Canadian folk artist John Swinton’s original paintings predicted to be a solid investment according to award-winning educator and writer Michael Ernest Sweet.

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Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu was facing criticism for being too slow in building cases against participants in the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver.  So he held a press conference in August where he introduced Constable Lee Patterson to explain how evidence is collected.  It was an odd choice of spokesperson, since Patterson is accused […]

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How do respond to the bravery of men who catch a man eating crocodile, to protect their children from harm?
You tell them they should be ashamed of themselves, and that they should let the dangerous animal go free.
Yes, the foreigners who pay all that nice money to PETA to get foreign women to dance half […]

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 Photo:  After battling prostate cancer, Jack Layton announced, ”I’m almost vegan.”  Here he is seen during the election campaign eating a thick smoked meat sandwich in Schwartz Deli in Montreal.

Jack Layton has just done something never done before in Canada.  In Monday’s federal election, he moved the left wing New Democratic Party from it’s chronic third […]

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Photo:  NDP leader Jack Layton photographed on the campaign trail eating a smoked meat sandwich, after announcing earlier this year,”I’m almost vegan”.

A leaked police report this week revealed that when a Toronto massage parlor was raided by the vice-squad, they found a naked Jack Layton lying inside. After interviewing Layton, police told him that the […]

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has in the past criticized China for their human rights record.  But he has evaded requests for comment on why he endorsed an organization inside Canada with a record of human rights abuses, the left wing Carnegie Community Center Association on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
The CCCA interfered with election results by working […]

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George Will reported in his Newsweek column, “More Stimulating that the Stimulus,” that “In Ottawa, the sensitivity police in a children’s soccer league announced that any team attaining a five-goal lead would be declared to have lost, thereby sparing the feelings of those who were, if you will pardon the expression, losing.”
This was confirmed by […]

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How many times have you heard or read the phrase “the best interests of the child?” If you read much about family law and family courts, the probable answer is “more times than I can count.” Indeed, establish a Google Alert for the phrase and you’ll get links to several articles, court cases, op-eds, etc. […]

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What would be the worst possible time to go to China to ink business contracts? When you’re facing criminal investigation for fraud.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is spending this week in China, visiting the Shanghai World Fair — Sept. 10th is Vancouver Day at the fair — and four other cities, talking to business people about the […]

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In the superb movie "Awakenings", Leonard Lowe (Robert DeNiro) is woken up from his catatonic state by a drug administered by Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams).  All goes well until Leonard starts to exhibit some side effects.  While this is happening, he insists that Dr. Sayer continue to film him, which Sayer is doing as […]

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The following is an article by Fathers & Families Board Member Robert Franklin, Esq.:
The case that’s dropped jaws all across the U.S. and Canada is finally coming to an end.  Judge Kip Leonard is finally allowing Noah Kirkman to return to his native Calgary after two years in foster care in Oregon.  Read about it […]

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When is a comic not a comic? When he takes insults about “dykes” and “c*nts” off stage,  when he twice marches over to the table of two lesbians in the audience, when he later grabs the sunglasses off the head of one of the lesbians after insulting her at the bar, when he hollers at the lesbians outside as they leave […]

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Where was Zoey? The lawyer for lesbian Lorna Pardy seemed thrown by a question about the failure of Pardy’s ex-girlfriend’s to testify at the BC Human Rights Tribunal. The question was asked by adjudicator Murray Geiger-Adams during last Friday’s wrap-up of a hearing into homophobic remarks that Pardy was subjected to by comedian Guy Earle, just after her then […]

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It was a human rights hearing that at times sounded like an ad for Corona beer.  A discussion with waitresses about getting a round of cold Corona was the first in a chain of events that led to a hearing last week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, a hearing in which Zesty’s restaurant in Vancouver and an MC at […]

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Lorna Pardy ended up hurting herself when she laid a human rights complaint against comedian Guy Earle for discriminating against her as a lesbian and a woman. That was obvious this week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal where witnesses were calmly asked, “Did you hear Mr. Earle say, ‘Don’t you have a strap-on dildo […]

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We are still waiting for the details of the Obama care bill that is going to save American health care, whether we want it or not.
One is reminded of the saying: The devil is in the details; and indeed, in these days when money is going to rule all of us, one has to wax […]

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Photo: Mayor Gregor Robertson 
On Friday, Vancouver Police were asked to conduct a criminal investigation into Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson; Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem (also a Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee member); the City’s Security Co-ordinator at Carnegie Center, Skip Everall; and Director of Carnegie Center and the Olympics Homeground Festival, Ethel Whitty. These individuals, it […]

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Ah, another “cost effective” study that makes one go “Huh”: from PsyOrg:
Influenza vaccines: Poor evidence for effectiveness in elderlyFebruary 17, 2010Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years. […]

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For years now we’ve been told that Diabetes is a lifestyle disease; in effect, the result of our reliance on the “meat-sweet” diet and our avoidance of regular exercise.
While our “lifestyle” certainly plays a role in the onset of diabetes, according to several new studies, the actual cause may in fact be the result of […]

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Photo: Demonstrators gather at Thornton Park on Saturday, the morning after the opening of the 2010 Olympics.
Anarchists in Vancouver, Canada have been promising “Riot 2010″ for a few years now, and it happened Saturday. A crowd of roughly 200 people, mostly in their 20s, many dressed in full black regalia with […]

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Photo: Party lights at Vancouver’s Pacific Central train and bus station mark the opening of the Winter Olympics

The struggle to put a stop to the alleged persecution of bloggers by the City of Vancouver has now reached the White House. President Barack Obama has been asked to back bloggers when he sends Vice President Joe […]

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As the torch for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games approaches Vancouver after being carried across Canada, the torch for a parallel games arrived yesterday. It was the torch for the 2010 Poverty Olympics, carried from city to city across British Columbia. It’s arrival was cheered by about 500 people packed […]

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Shame the sponsors. That sums up the remedy advised by Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee member and Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem on Wednesday Jan. 13, after she was briefed at City Hall on evidence of persecution of bloggers and other computer/internet users by the City of Vancouver.  Ballem (in photo above outside City Hall) encouraged […]

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Teenage blogger and newspaper writer, Walker Morrow, has become something of a balloon boy for older bloggers in Canada who have been crticizing erosion of free speech and other constitutional rights by Human Rights Commissions.  They watched in disbelief as Canada’s media giant, Canwest, abandoned Morrow when legal action was threatened over his article, “Questionable […]

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President Obama was brought up in Asia, yet he seems clueless about Afghanistan, and of the geopolitical problems in this area.
The press is even worse, preferring the simplistic out of date explanations of the “Afghanistan is Viet Nam” meme, or the “Stop the war” meme, or stressing civilian casualties “reported” by Taliban linked sources without […]

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Vancouver Police have decided not to fund raise for United Way this year.
Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry learned of this decision after writing to the Vancouver Police Board on Sept. 22/09 requesting that they put an end to Vancouver Police fundraising for United Way.  Initially, COPP received an email from Rachelle Radiuk, Executive Director of the […]

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Vancouver Police Board members Gregor Robertson, Vancouver’s mayor, and Terry Laliberte, a criminal lawyer, have been asked to put a stop to the Vancouver Police Department’s in-house fundraising for United Way.  
Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry made the request in writing on Sept. 22, based on documented evidence supporting allegations that United Way benefited from police […]

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Anti-HST rally on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Canada Place (Camera was malfunctioning so the date stamp is incorrect.)
You would think Bill Vander Zalm was a movie star, the way people reacted to him at this afternoon’s Anti-HST rally at Canada Place in Vancouver, crowding around him afterwards to take his photo or get theirs […]

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Vancouver: I stopped by the Farmers Market on the lawn of Pacific Central Station, a magnet for people making an effort to follow the Hundred Mile Diet. I bought an organic Macintosh apple to snack on as I walked home.  It was $1.09, an expensive apple it seemed to me.  I bit into it, expecting […]

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A lot of nonsense being written in the news about Conservative writer George Will deciding to throw in the towel in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is a mess. Big deal. It’s been a mess for a couple thousand years, and trying to “win” a war there and put in a crumpets and tea democracy is a bit delusional.
But […]

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