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Do only gun crimes merit his attention?

And is anyone in Quebec going to tell this family that we shouldn’t be getting tougher on teenage murderers?

...Paltooram was coming to the aid of his girlfriend, who was being assaulted by a group of individuals, when he was fatally wounded, police said.

A 16-year-old male has been arrested. He cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, but will appear in court this morning. He is charged with Second Degree Murder and Attempted murder…

There, there Sonny. You just go home and write out 100 times, I should not be killing people.

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More on Metro murders by knife from the Globe, and City News and Sun.

This is really worth checking out too - Toronto Movie Filming Exposes Canada’s Guns for Money Policy by Joseph P. Tartaro, who is the Executive Editor of GunWeek Magazine. He references this August article in the Star.

After running out of things to ban in Toronto, they have now resorted to targeting sunlight and its effects on children.

Parents cannot be trusted to adequately look out for their children’s safety in this regard, so the City of Toronto is implementing a pilot project including “shade audits” that could end up resulting in the City attempting to regulate shade.

…A future policy could dictate the ratio of shade required based on the number of children that typically play in an area–and not just from trees, but from city-built special canopy structures, screens and sails. ..

One would assume that the City of Toronto would have megatons of excess money with which to fund these studies, the required structures, and all the bureaucracy that would go along with it.

Either that, or else they firmly believe that you can’t put a cost on protecting the children of Toronto from their irresponsible, slovenly, popcorn-and-beer-consuming parents.

But the problem remains that parents might take their children out of the city where there are no protective sunshine bans.

Perhaps His Blondness and Co. should just ban parenting altogether, and move all the kids into a huge sun-protected Government Care Centre. Mandatory uniforms would consist of helmets and bubble-wrap for each child. Taxes would have to go up drastically, but what price can you put on the safety of Toronto’s children? David knows best. Parents would be required to forward their child-tax credit directly to Mr. Miller.

Parental visitation of their growing genetic material would be strictly controlled by the City State, after having passed appropriate blood and urine tests, and proving that their carbon-footprint card for the previous week has been approved by the Green Police.

Sunday non-denominational services would include sermons on ‘inclusiveness’ and compulsory repeated viewings of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.

It would be a gun-free, peanut-free zone of course.

And a brain-free zone.

But that was the point all along.

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More at SDA.

Monday Update: Cellphones safe for children: Health Canada - No evidence to support Toronto recommendation (Post) H/T Diogenes Borealis.

Via Girl on the Right , we have this provocative Toronto Star letter from Toronto City Councillor, Adam Vaughan :

…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 …

What do you say, U.S. Tourists? Could you possibly make his dreams come true and boycott Toronto altogether? Get your friends and families to join in. Toronto clearly doesn’t want you.

On the other hand, there are some other fine Canadian cities that would welcome you. I’m thinking Calgary, Niagara Falls, Montreal…

I’m sure they’d be willing to help out Adam Vaughn and take some of these gun-totin’ U.S. tourist dollars off Toronto’s hands.

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Saturday Update : Alright, alright! We have a heavy lobbying group for the city of Edmonton in comments - another great Canadian city for U.S. tourists to discover. And it sounds so much more appealing than Toronto the Bad !

CBL - David Miller Lies Again .

Since Toronto is usually on the leading edge of simplistic, socialist policies, it’s in everyone’s best interest to pay attention to David Miller’s proposed ban on guns and recreational gun clubs - or as the National Post calls him, "the ignorant demagogue" who became "mayor of Canada’s biggest city…"

Decreeing bans seems to be the preferred plan of action with left-leaning politicians - If you ban it, it is done.

But not quite. Because as the Post editorial points out, this experiment failed badly in Britain:

In Britain, after the tragic 1996 elementary school shootings at Dunblane, Scotland, all private handgun ownership was banned and all handguns confiscated. Even England’s Olympic shooters, for a time, were forced to shuttle across the Channel to France for practice. Since then, though, New Scotland Yard and the Home Office estimate that the inventory of illegal handguns in Britain has expanded by three million. Gun crime has nearly doubled. And many cities now have more gun crime than comparable U. S. cities. Police refer to Manchester as Gunchester.

Yes, heaven forbid that David Miller should actually try to face the problem square on with increased police patrols in problem areas, and perhaps recognize the special challenges of certain ethnic communities that seem to have accepted a lack of paternal responsibility as the norm.

But what this knee-jerk problem-solving technique really does is hurt the law-abiding private citizens that actually follow the rules. People like reader Lisa , whose family is directly affected by this nonsensical approach by His Blondness . Lisa has a great post up today about this issue and some of her family members have been interviewed by the Star .

Sadly, today there was another fatal shooting outside a Toronto school, and you can bet David Miller will be using this latest incident as further evidence that Toronto should be jumping on the gun BAN dwagon.

Because political correctness demands that you never really face the problems. - you just make sure you are seen to be making decisions - even if they’re just bandaids that can’t possibly stop all the hemorrhaging of human life.

- And worse yet if you place those bandaids over your eyes, you can’t see the real problems.

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Thursday Update : Getting on the ban wagon - Michael Den Tandt (Sun):

…Mayor David Miller wants all guns banned. Also he would outlaw gun-making, ammunition, and target-pistol ranges. It doesn’t matter to him that most gun crime in Toronto is perpetrated by criminals, wielding illegally-obtained handguns. Guns are bad. Ban them…

Friday Update : This is definitely worth a read - Toronto wonders what’s happening to the tourists by Girl on the Right.

The National Post editorial page has it all today - two smackdowns aimed McGuinty, one at the Red Star, and assorted others.

Dalton McGuinty has been trying to demonstrate action on two files by crying to Ottawa, and not having much success.

In the Post editorial, Harper to cities: ‘Grow up’, we have their reaction to yesterday’s Enquirer-style Toronto Star headline - PM to cities: Drop dead, but the piece is more of a reality check for McGuinty than a criticism of the Star’s crass attempt to grab market-share and/or malign the Prime Minister (which they later attempted to cover up):

And then there is Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who asks: “Why can’t [Mr. Harper] come to the table and lend direct support to Canadian municipalities?” All of these politicians are getting plenty of encouragement from the Toronto Star, which yesterday ran a banner headline claiming that Mr. Harper told cities to “drop dead.”

The Post also takes a shot at Toronto Mayor David Miller, calling him “whiner-in-chief”. This is what left-wing politicians do best - pander to their union buddies and then upload their whining to the next level of government.

This article closes with the following observation:

It is hard to remember another time when politics in Ontario were this childish. Mr. McGuinty, the mayors and their media cheerleaders are effectively staging a collective temper tantrum until they get a bigger allowance. Mr. Harper isn’t asking them to “drop dead.” He’s asking them to grow up.

Exactly. What McGuinty, Miller et al appear to have forgotten, is that there is only a finite resource of tax dollars to tap. Regular people are losing jobs, while public unions are still living in some kind of Lemming la-la land where reality never seems to intrude. At some point McGuinty and Miller are going to have to say ‘no‘ to their union buddies, and then watch their support plummet!

Another wakeup call for McGuinty in this editorial, Hands off the bank, where the benefits of central-bank independence are itemized. As you know, McGuinty and Charest have been screaming and whining for the government to lower interest rates:

But most agree that money works best, and presents the least peril of catastrophe, when it is kept out of the reach of central planners and politicians with vote-driven agendas. Yet apparently those distinguished financial experts Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest disagree.

The collapse of the U.S. dollar against our own, they announced on Thursday, is hurting the economies of Ontario and Quebec (even as it helps other provinces). The adjustments will be difficult for workers and executives. Why not just increase the money supply a tad to soften the blow? What could it hurt?

BONUS: Great McGuinty smackdown letter in the Post (Economics 101 for McGuinty) by Charlie Cahill of Ottawa:

Dalton McGuinty says that Stephen Harper “listened to me intently” when the Ontario Premier asked the Prime Minster to lower the Canadian dollar vs. the U.S. dollar.

I doubt that the PM was listening intently. Any Grade 11 student of economics knows that monetary policy is the job of the Bank of Canada with no political interference, as the same article points out so well.

Fiscal policy is the work of the government of the day. Small wonder the PM appeared to “listen intently.” He must have wondered if this man is really fit to be the leader of Ontario since he has shown his ignorance of the most basic part of monetary/fiscal policy.

Harper must also have wondered how on earth McGuinty got another majority government!

Please stop using the tragic murder of a Toronto student to advance your political agenda.

Follow Stockwell Day’s example - Offer sympathy and let the family grieve.

There will be ample time later for meaningless rhetoric, finger-pointing and political posturing.

Thank you.