Saturday Post

File the damn paperwork, already:

American authorities are facing a key deadline at the end of the month to formally request the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada to the United States.

A spokesman for Canada’s Justice Department said on Friday the U.S. had yet to file the required paperwork in the Meng case and they have until Jan. 30 to do so. If the U.S. misses the deadline, lawyers with expertise in extradition cases say the door could open for Meng’s eventual release.

This is what Justin is waiting for. That way he doesn't have displease his Chinese masters and can say that the Americans didn't fulfill their legal obligations. Justin would then give the Chinese more access to Canada's market and resources.




Today's winners of the "terrorist compensation" sweepstakes (brought to you by the Liberal Party of Canada):

A Canadian national and five other people suspected of helping extremist gunmen stage a deadly attack in the Kenyan capital this week appeared in court on Friday as prosecutors investigated them for suspected terror offences.

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Convicted terrorist, Tahawwur Hussain Rana with dual Pakistani and Canadian citizenship is going to be allowed back in Canada once he is done serving his sentence in the US in 2021 due to a law made by the Trudeau government.

Hussain Rana was charged in 2009 for plotting to kill a Danish journalist that published a cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. In addition, he was convicted for providing information to the Pakistani terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed.

As TNC reports, Rama was one of ten terrorists who were going to have their Canadian citizenship stripped under the previous Harper government. This was due to a law that allowed the government to revoke citizenship dual citizens convicted of terrorism.

However, in 2016, the Trudeau government passed Bill C-6 which protected terrorists from having their citizenship revoked. This came after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defend his stance on allowing terrorists to keep their citizenship and proclaimed “a Canadian is a Canadian.”

Luckily for Canada, the government of India reportedly wants Rana extradited to their country to face charges related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. 

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Two men sentenced to life in prison for plotting various violent terrorist acts, including the derailment of a Via Rail train, will seek new trials in February arguing their six-week trial in 2015 was flawed from the start because they were denied a fair jury selection. 

I'm sorry, my dear, but once thrown under the bus, one must remain under the bus. One simply cannot be indiscreet with one's bigotry and identity politics that have allowed electoral divide-and-conquer to work so well in the past:

Former Liberal candidate Karen Wang capped off a bizarre day with an even more bizarre media scrum in a Burnaby, B.C., parking lot on Thursday.

The 43-year-old, who resigned her candidacy in the Burnaby South byelection Wednesday only to attempt to revive it Thursday, announced a news conference at the Metrotown Library only to arrive and be told in no uncertain terms by the head librarian she could not hold her political event on public library grounds.

There was confusion.

There were tears.

And in the end there was Wang, surrounded by reporters and cameras in a parking lot, trying to explain why she isn't racist and why she may yet still run in the Feb. 25 byelection as an independent.

"It really make me hurt and I feel as if I am abused," said an emotional Wang. "This is not me at all — I am not a racist."

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In a letter to the PM and Liberal Party, Wang had attempted to ‘unresign,’ saying she wanted a second chance to be the candidate.

In her letter, Wang had said “I strongly believe in the liberal party’s values-liberty,equality, diversity, internationalism, responsibility, human dignity, democracy, religious freedom, speech freedom, compassion & Multiculturalism and a just society! I consider Justin Trudeau as my role model as a politician for his fairness, wisdom, compassion, charisma & big heart for our people!”

All to no avail, as Wang’s attempt to run again was shot down by Liberal spokesman Braeden Caley ...

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Certainly not! How she got the idea that the Liberal Party of Canada was in any way a home for ethnic power-brokers prized for their ability to recruit members and raise funds from certain ethnic groups, or that it would even think of campaigning in ridings with heavy concentrations of voters from a given ethnic group by crude appeals to their ethnic identity — for example by nominating a candidate of the same ethnicity — must remain forever a mystery.

Unless, of course, her real crime was to have said out loud what everybody in politics knows to be the practice, not just of the Liberals but of every party, but prefers not to mention. But the thing having been said, the party had no alternative but to pretend to be appalled, just as the other parties had no alternative but to pretend to be outraged.

Interesting:

No elected band council or Crown authority has jurisdiction over the land, a Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief told a crowd of supporters and First Nations leaders gathered in the territory that has become a battleground for Indigenous sovereignty.

Chief Na’Moks said agreements signed by pipeline builder Coastal GasLink are illegitimate and the support shown by those gathered, and by many people around the world, proves the Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders do not stand alone.

"Our rights to those lands have never been extinguished," Na’Moks said during the gathering on Wednesday.

About that:

On Wednesday, during a speech at the Indigenous Energy Summit at the Grey Eagle Event Centre, the B.C. researcher extraordinaire warned the Indian Resource Council (IRC) of just what kind of opposition it will face if it pushes forward with a plan to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline from the federal government.

Krause warned the crowd that gathered on the Tsuut’ina Nation, on the western edge of Calgary, that she would be showing rather boring slides that prove that millions of dollars in payments from multibillion-dollar U.S. charitable foundations are being made to Canadian environmental groups annually, “because, frankly, if I was just to tell you who paid whom and how much, it’s hard to believe. It comes off like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.”

She also warned the IRC — which represents 134 First Nations that have oil and gas resources on their land — that if it does move forward with the exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity of buying Trans Mountain and the plans to twin that existing pipeline, “you don’t just get the pipeline, you get a foreign-funded campaign along with the pipeline.”

It's always about money.




It's an election year!:

The prime minister had to raise his voice to be heard above boos and shouted accusations as he blamed the criticism of the pact on the "politics of division." He also pointed to Canada's generosity towards the 25,000 Syrian refugees who arrived in recent years as proof of the country's acceptance of newcomers.

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault laid out a shopping list of demands Thursday that he expects party leaders to address as they woo voters in his province during the coming federal election campaign.

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A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against the federal government over the $165-million accounting blunder by Veterans Affairs Canada, CBC News has learned.

The court action, which has yet to be certified, was filed on Tuesday by former soldier Dennis Manuge, who successfully took the Department of National Defence to court a few years ago over the clawback of military pensions.

The new case involves the miscalculation of disability awards and pensions at the veterans department, a fiscal gaffe that went on for almost eight years, starting in 2002.

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The daughters of a Pakistani Christian woman who narrowly avoided a death sentence for blasphemy have been given asylum in Canada, says an international media report, but the government won’t say if the report is true.

People are starving to death:

North Korea has almost completed turning the port of Wonsan into the giant tourist resort its dictator Kim Jong Un has demanded, with miles of hotels, arcades, theatres, funfairs and a marina along the seafront.

I hope that Trump mentions this to Kim.

Also:

The Kaesong Industrial Complex was shut down because of the North's fifth nuclear test in 2016, while tours to the Mt. Kumgang resort were halted in 2008 when a North Korean soldier shot a South Korean tourist dead. Both decisions were a direct response to North Korean acts of terror, but the president not only claims that all problems have been resolved but expresses gratitude for the North's wonderful generosity in attaching no conditions to the resumption of these projects. Does the president have amnesia? North Korea refuses even to submit an inventory of its nuclear facilities and materials and continues to produce nuclear weapons, so what exactly has been "resolved?" 

Has he also forgotten the North's sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors? North Korea has not only refused to take responsibility for the attack, but has virtually taunted the South over the tragedy. Last year, the South Korean foreign minister told lawmakers that the government is "considering" easing sanctions against the North imposed after that attack, and the comments triggered a furor. Nothing has changed. International sanctions remain in place for good reasons, and it is not Moon's place to ease them simply because Kim wrote him a nice Christmas card.

North Korea recently redefined "denuclearization" as eliminating the U.S. nuclear threat from the Korean Peninsula before Pyongyang scraps its nukes. Even the unification minister here, who is in charge of dealing with North Korea, admitted only Wednesday that this view "differs" from Seoul's objectives. But Moon a day later claimed there is "absolutely no difference" between the denuclearization goals of the international community and the North's. He now believes whatever Kim tells him but listens only to what he wants to hear. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

Oh, he hasn't forgotten.




Integrating the disabled into the workforce in Japan:

On a farm employing a sophisticated technique to develop special bananas in Okayama Prefecture, people with disabilities play a major role in the routine work of watering, fertilizing and removing yellowing leaves from the plants.

Every morning, several mentally disabled workers come to the banana plantation of Chieko Saito, 54, in the city of Okayama, a 30-minute car ride from the welfare facility where they live. In the harvest season in the fall, more people from the facility pick fruit there.

The workers cannot communicate well with others, but one of them said they found weeding “enjoyable.”

Saito, a former nursery teacher with no prior farming experience, established Okayama Ohisama Farm in May 2017, hoping to promote the social integration of people with disabilities by providing them with jobs growing bananas.

Saito used to work with children with disabilities in Gifu Prefecture, and even after quitting that job she always thought about the future of those children. She then came up with the idea of doing something to find employment for those with disabilities.

That is one huge shark:

(Paws up)