Sunday Post

 

Merry Saint David's Day!




Currently happening, bribery does work ... until the next time when an entire country is blackmailed.

Until then ... :

A tentative agreement on land rights and title has been reached between Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and government ministers, bringing three long days of negotiations in northern B.C. to an end and resolving a longstanding dispute over the First Nation’s traditional territory.

The chiefs reached the agreement late Saturday night in Smithers, B.C., with federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and her B.C. counterpart Scott Fraser.

The details of the agreement have not been released. The ministers and chiefs agreed that the agreement will be shown to all members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation first before the ministers return to Smithers for a signing if it is agreed upon.

Oh, I'll bet those details won't be released.

Like, how much were these cretins offered to back off this time?

It's as insidious as Justin taking American and Chinese money.

Who runs the country today, Justin?

(Sidebar: to see a list of Liberal donors, please go here.)


Also - "experts" didn't factor in how laws are not enforced in the slightest in this country:

John Borrows, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria, said there is a precedent of a legislative solution being employed when injunctions were causing disruption.

(Sidebar: HA! "Indigenous Law!")

 

In the mid-20th century, the widespread use of injunctions by employers against striking workers was leading to increasingly volatile disputes in British Columbia. The provincial government eventually adjusted labour legislation to outline required negotiation practices in disputes.

"It seems to have created some safety valves or more productive ways of talking through what the dispute is, and so I always wonder whether or not what we learned in other contexts could be applied in this context," Borrows said.

He said injunctions preserve the status quo, because aboriginal title issues do not need to be considered. That causes complications when complex title and governance issues are at stake, as in the Wet'suwet'en case.

... says the man who benefits from all of this.

It's a lawyer system, not a justice one.

But didn't you just say that we had nothing to worry about?:

The fast-spreading coronavirus, prolonged rail blockades and a lacklustre harvest season could widen Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s upcoming budget deficit, which is already running higher than initial estimates.

The Canadian economy slowed to an annualized growth rate of just 0.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to Statistics Canada, the worst since a wildfire swept through northern Alberta in 2016 and shut in large volumes of oil production. Private-sector investment is meanwhile expected to remain flat through 2020, amid tepid manufacturing sales and exports. The leading index on the TSX slid more than 700 points as of early Friday afternoon, reflecting fears the coronavirus could spread at an increasingly fast pace through the U.S., Canada and elsewhere.

The downshift could crimp revenues available to Morneau as he prepares his annual budget, set to be tabled in coming weeks. Recent turbulence adds new layers of uncertainty to a Canadian economy that was already expected to grow at a slower pace than previous years, as concerns over global economic growth persist.

It's not the government's reckless spending and incompetence which has been going on for years; it's their bosses' coronavirus.

Got it.




Global warming climate change emergency killing polar bears only happens in provinces that reject carbon taxes. It's as scientific as tea leaves and reading your fortune in colourful cards:

Alberta will warm faster than the rest of the planet because of human activity, causing a range of profound impacts on the province’s economy, infrastructure and public health, says a new report, prepared by climate scientists and published on a provincial government website.

No, I would hold an election as soon as possible. Canadians have memories like goldfish. They will forget how much Ottawa hates them if you kick the electoral can down the road:

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says rail blockades and the spread of the novel coronavirus are creating challenges and he's not committed to a fixed fall election.

The next provincial vote is set for October, but Moe said Friday he has the right to call an early vote.

"There’s a tremendous amount of unrest in this nation," Moe said during a funding announcement in Estevan.

He said blockades in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs opposed to a natural gas pipeline through their territory in British Columbia, as well as the outbreak of COVID-19, are hurting the economy.

(Sidebar: do note the pissant media's phrasing of  the aboriginal incest system that ignore the wishes of its people as well as the rest of Canada.)

"We continue to plan for Oct. 26. But as I said, the premier has the prerogative to go early. And I’m going to reserve that opportunity.”

A mighty cheer went up from every prefecture in the land:

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday asked all elementary, junior high and high schools nationwide to close from Monday through the students’ spring break, which typically ends in early April.

“Efforts have been made to prevent the spread of infection among children in each region, and these one or two weeks will be an extremely critical period,” Abe told a meeting of key Cabinet ministers on the coronavirus outbreak crisis.

“The government attaches the top priority to the health and safety of children, among others,” he said.

Later Thursday, the health and welfare ministry said Abe’s request does not apply to day care centers for children and after-school facilities for elementary school students.

Um, why?


Also - it's your job to test people, so, do your job:

Some medical institutions in Japan have been rejecting possible COVID-19 patients under the strict but ambiguous testing guidelines currently in place, leaving many patients shunted from hospital to hospital.

Experts point out that the vague criteria have caused confusion among medical staff.

According to the health ministry, eligibility for the test is limited to two groups of people: those who have come into close contact with patients confirmed as infected with the new virus, and those who have traveled recently to infected areas in China, have a fever of at least 37.5 degrees Celsius and have pneumonia-like symptoms that require hospitalization.

But the final decision on whether to test a patient is also “up to the doctor’s overall judgment.”

There goes that narrative:

But Castro did not give Cubans literacy. Cuba already had one of the highest highest literacy rates in Latin America by 1950, nearly a decade before Castro took power, according to United Nations data (statistics from UNESCO). In 2016, The Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler debunked a politician’s claim that Castro’s rule significantly improved Cuban healthcare and education.

In today’s Cuba, children are taught by poorly paid teachers in dilapidated schools. Cuba has made less educational progress than most Latin American countries over the last 60 years. ...

Hunger became so widespread that a visiting Swedish doctor, Hans Rosling, had to warn Cuba’s dictator in 1992 about widespread protein deficiency among Cubans. Dr. Rosling visited Cuba in 1992. Roughly 40,000 Cubans had been reported to have been experiencing “visual blurring and severe numbness in their legs.” Rosling investigated at the invitation of the Cuban embassy in Sweden, and with the approval of Castro himself. Rosling traveled to the heart of the outbreak, in the western province of Pinar del Río. It turned out that  those stricken with the disorder all suffered from protein deficiency. The government was rationing meat, and adults had sacrificed their portion to nourish children, pregnant women and the elderly. Dr. Rosling told Fidel Castro about this.