And the Rest of It

This wouldn't be necessary if the cops did what we paid them to do in the first place:

The controversial Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, Premier Jason Kenney's signature legislation to start the current session, passed third reading in the legislature on Thursday.

Government house leader Jason Nixon hopes it will receive the lieutenant-governor's royal assent Friday, immediately making it law.

Introduced in February, the bill allows hefty penalties against any person or company found to have blocked, damaged or entered without reason any "essential infrastructure."

The list of possible sites is lengthy and includes pipelines, rail lines, highways, oil sites, telecommunications equipment, radio towers, electrical lines, dams, farms and more, on public or private land.

Violators can be fined up to $25,000, sentenced to six months in jail, or both. Corporations that break the law can be fined up to $200,000. Each day they block or damage a site is considered a new offence.

Kenney introduced the legislation against the backdrop of protests across Canada, in which groups blockaded rail lines, commuter train routes and roadways in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs opposed to the construction of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline through their territory in northern B.C.

These cops:

A full month has passed since the RCMP stood in front of a podium to take questions about the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, prompting new allegations that the force is not meeting minimum standards of transparency.

Indeed:

Police agencies throughout Nova Scotia received a warning in May 2011 that a man named Gabriel Wortman had a collection of guns and planned “to kill a cop,” reports CBC News.

Nova Scotia RCMP are not able to say what happened with the tip about the denturist who killed 22 people in the province—including an RCMP officer—in April.

The warning was received after Truro Police Cpl. Greg Densmore was approached by an unknown source who shared specific information about the location of Wortman’s guns and that he was possibly bringing a handgun when traveling between his Portapique, N.S. cottage and his Dartmouth home.

What? Iran refuses to treat Canada's request for the return of flight recorders seriously? Can't Canada's gender equality bleatings buy respect in a country where women are stoned to death?:

The flight recorders from the Iran plane crash that left dozens of Canadians dead have still not been received, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday.

“The boxes are still in Iran,” he said at a government briefing via video link. “And we continue to exert pressure.”

Do mosques have parish halls?:

A parish hall that refused to accommodate a Pride Week fundraiser must face a human rights hearing, a British Columbia adjudicator has ruled. The Catholic Church complained the banquet would have featured drag queens and same-sex dancing: “There are significant facts and issues in dispute.”

Oh, dear. This must be embarrassing for the industry:

New footage released by the Center for Medical Progress and it’s founder David Daleiden reveals Planned Parenthood officials admitting under oath their involvement in business transactions selling fetal tissue from aborted babies, calling into question whether the nation’s largest abortion provider violated federal law. 

Invoices unsealed in April 2020 from Planned Parenthood Mar Monte showed the clinic received $55 per “useable” organ delivered to tissue procurement organization Stem Express, contradicting previous claims by Planned Parenthood officials that the payment was only to cover transportation fees.

And now for something completely different:

The only thing better than soaring above the clouds is doing it with your best friend.

That’s according to Simon Hergott, a Kamloops, B.C. freelance videographer with a passion for paragliding.

“It’s amazing being able to climb rising air currents and travel places,” Hergott told Global News.

“You can hike up a little hill in your back yard and fly off into the sunset.”

Last fall, Hergott decided his hobby would be better if he could do it with a companion. That’s when he adopted Aeris, a mini Red Heeler who no accompanies him on his sky-high adventures.