Your middle-of-the-week snack party ...
Oh, dear:
Floods and landslides that have killed at least one person have cut all rail access to Canada's largest port in the city of Vancouver, a spokesperson for the port said on Tuesday.
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In this photo, members of Pemberton Search and Rescue make their way over a washed out section of the Sea to Sky Highway just north of Whistler, B.C. It was this slide that would claim the first confirmed victim of the B.C. flooding. Between five and seven cars were pushed off the highway by the rush of mud and debris. As of Wednesday, RCMP have confirmed the death of one of the drivers, a woman from the Lower Mainland.
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“I know it’s hard for farmers to leave their life’s work,” Braun said. “But lives are more important to me right now than livestock and chickens.”
But that’s a tall order for the farmers in the Fraser Valley, who supply 50 per cent of all B.C.’s eggs, chickens and dairy products. There are 45,000 dairy cows in the valley and each chicken farm houses around 25,000 birds.
Residents and volunteers using powerboats were hauling cows out of barns overrun with water. People were putting calves into boats and trudging through cold water to make sure their animals weren’t left behind, Braun said.
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That's awfully kind of you, sirs:
But instead of profiting from the floods’ victims, Hope Pizza Place went out of its way to help. Firing up the restaurant’s one gas oven amid a power outage, owners Rupinder and Dewan Davesar baked pies and, with the aid of volunteers, delivered them in the rain to the occupants of marooned cars. For free.
“We could have made lots of money but we have other days to do that,” said Rupinder Tuesday after getting just five hours’ sleep. “We take the blessings from the people today. I think that will pay off in future for us.”
Corruption is how this country is run:
Charles Robert, the $231,000-a year clerk of the House of Commons, yesterday said he is off duty following allegations of incompetence and pro-Liberal bias. The Speaker’s office said it knew nothing of his paid leave: “I have decided to take a few days away in light of recent events.”
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Goebbels is an @$$ but one already knew that:
For starters, obviously, Guilbeault can’t “travel across the country” by rail any more than you or I can. Five of Canada’s provincial capitals have no passenger rail service. Nor do the islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward and Vancouver. It’s usually considered best practice not to remind Canadians of such regional discrepancies.
What remains of Via Rail, meanwhile, after years of service cuts and ever-slower schedules, is an unadulterated disgrace. The most fundamental problem is not Via’s fault — that is, its inability to get people from A to B on tracks it does not own with any reasonable speed or reliability — but that does not explain the execrable food, the 128k Wi-Fi, the refusal to transport bicycles during the pandemic, or its insistence on weighing people’s luggage at terminus (but not intermediate) stations. It is literally a government bureaucracy on rails.
And that describes the least unprofitable part of the network, between Windsor and Quebec City — the part that only required a public subsidy of around $30 per passenger in 2019. Anyone travelling between Halifax and Vancouver — the eastern and western terminuses of the Via network — is essentially riding a cruise ship on rails, but with shoddier internet. Guilbeault would likely need a satellite phone just to be in touch with Ottawa the whole way.
He didn't have the guts to face her:
Saskatchewan Senator Denise Batters last night was expelled from the federal Conservative caucus after demanding a Party leadership review. “I will not be silenced by a leader so weak he fired me via voicemail,” said Batters.
Enough with the pretense that the press must be "vaccinated". Simply don't grant them access.
Be proper censors and autocrats. Don't do anything half-half:
The House of Commons yesterday threatened to cancel Hill access passes for reporters and photographers who do not disclose their vaccination status. The Parliamentary Press Gallery executive made no objection: “If they make a choice not to get the shots, they are going to deal with the consequences.”
These shots:
At a time when questions about vaccine effectiveness were rising, the report received worldwide attention. Pfizer said the vaccine’s efficacy remained relatively strong, at 84 percent after six months.
It also reported 15 of the roughly 22,000 people who received the vaccine in the trial had died, compared to 14 of the 22,000 people who received placebo (a saline shot that didn’t contain the vaccine).
Some honesty from the unelected and unaccountable judicial activists in the Supreme Court:
A federal judge has ruled legal challenges of mandatory vaccine orders “raise a serious issue” to be decided at trial, but declined to issue an injunction suspending the orders for the time being. “Rights protected by the Charter are not absolute,” said the Federal Court: “This motion is about the consequences.”
This is why the Charter is rubbish and why we should be adopting a system similar to the one in the US where it's harder for the chair-moisteners in Congress to rob you blind.
It's just an economy:
The CPI surged 4.7 per cent in October from a year earlier, compared with a year-over-year gain of 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada reported on Nov. 17. The CPI also increased 4.7 per cent in February 2003, which had stood alone as the biggest increase since a 5.5 per cent gain in October 1991, a moment when the Bank of Canada was nearing the end of a successful fight against a wave of price increases that peaked around seven per cent earlier that year.
A man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to fight for a terrorist group, who was imprisoned but then released in 2020, will now be going back to jail after he made threats and broke his release conditions.
According to Global News, the Parole Board of Canada ruled that 35-year-old Mohamed Hassan Hersi was an “undue risk to society” before sending him back to prison.
Hersi will be able to apply for another conditional release within one year.
What could go wrong there?
Western Europe's "green" policies played into the Russian energy vulture's talons:
For decades, Greens said Europe could shut down its nuclear plants & rely on renewables & a bit of natural gas. Last week Euro leaders pressured Africa & India to give up coal. Now, Europe finds itself at the mercy of Russia and is burning coal plants like there’s no tomorrow pic.twitter.com/CPkKU6VUen
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 17, 2021
Baltic states demand that Belarus be held to account for human trafficking:
Belarus is forcing migrants to breach its borders with the European Union, and the government of President Alexander Lukashenko must be held accountable for human trafficking, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said on Monday.
"We ... condemn the actions taken by the Lukashenko regime instrumentalising migrants for political purposes," the presidents of the three Baltic states said in a joint statement after meeting Polish President Andrzej Duda via video link.
The European Union has accused Lukashenko of orchestrating an influx of migrants to EU members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to pressure the EU to back down over sanctions slapped on his government. Belarus has repeatedly denied the accusation.
"Thousands of people who flew into Belarus from Middle Eastern and African countries are being directed, in caravans, to storm the border of the European Union," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda told a news conference.
"It is obvious what Lukashenko's regime and its allies want - to test unity of the Western world," he added.
The Chinese don't like when you point out some of their gross food:
A news story stating some people in China eat rodents as a delicacy was insensitive, says a CBC ombudsman. The reference perpetuated an ethnic stereotype that Chinese people are strange and different, the Ombudsman said: “The article went wrong.”
I think it's rather silly to attack people over their food just as it is misleading to represent innocuous food choices as a sign that a culture is on par with the values we claim to embrace.
Nevertheless, when you put vile things on Instagram, what would you have people think?
Also:
The president of the International Ice Hockey Federation is warning that China's men's ice hockey team could be pulled from the Beijing Olympics because it is not competitive enough and would be beaten badly if forced to face off against powerhouse teams like the United States and Canada, which will be stacked with NHL stars. ...
Kunlun Red Star was originally based in China, but moved to a suburb of Moscow in 2020 because COVID-19 restrictions made it too difficult to remain in Beijing and keep playing in the KHL.
The team, which was founded in 2016, is near the bottom of the KHL standings. The majority of its players — 19, in fact — are Canadian and have been recruited by China to help bolster its hockey talent and form the backbone of the country's national team.
Fifth columnists.
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