If a student’s religion compels the avoidance of women, it is not the school’s duty, or anyone else’s, to force him into situations that compromise his values or deny him the education he is paying for. It is Canadian society’s obligation to accommodate him, now and throughout his lifetime. Women clearly lose nothing by his absence, and they gain the principle that they in turn can bar men from their activities. This is the fruit of multiculturalism under the Charter. How does it taste?
Author: Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch
The Hamper Harper Campaign
If this current campaign to weaken Mr. Harper’s leadership had the least chance of success, I would denounce it as irresponsible mischief on the part of those who, as journalists, seek copy or, as politicians, seek power. The greatest defect of the current system, in their opinion, is the fact that it has put Mr. Harper at the head of affairs in consecutive elections and promises to do so again. (That said, everything I hear privately about Mr. Harper’s management style reminds me of Nabokov’s Paduk. Fine. As long as Mr. Harper’s compass and mine point in the same direction, I do not care. He commands volunteers who may seek other employment any time they choose.)
Why is Harper on talk radio?
Maybe because, having successfully alienated the NSM (non-Sun media) he has nowhere else to go. If your strategy has been to reach the people more directly, through social media and local news outlets, and you feel you have to do something, then maybe that is what you do. But it looks hasty and ill conceived. And these local appearances cannot change the direction of a national story. So far, they have only made things worse, because he made fresh headlines this morning when he told one radio host Nigel Wright had not resigned, but “was dismissed”. The mainstream pack never liked Harper and it has years of frustration and anger to work off. Now, in Tory convention week, they have motive, means and opportunity – and a national audience.
Right-wing Russian beats US Commie!
Beat him? Beat him like a rented mule! Thank goodness Hilary got at least a little upwind of this disaster! The big question now of course is how the Republicans can contrive to lose to this bunch again.
An email to York Regional Police chief Eric Jolliffe
This was sent in relation to the threats issued by York regional police to a rabbi threatening bad things if Pamela Geller was allowed to speak at a conference at his synagogue.
Sir, if I understand correctly, your police service forced its chaplain to cancel a completely legal event under threat of dismissal after pressure from one segment of your community. If so, you have made an extremely bad decision. As a police service, you have demonstrated quite effectively just whom you intend to serve and those rights and freedoms you have decided not to protect. In doing so, I believe you have created the conditions for serious problems in the future which your service will have no choice but to confront. But you may find your officers meeting those challenges with much less support than they might otherwise expect. Good luck to them.
Blazing Cat Fur published a letter from the Canadian academic Salim Mansur on this absurd capitulation to Islamic sensitivities.
Sign ze paper, old man!
If you have not yet done so, get to the Sun TV petition and sign it. Please. Yes, I understand all the reasons why TV channels should not extort money from viewers but I can get past that part for now. Give Ezra and his colleagues a shot at the bigger audience they have been working so hard to deserve – then, from a level platform, they can continue to attack those and other ills on our behalf. Look, good TV costs money and plenty of it, so if the CRTC can direct a bunch more to Sun, then raise up your voice. Please. The left liberals hate and fear this alternative and will kill it if they can. Please. Sign ze paper.
Forget Benghazi. Seriously.
The MSM media lockdown on the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi is almost comprehensive. The story will not be a decisive or even important factor in the presidential election. The big networks and newspapers have not covered the sorry trail of deception and contradiction so far, and there is no reason to expect that will change. The Fox News Friday blockbuster – doomed CIA agents begging for help from an uncaring Washington – is losing momentum by the moment, as a providential storm approaches the east coast and allows newsrooms to look the other way even harder. So forget Benghazi. Just as they turned in a picture-perfect debate performance and more or less ignored Benghazi, so I suspect the Romney campaign will continue to do so, responding to events or questions when they absolutely must, but otherwise holding silence. They are letting the event speak for itself. It does. The campaign can only weaken its impact, if it plays into a string of MSM irrelevancies and ambuscades. Any serious investigation of this tragedy will happen after the election. Like Mr. Harper here in Canada, the Romney people realized they will never, ever get a square deal from the traditional media, and they adjusted accordingly. I believe the Romney team learned its lesson from ‘shoot first, aim later’, and will no longer venture into territory it does not own. Mr. Romney’s speech last night was on the economy and that is right on target.
Inverted Globe story still banal but less stupid
The National Newswatch features a Globe story this morning headed “Harper may have to watch his back(bench)’. Don’t bother reading it. It stitches together some backbench activity to presume some threat of revolt. The real story should read, “Harper so utterly confident of his people and his policies that he tolerates a little dissent.” As I say, still banal, but less stupid. No wonder the NSM (non-Sun media) are in such trouble. The number of people who will pay for their trite and tricksome tripe must surely be diminishing.
Nobody reads the Globe, or nobody cares?
Somebody brought a Saturday Globe up to the lake, and because it was right there on the dock, I read the “Dhimmi” Doug Saunders article on Islam. It was predictable. He was scared of Muslims at first, too, but he got over it. Unlike some people. When I got back to town and Internet access, I noticed that, as far as I can tell, nobody in the online circles I frequent – here, Blogging Tories, the incomparable Shaidle and some others – took the least bit of notice. Hence my question. Nobody reads the Globe or, if they do, they cannot be moved to comment? I find that interesting, either way, but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. I only read Globe items when they deal with my narrow professional interests and, having done so, feel I have done a duty. So, am I to conclude that the Globe is incorrigible, hence unreadable? As of Monday evening, the Saunders article had attracted almost 3500 comments, which is a pretty good score, most seem to take exception with Saunders’ whitewashing of the problem and many of them sufficiently pungent to be censored away, so some people are reading, if only online and gratis. So, is the Globe and Mail completely irrelevant? Not even worth keeping an eye on?
Liberal robocall story will be classic “Yes, but ….”
It takes no great vision to foresee that the NSM (non-Sun media) will give this the classic treatment: “Sure, but just wait and see how bad the Tories were. Our anonymous sources say …”