Sunday Post

 

" ... the people dwelling in darkness
    have seen a great light ..."

What is Advent? 

Do you have two minutes?

A snowboard instructor and a graphic arts designer aren't epidemiologists, either:

Does Mr. Vahidy of evidence that embattled restaurant-owner, Adam Skelly, is spreading any virus or disease?

No?

And he is suggesting that because ...?

Oh, that's right. If there is anything a communist country like Canada is good at it's a Cultural Revolution-style pile-on fueled by months of propaganda and deliberately-disseminated uncertainties.

All this in a country that won't produce its own masks, medicines or vaccines but will let loads of unvetted and untested people enter the country.

I am not suggesting that anyone go or not go to Mr. Skelly's establishment. I am, however, asking that people be adults and think things through for themselves instead of letting an angry Cro-Magnon mob bleat endlessly how coleslaw will kill the grandmothers that the communist government wants dead, anyway.

Also:

A GoFundMe for Adamson BBQ owner Adam Skelly has raised over $100,000 in under 24 hours. The campaign was started by Barry McNamar in support of the defiant small business owner, who was arrested on Thursday. 

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CBC producer/reporter Linda Ward and her colleagues all got parking tickets for illegally parking their vehicles before covering the events unfolding at Adamson's BBQ in Etobicoke.

 

Being a cheerleader for a public witch-hunt has its consequences.

 

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Vancouver International Airport is running a pilot project with rapid COVID-19 testing that could give an eye to the future of air travel during the pandemic.

 

That couldn't have been done months ago because reasons. 

Soon, Justin will release transcripts of a conversation that he never had with the prime minister of Japan:

(Sidebar: he has such trouble telling the Japanese apart from his Chinese bosses.)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scolded Conservative leader Erin O’Toole over “COVID misinformation” in a telephone call on Friday afternoon, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. Except the call hadn’t happened.

According to a “readout” of the “call” sent at 4.34 p.m. by the PMO, Trudeau updated O’Toole on several issues. Then, “the Prime Minister also raised concerns around COVID-19 misinformation being promoted by Conservative Members of Parliament, given Conservative MPs recently downplayed the deaths of Canadians in Alberta due to COVID-19 and compared COVID-19 to the flu.”

 

What a coward. He doesn't even have the guts to face MP Girl-Name.

Also  in "Justin Trudeau is a total pansy who hides under his bed at Harrington Lake" news:

After claiming Canada was ‘first in line,’ it now turns out we are way at the back, as the Trudeau Liberals failed to sign agreements that would allow Canada to manufacture vaccines here, and have no plan for distributing vaccines.

With many other countries just weeks away from rolling out vaccines, Canada is at best months away, with Trudeau even saying Canadians won’t be fully vaccinated until September of 2021.

This means that many other countries will be effectively through and done with the crisis, while Canada is still going through it.

And of course, Justin Trudeau is compounding his immense failure by showing a complete lack of leadership skills.

Rather than taking any responsibility, Trudeau is blaming Stephen Harper.

In the House of Commons, Trudeau blamed the situation on Canada not having the ability to manufacture vaccines, which he subsequently blamed on pharmaceutical companies leaving under the Harper Conservatives.

Of course, Trudeau was being dishonest, as Canada does have facilities capable of making vaccines.

The reality is that the Liberals failed to use these past months to get facilities ready, and failed to sign deals with companies to make vaccines in Canada.

 

Oh, please! Blaming Harper is so 2015!

It's just money:

The fall economic statement should have a full accounting of pandemic spending so far, and the depth of this year's deficit, which in July was forecast at a historic $343.2 billion.

There are varying estimates of what the deficit is now. A report Friday from RBC forecast a deficit close to $370 billion, while a separate report from Scotiabank said $425 billion is possible.

Rebekah Young, Scotiabank's director of fiscal and provincial economics, wrote the actual number shouldn't be as much a focus as the programs that create it.

 

No, stupid. If there is only debt and no money to work with, all of that "free stuff" doesn't materialise.

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Cabinet must set some deficit target in the name of “financial credibility”, Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux yesterday told the Senate national finance committee. Senators expressed alarm over federal borrowing now seven times greater than the previous record deficit of $55.6 billion in 2010: “Where is the government headed?”

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A federal agency spent nearly $13 million to create jobs in Kenya with subsidies for a Nairobi company that promptly laid off staff. FinDev Canada withheld Access To Information records on the transaction for a year, and censored thousands of pages of documents: “We performed our own due diligence.”

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Taxpayers have paid more than $70 million to subsidize the purchase of California electric cars, data show. The Commons environment committee yesterday was told rebates are a subsidy for the rich: “What we’re doing is subsidizing a vehicle that a wealthy person is going to buy.”

What people who flood Wal-Mart for Cheetos but don't have to go to an actual workplace don't realise:

The pandemic has exposed a “stunning” divide in wage-earners’ wellbeing, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem yesterday told the Commons finance committee. Macklem said the country must get back to work: “The longer people are unemployed, their skills deteriorate, it’s harder to get back.”

Could this be Saskatchewan's middle finger to the east?:

A small, Saskatoon-based company has drilled and fracked the world’s first 90-degree horizontal well for geothermal power in a potentially landmark move that signals the arrival of a new energy source in Canada and provides fresh opportunities for oil and gas workers to apply their skills in renewable power.

In a real country, corruption and incompetence would be frowned upon:

Canada’s top federal civil servant says hundreds of government employees are working to compile an enormous trove of documents — potentially a million pages or more — related to the government’s pandemic response, but they need more time before it can be disclosed to MPs to examine.

Depending on how heavily the documents are redacted, they could shed light on the government’s COVID-19 vaccine plan and why Canada hasn’t been able to produce some of the vaccines domestically.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. David Prowse: 

British actor David Prowse, who played ultimate screen villain Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, died early Saturday after a short illness. He was 85.