I’m pleased to announce that The Rebel is expanding coverage of the United Nations.
We’re going to send a team of four reporters to another UN conference —
their nanny state conference being held next month in New Delhi, India.
Frustrated at not being able to limit where people can purchase alcohol, medical wags warn about possible cancer risks that strangely went un-uttered when the LCBO was running things:
As
grocery stores across Ontario begin stocking their shelves with beer
and wine, the province's cancer agency is raising a red flag about the
risks of alcohol consumption, warning increased access could also come
with increased rates of the disease.
Dr.
Linda Rabeneck, vice-president of prevention and cancer control with
Cancer Care Ontario, warns that while the sale of wine in several
grocery chains may be convenient, alcohol remains a cancer-causing
carcinogen. Since research shows that the more access to alcohol you
have, the more you consume, the cancer agency is concerned that will
mean cancer rates won't be far behind.
The
warning comes as 70 grocery stores across the province move to make
wine available on store shelves as part of a plan to eventually allow
300 stores to do the same. Beer and cider will eventually be sold in up
to 450 stores across the province.
Huma Abedin, the trusted aide at the centre of the Hillary Clinton
email storm, spent the weekend holed up at her New York apartment, far
from her troubled boss.
Speculation mounted that Clinton would be forced to sack Abedin or at
least distance herself from her long-standing confidante in order to
quell the storm surrounding the latest episode of the email scandal.
Of all the things that could affect the aboriginal community - living in northern ghettos where educational and professional opportunities are so few and let's not forget unaccountable band chiefs - the most pressing thing is Halloween costumes:
Really?
Well, the joke is on these morons because they're out $1500.
In fiscal 2015, indigenous affairs let more than $1 billion go unspent.
The money it gave back represented 11 per cent of the more than $8
billion it had been given by Parliament to improve the lives of
indigenous Canadians. The department has said the bulk of previous
lapses were the result of land claims that did not get resolved in a
given budget year.
The latest harassment comes after student organizers of the upcoming
talk by scholar Christina Hoff Sommers put up roughly 50 flyers
promoting the event on four different campus buildings at Columbia
University and Barnard College earlier this month. Nearly all were torn down within 24 hours.
Since then, the organizers replaced the originals, posting roughly 75
flyers throughout the Columbia and Barnard campuses. That prompted
another series of bizarre reactions from peers.
Five or six flyers at Barnard College have had Sommers’ face torn or
clawed off, while several other flyers were re-posted upside down in
other parts of Barnard’s campus.
Later, in Lerner Hall on Columbia’s campus, two young women lurked
and took pictures of student organizers as they posted the flyers, they
told The Fix.
Toni Airkasinen, one of the students organizing the event, was
putting up flyers in John Jay Hall on Columbia’s campus when a female
student came up to her and threw a cup of cereal and pretzels at her
feet, she said. The student then slowly walked away. In response, she
states, “I made eye contact with her once, but was too freaked out to
say anything.”
As federal agents prepare to scour roughly 650,000 emails to see how many relate to a prior probe of Hillary Clinton’s email use, the surprise disclosure that
investigators were pursuing the potential new evidence lays bare
building tensions inside the bureau and the Justice Department over how
to investigate the Democratic presidential nominee.
Metadata
found on the laptop used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his estranged
wife Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide, suggests there may be thousands
of emails sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used
while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the
matter. It will take weeks, at a minimum, to determine whether those
messages are work-related from the time Ms. Abedin served with Mrs.
Clinton at the State Department; how many are duplicates of emails
already reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and whether
they include either classified information or important new evidence in
the Clinton email probe.
The FBI has had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails, because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner.
The
new investigative effort, disclosed by FBI Director James Comey on
Friday, shows a bureau at times in sharp internal disagreement over
matters related to the Clintons, and how to handle those matters fairly
and carefully in the middle of a national election campaign. Even as the
previous probe of Mrs. Clinton’s email use wound down in July, internal
disagreements within the bureau and the Justice Department surrounding
the Clintons’ family philanthropy heated up, according to people
familiar with the matter.
What is shows is that (a) Hillary Clinton is unbelievably corrupt and (b) that the powers-that-be are slogging through this for appearance's sake, hoping to get as little done before the election.
Nadia Murad had tears in her eyes as she described the power that individual MPs can have when they stand up to vote.
A few minutes earlier, she had watched 313 MPs vote unanimously in
favour of a Conservative motion to recognize that the violence
perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant against the
Yazidis constitutes genocide — and commit to providing asylum to women
and girls from the persecuted minority group within 120 days.
Speaking through an interpreter last week, Murad — a 23-year-old
Yazidi activist who had escaped sexual slavery by the Islamic militant
group after they raided her village in northern Iraq — told reporters
she felt ISIL losing power with every MP who stood up to vote for the
motion. ...
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, the immigration critic who had put forward the opposition day motion, was one of them.
For months, the Liberals had skirted her increasingly loud calls for
asylum, saying they were concerned about the level of danger in Iraq and
the need to work with the UN Nations High Commission on Refugees, which
refers refugees for resettlement. But last week, the Liberals,
Conservatives and NDP were all on the same side, backing Rempel’s
motion.
“It was one of those things where it renewed my faith that Parliament
can do something that resembles work,” the Calgary MP said of how she
brought everyone onside. ...
(Sidebar: oh, I'm still not sold on the idea that the Parliament is a force for good. Miss Rempel.)
Rempel remembers first hearing about the plight of the Yazidis two
years ago after ISIL captured the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq,
forcing nearly 50,000 people to flee to a mountaintop where they were
under siege for weeks.
(Sidebar: this prompted Trudeau to suggest that children fleeing ISIS needed parkas as opposed to solid action that would have prevented them from running in the first place.)
Advocacy groups pushing the Liberal government to bring Yazidis to
safety in Canada have argued they had been forgotten in the efforts to
make good on their promise to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees.
Motivated in part by the mounting frustration of the Yazidi community
and their supporters, Rempel convinced her Conservative colleagues to
use a rare opposition day to put forward a motion on the issue.
Rempel said she then reached out to a handful of unnamed Liberal MPs
she thought might be sympathetic, to see if they could suss out the
likelihood of getting government support for the motion. But she said
they came back with the impression it was not going to fly. ... Meanwhile, Rempel had some quiet — and some not-so-quiet — support from
Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who had been one of four Liberals to
break ranks and vote in favour of a failed Conservative motion in June
declaring the atrocities committed by ISIL to be a genocide.
Another
powerful earthquake shook Italy on Sunday, sending panicked people
running into piazzas, raining boulders onto highways and toppling a
Benedictine cathedral and other historic edifices that had withstood
several recent quakes. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
With
a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, it was the strongest earthquake to
strike the country in nearly 36 years. People throughout the mountainous
region northeast of Rome were still on edge after a pair of jolts last
week and an August quake that killed nearly 300.
That
there were no reports of fatalities was largely due to the fact that
thousands had left their homes for shelters and hotels after the earlier
temblors, and that large swaths of inhabited areas had been closed for
safety reasons.
Trudeau had initially expected to sign the deal in Brussels days ago,
but the restive Belgian region of Wallonia nearly killed it because its
opposition to the pact’s investor-state dispute settlement mechanism
gave it a veto under Belgium’s complicated constitution.
After seven arduous years of negotiation, Trudeau joined presidents
of the European Council and European Commission, Donald Tusk and
Jean-Claude Juncker, and signed the massive 1,600-page pact and its
accompanying strategic partnership agreement
Smoke and mirrors. It looks like PM Hair-Boy is doing something important. Instead of making a deal with the newly-existed UK, Canada (read: one segment of Canada) pursued an agreement with the slowly fragmenting EU.
Most concerning is the provision that changed CSIS from a strictly
intelligence-gathering service to one with an offensive remit to
physically disrupt real or perceived threats. These include not just
terrorism, but threats to economic and financial stability, critical
infrastructure and the security of other states.
The Liberals have vowed to rein in the disruption power, but have yet
to say how. As the law now stands, if a threat disruption activity
(TRA) will violate Criminal Code or Charter of Rights & Freedom
rights, CSIS must first secure a Federal Court warrant authorizing the
breach.
Some experts argue this judicial control will act as oversight on the
potentially dangerous, but important new law-breaking power, one which
CSIS has yet to use. (If a TRA does not violate the law or the charter –
and stops short of death, bodily harm, obstruction of justice and
sexual impropriety — no judicial approval is needed.)
But because the proposed committee will be a review body with no
capability for anything close to real-time “oversight,” its ability to
assess the legality, efficacy and reasonableness of CSIS TRAs will be a
post-mortem effort, at best.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is open for a photo shoot but not for a discussion:
McKenna sent a new invitation to potential delegates including to Ed
Fast, the former international trade minister and Conservative MP, who
is now the Official Opposition Critic to McKenna. You can read it below
but in it, McKenna notes that there was never any intention to prevent
Fast or other delegates from speaking to the media. “I understand that
the media plays an important role in communicating to Canadians on such
important issues as climate change,” McKenna writes.
Nonetheless, she tells Fast that he will be receiving an amended
version of a “Canadian Delegation Agreement” — a new set of terms he
will have to agree to if he chooses to accept the invitation to join
McKenna’s delegation. (The government will cover up to $4,500 in travel
and accommodation costs for those in the official delegation)
Fast, in an e-mailed response sent to McKenna’s office late Friday
afternoon, notes that he did not sign any such agreement as a condition
of his being part of the delegation to last year’s COP21 conference and
“I have absolutely no intention of signing any document that governs my
participation at COP22.”
Fast, incidentally, had not, at the time of this exchange, been
provided with the amended “Canadian Delegation Agreement” so we don’t
know what the new conditions are. But for Fast, it’s the principle of
the idea. “Certainly no MP should be required to submit to the
authority of the Head of Delegation or have their discretion fettered,”
he writes, concluding with some advice for the minister. “May I
respectfully make a suggestion? Drop it. A Participant Agreement is
unnecessary.”
Just who is “unsafe” here? Peterson himself, of course. When bravely
and openly he went public to argue his case, a mob surrounded him,
threatened him, drowned out his words with a “white noise” machine, and
subjected him to a barrage of insults, slanders and pure insolence.
Were I a president of a university, and it sent out a letter of this
intellectual fragility and insidious threat under the university’s
imprimatur, I would see it expunged instantly, or resign for fear of
disgrace by association. And were I a president, and a mob of hostile,
anti-intellectual bullies harassed and threatened a professor on my
campus, either the members of the mob would go, or I would. It should be
as clear as that.
The older, raw, honest tyrannies told people what not to speak. But
the new, wilier versions, midwifed by our famous human rights overseers,
are proposing to insist on what we must speak. Here be the new axioms
of our day: we own your pronouns, use no others. “He” and “she” are
assault words. Freedom of speech is the life-raft flotsam of gurgling
obscurantists and bigots going down for the last time.
Prof. Jordan Peterson is a brave man. Better, he is an actual, a
real, university professor. May his stamina and courage hold. Parents,
send your children to his classes.
Shamed into acting, the Liberals will do what they do best - lie and pretend that they intended to help the Yazidis all along:
Immigration Minister John McCallum tried to head off the embarrassment
on Monday by affirming that he was committed to the Conservative motion.
His officials had been poking around Iraqi Kurdistan scoping out the
scene, Yazidi refugees will now be a Canadian priority, and some
yet-to-be-determined number of Yazidi refugees would be brought to
Canada over the next four months. During House committee meetings this
past summer, the number of Yazidi refugees admitted to Canada was
guesstimated by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials
at nine. McCallum came off, at best, as an unserious person. ... The Yazidis are an ancient religious minority of about 700,000
people, targeted for extermination by the so-called Islamic State in the
autumn of 2014. The landscape of the Yazidi homelands in the Shingal
Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan is now pockmarked with the mass graves of
Yazidi men. Yazidi women and girls have been enslaved by the thousands,
subjected to rape and torture, forced abortions and innumerable
unspeakable obscenities. Thousands of Yazidi women have escaped the
jihadist nightmare, but most cower as “internally displaced persons” in
Iraq, beyond the reach of the UN refugee system. More than 1,000 of the
women have been taken in by Germany. Other than that, they are pretty
well friendless.
The excuses persist, even this week. “It is not easy to bring the
Yazidis here from the places where they are,” McCallum explained. ... The Trudeau government and the senior bureaucrats with Immigration,
Refugees and Citizenship Canada, have treated the Yazidi genocide as
less of a first-order humanitarian emergency and more of an
inconvenience. They clutter up the Liberals’ “Canada is back” story and
all its attendant preening about the 30,000 Syrian refugees who have
made their way to Canada by way of an orderly UN process from refugee
camps and processing centres mainly in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. ... For one thing, last June, Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs
Minister Stéphane Dion humiliated themselves by refusing to endorse a
motion tabled by interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose condemning the
atrocities committed by the Islamic State against the Yazidis as
genocide.
Trudeau and Dion insisted it was up to the UN to decide.
Within days, in a grim and voluminous investigation report, the UN’s
High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed what anyone vaguely
familiar with the Yazidi suffering had known for nearly two years: the
Yazidis were being subjected to a barbarism that clearly surpassed the
threshold of the United Nations 1948 Genocide Convention. Dion’s
response: it makes no difference. We’re not changing a thing.
Then there’s the rather embarrassing business of the Liberals who
were happy to attribute the former Conservative government’s several
awkward attempts to establish a refugee priority for persecuted
religious minorities from the region to the Harper government’s
“Islamophobia.”
Will Obama insult Israel before he leaves office? Previous spite says yes:
Before the election, Obama dare not attempt this final legacy item, to
go along with the Iran deal and the Castro conciliation, for fear of
damaging Hillary Clinton. His last opportunity comes after election day.
The one person who might deter him, points out Hannah, is Clinton
herself, by committing Obama to do nothing before he leaves office that
would tie her hands should she become president.
After the election, Obama's apathy comes into full swing.
Oh, heaven's to Betsy! Things just get worse for Hillary Clinton:
Long story short, the Department of Justice can very well affect who our
next President is. If they move swiftly to indict, or if Clinton
believes she’s in trouble, she could drop out before November 8.
Alternatively, if an indictment comes soon after Clinton wins the
election, she could still feel pressure to step down before she takes
office.
Wynne will remove the useless wind turbines when Hell experiences a blizzard:
But there is a way to reverse Ontario’s downward spiral, likely the only
way that avoids a painful and protracted retrenchment — by righting the
province’s power sector, the biggest cause by far of its ruin. And
there’s only one way to right the power sector — by rethinking Ontario’s
Green Energy Act and rewriting the ruinous contracts that are
responsible for most of Ontario’s power woes.
If the UN is so appalled at Russia's alleged callousness, why doesn't it just eject Russia from its organisation?
Two strong earthquakes rocked a wide area of central Italy on Wednesday,
striking fear among residents rattled by a deadly tremor in August, but
there were no reports of casualties.
President Obama’s North Korea legacy will be to leave his successor and our allies with an escalating nuclear crisis, a deteriorating humanitarian situation, and possibly a nuclear arms race in Asia.
History will eventually rank it alongside the failure of the Green
Revolution in Iran, the near-collapse in Iraq, and the Syria fiasco as
one of his greatest foreign policy failures. The question now is whether
he will leave his successor with the makings of a strategy to stop Kim
Jong-un while there’s still time … if there’s still time.
“I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is
probably a lost cause,” Mr. Clapper said Tuesday in response to a
question about whether negotiations with North Korea’s leaders could
lead to a suspension of its nuclear and missile activities.
“They are not going to do that,” he said. “That is their ticket to survival.”
I'm sure he meant to say doom.
South Korea's default action is to reunify with the north, not reduce it to radioactive rubble so this paranoid raving about North Korea' s survival in the face of its southern neighbour is absurd.
Sweden and Morocco donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation
while Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved policy very
favourable to their governments, emails released by Wikileaks show.
Infighting among Putin’s inner circle has led to a series of disclosures
over the past few months that have shined a harsh light on the private
dealings of the Kremlin court — much as Hillary Clinton has endured the
airing of thousands of e-mails as a result of what the U.S. calls
Russian hacking of her campaign.
(Sidebar: what it calls. HA!)
As the Kremlin gears up for Putin’s last re-election bid in 18 months,
anti-graft crusader Alexei Navalny has emerged as the conduit of choice
for rival factions to scoop dirt on each other as they jostle to retain
their fiefdoms.
While Putin has largely stayed above the fray, anonymous tips and
research by Navalny’s staff of 30 have led to a string of revelations
about the extravagance of some of the Russian leader’s closest allies,
including a new luxury home for his premier, army contracts for his
personal chef and private-jet travel for the show dogs of a top
official.
Ontario’s Liberal government has nixed the idea of using legislation
to ban chiefs of staff and other behind-the-scenes political decision
makers from attending fundraisers, as they prepare to prohibit
politicians from doing the same.
The Liberals have released a list of amendments they are proposing to
an election finance reform bill, which they introduced amid criticism
over fundraising events that saw cabinet ministers attend private,
high-priced functions with stakeholders.
Under the amendments, any members of provincial parliament, party
leaders, nomination contestants, candidates and leadership contestants
would not be able to attend fundraisers.
They still could attend events where the ticket price only recovers
the cost of the hosting it, and could still solicit funds by mail, phone
or email.
To offset the impact on constituency associations, the Liberals are
proposing subsidies of $25,000 per year, divided among the parties in
each riding.
A former human resources executive for
the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has filed a wrongful dismissal suit
against the broadcaster, alleging that senior HR staff conspired to fire
her while she was on medical leave and that CEO Hubert Lacroix breached
his duties in refusing to review the matter, according to court
documents.
The suit is one of at least four pending
cases against the CBC alleging wrongful dismissal, and reveals
allegations of infighting in the HR department in the months following
the revelations that several women had publicly accused former CBC star
Jian Ghomeshi of sexual abuse and inappropriate workplace behaviour.
Some experts say basic income can fix existing holes in the system and
will most benefit women in their late 40s and early 50s without
dependent children, as well as adults with disabilities. Others say it
will have the most impact on youth, allowing them to stay in school
longer and become social entrepreneurs.
But a basic income is too costly and inefficient to act as a wholesale
replacement for welfare. It is feasible only if it is small, and
complemented by more targeted anti-poverty measures.
Who would work or do anything if he didn't have to? One sees people on welfare who don't move their @$$es unless they need more snacks. Are they bettering themselves somehow? What if the replicators were broken? What if some people would rather live without them?
Monsef’s staff were essentially pre-emptively answering a question that
Malcolm had not asked but which others — Monsef’s detractors, presumably
— surely would: Did she have an Iranian passport which listed her
place of birth as Iran? Because, of course, if she did have an Iranian
passport, a major hole opens in the narrative Monsef and her supporters
have used about her arrival and eventual success in Canada as an Afghan
refugee fleeing the Taliban.
Stubblefield said she had sex with D.J. in 2011 on the floor of her
office on the Rutgers campus in Newark. When they finished, she claimed
D.J. told her: “I feel alive for the first time in my life.”
It was an incredible assertion.
D.J. likely could not have even have grasped what was happening, much less reciprocated Stubblefield’s feelings.
D.J., now 35, has cerebral palsy. Years before Stubblefield came into
his life, a state doctor found that he had the mental capacity of a
toddler, unable to carry out “preschool-level tasks,” according to the
New York Times. He is five feet tall, non-verbal and can only walk if
someone is there to balance him.
Stubblefield, 46, had convinced D.J.’s family that she could help him
speak by using “facilitated communication,” a widely-discredited method
of teaching people with mental disabilities how to type messages.
It took many months, but D.J.’s mother and brother eventually came to believe it was all a sham.
Because you can't disrespect a human body, let it rot or have one's waterways turn into the Ganges. That's why:
As the practice of cremation grew, so too did a few of the frowned-upon
habits. Under the published guidelines, approved by Pope Francis in
March, “the ashes of the faithful must be laid to rest in a sacred
place.” Such places are mostly limited to cemeteries or certain church
areas. “Only in grave and exceptional cases” can loved ones keep ashes
in a domestic residence.
With
a freed Yazidi sex slave watching from the gallery, the House of
Commons voted unanimously Tuesday to acknowledge a genocide against her
people and to offer safe haven in Canada to vulnerable women and girls
by the end of February.
Nadia
Murad, described by the Conservatives as a victim of sex trafficking at
the hands of members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has
been lobbying MPs this week on behalf of her hard-hit fellow Yazidis.
She
received an ovation from the House before MPs voted 313-0 to adopt a
Conservative motion calling on the Liberal government to help her
fellow Yazidis within the next 120 days.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered his personal assurance that help is in the offing.
And who is left to be saved?
Trudeau is embarrassed, not morally motivated to do this.
He is a piece of sh--. His party is a piece of sh--. His voters are pieces of sh--. They presided over a holocaust (yes, I'm using that word - deal with it) as they have done with any other issue: as fat white gated urbanites and trough-gatherers who care nothing about anyone else.
“Sir, if you won’t turn and face me when I answer, then I will not answer,” Trudeau said politely but firmly at one point.
Trudeau then gave the floor to one man who had hollered particularly loudly at him.
But it seems Trudeau was not the object of everyone’s ire.
One particularly angry attendee, a man who said he was from Chatham,
Ont., demanded of Trudeau: “What are you going to do about Kathleen?”
as in Kathleen Wynne, the Ontario premier and a Liberal like Trudeau.
The Chatham man said high electricity prices in his province were
hurting workers.
Trudeau said something about division of powers, which prompted more
hollering, including one who yelled, “Sound bites won’t do it.”
Canada is one nation, not several reservations that depend on the rest of society for cash. Those aren't nations. Those are leeches:
The Newfoundland case involved an attack in 1998 in which Jack sexually
assaulted the victim with a beer bottle. At the time he was on probation
for a previous attack against her. Jack pleaded not guilty but was
convicted in 2003. ... But in spite of those concerns, Appeal Court Justice Malcolm Rowe
refused to overturn the original sentence. He noted Jerome Jack had
stopped drinking, he had not re-offended and he was now the principal
caregiver to his children.
To a leftist activist like Philpott, health is the doorway to
everything — to nationalizing whole swaths of the economy. That’s what
Obamacare did. But we already have a form of Obamacare in Canada, so
this is the next step.
She’s already telegraphing that she intends to treat many food items like cigarettes: Warning labels on foods she doesn’t like. And more taxes, regulations, fines and red tape for farmers and food manufacturers.
Philpott knows nothing about how food is grown or processed or sold.
She just knows that she’s a doctor, so she wants to treat the entire
population like we’re her patients.
And she’s a liberal, so she wants to treat the entire country’s population like were idiots.
In a few years, when people ask LynLee Boemer, “what’s your birthday?” she can reply: “Do you mean the first one?”
The little Texas girl was removed from her mother’s womb to have a
massive tumour on her tailbone removed in March. She was then returned
to the uterus and born again — this time permanently — by caesarean
section, on June 6.
Now, one young mother says her insurance company denied her coverage
for chemotherapy treatment after originally agreeing to provide the
fiscal support for it, but indicated it would be willing to pay for assisted suicide instead.
"Assisted suicide" is a euphemism for killing people off for their hospital beds and we all know it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was heckled and jeered as he took questions today at a youth labour forum in Ottawa.
Several
dozen delegates at the young workers' summit turned their backs on
Trudeau as he spoke while many others held signs reading "Keep the
Promise."
As the
prime minister took questions, he also criticized the back turners,
saying he was disappointed that they appeared unwilling to listen. ...
(Sidebar: shut up, you big baby! Yes, people have the audacity to turn their backs on little, old you.)
Trudeau was booed when he responded that precarious work — including jobs with no pensions — is now a fact of life.
(Sidebar: says the guy who has never had to work hard his entire life. Such is the existence of a trustifarian.)
Didn't Justin's handlers tell him? Surely they must know that breaking a sweat is bad for his hair?
A Rhode Island man is about to rue the day he decided to write into a local newspaper
to express his disdain for adult women who wear yoga pants in public.
Those very women he targeted are now organizing a peaceful protest — a Yoga Pants Parade scheduled to take place this Sunday, right on their grouchy neighbor’s block.
I don't think he will rue the day. In fact, I applaud him for finally calling out the vain, self-important chubbies who have no dress or common sense.
If you can't put on a decent pair of trousers as opposed to yoga or sweat pants or leggings, don't leave the house.
A nurse
in southwestern Ontario killed eight nursing home residents in her
care, police alleged Tuesday as they charged the woman with murder.
Investigators
say 49-year-old Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ont.,
faces eight counts of first-degree murder in the killings, which they
say took place between 2007 and 2014.
"The
victims were administered a drug. We're not in a position at this time
to comment further on the specifics of the drug as it forms part of the
evidence that is now before the courts," said Det. Supt. Dave Truax of
the Ontario Provincial Police.
When I made my point in the Munk Debate, our opponents, the telly
historian Simon Schama and the former UN High Commissioner Louise
Arbour, thought it was an opportunity for comedy. Simon reckoned me and
Nigel Farage were just "a bit sad" - losers who couldn't get any action and so got turned on by obsessing about migrant rape. This insouciance did not work out well for him.
To accord their response more respect than it merits, Louise and
Simon's point was that: sure, there's a bit of child rape here and
there, but what's the big deal? It's a relatively small and manageable
amount.
It's not, but let that pass. That was my point: "Migrant rights trump
women's rights" and "migrant rights trump children's rights" and (in
some of the most grisly cases) "migrant rights trump disabled rights".
It's not that there's only three or four - or seven or twelve, or 29 or
97 or 236 or 1,768 - rapes. It's not the "small" number of cases, but
the fact that, in a fainthearted age prostrate before the multicultural
pieties, these "few" cases are changing us. So that the most eminent
jurists in Austria feel obliged to assimilate with their invaders: hey,
how was poor old Amir supposed to know the cute l'il moppet wasn't
consenting to anal rape?
What motivates the likes of Louise Arbour, Simon Schama or Austrian judges: the absence of a moral standard or fear of offending a perverted and angry mass?
Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
The
Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks
that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as
also is this publican.
I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.
And
the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes
towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a
sinner.
I
say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the
other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and
he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.
It's like JC could smell the stench of leftist virtue-signalling from the first century.
Figures will vary by household and province, but by 2022, when the tax
will be a minimum of $50 a tonne, the average Canadian household could
face $2,569 in new taxes. This, pro-carbon taxers insist, is necessary
to reduce Canada’s carbon emissions. After all, climate change is a
global issue. Surely Canadians must do their part to help solve the
problem. ...
We can start with the Trudeau government’s carbon emissions target for
2030, which would bring Canada’s total annual emissions down from 748
megatonnes (Mt) this year, to 524 Mt by 2030. Assuming we can meet that
target — and that’s a big assumption — Canada’s total annual emissions
would drop by 224 Mt.
Now consider the biggest contributor to global carbon emissions:
China. In 2014, China’s annual carbon emissions were estimated at 10,540
Mt. China is a very large and rapidly developing country. It
understandably wants to focus on raising the living standards of its
people. Yet, despite strong economic growth in recent decades, the
country still has hundreds of millions of people living in relative
poverty, especially when compared to more developed countries like
Canada. Accordingly, its climate change commitments are less stringent
than Canada’s: China’s existing policy will see annual carbon emissions
rise to about 13,600 Mt in 2030.
Its annual emissions will thus increase about 3,060 Mt over this
period, which means that by 2030, all Canada’s efforts will be cancelled
out by just 27 days’ worth of China’s increased carbon emissions.
Remember, this isn’t the worst-case scenario; this is if everything goes
according to plan. Even if Canadians nobly “do our part” — at a cost of
untold billions of dollars for millions of families and businesses —
the sum of our efforts will be rendered pointless by the giant Chinese
juggernaut in less than a month.
This is what happens when you don't do the math on stuff.
Chances are you have never heard of Sam Oosterhoff.
But the 19-year-old social conservative and Brock University
political science student has become a key figure in Ontario provincial
politics.
On Saturday, Oosterhoff won the race to become the Ontario
Progressive Conservative candidate for Niagara West-Glanbrook, the
territory of former PC party leader Tim Hudak.
Also - trust me- there is always someone stupid enough to vote Liberal no matter how Hillary Clinton-corrupt they are:
According to the Forum poll, only 27% of Ontarians believe Wynne will
stick around to defend this record in the next election. The Liberals
are badly trailing Patrick Brown’s PCs — 43% to 24% — even though most
voters acknowledge they know next to nothing about the new Tory leader.
Veteran Liberal statesman Jean Charest, who as Quebec premier was
intimately involved in the debut of Canada-EU free trade talks, says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should pick up the phone and urge his
French and German counterparts to push for a CETA resolution — because
“the credibility of Europe is at stake.”
Charest, reached in London, cautioned Trudeau should wait until the
time is right to “get them to step up,” however, urging a cool-down
period as tempers flared in Europe Monday over a small Belgian region’s
veto of the trade agreement.
“In the next few weeks, I think we’re just going to have to let
things cool down. The harder we push now, it’ll just entrench the
Walloons in their position. You get to the point in that dynamic where
then it becomes a point of pride, their opposition becomes a point of
pride,” he said.
After Canada walked out on negotiations Friday, the EU gave Belgium a
Monday deadline to lend its support to CETA. But with the regional
parliament of Wallonia blocking support, Belgium said Monday it wouldn’t
be able to do that.
The Ontario agency tasked with administering the first online
literacy test to tens of thousands of high school students in the
province last week says it was forced to pull the plug by an
“intentional, malicious and sustained” cyberattack.
The Education Quality and Accountability Office said Monday the
network hosting the “voluntary” online test was targeted by an
“extremely large volume of traffic from a vast set of IP addresses
around the globe.”
It said the impact of the distributed denial of service attack
carried out by “an unknown entity or entities” was to block legitimate
users such as school boards and students from accessing the test.
Most of the province’s 900 secondary schools — representing a maximum
of 147,000 students — had signed up to participate in the test, which
was a technical trial run before the first official test scheduled next
year.
Do you know who might like to have had children? Reena Virk:
Despite serving a life sentence in prison for killing 14-year-old
Reena Virk, Ellard is now about eight months pregnant, the Vancouver Sun
has learned.
The father is a man with gang links who was out on day parole when he was allowed the intimate visits with Ellard in the spring.
Darwin Dorozan, 41, was granted full parole in August, but it has since been revoked after an alleged breach.
The
Parole Board of Canada said in its Aug. 3 ruling releasing Dorozan that
“there are concerns about your relationship with your girlfriend, who
is pregnant.”
Ellard, 33, is not identified as the girlfriend in
the documents, but Postmedia News has confirmed with several sources
that she is Dorozan’s pregnant girlfriend.
Dorozan was given
credit by the two-person panel for being “open and accountable about the
relationship,” the parole ruling says.
But the ruling also said Dorozan “will likely face significant stress relating to the birth of your child.”
Dorozan
is serving a seven-year, two-month sentence after pleading guilty in
2012 to 11 counts of break and enter and break and enter with
intent. Dorozan broke into several homes in 2010 and 2011 to steal
things to finance a heroin addiction, the board noted.
“Some of
the residences were occupied and during a confrontation with a male
victim, you sprayed him in the face about five times with bear spray.”
Ellard
had three trials before she was convicted in 2005. She was first found
guilty in 2000, but the B.C. Court of Appeal ordered a new trial. The
second time around, the jury couldn’t reach a verdict and a mistrial was
declared. She was convicted of second-degree murder after her third
trial.
Though she was 15 when she killed Virk, Ellard was raised
to adult court and was sentenced to life with no hope of parole for
seven years.
Last May, the Parole Board of Canada denied Ellard
day parole, saying that while she was finally admitting some
responsibility for Virk’s death, there was “ongoing minimization” of her
crime.
And the two board members told Ellard that they were
concerned about her admitted drug use inside prison, as well as “your
lack of insight into why you committed the murder and your sense of
entitlement with respect to parole.”
Future Liberal voter.
European countries are letting people like this in by the thousands:
A
migrant who raped a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool has had his
conviction overturned because the court could not prove that the child
said no.
The
man, identified only as 20-year-old Iraqi Amir A, violently sexually
assaulted the victim while he was undergoing an integration process at
Theresienbad pool (above) in Vienna, Austria, last December.
After
the assault, Amir - who had been working as a taxi driver - went back
into the pool and was found on the diving board when police turned up.
He
told them that he had a “sexual emergency” because he had not had sex
for some time, but admitted that he knew he had been wrong to do it.
Amir
was found guilty of serious sexual assault and rape of a minor and was
sentenced to six years in jail - but the Supreme Court has now lifted
the verdict and ordered a retrial as his defence team successfully
argued that there was no proof that the boy did not consent.
By the time Jackie spoke with reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, she was a
U-Va. junior and had for two years told friends and members of the
U-Va. community that she was sexually assaulted at a fraternity party.
She had also gone to Eramo seeking help. Erdely testified last week that
she believed Jackie’s detailed account of the ordeal.
Jackie said during the taped deposition that she stands by the
account she gave Rolling Stone and The Post in 2014 and believed it was
true at the time. But she also testified that she suffers from
Post-traumatic stress disorder and has memory loss and can no longer
recall specific details.
In the taped testimony, Jackie said she felt pressured to cooperate
with the reporter on the article and told friends that she no longer
wanted to be included in it after learning that her alleged gang-rape
would be central to the narrative.
Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive.
Not just stupid but incredibly dull, malevolent, mediocre and prone to fits of prejudice and rage.
That's why someone can get irrationally angry at this:
Blacks riot, Muslims set bombs, gays spread AIDS, Mexican cartels behead
children, atheists tear down Christmas trees. Meanwhile, those liberal
Lena Dunhams in their $5,000-a-month apartments sip wine and say, "But
those white Christians are the real problem!" Terror victims
scream in the street next to their own severed limbs, and the response
from the elites is to cry about how men should be allowed to use women's
restrooms and how it's cruel to keep chickens in cages.
Madness. Their heads are so far up their asses that they can't tell up
from down. Basic, obvious truths that have gone unquestioned for
thousands of years now get laughed at and shouted down -- the fact that
hard work is better than dependence on government, that children do
better with both parents in the picture, that peace is better than
rioting, that a strict moral code is better than blithe hedonism, that
humans tend to value things they've earned more than what they get for
free, that not getting exploded by a bomb is better than getting
exploded by a bomb.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has reportedly massacred
hundreds of men and boys in Mosul as fears grow that families are being
used as human shields against approaching Iraqi-led forces.
The jihadist group rounded up and shot 284 men and boys before
dumping their bodies in a mass grave in northern Mosul, according to
CNN.
They were reportedly lined up and shot on the grounds of a former
agricultural college, where young Iraqis were once taught how to grow
food in their country’s punishing climate, and then buried by a
bulldozer.
Throughout the Vietnam War era, Hayden was among the most visible and
outspoken American mouthpieces of the pro-Communist camp. He
organized -- along with Jane Fonda (whom he married in 1973 and divorced in 1980), John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy --
an “Indochina Peace Campaign” (IPC) to cut off American aid to the
existing governments in Cambodia and South Vietnam. The IPC worked
tirelessly to help the North Vietnamese Communists and the Khmer Rouge
(led by Pol Pot) emerge victorious.
According to his testimony, prison guards at the facility would use
the pliers to lacerate the inmates before pouring acid into the wounds.
If the detainees passed out due to the excessive pain, the overseers
would then use water to revive them.
“About 10 prisoners who were ordered to sit and watch the torture,” said Keo Chandara, reports the Cambodia Daily.
During one particularly gruesome episode, Keo Chandara said the
guards hanged one prisoner by a hook through her mouth and then cut out
her heart, gall bladder and liver after she was unable to answer
questions during an interrogation session.
It’s odd to look at Great War pictures, including Canadians at Hill
70, and see that under such awful conditions, the troops often appear
resolute, even cheerful. It reminds us how surprisingly well humans can
respond to adversity, while failing when not being tested. And it shows
that in a very real sense, the passage of time changes nothing. Indeed,
if worthy deeds a century ago mean nothing today, worthy deeds today
will mean nothing tomorrow and hence are futile in our own time. But we
know they are not.
So we care about the Great War because it shaped the modern world.
But we also care because those who fought it on our behalf did deeds
that set a timeless example for us and our posterity. That is why
Australians still flock to Villers-Bretonneux, why the Last Post sounds
every evening at the Menin Gate and why the monument to Hill 70 to be
dedicated in France next spring will draw visitors 100 years hence.
Alistair Urquhart who has died aged 97, was a prisoner of the Japanese
from 1942 to 1945, surviving both the infamous Death Railway and the
atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki; his memoir, The Forgotten Highlander, became a bestseller in 2009.
“Once she had been kidnapped by the Taliban in Pakistan, there were many
comments in the media stating quite bluntly that she deserved what she
got,” Dylyn said. “I realized the truth was much more complex, that her
motivations for her actions were complicated, and I wanted to explore
her physical and psychological journey.”
Nor can one point out that not only do adults have the right to life, to vote and to own property, sexual fetishists in the West are not only allowed but celebrated so this talk of discrimination against the sexual alphabet minority doesn't carry any logical weight. I mean - are people chucked off of roofs in the West?
Like this guy?
And don't get one started on those attention-seeking virtue-signaling parents who create entire mythologies around their kids who play dress-up one day and then inject them with hormones so that they can be the boy/girl/whatever-the-hell they were allegedly meant to be before deliberately shuffling off this mortal coil.
So, whatever one does, don't pay attention to what is going on around one. It could cause one to question why one's elected government is pushing the country into insanity.
There are days when it’s hard to be a hero. Just ask Curtis Barrett. ...
An Ontario Provincial Police report into the terror attack on Parliament
Hill on October 22, 2014, concluded that Zehaf-Bibeau “presented a
serious and imminent threat to the lives of all persons inside Centre
Block,” including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the entire
Conservative caucus meeting in the Reading Room, just off the Hall of
Honour.
The report concluded that the House of Commons’ former
Sergeant-at-Arms, Kevin Vickers, and Barrett “fired their weapons and
neutralized the threat.”
But while Vickers was hailed as a hero by the nation and appointed
Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, Barrett’s contribution was buried,
redacted and generally forgotten, leading him into a downward spiral of
post-traumatic stress.
After two years, the RCMP has finally recognized the valour of
Barrett, and the three other officers who walked into gunfire that
day — he will receive the Star of Courage from the Governor-General at a
ceremony next Friday. But Barrett’s story is a cautionary tale about
how this country treats those of its sons and daughters who put
themselves at great peril to keep the rest of us safe.
Canada and Russia traded barbs at the United Nations on Thursday as
Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion led calls for an end to the
bloody conflict in Syria.
Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould appointed or promoted 24 judges
Thursday as she unveiled sweeping changes to the way jurists in this
country are appointed.
A government board has told power companies across the province that by
year-end they must send customers a hydro bill every month — a change
that could cost up to $10-million, and will likely show up on the bills
of consumers.
The
U.N. Human Rights Council said on Friday it would identify the
perpetrators of war crimes in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and
launched a special inquiry into the use of starvation and air strikes
there, as well as increased "terrorist" attacks.
Zeid
Ra'ad al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
had earlier called for major powers to put aside their differences and
refer the situation in eastern Aleppo to the International Criminal
Court.
He
said that the siege and bombing there constituted "crimes of historic
proportions" that have caused heavy civilian casualties amounting to war
crimes.
Zeid
did not name Russia or the Syrian air force, whose jets have attacked
the rebel-held districts of Aleppo for weeks, but his reference was
clear.
If the UN truly felt that Russia is participating in war crimes, why doesn't it eject Russia from the organisation?
China and other countries exporting these
non-essential goods are vulnerable to a global ‘naming and shaming’
campaign as well as secondary sanctions. Seoul, meanwhile, is in a much
better position to push other states to enforce firmer sanctions now
that it has shut down the Kaesong Industrial Park, a North–South
collaborative economic project within the DPRK where the North provided
workers to South Korean manufacturers. Turning a blind eye to Kaesong’s
‘forced labor’ conditions, not to mention the transfer of about US$9
million annually to the Pyongyang regime, has for years compromised
South Korea’s principles. At a minimum, sanctions are a normative
declaration that we are not oblivious to the North’s atrocities and that
countries and firms which do business with Pyongyang are trafficking
with an international pariah.
More than 600 UN staff members have signed an online petition calling
on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a professed feminist, to reconsider
the appointment of the fictitious superhero as its ambassador for
women’s empowerment.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday he was not severing
ties with his country's long-time ally the United States, but merely
pursuing a more independent foreign policy by strengthening relations
with China.
Is the Filipino electorate having second thoughts about this guy?
The emails show a transition plan being worked on before the 2008 election had taken place. According to an attached memo
in one of the emails, Obama was already discussing his transition to
office with members of the Bush Administration, including then-Treasury
Secretary Hank Paulson, prior to the election.
The
Ste. Anne des Pins parish in Sudbury, Ont., says the statue, which was
beheaded by unknown vandals a year ago, was recently fitted with a
temporary clay head crafted by a local artist.
The
new head — a placeholder until the artist can sculpt a permanent
replacement out of stone — has captured the attention of many in the
parish and on social media.
Some
online have compared the head, with its spiky clay crown, to a
character on the popular cartoon "The Simpsons" or to the infamously
botched restoration of a fresco of Jesus in Spain.
His
shock escape from his enclosure at London Zoo grabbed headlines last
week - and now we finally know what Kumbuka did during his brief spell
of freedom.
Turns
out the gorilla took full advantage of his escape - achieved by
slipping through two unlocked doors - by knocking back five litres of
undiluted squash.
It’s amazing he’s alive at all – because seven-year-old Bruno the
chocolate Labrador retriever spent several weeks trapped at the bottom
of a well near Estevan.
