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Arthur Weinreb

Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur's latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.

Older articles (2007) by Arthur Weinreb

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The Lunch-bag police – coming to a school near you

Six children who attend St. Stephen’s Catholic Elementary School in Woodbridge Ontario, just northwest of Toronto, are taking their school to the Ontario Human Rights Commission. For six years the school had a voluntary program that monitored all kids’ lunches. Teachers would check the students’ lunches to make sure that they didn’t contain such things as peanuts or egg products; ingredients that can pose a danger to children with allergies.          
- Monday, December 10, 2007

Robert Latimer:  Canada’s Cindy Sheehan

Tracy latimerRobert Latimer was denied day parole earlier this week. The Saskatchewan farmer is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 10 years for the murder of his 12-year-old daughter, Tracy. Latimer and his wife had trouble caring for Tracy who was severely disabled and so in October 1993 he did what any loving parent would have done. He placed his daughter in the cab of his pickup truck and pumped the cab full of exhaust fumes. Shy and not wanting to have to handle the array of accolades that were sure to be bestowed upon him for his brave act, Latimer put the child’s body in her bed and waited for his wife to return from church to discover the death.
- Friday, December 7, 2007

The Cross of Valour

The Cross of Valour is an award that was created by the Canadian government in 1972. It is only to be awarded to someone who has shown “conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme peril”. Since its inception 35 years ago, it has only been awarded nineteen times.
- Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The teddy teacher: why the surprise?

The BBC is reporting today that Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, will pardon 54-year-old British teacher, Gillian Gibbons. As everyone now knows by now, Gibbons was teaching in Sudan when she brought a teddy bear to class and allowed one of her 7-year-old students to name the bear.
- Monday, December 3, 2007

People poaching – it’s the Canadian way

An editorial in the upcoming issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal goes after Shoppers Drug Mart. The Canada-wide drugstore chain is accused by the journal of “poaching” pharmacists from South Africa. According to the editorial, about 75 per cent of pharmacy positions in the province of KwaZulu-Natal remain vacant while the drugstore company actively recruits and helps pharmacists emigrate to Canada. This practice does not bode well for a country where AIDS and other diseases are rampant among the population.
- Friday, November 30, 2007

The almost politician-free Santa Claus parade

The small town of Milton, just west of Toronto held its annual Santa Claus parade on Saturday. Last week the organizers announced that with the exception of Milton Mayor Gordon Kranz, no politicians would be allowed to march in the parade. No other local politicians; no provincial MPPs; and no federal MPs.
- Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Probes into Taser use:  now there are ten

As pointed out in the National Post last week, there are now 10 reviews or inquiries on the subject matter of the use of Tasers by Canadian police. Attention was focused on the weapon a couple of weeks ago when a video of newly arrived Polish immigrant, Robert Dziekanski, who died shortly after being confronted by four RCMP officers and Tasered in the arrivals section of Vancouver International Airport, became public.
- Monday, November 26, 2007

Mandatory drug sentences may be counterproductive

Earlier this week, the Conservatives announced proposed minimum sentences for certain drug offences. Mandatory minimums would apply to the trafficking, manufacturing and cultivating of drugs as well as special mandatory sentences for selling drugs near schools or other areas where children may congregate, dealing while possessing a weapon and for those who sell drugs while linked to organized crime.
- Thursday, November 22, 2007

Are police becoming too feminized?

As most people are aware by now, 40-year-old immigrant from Poland, Robert Dziekanski died after being Tasered by the RCMP in the early morning hours of October 14 in the arrivals area of Vancouver International Airport.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2007

When autumn leaves refuse to fall

The city of Toronto announced last week that there would be no change to their leaf collection times. Although the city has reduced the number of pickups this year from six weeks to four, collecting bags of leaves will end as scheduled on December 7.
- Monday, November 19, 2007

Charles Smith Inquiry: Let’s not lose sight of the real issue

The Ontario public inquiry into the work of former forensic pathologist, Dr. Charles Smith, got underway this week. In 2005, the province's chief coroner began a review of several deaths of children that occurred between 1991 and 2001. The cases that were reviewed were all ones that were worked on by Smith and many of them resulted in criminal charges, convictions and imprisonment for those believed to have played a role in the deaths of some of these children. A lot of Smith's work was found to have been defective and some of the "crimes" that people had been convicted of turned out not even to have been crimes.
- Thursday, November 15, 2007

Harper floats return of death penalty

Last month the Conservative government reversed a long standing policy of requesting clemency for Canadians who are sentenced to death in other countries. Public Safety Minister, Stockwell Day, announced that Canada would not be seeking clemency for Ronald Allen Smith, a 50-year-old Albertan who is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Montana. Smith was convicted in 1982 for the cold blooded killing of two young men in that state. According to the evidence, Smith said that he killed them just to see what it would be like.
- Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Black segregation seems to be politically correct

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is currently holding meetings in an attempt to start a "blacks' only school" in Toronto. This is the 21st century, so of course the proposed learning centre cannot be referred to as "blacks' only" --the fancy politically correct name is an "Afro-centric" school.
- Monday, November 12, 2007

It all comes down to discipline

The Sunday Times of London did a piece last week about parents in the U.K. of African descent that send their children to Ghana to go to school. The schools in the West African country have something that schools in Britain and in fact in the West do not have--discipline. The parents resort to sending their kids abroad in order to keep them out of the gang culture that seems to be increasing in major urban areas.
- Thursday, November 8, 2007

Choice—it really isn’t a Canadian concept

The Toronto Sun is doing several pieces this week on the controversial issue of the right to die. In a pro-euthanasia article, Donald Babey, the executive Director of Dying with Dignity Canada wrote a column of course supporting peoples' right to die with help from a doctor. Entitled "Euthanasia debate is about choice", Babey begins his column as follows:
- Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Let my pedos go!

Joy Smith, the Conservative MP from the Manitoba riding of Kildonan-St. Paul is planning to introduce a private members' bill in Parliament on human trafficking. The introduction of the bill follows two high profile cases of Canadians who are alleged to have committed serious sexual crimes against children in various Asian countries.
- Monday, November 5, 2007

Booze taxes for Toronto—bring them on!

Much like the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Mayor David Miller and the socialist hordes at city hall didn't have any time to bask in their victory. While the Red Sox look towards tonight's game after beating the Colorado Rockies 13-1in the opening game of the 2007 World Series, the city mothers are looking towards what new taxes can be imposed after passing the municipal land transfer tax and vehicle registration fee three days ago
- Thursday, October 25, 2007

Harper clears a hurdle

Recent polls have indicated that the Harper Conservatives are edging into majority government territory. That in itself is not significant; polls can change and there is no guarantee that the Conservative Party of Canada will win the next election let alone form a majority government. What is important is that when a Conservative majority government appeared to be a real possibility, life, such as it is in ho-hum Canada, remained the same.
- Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Quebec less tolerant than the rest of Canada

While the Bouchard-Taylor Commission was travelling the province to examine the views on Quebeckers on the "reasonable accommodation" of immigrants and ethnic groups, Leger Marketing conducted a survey of people throughout the country. The poll was conducted in early October and surveyed 1,500 Canadians including 1,000 Quebeckers.
- Monday, October 22, 2007

Why would Gore want to be president

It has long been said that the United States is indeed a land of opportunity where anyone can grow up to be president. And when the country was within three years of its 200th anniversary, Gerald Ford came along and proved it. In the smallest landslide in history where he won no votes and carried no states, Gerald Ford was sworn in as the president of the United States. The fact that anyone "can" become president does not necessarily mean that everyone "wants" to be president.
- Thursday, October 18, 2007

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