And the Rest of It

Seven years ago, Islamist terrorists killed Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo.

Do not forget. 

 

 

Nonsense, Mr. Murphy. 

Justin is busy being a heartless, self-entitled, lazy prick who owes his good fortunes to his dad's money, China and legions of stupid voters:

Are we now, after such an historic moment, having parliamentary debates about civil liberties and vaccine mandates? Are we seeing question period testing the government on the energy crisis engulfing half the world? Do we have inquiries into inflation and the increasing estrangement of Alberta?

I can reduce all this to one question: is the Canadian Parliament, after the most important election in our lifetimes, even sitting?

 

This is Raj Grewal:

The eyewitness, who was near the front of the line and knows Grewal by sight, said the MP was arguing with an RCMP officer, who grew visibly upset as Grewal apparently insisted the men be let in.

In an email, Grewal flatly denied being embroiled in a commotion at the gate, and said he’d not helped anyone enter the party without an invitation. “Guests at the reception had invitations and were processed at registration,” he said last week.

The eyewitness account was supported by a second eyewitness, who was also in the line, though this man didn’t know the person who appeared to be helping the group.

“At least some if not all didn’t have invitations,” the first eyewitness said. “It was the MP and his friends who were pushing (the issue).

 

And this is Raj Grewal: 

After a three-day preliminary inquiry, former Liberal MP Raj Grewal was committed to stand trial on Wednesday over allegations he used his political position to solicit millions of dollars in loans, did not inform the federal ethics commissioner about the loans, and further misused his government-funded constituency office budget.

No one ever does, right?:

CMHC yesterday acknowledged it never consulted the Privacy Commissioner before collecting personal financial details on 8,951,718 homeowners including mortgage holders who had no business with CMHC. The Privacy Commissioner did not comment: “They need the trust of Canadians to operate.”

 

Are there shoes for this?:

A northern Alberta First Nation says it has completed the first phase of ground penetrating radar in its search for children's remains at a former residential school site.

 

And the bodies are where?:

Let me refer back to a National Post story that explains what ground penetrating radar actually does. They interviewed a professor of Anthropology who is also the director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology. She said this of ground penetrating radar:

“It doesn’t actually see the bodies. It’s not like an X-ray.” 

“What it actually does is it looks for the shaft. When a grave is dug, there is a grave shaft dug and the body is placed in the grave, sometimes in a coffin, as in the Christian burial context. What the ground-penetrating radar can see is where that pit itself was dug, because the soil actually changes when you dig a grave. And occasionally, if it is a coffin, the radar can pick up the coffin sometimes as well.”

 

Interesting.

 

Also: 

The chief of a Manitoba First Nation has been arrested and charged with a number of sexual offences, RCMP said.

Raymond Keeper, 65, Chief of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, was arrested Thursday after police wrapped up an investigation into texts sent in late September to a 16-year-old girl.

Keeper is facing charges of luring a person under 18, two counts of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, and touching for a sexual purpose while in a position of authority.

 

This is why having a centralised government deciding things for everyone is a bad idea:

Some 2,000 Polish coal miners traveled to Luxembourg to stage a noisy protest Friday against a decision by the European Union's top court to shut down a major brown coal mine in Poland and to fine the country for flouting the ruling.

 

On the Korean Peninsula:

Since his face was smeared with nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur airport, mystery has surrounded the hit job that brought down the half-brother of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader.

But new revelations suggest the murdered one-time heir to the North’s despotic regime had been working for the intelligence agency of Pyongyang’s main enemy: South Korea.

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But among Moon's main motivations - and one that he appears to have believed is worth the risk of provoking the North - was his desire to build more autonomy within South Korea's alliance with the United States and eventually win operational control of allied forces in the event of a war, according to officials and analysts.

"When this government unveiled F-35 fighter jets in 2019 after buying them from the U.S., I wondered why they would do that even as they want to champion inter-Korean engagement, knowing the North hates it so much," one diplomatic source in Seoul said. "But I later realised that in Moon's concept of self-reliant defence, they do what they plan to do, come rain or come shine."

 

South Korean military independence is not a new idea but it is one that Moon wishes to be his legacy before his term ends. 

Is this move vanity or an idea whose time has come?

Let's see next May.

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Blame that on itself and China:

North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19, and the ruptured global ties are having “a dramatic impact on the human rights of the people inside the country,” the U.N.’s independent investigator on the reclusive northeast Asian nation said Friday.