Every damn day ...
Who is crazier - this chick or the RCMP who should have heeded warnings?:
Now 34, Dughmosh is one hot mess, almost certainly seriously mentally ill — she had duct taped most of the electrical outlets in the apartment to stop the “electric wave,” believed the government was spying on her and that people were even stealing her hair style, though how on Earth they could see it given her omnipresent full-face veil remains a mystery — and also drawn to violent religious extremism. ...
On June 3, 2017, Dughmosh walked to Scarborough’s Cedarbrae Mall near her home (encountering Hanafy as she left, who was returning from taking their two kids to a park and promptly grabbed the two bags she was carrying) and popped into the Canadian Tire, unfurled her homemade black and white ISIL banner and tied a black bandana with the ISIL symbol around her head.
Then she charged a group of store employees, shouting “This is for ISIS” and swinging first the golf club and then the knife. The employees and a customer subdued her, and no one was seriously hurt.
One brother, Khalid, who lives in Germany, had called the RCMP in April 2016, when Dughmosh was flying to Istanbul, with the intention of going on to Syria to join ISIL.
The RCMP notified Turkish authorities and Dughmosh was put on the next flight back to Toronto. The RCMP interviewed her, of course, but she denied ISIL was the purpose of her trip, and they chose not to lay charges.
You decide.
An eleven year old - a child who cannot legally make decisions for herself (or himself - who knows these days?) and who lives in a country where various sexual preferences are not only tolerated but encouraged, as opposed to countries where homosexuals are publicly and terribly executed, - is in "harm's way" because a sexual education program penned by a man who wanted to have sex with children is being repealed?
Right ... :
Lawyers for a transgender girl fighting the Ontario government’s repeal of a modernized sex-ed curriculum say the move has put their 11-year-old client in harm’s way because her classmates will not learn about gender identity.
In opening arguments at Ontario human right’s tribunal, they say the Progressive Conservative government’s decision to roll back a version of the curriculum developed in 2015 in favour of one that does not include the word “transgender” suggests to the girl that her body is wrong.
They say the girl, identified only as A.B., is subject to unequal treatment because those who are not transgender will learn about their sexual orientation.
That's the legal system in Canada for you:
When violent rapist William Shrubsall received a rare indeterminate prison sentence in 2001, a Nova Scotia judge ruled that if he ever regained his freedom, the likely result would be more dead, injured and psychologically scarred women.
There was no “realistic prospect of controlling the threat of dangerousness” from his re-entry into society, reads the ruling.
Only 18 years later, despite warnings from his victims, his prosecutor and even the Correctional Service of Canada, Shrubsall has been granted full parole and is to be deported to the United States. Given that his prison term could be as short as 2 and a third years, he could conceivably be free before his 50th birthday.
“I am fearful that he will be free again and be given yet another opportunity to victimize women. I am not alone in this fear,” one of his victims told the National Post.
Paul Carver, the Nova Scotia prosecutor who sought the dangerous offender status for Shrubsall, was similarly wary. “I have seen and heard nothing over the last 18 years that suggests he has changed his behaviour,” Carver told the Buffalo News.
Shrubsall’s release highlights the inherent weakness of dangerous offender status, the only mechanism Canada has to keep a violent offender indefinitely behind bars for public safety reasons. ...
Shrubsall, who legally changed his name in prison to Ethan Simon Templar MacLeod, has been denied parole four times: in 2012, 2014, and 2016, with an appeal denied in 2017.
Then in November, against the advice of the Correctional service, the Parole Board of Canada granted him parole. It said the now 47-year-old sex offender had completed programs to reduce his violence, had attended regular psychological counselling and was facing years of incarceration back in the U.S.
The board attempts to explain his crimes as an outgrowth of inner pain.
“You were looking for care and affection,” it reads. “When you felt rejection you meant to hurt as much as you were hurting.”
It added, “you were carrying a lot of rage that made you snap at times.” ...
Even if dangerous offender status is obtained, however, the offender is free to seek parole after seven years and then every two years thereafter. There is also no guarantee that dangerous offenders will not be given prison leaves or moved to minimum-security facilities.
As opposed to the previous governments that ran up debts?:
The most powerful union leader in the Ontario public service held a news conference on Monday where he called Doug Ford, “the most dangerous premier” in Ontario’s history and “the biggest problem facing Ontario.”
Not exactly warm and fuzzy language.
Thomas and his union comrades were unveiling a poll they commissioned to gauge public opinion on the government. Let’s just say it is hardly shocking that questions written up by a union that fights against the premier is able to show results saying the public doesn’t like Ford and his policies.
The union used the poll, and the news conference to warn that unless Ford and his “aggressive Conservatives” were stopped, there would be massive cuts to jobs and services. ...
Regardless of what Ford or Thomas say, eliminating that deficit will need to mean job cuts at some point by either not replacing those that retire or quit or even eliminating useless layers of bureaucracy.
If Ford wants to fire managers, Thomas would be fine with that.
“I would support some of that,” Thomas said, claiming many managers in the Ontario civil service don’t add anything of value.
Basically, he is there to protect his members and is fine with other folks losing their jobs.
“I’m a taxpayer, too,” Thomas said. “The amount of waste I see is still fairly incredible.”
Well then cut the waste and freeze the rest of the wages until the books are in order.
Thomas may want to portray his workers as the poor and downtrodden against the rich, elitist managers, but the simple fact of the matter is government workers across Ontario are well paid compared to those in the private sector.
A 2018 study by the Fraser Institute showed government workers, on average, earned 10.6% more than their private-sector counterparts after accounting for such factors as gender, age, marital status, education and tenure.
Government workers also retired 1.8 years earlier and were seven times more likely to retire with a pension that guaranteed income for life.
That was a study of all government workers, not just provincial.
We know that the McGuinty/Wynne Liberals bought labour peace for years by offering large salary increases and more bodies hired.
We simply can’t afford that anymore.
No, Andy. In what universe is giving Quebec, of all provinces, more autonomy over immigration the right thing to do?:
Quebec will be given more autonomy over immigration if the federal Conservatives win October's election, party leader Andrew Scheer promised Monday. But he wouldn't say whether he agrees that Quebec alone should determine how many immigrants it receives.
Premier Francois Legault campaigned on a promise to temporarily reduce annual immigration to Quebec, beginning this year. But almost one month into the new year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — an advocate of increased immigration to Canada — hasn't said whether his Liberal government will help Quebec reach its goal.Trudeau has said he is willing to continue discussions with Legault over his immigration demands, but he stresses his priority is to ensure Quebec has enough workers to fill widespread labour shortages across the province.Speaking in Montreal at the end of a months-long consultation aimed at courting Quebec voters, Scheer promised "to ensure that Quebec has more autonomy" over immigration.
Does that apply to Ontario, too?
If immigrants don't have to live in Canada for any more than two years prior to acquiring citizenship, why should things be different for band chiefs?:
A member of a northern Alberta First Nation has gone to Federal Court after he was prevented from running for chief in a November election, arguing the decision to reject his nomination because he lives several kilometres off the reserve was unconstitutional.
Wayne Cunningham believes a provision of Sucker Creek First Nation’s election code, which states that anyone running for office must have lived on the reserve for at least six months before being nominated, discriminates against the majority of band members who live elsewhere.
Indeed! Why live in a place where you want to live or run for office?
Such rules!
How could this have gone wrong?:
When generals of the Soviet Union decided in the mid-1960s to install nuclear bunkers in Poland, so as to be closer to their targets in Western Europe in the event of the Cold War heating up, they took nearly every precaution to keep them secret. ...
To keep their nuclear installations secret, the Soviets did not tell the Polish people, who paid for them, but did not find out that they had hosted about 160 tactical nuclear warheads until the Cold War was over and the Soviet Union collapsed. In fact, the Soviets explicitly denied it. The Polish soldiers who built the bunkers had no clue either, as they worked on separate sections with no knowledge about the broader purpose. Many were told they were building barracks for Soviet communications units.
The Soviets ensured that maps of the areas were thoroughly censored, just as they were in the other countries under Soviet control — Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria. And they built them in areas of heavy forest with low hills to aid in camouflage and ground defence.
They were close enough to Western Europe that, in the event of war, they could win the initial nuclear conflict before mounting a conventional ground offensive.
But then they needed to equip the installations with workers and soldiers, and they were keen that the people running their nuclear operations were psychological stable, so they needed to provide an “illusion of normal life,” said Grzegorz Kiarszys of the Department of Archaeology at Szczecin University in Poland, whose research appears in the journal Antiquity.
That meant setting up a life for non-commissioned officers and their young families, evidence of which has been excavated from garbage pits at all three sites, where archeologists have found children’s toys. But the Soviets also made the critical error of building football pitches with running tracks around the outside.
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