Mid-Week Post

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Collateral damage from the Solemaini assassination?:

On Wednesday, Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran‘s civil aviation organization, said the country would not give the black box from an aircraft that crashed, killing everyone on board, to Boeing or the United States.

He added that the Ukraine International Airlines airliner’s black box, which contains flight data recorders, would be analyzed in the country where the accident took place in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules.

Oh, I'm sure they will.




Meanwhile, PM Blackface and his drunk beard swears to find answers ... blah blah blah ... bullsh--.

This country now runs from danger and lets someone else's sons die.




Why does this pantload sound familiar?:

“This disaster is a reminder of what it means to be Canadian and to belong to this cosmopolitan nation,” said Payam Akhavan, a Tehran-born former United Nations war crimes prosecutor, now a professor of law at McGill University, who gave the 2017 CBC Massey lectures on the perils of “us versus them” politics.

“There is a certain fluidity of identity when you open your doors to the whole world,” Akhavan said, and this crash is a reminder of how outdated views of national identity can distance Canadians from their own tragedies.

No, you are either a Canadian or a holder of a Canadian passport leaving out of Tehran in the middle of a heated global conflict.

No one cared about these "cosmopolitan" Canadians:

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The bombing and aftermath of Air India 182 proved that this country is not only completely incompetent and unserious about dealing with terrorism and terrorists in all their wretched forms, it also proved that - thanks to political multiculturalism - that Canadians do not see each other as neighbours or compatriots, that passholders feel the same and that these terrorist acts are someone else's problem in another country. Any mouth-movement on Canadians' part regarding terrorism is as hot as the air that scorching Australian forests (and has absolutely zero to do with global warming climate change emergency dead polar bears).


Also - oh, like it was on track before this load of dingo kidneys?:

The U.S. strike that killed Iran‘s top military commander may have had an indirect casualty: a diplomatic solution to denuclearizing North Korea.

Experts say the escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran will diminish already fading hopes for such an outcome and inspire North Korea’s decision-makers to tighten their hold on the weapons they see, perhaps correctly, as their strongest guarantee of survival.

Are these the same experts who thought that Obama could buy off Iran and North Korea can be reasoned with?




Who runs Canada, anyway - the UN or the Chinese?:

With Canada now signed on to the United Nations’ feel-good indigenous agenda, UN operatives are back and claiming, as is their practice, that Canada is failing to live up to the full meaning of the declaration, which among other things requires Ottawa and the provinces receive full agreement from Indigenous peoples before proceeding with economic development. ...

Had the Trudeau government refrained from enthusiastically adopting the UN Indigenous rights declaration in 2016, the quick answer to these insistent directives would be to tell the global agency to look to parts of the world where rights are actually being trampled on. China, for example. Or how about Venezuela? Iran, anyone?

Pierre Poilevre may run for leadership of the Tory party:

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre is set to announce a bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada according to the Toronto Star.

Today in "bloated bureacracies and graying countries" news:

For a Victoria, B.C., woman suffering from end-stage liver disease, there was some good news: she had been deemed a candidate to undergo transplantation.

The bad news? When an organ became available, the patient and her spouse would have to pay for a three-month stay near the transplant centre in Vancouver, one of Canada’s most expensive cities.

So she set up a crowd-funding page, aiming to raise $10,000 and “relieve this stressful financial situation for my husband and myself.”

The woman, who eventually got her new kidney — and raised $6,100 — was not alone.

Soliciting money for medical needs on the internet may seem like a quintessentially American phenomenon, unnecessary in a country like Canada that boasts a universal, government-paid health care system.

But hundreds of Canadians have launched crowd-funding campaigns in recent years to support their organ transplants, asking for help financing drugs, transportation and lost income — and raising thorny ethical questions, a new study indicates.

Normally, they would euthanise such people.

Is that more moral?

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The three biggest problems for patients surveyed about their discharge from Ontario hospitals all concern publicly funded home care, according to new research published in an international medical journal. 

The researchers hope the findings will encourage improvements in the hospital-to-home transition navigated by some one million patients every year in this province. 

The study involved more than 700 patients who had been admitted to Ontario hospitals over the previous three years. The researchers aimed to find out what affected the patients' experience during their discharge and transition to home. 

Among 52 factors considered in the study, the single greatest concern was "not enough publicly funded home care services to meet the need." That issue was ranked number one issue consistently across geographic, age, gender and ethnic groups, the researchers determined. 

Participants ranked home care support not being in place when returning from hospital as their number two concern, and the third-ranked priority was "having to advocate to get enough home care."

Euthanasia would solve that problem AND make spaces for people who just wander into the country. 

I thought that was the Canadian way.

By the way, stuff costs money.

Just saying.

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This way, we will never know how completely decrepit the educational system is:

Teacher job action has left some students unprepared for the upcoming EQAO Grade 9 test so local school boards will have the option to delay it, Education Minister Stephen Lecce said Wednesday.

The announcement came on the same day that thousands of public high school teachers conducted a one-day strike, and also on a day when the province’s Catholic school teachers announced they will begin withdrawing some services.

Student preparation for EQAO testing — generally opposed by teacher unions — was one of the first things to go when job action was initiated.

China, North Korea, Canadian universities - what are places with no freedom of speech:

Alberta’s top court has concluded that students have Charter-protected free expression rights on campus, in a ruling related to a $17,500 security fee a student group would have had to pay to hold an anti-abortion rally at the University of Alberta.

“There has long been confusion about the status of universities — specifically, whether they count as ‘government’ for the purpose of the Charter — and (Monday’s) decision helps push this issue in the proper direction, at least in the free-expression context,” said Emmett Macfarlane, a constitutional law expert at the University of Waterloo, in an email.

“Other courts have not found that before,” said Emily Lapper, senior litigation counsel with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, which intervened in the case. “That’s a big deal.”

Macfarlane said the court’s decision “also serves as a warning to universities across Canada that it may be unacceptable to use ‘security costs’ as cover to dodge these ‘free-speech controversies.’ 

Although the appellants did not receive a meaningful remedy for this breach, other universities should now be put on alert that they may have constitutional rights obligations in the free-speech context and that shutting down expressive activity by using potential security costs as an excuse may not fly.”

Oh, I'd love to see that stick.




India will execute four men whose rape and murder of a young student rippled through the country:

Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shockwaves across the world will be hanged on Jan. 22, an Indian court ruled on Tuesday.

The four men were convicted in 2013 of the rape, torture and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student in a case that triggered large protests in India.

The attack prompted India to enact tough new laws against sexual violence, including the death penalty for rape in some cases, but implementation has been poor and the attacks have shown no signs of let-up.