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He didn’t want to be a father:

…After the sentencing, Knapp said Bryan was scared of being a bad father.

“One day he just snapped,” she told the Chronicle Herald. “The only way he could get rid of the baby was to get rid of both of us.”

The child’s mother is completely disabled:

…I cannot work anymore, I can’t walk properly, I lost my son (who) was my future. My mother has had to give up her entire life so she could take care of me, because I can’t take care of myself anymore.”

Please call or write your MP and indicate your support for Ken Epp’s Unborn Victims of Crime Bill, scheduled for a vote on March 5.

Thank you.

Update! The bad news according to MDL is that the Harper government expects to be defeated on the budget March 4. Bob Fife says Dion wants to pull the trigger. Election sometime in April.

Friday Update: Taxpayers deserve better from their national network - Calgary Herald via National Newswatch.

Why don’t we dispose of any pretense, and get the powers that be to name the CBC as the Liberal party’s official communication team?

The CBC is unique — and therefore uniquely accountable to its viewers — because it is funded by the state. As such, it has a particular mandate to present the Canadian story…

…The CBC ombudsman is apparently looking into the incident, but it isn’t likely to be the transparent investigation that is needed to truly serve the public good.

There has been no word of any investigation within the Liberal party.

Yet, all of them remain on the public payroll…

Awesome letter in the Post - Media’s silence is shameful by Bill Parish of Ottawa.

Check out Steve Janke’s Karlheinz Schreiber Timeline to see why Pablo Rodriguez and any complicit others are on a fool’s mission.

Excellent! Let’s keep it going.

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Adam Radwanski weighs in on Pablogate - She just got caught.

According to Adam, “it’s common practice for journalists to use MPs as they try to advance their stories.” Apparently, the unfortunate part apparently is that one got caught - Someone who works for a publicly-funded broadcaster.

Adam calls it a stupid question - “For suggesting a really stupid question, the reporter deserves some flack. But for suggesting a question at all, she shouldn’t get raked over the coals any more than a whole lot of other reporters.”

Instead he puts the onus on the one(s) who actually went ahead and used the questions (in an Ethics committee).

I think Adam is making sense here. Is the person who asks someone to do something shady actually more in the wrong than the person who agrees to the idea and carries it out?

Of course not. Someone in the Liberal party obviously made a stupid, unethical, politically-motivated decision.

Time for Liberal party to step up to the plate and divulge the details. Who was in on this, and how high up the ladder of authority did it go?

SDA - Mr. Carlin: Tear down that wall! - with interesting comments and speculation why we’re not hearing much about this from MSM. I guess the CBC will never hire me now.

Speaking of the CBC, check out The Tea Makers - Guest blogger: In the court of the crimson logo.

Why is it that most of us feel some kind of extra revulsion when a pregnant woman is murdered, but yet the Canadian public is so reluctant to call for additional punishment for the perpetrators?

The Unborn Victims of Crime Bill is still being bogged down by opposition parties and abortion activists who fear it is a slippery slope to the notion of ‘personhood’ for the fetus.

Perish the thought.

In other news, Kiera Tetley, who was only about one month away from being born, was murdered in Winnipeg on Tuesday, along with her mother Joanne Nadine Hoeppner.

Mother and sister now dead:

Tacked on the fridge of the battered green house was an image from a recent ultrasound of Hoeppner’s fetus, showing hair, and a photo of her one-year-old son. Hoeppner wanted to regain custody of him from the foster home where he lives.

Where is your conscience, Canada?

Jeff Allan asks that question this morning.

What do you think?

Has the vicious fatal stabbing of Stephanie Rengel finally made you say, “Enough is enough?”

Joe Warmington thinks so - Enough of this ‘hug-a-thug’ approach.

Now I’ll just sit back and wait for reader Gayle to chime in.

Darcey has a fascinating discussion going on at DMB about so-called ‘Honour Killings’.

Author Ellen R. Sheeley has left a comment that is well worth the read:

Imam Shakir is being disingenuous and playing to the cultural/moral relativists, of which there seem to be plenty.

Aqsa Parvez’s death was an “honor” killing, and “honor” killings will never be properly addressed if people aren’t even willing to admit to what they are. They are a form of domestic violence, but a very specific form, with different roots, different triggers, different modus operandi, and different ways of preventing them…

I am planning to pick up this thread sometime in the near future, since these issues now appear to be affecting Canada.

The murder of Hunter Brown and subsequent arrest of Trevor Lapierre underscores the desperate need for more mental health funding.

In today’s Record (Families of people with mental illness often have little influence over care), Christiane Sadeler, executive Director of the Community Safety & Crime Prevention Council states:

…it’s clear that Lapierre is “a very troubled young man. I must admit I was a little puzzled to see he was discharged,” she said.

She said when mental health legislation was changed, community supports were to be put in place. “I would claim there is not nearly enough,” she said.

Of course, we all know by now that most of our so-called health tax goes to general revenues.

Sadeler also critiques our legal system as it pertains to the mentally ill:

“Families are in a difficult position because of the current mental health legislation,” she said. “They can encourage and support, but they have no capacity to have someone detained.”

She said the original intent of changes made more than a decade ago to the Mental Health Act was “to ensure over-containment of people with mental health issues doesn’t happen.

“Maybe the legislation, in some cases goes, beyond what was originally intended.”

Where is Dalton McGuinty’s voice in all this?

The complex protocol required for admission to an acute psychiatric unit is also detailed in the article. An accompanying piece shows how much police time goes into dealing with the mentally ill.

Clearly, something needs to be done to improve the system in terms of funding for beds and community support, as well as possibly another look into revamping the Ontario Mental Health Act to facilitate the process for getting help for people who are so troubled and irrational that they don’t realize how badly they need mental health care.

The Record gives some insight into the mental state of Trevor LaPierre, who has been charged in the murder of Kitchener senior Hunter Brown - He heard ‘voices of demons’. I was ready to blame the parents, but it seems they were aware of how unstable LaPierre was. The system appears to be the real culprit here.

“I knew he was off the wall,” a shaken Paul La Pierre said outside court yesterday before his 22-old-son made his first appearance.

“I realized the severity of the situation. He’d been using insane language and acting like he was a victim of everything.”

Trying to make sense of the Aqsa Parvez murder becomes even more difficult as time goes on.

Today’s National Post describes the relationship between Aqsa and her parents through the eyes of the Tahir family, which had offered her a place to stay prior to Aqsa’s death (Aqsa’s last days):

…The Tahirs say that days after she moved in with them, Mr. and Ms. Parvez came over, and both families had a two hour meeting with Aqsa.

Her mother cried. Mr. Parvez calmly implored his daughter in Punjabi to tell him why she left and what he could do to bring her home. Aqsa barely spoke, except to say that she “just wanted change,” according to Ms. Tahir. Privately Aqsa told her that she wanted “to get more out of life”.

Mr. Parvez appeared to be relieved that his daughter was safe, said Ms. Tahir, and not alone on the street. He was content to see Aqsa living in a household that resembled his own, said Ms. Tahir, and told her to stay as long as she needed to. Aqsa asked if she could bring items from her house back, and he said they would arrange that “together.”

“That’s how he left,” said Ms. Tahir, an immigration and paralegal consultant who immigrated from Pakistan 10 years ago.

But Aqsa, it seemed, was still searching for independence.

A few days after that first meeting, over coffee in Tim Hortons, Aqsa told her father that she wanted to live on her own, she wanted to go to school in the mornings and work in the evenings. Mr. Parvez offered to let her take over the basement. Aqsa said she would think about it…

By that account, you would think that all was sunshine and roses with this family - Just a small issue of teenage rebellion.

So exactly what went so horribly wrong when Aqsa went home to collect more clothes?

Something just doesn’t add up here.

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Jason Kenney mentioned on MDL tonight that he hasn’t had one email from a constituent regarding Karlheinz Schreiber. Outside of Parliament, MSM and political junkies like you and I, one wonders how many people are talking about it.

What do you think?

Are ordinary Canadians at the local Timmy’s obsessed with KHS? Or is not even on their radar?

My guess is that Jason is right.