This is truly screwed up.
While Canada, like the United States of America, has a long Judeo-Christian tradition, if you try to accommodate these traditions, even at Christmas time, both public school systems will reject it because they pretend to adhere to secularism.
Unless we're talking Islam.
In Mississauga, a large Indian, Sikh and Muslim town near Toronto, Ontario, Islamic sermons are not only permitted, but the Peel school board there is refusing to monitor the content of the sermons, known as Jumm'ah prayer, in spite of the real risk of spreading jihad doctrine as experienced in many US mosques and madrassas.
The Toronto Star reported that "Islamic schools [madrassas], mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature, according to a study." But the more frightening part of the study was that "the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools."
Nothing but jihad-oriented literature.
This past November, the Peel District School Board heard the complaints from Muslims who claim "that Muslim students feel stigmatized and targeted" because their Friday prayers were restricted to pre-approved sermons, whereas in the past, they were free to use any sermon they chose that was approved by the administrator (whose knowledge about Islamic sermons wasn't disclosed).
What this says is that Muslims get preferential treatment over Christians, Jews and other religions in Canada, as they apparently do in the USA too. And that Muslims don't want to go public with what is said behind closed doors.
That is truly screwed up.
Canada will become the first G7 nation to fully legalize the use of marijuana (aka: pot, weed, hashish, hemp, ganja, bhang, tea, bomb weed, bud, dab, diesel, fire, green, K.G.B. [Killer Green Bud], kind, kush, laughing grass, loud, Mary Jane, medical, mota, pakalolo, reefer, sticky icky, sungrown and wacky tabacky).
The stock prices of sticky icky reveal that investors believe there will be millions of users and thus, a multi-billion dollar market.
As to how it's regulated in Canada, the question is whether the nation will get it right. A task force recently made 80 recommendations to the government, among them, setting the age limit to 18.
Increased highway accidents are likely to be a problem facing Canadians and it would not be a surprise to see pakalolo border crossings into the United States by Canadians in search of profit.
Stay tuned.
College applications by U.S. snowflakes afraid of a Trump presidency has soared by 70 percent over last year to the University of Toronto. McMaster University's American applications have increased by 34 percent, according to the Associated Press.
"I think everybody in international education is a little uneasy, in part because some of the rhetoric in the campaign frightened people overseas,"Stephen Dunnet, Vice Provost at the University of Buffalo for international education (GO CHIPS!).
"It's going to be perhaps a bit rocky for a couple of years," he said, referring to the fears that potential college students have about differing opinions based upon success.
Canadian schools are recruiting in the U.S. more aggressively now that Trump has beaten a rich white woman who violated the Espionage Act and got away with it.
The University of Toronto held a panel in Washington, D.C. in December about the election in an effort to recruit prospective scared liberals.
And while none of the Hollywood leftists who swore they would move to Canada told the truth, at least we still have kids who are willing to run away, crying from the humiliation that Hillary Clinton couldn't even beat a reality TV guy with a 500 word vocabulary.
That's yoooooge.
Potty-mouth Billy Badbutt Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month bragged about personally shooting and killing three men and using a powerful painkiller in excess of a doctor's order.
Now the guy is bragging that he threw a kidnapping suspect from a helicopter . . . and he has no regrets and would do it again. He is the judge, jury and executioner.
Duterte told the story of his vigilante justice at the Camarines Sur provincial capitol. It was his cute way of showing that he really was serious about anti-corruption strategies.
"If you are corrupt, I will fetch you with a helicopter and I will throw you out on the way to Manila," the lunatic leader said. "I have done that before, why should I not do it again?"
Nobody could think of a reason.
Then the madman spoke in explicit details of his actions. He went after a group of kidnapping suspects who allegedly abused a victim even after receiving their requested ransom. He then told of how he ordered the helicopter pilot to fly at a specific altitude--so the splatter of the body wouldn't cause a ruckus on the ground.
He supposedly did the deed when he was the Davao mayor.
Earlier this month, Duterte said he killed three guys "to show to the [police] that if I can do it, why can't you?"
"And I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble," the crazy leader said. "I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill."
Of course, just hours after confessing, a spokesman for the functional schizophrenic Duterte denied that he had killed anyone.
Toronto -- A 10-year-old girl has died since falling ill on a trans-Atlantic Air Canada flight from Toronto-to-London (Flight AC868).
The flight had to divert to Shannon, Ireland on Saturday after the child suffered a medical problem.
There was a doctor and nurse aboard the plane and they helped the flight crew to assist the girl.
When the plane landed, emergency crews met the aircraft but Air Canada said that local medical authorities pronounced the girl dead.
The flight with 230 passengers continued on to London.
The Irish Sun said that a post-mortem examination will be performed to determine the cause of death.
The child's nationality has not been immediately confirmed.
There may be a new mental disorder to be considered for the future DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual). It doesn't have a name yet, but perhaps we should call it: "Executive Delusional Disorder with Narcissistic Features."
In order to make the diagnosis, at least 3 of the 6 criteria below must exist.
Some of the diagnostic criteria to consider are:
1. the individual must be an executive in high office with an inflated sense of self and one's ability to evaluate one's effectiveness in their leadership skills with objective honesty.
2. an inflated sense of one's own intelligence and the underestimation of the intelligence of others.
3. the ability to spend inordinate amounts of non-productive time with no sense of guilt that others are suffering or dying as you shoot 147 by the end of the 18th hole.
4. a magnified sense of insight regarding racial issues with concomitant abhorrence toward Caucasians and conservative philosophies.
5. falsely believes that all conservatives are instruments of evil.
6. is chronically confused over the definition of hero and heroism: for example, a person suffering from Executive Delusional Disorder with Narcissistic Features might confuse the idea that a person with Gender Dysphoria Disorder (e.g., a biological man who believes that he is a biological woman, and if he mutilates his genitals in an attempt to physically resemble a woman will actually become a female) would believe that person is a hero rather than being mentally ill. (See Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner.)
Although Executive Delusional Disorder with Narcissistic Features is somewhat rare, it can be seen in some world leaders, some of whom do not even lead from the front, but stay behind to "lead," which in itself, is a delusion.
Just because he screamed "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for: Allah is greatest/greater) and knew he was likely going to die; and just because he happened to be a Muslim and used the shahada finger gesture and this was his jihad; and just because he screamed that he was avenging the attacks on Aleppo, was no reason to conclude that the assassin who killed the Russian diplomat in Ankara was motivated by Islam.
At least not to Turkish officials who seem to be getting their cues from Barack Hussein Obama.
Authorities believe he wasn't acting alone, but gee, they cannot figure out what kind of organization was behind the attack.
So far, they've ruled out the Amish and the Jains, but they haven't ruled out our CIA.
Really.
ISIS has taken credit for the attack, but ISIS would take credit for cow farts if they were lethal to human life. Some probably are.
The assassins, Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, was a Turkish police officer. A senior Turkish government official described the assassination as "fully professional, not a one-man action" and agreed that it was well-planned.
One speculation is that Altintas was linked to Fethullah Gulen, a religious Muslim cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania. Of course, Gulen denied it, but what choice did he have?
Turkey's pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak had a story saying Karlov's killing was a plot by our CIA and carried out by Gulen's movement. There is no evidence to conclude that, but since when do government rags need proof for the statements they make?
"We have to know who organized the killing, who gave orders to the assassin," Putin said. Once he finds out who, he is not going to pull out a John Kerry index card that reads: "We condemn this action in the strongest possible terms."
No, what Putin is going to do is kill the people responsible, then kill their pet goats and their camels.
The Toronto Star reported that "Islamic schools [madrassas], mosques in Canada are filled with extremist literature, according to a study." But the more frightening part of the study was that "the authors of the study say what worried them was not the presence of extremist literature, but that they found nothing but such writings in several mosque libraries and Islamic schools."
