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Toronto mayor swears to impotently fight against Ontario Premier Doug Ford's drastic but necessary cuts to Toronto's city council:

Toronto city council voted Monday to express its opposition to a controversial bill that would cut the council nearly in half to the Ontario government.

Council also voted to request that the provincial government conduct a referendum on the number of wards and their boundaries before proceeding with legislation that would cut the number of councillors to 25 from 47.

"Today, city council sent a strong message to Queen's Park that it opposes the process around the change to Toronto's ward boundaries," Mayor John Tory said in a release.

"City council approved my call for the province to hold a binding referendum before proceeding with any changes to the Toronto ward boundaries," Tory said.

Yes, about that:

The federal government will be deep, deep under an avalanche before they let Ford do something sane:

The federal government says it will do whatever it can to protect Torontonians from the "vindictive and destructive" actions taken by the new Ford government.

Adam Vaughan, a Toronto Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary for urban affairs, says Ontario Premier Doug Ford is plunging Toronto into chaos at a time when it needs stability the most.

Ford announced Friday morning that his government will introduce legislation to cut the number of Toronto city councillors from 47 to 25, aligning city wards with federal ridings.

Ford says having fewer city councillors will improve the decision-making process at Toronto's city hall, and save taxpayers $25 million over four years.

Vaughan says the proposal is "reckless, irresponsible" and tosses Toronto into a political storm when it needs leadership on critical files such as asylum seekers, gangs and shootings on the city streets, transit and housing.

(Sidebar: oh, the issues forty-seven people weren't dealing with anyway, including the "aggressive" pace at which the Toronto police force is trying to sweep away the fact that a known Islamist was not apprehended before he shot fifteen people? THOSE issues? Are those the issues that you are worried about, Adam?)

I believe that is called communism.

  
Also - sure. You know what you're doing:

Jennifer Keesmaat – Toronto’s former Chief City Planner – is calling for the City of Toronto to SECEDE from Ontario.

The rest of the country will see you off.




Justin tries to make the deaths of two people at the hands of an Islamist about him after he finally shows up at a Liberal supporter's funeral:

On Monday, Trudeau attended the funeral in Toronto for Reese Fallon, the 18-year-old killed in last week's attack. The service for 10-year-old Julianna Kozis took place in nearby Markham, Ont. ...

The prime minister said he was glad to be a part of a show of resilience and community. He noted that it was 20 years ago that his family said goodbye to his "little brother" Michel, who was killed in a B.C. avalanche in 1998 at the age of 23.

The young people at Fallon's funeral reminded him so much of his brother's friends, he said.

"I just wanted to tell them that they were going to be remembering and celebrating Reese throughout their lives," he said.

Also:

Justin Trudeau’s has finally shown up in Toronto, and was fairly reasonable and respectful in how he handled himself at the somber memorial. There was some booing – which will likely be ignored by almost all the establishment media.

Yet, the fact that Trudeau finally showed up won’t make the criticism over his seemingly-endless vacation days go away.

It won’t change the fact that there is a huge difference between how Trudeau responded to other crises, particularly the fake crisis of the ‘hijab hoax,’ and how he decided to prioritize his vacation over visiting Toronto after the shooting attack.

Not only did Trudeau refuse to go to Toronto for some time, but he also didn’t even make an on-camera statement. He tweeted once, a press release was issued, and then that was it.


He then spent a bunch of personal days in BC, even as vigils were held that were attended by the top elected officials at other levels, including the Ontario Premier and the Toronto Mayor.

Trudeau simply disappeared.

One could attribute this to a lack of leadership, empathy, ability to relate to any happening in an adult fashion, articulate appropriate emotion or offer any solid action.

Take one's pick.


And - Justin is wallowing in adolescence and effeminacy and the doting press finds it adorable.


Also - is this is gay Paris?:

His top aides were grilled on live television and the opposition shut down parliament. And to cap it all he was forced to issue a bizarre denial that he was having a homosexual affair with the bodyguard who sparked a political scandal after being filmed beating up May Day protesters.

Seeking to dispel rumours on the internet, Emmanuel Macron joked: “Alexandre Benalla has never had the nuclear codes … Alexandre Benalla is not my lover.” His MPs laughed but the joke did not go down well with the public. His popularity ratings, already down, fell to a record low.

Justin's fight against Trump appears to back-firing on him big-time:

American officials have taken the “highly unusual” step of rejecting Canada’s bid to take part in senior-level NAFTA talks between the U.S. and Mexico later this week, sources familiar with the trade negotiations said Monday.

One person said attempts by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to get a seat at the table in Washington Thursday were either ignored, or spurned outright by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

Yes, Canada is certainly back:

Because of agreement the Liberals signed with the UnitedNations in 2003, Canada could end paying 7% of the profits from the Bay du Nord project to the UN.

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While earning him points with the Davos circuit, Mr. Trudeau’s attitude toward the concept of citizenship may prove a great political liability with established immigrants. Having shed years of blood, sweat and tears to earn their Canadian passports, many immigrant voters likely didn’t take kindly to their Prime Minister issuing, via Twitter, an open invitation to the rest of the world to collect theirs at the door.

We could, and should, have an honest debate about the consequences of the PM’s grandstanding in encouraging migrants to cross over in the first place, and his seeming reluctance to defend the integrity of Canada’s borders publicly. What is irrefutable is that his words betrayed a lack of seriousness about the value of Canadian citizenship.

The pettiness of both the RCMP and the Canadian Border Services Agency is under-scored only their incompetence:

The RCMP tried a few years ago to wrestle away control of organized crime investigations being pursued by the Canada Border Services Agency, newly released records show.

The proposal did not sit well with the border agency and never went ahead. But even as both agencies insist they have since struck a collaborative relationship, security experts say the failed proposal illustrates ongoing tensions between the two agencies, which share the responsibility of ensuring the border’s integrity.

“This reflects an ongoing tug of war of who’s actually in charge when it comes to investigations,” said Christian Leuprecht, a professor at Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University who specializes in security and defence matters.

Not enough money for veterans right now, ect:

Some Canadian soldiers will no longer have to buy their own boots as the military agreed Friday to give them cash for combat footwear.

Well, that's generous of them.




Yes, I believe that is what got Obama into a spot of bother:

President Trump on Monday expressed his willingness to meet with the leaders of Iran with “no preconditions.” Trump made the comments during a joint press conference alongside Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

Does South Korea know what it is doing?:

South Korea's defense ministry said Tuesday that it is pushing for a plan to withdraw forces and their equipment from border guard posts "on a trial basis" in line with the April inter-Korean summit agreement to halt all hostile acts and reduce tensions.

In a policy briefing to the National Assembly's defense committee, the ministry also said that it would consider the "full-scale pullout" in sync with a cross-border survey of historical remains and ecological features within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas.

How could that go wrong?




For some reason, people believe that China and North Korea are truly interested in peace:

North Korea currently operates more than 160 propaganda websites, including news and tourism websites as well as online communities. Regardless of what these sites do, they share one goal: To promote North Korea and its ideology and turn as many people as they can into North Korean sympathizers.

With recent signs of North Korea opening itself up to the international community, some might assume that Pyongyang would have less need of these propaganda activities. On the contrary, North Korea has only escalated its efforts.

According to a Seoul-based think tank, the Korea Institute of Liberal Democracy, North Korea had about 7,000 agents engaged in this propaganda work as of the end of 2017, and it is adding more.

(Kamsahamnida and paws up)