Your middle-of-the-week refreshment ...
The Liberal government’s controversial online-streaming bill was back in the upper chamber on Tuesday, with one senator who had earlier opposed it saying she expected it to pass.
After more than a year of debate and revisions, Alberta Sen. Paula Simons said she would really like to see Bill C-11 “done and dusted” this week, and not because she wants to ram it through.
“For all the cynicism about the Senate, I think the Senate showed its merits with this bill,” Simons said in a recent interview. “And I think we did a really good job of debating and discussing it.”
No, you didn't.
You want this to pass so that you never have to hear what the proles really think about you.
Oh, no.
We wouldn't want to make the Canadian voter think that China runs things here.
Or do we?:
The federal auditor general’s office said Tuesday it is still “assessing” its mandate as it relates to a request from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation to investigate its handling of two donations with possible links to the Chinese government.
I would say that foreign interventionism warrants a review at the very least.
Also:
Lu Jianwang, whom the FBI arrested Monday for conspiring to act as an agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is pictured with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and even attended an apparent fundraiser for New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng, according to multiple Chinese-language news reports and photographic evidence. Lu allegedly operated an overseas police station on behalf of the Chinese government.
But banks accounts can be frozen on a whim?:
Opposition MPs say the federal government’s approach to aid in Afghanistan will only delay much-needed humanitarian support in the country by taking a more bureaucratic approach than most of Canada’s allies.
It's not just that it was elitist and tone-deaf; it was also that it was a pointless deflection from the fact that a "journalist" cannot do an economist's job:
Once upon a time, Chrystia Freeland attempted to relate to Canadians’ cost-of-living concerns with a personal anecdote – and it didn’t produce a fairy-tale ending.
“I personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month, and last Sunday I said to the kids, ‘You’re older now. You don’t watch Disney anymore. Let’s cut that Disney Plus subscription,”’ Freeland told Global News in an interview that aired on The West Block with Mercedes Stephenson on Nov. 6.
She went on to say: “I believe that I need to take exactly the same approach with the federal government’s finances, because that’s the money of Canadians.” ...
Emails sent to her office and obtained by The Canadian Press under access-to-information law show that Freeland’s attempt to connect with Canadians made her a villain to thousands.
“This advice is about as wise as boomers telling younger folks if only they skipped the avocado toast then they could afford a house,” said one person. The names of the senders are redacted in the documents.
Some commenters felt the minister’s attempt to blend in missed the mark, like when Princess Jasmine visited the market in “Aladdin” and encountered a less-royal way of life.
Messages accused Freeland of being “smug,” “elitist,” “clueless” and “entitled.”
See, Chrystia, if you were Justin, you could simply attack Pierre .
Budget Officer Yves Giroux yesterday said it was unclear whether cabinet has “lost control of its spending.” The Department of Finance is forecasting half-trillion budgets for years to come with ongoing deficits through 2028: “We are going over a psychological hurdle, a very large one.”
Hey! Does everyone remember when Justin put that teen in his place?
Well:
So the person fortunate enough to be filming this set up - I mean, this totally spontaneous event - happens to be @KaivanShroff - a “democratic commentator and political organizer”.
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) April 19, 2023
Definitely not set up. People get this close to @JustinTrudeau all the time.
Who is the kid in… https://t.co/wYbTpnfyoS pic.twitter.com/rfJF324M9v
It should be incumbent upon Canadians to do what they can to clean up military cemeteries (if they have not done so already) as the soldiers there in died for them, not for some aging Peter Pan who thinks that people who give to his dad's foundation should be shielded at all costs:
An internal report by Veterans Affairs Canada is raising red flags over the country’s military graves and cemeteries, warning that more permanent funding is needed to keep them from falling into disrepair.
The report is the result of an internal audit following up on a similar review six years ago. At that time, nearly 45,000 out of the estimated 207,000 graves of Canada’s veterans were in a state of disrepair because of a lack of resources.
The Trudeau government subsequently committed nearly $25 million over five years in temporary funding starting in 2018, which the new report says has largely addressed the problem by facilitating thousands of repairs.
Yet auditors found that without a permanent increase to the department’s funding, that success will be short-lived.
“While five-year funding for the backlog project has allowed the grave marker maintenance team to reduce the backlog of repairs significantly, maintaining an adequate inspection cycle post-project will be challenging,” the audit report reads.
“The evaluation finds that the current $1.25 million allocated to the cemetery and grave marker maintenance program is insufficient to prevent a future maintenance backlog.”
Christopher Hilton Hassell and Zoltan Peter Rona are among the latest succession of doctors to face disciplinary hearings over their professional conduct during COVID-19.
Hassell, a family doctor who practised in Richmond Hill, entered a plea of no contest at a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario disciplinary hearing in November. The regulator found Hassell committed professional misconduct for his prescribing of the controversial anti-parasitic ivermectin for COVID-19, and for providing mask and vaccine exemptions without adequate medical justification.
Rona, a general practitioner who had a solo practice in Thornhill focused on complementary medicine, made “inflammatory” statements about vaccinations, suggested in his Twitter posts that the public was being conned by medical experts and called Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious diseases official who became the face of America’s COVID response, a “murderer,” according to agreed facts at his disciplinary hearing.
Both doctors agreed to never re-apply to practise medicine in Ontario, or any other jurisdiction, again.
Their cases are part of a crackdown by the doctors’ college on members it has accused of spreading misleading, unscientific and deceptive information about COVID-19. At last count, there were 50 investigations into 30 physicians as of January.
In April 2021, the college threatened to investigate and discipline doctors who were making anti-vaccine, anti-masking, anti-distancing and anti-lockdown statements, or promoting unsupported or unproven treatments for COVID.
Would the college like to backtrack now?
Also:
Ok...this one is a DOOZY!
— Christopher_Autism Dad (@Chris_AutismDad) April 18, 2023
Nili managed to get just about every one of her slurs, slanders, insults and put-downs all in one post.
Nili is a hateful person. How can she provide balanced and honest medical care with biases and hatred like this?
Her tweet is horrible. pic.twitter.com/SbsIdQg52R
She is not the only one who embraced crazy.
Stop sending your kids to public schools.
(Sidebar: another excellent reason why.)
As long as there are children to groom, the offending parties will continue doing so:
DEVELOPING: Trustees with the Durham District School Board walk out of meeting after a tense exchange with concerned parents.
— Rowan (@canmericanized) April 18, 2023
Footage from @MichelleLA1981 pic.twitter.com/sYjjFugoR0
Some people are clearly just awful:
In some places, photos just shouldn’t be taken.
An image of a woman posing on the train tracks in front of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has gone viral, with many lambasting the tourists as insolent and tone-deaf.
Maria Murphy, a producer with GB News in the U.K., tweeted the photo of the tourists on Saturday. In the image, a man is crouched on the train tracks, holding a cellphone to take a photo of a woman wearing red flannel and sunglasses. The woman is leaning back against the tracks, smiling with her face in the direction of the sun. Behind her, the entrance to Auschwitz, a former Nazi concentration camp where more than one million people were murdered, looms.
From the Mediterranean diet and Mediterranean weather — sunny, warm, no extremes — to religiosity, mandatory military service and optimism despite decades of near-constant conflicts. All have been cited as factors contributing to Israel’s longevity standing.
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