Your middle-of-the-week biscotti break ...
As long as China keeps Justin in the driver's seat, the intimidation of MPs and political dissenters will not stop:
Conservative MP Michael Chong said he has personally received threats he believes could be coming from the Chinese government, in addition to the apparent targeting of his family in Hong Kong.
Chong testified Tuesday evening in front of the House of Commons committee on procedure and House affairs, which is responding to a ruling from the Speaker that Chong’s parliamentary privilege, essentially his rights as an MP, were violated by foreign interference targeting his family.
News that Chong’s family in Hong Kong was targeted by diplomats from the People’s Republic of China broke earlier this year. Chong said he met with CSIS in June 2021 and was briefed more generally about interference, but he was never told about the targeting that Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei was collecting information to target his family.
He said he has also received threats personally that he conveyed to CSIS in meetings in 2021 and 2022.
Also - I wonder why this is:
The federal government says the Security and Intelligence Threats Task Force will be closely monitoring byelections in four ridings next month for signs of interference.
What can possibly go wrong?!
And - now that the spies scientists are out of the country ... :
More than two years after controversy first erupted around the firing of two scientists from Canada’s national microbiology lab, the federal government has finally come to an agreement with all opposition parties on a way forward to view the related secret documents.
Mark Holland, the government’s House leader, announced on Wednesday that three former judges would determine which documents related to the firing of Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng in January 2021 could be disclosed without compromising national security.Those retired judges are former Supreme Court justices Ian Binnie and Marshall Rothstein, and Eleanor Dawson from the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal. They will act as a panel of arbiters and will adjudicate if there are any disagreements on the redaction of documents.Holland also announced the membership of the ad hoc committee of members of Parliament that will have full access to the redacted and unredacted documents on the case.
And:
China’ is prepared to “resolutely smash any form of Taiwan independence,” its military said Tuesday, as the U.S. reportedly prepares to accelerate the sale of defensive weapons and other military assistance to the self-governing island democracy.
Your daily laugh:
Justin - not unlike the heavy-jowled son of Kim Jong-Il who was also installed and who gleefully froze bank accounts and had people trampled with horses, banned free speech, took money from the Chinese, among so many other things - claims that authoritarianism is gaining ground:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says authoritarianism is gaining ground in an address to South Korean National Assembly Wednesday morning.
The prime minister is in Seoul for his first official visit to South Korea and as Canada vies to strengthen ties between the two countries, and become “the best of friends.”
In his address, he says “antagonistic countries” are taking advantage of economic interdependence to their own geopolitical advantage.
(Sidebar: like China, which you let into this country to fund your coffers and threaten Canadians? THAT China?)
He did this after bossing Japan around about the alphabet club.
(Sidebar: get used to baking the cakes, Japan.)
Now he is shtooping for North Korea, also backed by the Chinese.
Justin is a good servant to the Chinese.
Hopefully, Yoon will ignore Justin at will.
After all, if the Sinophilic Justin can't commit to a mere two percent of a defense budget, how much help could he be to South Korea?
I'm sure he will attempt to dissuade Yoon from any stronger measures against the northern country that plans on attacking his.
Again, one hopes that Yoon will ignore at will.
Perhaps Chrystia should cry some more:
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday accused the House of Commons finance committee of trying to “bully” her to appear to answer questions on her budget for more than the hour she would allow, after two weeks of opposition filibustering, before eventually agreeing to slightly extend her appearance.
Her testimony put an end to two weeks of filibustering by Conservative MPs after she had limited her appearance to one hour.
The opposition still criticized her for seeing the work of Parliament as an “inconvenience.” And Freeland spent much of the 80 minutes she ultimately allowed the committee to question her relying heavily on government talking points.
At the time of Freeland’s appearance on Tuesday, Conservatives had been filibustering the finance committee for a total of 23 hours over the past two weeks because they wanted Freeland to answer questions from MPs on her most recent budget for no less than two hours.
Freeland was scheduled to appear for only one hour at the parliamentary committee on finance on Tuesday, and spent some of that time arguing with members about the length of her appearance.
The unqualified dumpling regards it as an affront to be questioned at all.
(Sidebar: to wit, she claimed that the debt is not a problem, that it was "absolutely handleable", which is not a word, one might add.)
She laughed while she financially strangled Canadians.
Where is my $38,000 clothing allowance?:
Governor General Mary Simon in a 16-month period billed taxpayers nearly $38,000 for silk jackets, cocktail party dresses and other outfits and accessories, accounts show. Charges ranged from $675 for a silk jacket to $380 shoes, a $159 suede vest and $95 scarf: ‘People spend $150 for two small bags of groceries that are barely enough to feed a family.’
Jonathan Wilkinson, whose boss claimed that there was no business case for selling liquid natural gas to Germany and whose wife owns shares in a natural gas company and shares in Pfizer, blames former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has not been in office since 2015, for failure to expand liquid natural gas capacity:
Liberal Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson recently blamed former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government for current failures to expand Canada’s liquified natural gas (LNG) capacity.
Wilkinson made the comments on Tuesday during a heated exchange in the House of Commons natural resources committee with Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs who accused the Liberals of losing out on hundreds of billions in revenue for Canada.
Yes, he said that with a straight face.
He probably means revenue for his wife.
Rachel Notley must be desperate:
Last Wednesday, the official Alberta NDP Twitter account tweeted a minute-long clip from 2021 that purported to show Smith laying out a “detailed plan” to “sell off” up to 100 hospitals currently run by Alberta Health Services. The tweet neglected to note that, in the very same clip, Smith says the idea is “completely compliant with the Canada Health Act,” or that both Ontario and Quebec have started to experiment with private delivery of publicly funded health care.Article content
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Why let such pesky little details get in the way of a good smear campaign?Nor does the attack reflect Smith’s record on health care as premier. To the contrary, she has boosted health-care spending by nearly a billion dollars, notched record investments in mental health and addiction care services, and recruited more than 1,400 new nurses to the province’s payroll in just seven months on the job. These are hardly the actions of someone who wants to kill the public health-care system.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is giving the Alberta NDP’s plan to hike taxes a “failing grade,” with Alberta Director Kris Sims calling it a “reckless thing” to do in a province that’s booming and hiring thousands of people.
The NDP released a costed economic platform on Tuesday, which forecasts a $3.3-billion surplus over three years, including an increase to the corporate tax rate from 8% to 11% to increase revenue.
The CTF says revenue collected by the government from the business tax is actually increasing under the lower tax rate introduced by the United Conservatives.
“People are flocking here in record numbers to work hard and pay lower taxes, this huge NDP tax hike would be a scarecrow for entrepreneurs,” Sims said.
Alberta is forecasted to pull in $6.4 billion from the business tax in 2022-23. That’s an increase from the $4.8 billion that the government collected in business tax back in 2018-19 when the tax rate was 12%.
Patients will be offered the choice of going to one of two clinics in Bellingham — at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Centre and the North Cascade Cancer Centre — starting May 29.
Patients will have all costs related to their treatment covered, including travel, meals and accommodation, through B.C. Cancer and the Provincial Health Services Authority, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said at a news conference Monday.
“Emergency or unplanned treatment and associated hospital costs will be 100 per cent covered for patients,” said Dix.
A B.C. Cancer support team will help patients by arranging appointments, co-ordinating travel plans and greeting them when they return to their regional B.C. Cancer centre.
Dix said the goal is to support patients while the province expands cancer services and hires more cancer care staff.
Do you mean that your inadequate system is STILL not prepared?
When are medical professionals going to be trained here and kept here?
Also - how much money will Canada save by killing the homeless?
Thank gravy we're not advocating an American-style private healthcare scheme!:
Starting in March 2021, Canada became one of only a handful of countries on earth to legalize assisted suicide even in instances where a patient does not have a terminal illness. Ever since, a Canadian can be approved for MAID simply for having a “grievous and irremediable medical condition.”Research Co. found that 73 per cent of poll respondents favoured the current regime, and only 16 per cent opposed it.Pollsters also found not-insignificant numbers of Canadians who favoured assisted suicide in cases where no medical condition of any kind was present.
And:
She’d lived with severe depression and near constant thoughts of suicide for more than 15 years. Nothing, not a dozen different psychiatric drugs, not electrical pulses to the brain or two rounds of shock therapy, provided more than fleeting relief.
Caught recruiting for an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell in Ottawa, Hiva Alizadeh was sentenced to 24 years in 2014.
But he is already being released after telling the Parole Board of Canada on Wednesday that he had abandoned terrorism and was ready to move on.
At a hearing to approve his request to move to a Toronto halfway house, the 43-year-old insisted that if anyone were to approach him with extremist ideas, he would tell them they were wrong.
After pausing to sob into a tissue, he apologized to Canadians. “I promise you, I will be a law-abiding citizen,” he said.
Bull. Sh--.
The black non-binary Jesus is gone from his Grade 7-8 classroom, as is the Pride flag.
So is Catholic teacher Paolo DeBuono, who hasn’t been seen at St. Antoine Daniel, a Toronto Catholic District School board school, since he got into a confrontation with a group of parents during a York Catholic District School board meeting on April 25.
The debate was over whether to raise the Pride flag at York Region schools next month.
He is seen on Twitter exchanging words with (and possibly goading) angry parents in the York Catholic education centre rotunda.
To this day, he portrays himself as the victim of the incident.
Bobi, the world’s oldest dog, just keeps getting older.
In February, Guinness World Records crowned Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo from rural Portugal, both the oldest living dog and oldest dog to ever live. On May 11, the elderly pooch reached a new milestone and celebrated his 31st birthday, as per a press release from the record keeper.
Bobi’s family and his owner, Leonel Costa, planned a large birthday party for the odds-defying dog. The “very traditional” Portuguese party saw more than 100 attendees come to celebrate Bobi with dancing and a wide array of local meats and fish — only the best for Bobi, who does not eat dog food. Many guests crossed international borders to come to the party, according to Guinness.
At the party, Bobi even participated in a dance alongside a dance troupe.
Good dog!
Also - officer, the dog was driving and he has a real problem:
A driver, who was pulled over for speeding, tried to switch places with his dog to avoid arrest, police in Colorado said.
An officer watched him maneuvering inside the car before he got out on the passenger side on Saturday night in Springfield, a town of about 1,300 people on the state’s Eastern Plains, police said in a Facebook post Sunday.
“The driver attempted to switch places with his dog who was in the passenger seat, as the SPD officer approached and watched the entire process,” the post reads. He was pulled over for allegedly driving 52 mph in a 30-mph zone.
The man said he was not behind the wheel and clearly showed signs of being drunk, police said.
He ran from the officer when asked about how much he had had to drink and was caught within about 20 yards, police said. ...
Police turned the dog over to an acquaintance while the man was in jail.
“The dog does not face any charges and was let go with just a warning,” police said.
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