Mid-Week Post

Merry Canada Day!




The kind of people who want to cancel Canada Day are the very reasons why Canada has escaped greatness or even average respectability. They are the sort who offer knee-jerk anti-Americanism as a definition of the Canadian identity and chuckle at vulgar displays of American hatred that haven't an iota of wittiness. They don't mind excusing utter moral and political failures while highlighting the regrettable mixed bag of nation-building personages and incidents. Not one of these mouth-breathers will deign to escape to the socialist climes of North Korea where their brand of group-think would find purchase, opting instead to rely on the present, albeit crumbling, infrastructure of the dreadfully white and patriarchal Canada that has tolerated their inability to think critically for far too long.

If you don't like things here, go. No one will miss you. No one will turn around to look and notice that you're gone.

You've done your damage. Just leave already.


Also:

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in Regina's Victoria Park has become the subject of debate recently, prompting the City of Regina to collect the public's feedback on what to do next, according to the Winnipeg Sun.

So far, the City of Regina has hung a plaque at the bottom of the statue that is chained around Macdonald's feet with a "trigger warning" that acknowledges the controversial legacy of the country's first Prime Minister.

The message reads, “Recognizing that the Sir John A. Macdonald statue represents a harmful legacy to members of our community, the City of Regina is reaching out to Indigenous elders, artists, community members and other cultural groups. The City will seek guidance on responding to harmful legacies and increasing community understanding of Regina’s diverse histories. The general public will also have opportunity to be engaged,”

The City plans to consult with Indigenous elders, artists and community members along with other cultural groups on how they feel they should move forward as announced in a photo of the message and a tweet on the City of Regina's Twitter page.

The founder of this country causes people to wet their shorts.

But this needs no trigger warning:

Police are investigating after the face of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s statue in Vaughan, Ont. was spray-painted black.

Tear down his statue, erase his awful legacy and make everyone proud to be Canadian again. Let's start the healing.

Take his useless son, too. Who wants that guy around?




Better people have tried to remove the Church and its humanity-building influence from Western civilisation and they have all failed:

Six statues at Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in Sudbury, Ontario were beheaded, according to CTV News.

"We're saddened," David Sirois, of Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, said. "There's enough volunteers and people who have donated to try and keep this site nice... for the general public. Then when you see damages like that, you wonder who would do that kind of thing?

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Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday.

Umar Lee, an organizer of the protests, said June 27 that the statue “is gonna come down,” reported Joel Currier of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “This guy right here represents hate and we're trying to create a city of love. We're trying to create a city where Black lives matter. We're trying to create a city where there is no antisemitism or Islamophobia … this is not a symbol of our city in 2020."

Fr. Schumacher, whose priestly ordination was in May 2019, addressed a shouting mob, attempting to inform them about St. Louis’ life, saying, “St. Louis was a man who willed to use his kingship to do good for his people.”

Oh, you're not going to raise the flag of Gayistan? That's a shame. It would be a shame if you lost your job, too:

The mayor of Amaranth, Ontario, has refused to fly a pride flag which has led to a petition being launched to have him resign, according to Metro Weekly.

Bob Currie, a longtime mayor of Amaranth, Ontario, received a letter from a resident who asked him why he wasn't flying the Pride flag in support of LGBTQ Pride Month the same way their neighbouring municipalities were. 

“It is the duty of council to support ALL members of the Amaranth community, and the lack of support does not go unnoticed by your LGBT+ neighbours, friends, and community workers,” wrote Stacey Whittington in a recent letter to the council. She continued, “Refusing to fly the flag sends a very strong, outdated, and harmful message to our LGBT+ community, adults, teens, and children that the township and council does not stand up for them, support them, or support human rights and equity,”

(Sidebar: I would say that being thrown from a roof sends a clear message to the homosexual crowd that they don't deserve the right to life in the Muslim world, which is what they enjoy in droves in Canada. Is there a stunning and brave mob ready to petition the UN over this?)

I believe that is called extortion.

And over a cause-de-jour, too.




What could go wrong here?:

A human rights group wants the government to bring back Canadians held at detention facilities for ISIS suspects in Syria, saying their repatriation should be a “matter of urgent priority.”

Because it needs to be repeated:

I’m just going to come out and say it — as much as we love and honour the Snowbirds as a Canadian icon, the tour always seemed to me to be a distraction from the incompetence of this government; a self-serving exercise in feel-good Liberal branding as they spend us into bankruptcy. Today’s crash stands as a terrible metaphor, a smoldering exclamation point on the shit show that is Justin Trudeau. What a damned waste. 

This:

A military investigation has found that the ejection seat of one of its iconic Snowbirds planes tangled with the pilot's parachute as he tried to escape from the aircraft before it crashed last year in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The finding is contained in a summary released by the Royal Canadian Air Force on Monday. It follows similar concerns about the Snowbirds' ejection systems after the team's public affairs officer, Capt. Jennifer Casey, was killed in a different crash in British Columbia in May.

Eyewitness accounts have suggested Casey's parachute did not open properly after she and Capt. Richard MacDougall ejected from their Tutor jet on May 17, shortly after takeoff from Kamloops Airport.

The Tutors' ejection system was also the subject of military tests in 2016 that determined the parachutes should be upgraded. Those upgrades have not yet happened. The ejection system was last upgraded in 2003.

Patty Hajdu is an awful person who, in a normal country, would not dare smugify in public lest someone serve her ugly smirk to her on a plate:

During a question in virtual question period, Hajdu was asked about the state of government preparedness.


She led off her ‘answer’ by claiming Harper cut the budget for health and preparedness, then tried to contrast those ‘cuts’ with the Liberal record.

Unfortunately for Hajdu, the opposite turned out to be the case.


Following Hajdu’s lies, an MP responded with the actual information, and had the numbers right there in front of him. Turns out, there weren’t cuts by the Conservatives there.

But, there were cuts… by the Liberals.

There was no letter signed on this woman's behalf:

Sun Qian, a Canadian citizen, was arrested at her Beijing residence in February 2017 and has remained in custody since. She was sentenced on June 30 by a Beijing court, according to one of her former lawyers, Xie Yiyan.

“Sun Qian is innocent,” Xie said. “The arresting and charging of Sun Qian were illegal right from the beginning.”

Xie said Sun’s sentence violates China’s own constitution, which stipulates freedom of religious belief. He said the sentence tramples the rule of law and shows “the criminal acts” of those involved in “such an unjust case.”

Xun Li, president of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, called for Sun’s immediate release.

“Sun has suffered at the hands of the Communist Party for over three years. She has been illegally detained and physically and mentally tortured with reports of her being shackled, handcuffed to a steel chair, pepper-sprayed in the face, and under sustained brainwashing and psychological manipulation,” Li said.

Sun has been represented by nearly a dozen lawyers since her arrest, all of whom had to drop her case due to pressure from the Chinese authorities. Since 2019, she has been allowed to only use a government-designated lawyer, who could at best ask for leniency rather than argue for her innocence.

People are awfully selective when it comes to China. They don't mind selling out Canada's industry and its security. They have conveniently forgotten about Tienanmen Square and its horrid one child policy only to claim shock when the Uiyghurs are ethnically cleansed and there is another round of organ trafficking.

And who can forget Hong Kong's new repressive security law?

We have allowed an evil to grow and we still haven't learned anything from it.




Now there is a degree worth investing in:

Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer traditions of the feudal martial arts agents.

I'm sure dogs would do the same for us:

Lexie Daniel and a group of hikers encountered a man last week whose dog appeared to be severely overheated and dehydrated. After donating all of their water to the K9 in need, however, Daniel says the group was still afraid that it wouldn’t be enough to keep the pup alive after seeing the dire shape he was in.

“The owner brought along a huge jug, but no amount of water seemed to be helping,” she told the Good News Network.

Daniel added that the owner, much too fatigued to carry the dog off the treacherous mountain trail by himself, “called the park rangers ASAP,” and reported their location before supervisory park ranger Kris Salapek found them on the mountainside trail shortly after.

Salapek, Daniel says, then lifted the large dog onto his back and started carrying him down to safety.