The Ontario Provincial Police have failed at Caledonia. This comes on the heels of the arrest of Gary McHale, who organized a protest against the native occupiers. Not only is this grossly unconstitutional, it proves who the police are really supporting in this issue.The Federal Government really needs to get involved and to take a stand against the...
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Political Correctness is Dying a Cold Death
It's been a slow news week so this Christmas Tree thing has been dominating the airwaves for the past few days. The tree issue itself is rather trivial on the outside. It does however scratch the surface of a very important issue in Canadian society. That is political correctness.The PC movement began in the 1980s. The idea was to eliminate racism...
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Is Iran Falling to Nazism?
Iran is a curious state that is certainly full of controversy. Earlier this year, the National Post posted a false article regarding arm bands for Jews. Fortunately this was not true but one begins to question how long will it be before it is the case.Iran is holding what it calls a Holocaust Conference. It claims it is to discus the reality of the...
Tis the PC Season
I was reading in the Sun today about a judge who forced staff at a particular Ontario court house to remove a Christmas Tree from the front lobby and move it to the back of the building where it goes unseen. I find this to be a curious decision to say the least, and certainly illegal in my opinion. Despite outrage by staff, Justice Marion Cohen has...
Sunday, December 10, 2006
At It Agian New Milton
I loath the new people to Milton with every fiber of my body. I would like nothing than to round them all up and toss them back to the garbage heap known as Toronto from which they came. They push and shove, whine and winge, they bitch about everything; problems they created.The latest involves construction in a housing development. I grew up around...
No Use Crying Over Raw Milk
This is a story I've been following off and on. It's not a particularly important story but I thought I'd comment on it. A great deal of people have been questioning the food supply recently.The story is of an Ontario farmer who wants to sell raw milk. Raw milk comes right from the cow and is untreated. It is illegal to sell raw milk in Ontario. This...
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Short On Cash? No Wonder!
The CEO of Hydro One has been fired this week. The same week in which Ontario's auditor general released a report that revealed mass corruption within the ranks of Ontario's public service. Millions of dollars have gone missing from Ontario coffers, spent on items that cannot be accounted for. These items include lavish vacations to the Caribbean by...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
1 In 18,000,000
The lottery. Your chances of winning are incredibly small. Apparently they've gotten even smaller in Ontario. Apparently lottery retailers have been collection prizes more often than the the odds would suggest. They've been defrauding people by saying winning tickets are losers and claiming the prizes themselves.The Ontario Ombudsman has called an...
Monday, November 13, 2006
Milton Election Rigged?
Democracy died in Milton today with incumbents sweeping the election. My friends, I believe the Milton municipal election was rigged. Based on people I've talked to, the incumbents were highly unpopular. Voter turn out was only 10,000 yet poll stations were packed. The numbers simply do not add up.Milton residents, stand up for your rights. Fight the...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Milton: Who Ever Wins, We Lose
It's been a long time since I posted a Milton article. The municipal elections are coming up. What is has been presented is a sad story of our local affairs. I witnessed local corruption first hand at the meeting dealing with the proposed mall to be built at Derry and Bronte back in October. A highly inappropriate location for such a facility. Both...
US and Them
I'm often asked for my opinion about the United States. I usually don't have one, as we have enough problems here to worry about what they do. However, there are times that pop up that effect us a lot. A lot of Canadians dislike Americans. This has been a complete mystery to me as the vast majority I've met are polite, nice people. A far cry from the...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
University Students: More for Less
Once again, my fellow university students are fighting to get their tuition fees reduced. I do feel that we pay too much at the universities, but I'm starting to see the reasons why. University students are an interesting bunch. The South Park guys would say they like to smell their own farts. They're very smug. They think they're progressive and attentive...
Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Trouble With Belinda
I'm glad I don't live in Newmarket/Aurora. Liberal MP Belinda Stronach controls this riding. She certainly is an interesting character in Canadian politics. She replaces Sheila Copps and Caroline Parish as the most controversial female in parliament. So who is Belinda Stronach? She's a business woman and heiress, her father owns auto parts giant Magna...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Garbage Now at Our Borders
Mexico is no longer the place for American criminals to pay a visit. Canada is now the new hot travel destination for those who are less than law-abiding. This week however has presented us with one of the strangest court rulings in US history. A Buffalo man charged with sex offenses convicted. In lieu of jail time, he proposed he spend his three year...
Don't Turf Turner, Turf Harper
I was very upset and disturbed by Halton MP Garth Turner being kicked out of the Conservative caucus. As I understood it, the Conservatives were going to give us a more US style government in which individual MPs were allowed to speak their minds. However, what we are getting is more Chrétien style attitude from the man in power. In other words, strong...
Pony Up The Dough Tonto
Wow, a lot to cover this week.Well, it's been nearly a year since the start of the Caledonia land dispute, and it shows no sign of ending. A recent report has found that the province of Ontario has found that total cost of policing the dispute and buying the land could cost up to $55 million before the protest ends. Ontario wants at least $25 million...
Friday, October 13, 2006
Unfab Five
Today, I'd thought I would look at the five leaders that are, or are claimed to be threatening world peace. Lets investigate the their threat to our country.Osama Bin LadenThe Saltan of Terror, the king of Jihad. Osama (aka Usama) is a religious zealot bent on wreaking havoc where ever he goes. A typical spoiled rich kid, he has corrupted Islam to...
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Scapegoat
It's been some time since Michael Jackson sang "it doesn't matter if you're black or white". Society has made significant improvements since the civil rights movements of the 1960s, or has it? A lot of people would have you believe the reverse. Apparently, our society is slipping towards the levels of Nazi Germany with a credo fit for the KKK. What...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Teach, Teach, Bang, Bang
The past month has been truly horrible. After the incident in Montreal, there seems to be a rash of copycat school shootings across Canada and the United States. Most recently was the execution style murders of five girls at an Amish school house in rural Pennsylvania.School shootings seem to be becoming a disturbing trend again. They pop up about...
How About this Heat?
Climate change is a common buzz word heard around the halls of parliaments these days. We aren't doing enough to stop global warming, so says Ontario Environmental Comissioner Miller. There seems to be a lot of attention put into pollution controls and environmentalism these days, almost too much, but it's still apparently not enough.Controlling pollution...
Air Sickness
I've been an aviation enthusiast for years. I'm officially declaring war on NDP MP Olivia Chow. Once again, it's over Toronto City Centre Airport (aka the island airport) and Porter airlines.Three years ago, Toronto mayor David Miller made a campaign promise to end construction of a bridge to the island airport, a promise he made good on. Unfortunately...
Monday, October 02, 2006
Bridge It
The big story this week has been the collapse of an over pass in Montreal. Several people were killed. It's raised some questions about the safety of our roads and bridges in Canada. My family has operated a small civil engineering firm that builds bridges around Ontario for the past 12 years. Are our bridges safe? For the most part they are. I can...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Green Party Platform Interging
It seems that the Green Party is beginning to make itself as a possible fourth contender at the federal level. Today they issued a peak at their platform under new leader Elizabeth May. The platform of course is focused on environmental issues but also offers a carrot to fiscal conservatives. Lets take a look at what I like and what I don't.There are...
Thoughts for the Week
I have not had the time to post any full articles so here's some quick thoughts on this week's news.Belinda Stronach's alledged affair with Tie Domi is the big story. Stronach cannot understand why it's attracted so much media attention. She believes the harsh critisism she's received is a result of sexism stating it would not get the same reaction...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
MMN Blog News
Here's what's going on with the MMN blog.Unfortunately, I did not get around to our anniversary year in review. Due to time constraints, I didn't get an opportunity to write such a large series of articles.On the plus side, we now have a new interactive web forum. It allows those interested in politics to discuss and debate issues found here on MMN....
"Two Rs Come September"
The kids have finally gone back to school. Summer seems like it could go on forever, then BAM, it's September already. At least Christmas and Thanksgiving are around the corner.Now, down to business. It looks like the 2006/2007 school year is not going to be without conflict, which is nothing new. This time we have school boards whining for a change....
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Troll Under the Bridge
Remember the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff you were told as a kid? It was about a troll under a bridge. Toronto has its own troll under the bride, his name is Chris Gardener.Chris Gardener has taken the spotlight recently. You see, he lives under the Gardener expressway at Spadina. He has done so for the past 8 years. He built a makeshift house...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Time To End Air Travel Restrictions
This is getting more silly by the day. Since last week, it is now illegal to carry liquids and gels onto a plane. Seniors and children even are not allowed to bring water or juice with them.Restrictions on what can be carried aboard a plane is simply a sign of how flawed the security at airports is. It has long be known that explosives can be made...
Big Problems
This is a BIG day for MMN. It's a BIG milestone, the 100th post. Today I'd thought I'd tackle a BIG issue. That being, how BIG a problem our kids are getting, because they are so BIG!That's right, 26% of children are considered obese. Roughly 1 in 2 are overweight. That's a huge number of huge kids. Off these kids, only 8% of their parents consider...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Halton MP Makes National News: A Rouge
Back in January, the people of Halton region voted Conservative party member Garth Turner into office as their representative. He is one MP that has not been without controversy. Particularly his refusal to tow the party line. While I don't agree with some of his decisions, I find that Mr Turner has finally brought a voice to Halton region after Liberal...
Harper No-Show at AIDS Conference: Who Cares?
The big thing in the media this week was why Prime Minister Steven Harper did not show up for the AIDS conference currently being held in Toronto. I guess it's been a slow news week. There's only so much one can talk about petty issues such as wars between Hezbolla and Isreal, and terror in the UK.Socialists like to try to find every single fault in...
The Danger of "Safe" Injection Sites
AIDS is a 100% preventable disease. Except in cases of rape and deception, most people who get it are unsanitary or careless.The latest solution to help limit the disease is are these safe injection sites. Vancouver has them. What these sites do is provide clean needles for haroine addicts to use. A protest to be held later today will lobby the federal...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Protect our Children
I have to blast both the Liberal and Conservative governments for this. The problem is the sharp increase in the number of sex offenders in our society, particularly those who victimize children. I sometimes wonder if buggering kids is still a crime anymore.This week's big story was the kidnapping or a young boy out west by a dangerous child molester...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Pesticide Bylaws Ludicrous
Toronto people are funny. They try to get as far away from the city as possible, yet they try and make their new home exactly like Toronto.Some new residents to Milton, most likely former residents of Toronto have been pushing for a pesticides bylaw. This proposed bylaw would ban the use of synthetic chemical pesticides in town. This sort of thinking...
When to Draw the Line on Hate Crime
Well, looks like the media has grown board of Israel's scuffle with Lebanon. This big story this week is Mel Gibson's DUI. Conspiracy theories are out in full force, claiming Mel is in bed with the cops. The police spokesperson stated that he was arrested without incident, but the leaked police report tells a different story. Apparently the "Road Warrior"...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Happy 1st Birthday Martin's Mill News
August is the first anniversary of Martin's Mill News. That's when I first started wrighting it on the now defunct Myblogsite.com. We currently have nearly 90 editorials.I'll be working on a special "First Year in Review" article. Look for it shortly after August 1st.If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to post them under...
Police Action Needed in Israel
Ok, I'm beginning to think this has gone on long enough. The Middle East is once again at war with itself over petty issues. Innocent civilians are being killed, or forced to hide underground on both sides. All because some Muslim nutbars in Lebanon can't mind there own business and because the Israelies are too dumb to use diplomacy.I propose a state...
Toronto's Misguided Waterfront
For over a decade now, Toronto has planned to revitalize its waterfront, but has now run into more snags. The problem this time around, they don't own all that land.Earlier this year, the city unvailed a unique plan for their waterfront that would have everything interconnected by fancy boardwalks and bridges. With shopping and parks. As of right now,...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
North Korea: Threat or Joke?
Today, Prime Minister Steven Harper condemed the launch of its first long range, nuclear capable missile. It has left many questions. Is North Korea really a threat. Are we doomed for another cold war, or perhaps World War Three? We must get inside the mind of the infamous short statured dictator, Kim Jong Il. He clearly suffers from mental issues...
Friday, June 30, 2006
Time to Clean (Court) House
Ontario's justice system has a serious problem. The problem is that judges are out of touch with society today. Lately, many dangerous criminals are being released on bail or are being given extremely soft sentences. Today, one person accused of one of Toronto's most shocking shooting incidents back on Boxing Day was released on bail. He plans to spend...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Canada Should Not Take Sides
The United Church and the Ontario Union of Public Employees is calling for a boycott of Israel due to their treatment of the Palestinians. In other words, they want the Canadian government to start taking sides in the nearly 60 year conflict. This is exactly what I expect for unions and religious nuts. An ignorant decision on their part.The conflict...
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Spousal Support Unnecessary
Remember the 1970s when feminists pushed to be completely independent of men? Well it looks like that trend is reversing. Divorce these days has become a big cash cow. It's no wonder half of all marriages end in it. It pays off, especially in a system that tends to favour women. They begin to think "that SOB hurt me, time to clean him out." I think...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Give Childhood Back
Childhood is a concept that has become lost in today's society. It seems the push is ever greater to get kids to grow up faster. Yet almost paradoxically, adults try to shield youth from everything that could possibly deem offensive. It is no wonder the world seems very confusing to today's youths, more so than ever.First of all, let us examine the...
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