On a Monday

So much happening ...




Now that Justin has Chinese money, he doesn't care about your futile, gas-guzzling protest:

Quebec farmers have taken to the streets in Montreal again on Monday as the Canadian National Railway (CN) strike continues its seventh day across the country.

The Union des Producteurs Agricoles du Québec (UPA) is calling on officials to intervene as a propane shortage strikes the province. Farmers argue the situation is critical and that there needs to be a way for propane delivery to resume.

The convoy of tractors made its way to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s riding office in Montreal, where farmers dumped corn on the ground. The protest comes after farmers visited CN headquarters on Friday last week.

Quebec, it's time to pen a letter - in English - explaining to Alberta how much you love it and its oil. Do this because the government that you depend on to give you special status above all provinces and territories will bugger this up.

Alberta is tired of your antipathy and other bullsh-- and rightly so.

Karma isn't a French word but I'm sure you know what it means.


Also:

The federal government says the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will bring another $500 million a year in corporate tax revenue to be spent on fighting climate change, but the Liberals won’t say where they got that number.

It's just money:

Compared to the U.S., Canadians are also falling behind when it comes to other sources of income.

“Zooming in on gross personal income, just under one half of the widening in the gap is due to lower growth in rental and interest/dividend income in Canada, as well as faster growth in government transfers in the U.S.”

The veterans were asking for too much, too:

The federal government is fighting a recent Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling on Indigenous child welfare because it takes a “one-size-fits-all” approach and excludes many First Nations children who suffered from underfunding of child and family services, government lawyers argued Monday.

Federal Court is hearing arguments this week in the Liberal government’s bid to put the tribunal’s decision on hold, as Ottawa grapples with how best to compensate Indigenous children who were unnecessarily removed from their families and communities.

Just before the hearing got underway on Monday morning, federal ministers announced that although they are challenging the tribunal’s ruling, they are planning to negotiate compensation through a separate class-action lawsuit that covers a larger number of people.

“The Government of Canada is committed to seeking a comprehensive settlement on compensation that will ensure long-term benefits for individuals and families and enable community healing,” Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller and Justice Minister David Lametti said in a statement.

It's called haggling with Big Aboriginal.

Let them fight.




I'm sure the US knows exactly how it can deal with the Liberals on this:

James Bezan, Conservative MP for Selkirk–Interlake–Eastman, says the United States has fired a “warning shot” with a diplomatic letter strongly critical of the Canadian government’s failure to hit agreed-upon international targets for defence spending increases — and that it must be taken seriously.

Bezan, who served as the Conservative defence critic in the most recent session of Parliament, said the letter delivered from the U.S. government to the Department of National Defence, bluntly criticizing Canadian defence spending, should make it clear to Ottawa that it needs to step up its game if it wants to protect both itself and its core alliances in an increasingly restive world.

In case people weren't sure,  the Liberals work for China and you voted for that:

Trudeau’s defence minister Harjit Sajjan, commenting at a security forum in Halifax, had this to say about Communist China:

“We don’t consider China as an adversary. Some of the things that China from a security perspective have been doing is concerning, and we need to be mindful of that. But it’s only through the appropriate discussions that we are able to get back into a rules-based order.”

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Canada’s new foreign affairs minister hit the ground running this weekend, spending an hour in face-to-face talks with his Chinese counterpart over the fate of two Canadian men that the Trudeau government maintains are being arbitrarily detained.

Ahem: 

Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor have been imprisoned for almost a year since the diplomatic dispute between China and Canada erupted in early December of last year when the RCMP arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the request of the United States on an extradition warrant.

The emergence Sunday of a leaked Chinese government blueprint for imprisoning one million Muslim Uighurs in China’s western Xinjiang province is focusing attention on another Canadian detainee. Huseyin Celil, who settled in southern Ontario after becoming a Canadian citizen, is a former Uighur activist who has been imprisoned in China for 13 years.

Is Champagne pressing  the Chinese about him, too?

These Chinese:

Pro-Democracy forces have won a massive landslide in the local elections, flipping a huge amount of seats and crushing pro-Beijing candidates.

In total, pro-Democracy candidates won 388 seats, up from 262 in the 2015 election.

Meanwhile, the pro-Beijing camp went from 236 seats to just 62.

Was it something they said?





The horse has long since ran out of the barn, the same barn that has allowed ISIS welfare recipients to return:

A concerted crackdown on the Islamic State’s online propaganda machine has dealt a serious blow to the extremist group’s official news agency and communications channels, European law enforcement officials said Monday.A four-day operation took down thousands of items, including accounts and information linked to the Amaqagency, which spreads IS propaganda and news, the officials said.

Conan, the dog who helped take down ISIS leader, al Baghdadi, is enjoying a tour of the White House:

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed an unusual guest to the White House on Monday — Conan, the military service dog who helped hunt down Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

“This is Conan, right now probably the world’s most famous dog,” said Trump, flanked by his wife Melania, Vice President Mike Pence, Conan and a handler.

“We’re very honored to have had Conan here and to have given Conan a certificate and an award that we’re going to put up in the White House,” Trump told reporters on the steps facing the White House garden.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi who rose from obscurity to declare himself “caliph” of all Muslims as the leader of Islamic State, died last month by detonating a suicide vest after he fled into a dead-end tunnel as elite U.S. special forces closed in.

Also - this good boy:

Many are calling this stray dog a hero after it was found cuddling five orphaned kittens that were stuck in the snow during a chilly night in Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

The animals were found in the cold last weekend by a passerby who then brought the animals to the Pet and Wildlife Rescue shelter.

The shelter shared a photo of the animals safely indoors and added the caption, “Our stray sweetheart is keeping her ‘babies’ safe at the shelter tonight!”

(source)