Making their hate for Canada explicit: NDP and Public Service Union-supported rabble.ca's "Why I don't celebrate Canada Day and never have"

Judy Rebick is the founder of, and a regular columnist for the neo-Marxist website rabble.ca, which exists primarily from funds bestowed by public service unions and NDP-affiliated organizations like The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Its current publisher is Kim Elliott, the spouse of federal NDP Deputy Leader Libby Davies.

It's no secret the people on the radical left hate Canada and the enlightened western values that our country represents.

But rarely do they make it so explicit as Rebick did in her Canada Day column for rabble: Why I don't celebrate Canada Day and never have

It seems Rebick is determined to add "self-hating Canadian" (although she immigrated from the US, which she also despises) to a litany of reasons for her to be able to loathe herself.

And if that weren't enough, here's more anti-Canadian tripe rabble saved for Canada Day. Canadian Federation of Students' Nina Loreto's rabble piece in which she offers the following blather (and she does not mean these questions rhetorically):

Why give "Canada" the honour of being a symbol for anything and everything that is good?

Why buy into the national myth that upholds how great life is for many of us, while at the same time ignoring or erasing the strife, struggle or challenges that also come with living in "Canada?"

For Canada Day, the great William Shatner sings O Canada

A Great Canadian Song for a Happy Canada Day

Scenes from Toronto's Trans Pride

Here are some shots from the Trans Pride day on July 1 (yesterday)

There is some genuine courage in the transsexual community.  These are individuals who have to undergo more difficulty than anyone else in what is lumped together as the Gay Body Politic, and many Trans people feel that within that community, they are ignored and treated shabbily. As one person I spoke with yesterday put it, "We're the bottom color on the rainbow flag."

Trans people who have gone public not only have to have the courage to be different than the norm in their sexuality, but they undergo intrusive, extensive medical treatment, often face social and personal ostracism, and suffer from discrimination in employment.

It's a scary journey for them and not one that anyone would undertake frivolously.

I'm glad they had a great day yesterday...and here's a tip for the Trans community: Don't get mired in the same asinine oppression "chip on your shoulder" politics that have trapped other groups in a quagmire that prevents them from being credible.

(Not everyone in these pics is a transsexual, but they were all out yesterday)

From transsexual Transylvania
(Check out the fangs!)

A rambling speech in which "Mother Earth" and
"Grandmother Moon" were thanked...and
something about buffaloes...???

Just about everyone had tattoos

Some more than others

A not-so-rare unicorn sighting

All photos in this post © 2011 Eye on a Crazy Planet