What Makes Canada SOOOO great?

According to Heather Mallick , a Toronto journalist who is "so in love" with Canada on its one hundred and fiftieth birthday this year, is the same kind of stuff that makes Canada ever so much better for real people than that cacaphony of 'democrazy' lying just to its south - especially, don't we all know,  how Canada has so wisely managed its 'abortion issue'.

She had this to write in Toronto's Daily Star

Heather on what makes Canada so great

Heather was almost pious in her praise of the handful of NDP 'activists' who appeared with their own signs and a demand to de-hoist the "anti abortion" banner that had been raised to mark the occasion by the Ottawa City Council.  That affirmation  of somebody's freedom  not to be insulted by a flag was not 'Trumpian? Nor is the demand to outlaw the 'devisive' issue and punish its adherents?

The Flag - It's 'up and down'

 The  20th  annual   Life March in Ottawa  taking place this weekend must have triggered a post-traumatic something in Heather, for she  has been able to crystallize her thinking thus: Canada is about every woman's right to have her womb tumor, her unwanted alien, her life destroyer removed absolutely free and (with the help of an agreeable Obstetrician or surgeon)  up to  the moment of delivery. And anyone who would stupidly, I imagine,  continue to show-up to state the opposite is well "Trumpian" and representative of everything evil in America and most cetainly Canada too if we were draconian assholes - which we are not. I thought there were other greater evils than somebody having to travel out of state, or to Canada - or to have to pay for their pregnancy termination.

                             Another wanted child  protesting but probably not bussed-in

 Abortion actually used to be a criminal offense in Canada - but so were many other things now accepted as legitimate. There were Canadians protesting abortion before Trump made his first 10 million, Heather,  and there will be Canadians protesting abortion after he's hit the Presidential Hall of Fame.  For you see, Heather, for all our civilization, the termination of 175 000 lives  every year (the last time the statistic was recorded 5 years ago) flies in the face of 'abortion as social panacea', the 'solution' that would remove 'the need for itself' , sold to Canadians when the 'industry' was eastablished.

 Like any right-minded establishment,  abortion in Canada is, perhaps, the most common medical procedure and costs the health care system billions in annual expenditure.  Rather than 'reducing a need' it seems to be creating an ever-growing one.  What's really wrong with this, Heather, is that Canadians have never had, and are still denied, a voice on this 'divisive' issue.  Most Canadians are stuck between the true believers on both ends of the issue and would have it regulated,  were not such as yourself so shrill in castigating those who don't see things your way - those who would qualify this particular 'right' - as some sort of ignorant primitives willing to chase women down with the proverbial coat hanger and abort them themselves. There used to be a law against such people but not any more. - for now they are all caring and 'scientific' and use hi-tech to do the same old 'dirty' job.   Abortion is no longer a law of the land, in Canada, and there lies the rub.  Soviet Russia and China -  bulwarks of women's 'rights to choose', did not have so draconian a procedure for terminating a fetus  as does enlightened Canada.

One would think that now that  a full generation is grown up in the age of liberalized abortion all those happy, wanted children that resulted from the 'choice'  would be making a change. But as Heather says there is something seemingly 'wrong' with them being bussed to Ottawa to celebrate life and give thanks that their mothers weren't having a few 'bad days' 17 - 20- 25  years ago. Or maybe she wishes they had been aborted,  leaving the best kind of Canadians the ones who 'don't care'  or don't want to be reminded that, in Canada, a 'mother'  killing a baby before its born is no crime. Afterward that's a different story.  But why?

                                  Wanted children protesting after being "bussed -in"

It must be like a US refugee reaching the magical Canadian 'border' where, all of a sudden, good things happen that don't happen any other place, any other way.  Maybe our abortion laws are another reason they're 'running' here - one might expect to see more pregnant ladies, no?

I imagine that Heather is equally 'down' on repression,  but something tells me that, shy of a ban on such 'protests',  she might not mind the annual 'Life March' being swept-off the street by machine gun fire - oh to be in such a benighted land for a moment.

Backlog

I've built up a backlog of things to write about - my number two favorite p'leece force, again;  the Iranian stuff, the Syrians, Harper Inc, Afghanistan, books, movies, etc, but I'm no writer,  or not a disciplined one at any rate, so the notion of writing every day is something I've never considered. The muse comes on me in fits and starts. I'll have a fit to-day. We'll see what's  up tomorrow.

                                                                        Rosie?


 Rosie DiManno somebody I admire as a writer, but have detested as a 'girl writer' - she's well past the Bunty stage - has written an excellent piece about  Lord Bilgewater - his eminance Conrad  ' Daddy Warbucks' Black, on the occasion of a fluff job he did recently on Moses Znaimer's edumedia channel with Toronto's 'fat f*ck' the Mare. As she relates in her story, about meeting 'the man' for the first time, she remarked to him, "You sued me." I'm pretty sure he's in council with his counsellors again to-day. Rosie didn't have much  nice to say about his  grace.

                                                               'His Nibs' the Archbishop

                                                            His wereship the Mare


The incident that gave rise to all this was Conrad's 'cutting edge' visitation program on which he entertains newsworthy characters. The character on this occasion being  'his nubs', the defrocked mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Robbie went through his tale of  'whoa!' and his lordship mollycoddled his revealed peckerdilloes and the consequent apologies and promises to improve. Then they broached a topic dear to both their little hearts,  about how the media, left to its own devices, could be positively vindictive and unfair. That led his mareship to be somewhat vindictive and unfair  as he related a sad tale of being 'harrassed' across, as he claimed, his very own backyard fence. His nibs didn't bite with any advice about having the back fence 1/2 mile away from the house as he has been forced to do but he did commiserate and, with furrowed brow, took to heart the  Mayor's charge that photos taken of innocent toddlers (his) were involved.

 This tale has been well-told in the media as it was claimed threats were uttered, a cell phone was dropped and the police investigated a Star Reporter taking pictures of vacant public property of which the mayor was an interested prospective buyer. There were, at that time, no charges laid against  either the "trespassing" reporter or the incensed  'daddy bear'.  No  photographs that might have supported the Mayor's charges were recovered. Perhaps he was foolish, or mad enough, to have deleted them. Perhaps he was 'blasted' and not seeing straight. That incident now, is purely figmental in nature. The comment about  taking kiddie pictures and 'causing folk to wonder about the reporter', however, is the stuff of slander.

Unsurprisingly, two days after airing, in the absence of any apology, the Mayor was handed a lawsuit.

Since then Lord Connie's skills as an interviewer have been called into question . He is pleading ignorance of the Mayor's backyard brou-haha and how was he to know that there was no kiddi-diddling involved? He claimed he took the mayor, who has a  sterling reputation for apologizing when  caught in a lie, on his bona-fides if not his gallantry of the first water. People are wondering if the 'scholarly' Lord Connie had been read anything at all on his subject, before the show. Although no stranger to the slander case, he certainly doesn't seem know it when he hears it. Maybe he hears such 'nonsense' at home, every day.

Rosie laid all this out -  chapter and verse, she acknowledged her sources and detailed her instances. She's obviously done her research. And, barring a lawsuit from lady Black in re her possible surgical enhancements or choice of literary footwear, she was  kind to the Belle Dame. Other than a konterblast,  Lord Connie probably doesn't have a legal leg to stand upon and the Star's pockets are no doubt as deep as Mr Znaimer's.

   
Watch for Blackie's  show to be cut from the Vision TV  lineup. Everything the mayor touches turns to Sh1T.

"Rob Ford's TV Show Canceled After One Episode, Because Duh"  (HuffPo -11/20/2013)