For a Monday

This dog statue is wrong somehow and will be torn down at some point.

Erasing history one statue at a time:

The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes colonial expansion and racial discrimination, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.

The bronze statue that has stood at the museum’s Central Park West entrance since 1940 depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse.

Yes, about that:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” 

And still we don't listen to Orwell.




Having been hammered with the point that we don't matter, Justin takes a dressing-down from his Chinese bosses:

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put an end to his "irresponsible remarks" after his comments on the communist country's decision to charge two Canadian prisoners in China. 

The two prisoners in question—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—have been in Chinese detention since December of 2018. Those arrests, which followed the arrest of Huawei tech-royalty Meng Wanzhou, led to what China's ambassador to Canada called a "diplomatic rock bottom."

The foreign ministry spokesperson said that the spying charges were completely unrelated from the Meng Wanzhou case, Global News reports.

(Sidebar: oh, I'm sure.) 

Justin took that news as sheepishly as another former prime minister's son let an angry mob attack his equally vacuous wife and then quit to save himself.

Yes, Canada certainly is back, so far back that it takes an American to do the fighting for us:

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called for the immediate release of two Canadians charged by China for alleged espionage, saying the United States was “extremely concerned” and that the two men’s detention was unjustified.

But don't worry. There's still corruption to fall back on:

The complaints made to Elections Canada over the Trudeau Liberal's campaign fundraiser in New York has been dismissed as the agency "found no information" that suggested members of the party broke any rules. 

This decision comes in spite of the fact that Elections Canada failed to interview the organizing Liberal minister, Marc Miller, nor anyone that attended the glitzy, New York party, according to Blacklock's. 

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SNC-Lavalin Group is still eligible for federal contracts under terms of its latest out-of-court settlement with federal prosecutors. The Public Prosecution Service would not disclose the text of its agreement that saw SNC-Lavalin penalized for bid-rigging: “Are you consulting SNC-Lavalin?”

Also:

A federal program on equity contracting is being audited by MPs. Members of the Commons government operations committee voted 10-0 to see all records on so-called “social procurement” under a program launched two years ago: “Why is it so difficult?”

Wow, people totally have a handle on this coronavirus:

The prime minister said he understands there are many tourism operators that would like to see international travellers return to Canada but said moving forward “too quickly” could result in a second wave of infection.

(Sidebar: like from Beijing, for example.)


At least we're not like those dirty Americans, eh, Canada?:

Canadian experts looking at a surge of new COVID-19 cases in several U.S. states say it should be a warning to Canada, but not a cause for alarm.

Several U.S. states have seen huge spikes in COVID-19 cases in the past weeks. On Friday, Arizona reported 3,217 new cases of the disease and Florida saw 4,049. In California, there were 4,351 cases, Texas saw 4,189 and Georgia saw 1,800 new cases.

(Sidebar: Americans ramp up their testing, so there's that.)


Yes, about that:

(Merci)


Also:

The Mexican government says it will resume sending farm workers to Canada after securing promises for more inspections and oversight to curb outbreaks of COVID-19.

At least two Mexican men have died and hundreds more have fallen ill with COVID-19 in recent weeks on farms across the country.