570News - Jeff Allan

Yesterday afternoon the Region of Waterloo honoured our departing troops with a first class send off at the Region’s Administrative Building on Frederick Street.

Local politicians, family and friends, and media folk like me who support our troops, were there to show our respect and support for the local men who will be deployed to Afghanistan.  The next rotation will see sixteen Royal Highland Fusiliers, two Combat Engineers, and a number of Regular Forces personnel with family ties here in our region heading to the War Zone.

Regimental Sergeant Major Mark Adam of our Royal Highland Fusiliers  and Regional Chair Ken Seiling exchanged flags. This was really neat. The audience loved it! Our Royal Highland Fusiliers  and other servicemen signed a Region of Waterloo Flag that will fly with them at their base in Afghanistan. When they return after six months they will bring our Region’s flag back with them signed by all our local soldiers who are serving during this rotation.

I would personally like to thank all of you who showed up wearing your Red Friday T-Shirts to show support for our troops. The entire Regional Council Chamber was filled to capacity on a hot summer day; and that says a lot about our community!

I’d like to applaud Regional Chair Ken Seiling for his short but perfect remarks. He said “This community has a long history of military service, regardless of what your political sentiments are, we always support our military.” Well said Ken!

On behalf of the families and friends, myself and other supporters of our troops;       thank-you to the Region of Waterloo for an excellent send off. Lets hope and pray that these brave men all return safely. 

                                                           Jeff Allan

I’d like to take a moment to say thank-you to my guest hosts who filled in for me while I was away. My co-worker Gary Doyle carried the ball last Monday. Tuesday Waterloo Mayor Brenda Halloran stepped in. Wednesday it was the one and only Peter Chandler. On Thursday Cambridge  Mayor Doug Craig worked the phones, and on Friday Ontario PC Leader John Tory ran my show. They all did a great job so I’m told, so thanks to them for letting me get away.

I would like to address one thing. Some of you were not impressed by John Tory running the show on Friday. One e-mailer described it as a three hour Progressive Conservative commercial. First of all, I did not choose the guest list; my boss Don Kollins did. Second, we offered the Liberal Party of Ontario (our government) any day they wanted, they did not take our offer. The Premier was in, but for only a half hour; so we couldn’t't do that because we needed someone willing to cover the whole show.  Jack Layton and the NDP were offered time as well and did not take us up on the idea. We did try to get others; however some of you will believe that some Rogers/Tory Conspiracy exists and that’s why John Tory was on. You can believe what you want. In addition to this,  Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr also declined to do the show because he already had a previous engagement, but he will host it one day he said. It’s good to be back with you all!!!

                                                                     Jeff Allan

I’m away looking for trouble. If I find enough of it I won’t be back next week! Please be kind to my guest hosts while I’m away. Talk to you gain on July 28th. Cheers!

                                                             Jeff Allan

With all the attention being given to Omar Khadr, we Canadians tend to forget that we are harboring some other terrorist traitors; the rest of his family. How soon we forget that Omar’s terrorist producing mother Maha is living her in Canada, all the while criticising everything in our society as wrong.  She’s says she’s proud of her low life terrorist offspring! In addition to this;  she says she took her family away from Canada in the late eighties to live in Afghanistan because Canada had too many “drug addicts” and “homosexuals”. When the planes hit the World Trade Centre she said she thought to herself “let them have it”.

Abdul Khadr left Canada to fight for al-Qaida along with his brother Omar and his father Ahmed. Abdul hated Canada before he left but since he was paralyzed in a gun battle he loves our OHIP system because he’s back here putting a strain on it. It drives me nuts to think that you and I are paying for a terrorist’s medical bills while, life long tax paying citizens of Ontario can’t get past the line-up’s for medical services.

In addition to these lovely “Manson Family” like family members; brother Abdullah and sister Zaynab are terrorists too. Abdullah ran the al-Qaida training camps in in Afghanistan while the Zaynab did the books and recruited.

The question is why are we allowing these Khadr terrorists to live in our country when they seem to have renounced their Canadian citizenship on their own? I’d also like to know why the entire family isn’t being charged with treason for their actions against Canada and the free world.

I think a public firing squad for the whole family is in order; beginning with the Queen Bee Bitch Maha who produced these devil’s disciples in her terrorist womb.

                                                          Jeff Allan

I am always amazed at the position the Aboriginal leaders take when it’s convenient for them. For example, when I interviewed a Native leader in Saskatchewan once, he was very willing to except without argument, the science that says First Nations People have a disproportionate predisposition for addictions to alcohol and drugs when they want the massive amounts of government funding to fight the Diseases of Addiction.  That same Native leader called another journalist a racist because he mentioned that the Aboriginal population has a problem with drugs and alcohol in a column.  Interesting huh?

In recent years I have followed the First Nations reactions to court rulings with the same interest. Have you noticed that when the courts rule in their favor, the court’s decision is always “just” in their minds and “about time”?  However, when the courts  rule against them with a simple injunction like “stay off the construction sites in Brantford”;  they see it as unfair, biased, racist and illegal. It’s funny how that works huh?

If you want the Courts to work for you, you have to except their decisions. You can’t pick and choose which rulings you agree or disagree with;  that’s how our mainstream society works. 

                                                                          Jeff Allan

Morgentaler is a member of the Order of Canada. He got in because of his long fight to provide legalized abortions in Canada. Some people say it was because he gave women new Health-care options; which is  more politically correct terminology.  Many Canadians are appalled by the fact that he’s in the Order of Canada with who they consider real “heroes”.  Still other say that “legalized abortion”  is one of the the greatest moments in women’s history. I disagree with that. I think that “legalized abortion” should be on th list, but not at the top!   Twenty-five years ago women had certain jobs. They were stay at home Moms, they were nurses, they were waitresses, they were bank tellers, and seldom were any of them a managers .  Now a days women are into everything including the big management jobs.

This weekend for example our local television station had all women news. The anchor person, the weather person,  and the sports person were all female. Not long ago that was unheard of!  Our Rogers Radio Group has a great representation of women on all three of our stations; including KIX 106.7 with “Two Chicks”, Linda & Jen,  doing a morning show, which is also unheard of in this industry! Plus we have about a fifty-fifty split women/men ratio across the board  here including one of our top managers Wendy Duff who runs CHYM FM 96.7  Of course our 570 NEWS  team has more women than men including our morning and afternoon anchors; Lisa Drew and Kate Stockmann.

This morning Canada AM featured an all women team.  When Lloyd Robertson take a day off its Sandy Rinaldo or home town girl Lisa LaFlamme that fills in. Having a women do that job was unheard of a few years  ago!

In addition to this I see successful independent women in my life everyday. I can tell by what they’re driving, what they’re buying,  where they live,  and where they work  that they’re in good high paying positions that were unobtainable for women not so long ago. To me these thing strike me as being some of the greatest moments in women’s history; not legalizing abortion. Heck I would think that women getting the vote back in the early part of the last century would be higher on the list than abortion rights; but that’s just me, and this is my final word on the subject.  “You Go Girls”.

                                                              Jeff Allan

Last Saturday morning at about 7:45am I was travelling along Regina Street in Waterloo when I noticed a young female city employee watering the hanging plants ever so lovingly. I also noticed that she was using water from a tank on a truck that said “Non Potable Water”.  What bugged me about this incident was that she was doing her job in the pouring rain!  “Potable water” or “Non Potable Water” makes no difference to me.  The simple fact is she could have been assigned another job to do rather than duplicate the job Mother Nature was doing.  It’s not wasted water I’m ticked about; it’s the dumb use of this employee that bothers me, and it should bother you too.

                                                 Jeff Allan 

In my opinion the United Nations has never done it right since it’s inception. It needs to be dismantled and rebuilt from the bottom up. It just doesn’t work in it’s present format. I could go on and on but let me give you two words that say it all. Zimbabwe and Mugabe. If the U.N can’t or won’t do anything about them, then let’s fold up the tent and go home!

                                         Jeff Allan