Canada Post ‘looking into’ lost guns
Postie left rifle, shotgun on Oshawa porch: Cops…It’s been two months since an Oshawa man ordered two guns through the mail and almost a month since he called police to say they never arrived.
… However, Durham Regional Police, using post office records, said officers determined the two long-barrelled guns were shipped to the man’s home on March 17.
…The package was left on his front porch despite the delivery requiring a signature.
…the store also gave Canada Post a manifest, so it had to have known the package contained guns.
…Canada Post has confirmed the guns were sent to the Oshawa mail depot on March 17 and put on a delivery truck the same day.
Briefing note says Kyoto pullout will hurt Canada
OTTAWA—Canada would lose international credibility and the ability to influence future climate-change negotiations if it withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, say briefing documents prepared for Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay.
…“Given the Kyoto Protocol’s international profile . . . withdrawal from the Protocol would have important foreign policy implications,” says the document, marked “secret.”
…Ryan Sparrow, a spokesman for Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, played down the significance of the briefing notes.
…“Briefing books are filled with various policy options and recommendations from the department,” he said. “Obviously, our new government is going to move ahead with our made-in-Canada plan. This government is turning a new leaf on the environment with a commitment to Canadians that money for the environment will be spent on the Canadian environment.”
Smitherman comes clean about ‘party drug’ habit
…George Smitherman, the province’s (Ontario) first cabinet minister to openly admit he is gay, revealed his struggle with stimulant drugs during a speech at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Courage to Come Back Awards ceremony this week.
…In an interview with the Toronto Star, Smitherman said that the sight of the word ‘Courage’ projected on a large screen at the ceremony inspired him share his story about his former drug addiction.
…The 42-year-old described the substances as “party drugs” that he used in the “Toronto party scene.” However, Smitherman did not specify which drugs he took, except that they were illegal and not the type that would be injected.
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Do we really need to hear all about it?
by Thomas Walkom…It’s hard to know what to make of Health Minister George Smitherman’s front-page revelations that he was once addicted to unspecified illegal drugs
…But at the same time, it is hard to escape the nagging suspicion that politicians are using personal self-revelations to disguise their actions, or lack thereof.
…Still, it’s hard not to escape the feeling that enough is enough. Perhaps it is time for politicians to keep the few remaining intimate details of their existence safely stored away. I feel I already know far too much about George Smitherman’s private life. I hope not to learn any more.
Where was George Clooney during the genocide in Iraq?
…In the Darfur region of Sudan, the celebrity is George Clooney. I must have missed the memo that nominated Clooney as the media’s new secretary of state, to serve with media Secretary of Defense John Murtha and media President Hillary Clinton.
…“It is the first genocide of the 21st century,” Clooney said after his first visit to Darfur, where he used his “celebrity credit card” to call attention to looting, murder, rape and refugees.
…But if Darfur is not at the top of the White House agenda, maybe it’s because the president has been busy stopping genocide in Iraq, where Saddam killed 500,000 to 1 million.
…While Bush was busy fighting terrorists who want to bring genocide to America, Clooney was busy protesting a war in Iraq that liberated 26 million people.
…And now he accuses Bush of “dancing around” the need to send Marines to Darfur.
…People like Clooney are in favor of using the U.S. military to protect anyone but Americans.
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Darfur would be a mess, just like Afghanistan
Chances of success for our troops slim…Suddenly, Darfur is in vogue. In Washington, U.S. President George W. Bush says the United Nations should do something. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’s willing to help, but is resisting opposition pressure to commit substantial numbers of Canadian troops to the war-ravaged region in western Sudan.
…The three-year-old conflict has become a Hollywood cause, even featuring as a backdrop for weekly prime-time television dramas.
