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The eco-joke is on Hollywood By Rex Murphy Toronto Globe and Mail Saturday, May 19, 2007 – Page A21 Jay Leno is not a global warming skeptic. The blandly humorous host of The Tonight Show is at one with the Hollywood ethos wherein no fashionable cause can fail to be embraced. Entertainers and those who feed most directly off them may not be climatologists, but they are wonderfully precise barometers of what is hip and trendy. Thus Vanity Fair magazine put out its "green issue" last month. Vanity Fair could offer reasonable competition to Vogue as being the slickest,...

Moore blasts U.S. health-care system Canada on right track, filmmaker tells festival By Bruce Kirkland Toronto Sun Sunday, May 20, 2007 CANNES -- Sicko just caused a sensation at the 60th Cannes Film Festival last night. And George W. Bush just might be squirming in the White House this morning. Sicko is Michael Moore's new agitprop documentary. Slick, funny and wildly entertaining, the film is highly critical of the Bush administration and Congress for turning the U.S. health-care system into a profit-making machine that may be killing people by denying them drugs and surgeries. "There is something very barbaric...

So how did it become required classroom viewing? Even climate change experts say many of the claims in Al Gore's film are wrong. Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Saturday, May 19, 2007First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class. In total, 18-year-old McKenzie, a Northern Ontario high schooler, says he has had the film An Inconvenient Truth shown to him by four different teachers this year. "I really don't understand why they keep showing it," says McKenzie (his parents asked that his last...

Sun of a gun By Licia Corbella Calgary Sun Friday, May 18, 2007 A few weeks ago in a column I wrote about David Suzuki's rudeness and hypocrisy I admitted that similar to that green guru, I too love this planet and try to have as small a negative environmental impact as possible but unlike him, I don't believe that human-made CO2 is the main driver of global warming. I received hundreds of e-mails -- most recounting often hilarious stories of run-ins people had with Suzuki, finding out for themselves that his TV persona is a lot friendlier than...

Giuliani's words have hollow ring Presidential hopeful keeps flip-flopping Steven Edwards, National Post Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 With flip-flopping a sure way to ensure rejection at the polls, what's a presidential candidate to do when his political record clashes with the bedrock beliefs of the party he seeks to represent? Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, is taking on the Republican rank-and-file when he asks them to nominate him despite his refusal to renounce his support for abortion. He claims this shows he has the courage to state his views frankly, regardless of their popularity. It's a...

Black activist denied entry to Canada, group says CBC News Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | 12:46 PM ET The leader of the U.S.-based New Black Panther Party, whose invitation to Toronto angered Jewish groups, was denied entry into the country Tuesday morning, the Black Youth Taking Action said. Malik Zulu Shabazz was denied entry by customs officials apparently because of a minor criminal record — a misdemeanour five years ago, members of the group told reporters. They said they invited Shabazz to speak on issues such as establishing black-focused schools and changing curriculums to include contributions by...

Shane Doan's revenge National Post: Lead Editorial Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Despite more than a week of lunatic political grandstanding earlier this month over his selection as captain of Team Canada at the World Hockey Championships in Moscow, Shane Doan got the last laugh (or make that the last broad, beaming smile) Sunday, when he was handed the championship cup at Moscow's Khodynka Arena. After piloting Canada to a solid 4-2 victory over Finland in the gold medal match -- and after leading our national team to an undefeated 9-0 record for the first time in the championship's...

Send in the assmonkeys Behold the latest environmentalist fad: going childless Jonathan Kay, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Last Tuesday, I wrote a column for this space entitled "At a restaurant near you, the war between Daters and Breeders." It was one of those airy, self-indulgent pieces of cultural commentary that otherwise self-important op-ed pundits publish every few months to "show their human side." (See: I eat in restaurants with my kids --just like you!) My basic point was that restaurant diners shouldn't go hard on parents whose kids emit the odd yelp at dinner time. I...

The Third World mocks our green agenda Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, May 14, 2007 Quite rightly, much has been made of the United Nations' bizarre decision to place Zimbabwe's environment minister at the head of its Council on Sustainable Development (CSD). But what has been missed in the coverage of last week's CSD meetings is the UN's utter inability to convince developing nations to join the industrialized world in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Without such an agreement, emissions savings by developed nations will be completed swamped by increasing emissions from developing nations long before the Kyoto accords...

Anarchist leaker covets disorder By Ezra Levant Calgary Sun Monday, May 14, 2007 Jeff Monaghan, a communications worker in the federal environment department, was arrested last week in connection with an illegal leak of a confidential draft of the government's policy on Kyoto. Monaghan has not been charged with anything, but he has been fired from his job and he has not denied leaking the document. Leaking government secrets can be more than just a political embarrassment. If government announcements are known before they are officially made public, it grants an advantage to anyone looking to take advantage of...

U.S. 'Top 10' fugitive arrested in Montreal Updated Sun. May. 13 2007 9:29 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff A U.S. fugitive on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list will appear in a Montreal court on Monday charged with immigration violations. Richard Steve Goldberg, 61, was arrested early Saturday in suburban Montreal by a police tactical team. He is being held under the Immigration and Detention Act. Richard Goldberg is taken into custody early Saturday morning May 12, 2007 by a police SWAT team in Montreal. Canadian authorities will seek to keep Goldberg, who is on the FBI's 10 Most...

Wrangling over detainees eclipses soldiers' work: PM CBC News: Friday, May 11, 2007 Canadian soldiers' heroism in Afghanistan is not getting the attention it deserves as members of Parliament spar over the handling of detainees, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says. Harper made the comment Friday morning while speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 soldiers and military families at a Wear Red Rally to show support for the troops at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, north of Ottawa. The prime minister noted that nine soldiers from the base have been awarded military honours in the past month for their work...

Some advice for three leading Republicans ? David Frum, National Post Published: Saturday, May 12, 2007 Walking on a beach shortly after leaving the White House, former Bush aide Karen Hughes looked up and spotted a little plane towing an advertising banner. The banner said, approximately: "Jill, please come back. I am nothing without you. Jack." She thought: "Wrong message. It's too much about you, not enough about her." A shrewd observation, and one that sums up pretty much everything that is going wrong with the 2008 Republican presidential candidates. Republicans are talking about what excites them. But what...

History of untruths By Peter Worthington Toronto Sun May 10, 2007 CHICAGO -- It was a packed and hushed courtroom at the Conrad Black trial when lawyer Eddie Greenspan started cross-examining David Radler yesterday afternoon, launching a savage attack on his truthfulness. Radler, Black's ex-friend and partner in the Hollinger empire for some 35 years, was obviously warned of Greenspan's legendary courtroom skills of taking no prisoners, and at first was chippy, argumentative, defiant and claiming he didn't understand what Greenspan was asking. Greenspan reminded him of his testimony under oath at a trial in B.C. where he swore...

National Post - FULL COMMENT BLOG - Barbara Kay: The unholy alliance between radical Islam and the hard left In English Canada, the name Françoise David is not exactly a household word, but, however little credibility she has even in Quebec, she is still a major presence in, and co-founder of a legitimate – that is to say, politically legitimate, not morally - political party, “Québec Solidaire”. An ardent extreme left-wing feminist, you’d think that David would be all about the rights of women everywhere, not just in Quebec. But by now we are used to some very illogical...

Taxi driver fabricated refugee claim: IRB Faces deportation; Provided fraudulent documents, made up new identity Stewart Bell, National Post Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 TORONTO - Immigration authorities have stripped a Toronto-area taxi driver of his refugee status after finding out his story of religious persecution in Pakistan was fabricated, allegedly with the help of a lawyer. When he arrived at the Canadian border at Fort Erie, Ont., in 2003, Ghulam Mustafa Raja not only gave a made-up account of his life, he also lied about his religion, marital status, date of birth and even his name. He later...

Idiotization of the masses David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Sunday, May 06, 2007 In my absence I see that the Conservative government I voted for has embraced a broad new "post-Kyoto" nanny-state environmentalist agenda, to head off competition from the environmentalist lunatics on the other side of the Commons floor. Also, that they have sunk in the polls -- having been trashed by the media for insufficient environmentalist zeal, and for insufficient sensitivity to the health and safety concerns of Islamist psychopaths caught red-handed by our military in Afghanistan. The sense that one is returning from vacation to...

Why can May mix pulpit, Parliament? If a Conservative politician had said what she said, the media would have pounced Lorne Gunter, The Edmonton Journal Published: Friday, May 04, 2007 "We have a moral obligation to our Lord and Father to ensure we don't destroy the creation that was given to us. Through the power of our Lord and Jesus Christ, we can meet this moral obligation." Who said that, some pro-life zealot railing against abortion? Some Evangelical Christian who fails to recognize the separation of church and state? A Conservative politician with a hidden agenda to enslave us...

Controversial candidate for Liberals quits Chak's claim of PhD appears to be false Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Friday, May 04, 2007 CALGARY - An embattled EdmontonLiberalcandidate resigned yesterday after it was revealed that he falsified his resume. Farhan Mujahid Chak, who on March 31 won the Liberal nomination for Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont, had already been called to account by the party for failing to disclose a history of criminal charges and controversial writings. Now, Mr. Chak's claims to have earned a doctorate degree from England's Durham University appear to be untrue. Mr. Chak offered his resignation after discussions with...

Y2Kyoto: Al Gore Strikes A Blow For Intelligent Design A global warming disciple was troubled by the Goracle's presentation in Regina; The slide I found particularly interesting/shocking/sad, was his new(?) slide containing a graph of human population growth over the past couple hundred-thousand years. It started off good. He pointed at the beginning of the graph, showing the population of humans on Earth from 200,000 years ago, and referred to the “rise of humans." Cool beans. So he believes that Homo sapiens evolved from other hominid ancestors, right? Nope. In the very same breath, he then continued to explain...