Remembrance Week: Jeffrey Epstein Didn't Kill Himself

But one already knew that:

In the footage, Robach talks about how they had a woman ready to come forward three years ago, but alleges the “Palace” (British royal family) found out they had allegations against Prince Andrew “and threatened us a million different ways.”

“We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story,” said Robach, alluding to how the network didn’t want to lose access to the Royals.

“First I was told, who is Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story,” Robach also says in the footage, talking about her story on Epstein that wasn’t able to air.

The woman who came forward to ABC is Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims he allegedly had in his sex trafficking ring.

“She was in hiding for 12 years, we convinced her to come out,” said Robach.

“Brad Edwards [Giuffre’s lawyer], the attorney, three years ago saying like, like we, there will come a day when we realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known,” Robach also says in the explosive footage. “[Giuffre] had pictures, she had everything.”

From the most corrupt, duplicitous, lazy and censorial government in the country's history:

A key witness in Sami Bebawi’s fraud and corruption trial says he was once offered $10 million in exchange for more favourable testimony that could protect the former SNC-Lavalin executive vice-president.

Former executive Riadh Ben Aissa told jurors Tuesday he received the offer from Bebawi’s counsel while detained in Switzerland. He had been arrested in 2012 for his own role in the company’s Libyan dealings.

Ben Aissa said he was offered the money to make his eventual testimony match a version of events Bebawi had previously given Swiss authorities.

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But there is one “firewall” idea that Alberta should consider. In fact, were we to adopt this idea, it would definitely get Ottawa’s attention and it would serve as a helpful reminder to the rest of the country of Alberta’s immense value to Confederation. Not only that, but it would be totally up to Alberta. We wouldn’t need to try to force the feds to the negotiating table. If anything, they might be the ones asking us.

So, instead of a pointless vote on equalization, why not ask Albertans if they are in favour of opting out of the Canada Pension Plan and establishing our own provincial plan?

This is a program that Alberta contributes disproportionately to and Alberta would be well-positioned to set up its own plan. Moreover, Alberta leaving the CPP would ultimately have to mean higher contribution rates in other provinces. ...

It may well be that the case for leaving CPP is so strong that we should do it and not use it as a bargaining chip. Either way, though, a referendum would be a logical step before making a decision of this magnitude. And that referendum would definitely get noticed outside Alberta.

(Sidebar: Quebec has its own plan and the government is fine with it.)

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Canada’s premiers are looking to meet before the end of the year to deal with national unity issues and that meeting could be held in Toronto, seen by some as neutral grounds.

It’s interesting that the premiers are looking to deal with this pressing question while our PM is in Tofino for a vacation and some surfing.

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The RCMP has launched an internal review to make sure it's obeying the law in the way it monitors Canadians' social media accounts, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

The national police force says it keeps an eye on social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, among others) in two ways: reactively, after a crime has been committed, and proactively, to detect and prevent crimes.

During the recent election campaign, the RCMP even compiled daily threat reports on online expressions of hate targeting federal political leaders.

Now, the RCMP is auditing those techniques to make sure they agree with the law.

You are being watched by the Canadian government.

Canada is getting the government it voted for good and hard.

Cases in point:

Tougher U.S. sanctions on Cuba squeezed Sherritt International in the third quarter, disrupting the supply of diesel to its nickel mine on the island and casting doubt over the timing of key payments in foreign currency.

The Toronto based firm, which operates the Moa mine as a joint venture with the Cuban government, was forced to adopt conservation measures including running fewer mining trucks as U.S. sanctions on oil shipments worsened an acute fuel shortage.

(Sidebar: that should read uses cheap labour from Cuba in a country that forces its citizens to regularly go without.)

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Canada’s trade deficit stayed close to $1 billion in September, defying expectations that it would be much smaller.

Economists had predicted a trade deficit of $650 million for the month, but the deficit turned out to be $987 million.

Canada’s exports dropped 1.3% in September, with some of the biggest drops happening in the energy sector. Exports of refined gold also fell.

The value of imports also fell, down 1.7%.


In terms of volume changes (rather than price value), exports dropped a full 2.1%, while imports fell 1.6%.

The numbers for August were even worse, with the trade deficit being revised from $955 million to $1.2 billion.


In total, exports are down in the quarter by 2.3%.

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“According to new findings from Equifax Canada, 55 per cent of Canadians say they will spend less this year on holiday gifts. The report comes a week after an MNP LTD survey revealed 48 per cent of Canadians had less than $200 at the end of the month after living expenses and debt obligations, suggesting the anxiety is building around the amount of debt households already have. Taking on more debt at a time when there are so many economic uncertainties suggests it isn’t worth the unease and sleepless nights.”

Justin and his trust-fund don't have to cut costs.




China is pleased that Canada is bending to its will:

China will resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, some four months after Beijing blocked shipments amid an escalating diplomatic feud between the two countries.

Also:

Only 29% percent of Canadians view China favourably and more than half worry about possible Chinese cyber attacks, according to a poll released on Monday at a time when the two nations remain locked in a diplomatic dispute.

The University of British Columbia survey also found half of Canadians did not want Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to play a major role supplying next-generation 5G network equipment.

Relations between Beijing and Ottawa have been frozen since Canadian police detained Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou last December on a U.S. arrest warrant.

North Koreans, Iraqi Christians and Yazidis are the true face of refugees.

Not that anyone who defends Justin's welcome mat gives a sh--:

This week the Federal Court begins hearing a constitutional challenge to the STCA in which several witnesses will put a human face to the absurdity. One is a Burundian woman recently interviewed by the Toronto Star: Unaware of the STCA, she was turned back at the border and allegedly held for 51 days in an upstate New York jail, including 10 days in solitary confinement.

Once released, fearing her asylum claim would be rejected, she discovered Roxham Road and crossed into Canada along with so many others. But unlike most of the crossers, thanks to a Liberal policy implemented earlier this year, she cannot claim asylum or work because Canada had already denied her admission — that is, when Canada refused to consider her asylum when she inquired at a proper border crossing.

In theory that policy actually bars her from even entering the country. But in practice nobody is barred from entering Canada who can get herself to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and afford cab fare to the border. And we can’t deport her, because we don’t deport people to Burundi. It’s a perfect mess that makes perfect sense as part of a case against the STCA.

Didn't we steal Greta Thunberg's childhood?:

The polar bear population is increasing according to federal affidavits submitted by Inuit groups, Blacklock’s Reporter reports.

“Inuit have not noticed a significant decline in the health of the polar bears,” the director of wildlife management for the Nunavik Marine Region Wildlife Board wrote in a court affidavit.

“In fact Nunavik Inuit report that it is rare to see a skinny bear and most bears are observed to be healthy,” the affidavit read.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have used the polar bear population as evidence of the effect of climate change.

However, the affidavit claimed Nunavut residents have seen an “increase in the polar bear population and a particularly notable increase since the 1980s.” The affidavits were submitted in response to hunting quota cuts made by Environment Canada.

Also - it's not like Paris Accord did anything concrete:

The Trump administration said on Monday it filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.

John Legend, like his prostitute wife, is a no-talent know-nothing.

But one already knew that:

Last week, it was revealed that John Legend had written his own version of the controversial 1944 song Baby It’s Cold Outside for the upcoming reissue of his 2018 holiday album, A Legendary Christmas.

As a result, Deana Martin — famed singer, actress and daughter of Dean Martin — criticized the All of Me singer for changing the lyrics of the “classic and perfect song.”

“He’s stealing the thunder from Frank Loesser’s song and from my dad,” the younger Martin said during an interview with Good Morning Britain. “He should write his own song if he doesn’t like this one. Don’t change the lyrics.”

And now, "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda":