And the Rest of It

But I thought that they cared about the proletariat:

A grocery CEO admits he called competitors days before supermarket chains simultaneously rolled back a $2 an hour pandemic bonus for workers. One executive, Sobeys CEO Michael Medline, told MPs he was so wary of discussing wages in a teleconference with rival chains he put his general counsel on the line and refused comment. The Commons industry committee is investigating whether grocers breached the Competition Act: “It seems odd.”

 Voters blocks aren't born; they cross the border:

Ontario is being urged to secure a formal agreement with the federal government for repayment of the $81 million and counting spent to house, educate and provide legal services to illegal border crossers.

Saskatchewan is doing the opposite of the anti-police whingers and is giving more funding to the police:

Saskatchewan is bucking the "defund the police" trend by increasing the amount of funding for the Saskatoon police. The increase to Saskatoon is $70,000 for 2020-2021 according to CTV News. The total funding is now $5.88 million.

Sentries return to guard the National War Memorial:

Military sentries are returning to their spots in front of the National War Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as the threat posed by COVID-19 appears to be receding.

The Canadian Armed Forces has posted a ceremonial guard at the monuments near Parliament seven days a week from April to November since 2014.

The sentry program was established both as a way to honour the sacrifices of those who have served in uniform and to protect the memorial and tomb from vandalism and other acts.

This year's iteration looked like it might be cancelled entirely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the military says it was decided after talks with Ottawa city officials that the sentry program is a "low-risk outdoor activity" and one way to return a sense of normalcy after months of lockdown.

Defund soon and defund often:

I remain the ONLY candidate that will defund the WHO.

I am the only candidate that will stand up to Communist China and the global institutions like the World Health Organization that do its bidding.#cdnpoli #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/2hi91WJ2TO

— Derek Sloan (@DerekSloanCPC) July 11, 2020

Again, what is it that we need China for, anyway?:

Sanctions were imposed on three senior Chinese Communist Party officials on Thursday by the United States, including one member of the Politburo. The sanctions were imposed because of alleged human rights abuses aimed at religious and ethnic minorities detained in China, according to Global News.  

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As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect, deepening Chinese President Xi Jinping’s push to instil patriotism and ideological purity in the education system.

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The director general for Global Affairs Canada in South Asia says disclosing sensitive information from CSIS to Meng Wanzhou as part of her battle against extradition could risk Canadian lives, further damage Chinese-Canadian relations and even compromise the fight against COVID-19.

Oh, do you really think so? 




Polish voters re-elect Andrzej Duda:

Polish President Andrzej Duda has won five more years in power on a socially conservative, religious platform in a closely fought election that makes renewed confrontation with the European Union's executive likely.

Final results from Sunday's presidential election runoff showed Duda, 48, won with 51.03% of the vote, the National Election Commission said.

Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski got 48.97%.

(Sidebar: oh, yes, every electoral victory is "religious". And the press wonders why it needs bailing out.) 

I think that Turkey did this to spite people:

President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.

Why not make a movie out of this?:

Why did the dog cross the river?

It’s an answer that only Jasper, the 63-kg (138-pound) Great Pyrenees knows — but his human family is happy to have him back anyway.

Mary and Brent Hummel of Castlegar, B.C., are thanking their lucky stars they were reunited with the big dog, who spent three days in the wild and apparently managed to swim across North America’s most powerful river flowing to the west coast three times.