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Brantford police are looking for a vandal who spent more than four hours Friday night damaging a memorial to Indigenous children who died at residential schools.
Well, it's "understandable" and all that:
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Sipekne’katik First Nations, NS.,
- A suspicious fire broke out on June 30 on Sipekne’katik First Nations land at the Saint Kateri Tekakwitha church. According to investigators, threats targeting the church were circulating around the community before the fire was set. Firefighters were able to contain the flames but the fire managed to damage parts of the building before it was put out.
Also:
A lighting blast demolished a mural of George Floyd in Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday, according to the city’s fire department.
The graveyard of empires, China:
In his media briefing at Dushanbe, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed that further spread of the war in Afghanistan, especially an all-out civil war, should be avoided and pitched for restarting of intra-Afghan negotiations to realise political reconciliation and prevention of all kinds of terrorist forces from gaining ground in Afghanistan.
(Sidebar: but not the Klingon Empire ... yet.)
Your corrupt and inept government and you:
Conservatives are plotting their next steps on how to probe payments the offices of Liberal MPs made to a company founded by a friend to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, while the clock ticks down to a possible election that would bring any parliamentary investigation to a halt.
Plotting? As in an evil plan? Or wondering why China allows its Liberal minions to be criminal in their actions?
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Cabinet yesterday announced $19 million in subsidies for café patios and shrubbery in empty parking lots in Toronto. “This is the love being returned,” said Liberal MP Adam Vaughan (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.). Toronto returned 25 Liberal MPs in the last election with an average 54 percent of the popular vote: ‘It starts with loving Toronto more than you’ve ever loved it before.’
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There are ways to improve Canada’s early pandemic alert and response systems, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, but he also insists the country’s top public health officials did start building a national response to COVID-19 very early on.
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Moore said he anticipates a rise in infections in the fall as people move activities indoors. With the highly transmissible Delta variant now dominant in the province, he said high vaccination coverage will be crucial to keeping infections low.
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Most pandemic victims in Canada were over age 85, had dementia or Alzheimer’s and “may have been at a high risk of dying over this period regardless of the pandemic,” says a federal report. The impact of Covid lockdowns, business failures and school closures on younger Canadians remains unknown, wrote researchers: ‘The pandemic profoundly altered many other aspects of our lives.’
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Why don't you just sue them again, Justin?:
Tens of thousands of veterans remain on waiting lists for disability benefits nearly a year after the Parliamentary Budget Office warned of growing backlogs. The Department of Veterans Affairs in a briefing note said it will “work faster” next year: “The thing is you need the people that know how to fill out the forms.”
Canadians like personal license, not liberty. Liberty comes with responsibility. That is just not what Canadians do:
First, liberty is not licence. It does not mean you can do anything you want and shun any unwanted consequences from opprobrium to illness to a sense of futility. No state can give you such a thing because the universe cannot.
Second, related, liberty must be under law. Anarchy is not freedom, nor is collectivist social engineering. We seek order that protects the dignity of the individual.
Third, therefore, it means genuine freedom of speech, association, contract and property. Not freedom to use them for approved purposes. Freedom to work out our own salvation in fear and trembling, in this world as in the next. ...
I hope Cubans will secure its blessings through the necessary institutions and habits. But let us not patronize them until we fix our castles.
Also:
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to say the word "communism" when asked why Cubans are protesting in the streets and fleeing to neighbouring countries. Psaki was grilled by Fox News' Peter Doocy and couldn't answer the simple question: "Do you think the people are leaving Cuba because they don't like communism?"
Oxford economists Tony Stillo and Michael Davenport argue in a new report that though Canadians’ excess savings seem big, they are actually smaller than we think.
Canadians accumulated $184 billion more in savings between the first quarter of 2020 and 2021 than they would have if there had not been a pandemic.
But a big portion of that has already been used to pay down debt and invest, the economists argue.
The Ford government has quietly deleted a section of the Grade 9 math curriculum that said math was subjective and racist and requires a decolonial approach in how it is taught.
Home-school your kids, people.
Why doesn't this surprise me?:
A new report from Newfoundland and Labrador’s child and youth advocate says police handcuffed a seven-year-old girl who experienced a mental health crisis while staying with her mother at a shelter for victims of family violence.
When a 12-year-old girl was brought by her stepfather to Planned Parenthood in St. John’s, Newfoundland, no one questioned her story that she was pregnant by consensual sex with a teenage boyfriend.
Instead, the doctor at the Planned Parenthood/NL Sexual Health Centre gave the girl advice on contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases, and referred her to Eastern Hospital for an abortion.
There, too, no one raised the alarm that a child was seeking an abortion.
Indeed, a nurse at the hospital “assumed a 12-year-old could provide consent unless there was a clear cognitive impairment.”
Two years later — and after another abortion in another province — the child told “authorities in another province that she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by her stepfather over a period of 26 months.”
Why the EU was just a bad idea:
Poland’s constitutional court ruled Wednesday that temporary injunctions issued by the European Union’s top court regarding Poland’s judiciary conflict with the nation’s constitution are not binding.
Legal observers interpreted the decision from Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as a move by Poland's right-wing government to undermine the power of EU laws within the country and even a step away from the 27-nation bloc. Poland joined the EU in 2004, agreeing to abide by its rules and laws.
“The refusal to implement rulings of the European Court of Justice in Poland is a clear step towards taking Poland out of the European Union," Jeroen Lenaers, a European Parliament member from the Netherlands, said.
“We fear that the Polish government is on the path to Polexit,” Lenaers said.
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