Scolarships for Foreign Students

Spending millions of dollars on foreign students is politically risky because it does not make sense. We don't need foreign students to show us their cultures. We have neighbours and friends from all different cultures. We are multicultural. We already get the benefit and the problems of having many of our fellow citizens from many different lands and cultures. In addition, it is not necessary to pick the prime foreign students to study here. There are many very clever top Canadian students who can't afford the 5 or 6 years to get a PhD but would do so if properly financed. More importantly there are many brilliant high school students who are going to school and have one or two jobs on the side to make ends meet. If we found these students and gave them and their families financial aid, they would be the brilliant students and innovators that Canada needs.



Charity begins at home. We need to give our best, but financially poor, students a chance to excel.

Natioanl Post - More Police Needed Nov 16th A11

I agree with Ford that we need more police, but we also need a new police culture. When I have interacted with the police they have been unfriendly, arrogant, rude, and often misleading.

They brush off my questions about the number of points related to traffic offenses, they ignore my concerns that I bring to the police department, and at Pusatari's, just north of of Avenue Road and Lawrence, they cause long traffic lines up and down Avenue Road and cause a dangerous situation for cars turning north from Lawrence to Avenue - all because they are paid by Pusaltari's. When a pointed this out to one of the cops, he was rude and ignored me.



The public is not the policeman's enemy. We need a friendly, helpful police force as a first step in better policing.

Re: Building on the West Bank and Border talks NP A12 Nov 16th

two points -

First, Obama's U.S. political and security guarantees are worthless. The U.S. is not stopping Iran and they are powerless to stop Hamas and in truth support them through the U.N. U.S.guarantees are only worthless pieces of paper.

Secondly - If the Palestinians really wanted peace, especially setting a border, they would increase talks when Israel builds more housing near Jerusalem, not decrease talks. Building near Jerusalem is all about the border so this is the time it should be discussed. Refusing to talk over border issues shows that Abbas does not want peace and the settlement of the border.

Trading with Syria

Follow the money. We should remember that a Syrian attempt to build a nuclear weapons plant was recently destroyed by the Israelis. If we trade with Syria, a rogue state, if there ever was one, like with the financial aid delivered to Gaza, the profits will be used for a military buildup, not for infrastructure and enhancing the lives of ordinary Syrians. Trading with Syria will give their autocratic rulers more funds to suppress their people and actively wage war, through Hamas and Hisbullah, against the West. Is that really what we want?

Harper on Israel and anti-semitism

My letter to Prime Minister Harper

Thank you for your speech on Israel.

It made me proud to be a Canadian.

In my opinion it was one of the great speeches, if not the greatest since Churchill

and raises you to the level of one of the world's greatest moral statesmen.

Afghanistan and dress code - re NPost Nov 8th

1. Afghanistan - "winnable"? . No way. We can beat the Taliban and we can educate more Afghanis, but we can't change the male population from being Islamists, who oppress women who want to live by Sharia law, into modern democratic moderate Muslims. That change will take at least a generation. In the meantime, the best we can do is lead by example in Canada and reduce the physical threat to our own country.



2. Faiza Iqbal,in her letter to the editor supports the burka on the grounds that you can't judge a book by its cover. But she is wrong. A book with a naked lady on the cover probably deals with sex and a book with a Star of David or a Cross on the cover probably deals with religion. Similarly with dress. A man wearing a $1000 suit is probably a banker or a businessman, one wearing jeans and a sweatshirt is probably a manual labourer, and one wearing a mailman's uniform is probably a mailman. So someone wearing a burka is probably an Islamist who by definition wants to destroy my society. She may also believe that the big smock also protects her virtue, but her virtue is of little concern to most Canadians. The burka is therefore a political and religious statement which is offensive, not because the wearer is Muslim, but because the wearer is probably an Islamist and is publically announcing her distain for the kaffirs.

A Tale of teo Ghettoes - NP Nov 2, A16

Aside from the article being wrong on the facts and conclusions, Kalle Lasn is trying to copy her Palestinian friends' boycott of Israeli products and those that trade with Israel with a Canadian internal boycott. It is Shoppers Drug stores' right to sell whatever they like. It is our right not to buy from them. However by not selling Adbusters, Shoppers is in no way stopping us from choosing. It is Lasn and Klein that are trying to hinder Shoppers' right to choose. We should follow their example and boycott all stores that sell the Adbuster magazine. I hope that CJN or the National Post puts out a list of those stores which do sell Adbusters, so that I, and many, many others, can boycott them.