Thursday, December 19, 2019

Christmas Week: Deck the Post

So much going on ...




If Justin is going to get Trump to do his fighting for him, he might want to be quick about it:

Canada has asked the United States not to sign any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been released, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a French-language TV network.

Isn't it your job, not the guy about whom who squeal when he's not looking, to safeguard your taxpayers, Justin?

I realise it is hard to stand up to your bosses (just as it is to field direct questions) but you are expecting the same guy you made fun of to demand that China return citizens who aren't even his.

What a pansy.


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Those are Justin's bosses and he only takes marching orders (and money) from them.




In the mean time, Trump will take what he wants from Canada because it's not like Justin was elected to defend Canadian interests or anything:

The Trump administration on Wednesday said it is proposing a rule to allow states to import prescription drugs from Canada, advancing a plan announced in July that the president has said will bring cheaper prescription drugs to Americans.  

Justin, of course, will let him:

The Canadian government says it will work to protect drug supplies in Canada after the Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would seek to allow states to import prescription medication from north of the border.

Is Justin going to talk about him behind his back some more?


I'll just leave these right here:

A national shortage of the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen remains ongoing, but manufacturers expect a solution in the coming months.

I'm quite sure.

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It’s not a cancer wonder cure. It doesn’t help every child. However, Dr. Jim Whitlock says a radical new therapy that appears to kill the most common childhood cancer is one of the most remarkable advances he has seen in his 35-plus years of practice.

“We can now save children we couldn’t save before,” said Whitlock, division head of haematology and oncology at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.

The drug, Kymriah, also comes with a colossal but secret price tag. While its “scientific ingenuity is marvellous,” McGill University biological scientist Jonathan Jarry recently wrote, the therapy, at potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars per dose, is also raising “the age-old question: what is the price of a human life?”

This country legalised euthanasia just so it could get rid of excess elderly and the disabled and is now letting the Americans snatch up what medicines are not yet in short supply because screw the taxpayer.

How much is a human life?

How much does he donate the big parties?


Also:

A day after LifeLabs announced a data breach that potentially impacts up to 15 million Canadians, one of those patients is taking the company to court in a proposed class-action lawsuit.

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I’m sure CAMH would bristle at my description of the report and hate that I call the people who fled the mental health facility ‘escapees’ but let’s be blunt, that’s what they are and until this review the organization had done a horrible job dealing with this issue.

When Zhebin Cong, the man who chopped up his roommate with a meat cleaver went missing July 3, it took the CAMH 11 days to notify the public through the Toronto Police Service.

By that time, Cong was long gone and had hopped a flight to China.



One must remember that a sitting prime minister stopped a criminal investigation in its tracks:

Trudeau initially denied reports that he had pressured former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould into offering a Deferred Prosecution Agreement for the construction giant that was facing criminal charges related to lobbying efforts in Libya.

Then the truth came out and Trudeau all but admitted everything was true, just that his conduct had not in fact broken obstruction of justice laws.

 We would have preferred the RCMP and the courts to have definitely answered whether or not Trudeau did break those laws. As it stands, the question remains unanswered.

On Wednesday, one element of this story came to a close: We learned SNC-Lavalin is guilty.

The Quebec-based company’s construction division settled and offered a guilty plea to a single count of fraud over $5,000. They will now pay a $280 million penalty and be subject to a three-year probation order. The other charges have been withdrawn.

It boggles the mind that Trudeau was willing to risk so much to let SNC-Lavalin off the hook with a DPA, which would have seen them avoid facing a ban from bidding on government contracts.

There was so much of the affair that offended the basic sensibilities of Canadians. There was the fact the PM failed to tell the truth from the get-go and bluntly refused to answer basic questions from reporters.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government might have acted differently had it known the criminal case against SNC-Lavalin would be resolved without crippling the company or throwing thousands of its employees out of work.

Oh, you won the election! Stop feeding people the lies you didn't even write!

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In a statement, Lametti said Roussel advised him of the agreement Tuesday, as she is required to do by law in ongoing matters she deems to be of general interest.

“This decision was made independently by the (prosecution service), as part of their responsibility to continually assess and determine the appropriate path for cases under their jurisdiction,” he said.

“Canadians can have confidence that our judicial and legal systems are working as they should.”

Yes. Riddled with favouritism and corruption.




Enjoy the rising taxes you voted for, Canada:

The Liberal government has likely painted itself into a corner on carbon taxes, particularly after Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said he was “wrestling” with the approval of a major oilsands mine.

Ottawa has declined to commit to major carbon tax increases after 2022, despite Liberal claims that the levy will play a key role in meeting their climate targets. The Liberal government has committed to meeting its 2030 Paris agreements as well as a more recent pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Wilkinson on Wednesday signalled that the 2050 target could weigh heavily on his decision to either approve or reject Teck Resources’ $20.6-billion oilsands mine in Alberta, saying it was not clear the project would fit into the Liberals’ environmental goals.

“That is something that we will have to be discussing and wrestling with as we make a decision one way or the other,” Wilkinson told reporters in Calgary on Wednesday.


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For the next four years Trudeau broke every promise he had ever made on running modest deficits and returning to a balanced budget.

In Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s economic update Monday, Trudeau said that this year, the one he promised in the 2015 election would produce a balanced budget with a $1 billion surplus, there will now be a $26.6 billion deficit, with no plan to ever return to balanced budgets.

But we knew all this before the October election and it never became a significant issue, even though Trudeau’s budget, demonstrably, did not balance itself.



A school in British Columbia is thinking of re-naming a school named after an allegedly racist member of Parliament:

The Alberni School District in Port Alberni, B.C., is setting the stage for a public consultation to rename A.W. Neill Elementary School, named for Alan Webster Neill, a former mayor, member of the B.C. legislature and a federal MP who represented the area in the House of Commons from 1921 to 1945.

Neill, known as and advocate for a blue-collar workers, an early backer of the Canada Pension Plan and a supporter of unemployment insurance, was also considered racist for his efforts in the House of Commons to deny voting rights to Asian immigrants, his support of anti-Chinese laws in the B.C. legislature and his approval of Indigenous residential schools.





Justin stands by his irrational hatred of Israel:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of reneging on a commitment to stand with Israel after Canada voted Wednesday for an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations.




A Salvation Army wing in Vancouver claims that donations are down by 76%:

With less than a week until Christmas, the Salvation Army is sounding the alarm about a massive drop in donations.

The organization runs its annual Christmas Kettle Campaign every November and December, and says the proceeds provide up to 70 per cent of its funding for the rest of the year.

But it says contributions are down by 76 per cent for 2019.

Why does that sound familiar?:

Canadians gave less to charity in 2012 than in 2011, new data from Statistics Canada shows.
The total amount of donations made, as reported on Canadians’ tax returns, was down 1.4% to $5.6 billion.

The percentage of people who reported donations was also down in every province except Nunavut and Alberta. A total of 22.4% of Canadians reported donating to charity in 2012, down from 23% in 2011.

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However, according to a recent Fraser Institute study using data from personal income tax returns, Canadians have donated significantly less to charity over the last 10 years.

In total, 20.4% of Canadians claimed at least one charitable donation on their tax return in 2016 (the latest year of available data), down from 24.6% of tax-filers in 2006. In fact, if one quarter of tax-filers had donated in 2016, the number of Canadians who made charitable donations would have increased by more than one million people.

Canadians are also donating a smaller share of their income. Collectively, Canadians contributed 0.53% of their household income to registered charities in 2016 — the lowest percentage since 2006 — compared to 0.78% 10 years earlier, indicating that donations as a share of income declined by 32%.

With smaller donations by fewer tax-filers, the result has been a decline in the total dollar value for charitable giving in Canada.



Silly child! You live on a continent where everything wants you dead, "Shark Week" is called Tuesday and bush-fires are commonplace:

 A 10-year-old girl whose home was destroyed in Australia’s bushfire crisis was among a group threatened with arrest at a protest outside the prime minister Scott Morrison’s home Thursday.

The demonstration outside Kirribilli House in Sydney took place as anger grows over the government’s handling of climate change amid the fire crisis and a heatwave engulfing the country.

The girl, known as Izzy, was there with her parents and cried after being confronted by the police. The incident was captured in a video that has gone viral.




(Merci and kamsahamnida)


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