Halloween Week: The Barkening

 

What is more horrifying than a sitting president ordering the death of an Islamic terrorist?

That a dog was instrumental in his demise:

Trump tweeted a photo of a Belgian Malinois that he said worked with a team of special forces in the capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a tunnel beneath a compound in northeastern Syria.

Unconfirmed reports state that Trump will offer the dog in question the Congressional Medal of Good Boy in a private ceremony.


Vaguely related - this girl also needs some kind medal:

• Rebecca Munkombwe, 11, rescued her 9-year-old friend Latoya Muwani from the grips of a crocodile after the reptile attacked her while swimming in a stream in Zimbabwe last week, The Sunday Times reported.
• Rebecca jumped on top of the croc and gouged its eyes out, which caused it to lose its grip on Latoya, who escaped with just minor injuries.

When Justin resumes his political dilettantism, the following will happen: ANYONE who points out his moral and political corruption will be silenced forever and soon-to-be bankrupt Canadians will get good and hard the government they voted for.

Cases in point:

Online extremists are increasingly disappearing into closed Facebook groups that are hard to monitor, experts say. They’re frustrated by what they see as a failure by the platform to confront the problem, and say they are wary of the danger of violent words spilling over into violent acts.

Oh, be honest. Any criticism of Justin et al is going to be couched with the oddball. It makes it easier to kick down doors, remove computers and set up a firewall for the entire country.

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According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos Reid for MNP, Canadians said they are left with an average of $557 dollars at the end of the month after the bills have been taken care of and debt paid down. That’s $142 less than in June, and the least since tracking began in 2016.

Nearly half (48 per cent) said they have $200 leftover, 29 per cent of whom said they don’t have enough to cover their bills and debt. Each measure is up 4 percentage points since June.

(Sidebar: you're not going to like the rising carbon taxes.)

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There’s more bad news for Canada’s auto sector, with the Ford Motor Company announcing the elimination of 450 jobs at the Oakville assembly plant.

Both the Lincoln MKT and the Ford Flex will be discontinued, according to an announcement by the company reported by Reuters:

‘“We will stop building the Ford Flex at the end of November. Lincoln MKT production ended earlier this month,” said Kelli Felker, manufacturing & labor communications manager at Ford.”

Canada’s auto sector has been struggling, with production continuing to shift towards Mexico in many cases. Clearly, the new NAFTA deal signed by the Trudeau government has done nothing to mitigate the damage.

Justin has resurrected the fossil, Anne MacClellan, in a poor attempt to assuage the fuming masses out West:

The Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday confirmed that Trudeau has brought on Anne McLellan and Isabelle Hudon to serve as his transition advisers as the Liberals adjust to governing in a minority situation following an election campaign that rubbed raw fresh tensions between the West and the rest of the country.

McLellan served as the Liberal member of Parliament for Edmonton Northwest from 1993 to 2006 and held the posts of minister of natural resources and minister of justice during her time in office.

She most recently made headlines when Trudeau brought her on to conduct a review of whether the roles of minister of justice and attorney general should be separated in the wake of findings of improper political interference by his office in the SNC-Lavalin scandal.

Hudon is currently Canada's ambassador to France and the first woman to hold that position.

She is a prominent figure in Quebec business and political circles, having held senior leadership roles as CEO of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal along with others at Bombardier, the Canadian Space Agency and Sun Life Financial.

Justin funnelled Chinese money through his dad's foundation and used it for his campaign: 

In a statement, Global Affairs Canada said “The Canadian government remains deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities of these two Canadians since December 2018 and continues to call for their immediate release.”

Few details were released by the government, and Kovrig & Spavor remain imprisoned in China.

Notably, the Trudeau government has refused to take any strong retaliatory measures for the horrendous treatment of Kovrig & Spavor, sending a message that Canadian Citizens can be mistreated without any response, which thus puts more Canadians in danger.

First of all, Canadians are the Pharisees of North America. Rude, tactless and boorish, they hide their undesirable traits behind a front of smugness and a sneer of contemptible self-righteousness which they lord over the less Canadian of their North American brethren. Their penchant for political multiculturalism extends no further than an exotic dish at a lunch-time price.

Having said that, the refusal to insist and aid when and where possible non-English speakers in speaking the de facto language of business, English (which other countries trip over their own legs to learn because speaking the language is a marketable asset) creates not only a serf-like state in which immigrants are trapped with little hope of personal and professional advancement but distrust and confusion.

And it's just rude:

The woman who went on the attack, with a young boy next to her, is then approached by a third Shoppers Drug Mart employee who seems to request that she talk to the store manager.

“If you want to talk to me you bring your manager here you idiot. Or go speak Chinese with your other staff and shit talk me somewhere else,” the unidentified woman says in the video.

It is still not known how the altercation started but she continues to use profanity and demand that it is “rude” for the store staff to “speak Chinese” in front of her and requests that they “shut up” and “go somewhere else.”

“Saw this happen today at the Shoppers Drug Mart on Kingsway/McMurray,” the original caption on the video posted by Allen Tseng on Facebook reads.

“I just want to put this lady on blast for being extremely rude and racist. And hopefully show her there's consequences to this type of behaviour. It's sad to see this sort of racism still in 2019 and in Greater Vancouver, BC, and Canada.”

(Sidebar: did you film the entire incident and ask why the staff, who are required to speak English while on duty, weren't speaking X flavour of Chinese during off-hours but in front of the irate woman? No?) 

To remind one:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision after he chose to answer questions only in French during a town hall in Sherbrooke, Que., Tuesday night.

Rudeness: it's a Canadian value!

The Japanese hope that by showcasing Ainu culture it can smooth some rather difficult social wrinkles:

On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate.

At a cost so far of $220 million, Japan’s “Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony” is on track to open in time for the 2020 Olympics, part of a drive by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to draw millions of foreign visitors to Japan and to the northern city of Sapporo, where the Olympic marathon will be run.  

Also known as “Upopoy” or “singing together” in the Ainu language, the complex will include a museum, a replica of an Ainu village, many of which Japan destroyed in its 19th Century colonization of Hokkaido, and a memorial housing the bones of hundreds of Ainu whose remains were sent to universities in the 20th Century.

Good:

A Catholic priest in South Carolina reportedly enforced the church’s code of canon law by denying former Vice President Joe Biden the sacrament of Holy Communion due to his stance on abortion.

And now, more terrifying music for your Halloween listening pleasure: