Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Mid-Week Post


 

Your middle-of-the-week planting guide ...

 

If one finally realises that this is all about reducing people to an eighteenth century serf existence, then, yes, the math DOES add up:

In 2021, for example, it suddenly raised Canada’s emissions for the base year of 2005 to 739 million tonnes from the 730 million tonnes it reported in 2020, retroactively improving the government’s alleged performance on reducing emissions by 9 million tonnes.

The latest report from the federal Environment Ministry is also now including projected future emission cuts from land use and forestry practices, which it hasn’t done in the past, which isn’t part of its climate modelling, and which comes from a different government ministry — natural resources.

 

Carbon is not a pollutant, by the way. 

 


Justin is Kim Jong-Un and we all know it:

But unlike Mike Pearson, Mr. Trudeau fails to recognize that, if Ottawa is going to propose a new national policy, it must then equip the provinces to carry out that policy, preferably by ceding the necessary tax room, with expanded equalization for provinces that have weaker tax bases. Instead, he prefers the approach of direct federal transfers, with strict conditions attached.

This is both wasteful and hazardous. Wasteful, because provincial governments are the best judges of their priorities. They should not be dictated to by a federal government that – from Indigenous services to defence procurement – has proved itself incompetent in program delivery.

Mr. Trudeau’s heavy-handed approach will only increase resentments, both in Quebec and in the West. And those resentments will grow, when history repeats itself and the federal government reneges on its share of the funding responsibility.

This happened in the last century, when Ottawa cut provincial transfers in order to combat a dangerously high deficit. The deficit is dangerously high again.

 

Pearson got the ball rolling on Canadians' journey to dependence.  

He is why Canadians shiver at the idea of doing anything by themselves and why they abhor grassroots social action and think it foreign.

 

Also - Justin must know that people don't like him:

 

And - Justin openly admired the Chinese dictatorship that had people mowed down in Tienanmen Square and has since offered it interest-free loans, Francois Champagne not only had his mortgages in Chinese banks but refused to thank Taiwan for offering personal protective gear to replace the stuff Justin handed to China and find a Liberal who doesn't end up working for the Chinese in some way.

Now one sees why there will never be any investigation into Chinese ownership of Canadian resources or into slave labour goods:

Canada should launch a full security review for every investment by a state-owned company from an “authoritarian state,” a parliamentary committee says.

On Tuesday, the House of Commons industry committee released its report on the acquisition of Canadian-owned mining company Neo-Lithium by a Chinese enterprise. It said “all investments by state-owned enterprises from authoritarian states” meet the Investment Canada Act’s threshold of potentially being “injurious to national security.”

The committee recommended that the industry minister invoke Section 25.3 of the act — launching a formal national security review — in “all such cases.”

The choice of Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne not to do so over the sale of Neo-Lithium led to controversy in January. Neo-Lithium, which has a lithium mine in Argentina, announced it would be acquired by the Zijin Mining Group in October 2021 for $960 million. The deal closed on Jan. 26.

Lithium is classified as a critical mineral by the Canadian government. It’s significant because it’s used in batteries, which is increasingly important globally as industries such as automakers move toward electrification.

During its study of the acquisition, the Commons committee heard from experts that because the mine is in Argentina, there is no way to make sure the lithium actually ends up in Canada, and the sale might not raise national security concerns — but they also cautioned the acquisition of Neo-Lithium is part of an industrial strategy by China to become dominant in tech manufacturing.

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Federal agents have intercepted just one shipment of suspected slave goods from China since issuing an advisory against suspicious imports more than a year ago. MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee yesterday expressed astonishment at the low rate of inspections: “I am a bit stunned by that response.”

 

 

Being a Liberal means never having to say one is sorry - ever:

Federal employees have filed more than 7,000 complaints of workplace violence and harassment since Parliament passed an anti-harassment bill, records show. Cabinet four years ago said the bill would curb inappropriate behaviour from sexual violence to Twitter gibes: “It’s going to apply to any activity linked to work.”

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No manager was fired or reassigned for crude bigotry at the Department of Immigration, MPs were told yesterday. Immigration Minister Sean Fraser called racism “a sickness” in his department, explaining Black employees may now attend trauma counselling: “We do know that within the public service and as well within our department these problems do exist.”

 

Because "transparency":

Proposed reforms drawn from We Charity investigations yesterday survived a vote in the Commons ethics committee. Liberal MPs lost a bid to bury a report recommending tougher conflict of interest laws: “Ensure Canadians have a chance to see this.”


 

No one wants to live or breed in Quebec.

As a Quebec native once said - "Let them die":

The federal government has tabled legislation to ensure Quebec does not lose a seat when Canada’s electoral map is redrawn.

It presented a bill Thursday to protect Quebec’s voice in Parliament after it faced losing a seat in an upcoming redistribution based on population.

The bill would prevent Quebec’s number of seats from dropping to 77 from its current tally of 78.

The legislation comes days after a commitment by the Liberal government to protect the number of Commons seats in Quebec in the text of a deal with the NDP.

If approved by Parliament, the bill amending the Constitution Act would make sure that the number of MPs from each province does not drop below the number they had before the last election.

 

It's cheating.

 

 

Because grandmothers need to be trampled by horses! That's why!:

Close to 40 days after the Coastal GasLink (CGL) attack near Houston, BC, resulting in millions of dollars in damage, RCMP has not provided an update on the investigation which it says is “ongoing.”

On February 17, CGL security workers on the Morice River Forest Service Road were rolled on by a masked group of people armed with weapons, including axes, who began setting fires and destroying property. The surveillance cameras had been successfully disabled, however some mobile phone footage was captured.

The incident unfolded just after midnight and RCMP says the group of attackers was roughly 20.

CGL confirms nine workers were attacked, all of whom fled for their lives. None suffered any injuries.

“This coordinated and criminal attack from multiple directions threatened the lives of several workers. In one of the most concerning acts, an attempt was made to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside,” reads a statement from CGL.

When RCMP officers arrived, they discovered blockages on the road such as downed trees, tar-covered stumps, wire, and boards with spikes protruding. Fires had been lit throughout the debris.

Despite being close enough to officers to hurl smoke bombs and fire-lit sticks, the attackers successfully fled the remote work camp — the only trace of them being a series of makeshift traps, according to RCMP.

Mounties say one officer was injured, although the severity of the reported injury was not disclosed.

The incident dominated public discourse in BC for about a week before fading into the background, and nearly 40 days later RCMP has not said whether or not it has any leads, nor will it say how many officers are assigned to the investigation, however it does confirm “the investigation is active and ongoing.”

 

 

Is it time to ban Easter yet?:


 

MOAR money:

The chief of a First Nation that's searching for unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia says they're looking for long-term funding as they prepare for a visit today by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Chief Willie Sellars from Williams Lake First Nation says his community along with others conducting similar investigations at former government-funded, church-run institutions across Canada need financial support for their work from start to finish.

He says reconciliation starts with a healthy community, and they also need long-term funding to support the mental health and well-being of residential school survivors, their families, and Indigenous communities.

 

When is that report coming out and where will it say how Justin's dad supported residential schools? 

 

 

To be filed under - NOTHING TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT:

A top U.S. diplomat will meet this week in China to discuss issues in Afghanistan with his Chinese, Russian and Pakistani counterparts, the Chinese foreign ministry and the State Department said on Tuesday.

The United States understands that China has invited Taliban representatives to the talks in Tunxi, a State Department spokesperson said.

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China’s oil refiners are discreetly purchasing cheap Russian crude as the nation’s supply continues to seep into the market.

Unlike India’s state-run oil refiners, which have issued a number of tenders seeking to buy Russia’s flagship Urals crude among other grades, traders say China’s state processors are negotiating privately under the radar with sellers. The nation’s independent refiners are also quietly buying, according to traders who asked not to be identified as the information is confidential.

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 The Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration, an official of the Pacific island nation's government said on Thursday.

The arrangements are likely to concern the United States, which said in February it would open an embassy in the Solomon Islands after senior U.S. administration officials expressed concern China wanted to create military relationships in the Pacific islands.

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The Philippines has filed a diplomatic protest over a Chinese Coast Guard vessel engaging in "close distance maneuvering" that heightened a risk of collision in the disputed South China Sea, Manila's national security adviser said on Tuesday.

It is the latest of more than 200 diplomatic protests that the Southeast Asian country has filed against China, which claims large swathes of the South China Sea and continues to assert its presence in the strategic waterway.

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South Korea's military has said North Korea's largest missile test yet used an older, smaller intercontinental ballistic missile, and not the massive new Hwasong-17 ICBM, in part to try to head off negative domestic reaction to a failed launch.

South Korean and U.S. officials have concluded that the March 24 launch appears to have been a Hwasong-15 ICBM, a defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Washington has not yet publicly weighed in, with Pentagon spokesman John Kirby telling reporters on Tuesday that the test was still being analysed.

North Korea fist test-fired the Hwasong-15 in Nov. 2017, before imposing a moratorium on ICBM testing that ended with last week's launch.

Open-source analysts noted discrepancies in video and photos released by North Korean state media after that launch, saying shadows, weather, and other factors suggested it was from an earlier test, possibly a failed launch on March 16.

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Two Chinese state-owned mining companies plan to destroy an ancient Buddhist city in Afghanistan in order to get the copper underneath it, according to a new documentary

According to the film “Saving Mes Aynak,” Metallurgical Group Corp. (MCC) and Jiangxi Copper are in the initial stages of building an open-pit copper mine 25 miles southeast of Kabul. The location is home to a walled Buddhist city that dates back 5,000 years.

According to the Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the site is also home to the world’s second-largest copper deposit. China is an importer of copper and a major global refiner of the industrial metal.

 

 Also:

India signed an agreement to set up hybrid power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands Tuesday in a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for influence in the Indian Ocean.

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, who was visiting Colombo, witnessed the signing along with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Gamini Peiris, the Indian embassy said.

In December, China announced it was suspending its own plan to build power plants on three Sri Lankan islands due to security concerns.

An Indian official said Tuesday he couldn’t confirm if the plants in the new agreement are to be built on the same islands earmarked for the Chinese project. The power source and other details about the projects weren't available.

India considers Sri Lanka, just across the narrow Palk Strait off India's southeastern coast, to be within its sphere of influence. The island nation is in the middle of a key sea route connecting East and West and is important to China’s ambitious “One Belt One Road” global infrastructure initiative.

India and China are rivals for influence in the region and have border disputes that have flared in recent years.

“It is kind of a substantial victory for India,” said Lynn Ockersz a senior journalist and foreign relations analyst in Sri Lanka.

He said it would put India in a position to influence Sri Lanka regarding policy decisions that might affect it.

The cancelled Chinese power plant project would have been near India’s southern coast.

 

 

Be like Poland:

Poland announced steps Wednesday to end all Russian oil imports by year's end, while Germany issued a warning about natural gas levels and called on people to conserve, new signs of how Russia's war in Ukraine has escalated tensions about securing energy supplies to power Europe.

Poland, which has taken in millions of Ukrainian refugees, has taken the lead in the European Union on swiftly cutting off Russian fossil fuels. The 27-nation bloc has declined to sanction energy because it depends on Moscow for the fuel needed for cars, electricity, heating and industry, but it has announced proposals to wean itself off those supplies.

“We are presenting the most radical plan in Europe for departing from Russian oil by the end of this year,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference.

It comes a day after Poland said it was banning Russian coal imports, expected by May. Morawiecki says Poland will take steps to become “independent” of Russian supplies and is calling on other European Union countries to “walk away” as well. He argues that money paid for Russia’s oil and gas is fueling its war machine.

 

 

Electoral fraud for this:

 

 

Tell me again that this isn't about grooming children:

 

Children don't wake up one day and realise that they are XYZ sexual flavour. Someone tells them that they are.

It's sick.

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Why hasn't this person been plowed with defenses of the Bard?:

Teacher Zahara Chowdhury suggested the Bard, the only compulsory writer on the secondary English curriculum, puts students off literature as they can find the language inaccessible.

Speaking on GB News, she said: “I don’t think Shakespeare should be cancelled, nor should his texts be banned, I don’t think students should hate Shakespeare either.

“...But the accessibility of Shakespeare’s language for a range of students is actually quite difficult and then can form a barrier to students' enjoyment of literature.”

 

First of all, she DOES want Shakespeare banned.

Secondly, all teachers have to do is, well, teach. Believe it or not but Shakespeare is modern English. It CAN be taught.

 

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