Your mid-week walk in the sunshine ...
Political leaders have leaned too heavily on a message of fear rather than hope, says a coalition of more than 60 industry groups that is calling on the Trudeau government to change its tone on the subject of reopening the Canadian economy.
The group sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying Ottawa is in serious need of “transparency, guidance and a clear plan” that outlines when Canadian life can return to normal. While other countries offer specific details around reopening, the coalition warns, federal and provincial governments risk falling behind and stifling the post-pandemic economic recovery.
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Governments across Canada have been withholding COVID-19 data in an exercise of “paternalistic” information-hoarding likely meant to regulate public reaction to the pandemic, says an access-to-information advocate.
Sean Holman, an access to information expert and journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, said uproar in British Columbia Friday over revelations the provincial government was only releasing a fraction of its COVID-19 data to the public is just one example of such secrecy.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Holman, who stressed B.C. is particularly notorious for withholding information. “But it really emphasizes the need for governments across Canada to provide more information to the general public about what’s going on during this public health disaster.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he learned weeks ago that the military officer overseeing Canada’s vaccination campaign was under investigation, which he described on Tuesday as “not an ideal situation.”
(Sidebar: they just experienced it differently, eh, Justin?)
One expects liars, crooks, perverts and censors to be clear and honest?
Wow ...
Also - there are no votes in Alberta, so ... :
The federal government is handing over $200 million to a pharmaceutical company for a major expansion of a Mississauga, Ont., plant, allowing the firm to make mRNA vaccines in Canada.
Several days late and a printed buck short.
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Saskatchewan doesn't care what Justin thinks:
Saskatchewan is planning to have a summer resembling normal with a timeline and benchmarks that eschew the federal government’s plan.
Imagine a boot stamping on your Internet forever:
“Rights and freedoms can be limited,” Attorney General David Lametti yesterday told the Commons heritage committee. Lametti spoke in favour of first-ever federal regulation of legal internet content under Bill C-10 An Act To Amend The Broadcasting Act: “I am not here to give legal advice.”
That's something a tyrant might say.
Freedom cannot be limited by a government nor can the government grant it at its pleasure.
Anyone who believes so is more than welcome to live in North Korea.
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Heritage Minister Stephen Guilbeault’s internet regulation bill would control the web “in ways reminiscent of actions taken by authoritarian governments,” two ex-CRTC commissioners and a former federal director of telecom policy said yesterday. Guilbeault on Monday gained enough votes from the Bloc Québécois to push Bill C-10 through the minority Parliament: “Canada is not immune to the growing trend of government intervention to curtail freedom.”
(Sidebar: this Bloc.)
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For everyone in the Bill C-10 who says "hahaha, the CRTC would never do that": you need to realize that in court, the Charter analysis is entirely based on what they could do. That's how Charter litigation works, and that's a feature, not a bug.
— David T.S. Fraser (@privacylawyer) May 18, 2021
Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
Specifically, in Section 90 (a part of the Constitution that governs provincial jurisdiction) Quebec proposes to add two new subsections: 90Q.1, which says that “Quebecers form a nation” and 90Q.2, which says that “French shall be the only official language of Quebec. It is also the common language of the Quebec nation.” ...Regarding Trudeau’s comments Macfarlane said “it’s a complete abdication of any role the feds should play in protecting democracy and the rule of law. The amending formula … isn’t to be skirted for political convenience.”
An estimated 58,000 small businesses have permanently closed with another 180,000 in peril, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. The 2008 recession saw 158,000 bankruptcy filings, by federal estimate. “The stress that business owners are under is incredible,” testified Dan Kelly, CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business: “Those businesses were closed down in order to protect society.”
Six years of Trudeau’s climate change odyssey has left both Central Canadian consumers and Western producers vulnerable to the changing whims of American politics. Eighty per cent of Canada’s oil production, 99 per cent of our exports, are sold to the U.S. at well below global prices. The future of the Canadian oil and gas sector depends on economically competitive access to new global markets and higher global prices.
This is an opportunity that Erin O’Toole and the Conservative Party should seize. They should stop taking their Western base for granted and catering to swing voters in Ontario and Quebec. No more “Liberal lite” policies like the recently announced mini-carbon tax. Rather they should use the Line 5 issue to seize this historic opportunity to build a majority coalition that unites Western and Central Canadians around energy security. They can start by publicizing two recent studies — one from Ontario, the other from Quebec — that both document how the oil and gas sector benefits all Canadians.
Because this civilisation-changing invention means nothing:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) published an article on Sunday accusing Alexander Graham Bell of trying to "assimilate" deaf kids by teaching oralism, a method which looks to teach deaf people to communicate with lip-reading and speaking rather than sign language.
The information that was allegedly deleted from a Maricopa County election machine has been recovered, an auditor told state lawmakers on Tuesday.
Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, one of four firms working on the 2020 election audit, said at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix that he discovered a master file table “that clearly indicated that the database directory was deleted from that server.”
“Subsequently, I’ve been able to recover all of those deleted files, and I have access to that data,” he added. “I have the information I need from the recovery efforts of the data.”
The body count of “civilians” in Gaza doesn’t just miss the point that since Hamas is not an army, every dead terrorist is a “civilian.” It obscures deliberately firing rockets from near schools, mosques and hospitals in quest of telegenic mass death despite the IDF’s painstaking efforts to warn people to leave buildings before blasting them.
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The passive voice is another part of the misrepresentation. As NBC put it at one point: “As the bombing of Gaza intensifies and the death toll rises, pressure is mounting for a rethink in Washington.”
Hamas like Hitler is quite open about the death-to-Jews plan and people are again going la la la I can’t heeear you. Thus the Babylon Bee shames “mainstream” media with its bang-on headline “Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don’t Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise.”
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