And the Rest of It

Rigged game:

The other 56 Trudeau appointees have joined the ranks of one of three groups that emerged in the new Senate. Most have joined the Independent Senators Group (ISG). The ISG is accused by its critics of being mere Liberals in disguise, reliably supporting Trudeau’s government.

A National Post analysis of voting records show that Trudeau’s appointees have voted against the government slightly more often than the former Senate Liberals did. The impact of that, however, is still limited, as independent senators appointed by Trudeau said that they still don’t believe it is their place to routinely defeat government legislation.

 

 

Russia has produced Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.  

All that we've given the world is a boring, old cat-lady:

A ministry statement said author Margaret Atwood, actor Jim Carrey and Amy Knight, a noted historian of the KGB, were on the banned list.

 

But Justin admire Cuba's basic dictatorship, surely!:

A Cuban-Canadian rights group is formally requesting that Ottawa slap sanctions on officials in Cuba for Havana’s repression of demonstrators at a July, 2021, protest.

Democratic Spaces, founded and directed by Michael Lima, a Cuban-Canadian, is filing a request with the Department of Global Affairs’ sanctions policy and operations co-ordination division on Monday morning. Mr. Lima is a human-rights activist and researcher.

“Levels of repression in Cuba today are the highest in two decades,” Mr. Lima said.

 

Also:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office confirmed on Tuesday that it deleted a tweet from his official account that denounced Iran based on incomplete “initial reporting” that “lacked necessary context.”

The message castigated Iran for handing down the death penalty to “nearly 15,000 protesters” — but the number of those facing death, which has circulated on social media since the weekend, has been widely discredited as disinformation.

 

 

Was it something she said and did?:

Dr. Deena Hinshaw is no longer Alberta's chief medical officer of health.

In a news release Monday, the provincial government announced Hinshaw will be replaced by Dr. Mark Joffe, an Alberta Health Services vice-president.

Joffe's interim term began Monday and will continue until the health minister rescinds the appointment, the news release said. He will continue in his current contract with AHS with no additional compensation as chief medical officer of health.

 

It's like China can't be trusted:

The leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed Sunday to keep up efforts to resolve their thorny historical disputes as they’re pushing to bolster security cooperation with the United States to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met twice on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Cambodia — with U.S. President Joe Biden and then bilaterally.

In the bilateral meeting, Yoon and Kishida assessed that there has been active communications between their diplomats on “a current issue between the two countries” and agreed to continue consultations to find an early resolution, Yoon’s office said in a statement.

It said the two leaders also agreed to continue their communications.

 

 

Yes, staying away from it is wise:

Officially known as Bear No. 122, The Boss is considered to be the toughest and most dominant grizzly bear in the Bow Valley region. The estimated 300-kilogram grizzly is believed to be more than 20 years old.

“He’s kind of a guy who to a certain extent, is really leading the grizzly bear population in Banff,” said Bantle, who has a background in biology. “He’s managed to eke out a living in a lot of places where, unfortunately, grizzly bears end up being killed due to human disturbance. He’s a bear that’s navigated the Banff Lake Louise area and lived a long life.”

The Boss is best known for a number of headline-making incidents including eating black bears, surviving being hit by a train and Bantle said the bear is likely to have fathered 70 per cent of the cubs in the region.