Mid-Week Post

Five days until Judgment Day ...




"WAAAAAH! People are being mean to me!" cries a frat-boy whose term as prime minister looks as though it is circling the drain:

“Everything I tried to do in the last four years has been focused on bringing the country together. Yet we find ourselves now in a more polarized, more divisive election than even the 2015 one,” said Trudeau.

Is that so, Justin?

Justin Trudeau, 2010: “Canada isn’t doing well right now because it’s Albertans who control our community and socio-democratic agenda. It doesn’t work.”

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Parliament turned downright ugly when an impatient Prime Minister Justin Trudeau crossed the aisle to drag an opposition MP forward so a vote could take place, knocking aside a female NDP MP who was so shaken she had to leave the chamber.  ...

The mood was tense as each side traded insults. By the end of the day, tempers before the vote were running high. As Trudeau crossed the floor, he was allegedly overheard by NDP MPs to say “Get the f--- out of my way.”

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Barely 24 hours after criticizing “the politics of personal attacks” and vowing to run a positive and inclusive Liberal Party campaign in 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Conservatives questioning the transfer of convicted child-murderer Terri-Lynne McClintic from prison to a healing lodge of being “ambulance-chasing politicians.”

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“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” Trudeau said, concluding that he sees Canada as “the first post-national state.”

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"Why are we still fighting certain veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now," Trudeau said, answering a question from a veteran, who said he lost his leg to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, during a town hall meeting on Thursday evening in Edmonton.

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Help me out. Who is still attacking a provincial leader (like that matters during a federal election) for unfair treatment to autistic students, completely ignoring the fact that the previous provincial Liberal government treated those children like sh--? Who is the misogynist pig who drags a non-election provincial issue like abortion into a federal campaign?

Who is that, Justin? 




Disabled Canadians are appealing to governments that target them for death.

Euthanasia is a great way to keep costs down: 

The Liberals response to questions on disability policy largely focused on past achievements. Spokesman Joe Pickerill did offer some future plans, including doubling the disability child benefit, establishing a $40-million-per-year national fund meant to help disabled Canadians find work, and simplifying the process veterans use to access disability benefits.

The Green party did not respond to request for comment, and the People’s Party of Canada said its platform contained “no policy related to disabled persons.”

The NDP did not provide comment to The Canadian Press, but made several commitments to strengthen the Accessible Canada Act in a letter sent to an Ontario-based disability advocacy group.

The act, while widely acknowledged as a significant milestone, was also broadly criticized by nearly a hundred grass-roots organizations across the country as too weak to be truly effective. Such critiques continued even after the government agreed to adopt some Senate amendments sought by the disability groups, who hoped future governments would continue to build on the new law.

 
"Let's abolish the Senate," says man who has no idea what he is talking about:

Abolishing the Senate would give Canadians better representation, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said on Tuesday, doubling down on his party’s long-standing pledge to ditch Parliament’s chamber of sober second thought.

During a campaign stop in the Toronto riding former NDP leader Jack Layton once held, Singh said senators represent the interests of the political parties that appointed them, not Canadians.

“The reality is the Senate doesn’t really represent people,” he told reporters.

Neither does an absolutist government that can move without hindrance, Jag.


Also - in-fighting has come back to haunt the NDP:

The leaders of a mass political defection that wasn’t in New Brunswick are now suing the federal NDP, its leader Jagmeet Singh and a prominent MP for defamation, claiming all three tarred them as racists.

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In a statement issued on Tuesday, a lawyer for Jonathan Richardson — formerly a member of the NDP executive in Atlantic Canada — said Richardson would not be making any public statements about the suit but claimed that Singh and others defamed him by claiming the defection was motivated by racism.”

“The NDP, its Leader, and other prominent members turned to the media and social media to say the move was due to racism,” claimed Ryder Gilliland, a lawyer with DMG Advocates LLP.

 



Do you know what? Who cares?:

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is refusing to explain how he travelled to the United States as a citizen without a valid U.S. passport.

Multiple requests to the party for an explanation have been ignored over the last 11 days.

Why isn't this man bot fly food?:

Slender and clean-shaven, Ali is a puzzle: a former University of Calgary student who left home to live in ISIS territory but claims he was never a member of ISIS.

His case highlights the challenges governments face following the collapse of ISIS six months ago as they are asked to repatriate and prosecute their citizens held in camps and prisons in northern Syria.

No one goes to live in ISIS territory for the fun of it.

There are no challenges. People like Ali should never be allowed to return. Even the act of leaving Canada to support ISIS in some marginal way is treason.


Also - he can soil himself in a Syrian prison while the election campaigns rage on. Not even PM Blackface is stupid enough to intervene now:

The parents of Canadian citizen Jack Letts say the Turkish invasion of northeast Syria could well be a death sentence for the alleged ISIL sympathizer, and are urging Ottawa to rescue their son before it’s too late.

And:

The Trudeau government has previously stated that ensuring Canadian terrorists face justice is their “top priority,” there have been a grand total of zero ISIS suspects who have met such a fate.

In an interview with former federal government national security lawyer Leah West and extremist researcher Prof. Amarnath Amarsingham at a Kurdish-led base, Khalifa admitted to leaving Canada with the intention of joining ISIS and narrating ISIS propaganda videos, with one of those being the infamous beheading video titled Flames of War.

West says Khalifa should face a variety of charges, including participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity and counselling terrorist activity, and taking part in war crimes.

“His voice is very identifiable. And he acknowledges that that is his voice. It wouldn’t be that hard to match the two up,” said West.

“So to me, this is pretty strong evidence that he … committed these crimes. And that type of evidence could be used and would be admissible in a Canadian court.”

Indeed?




If people economically starved China as they ought to have done decades ago, LeBron James' craven toadying might not be an issue right now:

But by offering only — and repeatedly — that Morey should have thought more about the consequences of his words, James staked out a position that is more pro-China than that of even the NBA. Commissioner Adam Silver has insisted that his league values freedom of speech, even if it means dealing with the aftermath of those words. The league’s subsequent efforts to avoid uttering any more controversial words on the subject undermines the point somewhat, but at least Silver said Morey had the right to say what’s on his mind. James, quite clearly, has indicated that Morey should have kept his tweet fingers holstered.

Does this invalidate all the thoughtful comments that James has previously issued on social issues? It does not, as much as the usual stick-to-sports crowd now insists that it does. Yes, it looks a lot like James’ non-basketball interests, which include entertainment productions that stand to make serious money in China, could have influenced why he would try to stay on the good side of a Communist dictatorship. In this, he would share something with just about every Western capitalist or politician who deals with the massive Chinese market. But he’s allowed to come down on the wrong side of an issue without it meaning he is always wrong.

Oh, no - he is wrong.

Is Hong Kong the new Tibet? Is it a new fashionable cause that doesn't address the underlying roots of despair?




Mrs. Kay, anti-Catholicism and Catholic conspiracies were the norm in earlier centuries and are the norm now. It's just that contemporary hate-mongers are more leftist but not vastly different from those who adhere to the gospel according to Jack Chick:

There are 600 Opus Dei members in all of Canada (90,000 worldwide), mostly lay people, decent Canadian families quietly living their faith. To imply that they, or any Christian pro-life group, have the will or power to undemocratically infiltrate our government with the intent of directing abortion policy is a conspiracy theory — uncomfortably redolent of the myriad political conspiracy theories promulgated about Jews — that should not be peddled to Canadian readers by any responsible journalist. In this era of image, after all, it gives those who do ‘le look’ of illiberal liberalism.

The same establishment that accepts the histrionics of a silly-looking Swedish girl with no scientific background is also punishing a scientist for pointing out the truth about polar bears:

Crockford describes her expulsion as “an academic hanging without a trial, conducted behind closed doors.” After being renewed unanimously in 2016 for a three-year term, her adjunct status was not renewed the next time around.

Crockford is the author of a popular blog, polarbearscience.com, as well as five books about these animals. Polar Bear Facts and Myths has been translated into four languages. She says that, contrary to the claims of environmental activists, polar bears are currently thriving and are at no risk of extinction from climate change.

Informing the public of these plain facts now appears to be unacceptable to UVic. After 15 years, Crockford was advised in May that an internal Appointment Reappointment Promotion and Tenure (ARPT) committee had “voted not to renew your Adjunct Status.” No reasons were provided. Having undergone hip surgery in the interim, Crockford is only now going public.

When contacted by the National Post recently, UVic spokesman Paul Marck refused to say how many people were on the ARPT committee, how many voted against Crockford, or how many were zoologists in a position to make an informed decision about her abilities.

The position of Adjunct Professor is unpaid. In exchange for mentoring students, sitting on thesis committees, and delivering occasional lectures, adjuncts gain official academic standing and full access to library research services. When asked what safeguards ensure that adjuncts can’t be excommunicated merely for expressing unpopular ideas, spokesman Marck declined to respond, citing provincial privacy legislation. In his words, the university doesn’t disclose “information about internal processes. We must respect the privacy rights of all members of our campus community.”

In this case, the university is not protecting Crockford’s right to privacy. Instead, it is using a privacy smokescreen to protect members of a committee who have decided to purge an adjunct professor without reason or explanation.

Farmers feed cities. Starve the b@$#@rds:

Thousands of Dutch farmers on tractors blocked traffic in and around The Hague on Wednesday in protest against what they say are attempts to blame them for nitrogen pollution.

Convoys of tractors set out in the early morning, first for the city of Utrecht and later to The Hague, causing long traffic jams across the country. More than 375 km (233 miles) of roads were blocked, according to drivers organization ANWB.

It is the third time the farmers have mounted a day of protest, in a campaign launched after a court ruling in May found the Netherlands in violation of European emission rules.

Livestock farming is a leading cause of nitrogen pollution, along with construction and transportation. But farmers argue they have made substantial efforts to cut emissions and their role in providing food for the nation is under-appreciated.

“Last year you didn’t hear anything about nitrogen, and now suddenly it’s a mortal question,” farmer Micha Bouwer of the Farmers Defence Force told state broadcaster NOS.

“These are all people in the city who have two plants on their balcony and say ‘nature is suffering’."

There's that pesky little First Amendment:

Current state laws allow Florida public schools to offer Bible courses, but a new bill is going to make them a requirement.

Though House Bill 341 wouldn’t force students to take a Bible class, it would require all public schools to offer them in the curricula.

An utterly horrifying close save:

Police say a man in northern India digging a grave for his daughter on Thursday evening found a baby buried alive in a nearby pot.

Hitesh Kumar Sirohi took his daughter to be buried near a cremation ground in Bareilly after his wife, Vaishali, gave birth to a stillborn child Thursday morning.

As an employee began digging a grave for her, they were shocked to hear crying coming from an earthen pot that his shovel hit.

“When he noticed a newborn girl inside it, he immediately rescued her and dialled… for help,” local police in Uttar Pradesh told Agence-France Presse.

“We are now trying to find the parents of the baby,” officials said in a statement. “We will take strict action against those who have buried the infant alive.”