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September 7, 2009 Mass murder at 30,000 feet: Islamic extremists guilty of airline bomb plot Philippe Naughton Three British Muslims were found guilty today of conspiracy to murder thousands of passengers and crew in an unprecedented airline bomb plot that could have proved as deadly as the 9/11 attacks. After a retrial at Woolwich Crown Court, jurors found the ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed, and two other men, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain, guilty of plotting to use liquid bombs to blow up airliners en route from Heathrow to the United States. Another defendant, Umar Islam, was found guilty of a more...

MONTREAL – Three members of the Montreal family in which three sisters and their aunt were found dead in their car that that plunged into Kingston's Rideau Canal late last month were arrested today. As well, Kingston police have announced a press conference for 2 p.m. tomorrow where the police chief will be outlining all of the details of a major change in focus of the investigation. Up to now, the police were considering the deaths to be "suspicious." The three suspects were apprehended this morning while heading to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, possibly to flee the country,...

Firefighters are still investigating the cause of a fire that forced clients of a swingers club in Montreal to flee in various states of undress Friday morning. The fire broke out at about 6:30 a.m. ET in the basement of Auberge 1082, located on Rosemont Boulevard near Christophe Colombe Avenue. "They have the sauna in the basement and rooms on the second floor," said Gilles Ducharme, the Montreal fire department's chief of operations. "It's an adult club. And we had 10 person[s] inside at that moment, three employees and seven customers." Five of those clients were trapped in rooms on...

The principal of a private Catholic high school testified Monday that it is unreasonable to expect the school to teach Quebec's new ethics and religious culture program without allowing teachers to talk about how the content relates to their religious faith.

BROSSARD, Quebec -- Montreal coach Bob Gainey appealed to Canadiens fans to stop booing the U.S. national anthem. Gainey, also the team's general manager, said fans who booed during "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Game 3 of their playoff series with the Boston Bruins should find other ways to voice support for their team. "I feel like there's a confusion there with our fans," Gainey said Tuesday. "They feel like booing the anthem is supporting our team, in that the anthem represents the Boston team. "And I think if they could separate those two things, then we could respect the anthem...

Listened to the Boston Bruins at Montreal Canadiens game tonight on WBZ radio; as Rene Rancourt (I believe) started to sing the Star Spangled Banner, a huge chorus of boos could be heard during the song. At the start of Oh Canada there was a cheer, but no disrespect. I know of the long rivalry between the two teams. But how rude to boo the U.S. national anthem--why, you'd think the folks up North wouldn't do that anymore--since we have The One in office. Heck, I can't see us booing Oh Canada during a Bruins-Canadiens game at TD BankNorth Garden,...

------- snip The province of Quebec lacks a medical helicopter system, common in the United States and other parts of Canada, to airlift stricken patients to major trauma centers. Montreal's top head trauma doctor said Friday that may have played a role in Richardson's death. "It's impossible for me to comment specifically about her case, but what I could say is ... driving to Mont Tremblant from the city (Montreal) is a 2 1/2-hour trip, and the closest trauma center is in the city. Our system isn't set up for traumas and doesn't match what's available in other Canadian cities,...

February 13, 2009 SNIPPET: "He was a small-time hoodlum with a big chip on his shoulders, a man who spoke of Jihad, researched bomb-making techniques and looked at a nuclear plant, the Montreal Stock Exchange and a military base as possible terrorism targets. In the end, Omar Bulphred, a 23-year-old native of Algeria, and an accomplice settled for firebombing two Jewish institutions before getting arrested after police heard them talk about abducting a gay man at random to rob him and cut his throat. The troubling story of the two Montreal terrorist wannabes can be told following Mr. Bulphred's guilty...

TORONTO and MONTREAL — A young Montrealer has been sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for firebombing two Montreal Jewish institutions. Under evidence that couldn't be reported until their guilty plea, investigators say Omar Bulphred and an accomplice were arrested after police heard them on wiretaps talking about abducting a gay man at random to rob him and cut his throat. Mr. Bulphred, 23, was born in Algeria. He pleaded guilty to three counts of arson and two of uttering threats Thursday morning at the Montreal provincial courthouse. After 15 minutes' deliberation, the judge sentenced Mr. Bulphred to...

MONTREAL -- Police say there’s a link between the seizure of explosives several hundred kilometres northeast of Quebec City and the evacuation of several homes in Montreal today. A school was also locked down as police carried out a search warrant in a nearby apartment building. Provincial police spokesman Claude Ross says three people were arrested and one ton of explosives was found in a van in Mont Joli, about 350 kilometres east of Quebec City. He says the vehicle was intercepted by police outside a doughnut shop, adding that the explosives were stolen from a local contractor.

Hundreds of riot police chased a group of roving youths early Monday after a night of rioting and vandalism in a North Montreal neighbourhood set off by the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old man over the weekend. The park is in a predominantly Haitian neighbourhood where tensions between police and young people run high, according to residents. "The police are always creeping around here, hassling people," one unidentified youth told CBC News as he stood in front of a looted butcher shop. The violence began after a Sunday afternoon protest at Henri Bourassa Park, the site of Saturday's police...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

AUSTIN — Deirdre Delisi once aspired to be a diplomat, and Gov. Rick Perry may have finally granted her wish. As head of the Texas Transportation Commission, Perry's former chief of staff will test her diplomatic skills in an emotion-filled arena in which a state senator has already called her a "political hack." In an early sign of her peacemaking potential, the 35-year-old Delisi scheduled one of her first meetings as chair with that senator, Transportation and Homeland Security Committee Chairman John Carona, R-Dallas. "I was left with the impression that she genuinely wants a new and fresh start for...

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

In 2006, former premier Lucien Bouchard and several business leaders blamed the not-in-my-backyard syndrome - NIMBY - for much of the Montreal metropolitan area's "immobilisme." The criticism followed the cancellation of two projects that had stirred public protests - a casino near Pointe St. Charles and the Suroît power plant. Despite the scolding, citizens remain unrepentant and as pesky as ever. Protests against noisy aircraft over the West Island, for example, are giving headaches to airport officials trying to accommodate increasing numbers of flights. Protests on the North Shore are also causing problems for the expansion of a smelly regional...

Attacks on nuclear power stations, oil and gas terminals, Canary Wharf and Heathrow’s control tower were being considered by leaders of the plot to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-flight, a court was told yesterday. Documents found on computer memory sticks at the home of an alleged terrorist ringleader contained a list of targets across Britain – including the gas pipeline between Britain and Belgium. The man, Assad Sarwar, was said to be in contact with terrorist leaders overseas and visited Pakistan a month before his arrest as preparations for the airline attacks were being finalised. Peter Wright, QC,...

MOTIHARI, India -- The city of Motihari shows off the worst of India. The streets are a dirty, noisy mess of people and animals, cars and rickshaws, litter, sewage and poverty. It's a heaving frontier town, in the state of Bihar, which has the distinction as India's poorest, most backward, and most lawless. Just the same, Motihari has some history. The British writer, George Orwell was born here in 1903 (his father worked for the Indian Civil Service) and this is where Mahatma Gandhi began his "satyagraha" in 1917, his resistance to British rule, better known to Indians as the...

Jihadist in Canada: Montreal Muslims were recruiting in mosques for jihad before 9/11 Jihad recruitment in Montreal mosques. And what is being done about it? Any challenge being issued to Muslims in Canada to strike at the roots of this recruitment and explicitly renounce political Islam and Islamic supremacism? No. Any reevaluation of Muslim immigration into Canada, or even any attempt made to screen out potential jihadists (a flawed but possibly useful first step)? No. Any call to Muslims to renounce any intention of imposing Sharia in Canada now or in the future? No. What are you, some kind of...

Last week, La Presse reported quite breathlessly that the federal government, which owns the Port of Montreal and much of the land along its waterfront, has been lobbying the United Nations to move its headquarters from New York to Montreal. The rationale, apparently, is that the UN’s current headquarters, housed in an iconic complex built in 1949 along the East River, needs nearly $2 billion worth of renovations over the next couple of decades. It would cost a lot less to simply pack up and move to Montreal, where a state-of-the-art new headquarters would be waiting on the site of...

Making Canadian jihadis Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Montreal has proved a particularly alluring logistical base for francophone Islamists. Forty minutes from the U.S., it boasts a large airport, multiple bridges and a bustling port, all attractive targets. Over the last decade, about 20 Montrealers have been involved in terrorist plots. Some, like the former Montrealer Abdellah Ouzghar, convicted in absentia of abetting terrorism in France, but awaiting our sluggish judiciary's imprimatur on his extradition (the delay has aroused angry incredulity in France's special anti-terrorism judicial branch), still move about in virtually complete freedom. Who...

MONTREAL (CP) - Five Mexicans who had visitor status in Canada allegedly smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the country packed neatly in tubs of frozen mango puree, the RCMP says. The Mexicans, who operated under the guise of a legitimately registered food import company, have been charged with importing cocaine and possession for the purpose of trafficking. The five men were arrested and charged in early June after an elaborate sting operation conducted by the RCMP. The RCMP's drug squad says it has seized 160 kilograms of cocaine that came via shipping container from Vera Cruz, Mexico,...

Go to the link in the header for the article and explanation of what these are. The picture below is of the Monteregian Hills; Mont St. Hilaire is on the left. The picture is half-size; click for full-size. Mont St. Hilaire from the ground: As seen from Montreal: In winter: In autumn (even nicer if the light poles are cropped out):

RCMP raids Toronto Tamil offices Tigers outlawed as a terrorist group Toronto Star Surya Bhattacharya and Michelle Shephard April 23, 2006 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers raided the Scarborough and Toronto offices of the World Tamil Movement yesterday, sealing off the building with yellow police tape and carting off boxes of documents. Police hit offices at 39 Consentino Dr. in Scarborough, and later yesterday the community Tamil radio station reported a similar raid on the Toronto office on Eaton Ave., near Wellesley and Parliament Sts. in downtown Toronto. The World Tamil Movement maintains a third office here at 1231 Ellesmere...

Targeting religious Pious pacific non-Zionist Jews August 1929 Hebron Massacre 1929 (Vicious attack was mainly on the pious non Zionist religious Jews) What happened during the Arab riots of 1929? http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_riots_1929.php The Hebron massacre 1929 by Arabs - (another) important milestone, Arab propaganda machine would want you to ignore http://haveitclearly.blogspot.com/2006/04/hebron-massacre-1929-by-arabs-another.htmlHebron Massacre http://israelreporter.com/index.php/2006/08/12/77-years-from-the-tarpat-massacre-in-hebron-an-histor ic-and-graphic-121-photo-galleryPhotographs - the places http://www.hebron.org.il/english/article.php?operation=print&id=256 July 2002 Eighth Immanuel victim was too young to have a name http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/020718.txt 2001 Bomb Discovered in Ultra Religious non Zionist Neighbourhood http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2001/10/Background%20on%20the%20PFLP%20-%2017-Oct-200 1 August 2003 The Arab Muslim "Palestinian" cold blooded massacre on bus filled with ultra orthodox non Zionist pious Jews,...

Stéphane Dion, who came from fourth-place standing to win the leadership of Canada's Liberal Party early this month, declared immediate war on the minority Conservative government last week, and made it clear he is determined to force a late-winter election. Implicitly, he made something else clear. He will attack the government on two principal issues, both of them integral to Canadian-American relations. One is the Kyoto Treaty, the other the Canadian role in Afghanistan. If he wins the election, therefore, America's northern neighbor will once again become vaguely hostile territory, as it was under the last Liberal government. On Kyoto,...

Montreal — Eradicating child poverty and controlling guns are high priorities for Liberal party activists. Lowering the age of consent for anal sex between teens and legalizing marijuana may be good ideas, but not high priorities, delegates indicated Wednesday at the opening of the Liberal convention. Liberals did not swerve too far from the centre of the road in a sparsely attended social policy workshop debate. Youth delegates grumbled that they could not get out the vote for the marijuana resolution because many young Liberal activists are still taking school exams and can't get here until the weekend's main event,...

...Montreal police department newsletter became public. The newsletters tells officers that members of the city’s Hasidic community may sometimes have difficulty dealing with a female police officer and suggests that when this happens, the officer seek assistance from one of her male colleagues. What is perhaps most significant is the fact that the Montreal Police Brotherhood and the city’s Hasidic community both state that there have never been any complaints or problems... ...Had the problem been a real one, there is no doubt that the rights of women would have trumped the rights of Hasidic Jews or any other minority.

"Prostitute-Turned-Priest to Run in By-Election" says the headline. Fresh from their ad limina visit to Rome, the Canadian bishops have given the green light to a gay-activist priest to run for the federal parliament. Some excerpts from the Toronto Globe & Mail (tip to Touchstone's Lee Podles): MONTREAL -- First, Rev. Raymond Gravel had to get permission from the Vatican to run in a federal by-election. Now, the former prostitute who used to work in gay leather bars has to convince the voters of Repentigny riding that he is the right man to represent them. ... Born in 1952 in...

Quebec police say an overpass north of Montreal has collapsed. All-news channel LCN is reporting that at least one vehicle is trapped in the rubble and that five people have been injured. Quebec provincial police say the overpass on Boulevard de la Concorde gave out early this afternoon, crashing onto Highway 19. Emergency crews are on the scene. Highway 19 connects Laval to the island of Montreal.

Police told them of shooting spree 10 hours later Son learned about guns during stint with army: MotherLAVAL, QUE. On Wednesday, Kimveer Gill's parents were watching television, glued to the coverage of the carnage at Dawson College. By that time, their son had killed Anastasia De Sousa and wounded about 20 other people before turning his gun on himself. But his parents had no inkling of his involvement until the police arrived at their bungalow in Laval at 11:30 p.m., more than 10 hours after the shooting spree. Their son a killer? They were blown away, crushed. "My husband cried...

Gunman and young woman die in Mtl. shooting spreeCTV.ca News Staff September 14, 2006 The man who opened fire at a Montreal college on Wednesday, killing one and leaving 19 wounded before being shot dead by police, has been identified. Montreal's La Presse newspaper identified the trenchcoat-clad man as 25-year-old Kimveer Gill, of Laval. Police have not confirmed the man's identity. The shooter had a Mohawk haircut and wore head-to-toe black clothing when he stormed into the cafeteria of Dawson College in the city's downtown just before 1 p.m. ET Wednesday shooting 20 students. One of the victims died in...

Web diary on Goths website, photos show insight The last online posting by Kimveer Gill on a website that is a popular gathering place for Goths is eerily time-stamped 10:41 a.m. yesterday — about two hours before Gill was shot dead by Montreal police officers at Dawson College. In it, Gill describes little of how the events of the day are going to unfold — instead focusing on how whiskey tastes so good in the morning. There's a throwaway footnote that when he calls people "niggahs" in my journals ... it doesn't have to do anything with their skin colour....

Police have "neutralized" one suspect in a confusing, chaotic shooting scene at a college in downtown Montreal that has left three people in critical condition. CTV's Jed Kahane, reporting from Montreal, said police received a call about the shooting at just before 1 p.m. ET. Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal. Students told Kahane they saw someone coming down the hall with a gun. "They ran back into their classroom and closed the door. The person was apparently chasing someone, and they heard, in her words, at least 20...

The United Nations announced Wednesday it has imposed sanctions on a man with dual Canadian and Sudanese citizenship who allegedly worked with Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's one-time operations chief in Afghanistan. The UN Security Council committee in charge of anti-terrorism sanctions against al-Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban added Abu Sufian Al-Salamabi Muhammed Ahmed Abd Al-Razziq to its sanctions list on July 31. The move follows joint action taken in July by the U.S. State Department and Treasury Department. Abd Al-Razziq was deemed a terror risk, which immediately blocked all assets he has that are reachable by the U.S. government. The...

The masked man who firebombed an Orthodox Jewish school in Outremont on the weekend initially aimed his burning Molotov cocktail at the window of a classroom occupied only 20 minutes earlier by at least 12 teenage boys, surveillance tapes show. The man, who is believed by police to be in his 20s, remains at large. The tapes show 12 religious-school students who spent Friday evening in the classroom leaving along the school's front sidewalk between 11:40 p.m. and 11:42 p.m. As many as 20 students - age 14 to 16 - usually attend the regular Sabbath evening dinner and get-together...

MONTREAL, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers said Friday they have uncovered a natural defense mechanism to Alzheimer's disease. Not surprisingly, it involves stem cells -- those derived from bone marrow. In Alzheimer's patients, plaque forms in the brain, but the brain's resident immune cells, called microglia, can't fight off the substance. The plaque can then kill off the brain's neurons, or nerve cells. However, microglia harvested from bone marrow stem cells do appear capable of defeating the plague, said researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and the research centre at Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec, Canada....

The Israeli ambassador is taking Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe to task for participating in a pro-Hezbollah rally. Alan Baker has written a sharply worded letter to Duceppe, saying the Aug. 6 march in Montreal was a glorification of Hezbollah, which Canada considers to be a terrorist group. Liberal MP Denis Coderre also marched, but Baker aimed his complaint at Duceppe, a party leader. The ambassador says he has no problem with demonstrations or with people expressing their opinions, but he says glorifying Hezbollah is wrong.

As tensions have risen significantly over the last few weeks between Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon and Israel, many Montrealers, myself included, have grown accustomed to the spontaneous anti-Israel rallies that have taken place along the main thoroughfares in downtown Montreal. (Video excerpted from CBC footage aired on July 30, 2006. (launch by external player)Most media reported that the rally had been peaceful.) This Sunday was no exception, as the situation in the Middle East escalated a notch after an IDF-guided missile missed a Hezbollah weapons cache in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, hitting a home where over 50 civilians...

k.d. lang rips PM for skipping Outgames Jul. 28, 2006. 02:40 PM CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen to ``support intolerance" by refusing to attend an international gathering of gay athletes, singer k.d. lang said Friday. lang was critical of her fellow Albertan for failing to support the World Outgames, which is expected to attract up to 13,000 gay, bisexual and transgendered athletes when it begins Saturday. "It's a sad statement that the national leader of a country that's one of the most progressive countries in the world chooses to support intolerance," she told a news...

"Radical Muslim operatives go to ground in Montreal. They rest and recruit in Montreal and get their recreation here," says Wajsman, a Montreal resident. The President of the Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, Wajsman, a regular canadafreepress.com columnist and popular public speaker, has a background in security and intelligence.

MONTREAL, June 11 (UPI) -- Montreal police are investigating a reported attack on a Muslim imam by a man carrying a knife who asked if the imam wanted to "die a martyr." The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. says investigators consider the attack a hate crime. Imam Said Jazeri and a friend were leaving a mosque Friday night when a man with a butcher's knife approached them. The man allegedly pointed the knife at Jazeri and asked: "Do you want to die a martyr?" Jazeri said he was able to call police while the man chased his friend down the street. A...

LONGUEUIL, Que. — A distraught family is offering $10,000 for clues to help solve a gruesome mystery involving a 68-year-old woman whose body was decapitated in a funeral home last July. “Every morning we wake up and we say `Where is the head?’ ” said 63-year-old Ghyslaine Lemay, a sister of Cecile Lemay whose family has lived in torment ever since the bizarre incident. Several of Lemay’s relatives held a news conference Wednesday to appeal for help after police admitted their investigation is no further advanced than it was last summer when the funeral home was vandalized. While the family...

Geoffrion passes away Habs' legend dies of stomach cancer By BILL BEACON CP) - Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion said he invented the slapshot as a youngster, swiping at pucks on a rink behind a church near his home in Montreal. Others have also claimed the invention, but there is no question that Geoffrion was the player who popularized the shot that would give him his nickname. Geoffrion died in an Atlanta hospital on Saturday of stomach cancer. He was 75. The Montreal native passed away on the day his No. 5 jersey was to be retired by the Montreal Canadiens...

Thousands of people crammed into the Ottawa Congress Centre Monday for the chance to listen to former U.S. president Bill Clinton speak about leadership. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton headlines at a motivational conference in Ottawa. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton headlines at a motivational conference in Ottawa. Clinton headlined a one-day motivational speaking conference, The Power Within, which also featured seven-time Tour de France cycling champion Lance Armstrong and Steven Levitt, author of the bestseller Freakanomics. A number of business-focused presentations on management and marketing took up the morning. Armstrong spoke to the crowd after the lunch break about...

Hells Angel Busted A member of the Hells Angels wanted for two murders is on his way back to Montreal to face the charges. Louis Cartier, 39, was arrested last Thursday at the Kelowna courthouse while visiting his probation officer. He's wanted for two murders in the Montreal area linked to the biker war that rocked Quebec between 1994 and 2001. Cartier is charged with two counts of first degree murder. The first murder was a case of mistaken identity. A 39-year-old Montreal man was killed in 1999 after being mistaken for a drug trafficker with links to the Dark...

A 13-year-old girl from Rigaud, west of Montreal, died in hospital Monday afternoon after taking the drug ecstasy. Police say the girl and a friend were at a sleepover Saturday night in Hudson when they started talking about taking ecstasy. They say the two curious teens called a 16-year-old friend and went over to his place to get the drug. Sûreté du Québec spokeswoman Chantal Mackels said the boy's parents weren't home at the time. When the girls returned to Hudson, Mackels said in an interview Monday, the 13-year-old became very ill. "One of them really felt like nauseous and...

Tale of Two Cities, or a Socialist Failure and a Right-Wing Success My wife and I went in to Manhattan tonight to see a Broadway play, the revival of “Barefoot in the Park”. The trip in brought forward many thoughts about New York as it was going during the show’s first incarnation during the 1960’s and the years thereafter, and contrasting it then to how it is now. Also, I thought about my trip last March to modern-day Montreal for the CPC Convention. A bit of history is in order. I was taken to the movie version of “Barefoot”...

For once not involving Air America, liberal talk radio took a big hit this week, as Ed Schultz lost affiliates in three cities. In an especially significant blow, the syndicated talker was cancelled in his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota, from where his show remains based. According to Perry Simon of entertainment industry trade publication All Access, Schultz was cancelled in Fargo to make room for local programming, the same reason the Aberdeen American News has given for his South Dakota removal. And his Norfolk, Virginia outlet is switching to sports. While Aberdeen's KSDN is also dropping Rush Limbaugh for...

One of three suspects wanted for questioning in the death of a 17-year-old gas bar attendant turned himself in to Montreal police on Friday. Joel Nantais, 18, considered an important witness in the slaying of Brigitte Serre, was accompanied by a lawyer when he showed up at police headquarters. Police say two other suspects are still being sought, a 27-year-old, and an 18-year-old who is believed to be the main suspect.

“Urban Agenda” the liberal Media's Buzzword for Dogging Harper’s Conservatives by Hilary White TORONTO, January 26, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Canada’s hard left-leaning mainstream media is drawing the lines of the political fight that will characterize the next few years with its flagship newspaper, the Toronto Star, leading the pack. The Star’s Royson James said, “It might be clear to party strategists that ignoring the urban agenda, or just paying lip service to it, won't fly in the GTA.” The phrase, ‘urban agenda’ was quickly coined to imply that Conservative support comes largely from rural areas and that the party must...