For A Tuesday

A lot going on ...



It never ends:

"It's sloppy work," said Michael Davis, a Toronto-based veteran of homicide investigations. "Obviously, the RCMP needs a lot more training."

The 56-year-old Stanley was charged with second-degree murder in Boushie's death, but a jury found him not guilty.

Davis is among several experts CBC asked to review the evidence and testimony presented at the trial in order to provide their own assessment of the investigation.

They are critical of the police's failure to protect the crime scene, as well as the decision to not send a key analyst to the scene in the aftermath of the shooting.

So, the entire forensics team, the witnesses against the accused who gave differing accounts of the incident, the Stanley family who witnessed the altercation in which one of the Boushie party attempted to steal a quad were all mistaken or lying?

Right ...

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The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is asking the Canadian government for more time to complete its work.

Hey, why not? It's just money, after all.




Anyone who plays the race card for personal credibility or to silence legitimate debate deserves to be shown up and treated like a victimhood-seeking pariah that they are.

I can't imagine genuine victims of racism seeing such people as helpful or supportive. Such people are selfish, ego-boosting megalomaniacs who push their own causes while riding on another:

Conservative MP Maxime Bernier is rejecting an olive branch from Liberal counterpart Celina Caesar-Chavannes after the pair exchanged barbs on Twitter over issues of race and identity politics.

Bernier, Caesar-Chavannes and Liberal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen were going at each other over funding in the budget that Hussen described as historic for racialized Canadians.

(Sidebar: this Ahmed Hussen.)

The budget included money for a national anti-racism plan, mental health supports for at-risk black youth and funding to collect better data on race, gender and inclusion in Canada.

(Sidebar: Ahmed's old haunt still uses jackals to treat mental illness, just as FGM is still accepted. Putting that out there.)

Bernier says targeting specific Canadians by race is divisive and contrary to the idea of being “colour-blind,” prompting Hussen and Caesar-Chavannes — both visible minorities — to accuse him of ignoring the fact that minorities are treated differently.

In a tweet today, Caesar-Chavannes apologized to Bernier for telling him to “check your privilege and be quiet,” suggesting they meet in person so they can try to resolve their differences on an important issue.

Bernier replied by saying he isn’t interested in a meeting because the two share no common ground, and says Conservatives should support treating everyone individually without any labels at all.

This is the same government that covered up sexual harassment of women and ruled that no matter how much of a terrorist one is one can never have one's citizenship stripped away:

The RCMP is taking issue with changes the Liberal government made to criminal background checks and the pardons system, pointing to cases of people with "disturbing" records applying to work with vulnerable individuals, CBC News has learned.

The force's concerns were summarized in a briefing note prepared by public safety staff to update Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale on the changes to the system.

(Sidebar: this Ralph Goodale.)

The issue is how criminal background checks conducted by police for people applying to work with individuals considered "vulnerable" — children and the elderly, for example — are handled in cases where a person has received a record suspension, commonly known as a pardon.

A record suspension helps give a past offender a clean slate when it comes to renting an apartment or applying for a job. But the offence isn't completely erased, just set aside. Criminal background checks required under vulnerable sector regulations do turn up those record suspensions, mainly previous sex offences.

The federal public safety minister has the final say when it comes to disclosing someone's past criminal record under vulnerable sector regulations — even if they've had an offence suspended.

The Criminal Records Act calls on the minister to take a number of factors into consideration in such cases, including whether the suspended offence involved violence, children or a breach of trust.

If the disclosure is approved, a copy of the suspended record is returned to the applicant and the police service that oversaw the request. If it's denied, the background check is returned as having found "no record."

Today in "clueless and smug is no way to go through life" news:

Off the top, Young asked Trudeau and Nye to talk about the origin of their love of science. Nye told a story about being stung by a bee when he was three, and how he was fascinated when his mother poured ammonia on the sting and the pain went away.

Trudeau claimed that all infants start off as little scientists. “When you’re a baby, you are a scientist,” he said. “‘If I make this noise, wow, I get milk. If I push this button or knock this thing off the table, it lands on me and it hurts.’”

Also - that's because he isn't a scientist:

Social media lit up with critiques that, in a country packed with scientists, Trudeau chose to talk science with an American TV personality. But Nye rarely goes anywhere these days without someone bringing up his sparse scientific resume. ...

Unlike other celebrity science communicators like Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Nye indeed has a limited scientific background.

He has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, pursued stand-up comedy while working for Boeing and originally invented the bow-tied “science guy” persona as a comic bit.

If Mr. Nye was always upfront about his background and certainly didn't embrace the show-trial scientism that passes for scientific discussion these days, his lab coat schtick would be excusable on an adolescent level. That he and Hair-Boy pretend to be the smartest guys in the room and screech at any dissent in a field of study in which they are not qualified to comment strains the patience of the average human who wonders if he or she is the victim of an elaborate put-on.

Kim Jong-Un will not halt any development of nuclear weapons and anyone who believes that he will is a fool:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has agreed to meet with South Korea’s president next month and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the United States, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday after returning from the North.

He was Litvinenkoed:

Yulia Skripal, 33, was the victim of a suspected poison attack along with her father, Sergei, 66, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on Sunday.

They were both found unconscious on a bench in the city after they collapsed. ...

Skripal was convicted in 2006 of passing state secrets to MI6 before being given refuge in the UK as part of a spy swap between Russia and the US in 2010, a deal which included Russian agent and socialite Anna Chapman, who was married to a British man and lived in London for several years.

Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who was sentenced to 13 years in prison, was among four convicts who were given pardons and one of two sent to Britain in 2010 in a deal that was said at the time to be the largest exchange since the Cold War.

I have been saying this for years. The soft West's demand for cheap labour and cheaper products has only enabled and allowed the still communist and ever-growing dictatorship to flourish back to its Mao days. There is no democracy but an ever-growing and reaching octopus with its tentacles everywhere:

LAST weekend China stepped from autocracy into dictatorship. That was when Xi Jinping, already the world’s most powerful man, let it be known that he will change China’s constitution so that he can rule as president for as long as he chooses—and conceivably for life. Not since Mao Zedong has a Chinese leader wielded so much power so openly. This is not just a big change for China (see article), but also strong evidence that the West’s 25-year bet on China has failed.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West welcomed the next big communist country into the global economic order. Western leaders believed that giving China a stake in institutions such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would bind it into the rules-based system set up after the second world war (see Briefing). They hoped that economic integration would encourage China to evolve into a market economy and that, as they grew wealthier, its people would come to yearn for democratic freedoms, rights and the rule of law. ...

When Mr Xi took power five years ago China was rife with speculation that he would move towards constitutional rule. Today the illusion has been shattered. In reality, Mr Xi has steered politics and economics towards repression, state control and confrontation.

Really, nothing has changed.