And the Rest of It

Quite a bit going on:

Data from the Canada Revenue Agency shows its recent efforts to combat tax evasion by the super-rich have resulted in zero prosecutions or convictions.

 

Quelle surprise.

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An Ontario man admitted Monday he left Toronto with his wife almost two years ago to join the so-called Islamic State.

At a court appearance in Brampton, Ont., Ikar Mao, 23, pleaded guilty to leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group.

But federal prosecutors dropped a second count against Mao, and also said they would be staying charges against his wife Haleema Mustafa.

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Only four million Canadians (out of thirty-seven million) are willing to sponsor people who will never find jobs in Canada because this country is finished economically.

But it makes them feel good:

The BVOR program allows private citizens and non-governmental organizations to step up and sponsor individuals or families with whom they don’t have prior relationships.

“We also refer to this kind of sponsorship model as ‘sponsoring the stranger,”‘ said Louisa Taylor, director of Refugee 613, a communications hub that works to build inclusion and welcome newcomers.

Taylor said people in her circle know how “powerful” and “transformational” the experience of sponsorship can be for both newcomers and sponsors. Usually, these stories are relayed through word of mouth, such as Reid’s case.

 

Also - what happens under "President" Bad-Touch's watch:

Migrant children sent to emergency shelters within the United States described crowded living conditions, spoiled food, lack of clean clothes and struggles with depression, according to 17 testimonials filed in a court case on Monday.

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Have the intestinal fortitude to defend that to aboriginal Catholics who don't like seeing their churches burned down, you nauseating poseur:

A First Nations chief in southern British Columbia says there are mixed feelings in his community after a Catholic church burned to the ground in an overnight fire, one of two Catholic churches in the area that were destroyed in blazes that police consider suspicious.

Chief Greg Gabriel of the Penticton Indian Band said the Sacred Heart Church was a community fixture that hosted weddings and funerals but many people also feel pain due to the Roman Catholic Church's role operating abusive residential schools.

"There's a lot of anger, a lot of hurt in every First Nations, Indigenous community throughout Canada," he said, adding that he was not speculating on the cause of the fire.

Sacred Heart is one of two churches in the area that were destroyed by fires early Monday morning.

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I think so:

Now let’s not get into the sick cultural forces that enabled all this indoor shoe-wearing.

But we can safely say that they’re wrong. Dead wrong, for a number of reasons.

It destroys flooring, for one. Ask any landlord, and they’ll tell you that a family of shoe-insiders can damage carpeting and hardwood floors in record time.

It’s noisy. If you live in an apartment, your indoor shoe-wearing is basically a daily affront to the people below you.

And finally, shoes are obviously dirty. There aren’t a lot of studies on shoes as vectors for bacteria (and they’re usually sponsored by shoe companies), but one 2008 study had 10 people wear shoes for a week and then they were tested for pathogens.

The result? The shoes were loaded with an average of 421,000 units of bacteria, including large amounts of fecal bacteria such as E.coli. The worst part? Shoes are great at transferring all that poop bacteria onto floors. The transfer rate from a filthy shoe to a recently sanitized kitchen floor is up to 99 per cent.

Basically, if you’re letting strangers stomp around your home in the same footwear that they used to shuffle through the local dog park that morning, don’t bother with the hand sanitizer anymore. You’ve already committed to living in filth.