Your middle-of-the-week hug.
Canadian diplomats in a briefing note praised Cuba’s Communist Party for embracing “social rights” and freer speech, and blamed human rights abuses on the pandemic. The note predates mass arrests and internet censorship by Cuban authorities: “Under President Diaz-Canel, there has been some modest improvements in freedom of movement and expression.”
Also:
Poverty is better explained by Cuba’s Soviet-style, centrally-planned economic system, which Cuban leaders have spent years promising to reform. When capitalist market reforms were implemented in China and Vietnam, they lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty (while leaving both countries only superficially socialist). Cuba has not followed suit, choosing poverty over transformative change which could threaten the regime.
Deflections to the embargo also fail to explain or justify Cuba’s repressive political culture, where opposition parties are outlawed and artists and intellectuals are jailed for daring to criticize the regime.
Yet the embargo has been a useful scapegoat for Cuba’s autocrats, allowing them to obfuscate their failures by pinning blame on a foreign power.
There is only "transparency":
As an example, a colleague of mine at another Ontario university recently received a letter from her dean admonishing her for her social media content. A few students in her program had complained that the content “harmed them” and made them “feel unsafe.” One of their complaints was that the professor had cited a published study on gender dysphoria.
Siding with the students, the dean argued that an investigation was warranted because the opinions she expressed created a negative learning environment. While my colleague successfully defended her right to academic freedom and thus avoided formal penalty, she deleted her social media accounts.
Self-censorship is not the hallmark of a healthy university.
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In a ruling that came down in support of free speech, Justice Maria Morellato said, “In a free and democratic society, the exchange and expression of diverse and often controversial or unpopular ideas may cause discomfort. It is, in a sense, the price we pay for our freedom.”
PM Blackface spends money that isn't his on the mistreatment of black slaves to inflame the simple minds of simple voters:
Federal agencies will spend $110,000 producing a pre-election YouTube video on slavery with commentary by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Video participants include a Liberal-appointed senator who “felt a sense of hopelessness” after seeing images of Trudeau clowning in blackface: “It epitomizes how deeply rooted racism is in our country, how deeply rooted privilege and power is in our country.”
I'll leave this here:
The video, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows Trudeau covered in what appears to be dark makeup and raising his hands in the air while laughing, sticking his tongue out and making faces. He’s wearing a white T-shirt, and his jeans are ripped at the knees. It appears as though his arms and legs are covered in makeup as well.
Is there a sense of hopelessness here?
There is here:
Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger says a national summit on anti-Semitism the federal government is hosting Wednesday will allow community members to speak directly with politicians in an environment that ensures their safety.
(Sidebar: this Bardish Chagger.)
And pray, what do we say during these prayers? Pious and religious Muslims who pray five times a day invoke a verse that refers to Jews as people who have incurred the “wrath of Allah” and Christians as “people who have been led astray.”
Did anyone find out who burned those churches?
Farmer feed cities. Stalin and the Kim dynasty knew that and acted accordingly:
MPs yesterday summoned Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to explain cabinet’s opposition to a tax bill benefiting farmers, small business and fishing corporations. Freeland’s department questioned the validity of the law after it was approved by Parliament: “The government has fought this all the way.”
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Canadian Farmers feed Canadians and people around the world. We have some of the best, safest, most reliable food sources.
Now our own government wants to reduce fertilizer use by 30%.
They don’t realize that when we can’t safely use science based fertilizer, that our crops won’t produce the food that we all need to make bread, pasta, cooking oil and hundreds of other foods. It also means reduced crops for exports and less profits for farmers.
They’re making these fool-hardy decisions without the science to support them.
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It is curious that McKenna would point to spending as evidence of successful climate policy. She sold the Liberals’ carbon tax to the public by affirming that pricing emissions is the most efficient way to fight climate change, yet pricing and spending are decidedly different policies. McKenna also presents the government’s regulatory initiatives as evidence of wisdom, lauding the “no more internal combustion engines by 2035” diktat as a “signal to the market” — in reality, it is an attack on the market, not a signal — that will help Canada reach its Paris Agreement commitments. But she fails to present evidence to justify her praise for the initiatives she helped lead.
The only reason why this block was quashed was because someone had forgotten to ask Big Aboriginal:
A federal judge has quashed a cabinet order blocking expansion of an Alberta coal mine in the name of climate change. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson failed in his duty to consult a First Nation that supported the mine as a job creator, the Federal Court ruled: “There was no consultation at all.”
Just awful but I'm sure some good engineering might have prevented some of this:
At least 25 people have died in China‘s flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway line in its capital that was drenched by what weather officials called the heaviest rains for 1,000 years.
About 100,000 people have been evacuated in Zhengzhou, the capital, where rail and road transport have been disrupted, while dams and reservoirs have swelled to warning levels while thousands of troops launched a rescue effort in the province.
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China has accused Japan of grossly interfering in its internal affairs after Tokyo for the first time raised concerns about the stability over Taiwan in an annual defence paper.
“The Taiwan issue is entirely China’s internal affair and external forces cannot interfere. The Chinese military will take all necessary measures to resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” China’s defence ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry said the report “exaggerated the so-called Chinese threat” and damaged the political foundation of China-Japan relations.
It really is vanity and idiocy run horribly amok:
The fire had already been burning for 12 days last September when 39-year-old firefighter Charles Morton was killed while trying to extinguish the blaze.
The inferno that ripped through California’s San Bernardino National Forest, burning more than 20,000 acres and prompting widespread evacuations, was sparked, prosecutors say, when Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez tried to set off a smoke bomb to announce their baby’s gender. Now the Southern California couple is facing manslaughter charges, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said in a Tuesday news conference.
You simply could be happy about a new baby. You had to make it about yourselves and kill someone (allegedly).
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