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In so many days? Is the world coming apart?

Yes.




This looks potentially troublesome:

Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier has announced he is stepping down after more than four years leading the province.

Dwight Ball says he has asked the president of the provincial Liberal party to convene a leadership process to choose a successor “at the earliest opportunity.”

Ball, who was re-elected with a minority government last spring, says in a video released today that he is resigning to live a “more private life” with friends and family in Deer Lake.

Read: scandal ahead. 




The last time this lying sack of sh-- was this patronisng, he was trying to deflect blame from groping a woman (and his bribed mouthpieces helped him):

"I understand how worrisome this is for so many Canadians and difficult for many people and families across the country," Trudeau said. "We're going to continue to focus on resolving the situation quickly and peacefully, and that's what we're going to do."

Then start ordering some arrests, Soy-Boy:

It is times like this when Lucien Bouchard’s claim that “Canada is not a real country” has an eerie ring of truth. Protesters of many stripes have the upper hand in pockets of the country. The rule of law has been parked in the cupboard. Rail lines are blockaded and services suspended. A provincial legislature was shuttered. The country’s economy is crippled. The national interest has no defender. The preferred solution is not a return to order and apprehension of the offenders. Rather it is “dialogue” — as remote and amorphous a prescription as the lowest form of sophistry; one that often can be a euphemism for vacillation and the evasion of responsibility.

A government that seems incapable of enforcing the rule of law or asserting the national interest has lost the will to govern. It has effectively ceded the right to govern. Dialogue is no prescription for those who refuse to listen because they believe themselves to be custodians of the only truth. They break the laws of the land with abandon, certain that they will face no consequences. Many of their complaints have been addressed extensively by the courts and by the responsible regulatory agencies and have been endorsed by duly elected band councils. Yet nothing but abject capitulation is what is being demanded. ...

A minority government should not mean that we have no government. So, when Parliament reconvenes after yet another “break,” our Prime Minister returned after yet another junket, will there be a call for action? Don’t hold your breath. Perversely, the tolerance for inaction in Canada seems to be at an all-time high.

Expect this to drag on and then be forgotten.


Also:

As the rail blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ont., enters its eleventh day, there is concern it could have an impact on food prices in Atlantic Canada.

And this:

But the mill’s proposal to pump its effluent into the Northumberland Strait was rejected in December as incomplete, and the company now faces filing a fresh environmental assessment that could require several years to prepare. The factory in Abercrombie Point, N.S., remains in “hibernation” with a skeleton staff.

The Liberals have announced a $50-million transition fund for the forestry industry, including funds to help contractors make payments, to promote silviculture, to retrain workers and to find alternative markets for pulpwood and wood chips the mill once purchased. Last week, the province announced that after having already spent $13.5-million, it would top up the fund as initial projects are announced.

 
Just get Justin to borrow from the Chinese for a "relief package".




Funding? From where?:

A coalition of 150 health care organizations and non-profits is calling on Finance Minister Bill Morneau to make sure there is funding in the coming federal budget to launch the first phase of a universal drug plan by 2022.

The Pharmacare Now Coalition has written to Morneau, as well as to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior government ministers, to ask for an additional $3.5 billion in the upcoming budget to finance access to an approved list of essential medicines for the public.

More dead old people mean more free things for the rest of us!:

The federal government is asking for more time to amend the assisted-dying law, acknowledging that it can’t meet a court-imposed deadline to drop a provision that allows only those who are already near death to qualify for medical help to end their lives.

Letting a sub-set of the population dictate policy is fine for countries like Canada and France but Poland thinks that idea is stupid and isn't afraid to say so:

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an area “free of LGBT ideology.”

The mayor of the south-eastern town of Tuchow, Magdalena Marszalek, blamed the rare decision by the French community it had been twinned with, Saint-Jean-de-Braye, on campaigning ahead of local elections there.

She expressed regret that severing ties will cut friendly relations among residents, as Tuchow will no longer be able to sponsor visits by people from Saint-Jean-de-Braye.

Marszalek said many in her community do not identify with the declaration adopted last year by local councillors of Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice party.

The sister municipality in central France suspended ties last week and said in a statement that “France is committed to combating human rights violations based on sexual orientation … We cannot accept that the ties that unite our two cities by a twinning oath be tainted. We condemn the position taken by our twin city of Tuchow.”

Tuchow was among other towns in south-eastern Poland that adopted the declaration in May saying they wanted to defend themselves against “radicals … who attack freedom of speech, childhood innocence, the authority of family and school and the freedom of businesspeople.”

It would be great to see so selfless a human being grace the Canadian five dollar bill but the late Terry Fox doesn't fit anywhere in the victim pyramid, so ...:

Supporters, including Fox’s hometown city Port Coquitlam, B.C., are mounting a campaign to have the Marathon of Hope runner be the next face of the “fin,” as the Bank of Canada prepares to redesign the banknote.

Fox, a cancer patient and amputee, became a national icon with his 1980 attempt to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.