Tory aide Georganne Burke scuttles Hanukkah event, school says.

There is no law that prevents politicians from attending religious events.  They do it all the time.  Harper attended a Chanukkah event earlier in the week.  Canadian politicians are often prancing around with kippot on their heads.

This is a copy and paste- my highlight tool is not working, either old computer, or something else... My computer troubleshooting skills are lacking; and the site has changed its format. Nonetheless, the source is listed at the byline of the actual copy and pasted article: It is from Canadian Television News\ Globemedia- the publishers of the Globe and Mail Newspaper. The only portion I have written is at the very top and separated by my initials. 

I hope this legitimizes the source for you.

A Harper aide is trying to prorogue Hannukah for a day.

Plot thickens; grasshopper raided ants' storehouse again and threw a lavish party for termites.
It seems to me that Conservative Bloggers bought into this total nonsense that Gary Gladstone professional fundraiser, and Liberal hack on Ontario provincial government payroll working for Trillium Foundation sold to the Liberal hacks at MSM.  http://johnnybeee.blogspot.com/2008/12/johnny-b-this-and-that.html Quote: Warren Kinsella's Dreidelgate
Before anyone takes this 'scandal' too seriously, let's review the facts: a) Warren Kinsella is the reigning champion of the "gotcha" game. He is Canada's best at taking a minor slip and exploiting it for partisan purposes. b) There is a tradition in Canada not to fire people during the holiday season. Let me qualify this by saying that I don't have any insider info but I think that the odds are good that Georganne Burke's days in Tony Clement's office are coming to an end real soon. Tony Clement just can't terminate her during the holiday season lest he be labelled Scrooge. c) The Liberals (Kinsella and Wilfert and others) are trying to take advantage of the holiday season to spin the appearance that Tony Clement is doing nothing about Georganne Burke. Give it a few days gentlemen and this matter will be resolved. In the meantime, reflect on the irony that both parties have now used the holiday season for partisan games.
Georganne Burke and Gary Gladstone are both Jewish, and Gary Gladstone who works for Trillium Foundation decided to organise Hanukah event at Zareinu Educational Centre, school for disabled Jewish children because of their high profile and success in Toronto Jewish community.     Now take good look at this:   http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/aspx/Public/Search/SearchResults.aspx?Search=Zareinu%20Educational%20Centre,   Results Search Phrase: Zareinu Educational Centre, 
    Simcoe-York 2003 - 2004
dance and drama programs. Zareinu Educational Centre of Metropolitan Toronto $89,400 over three years to help this Thornhill organization reduce isolation and stress among families of children with special needs by launching sibling support...
http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/cms/en/2003_2004_sy.aspx  
Simcoe-York 2000-2001
and reduces family stress. Zareinu Educational Centre of Metropolitan Toronto $181,000 over three years to improve service to physically and developmentally disabled children and increase fund-raising capacity by launching a home-visit program,...
http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/cms/en/2000_2001_sy.aspx   ===============================================
If there is scandal it is in the fact that Trillium Foundation dispenses over 100 million dollars a year in charitable funding but the last time they gave money to Zareinu Educational Centre (school for disabled Jewish kids) was when Mike Harris was running provincial government.
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Considering the fact that Zareinu Educational Centre gets federal funding (grants) from Conservative government and gets no money from Trillium Foundation ever since Ontario Liberals took control of it, and considering the fact that Gary Gladstone who works for Trillium Foundation choose that particular organisation to invite Michael Ignatieff for menorah lighting ceremony Georganne Burke was well justified in her outrage as it was nothing but a blatant political provocation.   For more info visit:  http://www.bloggingtories.ca/forums/post56560.html#56560

Thank you for the insight; should this help us to better understand this happenstance, everyone following this affair should be grateful.

you guys should really get over this....this is not news...your all shady people especially that Gary Gladstone character. She will not get fired for this as I am sure this is not entirely true....like all politics.

Warren Kinsella is a low life. Anyone who reads his pointless articles is just as stupid as he is. Hey Warren I think an ant from Quebec just got run over by a Torontonian. Go report on that you lowlife. DradleGate 08 !!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....your a joke !

Hey Politician 101,

Time to go back to class - you were wrong!! She got axed!

Picture this...

Imagine Warren Kinsella, author of "the curious case of Georganne Burke" being cast into the spotlight himself for RACIST, IGNORANCE DRIVEN comments about the cuisine choices of Chinese Canadians.

And you all were riding his coat tails. 

This guy is pathetic and can't even muster up enough humility to apologize like a man.

Warren,  do you really think that all Chinese people eat cat? and further to that do you intend to insinuate that the board of health and safety is to incompetent to tell the difference between cat meat and chicken when they do a review of the establishments in question?

Karma is a real bitch isn't it.  Don't speak on others unless you want to be spoken on I guess. 

Hey, what ever happened with the Tory that stole Christmas by the way?  Oh yeah...nothing, it's a forgotten issue.  You know why?  Because it was a witchhunt to begin with spurred on by a hard line Liberal bigot who apparently doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut.  A memory blowing on the wind along with the Bloc/ Liberal hopes of overthrowing the popularly elected Conservative government.

Just Desserts....enjoy "Dubya".

DJ