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If only there was a way for oil to travel more safely than by rail-car:

"When I looked out my window, all I could see was flames and crazy smoke," she said. "I thought our whole place was on fire."

Loessl quickly got dressed and ran down her driveway. 

"It looked like the whole field was on fire," she said.    "I've seen field fires and stuff, but these flames were just soaring so high, I couldn't believe it."

Canadian Pacific Railway said the train was carrying crude oil when it derailed. The company isn't sure how many cars were involved

Start your own pension plan, Jason. Then you can make Ottawa beg on its knees:

"We've have been working for Ottawa for too long; and it's about time Ottawa started working for Alberta," Kenney said. "Ottawa needs to stop making it harder for us to jump-start our economy."

Kenney said he is a patriotic Canadian and he doesn't ascribe to the separatist sentiment emerging from the Wexit movement, but he understands why so many people in Alberta and Saskatchewan feel isolated from the federation.

Kenney said many western Canadians bristled when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in the last election campaign that he'd be a leader who will "fight the big oil companies."

"Can you imagine a prime minister saying that 'We need a government that will fight the big auto manufacturers?' Or 'We need a government that will fight the big aviation companies?' It is unthinkable. And rightfully so," Kenney said. "Friends, this is why we have seen a disturbing rise in alienation on the Canadian prairies, and particularly in Alberta."

If you give Ottawa no reason to worry, it won't take you seriously.

Withdraw from the unemployment and CPP schemes or continue working for Quebec.

The Liberals lie to the gullible middle-class as they did in 2015:

The Liberals are moving forward with their signature election promise of a broad-based income tax cut, introducing a motion in parliament that will gradually increase the personal income tax exemption for all but the wealthiest Canadians.

Yes, about that: only 30,090,640  income tax returns were received this year and not all are in the same tax bracket. Bill Morneau (who promises a fresh set of lies in light of the catastrophic unemployment rate numbers) and Justin are among the wealthy subset who hide their wealth from Revenue Canada. The dubious nature of carbon taxes aside, they are about to rise and the return on the taxes for them is a pittance paid for them.

It's called bait-and-switch and people fell for it.

Also:

As a recession looms, Western Canada will be damaged even more. If the Liberals’ Bills C-69 and C-48 aren’t scrapped, and if exports are not increased through construction of many more pipeline projects, new resource development in the hinterland of the country will disappear. Such projects employ a disproportionate number of Indigenous workers.

Canada’s mining and oil companies have been investing and expanding south of the border or anywhere else than here. Those jobs are lost forever.

A recession will ravage the middle class due to this economic damage and Ottawa’s failure to act on the flood of tens of billions of laundered dollars flowing into Toronto and Vancouver real estate. This has driven up costs, mortgage debt and living expenses.

“Nothing is inevitable, but the risks of recession in Canada for next year are higher than a lot of people think,” said David Rosenberg, chief economist with Gluskin Sheff & Associates in an interview with BNN Bloomberg.

Canadians currently owe about $2.2. trillion in total debt, up by nearly a trillion dollars in just the last decade, Rosenberg said. “This drag on debt service, just for the household sector is going to drain GDP next year.”

Frankly, the only upside is if the minority government falls soon, and a majority government capable of reversing the country’s descent wins. But last week’s Throne Speech panders to the socialists and Quebec separatists who put Trudeau in office, and snubs the West and the economy.

This guarantees that Canada’s decline will continue and a Trudeau recession will be inevitable.

Trump does not forgive or forget:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to be one step closer to finalizing a free-trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico on Monday, potentially ending a prolonged political deadlock that has weighed on the broader Canadian economy.

What will Justin surrender this time? 

It's just money:

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy guides the distribution of close to $6-billion annually in federal foreign aid. Its aim is to  help women and girls around the world and even though it’s the been the centrepiece of the Trudeau government’s overseas development policy for four years, hardly anyone knows a thing about it, according to documents obtained by Global News.

Now, wait a minute. If Justin didn't care about the broads, he would never grope them.

Oh, wait ... 

It's just a crumbled healthcare system:

At a time when hospitals and clinics across Canada are overburdened by rising demand for health care, there are concerns health authorities are overlooking one possible solution: physician assistants (PAs).

PAs are trained medical professionals able to perform many of the same procedures as full-fledged doctors. These professionals, popular in the United States and some parts of Europe, could help to ease some of the strain on Canada’s understaffed health-care system, but experts say the country is dragging its feet on bringing them into the fold.

“We could do any part of the patient interaction that a physician would typically be doing,” says Sahand Ensafi, who has been a PA in Toronto General Hospital’s emergency department for six years. “So that could include anything like a history, a physical exam, ordering tests, interpreting those tests and making decisions based on our interpretations, prescribing medications.”

Ensafi’s supervising physician, Dr. Lucas Chartier, says PAs are crucial because they lighten his load and ease the backlog of patients.

“They basically work just like your mirror image of me, meaning that they are able to see a lot of the same patients that I would have seen. They are able to do a lot of their procedures, with the right supervision, that I would have otherwise done,” he said.

I'll just leave this right here:

A bioethicist is calling for medical schools to eliminate applicants who would oppose providing medical services over objections to them based on their personal beliefs.

 
Justin must think that everyone but him is stupid:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a recent vote to support a UN resolution endorsing Palestinian self-determination is not a shift in Canada’s policy against singling out Israel for criticism on the international stage.

Yes, about your support for a North Korean motion:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked Prime Minister Stephen Harper for Canada's vote at the United Nations this week against recognizing a Palestinian state.

Harper tweeted on Saturday that he spoke to Netanyahu and that he "thanked Canada for its friendship and principled position this week at the UN."

Aside from the anti-semites, no one is thanking Justin.




Screw you, John Tory:

What Tory did was to propose a significant tax increase. After winning office, and retaining it, on a vow to keep property taxes linked strictly to inflation, Tory said he plans to introduce a big hike in a “city-building levy” tied to those same taxes.

The levy is dedicated solely to transit and housing projects. It was to max out at 2.5 per cent in 2012, but under Tory’s new plan it will increase to 10.5 per cent by 2025. The increase will bring in billions of dollars the city needs for a transit system and public housing network that absolutely no one pretends isn’t desperate for cash.

“This funding, I assure you, is absolutely needed,” Tory said in explaining his about-face. Without it, “the city will start to strangle itself, on things like congestion, we won’t achieve our environmental objectives and people will not have (an) adequate, affordable place to live.”

The city that decides the fate of an entire nation has an idiot for a mayor.




Take a pay-cut. For the children:

Ontario’s elementary teachers will soon be ramping up their work-to-rule campaign by not planning any new field trips or distributing letters or memos from schools and boards.

Public high school and elementary teachers are both increasing pressure on the government in the coming week amid tense and plodding contract talks.

The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario says it will be starting phase two of its work to rule on Tuesday. In addition to the measures affecting field trips and letters being sent home, teachers will not collect money for school-based activities except those for charity, participate in performance appraisals, or post learning goals in the classroom if an administrator asks.

Today in "are we still trusting communists?" news:

Ahead of International Human Rights Day, hundreds gathered on the steps of Old City Hall to urge the federal government to address what is considered the systematic suppression of human rights in China and beyond.

“We Canadians do care about human rights not only in Canada but also around the world and our Canadian government needs to come up with a much stronger position towards China and Hong Kong,” explained organizer Gloria Fung, who is also a spokesperson with Canada Hong Kong Link.

(Sidebar: you do know who Justin works for, right?)

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But these protesters are not rioters. These are our children, fighting for our democratic rights, who are under attack. And they are being let down by law enforcement, local authorities — and the Vatican.

(Sidebar: Saint John Paul II would be ashamed.)

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One of Huawei’s Canadian bosses says he is concerned about the “politicization” of its CFO’s case south of the border, but dodged questions on why the firm won’t speak out more strongly for the two Canadians arbitrarily detained in China.

Like this guy:

Canadian prisoner Michael Kovrig is trying to hold on to a sense of humour as he and fellow countryman Michael Spavor approach one year in solitary confinement in China, says Kovrig’s current boss.

Trump is letting down the North Koreans:

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un risks losing “everything” if he resumes hostility and his country must denuclearize, after the North said it had carried out a “successful test of great significance.”

There was no success, Donald.

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The White House has killed off plans to convene a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to spotlight atrocities by North Korea, according to several diplomatic sources.

The move signaled a desire by U.S. President Donald Trump to salvage a faltering two-year diplomatic effort to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program and try to strike a deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Does this story mean nothing?:

I escaped North Korea in 2005 and was sold to a Chinese man and became pregnant. But somebody reported me to the Chinese police, and I was repatriated. At the Onsung Labor Camp my belly was beaten, and I was forced to carry heavy stones until I miscarried my five-month old baby. Three months later, I was released and escaped North Korea for the second time. I was again sold to a Chinese man and gave birth to his daughter. I’m now pregnant. I’m very scared of the Chinese police finding me and repatriating me, where my unborn child would again be killed. Please help me get to South Korea.

It is certainly not atypical.

Has this administration any shame?




Ladies and gentlemen, Mssrs. Carol Spinney and Rene Auberjonois: