And the Rest of It

(SEE: status, special; Trudeau, Justin, bottom-feeder; no core identity):

During Thursday night’s French-language debate, Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau affirmed Quebec’s right to impose a “test” for new immigrants moving to the province.

These remarks were made in response to a question about Quebec Premier François Legault’s plan to push ahead with a French proficiency and “Quebec values” test for any newcomer who wants to stay in the province permanently.

But no one else can test for language or values.

Anything for votes, you lying leech!




Seems? No, does:

Counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency who appears to have a Canadian background was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country’s weapons system to two journalists in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Justice Department said in federal court filings on Wednesday.

Information that 30-year-old Henry Kyle Frese passed to the journalists appeared in at least eight different news stories, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

The two reporters to whom he leaked information were colleagues, and one of them was apparently romantically involved with Frese, the FBI said in court filings. Those news stories relied on five separate intelligence reports issued between March and June 2018.

Social media accounts in the name of Kyle Frese describe him as a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., who also studied Security & Defence Policy Management at Royal Military College of Canada before relocating to Virginia. It also says he attended high school in Pennsylvania.

We may never know his motive:

A gunman who denounced Jews opened fire outside a German synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and killed two people as he livestreamed his attack.

Thanks, President Moon:

“Shibal biyong” is a neologism in South Korean that Nahm translates — in the least profane manner — to a “what-the-hell expense” or “screw-this expense.” South Koreans use the term to describe spending extra money now because the future looks bleak, given the housing and job markets. 

Without hope of owning a home, many young Koreans decide they might as well spend money now instead of saving it, and the sentiment applies to young people in Canada, where major cities are facing housing bubbles and nearly one-third of graduates with humanities degrees were underemployed as of 2011, according to Statistics Canada. Nahm says “shibal biyong” became a popular term in 2016 in South Korea but that the phenomenon is universal.

See what money can buy you:

Linda O’Leary, the wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary, is not facing jail time after all, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada announced Thursday.

O’Leary was charged last month for her alleged role in a fatal boat crash on Ontario’s Lake Joseph, where the O’Learys have a luxury cottage.

Prosecutors said at the time that O’Leary, who was charged with careless operation of a vessel under the Canada Shipping Act, was facing a maximum penalty of 18 months imprisonment and $1-million fine.

Her lawyer, Brian Greenspan, has always maintained that the interpretation of the act was wrong and that, under the law, his client was facing at most a $10,000 fine and no jail time. On Thursday, the PPSC announced that Greenspan was correct.

Two people were killed but who cares, right?




That is nursing done right:

Desperate to ease his suffering, Seymour turned to the nurse on staff that night for help.

“I said, ‘He’s afraid of dying,’ … And she goes, ‘May I pray?'” Seymour whispered with tears filling her eyes.

“I said ‘absolutely.’ So she prayed for him, with him, and all of a sudden starts singing the most beautiful song.”

Seymour remembered how the nurse comforted him.

“She was massaging his feet, she was bringing blankets to keep his feet warm,” she said.

“As awful as death is, it was a beautiful experience because of her.”

At one point, in his last hours, Seymour’s father asked his daughter to snap a photograph of the nurse’s badge, which had her picture and her name.

Seymour said she understood in that moment, he would want her to find that nurse after his death to thank her.

People like Christy Clark don't realise that they are part of the problem.

It's not just personal support for the liquidation of human life. It is propping up an entire industry and political apparatus that keeps it going. That's why defending one's right to agree or disagree is moot. The damage is done. It's like supporting Jewish professors long after they've been dismissed (yes, I Godwinned this):

“The talk about abortion rights during the debate really bugged me,” wrote Clark, pointing to the heat directed at both Scheer and May.

“So what? Should people who are pro-life be barred from participating in public life?” asked Clark.

Also - there is that sickening slippery slope again:

On cross-examination, deputy attorney general Johnette Jauron did not rebut Daleiden’s “detailed research into fetal organ trafficking including the commission [of] violent felonies,” it states.

It summarizes Daleiden’s testimony that he discovered a 2012 Stanford School of Medicine study that used human fetal hearts supplied by fetal tissue procurement company StemExpress in a Langendorff apparatus, and that stem cell expert Dr. Theresa Deisher, who testified at the preliminary hearing, told him the study required a beating heart harvested from a living baby.

Daleiden learned from Perrin Larton of Advanced Bioscience Resources “that she knew of intact fetuses simply falling out of the womb during abortion procedures. She would then harvest organs from these fetuses. She described these fetuses as not breathing but she was not a doctor and did not check them for a heartbeat,” the brief states.

Abortionist Dr. Forrest Smith testified “that a later term second or third trimester fetus that was not killed in the womb and was delivered (as described by Perrin Larton) would create a rebuttable presumption that the fetus was alive with a beating heart and that the abortion doctor would have had a legal duty to try to keep him or her alive.”

Before publishing the videos, Daleiden took his findings to several law enforcement agencies. Based on this evidence, the Orange County district attorney’s office “shut down a fetal tissue procurement company for profiting off the sale of human fetal organs.”

But two California attorneys general “brought these criminal charges against the whistleblower for uncovering the truth” in an effort “to protect their political ally Planned Parenthood,” Ferreira’s brief states. “This sham prosecution … must end.”

There should be no reason why the CBC is even up and running:

Despite the success of award-winning TV drama co-productions such as Anne with an E and Alias Grace, the head of the CBC says the broadcaster will no longer work with Netflix Inc. 

“We’re not going to do deals that hurt the long-term viability of our domestic industry,” president and CEO Catherine Tait told the Content Canada podcast last week. 

“A number of countries have done deals, as we did, with Netflix … and over time we start to see that we’re feeding the growth of Netflix, or we’re feeding the growth of Amazon, rather than feeding our own domestic business and industry.”

Because they produce things that people want to watch.




How interesting:

Scientists have discovered that humans have an innate or “salamander-like” ability to regenerate cartilage, which could lead to treatments for diseases such as osteoarthritis — and possibly provide a starting point for human limb regeneration.