And the Rest of It

It's not a problem, say the beneficiaries of China:

The Trudeau government has claimed that a Chinese acquisition of a Canadian lithium mining company poses no national security risks whatsoever. 

Ottawa’s decision comes after it was revealed that the purchase of Neo Lithium Corp. by Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd had triggered no extensive national security review. 

Liberal industry minister François-Philippe Champagne said that the federal government had initially looked over the project and had no qualms with it. 

“This transaction was absolutely reviewed to make sure there was no security risk,’’ Champagne said.

Neo Lithium has developed one of the world’s largest overseas lithium brine projects in Argentina. Zijjin Mining Group acquired the company for $960 million. 

Lithium is necessary for the production of electric vehicle batteries and has been designated a critical mineral since 2021. Alongside the US, Canada has also signed agreements to acquire battery minerals to gain a competitive edge over China, which dominates rare earth mineral extraction.

 

 

It's just money:

Taxpayers have now spent $10 million on a decrepit heritage building that has sat empty for 23 years. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017 announced with fanfare the Ottawa landmark would become an Indigenous Peoples’ Space: “We have a lot of hard work ahead.”

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The nation’s largest daily, the federally-subsidized Toronto Star, seeks millions more in taxpayers’ aid. The publisher petitioned MPs for new concessions including a $5,000 tax credit to train employees in how to use the internet: “The industry needs time.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must explain terms of his pledge to cap oil and gas emissions, the Commons natural resources committee was told yesterday. Trudeau made the announcement without explanation at a United Nations conference: “What is the value of additional legislation that creates even more uncertainty?”

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Cabinet should revoke scheduled carbon tax hikes and consider energy rebates for home heating, the Commons finance committee was told yesterday. The carbon tax will increase to the equivalent of 12¢ per litre of gasoline effective April 1: “It is well beyond what would otherwise be an inflationary factor.”

 

Trying to buy off the taxpayer, I see. 

 

You are strictly small potatoes to the government, Lytton:

A fresh coat of early February snow does little to mask the charred remains of building and vehicles in Lytton, B.C.

Apart from the snow, little has changed in the village since a catastrophic fire destroyed an estimated 90 per cent of buildings and homes last June.

Lots that once held homes are still a mess of blackened debris and ash. It's become something of a sore point for residents, like former mayor Jessoa Lightfoot, who had hoped rebuilding would be in full swing by now.

"It's just a big empty pit down there right now," said Lightfoot.

"You can't get your mail, you can't go to the doctor, you can't go to the pharmacy, you can't meet your friends and you really worry about how long it's going to take to get people back."

Today Lightfoot is at the Lytton Resiliency Centre located in a room at Kumsheen ShchEma-meet School, the village's high school. It's one of the few places in the area where people can meet for a coffee.

Volunteer Denise O'Conner is handing out bread to people who stop by, and offering them information on everything from how to pick up mail to where they can print out insurance documents.

 

You will have to do this yourselves. 

 

 

Justin really doesn't care:

Miss Liu’s mom, Yan Liu, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was “disappeared” and imprisoned by the CCP for practicing the peaceful meditative practice, which espouses the tenets “truth, compassion, and tolerance.” Under her oppressors, who are above the law, Yan could face torture, forced labor, abuse, death, even harvesting of her vital organs.

Neither the family nor Yan’s lawyer are able to contact her.

“We advocate on behalf of all our students, and we aspire for the fair and just treatment of all these students and their families,” wrote president of Sheridan’s student union Kyle Budge to Trudeau. “We understand this is a complex, international issue, but as representatives of our complex and international student body, it would be negligent of us to not push for the release of Lucy’s mother and provide Lucy with the support she needs.”

The letter added: “We ask for your immediate condemnation of these illegal detentions and call for the release of Ms. Yan Liu.”

Trudeau has not responded at this time of writing.

 

 

I consider useless trifles (which can be gotten anywhere and at any time so, thanks for that waste of resources) much smaller matters than worshipping the mastermind of one of Canada's greatest mass-murders:

The federal NDP is advocating for the government to ban the display of three different hate symbols, which leader Jagmeet Singh says are being used to mobilize movements.

Bill C-229, tabled by NDP MP Peter Julian last week, would prohibit the “display or sale” of symbols or emblems such as the Nazi swastika, the Ku Klux Klan’s insignia, and the Confederate flag.

 

All of which could be seen in museums where they would educate people on the dangers and horrors of mass intolerance and violence.

But this is not about stamping out bigotry, is it, Justin's lap-dog? 

 

Schools don't need "equity and inclusion officers" and here is why:

An ‘Equity and Inclusion Officer’ at the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) has claimed that history is paved with “white-led violence almost always in the name of freedom.” 

Teneile Warren made the statement on Friday over Twitter. It was made from behind a protected account but was shown to True North by an anonymous source. 

“WPs are scared right now. History is paved with white-led violence almost always in the name of “freedom”. WPs built a system on the narrative that these acts of violence were well intentioned & necessary. The system is (sic) never stops it because this is how it fuels itself,” Tweeted Warren. 

 

Like freeing people from Nazi death camps?

Like that?

Go home, Whoopi.

 

Entitlements and so forth:

One candidate said she called the Ontario Liberals’ chief returning officer, Milton Chan, in December, to explain that she had already purchased expensive non-refundable tickets. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Chan was on his own sunny vacation at the time. Still, he informed her that the edict was clear: forget about the vacation or forget about being a Liberal party candidate.

At the time, Chan was roughly a week into a six-week South American Christmas vacation that included stopovers in Colombia, sunny beaches in Rio de Janerio and Miami, and a week-long Caribbean cruise. He was not a candidate and the order didn’t apply to him.

 

Well, Korea, China thinks that it owns you, so .. : 

The Chinese Embassy in South Korea on Tuesday defended the use of a Korean traditional costume in last week’s Olympic opening ceremony in Beijing, after South Korean politicians and activists criticized what they called “cultural appropriation”.

 

I think Russia is still mad about Napoleon:

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis.

Macron also said it would take time to find a diplomatic solution to the rising tensions, which represent the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

His remarks on a visit to Kyiv came as the Kremlin denied reports that he and Putin struck a deal on de-escalating the crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “in the current situation, Moscow and Paris can’t be reaching any deals.”

 

Also:

Russia runs in Ukraine a completely loyal religious organization, which can basically be referred to as a “Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine” (ROCinU). It is through this influential force that the Kremlin skillfully exploits the religious factor to promote among the Ukrainians the ideas of the “Russian world” — the doctrine suggesting that the former Soviet republics are inextricably bound to Moscow.

For decades,  the ROCinU has been formally referred to as  the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church.” Despite having the word “Ukrainian” in its title, this church is fully controlled by its ”parent” organization, the Russian Orthodox Church. Even its charter was approved in Moscow, while all promotions also get green-lighted by the ROC.

In 2018, Ukraine’s parliament passed a law obliging the church to put the word “Russian” in its title to reflect the truth about its governing centre. Naturally, the “UOC” has been vehemently opposing  the legislation, decrying it as “persecution.”