Mid-Week Post

Eleven more shopping days until Easter ...




The scandal that just won't die:

Justin Trudeau says his threat to sue Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is about making sure there are consequences for lying in politics — but he’s not saying if he intends to make good on it.

If the RCMP won't investigate crime, what good is it?:

On Monday, B.C. Attorney General David Eby said he was shocked to find the RCMP is doing “nothing” to investigate money laundering in the province, despite years of negative headlines and estimated billions of dollars in dirty money flowing through the province’s casinos and real estate.

He cited a finding from former RCMP executive Peter German’s recently filed review of money laundering in the province’s housing market, that Eby said, shows currently there is not one dedicated federal RCMP officer in B.C. investigating criminal money laundering.

“What is happening is nothing,” Eby said. “Police experts need to be recruited from across Canada for a specialized team that can start now. The money launderers here are already experts, they’re already rich, and now we know they’re better resourced.”

 
It's just an economy:

As Canada gets slammed with the new carbon tax and gas prices surge, the IMF has slashed Canada’s GDP growth forecast.

Previously, they predicted 1.9 growth in 2019 – already a very weak number.

But now, that number has been lowered even further, with growth of just 1.5% predicted.


Those are incredibly low numbers, and puts Canada far behind the expected growth rate of 3.3%.

To remind everyone, this is the same government that refused to help the Yazidis until humiliated into doing so and that laid out a welcome mat for illegal migrants so as to appear to be the anti-Trump:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending a changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill tabled this week, saying his government is working to ensure Canada’s refugee system is fair for everyone.

The changes would prevent asylum seekers from making refugee claims in Canada if they have made similar claims in certain other countries, including the United States — a move Border Security Minister Bill Blair says is aimed at preventing “asylum-shopping.”

Rather, in an election year, a laissez-faire immigration policy is most unpopular with voters.




Why can't the South Korean press more be malleable like the CBC and lie for Moon?:

The topic of the Bloomberg story was how Moon was trying—and failing—to sell Kim Jong-un to a skeptical world as a lovely guy we had all just misunderstood. The rational mind cannot reconcile this view with reality; consequently, Moon’s oleaginous praise and glossing-over of Kim’s crimes against humanity was shaping Moon’s own image far more than it was shaping Kim’s. It was also widening the already-wide split between Washington and Seoul. ...

After this, several Bloomberg reporters received threats from Moon’s supporters. Until then, for almost two years, their fellow journalists had failed us—and failed the cause of Koreans’ civil liberties—when they overlooked Moon’s abuse of libel suits to silence his critics and jail his opponents. A few simpered some token complaints at his censorship of “fake news,” but most didn’t, because they didn’t care for the speech or the speakers and had lost sight of the greater danger of censoring controversial ideas. They barely coughed at the silencing of defectors because peace. They still haven’t said a word about Moon’s criminal investigations of campus protest posters. That is how democracy dies in the blazing light of day. 

This sort of thing makes the south less distinguishable than its northern neighbour.


Also:

Members of a group of North Korean waitresses who fled a Pyongyang-run restaurant in China sent a condolence wreath to the funeral parlor of Kim Bok-dong, the former "comfort woman" who died late Monday.

Kim, who had repeatedly called on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to apologize directly to women forced to serve in wartime brothels, battled cancer and was hospitalized, Newsis reported. 

A ribbon on the wreath from the North Korean women read, "From every member of Ryugyong restaurant waitress group," according to the report.

(Kamsahamnida)





Scientists release the first images of a black hole:

And now, it's like "101 Dalmatians" but only nineteen of them and they're Great Danes:

Cleo’s giant-sized litter matched another Great Dane’s litter in 2014. The largest litter on record was delivered in 2004, according to Guinness World Records, when a Neapolitan Mastiff delivered 24 pups, however one was stillborn and three more died in the first week.