Five more shopping days until Canada Day ...
It has taken three years but the Liberal
The new plan, first announced in Budget 2019, includes a definition of Islamophobia taken from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, but otherwise seldom names individual minority groups that are frequent targets of discrimination, instead referring more broadly to “racialized communities” and “religious minorities.”
It would be helpful at this point to define both “racialized communities” and “religious minorities”.
"Racialized communities" are bodies of individuals often consisting of certain racial and not cultural or religous phenotypes. For example, communities of black Americans or Canadians, or - as one might often hear in Islamic circles "abeed" meaning "slave" - are "racialized communities". Racialized communities can also be akin to the black slave Mohammad owned and traded.
"Religious minorities" refer to small communities of adherents of certain religions such as the Sri Lankan Catholics killed this year on Easter Sunday, the Iraqi Christians driven out of their homes, robbed, abused or outright killed, the Yazidis targeted for murder, Jews killed on the West Bank, or violence against Buddhists in Thailand.
One might be tempted to point these facts out or remark that this entire spectacle is a tyrannical overreach by petty, over-sensitive thugs who leach money off of dim-witted taxpayers but then that might be Islamophobic somehow, so ...
Stacking the electoral deck with people who will vote as they are told has been going on for decades and won't stop until an entire country puts its foot down:
The slow and steady ghettoization of Canada’s urban political scene is gathering pace. Ethnicity, religion and tribalism is being promoted as a tool in the upcoming October elections, instead of debating competing visions about Canada’s future.
Political multiculturalism reinforces tribal mindsets and creates the very divisions that its proponents say they want to avoid.
Isn't there a voter who asks who among their political elite is a Canadian?
Apparently not and they don't need to. They wouldn't vote for them if they were.
Also - a solid case for privatising education and abolishing teachers' unions:
The lessons continued and so did N’s distress, to the point of asking to see a doctor about her fears. The Buffones say in their claim that “they were concerned about the impact (on) N’s view of herself as a girl. Prior to (the teacher’s) discussions with the Grade One class, N had consistently identified as a girl and had not previously expressed uncertainty or discontent with her gender identity and biological sex.” The Buffones had asked the teacher to affirm N’s identity as a girl — that is, reassure her that her identity as female was “real” in order to relieve her anxiety. Nothing that the Buffones asserted was denied by the school or its officials, but their request was rebuffed out of hand, first by the teacher, who said her lessons reflected “a change within society,” then by the principal, and all the way up the ladder to the superintendent of the school board and the curriculum superintendent. They removed N to another school, where these gender theories are not taught, and where her mother told me she has recovered her wonted buoyancy.
No, Vice-Admiral Norman, disclose the hell out of it:
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman will retire from the Canadian Forces after reaching an undisclosed settlement with the Department of National Defence.
Norman and the federal government reached a “mutually acceptable agreement, the details of which will remain confidential,” the Department of National Defence said in a statement Wednesday.
No. Don't let these b@$#@rds win.
Justin wishes to remain consistent. Alive or dead, veterans mean bloody nothing to him. That's why:
As reported by Siddak Ahuja of The Post Millennial, Justin Trudeau took a ‘personal day,’ instead of attending the return of Bombardier Patrick Labrie’s remains:
“The body of Canadian Armed Forces Bombardier Patrick Labrie, who was killed during a NATO exercise last week in Bulgaria, was returned to Ottawa on Saturday for a memorial service. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was not present to pay his respects.”
Trudeau had nothing else scheduled, as confirmed by his itinerary ...
Canada is back!:
Containers of Canadian trash that festered in the Philippines for years are set to arrive home just in time to celebrate the country's 152nd birthday.
The Anna Maersk is scheduled to dock at the Port of Vancouver, with the containers aboard, on Saturday, June 29 at 10 a.m.The arrival will bring nearly to a close the garbage saga that led to a diplomatic dispute with the Philippines and drew attention to the growing global problem of plastic waste.One hundred and three containers of garbage from Canada arrived in the Philippines falsely labelled as plastics for recycling in 2013 and 2014.President Rodrigo Duterte recalled the Philippine ambassador and consuls general last month after Canada missed his deadline to take back the garbage by May 15.
Just in time for the Canada Day week-end.
If they insist on consultations, they should say who is paying them:
Three First Nations are claiming Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi and other federal officials failed to properly consult with Indigenous communities on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, possibly adding fresh complications to an already prolonged regulatory and legal process.
“I felt like I wasn’t even being respected or even listened to,” said Coldwater Indian Band chief Lee Spahan, describing his interactions with the federal government in recent months.
“In the eyes of my council and myself, it was pretty much a waste of time,” he said.
Coldwater has been among the Indigenous communities most fiercely opposed to the Trans Mountain expansion project, saying the project threatens to spoil a crucial freshwater aquifer that it has relied upon for generations.
Oh, China! The things you say!:
The home of CUPP leader Chang An-lo and the group’s headquarters in Taipei were raided by Taiwan authorities last August for suspected Chinese funding, an accusation they deny.
It is illegal in Taiwan for political groups to take money from the Chinese government. Both Chang and Lin told Reuters they were former members of Bamboo Union, which Taiwan’s National Police Agency says is a criminal gang. Chang said he was the organization’s former leader.
No one was charged in connection with the raid.
Chang, in an interview with Reuters in Taipei, said he did not take money from China. But he said it was vital for Taiwan to re-unify with the mainland.
“Our God is China,” Chang said in his office, which has a golden statue of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. “In spirit, they definitely support us, but not materially.”
(Sidebar: this Deng Xiaoping.)
He and other unification advocates said they saw an opportunity to gain influence in the wake of President Tsai Ing-wen’s pro-independence ruling party’s recent poll defeat amid frustrations over its economic and cross-strait policy.
They say they want to steer the vote away from Tsai, who they say is nudging Taiwan toward formal independence, a red line for China. Taiwan’s presidential election is in January.
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On Tuesday evening, the news broke that China was banning meat imports from Canada. China says it detected a banned substance in Canadian pork, and discovered paperwork irregularities when it investigated.
(Sidebar: melamine in milk products should also be a banned substance but I digress ...)
It would be a lot easier to take that oh-so-reasonable-sounding explanation seriously if China were not applying strong political pressure on Canada over the matter of Meng Wanzhou. Meng is a well-connected Chinese national and Huawei executive who was detained by Canada after we received a lawful extradition request from the United States, which has charged Meng was fraud relating to alleged efforts to skirt sanctions imposed on Iran. She is out on bail, pending a resolution of the extradition request. China is … displeased. ...
Seriously. I refer you back to the above. China is arresting our citizens and explicitly targeting our economy. Meanwhile, if your phone breaks and you mosey on into a store to replace it, you’ll be dazzled by the massive Huawei displays. There’s an opportunity here. Huawei is closely tied to the Chinese government. It’s also symbolic of China’s economic aspirations. Want to strike back at China? Target Huawei.
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China’s embassy has asked Canada to suspend meat exports to the country over what it calls “forged” certificates, a statement said Tuesday.
In response, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has ceased issuing export certificates to China for all beef and pork products.
Whatever.
I'm sure Japan and South Korea won't be so picky. They certainly won't arrest Canadian nationals willy-nilly.
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