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This kind of talk is everywhere now. Here's hoping there are decent and humane people still to be found out there, and with higher IQs than this person pic.twitter.com/KEScr1y304— Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) August 28, 2021 Last week @TorontoStar reporter @StephanieLevitz interviewed me. Her first abysmally stupid question was if I was inciting PPC supporters to commit violence when I said that my ‘words are my weapons.’Yesterday that rag was inciting death wishes towards unvax on its cover page. pic.twitter.com/eQ3Ep5KqSE— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) August 27, 2021 Front page of Canada’s largest newspaper, the @TorontoStar (which receives $110,000/week from Trudeau’s bail-out).Imagine swapping...

The Republican National Convention started off with a parade of dishonesty, in stark contrast with last week's Democratic convention. While CNN also watched and fact-checked the Democrats, those four nights combined didn't have the number of misleading and false claims made on the first night of the Republicans' convention. Here are some of the most noteworthy falsehoods from night one of the RNC:

OTTAWA — From the get-go, the Liberal government’s goal in rewriting NAFTA was to get a “progressive” trade deal for Canada that was “free and fair.” So did it? While there are lots of ways to tally the winners — and losers — in the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, one is to look at the six objectives that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland herself articulated on the eve of the renegotiation. [photo caption] As part of the trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico, Canada will ease protections on dairy. [photo credit: CHRISTINNE MUSCHI THE NEW...

WASHINGTON—High-stakes trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. were dramatically upended on Friday morning by inflammatory secret remarks from President Donald Trump, after the remarks were obtained by the Toronto Star. In remarks Trump wanted to be “off the record,” Trump told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday, according to a source, that he is not making any compromises at all in the talks with Canada — but that he cannot say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.” In a remark he did not want published, U.S. President...

Want to see left-wing social activism gone wild? Take a look at some of the views coming from Antonia Zerbisias, columnist for the Toronto Star's Living section. Zerbisias, posted on her Twitter site she wished renown conservative Michelle Malkin were shot. "Forget the Marxists. I wish the marksmen would take @MichelleMalkin. I'm thinking Dick Cheney. He's such a great shot," Zerbisias wrote on the social-networking site Twitter. ...more, with image...

The leftist bias and activist drumbeating of today’s major media is as self-evident as it is plentiful. A look at how major media acts in North America’s most liberal cities gives us an indication of the true dangers that media bias poses here. The examples below should serve as a vital wake up call to conservatives to relentlessly point out the biases of the media at every turn so as to prevent our voices from being wiped out of the public debate. Certainly, the lengths that the dominant media of left leaning cities goes to in trumpeting their point of...

Ontarians have renewed their faith in Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberals. Forgiving his broken promise not to raise taxes shortly after he took office in 2003, voters yesterday handed him the first back-to-back Liberal majority government since Mitch Hepburn won 70 years ago.

Mandatory minimum sentencing schemes do not work, at least not if the goal is to reduce violent crime and improve public safety. In the United States we know that, because we have tried them all. Canadians may therefore be surprised to learn that their government is mimicking this failed U.S. penal model, in the name of getting tough on violent crime.

Without winning a single Toronto seat, Prime Minister Stephen Harper could secure a majority in the next election. Mathematically, the possibility has always been there. Toronto has just 23 of the 308 seats in Parliament. What wasn't initially clear was whether Harper would try to build a winning coalition without Toronto. The emerging consensus: Yes. Political insiders at city hall, Queen's Park and on Parliament Hill expect the Prime Minister to make Quebec his top priority. The Conservatives now hold just 10 of the province's 75 seats. As a secondary thrust, Harper will target ridings his party lost by a...

An anonymous tipster sends some intriguing information about the "whiny kids grow up to be conservatives" study conducted by left-wing UC Berkeley prof Jack Block. Wondering where the nursery school kids who were the subjects of the study came from? Check this out: I know exactly which "nursery school" was used as the basis of this study. It is not mentioned anywhere in the text of the 16-page pdf you provided for downloading, but I know because -- well, because I know people who were some of the subjects of this study (and of other similar studies). And an extremely...

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals. The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar...

Isn't nonstop fawning press coverage wonderful? Other than entrenched, well-connected liberals like Al Franken, of course, who exactly would have an idea of how that feels? For the Radio Equalizer, the toughest task is weeding through it, otherwise we'd cover nothing but Frankenfluff (a term we coined to describe the particular level of positive press Al routinely enjoys). Even this mainstream media lovefest can have pitfalls for unsuspecting recipients, however. Why? Because it eventually leads to carelessness and overconfidence. Particularly during recent television interviews, we've already seen that in Franken, who can't seem to understand why anyone wouldn't find the...

Rick Anderson declares Tories ready, willing and able to take reins The Conservatives are certainly ready to govern. This really boils down to two main questions and, on both counts, the Conservatives are increasingly in better shape than the Liberals. First, the Conservatives are slowly putting together an attractive policy program: Raise incomes and create jobs by easing the heavy hand of government on economic levers and in your pocket; shift the emphasis to individual, family and local responsibility; curtail the growth of the nanny state. Let innovation flourish in health care, guided by practical criteria — better services and...

Linda McQuaig says Tories are still same sheep in different clothing The romance between Peter MacKay and Belinda Stronach is undoubtedly the hottest dating story to hit Ottawa since Art Eggleton resigned as defence minister after awarding an untendered contract to an old girlfriend. Certainly the handsome couple presented a more fetching image for the Conservative party at its founding convention last week than did veteran MP Elsie Wayne, who did her best to keep alive the party's image as the home of screaming, anti-abortion extremists. If media reaction is any guide, the party succeeded in casting itself as moderate...

While some U.S. senators are clamouring for his head on the oil-for-food scandal, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is getting a prominent plug from Paul Heinbecker, Canada’s former Ambassador to the United Nations (2000-2003). In the lead op-ed piece in yesterday’s Toronto Star, Heinbecker makes his plea to Resist rush to judgment. Accusing Annan’s Washington detractors of employing “frontier justice”, Heinbecker calls for a disentanglement of the facts and politics of the oil-for-food program. “According to the uber-hawks in Washington, including their birds of a feather in Congress, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan should not only resign, he should be...

TORONTO red-STAR Nov. 16, 2004 SHOULD CANADA INDICT BUSH? THOMAS WALKOM When U.S. President George W. Bush arrives in Ottawa — probably later this year — should he be welcomed? Or should he be charged with war crimes? It's an interesting question. On the face of it, Bush seems a perfect candidate for prosecution under Canada's Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act. This act was passed in 2000 to bring Canada's ineffectual laws in line with the rules of the new International Criminal Court. While never tested, it lays out sweeping categories under which a foreign leader like Bush...

On May 9, the Toronto Star newspaper published an editorial entitled, “Donald Rumsfeld should resign now.” The demand was of course based on the media-manufactured “atrocities” of Abu Ghraib. That’s odd, I thought. I couldn’t recall ever seeing an American newspaper demand that an official of a foreign country resign. “Bush has apologized for the abuse, which he called ‘abhorrent.’ He says the soldiers responsible will be punished. But his words are not enough. They will not erase the anger raging throughout the Arab world, as well as across the United States, for the indignities inflicted upon the prisoners. Nor...

Saddam, bin Laden link found: Canadian reporter Last Updated Sat Apr 26 22:54:29 2003 BAGHDAD-- Secret documents uncovered in the bombed headquarters of Iraq's former spy agency show the first clear link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, according to a Canadian journalist. 'It was marked top secret, and of course they went to great lengths to try to mask the contents' – Mitch Potter Mitch Potter, a foreign correspondent with the Toronto Star, says he discovered the file while digging through what's left of the Mukhabarat intelligence office. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had already...

Even in the wake of last year's terror attacks, anti-Americanism is pervasive in Canada, especially among the country's ruling caste. We don't want "U.S.-style" health care here -- or "U.S.-style" gun culture, "U.S.-style" foreign policy or "U.S.-style" capitalism. Indeed, one of the surest methods to stifle public debate on any issue is to accuse one's opponent of importing "U.S.-style" solutions. Nowhere has this attitude been more prevalent than at the Toronto Star, where anti-Americanism is the in-house religion. So it was an act of courage when, in her Friday column, Star columnist Rosie DiManno not only defended U.S. policy on...

NEW YORK - IT HAS started. Reporters going to great lengths to assess the mood of America, one year after. Taking the pulse, taking the measure, of a nation. We shall leave no victim unturned, no survivor unexamined, no hero unheralded, no fatherless baby unphotographed. It's what we do in this business, often without substance or insight, rarely with any grace. If journalism is history on the run, then the post-9/11 reportage has been a 12-month marathon that has taken us from lower Manhattan to Afghanistan and now, a week away from the anniversary of that fateful date, the Ides...