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!

But you weren’t listening then.

Now it’s suddenly “news” that we have sleeper cells of Hezbollah in Canada that are waking up. Bravo. Where were you two years ago, when I was reminding Toronto police that Hezbollah is a recognized terror group in Canada, and that the men waving their flag should be taken in - at least for questioning? Those Toronto police said things like “We’re not wading into that mess…” Oh what manly men - how brave. Better that they let the cells continue to exist and finally come awake to wreak destruction on us. Pussies.

Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected “sleeper cells” in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group’s Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa.

Officials say Hezbollah is seeking revenge for the February assassination of Hezbollah’s military commander, Imad Mugniyah, killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria.

The group’s leaders blamed Israel, an allegation denied by Israeli officials.

There is no credible information on a specific target, according to the officials.

Suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted recent surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada and on several synagogues in Toronto, according to the officials.

If anything at all should happen on Canadian soil, I will be sure to have those pictures linked above splattered on every billboard in every major city. I will make sure that every news station receives a copy of them. And I will scream “I told you so!” from the rooftops.

Shameful that this is the first most Canadians will have heard of this.

Hat tip Darcy

Yeah right.

2 men fatally shot in random attack in Toronto: police

This is Toronto. Our shootings are rarely “random” here. I was downtown at a friend’s last night, and heard the sirens. Another bloody night in the city. I am still rather under the weather today, so I will let one of my betters do the opining.

As for stuff in the news…. Those damn Americans have killed two more Torontonians.

Two fine fellas were sitting in an SUV last night, minding their own business, I’m sure on their way home from their university course on space administration and aeronautics when they were gunned down for absolutely no reason.

They had really turned their lives around, but then it all comes to an end because those damn Americans keep shipping guns up here. If Americans would stop doing that, we would probably have no murders at all in Toronto because everybody is nice and wonderful and squeaky clean with the best of intentions.

If only more people would listen to Mayor Miller, things would be a lot better.

My theory is that someone set up a deer blind on the corner of Richmond and Niagara, and just weren’t very good at aiming. Those pesky hunters…

Well, here’s a hint. Americans are always belittled, insulted and generally despised - openly - when they come to our “fair” city. Now even the city councilors are getting in on the act.

It is interesting to note that letters criticizing Toronto City Council for closing down city-run shooting ranges were sent from Mississauga, Halifax, Wellesley, Ont., Pickering and Peterborough.

I supported shutting down the shooting ranges because I believe it is hypocritical for city council to call for a total ban on handguns, while supporting and in fact subsidizing gun culture at city-run facilities – especially when recreation programs to keep kids away from the draw of a street culture that too often includes weapons are underfunded in Toronto.

Letters from outside the city and indeed from across North America have been trickling in since council made its decision. My favourite letters are the ones being sent from the U.S. Gun owners there are now urging a boycott of Toronto. Considering that most of the problems with guns on our streets emanate from south of the border, I couldn’t be happier.

If all it took was closing a couple of shooting ranges to stop gun-toting Yanks from coming to our city, maybe we should have shut the doors on these clubs years ago.

As for people outside Toronto, you are free to shoot off your mouths in this city or any other town. Just don’t shoot off a gun in Toronto.

Adam Vaughan, City Councillor, Toronto

The SARS epidemic has nothing on the general rudeness that our American neighbors are faced with when they decide to come North.

Just another evening in Toronto.

A man was shot to death last night in an apparent gun battle on a northeast Toronto street corner.

Residents heard as many as five gunshots and the sounds of screeching tires on Bonis Ave. near Birchmount Rd. and Sheppard Ave. E. at about 11:20 p.m.

Police arrived to find the victim sprawled at the rear of the Agincourt Mall.

No word on whether the perp was a duck hunter or a target shooter.

The National Post is doing a bang-up impression of Toronto Star. For a moment, I forgot which website I was reading. In today’s Posted Toronto Blog, Barry Hertz rants about the latest Toronto shooting “tragedy” - the gangland execution-style bullet hail that took place in Lawrence Park last late last week - and blames everyone and everything except the little putz who pulled the trigger.

While I too have held some disdain for Toronto’s architectural failings (I come from Montreal and I lived in Britian and travelled Europe - Toronto is butt ugly), I never would have thought to blame the urban planners for gun crime.

Somebody is doing a good job shovelling the snow in Lawrence Heights. In a video police released yesterday, two men in dark jackets walk down a carefully cleared pathway, lined with thick white snow. They could be heading to the corner store for a litre of milk.

The guy in front turns down a side path toward a building. He pulls something from his coat pocket. It is a gun. He fires a shot. The next image closes in to a tight frame, seen from above, almost the way a movie editor might splice the scene. Only this is no movie, people. As the snow reminds us, this is Toronto the Good, 2008.

Oh the scene setting, oh the poetry. Right, so the tender-hearted urban cowboy goes on to describe the scenes from the murder footage, firing the gun (Get that part, people? Someone actually deliberately pulled the trigger to kill someone… but that’s not the point, is it?) etc.

And he then closes out his piece with the same Intro to Short Story Writing shmaltz that he opened with:

Where I live, we all shovel the snow and we all have pride. In Lawrence Heights some municipal worker shovelled the snow and then got the hell out of there, to leave the locals to die.

Relax, buddy. It’s criminals shooting criminals. I really don’t think the heavily unionized snow remover had much to do with it. He’d lose his pension, you know? And then he’d have to live in like, an ugly building? And ugly buildings, like, make people angry? It perpetuates a deadly cycle, you know, man?

With the arrest of 96 people ranging in age from 17 to 63, Toronto police say a five-month undercover project has put a serious dent in drug dealing on west-end streets.

“This is a clear message to those who are plaguing the people in these communities – this type of criminal behaviour will not be tolerated,” police spokesperson Mark Pugash said.

Yes it will. Because…

The alleged drug dealers were “known to police,” having accumulated 1,600 convictions prior to their recent arrests, said Pugash.

Nearly half of those people picked up in the sweep – 45 – were out on bail or on probation.

Seven others were free on two or more bails at the time of arrest.

Toronto justice, folks. No word if they had all been set free once more at the time the Star went to print.

Update: I see where we’re getting our “justice” cues from.

The judge was unmoved by the OM’s argument that the victim had given a very detailed statement and the fact that the Somali had been convicted of mugging earlier, Additionally the suspect lied in more than one court case in the past, the OM argued in vain.

“One must certainly have guts to immediately mug someone again after just having served a prison sentence of some months. One must also assume that the defendant has learned something from the sentence and that it has made him wiser,” according to the judge, who ordered the man’s release.

The Somali showed that this was not enough for him. He was kept in custody for two months despite, he claims, being innocent and will demand damages from the man who accused him.

More proof that Canadians have “polited” themselves into docility.

A gang of 10 teenagers violently robbed scores of subway commuters yesterday afternoon during the peak of commuter rush hour.

The youths, all aged about 15, robbed numerous people — sometimes punching victims in the face — between 4 and 6 p.m. in the stairwells and platforms at stations along the Bloor St. and Yonge St. lines.

In Toronto rush hour, there are thousands of people teeming through the subway system. You mean to tell me that no one could put down a gang of pimply-faced thugs? They just handed over their belongings to a bunch of brats without any kind of protest?

Unacceptable. Were they waiting for the government to step in and pass a resolution or something? If we can’t defend ourselves on the personal level, how can we be expected to defend the rights and interests of our entire country?