Remembrance Week: Once More Unto the Breach

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;

Or close the wall up with our English dead.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility:

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger ...

(William Shakespeare, Henry V)




Bribed press, do you believe that lying for a known woman-abusing racist is a sin?:

Instead, it’s the sort of prepared talking-point answer that politicians turn to all the time when a topic comes up that may be difficult or controversial. In this case, Scheer fell back on a variation of the same answer he gives whenever he is asked about Pride parades, same-sex marriage, etc. This was his “gay answer.”

And it’s an answer, it must be said, that all other federal leaders would endorse. All of them would, of course, defend the rights of all Canadians, regardless of their sexual orientation.

It's called ingratiation and it is never attractive.
 
If Canadians are happy to frightened by social non-election issues, then enjoy the poverty that is certainly coming your way.

Whatever will you do when the government can't afford your abortions anymore?




Not at all shocked:

Laptops and cellphones bought with Canadian government aid dollars have fallen into the hands of a Syrian terrorist faction, according to documents obtained by Global News.

Gunmen raided an office in northwest Syria and walked off with almost two dozen electronic devices that were part of Canada’s humanitarian contribution to the region, the declassified documents show.

“Our information at this time suggests that the armed men were HTS militants, though we are not able to confirm that definitively,” reads a report released under the Access to Information Act.

HTS is the acronym of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an armed Islamist group that grew out of the regional Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusrah and is fighting for “the creation of an Islamic state,” the government says.

The group is on the government’s list of terrorist entities, meaning Canadians face up to 10 years imprisonment for knowingly providing it with property.

Yeah, sure, and Omar Khadr will hand back the $10.5 million cheque Justin gave him.




Are you going to pay your fair share, PM Blackface?:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending NATO after France’s president suggested a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the 70-year-old military alliance’s “brain death.”

Whatever.

You're not a leader and you're not going to put any money into defense, so shut up.


Also - again, how did Scheer not wipe the floor with these cowards?:

According to a new report by Blacklock’s Reporter, the Privy Council Office was apparently worried that the United We Roll protest would try to ‘overthrow’ or ‘arrest’ Trudeau by storming his office.

Of course, nothing even close to that happened.

I'll just leave this right here:

1.5 million Canadians are severely obese and have health complications ranging from high blood pressure to diabetes to heart disease. ...

One in three Canadian children are either overweight or obese and less than 10% of all Canadian children aged between 5 and 17 years old is getting the recommended daily physical activity of 60 minutes.

 
And this right here:

Food insecurity is defined as inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraint, according to lead author Valerie Tarasuk, a professor of nutritional sciences at U of T.

What they found was that the number of households experiencing “severe food insecurity” — meaning that they weren’t eating as much as they should because of income constraints — was reduced by about a third after the program was introduced, Tarasuk said.

 

Experts + made-up terms = bloated public sector/ ≠ more fit Canadians

It's just an economy:

Encana Corp. says its new head office will be in Denver following a reorganization that will include changing its name to Ovintiv.

The Calgary-based company didn’t say which city would be its home base when it announced last week it would establish a “corporate domicile” in the United States to replace its longstanding home in Calgary.

For the same reason no one calls out the Irving$:

McNeil said Thursday he expects the issue of the Canadian detainees will be raised when he meets with Ma Xingrui, governor of China’s Guangdong province, but he didn’t elaborate.

He said the two countries’ national governments are working toward resolving tensions, and his government will do whatever it can to support those efforts.

“We need to continue to build the relationship so as we move past solving those issues we continue to still build a vibrant economy for both of our countries,” McNeil said.

We are in Year Zero:

Cambodia‘s most prominent opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, was stopped from boarding a flight in Paris on Thursday in his attempt to return home to challenge his country’s longtime autocratic leader, but he assured his followers he will go ahead with his plan.

He and fellow leaders of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party had vowed to enter Cambodia from Thailand on Saturday to spark a popular movement to oust Prime Minister Hun Sen from power.

When Sam Rainsy tried to take a Thai Airways flight to Bangkok from Paris, where he lives in exile, Thailand’s flag carrier told him “they had received from very high up the instruction to not allow me to board,” he said.

This is what happens when you don't hunt down all of the Khmer Rouge.




A validation of home-schooling:

Maria Skłodowska was the fifth and youngest child of two Polish educators. Her parents placed a high value on learning and insisted that all their children—including their daughters—receive a quality education at home and at school. Maria received extra science training from her father, and when she graduated from high school at age 15, she was first in her class.

And now, a beach littered with Blitz rubble:

If things were dumped on Crosby Beach before England went to war in 1939, they’ve long since been buried under tons of wreckage from the bloodiest conflict in human history. Besides London, Liverpool was one of the cities hardest hit by the German Luftwaffe.