Today’s the day Toronto decides if they want to elect a drug-addled, gay ex party boy or a fat, violent rich thug as mayor for the next four years.

With these stellar choices, how can Toronto help but exemplify the “diversity” it so vociferously touts? I mean, really: A queer and a cracker, squaring off against each other. All this story needs is Kevin Bacon dancing in the church basement!

Personally? I’m voting for the thug. Why? well, in 2006, San Francisco voted Toronto to be the gayest city in the world. I really don’t think there’s much more Smitherman can offer us, other than blowjobs all around. Let’s try the cracker instead - that would show real diversity!

Vote Ford!

He may be a buffoon, but I just don’t see another choice. You see, I had planned on voting in the Toronto mayoral election for Rocco Rossi - a liberal, with good conservative fiscal policy. His ideas were very good, and he was running a clean campaign.

But today, Rocco Rossi unequivocally proved that his decision-making skills are questionable and he shouldn’t be trusted with the gigantic budget of Canada’s largest city. He hired Warren Kinsella to work his campaign. (Hello Warren, you chronic self-googler.)

For those of you not in the know (because unlike Warren, you’re not constantly googling “Warren Kinsella”), Kinsella is a spent Liberal party hack that very few people want hanging around. While every job loss in the last several years - from the Canadian Jewish Congress (which he wasn’t paid for) to the Federal Liberal Party - have been “resignations”, it’s pretty clear that he is the kiss of death to everything he puts his name to.

On top of his endless “resignations”, Kinsella is also the bored internet troll - we all know the type - who gets a hate-on for negative press and stalks the hell out of anyone who says anything negative about him. He actually pays his so-called “propeller heads” to sniff out his critics so he can serve them with legal papers*. Anyone with skin that thin should have their internet disconnected, because they obviously can’t handle it.

And this is the person Rocco Rossi - the closest thing to a sane candidate Toronto had on the ballot - wants working his backroom. Jesus.

Toronto mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi got a much-needed boost Monday as veteran Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella confirmed he is joining Mr. Rossi’s team.

“I’ve told Rocco Rossi I want to volunteer on his Toronto mayoralty campaign,” Mr. Kinsella said in an email.

“He’s super smart, he treats all people with respect — and he’s fiscally conservative and socially progressive. He’s a good man. Rob Ford is no good on the social issues; George Smitherman is not top-of-mind when it comes to fiscal discipline.”

On the plus side, Rossi isn’t paying him. Hence my liking of his fiscal policy.

* Screen cap of Warren offering a bounty for the deets on a blogger he didn’t like. Naturally, the original post is gone from his archives. Imagine that.

On my way to my post-apocalyptic-marriage group therapy this evening, I popped into a  greasy spoon for a bite to eat. While noshing my dinner, I watched the TV set to CP24, Toronto’s all news channel. At five o’clock they introduced the top stories of the day.

Wanna know what #1 was, despite the 2 shootings that took place in Toronto and the terror arrest in Ottawa? Guess. You’ll never guess.

The number one news story for Toronto - Canada’s largest city - was that a traffic officer illegally parked in a disabled parking bay (in a Tim’s parking lot, naturally), and someone got cell phone snaps of it. The first SEVEN minutes of the newscast were dedicated to this deeply pressing issue, with interviews from the appropriate special interest groups, and the woman who snapped the pics.

Toronto has absolutely no sense of priorities. We are doomed.

The idiot socialist mayor of Toronto tells us that “diversity is our strength”. I live in Little Jamaica, so I’m not so sure I agree with him, but whatever. This post isn’t about the stabbings and shootings that take place within meters of my apartment - it’s about the differences between the black and white communities in the city.

In Toronto’s black community, crime is a daily occurrence. Whether it’s a drive by at a community “non-violence” barbecue, or a shooting in a parking lot on Canada Day, or a stabbing down the block from me, witnesses are reluctant to come forward. Two hundred people can witness a crime, but because the assailant and witnesses were all black, the witnesses will shut their mouths and plead blindness. Shooting? What shooting?

Let’s compare that attitude to an equally marginalized community - the homeless. The white homeless. On Monday there was a rape in an east end cemetery. A 61 year old woman, visiting her mother’s grave, was dragged of the path, beaten and raped. She is still in hospital. Her assailant was white, and the old biddy put up quite a fight, scratching up his face. Once her attacker’s description was released, it was less than a week before he was picked up. In fact, it was his so-called friends who lived with him in a local homeless shelter who turned him in.

In Toronto, our black communities are always bleating about crimes committed, but rarely do anything to turn the tides. This conspiracy of silence in the face of gang activity - while understandable - is one of the main problems. Us crackers have no issue with turning our own in if they hurt someone. Does that make us untrustworthy? Maybe. But at least it means our communities have less violent crimes, because we’re not willing to tolerate it.

The police can only do so much to stem the tide of violent crime if the most affected communities refuse to break their ghetto code of silence. Blame whitey all you want, but we take care of our own.

Via Moonbattery comes this from the National Post

In a close race with the United Nations for the most ridiculous decision of the month, Toronto’s city council will consider a proposal making it illegal to warm up the car, or keep the motor running while you pick up the kids.

Ever-prepared to impose its agenda on the lives of residents, council will consider a recommendation by the Board of Health reducing the current limit on idling from three minutes to one.  And since even the three-minute law is rarely enforced (Hint to authorities: because it’s stupid), the board recommends giving parking control officers the authority to write tickets. Fine: $125.

The stated reason for this intrusion is that idling cars emit large amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Plus, the behaviour-control forces that make up the dominant left-wing bloc hate cars and want to force people to ride bicycles, which they view as preferable for ideological reasons. Dr. David McKeown, the city’s Medical Officer of Health,  came dangerously close to giving the game away when he explained: “While we’re trying to shift people out of cars, into bikes and other forms of transportation, the one thing that should be easy to do is not use our cars when we don’t need to.”

Right. So the goal is to make driving as miserable as possible, thereby making the options — ie the TTC –appear less unattractive. And city authorities — not you — will decide when you need a warm car and when you don’t.

I expect a human rights challenge from the taxi companies. For example, smoking in the workplace isn’t permitted, ergo cabbies can’t smoke in their cars, because it’s their workplace. So, the reverse should also apply: No one can force a worker to work in unsafe or unhealthy conditions. This is Canada - if a cabbie can’t run his car, he’ll freeze his hairy Arab balls off. And while I’m not against the torture of Arabs per se, they do have a strong case for making their workplaces livable.

Things like this happen in sweatshops in developing countries all the time. Over heated or freezing factories, no bathroom breaks, and you buy your one cup of water from the company store at 300% of its value. But this is Canada. If we forced a cabbie’s wife to work in a factory like that, there would be much hue and cry about the conditions. But because he works in his eeeeeevil vehicular conveyance, fuck him.

Oh, and if you read down far enough, you hit the punchline: The law won’t apply to city workers in city vehicles.

Last Friday I had the pleasure of celebrating the shabbos with my pal Rochelle. She lives in Jew Hill (affectionate nickname - not actual name of town), just north of the city limits.

After dinner, I attempted to help her clear the plates, and was bewildered by my predicament: She had only one trash can.

Why did that confuse me so? Well you see, I live in Toronto, where are mayor is so devoted to our rubbish, it is often to the exclusion of all else (including the actual collection of said rubbish). We have blue bins for recyclables, green bins for organic waste (apparently diapers and sanitary napkins are “organic” - go figure), brown bins for compostable yard debris and black bins for whatever’s left.

The sight of a solitary garbage bin at Rochelle’s left me feeling like a deer in the headlights. How ridiculous is it to have to ask someone where the stale bread and half-eaten matzoh balls should be disposed of, while standing in front of a trash can? You’d think the answer would be obvious, but to us Torontonians, who live every day under the watchful eye of garbage fascists, the answer isn’t always so clear.

Today the head of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Bob Kinnear, told the Toronto public not to call TTC employees “lazy” or “overpaid“.

This sleeping ticket collector makes over $26 an hour

That garbage strike really sucked, didn’t it? Six weeks in the middle of summer, we were stuck with rubbish rotting away in our various colored bins - green, blue and black. Yes siree, for six loooong weeks those bins were mini composting machines. So, here’s the thing you need to do now that trash is once more being collected:

Wash the fucking things, wouldja??

Now, even with weekly service resumed, there is still bits of rot down at the bottom of all these bins, which are left open after the city trucks have gone by. Those six weeks of composting left a sludge that takes bleach to remove.

So bleach them. Please. Because I actually vomited while walking along Avenue Road this evening. A cupful of Clorox and the garden hose will wash away David Miller’s sin from the bottom of your bins, and keep the scent-sitive types such as myself from losing their lunch over it.

Thanks muchly.
Wendy

I mentioned the other day that the loony anti-Semites would be out to complain against the Royal Ontario Museum for an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Well, the VZC (Vast Zionist Conspiracy™) came out last night to counter-demo, and seriously, you couldn’t pay for that kind of entertainment.

First of all, on the Jew-Hating side of the street, there were almost no Muslims of any ethnic background. Maybe three in total. Most there were… wait for it… aging Jewish hippies. You know, the ones that come out to any protest, any time, any place, against The Man?

One woman (and I wish my video had turned out better) stood screaming at us “Rape! Rape! Rape!” at the top of her lungs. I wasn’t sure if it was an accusation or a request.

She's clearly Palestinian, right?

There was also a plentitude of Queers for Palestine, which always tickles my funny bone. I mean, once the Arabs are done anihilating teh jooooz, you just know they’re gunning for the queers next, right? And not that I think it needs to be pointed out, but said Queers were all pasty white and their women were not in hijab. Just sayin’.

Moonbat with the Best Sign award goes to Zionists Killed Michael Jackson:

I guess Sarah Palin is off the hook for that one.

Here’s something I totally didn’t expect though: We had more people in support of Israel. Seriously, I’m out there almost every time, and it rips my knitting that so much of Toronto’s Jewry are so apathetic to issues that directly involve them. They never leave their damn houses. And here we were, heading into sunset and the Shabbas, and a whack of them turned out in support. I was truly shocked. In a good way.

For the most part my pictures were not great, and my video not salvageable, but I was on flag duty.

Ugly Chin Crystal at the ROM finally comes in handy for a beautiful purpose

So I will direct you to Josephine over at Lumpy, Grumpy & Frumpy for excellent photos. I’m told she will have video later today.

As an aside, the pro-Pali crew were very intimidating/intimidated where our people were concerned. They’d scream at us for filming and photographing them, while photographing us! You just know they sleep in tinfoil hats, right?

If Toronto city employees have enough time and money to run around town sealing off garbage cans because they’re having a strike, they’re already overpaid and underworked. Given the time, money and effort it took these squaling whores to do this, they could have collected the damn trash.

BTW, the ad on the bin is for Toronto childcare. Which is also shut down this week because of the strike. How precious.

Get your festering asses back to work. You can live with short-term disability (which still pays for your malingering) instead of your 18 unqualified sick days per year.

My trash will be hand delivered to Mayor Miller’s front lawn in Bloor West at the first sign of vermin.

Tonight.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Gole Sorkh to Mel Lastman Square (and back)
Meet in front of Gole Sorkh (6184 Yonge Street)
Toronto, ON

I will try to be there, but I have my reasons for wanting to avoid the crowd. On that point I know Winston will forgive me. That said, I will make the effort to at least check it out, and anyone else in the area should too. The Iranian people fighting the Mullahcracy are running on adrenaline, hope and moral support.

They need that moral support from those of us around the world.

My account of yesterday’s pathetic anti-Bush protest in downtown Toronto. They have lost their fighting spirit, now that their arch-nemesis is a civilian just like you and I.

I don’t know who the Marxists, Socialists, Khadr’s, Stop the War etc have left to live for, now that they have no one to hate.

I am totally shaken. On the subway on my way over to feed Kathy’s cat while they’re away at a funeral, it finally happened. Some deranged 6th Century Mohammedan lost it and began screaming ALLAHU ACKBAR, calling everyone racists, and talking about Bin Laden and rising up.

Like good little sheep, someone pushed the yellow passenger alarm, stopping the train in the station. The little mid-train conductor man stepped out of his booth to see what was happening. We tried explaining to him that there was a potential terrorist on the train wit us, to call the police. Thew little Asian fellow appeared not to understand a damn word we were saying, decided there was nothing to see, and got back on the train.

Meanwhile Mohammed continued to rage about Allah on the platform where many of us stood. (obviously I got off the train - I wasn’t going to stay stuck on there with an Islamic madman). No security came. The train left with Mohammed pounding on the closed doors, saying he had a metropass and a right to free speech (the irony was not lost on me). When the next train came, he got on it.

I would like to know if this is part of the city of Toronto’s protocol to deal with a terrorist threat on the underground. This guy was a lunatic who was unarmed - what if the next one is packing? Will the same level of incoherence apply to TTC staff?

If anyone in Toronto is at all interested, here’s a pic I managed to grab of the guy.

So yeah, I’m back in Toronto.

And I want sushi. Like, NOW. Any takers? I’m free for dinner.

Vlad Tepes Blog contributor Grace has an essay on the Aqsa Parvez/Toronto Life honor killing story. Bottom line:

If it looks like an honour killing, walks like an honour killing and talks like an honour killing, it is an honour killing. Honour in Islam depends upon the dishonouring of women and to claim otherwise is a lie.

The socialist powers-that-be chased the Guardian Angels out of town when they sought to set up a chapter in Toronto. We, the residents of the ailing city, were told that we don’t need such tyrants and goose steppers patrolling our streets. And so the predictable panacea of social funding for basketball courts and crack kits was provided, and the city continued to die.

Till now. Chinatown has had enough of addicts, whores and panhandlers dirtying up its streets, stealing from its businesses, and scaring away its customers. And for the last two weeks, Chinatown has been employing a private security company to do what the police won’t do: Deal with petty crimes.

So far more than two dozen “banning orders” have been issued against disruptive undesirables, reported Ross McLeod, president and CEO of Intelligarde, the company patrolling the neighbourhood. Several intoxicated individuals have been carted off by police or ambulance, and he said numerous aggressive panhandlers have been “dealt with” by his employees.

“The last guy we arrested in Chinatown had lost control of his bowels, let me say, and was covered in his own feces but he would not stop aggressively panhandling,” reported Mr. McLeod, adding that responding police officers weren’t all that happy to have to take the person off his employees’ hands.

“For the low-level disorder, the public police just don’t have time for that unless it escalates into something much more serious.”

It isn’t just Chinatown, either. Liberty Village, Emery Village, Downtown Yonge Street and Kennedy Road in Scarborough all use either security firms or off duty cops. Why? Because petty crimes, vandalism, drug and alcohol abuse and panhandling are all problems if you’re trying to run a business. They may seem like small fry to the cops and commissioners, as well as the mayor, but to the residents and business owners, these “broken windows” only serve to make their areas a little worse every day.

Naturally, the mayor has a better idea:

Mayor David Miller said this week that he would prefer to see city staff such as social workers called in to deal with panhandlers and homeless people so that they can be referred to the proper support services.

Social workers. Yup, that’ll do it. When the next vagrant shits himself on the sidewalk, some social worker can come along to help him rebuild his self-esteem. One can only hope she’ll offer him a clean tissue in the process.

And the unions are pissed off, too:

Dave Wilson, the president of the union representing uniformed officers, has complained that private, lesser-trained employees taking over duties historically delegated to police is “lowering the standards in the policing world,” and “a dangerous slippery slope.”

No Dave. The standards have already been lowered so much, that private citizens are having to raise them up themselves. They’re not waiting for your union boys to do it for them. And that just rips your knitting, doesn’t it?

Kateland - mother to three teenage children - received a “safer crack kit” in her mailbox from the City of Toronto. Why? Because of her neighborhood. The city isn’t even bothering to find out who uses what anymore - they’re just handing these out, expecting every resident on Kateland’s street must be a crackhead.

C’mon kids! You’re not doing crack now, but you might as well be! Let us help you get started!

Thankfully, Kateland has done an awesome job with her children, so they won’t be taking the City up on their invite to try crack. I wonder though about the other families in the area.

Mayor Miller is clutching a petition in his greedy, sweaty little palm, to have handguns banned in Canada. Ninety percent of the people who signed it are from Toronto, where gun ownership among law abiding residents is low. However, gun crime is high, especially in social housing and areas with a high proliferation of black, fatherless boys. Why not ban Jamaicans instead? After all, a gun sitting on a table is highly unlikely to kill anyone, even by accident. But a gang-banger who perceives “disrespect” will shoot first and not bother asking questions later.

Ontario went ahead with a pitbul ban - a specific breed of dog was singled out for genocide. C’mon Ontario - show us you really mean it with the gun ban. Go ahead, you soft-bellied, bike-riding, electric-car-buying, soy-munching city folk: Stand up and ban that what threatens you: The Jamaican. It makes a helluva lot more sense than banning an inanimate object.

Ah, but to do so would expose the mild city folk of Toronto for what they really are: A bunch of NIMBYs who know what the problems are but are too politically correct and inert to address them. More social housing! they cry. More basketball courts! (which is by far one of the most racist things I have ever heard). Yet, never in their lovely manicured neighborhoods. Hey, I hear ya - I don’t wanna live next door to some hair-trigger black boy with daddy issues and a chip on his shoulder, either. But I try to be honest about it.

C’mon, Toronto - step it up! You’ve already convinced the black community to go back to segregation, something we thought had gone the way of the Dodo a looong time ago. You’ve got them setting up separate black schools inside already existing white schools, so they can have separate entrances and their very own water fountains. And you even convinced them that it was their idea in the first place! Surely you can convince them to commit genocide on themselves. I mean, we’re already halfway there anyway, with the amount of shootings and stabbing that take place on any given weekend. Surely your solution is more guns, not less?

Good luck, Toronto, with this sticky little problem. But really, can’t you find a way to keep us law-abiding folk out of your little social engineering project? We have more important things to do.

Didn’t we ban guns in Toronto? Surely these people heard about David Miller’s ban on guns!

At least six gunshots were fired into a ground-floor apartment in the city’s west end early this morning.

An 11-year-old boy, a 24-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were inside the unit at 3735 Dundas St. W., near Scarlett Rd., around 1 a.m. when the shots were fired, Toronto police Staff Sgt. Mark Tilley said.

Someone from the unit frantically called police and once they arrived, no suspects were found, but bullet holes were found inside the apartment.

No one was injured.

“This is still fresh and it’s being actively investigated by our detective office,” he said.

Police are still investigating a similar case that occurred May 25.

An unknown number of suspects stood outside a townhouse complex and fired into three homes on Orpington Cr., near Finch Ave. and Albion Rd.

No one was hurt in that case either.

Wow, these guys couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat! If only they had some place to practice…

Toronto will never have crime again! I’m so excited! At long last, the murders will end, the sirens will be silenced, and candy gumdrops will grow on money trees.

After a long, at times bitter and widely diverging debate, Toronto city council passed a series of measures to stamp out gun violence this afternoon by a two-thirds margin.

The 31-9 vote was a victory for Mayor David Miller, who had championed the steps in order to give the city the moral authority to push other levels of government to get tough on gun crime after council voted strongly in April to ask Ottawa to enact a national handgun ban.

We’ll all sleep soundly from now on. Those pesky target shooters and gun collectors are going DOWN!