For A Monday

"Therefore do they hate the truth for that thing's sake which they loved instead of the truth. They love truth when she enlightens, they hate her when she reproves."

Just in, North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan:

North Korea fired a ballistic missile from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday, an aggressive test-flight over the territory of a close U.S. ally that sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby.

Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile travelled around 2,700 kilometres (1677 miles) and reached a maximum height of 550 kilometres (341 miles) as it flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The launch, which appears to be the first to cross over Japan since 2009, will rattle a region worried that each new missile test puts the North a step closer toward its goal of an arsenal of nuclear missiles that can reliably target the United States.

North Korean missile launches have been happening at an unusually fast pace this year, and some analysts believe that the North could have such an arsenal before the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's first term in early 2021.

 
More to come.


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(Merci)





But ... but ... his family made him become a terrorist!

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr returns to court this week to ask that his bail conditions be eased, including allowing him unfettered contact with his controversial older sister, more freedom to move around Canada, and unrestricted internet access.

This sister:

The comments were made 13 years ago, but for many Canadians they continue to define Zaynab Khadr, and by extension much of her ill-famed family.

In interviews with the National Post and others, the Ottawa-born daughter of an alleged al Qaeda insider spoke with jarring ambivalence about the 9/11 attacks.

The person behind the 2001 terrorist attacks wanted to hit the American government “where it will hurt it, not the people,” she told the CBC. “But sometimes innocent people pay the price. You don’t want to feel happy, but you just sort of think, well, they deserve it, they’ve been doing it for such a long time. Why shouldn’t they feel it once in a while?”

The Chretien, Martin and now the Trudeau governments were and are not ignorant of these facts.





Speaking of terrorists ... :

An Ontario judge has ordered a mental health assessment for a Toronto-area woman facing terror charges in an alleged attack at a Canadian Tire store.

Justice Kimberley Crosbie said Monday that she has reasonable grounds to order the assessment into Rehab Dughmosh's fitness to stand trial, given the woman's behaviour at a court appearance earlier this month.

At that court appearance, Dughmosh, 32, responded to multiple questions from the judge by saying people in the courtroom were "infidels."

"This behaviour has caused me to be concerned about whether she is understanding the nature and object of the proceedings," Crosbie told the court.

Dughmosh has also previously refused to leave her cell to attend court — and chose not to appear at her hearing Monday — and has claimed that she has said all she needs to in court already.

A correctional officer also told the court earlier this month that Dughmosh generally doesn't leave her cell to shower, opting to wash in her cell instead.

"This behaviour, involving isolation and withdrawal, is concerning," Crosbie said. 

(Sidebar: no, she's just a bigoted little b!#ch who thinks that the world owes her a favour.)


Of course! She's mentally ill! That must be it! She's not a lone wolf who misinterpreted the un-revised teachings of Mohammad. She's just nuts.

That's why the legal system is bending over backward for her.





Ontario - failing once more:

More than 350 workers at a General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ont., will be losing their jobs as the 125-year-old facility ceases manufacturing next year.

Speaking of abject failures:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used a mid-mandate mini-shuffle Monday to shore up his cabinet in two areas where his government has fallen far short of his soaring campaign rhetoric: veterans and Indigenous affairs.

In the most dramatic move, Trudeau split Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada into two separate departments and appointed one of his most reliable, competent ministers, Jane Philpott, to one of them — a move billed as ending the "colonial" approach to Indigenous Peoples, with the ultimate goal of encouraging self-government and doing away with the "paternalistic" Indian Act.

He also named a personal friend, rookie MP and former television host Seamus O'Regan, to the veterans affairs post, replacing Kent Hehr, who has been heavily criticized for dragging his feet on the Liberals' promise to restore lifelong disability pensions for injured ex-soldiers.

More on the partisan, less on the experience.

Canada is back or something.

A bionic eye helps a mother see her youngest child:

A Quebec mother of four can partially see again thanks to a "bionic eye" that was implanted in March in the first such operation of its kind in the province.

Sandra Cassell was diagnosed in 2001 with retinitis pigmentosa, a form of retinal dystrophy that affects around 3,000 Quebecers.

The illness degrades vision to the point of near total blindness.

Cassell said she was determined to find some way to restore her vision and see her youngest child for the first time.

"The older children, I had seen them and had an image in my head, but I'd never seen my baby," she said.

Her research led her to the American company Second Sight, which was developing a retinal prosthesis called Argus II.

The device consists of a camera that is attached to glasses and connected to a chip grafted onto the retina of the eye.

The images captured by the camera are converted into a series of electrical pulses that are transmitted to the chip.

"The goal of these pulses is to stimulate the cells still alive in the retina and bypass those that have died," explains Dr. Cynthia Qian, an ophthalmologist specializing in vitreoretinal surgery.

"This prosthesis can offer the chance to have a functional vision again."

Kayaking for Christ:

A local ABC News station spotted a man kayaking through a flooded area and decided to interview him on live TV. It turned out that the man was a Catholic priest returning to his parish to help those in need and offer Sunday Mass!