Your middle-of-the-week act of defiance ...
The left is horrified that the Albertan electorate voted in someone supposedly pro-oil.
Let the Laurentian snobbery run unabated!:
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party retained control of Canada’s top oil-producing province in an election Monday, setting up a series of energy-policy clashes with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Smith’s UCP won 49 of 87 seats in the provincial legislature to form a majority government, defeating the left-leaning New Democratic Party. Smith, 52, became premier last fall by winning her party’s leadership after her predecessor, Jason Kenney, stepped down amid dissatisfaction with his handling of the pandemic.“We have to keep powering and diversifying our amazing economy, and I want to tell every business owner and investor listening tonight — whether doing business inside or outside of Alberta — we are throwing our doors wide open for businesses, large and small,” Smith said during her victory speech.The victory threatens to complicate Trudeau’s quest to fulfill Canada’s climate commitments.
Melanie puts on her big girl skirt and pretends that she is smarter than black lady:
Events featuring an Israeli cabinet minister alongside controversial Canadian preacher Charles McVety and a Conservative MP are ruffling feathers in Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s office.Joly’s office only learned about Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli’s planned trip to Canada from other Liberal MPs, who raised questions about it when they received an invite to an event with Chikli on Parliament Hill next week.Normally, visits by foreign lawmakers are arranged through the Global Affairs department or official parliamentary friendship groups, but the Ottawa event was organized via a third group: the unofficial Israel Allies Caucus, run by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.She’s a long-time ally of McVety, who is hosting his own event with Chikli at the Canada Christian College near Toronto.“We have great concerns about this visit as facilitated by Leslyn Lewis,” Maeva Proteau, a spokesperson for Joly, told the Star.
Yes, I'll bet you do.
Why should anyone trust an anti-Israel government, anyway?
Justin has unilaterally decided that there will be no investigation into this:
Former Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) found an “active campaign of voter suppression” by China against him and his party in the 2021 election.
O’Toole made the comments Tuesday from the floor of the House of Commons, within which MPs are protected by parliamentary privilege from civil or criminal prosecution under freedom of speech provisions. His speech comes after a briefing with CSIS last week.
“I also believe my privileges as a Member and officer of Parliament were infringed by the government’s unwillingness or inability to act on the intelligence related to foreign interference,” O’Toole said.
“The briefing confirmed to me what I had long suspected – that my party, several of my caucus colleagues and myself were the target of a sophisticated misinformation and voter suppression campaign orchestrated by the People’s Republic of China before and during the 2021 general election.”
The issue of foreign interference in Canadian elections — chiefly from the Chinese government — has dominated federal political discussions for months. After media reports citing leaked documents by Global News and the Globe and Mail, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former governor general David Johnston as a “special rapporteur” on foreign interference.
The opposition New Democrats, who have propped up the minority Liberal government, are now calling on Johnston to resign after he recommended against a public inquiry into foreign interference – a decision that has faced intense scrutiny and criticism since he announced it last week.
Dan Stanton, a former CSIS officer and manager, said holding a public inquiry is entirely possible, citing examples such as the inquiries into the Maher Arar affair and the Air India bombing, which took place despite the sensitive information involved.
“You can put all sorts of safeguards on public inquiries. It just takes a little bit of creativity. It’s all legal. It’s been done before,” Stanton told the House of Commons committee on procedure and House affairs on Tuesday.
Johnston’s interim report on foreign interference, released last week, advised against a public inquiry and instead recommended public hearings. Those hearings would not deal with any of the specific claims about Beijing meddling in the last two federal elections that have been revealed in the media.
But Jag will never let it come to that:
Allegations that cabinet ignored misconduct by foreign agents will not alter New Democrats’ pledge to support the Prime Minister until 2025, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh yesterday told reporters. Withdrawing support and triggering a snap election made no sense, said Singh: “I don’t see how it’s logical.”
I do, you piece of crap.
You will be homeless and like it:
Many renters in some of Canada’s biggest cities have already been paying record-high amounts to their landlords as of late, but a new report suggests pressure facing real estate investors might ratchet up the pain in the rental market in the coming years.
The report, released Monday from CIBC and Urbanation, shows that for a majority of real estate investors in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), the business case for their rental properties is falling apart. Industry observers say similar pressures are being felt in other major cities like Vancouver.
While tenants might have little sympathy for the landlords who, in many cases, have been rapidly raising their monthly rents in recent months, experts who spoke to Global News say investors are critical to the supply of units in the rental market.
You will also be broke and like it:
Cabinet’s budget bill last night cleared the Commons finance committee after 29 days and 667 roll call votes in a month-long Conservative filibuster. MPs protested the omnibus bill introduced or amended 51 different Acts of Parliament: “The idea that omnibus legislation is acceptable is simply wrong.”
Also - they asked for far too much:
Over 12,700 members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will lose a military housing benefit they previously received once a modified version of the policy comes into force this July, according to recent federal figures.The Department of National Defence (DND) said in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons on May 15 that new policies coming into force through the Canadian Forces Housing Differential (CFHD)—which the CAF announced in March—will see a number of military members have their previous housing allowance reduced to zero.“How many service members or veterans will see a reduction in their housing allowance by the full amount?” asked an order paper question tabled by NDP MP Rachel Blaney on March 29.The DND responded that as a result of the CFHD over 12,700 CAF members would lose their housing allowance completely, 4,359 of whom are stationed at the Canadian Forces base near Quebec City-Valcartier and 2,810 in Edmonton.It also said that around 2,420 CAF members would see their housing allowance reduced by 75 percent because of the new policy, while just under 900 will see it cut by more than 50 percent.The DND also projects that around 11,590 CAF members who weren’t previously eligible to receive the PLD will be able to receive the CFHD as of July due to the policy change.CAF members have previously received housing benefits through the Post Living Differential (PLD), the purpose of which CAF says is to reduce any negative financial impacts military members and their families might experience when posted to regions with higher living costs than that of the “standard city,” using Ottawa and Gatineau as examples of standard cities.The CFHD will replace the PLD as of July 1.DND calls the CFHD “a sophisticated approach … with the goal of assisting CAF members in adjusting to housing costs in different locations within Canada.”
It's a good thing that the governor-general keeps her clothing allowance, though.
Look what Torontonians want to vote for:
Over the past several months, the encampment at Allan Gardens has grown from a few tents in the southeast quadrant to tents in every part of the park. This park, which should be a jewel in the city’s system, is now a homeless shantytown.
By one tent close to Sherbourne St. there are clothes hanging on a makeshift laundry line. There’s a collection of office chairs and patio furniture around the tent entrance, some traffic cones set up as if to mark off territory. ...
In addition to putting up the plaque, city staff have ensured porta potties have been set up and extra garbage and recycling bins have been installed. This is all part of the effort by the city’s Encampment Outreach office to make sure things are running as smoothly as possible.
“Once they have an encampment office, there is no way the city wants to clear this away, they are invested in this,” one local resident complained.
It’s hard to argue with as the city hasn’t been discouraging this encampment at Allan Gardens. It’s been encouraging people to come set up shop here for the free services.
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Meanwhile, despite the increase in services, locals have ongoing complaints. Open drug use and drinking, defecating in the park or on nearby properties, and even the encampments moving into mini-parks and open pieces of land in the residential areas around the park.
The park is currently unusable. While the city is performing a multi-million dollar restoration of the conservatory greenhouses, who will come here when that is complete if the park remains a homeless encampment?
They could have voted for a dog, but no.
The last acceptable prejudice:
On May 22, the RCMP was called to help with a fire in St. Bernard Catholic Church in Grouard, which is about 360 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.The church was built in 1902 and is a provincial historic site.Police say the fire appeared suspicious, and the RCMP put out a media release asking the public for information.On May 23, the Mounties announced they had charged two men.Police say 56-year-old Kenneth Ferguson of High Prairie is charged with arson, and break and enter to commit theft. Gerald Capot, 50, of High Prairie also faces charges of arson, and break and enter to commit theft.Both men have been placed in custody and are due in court on May 29 in High Prairie. Police say no one was hurt in the fire.The parish priest who served at St. Bernard said it’s a tremendous blow for the whole community.“This church has been here for 121 years,” Bernard Akum said in an interview. “So you can imagine how it has served the community, sacraments, baptisms, weddings, confirmations, funerals … so the church was like a memorial, an edifice of remembrance of the ancestors.”The incident occurred as this month marks the two-year anniversary of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nations saying ground-penetrating radar had found burial sites of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Shortly after, a series of churches were damaged or destroyed by arson across Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, and Ontario.
A police spokesperson told The Epoch Times they could only speak to facts at this point, and not motivation.
A crowd of students recently protesting the LGBT agenda in a Quebec school tore down and trampled a rainbow “pride” flag.
Last week, a group of teenagers from the Chêne-Bleu Secondary School in Pincourt, Quebec cheered as one of their fellow students tore down a flag representing the LGBT agenda, supporting the act of defiance by trampling the flag once it was no longer flying.
A 51-second video clip circulated by Neomedia shows a crowd of over a hundred students protesting on the lower level of the school while their classmate tore the flag off a pole from a balcony above them. The incident took place on May 16, one day before the 2023 International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
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An Ontario Catholic school board just north of Toronto has voted against flying the gay “pride” flag atop its schools during the month of June, as Canadians increasingly protest the LGBT agenda in the education system.
During a May 29 York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) meeting, trustees voted 6-4 against flying the pro-LGBT flag atop of its schools and other buildings in celebration of so-called “Pride Month,” a move that has been met with pleasant surprise by pro-family advocates.
How hard is it to do your own damn shopping?:
Living in New York City, working full time and without a car, Jessica Ray and her husband have come to rely on deliveries of food and just about everything else for their home. It has meant more free time on weekends with their young son, rather than standing in line for toilet paper or dragging heavy bags of dog food back to their apartment.
“I don’t even know where to buy dog food,” said Jessica Ray of the specialty food she buys for the family’s aging dog.
There are millions of families like the Rays who have swapped store visits for doorstep deliveries in recent years, meaning that contentious labor negotiations now underway at UPS could become vastly more disruptive than the last time it happened in 1997, when a scrappy upstart called Amazon.com became a public company.
But no one wants to punish her for not reporting child abuse?:
An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by talking publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio.
The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t abide by privacy laws when she told a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a flashpoint in the national abortion debate days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
The board, however, rejected accusations from Indiana’s Republican attorney general that Bernard violated state law by not reporting the child abuse to Indiana authorities. Board members chose to fine Bernard $3,000 for the violations, turning down a request from the attorney general’s office to suspend Bernard’s license. The board issued no restrictions on her practice of medicine.
It's a cult.
Following Latvia’s shocking 4-3 overtime victory over the United States on Sunday to secure a bronze medal at the world hockey championship, parliament met just before midnight and declared Monday a public holiday to allow the country to celebrate its national hockey team.
"It is our duty to perpetuate this significant success of Latvian hockey players in the national memory of society,” the parliament said during its announcement. "Celebrating this day together will strengthen the national self-confidence and unity of Latvian society."
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