They really did throw him under the bus:
BREAKING - Bill Morneau to resign as finance minister, MP following breakdown in relations with Trudeau over COVID policy, WE scandal https://t.co/vUre6V5e5U
— National Post (@nationalpost) August 17, 2020
Perhaps, on his way out, Morneau should not forget to dig up some dirt the way he forgot that he had a French villa or that his daughters were involved with WE.
What does this mean?
It takes a lot for Justin to throw someone of Morneau under the proverbial bus to save himself. Perhaps, in retrospect, this move should have been obvious after Mark Carney was sought after.
It was defaced because of colonialism or something:
York Regional Police are investigating another case of vandalism after they were called out to Pierre Elliot Trudeau Park in Vaughan, Ontario.
The statue had previously been vandalized in June, when the former prime minister's statue was painted in blackface.
This time around, vandals spray painted the word "pedo" on the statue's base.
The stockpile of personal protective equipment was already low.
Not that anyone in power cared or anything:
The federal government was slow to act on warnings by the public service that Canada’s National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) was low on supplies.
According to CBC News, the Public Health Agency of Canada alerted the government on February 13 that the state of the emergency stockpile was not prepared to handle a pandemic.
A powerpoint presentation dated February 13 by the agency notes that Canada only had a “modest supply of personal protective equipment including surgical masks, respirators, gowns and coveralls.”
“We anticipate increased demand and further requests, and also shortages, limits to availability and impacts on the global supply chain. We want to be as ready as possible to meet immediate needs,” notes the agency.
Despite the early warning, the Liberals didn’t act to acquire more medical supplies until the middle of March and by then, prices were already inflated due to a global rush for personal protective equipment.
What great planning!
New Brunswick to have election in September:
New Brunswickers will be heading to the polls Sept. 14 after Premier Blaine Higgs on Monday said the province needed stability to face the coming challenges and triggered the first election in Canada since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
"We are in a pandemic and the coming election campaign will not be like any election we have ever experienced," Higgs told reporters following his meeting with Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy, during which he asked her to dissolve the province's 59th legislature.
He said candidates will need to be creative and innovative to get out the vote during the 28-day campaign while they follow health directives to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Canadians have a phenomenally childish view of how things are provided for:
Ontario, as with other provinces, is having a big fight over when and how students should return to school. In a way, it’s the usual battle of wills over who knows best about the welfare of students. But there’s more to it than that. The reason the government can’t just accede to the latest demands of unions, school boards, worried parents and the usual array of squabbling bystanders comes down to a perennial problem: money. Or, more accurately, lack thereof.
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More than a quarter of retirees aren’t retired, says the Department of Employment. New figures follow research indicating the number of Canadians over 65 who remained in the workforce is the “highest on record”.
Because people live well into their eighties now and the government still insists on mishandling the cash these august voters dole out.
Also - I believe this qualifies as a fire sale:
Canadian home sales surged to a record in July as homebuyers emerged from lockdowns.
Transactions for existing properties reached 62,355 in the month, up 26 per cent from a month earlier, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported. Benchmark prices were 2.3 per cent higher on the month, as pent-up demand for homes collided with extremely low inventory levels.
Cabinet seeks to ‘scale-up’ drug injection sites with amendments to the Controlled Drugs And Substances Act. The response follows protests in two of four provinces that legally distribute heroin, fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine to users: “We believe in supervised consumption sites.”
Fearful children make fearful and thuggish adults:
Canadian youth rate climate change a greater threat than drugs, guns, gangs or traffic accidents. The Department of Public Safety research followed climate marches last September 27 and an apocalyptic speech by teen activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money.”
Again, what is it that we need China for?:
A committee of MPs today will vote to issue urgent recommendations to cabinet in aid of 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong. One MP compared the territory to East Germany under new Communist Party controls: “In my mind, China doesn’t care. China will sacrifice Hong Kong.”
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Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou and her lawyers are set to attend hearings in a Canadian courtroom via telephone on Monday, arguing for the Canadian attorney general to release more confidential documents relating to her arrest.
One would think that they would have learned by now:
A fresh cluster of infections from giant churches in South Korea is reviving concern the country could again become a coronavirus hotspot due to its religious organizations.
South Korea warned of another wave of infections after reporting the highest number of cases since early March, most of which are tied to a flareup at Sarang Jeil church in Seoul. Authorities have confirmed three cases from the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the country’s biggest with 560,000 members.
North Korean dictator Kim Kong-un has ordered citizens to hand over their pet dogs — so they can be killed for food.
The hermit state says pet dogs are now considered a “decadent” luxury and “a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeois ideology,” and must be surrendered, according to a report by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo media outlet.
Wow. That's love for one's wife:
A man jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it attacked her on Saturday at a beach in Port Macquarie in the Australian state of New South Wales, media and officials said.
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| Just when that shark thought it was safe to go back into the water ... |
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