For a Monday

Damn and blast you, seasonal warmth!




Who would want to bomb a Shakespeare festival? :

Opening night of the Stratford Festival’s 2018 season has been cancelled — and the Festival Theatre evacuated just half an hour before a performance of The Tempest was set to begin due to a bomb threat against the theatre.

Ann Swerdfager, publicity director at the Stratford Festival, said Monday that the Stratford police had asked the festival to evacuate the building, 

In a press release, Ms. Swerdfager said that the Festival cancelled the opening performance of The Tempest “on the advice of police” due to a “bomb threat” that was made against the theatre. 

The Stratford Police Service wrote on Twitter that it received a call at 6:45 p.m. Monday evening that said explosives had been placed “at the Stratford Festival.” Both Festival Theatre and Avon Theatre were evacuated.

Officials are on the scene, searching for any suspicious packages. They have asked the public to stay away from the theatres.

Probably the same sort of cretins who would litter a beach with broken glass and sewing needles or who would blow up an Indian restaurant.




This must be dreadfully embarrassing:

A new survey by Mainstreet Research contradicts the findings of an Ipsos survey released earlier today, a sign of the chaos and uncertainty in Ontario.

While the Ipsos poll showed the PCs with a 3 point lead and the NDP falling from the previous poll, Ipsos shows the NDP with a narrow lead of 1.4 points.

Notably, Mainstreet Research hadn’t released province-wide numbers for about 10 days, meaning it may have missed both the NDP surge, and the possibility that the surge has stalled and is receding.

Here are the key numbers:

NDP 39.3%, PC 37.9%, Liberals 16%

As plants close up shop in Canada, all Hair-Boy can waste his time on is "gender diversity":

With the approach of the G7 summit in Quebec next week, Canada’s biggest pension plans are preparing to announce investments in a new sustainability fund.

The initiative, focused on institutional investors in G7 countries, will focus on three themes over three years, a source familiar with the discussions told the National Post — the first on gender diversity in global capital markets, another on strengthening expertise in sustainable infrastructure and a third on financial disclosures to create sustainable change.

 
Is FGM a "gender diverse" thing? Let's ask Ahmed. He'll answer anything:

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen told a bigger whopper of a lie when appearing on Global’s The West Block on Sunday. He also told a truth the Liberals don’t want out there. ...

We can point to Trudeau’s infamous tweet but that is hardly a concrete action to welcome this “irregular” migration. Putting up a tent city, a refugee camp, on the border with the United States would be a welcoming action. Sending these would be “asylum seekers” to the destination of their choice in Canada after arriving in Quebec would also qualify.

So too would adding $173 million in the latest budget to help process all the people flooding across the border. More recently we learned that more than 800 border agents are being moved from the GTA to the Quebec-New York border. That could result in delays for you if your are returning to Canada but make things speedier for the border jumpers.

Well, almost anything.


Also:

During a recent event in New York City, Justin Trudeau was asked about criticism he is getting from the Opposition (and millions of Canadians) over the escalating illegal border crossing crisis.

For just a moment, it seemed he would refuse to blame the Conservatives, as he started saying that he doesn’t engage in partisan politics outside the country.

But that only lasted a few seconds.

He then proceeded to blame the crisis on – you guessed it – the previous Conservative government, saying they didn’t “invest” enough.

(Hat tip)




There will be no pipeline built as long as Justin occupies his dad's former job:

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will announce as early as Tuesday morning where the government plans to go with Kinder Morgan to ensure the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will be built.

The Canadian Press has learned there are three options on the table, which include the government buying and building the expansion, then selling it once it's complete; and buying it on an interim basis, then selling it to investors and leaving them to handle the construction.

Morneau has already unveiled the third option: leaving original project architect Kinder Morgan to handle construction, but covering any cost overruns incurred as a result of political interference.

The same China that people believe will rein in North Korea is the same one that censors its own citizens.

Case in point:

Chinese authorities routinely delete and suppress posts made to social media in China by embassies in Beijing, imposing the country’s censorship regime upon foreign governments − and raising fears that those governments, including Canada’s, are adapting by self-censoring.

The problem with Moon's end-run around Trump is that if Trump were to leave South Korea to its own defense devices at a time of an empowered China and emboldened North Korea, Moon would be screwed:

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday there could be more impromptu talks and summits with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, as U.S. officials sought to revive what would be a historic meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim.

Also - North Korea is back to its old, co-operative self:

North Korea said Monday it will move in accordance with its own timetable to help achieve a nuclear-free world, attaching great importance to the recent destruction of its nuclear weapons test site.

(Kamsahamnida)




What small minds politicise and racialise trees, mountains and flowers?:

Why don’t black people ski? Or hike? Or camp?

They do, of course, but more as the exception than the rule, according to research to be presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Regina.

This observation has troubled Jacqueline Scott, an avid outdoorswoman whose experience of the wilderness in and around Toronto has led her to identify what she calls an “adventure gap,” which is the subject of her doctoral research in social justice education at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

There are many questions in this day and age that require immediate answers and this isn't one of them.

At all. Ever.

A nature trail, somehow a "white space". Or something.