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As is often the case ...




It's incredible that people survived this:

The plane, an ATR 42, was travelling from Fond Du Lac to Stony Rapids. Care is being provided to twenty-two passengers and three crew members with medical facilities in Fond Du Lac and Stony Rapids being use for those requiring assistance. Five people were transported to other medical facilities with non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash happened at about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday and emergency crews located the airplane less than a kilometre from the Fond du Lac airstrip, according to an RCMP news release.

Local emergency responders and RCMP members from Stony Rapids helped with the rescue. Rescue resources from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Search and Rescue were on the way to the scene Wednesday night.

From the same party that removed references of FGM as a barbaric practice from immigration guides:

An official in Justin Trudeau’s office is being investigated over unspecified allegations, the Prime Minister’s Office and the official confirmed late Wednesday.

The Prime Minister’s Office is not identifying the official or the nature of the allegations.

However the staffer, Claude-Eric Gagné, the PMO’s deputy director of operations, issued a statement Wednesday night that he is on leave because of an “independent investigation regarding allegations” that have come to the PMO’s attention.

Also:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says it is taking an investigation into unspecified allegations against a senior staffer seriously, although the workplace harassment policy that governs all federal public servants does not technically apply to its employees.

Because no one associated with the Liberals is ever accountable.


And:

In Canada, having intercourse with a Labrador retriever can net someone a 10-year jail sentence. However, thanks to an oversight in the Criminal Code, all other forms of sexual gratification with that Labrador, including oral sex, have always been legal.

Now, more than a year after a B.C. sex criminal used this very loophole to escape conviction, Calgary MP Michelle Rempel has introduced a private member’s bill to fix it once and for all.

Bill C-388, tabled on Wednesday, inserts a one-line amendment into the Criminal Code defining bestiality as “any contact by a person, for a sexual purpose, with an animal.”

“I am disturbed that the government has not yet corrected this glaring void in our criminal code,” she wrote in an official statement, which also called the current law a “disturbing loophole.” 

I am disturbed by everything the pervy Liberals do.




This is the same party that fought parents of autistic children and still has tight reins on their money:

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is being told it should scrap a section of Canada’s immigration act that advocates and others, including MPs from all parties, have said discriminates against persons with disabilities.

When the Liberals lose the votes of outraged parents, they can replace them with people who will never acclimatise.




People knew that whenever Justin opened his fool mouth, something stupid would pop out. Why put him at the head of the party?

Yet, as someone who has spent 20 years in the communications business within Asian and American markets, I can say that Canada’s current public relations strategy is unsuitable to the task at hand: securing Canada’s trade interests with foreign governments who think differently than we do. The Trudeau government’s public relations framing has become way too obvious, and its rhetoric is now starting to crash against the rocks of international realpolitik.

Oh, one means that he is not ready or never will be?

Yeah, got it.




Also in "My God, these people are corrupt!" news:

The whistleblower in a drugs-for-votes scheme on a Saskatchewan First Nation says the corruption needs to stop now.

"I want people to know it's OK to speak out. It's been going on long enough," Glenn Moosomin told CBC News in an interview from his North Battleford, Sask.. home Wednesday afternoon.

​Moosomin ran for a seat on council at the nearby Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head Lean Man First Nation. In the April, 2017 election, he lost.

But he filed an appeal after seeing the tactics used by various candidates. 

In the interview Wednesday, Moosomin said he's speaking out and taking action for his four children and 10 grandchildren, as well as future generations.

"A lot of damage has already been done. All of this hurts me deep inside," he said.

This week, CBC News obtained a 19-page report commissioned by the federal government that states cocaine, marijuana and tens of thousands of dollars in cash were used to bribe voters in a recent Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head Lean Man First Nation election. 

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New Brunswickers will start paying a 2.33-cent-per-litre carbon tax in April, but it's unlikely they will notice.

That's because the Brian Gallant government won't add that to existing taxes already paid at the pump, but will shift that amount from the existing 15.5-cent-per litre gas tax.

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Canada’s Veterans Affairs Department is behind on half of its performance targets, department results released last month reveal, which opposition MPs call unacceptable and a “horrible performance” built off systemic problems.

Veterans Affairs missed 14 of 26 targets for the 2016-17 year, filing 54 per cent under “attention required,” leading to delayed decisions on veteran services like career training, long-term care, and disability support.

(Sidebar: who did you vote for, veterans? Oh, yeah ...)

(Merci)

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When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau planned his holiday trip a year ago, he would have had no reason to fear that the Ghost of Christmas Past would still be haunting him a year later.

Trudeau, his family and some friends, including MP Seamus O'Regan, now the minister of veterans affairs, spent their 2016 Christmas vacation on a private island in the Bahamas owned by the Aga Khan, the billionaire spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.

The Prime Minister's Office initially tried to play down the trip, refusing to say where Trudeau would spend the holiday. When it came out early in the new year that he spent the vacation in a Caribbean hideaway owned by the wealthy philanthropist, the opposition pounced.

They asked why Trudeau accepted a free vacation from a rich man whose charitable organizations, in some cases, relied on Canadian government help. The prime minister tried to brush things off, saying the Aga Khan is an old friend of his family — indeed, Trudeau wished him a happy birthday Wednesday — as well as a leader and a partner in the fight against world poverty.

He also pointed out that the Aga Khan is an honorary Canadian citizen and an honorary Companion of the Order of Canada, but none of that carried any weight with his political foes.

The saga has lingered to this day — when the government announced a new ethics commissioner earlier this week, it rekindled memories of the controversy, since Trudeau and his officials had to recuse themselves from the selection process, since he was the subject of an inquiry.

Wednesday's statement surely didn't help, either.

"I am proud to call His Highness both a friend and a mentor," Trudeau said in his birthday wishes. "Canada and the world are stronger and richer because of his commitment to diversity and inclusion, and to finding common ground.

"Today, Sophie and I thank the Aga Khan for all that he has done to help those in need, and wish him continued health and happiness for years to come."

(Sidebar: Justin also added that he welcomed his new overlord and as a member of Parliament, he could be useful in rounding up others to toil in Aga Khan's underground sugar caves.) 

Though a majority of Canadians may support public taxes being used for religious schooling, they are missing the point. With government money (read: wrongfully used taxpayer money) comes government talking points. Soon, every schoolchild will proclaim the virtues of their glorious Chinese and Islamist overlords like a certain fruity incompetent prime minister did. That is not the purpose of schools:

What do we take away from this? It is clear that activists petitioning for the cutting off of religious school funding are out of step with the majority of Canadians. Additionally a court ruling in Saskatchewan threatening provincial funding for non-Catholic students in Catholic schools is also out of step with widespread public sentiment. In Alberta and Saskatchewan, support is especially high where upwards of 70 percent support full or partial funding of religious schools. Governments that fiddle with those funding arrangements do so at their peril.

Parents want a diversity of educational options. For many of those parents, particularly those in Ontario and in the Atlantic provinces, the choice to get their kids into schools that reflect their religious beliefs and values involves great financial sacrifice. In the vast majority of cases, religious schools aren’t elite schools reserved for the wealthy. They are small schools, often in rural or semi-rural settings. So, it stands to reason that 61 percent of Ontarians and 52 percent of Atlantic Canadians also say they’d like to see at least partial government funding for religious schools.

If the mainstream view in Canada is support for some level of government funding of religious and faith-based schools, what about the minority view? The poll doesn’t get at why opposition to funding exists. But if the opposition is based on concerns about the type of Canadians such schools turn out, that’s worth a closer look.

The audacity of undeserved entitlement:

The family of an Indigenous rights advocate is considering legal action against an Ontario organ transplant agency after she was denied access to a liver transplant wait list based on a history of alcohol use disorder.

Delilah Saunders, 26, an Inuk woman from Happy Valley Goose Bay, N.L., remained in critical condition after being admitted to an Ottawa hospital Friday afternoon. She was diagnosed with acute liver failure. ...

The agency that co-ordinates organ and tissue donations in Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), says in a document outlining its "listing criteria" for transplant patients that if they have any of the following, they aren't candidates for liver transplantation:

- Unstable psychiatric disorder, especially one likely to interfere with compliance.

- Any alcohol and/or illicit drug misuse within six months. For patients with alcohol-associated liver disease, the inability to abstain from alcohol and/or illicit drug use for six months.

- Previous documentation or current unwillingness or inability to follow the advice of health professionals.

- Social support/compliance issues "prohibiting adherence" to medications and/or followup care after surgery.

In an emailed statement to CBC News, TGLN said the criteria were based on "jurisdictional reviews and advice from expert working groups" with whom they are currently finalizing a three-year pilot program "to determine if there is an evidence-based basis to change the criteria."

TGLN wasn't able to clarify how people with histories of alcohol use disorder would become eligible under the program, but it's expected to launch in August. ​In the interim, TGLN said, "the listing criteria for liver transplants remain unchanged."

The policy is consistent with most transplant programs in North America, but Saunders's family and friends say they're worried she may not be able to wait that long.

Moore, who calls the six-month sobriety policy "discriminatory," said the doctor who initially treated Saunders referred to the listing criteria and confirmed Tuesday that Saunders was ineligible.

One cannot lie to get into the country. Having said that, if they go, so should Maryam Monsef and Omar Khadr's worthless family:

Also - that may be but they are not Liberal voters:

This is what is called being gotten to and I'm sure it is propaganda boon:

A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang.

And why would people defect? Perhaps because Kim Jong-Un is mad:

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, is disciplining the leadership of his country’s most powerful military organization, the latest sign of his efforts to tighten his grip on party elites and the armed forces amid a nuclear standoff with the United States, South Korea’s main intelligence agency said Monday.

Analysts and experts pay close attention to any signs of rumbling within the secretive regime in Pyongyang, seeking to determine possible implications for the stability of Kim’s rule and for his nuclear and missile programs. They have said that Kim appeared to be using his tactic of instilling fear in the elites in order to strengthen his control as the country braced for the pain that is likely to result from recently imposed U.N. sanctions.

During a closed-door parliamentary briefing Monday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers that the North’s General Political Bureau was being “audited” by the country’s leadership for the first time in 20 years. The military organization’s director, Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, and his deputies were “punished,” according to lawmakers who briefed reporters after the session.

If Kim is "punishing" his deputies, that means they are unhappy with Kim and he knows it.

The cracks are showing.


Also:

The crisis over North Korea’s weapons programs must be resolved through talks, not war, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday, while U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of the danger of “sleepwalking” into conflict. 

And now, a pleasant story:

Bear — a fluffy, husky puppy from Iqaluit — found a home just in time for Christmas.

But it wasn't easy.

Her new foster parents had to first battle an long-standing Iqaluit bylaw: "A household shall have no more than three dogs over the age of four months."

Deatra Walsh, Gerald Manning and their daughter Drew already had three dogs: a small pug named Peg who moved to Iqaluit with the family; a terrier named Jake that a neighbour couldn't care for anymore; and Tayo, the labrador-cross they saved from being sent to an Ottawa shelter.

"Needless to say, we're dog lovers. Or perhaps we're just crazy," said Walsh, presenting her family's story in front of City Council Tuesday.

"Gerald drove by the Humane Society ... last week, and he spied a puppy," said Walsh, explaining that they wanted to adopt Bear who was about to get sent to an SPCA in Quebec.

After applying, the family discovered the by-law was stopping them from adopting Bear.

The Iqaluit Humane Society only allowed the family to temporarily foster the husky.

Walsh gave examples of how the family takes good care of their dog family.

Her plea for an exception was met with much sympathy.

"We have a flaw in our bylaw that needs some attention," said Coun. Joanasie Akumalik.

Many councillors agreed, including the Mayor.

God bless us, everyone!