Whites are at it again - nothing but problems
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Would we treat Jesus differently if it had been HIM who ran through our parliament shouting "get the Fcuk out of my way"?
Would we treat Jesus differently if he had elbowed an MP in the tits while shoving people around in parliament?
Would we treat Jesus differently if Jesus had broken our ethics laws and LIED about taking a paid trip to the private island of Aga Khan?
Would we treat Jesus differently if he had made a series of promises regarding finances that have proven disastrous as Our idiot Boy has done?
Would Jesus have deliberately picked a trade war with Yankees out of personal spite and bias as idiot Justin has done?
Would Jesus have referred to the death of Coulton Boushie as an act of racism- as idiot Boy has done- or would He have stated firmly it was a tragic accident and should be regarded as an object lesson for other drunken THIEVES?
Would Jesus tell us we should submit to the vile will of every two bit thug and dictator who makes demands- as idiot Boy does?
Jesus clearly approves of Jew David smiting Philistine Goliath so would Jesus approve of the coalition fighting against Syrian bully Assad who likes to drench his rebellious subjects in Sarin nerve gas?
Would Jesus have become the famous leader of a religious movement if he had played grab ass with any woman who caught his eye and then later insisted he was a true feminist who ought to be given a free pass for the Kokanee Grope that he LIED about and then tried to dismiss as not important - TO HIM!!!! Though it was clearly important to the female victim!!!
Would we treat Jesus differently if He told as many lies as Our idiot Boy Justin?
Would we treat Jesus differently if his followers had devoted huge amounts of time and energy to LYING about the HUGE NUMBER OF FAILED POLICIES - as LIE-berals do for Our idiot Boy Justin?
I didn't want to start a new thread and this kinda fits in here
Indigenous leaders turn down invitation to meeting of premiers
There's still a meeting scheduled for next week between Canada's premiers and Indigenous organizations, but it won't include the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami or the Métis National Council. They're all declining the Council of the Federation's invitation again this year.
The three organizations cite different reasons for their absence, but the end result for the first day of the summer premiers' meeting remains the same as it was in 2017: the conversation won't include the three leaders who represent the largest number of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada.
New Brunswick is hosting this summer's meeting at Pays de la Sagouine in Bouctouche, as it takes over as the chair of the Council of the Federation.
In response to a question about exactly who was expected to attend, a spokesperson for New Brunswick's executive council office reported that all she could say is that organizers are still receiving RSVPs and confirmations on attendance.
Before last year's talks in Edmonton, AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde, ITK President Natan Obed and Métis National Council President Clément Chartier called a news conference in Toronto to tell the media they would not participate.
"We are not just another special interest group," Bellegarde said back then. "First Nations will not accept an exclusionary and disrespectful approach."
A smaller meeting between the premiers and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) — which represents Indigenous people living off-reserve in Canada — and the Native Women's Association of Canada did proceed.
When Gallant's office announced a meeting with "National Indigenous Organizations" to be held on the day before this year's Council of the Federation talks — a common practice for this gathering since 2004 — it wasn't clear what could be expected this time, so CBC reached out.
Not 'organizations' but 'governments'
"They don't respect the fact that the inherent right of self-government is alive and well in this country," Chartier told CBC News Wednesday, adding that calling what he leads an "organization" fails to recognize its status as the national government of the Métis nation.
"We're not invited as representatives of governments," he said.
Chartier said that, as recently as last December, the outgoing chair of the Council of the Federation — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley — wrote a letter trying to direct the federal government in how it deals with his group, something he described as an act of "marginalization and non-recognition of our representativity of our nations and peoples."
At issue is whether there are two levels of government in Canada — federal and provincial — or three, including First Nations, Inuit and Métis representation.
The three Indigenous leaders say they don't appreciate being invited to meet on the same level as other organizations that represent Indigenous people but are not recognized governments of sovereign nations.
National Chief Robert Bertrand from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples will be participating in next week's talks, CAP's spokesperson told CBC News Thursday.
Chartier said he's heard that the Women of the Métis Nation also were invited this year — a group not recognized as having the same status as the Métis National Council.
"Because nothing has changed, the Metis Nation will not be accepting the invitation to attend," he said.
Asked to clarify exactly why Bellegarde was staying away this year, the AFN pointed CBC News to the position he took last year, saying it remains the same.
"An effective process for intergovernmental participation must reflect our status under the Constitution and international law as peoples and nations with inherent rights, title and jurisdiction," said Bellegarde in his 2017 media statement.
AFN regional chief will attend
Bellegarde is up for re-election when the AFN gathers later this month.
In a pre-election period, the national chief relinquishes some administrative and financial authority and must limit his use of resources to AFN business — but meeting with provincial and territorial premiers is part of the job of the national chief.
In any event, it's not a total boycott from the AFN's perspective.
"The AFN regional chief for New Brunswick-Prince Edward Island, Roger Augustine, will be at the meeting to support First Nations in his region who are at the meeting," AFN spokesperson Jenna Young Castro told CBC News.
Clement's Métis colleagues, however, are taking a hard pass.
For its part, ITK had a scheduling conflict next week.
The 13th general assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council takes place in Utqiagvik, Alaska July 16-19. The meeting is held once every four years, and elections are being held at this gathering as well.
ITK's president, Obed, will lead Canada's delegation in Alaska. Any potential alternates that could have been sent to meet with the premiers in his place will also be in Alaska, ITK spokesperson Erin Brandt Filliter told CBC News.
Filliter also suggested to CBC that, for ITK, last year's absence was motivated by the way the agenda was set for the talks, with the premiers seen as telling the Indigenous organizations what would be up for discussion.
Jared Wesley, a University of Alberta professor who studies the Council of the Federation, disagrees with the characterization of the premiers' agenda-setting as top-down. It's consensus-based, he said.
Some provinces were upset by what happened last year because they'd spent months negotiating an agenda they believed everyone was happy with, he wrote CBC News Wednesday.
Typo trouble
Chartier read the invitation the Métis National Council received from Gallant's office aloud during his interview with CBC News. It contained what he called "sloppy penmanship": the letter invited Chartier to meet with his own organization, the Métis National Council, among a list of invitees that did not include the AFN.
It might have been a copying and pasting error, but considering it's an official letter, he wasn't impressed.
"My officials will be in contact with your organization to seek your input on the development of the agenda for our discussion," Chartier said, reading more from the invitation. In fact, he said, no one contacted his office.
Chartier is a veteran of premiers meetings, dating back over a decade. He said he's seen few results coming from them, aside from their past success in getting the premiers to call for a national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women — something he called a "no-brainer."
© CBC New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is hosting this summer's meeting at Pays de la Sagouine in Bouctouche.
There was a time when premiers and Indigenous leaders made common cause against what they saw as an unsympathetic federal Conservative government led by Stephen Harper, he said.
But the Métis, he said, are happier with the progress they've seen on their issues through working directly with Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.
Issues around Métis membership criteria and the recognition of their rights remain, but Chartier said a national meeting is less relevant to him than a gathering of just the Western premiers who represent the jurisdictions across his people's homeland.
The larger discussions only work well for discussing broad principles like child welfare, he said.
"There really wasn't much that came out of these [past premiers] meetings other than talk," he said.
As for the question of why the premiers aren't open to changing the format of the talks, or limiting who's invited, Chartier said he believes that's rooted in a possible threat to the premiers' self-interest.
"The more Indigenous governments are recognized and the more transfer payments go directly to Indigenous governments, perhaps they fear they're going to be losing some of their transfer payments," he said.
No official boycott was co-ordinated between the three groups this time, he said, although they do speak informally on a regular basis.
"It's not a boycott. I just didn't accept the invitation."
I have a few questions if anyone could answer I would appreciate it
1) Does anyone know what kind of budget these organizations receive Federally? b) Is it to be shared with the band councils associated with these organizations?
2) How can they demand to be recognized as a Fed. Gov. if they only represent a fraction of the band councils in Canada?
3) As seen with the failed education deal a couple years ago, do these organizations actually have any say for the band councils they claim to represent?
4) Is any agreement binding with these organizations when a deal is made?
5) How many of these Federal aboriginal Gov. type organizations are there in Canada?
I am not trying to be an ass I would truly like to know
Indigenous leaders turn down invitation to meeting of premiers
There's still a meeting scheduled for next week between Canada's premiers and Indigenous organizations, but it won't include the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami or the Métis National Council. They're all declining the Council of the Federation's invitation again this year.
The three organizations cite different reasons for their absence, but the end result for the first day of the summer premiers' meeting remains the same as it was in 2017: the conversation won't include the three leaders who represent the largest number of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada.
New Brunswick is hosting this summer's meeting at Pays de la Sagouine in Bouctouche, as it takes over as the chair of the Council of the Federation.
In response to a question about exactly who was expected to attend, a spokesperson for New Brunswick's executive council office reported that all she could say is that organizers are still receiving RSVPs and confirmations on attendance.
Before last year's talks in Edmonton, AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde, ITK President Natan Obed and Métis National Council President Clément Chartier called a news conference in Toronto to tell the media they would not participate.
"We are not just another special interest group," Bellegarde said back then. "First Nations will not accept an exclusionary and disrespectful approach."
A smaller meeting between the premiers and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) — which represents Indigenous people living off-reserve in Canada — and the Native Women's Association of Canada did proceed.
When Gallant's office announced a meeting with "National Indigenous Organizations" to be held on the day before this year's Council of the Federation talks — a common practice for this gathering since 2004 — it wasn't clear what could be expected this time, so CBC reached out.
Not 'organizations' but 'governments'
"They don't respect the fact that the inherent right of self-government is alive and well in this country," Chartier told CBC News Wednesday, adding that calling what he leads an "organization" fails to recognize its status as the national government of the Métis nation.
"We're not invited as representatives of governments," he said.
Chartier said that, as recently as last December, the outgoing chair of the Council of the Federation — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley — wrote a letter trying to direct the federal government in how it deals with his group, something he described as an act of "marginalization and non-recognition of our representativity of our nations and peoples."
At issue is whether there are two levels of government in Canada — federal and provincial — or three, including First Nations, Inuit and Métis representation.
The three Indigenous leaders say they don't appreciate being invited to meet on the same level as other organizations that represent Indigenous people but are not recognized governments of sovereign nations.
National Chief Robert Bertrand from the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples will be participating in next week's talks, CAP's spokesperson told CBC News Thursday.
Chartier said he's heard that the Women of the Métis Nation also were invited this year — a group not recognized as having the same status as the Métis National Council.
"Because nothing has changed, the Metis Nation will not be accepting the invitation to attend," he said.
Asked to clarify exactly why Bellegarde was staying away this year, the AFN pointed CBC News to the position he took last year, saying it remains the same.
"An effective process for intergovernmental participation must reflect our status under the Constitution and international law as peoples and nations with inherent rights, title and jurisdiction," said Bellegarde in his 2017 media statement.
AFN regional chief will attend
Bellegarde is up for re-election when the AFN gathers later this month.
In a pre-election period, the national chief relinquishes some administrative and financial authority and must limit his use of resources to AFN business — but meeting with provincial and territorial premiers is part of the job of the national chief.
In any event, it's not a total boycott from the AFN's perspective.
"The AFN regional chief for New Brunswick-Prince Edward Island, Roger Augustine, will be at the meeting to support First Nations in his region who are at the meeting," AFN spokesperson Jenna Young Castro told CBC News.
Clement's Métis colleagues, however, are taking a hard pass.
For its part, ITK had a scheduling conflict next week.
The 13th general assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council takes place in Utqiagvik, Alaska July 16-19. The meeting is held once every four years, and elections are being held at this gathering as well.
ITK's president, Obed, will lead Canada's delegation in Alaska. Any potential alternates that could have been sent to meet with the premiers in his place will also be in Alaska, ITK spokesperson Erin Brandt Filliter told CBC News.
Filliter also suggested to CBC that, for ITK, last year's absence was motivated by the way the agenda was set for the talks, with the premiers seen as telling the Indigenous organizations what would be up for discussion.
Jared Wesley, a University of Alberta professor who studies the Council of the Federation, disagrees with the characterization of the premiers' agenda-setting as top-down. It's consensus-based, he said.
Some provinces were upset by what happened last year because they'd spent months negotiating an agenda they believed everyone was happy with, he wrote CBC News Wednesday.
Typo trouble
Chartier read the invitation the Métis National Council received from Gallant's office aloud during his interview with CBC News. It contained what he called "sloppy penmanship": the letter invited Chartier to meet with his own organization, the Métis National Council, among a list of invitees that did not include the AFN.
It might have been a copying and pasting error, but considering it's an official letter, he wasn't impressed.
"My officials will be in contact with your organization to seek your input on the development of the agenda for our discussion," Chartier said, reading more from the invitation. In fact, he said, no one contacted his office.
Chartier is a veteran of premiers meetings, dating back over a decade. He said he's seen few results coming from them, aside from their past success in getting the premiers to call for a national inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women — something he called a "no-brainer."
© CBC New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant is hosting this summer's meeting at Pays de la Sagouine in Bouctouche.
There was a time when premiers and Indigenous leaders made common cause against what they saw as an unsympathetic federal Conservative government led by Stephen Harper, he said.
But the Métis, he said, are happier with the progress they've seen on their issues through working directly with Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.
Issues around Métis membership criteria and the recognition of their rights remain, but Chartier said a national meeting is less relevant to him than a gathering of just the Western premiers who represent the jurisdictions across his people's homeland.
The larger discussions only work well for discussing broad principles like child welfare, he said.
"There really wasn't much that came out of these [past premiers] meetings other than talk," he said.
As for the question of why the premiers aren't open to changing the format of the talks, or limiting who's invited, Chartier said he believes that's rooted in a possible threat to the premiers' self-interest.
"The more Indigenous governments are recognized and the more transfer payments go directly to Indigenous governments, perhaps they fear they're going to be losing some of their transfer payments," he said.
No official boycott was co-ordinated between the three groups this time, he said, although they do speak informally on a regular basis.
"It's not a boycott. I just didn't accept the invitation."
I have a few questions if anyone could answer I would appreciate it
1) Does anyone know what kind of budget these organizations receive Federally? b) Is it to be shared with the band councils associated with these organizations?
2) How can they demand to be recognized as a Fed. Gov. if they only represent a fraction of the band councils in Canada?
3) As seen with the failed education deal a couple years ago, do these organizations actually have any say for the band councils they claim to represent?
4) Is any agreement binding with these organizations when a deal is made?
5) How many of these Federal aboriginal Gov. type organizations are there in Canada?
I am not trying to be an ass I would truly like to know
The federal budget for natives is a carefully guarded LIE-beral SECRET!!!!
LIE-berals have so many different streams of revenue flowing to their native pals that it is all but impossible to come to an honest answer re revenue!
Natives hold tight to the quaint notion of being "First Nations" thanks to LIE-beral vote buying!
Certainly native tribes should be regarded as "First Nations" - but the meaning of that phrase VARIES WILDLY depending on whether you are an ordinary Cdn looking for responsible govt; or a LIE-beral seeking to buy native votes; or a native seeking gobs of govt gravy!!!
The native political scene on reserves is in utter chaos thanks to LIE-berals and endemic corruption.
Since natives on reserves only know what they dont want- it makes it hard to get a political movement started! Getting a mass of natives all going in one direction is like herding cats!
Natives do not want to go to school as it is boring. In addition going to school means selling out to white society.
Natives want to hunt and fish but consider it beneath them to do it as their ancestors did! The modern native sees no reason why white society cannot supply ATV`s and Snowmobiles- plus the necessary fuel- as and when needed!
Natives scorn white society but demand that all the creature comforts of that scorned society!
And the number of "native groups" actually depends on current political activity!
For instance- Lubicon tribe was the very first to make and settle a land claim under the Pierre Trudeau LIE-beral rules -with the money paid out and land distributed and etc!
Yet a few years later Lubicons came back with new demands!
Even LIE-berals complained at this apparent two faced greed!
But the "new" Lubicons explained they were not part of the group that had signed the land claims treaty with Trudeau!
So we are left with 3 ways of explaining this Lubicon cash grab:
Firstly- is it possible that Cdn govt would be oblivious to the existence of the ENTIRE Lubicon tribe- considering that in the 1800`s- govt agents carefully issued social insurance numbers to all natives in order to keep track of them - meaning if you dont have your number you DONT get any benefits either! So its highly unlikely that govt MISSED an entire tribe for 100 years!
Second- it is possible that Lubicon chiefs did not hand out the govt cash fairly and equitably so there may be a legitimate complaint on that! Too bad Lubicons REFUSE to tell govt how they disposed of the cash and land so it cannot be sorted that way! That Lubicon leaders refuse to show their books suggests there may be native skullduggery!
Thirdly- and it is MOST LIKELY - that some Lubicons have simply decided they settled for to little and are now PRETENDING they are not part of the LIE-beral land claim from the 1970`s!
Some Lubicons have simply declared they are a new tribe with fresh demands which must be met - OR ELSE!
In other words it is NOT POSSIBLE to have a FINAL RESOLUTION to any native claims as they reserve the right to change their minds at any time!
'YOU F------ SPEAK ENGLISH?': Woman berates Muslim woman on New York bus
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Published:
July 12, 2018
Updated:
July 12, 2018 11:09 AM EDT
In a viral video, a woman launches an anti-Muslim tirade aboard a New York City bus. (YouTube/Nightblade)
A woman launched an anti-Muslim rant on a passenger aboard a New York City bus in a video making its rounds on the internet.
In the video posted Wednesday on YouTube, a woman aboard a bus travelling from Brooklyn to Staten Island can be seen and heard ripping apart a fellow passenger with racially-charged threats.
The passenger receiving the hate is wearing a headscarf.
“I am a citizen. I am a citizen,” the woman mockingly sings. “Why are you putting up the middle finger at me? Are you mad? You no citizen.
“Did you see the sign? You f—— speak English?”
The woman then notices she’s being recorded and directs her attention to the camera.
“Hi, I’m Ashley and you’re taping me,” said the woman. “I’m getting into a fight with some Muslim chick because she has an attitude because she thinks she has rights that she doesn’t have.”
The racist woman continues to taunt the passenger with threats of deportation.
“Immigration at the door,” Ashley continued. “Oh wait, is that ICE? They’re here for you.”
The video – entitled “Racist Tirade on a NYC bus” – has been viewed more than 19,000 times as of Thursday morning.
Feedback on the video and Ashley has been generally negative.
“She seems nice,” chimed one person.
“White trash everywhere,” commented another.
“Religious bigotry,” wrote another.
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http://torontosun.com/news/world/you-f-speak-english-woman-berates-muslim-woman-on-new-york-bus
Postmedia News
More from Postmedia News
Published:
July 12, 2018
Updated:
July 12, 2018 11:09 AM EDT
In a viral video, a woman launches an anti-Muslim tirade aboard a New York City bus. (YouTube/Nightblade)
A woman launched an anti-Muslim rant on a passenger aboard a New York City bus in a video making its rounds on the internet.
In the video posted Wednesday on YouTube, a woman aboard a bus travelling from Brooklyn to Staten Island can be seen and heard ripping apart a fellow passenger with racially-charged threats.
The passenger receiving the hate is wearing a headscarf.
“I am a citizen. I am a citizen,” the woman mockingly sings. “Why are you putting up the middle finger at me? Are you mad? You no citizen.
“Did you see the sign? You f—— speak English?”
The woman then notices she’s being recorded and directs her attention to the camera.
“Hi, I’m Ashley and you’re taping me,” said the woman. “I’m getting into a fight with some Muslim chick because she has an attitude because she thinks she has rights that she doesn’t have.”
The racist woman continues to taunt the passenger with threats of deportation.
“Immigration at the door,” Ashley continued. “Oh wait, is that ICE? They’re here for you.”
The video – entitled “Racist Tirade on a NYC bus” – has been viewed more than 19,000 times as of Thursday morning.
Feedback on the video and Ashley has been generally negative.
“She seems nice,” chimed one person.
“White trash everywhere,” commented another.
“Religious bigotry,” wrote another.
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http://torontosun.com/news/world/you-f-speak-english-woman-berates-muslim-woman-on-new-york-bus
LIE-berals badly under estimate the level of frustrated rage growing in the population.
That rage is being fed by greedy LIE-berals who think foolishly that they can BUY solutions to all their failed polices- using OUR money!
Or at least LIE-berals think to bury their many failures in gobs of cash!
WE are quite angry with radicals telling us all things are OUR problem!!!!!!
And we are going to get angry enough to start changing that LIE-beral view!!!!
LIE-beral Wynne-bag is gone and Jackass John the Sorry Tory and his Silly Hall Moronic Minions- along with Our idiot Boy Justin and his loonie lefties are now the focis of growing public anger!
Consider:
Here is an article exposing LIE-beral hypocrisy. With some comments of my own in brackets):
By Senator Linda FRUM: There's nothing Islamophobic about arresting ISIS fighters
Special to Postmedia Network. Published: December 5, 2017. Updated: December 5, 2017 7:45 AM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
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Alleged ISIS fighter John Maguire is believed to have been radicalized while still living in Canada.Postmedia Network.
(There is the first problem with arresting thesee dangerous clowns- they are “ALLEGED” to be trouble- with their sins performed in a chaotic war zone- with most of the victims either dead or disbursed over a much of the world as refugees! The cost to assemble witnesses, make a case and then hope that traumatized witnesses can identify villains who disguised themselvws very carefully- with that identification having to be satisfactory to a LIE-beral hug a thug judge on a mission to “re-integrate” thugs into society instead of punishing them at a trial is huge- then add in years of costly jail time- most of itr in solitary confinement to protect Isis thugs from other prisoners and you have a costly MESS!)
(IN summer 2017, LIE-beral hug a thug judges RELEASED SEVEN accused murderers here in Canada simply because LIE-berals spent so much money on themselves they did not have the resources to give trials to the seven in reasonable time- so they were released! LIE-berals also released a man accused of embezzling $30 million dollars in Ontari-owe and he was ordered to leave our province and NEVER COME BACK- again because LIE-berals did not wish to waste THEIR gravy on a criminal! LIE-berals are not interested in trying LOCAL killers and thieves so why would they care about Isis thugs? Especially since Our idiot Boy Justin has decided it is in his best interests to sucjk up to Muslims and to BUY their votes so he can cling to power! Letting LIE-berals “prosecute” Isis fighters would simply produce a far larger and more absurd version of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Inquiry- to no good result! Its all just LIE-berals posturing for the cameras!)
According to Canadian intelligence agencies, at least 250 Canadian citizens have travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terrorist organization ISIS and at least 60 of those have returned to Canada.
(IT would be far easier just to revoke/cancel the passports of the fighters so they will be stranded and forgotten forever in some third world pest hole!)
(These numbers of fighters are only estimates that are two years old as LIE-berals are refusing to track such people for fear the truth of how many thugs are returning here will enrage ordinary Cdns and result in lost LIE-beral voter support!)
The terrorist threat to Canada posed by these extremists is obvious. However, even if they do not commit new acts of violence in our country it remains the case that these individuals broke the law by travelling to another country for the purposes of committing an act of terror.
The Combatting Terrorism Act, which became law in 2013, makes it a criminal offence to leave or attempt to leave Canada in order to commit acts of terrorism. Given the high number of Canadians who are travelling abroad to participate in ISIS atrocities, one would expect that the Canadian government take these matters seriously and charge ISIS fighters upon their return to Canada.
(Considering that these people went to fight in support of an armed gang that was dedicated to the destruction of Israel, along with the overthrow of western democratic govt and its replacement by an Islamic Caliphate that would dictate ALL Laws to us and reduce us to the status of helpless vassals in thrall to a gang of thugs who use rape and murder to control and intimidate the civilian populations they capture- I suggest these Jihadists have abandoned any right to claim Cdn citizenship and should NOT be permitted to come back here!)
Precisely the opposite is happening. Not only have very few of these terrorists been arrested, the Government of Canada is focussing resources on re-integrating them into Canadian society. Recently, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proudly announced that resources have been put in place to facilitate disengagement from violent ideologies.
(Our idiot Boy Justin does not shy away from exposing his twisted values and muddled thinking!)
Last week, in response to questions from the Leader of the Official Opposition, Andrew Scheer, about this critical issue of national security, the prime minister accused Conservatives of being discriminatory and Islamophobic. Hiding behind the rhetoric of “diversity and multiculturalism” to avoid answering legitimate questions about Canada’s national security is not good enough.
(LIE-berals keep insisting that being an “Islamophobe” means holding an unreasoning fear of Muslims- but the way LIE-berals use the word- it clearly indicates the meaning of the word refers to people who are disgusted with ALL LIE-beral policy and has very little to do with Muslim terror!)
No one of goodwill believes there is any place in a diverse and multicultural Canada for ISIS terrorists. There is nothing bigoted or Islamophobic about arresting ISIS fighters.
The Prime Minister’s words are especially out of touch when you consider the case of 24-year-old John Maguire, by his own description “a typical Canadian kid” who grew up in a small town near Ottawa. Maguire traveled to Syria and Iraq in 2014 to join ISIS, where he recorded a six minute pro-ISIS propaganda video urging fellow Canadians to launch terror attacks on their own soil. Maguire was reportedly killed in 2015.
The Government of Canada is responsible for protecting its citizens, not allowing ISIS fighters to re-enter Canadian society without any consequences.
(Our idiot Boy reveals his insane anti western bias- that he learned from his vile father Pierre! Pierre hepaed fawning praise on Chinese Chairman Mao “for his genius in rushing 30 million people to the gallows” just so he could eliminate potential political opposition before it got organized! And Our Pet also told us that the war against Nazi Germany was “British Imperialism”! With family values like this it is no wonder Our idiot Boy is comfortable around Muslim radicals!)
Canadians need to know that their families are safe and that the government is doing everything they can to protect them. Sadly, that is not the case.
(LIE-berals are focussed on buying Muslim votes so they can cling to power at any price so strong govt action against Jihadists would harm LIE-beral support and thus will NOT be done!)
Justin Trudeau needs to focus on the serious work that is required of the Prime Minister of a G-7 nation. This includes making it clear to all those who wish to take up arms for ISIS that they will not be welcomed back, that they will not be re-integrated into society and that there is no place in Canada for terrorist sympathizers.
(Our idiot Boy IS focussed on what HE THINKS is the serious work of a G-7 leader- that is- he is following ion the footsteps of his vile father Pierre and is struggling to destroy “Cdn Imperialism”! The battle against such “Imperialism involves political action to anger and injure Yankees and to encourage enemies of the west. Our idiot Boy follows his fathers lead in supporting hard core socialism- hence his support of various third world pest hole political leaders! And this is long standing LIE-beral policy- prime minister Jean Chretien was still happily sending Cdn aid to Zimbabwe even as our allies in the British Commonwealth were ending their aid shipments to that vile dictator! LIE-berals expose their twisted values when they show us who their true friends are!)
— Linda Frum is a Conservative Senator representing Ontario.
(The Trudope family are NOT people to turn to for help defending democracy or capitalism, or free speech either! Trudopes SCORN such concepts unless they can twist it- using Fake News- into direct support for THEM!)
ASK AMY: Student struggles with neighbours' racist assumptions
Amy Dickinson, Special to Postmedia Network
Published:
July 26, 2018
Updated:
July 26, 2018 6:02 AM EDT
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Dear Amy: I’m a college student from the suburbs of San Francisco. I’ve been attending college in New York.
My best friend from school is coming to visit me this summer, and I couldn’t be more excited! But, excitement aside, I do have concerns.
In a time where people of color, especially men, are having the police called on them for everything from waiting for a friend in Starbucks to taking a nap in a common area of a dorm building, I am worried about my neighbours’ potential reaction to a man of color showing up in their predominantly white suburb.
I have toyed with the idea of making a post on http://nextdoor.com [a neighbourhood social media site] asking people to think twice before panicking, should they see my friend walking down the street, as he belongs there as much as they do, but I know my county prides itself on being a liberal and progressive area, and I don’t want to insult anyone.
I don’t want to upset my community by accusing them of racist behaviour I have never witnessed, but I am aware of incidents taking place in similar communities.
I do not know what to do to offend as few people as possible, while still trying to make sure my friend feels safe and welcome in the place I call home.
Your suggestion?
— Toeing the Line
Dear Toeing the Line: In recent neighbourhood news, “neighbours” in a community similar to yours called the police because they saw an African-American firefighter (in uniform) performing a safety inspection in the neighbourhood. The firefighter’s white (female) colleague said that in the future, she would accompany him on neighbourhood sprinkler checks, basically for his own safety.
You should start this process by notifying your friend that your neighbours are somewhat likely to “panic” and call the police if he is bold enough to walk through the neighbourhood while also being black.
Strangely, you seem to worry more about offending your neighbours by challenging their lofty notions of themselves than you do about the risk posed to your friend if he walks through your neighbourhood alone.
I have two suggestions: Challenge your neighbours out loud to actually let a black man — any black man — walk through the neighbourhood unchallenged, not because he is your special guest, but because he is a human being walking down a sidewalk.
Also, be completely honest with your friend about the kind of community he would be visiting, and the physical or psychological annoyance (or worse) he could face, simply by being there.
http://torontosun.com/life/relation...-struggles-with-neighbours-racist-assumptions
Amy Dickinson, Special to Postmedia Network
Published:
July 26, 2018
Updated:
July 26, 2018 6:02 AM EDT
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Dear Amy: I’m a college student from the suburbs of San Francisco. I’ve been attending college in New York.
My best friend from school is coming to visit me this summer, and I couldn’t be more excited! But, excitement aside, I do have concerns.
In a time where people of color, especially men, are having the police called on them for everything from waiting for a friend in Starbucks to taking a nap in a common area of a dorm building, I am worried about my neighbours’ potential reaction to a man of color showing up in their predominantly white suburb.
I have toyed with the idea of making a post on http://nextdoor.com [a neighbourhood social media site] asking people to think twice before panicking, should they see my friend walking down the street, as he belongs there as much as they do, but I know my county prides itself on being a liberal and progressive area, and I don’t want to insult anyone.
I don’t want to upset my community by accusing them of racist behaviour I have never witnessed, but I am aware of incidents taking place in similar communities.
I do not know what to do to offend as few people as possible, while still trying to make sure my friend feels safe and welcome in the place I call home.
Your suggestion?
— Toeing the Line
Dear Toeing the Line: In recent neighbourhood news, “neighbours” in a community similar to yours called the police because they saw an African-American firefighter (in uniform) performing a safety inspection in the neighbourhood. The firefighter’s white (female) colleague said that in the future, she would accompany him on neighbourhood sprinkler checks, basically for his own safety.
You should start this process by notifying your friend that your neighbours are somewhat likely to “panic” and call the police if he is bold enough to walk through the neighbourhood while also being black.
Strangely, you seem to worry more about offending your neighbours by challenging their lofty notions of themselves than you do about the risk posed to your friend if he walks through your neighbourhood alone.
I have two suggestions: Challenge your neighbours out loud to actually let a black man — any black man — walk through the neighbourhood unchallenged, not because he is your special guest, but because he is a human being walking down a sidewalk.
Also, be completely honest with your friend about the kind of community he would be visiting, and the physical or psychological annoyance (or worse) he could face, simply by being there.
http://torontosun.com/life/relation...-struggles-with-neighbours-racist-assumptions
Man caught on video allegedly threatening family; Toronto police investigating
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Published:
July 25, 2018
Updated:
July 25, 2018 8:16 PM EDT
A view of Toronto's skyline from the Gardiner Expressway. (The Canadian Press)
TORONTO — Police are investigating after a man allegedly threatened a family in an incident caught on video at a Toronto ferry terminal.
A video posted to Facebook shows a heated argument between a blond man and a family that includes women wearing head scarves.
The blond man can be heard on several occasions demanding to know where the family is from, and telling them they can’t “ask me a question in my (expletive) province.”
He is heard threatening to kill one of the men, and to “smash his head in.”
The blond man exchanges shoves with at least two men in the family, and at one point tries to slap one man’s hand.
Police say they were called to the scene on Monday evening, but are still gathering information and cannot confirm the religion of the family, or whether officers are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
http://facebook.com/teejay.meer/videos/10156095612873591
http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...reatening-family-toronto-police-investigating
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Published:
July 25, 2018
Updated:
July 25, 2018 8:16 PM EDT
A view of Toronto's skyline from the Gardiner Expressway. (The Canadian Press)
TORONTO — Police are investigating after a man allegedly threatened a family in an incident caught on video at a Toronto ferry terminal.
A video posted to Facebook shows a heated argument between a blond man and a family that includes women wearing head scarves.
The blond man can be heard on several occasions demanding to know where the family is from, and telling them they can’t “ask me a question in my (expletive) province.”
He is heard threatening to kill one of the men, and to “smash his head in.”
The blond man exchanges shoves with at least two men in the family, and at one point tries to slap one man’s hand.
Police say they were called to the scene on Monday evening, but are still gathering information and cannot confirm the religion of the family, or whether officers are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
http://facebook.com/teejay.meer/videos/10156095612873591
http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...reatening-family-toronto-police-investigating
POOR LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!
They just CANNOT find a way to change the public narrative that is turning so strongly against ALL LIE-BERAL POLICY!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating the bigotry and racism prevalent at so many schools and colleges and universities. With some comments of my own in brackets):
Colleges = anti-diversity and pro-exclusion
By Walter E. Williams, Special to Postmedia Network. Published: April 30, 2018.
Updated: April 30, 2018 8:01 PM EDT
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Fresno State professor Randa Jarrar cancelled a weekend speaking gig following blowback from her bitter Barbara Bush tweet.
Just within the past week or so, some shocking professorial behaviour has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added, “PSA: either you are against these pieces of s— and their genocidal ways or you’re part of the problem. that’s actually how simple this is. I’m happy the witch is dead. can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million iraqis have. byyyeeeeeeee.”
(Oh real class there! But so typical of LIE-berals! Their jubilation when Conservative finance minister Jim Flaherty died young was classic CRASS and total LOW CLASS!)
In New Jersey, Brookdale Community College professor Howard Finkelstein, in a heated exchange, was captured on video telling a conservative student, “F— your life!” At the City University of New York School of Law, students shouted down guest lecturer Josh Blackman for 10 minutes before he could continue his remarks. When Duke University president Vincent Price was trying to address alumni, students commandeered the stage, shouting demands and telling him to leave.
(We should perhaps acknowledge how utterly frustrated LIE-berals are now that ALL their polices are falling into UTTER DISGRACE! Their disappointment and embarrassment are palpable and DESTRUCTIVE forces in the world!)
None of this professorial and student behaviour is new at the nation’s colleges. It’s part of the leftist agenda that dominates our colleges. A new study by Brooklyn College professor Mitchell Langbert — “Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty” — demonstrates that domination. By the way, Academic Questions is a publication of the National Association of Scholars, an organization fighting the leftist propaganda in academia.
(The really disturbing thing about the LIE-beral position is they intend to “win” any debate or discussion with CENSORSHIP! You cannot really win a debate by HIDING Facts and logic!)
Langbert examines the political affiliation of PhD-holding faculty members at 51 of the 66 top-ranked liberal arts colleges according to U.S. News & World Report. He finds that 39% of the colleges in his sample are Republican-free — with zero registered Republicans on their faculties. As for Republicans within academic departments, 78% of those departments have no Republican members or so few as to make no difference.
(It was the British Labour Party that apparently pioneered the idea of getting their people into the school system to indoctrinate students! The idea has clearly spread across the planet and been quite successful- as long as the kids remain in the hot house school atmosphere! The problem appears when the kids go out into the real world and get exposed to things BEYOND LIE-beral censorship control! One reason for the Doug Ford win can be attributed to the number of college kids struggling with student debt- thus they now see CLEARLY the poisoned nature of LIE-beral spending and shameless vote buying!)
Langbert breaks down the faculty Democrat-to-Republican ratio by academic department, and there are not many surprises. Engineering departments have 1.6 Democrats for every Republican. Chemistry and economics departments have about 5.5 Democrats for every Republican. The situation is especially bad in anthropology departments, where the Democrat-to-Republican faculty ratio is 133-to-1, and in communications departments, where the ratio is 108-to-zero. Langbert says, “I could not find a single Republican with an exclusive appointment to fields like gender studies, Africana studies, and peace studies.”
(This stuff dovetails with similar anti leftie comments by U of T professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson! The study of economics is not one of the fuzzy humanities but personal bias makes for a selective and subjective reaction to policies- one has only to think of Rhodes scholar and former Toronto mayor David Miller who knows lots about spending money AND knows nothing about where it comes from or how it is earned or why out of control debt is Bad!)
Later on in the study, Langbert turns his attention to Democrat-to-Republican faculty ratios at some of our most elite colleges. At Williams College, the Democrat-to-Republican ratio is 132-to-1. At Amherst College, it’s 34-to-1. Wellesley’s is 136-to-1. At Swarthmore, 120-to-1. Claremont McKenna, 4-to-1. Davidson, 10-to-1. Only two colleges of the top 66 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 list have a modicum of equality in numbers between Democratic and Republican faculty members. They are the U.S. Military Academy, aka West Point, with a Democrat-to-Republican ratio of 1.3-to-1, and the U.S. Naval Academy, whose ratio is 2.3-to-1.
(It is clear that those who cannot “do” in the real world will turn to teaching!)
Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats, those views can be described as leftist, socialist or communist. It is a cowardly act for a professor to take advantage of student immaturity by indoctrinating pupils with his opinions before the students have developed the maturity and skill to examine other opinions. It is also dereliction of duty of college administrators and boards of trustees to permit the continuance of what some professors and students are doing in the name of higher education.
(It is also a GROSS CONFLICT of interest considering how much govt tax money colleges and universities get in Canada! LIE-berals BUY civil service union Hog votes with gobs of gravy- while enslaving students into debt with rip off OSAP loans to pay for the gravy- while professors abuse their position by spewing propaganda at the kids about how good a govt deal they are getting!)
Langbert’s findings suggest biases in college research and academic policy, where leftist political homogeneity is embedded in the college culture. The leftist bias at most of the nation’s colleges is in stark contrast to the political leanings of our nation. According to a number of Pew Research Center surveys, most Americans identify as conservative.
(An example of bias would be the women` studies groups who have arbitrarily re-defined the crimes of spousal abuse and rape in order to make social conditions LOOK more severe than they are- according to author Christina Hoff- Somers in her book “Who Stole Feminism”? Hoff Somers documents a shameless manipulation of statistics by Feminazi FAKES who are seeking govt grants for problems THEY have created by faking number and altering definitions- without bothering to admit their fakery to anybody !)
These Americans are seeing their tax dollars and tuition dollars going to people who have contempt for their values and seek to indoctrinate their children with leftist ideas.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
(The war against FAILED LIE-beral policy goes on!)
Heh-heh. Little white lib girl saying "What can I do?"
Let him handle it, little girl. He's been living in his American skin for quite a while.
Declare war on crazy fonts?
Sure- why not?
We already have LIE-berals declaring war on white people!
WE have LIE-berals declaring war on cops!!!!!!!!!
WE have LIE-berals declaring war on fiscal solvency and logic!!!!
We have |Cdn LIE-berals declaring economic war on Yankees!!!!!
We have LIE-berals declaring war on the honest workings of our legal system!
Man charged in ferry terminal confrontation caught on video
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Published:
July 27, 2018
Updated:
July 27, 2018 11:21 AM EDT
A blond man confronts a family at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in Toronto. (Facebook video screengrab)
A 50-year-old man has been charged in what police call a “suspected hate-motivated crime” that was captured on video at the harbourfront ferry terminal.
Toronto Police say a man confronted two men who appear to be Muslim as they walked with their family at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal on Monday.
The man assaulted and threatened one man, police said Friday, and assaulted the other man.
Video posted to Facebook shows the blond man demanding to know where the family is from and telling them they can’t “ask me a question in my f***ing province.”
He can be heard threatening to kill one of the men and to “smash his head in.”
Lombray Ball, of Toronto, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of assault and threatening death.
Police say they have yet to get permission from the Ministry of the Attorney General to lay hate-crime charges.
He was to appear in Old City Hall court Friday at 10 a.m.
— With files from The Canadian Press
http://facebook.com/teejay.meer/videos/10156095612873591
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/man-charged-in-ferry-terminal-confrontation-caught-on-video
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Published:
July 27, 2018
Updated:
July 27, 2018 11:21 AM EDT
A blond man confronts a family at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in Toronto. (Facebook video screengrab)
A 50-year-old man has been charged in what police call a “suspected hate-motivated crime” that was captured on video at the harbourfront ferry terminal.
Toronto Police say a man confronted two men who appear to be Muslim as they walked with their family at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal on Monday.
The man assaulted and threatened one man, police said Friday, and assaulted the other man.
Video posted to Facebook shows the blond man demanding to know where the family is from and telling them they can’t “ask me a question in my f***ing province.”
He can be heard threatening to kill one of the men and to “smash his head in.”
Lombray Ball, of Toronto, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of assault and threatening death.
Police say they have yet to get permission from the Ministry of the Attorney General to lay hate-crime charges.
He was to appear in Old City Hall court Friday at 10 a.m.
— With files from The Canadian Press
http://facebook.com/teejay.meer/videos/10156095612873591
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/man-charged-in-ferry-terminal-confrontation-caught-on-video
Here is a description of real life down town- and we can blame this on LIE-berals:
Here is an article illustrating what a MESS LIE-beral policy is making of Toronto- and other urban centres! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Decay sparks farewell to downtown Toronto living
By Anthony Furey: Published: July 23, 2018. Updated: July 23, 2018 8:30 AM EDT
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The low point of living with kids in downtown Toronto came for me just the other month.
My son and I had left our unit to take a bag of trash to the garbage chute. Then we headed to take the stairs down to play outside. I opened the stairwell door and my young son did as he always does and charged ahead. But this time he suddenly came to a stop.
“Oh,” he said, confused. I followed behind and bumped into him. He’d stopped dead in his tracks. There on the floor right in front of us was a woman with a needle hanging from her shin. We’d interrupted her injection.
“Oh,” she said in response. My son looked up at me. I looked down at her. She looked up at me.
“Are … are you OK?” I asked.
“Yeah,” she stammered in a sad, apologetic voice. “I’m just leaving.”
(Oh right!!!! If only such people would leave quickly and quietly!!!!! She was probably delighted to find that safe stairwell to lurk in! Andh ow RUDE of residents to intrude on her privacy!)
Her arms were a mess. Her ankles were a mess. She was hanging by a thread. Her bony calf was the only clean place left to inject.
And there she was, in our building’s staircase, just a few feet away from my condo door.
I went down to tell the security guard and he sighed, saying something about how they’re always doing drugs or urinating in the underground parking garage.
No, I explained to him, she wasn’t in the underground. She was in the building proper. A new barrier had been crossed.
(The persistence of drug addicts in pursuit of their addiction is legendary!)
That said, the barrier for us had always been pretty precarious. I’m used to checking playground equipment for needles before letting the kids go on it.
I’m always prepped to divert the stroller in a different direction to avoid what looks like a dangerous situation on the horizon.
And those are just the challenges unique to living as close as we do to the curious ecosystem that is the Moss Park neighbourhood. Families throughout the core grapple with a whole range of more mundane issues like tiny living spaces and avoiding showdowns with motorists, dog walkers and – as Mike Strobel called them – “bicycultists.”
(Isnt that nice- navigating downtown is becoming ever more like working through a minefield!I recall being stopped one very hot afternoon at Jarvis and Shuter St. And 2 guys are standing talking beside and empty wheel chair- and every now and then they look down at a bundle on the sidewalk as if monitoring it. And the bundle resolves into an unconscious man laying face down on the sidewalk. A closer look reveals the guy has no legs- just stumps- and then it hits- me- the guy is NOT WEARING Pants! Yeah- he is only wearing a T-shirt- as if he got up in the morning and decided that was all he needed to go out into the summer heat! There is no blanket or sheet visible on or around the chair so I must conclude he went out sans pants or underwear!)
(In the old says he would have had cops or paramedics rolling up to check on him but these days its “ho-hum- just another addict on a bad trip or something like that”! And nobody now wants to get involved with such crazy people who are becoming such a blight on the landscape!)
(It is possible the guy was merely a diabetic who lost his legs due to circulation issues but if he was in a diabetic coma would his pals not have called 911? One mUst assume his pals knew what he was on- SOMETHING ILLEGAL- and were just waiting for him to get sorted out?)
We’ll be saying goodbye to all that when we move out of the core next month and into slightly more spacious and slightly less edgy digs.
And I’ve got to say, I have mixed feelings about it.
Downtown living’s been good to me over the years. Will I still be able to browse through music stores in the evenings? Go to midnight movie showings? Raid through the recycling bins of the likes of author Jane Jacobs whenever I passed by her house, because she subscribed to all the best magazines and there was always something great to read?
No, I won’t. But these questions are moot anyway. It’s pure nostalgia talking.
Like almost everyone else, I don’t really buy music anymore. I haven’t been inside a record store in ages. All I do now is get misty eyed whenever I hear Steven Page come on the radio singing “drove downtown in the rain…” It’s been over a decade since I’ve been to a midnight screening of Rocky Horror or The Dark Knight. And it’s been even longer since the famous Jacobs passed away and I stopped going to the theatre that had me regularly pass by her old house.
These urban experiences just don’t exist anymore. At least not for me they don’t. I’m too old. I’m a dad. I go to bed early.
No, when you grow up and have kids your urban perspective suddenly shifts from a care-free one that’s almost blind to the grit of the city to one focused on protecting your offspring from what you suddenly realize is ever-present decay.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a city with grit. But for every person in Manhattan who laments how their home has become so sanitized and corporate, another one will tell you how glad they are to be free of the dirty lawlessness that prevailed in the pre-Guiliani years.
(A little grit is one thing and it will always be with us- but the scale and scope of |Toronto dirt is growing to unmanageable proportions!!!!)
A used needle drop box in Toronto’s Moss Park. (Jack Boland/Toronto Sun)
I’ll never forget a story the late, great Ottawa columnist Earl McRae told me about how he was walking the streets of NYC in the 1980s, not realizing he was in the wrong part of town and having strangers drag him into a restaurant as if he was their dining companion to help avoid the trouble closing in on his heels.
Toronto is heading both forwards and backwards in this regard — while Google is building a “smart city” on the waterfront, just a few minutes away the Moss Park safe injection site has attracted all sorts of new characters causing havoc in the area.
(Yes- the LIE-beral mindset finds the idea of gated communities to be a valid- for them! Too bad they want the rest of us to pay for the gated community privileges while we live in the grit!)
We may soon be like those science fiction movie cities where a polished elite class in white robes live in pristine towers above while the great unwashed stumble about below, fighting over the scraps.
It could be a surprise just who gets sent up top and who is forced to live below. While I’m making my exit, it’s a privilege not everyone has (or wants). The truth is, if we could afford a mythical 4-bedroom condo with family amenities, we’d stay downtown in a heartbeat. But houses are cheaper than these sorts of condos. Go figure.
These days more and more families just can’t afford to live in anything other than their cramped condos. They’re stuck in the middle – not middle-class elites, but not part of the under-class. Are we gearing up for a series of showdowns? The druggies and their high-brow enablers versus the supporters of the broken windows theory?
The lines aren’t that clearly drawn, of course. And the down-and-out get a bad rap. Most of the people I pass on my daily walk up and down Sherbourne are harmless — the guys bumming around on the corners and in the parks are mostly drunks or mentally ill people who mumble to themselves. It’s the hard drug users that are quite literally itching for their next fix who cause all the trouble, for everyone. Them and their dealers.
Some of the kindest everyday gestures I’ve experienced come from the Sherbourne guys and gals — like how they go out of their way to waft away their cigarette smoke when they see your kids coming.
Or — here’s the heartbreaker — when they start to tell you about their own kids but slowly trail off because they know and you know that they don’t see their kids anymore. It’s like that Leonard Cohen line about how there are heroes in the seaweed.
So it’s with conflicting emotions that I say goodbye to all this downtown decay. I’ve read reflections on Toronto living from people 20 years older than me, and it’s both very similar and very different from my experiences.
What, I wonder, will it be like when my kids make the inevitable trek downtown?
afurey at postmedia.