25,000 and counting…

Article originally Published in December 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

25,000 and counting…

When P.M. wannabe Justin Trudeau promised to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees if elected he was bolstered by a Main stream media narrative, a staged photo of a dead baby face down on the beach in Greece. Mass immigration has always been a cornerstone of the Liberals it helps them get elected over and over, it wins them support from leftist Marxists, anarchists and extremists like “No one is illegal”

    The problem is when the media started showing this mass exodus of so called Syrian refugees, people started seeing it for what it really was, an invasion. This wave of humanity pouring into Europe appeared to be 90% of young men of fighting age. Not only were only 10% women and children but it was also clear these were not all Syrians?  This wave of fighting age men were from a hodgepodge of middle eastern countries and they had attitude and a plan. This migration was heading straight to the promise land of Germany, They had no interest in their poor countries of passage like Greece or the old eastern bloc countries. This wave of so called refugees were heading straight to money town.

    Now before we get to what happened in Paris or Justin trying to save face in this ever changing shit storm that is world politics let’s look at what’s been really going on as far as Muslim immigration in France, England and Germany. TOO MUCH AND TOO FAST. There are Muslim enclaves in all of these countries where the native host countries are not permitted or welcome. To say that over the last twenty years these western European countries have been swamped and invaded by Muslims would not be an understatement at all.

   What happened in Paris was more than just a violent terrorist act, it was the first volley of a civil war that will engulf those countries. cultural genocide is not a pretty thing to witness.

   Now I’m not saying all Muslims want to take over or are evil people, they have been displaced or shall we say moved like pieces on a chess board. You don’t need to own a tin foil hat to realize that there are many industries that profit from conflict. One story across my desk was about ISIS Terrorists Driving Toyota Pickup Trucks, the companies that make the ak47’s and ammunition must be making a killing. Shoulder rockets and land mines of all sorts, all legally being traded on stock exchanges worldwide when we should be treating these merchants of death like we do meth labs.

   Call it a racist viewpoint if you will but at some point we have to turn the immigration tap down, to do that we have to reign in the military complex as well as the military itself. And of course at the end of the day the bankers.

  So where does that leave us? How does Paris and the German flood affect us? Well pandering Justin T has no choice but to follow through with his 25,000 to save face and not look like the shmuck that doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing. Of the 25,000 the government says it will bring into Canada by Jan. 1, some 10,000 are expected to land in Ontario, mostly in the GTA, Now that the emotional wave that the media pushed with the dead child is starting to ebb people are starting to think this promise though in a rational way, the realization that these people will need medical care and housing is a problem the people of Toronto will have to deal with and pay for.

    It’s likely that most will actually be from Syria and if Justin is smart he will make most of them women, children and families. Though most of the refugees are single men there is no way the liberal government can screen these men in time for Jan 1 to ensure they are not a security risk, so most likely he will select mostly women and children and forgo most of the security screening.  Estimates on the cost of this according to Canadian Press are $876.7 million in this year alone, largely due to the cost of the airlift, and perhaps $1.2 billion over six years.  It also appears that Premier Kathleen Wynne will be putting the needs of these refugees ahead of the people on disability and old age pension who can’t find affordable housing or have access to doctors.

    Justin Trudeau has made this generous gesture of accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees but it’s your tax money that will support these people, your children that will have to make room in their schools, Your health care system that will have to treat and look after them and your taxes that will be going up. The 10,000 that will land in the GTA over the next few weeks will be bringing third world problems to our door step and it’s you, not Justin who will have to deal with this.

Nov, 17 2015

Lawrence McCurry

Article originally Published in December 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Article originally Published in November 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

What democracy???

   Many people hold the false belief that here in Canada we are living in a democracy. That has not been true for some time now, Yes we have elections that give the illusion of a democratic system but the choices we are given and the system that controls those choices are in no way, shape or form democratic.

   Since the Liberal government of 74 when Canada turned over the control of our financial system to the private banking cartels we have been in fact living in a fascist corporatocracy. This is not my opinion. This concept has been clearly defined by economists and political scientists. So let’s be honest when we throw around words like democracy because that's not what we have here in Canada.

   Our government in Canada consists of a closed group of people who drift in and out of public service and are otherwise employed as corporate or academic elite when not in or voted out of public service.

   The three large political parties in Canada are funded by these same banking interests, corporations and unions. These are the same groups that employ the people who run for office. This is not some conspiracy theory or secret. For example almost every Prime Minister, premier and many of the key Cabinet Minsters we have had over the last 50 years all were employed or had direct connections to the Desmarais family and their large family firm Power Corp.  Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque were both members of the Communist party before they started working for Power Corp., Paul Martin got his shipping company off Power Corp., Jean Chrétien’s daughter married right into the Desmarais family and Brian Mulroney upon leaving office moved right into the board of directors for Power Corp.

    Not only are the players selected and groomed for public office but the way the three main political parties are funded is murky at best and downright criminal in practice. One need look no further than the current scandal’s in Ottawa involving Senator Mike Duffy or the NDP giving tax funded office space to union fund raisers’ to realize the big three’s funding practices flaunt the laws in place and yet no one is ever charged or arrested? The parties are given a pass while individual’s get hand slaps. There’s been more than one story about corporate board members walking though the office distributing cheques to employees with the understanding that they were meant for tax deductible donations for specific campaign’s or parties. From what I’ve been led to believe this has become standard practice now.

   Part of this control of our political system is the influence of the corporate media over our electoral system. The founding fathers of confederation realized the influence that media had over the electoral process. Even though at the time media only consisted of newspapers. Still laws were put into place to strictly control media ownership. Over the years with the event of radio and television these media ownership laws were expanded to include these new forms of communication. The idea behind these media ownership laws were to ensure that control of the media rested in the hands of as many people as possible. Starting in the 80’s under Mulroney these media ownership laws were whittled down, and changed depending on which corporate conglomerate was making moves on what sector.

 Between 1990 and 2005 there were a number of media corporate mergers and takeovers in Canada. For example, in 1990, 17.3% of daily newspapers were independently owned; whereas in 2005, 1% were. These changes, among others, caused the Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications to launch a study of Canadian news media in March 2003. (This topic had been examined twice in the past, by the Davey Commission (1970) and the Kent Commission (1981), both of which produced recommendations that were never implemented in any meaningful way.

   The point being with a controlled news media the public is very seldom informed of the smaller (Fringe) parties and independent candidates, even when they do clear the hurdles and independently come up with the financing required to even get on the ballot.

     And of course the big lie that is whispered at election time that if you do vote for a fringe party or independent you are “Wasting your vote”.

    It also goes without saying that this control also dictates subject, policy and issues discussed during elections so that subjects important to most Canadians such as banking policy, immigration or foreign aid are never discussed or brought to light in the body politic.

   And of course there is the one thing that is talked about which is the  "First past the post" system.  In each electoral district or riding, the candidate with the most number of votes in an election wins a seat in the House of Commons, or the legislative assembly in provincial and territorial elections. The leader of the party which wins the highest number or seats, rather than the party with the highest percentage of the overall vote is asked to form the government. Although first past the post is talked about, the winners of the elections seem to forget all about their objections to this system when they win.

   With the system and media rigged to ensure that only the big three corporate controlled parties will ever attain and forever hold on to power in Canadian politics it’s no wonder at all that the public has become jaded to the system and for the most part given up on voting and participating in the political system. Voter turnout in Canada now averages around 60% and has been dropping steadily. The last federal by-election I worked on it was 47% that means less than half the people who could vote did !

    If Canada is ever to regain a democratic form of government a number of things need to happen. First Canada needs to return the issuance of currency to the public (The Bank of Canada, which we own) and away from the private banking cartels. Who use this wealth to control the people and the government though debt. Second a large percentage of Canadian citizens have to care enough to get involved in the political process. Not only in terms of voting but also in joining and running of political parties. We need to demand honesty and transparency in government and get it! Not just promises. Lastly we need to install a system of accountability.

    Regaining democracy in Canada is a huge undertaking. It requires a lot of work by a lot of people. Until you are ready to do your part don’t speak to me of democracy in Canada because that’s not what we have.

  

Lawrence McCurry

June 2015

Article originally Published in November 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Article Published in September 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Reading This? Good for you!

   I see a lot of controlled thinking these days. You know who I’m talking about; the 80 to 90 percent of people who allow someone else do their thinking for them. In this age where the controlled corporate media collectively spin the narrative it’s an easy trap to fall into.

   This is a story of freedom of speech and freedom of the press and how it relates to the paper you are holding in your hands right now.

   What I have witnessed surrounding the publication and distribution of this small independent paper over the last couple of months scares the hell out of me. It scares me in terms of what Canada has become and where it’s going. Most of all it scares me that a group of people with a common political agenda can convince so many people that the heavy handed CENSORSHIP that they inflict in the public's name is not only acceptable, but a good and justifiable thing to do!

   First let’s look at what this paper is and the terrible sins it committed to drive the political left into such an apoplectic froth. When Dr. James Sears came to your ward news he brought with him a style and a vision for the paper that is unique and not seen in most publications since the 1960’s. Your Ward News is a rich mix of humor, satire and alternative media style journalism. While keeping with the tradition of publisher Leroy St.Germaine, Your Ward News pokes fun at and holds up a critical mirror to far left politics and politicians that have permeated the Canadian body politic like a bad case of Montezuma's Revenge.

   Sears pulled no punches in referring to the left as Zionists, communists, Marxists and scoundrels, using Nazi imagery and art to reflect the way he feels the left act and conduct themselves. Sears recognized that the left controls those who don’t think for themselves by using the tools of political correctness and cultural Marxism. Sears challenges the left by ignoring these methods of control, “To Hell with political correctness it’s a control method”. The sin of Your ward News was pointing out that The Emperor has no clothes.

   But this paper is more than just Sears, there’s Robert the graphic artist who skillfully creates powerful visual images that the humorless left don’t have the intellect to appreciate, Leroy our publisher whose tenacity and fearlessness inspire us all and half a dozen contributing writers who bring truth with a unique style and point of view.  

   

   The left have gone to great lengths not only to close this paper down but to ensure people don’t read or look though the paper and maybe, just maybe start thinking for themselves.

   It started when a leading propaganda spin doctor of the radical left, Warren Kinsella tweeted out the call and blogged to the Borg like obedience cult of the left that the paper was a “Nazi Rag” and should be shut down. Around the same time a Jewish Canada post letter carrier filed a complaint with his union that he was offended by the paper which prompted a hate speech investigation by police and Canada post. The fact that the police and Canada post cleared the paper of the ludicrous allegation and forced the union to do its job and deliver the paper did not stop the campaign.

    Next the creepy followers of the left obedience cult started mercilessly calling and visiting advertisers nonstop. Most of these advertisers were small businesses that were frightened by this and could not afford to stand up to the pressure of their phones ringing night and day and the visits of these creepy “political activists” frightening away their customers. Part of this campaign was a word of mouth and social media attack warning people of this evil publication and how this little newspaper would corrupt their minds, homes and children. Not only was the paper publicly attacked as a racist and Nazi rag but the editor Dr. James Sears was also personally attacked as being a misogynist and racist himself and when competing community newspapers reported on YWN they referred to him in a condescending manner by his old twitter handle of DIMITRI THE LOVER. An account used to spoof radical feminism.

   The next salvo in this campaign to squash the free speech of this paper was truly frightening as it came from the provincial government of Liberal Kathleen Wynne. On July 16 Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts announced at a press conference held half a block away from the office of Your Ward News that the province is providing an additional $449,000 of your tax money in funding for a 15-force provincial police team that investigates and prosecutes hate crimes and hate propaganda.

   According to the east York Chronicle Potts said that “he was chosen from the Liberal caucus to make the announcement in part because he has expressed strong concerns about an east Toronto publication known as Your Ward News, which has enraged many people in East York and area with articles, editorials and photo/cartoons that many regard as being racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi.” What he did not say was that the paper had been very critical of the Ontario Liberal party and considered his party to be the ones acting like Nazi’s. Potts also said “The minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Yasir Naqvi is very aware of my feelings about the publication,” Potts then babbled on about Canada post saying “as a Crown corporation it should have a higher moral compass and not associate its services with such an awful publication.” and “Whether or not it breaks the law, this publication is deeply offensive. I think it’s also a bad business decision by Canada Post. I’m certainly a lot less likely to use its services”

   One can only look at this for what it is, A far left wing government using half a million dollars of your tax money to bribe the police to reverse their decision or find a way to shut down a newspaper that is critical of the way they govern, To publicly encourage a crown corporation or it’s union that supports their agenda not to do its duty to treat this paper like any other customer and to encourage anybody else to do whatever they can to join them in this frightening act of censorship.

   Needless to say Canada post Carriers union followed this up by holding back delivery of the August edition of the paper by filing yet another complaint, this time with the outrageous complaint that the ink in the newspaper caused a rash on the union employee that had to sort the paper at the postal plant. More total nonsense that held up delivery of the paper for yet another two weeks.

   Finally after the union was forced by management to do their job, the office of Your Ward News was vandalized by somebody spray painting the words “NAZI FUCK” across the front of the building. This was not the act of some tagger or graffiti artist but a calculated act of terrorism, a terrorist act that was encouraged by our government. This act of terrorism was aimed like a gun at the employees who put out YWN to intimidate and frighten.

   I find it shocking that many in Canada (especially the political left) seem to have no concerns about freedom of speech in Canada. Many have no problems with restrictions on freedom of speech or censorship on material they personally disagree with.

   Any way you look at what’s happened in the last couple of months this is a clear case of attempted censorship of the press and free speech. I have talked to half a dozen people who hate this paper without ever having read it or even having looked at it. Only having heard what others have told them what to think. If you have read this and still hate this paper good for you. At least you have come to this point of view yourself and not let someone else do your thinking for you.

Lawrence McCurry

Aug, 20 2015

Article Published in September 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Left  Regressives use tax money to stifle free speech.

   This story starts some weeks ago when a small community newspaper started using Canada post to distribute the paper. In March they published a picture of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in a Nazi uniform. A Jewish Canada Post letter carrier claimed to be offended by this and refused to deliver the paper, the union got behind this and started holding back delivery until police could determine whether or not the paper constituted hate speech.  After a police investigation it was determined the paper did not contain hate speech and Canada Post continued to deliver the paper to residents of the ward as they were paid to do.

   For those of you who would think this would be the end of this matter you don’t realize how much our society has been totally permeated by the practice of cultural Marxism.

   “Cultural Marxism is an ideology which emphasizes culture as a main cause of inequalities. Critics have seen cultural Marxism and its influence as an important cause of political correctness and as an important cause of a perceived decline of humanities, social sciences, culture, and civilization in the Western world.”

   Many people are of the belief that the political left in Canada has moved so far to the left of the political spectrum that the word communism is an accurate description. Some even go so far as recognizing its most fervent followers as an obedience cult. It appears this obedience cult of the political left have declared war on “Your Ward News” and have pulled out all the stops to shut down the free speech of this small paper that uses humor and satire to point out to the left that the Emperor has no clothes.

   The lengths the left have gone to have escalated to the absurd, it started with one of the Grand poohbahs of the left, Warren Kinsella blogging that the paper was a “neo-Nazi rag” and put a call out for help in closing them down. Next the creepy followers of the left obedience cult started mercilessly calling and visiting advertisers nonstop. Most of these advertisers were small businesses that were frightened by this and could not afford to stand up to the pressure of their phones ringing night and day and the visits of these creepy “political activists” frightening away their customers.

   Normally this would have been enough to close down any newspaper that had the gall to stand up to the Marxist left but in this case publisher Leroy St.Germaine and newly appointed editor James Sears looked at it as an opportunity to print even more stories in space that had already be paid for by these advertisers who had paid for a year in advance and no longer wanted their ad’s run. Sears who is the leader of a non-registered and newly formed political party (The New constitution Party of Canada) has decided free speech and freedom of the press is not something to be taken lightly and has put his own money where his mouth is.

  In the following issues of the paper Sears stepped up the satire and played up to the cultural Marxists who smugly think they had the right to control what you can and cannot read, with a number of cartoons and articles meant to provoke thought and discussion of the subject of free speech.

   But the next thing to happen was truly frightening in my opinion. The government of Ontario decided that they did not like this community paper telling Emperor Wynne she had no clothes and decided to use half a million dollars of your tax money to bribe the police into looking again at their decision that this paper did not constitute hate speech. On July 16 Beaches-East York MPP Arthur Potts announced at a press conference held half a block away from the office of Your Ward News that the province is providing an additional $449,000 in funding for a 15-force provincial police team that investigates and prosecutes hate crimes and hate propaganda.

   According to the east York Chronicle Potts said that “he was chosen from the Liberal caucus to make the announcement in part because he has expressed strong concerns about an east Toronto publication known as Your Ward News, which has enraged many people in East York and area with articles, editorials and photo/cartoons that many regard as being racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi.” What he did not say was that the paper had been very critical of the Ontario Liberal party and considered his party to be the ones acting like Nazi’s. Potts also said “The minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Yasir Naqvi is very aware of my feelings about the publication,” Potts then babbled on about Canada post saying “as a Crown corporation it should have a higher moral compass and not associate its services with such an awful publication.” and “Whether or not it breaks the law, this publication is deeply offensive. I think it’s also a bad business decision by Canada Post. I’m certainly a lot less likely to use its services”

   Really Mr. Potts you are less likely to use Canada post because they do what they are mandated to do and that’s service their customers equally and fairly???? 

   Not only is this a clear case of Cultural Marxism but it's also a slap in the face to free speech and freedom of the press. This is a clear case of the Ontario Government bribing the police with half a million dollars of your tax money and in essence saying, "We don't like this paper because they don't like us and we want you to look again and close this paper down for us!"

   Is this what the government of Ontario has come to? In my opinion as a writer and media critic I’m a lot more frightened by the Nazi like actions of the Wynne government than I am of a community paper, I decided I was going to submit a fluff article to Your Ward news on the PAN AM games which they published in their July edition. It was a factual article on the costs and impact of the games on Toronto. In no way, shape or form was this article racist in any way. (for those of you who wish to read this article without going to the paper it can also be viewed on my blog site here.) As if on cue twitter erupted with messages calling me a Nazi and suggesting fellow bloggers should distance themselves from me. 

    This is not just a bunch of overzealous social justice warriors, this is a well-coordinated campaign straight out of Karl Marx’s little red play book. Of course the left will never admit that Cultural Marxism even exists, in fact their own definition of it is

 “The term "cultural Marxism" is most commonly encountered as a snarl word decrying everything right-wingers don't like, alluding to a conspiracy theory involving sinister left-wingers in the cultural and artistic spheres, including the media and academia, supposedly being engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine Western culture. With bonus anti-Semitism.”

   So it’s only a “conspiracy theory” That the left is trying hard to close down Your ward news and I’m a conspiracy theorist for recognizing it as such? In fact the left-tards have been calling me that since I started asking where all the money was coming from and going to during the Occupy movement hoax. For a short time they tried calling me a misogynist but that did not stick so they went back to conspiracy theorist.

    I have decided to continue to write and submit articles to Your Ward News out of principal. Even though I don’t always agree with everything they may publish. I think that if you the reader agree with me that free speech and freedom of the press are issues that need to be defended in Canada, You should read, subscribe and support this small community publication. This small paper may be the last bastion free speech outside of the internet in Canada and we all know the government will get their claws into the internet next.

Classic Liberalism:
" I disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it"

New (progressive) Liberal Left:
" I disapprove of what you say, And I will publicly shame you, Lobby to have you censored and demand you be fired from your job "

Lawrence McCurry

July 12 2015

Bend Over Toronto, The Pan AM Games are Almost Here

Article Published in July 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Bend Over Toronto, The Pan AM Games are Almost Here

   If governments are supposed to represent the will of the people I would like to know who asked for the pan Am games?  Officially the cost of the Pan Am games starting in Toronto ( July 10 - 26) and the Parapan Am Games (Aug 7 – 15) Are supposed to come in for around  2.57 billion dollars, Yes That’s Billion with a B.

   Of course we all know there’s always cost over runs and graft and corruption not mentioned in this official figure. The cost on PACHI the creepy gay friendly porcupine alone is estimated to cost upwards of $134,550.00 we don’t even have porcupines here, I would think a skunk or a raccoon would be more appropriate, at least they can be seen on the streets of Toronto.

    The 2015 Pan American Games will become the first completely ecologically friendly games, because it will be fully carbon neutral, which is code for the globalist bankers have their finger in the pie as well for a big piece of that tax payer money.

   It seems the games organizing committee also scored big time with high compensation and bonus packages for its executive team.  According to Wikipedia

  In 2012, it was revealed that former CEO Ian Troop made CA$552,065, with several other senior staff making between CA$100,000 and CA$400,000. Additionally, in 2013 it was revealed that as part of his compensation package, Troop would be eligible for a CA$780,000 bonus at the end of his contract, if the games had finished successfully. Other executives are eligible for bonuses of up to 100% of their salaries upon completion of their contract In 2015, it was revealed that Troop's replacement, Saad Rafi, would receive a bonus of 100% of his CA$428,794 salary upon completion of his contract.

    In September 2013, it was reported that many senior members of the organizing committee, including then CEO Ian Troop, expensed Ontario taxpayers for things such as a cup of tea. Even Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, said "I'm just going to say it's ridiculous. It is the kind of entitlement that is unacceptable" And she should know being an expert on how to blow the money of the hard the working people of Ontario. To the average person living in poverty on a disability pension in Ontario and getting by on less than 15,000.00 a year this kind of spending on a creepy porcupine and the entitlements of a bunch of political fat cats is totally obscene.

   The billions of dollars spent on the Pan Am games are only the start of the nightmare for residents of Toronto. All levels of government have gone on a spending spree using the excuse of the games for everything from building projects that will later be sold off to cronies at a discount price to the temporary lighting of the Bloor Viaduct which is estimated to cost us 3.8 million dollars by the time it’s finished. (If it’s finished on time for the games)

Rendering of what the Luminous Veil lighting project will look like on Prince Edward viaduct

when the underside is lit up.

   Don’t expect to get to work on time during the games either, even with the money spent on transit and road improvements by the city (Not that the airport train will help any of you working stiffs) traffic in the city will be a nightmare. Malls and restaurants will be crowed and it’s safe to say that normal business will be slowed considerably.

   Furthermore word on the street is that the anarcho-syndicalists and paid protesters have big plans to disrupt and destroy using their planed  “diversity of tactics”  These are the same jokers who dressed in black during the G-20 and broke windows up Yonge St. These black bloc anarchists have had plans in place for some time to disrupt the games. According to writer Greg Renouf one unrepentant  G-20 anarchist has been working in the office of city councilor Shelley Carroll.  

    It no secret that there’s going to be trouble from the professional protest gang, social media has been buzzing for months with plans to disrupt the games with potential riots, storming facilities, venues and so forth.

Screen shot courtesy of Undercoverkity

   Was the idea of bringing the Pan Am games to Toronto one the people of Toronto really wanted or was it a plan for politicians and big business to line their pockets at your expense?  Maybe this was a question that should have been asked a long time ago. Now your only course of action is to bend over and try to enjoy it. Let the fun and games begin!

Lawrence McCurry

June 2018

Article Published in July 2015 edition of "Your Ward News"

Rocco Galati May 12 City Hall