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CHICAGO, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CAHG has won a Global Award for the third year in a row, and is the only US professional healthcare agency to do so in the last three consecutive years. This year's win, announced last Thursday by The Global Awards for Healthcare Communications at a New York City event, was in the Art and Technique – Special Effects category for a video developed for Merck's Victrelis, a treatment for hepatitis C. In true global spirit, award winners were also celebrated at an event in Sydney, Australia, also on the evening of December 6.

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Last year's Global Award to CAHG was in the Best Film/Video category for Merck's vaccine RotaTeq, and in 2010 CAHG won a Global Award in the Professional Convention Booth category for an unbranded hypertension awareness campaign for Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

The Victrelis video is part of an integrated global campaign, created to ensure strategic consistencies across all geographies. Launched in 2011, Victrelis is a new way to treat the more than 170 million people worldwide infected by hepatitis C. The benefits of Victrelis were communicated with a powerful image of a fencing duel, with one fencer portraying a physician demonstrating the precise power of Victrelis over the other fencer representing the hepatitis C enemy.

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CAHG (, which is proudly celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is one of the largest healthcare communications companies in the world. CAHG provides brand acceleration services throughout the brand's life cycle, from compound development to patent expiry and beyond through the following practice disciplines: professional healthcare advertising and promotion; genomics-based medicine and personalized healthcare strategy and communications; clinical trial patient enrollment and management; scientific insight and solutions; multichannel brand building; managed markets; evolving media and analytics; full-service digital/interactive support and eMarketing solutions; and technology-inspired studio solutions.

CAHG is a part of Diversified Agency Services, a division of Omnicom Group Inc., and the lead US agency within the TBWA\WorldHealth global network of marketing communications firms.

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Monday, 23 January 2017

Logical Fallacies of Mass Immigration Supporters: Cherry Picking.

Cherry Picking.

The CBC published a story about a Syrian refugee family in Nova Scotia who found success and self sufficiency one year on after arriving in the province.  They did so by starting a small family run chocolatier business in the community of Antigonish that now employs ten people.  It’s a Syrian refugee “success story” that attracted the attention of Justin Trudeau who referenced their entrepreneurship at the UN as an example of Canada’s welcoming spirit and the rewards refugees and immigrants bring to the country.  It’s an awesome feel good story.  So what about the other 39,499 Syrian refugees?

This is an example of cherry picking.  It’s a logical fallacy where favourable examples are given particular attention to support one’s argument but those that invalidate it are conveniently ignored and swept under the rug.

It’s one of the more common logical fallacies one encounters in debates and comment sections of internet articles.  When one employs this fallacy they typically do so by stating “My neighbour from India…” or “I work with someone from China…” or “My doctor is a Muslim…” or statements of that nature.  Not only are their debate points anecdotal but are also isolated cherry picked examples that can’t be used to argue the successes or failings of the immigration and refugee systems.  If all it takes is one positive story to show “the system works” then I guess the Toronto Police Services most wanted page irrefutably shows that it doesn’t.

One Syrian refugee family finding success in Canada is not a validation that the government’s approach to the Syrian refugee crisis was the correct one (or proof that our refugee system in general is not a lax mess of a system that doesn’t help legitimate refugees for the most part and is of little benefit to the country).  It’s just a story of a Syrian family who came to Canada as refugees and started a small business in Nova Scotia.  And that’s it!

Cherry picking is a cheap and easy debate tactic.  It’s meant to lead one to agree to a preconceived conclusion based on a select sample size.  In this case the CBC and Justin Trudeau want us to believe that because this Syrian refugee family found success all immigrants and refugees will do so as well by implication.  It’s just a matter of time.  But though this one Syrian refugee family found success in the country it’s realistic to assume others probably won’t.  Indeed, perhaps hundreds if not thousands of Syrian refugees will not find an adequate foothold in the country at all, lingering in economic limbo contributing to Canada’s ever growing immigrant underclass like the tens of thousands of immigrants and refugees who came before them.

By the way, rumour has it the Liberal Party of Canada is the chocolate factory's biggest customer.  If that's true then this "success story" was paid for by the LPC.

Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Somali Refugee Now Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.

He's also an immigation lawyer.

And a Muslim.

And a political activist.

And current National President of the Canadian Somali Congress.

And a former assistant to Dalton McGuinty.

What could possibly go wrong?

And I didn't think it was possible for things to get worse but then again the talent pool in Ottawa at the moment, especially within the LPC, may very well be the worst it's ever been.  Politics tends to attract the most mediocre society has to offer.

In related news Mexican refugee claims jump after visa requirement dropped.  I think we can file this one under "Who the f**k didn't see that coming!?"  The Conservatives didn't slap a visa requirement on Mexico because they felt their media fueled image as racist meanies needed confirmation.  They had adult reasons for doing so.  This Liberal government, on the other hand, functions more like a Toronto high-school student council than as the national assembly of a G7 country.  It's like the parents are away and they're throwing a house party.  And with the appoint of Ahmed Hussen to the immigration file we can expect the whole of the third world to crash it.

F**k this government!

Tuesday, 3 January 2017

The Justin Trudeau Drinking Game.

The PMO released a pre-recorded, canned New Year’s address from Justin Sandiego as if anyone in the nation gave a shit.  I didn’t listen to it and I doubt very few people did either however I’m sure it was chock-full of Justin’s characteristic jargon that can turn any Trudeau speech into a drinking game.  Which reminds me, are you a consummate alcoholic?  Do you consider yourself a political junky as well?  Or do you just like to get drunk and find drinking games the most fun way to do it?  Well, if you can stand the sight and sound of Canada’s dorky Prime Minister for more than five seconds then I have a drinking game for you.

It’s apparent our idiot of a PM can’t give a speech or interview without dropping one of the many progressive buzzwords that has come to define his fabricated political brand of the nu-male image.  I doubt he can order a Big Mac at McDonald’s without mentioning how the depletion of the Amazon rain forest contributes to climate change.  Only to then down that high caloric, high fat sandwich like the hypocrite all narcissists are.  Maybe he eats two because he cashed in one of those “buy one, get one” coupons from those McDonald’s booklets we find littering our mailboxes every month or so.  Or maybe he doesn’t because he doesn’t want to hurt that middle-aged dad-bod physique of his that makes him “sexy” for some reason.  Eh, whatever.

So stream a Justin Trudeau talk or interview wherever you can find one and if he mentions “climate change” you take a drink.  If he mentions “global warming” you take a drink.  If he says “equality” you take a drink but if he mentions it along with “gender” or “racial” or “religious” you take two drinks.  If he mentions “feminism” or “feminist” or anything eliciting gyno-centric favouritism you take a drink.  If he mentions “diversity”, “tolerance”, “acceptance”, “multiculturalism”, “inclusion” or “inclusiveness” you take a drink.  If he says “diversity is our strength” or variations of that sentence you take two drinks.  If he mentions “middle class” you take a drink.  And every time he says “Canada” you take a drink because when he’s talking about Canada he’s really taking about himself.

Nightmare mode:  If you find yourself still sober or not drunk enough and you’re determined to go full-tilt inebriated then take a drink every time he punctuates his speech with his characteristic “uhs” and “ahs.”  You know what I’m talking about don't you?  Those faggy inhales he does when he finishes a sentence or starts a sentence or does in the middle of sentence that, if you’re like me, drives you up the f**king wall?  Yeah, that thing!  Go on and take a drink every time he does that but I must caution you you’re courting alcohol poising if you do.  Have some charcoal on hand just in case.

I’m not a drinker myself but I’m tempted to take it up.  I don’t see how I’m going to last then next three years sober.  2016 was a tough one.

Monday, 19 December 2016

From the Best and Brightest Files: Immigrants are Making Us Dumber.

According to this analysis based on PISA scores immigrants are decreasing the national IQs of the West.  To put it crassly they're making us dumb.

There's probably a flaw in the methodology but living in Toronto for as long as I have I'm inclined to think it's correct for the most part.  If our immigration system is designed to filter for the "best and brightest" it's apparent it's not doing it's job.  Or the more reasonable explanation is that Canada doesn't attract the world's "best and brightest" at all and has to settle for what washes up on our shores which tend to be the third-world's C and D students. When you're the safety school country to America's Harvard or the U.K.'s Oxford you're forced to settle for what comes your way.

And if the mostly third-world immigrants Canada attracts are indeed the developing world's "best and brightest" then it explains why the the third-world is in such a sorry state.

Come to think of it allowing immigrants from the third-world to settle in the West is a lose/lose situation.  For one, these mostly unremarkable people add no value to the Western countries they settle in since the West already has high standards of achievement to which their contributions would be negligible at best.  And secondly, by being the "best and brightest" of their country and removing themselves from it makes their native countries dumber and worse off.  Everyone loses in this scenario except the immigrant.

It's clear to me Canada and the developing world are better off if Canada doesn't accept immigrants from the third-world at all.

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Racial Diversity is Bullshit!

I did a Google search for “racial diversity is bullshit” and I didn’t find anything.  I found “diversity sucks” but I didn’t find “racial diversity is bullshit” so I’m writing this blog post to fill that void.  Why?  Because of “hate” G-d-dammit and there’s not enough of it on the internet!  And because I’m an ass like that, that’s why!  And because racial diversity really is bullshit!

So where do I get off saying that?

Well, I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  It’s Canada’s largest city and presently the fourth largest city in North America.  It’s a clean, relatively crime free city given its size but aside from that it doesn’t have much else going for it.  This is why it has to brag about being the most diverse, cosmopolitan city in the world as if that’s an accomplishment worth bragging about.  When you’re the largest city in what is essentially a safety school country for immigrants wanting to settle in the West attracting a numerous and diverse group of people from mostly underdeveloped, shit-tier countries is about as easy as getting Justin Trudeau to stop and pose for the camera.  That’s like the brightest patio light bragging about how bright it is because it attracts the most numerous and most diverse group of insects.  (Sure you’re the brightest patio light but you got all these damn bugs around you diminishing your brilliance.)  So it should come as no surprise to learn that Toronto, with over 200 years of white settlement behind it, has become a white minority city within a single generation.  With having over 50% of its population being non-white and I myself having lived in Toronto for as long as I have I think that makes me well qualified to say racial diversity is bullshit.

Think about it.  What’s so great about racial diversity besides satisfying some sort of xenophilic fetish or to virtue signal to the world how your country is not racist and by implication neither are you?  It’s not as if the amount of melanin or lack thereof in one’s skin endows an individual with some set of special skills, talents, or knowledge unavailable to anyone else even through education, experimentation, and hard work.

So how bullshit is racial diversity?  Well, when Canada was a lot less racially diverse than it is today the country was at the forefront of modern aerospace technology.  When the U.S. was a lot less racially diverse than it is today it was laying the foundations of the internet while putting a man on the moon using technology that was developed by a country that was trying to be as racially pure as possible.  When Britain was a lot less racially diverse than it is today it colonized half the globe, mothered four prosperous industrialized nations, created and gifted the world half of its most popular sports, produced an impressive number of Nobel laureates and created the man credited for seeding computer science.  From the looks of things it appears the white western world was getting along fine in the absence of racial diversity leading the world into an exciting technological future.  But if you succumb to the “diversity is our strength” mindset you’d probably be inclined to believe that if the white West was as racially diverse then as it is today we’d probably have developed a hyper-drive by now and be colonizing other planets in the galaxy.  Because of non-white skin colour magic you see, which somehow makes the white West grow and prosper while doing “dick all” for non-white countries.

Not good enough?  How about the observation that non-whites in white majority countries think racial diversity is bullshit too?  Since actions speak louder than words settlement patterns in our major cities infer this.  Non-whites will vocally express the wonderful benefits racial diversity brings to white majority societies (benefits only white majority countries are in need of apparently and not non-white ones) and then retreat to one of their ethnic enclaves revealing a preference to live among their own.  It appears they have little interest in racial diversity in their ethnic ghettos but think it’s a great thing for the wider white society.  Why this is so, I think, is because most non-whites immigrate to the West for economic reasons and not to participate in some grand multicultural program to “enrich” western nations.  Therefore an expression by whites to maintain the white majority composition of their respective countries would frustrate those ambitions.  So it’s best to tell them that non-whites in their midst is a good thing and they should accept it even to the point where they become an insignificant demographic minority in their own countries.  It’s the racial colonization of white societies and they’re completely fine with that because colonization is wonderful as long as you’re the one doing it.

Even the progressive left thinks racial diversity is bullshit.  Given the left’s propensity for cognitive dissonance they preach the joys of racial diversity out of one side of their mouth while celebrating miscegenation out of the other where in the case of the latter were it allowed to run its full course it would extinguish racial diversity altogether.  Since race-mixing it the ultimate expression for the left that we live in a post-racial world the elimination of racial diversity through miscegenation is the logical endgame. This is because they know, if not consciously then subconsciously, that racial diversity is bullshit since all it does is create problems, problems they acknowledge but won’t admit to.  And if they do admit to racial diversity’s problems it’s always whitey’s fault who, for some, needs to be bred out of existence.  I guess getting rid of whitey, in fact any kind of racial diversity, is the only way a leftist's imaginings of a post-racial Utopia can be realized.

So what has racial diversity wrought?  No benefits outside the superficial while creating problems where none existed before through the creation of social tensions and unnecessary, wasteful distractions in the economic and political realms.  This can be seen in the now very commonplace complaint that there’s too many of X in position Y suggesting that it’s a problem where the placement of Z in position Y is the solution.  However, the problem isn’t that there’s too many of X in position Y it’s that there’s too many of Z making it into a problem.  Remove Z from the equation and there’s no problem.  Or just don’t introduce Z into the equation at all.

But that’s what we’ve done.  We’ve introduced Z and created a problem where none existed before (and as if we don’t have enough problems already).  Government being “too white” wasn’t a problem until we allowed too many non-whites to settle in the country and make into a problem.  The lack of racial diversity in the workforce wasn’t a problem until we allowed non-whites to settle in our society in large numbers and make it into a problem.  Now we waste valuable resources on enforcing racial diversity policies condemning us to settle for second place at best since racial diversity doesn’t guarantee quality and competency.  If racial diversity created the best outcome it can be best explained as a happy accident.

Racial diversity distracts us from addressing the real roots of social inequality which is found in our class based society.  It’s not white privilege you morons, it’s class privilege and many benefit from our class based society and have no wish to change it.  This is especially true for the 1%.  Parachuting some POC into some position of influence and promoting them beyond their competency gives the illusion of social progress while maintaining the class power structure.  Meanwhile the lower classes fight among themselves over the scraps of food the upper class lets fall to the floor from their dinner table where non-whites promote preferences for their particular skin type to give them an advantage.  It’s the old “divide and conquer” strategy to keep the unruly rabble from realizing they have the power and rebelling.  Without the distractions and diluting effects of racial diversity solidarity of the lower classes would be easier to obtain.

What’s most bothersome about racial diversity is that it implies that a racially homogeneous host society is inherently deficient due to its racially homogeneous character and only the introduction of those racially unlike those of the host majority can make that society whole and function at its greatest potential.  It’s suggesting that white majority societies are lacking some kind of vital nutrient needed for growth and survival that only non-whites can deliver.  This is insulting!  It’s saying that a child who grew up in a small white majority community in the boonies had a lesser childhood than one who grew up in a racially diverse “vibrant” community of the big city.  Bullshit!

What’s patronizing is how the “enrichment” non-whites bring to white majority societies is understood to be not reciprocal.  Like the “magic negro” of film non-whites exist in white societies to help whites grow into a more enlightened, civilized people while non-whites are not expected to change at all.  Non-whites are perfect in their natural state and in no need of the “enrichment” they bring to whites or to each other.  Since whites are lacking how are they to benefit from non-whites if non-whites are lacking as well?  It is therefore understood that whites are enriched by non-whites but non-whites are not enriched by whites because they don’t need to be and how can they be if whites are deficient and they’re not?  It’s patronizing for whites, in a state of smug self-awareness, to humbly admit they’re flawed and need to be perfected through the magical qualities they ascribe to non-white skin.  It’s racist and it’s all bullshit!

It’s now 2016, soon to be 2017 (and always “current year”) and the white West is as racially diverse as it’s ever been and what does it have to show for it?  When it was mostly racially homogeneous it was exploring the solar system, breaking the sound barrier, developing the internet, creating modern telecommunications; challenging itself through philosophy, art, and sport; setting global standards in pop culture and fashion.   Today we have safe spaces, trigger warnings, cultural appropriation, anti-white racism masked as social justice, economies more dependent on financial trickery than on the production of real wealth, and where the greatest technological advances we made of late can be summed up in an inane, overvalued, internet data-mining, productivity killing company called Facebook.  It appears the more racially diverse the West has become the more mediocre it’s become but mediocrity is a predictable outcome when diversity is an aspirant quality, especially racial diversity which, in my lived experience, is bullshit.

Monday, 7 November 2016

Logical Fallacies of Mass Immigration Supporters: The False Equivalence.

The False Equivalence.

The false equivalence fallacy takes two opposing arguments and presents them to be the same.

In immigration debates the false equivalence presumes that because an earlier immigrant cohort successfully integrated into Canadian society future ones will as well.  It’s assuming that because Irish Catholics who came to Canada in the early twentieth century and integrated reasonably well then so will Middle Eastern Muslims who come to Canada in the early twenty first.

But past success of one group of immigrants is no indication of repeated success for future ones especially for ones that are a completely different group of people altogether.  Despite the negative reception Irish Catholic immigrants may have experienced when settling in early twentieth century North America they still held much in common with the receiving culture providing a pathway for acceptance by the host society and greater ease of integration whereas Arab Muslim have even less in common with the host society if any at all.

And given the current state of technology one could effectively live in another country while maintaining strong ties with the native one.  The Chinese have been in North America for well over a century yet the Chinatowns across the continent haven’t disappeared.  They’ve grown in number.  Toronto alone has at least three now, four, maybe more if you include the GTA yet you’d be hard pressed to find an Irishtown anywhere in the city.

And given how we’ve abandoned any sense of a common identity in favour of a vague, multicultural one integration is now subjective and in the eye of the beholder.

Monday, 24 October 2016

The Liberals Won Because Canadians Grew Bored With The Conservatives.

Winston Churchill famously said the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter and his observation is no less true of Canadian voters today than it was of British voters back then.  How else can you explain the enduring popularity of Justin Trudeau without concluding the average Canadian voter is too politically ignorant to vote and should be forced to pass a test before they are allowed to exercise their franchise.  But listening to the pundits you’d be led to believe Canadian voters are a well informed and politically engaged electorate but they’re giving them too much credit.  They need to hype up Canadians’ political intellect because they need to be convinced Canadians believe the same things they do to justify their mistaken perception of themselves as the voice of the people.  They want to believe Canadians turned on the Conservatives because they opposed the Niqab ban (they didn’t) and they rallied around the Liberals Syrian refugee resettlement scheme because it was the Canadian thing to do (not true either).  The real reason why Canadians turned on the Conservatives is because they grew bored of them and wanted something new.

A review of the history of the popular vote in past elections reveals how unremarkable the Liberal victory was.  With just 39.5% of the popular vote it seems pathetic compared to the Progressive Conservatives 50.03% of the popular vote back in 1984 and 43.02% of the popular vote in 1988.  And this was when the deservedly hated Brian Mulroney was party leader.  Indeed, the Liberal’s 39.5% support is slightly poorer compared to the 39.6% Stephen Harper’s Conservatives got in the previous election when the party secured a majority.  And despite the constant muck thrown at Stephen Harper and his Conservatives by our allegedly objective press in the run up to the election they still walked away with 31.9% of the popular vote.  They were defeated but hardly crushed.

Reading the press you’d think the Liberals destroyed their opposition but they didn’t.  Such is the nature of our first-past-the-post system.  You can win a riding and form the government with the majority of voters voting against you.  It’s not a perfect system but a truly perfect democratic system doesn’t exist.  That didn’t stop the Liberals from trying to give us one even though their effort was a masked attempt to gerrymander the next election and all elections after that.

So why did the Liberals win?  Part of it has to do with the stupefying popularity of their vacuous party leader most of it fabricated by a media shamelessly acting as Trudeau’s press agents and not the adversarial fourth estate they pretend to be.  That an obvious nitwit like Justin Trudeau can ascend to the highest office of an advanced industrialized nation speaks not only of the power of pedigree but says a lot about the influence of media bias on the people of the nation that put him there.  These are the same people who detest Stephen Harper but can’t exactly tell you why.

Equally so they can’t tell you why they voted for the Liberals, or NDP for that matter, without condemning the Conservatives because they didn’t know where the Liberals stood on anything because the Liberals didn’t tell you where they stood on anything beyond climate change, diversity, and gender equality, the holy trinity of fashionable social justice causes guaranteed to get you good press.  Oh and legalized pot.  And middle class tax cuts that really aren’t.  It was just a carryover from Trudeau’s bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada where he was just as vague and noncommittal about everything outside of climate change, diversity, and gender equality.  Oh, and pot.  You can’t forget about the pot.

Ennui and not anger is why the Conservatives lost.  The Conservatives had become familiar and boring breeding irrational contempt in a populace whose personal lives had become equally familiar and boring compounded by increasing insecurity and a sense of powerlessness to do anything about it.  Elections are great in that they not only fool people into thinking that they can change their lives, that they can overcome that sense of powerlessness, through the mere act of voting but a change of government provides the fleeting novelty their indebted, precarious, stagnant lives are looking for.

The “hopey, changey” fluff of the Obama campaign is exemplary in this regard.  Not only did Obama provide the illusion of giving power to the powerless he provided the novelty of voting for America’s first black President.  But “hope” and “change” was just “marketing pabulum” to avoid discussing important issues.  And given Justin Trudeau’s knack for sounding stupid when he thinks he’s talking smart the borrowing of pages from the Democrats’ campaign playbook was a sensible move, choosing to concentrate on image more so than merit for in Justin’s case, as so for Obama, there is plenty of the former, not much of the latter.

The Liberals will win the next election.  I don’t see how they can lose but a third term is pushing it. I’m hoping by then Canadian’s would have grown tired of Justin Trudeau’s “Look at me!” antics and yearn for a real statesman, not some jet-setting wannabe world celebrity with a messiah complex who cashed in on his politically famous last name and sought the highest office in this country because he lacked both the talent and the intellect to achieve international fame any other way.  I doubt very much the Liberals will do anything in power to effect positive change in the lives of Canadians (governments rarely do) but as long as they can be duped by the “hope” and “change” superficiality that is Trudeau the Lesser the longer he will remain “popular” and the Liberals in power

Sunday, 9 October 2016

Logical Fallacies of Mass Immigration Supporters: The Appeal to Antiquity/Tradition.

Appeal to Antiquity/Tradition.

Appeal to antiquity/tradition is the position that because something worked for us in the past we should continue to do it seemingly in perpetuity.  This is problematic because it ignores the modern context.  Just because something worked in the past doesn’t mean it’s still beneficial today.

In immigration discussions this fallacy manifests itself as the “Canada was built by immigration” meme.   While it may be historically factual that Canada was built by immigration it’s not an argument for continued and ever increasing immigration in the present.  This is because “current year” Canada is a different place than the Canada of one hundred years ago.  We have to take into consideration the health of the economy, immigration’s impact on the environment, its effects on social cohesion, technology and its potential impact on the labour market, among other things.

To illustrate the absurdity of this argument we can perform a thought experiment where we imagine a Canada were every space of land is occupied by an individual so that you couldn’t take a single step in either direction without stepping on someone’s toes.  It would be insane to continue to allow immigration in this scenario just because tradition demands it.  If the country hadn’t become an undesirable place to live long before it got to that point it definitely will become an undesirable place to live when it does.  The country’s economy, society, and institutions would have collapsed under such weight.   I acknowledge this is an absurd example because it’s highly unlikely the country will ever reach that point but it does bring to light that population sizes do have their limits and immigration cannot be spoken of independent of a myriad of other considerations solely because it worked so well for us in the past.  Canadians cities consistently rank in the top tier of best places to live in the world mostly because they are medium sized cities however unrestrained immigration will undo that.  These once livable cities will become unlivable, a process already in the making for Toronto.

If we were to remain true to the "Canada was built by immigration" meme then we would be favouring European immigration almost exclusively because it wasn’t just immigrants who built Canada.  It was European Christian immigrants who did.

Monday, 3 October 2016

Majority of Canadians Reject Multiculturalism? But it’s Current Year!

As if we need more evidence to drive the point home that Canadians reject multiculturalism the CBC reports on a CBC-Angus Reid poll that found 68% of Canadians want minorities to “fit in” by which we mean we want more assimilation and less accommodation.  Also, the underlying subtext is we want immigrants who look more like us so we’re not overwhelmed demographically.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.  It’s completely understandable.  Some will say “that’s racist” to which I say f*ck that!  I’m really getting tired of hearing that shit because shouting racism isn’t an argument.

This poll suggests, to me at least, that Canadians don’t see their country as a multicultural one and don’t want it to be one either.  Those who state otherwise harbour the real marginal opinion.

And if a referendum were held today asking Canadians if they wish to see their country adopt multiculturalism as the driving social policy guiding the national character they’d oppose it outright with a clear majority to erase any confusion.

This is why it had to be imposed upon us by our self appointed betters in government and their enablers in the media.

It cannot be stressed enough that multiculturalism, along with the restructuring of our immigration system to favour immigration from non-traditional sources, was conceived out of elite arrogance and not popular will.

Multiculturalism and mass immigration is cultural and demographic suicide for a host society.  I think Canadians have come to understand this if they hadn’t arrived at that realization already so it shouldn’t be so shocking to learn that, according to this CBC-Angus Reid poll, the majority of Canadians have their objections.  They know there was nothing wrong with the old Canada and, quite frankly, would like to have it back.  The new Canada to them is just so new Coke.

Friday, 23 September 2016

Polls Show John McCallum's Full of Shit.

Here's a Globe and Mail article that doesn't require much commentary.  It pretty much speaks for itself.

It basically tells us John McCallum is full of shit based on his own government's internal polling.  By this I mean Canadians don't want more immigrants despite pronouncements from McCallum to the contrary.  And his government knows this.  This follows a Nanos poll conducted on behalf of the Globe which saw 16% of Canadians favouring an increase of immigrants with more than twice as many, some 39%, wanting a decrease with 37% thinking the numbers should remain the same.  Put another way 76% of Canadians polled don't want an increase in the numbers of immigrants.

Canadians don't want more immigrants and we haven't wanted more immigrants for a long time. Here's an EKOS poll conducted in March of 2015 and published in the Winnipeg Free Press that found 46% of respondents felt there are too many immigrants coming to the country with 41% saying too many of them are non-white.

Here's another poll.  And another.  And yet another.

Despite poll after poll telling the government time after time, be it Liberal or Conservative, that we don't want more immigrants, in fact we want less, they go ahead and give us more immigrants and John McCallum is going to do the same.  He's already hinted at it.  Since he's already made up his mind his national consultations were just a PR stunt.

They tell us we need immigrants because of labour shortages and an ageing population but those go-to excuses have been debunked.

Were they to be truthful with us it's too keep, I believe, Canada's housing market from imploding because we're in too deep now and no one has a solution on how to deal with it and no one in Ottawa wants to confront it because no one in Ottawa would know how to handle a crash.  It's amateur hour on Parliament Hill for the next four years at least.  So it's best to keep pushing it off into the indefinite future with fingers crossed and hope it solves itself for without the housing market Canada's economy doesn't have much going for it at the moment and it's a market driven by debt and cheap money.  If cheap money is how immigrants are paying for their shitty urban sprawl houses on incomes from shitty paying jobs many of them get then we're making the situation worse by making the bubble bigger.  Because if interest rates were to rise how many people will still be able to afford the house they bought when interest rates were low.  If you're a gambling man you might want short Canada's banks.


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Flying to Samana

Samana is home to its very own international airport

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A small international airport exists within the borders of Samana, offering tourists the opportunity to skip the three hour drive from Santo Domingo to this mountainous province along the northeast coast. While at one time this was the only option, when this airport, the Dominican Republic's newest, opened in 2008, tourists from around the world were immediately able to cut down on their travel time.

About Samaná El Catey International Airport

Samana El Catey International Airport (AZS) is located in the El Catey village, which is approximately 40 minutes from the center of Samana by car, so it could take slightly more or less time to reach your accommodations depending on exactly where it is located. The airport is equipped to handle Boeing 747 air crafts, and is even so well-prepared that four of them can park on the terminal at one time. The asphalt runway is 9,843 feet long. Despite all of this, the airport is not inundadted with international air travel. It is possible to get direct flights from New York City, Toronto, Montreal, Germany, and Spain, but tourists from other locations will have to plan a connecting flight. Most people will fly to the Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, then fly with a domestic carrier to El Catey.

Flying to Samana from the US

Jet Blue Airways offers daily flights from the John F. Kennedy International Airport to Samana El Catey International Airport. Tourists flying from elsewhere in the United States can connect at JFK, or plan to fly to Santo Domingo and switch to a domestic airline.

Flying to Samana from Canada

Tourists visiting from Canada will actually do better flying to Samana El Catey International Airport than Las Américas International Airport. This is because there are no direct flights there, but through Air Transat you can fly direct from Montreal and Tortonto. Air Canada also offers seasonal flights.

Samana El Catey International Airport Canadian Flights
To/From Airport Code Airlines
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Montreal, Canada YUL Air Canada

Flying to Samana from Europe

Tourists planning a holiday from Germany and Spain can make their way to El Catey by flying with Orbest Airlines, Air Berlin, or Condor Airlines. All others will need to book a private charter or a connection through a larger airport.

Samana El Catey International Airport European Flights
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London, United Kingdom LGW Thomson Airways

Getting to Samana has been easier since the opening of Samana El Catey International Airport, but it does take some planning to ensure you can get a flight in. As long as you take the time to do the research, there shouldn't be a problem, but if you're planning a last minute trip, you may have to do a little extra work.

The following chart indicates how to get a hold of an air charter firms serving this region.

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Money Matters: Financial Planning for Unmarried Domestic Partners

Editor’s Note: Briant Sikorski from Stratos Wealth Partners in Cary contributed this article.

Cary, NC – How times have changed. Only 26 percent of American households are composed of married couples with dependent children, according to the latest U.S. Census. Financial advisors may wish to educate themselves regarding the unique financial needs of unmarried couples – a group that may already represent a growing number of your clients.

The number of American households of married couples with dependent children has dropped significantly: In 1970, 40 percent of households fit in that category. Meanwhile, over the past 40 years, the number of unmarried couple households has increased by a factor of four, to over 6 percent of the population; there are currently about 7.5 million such households in the United States.

Legal Protections

Unlike married couples, unmarried partners lack many of the legal protections or rights granted to spouses in the event of divorce or death. Although most states will consider a claim by an unmarried partner, there is no specific legal precedent in the absence of a written contract. Therefore, such couples may wish to consider creating a domestic partnership agreement. This document can detail the sharing of expenses as well as the ownership and distribution of assets should the relationship end. A domestic partnership agreement is especially important in situations where one partner is the primary breadwinner or owns the majority of assets.

Decision-making control is another crucial issue. Encourage clients to create durable power of attorney and health care proxy documents. Some states also require a living will to address life-support issues. Creating a letter of instruction regarding burial or memorial preferences should also be considered. If such documents do not exist, an unmarried individual may find that his or her partner’s blood relatives will be allowed to make these key decisions if the need arises.

Unmarried couples with children face another concern: legal guardianship. Nearly 40 percent of unmarried couples have children under the age of 18. Yet legal guardianship of these children may not be as sound as for married couples. Because of this, unmarried couples should consider signing a written agreement acknowledging parental rights and responsibilities and having each partner name the other as primary guardian in wills.

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Achieving a Comfortable Retirement

Although both married and unmarried couples need to save for retirement, unmarried couples may need to save more. Why? Because they will not be eligible for each other’s Social Security benefits and, in some cases, employer-sponsored retirement plan distributions. Make sure your clients check their plan rules and specify plan beneficiaries. The IRS now allows a non-spousal beneficiary of an IRA to take required distributions over his or her lifetime rather than in a lump sum, allowing for potential tax-deferred growth over a longer period of time. Therefore, clients may wish to contribute the annual maximum to an IRA ($5,500 in 2015) before maximizing contributions to an employer-sponsored retirement account.

Annuities may also be an attractive investment vehicle – especially for wealthier clients – since they allow for unlimited after-tax contributions, regardless of income or sources of income. Additionally, the payout methods of annuities usually include insurance features, enabling a named beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive payments if the owner dies before withdrawals begin.

While discussing retirement issues, remind your clients to review all financial documents, including employer-sponsored retirement accounts, IRAs, annuities and life insurance policies to ensure named beneficiaries are consistent with those mentioned in wills.

Estate Planning Issues

For a spouse, a marriage certificate is the gateway to a number of financial benefits that unmarried partners do not necessarily possess. This disadvantage is especially apparent in regard to estate planning.

It’s essential for domestic partners to create wills. Impress upon such clients that if they die without a will, the state may distribute their partner’s assets to his or her closest blood relatives. To help rebut a challenge to a will, suggest that clients videotape their wishes in the presence of an attorney. Additionally, a living trust may be desired because it remains confidential and is not subject to probate.

Transferring assets upon death requires careful planning for unmarried partners. For example, federal tax law allows all assets to pass to a spouse tax free and no applicable estate taxes are due until the second spouse dies. Unmarried couples do not enjoy this tax advantage.

If a client has significant taxable assets, it will be necessary to pursue other avenues to avoid estate tax. Currently, the federal estate tax is 40 percent on estates over $5.43 million. To help reduce tax liabilities for the surviving partner, clients can purchase life insurance to pay any potential federal and state estate taxes. A surviving partner must own the insurance to avoid it becoming part of the estate of the deceased. Therefore, each partner must own enough insurance to pay any anticipated taxes on the assets of his or her partner.

Society is changing, but laws are lagging. Financial professionals who want to protect clients’ assets and potentially grow their business should take into account the complex financial needs of domestic partners.

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Table by Briant Sikorski.

Points to Remember

  • Unmarried couples may wish to create a domestic-partnership agreement, which should detail the sharing of expenses as well as the ownership and distribution of assets should the relationship end.
  • Legal protections, such as durable power of attorney and health care proxy documents, and in some cases, a living will, can help safeguard decision making control if one partner is unable to make financial or health care decisions.
  • Domestic partners may need to save more for retirement than married couples. Annuities and IRAs may be attractive retirement savings vehicles for such couples.
  • Careful estate planning, including the use of trusts, may be appropriate for effective wealth transfer as unmarried partners will not enjoy tax advantages that federal law bestows upon spouses.

Annuities are long-term investment vehicles designed for retirement purposes. Gains from tax-deferred investments are taxable as ordinary income upon withdrawal. Guarantees are based on the claims paying ability of the issuing company. Withdrawals made prior to age 59 are subject to a 10 percent IRS penalty tax and surrender charges may apply. This information is not intended to be a substitute for specific individualized tax or legal advice. We suggest that you discuss your specific situation with a qualified tax or legal advisor.

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Gigazone International has remained unprofitable because of the declining PC industry, while GSmart Mobile Taiwan has faced intense competition.

Gigabyte Technology Co, the world's second-largest motherboard maker, plans to suspend the operations of two subsidiaries, due to continued losses and the competitive handset industry.

"It is part of our corporate restructuring plan... The board of directors will accelerate the discussion and make an official announcement in the next few days," Gigabyte investor relations division director K.J. Sun told Taipei Times.

According to earlier reports, Gigabyte would shut down GSmart Mobile Taiwan and Gigazone International Co Ltd, which are both fully owned subsidiaries.

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Hegseth off the top rope

Yes, yes, Great Caesar's Ghost - yes!
Democratic leaders in Congress — and on the campaign trail — should take a lesson from the Maliki government. Swallow your pride, admit you were wrong about the surge, and get behind our courageous military.

Some courageous Democrats will do just that, others will continue to trumpet talking points. The members who embrace MoveOn should remember that the American people may not like the war in Iraq, but they hate losing. Now that we’re winning, they won’t stand for talk of defeat.

In the meantime, the real credit must go to the courageous leaders who had the conviction to commit to Iraq when the outlook was bleak. Thank you, President Bush. Thank you, General Petraeus. Thank you, Ambassador Crocker. Thank you, Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman. Thank you to the 165,000 troops in Iraq. And thank you to the 3,921 fallen heroes of the Iraq war…your sacrifice was not in vain.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Lydia Hearst

Lydia Hearst, an heir of the famous Hearst Corp. communications empire and a noted model and New York socialite, has been outed as the non-writer of her own Page Six Magazine column. Turns out she was interviewed by a reporter, who put her thoughts into printable form. Here's a comment that appeared under her byline in the column before she was found out.

“I sit down and I write what I’m thinking and what I feel — it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

"Probably when I go home tonight, I’m going to open my computer and just start typing … I always envision myself being a Hemingway type — sitting in a dark corner with my glass of, I guess it would be, my glass of tequila and lime juice — that’s how I do it.”

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Weekly Gluten-Free Roundup – October 2,2011

Feedback is always welcome. Remember that I parse through all these links myself –I hope it helps anyone reading.

(As you can see,the list grew quite a bit this last week due to finding a great list of GF blogs)

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10 comments to Weekly Gluten-Free Roundup – October 2,2011

  • Thanks for including me in your roundup! I just discovered your blog and now I’m hooked. What a fantastic collection of recipes.

  • Maura

    Hi Nicole!

    Thanks for stopping by! I think I only discovered your blog last week so I could add it to my RSS feeds :)

    I’m glad you like my efforts!

  • Hi Maura–Thanks so much for including all of this week’s gfe Skillet Supper Series in your roundup this week. :-) What an amazing listing you’ve compiled this week! It shows how much good there is in our gf world. 😉

  • Hi Maura,
    Thanks for including my Lazy Daisy Cake in this week’s Round Up. I agree with Shirley…it’s an amazing list you’ve compiled here and it shows how many good people there are in our GF blogging community. BTW,I’ve added a few more to my Link List Page (http://wp.me/P1OnhQ-2K) I think it’s up to about 230 GF bloggers now…wowser!

  • Maura

    Thanks Shirley and Laureen!

    We have a terrific GF blogging and resource community. So many people work so hard to make it as rich as it is.

    Laureen –I’ll check out your link list again and see if I’m missing any on my RSS feeds :)

  • Hello Maura!
    Thanks so much for popping me on your round up list,so sweet of you :) xx

  • Thanks for including my Pumpkin Bread recipe. I just found your website and love it! You do a great job! Gloria

  • Wow,what an amazing job you have done collecting all of these recipes. An incredible resource to the GF community. I am honored that you have included me. Thank you so much!
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  • Danielle (fresh4five)

    Thanks for including me in this round up! What a great list of GF recipes!!

  • Thanks for including me on the round up! What a beautiful job you do…I love it! I’ll add a link to your site on my blog roll…people who visit me will adore you! :)


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A packed house greeted Dublin’s Gate Theatre Thursday night, all anxious to see Noël Coward’s Hay Fever staged by the company who last delivered Spoleto a sold-out run of Present Laughter in 2010. The curtain—featuring a large image of a beautiful woman reclining on a sofa—was pulled away to reveal the adult Bliss siblings, Simon and Sorel, lounging in the eccentrically furnished 1920s living room of their country house (you can even hear the summer bugs chirping; at first, my date thought it was a hearing aid gone awry).

With Simon on the floor working on a nude drawing and Sorel scornfully reading aloud poetry written by a friend, it doesn’t take long for the rapid-fire banter to begin. And ready your ears, because it will last the whole way through, among each and every one of the characters. At intermission, I heard a couple audience members comment that between the accents and the fast-pace, they were only picking up every third word, though the man seated behind us assured his companion she’d get the hang of it by the third (and last) act.

Once Simon and Sorel’s mother, a recently retired stage actress named Judith, sweeps into the room with a basket of flowers whose names she’s attempting to memorize, it emerges that all three Blisses have invited a guest for the weekend without informing the others. And it’s when these guests turn up—among them a woman asked by the family patriarch, a self-important, not-very-good novelist named David—that the madness really sets in.

Simply put, the play is about the interaction among the four eccentric and unmannerly Bliss family members and their four more proper, yet equally nutty, guests. The wonderful thing is that each of the eight characters, as well as (especially, even) housekeeper Clara, are hilarious in their own right. I think every audience member must have chosen one whose particular quirks they found most amusing. For me, it was Simon Bliss (played by Tadhg Murphy, who you may remember held the title role in last season’s Cripple of Inishmaan). I thought his exaggerated facial expressions and comically grand gestures were entrancing. My boyfriend, on the other hand, found them highly obnoxious, preferring the “diplomatist” Richard Greatham (Mark O’Halloran), who could bring bursts of laughter from the audience with just one befuddled expression.

The set was gorgeous (I’m still wondering if I can pull of the mismatched dining room chair cushions that the Blisses made look so natural) and the costumes equally so. When the second act revealed the characters dressed for dinner in evening attire, the woman behind me gasped “look at the glamorous clothes.” All in all, a feast for the eyes that I found entertaining and funny—though not quite as funny as the many audience members who roared with fits of laughter from beginning to end.


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The Action Figures were three action figures brought to life by Wyatt Halliwell. They represented his pain and confusion about the disappearance of his father.

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Before his third birthday, Piper Halliwell noticed her son was upset about the disappearance of his father and that he was acting out. She suspected there was more going on and later allowed Phoebe Halliwell to try to talk to him. Phoebe used a spell to allow Wuvey to speak and share his emotions. Wyatt then turned to his action figure and brought them to life.

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When the party started, the action figures headed downstairs, though Phoebe was able to pass them off as hired entertainment. The action figures played with the children at first, but later questioned the adults about the location of Leo Wyatt. They then started searching the entire manor for him. When Phoebe asked what was going on, the action figures revealed that they needed to find Leo because it was their fault he left. Phoebe then realized that the actions figures represented Wyatt Halliwell's feelings and learned that he blamed himself for his father leaving.

Piper Halliwell later talked to Wyatt and explained that Leo was a very brave man, and that she would do anything to bring him back. Comforted, Wyatt then turned his action figures back into toys.

The Action Figures appeared in a total of 1 episode throughout the course of the series.

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More Evidence That It’s Not a “Conservative Supreme Court”

There is a common media myth that the current U.S. Supreme Court, or at least a majority of the current justices, is “conservative.”

But if a “conservative” justice is one who consistently interprets the Constitution in accordance with traditional methods of judging—as the Founders intended for it to be interpreted—then the Court is anything but conservative.

On social issues the Court has been pushing society to the Left. Otherwise, the best description of its jurisprudence is “status quo.” And in this instance, preserving the status quo renders the Court liberal, not conservative.

That is because the status quo the justices are preserving is a body of liberal jurisprudence created in the 20th century when the Court was usually controlled by “progressive” majorities.

The Court’s tendency to protect liberal jurisprudence appears even in cases where the specific outcomes are pleasing to conservatives. In fact, the “conservative” outcomes often are relatively marginal—minor victories—while the jurisprudence that underlies the result is a major triumph for liberals.

Three cases from the Supreme Court term illustrate the point.

The first is the famous Hobby Lobby case, in which the Court ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects an employer’s right not to provide abortifacients. I have written elsewhere about a liberal victory in Hobby Lobby that received almost no publicity. But there was another, more important, liberal victory on a point of fundamental principle.

The Hobby Lobby dispute arose from federal regulations of employment and of health insurance purportedly authorized by Congress in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Unlike the “tax” justification for Obamacare’s individual insurance mandate, the supposed constitutional basis for those regulations is Congress’s Commerce Power, contained in the Constitution’s Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause.

Everyone concedes, at least in theory, that Congress has only the authority the Constitution grants it—Congress’s “enumerated powers.” But properly construed, Congress’s enumerated power to regulate “Commerce” does not encompass employment relations or insurance, except in some peripheral situations. The Supreme Court recognized this consistently for the Constitution’s first 150 years. Indeed, during that time the Court held repeatedly, and unanimously, that most insurance is NOT “Commerce.” It was not until “progressive” justices took control in in the late 1930s and 1940s that the rules changed, and it was not until relatively recently that Congress began systematically to interfere in the insurance market.

A bench consisting of traditional (conservative) justices, therefore, would have held that the Obamacare regulations were outside the federal government’s enumerated powers, and thereby invalid for that reason. Such a court would not have reached the RFRA issue because there was no need to do so.

A second example from the Supreme Court term just past is the campaign finance decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. This case invalidated a congressional effort to limit the total amount any person could donate to all candidates combined.

The basis for the decision was the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. Media outlets have described this case also as a “conservative” triumph.


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Man Charged With Hurling Racial Slurs In Road Rage Incident

HODGKINS, Ill. (CBS) — Authorities have charged a southwest suburban man with hurling racial slurs and spitting at a woman and her son in a road rage incident.

Alexander Borrego, 41, of the 8700 block of Lyons Street in Hodgkins, is charged with the incident in west suburban Riverside this past Sunday, according to a Riverside police release.

Police say around 3:05 p.m. Sunday, Borrego came up to a white woman who was driving with her grown son, who is black, in the 3400 block of 1st Avenue in Riverside. Then, without provocation, he began yelling racial slurs at both of them, police said.

Borrego allegedly cut them off in his vehicle several times, spit at the woman’s son and continued yelling slurs at them, causing them both to fear for their lives, police alleged

He allegedly used the N-word several times during the confrontation, Riverside Police Chief Thomas Weitzel said in a news release release, calling the alleged incident “bias-motivated criminal activity.”

Before Borrego left the scene heading east on 31st Street, the driver was able to snap a clear photo of his vehicle’s color, make, model and registration number, the release said.

Authorities circulated a flier about the incident to multiple Cook County police departments, and Hodgkins police arrested Borrego at his home about 11:55 p.m. Wednesday after police checked addresses throughout the western suburbs.

Court information for Borrego was not available Thursday morning.

The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.

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