FROM THE COMMENTS...

-- "With each of these little attempts at cultural deceit, the AfD grows a little bigger. Keep it up idiots." --

LEST WE FORGET

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

•• Search the WWI CEF database ••

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

•• Search the Commonwealth War Graves database ••

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... two of my grandfather's older brothers (with four young children between them) were killed in Belgium and France, respectively.

A Day to Remember

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

Search the WWI CEF database. 

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country? 

Search the Commonwealth War Graves database.

Lest we forget

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

•• Search the WWI CEF database ••

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

•• Search the Commonwealth War Graves database ••

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... two of my grandfather's older brothers (with four young children between them) were killed in Belgium and France, respectively.

Once Upon a Time...

...there was a proud country called Canada...**********

UPDATE: Cowardly corporate media rolls over...

Sportsnet issued a statement on Sunday apologizing for Don Cherry's disparaging remarks during his most recent 'Coach's Corner' segment on Hockey Night in Canada.

But, but, but...

"Sportsnet broadcast it multiple times, even though they could have pulled/changed it."

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LAST WORD: First they came for...

STONEWALL, MANITOBA - November 7, 2019 (LSN) 17-year-old Natalie Salisbury was suspended by Stonewall Collegiate Institute in Stonewall, Manitoba, after defending the traditional red and black poppy.

Justin Trudeau thinks guns are evil...

...apparently, not everyone agrees...Oh, yeah... that's an actual "military grade" assault rifle.

Eighteen Years On...

...and I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop...

Rep. Ilhan Omar stated "the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that 'SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING' and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."

WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

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RELATED: Last sunset 9/10/2001

"Last day you could walk someone to the gate, even if you weren't flying."

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LAST WORD: "Some airplanes did some things"...I blame Boeing & Airbus. I just wanna know who told the evil AR-15s.

Your MSM...

...the politician's best friend... even 50 years laterIt gets better... by which I mean worse...

“Mary Jo Kopechne didn’t drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die."

"I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call."

"But he didn’t call," said Fire Captain John N. Farrar, the man who eventually recovered her body.

Fact of life... rich or famous people usually skate.

Just ask O.J.

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RELATED: Quid pro quo... Trudeau's media bailout

Throughout the prime minister’s tenure he has been prone to obfuscate via creative terminology; for example referring to illegal migration as ‘irregular’ and homegrown ISIS terrorists as ‘foreign travellers’.

And, of course they're back for more. It's an election year.

Gotta make hay while the sun shines.

Lest we forget

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

•• Search the WWI CEF database ••

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

•• Search the Commonwealth War Graves database ••

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... two of my grandfather's older brothers (with four young children between them) were killed in Belgium and France, respectively.

Lest We Forget

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

•• Search the WWI CEF database ••

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

•• Search the Commonwealth War Graves database ••

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones... two of my grandfather's older brothers (with four young children between them) were killed in Belgium and France, respectively.

"People sleep peaceably..."

"...in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf..."

"Our job is to defend democracy, not practice it".

From the folks who brought you...

...Trudeau & Trudeau-lite...Welcome to the land of beta-male inadequacy...

"They weren’t at capacity, it’s that having military personnel there is bad for business... the men buying drinks would get intimidated."

Montreal, Quebec, home of the sensitive, new age guy...

I began by explaining that I, like my feminist sisters, blame “men” for the Montreal Massacre, too—it’s just that I blame not only Gamil Gharbi, but also the “prophet” Muhammad, Pierre Trudeau, and the fifty or so male students who meekly left their classmates to their fate.

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LAST WORD: Iron, er... Plastic Men...

...and Wooden Ships...

And, when it was over and Gharbi walked out of the room and past them, they still did nothing. Whatever its other defects, Canadian manhood does not suffer from an excess of testosterone.”

That's what we aspire to... right?

A Way to Remember

Do you know someone who enlisted in World War I in Canada?

-- Search the WWI CEF database --

Do you know a Canadian killed while serving his country?

-- Search the Commonwealth War Graves database --

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

And he was one of the lucky ones who got to come back and have a family and live out a long, productive and rewarding life. Two of my grandfather's brothers were killed, one in Belgium and one in France.

A century later...

The remains of four Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War were identified Saturday.

They are Lt. Clifford Neelands, Lance Sgt. John Lindell, Pvt. Lachlan McKinnon and Pvt. William Simms.

And then there's this...

OTTAWA — For 98 years, Capt. Richard Steacie’s remains have rested in a Belgian gravesite, buried with the vaguest of inscriptions — "Captain of the 14th Battalion Unknown".

But, but, but... he's so McDreamy

I have never been a big fan of Barack Obama... but I had to admit he surprised the crap outta me, making a pretty gutsy call to unilaterally invade Pakistan and execute Osama Bin-Laden...

Osama bin Laden steered the global operations of the al-Qaida terror network until his death last year at the hands of the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six. The president and his surrogates have made the terrorist leader’s death a focal point in Obama’s re-election campaign, painting Obama as a decisive leader who took down America’s greatest mortal enemy.

Turns out, though... the car-salesman in chief isn't the broad-shouldered, larger than life, get it done hero the mainstream media gushily made him out to be. In fact, it's beginning to look like the CIA and the U.S. military were the actual foot on the gas pedal here....

In ”Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him,“ Richard Miniter writes that Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January 2011, again in February, and a third time in March. Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett persuaded him to hold off each time, according to the book.

Yeah, that sounds more like Mr. "Buy the world a coke"... you know... the guy who's gonna level out all the world's inequities...

President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by progressives to regulate schools’ disciplinary actions so that members of major racial and ethnic groups are penalized at equal rates, regardless of individuals’ behavior.

The board’s decision requires that “the state’s 24 school systems track data to ensure that minority and special education students are not unduly affected by suspensions, expulsions and other disciplinary measures,” said a July 25 Washington Post report.

“Disparities would have to be reduced within a year and eliminated within three years,” according to the Post.

Looks like Barack is taking a page out of Dalton McGuinty's "Imagine All the People" playbook...

"The Liberal government’s Bill 212 was in response to a complaint launched by the Ontario Human Rights Commission regarding the extent to which 'racialized students' and 'students with disabilities' were unfairly treated through the zero tolerance approach to student discipline."

Yet again... the price of political correctness.

Remembrance and gratitude

Do you know someone who enlisted in Canada to fight in World War I?

Search the WWI CEF database

My wife's grandfather, a member of the Canadian Cyclist Battalion, (pictured, in the kilt) was wounded by German shelling and carried around shrapnel from WWI for the rest of his life.

He was one of the lucky ones... who got to come back and have a family and live out a long, productive and rewarding life.

His son, my late father-in-law, enlisted in the Air Force right out of high school and was being streamed to Bomber Command when WWII ended.

Others, of course, weren't so fortunate. Do you know a Canadian soldier killed while serving overseas?

Search the Commonwealth War Graves

He will be remembered

While the "Occupy" protesters grab up all the headlines... brave men put their lives on the line...

"Master Corporal Byron Greff of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry was killed in the explosion around 11:30 a.m. local time."

And... a little closer to home.

The Spark

You can choose to sit behind a desk... you can choose to skydive...

Or you can choose to roll the dice at 225 mph.

I think, for most of us... (Albert Einstein et al excepted)... a career is mostly background noise. Some of us just choose to crank up the volume more than others.

Just this summer, a newfound friend of ours... a smart, funny, multi-faceted guy... was told he had pancreatic cancer.

Three months later he was dead.

He was 40 years old.

This was a man who embraced the people around him, who made smart choices, who absolutely radiated humanity. I keep thinking... "I wish we had known him longer... known him better."

Life. Death.

So many imponderables, so little time.

Anyway, his name was Andre... and we think of him fondly and often.

Maybe that's the mark of a life well-lived.

In the beginning - 1964

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In the interim - 2001



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Today and forever more...
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UPDATE: Why would anyone be surprised?

-- MONTREAL -- "Protesters (the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada) denouncing so-called American imperialism burned a United States flag in front of the U.S. consulate in Montreal Sunday afternoon on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

Just another piece of self-involved socialist nonsense... from the people who mindlessly embraced the Party of Jack.

Mourning, Remembering, Honouring

Apparently... it can be a pretty selective thing.

-- NEW YORK -- First responders will not be invited to this year’s 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero. That’s the word from city officials who say there isn’t enough room for the tens of thousands of firefighters, police and other rescue workers.

Hells-bells... let's just blame Dick Cheney & MOSSAD... and move on.

(h/t reader Mike)