Toronto Life has a harsh assessment of Jack Layton's dubious legacy written by Stephen Marche:
Raffi socialism is not wrong; it’s much worse. It’s content in its impotence. Its constituent parts are feel-good, conventional, childlike ideas about how the world should work, substituting bike lanes or an empty critique of capitalism for practical policies that would actually improve the lives of Canadians. Today’s left-wing leaders, following in Layton’s footsteps, like to whine—about whether the head of the CRTC is bilingual or not, or about why we don’t have more bike lanes, or about the need for a hockey concussion registry.
Raffi socialism is downtown Toronto’s cheerfully useless contribution to national politics, born from the dysfunction of city hall. To become a councillor or mayor, you have to win a lot of votes, and then when you do, you’re only one decision maker out of 45. The OMB and the province make all the substantial decisions anyway, so it’s quite easy to praise public transit and parks without ever having to go to the trouble of finding the money to build them, and it’s equally easy to shout your respect for taxpayers and commuters while doing nothing to alleviate congestion. Rhetoric, alongside basic constituency business, is the job; the innovators of city hall invent new modes of political symbolism. As a councillor, Layton mastered Raffi socialism. Ford is inventing gridiron conservatism.
The Conservatives loved Layton; they loved his tireless impotence. No doubt Harper would like Layton’s legacy to live forever. The Conservative prime minister, elected with barely 40 per cent of the vote, faces no real Opposition caucus.
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Showing posts with label Raffi Cavoukian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raffi Cavoukian. Show all posts
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Children's singer Raffi continues his crusade for the wussification of Canada's national sport
Raffi Cavoukian may be prepared to metaphorically pull down his pants, bend over and put a welcome sign on his posterior for the enemies of democracy and individual liberty. That seems clear from his support for the "Friends of Hamas" who launched the Sea Hitler Gaza boat that insulted the principles of this country by carrying a Canadian flag on its terror-enabling journey.
But what's really irritating is that he is on a crusade to wussify Canada's national sport and vilify Don Cherry. It seems that Cavoukian is just as perturbed by Cherry's vocal support for Canadian troops in Afghanistan as he is for the colorful, popular, bombastic commentator's recognition that fighting is a traditional part of Canadian professional hockey.
In a new article in the fanatical, neo-Marxist online media platform rabble.ca, Cavoukian betrays a distaste for Canadian traditions while attempting to impose his own ideologies as those of the entire nation:
In his opposition to deterrents to bad behaviour, at least Cavoukian is consistent. His support for the Sea Hitler terror-enablers demonstrates that he doesn't like anyone being able to protect themselves from slimy, vicious ,ongoing low scale-attacks. Of course that's just a guess. Who knows what goes on in Cavoukian's mind?
Indeed, one of the things that is a frustration for the parents of young children is that the constant exposure to juvenile literature and music, be it Goodnight Moon, or Barney the Dinosaur, or Sesame |Street while stimulating for young children, is intellectually numbing for adults. One of the great joys of seeing your children grow is watching their intellectual development as their reading and musical tastes expand to more intricate ideas like those imagined by the likes of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien or the Beatles and Harry Nilsson.
Cavoukian, who I understand has no children of his own, has devoted his life to performing for kids, give or take a couple of years, of the age of five. That obsessive focus could account for an intellectual stagnation that suggests he thinks Canadian history began with the election of Pierre Trudeau.
Here's Raffi serenading some rich, white, socialist hypocrites:
But what's really irritating is that he is on a crusade to wussify Canada's national sport and vilify Don Cherry. It seems that Cavoukian is just as perturbed by Cherry's vocal support for Canadian troops in Afghanistan as he is for the colorful, popular, bombastic commentator's recognition that fighting is a traditional part of Canadian professional hockey.
In a new article in the fanatical, neo-Marxist online media platform rabble.ca, Cavoukian betrays a distaste for Canadian traditions while attempting to impose his own ideologies as those of the entire nation:
"..considering .. hockey analyst Don Cherry's repeated tributes to Canada's Afghan war dead within "Coach's Corner" on CBC's Hockey Night In Canada, I could examine the militarization of Cherry's segment and the loss of respect for Canada as a peacemaker in the world. But I won't. I will, however, question the role of violence in Canada's fall-winter-spring passion and what that says about this country. "The cheap verbal shots Cavoukian takes at Cherry may suggest hid identification with the cheap shot artists who would benefit from a hockey fighting ban. Fighting is the deterrent that lets slimy players who like to jam the elbow, or give rib jabs with the end of their sticks when the ref isn't looking that they won't be allowed to get away with it.
In his opposition to deterrents to bad behaviour, at least Cavoukian is consistent. His support for the Sea Hitler terror-enablers demonstrates that he doesn't like anyone being able to protect themselves from slimy, vicious ,ongoing low scale-attacks. Of course that's just a guess. Who knows what goes on in Cavoukian's mind?
Indeed, one of the things that is a frustration for the parents of young children is that the constant exposure to juvenile literature and music, be it Goodnight Moon, or Barney the Dinosaur, or Sesame |Street while stimulating for young children, is intellectually numbing for adults. One of the great joys of seeing your children grow is watching their intellectual development as their reading and musical tastes expand to more intricate ideas like those imagined by the likes of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien or the Beatles and Harry Nilsson.
Cavoukian, who I understand has no children of his own, has devoted his life to performing for kids, give or take a couple of years, of the age of five. That obsessive focus could account for an intellectual stagnation that suggests he thinks Canadian history began with the election of Pierre Trudeau.
Here's Raffi serenading some rich, white, socialist hypocrites:
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Talentless singer obsessed with pre-pubescent children attacks Canadian institution
Raffi Cavoukian, who has devoted his adult life to performing for an audience that becomes too sophisticated for him by the time the reach the age of 7, has decided to pour his energies into vilifying Canadian hockey institution Don Cherry.
It seems Cherry's legendary enthusiasm was too much to bear for the wussy, horrible children's music singer and new spokesman of the totalitarian far-left.
Says Cavoukian of Cherry, “He sounds and acts like a bully. That’s not fun and it’s not a good example for the kids who are watching...In this day and age of all the hockey violence, we should be putting a stop to this...there’s absolutely no call for this guy to demean anybody who isn’t into the violence. That’s just really stupid on any level...his act is uncivil and doesn’t belong on our public broadcaster.”
The Cairo-born Cavoukian has called for the censorship of Cherry. Just so this can be put in context, Cavoukian was an endorser of the Sea Hitler Canadian Gaza boat, an effort of the sort the late Christopher Hitchens said would be more accurately described were they to call themselves "Canadian Friends of Hamas."
In addition to being an enabler of terror supporters, Cavoukian has tied himself to the radical, hateful wing of the New Democratic Party.
The best indication of Cavoukian's profound thinking abilities is his endorsement of the vapid Occupy movement, which despises government while at the same time wanting it to expand and assume responsibilities for everyone's life.
Cherry likes hockey violence and Cavoukian doesn't. So Cavoukian's answer is censorship. Cavoukian better hope that censorship isn't expanded to talentless hacks who offend the musical sensibilities of anyone who has outlived kindergarten.
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N.B. It's worth noting that the crazies affiliated with Judy Rebick's fanatical website rabble.ca have been trying their best to shut down Don Cherry for a while. First they wanted to censor him because he had the temerity to voice his support for Canadian troops, which hypocritical so-called peace activists (or as Hitchens pointed out, they're not really so much anti-war as they are pro war, but for the other side) found intolerable.
Unable to get any results on that score, they've enlisted Raffi to try to censor Canada's favorite hockey commentator because of the very reason Cherry attracts a huge audience.
It seems Cherry's legendary enthusiasm was too much to bear for the wussy, horrible children's music singer and new spokesman of the totalitarian far-left.
Says Cavoukian of Cherry, “He sounds and acts like a bully. That’s not fun and it’s not a good example for the kids who are watching...In this day and age of all the hockey violence, we should be putting a stop to this...there’s absolutely no call for this guy to demean anybody who isn’t into the violence. That’s just really stupid on any level...his act is uncivil and doesn’t belong on our public broadcaster.”
The Cairo-born Cavoukian has called for the censorship of Cherry. Just so this can be put in context, Cavoukian was an endorser of the Sea Hitler Canadian Gaza boat, an effort of the sort the late Christopher Hitchens said would be more accurately described were they to call themselves "Canadian Friends of Hamas."
In addition to being an enabler of terror supporters, Cavoukian has tied himself to the radical, hateful wing of the New Democratic Party.
The best indication of Cavoukian's profound thinking abilities is his endorsement of the vapid Occupy movement, which despises government while at the same time wanting it to expand and assume responsibilities for everyone's life.
Cherry likes hockey violence and Cavoukian doesn't. So Cavoukian's answer is censorship. Cavoukian better hope that censorship isn't expanded to talentless hacks who offend the musical sensibilities of anyone who has outlived kindergarten.
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N.B. It's worth noting that the crazies affiliated with Judy Rebick's fanatical website rabble.ca have been trying their best to shut down Don Cherry for a while. First they wanted to censor him because he had the temerity to voice his support for Canadian troops, which hypocritical so-called peace activists (or as Hitchens pointed out, they're not really so much anti-war as they are pro war, but for the other side) found intolerable.
Unable to get any results on that score, they've enlisted Raffi to try to censor Canada's favorite hockey commentator because of the very reason Cherry attracts a huge audience.
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