Mid-Week Post

Seven more shopping days until Halloween ...




The best way to deal with ISIS thugs is to turn them into a fine mist and never, ever give them an opportunity to re-enter Canada:

Murad’s dream, if a near-unanimous motion of the House of Commons this week is to be taken seriously, is now shared by the Canadian Parliament. Nadia’s words were written verbatim into the motion brought before the House this week by Murad’s comrade Michelle Rempel, the Conservative critic for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, herself a fierce campaigner for Yazidi refugees, and Pierre Paul-Hus, Opposition critic for Public Safety.

Every ISIL rapist, génocidaire, propagandist and collaborator must be brought to justice, then. Further, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government must table a plan, within 45 days, “to immediately bring to justice anyone who has fought as an ISIS terrorist or participated in any terrorist activity, including those who are in Canada or have Canadian citizenship.”

This will never happen as long as Justin occupies his dad's office.

(See here.)




All manner of misogynistic head-coverings solely for women are banned in Quebec:

Quebec's new Coalition Avenir Quebec government says it will go a step further in restricting religious symbols, prohibiting all public servants from wearing the chador, niqab or burka.

The ban on the garments is expected to be part of legislation that will also forbid state employees in positions of authority, including teachers, from wearing visible religious symbols.

The chador, which is worn primarily by Muslim women from Iran, is a cloak that covers the head and upper body but leaves the face visible. The burka covers the entire face with mesh over the eyes, while the niqab leaves a slit for the eyes.

Justice Minister Sonia LeBel said the government will move forward with the measure despite questions about its legality.

"There are always (legal) opinions that can lead in every direction, but what is important is for the government to give direction," she said.

Premier Francois Legault has said in the past that he is prepared to invoke the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to ensure his religious-symbol legislation does not fall to a challenge under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

No word on whether Justin will warn them from very, very far away or wear a head-covering in solidarity with women who would otherwise have acid thrown in their faces for not wearing these coverings.




It's just money:

It is after all a stretch at this point to keep referring to it as “pan-Canadian,” the Liberals’ preferred original term intended to signal that it was an agreement between the provinces, territories and Ottawa. Now nearly half the provinces part of the original negotiations two years ago are rebelling against the plan to varying degrees and still others are threatening to.

And pretending this any longer has anything to do with “fighting climate change,” as the government continued to insist Tuesday, takes yet more gall. It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shredded that pretext, having declared that for a carbon tax to be effective in saving the climate from apocalyptical warming it would have to start at least at US$135 a tonne and maybe even rise to US$5,500 a tonne by 2030. The Liberals’ tax starts at $20 and rises to $50. Projections currently show they won’t even meet their commitments to 2016’s Paris climate agreement unless its at least $200 a tonne, although that reality was also inverted Tuesday as the federal government publicly pretended that meeting its Paris promise was well underway without challenges. ...

Instead, Trudeau is layering a carbon tax atop an existing web work of myriad green initiatives and regulations, both federal and provincial, that vary wildly from coast to coast. And he wants to rebate money back through his Climate Action Incentives using a rough formula applied to personal tax returns and based entirely on the number of people who live in a household and where they live, not how much they emit. In some provinces people get more, in others less, regardless of each one’s carbon footprint. Rural people get bigger rebates than urbanites, never mind if a country cousin and his city cousin drive the exact same distances each year. And workers in snowy Sault Ste. Marie evidently qualify for no greater rebate than retirees in the warmer Ontario climes of Niagara. (As for those suckers stuck in provinces who already have a carbon tax — B.C., Alberta and Quebec — they’ll continue to see their climate taxes padding out regular old government spending).

And the businesses that employ those families and provide them the income on those tax forms? The vast majority will pay the tax, and get nothing back.

With his promise that the majority of people in the provinces he’ll be taxing will get back more than what they pay, Trudeau neglects to mention that in order for that to happen, other groups must pay far more. Under the Trudeau government, that means high earners and businesses, as usual, but unfortunately it also means consumers.

Then you don't have my vote, Andy:

Conservative leader Andrew Scheer made clear Wednesday he would not re-criminalize cannabis, after headlines last week suggested he hadn’t ruled the idea out.

You are a Canadian. You don't fight back. You smash windows until you are stopped:

The premier of Ontario received death threats and his labour minister had her constituency office vandalized hours after a sweeping labour reform bill was introduced in the legislature, the Progressive Conservative government said Wednesday.

Government House Leader Todd Smith said the incidents were an attempt to bully and intimidate the government and would not be tolerated.

“What we want is to see…some of these other radical groups acknowledge the fact that a line has been crossed here,” Smith said.

Wiener.




If "words matter", shouldn't they matter when people accuse a sitting president for precipitating an attack or when people threaten to kill said sitting president or when they accuse of him of colluding with Russian agents?:

“There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,” CNN president Jeff Zucker said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. “The President, and especially the White House Press Secretary should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”

And now,  historic things that happened on Halloween:

MONSTER MASH" BY BOBBY PICKETT AND THE CRYPT-KICKERS IS AT THE TOP OF THE BILLBOARD 100 // HALLOWEEN 1962