Mid-Week Post

A merry Gwangbokjol to all y'all ...




Irregular Illegal asylum claims increased in July:

The number of irregular border crossers in Canada went up in July after two months of decline.

Newly published federal data shows a total of 1,634 irregular migrants were apprehended by RCMP between official border crossings last month.

That's 371 more than the number of people who crossed irregularly into Canada in June.

Because it bears repeating:

The Safe Third Country Agreement applies only to refugee claimants trying to get into Canada from the U.S. either through land-border crossings, by train or at airports.

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Nowhere in this 1951 treaty is anything mentioned about refugee status procedures. The word “asylum” is not even mentioned in any of its 46 articles. The most relevant obligation is found in article 33, which stipulates that refugees cannot be returned to a country where their “life or freedom would be threatened.” This basic guarantee is not the same as a right of asylum in that it allows some flexibility as long as refugees’ lives are not endangered. Unless a Canadian court determines the U.S. is no longer safe, there is no violation of the convention if migrants arriving at the Quebec border are returned to upstate New York.

I guess there is no pleasing everyone:

The statue of Macdonald, who represented Victoria in Parliament from 1878 to 1882, was removed as part of the reconciliation process with the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations.

Helps and several Victoria councillors began discussions last year to remove the statue in light of Macdonald’s role in the creation of the residential school system that displaced thousands of Indigenous youth.

A temporary plaque placed where the statue was removed was vandalized less than a day after it was installed.

The words “communism” and “1984” were scrawled on the surface and a large X was scratched on the plaque that explained the reasons for the statue’s removal.

It's like someone saw right through Mayor Lisa Help's and Big Aboriginal's bullsh--.


Also - yeah, I don't think so:

The Liberal government will declare a federal statutory holiday to mark the tragic legacy of the residential school system, fulfilling a recommendation made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

In a statement, a spokesperson for Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said the department is working with Indigenous peoples to determine the best date for this sort of commemoration.

"We have committed to fulfilling all of the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Call to Action 80 asks the government of Canada to establish a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the survivors of residential schools," said Simon Ross, the minister's press secretary.

"That's exactly what we will do, and we will do that in partnership with Indigenous Peoples."

Yes, continue with your blowhard virtue-signalling as the rest of the country yawns. 

If true, this is another example of how the public is being deceived by the powers that be. It would be even discouraging if the public didn't care about something this hazardous:

But the odds that Fahad Hussain and Maisum Ansari are run-of-the-mill drug dealers are greater than getting struck by lightning. Ten times greater.

There is another story at play here – the elephant in the room – a story the government does not want to talk about. A story with a nightmare ending were it not for a drug overdose and a carbon monoxide alarm.

Hussain and Ansari possessed enough poison to kill the entire Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 328 times over, or enough to kill the entire population of Canada 58 times.

And the government does not want to talk about this terrorist plot.

Leftists are feral creatures and continue being so because their water-carries in the popular press refuse to report their activities honestly:

The Toronto Police Service is now investigating the attack on a journalist at an anti-hate rally outside city hall on Saturday while also defending the officers who witnessed the incident but decided not to step in.

Stan Behal, a 36-year veteran photographer with the Toronto Sun, said he was filming the rally on Saturday, standing between a group of demonstrators and a row of police officers, when a man rushed toward him and swiped at him, hitting him in the head.

“This big hand slammed down on the top of my head,” he said. “The kid grabbed my hat and pulled hair and hat off my head rather violently.”

In video of the incident, police officers standing behind Behal do not intervene. Behal can be heard saying, “Officer did you see that? Can you arrest him for assault?”

Behal said an officer told him they weren’t going “in there.” For at least 10 minutes after, the man – who appeared to be in his 20s, wearing a grey, sleeveless T-shirt – stayed close. Shortly after, Behal said, the man threw back the Toronto Maple Leafs hat he’d snatched from Behal’s head.

Asked why officers didn’t get involved after the attack, Toronto Police spokeswoman Meaghan Gray said they were dealing with “a very volatile situation,” which at one point needed a mounted unit for crowd control.

One would assume, like the popular press, that the cops are cowardly.




For some reason, I am not surprised:

The driver of a car arrested on suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack outside the Houses of Parliament was identified Wednesday as Salih Khater, a British citizen who immigrated to England from Sudan.

Police say the 29-year-old drove a vehicle down from Birmingham, where he lived, to London early Tuesday morning. British media reports he drove around the city for nearly eight hours before plowing into the barrier outside of Parliament. Images of his car were captured by CCTV as he wandered around the Soho and Whitehall areas before sideswiping victims and ramming into a barrier outside the Palace of Westminster at around 7:40 a.m. local time. 

Authorities said that Khater was not known to police or counterterrorism units; he was not on a watch list.

Oh, I'm sure he wasn't.




Today in "terribly, terribly bad taste" news:

A weekend fashion photo shoot at the National Holocaust Monument was an inappropriate use of the site, which Jewish leaders say should be a place for reflection and learning, not levity.

“It’s not a place for fashion shoot,” said Mina Cohn, director of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship at Carleton University’s Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies. “You wouldn’t do a fashion shoot at the National War Memorial downtown. That is not acceptable. And it’s not acceptable here either.”

It's not like fashion designers are MENSA members or anything.




Denuclearise in a year? Not bloody likely:

U.S. White House National Security Adviser John Bolton claimed on Fox News on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told South Korean President Moon Jae-in he would complete denuclearization "within a year" during their April 27 summit. "Kim Jong-un promised South Korean President Moon Jae-in at Panmunjom on April 27 that he would do it and that he would do it within a year," Bolton said. He added that the comment definitely "comes from Kim Jong-un."

That lie, he means.

There are plenty of North Koreans to exploit:

Smaller Korean manufacturers are packing up and heading overseas in growing numbers because they are unable or unwilling to pay wages and other mounting expenses here.

And now, that damn bird:

The first sign Jessie the parrot had a mind of her own came last week when she escaped her London home – on the appropriately named Cuckoo Hall Lane – and flew onto a neighbour’s roof. There she stayed, refusing to budge for three days.

Jessie’s owner called an animal rescue organization, but it too was unable to entice the blue-and-yellow macaw down.

Fearing the bird might be injured, the London Fire Brigade was summoned to the home in Edmonton, a borough in the northern part of the London metro area.

One fire engine arrived.

A ladder was deployed.

A firefighter wearing a bright yellow helmet climbed until he was face-to-face with the parrot.
He told Jessie he loved her – and tried to coax her down with a bowl of feed.

The sassy bird instead spat out some “choice words” at her would-be rescuers, according to the London Fire Brigade. (Namely to “f— off,” according to one witness account in the Evening Standard.)