And the Rest of It ...

Justin already tried this and there was no bang for one's buck:

The Bloc Québécois yesterday served notice of a motion to have Parliament create a permanent subsidy fund for newspapers like in France. Canadians publishers who successfully lobbied in 2019 for a half-billion bailout argued taxpayers’ aid should not become permanent: “We will have to save ourselves.

 

 

This sounds like something that the Ministry of Truth would do: 

Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has stripped the name of Canada’s first prime minister from the building that houses its law school, and on Monday, the school’s board of trustees approved the decision, saying it came about following two months of consultations.

 

The apartheid system in Canada can only divide people for so long:

Hundreds of people gathered in Halifax on Sunday afternoon to show their support for Sipekne'katik fishers and their "moderate livelihood" lobster fishery in the wake of ongoing tensions in the southwestern part of Nova Scotia.

Yes, about all of that:

Some commercial fishermen have argued that lobster fishing should not be permitted at this time of year because lobsters moult — shedding their undersized shells — in the mid-summer months, which is also when female lobsters can mate.

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Commercial fishermen claim that the fisheries are operating outside of the law, which requires fishing only to be done during regulated seasons. 

First Nations fishermen point to the 1999 Marshall ruling that effectively makes fishing for moderate livelihood and sustenance a treaty right. A right which opponents dispute citing another court ruling which gives the federal government power to regulate any Indigenous fisheries. 

“We need an opportunity to negotiate and discuss the issues. I can assure you the commercial industry feels they have not had an opportunity to have their voices heard at the table,” said former provincial fisheries minister Sterling Belliveau. 

“Whatever Marshall started needs to happen within the seasons. It’s as simple as that. Once you get outside of those seasons, you are going to have this conflict.”

 

 

Old people are a burden. So says the law:

A new report by the parliamentary budget office suggests that expanding access to medical assistance in dying would lead to nearly 1,200 more aided deaths next year.

The government’s bid to expand eligibility for assisted death is contained in Bill C-7, which is before the House of Commons, and a senator had asked budget officer Yves Giroux to estimate the cost impact.

 

People have their reason$. 

Good to hear:

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor who skyrocketed to fame before vanishing from the public eye for nearly a year, posted an emotional new video online, explaining that he’s back home in Toronto after months seeking medical treatment for withdrawal symptoms related to benzodiazepine use.

“Hopefully, much of that is behind me and I can return to something resembling a normal life,” said Peterson.

 

 

A monstrous crime deserves no less a penalty: 

Montgomery is to be killed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana on December 8, 2020, for what U.S. Attorney General William Barr derided on Friday as an “especially heinous” murder. ...

In 2004, Montgomery was convicted of strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old Missouri woman who was eight months pregnant, with a white cord.

Montgomery, then 36, cut the fetus from Stinnett’s womb with a kitchen knife, severed the umbilical cord and abducted the baby.

No sign of forced entry was found at Stinnett’s home in Skidmore, Missouri, and police believe that Montgomery entered the house on December 16, 2004, posing as ‘Darlene Fischer’ under the pretence of purchasing a Rat Terrier from Stinnett’s dog breeding business, Happy Haven Farms.

The two women had met at a dog show in April 2004 and communicated online in a chatroom called ‘Ratter Chatter’.

The chatroom exchanges led police the next day, December 17, 2004, to a farmhouse in Melvern, Kansas. There, they arrested Montgomery and miraculously recovered the day-old baby girl, who was returned to her father and named Victoria Jo Stinnett.

 

Also: 

An Ontario couple caught in Turkey last year, where they were allegedly trying to join the so-called Islamic State, will go straight to trial without a preliminary hearing, federal officials said Monday.

 

And: 

France ordered the temporary closure of a mosque outside Paris on Tuesday, part of a crackdown on Muslims who incite hatred after the decapitation of a teacher who showed his class caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

 

The realities are not raw for Canadians. They simply don't care:

Vietnam, China, North Korea: all have labour camps. All abuse human rights and rule of law. Perhaps these realities are too raw for Canadians. Instead, we presume common interests and points of goodwill that do not really exist. These are not normal societies as you and I know them; normal gestures are pointless.

Governments promote trade with communist countries, but there is no evidence this diminishes the power of police states or has ever closed a single prison camp.  They fill their pockets with dollars, and we fill our marketplace with goods made by cheap labour – 50¢ an hour compared to ten or twenty dollars in Canada.

Trade is important, but my interest is freedom.  If we are going to do business with these countries, we have the opportunity to protest the conditions of their people. I know it’s delicate – I am a former diplomat – but it can be done effectively.

When I was in the company of diplomats at that embassy function in Ottawa, I told them what I’ve now told you. We cannot be bullied by North Korea. We cannot be cajoled into giving them aid that will be confiscated by the Party, or hectored into treating them as a functioning society.

Human rights must be a cornerstone of diplomacy, and Canada should never remain silent when others lose their freedoms.

 

 

Destroyed cabbage fields threaten a national staple:

A series of typhoons in South Korea this summer has left the country blindsided by a kimchi catastrophe.

Fields of cabbages — which are usually seasoned with spices this time of year and left to ferment for months to make South Korea’s favorite pungent dish — were wiped out across the country due to the extreme weather, causing prices to surge more than 60 per cent.

“Cabbage prices are going nuts,” said Jung Mi-ae, a mother of two who usually loads up on the vegetable in fall to make her own kimchi. “I had to rub my eyes to see the price tag again because it didn’t make any sense.”

In a normal year, South Korean households buy cabbages and other vegetables in bulk to make kimchi for the next year, a season called “gimjang” and a tradition passed down through the generations for over a century.

But this year, the longest-ever rainy season as well as three big typhoons caused flooding in August and September, damaging crops and disrupting supplies. After Korea Statistics said the nation’s fresh food prices climbed 22 per cent last month to the highest since early 2011, cabbage prices will remain high this month, rising about eight per cent on average from a year earlier, according to Korea Rural Economic Institute.