For a Monday

In the closing days of Lent ...




This b!#ch is the limit:

Ontario’s Liberal government is promising to spend more than $300 million over three years to improve supports for children with special needs and hire more teachers, a pledge that comes just months ahead of the spring election.

Yes, about that:

Ontario children with autism aged five or older no longer qualify for government-funded intensive therapy, a move critics say is leaving many families in the lurch.

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In Ontario, the debate on autism funding has heated up. Provincial money for Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy will be restricted to children over five years old, as a cost-saving measure.

Premier Kathleen Wynne says this measure is ”evidence-based” even if the evidence in question – a report entitled “Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Expert Committee, An update on Clinical Practice Guidelines and Benchmarks in Ontario, January 27, 2014”  – makes no suggestion among its 10 recommendations that funding for this therapy should be cut for children over five.

Because of waiting lists due to the lack of professionals who give an autism diagnosis in parts of Ontario, most families in the province have little time left to use the subsidy before the child turns five. 

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Ontario is restoring some funding for kids with autism age five and older who were removed from a wait list for intensive therapy.

The Liberal government had announced that as part of a new Ontario Autism Program it would stop funding Intensive Behavioural Intervention for kids over four, instead transitioning them to what officials are calling a flexible service.

The government gave parents of children removed from the wait list $8,000 to pay for therapy during the transition period to the new program, but it wasn't due to roll out until 2018 and parents said that money would only pay for, at most, a few months of therapy.

After a public outcry, the government is announcing today that those parents will be given direct funding – in successive payments of $10,000 – to pay for therapy until their child has a spot in the new program, or if they prefer, access to less intensive services funded by the government.

This b!#ch and her rancid colleagues know how to play nicely when their jobs are on the line.

For the refreshing honesty of it all, why doesn't she just tell parents of special-needs kids that they can go and screw themselves because unions are what win elections, not them?

Any parent who votes for this cow deserves the daily grind that he or she gets.

Also - slime:

The second of three men wanted in the brutal assault of an autistic man is now in custody.

Ronjot Singh Dhami, 25, was brought to Peel Regional Police’s 12 Division Monday morning.

One loony pleads not guilty and another is going for a lunatic defense:

Former hostage Joshua Boyle, who faces a set of 19 charges related to alleged incidents after he returned to Canada, will continue his psychiatric assessment for an additional two weeks, the court ordered Monday.

Why? Will it give his lawyers a chance to craft a defense strategy that claims he is mentally ill but not because of his Islamist sympathies?

Sure ...




But isn't a Canadian a Canadian a Canadian? :

A man from Bosnia who shot someone in the heart during a deadly brawl — and then covered up the killing to come to Canada and get Canadian citizenship — has had his secret past revealed.

Bozidar Vujicic’s urge to start a new life in Canada came after his conviction for manslaughter but before starting his eight-year prison sentence.

Now living in British Columbia, he faces losing his Canadian status after the Federal Court of Canada ruled he fraudulently obtained his residency by hiding his conviction for the killing when he applied to come to Canada.

The Polish government claims that Russian spies have infiltrated the EU and NATO:

Russia may have successfully placed agents within the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, the Polish government has suggested.

Pledging solidarity with Britain after the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning, a Polish minister told The Daily Telegraph Friday that officials in Europe should check the activities of Russian delegates to ensure they are not spies.

Well, that's nothing new:

Wojtyla's election as pope in 1978 armed him with an international following that, in retrospect, cowed even the Soviet empire. "Be not afraid" became his rallying cry, and following a 1979 address to the U.N. General Assembly in which he challenged the free world to defend human rights, he embarked on a courageous but dangerous nine-day public pilgrimage to "strengthen the brethren" in Poland. There he warned Communist authorities that the papacy would watch them closely, and he reminded them of their responsibility "before history and before your conscience." The people responded to John Paul II's visit with loyalty borne of years of shared suffering—banners with the Communist party slogan "The Party Is for the People" sported the daring addition, ". . . but the People are for the Pope."

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According to the official Soviet point of view, the difficulties in Poland were caused by two main groups of reasons: subversive activities of imperialism and mistakes in domestic policy. The Polish events had a strong influence on the entire socialist community, but for the Soviet Union, the leader of the communist world, they were considered “a violation of the laws of socialist construction” and a “distortion of the principles of socialist democracy.”


At the time of the crisis, the situation in Poland was under the total control of Moscow. The Polish question was the main point of discussion at a number of meetings of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Central Committee’s Politburo.

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... Russian influence targets several vulnerable segments of Polish society in the form of soft power, mainly through exerting influence on political discourse, and far-left, far-right fringe groups and nationalist movements.

Also - but ... but ... collusion! :

President Donald Trump is poised to take his most aggressive actions yet against Russia on Monday, expelling 60 diplomats in response to the nerve-gas attack on a former Russian spy living in the U.K.

The United States is also ordering Russia’s consulate in Seattle to close. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is expelling four Russian diplomats and will deny permission for three others to bolster Russian staff in Canada.

Only four, Chrystia?




The trifecta of wickedness and incompetence:

The United Nations has been criticized for sharing with Russia the coordinates of hospitals in rebel-held areas of Syria, only for one of them to be bombed days later.

The organization gave the GPS locations supplied by non-governmental organizations operating in Idlib and Eastern Ghouta to Russia and the U.S. as part of a “notification system.”

Hospitals are known hiding places of cowards and thugs. The Russians are indifferent and the UN is just an appalling mass of globalist idiots and rapists. Everyone caught in the middle had no chance.




Kim Jong-Un is said to have taken a train to talks but no one can confirm anything because he is hiding:

Japanese media reports said a special North Korean train arrived in Beijing under unusually heavy security on Monday, suggesting a senior delegation might have been aboard.

A spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said she was not aware of the situation and had no further comment. North Korea’s state-run media had no reports of a delegation travelling to China.

Japanese television network NTV and public broadcaster NHK reported the arrival of the train and said the heavy security in the city suggested a senior official was aboard.

The reports sparked speculation that leader Kim Jong Un might have been aboard the train. Kim is expected to have a summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in late April and with U.S. President Donald Trump by May.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Johnny Cash.