The advertisement: "for the job of Toronto police chief to replace Julian Fantino, who retires Feb. 28."
"An experienced law enforcement executive, you have the management skills to lead a large and complex organization . ... You invite dialogue and achieve consensus. ... Above all, you will lead by example to inspire excellence and accountability within the Police Service ..."
The devil is in the politics -- choosing between someone who would please the NDP and another who would please the Liberals.
Which will take precedence -- between the politics and the law enforcement? So Torontonians may live without fear of gun and other violence, is there any disagreement that Toronto needs a chief who will end the violence and the proliferation of criminality, root out the grow-ops, the drugs and all the rest? Isn't that elementary?
WINNIPEG (CP) - Federal Treasury Board President Reg Alcock is suing an Opposition Conservative MP over a letter-to-the-editor he wrote to an agricultural newspaper
[. . . . ] Lukiwski suggested the federal Liberals were engaged in corruption and cronyism, and mentioned Alcock by name. Alcock is the MP for Winnipeg South.
Lukiwski was complaining about the hiring of Avis Gray, Alcock's one-time campaign manager, by the Canadian Wheat Board, an agency for which Alcock is responsible. [. . . . ]
But of course, Mr. Alcock, Minister Alcock, had nothing to do with that. He reminds me of PM and JC.
Hear no evil, see no evil, know no evil
There definitely was corruption under the federal Liberals, as the Gomery enquiry is revealing -- though exactly who to blame has yet to be determined. Most of us could--would like to--make a stab at it. As for hiring Alcock's campaign manager for a lucrative position, isn't that cronyism? Or are Canadians now not supposed to notice?
It is a good idea to explore this inequality which starts in small ways though, in ads for example. If I see another advertisement treating men negatively -- in which women the font of all that is attractive and intelligent while their men are treated as dunces who are lucky to have them, I shall chunder. This approach is used to sell trucks, of all things.
It is time for a re-balancing of how the media treat men in sex crime stories and in other situations, as opposed to how the media treat women.
As with the 'graffiti theory', it might be a good idea to start with a list of the companies and products that demean men and refuse to buy what they advertise. then move from there to government funding of feminists who do NOT represent the best of feminism for most of us who want equality, not tilting the teeter totter our way to another inequality. It is time to fight back.
The world's foremost Nazi hunters want to place a bounty on Nazi war criminals hiding in Canada as part of a last-ditch plan to bring ageing Holocaust perpetrators to justice before they die.
. . . Operation: Last Chance, . . . Efraim Zuroff, blasted Ottawa's handling of war criminals.
He said the federal government's record of prosecuting those accused of committing atrocities during the Second World War and now living in Canada is dismal and distressing.
[. . . . ] "Canada is a safe haven for these guys. [. . . . ]
[. . . . ] In several countries, allegations have been made against people who are now residing in Canada, Mr. Zuroff said.
In 2001, the Simon Wiesenthal Center submitted the names of 97 suspected Lithuanian Nazi collaborators to that nation's chief prosecutor. Twelve of them escaped to Canada after the war. [. . . . ]
"For a country like China, the fundamental choice is whether it wishes to join the group of advanced economies whose relationships are governed by the 'rules of the road' of the international state system," he added."
WASHINGTON - China's future course in the world . . . . whose strategic choices will influence U.S. national security. The three other key issues the administration is assessing are the spread of weapons of mass destruction, "terrorist extremism" and the risks posed by failed or failing nation states, Feith said in a speech to members of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private think tank. [. . . . ]
Canadian home and auto insurers nearly doubled their annual profit to a record $4.2-billion last year, igniting a firestorm of outrage from consumers and politicians across the country who claim the industry is gouging its customers with high premiums.
Bruce Cran, president of the Consumers' Association of Canada, called the profits "obscene" and labelled the industry's recent insistence on the need for higher rates as a "big lie." [. . . . ]
I read that insurance companies are trying to get into the China market -- that some were on the "developing business partnership" trip to China lately? Well, for government control, especially if a little quid pro quo is involved . . .
I, too, find insurance rates high but I have read one item that caused me to re-think this, or at least to acknowledge that there may be more to the story.
I read somewhere that, for example, reckless drivers, perhaps young, who should have had their ability to get insurance removed, have been allowed to continue to buy insurance at comparatively low rates. Why? Because of the need to drive to work. The rest of the driving public bears the financial brunt. In other words, the insurance industry is not allowed to pursue what would be their normal course of business -- refusing to insure or raising the rates of those who are poor drivers far above the rest who then must pay higher rates to cover the poor drivers. I have no ready reference for this, but I vaguely remember that governments were active in persuading the insurance industry to keep these poor drivers on the road. Maybe it had something to do with lack of convenient affordable public transportation. Check further.
Striking back with jammers -- "fed up with the din of dumb conversations and rock-and-roll ringtones"
I love it -- must be an innate meanness -- or love of peace and quiet.
