These days, people who use the media as a tool, be it a politician, celebrity or anyone in general, can easily provide fodder that is offensive to individuals or groups in society. Therefore, it was no surprise when ads on subways and train stations around the world by agnostic and atheist societies began to evoke huge reactions of overblown outrage.

One of the more popular slogans (sic) is “There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” The statement did not actually argue that there is no God but rather pushes the remoteness or the limited possibility that there is a God. Most religious-practicing people probably read “There is NO God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
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A confused and frustrated immigrant flew into Vancouver from Poland and spent 10 hours waiting to see his mother. During the course of his frustration, he was approached by RCMP Officers, tasered, handcuffed, jumped on and eventually died.

This incident was fortunately caught on someone’s cell phone. The cell phone footage caught the RCMP in a myriad of lies.


The media has since played the footage quite frequently when analyzing every different angle that this story has to offer. It is footage that is hard to watch as it records the last minutes of a man’s life before he was assaulted by the officers. It is hard not to be affected by the man’s cries of pain after being tasered a number of times.
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President Obama’s first meeting with Stephen Harper was suppose to be a closed door affair. However, the meeting was taped and leaked to the media. Several files of that tape are now on Youtube. Here is the transcript of what was taped:
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Unless you have been buried beneath 40 feet of Newfoundland snow, you have probably been barraged by all the “Obama’s Coming To Canada” onslaught by the Canadian media.

First off, the man is coming to our capital for a grand total of five hours (working lunch included). The CBC has come closest to a round-the-clock CNN coverage that I have ever seen. The CTV network not to be outdone came short of trying to speculate which toilet Obama would be using or if he could hold it for the full five hours that he is there.
I watched CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge’s interview Obama yesterday and today it was run once again and over-analyzed by Peter and a panel of experts.
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The recent victory by Quebec separatist groups to cancel the “Battle on the Plains of Abraham” re-enactment serves to heighten continuing frustrations to the rest of Canadians watching the continuing boomerang of the threat of an independent Quebec.

It is a well-known fact that 55-60% of French-speaking Quebecers would like to see an independent Quebec to call their own country. Because of Canada’s leniency towards Quebec, they are more than half-way there. Anyone who goes to Quebec city and asks for directions to the provincial legislature will cause confusion. “Provincial legislature? Oh, you mean the National Assembly!” On another occasion, while visiting the huge and majestic St. Joseph’s Oratory, I noticed that the guestbook being signed by Quebecers was listing Quebec as their country. Quebec nationalism which runs through all the political parties in Quebec (even the supposed federalist ones) has been left unchecked by Canadian Federalism. The only thread that holds Canada together is the English and immigrant populations that for now seem to have staunchly been in favour of Federalism.
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These days, Canadian politics is dominated by a surge of regionalism. None of the four major parties have a convincing nation-wide support to enable an oncoming majority government in the foreseeable future. The media is in part responsible for this trend in two different but equal areas of impact.

The first area is media coverage of the parties to inform the public. During an election (and even off-election times) the media rushes over to the various party campaigns and flocks to the leaders. What ensues is usually a popularity contests based on the personality of the politicians and not what he/she stands for. Sometime during the election campaign, each of the parties gives the media a scent of their respective vulnerabilities by releasing a policy book. It is literature in which the said party declares what it truly stands for and offers its solutions to impending political and economic problems the country is facing. If it is the media’s responsibility to inform Canadians of their political choices then a comprehensive understanding of these policies need to be understood and relayed to the public. Instead, the media has been satisfied to follow each campaign looking for some memorable quotes, criticisms, and banter from the leaders. This suits the politicians as well because they do not have to answer tough questions on their own policy when they can easily criticize the other guy.
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NDP Leader Jack Layton was the guest of honour at a fundraiser last night in Woodstock, Ontario. Layton showed up almost an hour late and was seen as a little disoriented. Here is the excerpt of his speech:

Ladies and gentleman, people of the free press, my brothers and sisters, dudes and chicks, comrades and all you other freaks out there,

“It is real…..groovy to be here tonight to fight for the right to smoke weed, man…uh um…for medicinal purposes. I support this cause with all of my MOJO. Because you know, just today I came down with a serious headache…and I was not avoiding my lady for some sugar, you dig….but when I get a nagging noodle ache or my moustache starts to drip because of my nose, there is nothing like a little Mary Juanna to smoothen things out and to take me on a different plane. Can I get an “AH YEAH!” from the audience?
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Former Liberal leader Stephane Dion got more bad news today when his official backpack sponsor dropped him. The 30- year lucrative deal which was worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000 CAD per year was cut short by Targus Canada. A Targus representative could not be reached for comment but it is assumed all the negative publicity with Dion’s loss in the Federal election and his failed attempt in overthrowing Stephen Harper resulted in the termination of the contract.

Dion was disappointed but upbeat. “I was saddened by this fact as I enjoyed taking my knapsack everywhere. It is how my dog Kyoto got in to see everything in Parliament without anyone suspecting. I never put my paperwork in there because Kyoto has a weak bladder and the knapsack gets very heavy by the end of the day,” he added.
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Stephen Harper announced today that he will be firing all of his cabinet except himself. “I was wondering what I could do to cut government spending and at the same time hold on to more power”, he said with a constant twitching of his left eye. “As of today, I will be taking over all of the ministerial jobs in Foreign Affairs, Justice, Finance, Revenue, Indian Affairs, Inter-Governmental, Fisheries, Environment and any other departments I can think of. I will be giving myself a healthy raise for taking on this extra workload but rest assured that the rest of the savings will be passed on to Canadians. My first order of business is with the department of Technology. I have ordered them to develop a new device that will transfer all the information of the various departments straight to my brain,” he confided. Harper’s move means that his Conservatives have completely been relegated to backbencher status.
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Imagine small communities in Canada’s northern wilderness making unanimous and democratic declarations to separate from Canada. Less than a year later, Canada no longer has any land north of Edmonton. It is very unlikely to happen but it does point out the vulnerability of Canada as a nation.

Democracy has more than once been a threat to the Canadian confederation as a whole and surprisingly few politicians, writers and pundits have addressed this important issue. The United States fought its bloodiest battles in its own Civil War. The lessons learned from that bloody war is that America, the bastion of democracy, has placed value of its own security and continuity above democracy. The American nation must be protected at all costs from external and internal forces seeking its demise. The priorities are different in Canada because of our different background and history.
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