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North Korea wouldn't be firing these missiles if China wasn't backing them. Just saying:

North Korea fired what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that landed close to Japan, officials said, Pyongyang’s first test launch since mid-September with some scientists cautioning that Washington, D.C., could now technically be within reach.  

North Korea fired the missile a week after U.S. President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a U.S list of countries that Washington says support terrorism. The designation allows the United States to impose more sanctions, although some experts said it risked inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

These sorts of things aren't too uncommon:

The bodies had been drifting in the Sea of Japan for so long that only bones remained.

But investigators in face masks and coveralls found clues inside the battered wooden craft that pointed to a possible origin: an empty cigarette pack of a brand popular in North Korea and unused life jackets with Korean lettering.

It’s unclear how long those who were aboard the latest “ghost ship” to wash up on the coast of Japan had been there or when they died. Ocean currents off the coast of Japan shift and the waters get choppy in winter months, routinely washing ships ashore. More than 40 boats full of dead people have washed up this year, according to Sky News. In 2016, the number was 66.

The 23-foot boat was found in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan, according to Kyodo News, after a 68-year-old woman notified authorities about a dilapidated, drifting vessel.

“I was surprised to see the boat in such a bad condition,” she told the news organization.

Later, she said, she watched as authorities used stretchers to carry bodies off the boat.

It was not clear whether the people on the boat were fishermen who got into trouble at sea or people trying to defect from North Korea.

Uh, no, Canada isn't on the right track involving Trudeau's Uncle Raul in diffusing the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. I don't know why anyone would that think that was a good idea. First of all, both are communist crapholes where people go hungry and are arrested for dissent. So there's that. Furthermore, Cuba covered for North Korea when a vessel with North Korean designation was caught with weapons in violation of UN sanctions (not that the UN means anything). Why would anyone expect a collaborator to quell Kim's nuclear ambitions? And finally, the unserious and incompetent Trudeau, whose sympathies clearly lie with China, North Korea's backer, and Cuba, is merely dipping his oar into yet another situation he doesn't understand so as to appear a leader of some gravitas. Nope: 

It’s an odd notion: Canada works with Cuba to get them to work with North Korea to get them, in turn, to work with the United States on cooling their nuclear ambitions.

But it’s a worthwhile approach and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have quietly positioned Canada to a play role in this global fiasco proportionate to what we can reasonably hope to accomplish.

 
Finance Minister Bill Morneau is accused of selling $10 million in shares of his family's company before a new tax plan would have devalued them:

The finance minister faced another thrashing in question period on Monday, accused by the opposition of selling $10 million in shares one week before the government tabled tax measures that negatively affected their value.

Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre grilled Finance Minister Bill Morneau over the timing of the sale that happened nearly two years ago.

"The Liberal platform would have us believe that revenue from this tax change would only start to be realized at the beginning of the fiscal year," Poilievre said of the motion announced back on Dec. 7, 2015 to raise income taxes on high-income earners. 

The announcement caused stock markets to drop.

"He indicated it would take effect at the beginning of the calendar year. That news moved markets, but not before someone was able to sell their shares and save half a million dollars. Was that person the minister of finance?"

(Sidebar: I'm just going to leave this right here.) 

Bill Morneau, stunned that he was caught at the accusations, threatens action against his critics:

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is threatening to sue the Conservatives for suggesting he used his inside knowledge of a pending tax change announcement in 2015 to sell off stocks before their value dropped.

A known liar in the Trudeau government is still stalling:

Federal Minister Maryam Monsef is back in the news this week, over the same scandal that dogged her in 2016. According to news reports, Monsef still hasn’t resolved the issues with her citizenship and has yet to receive a new, updated passport. 

It's only money:

The government agency responsible for fostering scientific excellence nearly bankrupted a Canadian company pioneering a breakthrough inexpensive pneumonia vaccine for children because the business was behind on its rent.

PnuVax, a Montreal biotech company, is the single largest Canadian recipient of funding from the Gates Foundation, arguably the world’s most prestigious charity. Yet the cost of developing a low-cost vaccine to combat a disease that is the world’s largest killer of children under 5 years old caused it to fall behind on its land-lease payments to the National Research Council.

In May, PnuVax was given 30 days’ written notice to either pay the outstanding amount, around $1 million, or demolish its manufacturing facility in Montreal and vacate the premises.

Well, I could have told you that:

Police reports recently obtained through a freedom of information request show the Ontario Liberal government’s claim that pro-lifers had to be outlawed outside abortion facilities because they were increasingly “intimidating” women is completely baseless.

Pro-life blogger Patricia Maloney discovered police attendance at the Ottawa Morgentaler abortion center dropped 33.6 percent in the period between 2014 to 2017 from the period between 2010 and 2013.

Ottawa police reported 113 incidents in the 48 months between 2010 and 2013, or an average of 2.35 per month, Maloney wrote in her blog Run With Life.

But that fell to 64 reported incidents in 41 months, or 1.56 per month between 2014 and 2017.

Moreover, there were no reported injuries and no charges laid from 2010 to 2017, she wrote.

The Liberals claimed that criminalizing pro-life speech and expression outside the province’s eight abortion facilities was necessary because of escalating incidents of pro-life “intimidation.”

Indeed, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi mentioned during his October 4 press conference announcing Bill 163 that “as we saw in my hometown in Ottawa, a woman was spat on, which is assault.”

He referred to this again during questions from reporters, appearing to become emotional.

“As soon as I learned, in my own community that a woman was spat on for just simply going to get healthcare service,” Naqvi said, then stopped, apparently needing to regain his composure.

“Action was needed. And we worked as hard as we could to get this legislation here … ”

(Sidebar: this Yasir Naqvi.)




No, they aren't hypocritical because: (1) they are a private institution and can do what they like and (2) if one badly needs to hear some unscientific eugenicist garbage, there are plenty of pro-abortion opinions out there with which to waste one's time:

Amid controversy over the cancellation of a film screening at an Ottawa Catholic university, the federal Liberals are attacking the Conservatives for being selective about the ideas they’re choosing to defend in campus battles over free speech.

Science Minister Kirsty Duncan demanded Monday that the Tories react to news that Saint Paul University last week cancelled a film festival event featuring a documentary about abortion. The Conservatives, who have publicly defended free speech in other cases, hadn’t immediately commented on the cancellation. But a spokesman said Monday the party believes in the free exchange of ideas in academic settings, including on issues such as abortion.

(Sidebar: this Kirsty Duncan.)




Pope Francis did not mention the Rohingya during his meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi:

To the relief of some and the dismay of others, the pope refrained from using the term during an inter-faith meeting and in a subsequent speech on Tuesday which he gave following a meeting with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The civilian Burmese leader has come under criticism for allegedly ignoring human rights violations in the country.

The pope did use his speech to urge respect for minority rights.