The first mid-week post of the year ...
How interesting:
11.The GEC report appeared based on DHS data circulated earlier that week, and included accounts that followed “two or more” Chinese diplomatic accounts. They reportedly ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long, and included Canadian officials and a CNN account: pic.twitter.com/GYi4YuPdyu
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
The Cause is all that matters:
#WokeStupidity
— Dan McTeague (@GasPriceWizard) January 3, 2023
After driving away $150 Billion in capital in O&G that could have translated into revenues for hospitals roads and education, Trudeau’s climate fanaticism will now cost us $100 Billion
Electric Mandates Worth $99B | Blacklock's Reporter https://t.co/dNTsTOtL8V
Also:
Polar bears are so plentiful they have become a nuisance, says a Department of Environment report. New data contradict repeated claims by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and others that bears were victims of climate change: “Inuit are concerned about this increasing number.”
High profile professor and former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is no longer employed at the University of British Columbia (UBC), according to an official with the institution.
The university says that as of Dec.16, Turpel-Lafond is no longer a professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law.
When asked why, a spokesperson said, "I'm afraid I cannot provide those details due to privacy law."
Last fall, Turpel-Lafond was the subject of a CBC investigation into her claims of Indigenous ancestry. For decades she had said she was a treaty Indian of Cree ancestry, but CBC found no evidence of that. All documentation indicated she was of European descent.
CBC also reported that she had made inaccurate public claims about her academic accomplishments.
Also - all about the grift, about the grift, no treble ... :
The family of one of the two suspects charged in the shooting death of an Ontario police officer expressed condolences to the officer’s family.
In a written statement to the Canadian Press on Wednesday, Randall McKenzie’s family extended sympathies to the family of late Const. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala and wished them healing and peace.
The family said McKenzie had some challenges growing up, got into the wrong crowd in high school and began abusing drugs at a young age.
“Everyone is having a difficult time processing this and is extremely hurt,” McKenzie’s family said in their statement, adding “intergenerational trauma is a real thing.” ...
2021 document from the Parole Board of Canada says McKenzie is from the Onondaga First Nations of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He was serving an almost three-year sentence for robbery, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon and other charges when his release was revoked that year because he was not complying with his terms.
In the robbery, which happened in 2017, the document describes how McKenzie pointed a handgun at a restaurant owner, ordering him to hand over his car keys and money.
“You pled guilty, and described that you needed money for drugs,” the document says.
The document says McKenzie has experienced the negative impacts of colonialism.
“Your biological parents struggled with alcohol and were neglectful,” it reads.
“You believe your adopted grandfather may have attended residential school … You have suffered abuse, experienced addiction and have been disconnected from your family and cultural community. These losses and negative experiences are likely linked to your offending.”
For six days, Roice Anne Fox has slept only three hours a night while waiting in hotel lobbies in Varadero, Cuba, for a flight to take her family home to Saskatchewan — or at least to Canadian soil.
"I'm exhausted and there is zero help from Sunwing. There are more than 100 of us from Saskatchewan waiting here," Fox said, referring to the people who came in on the same flight as her.
Fox was supposed to leave for Regina on a Dec. 27 flight, which kept being delayed. On Friday, vacationers were informed that their flight was supposed to depart on New Year's Eve, but the flight was delayed to Sunday.
Even though they left for their trip from their home province, Fox and others are being flown back to Winnipeg following Sunwing's decision earlier this week to cancel all flights out of Saskatchewan's two major cities until Feb. 3 and effective immediately.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Wednesday he would consider suspending a 2018 inter-Korean military pact if North Korea violates its airspace again, Yonhap news agency reported, citing his press secretary.
Yoon made the comment after being briefed on countermeasures to North Korean drones that crossed into the South last week, calling for building an "overwhelming response capability that goes beyond proportional levels," Yonhap said.
Inter-Korean relations have been testy for decades but have grown even more tense since Yoon took office in May pledging a tougher line against Pyongyang.
Yoon has criticised the military's handling of the drone incident, in part blaming the previous administration's reliance on the 2018 pact banning hostile activities in the border areas.
He has urged the military to stand ready to retaliate.
Yoon ordered the defence minister to launch a comprehensive drone unit that performs multi-purpose missions, including surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare, and to set up a system to mass-produce small drones that are difficult to detect within the year, Yonhap said, citing his press secretary, Kim Eun-hye.
We've heard this before:
"China and the Chinese people will surely win the final victory against the epidemic," Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said in an editorial, rebutting criticism of its tough anti-virus regime that triggered historic protests late last year.
Crush that running dog capitalist virus you developed in your labs!
Thousands line up to see the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:
A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body was laying in state without any papal paraphernalia ahead of his funeral this week.
This Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI told Catholics to “stand firm in the faith” in his final message to the faithful.
The Vatican published the late pope’s spiritual testament shortly after his death on Saturday. In it, Benedict thanked his family, friends, and God for the blessings of his life, and asked forgiveness from anyone whom he had wronged. He then urged believers to stand strong in the faith, even in the face of philosophical and scientific opposition.
“If in this late hour of my life I look back at the decades I have been through, first I see how many reasons I have to give thanks,” Benedict wrote. “First and foremost I thank God himself, the giver of every good gift, who gave me life and guided me through various confusing times; always picking me up whenever I began to slip and always giving me again the light of his face. In retrospect I see and understand that even the dark and tiring stretches of this journey were for my salvation and that it was in them that He guided me well.”
He went on to thank his parents for providing him with a loving home and role models for his faith; he also thanked his brother and sister for caring for and guiding him through his life. He also thanked his friends, colleagues, and former students. He thanked God for the beauty of his home under the Bavarian Alps, and all the beauty he experienced on his travels and in Rome and Italy. He then asked for forgiveness from any people he had wronged during his life.
Benedict then instructed Catholics to remain true to the faith in the face of opposition from science and philosophy. “Stand firm in the faith!” he wrote.
“Do not let yourselves be confused! It often seems that science — the natural sciences on the one hand and historical research (especially exegesis of Sacred Scripture) on the other — are able to offer irrefutable results at odds with the Catholic faith. I have experienced the transformations of the natural sciences since long ago and have been able to see how, on the contrary, apparent certainties against the faith have vanished, proving to be not science, but philosophical interpretations only apparently pertaining to science.” He also noted that the sciences help to better define the parameters of faith.
“It is now sixty years that I have been accompanying the journey of Theology, particularly of the Biblical Sciences, and with the succession of different generations I have seen theses that seemed unshakable collapse, proving to be mere hypotheses,” the pope added, using liberalism, existentialism, and Marxism as examples of philosophies that have come and gone.
“I saw and see how out of the tangle of assumptions the reasonableness of faith emerged and emerges again. Jesus Christ is truly the way, the truth and the life — and the Church, with all its insufficiencies, is truly His body,” he said.
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