Your middle-of-the-week sunshine ...
Because "transparency":
Trudeau's Department for the Environment has refused to disclose how much money it cost the Canadian taxpayer to send a 277 member delegation to COP26 in Glasgow, according to Blacklock's Reporter.
Canada also sent 17 press advisors and Catherine McKenna, who was Trudeau's former Minister for the Environment before she stepped down as an MP after the election.
The government has not yet said whether McKenna travelled on the taxpayer's tab. "Canada has taken steps to ensure diverse perspectives are reflected in international forums," said a government spokesperson when asked about McKenna's expenses.
In total, 39,509 people from around the world attended COP26. This includes 3,800 members of the media and 14,000 observers. The sheer number of people who attended this conference caused significant traffic in Scotland's second city. These meetings will continue until November 12.
In 2019, Canada sent a delegation that was half the size of this current one to a conference in Madrid, Spain. The total cost of this was $683,278, which included airfare, taxis and chauffeured cars. Despite taking place three years ago, "a number of invoices and claims have yet to be processed."
You see, only Justin can be an @$$hole:
A leadership candidate for the BC Liberals has fired one of his campaign advisors after they berated another leadership candidate's staff in a bar, according to Global News.
Diamond Isinger, who is a campaign advisor for MLA Michael Lee, said she bumped into four members of Kevin Falcon's team, who is widely seen as the favourite in the BC Liberal leadership contest.
During this encounter, one of Falcon's advisors berated her, and made sexual comments towards her, which left Isinger in tears.
Speaking about the encounter publicly, Isinger said "I was berated with misogynistic slurs and profane insults while being yelled at for 15+ minutes."
"Others at the table let this continue for a long time while I burst into tears and cried openly"
"Despite trying to address this issue in private, I have no choice but to share this publicly to encourage accountability, due to the lack of action taken — with no apologies or consequences in the two days since this occurred," she added.
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Parkdale-High Park MP Arif Virani criticized a public school teacher in his riding who wore blackface to his class, calling this an act of "intolerance."
"Halloween is a time of celebration—not a time for intolerance. The wearing of Blackface by a teacher at Parkdale CI is simply unacceptable. We need a prompt investigation by the TDSB and our community needs to see prompt accountability," said Virani in a tweet published on Monday.
"To the students who had the courage to speak up, know that we stand with you: Fighting Anti-Black racism is all of our responsibility," he concluded.
Many across social media were quick to point out that Virani's boss, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, wore blackface so many times, that he himself could not put an exact number on it.
Don't take sides. Watch this play out.
Twitter has suspended the account of University of Ottawa professor Amir Attaran after his use of a seemingly violent turn of phrase in a tweet addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The tweet is part of a longer thread posted this week criticizing the Liberals’ slowness to approve vaccines for Canadian children.
“Health Canada knew half a year ago this was coming,” he wrote.
“Trudeau should be tarred and feathered for putting child lives in danger,” he continued, tagging Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.
Finland, Sweden and Denmark announced in early October that they would stop issuing the Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine due to reports of the rare cardiovascular side effect, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle.**
On its website Ventavia calls itself the largest privately owned clinical research company in Texas and lists many awards it has won for its contract work.2 But Jackson has told The BMJ that, during the two weeks she was employed at Ventavia in September 2020, she repeatedly informed her superiors of poor laboratory management, patient safety concerns, and data integrity issues. Jackson was a trained clinical trial auditor who previously held a director of operations position and came to Ventavia with more than 15 years’ experience in clinical research coordination and management. Exasperated that Ventavia was not dealing with the problems, Jackson documented several matters late one night, taking photos on her mobile phone. One photo, provided to The BMJ, showed needles discarded in a plastic biohazard bag instead of a sharps container box. Another showed vaccine packaging materials with trial participants’ identification numbers written on them left out in the open, potentially unblinding participants. Ventavia executives later questioned Jackson for taking the photos.
Early and inadvertent unblinding may have occurred on a far wider scale. According to the trial’s design, unblinded staff were responsible for preparing and administering the study drug (Pfizer’s vaccine or a placebo). This was to be done to preserve the blinding of trial participants and all other site staff, including the principal investigator. However, at Ventavia, Jackson told The BMJ that drug assignment confirmation printouts were being left in participants’ charts, accessible to blinded personnel. As a corrective action taken in September, two months into trial recruitment and with around 1000 participants already enrolled, quality assurance checklists were updated with instructions for staff to remove drug assignments from charts.
Nobody asked for shoes to be thrown everywhere or for anyone to remove them but here we are:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said at a news conference in Glasgow that he is confident that a "solution" will be found to allow Canada to lower the flag on Remembrance Day.
(Sidebar: no one has forgotten that you're a prick who hates veterans, Justin.)
A real leader wouldn't negotiate with the victim grievance industry and would always have the flag at full mast.
But that would mean that Canada, as it currently stands, is a real country.
Nope.
Being "vaccinated" is whatever the government says it is (because we all know it means absolutely nothing):
The federal government will reassess their definition of what it means ot be fully vaccinated come this winter, Canada's top doctor said last week, reports Blacklock's Reporter.
The comment came after a recommendation from Health Canada that seniors be given a booster shot. The recommendation, which was made on September 28, said that boosters for fully vaccinated nursing home residents would curb deaths. The panel also recommended that 1.6 million Canadians over the age of 80 be given a booster.
(Sidebar: the chart below is for adults. The short forms are explained below that chart on that page.)
Blinking won't always happen:
Quebec is dropping its enforced COVID-19 vaccination mandate among health-care workers, government officials announced Wednesday.
After pushing back its deadline multiple times, Health Minister Christian Dubé said the province will abandon the measure altogether, as the health-care network can’t afford to lose the thousands of non-vaccinated workers.
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Air Canada has suspended more than 800 employees for not being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in line with federal rules.
An institution too big to fail:
Expenditure on health care
Canada spends more on health care than the majority of high-income OECD countries with universal health-care systems. After adjustment for “age”, the percentage of the population over 65, it ranks second highest for expenditure on health care as a percentage of GDP and eighth highest for health-care expenditure per capita.Availability of resources
The availability of medical resources is perhaps one of the most basic requirements for a properly functioning health-care system. Data suggests that Canada has substantially fewer human and capital medical resources than many peer jurisdictions that spend comparable amounts of money on health care. After adjustment for age, it has significantly fewer physicians, acute-care beds, and psychiatric beds per capita compared to the average of OECD countries included in the study. It ranks close to the average for nurses and ranked eighth for the number of long-term care beds (per 1,000 over the age of 65). While Canada has the third most Gamma cameras (per million population, age-adjusted), it has fewer other medical technologies than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care for which comparable inventory data are available.Use of resources
Medical resources are of little use if their services are not being consumed by those with health-care demands. Data suggests that Canada’s performance is mixed in terms of use of resources, performing at higher rates than the average OECD country on under half the indicators examined (for example, cataract surgery and knee replacement), and average to lower rates on the rest. Canada reports the least degree of hospital activity (as measured by rates for curative-care discharges) in the group of countries studied.Access to resources
While both the level of medical resources available and their use can provide insight into accessibility, it is also beneficial to measure accessibility more directly by examining measures of timeliness of care and cost-related barriers to access. Canada ranked last (or close to last) on four of four indicators of timeliness of care; and ranked seventh (out of ten) on the indicator measuring the percentage of patients who reported that cost was a barrier to access.Quality and clinical performance
When assessing indicators of availability of, access to, and use of resources, it is of critical importance to include some measure of quality and clinical performance in the areas of primary care, acute care, mental health care, cancer care, and patient safety. While Canada does well on five indicators of clinical performance and quality (such as rates of survival for breast, colon, and rectal cancers), its performance on the seven others examined in this study are either no different from the average or in some cases—particularly obstetric traumas and diabetes-related amputations—worse.
Opposition parties say the federal government should use the current snarl in global supply chains to rethink the country’s reliance on foreign suppliers.
China would not like that.
Japan's leading party barely holds on to office:
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s coalition kept a comfortable majority in Sunday’s parliamentary election despite losing some seats as his weeks-old government grapples with a coronavirus-battered economy and regional security challenges.
Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito together won 293 seats, according to final but not yet official results. That’s well above the majority of 233 in the 465-member lower house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber Diet, where they previously had 305 seats.
The LDP lost 15 seats from its pre-election share, but the 261 seats it won are “an absolute majority” – a level that allows the party and its ruling bloc to control all parliamentary committees and easily ram through legislation.
The LDP’s losses in single constituencies included those held by influential party members, such as secretary general Akira Amari, who was stung by a past bribery scandal. Amari offered to resign even though he eventually secured his seat in proportional representation.
“The lower house election is about choosing a leadership,” Kishida said late Sunday after his ruling coalition secured the majority. “I believe we received a mandate from the voters.”
Also - why, it's like the American electorate doesn't like being insulted:
Democrat Terry McAuliffe won’t be returning to Richmond. He’s done. Finished. He ran a piss-poor campaign that focused on anything but Virginia. He said this election was about Trump, then it wasn’t, and then it was back to being about Trump. Oh, and his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin is Trump. It didn’t stick. Trump is gone, Terry. Inflation is rising. Job creation is trash. And Joe Biden’s approval rating here is in the toilet. Obama isn’t around to buoy your chances. And unlike Ken Cuccinelli, Glenn Youngkin was a solid candidate. He’s the next governor of Virginia.
Yet, one crosstab should give Democrats a heart attack. The Latino vote, long coveted as the bloc that will lead to a permanent Democratic majority, is slipping away—big league. In Virginia, Youngkin won 54 percent of the Latino vote. That’s crazy good. Coupled with the surge in rural turnout, making good enough inroads in Northern Virginia, and solid support from Independents—it’s easy to see why Glenn beat Terry.
Be like the honey badger, Lithuania and Taiwan:
Taiwan is "very high on the agenda" in the European Union, the grouping's first official parliamentary delegation to the democratic island said on Wednesday, amid heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing.
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China on Saturday warned Lithuania and European officials not to disrupt ties over decisions by Taiwan and the Baltic country to open reciprocal representative offices.
The slave labour trade in Vietnam continues unabated:
About 200 contracted factories that make sportswear for Nike Inc (NKE.N) across Vietnam have resumed operations after months of COVID-19 suspension, the government said on Wednesday, as it races to get its key manufacturing sector back on track.
Nearly 80% of Nike's footwear makers and half of its apparel providers in Vietnam were forced to halt production in mid-July, which cam after authorities had imposed restrictions on movement to stop a major outbreak from spreading.
Almost half of the American sports giant's footwear is made in Vietnam.
Let Kim Jong-Un get his sushi, they cry:
China and Russia are urging the U.N. Security Council to end a host of sanctions against North Korea ranging from the export of seafood and textiles to the cap on imports of refined petroleum products and the ban on its citizens working overseas and sending home their earnings.
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