Friday Post

Just in time for the week-end ...




I believe the word that I am looking for this is - "Suckers!":

As Quebec’s premier says his province is just days away from running out of propane due to the ongoing strike at Canadian National Railway, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says there is a simple solution: pipelines.

On Thursday, Quebec Premier François Legault said his province only had four days before its propane supply would run out, creating an “emergency” situation for hospitals, farms and nursing homes.

Legault urged Ottawa to “accelerate negotiations” between CN Railway and the union representing its 3,200 conductors, train and yard workers, and to pass back-to-work legislation if necessary. 

Around 85 per cent of Quebec’s propane reserve is supplied by rail.

“Here’s my message for Premier Legault: We have technology that could guarantee you constant, stable access to propane and other fuels,” Kenney said Thursday from Texas during a Facebook Live chat.

“They’re called pipelines.”

Don't help them. Kenney. Let the b@$#@rds freeze.

Winter is coming ...


Also:

The premier of Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, said Wednesday that the end of a government-imposed curtailment on oil production could come earlier than its December 2020 sunset date.

"We hope it will end by this time next year at the latest," Premier Jason Kenney told Reuters during an interview in Houston, where he met with executives from Chevron Corp, Phillips 66, other oil pipeline and private equity firms.

Alberta introduced mandatory oil production curbs on Jan. 1, 2019, to reduce a crude glut that depressed regional prices. It has relaxed some limits to allow for more output and to try and stimulate more drilling and investment.

When the curtailment was begun, Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude oil was selling at a $50-a-barrel discount to U.S. crude oil. The limits have improved selling prices, with the discount to U.S. crude on Wednesday at $21.25-a-barrel for December delivery.

Growth in demand for Canadian crude should increase because of new projects like Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement which could carry more than 300,000 bpd from Alberta to Chicago in 2021, said Kenney.

Conventional crude accounts for 16% of the province's oil production, with the vast majority coming from oil sands, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator. Oil sands involve an environmentally hazardous oil-extraction that can involve open-pit mining and require lots of energy.

Earlier this month, Kenney agreed to allow companies to produce additional oil if they move it by rail, which would reduce transport bottlenecks. Alberta could use oil jobs and revenue from new investment, having projected a 2019-20 fiscal year deficit of up to C$8.7 billion ($6.5 billion).

Curtailment was introduced by the previous government in Alberta, and continued by Kenney, who leads the province's United Conservative Party.

"My citizens - they own that oil," he said. "I cannot in good conscience allow it to be given away."

And:

The Liberal government will not accept major tweaks to its contentious environmental review legislation, despite public comments in recent days suggesting Bill C-69 could still be on the table, an official familiar with the matter says.

Jim Carr, the Liberal’s special representative to the Prairies, said on Thursday there is an “openness to look at the legislation” on the part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, prompting questions over whether Ottawa would be accepting new amendments to Bill C-69, which expands the environmental review process for major projects like sea ports and nuclear facilities.

His comments came days after a meeting between Trudeau and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, in which the prime minister said he would be open to “suggestions for improvements” to the implementation of the bill.

From the most "transparent" government ever re-elected:

Federal Attorney General David Lametti has issued a secrecy certificate overruling a judge’s decision to release documents in the case of an Ontario man accused of attempting to spy for China.

Lametti signed the document — a first in Canada’s history — to prevent the disclosure of information related to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) surveillance operation on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa.

“This certificate, issued personally by me, prohibits the disclosure of some of the information disclosed by a designated judge of the Federal Court,” reads the document signed by Lametti. The certificate was first reported on by the Globe and Mail.

The certificate was issued in the ongoing criminal case of Qing “Quentin” Huang, who was arrested in 2013 in Burlington, Ont., following an RCMP-led investigation called Project Seascape.

“The certificate is issued in connection with a criminal proceeding [R v. Qing] for the purpose of protecting information obtained in confidence from, or in relation to, a foreign entity or for the purpose of protecting national security or national defence,” the document reads. The information is sealed for 10 years and could be renewed after that time.

 

Huang was an employee with a subcontracting company to Irving Shipbuilding Inc. and was charged under the Security of Information Act with attempting to leak secrets to a foreign power.

Read into it what you will.


Also - yes, China does expect Justin and his re-hashed band of incompetent bootlickers to pay the piper:

Lawyers for Huawei Technologies Co Ltd asked a Canadian court to immediately stay proceedings seeking to extradite the company’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

Huawei spokesman Benjamin Howes said in an email that the company believes the extradition fails to meet the Canadian standard of double criminality.

You know it's bad when the fossil that let Zehra Kazemi's murderers get away with their crimes has to step up to bat for you:

Former prime minister Jean Chretien is advising Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to remember that he is “prime minister for all Canadians” in the face of western Canadian alienation.

You're not fooling anyone, Ad-Scam.


Meanwhile Justin is pretending to do work with Ford ... or something.




Not an Onion article:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped a point person for his party’s goal of growing the middle class.

Mona Fortier was named Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Finance Minister on Wednesday.

Because his four years of razing raising the middle-class just needed a special ministry.

Canadians are going to get the government they voted for good and hard.

The middle-class will be as extinct as any dinosaur.




What could go wrong?:

The government agency set up to investigate claims of human rights abuses by Canadian companies abroad wants expanded powers, the head of the watchdog said, setting up a clash with the mining industry which has fought to limit its reach.

The bloated government we have now has failed to put Justin in prison.




Professor Peterson, the inhabitants of this country are so emotionally retarded that they believe conscience rights equals dead gay kids. "Diversity" is a word they cannot spell let alone define:

“Diversity” is a word that, on the face of it, masquerades as something positive — because it is positive, in some of its manifestations. It’s obviously not helpful to set up an organization where everyone thinks alike, or solely in the approved manner. It is necessary, for example, for healthy organizations to ally the conservative tendency to preserve with the more liberal tendency to transform. But that begs the question: where is diversity to be found? Among the ideologues — pushing the “progressive” doctrine that it’s part of, most frequently including “inclusivity, equity and intersectionality” — it is to be found in a set of immutable characteristics that typify different groups, including race, sex, gender (because that is distinguished by those same ideologues from sex) and sexual proclivity, above all.

There are real problems with this agenda, however. The first is that it’s dangerous, in exactly the manner it is hypothetically designed to fight. The argument made by those who are truly prejudiced has always been that the differences between groups are so large that discrimination, isolation, segregation and even open conflict, including war and genocide, are necessary, for the safety of whatever group they are part of and are hypothetically protecting. Why is it any less risky for the argument to be made in the reverse manner? The claim that group-based differences are so important that they must take substantive priority during hiring and promotion merely risks validating the opposite claim.

There’s a second problem, too — and it’s particularly interesting, because it has been made by the same ideologically-oriented groups on the left that are pushing the diversity agenda: considering race, say, and gender when making diversity decisions is not sufficient. Diversity that focuses on females is insufficient, because black, Asian or Hispanic women, for example, face more egregious prejudice that white women.

This brings us to the last word of the progressive set—“intersectionality.” For the ideologues of intersectionality, true diversity cannot be limited to the features we have already considered — race and the like — because many people are alienated or, in the jargon, “marginalized,” from the broader culture by more than one oppressed minority feature. In consequence, the “intersection” between the groups must be considered for any real justice to make its appearance as a consequence of policy.

But there appears to be no limits, practically or philosophically, to the number of group memberships that have to be taken into account for true diversity to establish itself. It doesn’t take much thought — just a little arithmetic — to determine the nature of the problem: There are just too many potential intersectional categories.

How is this for "diversity"?:

York University has launched a review of how it handles free expression on campus over the Middle East conflict, after a Jewish student group’s event featuring former Israeli soldiers was disrupted by a massive protest Wednesday night.

“I want to emphasize in the strongest possible terms that acts of violence are not tolerated on our campuses and York University has zero tolerance for hate. There is simply no place for it in our community,” said York’s president Rhonda Lenton in a statement. She said she was “deeply disappointed” by the “verbal and physical confrontations.”

Oh, shut up! Everyone knows that York University is synonymous with Jew-hatred now.

Just like the Canadian government.




Without freedom of speech and expression, one would never know what an utter prat this repellent troll is:

One of the founders of Extinction Rebellion was facing possible expulsion from the movement yesterday (Wednesday) over remarks in which he allegedly questioned the significance of the Holocaust.

Roger Hallam, a former organic farmer in south Wales who co-founded the global activist movement, described the Holocaust as “just another f–ery in human history”, according to Zeit, a leading German newspaper.

Thanks for sinking yourself, douche.




I wouldn't rule it out, no:

The bubonic plague is the most common and people can get it because of an infected flea’s bite or from handling an infected, dead animal. The bacteria, Yersinia pestis, causes painful swelling in the lymph nodes. If it gets worse, the inflamed lymph nodes can turn into open sores and fill with pus.

If the bubonic plague spreads to a person’s lungs, it then turns into the more severe pneumonic plague. It’s the most virulent form of the infectious disease and symptoms can begin in 24 hours.

Symptoms for both include fever, chills, head and body aches, vomiting, weakness and nausea.

Oh, South Korea ... :

South Korea suggested Tuesday it may break off talks with Japan at the World Trade Organization aimed at settling their dispute over Tokyo’s export restrictions.

“We will not have talks for the sake of talks,” South Korean chief negotiator Chung Hae-kwan told reporters after holding a second round of negotiations with Japan at the Geneva-based organization following Seoul’s filing of a complaint with the body in September.

The meeting of more than six hours took place as part of dispute-settlement procedures under WTO rules. Chung said South Korea will conduct a review of what steps to take next, “including requesting the establishment of a panel.”

South Korea can request the establishment of a dispute-settlement panel at any time if it sees no prospect of reaching a deal bilaterally with Japan.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Mann: