Serving your All Saints needs ...
From the least transparent government in the country's history:
What’s a few million among Liberal friends?
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) October 26, 2023
Trudeau gave $11 million to a company for the ArriveCan app.
Except, that company didn’t actually do any work!
Now the RCMP are investigating. pic.twitter.com/PZ3jx5P1iZ
Marc Miller is shockingly incompetent:
Immigration Minister Marc Miller is set to announce new targets for how many new immigrants Canada aims to bring in over the next three years — and the major question is, will Canada bring in more or fewer newcomers once current targets expire in 2025?
He will bring in more migrants (who will eventually leave when they realise how broke the country is) and ramp up euthanasia.
As usual, no one is held to account:
The Commons heritage committee yesterday by a 6 to 4 vote rejected extended hearings to question CBC chief executive Catherine Tait over the network’s Middle East coverage. “The CBC has not told the truth,” said Conservative MP Rachael Thomas (Lethbridge, Alta.): “I have very important questions for Ms. Tait.”
The cost of an $8 million solar-powered warehouse at Rideau Hall was buried in a Crown corporation’s budget and never scrutinized by the Department of Public Works, MPs were told yesterday. Members of the public accounts committee expressed astonishment: “Who else is looking at these budgets?”
Don't threaten to do it. Just do it. More provinces should join. Let the tax be repealed and the government fall:
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe yesterday served notice of a carbon tax strike after cabinet lifted the fuel charge on Atlantic constituents. “How is that fair?” asked Moe: “As Premier it is my job to ensure Saskatchewan residents are treated fairly and equally with our fellow Canadians in other parts of the country.”
What Canadians? Who was asked? Why not disclose the estimate?:
Canadians support a universal free school lunch program without income testing, Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds’ department said in a report yesterday. No cost estimate was disclosed: “Universality reduces stigma.”
If Canadians aren't feeding their children, it is either because they can't or won't. Taxes upon taxes are burdensome and make it so that children go without. That is the government's fault, the same one Canadians expect to fix the problem of child hunger with an inefficiently and expensively run program. If Canadian parents won't feed their children, why are the children allowed to remain in such households?
But you could find someone who donated twenty dollars to the convoy movement?:
Federal agents are unable to track and deport all foreign fugitives, the Canada Border Services Agency said yesterday. The admission followed new data indicating 29,248 foreigners banned from Canada remain here: “I think targets of 100 percent are rarely achievable.”
Behold! The courts and the RCMP - two wings of a broken system!:
Three Indo-Canadian men arrested in a major RCMP-led drug investigation have been acquitted after a judge rejected English-speaking police officers’ identification of who was talking with foreign accents in secret recordings of a large-scale drug conspiracy.
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A former RCMP assistant commissioner says alleged leaks of classified intelligence by his ex-employee, Cameron Ortis, were “so criminal,” caused “irreparable harm” to the national police force, betrayed its “every” intelligence partner and could have “signed someone’s death warrant.”
Todd Shean, a retired high-ranking Mountie and once Ortis’s direct boss, said he was “sick to his stomach” when he saw the sensitive documents found on various devices in Ortis’s home after he was arrested.
Oh, just invade Canada already!
A “big fight” between Canada and the United States could be looming over the federal Liberal government’s plan to impose what Washington’s envoy to Ottawa described Tuesday as a “discriminatory” tax on digital services.
David Cohen, whose nearly two years as U.S. ambassador have been marked by friendly but frank and sometimes blunt talk about cross-border concerns, issued the warning after a luncheon speech hosted by the Canadian Club of Ottawa.
“That will be an area of contention unless it is resolved,” Cohen told his audience when the subject of Canada’s digital services tax came up during the question-and-answer session.
“There’s a place where we’re either going to have to have agreement, or we’re going to have a big fight.”
The tax — a three per cent levy aimed at foreign companies, many of them based in the U.S., that derive revenue from Canadian subscribers and contributors — is scheduled to take effect in January, retroactive to 2022.
The measure was put in place as a failsafe of sorts to backstop a collective effort by G20 countries and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to come up with their own global digital taxation framework.
Air Canada gives one service but not necessarily good:
A disabled British Columbia man who can’t walk and uses a motorized wheelchair for mobility says he was forced to drag himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas after the airline’s third-party ground assistance personnel were not available to help him.
Ibn Warraq was right - a culture incapable of self-introspection, willing to blame others and completely self-absorbed:
The Privy Council polled Muslims on the “lack of equity for their religion” in Canada, new records show. The research was conducted following the Prime Minister’s appointment of an advisor on Islamophobia: “Several described what they viewed as limited accommodation for rituals such as daily prayer.”
The voters block can make such demands.
For perspective, in just six hours Hamas killed nearly as many victims as the IRA did in 30 years. While IRA bombs killed innocent civilians and children, according to exhaustive accounts such as Lost Lives, over half the IRA’s victims were uniformed military, police, security, or prison officers. In Hamas’s rampage, uniformed personnel were incidental casualties in a pogrom that hunted any and all Jews — babies put in ovens, knives plunged into pregnant bellies, Holocaust survivors in old-folks’ homes shot in the face, children forced to watch their parents’ execution before they were summarily executed. You can find videos of Hamas killers taking GoPro videos of their killing sprees, recordings of themselves calling their parents to report, “I killed ten Jews. Their blood is on my hands. Be proud of me, mother.” This isn’t the logic of a terrorist making his heart cold in order to pursue a political goal; it is the short-of-breath, hot-blooded boast of an exterminator pursuing genocide.
Aldous Huxley called this decades ago:
In the brave new world of liberalism, women have been reduced to “uterus carriers.”
Life is created in factories. Babies can be bought and sold like merchandise.
No, this is not science fiction. It is not some dystopian image of an extreme future.
This ‘vision’ of our future is found in a legislative bill introduced in the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag. The sponsor is Mr. Joar Forssell, a member of parliament for the liberal party. He proposes that taxpayers’ money be spent “on research about artificial uteri” for the purposes of extending “reproductive freedom” to “uterus carriers.”
In other words, Mr. Forssell wants the Swedish government to sponsor the development of machines that can grow a baby from conception to birth, so that no woman will ever have to be pregnant again.
I would have expected a member of the Swedish parliament to find somewhat more productive ways to spend taxpayers’ money. His party, which currently governs Sweden in a center-right coalition, is engaged in a frustrating, uphill battle against organized crime. The country whose legislature Forssell is a member of, is in deep trouble, plagued by high levels of violence and corruption.
Unfortunately, making budget priorities is just the beginning of the problems that Joar Forssell runs into with this bill.
His most acute problem is that the babies that would be produced by his artificial uteri, would come into this world without any human rights whatsoever. They would be the private property of whatever company owns the facility where they are conceived, grown, and ‘born.’
Those babies would be commodities that would be bought and sold on an open market, like any other piece of property.
This aspect has escaped the good Swedish liberal, who submitted his legislative bill on October 4th. So far, it has only gotten to the stage where it is assigned to one of the Riksdag’s committees. This leaves clear-minded lawmakers enough time to look at his bill in ways that he himself clearly did not.
All that Forssell seemed to care about was to beat the politically correct, ideological drum. His bill goes straight to the salient point: he depicts pregnancy as “very burdensome” and sees “research on artificial uteri” as “essential from a feminist perspective”:
By eliminating biological limitations and social norms surrounding pregnancy, this opens up opportunities for everyone to fully participate in society without sacrificing their health and well-being.
Joar Forssell goes on to claim that by spending money on developing baby-factory machines, the Swedish government would remove the exclusive burden of pregnancy from women or “uterus carriers.” This, he claims, would undermine “patriarchic structures.”
And here comes the punch line:
Natural pregnancy is one of the most dangerous things that a uterus carrier and, for that matter, unborn children can be exposed to. Civilizational evolution demands that progress be made in the direction of relieving humankind from this natural but hopelessly outdated burden.
Much like abortion propagandists do, Joar Forssell tries to suggest that a pregnancy—a bodily function as natural as life itself—is a disease or an injury.
It's probably all of those side-effects:
Although a majority of Canadians have already received or intend to get a COVID-19 booster shot or flu vaccine this year, 40 per cent of the population does not plan on rolling up their sleeves for the updated shot this fall, according to a new Ipsos poll done exclusively for Global News.
The poll, released Wednesday, found of that group, 45 per cent said they did not feel it was worth getting one. An additional 23 per cent of this group expressed concerns regarding the shot’s safety, while seven per cent were outright opposed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
“The narrative around COVID boosters is shifting,” explained Sean Simpson, vice-president of Ipsos Public Affairs. “When the vaccine first came out most people supported mandatory vaccinations. Most people got their vaccines. Now we’re further removed.
“I think one of the reasons support was so high originally was because it was seen as a civic duty. And we’re not really talking about that anymore and it’s more about a personal choice.”
Freeze their bank accounts for wrong-think.
We don't have to trade with China:
Chinese-Canadian dissidents yesterday named domestic media and community groups they considered friends of the Communist Party. Awareness of Party propaganda “is relatively lacking on the part of the Canadian public,” said the Falun Dafa Association: ‘Newspapers have been regurgitating propaganda.’
Weren't the polar bears supposed to be dead by now?:
The earliest rough estimate of southern bear numbers (254 bears) was completed in 1973 and published in a 1976 Canadian Wildlife Service report, while the first western bear count (308 bears) was done in 1975 and published in 1977. These remarkably low estimates, although crude, reflected decades of wanton polar bear slaughter in Hudson Bay that had decimated bear populations. Evidence of similar declines across the Arctic prompted an international treaty to protect polar bears in 1973.
It is now known that both western and southern bears, as well as bears from Foxe Basin to the north, hunt on the ice over the winter, with the potential for inter-breeding during the spring mating season. A genetic study published in 2016 suggested moving the long-established boundaries for western bears, since it was apparent that they may come ashore over a much larger range of coastline than previously thought. Southern bears, on the other hand, rarely move out of James Bay, not even to hunt during the winter.
This brings us to the 2021 population surveys that revealed an apparent 27 per cent decline in the western bear population but a 30 per cent increase for southern bears. Unfortunately, the survey for southern bears was not available when news of the western bear decline was made public — and generated considerable alarm — in December 2022.
According to the report released first, which was by Stephen Atkinson and colleagues, the three most recent population estimates for western bears were 949 (range 618-1280) in 2011, 842 (range 562-1,121) in 2016 and 618 (range 385-852) in 2021. As mentioned, the apparent change from 2016 to 2021 was a 27 per cent decline — although, as the authors noted, that’s not statistically significant.
The overall drop apparently was driven by a decline of more than 200 adult females and sub-adult bears, especially in the area around Churchill. The authors considered but rejected the possibility that these bears had simply relocated into southern Hudson Bay. Oddly, in light of the 2016 study about changing habitat boundaries, they did not consider the possibility that the “missing” animals had relocated northward into Foxe Basin territory.
Sea ice in Foxe Basin almost always lingers well into August, so it might now be preferred as a summering and denning area by some western bear females and young bears looking for more predictable ice conditions. Foxe Basin bears haven’t been surveyed since 2010 but they were then doing very well, with an estimated population size of 2,580.
Also - I though the whole point of national parks was to preserve wildlife:
A third First Nation wants Parks Canada to give its members increased access, including limited hunting rights, to Jasper National Park, saying they were evicted when it was created in western Alberta.
“Aseniwuche Winewak calls on Parks Canada to immediately enter into negotiations … restore our access to the park and to prioritize our involvement in the co-management of Jasper both as the park’s current neighbouring Indigenous Peoples and its former inhabitants,” said an Oct. 27 letter from the band to Jasper National Park superintendent Alan Fehr.
If mummy movies have taught me anything, it's that you should never open the book of the dead:
Archaeologists excavating a 3,500-year-old cemetery have discovered an ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead" filled with spells to guide the deceased in the afterlife.
The scroll, which was revealed as part of a presentation of the latest archaeological finds from the Tuna al-Gebel cemetery in central Egypt, is estimated to be 43 to 49 feet long.
Such scrolls were a common component of burials in ancient Egypt, and their incantations were a form of supernatural "travel insurance", according to Sara Cole, an assistant curator in the Antiquities Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, speaking to The New York Times.
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