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Happening now:

A huge group of anti-pipeline protestors swarmed the Toronto subway and blocked major train tracks on Saturday to spread their message of solidarity with demonstrators in northern B.C. who oppose the building of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. ...

Police served an injunction to the anti-pipeline protestors, who proceeded to burn it in defiance. Protestors also threw rocks at drones that were monitoring the situation.

The government is all over this (even in ridings that gave them seats)?

Bullsh--.

It feeds into their true intent and that is to rid the country of one of its chief economic exports and reduce its people to serfs.

Case in point:

The federal government is expected to support international measures that would reduce the environmental impact of Arctic shipping but would cost northern families hundreds of dollars a year.

On Monday, the International Maritime Organization is to begin considering how to eliminate the use of heavy fuel oil in ships sailing Arctic waters.

Also - that is, ostensibly, their job:

The RCMP is defending the actions of a member seen on video pointing a firearm at Indigenous opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline during police enforcement in northern B.C. this month.

Or should we have more Caledonias?




Because priorities:

The federal government and associated bodies spent roughly $118,000 on tickets to events, galas and concerts in six months last year.

That included nearly $10,000 on tickets to bring 35 foreign investors to see Cirque du Soleil in Toronto and for the Canadian ambassador to Serbia to bring guests to see Bryan Adams in concert there in November.

Those breakdowns were provided last month by the government in response to an order paper question submitted in December 2019 by the Conservatives.

But no money for defense:

The top U.S. official in Ottawa says in his country’s view, Canada is not likely to hit the defence spending targets it has promised.

Richard Mills, the U.S. Embassy’s chargé d’affaires, said while there have been positive spending steps by the Canadian government, the view south of the border is that Canada will fall short in hitting its promised investment of two per cent of GDP on defence.

“We were very pleased with some of the defence spending that’s occurred under this government, including some effort to buy new frigates, some new airplanes,” he said in an interview with The West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson.

“But to be quite honest with you, Mercedes, the Canadian government is not on course to meet two per cent by 2024. In fact, they probably will reach a peak — in our estimate, around 1.4 per cent — in 2024 and then decline rapidly.”

Disgusting:

Sexual assault and gender-based violence experts say they are deeply disturbed by the recent decision of a Canadian refugee adjudicator who said it “does not make sense” that a woman would keep a child conceived by rape.

The adjudicator also said she would have expected the woman to report the rape to medical professionals and her family “if, indeed, it took place.”

Because that is how pro-abortion people look at the world.

Aren't women supposed to be trusted and believed? Only if they choose one thing, right?

Vile!




Wow, the world really has a handle on this coronavirus:

The true cause of how the coronavirus spread has been revealed by Chinese scientists who have broken cover and said the oubreak started in a science laboratory in Wuhan yards away from a wet market.

They have sensationally spoke out and said the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan was due to the scientists researching bat diseases and could be responsible.

A scientist told how a sick bat attacked the researchers and bled on them and urinated on another, they were then forced to quarantine themselves for 14 days.

Biologists Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao published a pre-print entitled “The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus.”

The report describes how “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.

“We noted two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan, one of which was only 280 metres from the seafood market.

“We briefly examined the histories of the laboratories and proposed that the coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory.

“Our proposal provided an alternative origin of the coronavirus in addition to natural recombination and intermediate host.”

The report clearly contests the Chinese authorities’ official findings that the virus jumped from bats to humans at the Wuhan wet market.

The scientists say, “The probability was very low for the bats to fly to the market.

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As Japan grapples with the expanding new coronavirus outbreak, six more people — five in Tokyo and another in Aichi Prefecture — tested positive Sunday for the deadly virus, local authorities said.

During a news conference held Sunday evening, officials at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said that two of the five were male acquaintances of a Tokyo taxi driver who tested positive Thursday after attending a party held Jan. 18 aboard a traditional yakatabune (traditional roofed party boat).

The third person was a male doctor who had contact with a female medical worker at the same hospital. She attended the same party as the taxi drivers and has tested positive, the government officials said.

The remaining two cases were one man in his 30s and the other in his 60s, the officials said, adding that their infection routes were not immediately clear.

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A woman in her 80s infected with the new coronavirus died Thursday, becoming Japan’s first confirmed fatality, health minister Katsunobu Kato said Thursday evening, as more cases of domestic infection were reported, in addition to hundreds on a quarantined cruise ship in Yokohama Bay.

The Japanese woman from Kanagawa Prefecture, just southwest of the capital, was found to be infected with the virus after she died, Kato said at a press conference.

The woman had been diagnosed with pneumonia and hospitalized since Feb. 1, the health ministry said, adding her breathing deteriorated on Feb. 6.

She was the mother-in-law of a Tokyo taxi driver who tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to a government official.

It's probably because no one can trust Moon:

A senior U.S. military officer has stirred up a hornets' nest by hinting at the possibility of deploying more launchers for a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery in South Korea.

Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, was speaking at a Pentagon press briefing on Monday. "If you can separate the launchers away from the battery, that gives you a lot of flexibility on the peninsula," he said. "So you could put the battery further back, you can move the radar back, you can put the launchers forward, you can bring in additional launchers."

The deployment of the first THHAD battery in Seongju in the southeast, which remains incomplete, got Korea into massive trouble with China and forced it to endure a yearlong boycott that devastated businesses here and is still not fully over.

A THAAD battery consists of four key parts -- launchers, interceptor missiles, fire control units and a radar.

Seoul has already pledged to Beijing that it would not permit the U.S. to station more THAAD batteries here. Whether Beijing would consider the deployment of extra launchers a violation of that promise remains to be seen.

 

This North Korea:

Some 50,000 North Koreans have been press-ganged into trekking tours of Mt. Baekdu since December to stiffen their ideological spine and tighten internal solidarity.

Since leader Kim Jong-un rode a white steed up the mountain last December in a "Game of Thrones"-type photo op, "the number of participants from across the country in a winter expedition to revolutionary battlefields in Mt. Baekdu has reached nearly 50,000," the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Thursday.

But Kim himself has shut himself up at home for almost three weeks amid coronavirus fears and the regime is stepping up quarantine efforts.