For a Monday

 Quite a bit going on in the world ...




Just now:

A Dutch police officer and two children died and a woman was seriously wounded in a shooting Monday at a home in the city of Dordrecht, authorities said.

Police said in a statement that the 35-year-old officer was suspected of being the shooter.

It was not immediately clear if he was related to the children, who were aged 8 and 12, or to the 28-year-old injured woman, but police spokesman Wim Hoonhout told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that "it seems like a family incident."

Police said further investigation was needed to definitively establish the motive.

Is that so?





Nova Scotia cleans up after Hurricane Dorian:

Post-tropical storm Dorian may have departed Atlantic Canada but the scars it inflicted across the region with its hurricane strength wind gusts and torrential rain will take some time to heal.

Utility companies in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador are facing a massive task in restoring electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers left in the dark as Dorian flattened trees that pulled down power poles across a vast area. And the huge amount of tangled debris littering streets is now making the work of utility crews that much harder.

 
I'm sure the Liberals will offer what they gave the Bahamas as gratitude for Nova Scotians' unwavering loyalty to the party.




Oh, that must be it. Not his incompetence or douchebaggery but bots:

“BOTS, AGAIN!  In a boosted advertisement that has gotten him suspended from Twitter, a Liberal activist has again tried to spin anti-Trudeau campaigns as “bot driven.” 

It can't be his incompetence:

A report said that Canada’s economy lost 24,200 “net” jobs in July, the second month in a row with job losses, and the unemployment rate rose to 5.7 per cent. But the figures are misleading. That month, 69,300 private-sector jobs were lost, and the “net” figure was derived from subtracting the creation of 17,500 public sector jobs and an increase in self-employment by 27,700.

Who counts self-employment as “jobs”? Arguably, another 27,700 self-employed people are those who have lost their jobs and hope to support themselves somehow.

In August, a report said Canada “gained” 81,000 jobs, but two-thirds, or 57,200, were part-time.

Such fun with figures is what the Liberals are all about. They boast about how good Canada’s economy is doing but have little to brag about. For instance, the number of hours worked, in the past year, has dropped by 0.7 per cent, which means that jobs figures are overstated by that amount.

Worse, Canada’s GDP grew as of July by only 0.9 per cent. By comparison, the Americans’ GDP grew by two per cent.

Then there’s the broken promises by Liberals about deficits and debts.

It can't be his policies:

The ten year, $965 million Department of Natural Resources program saw the taxpayer help establish biofuel producers and pay them for the production of ethanol and biodiesel.

Producers received 10 cents for every litre of ethanol produced and 20 cents for every litre of biodiesel produced from the taxpayer.

“The program was expected to contribute to the establishment of a self-sufficient industry,” said the audit.

“Evidence is equally inconclusive as to the extent to which the renewable fuels industry has become competitive as a result of the program.”

It can't be his girlish mannerisms:

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci says US President Donald Trump is "very intimidated" by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

It can't be his friends:

Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Monday used a three-year-old video to paint Andrew Scheer as a Conservative leader who would impose “painful cuts” to public spending if he wins the October election, part of a string of attacks by Liberal Cabinet members in recent weeks.

(Sidebar: this Morneau.)


No, it has to be bots.

Exterminate!

 You have migrants sleeping in the streets. So there's that:

“I have always said the same thing. I don’t believe in mass immigration and for us, mass immigration is 350,000 newcomers a year. After three years you’ll have a million people,” says Bernier.

He doesn't support mass murderers like some people one could mention:

Although given what Justin Trudeau thinks of Castro and, of course, of basic dictatorships, it’s unlikely this candidate will walk the plank before the election is called later this week. In fact, if the Liberals win, she could be up for a cabinet post.

“Long live the Revolution,” Heather Megill wrote in a Facebook post in November, 2016.

That comment from Megill, nominated by the party just last week, was part of a longer post defending Trudeau who had come under fire for his tone deaf praise upon Castro’s death.

But who will clean up this one-horse town?:

Whether you can take your horse to the old town road has been the subject of debate in a small Alberta town famed for its corn and bylaws against spitting and cussing in public, and the local council in Taber has made a choice: horses are OK on some streets on the outskirts, but folks won’t be taking their kids to school on horseback anytime soon.

This joke was coming. We all know it.

If I had to ride through a Tim Horton's drive-through on a horse, I would have Ennio Morricone theme music playing and a cowboy hat for effect. It would look cool as I asked for a pumpkin spice muffin.




What does China have to do before people distrust it?:

U.S. prosecutors have charged a Chinese professor with fraud for allegedly taking technology from a California company to benefit Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. in another shot at the beleaguered Chinese telecommunications equipment maker.

Bo Mao was arrested in Texas on Aug. 14 and released six days later on US$100,000 bond after he consented to proceed with the case in New York, according to court documents.

He pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn on Aug. 28 to a charge of conspiring to commit wire fraud.

According to the criminal complaint, Prof. Mao entered into an agreement with the unnamed California tech company to obtain its circuit board, claiming it was for academic research.

The complaint, however, accuses an unidentified Chinese telecommunications conglomerate, which sources say is Huawei, of trying to steal the technology, and alleges Prof. Mao played a role in its alleged scheme. A court document also indicates the case is related to Huawei.

How is that Singapore thing working out?:

North Korea launched two projectiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, hours after the North offered to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States but warned its dealings with Washington may end without new U.S. proposals.

The launches and demand for new proposals were apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North Korea-U.S. talks restart. North Korea is widely believed to want the United States to provide security guarantees and extensive relief from U.S.-led sanctions in return for limited denuclearization steps.

 
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Rod Coneybeare:

 (Merci and paws up)