Round-up

1. The mother of a woman sentenced to a minimum of 12 years in prison (the article says "life in prison", but hardly) for pushing a teen into the path of a train has said that "racism" is behind this "harsh" sentence.

12 years for pushing someone in between two train carriages and she thinks this is "harsh".

2. Students at Ryerson University staged a small but boisterous rally yesterday to protest against a lack of response to the burning of a bulletin board belonging to the East African Students of Toronto, a campus association. Several students expressed concern that last week's arson is part of a larger pattern at campuses across Canada, most recently manifest when racist messages were written on the door of York University's Black Students' Association.

Two things strike me about this story. One is this line from Ahmed Habib:

"We're not surprised that there's racism on campuses..."

Really? But normally your ilk tell us that everyone thinks racism is gone, when really it is Alive and Well. But I suppose what you mean is that you're the ONLY ones who are not surprised, right? Cos everyone else thinks racism doesn't exist.

The other thing that stood out to me was this part:

The bulletin board was used to advertise a number of campaigns with slogans such as "United to End Racism," "Boycott Israeli Apartheid" and "De-Colonize Ryerson."

"Boycott Israeli Apartheid"? So whoever is putting the bulletin boards up is undoubtedly a terrorist-supporting liberal, if they believe this nonsense. I'm not saying that someone was right to burn it down - that is arson, and it's a crime - but certainly I have no love for this "campaign", and I would suggest that it's no loss to society.