Thursday, November 23, 2017

But Wait! There's More!

There often is ...



Let there be no doubt that Justin Trudeau is the biggest piece of sh-- walking around today:





It's not his fault that he is pro-Islamist or that his government wants to re-admit ISIS thugs who left Canada to rape and murder people or that his public safety minister lied about how many ISIS thugs re-entered Canada or that his government is not monitoring these people at all or that his cabinet minister lied to enter the country.

No.

It's Harper's fault.

But Trudeau couldn't be a piece of sh-- alone. Thirty-nine percent of the electorate helped.

 
(Muchas gracias)




But Trudeau isn't done being a piece of sh-- yet. He is just getting warmed up:

Justin Trudeau says Canada could play a key role in defusing the tense global standoff with the North Korean regime by working with Cuba, a course of action the prime minister says he discussed with Cuban President Raul Castro when the two men met in Havana last year.

(Sidebar: this would be the vassal state of China, Trudeau's favourite country, where women have their children killed and hides the weapons of its equally impoverished dictatorial ally.)




Just as with everything else the Liberals say, it's all hot air:

The Liberal government made much of the decision earlier this month to renew funding for the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory at Eureka, Nunavut, just 1,100km from the North Pole.

The government announced $1.6 million in what amounts to emergency funding, to keep the lights on at PEARL and allow the high Arctic lab to continue its research into the ozone layer and climate change.

Scientists were seeking $1.5 million annually and a commitment for longer term support — the latest tranche of cash is really bridge funding, and no-one has any idea what it’s bridging to.

But the band-aid fix allows the government to boast of its on-going commitment to support science and evidence-based decision making in the North.

The problem is, the statistics don’t support that claim.

Canada ranks well down the list of countries investing in the North, even though we have more Arctic territory than any country except Russia.

It adds to the feeling that the Arctic region is being ignored under the Liberals — despite being elected on a call for a bold, internationalist policy.


To wit:

Speaking to reporters in Charlottetown, Harper said the statement does not signal a policy change but is an elaboration of the government's "broad approach" on the North. That approach, Harper insisted, has always included working with partners in the region "where appropriate."

"All of these things serve our No. 1 and, quite frankly, non-negotiable priority in northern sovereignty, and that is the protection and the promotion of Canada's sovereignty over what is our North," Harper said.

**

The shipwreck Canada found in the Arctic a month ago is HMS Erebus, personal flagship of Capt. Sir John Franklin on his doomed attempt to find the Northwest Passage.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement in the House of Commons a little before 3 p.m., ending a month of speculation.

“I’m delighted to confirm that we have identified which ship from the Franklin expedition has been found,” Harper told the House of Commons. “It is, in fact, the HMS Erebus.”



Oh, this must be embarrassing:

Newly discovered documents from the Paradise Papers show the Liberal Party's top fundraiser, Stephen Bronfman, was directly linked to companies that were owed millions by an offshore Cayman Islands trust well into the 2000s — despite his strong denials he had any involvement in the trust after 1998.

The documents show how a Delaware-based company closely connected to the Montreal-based financier was owed $8 million from the Kolber Trust, set up for former Liberal Sen. Leo Kolber and his family in the no-tax Cayman Islands. 

Will Bronfman get thrown under the bus or will he make it out alive? 




Most Canadians are in serious debt:

The OECD warned that rising private debt loads in both advanced and developing economies pose a risk to growth as Canada, South Korea and the U.K. lead the world in household borrowing.

“Household and corporate debt in many advanced and emerging market economies is high,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Thursday in a pre-released section of a report to be presented next week.



In 2015, according to incomplete statistics, there were 100, 104 abortions in Canada. Are all of them due to rape? Hardly. Draw a damn line:

One of the leading candidates in the race to become the next premier of Saskatchewan says he doesn't believe in abortion, even in the case of sex assault victims.

Ken Cheveldayoff, a long-time Saskatoon member of the legislature for the Saskatchewan Party, also says anyone under 18 should need parental consent for the procedure. And he thinks abortions should further be restricted to women facing medical risks, not victims of sexual assault.

"No. I think it's when the life of the mother is in jeopardy — that's where I would draw the line," he told The Canadian Press on Wednesday.

His comments follow an interview recently posted on a website belonging to the Ottawa-based group Right Now, which is dedicated to electing anti-abortion politicians. It ranked Cheveldayoff as the most preferable candidate to replace outgoing Premier Brad Wall.

Wall, who has been one of Canada's highest-profile premiers, is retiring after a decade in office. Cheveldayoff and five others are in the running to lead the Sask. Party, and one is to be chosen Jan. 27.

Cheveldayoff, the former minister of parks, culture and sport, told Right Now that he would support any provincial legislation that protects "the unborn child, anything that emphasizes that life begins at conception."

He told The Canadian Press that his comments represent his own personal beliefs as a father of two children and that abortion is also one of the top five issues people talk to him about.

"It is an issue that has to be discussed in every caucus and every political party in the country," he says. "And again I'd welcome those discussions within the caucus if I'm fortunate enough to be elected premier."

Candidate Rob Clarke, a former Conservative member of Parliament and retired Mountie, also told Right Now that he is anti-abortion and Indigenous people are as well.

"Here's an interesting aspect that I think most people don't realize, especially amongst non-Aboriginals, and that is that First Nations don't believe in abortion. I'm First Nations and I don't believe in abortion.

"It's a stereotype, where many people believe that First Nations and the Metis are so left-wing and vote NDP."

A spokesman for Clarke's leadership campaign says the posted interview is accurate and that Clarke is letting the interview stand without further comment.

Former environment minister Scott Moe told Right Now that he doesn't support abortion and, if made premier, he would support a discussion of parental notification for abortions.

Abortion is a sensitive but important issue, Moe told The Canadian Press.



Aung San Syu Kyi signed an agreement with Bangladesh to return who previously put Hindus in mass graves:

Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement on Thursday covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

Myanmar announced the agreement but provided no details on how many Rohingya refugees would be allowed to return home. Bangladesh said the repatriations are to begin within two months.

More than 620,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when the army began what it called “clearance operations” following an attack on police posts by a group of Rohingya insurgents. Refugees arriving in Bangladesh said their homes were set on fire by soldiers and Buddhist mobs, and some reported being shot at by security forces.



Some people are so unbelievably stupid that one lacks the words to adequately respond to their stupidity.


Case in point:



Oh, so the new guards to replace the presumably soon-to-be-executed guards after a dramatic defection are sitting pretty? Really?




I'm guessing someone who is mad at dad:

The latest in a string of acts of vandalism has the parishioners of Cloverdale’s Precious Blood Parish worried.

On Monday night (Nov. 20), vandals poured fake blood over the statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary outside of the parish, splashed fake blood on an exterior wall of the parish hall, and drew a pentagram in fake blood on the concrete in front of the church.

“It’s very disturbing,” said Rosana Ruiz, an administrative assistant at Precious Blood Parish. “And it’s scary for the kids.”

It isn’t the first time that Precious Blood Parish has been the victim of vandalism, but they’ve “never had anything like fake blood before,” according to Ruiz.



Speaking of mad at dad:

As an employee at Laurier, I feel relieved that the public is beginning to know the horror of working in what has come to feel like an indoctrination camp run by Thought Police. As far as I am aware, everyone at this university has been forced to attend a workshop, led by two young women, who introduced us to the Newspeak: gender neutral pronouns. We were told that those who reject this approach to pronoun use are transphobic. In other words, the old pronouns are an “unapproved thought.” Continued use of the old, gender-specific pronouns was not open to discussion. That, apparently, would be a subversive line of thinking. Note that some of us have years of acquaintance with the English language and advanced degrees in linguistics; note that many of us know how fickle language can be. Nevertheless, in the interest of holding on to our jobs, we suppressed this Thoughtcrime.

And one thought that communism was dead.




(Paws up)



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