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                   January 23:   Americans are Mesmerized

                                                     by Canadians  

                                                                            by Bob Smith
 

 Living just a two-hour drive from the US border, one of my favorite TV pastimes was watching to see if the names of any
Canadian city or famous people were mentioned on American television. I was not disappointed. Sunday night CBS staple Ed Sullivan regularly had on our most famous comedy team (at that time our only one), Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. When US networks covered the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Toronto Maple Leafs would be seen. And of course there was the pride of Canada,
Sgt. Preston of the Northwest Mounted Police, with his dog Yukon King. Flash forward a few decades and we had TV series on US TV shot entirely in Canada such as Adderly, Night Heat, Flashpoint and Diamonds. Later on, a few were set in US cities, with
Toronto being turned into US locales with a few American flags and US mailboxes strewn around (though the SWAT-like
Flashpoint did use actual Toronto street names).

Mounties were fair game. There was the cartoon Dudley Do-Right (later turned into a so-so major movie), and more recently the stalwart, if super-uptight Sgt. McCool. assigned to protect a mob snitch after being relocated to Saskatchewan and of course, the still-running Due South (on Deja View), all about a Mountie reassigned to the Canadian embassy in Chicago and ends up fighting crime. You never saw a more polite Canadian in your life and yep, he always got his man.

Americans are mesmerized by Canadians. They wonder about our strange football rules, our famous deference to authority, our ever-so-wonderful politeness and love the beauty of our outdoors and our relatively safe streets. And all these famous Canadians who have done okay and still doing fine like Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Celine Dion and those we remember like Alex Trebek, Monty (Let's Make A Deal) Hall, Lorne (Pa Cartwright) Greene, and the still-around casts of SCTV and Kids in the Hall.  

Over the past few years, Canadian references have been cropping up more and m ore on fictional series (Vancouver has been mentioned twice on Frasier, and you can imagine the reaction of US sports nuts when the Toronto Blue Jays beat US teams two years in a row in the World Series, and the Toronto Raptors winning the NBA finals against the Golden State Warriors. Americans love our talent and that's about the extent of our relations, save for the women who coo over our drama teacher, now Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau.

But they don't say boo about our willingness, like Americans, to meddle in war and international disputes that do us no good.
Joe Biden's upcoming trip here won't change things-- like the US, we'll stick our noses where it doesn't belong, blowing millions
on every stupidity and not on caring for our poor, our elderly and our homeless. And Americans will still wonder as news filters through Canadian Jewsmedia, how it is our streets are safe to walk on at night (Recent reports show violent crime in major cities increasing).  I am reminded of a joke about American who watches a weather report and snorts to his girlfriend, "I thought Canada was our friendly neighbor".   "But Biill, Canada is our
friendly neighbor!", she says. To which he adds, "Then how come it always gives us its cold front?"

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HEADS IN THE SAND  AND  
       OUT OF IDEAS ON TORONTO SCHOOL VIOLENCE
                                                                     By Bob Smith 


Quick-- name a hazardous profession in Toronto. Police officer? Firefighter? Corrections Officer?  How about teacher?

Even a quick look at the news should tell you that our schools in Toronto are becoming danger zones
for kids. Much of the media in this town are finally getting around to the crisis that has so many
teachers booking off -- and not because of salary, sickness or COVID concerns, but because of their
fear of violence -- with non-White students using bathrooms as places for running gangs, drug deals,
and assaults and intimidation of teachers and staff.  The Toronto District School Board members wring their hands, but refuse to enact plans such as having police in schools -- that idea was shot down with the
leftist zeal of Toronto Police having carding taken away, which is a necessary step in combatting crime beyond school grounds.   

Many parents have voiced their concerns to police, to the boards, to their municipal and provincial representatives and others, but the only ears that appear to be listening are those of news/talk radio
call-in show hosts on a "slow news day". The TDSB has notices and announcements on their website
but nothing close to addressing the crisis of students being shot, stabbed, assaulted, killed and raped
by individuals and gang members from homes where the father figure is virtually invisible, if there at
all.

Ask any teacher or police officer who's had to confront this menace: Non-Whites have taken over
schools as easily and without any attempt to thwart then as they have in neighborhoods like Jane-
Finch and Regent Park. And no one -- not the Mayor, nor any politician/political leader at Queen 's
Park is saying anything. Even the provincial NDP, now in the midst of a leadership crisis, is out of
ideas, as Don Andrews says. And don't expect that one of these hoodlums will learn from fear of jail
-- that's the least of their worries,  thanks to Canada's young justice law reforms and the "hug-a-thug"
attitude of tolerance that has allowed this mayhem to continue and grow literally for decades.
Education staff and those who were in a position to effect change were and still are more worried
about offending the students or being accused of racism ; Heaven forbid the image of a policeman in classrooms or hallways... and that goes right on up to the Mayor John Tory to the various provincial Education Ministers and Premier Ford.

This is not a crisis to be solved as Toronto police tried in the 1970s with "midnight basketball" or by
"Scared Straight" programs. Every parent needs to get involved more in their schools, needs to put
the pressure on the school trustees, principals, and lawmakers. Don't rely on just government to wait
until the next shooting or stabbing or assault and then cry about "doing more" and "how we can't
tolerate this in our schools".  Forget the federal parties -- education is a provincial/municipal concern.

Get on your PC and contact your councillor and those at the Toronto District School Board
(   https://www.tdsb.on.ca/ ) or the Minister of Education Stephen Lecee at the Ministry's webpage: 
https://www.ontario.ca/feedback/contact-us?id=98698&nid=97165 . And keep at it. 

Don't wait until you get the call from your kids' school. Or a policeman at your door.

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