TagsTagsAs the Republican Party denies, denies, denies that global warming is real: Canada's Arctic ice shelves breaking up fast. Luke Copland, an associate geography professor at the University of Ottawa, said the Serson Ice Shelf shrank from 79 square miles to two remnant sections five years ago, and was further ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Ice Shelf, Canada, Sea Ice, Arctic Ice
Even as the right wing screams louder than ever that anthropogenic global warming is a “hoax,” climate scientists in Canada are appalled at the warmest winter on record: Wacky winter a signal of years to come: Climatologist. Of course, you already know what the climate change deniers are going to say ...
Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers ...
An amazing discovery in Canada, after a team of paleontologists ran out of gas: Arctic fossil points to missing link between seals and land mammals. The fossil remains of a flipper-free mammal related to modern seals have been discovered in Nunavut by Ottawa researchers who stumbled upon them after their ...
I agree with Christopher Hitchens on this one; by making a big deal about terror supporter George Galloway’s visit, the Canadian government has shot itself in the foot and given this creep more publicity than he deserves—and Galloway is an expert at exploiting these types of situations: We don’t need ...
George Galloway, Britain, Gaza, Hamas, Canada, Christopher Hitchens
Malevolent, terror-supporting British MP George Galloway has been barred from entering Canada, and now he’s threatening to sue. OTTAWA — An outspoken British MP who’s opposed to the war in Afghanistan says he intends to take legal action against the federal government over its decision to refuse him entry to ...
Phil Plait makes some good points about Canadian Science Minister Gary Goodyear, and why it matters if Canada’s chief science guy is a creationist: Canadian Science Minister update: kinda. As I pointed out in my post yesterday, religion is irrelevant only if it doesn’t affect the job. But as we ...
Is Canada’s Minister of State for Science and Technology a creationist? In today’s news stories he’s trying to obfuscate the remarks that caused an uproar; the Globe and Mail calls it “clarifying:” Minister clarifies stand on evolution. OTTAWA — Science minister Gary Goodyear now says he believes in evolution. “Of course I ...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview that allied forces will never defeat the Afghan insurgency. Remember way back in the early days of the Obama administration when the president went to Canada on his first foreign trip and as soon as Afghanistan came up in the concluding ...
A thwarted attack on an El Al aircrew in Canada was reported today. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Plans by an unknown group to attack staff of Israel’s national carrier El Al in Canada have been thwarted, Israel’s private Channel Two television reported on Wednesday. Without giving the nationalities of the alleged attackers, ...
LGF, Canada, Militant Islam, Islam, Terrorism, El Al, Airlines, Israel
Ezra Levant’s bizarre Kafkaesque ordeal at the hands of the Alberta Human Rights Commission has ended—with a complete dismissal of all the trumped up “charges:” Punished first, acquitted later.
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
The suspect in that horrific decapitation murder in Canada has been identified. (CNN) — A 40-year-old man was charged with second-degree murder Friday in connection with the stabbing and beheading death of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus, authorities said. Vince Weiguang Li of Edmonton, Alberta, stood silent before a ...
“But let’s not be too negative here. Occasionally, just occasionally, a small oasis of sanity does emerge from this desert of bollock-brained Islamic appeasement.” [Video]
LGF, Pat Condell, Islam, Dhimmitude, Britain, Canada, Islamic Supremacism
Ezra Levant reports that the Orwellian star chamber known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped their ludicrous persecution of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine: The Canadian Human Rights Commission blinks. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I predicted ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
Canada is getting incredibly weird. I thought when Stephen Harper was elected that things would take a turn for the better, but the Orwellian madness of the Alberta Human Rights Commission has now entered the realm of the surreal: Alberta’s HRC: breeding the next generation of complainers. Yesterday I mentioned ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
The New York Times, scrupulously fair as always (cough), suggests that it might be time for the United States to reconsider this antiquated idea of “free speech” and join the rest of the world in prosecuting people like Mark Steyn: American Exception - Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend ...
LGF, Mark Steyn, Islam, Canada, Human Rights, Free Speech, New York Times
On Thursday, wiretaps were played at the trial of the 18 Muslims arrested in Toronto in 2006 for a terrorist plot to attack Canada: Court hears accused terrorists’ ideology. In wiretaps played at the trial of a 20-year-old man, his co-accused spoke at length about their “global fight” to “get ...
LGF, Canada, Islam, Militant Islam, Hate Speech, Terrorism, brampton
Mark Steyn is in Kafkaville this week, as the Canadian government demonstrates to the world how badly they’ve gone off the rails. I’m spending this week in a Vancouver “human rights” courtroom - actually a windowless basement whose sole link with the outside world, the clock, is stuck at 8am. ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
Any more questions about whether the kaffiyeh is “just a scarf,” or a well-known symbol of Palestinian “resistance?” An article by Mafaz al-Suwaidan in the very leftist, pro-Palestinian Toronto Star makes the point beautifully: More than just a chic checkered scarf. “The kaffiyeh is a visual extension of our struggle, a ...
Toronto Star, Canada, dunkin donuts, Symbology, Intifada, Terrorism, Palestinians, Kaffiyeh, LGF
The result of an unthinking leftist approach to immigration, now on display in Toronto: GTA’s secret world of polygamy. There were no pleasantries, there was no small talk. Safa Rigby had expected to hear her husband’s voice when the phone rang one morning. Instead, the caller didn’t even bother to ...
Several people emailed to recommend this video of Mark Steyn confronting some of his Islamist critics; I couldn’t get it to play, but maybe you’ll have better luck: The Agenda - Video - May 6: What is Wrong with Mark Steyn’s View of the World?
Stewart Bell has a scary piece about the increasing numbers of young Canadian Muslims indoctrinated into extremism, focusing on one especially nasty Home-grown ‘champion of Islam’. TORONTO -Naeem Muhammad Khan wants everyone to “Support Our Troops,” but he’s not talking about the Canadian Forces in Kandahar. From his apartment in Toronto, ...
LGF, Canada, Islam, Militant Islam, Hate Speech, Moderate Muslims
Last week the Ontario Human Rights Commission dropped their absurd Kafkaesque “human rights” charges against Maclean’s magazine—not because their witch hunt was wrong and offensive, but because they “lacked jurisdiction.” But their statement makes it clear they intend to continue trying to control the free expression of ideas in Canada, especially ...
Free Speech, Censorship, Islam, Mark Steyn, maclean's, Ezra Levant, Ontario, Human Rights, Canada, LGF
The Robespierre of Canada is going after Ezra Levant again—and several other Canadian bloggers: Richard Warman has sued me — and other conservative bloggers.
LGF, Canada, Radical Islam, Grievance Theater, Human Rights, Ezra Levant, Free Speech
The Muslims arrested in 2006 for plotting mass murder attacks in Toronto are still in jail awaiting trial, even though Canada appears to be having some of the same trouble as the US with prosecuting terrorists in civilian courts. But even though no court has ruled on their guilt or ...
LGF, Canada, Radical Islam, Grievance Theater, Toronto Terror Plot