Commencing on November 9, Toronto police arrested 16 students who attend James Cardinal McGuigan Catholic Secondary School; the bulk of the group being arrested at school on November 15. The 16 face charges that include sexual assault, forcible confinement, criminal harassment and uttering threats. The allegations stem from a 16-year-old girl, who told authorities that she had been victimized on a continuous basis by the group since 2004.
Normally, the Toronto Star as well as other left wing media champion the cause of violence against women and bullying at school. We are coming up to December 6 where, as it does every year, the Star will go on and on and on about how women in Canadian society are victimized. But in this case, the 16-year-old complainant happens to be white while the accused (14 boys and 2 girls) are black. The Toronto Star wasted no time in making the complainant’s allegations of being the victim of continuous criminal acts a mere footnote to the real problem — racism, police misconduct and racial profiling.
In an article that was published on November 16 entitled, "Students get bail at tense hearing", in between comments from mothers of the accused about how racist the police were, the writer wrote sympathetically about how the accused "gazed over the courtroom trying to make eye contact with friends and relatives". The alleged victim, who would not be named in any event, was merely mentioned in passing as "the girl".
While it is true that none of the young men or women have been convicted and are presumed to be innocent (as is everyone else at that stage, even Conrad Black), the Star would never make the accused the victims if there was no racial component to the story.
The next day the Star ran another article entitled, "angry parents blame police" with more complaints from mothers about police racism and about the fact that the police chose to arrest the bulk of the accused at school at the same time rather than seek them out individually. again, the fact that a young girl may have been the victim of a series of sexual assaults and other crimes at the hands of a large group of students seemed to be simply a mere detail leading into another Toronto Star story about racist cops.
It is obvious that the Toronto Star has its priorities of political correctness. allegations of sexual assault or bullying on a young girl are not nearly as important as allegations of racism that are levelled against the police for arresting blacks.
Tonight the CBC is airing a documentary entitled, "The Secret Mulroney Tapes". The program that is based upon the Peter C. Newman book by the same name will play some of the tapes that Newman made of conversations he had with the former prime minister over the years. Mulroney’s candid statements that he made to Newman do not portray the former PM in a particularly good light.
The book was released on September 12 without any advance publicity and the CBC seems to have wasted little time putting the documentary on air. Could it perhaps be that we will be having an election soon and CBC wants to stir up the feelings of hatred against Mulroney in order to help their Liberal friends who are fighting an uphill battle in light of the revelations in the Gomery Report? The cynical might very well conclude that they are.
On October 28, a book by Tasha Kheiridden and adam Daifallah entitled, "Rescuing Canada’s Right — Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution (John Wiley and Sons) was released. Don’t look for that book to become the subject of a CBC documentary any time soon.