Canadian diplomats embarrassed the nation by abruptly fleeing Afghanistan, MPs were told last night. The Department of Foreign Affairs has not yet explained why diplomats fled Kabul though Canadian citizens remained trapped under Taliban control: “All of a sudden, boom, they were gone.”
Yes, but that's just YOUR opinion:
Federal climate researchers spent more than $69,000 surveying Arctic residents on whether they were prepared for global warming. Respondents said they looked forward to it: “A few also felt concern that climate change was overblown and perhaps part of a historic warming period.”
No one wants to ham-string voters blocks and money-launderers:
The Department of Finance yesterday said it is unsure of the impact of a first-time federal equity tax on foreign non-resident buyers in real estate. The tax to take effect this year would punish scofflaws with $5,000 fines and surcharges: “Surely they are going to reciprocate very quickly in taxing Canadians who own property in the United States.”**
As Canada’s housing market continues to be whipped to new price heights, a survey of new immigrant home buyers in the country’s biggest real estate market suggests some may be willing to pay more than non-immigrants to land that first home.
With what money?
Why not use one's own money to blow one's own distinctive and ultimately exclusionary horn?:
The B.C. government is providing $27.5 million to the Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia to support the project and purchase the Wing Sang Building at 51 East Pender St.
“The contributions of Chinese Canadians to this province have been invaluable,” Premier John Horgan said in a release. “The Chinese Canadian Museum responds to the community’s long-standing desire for a place to share stories of achievement and shine a light on injustice. The museum will be an important place for all British Columbians, connecting the past to the present and future generations.”
Unlike those useless Scots!
Oh, wait ...
When one puts one's foot in it:
A Democratic lawmaker apologized Thursday after sending a tweet about parental involvement in schools she called “lacking in nuance and easily misinterpreted.”
Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Appleton)’s initial tweet, according to screenshots posted by Republican lawmakers, said that, “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should home school or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.” The tweet was later deleted.
Republicans, including former lieutenant governor and current gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch, quickly seized on the comments.
“Message to liberals: as taxpayers we already pay for our children’s education and have an absolute right to ‘have a say,'” Kleefisch wrote on Twitter.
Commandments like "thou shalt not kill" are pretty timeless and don't need revitalisation:
Cardinal Hollerich, who heads up the highly influential Commission of the Bishops’ Conference of the EU (COMECE), wants the Church to base its moral teaching on a very shaky foundation. He is, of course, being applauded by the usual suspects for his enlightenment and courage. But it doesn’t take much courage these days to take such a stance. In fact, taking a relaxed attitude toward all forms of human sexuality has become very much the fashion among progressive Catholics.
Fortunately, there are still Catholics—both heterosexual and homosexual—who are not slaves to fashion, and who can see that Cardinal Hollerich’s desire to base Church teaching on current “scientific” opinion and present-day practices is a formula for disaster. As William Inge, the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, observed many years ago, “whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.”
Slaves to modernity find themselves outmoded when the core of universal truth still lies in the dust-bin.
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