Your middle-of-the-week buoy in an ocean tossed ...
Blah blah blah “strong middle class” blah blah blah “economic growth and climate action” blah blah blah “child care affordability, better health care and continued reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.” To hear it, you’d think Canadians gave his party a majority.
How much money do you have to print for this stuff?:
A promised federal dentacare program will cost about $4.6 billion a year by 2025, according to Parliamentary Budget Office figures. Introduction of free dentistry for 6.5 million people is among terms of a vote swap between Liberal and New Democrat MPs: “The New Democratic Party is basically the government.”**
The prospects for a significant increase in Canadian defence spending in the coming federal budget looked a little less likely as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set to head to Europe after announcing a stunning political deal with the New Democrats.
(Sidebar: the laughing-stock is currently stinking things up in Brussels.)
It's not like Justin et al were going to spend the money that they are supposed to on home defense or NATO.
Like the useless debutante (not Joly this time) who gets her wealthy boyfriend to pay for everything, she will sit pretty until her boyfriend (the US) realises that he can do better.
Also - it's just money:
The Canada Revenue Agency paid millions in wage subsidies to insolvent companies, data show. Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier in a report to Parliament would not disclose total costs of subsidies paid to failing firms: ‘It is due to confidentiality provisions of the Income Tax Act.’
Because "transparency".
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The organization is apologizing for the problems uncovered by an independent third-party review, which found that Pride Toronto could not prove it completed several proposed projects after receiving $1.85 million in federal grants.
Pride Toronto, which organizes the city’s annual Pride Parade, says it hired KPMG in October 2021 to undertake a “grant compliance review” of three grants received in 2018 and 2019 following allegations that the use and reporting of those funds “negatively impacted” the Indigenous community.
It says it also asked the accounting firm to provide recommendations to ensure Pride Toronto’s processes “meet the highest standards” going forward.
To recap: an organisation that thinks sexual deviancy is an achievement wasted public money and did not give a kickback to Big Aboriginal but promises to keep this public spectacle alive by doing better.
What that means, I dare not guess.
If you have to pay people to like you, then they don't like you:
Federal departments and agencies last year spent more than $600,000 on payments to tweeters, bloggers and other social media influencers, records show. Local celebrities including a CBC-TV Dragons’ Den personality were hired to praise government’s work: “Communication is a fast-paced environment.”
Oh, that might be why no one outside of Canada likes Justin.
Or, IN Canada, for that matter.
Okay, who did you vote for?:
Surging inflation has a growing number of Canadians concerned they won’t be able to stretch their dollars far enough to keep food on the table, according to the latest polling from Ipsos.
In a survey conducted exclusively for Global News from March 11-16, Ipsos found that six in 10 Canadians say they are concerned they might not have enough money to feed their families.
That figure is up 16 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in November, when the annual rate of inflation stood at 4.7 per cent.
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Had coffee with a friend this morning. He has one of the largest bricking companies in the area, employs 23 guys. He can no longer afford to keep business going. Layoff notices handed out. He is closing shop and moving his family and business to Florida. What happened Canada ? 🇨🇦
— John Lee Pettimore (@JohnLeePettim13) March 22, 2022
The economy didn't fail because of truckers or because of Ukraine.
It failed because Canadians who traded away their freedoms for comfort voted in the worst sort of person for prime minister.
And time and time and time again their faith was rewarded with errors so colossal that one must conclude that Justin has brain damage.
This country is finished and Canadians helped finish it.
Bravo.
Never under-estimate the power of spite:
A Canadian pastor who was arrested and jailed for holding a prayer service for the trucker’s convoy that protested in Ottawa last month remains incarcerated.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski has been in jail since Feb. 9. He was denied bail on Feb. 19 and is currently being held in solitary confinement at the Calgary Remand Center, his son Nathan Pawlowski told The Epoch Times.
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The video shows numerous MPs including, notably, the leader of the New Democrat Party, Jagmeet Singh, who frequently touted both debunked points to justify his party's "reluctant" support of the Act's invoking.
Ottawa Police wrote in a news release on Monday that "There is no information indicating that" Connor Russell McDonald, 21, of Ottawa was involved "in any way with the Convoy protest which was going on when this arson took place."
McDonald has been charged with:
- Arson Causing Property Damage
- Mischief to Property Endangering Life
- Mischief to Property
- Possess Incendiary Material
- Arson Disregard for Human Life
The institution too big to fail is seeing more burn-out from doctors it didn't fire:
Preliminary data from a national survey of doctors in Canada has revealed a concerning trend about the health of those who take care of Canadians.
A survey of 4,000 physicians and medical learners, also known as residents, done by the Canadian Medical Association in November 2021 showed 53 per cent have experienced “high levels” of burnout, compared to only 30 per cent four years before.
And nearly half — or 46 per cent — of doctors are considering reducing their work in clinics in the next two years.
They know that the Pope won't give them cash, right?
Pope Francis will meet representatives of Canada’s native peoples this month to listen to their concerns following the discovery of bodies of children buried in church-run schools in Canada, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
By the way, where is that report?
The blackbox of the doomed China Eastern flight has been found:
Investigators sifting through the wreckage of the China Eastern Airlines Corp. jetliner that slammed into a hillside two days ago have located the cockpit recorder, one of two flight recorders on board.
The two separate devices, typically referred to as black boxes even though they’re painted distinctive orange to make them easier to see, can store audio recordings from the cockpit and data on hundreds of flight parameters — from speed and altitude to flap positioning and heading — that help investigators recreate the final fateful moments before a crash.
Analyzing the boxes is key to discovering why the Boeing Co. 737-800NG jet plunged out of the sky at close to the speed of sound before slamming into a hillside. The pilots didn’t respond to calls from air-traffic controllers after the plane tipped into its nosedive, authorities said.
While the aircraft’s particularly violent descent that resulted in total destruction of the jetliner and the presumed death of all 132 people on board, the devices — about the size of a large shoe box — are designed to withstand even the worst impacts. They can also function while submerged, emitting an ultrasonic pinging signal.
The cockpit voice recorder, or CVR, stores conversations between the pilots, their communications with ground-control personnel, and ambient sounds such as engine noise or cockpit sounds. The device typically stores only the last two hours of conversation, providing a narrower data set than the second box: the flight-data recorder, or FDR. This contains no sound recordings but stores the main parameters from at least 25 hours of flight time, allowing for a more technical readout of the aircraft’s performance.
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