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National Post: Steyn’s book can’t be found in Canada

A Canadian author’s book about the need to defend Western civilization against Islam’s demographic juggernaut — and the United States’ vital role in that effort — has become a best-seller in the United States, but remains all but impossible to buy at stores in this country.

Conservative columnist Mark Steyn’s book America Alone has shot up best-seller lists: It stands at 13th on The New York Times list and 23rd on Amazon.com.

But Canada’s largest book seller, Indigo Books and Music Inc., does not have the book in stock at its Chapters outlets or its other book-selling subsidiaries.

Mr. Steyn has charged that Indigo and its chief executive officer, Heather Reisman, underestimated demand for his book as a means of “boycotting” it.

His publisher made several attempts to persuade Indigo that its first order of several hundred books was inadequate, he said.

Mr. Steyn wrote in Maclean’s, “If Heather Reisman carries on boycotting me, I should be able to retire to Tahiti within the year.”

Flap supposes the literary elite in Canada prefers not to read what Steyn has written which is the hard truth. So, what better way to censure than to misorder the books and claim it is the American publisher’s fault.

Now, Flap has a vested interest in this distribution of books because at future reprintings I get my name for a photo credit on the back flap (little pat on the back).

Canadian readers (who cannot order their books online and must visit a book retailer) should do what Mark suggests:

“My advice to Canadian readers is drive over to the Buffalo Barnes & Noble and smuggle it back in, cunningly hidden under the Algerian terrorist in the back seat.”

Another example of the failed social democracy of Canada……a waiting line for books.

The reader can purchase the book here.

And it is number two on Amazon’s Canada Best Sellers List.

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2nd R) and Public Safety Minster Stockwell Day (L) arrive at the Canadian and U.S. border crossing in Cloverdale, west of Vancouver, British Columbia August 31, 2006. Harper announced on Thursday that Canadian border guards will be armed like their U.S. counterparts beginning in September of 2007.

Reuters: U.S. Congress poised to delay border check program

Travelers entering the United States from Canada will win a reprieve from a post-September 11 border security program requiring passports or other high-tech IDs, under a bill set to pass Congress this week.

Congressional negotiators have embraced a delay of up to 17 months for the program, which was supposed to have been fully activated by December 31, 2007.

The language has been attached to a fiscal 2007 domestic security funding bill the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate plan to approve before going on a recess ahead of November mid-term elections.

Following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Congress strengthened border security, including checks on some of the millions of people who travel by land into the country.

With only 15 months before the new program was to have started, Bush administration officials recently told Congress of difficulties readying identity cards and equipment to read those cards at border stations.

The Bush Administration yet again demonstrates its lack of resolve for border security.

And why couldn’t the United States government implement this program on time?

Americans are less SAFE……

Reuters: Canadian school knocked for mocking Yale grad Bush

Posters and a Web site mocking President Bush have put the spotlight on a small Ontario university that thought a bold and edgy recruiting campaign was just the ticket to attract potential students.

The Web site, http://www.yaleshmale.com, has a black and white picture of Bush, with the caption: “Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.”

Bush graduated from Yale in 1968.

A link takes viewers to a site for Lakehead University, in rugged Thunder Bay, Ontario, some 1,375 km (850 miles) northwest of Toronto.

“It was literally a tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention,” Frederick Gilbert, president and vice-chancellor of Lakehead University, said on Monday.

“The young people picked it up that way,” he added. “I must say that older generations, well even some of our students, have looked at it as not appropriate.”

Marketing Bush Derangement Syndrome, eh?

Lakehead University seems substantial enough without the denigration of another school or individual.

How do you spell NO CLASS?

LGF: Who’s Looking for Al-Manar TV?

Courtesy of Google Trends, here are the countries whose citizens are searching the web for links to the Hizballah hate channel Al-Manar. (Hat tip: Egfrow.)

Hummmmmm, alot of France and Canadian hits, eh?

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Victoria B.C. November 2005

Toronto Sun: No-fly list to ignore terror ties

Belonging to group won’t be enough to be deemed air threat

Being a member of a terrorist organization won’t necessarily land someone on Canada’s no-fly list, The Canadian Press has learned.

Proposed criteria would limit inclusion on the roster to those who pose “an immediate threat to aviation security,” Transport Canada internal briefing notes say.

Draft regulations, disclosed by a source familiar with details of the plan, confirm the no-fly list will be tightly focused and reviewed every 30 days to keep it up to date.

“You cannot be put on the list on the sole basis that you’re a member of a ‘terrorist group,’” the source said. “In addition, you have to be a demonstrable threat to aviation safety.”

The source said that under the proposed regulations, people involved in a terrorist group — either now or in the past — could be added to the list only if there were reason to suspect they may “compromise civil aviation, the security of any aircraft or aerodrome, or the safety of the public, passengers or crew.”

Does that mean you have to carry a box-cutter and threaten a flight attendant to be a “demonstrable threat to aviation safety?”

Now, we wouldn’t want to inconvenience any terrorists who want to KILL US, would we?

Remind me to not fly to Canada anytime soon and how about an embargo on flights originating in Canada to the United States?

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Captain Ed has Canada To Terrorists: Fly The Friendly Skies

Even if one discounted the 9/11 attacks as a warning to Western aviation in general, Canada shows a remarkable lack of concern for their citizens. Terrorists have hijacked airplanes for at least four decades now. Instead of screening people to deny access to acknowledged terrorists, Canada will need to institute stricter gate security and inconvenience everyone — and still won’t be able to guarantee that the known terrorists won’t do something. A member of al-Qaeda could simply pull open a cabin door at 37,000 feet and have a good chance of killing everyone on board.

Travelers have been warned. (via Hot Air)

Hot Air has Friendly skies: Canada greenlights terrorists for air travel

Which I guess means Mohammed Atta is okay to fly Air Canada so long as they don’t find out about the pilot lessons.

Ace has Canada Decides Terrorists Have Right To Fly

Isn’t the membership in a terrorist organization ipso facto proof of a threat to aviation?

Did they miss that whole people-jumping-out-of-buildings and towers-falling-to-the-ground kerfuffle a few years back?

Today is Wide Awakes Radios launch.

Check it out here.

Flap knows you will be glad you did.

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Canada’s National War Memorial, Confederation Square, Ottawa

MSN News: Veterans outraged by war memorial defacement

“It is abhorrent. It is vile. It is an insult to anyone who has ever served,” Bob Butt of the Royal Canadian Legion said Monday.

On Saturday night, retired Maj. Michael Pilon captured pictures of several men defacing the Ottawa monument after the holiday fireworks.

Dr. Pilon, who served with the Royal Canadian Dental Corps, said most of the crowd reacted with cheers and laughter.

However, the photos were published in local Ottawa newspapers, and people interviewed by CTV News clearly did not approve.

The legion plans to use the photos to pressure the government for increased security at the monument.

And where were the police during a national holiday, Canada Day?

‘It’s absolutely disgusting,’ said the Royal Canadian Legion’s Bob Butt of the young men who urinated on the National War Memorial on Saturday. ‘It’s the same as if you urinated on someone’s grave.’

Police have contacted Ottawa dentist, Dr. Michael Pilon who Flap knows from the Internet Dental Forum and have confirmed to him that charges of mischief will be laid, Ottawa Police Detective Mike Walker said.

Dentist Mike Pilon whose photgraphs have created a national Canadian uproar.

In the meantime, Canadian Veterans are clearly upset with the government over lack of security. Newly elected Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated:

“As you know often, people who get carried away do thoughtless things,” Harper said. “Obviously, it’s a terrible thing to do.”

“Certainly my impression is it doesn’t represent in any way the views of any segment of Canadian society,” he said. “I think we all strongly honour our vets.”

But, H. Clifford Chadderton, chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada (NCVA), told CTV.ca that veterans’ groups have been asking for more security since 1995 but especially since the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in May 2000.

Flap asks again where were the police? Or do Canada’s finest look the other way during drunken celebratory national holidays?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will certainly fix the security for next year’s Canada Day because this is a national disgrace. But, one asks where was the former Liberal Party Prime Minister Paul Martin when the veterans made their initial requests for more security?

The Answer:

He was ripping off the Canadian people in the Adscam Scandal and bashing the United States.