Halloween Week: The Purge

 

No, really:

Justin Trudeau just served us with a notice of appeal to our Federal Court win, which allowed us to report on the leaders' debates during the election.

He’s sending lawyers to the Federal Court of Appeal to overturn our free speech victory in the campaign, the one that got us into the election debates.

Once again, PM Blackface proves what mincing, vindictive little coward he is.

I expected other sites and even journalists to be Putined.


Also - the vindictive little sh-- wasted no time here, either:

May I remind @PremierScottMoe that 70% of Canadians just voted for parties that support #carbonpricing (oh, and by the way, you lost twice in the courts) "Moe calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cancel the federal carbon tax" https://t.co/S4CPcwIXNM @nationalpost #elxn42

— Steven Guilbeault (@s_guilbeault) October 24, 2019

First of all, carbon isn't a pollutant.

Secondly, some provinces already had a taxpayer-gouging tax in existence so why would they vote for that twice?

Thirdly, did you mention that this tax, often applied more than once, is going to go up? No?

And:

The Trudeau Carbon Tax costs one Saskatchewan farmer $5495.18 last month. I can guarantee his rebate won't cover this extra cost.

How much is the Carbon Tax costing your family? pic.twitter.com/vhGbWqWYni

— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) October 24, 2019

(Merci)

It's amazing what an election can do to one's - ahem - principles:

The so-called “resistance” force of Conservative premiers waging war against the carbon tax implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began showing cracks on Tuesday, following the Liberals’ re-election.

While some of the five provincial leaders who had publicly criticized or legally challenged the carbon tax maintained their attacks in the hours after voters elected a minority Liberal government, at least one appeared to back down.

The dissenter was New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, who watched as residents handed six of his province’s 10 seats to Liberals and one to a member of the Green party during Monday’s vote.

“Our position was always let the industry pay for the technology to put into research and development and not force taxpayers to pay that,” Higgs said at a news conference. “People voted for it, so we in New Brunswick have to find a way to make it work.”

Higgs paved the way for the province to come up with its own scheme to reduce carbon emissions, which would free New Brunswick from the federal carbon tax.

Enjoy your province's poverty, Mr. Higgs. You can own it. 

Also - oh, the government screwed you over? Quelle surprise: 

Small businesses hoping to get funds from the federal carbon tax for energy-retrofit projects are still waiting, as the government has stopped the distribution of grants until after the election. Some business owners worry a potential change in government could mean the promised funds will never materialize.

But children. YOU are paying for this. Don't you get it?:

A group of youths from across Canada is suing the federal government for failing to adequately take action on the climate crisis and putting future generations at risk.

The 15 youths, who range in age from 11 to 18 and hail from eight provinces and the Northwest Territories, say the Canadian government’s contribution to high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change violate their rights to life, liberty and security of the person under Section 7 of the Charter, and fail to protect essential public trust resources.

They also allege the government’s actions violate their right to equality under Section 15 of the Charter, as the effects of climate change disproportionately affect young people.

(Sidebar: kids, the toilet paper that is the Charter is biodegradable. I don't know if that helps but give it a try.) 

Where do you think the money is going to come from, kids? 

If the government can proudly sue veterans (you know - useful people), what makes you think that you will see a dime of that money that mummy and daddy put into the system?




Alberta, withdraw from the employment insurance scheme. Death by a thousand cuts to the rest of Canada:

The alternative is to make the accommodation of Alberta and the transformation of its economy a central focus of his government. This approach is fraught with difficulty, particularly in the absence of a willing provincial partner. But it is the key both to addressing Canada’s response to climate change and to sustaining a nationally important regional economy.

Justin will not do that, you silly creature.




It begins:

Water and sewage services underpin the basic function of regional government — but they don't come cheap. 

Metro Vancouver politicians gave their tentative approval on Wednesday to a budget that would increase expenses from $836.4 million in 2019 to $890.1 million next year.

To remind one: 

Fifty percent would be criminal, of course. Even the sketchiest credit-card provider and those devious pay-day loan outfits aren’t that greedy.

But any tax on the sale of one’s main home would also be wrong, unless there was a business link.

China -

This China:

A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than three months, marine data showed.

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The People’s Republic of China destroyed a church that reportedly could seat 3,000 people and detained its pastors, according to a human rights organization.

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Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being forced to work in the sex trade in China, according to a new report by a London-based rights group. 

They are often abducted and sold as prostitutes, or compelled to marry Chinese men, says the Korea Future Initiative. 

The trade is worth $100m (£79m) a year for criminal organisations, it says. 

The women are often trapped because China repatriates North Koreans, who then face torture at home, it says. 

"Victims are prostituted for as little as 30 Chinese yuan ($4.30; £3.40), sold as wives for just 1,000 yuan, and trafficked into cybersex dens for exploitation by a global online audience," the report's author Yoon Hee-soon said.

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- rewarded someone fashioning herself as a Canadian for her invaluable work for the same country that let its people die in famine and under tanks:

Beijing’s new ambassador to Canada is holding up a Canadian recently hailed as a hero devoted to the Chinese Communist Party as an example of good bilateral ties between Canada and China.

Cong Peiwu, the new envoy, recently delivered remarks in Ottawa celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and cited the case of Isabel Crook, a Canadian anthropologist and teacher who has been a supporter of the communist cause for many decades.

Ms. Crook and her husband, David, were detained on allegations of spying during China’s bloody Cultural Revolution, but they remained in the country after their release. She is now 104 and still lives in China.

Diplomatic ties between Canada and China have deteriorated significantly in the past 11 months since Beijing locked up two Canadians on allegations of espionage. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor were taken into custody in apparent retaliation for the Canadian arrest of a Chinese tech executive to comply with a U.S. extradition order.

Despite the chill in relations, Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this fall conferred a rare honour on Ms. Crook, awarding the Canadian the Medal of Friendship, a prize reserved for foreigners who have made contributions to China’s socialist modernization and promoted co-operation with other countries. The medal has only been awarded eight times and recipients include Russian President Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro, the current first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first president of Kazakhstan.

There is somewhat good news today:

A court in eastern Bangladesh sentenced the principal of an Islamic school and 15 others to death on Thursday over the killing of an 18-year-old woman who was set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against the principal.

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Abdulahi Hasan Sharif has been found guilty of all charges laid against him in the 2017 Edmonton attacks that saw a police officer stabbed and four pedestrians run down by a U-Haul van.

I'm sure he will appeal.




And now, creepy dolls just in time for Halloween:

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