Saturday Night Special

Chag Pesach Kasher Vesameach, to all y'all.

Note that this is all happening when Israel is preparing for Passover:

Israeli troops shot and wounded about 70 Palestinians among crowds demonstrating at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, health officials said, after one of the deadliest days of unrest in the area in years.

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Gaza in funerals for the 15 people killed by Israeli gunfire on Friday, and a national day of mourning was observed in the enclave and in the occupied West Bank.

 
I said this before and I hate to say it again - as long as Premier Kathleen Wynne finds money in the fetid swamp that is the ever-growing debt in Ontario, she will get votes.

I hate to be right on this one:

The Ontario Liberals’ new spendthrift budget appears to have worked. According to a new poll from Forum Research, the party has closed the lead of the Progressive Conservatives.

The Liberals now have 29 per cent support to the Tories’ 36. According to Forum projections, if an election were held tomorrow, Doug Ford would not be able to win enough seats for a majority.

You know what you're doing, Ontario.


Also:

Many provinces and territories — like the federal government — have banned union contributions. But where labour can give, it’s given generously. Unions accounted for six of the top 10 donors in B.C. between 2005 and 2017 and seven of the top ten donors in Ontario between 2007 and 2016. They also ranked among top donors in Saskatchewan, Yukon, Nunavut and Newfoundland. Some contributions were modest. For example, about $12,000 in total from UNIFOR to the Yukon NDP. But United Steelworkers was the biggest donor, period, in both B.C. (approximately $3,172,000 in total contributions, all to the NDP) and Ontario (approximately $1,603,000 in total contributions, all to the NDP).

And:

The Trudeau Liberals have been caught trying to establish a $7 BILLION ‘slush fund,’ that would subvert the Parliamentary budget process.

As explained by Conservative Finance Critic Pierre Poilievre and Conservative MP Kelly McCauley, the fund would let the Liberals have a $7 billion stash of taxpayer dollars that they could spend without any accountability between now and the next federal election, without having to explain where that money would be spent until after the 2019 campaign.

And:

Conservatives have joined the NDP in asking the federal ethics commissioner to investigate Liberal MP Raj Grewal after revelations he helped a business affiliate gain access to senior government officials in India last month.

Hey! Does one know who would benefit from the complete re-write of the legal system to favour Big Aboriginal (scrapping the worthless Charter that only benefits criminals is just not the done thing)? This chick:

Years before Jacqueline Danielle Henderson walked into the bedroom of six-week old Nikosis Cantre and killed the baby in his sleep, she showed disturbing signs of violence.

The teen girl's identity, and the full details of her disturbing past heard during a sentencing hearing in Saskatchewan provincial court in Saskatoon can now be revealed for the first time.

At 11 years old, Henderson began torturing animals and admitted skinning and hanging them alive.

Later, while in foster care, she stole a mouse from a pet store, brought it home and squeezed it to death.

She lit fires and got into fights with other kids at the various group homes where she lived, court documents show.

 
Is there nothing a sentencing circle can't fix?
 

Also:

A large coalition of family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women, Indigenous leaders and others is asking the federal government to refuse a request for additional time and money that was made by the inquiry examining the root causes of the problem.

Oh, I see what you did there, Father Raymond:

Even those who paid Judas recoiled from it. When he regretted his betrayal and returned the money, they knew it was dirty and refused to keep it.

All of which comes to mind this Holy Week, not only for liturgical reasons. The story of Judas — or the incapacity to understand it — fits so well the federal government’s obstinacy on the Canada Summer Job Program, an obstinacy that appears to be prompting Canadians to rethink whether their government is truly a champion of fundamental liberties.

Am I saying that Justin Trudeau is like Judas? No. Rather it seems that the prime minister thinks that the churches of Canada just might be. And that is more offensive still.

He is an @$$hole, Father, so ...


Also @$$holes:

A coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim groups says a face-to-face meeting with Employment Minister Patty Hajdu in Ottawa last week ended in disappointment as they were told there will be no compromise — at least for this year — on the Canada Summer jobs attestation on abortion rights.

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Sources within the party told the National Post the episode, which saw several MPs speak out publicly against Singh’s decision to punish Hamilton MP David Christopherson for breaking ranks during a recent vote on the government’s controversial Canada Summer Jobs changes, can be chalked up to rushed decisions by a rookie leader who still has to develop ties with his caucus and his own leadership style. Singh’s decision Tuesday to reinstate Christopherson to his role on an important committee after removing him last week was a sign that he’s willing to learn from his mistakes, they said, and not of a discipline problem within the party’s ranks.

If meat is murder, why is it so tasty?

Let us salute a hero of our times: Michael Hunter, owner-chef of Antler Kitchen and Bar, Toronto. Let me go further: Jordan Peterson, wherever you are on this twirling, politically correct, cringingly apologetic globe, come home soon and eat, defiantly (go for the deer tartar) at Antler!

Hunter, an industrious and fine gentleman, has been much pestered lately by a herd of bullying evangelist vegans drooping outside his shop window, holding miserable, hate-filled (“Murder”) signs, trying to kill his business and in the process libelling the ancient natural practice of peoplekind everywhere, that of meat-eating. He’s been haunted mercilessly by a pack of zealous plant-eaters.

It’s difficult enough when you’re on your lonesome to get the timing of the osso buco right, to get it to that exquisite equilibrium between perfectly well cooked, meat dripping from the centre bone, tenderized to perfection, but not mushy, not yet tipped over to flavourless overdone. Now imagine a posse of kale-stuffed vigilantes outside your small shop, mean from hunger and envy — though they won’t admit either — glaring zombie-eyed at you and your customers as you try to run a kitchen serving up seven or eight different dishes.

 
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe cares not for the federal government:

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Wednesday that the province will go to court over the federal government's carbon tax.

Moe told reporters that in the coming weeks, the province will file a case against the federal government with the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal over carbon pricing.

"The reason we'll be doing that is a carbon tax just simply does not work," he said.

Just as with Km Jong-Un's sister, the popular press fawns over his wife, one of the few chubby women in North Korea:

Kim Jong Un’s surprise trip to China this week made headlines. The North Korean leader was accompanied by his mysterious wife, Ri Sol Ju. She is rarely seen at international diplomatic events, but her appearance this week quickly shot her to stardom in China.

The Netherlands mourn a teacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children while France relives its Vichy French days:

The silent decorum of a march to honour an 85-year-old woman who survived Nazi horrors only to be stabbed to death last week in an alleged anti-Semitic attack was shattered Wednesday, with crowds shouting “Nazi! Nazi!” and other insults at France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Mireille Knoll’s death had taken on national importance, reminding France of both historic anti-Semitism and its resurgence in recent years.

Pope Francis just can't catch a break this Holy Week. First, some smarmy jerk-off demands an apology he doesn't deserve and then this click-bait:

“What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father.”

Scalfari, a self-proclaimed atheist, is the founder and former editor of Italian leftist newspaper La Repubblica. In an article published on the site March 29, Scalfari claims that Pope Francis told him, “hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.”

Scalfari’s fifth meeting with Pope Francis, it is not the first time he has misrepresented the Pope’s words following a private audience.

Pope Francis should probably stop talking to everybody. He is either misquoted or his ineloquence gets him into trouble.

Peter therefore went out, and that other disciple, and they came to the sepulchre.

And they both ran together, and that other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

And when he stooped down, he saw the linen cloths lying; but yet he went not in.