asked the woman to explain her objections.
"It's a respect issue, one of modesty and one of ... in Islam, we call honour," she replied. "It's also about the religious reason is to not show your face to men that you are able to marry. ... I would feel a lot more comfortable if I didn't have to, you know, reveal my face."
The woman also said only her family sees her without the veil.........


From VancouverSun dated April 25, 2013:
....A woman must remove her face-covering   veil to testify against the men she is accusing of sexual assault, an Ontario judge ruled Wednesday.
The woman's niqab "masks her demeanour and blocks both effective cross-examination by counsel for the accused and assessment of her credibility by the trier of fact," Ontario Court Judge Norris Weisman ruled.
The 37-year-old woman, known only as N.S., alleges two men sexually assaulted her over five years, starting when she was six years old.
The question of whether she should be allowed to wear her niqab while testifying in the case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which issued a split decision that affirmed the importance of both the right to a fair trial and religious freedom.
The case of N.S. is now back in provincial court for the preliminary inquiry, five years after the challenge began. But N.S. isn't done fighting to keep her niqab on, her lawyer said. They will ask the Ontario Superior Court to review the decision.
"The concern is the judge refused to consider a substantial body of scientific research which demonstrates that we, as humans, are actually quite faulty at detecting honesty by reading people's faces," David Butt said............

Wasn't there some noise from the Left about making Haiti a part of Canada ???

Can you imagine a dead person left in the street with blood all around the body and a circle of people looking at the indignity.  That indignity lasted for 6 hours if not more and the contents from his pockets were displayed next to the body.  That indignity was taken even further when someone from the onlooking degenerates stepped up to the body and stole the shoes off the corpse.  Richard Joyal was a layman belonging to the do-gooder society of the Marianists and like many missionaries and volunteers who go to these savage places with only love in their hearts for the downtrodden, was killed by those they go to save.

The news items about the stolen shoes I read earlier cannot be found.  But I know what I read. The body was left uncovered in the street for several hours and the corpse was without shoes.

From CBC:
....Police Insp. Aladin Jean-Louis said Joyal had just withdrawn $1,000 from a bank at about 10:30 a.m. local time when two men on a motorcycle approached and grabbed a bag he was carrying. The passenger shot him three times in the back....

Parents, think twice before you name your sons "Justin"

I know of two Justins, both Canadian ... and both are terrible.

From NewsBusters:

.... BIEBER: [Pulls out waist of his pants and what appear to be boxers,   takes picture with cellphone] Check your email, Hillary Clinton. [Winks]
This Valentine’s Day, it’s gonna be you, me, passion. [Something hits his window] Is that a bird?
This Valentine's Day is gonna get sexy courtesy of this massage oil. Nope. [Unintelligible]. Well, we're going to have to make it work, right, Taco?
Well, looks like Taco's got his toilet out. Guess I better go.
Stay sexy, girl.

So the folks at SNL actually wrote a skit wherein an eighteen-year-old boy sends a picture of his penis to a 65-year-old former first lady, former Secretary of State, and possible future president.