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Under the glossy exterior of a white liberal is a douchebag yearning to be free:

Trudeau said he’s sorry for how he responded to the protester, who unfurled a banner at the foot of the stage in an effort to draw attention to the impact of mercury poisoning in the northern Ontario community of Grassy Narrows First Nation.

“Thank you for your donation,” Trudeau told the woman as she was escorted out by security. “I really appreciate your donation to the Liberal Party of Canada.”

Others in the audience, who paid $1,500 each in order to attend the event, cheered the prime minister’s dismissive remark, which was captured by cellphone cameras and circulated on social media.

People are shocked by the callousness of white liberals and their latent indifference to one of their causes-du-jour because ...?

There is no reason to and it's not as though this sort of thing has not happened before. Pierre's idiot son says something wrong, apologises when his script-writers tell him to and the process repeats itself.

This is why I don't believe the average Canadian, led to believe that the Liberals are the better party, that the US, crammed to the rafters with Americans, is a wasteland of racism and plainness, that the world loves the politically small country of Canada because of its multiculturalism that many global citizens cannot possibly have experienced first-hand, will look at this event (one of many) and change his or her mind. Only something extreme like poverty or mass unemployment might do that and even then will the Canadian voter begrudgingly turn to another party without ever wonder why the system is broken or how it got to be that way.




The scandal that will never die:

A SNC-Lavalin contract with the Department of National Defence (DND) worth half a billion dollars comes up for renewal next year — when the Montreal-based engineering giant is expected to be on trial over corruption charges.

By the way:

The next battle in the criminal case of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman will be over redactions to memos written by senior government bureaucrats — and especially a 60-page memo from Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that has been entirely blacked out.

Norman’s lawyer Marie Henein said the government redacted the memo claiming solicitor-client privilege, prompting the judge to point out that Wernick is not a lawyer.

Henein said there is a list of documents they’ll be challenging the solicitor-client privilege redactions on, but mentioned two other key documents: a 64-page memo from Privy Council Office lawyer Paul Shuttle to Wernick written on Oct 19, 2018, and a 13-page memo from Shuttle to Wernick written on Dec. 22, 2017. Henein did not give the date of the memo from Wernick to Trudeau.

“The issue is whether there is a viable claim of privilege on this at all, and then, if there is a viable claim of privilege, whether or not an exception should apply,” Henein said.

Court will hear the defence’s application to lift the redactions on April 16 and 17.

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Glen Assoun's lawyer says the wrongfully convicted Halifax man suffered "every single day" as he waited to be exonerated for a murder he didn't commit — a wait that was prolonged for months as his case sat on former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould's desk.

David Lametti issued an order for a new trial on Feb. 28, just seven weeks after taking over as justice minister. The following day — after a five-minute new trial in which the prosecution presented no evidence — Assoun was a free man.

(Sidebar: ahem ...)

He had spent almost 17 years in prison and another four and a half years under strict parole conditions after being convicted of the brutal 1998 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Brenda Way.

Sean MacDonald — one of the lawyers for Innocence Canada, a non-profit organization dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted and which spent years trying to prove Assoun's innocence — declined to specifically discuss Wilson-Raybould's handling of the case.

(Sidebar: how convenient that this pops up now.)

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Already they have attempted to cover up potential investigation into the SNC-scandal by using their majority on the justice committee to shut down the discussion in that arena. Now it seems insiders are willing to leak sensitive information which could harm the basis to our judicial system.

The entire world needs to re-think trade with China:

Canada needs a “reality check” in its approach to free trade with China, particularly amid a dispute over canola exports that points to deeper-lying contradictions in Chinese trade policy, a new report warns.

In a report Thursday, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute lays out a comprehensive argument against Canada seeking a trade agreement with China, saying it would be a “non-starter” because of the fundamental disagreement between the two countries over basic market principles and international trade law.

Also:

China has made proposals in talks with the United States on a range of issues that go further than it has before, including on forced technology transfer, as the two sides work to overcome obstacles to a deal to end their protracted trade war, U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.

Until the ideology is destroyed, these groups will always pop up:

Votel said the end of the battle – announced Saturday by the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near the village of Baghouz – was not a surprise to the Islamic State. Experts say the group is already morphing back into an underground insurgent organization.
 
“We shouldn’t look at this as a surrender,” he said, but rather a “deliberate effort to evacuate people, to take their chances in internally displaced persons camps and in SDF prisons, and try to export out their capabilities as much as they can.”

Up to 20,000 fighters are believed to have dispersed across Iraq and Syria. Already, the group, which was declared defeated in Iraq in late 2017, has mounted assassinations and explosive attacks.

While it’s unclear what role the group’s fugitive leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, retains in commanding the group, Votel said the militants “still have leaders, still have resources . . . they still have ideology.”

If you can't afford a carbon tax, you should never vote Liberal:

The Trudeau Carbon Tax is set to take effect on April 1st.

And already, the backlash is growing.

In an official statement on Twitter, the New Brunswick Government has made it clear that people can’t afford the tax:

“Starting April 1, a family that has an oil furnace and fills that tank up three times a year will spend $150 more per year. Why should New Brunswickers pay more?”

Because f--- you. That's why.

Anyone who is stupid enough to believe that carbon is a pollutant and that a carbon tax is not a form of theft or that using available resources is somehow bad deserves to freeze in the dark.

(SEE: Liberals, donation, thanks, not caring, douchebag)

Also: 

The Conservatives are using a new tactic to reach voters with an attack on the federal government's carbon tax just days before it comes into effect.

The Official Opposition party is deploying the usual political outreach tools — ad buys and doorstep campaigning — but it's also planning to send messages directly to voters' phones in the four provinces where the federal carbon pricing policy is being introduced.

Starting Thursday, the Conservative Party will be mass-texting voters with a message from federal leader Andrew Scheer insisting the Trudeau government's carbon tax has to go.

One of the planned texts reads: "Andrew Scheer here. Trudeau's carbon tax will raise gas prices 5 cents on Monday, so fill your tank!"

Whatever. Your province is done:

The Canadian province of Quebec will ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols during work hours, in legislation introduced on Thursday, a controversial move that critics say targets Muslim women who wear hijabs or other head coverings.

They're all greedy b@$#@rds:

The CEO of Ontario Power Generation was the highest paid public sector employee in the province last year, topping a growing list of those earning $100,000 or more. 

The so-called “Sunshine List” released Wednesday — which now includes more than 151,000 people — shows Jeff Lyash made more than $1.7 million in 2018. ...

Premier Doug Ford made $112,770.47 while his chief of staff, Dean French, earned more than his boss, making $153,155. ...

Former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne made $162,248 while her former chief of staff Andrew Bevan was paid $552,667. Bevan’s salary in 2017 was $313,921. ...

Wynne’s chief investment officer Allan O’Dette — who was dismissed by the Ford government after it was elected — made $561,872.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who was paid $171,0737 last year, said next year’s disclosure will shine a light on this government’s patronage hires.

Wait times would decrease dramatically if the entire healthcare system was reformed. Start privatising it:

While many Canadians had to wait beyond the recommended times for certain types of surgeries last year, Toronto and the rest of Ontario fared better than the country as a whole, according to new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). ...

Some provinces fared far worse. In Manitoba, Nova Scotia and P.E.I., for example, only 49% of patients got a hip replacement within the recommended time frame. For knee replacements in P.E.I., only 26% of patients hit the benchmark.

 
She has an apostrophe in her name, so, you know - she's different:

A woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her 16-year-old friend from a bridge at a popular swimming area near Vancouver has been sentenced to two days in jail and 38 days on a county work crew.

Clark County District Court Judge Darvin Zimmerman sentenced 19-year-old Tay’lor Smith on Wednesday, saying she should do some jail time in light of Jordan Holgerson’s serious injuries.

Also - okay, where are the parents?:

When Athéna Gervais, a well-liked, active 14-year-old with no history of heavy drinking, popped into the dépanneur near her Laval high school during lunch last year in late February, she had a choice of at least seven different varieties of alcoholic beverages.

Wine, beer, wine spritzers and sugary alcoholic drinks lined the shelves. Athéna went right for the 568-mL can labelled “FCKD UP,” printed in bright pastel colours. Nearly the size of two beers, it had an alcohol content of 11.9 per cent. The French advertising for the brand said “Rend F–KUP,” which translates loosely to “It’ll get you f–ked up.”

Athéna was 5-foot-2 and weighed 110 pounds.

She snuck the can out of the store, chugged most of it and shared a bit with her friends, then got two more, and chugged them, too. The three cans contained the alcohol equivalent of drinking two bottles of wine. Gervais finished them in 23 minutes.

She was found three days later, face down in two feet of water in a stream running behind her school.

It’s believed she was taking a shortcut through the woods to a Tim Hortons, became disoriented because her blood-alcohol level was more than two times the legal limit for drivers, and fell down a steep ravine into the brook.

“It is unlikely that a person in control of themselves and familiar with a certain path would have decided to take such an inaccessible route and not be able to get up out of that small amount of water,” coroner Martin Larocque wrote.

In his report issued Wednesday,  Larocque listed her cause of death as drowning, “in the context of the excessive consumption of a sugary drink with a high alcohol content.”

Drinking that amount in a short time period, the taste of the alcohol masked by high levels of sugar, had a “devastating effect,” he said, contributing directly to her death. Larocque said the marketing of the product was linked to Gervais’s choice of drink that afternoon: its bright colours, large size and promise of inebriation, placed in a high-visibility display case and targeted to an age group ranging from 12 to 24.

“Every tactic is used to attract the consumer that is targeted,” Larocque said.

No, the parents are to blame. Who doesn't warn their children about the dangers of alcohol abuse or punishes them when they shop-lift?





And now, possibly the world's longest salt cave:

Israeli researchers said Thursday they have surveyed what they now believe to be the world’s longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the southern tip of the Dead Sea.

A recently completed survey of the Malham Cave determined the labyrinthine cavern stretches more than 10 kilometres in length. That puts it well ahead of Iran’s Namakdan Cave, previously thought to be the longest salt cave.