Mid-Week Post

A merry Chuseok to all y'all.

Yes, I would like to know, too:

United Conservative Party (UCP) leadership candidate and former federal immigration minister Jason Kenney is facing questions over how the man accused of attacking a police officer and slamming into pedestrians in Edmonton was admitted to Canada. 

That still doesn't get Ralphie-Boy out of the line of fire, though.

Me fail Question Period? That's unpossible!

Also:

Under the changes that take effect Oct. 11, which Hussen called long-awaited, would-be citizens will have to have been in Canada for three of the last five years before they apply.

"That is really important because it will mean that many permanent residents will be able to apply for citizenship earlier and it will mean their path to citizenship will be eased," Hussen said.

The government under former prime minister Stephen Harper had tightened the eligibility rules to require permanent residents to have been physically present in Canada for four years out of the last six immediately before applying for citizenship

Another rule, requiring applicants to be in Canada for 183 days each year, has been causing "real hardship" and is being scrapped under implementation of Bill C-6. Permanent residents will now be allowed to go abroad to study, work or for family reasons without losing access to citizenship eligibility. ...

Also as of Oct. 11, only newcomers aged of 18 to 54 will have to take and pass a citizenship knowledge and language test. Previously, the age range was 14 to 64, a problem Hussen said was particularly acute for those under 18 given their need to study for school exams.

Because getting a Canadian passport should be easy. This way, the Liberal Party can have reliable voters blocks for generations to come!

Attorney General Yasir Naqvi has followed the Liberal Party's censorious suit and banned any form of protest outside of publicly-funded abortuaries:

The provincial government is moving to make obtaining abortion and other reproductive health services safer for Ontario women by introducing legislation that creates safe access zones around abortion clinics and other health facilities.

Every time a grandmother holds up a pro-life sign or speaks to a woman walking into these places of business, the chances are that she may walk away and no one gets paid for it. So, in order to protect the leftist sacrament and industry of abortion, Naqvi (this Naqvi) has seen fit to relegate any protest by a tax-paying citizen to the furthest edges of effectiveness.

I would just ignore this because the last time I checked, this was not my national flag.



Also - one must remember that this is the Liberal Party, well known for its anti-semitism, pro-Islamism, penchant for censorship and immense idiocy:

The federal government has removed a plaque inaugurating Ottawa’s new Holocaust memorial that failed to mention anti-Semitism or Jewish people.

Conservative MP David Sweet raised the issue in question period on Tuesday, asking if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would be correcting this “profoundly obvious omission.

“If we are going to stamp out hatred toward Jews, it is important to get history right,” said Sweet.

The plaque originally commemorated the “millions of men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust” and the survivors who made it to Canada “after one of the darkest chapters in history.”

(Sidebar: but not these guys.)



And - why is there an Islamic Heritage Month in public schools and how long before B'nai Brith Canada is ordered to cease and desist with criticisms it now knows are verboten (SEE: M-103)?

But a letter from TDSB Chair Robin Pilkey not only suggests there will be no more changes, but that the one change they’ve agreed to was only made begrudgingly.

Pilkey writes about B’nai Brith’s concern with a “small section” of the guide and states that “it is not in any way, shape or form, a directive, nor is it enforceable as a policy would be.”

She then spends about a third of the letter chastising B’nai Brith over their complaint: “The TDSB welcomes important input from the community and from organizations such as B’nai Brith, however we must say that some of the suggestions made in your letter and subsequent news release are outrageous. To suggest that the TDSB is encouraging students to stay silent about what they experienced in their countries of birth or that the TDSB is somehow banning students and educators from criticizing executions and other human rights abuses around the world is categorically untrue.”

The 170-page guidebook addresses issues such as women’s rights in Islam in an entirely positive light without acknowledging its challenges and controversies.

“The TDSB is secular and the curriculum and teaching in schools does not promote any particular religious practice, denomination or sect,” Pilkey said in a separate e-mail to the Toronto Sun, addressing parents’ and educators’ concerns with the guidebook. “At the same time, cultural and creed-based heritage months are celebrations of Canadian diversity.” The goal of the guide, Pilkey explains, is “to create awareness and understanding”.

The TDSB’s Islamic Heritage Month Twitter account shows some schools are already into the swing of things, retweeting one North York vice principal’s post about reading a children’s book that discusses Islamophobia.

We were always at war with Eurasia.




Oh, really? And the illegal guns in Canada are indicative of what?

Jooyoung Lee, a sociology professor, says the deadliest massacre in modern American history is the direct result of that country's lax gun laws. ...

"They're not buying them from gun traffickers; they're not getting them on the streets; they're not stealing them — they're walking into stores, passing a background check and then using the firearms later to kill people." ...

Lee says the U.S. has a "frontier mentality," which weakens U.S. gun control efforts.

"There's this belief that because there's an amendment written in an old constitution that grants people the right to bear arms, that this is an inalienable right and that the government should not impose on this," said Lee.

Putin does not believe a strike against North Korea would be effective:

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a military strike against North Korea designed to destroy its nuclear and missile program might not succeed because Pyongyang could have hidden military facilities that nobody knows about. 

Russia is strongly opposed to the idea of such a strike, an idea U.S. President Donald Trump has floated, favoring a mixture of diplomacy and economic incentives instead. 

Russia also uses North Korean slave labour.

Carry on.

Once more, dogs prove their immense worth:

Vets are collaborating with researchers in human medicine to study the genetics of a fatal heart disorder shared by dogs and humans. They’re working on epilepsy, and stem cell therapy for spinal cord injuries.

“To me, it’s one medicine. It always has been,” writes veterinarian Stephen Withrow on the website for the Flint Animal Cancer Center, one of the world’s largest, which he founded at Colorado State University. “One medicine. One cancer. One cure.”