Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Mid-Week Post


 

Your mid-week opportunity to stop and smell the flowers ... 


You can't quash a popular grassroots movement by telling the truth:

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Methinks that Marco will find himself under the bus when things go pear-shaped. 


Also in today's "the Emergencies Act was invoked to get Justin out from under the bed where he was hiding" news:

Invocation of the Emergencies Act to end the truckers’ protest in Ottawa shocked civil libertarians here and around the world. A proposed class action started by Ottawa residents Zexi Li and Geoffrey Devaney and the Happy Goat Coffee Company may be just as disturbing.

(Sidebar: this Zexi Lee.) 

All class actions, in which plaintiffs make a civil claim for damages on behalf of a larger group, must be court-certified to go ahead; this one isn’t yet. Even so, in preliminary hearings beginning February 17, the plaintiffs got an extraordinary “Mareva” injunction, named after a ship-owning company that long ago chased after the charter fee for a ship, then far away on its contracted journey. It is a court order not to move or use identified assets such as money or ships or other property pending trial. Cryptocurrency donations to the Freedom Convoy were frozen — a private seizure, not made under the Emergencies Act.

Mareva orders are typically used against non-residents with few assets at risk in the jurisdiction. They are a drastic, “extraordinary”, remedy designed for emergencies. Yet this one came easily, after an ex parte hearing in which the defendants weren’t present or even notified of the risks they faced.

Normally, a Mareva injunction requires plaintiffs to give undertakings to the court to pay damages if the injunction proves to be wrongly issued on the plaintiff’s one-sided representations. But Justice Calum MacLeod of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice waived the undertaking, citing cases with a human rights or public interest dimension. In this case, however, the human rights and public interest dimensions should protect the defendant-protestors, not the plaintiffs, and require an undertaking to be given, not waived.

The lawsuit claims over $300 million for private and public nuisance and punitive damages. This seems like a figure meant more to intimidate than compensate, especially given that businesses affected by the protest have already received federal government compensation of $20 million. The truckers were opposed to lockdowns, after all. If anyone should be sued for economic losses from lockdowns, it’s the governments imposing them, not people opposing them.

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Conservative MP Dane Lloyd grilled an activist from the far-left Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) before a parliamentary committee this week, accusing the group of bias and for spreading misinformation during the Freedom Convoy.

CAHN executive director Evan Balgord admitted to the Commons public safety committee on Tuesday that his so-called research organization did not in fact verify a photo of an anti-Semitic flyer allegedly found at the site of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa before CAHN chair Bernei Farber pinned it on convoy protesters.


(Sidebar: this CAHN.) 

The admission came during Lloyd’s questioning of Balgord.

“During the convoy protests your (chair) Bernie Farber posted a tweet with a photo of a vile antisemitic flyer and claimed that this was a picture of a flyer being circulated in Ottawa among the trucker protesters, but upon further examination it was proven that this exact same photo was taken in Miami, Florida weeks before the protest ever began,” said Lloyd. 

“Can you explain why the (chair) of your organization was claiming that this photo was being circulated at the protest when in fact it was a photo from a completely different country weeks before the protest?” 

Balgord explained that “(w)hat had occurred was that somebody had reached out to us in Ottawa who said that they saw that flyer there, and they provided the photo at that moment.

“Bernie was not aware that the photo itself was taken from an American source,” he continued. “What the person was trying to communicate to our organization was that they saw the same flyer but they had attached the photo from the states so it was our error in not communicating that more clearly.”

“So you have no evidence other than hearsay that that flyer was actually being distributed in Ottawa? Correct?” asked Lloyd. 

“That is correct. We took the report from somebody on the ground, and our chair put the information out there,” replied Balgord.

Quillette editor Jonathan Kay was the first to debunk Farber’s Feb. 6 tweet that claimed that the photo of the flyer was “taken by a friend in Ottawa at the Occupation. Apparently in plain sight.” 

Farber eventually deleted the tweet after its true source was discovered. 

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This week Dr. Lewis in another interview had to push back on CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon who, in a similar fashion to Kapelos, tried to take a swipe at her for taking a perfectly reasonable position on an issue; this time on the Freedom Convoy. 

Solomon noted that Dr. Lewis had supported the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and using the critical statements of CPC leadership candidate Jean Charest against the convo asked her if it was a mistake to support the movement.

Dr. Lewis explained that the protest outside of Parliament was fully peaceful and that she was proud to be the first of the leadership candidates to support the truckers’ push to end the mandates. She also added that she was always against the border blockades that were not a part of the official Freedom Convoy 2022 protest.

Solomon then tried to imply that in some backward way Dr. Lewis indirectly supported people trying to overthrow the Canadian government. ...

Dr. Lewis countered Solomon’s absurd assertion of wrongdoing, pointing out that Solomon knows he is pushing a falsehood, seeing as not one person associated with the convoy protest has been charged with the crime of sedition.  

Not that the CBC cares what Dr. Lewis thinks (I expect racist attacks against her any moment now).

Even if the convoy were to overthrow the fascist government of China's North American vassal state, would we be worse off?

People were arrested without cause. Bank accounts were frozen. Paid agents of the government spread malicious lies to discredit a popular yet embarrassing movement. Members of Parliament actually join in on this parade of lies. Does anyone want to talk about foreign involvement? Let's talk about American anti-oil groups that have quashed our energy sector and Chinese interference even in this debacle.

Sedition is only a matter of who prints the history books. 

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From some of our best political actuarials it has been estimated that the imminent danger of violent overthrow of the Canadian government by the truckers’ protest was somewhere between a mass outbreak of veganism in Newfoundland (apocalyptically unlikely) and Canada meeting its climate goals in 2030.

 


For additional burn:

Tamara Lich has been awarded The George Jonas Freedom Award for her part in organizing the Freedom Convoy truckers protest that drew international attention for occupying Ottawa’s downtown core in February.

 

 

It was never about a virus:

Former White House COVID adviser and assistant professor at McMaster University Dr. Paul Alexander says several top officials, including senior doctors and CEOs, were issued fake vaccine cards after refusing mRNA vaccines.

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A Conservative MP says the president of the Canadian arm of AstraZeneca couldn’t answer questions at a parliamentary committee as to why the company asked for clauses to be shielded from liability for vaccine-related injuries.

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Three days after Beijing officially acknowledged a cluster of an unknown pneumonia disease in 2020, then-head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Robert Redfield invited his Chinese counterpart, George Gao, for a call.

“I’ve been trying to reach you and will try again in a few hours,” he wrote, according to emails sent on Jan. 3, 2020, and obtained by The Epoch Times.

This would be the first of a series of efforts from the United States to engage with China and offer assistance over the next few weeks.

“Unfortunately, that assistance wasn’t accepted by the Chinese government,” Redfield said. “I think it could have made a big difference.”

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Federal managers suspended without pay more than 2,500 employees for declining to show proof of vaccination, records show. Employees stripped of salary and benefits included 66 at the Department of Health and Public Health Agency that spoke against coercive vaccination: “The federal government violated human rights knowing few people can afford to sue.”


 

I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about:

Canada is facing a record wave of retirements as one in five Canadians near the end of their working lives in a country already grappling with labour shortages and historically low unemployment.

A Statistics Canada study based on the 2021 census finds that Canada’s working population has never been older. Almost 22 per cent of the population is between 55 and 64, an all-time high in the history of the census.

Canadians aged 15 to 64 drive the economy and at 64.8 per cent this age group still represents one of the highest in the G7. Less than 60 per cent of Japan’s population, for example, is within working age.

But things are about to change as the last of the baby boomers leave the workplace and fewer young people step up to replace them. By 2051, the proportion of working age Canadians is expected to fall to 60 per cent.

“An increase in immigration — even a large one — would not significantly curb this projected drop,” said Statistics Canada.

 

Does one mean to say that we cannot educate and train people in Canada?

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“The new reality with which economies must reckon is higher inflation and slowing economic growth. And a big reason for the current bout of stagflation is a series of supply shocks that have curtailed output and raised costs. The covid pandemic forced many sectors to lock down, disrupted global supplies and produced a persistent reduction in labour supply, especially in the US. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has driven up various prices. China’s draconian lockdown in major economic hubs has squeezed supplies further. But even without these short-term factors, the medium-term outlook would be darkening. There are many reasons to worry about stagflationary conditions haunting the global economy with higher prices, lower growth, and possible recessions in many places.” ...

Inflation is when the growth of the money supply exceeds the growth of goods and services. Governments didn’t just print too much money, they crushed the production and delivery of goods and services.

 

 

But at least they saved themselves:

The Canadian military had only two aircraft in Kabul when the city fell to the Taliban last August 15, says Immigration Minister Sean Fraser. Canadian diplomats commandeered one of them to flee the city leaving behind thousands of Canadian citizens and Afghan allies: ‘The U.S. had 110 planes on site; Canada had two and one of them wasn’t in great working order.’

 

How typically Canadian.



There is no dignity in forcing medical personnel to poison one to death:

Police in Abbotsford, B.C. confirm they are investigating the medically-assisted death of a 61-year-old woman whose daughters say should not have been approved for the procedure based on the state of her mental health at the time.

 

 

A plea deal for a loony:

United States prosecutors say they’ve offered a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump.

The deal would include the three charges Pascale Ferrier faces related to a letter containing ricin that was mailed to the White House in 2020, as well as 16 federal charges she faces in Texas, where she is alleged to have mailed poison to several law enforcement officials.

 

 

Remember - carbon is a pollutant.

Or so one is told:

Millions of litres of sewage has leaked into the Assiniboine River, and more sewage may continue to be released into it.

Alexis Kanu, the executive director of the Lake Winnipeg Foundation, is concerned after the City of Winnipeg let millions of litres of combined sewage flow into the Assiniboine River.

‘’I’m disgusted,” Kanu said in an interview with CTV News. “Just because this happens so frequently doesn’t mean we should be used to it; doesn’t mean we should accept it.”

The City of Winnipeg’s Water and Waste Department’s acting director Cynthia Wiebe said that while working on a delayed project replacing an interceptor siphon on Portage Avenue snow began melting and the temporary sewage pumps exceeded capacity.

 

 

 

(Merci)


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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

And the Rest of It

This is why people should achieve energy independence:

Russia will cut off the gas to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday in a major escalation in the standoff between Moscow and Europe over energy supplies and the war in Ukraine.

 

 

Oh?:

Finland and Sweden are preparing to simultaneously submit membership applications to NATO, and could do so as early as mid-May, Nordic media organizations reported Monday.


But ... enrichment:

It hasn’t gotten much attention outside Quebec, but Roxham Road seems to be well and truly back in business. RCMP patrolling the border in Quebec recorded more than 4,500 “asylum claims and interceptions” in the first two months of this year, CBC Montreal reported recently, which is more more than in any previously recorded two months. As of the end of December, according to Immigration and Refugee Board statistics, even after two years of very few new arrivals, there was a backlog of more than 11,500 refugee claims solely among those who crossed the border “irregularly” — the vast majority of whom came across that well-worn path from New York State.

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Foreign labour may cost Canadians jobs and wages in specific trades, the Department of Employment said yesterday. The impact of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program “may be significant” in some markets, said a department report: “Wage suppression might be occurring.”

 

 

Well, those are different because reasons:

Two Victoria residents face criminal charges and remain in custody after the northbound lane of the Trans-Canada Highway in Langford was blocked during rush hour Wednesday.

“Those types of illegal demonstrations will not be tolerated and those committing these criminal acts will be arrested promptly and held accountable,” RCMP Staff Sgt. Chris Boucher, acting officer in charge of West Shore RCMP, said Friday.

“Even though we were able to manage to have traffic routed around the protesters, those individuals caused a significant traffic backlog that, without a doubt, created a lot of frustration among motorists who needed to attend medical appointments, child care services etc.”

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To Canadian national security officials, Samy Nefkha-Bahri is a supporter of “armed jihad abroad,” who had “dubious associations” and wanted to take part in “combat in Syria.”

Classified government reports obtained by Global News allege he led a group that was preparing to travel “for the purpose of participating in the activities of a terrorist group.”

But instead of arresting and charging the Montreal resident, federal officials grounded him: they denied him a passport “to prevent the commission of a terrorism offence.”

The case is one of a handful that show how Canada’s national security agencies have been dealing with those they suspect may be terrorist threats.

 

 

Stop sending kids to public schools or you are part of the problem: 

In Jan. 2018, some children in NB’s Grade 1 class began teasing a female classmate, X, because X favoured a non-stereotypically short haircut, dressed boyishly and enjoyed stereotypically boyish activities. X was apparently what we used to call a “tomboy.” Not at all gender confused, X would correct people who misgendered her. Apprised of the teasing, X’s mother expressly requested that any group discussion focus on generic messages of kindness and respect rather than gender.

The teacher, Mme B, instead chose to leverage the teasing into “teachable moments” about gender expression and identity. There were several “moments”: a book about a boy who liked dressing as a girl, prompting one pupil to tell the class that you can go to a doctor to change your body, which the teacher affirmed. She told the students, “there’s no such thing as boys and girls,” that you can be one thing on the outside and feel another way in your heart. Mme B also used a whiteboard lesson, with a horizontal line running from “girl” on one side to “boy” on the other and asked students to “place themselves.” Students, according to the complaint, were then told that “girls are not real, and boys are not real.” NB told her parents she wrote her name next to the word “girl.” At the hearing, Mme B confirmed that she did not use this opportunity to explain that there are two sexes, male and female, or to describe differences in body parts.

In another “teachable moment,” Mme B showed the children a short 2016 film, titled “He, She and They,” produced by QueerKidStuff.com. In it, Lindsay, a “queer” girl in a dress shirt and tie, her hair clipped boyishly, instructs her teddy bear on gender issues.

Teddy: “But Lindsay, I still don’t know if I am a boy or a girl.”

Lindsay: “Did you know that some people aren’t boys or girls? Some people are boys. Some people are girls. And some people are people.”  Lindsay adds that there are also “transgender” people. Trans people “do not identify with the gender doctors tell them they are when they are born.” It ends with Teddy announcing “they” as his pronoun, and Lindsay responding, “That’s really awesome, Teddy.”

“(S)ome people are people,” rather than “boys” or “girls”? Some people “do not identify with the gender doctors tell them they are when they are born”? Small wonder NB grew alarmed. She was six!

Before exposure to these mystifying theories pronounced as fact, NB had been confident in her femalehood. Her teacher’s calm certainty about gender fluidity deeply unsettled her.  Following the video, she told her parents she wasn’t sure she wanted to be a mommy, asking if she should “go to the doctor” about being a girl. She asked them why she was not “real” as a girl. She said to her parents, “The table is real. The fan is real. Even if it’s cardboard, it’s still real, isn’t it?”

 

Some people shouldn't be in classrooms with children.


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We Don't Have to Trade With China

It seems that no matter what China does, it is not enough to stop trading with it:


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Video footage appearing to show Sun whipping two Rwandan men as they were tied to a tree circulated online last August. Rwandan authorities subsequently investigated the video’s content and confirmed that the incident took place in Rwanda’s Western Province at a Chinese-managed mine.

The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) arrested Sun and two other employees of the mine accused of participating in the torture, an engineer named Alexis Renzaho and a security guard Leonidas Nsanzimana, sometime last year before prosecuting them for their crimes. Rwanda’s Gihango Primary Court remanded the three men in September 2021. The group then appealed to the Karongi Intermediate Court, according to the New Times.

“Shujun was given bail but court ordered the seizure of his passport in addition to a bail fee of Rwf10 million [sic],” the newspaper recalled on Wednesday, adding, “The co-accused were denied bail and remained in custody.”

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The genocidal government of China, which spent much of the past decade forcibly programming the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province to abandon their religion and worship communism instead, on Wednesday gave Sweden a lecture on respecting the religious beliefs of Muslims after a Swedish politician burned a copy of the Quran.
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On Fuji TV, Abe emphasized that abandoning strategic ambiguity would not mean ending America’s or Japan’s “One China” policy, but it would make it clear to Chinese leaders that both countries would defend Taiwan if China attempted to take the island by force. The current strategy of strategic ambiguity, Abe said, leaves open the possibility that the U.S. and Japan would not intervene if China attacks Taiwan. He also noted that Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island, is only 110 kilometers from Taiwan. Any Chinese attack on Taiwan, he said, would involve Chinese operations in Japan’s airspace above Japanese territorial waters and its exclusive economic zone.


Japan is not the only one that will emerge as a voice of alarm and possibly a middle power:

A delegation of foreign policy aides to South Korea's president-elect met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday, officials said, as both of the U.S. allies aim to mend long-strained ties.

Yoon Suk-yeol, who takes over as South Korea's president on May 10, has stated his intention to improve relations with Japan that have been plagued by disputes stemming from Japan's 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean peninsula, at a time that both face threats from North Korea.

Japan is also keen to develop relations and during the meeting Kishida said strategic cooperation between Japan, South Korea and the United States was now more necessary than ever, Japan said.

"There is no time to waste to improve ties between Japan and South Korea," the Japanese foreign ministry quoted Kishida as saying.

The head of the South Korean delegation, Chung Jin-suk, told reporters that they agreed with Kishida to work towards forward-looking relations and for their mutual interests.

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Closer ties between the European Union and South Korea under President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol are imperative for managing China's rising power and the increasing rivalry between Beijing and Washington, former ambassadors and officials said.

 

I doubt that Yoon will come out on the side of Beijing. 

He has already come out against North Korea, China's vassal state.

 

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Some People Are, Well, "Special"

What would happen without a gravy train?:

A British Columbia First Nation has reached a proposed $135-million settlement with the federal government, 160 years after settlers began taking over its village lands.

 

I think they meant to say tax-paying citizens from lands formerly occupied by people who took slaves.

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A self-appointed "chief for life," who named his wife as successor upon his death to keep the leadership of a small First Nation in northern Ontario within his family, has been ousted following a Federal Court ruling delivered Thursday. 

The ruling comes amid a years-long struggle between hereditary chief Edward Machimity, his family and community members of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen who were stymied at every turn to challenge decades of hereditary rule and establish an election code.

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A First Nations man who police say travelled around Saskatchewan as a “traditional healer” has pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault, the prosecutor has confirmed.

Cecil Wolfe, 60, remains free on bail pending a sentencing hearing in October.

The charges span a nine-year period between 2013 and 2021.

Wolfe was the subject of a joint investigation by the RCMP and Saskatoon Police Service, who believe there could be more victims.

 

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It Was Never About A Virus

Nope:

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Canada’s health-care system is not properly tracking COVID vaccine injuries, a B.C. family doctor says, and he is discouraged because his efforts to report and investigate the side effects seen in his patients have been ignored, he says.

Dr. Charles Hoffe, based in Lytton, a village 260 km northeast of Vancouver, garnered publicity after he wrote an open letter in April 2021 to B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry highlighting what he said were serious side effects in his small community from the Moderna COVID vaccine, along with the challenges he faced getting feedback from the Ministry of Health.

“I had just tried to report the vaccine injuries in my own patients and I’ve sort of given up, I got so despondent,” he told The Epoch Times. “They just arbitrarily decide this is a coincidence without ever having examined the patient.”

Dr. Hoffe said this is the opposite of what one would expect from medical authorities for such a novel treatment.

“The fact that the vaccines are experimental should mean they should be very, very vigilant about any possible adverse effect. You should have a much higher index of suspicion of harm from an experimental treatment than from something else that’s been around for years,” he said.

But “it was exactly the opposite. In Canada, they would say there’s no way of proving this is from the vaccine networks and it can’t be from the vaccine. So they sort of gave this special dispensation of confidence to these vaccines that they’ve never given to any other medical treatment before. Logic and ethics have just gone out the window.”

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), for its part, says that “post-marketing vaccine surveillance of safety on a population level is needed to help ensure vaccine safety” and that such a system is in place for the COVID-19 vaccine.

 

This BC:

 

Moving on ...

 

The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China has the right to make a partnering U.S. lab wipe all data arising from their collaborative work, a legal document reveals.

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While the researcher known as Little Mountain Dog began to suspect the virus was spreading, the government was already trying to keep it quiet. On Dec. 30, a doctor at Wuhan Central Hospital named Li Wenliang shared evidence in a chat group that patients in his hospital were being treated for a SARS-like virus. He and other doctors were summoned by the police and warned not to spread “rumors.”

And that silence persisted until Jan. 20 when the spread of COVID was first mentioned on state media. Wuhan was finally locked down on Jan. 23. So nearly a full month had passed between the time researchers first alerted people a SARS-like virus had been identified and any real attempt to manage it or warn people about it. And as we all know, by that point it was too late. The virus had already spread to other parts of the world, including the US. You can’t help but wonder how things might have turned out if China had acted swiftly instead of secretly early on.

 

This is Canada-level obfuscation. 



Keep the masks on, cries the quack:

A federal mask mandate for air travelers now in its third year should not be repealed, says Dr. Theresa Tam. The chief public health officer called masks inconvenient but necessary: ‘If everybody’s going to be wearing a mask, why not?’

 

 

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Your Awful, Deceitful, Wasteful, Tyrannical Government and You

Can one imagine a government never being so?:

First, the government’s determination to keep the consultations submissions secret until compelled to disclose them by law eviscerates its claims to support open, transparent government. There is simply no good reason to use secrecy as the default for a government consultation. While officials claimed that submissions “may contain confidential business information”, the actual results demonstrate the argument had little merit. Indeed, the government could have used openness as a default and redacted any confidential information as needed. A government that supports openness should not be forced to disclose information from a public consultation only under threat of failing to comply with its own access to information laws.

Second, the participation of the Internet platforms was more extensive than previously disclosed. While Google released its submission, there were also submissions from the Business Software Alliance, Microsoft, Pinterest, TikTok, and Twitter. Further, in addition to TekSavvy and Tucows, the large Canadian telecom companies (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, Quebecor and Shaw) provided a joint submission. These submissions contain important data that should be publicly available, not hidden by the government. For example, TikTok reported that in the first quarter of 2021, content that violated its community guidelines accounted for less than 1% of all video and that 91.3% of the videos it removed were identified and removed even before a user reported them. Other notable submissions included the CBC, which argued for a special recognition of threats to journalists as content that incites violence and hate speech, and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, which called months ago for the removal of Russia Today from Canadian broadcast systems.

Third, the criticism of the government’s plans were even more widespread than previously revealed. Indeed, reviewing the submissions uncovers very few supportive comments of the government’s online harms from either organizations or the hundreds of individual submissions. For example, the big Canadian telecom companies warned that the proposal could disincentive investments in 5G networks and opposed disclosing basic subscriber information without judicial authorization. Their submission – along with others in the sector – reinforces how inexplicable and damaging it is that Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has seemingly abandoned digital and Internet policy. Vesting responsibility in Canadian Heritage (what does Canadian Heritage have to do with online harms anyway) has been disastrous for the development of balanced, effective digital policies.

The most notable submission came from Twitter (its must read submission is here), which warned that the proactive monitoring of content envisioned by the government:

“sacrifices freedom of expression to the creation of a government run system of surveillance of anyone who uses Twitter. Even the most basic procedural fairness requirements you might expect from a government-run system such as notice or warning are absent from this proposal. The requirement to ‘share’ information at the request of Crown is also deeply troubling.”

Further, it didn’t pull any punches with respect to the government’s website blocking plans, literally likening it to China, North Korea and Iran:

The proposal by the government of Canada to allow the Digital Safety Commissioner to block websites is drastic. People around the world have been blocked from accessing Twitter and other services in a similar manner as the one proposed by Canada by multiple authoritarian governments (China, North Korea, and Iran for example) under the false guise of ‘online safety’ impeding peoples’ rights to access information online.

Further, there are no checks or balances on the commissioner’s authority, such as the requirement of judicial authorization or warnings to service providers. The government should be extremely mindful of setting such a precedent – if Canada wants to be seen as a champion of human rights, a leader in innovation and in net neutrality globally, it must also set the highest standards of clarity, transparency and due process in its own legislation.

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Facebook hasn’t ruled out blocking news on its platform in Canada over the Liberal government’s news revenue-sharing bill, a company executive told MPs Tuesday.
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The Canada Revenue Agency paid nearly a half million in rent subsidies to a phantom company that had no leases and never filed a tax return, records show. The Agency to date has not disclosed the scope of fraudulent Covid relief claims it paid without cursory background checks: “Some individuals may be taking advantage.” 

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Internal whistleblower emails and memos disclosing allegations of misconduct by senior Canada Revenue Agency executives yesterday were removed from public access by federal lawyers. The documents were mistakenly filed in Federal Court: “The Court has ordered that the documents be removed from the public record.”

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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem yesterday acknowledged missing repeated inflation targets and warned higher interest rates may risk driving the economy back into recession. “We got some things wrong,” Macklem told the Commons finance committee: “Are there some risks? Yes.”

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CMHC quietly approved a $200,000 grant to promoters of a home equity tax, according to Access To Information records yesterday disclosed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “Culture change is hard,” read one email by a tax promoter to CMHC managers: “We work to make the politically impossible (now) possible (sooner than later).”

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First of all, the idea that ‘greed’ is the reason prices are going up would require us to believe that people just turn on a switch and become greedy out of nowhere.

Does Singh expect us to believe that the big companies weren’t greedy before inflation surged, but are now greedy all of a sudden?

Further, the fact that he’s saying the ‘simple answer’ is ‘greed,’ demonstrates incredibly bad faith on his part.

Singh is ignoring the role of massive government spending, the Bank of Canada debasing our money, the carbon tax, anti-energy sector policies, and world events such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, sanctions, and supply-chain disruptions.

Singh expects us to believe that none of that matters, and that it’s only some newfound ‘greed’ that is causing rising prices.

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A third of federal Covid-era borrowing had nothing to do with Covid, says a Parliamentary Budget Office report. Budget Officer Yves Giroux earlier warned that taxpayers face an “astronomical increase” in debt interest costs: “Do you believe the Government of Canada is living on a credit card?”

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Your duty is to yourself only:

Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi (Ottawa Centre), parliamentary secretary for emergency preparedness, was director of an insolvent marijuana company that owed millions in unpaid federal tax, records show. Naqvi did not comment: “I recognize my duty every single day to seek out the truth.”

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I'm sure it was just overlooked:

A Liberal donor, Edmonton lawyer Bob Aloneissi, yesterday was named a Court of Queen’s Bench judge. The Department of Justice praised Aloneissi’s “humble roots” without mentioning his contributions to the Party: “His experience of working at his family’s inner city grocery store allowed him to appreciate many different cultures.”

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It's just perks:

Drivers and luxury transportation cost the Trudeau Liberals nearly $35,000 during a November United Nations Climate Change Conference in Scotland.

The COP26 summit delegation included in its budget $10,000 for PCR testing, and $34,000 to a company called Little's Chauffeur Drive. In total, the delegation spent $217,106.97 during the summit.

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What people are overlooking, aside from the fact that carbon is not a pollutant, is that by not growing food, people die:

The policy makers at Agriculture Canada are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions from wheat, barley and other cereal crops.

In a discussion document released in March on reducing emissions from fertilizer applied to cropland, Ag Canada says that Canadian cereal growers produce more nitrous oxide gas than farmers in Europe, Australia, Ukraine and the United States.

“Available data show that Canadian cereal production likely has one of the highest levels of emissions intensity (amount of GHGs emitted per unit of product) amongst major exporting countries,” the document says.

“Canada’s emission intensity for cereals in 2017 is higher than those reported for the United States, the European Union and (other regions).”

Ag Canada says cutting such emissions is critical because the federal government wants to reduce fertilizer related emissions 30 percent by 2030.

The discussion paper includes a table, using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to emphasize that Canadian cereal crops produce the highest amount of nitrous oxide emissions in the developed world.

Mitch Rezansoff, executive director of the Canadian Association of Ag Retailers (CAAR) disagrees with the analysis and the FAO data.

“The majority of the fertilizer we use is banded into spring crops. And Europe is pre-dominantly winter crops… (and) the majority of fertilizer would be broadcast (in the EU),” Rezansoff said April 12 during an Agriculture Canada virtual town hall, held so members of ag sector could respond to the 30 percent reduction target.

“I will make a statement. Canada is not the worst. I don’t believe that,” added Rezansoff, who asked Ag Canada officials to explain how the FAO came up with the numbers

 

Also - it's only electricity:

Once again, the canary in the coal mine is Ontario where the Ford Progressive Conservative government, pressured by several dozen municipal councils, has asked the operators of the province’s electricity grid — already 94% emissions free — to consider achieving net zero emissions by 2030 by eliminating natural gas, five years earlier than even the Trudeau plan.

Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator responded this would cause blackouts, cost $27 billion and increase residential electricity bills, already being massively subsidized by taxpayers and ratepayers, by 60% or $100 a month.

Logically, this makes zero sense because natural gas is needed to back up intermittent wind and solar power anyway.

The Trudeau government last month released a “discussion paper” on its “Clean Electricity Standard” policy to make Canada’s electricity sector achieve net zero emissions by 2035.

In a response written by Robert Lyman and Parker Gallant for the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businesses, a non-profit organization representing small and medium sized companies across Canada, they rightly described the discussion paper as a word salad of nonsense.

They wrote it’s oblivious to the complexity of transforming the electricity grid, has no concept of the time frames needed to build new power plants and no understanding of the enormous costs.

In other words, it’s another example of politicians running through the hallways with scissors because they have no understanding of energy issues and the dangers of blowing up the electricity grid in pursuit of an unattainable, ruinously expensive goal.

 


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Was It Something He Said and Did?

Did we all experience it differently?: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was given a vulgar goodbye by residents of New Brunswick on Tuesday, following an announcement on long-term care in the province.

A video posted by Facebook user Frank Poiriers shows Trudeau leaving Dalhousie Hall, where several protestors can be heard shouting at him from across the street.

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In question period Tuesday, interim Opposition leader Candice Bergen demanded to know if he used his authority as prime minister to grant himself permission to accept the gifts.

A provision of the Criminal Code says government officials can’t accept gifts from someone who has dealings with the government unless they’re given written consent by the head of their branch of government, which in this case would be the prime minister.

Internal RCMP documents show the force considered opening a fraud investigation after details of the trip came to light, but cite numerous reasons why it did not, including the fact that neither Parliament nor the ethics commissioner chose to refer the case to police.

If Trudeau did grant himself written consent, there would be no case for fraud by the government, the RCMP concluded, but the documents state that they did not know whether that happened.

 

This Aga Khan:

The Aga Khan, one of the world’s richest men, has abandoned a claim to more than $1 million seized at a Canada-U.S. border crossing six years ago.

A lawyer acting for the Aga Khan, Leonard Doust, said he couldn’t disclose why his client decided to withdraw the claim Monday.

``For reasons I can’t go into in a public forum, the decision has been made by the Aga Khan,″ Doust told Justice Allan Thackray.

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s 25 million Ismaili Muslims, has decided to forfeit the money to the province of British Columbia, he said.

The Aga Khan, 57, lives in Paris and has a personal fortune reported to be in excess of $1.4 billion.

Nizar Kanji, a member of the Ismaili community in Canada, said the seized money was religious funds.

The Ismaili community has denied the money is part of an international money-laundering scheme still under investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

 

 

Also - if the jackboot fits:

For instance, during the recent debate about the government's fiscal update, Conservative MP Brad Redekopp stood in the House of Commons to say, "In Ottawa, we saw the use of the Emergencies Act to call on police forces to crush peaceful protesters under the jackboot of the prime minister's basic dictatorship, and another dictator is currently using his war machine to crush our friends in Ukraine."

Fellow Conservative MP Rachael Thomas supported her colleague, arguing that "According to the Oxford dictionary, a dictator is a 'ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.' There are many Canadians who would hold the view that this applies to the Prime Minister of Canada. It is up to the Canadian people to determine that, and they will be determining that in the next election."

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It's not a learning disability. He's just a moron desperately trying to cover up for the fact that he is a lazy, self-entitled f---ing @$$hole who has been handed everything in life and will not do a moment's serious governance of a country he would hand over to China in a heartbeat:

A video has emerged of a young Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussing his inability to do basic math. The video shows Trudeau during his teaching days at West Point Gray Academy in Vancouver, where he tells a crowd that he has a learning disability. 

 

There are people who genuinely have, through no fault of their own, problems learning and retaining information. That the snowboard instructor would compare himself to them is sickening but do expect the usual suspects to gush sympathy in his general direction.

He will not thank you for it, idiots.


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Imagine A Boot Stamping On An Entire Country Forever

Or until the coffers are completely emptied:

Liberal cabinet ministers defend the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end ‘Freedom Convoy’ blockades Tuesday night as a committee of MPs and Senators began examining the unprecedented use of the act.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the government had no choice but to invoke the act, because of the economic damage being inflicted by the closures of border crossings and downtown Ottawa.


Yes, moron, about that:

 

Don't you and you echo-chamber minions hate it to be proven wrong?

Or are the good Germans waiting to deny that they ever supported your fascism?:

A new report by Ottawa Police chief Steve Bell reveals that the force dismissed most of the complaints it received during its handling of the Freedom Convoy protest. 

The document titled “Complaints Report – Part V, Police Services Act” will be presented before the Ottawa Police Services Board on Apr. 25. 

According to the report, public complaints concerning the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) shot up by 324% in the first quarter of the year compared to 2021. Of the 327 complaints received, 84% were related to the Freedom Convoy protest in the city’s downtown. 

In total, the force received 266 improper conduct complaints, 56 excessive force complaints and 24 complaints pertaining to a neglect of duty. 

Of these, only 3% were forwarded to investigation by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) which oversees complaints and disciplinary proceedings. 

“Of these 275 Public Complaints directly attributed to the illegal protest, 263 (95 percent) were screened out by the OIPRD. By complaint type, 232 Conduct related complaints resulted in 226 (97 percent) being screened out, and six (3%) being referred to the OPS for investigation,” wrote the OPS.


That is why no one expects any real results from the proposed inquiry into the coward's act of fascism. 


Also:

The federal government says it will not reveal what information led it to use the Emergencies Act to end truckers’ protests this winter, citing cabinet confidentiality in its response to legal challenges.

Four groups accuse the government of acting unlawfully by invoking a state of emergency when, they say, existing legislation such as the Criminal Code and traffic laws were sufficient to address it. Alberta is seeking to join the case as an intervenor, opposing the use of the emergency law.

The cabinet-secrecy claim brought a sharp response from one of the four. In a court challenge to the secrecy filed late on Friday, the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) said Ottawa’s attitude is summed up by the phrase attributed to King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century: “L’état, c’est moi.” (I am the state.)

The Canada Evidence Act is unequivocal about assertions of cabinet confidentiality; it says a court shall refuse to examine or hear the evidence that the government certifies is covered by such a confidentiality claim. But the CCF, a non-partisan advocacy group based in Calgary, is asking the Federal Court to order cabinet to reveal the information to the judge and the counsel involved.

It says the information being shielded includes Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s submissions on the factual and legal basis for emergency measures, plus options considered and rejected, and a record of cabinet’s decisions, possibly including a vote. The CCF’s theory is that cabinet had persistent doubts.

 

There is no transparency in this country and we are ordered around by liars.

 

 

Getting the results you expect:

Paul Rouleau, a Liberal-appointed federal judge, yesterday was named by cabinet to lead an inquiry into the use of emergency powers against Freedom Convoy protesters. Rouleau was previously partner in a Montréal law firm whose associates included Pierre Trudeau: “Will he have full access to cabinet documents?”

 

Also - why we should fire the b@$#@rds.



One can only imagine what will happen later on:

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So Elon Musk Bought Twitter


 

And this happened:

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Also - aside from buying the world, how has Bill Gates ended world hunger?:

Elon Musk has said he confronted fellow billionaire Bill Gates over the Microsoft founder’s supposed holding of roughly $500 million in Tesla shorts in a series of testy text messages in which Musk rebuffed Gates’s request to discuss climate change philanthropy.

In an April 22 Twitter post, Musk confirmed the veracity of a text message exchange between him and Gates in which the Microsoft founder admitted he was short-selling shares of Tesla, meaning that he was betting on the stock dropping in price.

“Do you still have a half billion dollar short position against Tesla?” Musk wrote in one of the messages, a screengrab of which was shared by the @WholeMarsBlog account on Twitter.

“Sorry to say I haven’t closed it out,” Gates reportedly replied, following it up with a request “to discuss philanthropy possibilities.”

Musk responded by saying he couldn’t take Gates’s proposal seriously if the latter was betting on a drop in Tesla shares.

“Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change,” Musk said.

 


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Friday, April 22, 2022

Japan Rails Against Russia In Disputed Islands Claim

 Japan describes four islands whose ownership it disputes with Moscow as “illegally occupied by Russia” in the latest version of a diplomatic report released Friday, using stronger language to describe the territorial flap than other recent versions and underscoring the chilled relations between the two sides amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The description in the 2022 Diplomatic Bluebook, an annual report on Japan's foreign policy issued by the Foreign Ministry, uses that phrasing for the first time in nearly two decades. Japan, which is struggling to improve ties with Moscow to regain control of the Kurils, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, had previously described the dispute in a softer tone.

“The Northern Territories are a group of islands Japan has sovereignty over and an integral part of Japan’s territory, but currently they are illegally occupied by Russia,” the ministry said in the report.

The dispute over the Russian-held islands, which the former Soviet Union seized from Japan at the end of World War II, has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their war hostilities.

The report last used a similar expression in 2003 but had toned down its phrasing until last year, when it described the dispute as “the greatest concern between Japan and Russia” and noted that “Japan has sovereignty” over the islands.

 

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Taiwan Ramping Up Its Defense

It may have to go it alone:

Taiwan is developing missiles that can attack enemy air bases and bring down cruise missiles, and drones that can target their firing locations, according to a report by the military-owned body making the weapons.

Taiwan last year approved T$240 billion ($8.20 billion) in extra military spending over the next five years as tensions with China, which claims the island as its own territory, have hit a new high and Chinese military planes have repeatedly flown through Taiwan's air defence identification zone.

Taiwan plans to more than double its yearly missile production capacity to close to 500 this year, the island's defence ministry said last month, as it boosts its combat power.

 


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If Kim Jong-Un Praises You ...

 ... you're doing something wrong:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked South Korea's outgoing president for trying to improve relations, a rare gesture of goodwill but one that analysts said may not be enough to head off growing tension between the two Koreas.

The warm words from North Korea to President Moon Jae-in came in an exchange of letters less than three weeks before Moon leaves office to be replaced by a conservative leader who has already signalled a tougher line on North Korea

Analysts were sceptical that North Korea's message heralded a broader improvement in relations, and warned that the praise for Moon could be a bid to portray his successor, Yoon Suk-yeol, as responsible for any further deterioration in ties.

 

(Sidebar: so, people want Yoon to fail.)

 

To wit:

Moon has a long association with Minbyun, the hard-left lawyers’ group that is acting as Pyongyang’s law firm in South Korea by using the courts to wage lawfare against refugees, in violation of their human rights. He was chairman of the campaign of Roh Moo-hyun, the “anti-American” and “a little crazy” president who rode to power on the shoulders of a violent mob that attacked, spat on, stabbed, and threw firebombs at American soldiers. As Roh’s Chief of Staff, Moon decided to seek Pyongyang’s input before abstaining from a U.N. resolution denouncing severe human rights abuses against its people, and then lied about it.

The most alarming development of all may be Moon’s choice of Im Jeong-seok as his Chief of Staff. Im was jailed for three-and-a-half years for accompanying organizing the illegal 1989 visit to Pyongyang that made Lim Soo-kyung a North Korean propaganda star. (Lim is now a lawmaker in Moon’s party. I previously discussed her drunken 2012 tirade against North Korean defectors and human rights activists. A previous version of this post, since corrected, said that Im had gone to Pyongyang with Lim.)

 

Birds of a feather, as they say.

 

Also - to remind one:

Dandong Huayang denied using North Korean labor, but there is plenty of evidence that it does. Our friend, Remco Breuker, even found an interview in which a Dandong Huayang manager boasts about all the money his company made by using it to make goods to export to the United States. According to Panjiva documents I found online, different Dandong Huayang subsidiaries source more than 80 percent or more than 90 percent of their shipments from North Korea (see also). Dandong Huayang mainly exports to the United States and Canada, and ships some of its wares through Busan, South Korea. This was not the last scandal for one of Dandong Huayang’s buyers, either. In November 2021, the Canadian retailer Reitmans pulled consignments of women’s clothing from its shelves and severed its relations with Dandong Huayang after a CBC report found that it had purchased more than 100 shipments from Dandong Huayang that may have been made with North Korean forced labor. 

 

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Karen Furious Over Things

Karen, with a badly-named daughter (it starts with a K because she is different), is horrified that a two thousand year old institution that doesn't force its women to wear head coverings or marry elderly men against their wishes and whose schools are not paid with public funds might want to encourage students to produce pro-life signs (even for money), an activity she would certainly know about because it was never kept secret and is something the mother should have known had she paid attention to what went on at her kids' school.

Karens are the reason why we can't have nice things.

Don't be like Karen.


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Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Mid-Week Post

 

Your middle-of-the-week demand to grow up ...

 

Was it something he said?:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was given a vulgar goodbye by residents of New Brunswick on Tuesday, following an announcement on long-term care in the province.

A video posted by Facebook user Frank Poiriers shows Trudeau leaving Dalhousie Hall, where several protestors can be heard shouting at him from across the street.

 

What a prick:

 

 

In other news, Rumpelstiltskin, who is not a scientist or doctor of any kind, decides for everyone else that Canada will be contrary because science is just not what Canada is about:

“We are taking a layered approach to keeping travellers safe, and masks remain an incredibly useful tool in our arsenal against COVID-19,” a spokesperson for Canada’s Transport Minister wrote in an email.

The spokesperson confirmed masks will be required on Canadian airlines and on flights that depart from or arrive in Canada. The federal government also requires travellers to wear masks and track close contacts for 14 days after arriving in Canada.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the U.S. mandate, which required masks on airplanes, trains and in taxis, among other locations, saying the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had exceeded its authority.

 

 

It's just an economy:

A majority of economists surveyed by Finder say Canada is headed for a recession, and we can expect it to hit anywhere between 2023 and the first part of 2024. Most believe it will happen during the first six months of 2023, and another quarter think it will take a year to manifest.

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But almost as soon as it announced its existence, the new Fund began to look a bit ghostly. “Funding for the Canada Growth Fund will be sourced from the existing fiscal framework,” the budget document says.  ...

This is handy: For every dollar this crucial new thing will cost, a dollar will be “sourced from the fiscal framework,” for a net cost of nothing in new spending.

The other thing you notice is that the total “cost” of the Fund over five years — before that cost goes away through the magic of sourcing from the fiscal framework — is $1,510 million. Which is $1.51 billion. 

Which is one-tenth the $15 billion mentioned in the text.

 

Slush fund?

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Piecemeal payouts for compensation from the Phoenix Pay System failure continue to cost taxpayers millions. The Treasury Board detailed ongoing damages paid to former federal employees whose paycheques were garbled by computer software: “We have been dealing with the Phoenix system for six years.”

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A federal program hailed by Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen as a great success in fact had “areas for improvement,” according to a CMHC report. The $200 million plan to renovate derelict federal buildings into affordable housing fell short of target in its first two years: “This seems to be a bit of a drop in the bucket.”

 

 

I'll believe it when I see it:

Ontario MP Scott Aitchison, who is running to become leader, is promising to end the controversial system that has controlled the prices of milk and eggs for decades — arguing it will help Canadian families with their grocery bills and farmers who want to grow their businesses and export around the world.

“I’ll do it because I’m not afraid to make the hard decisions,” said Aitchison in a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “That’s real leadership. That’s the right approach.”

 

 

Let's try electing these sad, old, white Laurentian SOBs:

Modern minds seem unaware that ruling without check or critique is not a new temptation. Or that power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But where lower courts are somewhat constrained by higher ones, the Supremes have nothing to hold them back. So in my draft Constitution I proposed a straightforward way of guarding these guardians: revive the power of impeachment so legislatures can fire judges periodically “pour encourager les autres.”

If it seems like lèse-majesté, I must remind the court that they are not Napoleonic self-crowned monarchs. After 40 years, somebody has to.

 

Imagine if one DID hold back these appointed busybodies.  Guys like this joke would disappear.

 

Also:

Land titles must be signed the old fashioned way by pen and ink, a Saskatchewan judge has ruled. The Court of Queen’s Bench dismissed a challenge by a lawyer who sought to file papers with electronic signatures: “Arguments about the use of electronic signatures raise intriguing possibilities.”


 

Weren't we supposed to have a report by now?:

The federal government on Wednesday said it would invest $326,000 to resume ground searches for potential unmarked graves near a former Nova Scotia residential school.


 

Mum?

That's because Justin is good at opening his stupid mouth and nothing more:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s not going to provide more details about his government’s pledge to send a new round of military aid to Ukraine _ at least not yet.

The prime minister said Wednesday that he doesn’t want to outline the specifics of what will be sent, and where the government is getting it from, because of security concerns.

 

Also - are there actual Russians fighting this or have they all been expended?:

An anonymous European official in Washington claimed that the Kremlin hired between 10,000 to 20,000 mercenaries to fight in eastern Ukraine, including infantry fighters from Syria and Libya, and are said to be recruited by the Russian mercenary company, the Wagner Group.

“What I can tell you is that we did see some transfer from these areas, Syria and Libya, to the eastern Donbas region, and these guys are mainly used as a mass against the Ukrainian resistance,” the official said. “It’s infantry. They don’t have any heavy equipment or vehicles.”

 

 

Ban the veil, see the rise of the girl:

Banning the veil in schools led to Muslim girls getting better grades and marrying outside their religion, a French study has found.

State schools in France were asked to ban “ostentatious religious signs” -including Islamic veils – in 1994, but it was not forbidden by law until 2004. The ban came despite warnings from religious leaders that the law would persecute Muslims and encourage fundamentalism.

However, researchers in France have found that removing the veil in schools may have had some positive effects, including significantly improved educational outcomes for Muslim girls, as well as a rise in mixed marriages.

Prof Eric Maurin, of the Paris School of Economics and a co-author of the study, said: “For students who wore the veil, the ban may have had a negative effect on those who were most attached to it, as it may have led them to drop out of school. But the ban may also have had a positive effect on students who were forced to wear the veil, and on students suffering from stigmatization and discrimination in school because of it.”

Data from the French Labour Force Survey conducted between 2005 and 2019 was used to compare the academic accomplishments of Muslim and non-Muslim women in France.

Muslim women born between 1970-74, who would have completed school before the 1994 guidance, were 12 per cent less likely to graduate from high school than their non-Muslim peers.

 

 


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