Your post-Valentine's Day reflection ...
There is no such thing as transparency in Canadian politics:
The committee launched a study of the Russian military buildup at the border with Ukraine shortly before Moscow chose to invade the country a year ago.
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Canadian authorities on Tuesday announced new restrictions on research grants designed to block funding to projects that include researchers who are affiliated with institutions with ties to foreign governments posing a risk to national security.
Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos have instructed federal grant-making officials and an innovation fund to institute new limitations on researchers seeking research investments.
Why would anyone believe you?
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Taxpayers will wait decades to recover millions in sweetheart "green" loans with little interest charged up front says $600K/yr CEO @CIB_En, a former @McKinsey partner. Not a typo. Decades. Millions. https://t.co/vyIk44gIDN #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/wwzEREJTb2
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) February 15, 2023
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The Canada Revenue Agency yesterday said it investigated claims made by a caller to a Toronto radio station who boasted employees fraudulently claimed pandemic relief benefits. Misconduct was punishable by firing and a lifetime ban on federal employment, a spokesperson said: “The Agency is aware of the radio call-in show.”
Canada is an airport, a means to an end for people who know that they can live better in the US (and people who think that McDonald's serves something resembling food and refuse to think otherwise, but I digress ...):
StatCan numbers reveal the percentage of permanent residents who become Canadians has plummeted over the past 20 years.
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship says Statistics Canada data points to a 40 per cent decline in citizenship uptake since 2001.
Also:
As Canada prepares to ramp up immigration levels, a new report says the country will need to build 50 per cent more housing than what's already being planned.
But no one is going to stay here, so ...
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Nearly 400 migrants who passed through Roxham Road on Saturday and Sunday were redirected to other Canadian provinces, Quebec Immigration Minister Christine Fréchette said Tuesday.
"We are starting to see results," she said in a press scrum. "We're very happy with that, we hope it will continue over time and that this will be the new approach to border management."
Rather, Ontario gets to burden and not you.
Also:
At least one Liberal MP is hinting he might vote against his party’s own bill on official languages if it contains elements of Quebec’s Charter of the French Language.
Anthony Housefather, MP for Mount Royal in Montreal, said that would erode the rights of the province’s English-speaking communities.
It was never about a virus:
A new report from the non-profit Cochrane Library in the United Kingdom, a clearinghouse of health-
care information, confirms that most of what the government insisted people do during the pandemic were useless in preventing COVID infection or reducing COVID severity.
Of course, governments should have known all of this, because the limited usefulness (and more-frequent uselessness) of facemasks, self-isolation and lockdowns/closures were well documented in biomedical, industrial health and public health journals prior to 2020. ...
And yet, the Trudeau government is still promoting masks. Its website says “masks are one of the most effective individual public health measures that we can use to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19.”
Though it has quietly dropped mask mandates in Service Canada offices.
Thanks for letting us know.
She is entitled not to hear the proles:
A statement posted on Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s Twitter account says her office will no longer allow the public to comment on her social media channels, including Facebook and Twitter. This will “ensure that all those who consult our information can do so in an environment that is respectful to all,” the statement says.
For everyone wondering what it said: pic.twitter.com/HA0AbnB1wM
— Standby75 (@Standby_75) February 10, 2023
After a gunman killed three students and wounded five others at Michigan State University on Monday night, Puri, a Democratic legislator, released a statement beginning with one powerful, strongly worded sentence: “F— your thoughts and prayers.”
Your calls for blanket gun bans are more ineffective but, please, don't let the fact that gunmen target gun-free areas distract you.
People are livid not that this grooming is going on but that someone is bringing attention to it:
At a Feb. 7 meeting, the Durham District School Board voted to censure fellow trustee Linda Stone, and bar her from all board meetings and committee hearings for the rest of the year. In an accompanying statement, the board condemned the “harmful impact” of Stone’s comments and urged the community to “begin to heal.”
I want to hear Linda Stone's testimony when the lawsuits against this start rolling.
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Conservative political commentator Matt Walsh has escalated his efforts to call attention to child sex-change surgery, sparring with Tennessee lawmakers about a proposed bill.Walsh’s appearance before the Tennessee Legislature marks the latest advance in a crusade that began when he discovered that Vanderbilt University was performing sex-change operations on minors.On Feb. 7, he spoke in favor of the proposed House Bill 0001, which would ban gender-transition surgery for anyone under 18.If it becomes law, it would forbid use of drugs and surgeries to help boys take on characteristics of girls, and help girls take on the appearance of boys.
We don't have to trade with China:
By the time a Chinese spy balloon crossed into American airspace late last month, U.S. military and intelligence agencies had been tracking it for nearly a week, watching as it lifted off from its home base near China’s south coast, an earlier sighting of the balloon than has been previously known.
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The FBI is examining the items, which the US said were used to spy on sensitive military sites.
The US has shot down three more objects since the first on 4 February.
"Large sections of the structure" were also recovered on Monday off the coast of South Carolina, military officials said.
About 30-40ft (9-12m) of the balloon's antennas were among the items found, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
US officials said the high-altitude balloon originated in China and was used for surveillance, but China said it was a weather-monitoring airship that had blown astray.
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Why did you allow Chinese troops to train here, why did you let a scientist steal material from a lab in Winnipeg, why did you rely on a Chinese-made "vaccine" and why did you allow Chinese police stations to operate here, Justin?:
Ottawa is banning federal research funding for projects done in collaboration with any researchers affiliated with China’s military. The federal government is calling on the provinces and universities across Canada to follow similar guidelines.
Poor distraction from your bosses, Justin.
This must be awkward:
The current political fortunes of Germany’s Olaf Scholz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni could not be more different. This weekend, Scholz’s SPD endured its worst ever result in Berlin, securing a meagre 18% of the vote (in joint second place with its national coalition partner, the Greens).
Meanwhile in Italy, the Right continues to make advances across the country. Exit polls in the nation’s two most populous regions indicate that the Right-wing Lega Party’s regional president is expected to be re-elected in Lombardy.
Do Russians support the war in Ukraine?:
The Kremlin is offering a different reality: a nicer version, in which Russians are victims, not villains, and their sons and husbands are warriors, not war criminals. It is no surprise that Russians would opt for comforting lies and twisted myths — and it is important to understand why. But we can recognise the deeply unfair and unpleasant situation that ordinary Russians face without claiming that large swathes of Russian society oppose Putin’s barbarous war on Ukraine.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the death toll in Turkey from last week’s earthquake increased to 35,418; Syrian officials have said at least 5,800 have died there.
Why doesn't the Narrative include helping people out of poverty?:
For the poor and vulnerable, the world simply became a much better place thanks to the MDGs. Some targets, like clean drinking water and sanitation, didn’t accelerate, but all saw dramatic improvements, making life less hard, with less hunger, poverty and dirty water, with more schooling and less death from tuberculosis, malaria and HIV, and with many fewer mothers and children dying.
But in 2015, when the world replaced the MDGs, things went wrong. World leaders could again have chosen to focus on a few, crucial targets. They could even have kept the same targets, which had proved so important to the world’s most vulnerable people. They could have focused on pinpointing where needs are deepest and opportunities greatest.
Instead, the United Nations and world leaders came up with a hodge-podge, absurdly long list of 169 targets for the world to achieve from 2015-2030: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs do promise to do incredibly important things, like eradicating poverty and hunger, getting rid of disease and ending both war and global warming. They also set targets for more peripheral issues like providing green spaces.
But having 169 priorities is the same as having no priorities at all. And the inevitable result is that we are falling behind on important development measures.
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