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In-fighting is never a good sign:

“Once-stable jobs are being written out by automation and A.I. (artificial intelligence),” Trudeau told the caucus gathering. “Climate change is an increasingly dire threat, with floods and fires destroying whole towns at a blistering pace. The world’s two largest economies are at odds, and our two founding European nations are going through unprecedented political turmoil.” ...

Trudeau’s remarks come as his Liberal government is facing challenges of its own, such as spats with China and Saudi Arabia, struggles over building pipelines and a byelection in the British Columbia riding of Burnaby South that turned messy for the Liberals.

An oilfield worker is no more concerned about strife abroad than Justin is concerned about him.

Justin is incapable of realising that his policies (or lack of them), his favouritism, logical dissonance and general incompetence have botched things even for his cabinet who has to clean his messes, the ones discontented voters are noticing in spades.


Also - this guy knows how to hide his identity politics better:

The Liberal Party of Canada will run Richard T. Lee, a longtime B.C. MLA, as their candidate for Burnaby South in the federal byelection.

The announcement comes days after the Liberal's first candidate, Karen Wang, quit over comments she posted on social media about NDP leader and candidate Jagmeet Singh.

A real leader would take the advice of experts and cues from other countries and ban Huawei.

But Justin isn't a leader:

The escalating fight with China over its detentions of two Canadians requires Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to show clear “leadership.”

And he should start by banning Huawei.

Also:

China is still the world’s No. 2 economy and is still the monster of emerging markets, but regardless of those bonafides, Xi Jinping’s country is losing the trade war in nearly every way imaginable.

It's just money:

The Trudeau government is changing how Ottawa allocates nearly $2 billion worth of annual funding for First Nations elementary and secondary education.

Starting in April, the federal government will take a new approach it says will mean more predictable money for First Nations schools to make budgets comparable to the amounts received by public schools run by the provinces.

The federal government says the new model was developed after an extensive engagement process involving several organizations, including the Assembly of First Nations.

Under the approach, First Nations schools will also receive $1,500 per student every year towards language and cultural programs.

Ottawa is expected to spend $1.89 billion in 2018-19 on First Nations elementary and secondary education.

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Taxpayers are on the hook for potentially tens of millions of dollars after federal bureaucrats bungled the purchase of trucks for the Canadian Forces and now must make good on the lost profits for a U.S. firm.

But Public Services and Procurement Canada, which oversaw the flawed defence procurement, has declined to provide details on just how much the penalties will cost the public.

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A new poll says the number of Canadians who are $200 or less away from financial insolvency at month-end has jumped to 46 per cent, up from 40 per cent in the previous quarter, as interest rates rise.

A survey conducted for insolvency firm MNP Ltd. in December also found that 31 per cent of Canadians say they don't make enough to cover their bills and debt payments, up seven per cent from the September poll.

The results released today also indicated that 51 per cent of respondents say they are feeling the pinch of interest rate increases, up from 45 per cent a quarter ago.

As well, 45 per cent of those surveyed say they will need to go further into debt to pay their living and family expenses.

MNP's president Grant Bazian says many Canadians have so little wiggle room that any rise in living costs or interest payments can tip them over the edge.

And how!:

Canada is defending accusations from a U.S. Congressman that the United States is ignoring security issues along the Canada-U.S. border.

"It is the longest, most successful international boundary -- un-militarized international boundary -- in the history of the world, and we're determined to keep it that way," Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said in an interview with CTV Power Play Host Don Martin on Wednesday.

"I'm happy to work with the new Democratic leadership in the House if they need any kind of reassurance on that point," he added.

Drunken pigs would make better ministers than Ralph.




Oh, they didn't forget:

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a Holocaust memorial plaque that didn’t mention the Jewish people, onlookers wondered why such a central point had been omitted.

Now documents released under access to information show that while Canadian Heritage staffers focused on many details — from hardware to sight lines — no one asked what the plaque actually said.

The scene was the new National Holocaust Monument, opened in late September 2017.

When the monument opened, visitors quickly noticed that its big steel “dedication plaque” mentioned there were millions of victims, but didn’t say anything about who they were. It said only that there were “millions of men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust.” Jewish groups in particular felt this was a major shortcoming.

Now hundreds of pages of emails from Canadian Heritage show the detail to which the design team discussed the nuts and bolts of manufacturing and positioning the plaque, along with a second plaque thanking donors who raised $4.5 million for the project.

But they never discussed the content of the message. And this left them completely unprepared for the public reaction.

Also - the popular press wants to stress that fat white liberal Canadian women braved the freezing temperatures to support what is, in truth, an anti-semitic march.

The Canadian popular press has 565 million reason$ to discredit emerging anti-government protests just as the American press has to get only a fraction of a story:

A white high school student seen with classmates appearing to confront a Native American Vietnam veteran near the Lincoln Memorial issued a statement on Sunday that video of the incident that went viral gives the false impression that the teens were instigators.

Nick Sandmann, a student from the private, all-male Covington Catholic High School in northern Kentucky, is seen in the video standing face to face with the Indian activist, Nathan Phillips, staring at him with a smile, while Phillips sings and plays a drum.

The footage, shared online by organizers of an indigenous people's march that took place in Washington on Friday before the incident, shows a group of fellow Covington students surrounding Phillips apparently mocking him.

Phillips recounted in a separate video that he heard the students chanting "build that wall," during the encounter.

The students, many wearing baseball caps emblazoned with President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, were in the nation's capital the same day for an anti-abortion rally.

The footage sparked outrage on social media and led the high school to issue a statement condemning the students' actions and promising an investigation.

But Sandmann, whose statement was tweeted by CNN anchor Jake Tapper late on Sunday, insisted the video was misinterpreted, leading to "outright lies being spread about my family and me."

He denied acting with any disrespect toward Phillips.

According to Sandmann, his group was waiting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for their bus back to Kentucky when four African American protesters nearby began shouting racially charged insults at them.

With permission from their teacher chaperones, the students responded by shouting "school spirit" chants to "drown out the hateful comments" directed at them.

In the midst of this interaction, Sandmann said, he noticed that a Native American protester - since identified as Phillips - "began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him."

"He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face," Sandmann recalled.

"I never interacted with this protester. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves," Sandmann wrote, adding that he was "startled and confused" as to why Phillips approached him.

Oh, the Narrative ...

 

Here’s the entire unedited video with original sound of the Covington High School/Nathan Phillips encounter via @PolishPatriotTM - watch, listen and decide for yourself.

pic.twitter.com/UQ7VB39CNd

— BrokenArrow.357 (@ASimplePatriot) January 20, 2019

Speaking of the Narrative:

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state of Texas can strip taxpayer subsidies from Planned Parenthood, primarily based on evidence found in undercover videos of the abortion provider’s involvement in harvesting and selling aborted baby body parts for profit.

The undercover videos in question were first released in 2015 by David Daleiden, founder and project lead at the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), and scrutinized by Planned Parenthood and members of the media as “deceptively edited.”

“Planned Parenthood for years has been smearing us trying to say the videos were not accurate or somehow misleading,” Daleiden said in an interview with Federalist contributor DC McAllister. “The Fifth Circuit explicitly found in their ruling last night that the Center for Medical Progress’ videos are authentic…and could be relied upon by Texas and by others as the regulatory and other enforcement proceedings.”

The medical community in Canada has become a mere labour force sent to do the dirty work of others, not actually heal:

Ontario doctors challenging a court ruling that found physicians must give referrals for medical services that clash with their moral or religious beliefs say there is no proof that removing that requirement would hamper patients seeking treatment.

A group of five doctors and three professional organizations is appealing a divisional court decision that upheld a policy issued by the province’s medical regulator, arguing the lower court made several errors.

The group, which includes the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, the Canadian Federation of Catholic Physicians’ Societies and Canadian Physicians for Life, is asking Ontario’s highest court to strike down the policy. The case is set to be heard in Toronto on Monday and Tuesday.

Last year, the divisional court found that while the policy — which requires doctors who have a moral or religious objection to treatments such as assisted dying, contraception or abortions to refer patients to another doctor who can provide the service — does limit doctors’ religious freedom, the breach is justified.

The court said the benefits to the public outweigh the cost to doctors, who could delegate the referral to staff or choose to practise a specialty where such issues are less likely to arise.

Also:

A new review article published Monday urges doctors to take a “thoughtful, affirming” approach and to avoid “influencing the adolescent to move down a path they would not have chosen for themselves.”

“The youth’s voice is always paramount,” the authors write in a special issue on transgender health appearing in this week’s edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

 
People are born male or female. Any physician worth his or her salt wouldn't even entertain this garbage.




The effects of communism are still felt in Latvia:

Back in Soviet times, Yuris Taskovs snitched to the KGB about a neighbor watching German pornography and betrayed hundreds of anti-Moscow activists. So he and others like him knew that if the secret police files from Latvia were ever made public, which they finally were last month, their nefarious activities would be revealed.

Not that Taskovs is particularly concerned. “For 12 years, I worked for them with great enthusiasm,” the 63-year-old Latvian said of his time as an informant for the KGB before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

For many others, however, the appearance of their names, code names and dates of recruitment in the recently released KGB documents has come as a traumatic surprise.

“I am in shock. I had no idea,” said Rolands Tjarve, former director of Latvia’s post-independence national broadcaster and now a professor at the University of Latvia. Insisting that he never served as an informant — or what the KGB called in the files an “agent” — he said he would go to court to clear his name.

Latvia, one of three Baltic nations reborn as independent states in 1991, has been arguing for nearly three decades over what to do with the Cheka bags, sacks and briefcases stuffed with secret files left behind by the KGB, the Soviet secret police agency originally known as the Cheka.

Other former Soviet lands, like Lithuania, Estonia and Georgia, found some KGB files after they broke free of Moscow. Germany quickly opened up files left by East Germany’s Stasi secret police after reunification in 1990.

But only Latvia was left with a systematic index listing the real and code names of more than 4,000 purported agents, along with a large digital archive of KGB activities known as Delta.