Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Mid-Week Post

Your first day of May reflections ...


You know it's a big deal when HE is the voice of reason:

Greg Fergus should resign from his position of House Speaker after expelling Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre from question period April 30, says former NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, calling the move “blatant partisanship.”

“This was not only precipitous. For me it was manifestly, obviously partisan, and I don’t come at that lightly,” said the retired politician-turned political analyst during CTV’s Power Play program on April 30.

“It was an awful performance by Speaker Greg Fergus. He just lost control, … Fergus should do the right thing and step down.”

Mr. Poilievre’s removal from the House of Commons on April 30 came after he called Justin Trudeau a “wacko prime minister” for supporting B.C.’s previous drug decriminalization policy.

When Speaker Fergus asked him to withdraw his “unparliamentary language,” Mr. Poilievre said he would “simply withdraw and replace” the word “wacko” with “extremist” or “radical.”

Speaker Fergus subsequently ordered Mr. Poilievre to leave the House of Commons. The entire Tory caucus followed their leader out.


To recap:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was kicked out of the House of Commons Tuesday after refusing to apologize for calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a series of unparliamentary words such as “wacko” and “extremist.”

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returned House of Commons on Wednesday for question period after Speaker Greg Fergus had kicked him out for refusing to withdraw comments calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a “wacko.”

Speaker’s office spokesperson Mathieu Gravel says that under the standing orders of the House of Commons, Poilievre is allowed to return Wednesday without having to apologize for not retracting unparliamentary language.


It's not what is done but who does it.

Imagine the blackface-wearing woman-hater being ejected from the House of Commons after applauding a Ukrainian Nazi.

Yeah, I can't, either.



Because of course he will:

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on Wednesday ended any speculation his party would pull out of its deal with the minority Liberal government by finally agreeing to support the government's budget.

Singh said his party wanted time to digest the document, which was tabled April 16, but is ultimately voting in favour of it because of shared initiatives that it proposes.

That includes creating a national school lunch program and providing free birth control and diabetes medicine for anyone with a health card.

"These are things that would have never been in the budget if not for us," Singh said.

The Conservatives and Bloc Québécois have previously said they wouldn’t support the budget.

The minority Liberals needed the support of at least one other party to get the budget passed.


Scab.



My offer would be zero:

There are a range of demands, but some are calling for the university to boycott and divest from companies “funding Israeli genocide and apartheid.” The protest camps have echoed calls made for months by some students, who have also carried out hunger strikes to push their demands.

McGill has said many of the activists in the camps are not members of the school community and that it had seen video of some people using "unequivocally antisemitic language and intimidating behaviour."



No country for anyone:

Administrators and campus police at UCLA faced intense criticism Wednesday for failing to act quickly to stop an attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus by counter-demonstrators who threw traffic cones and chairs, released pepper spray and tore down barriers.

Some pro-Palestinian demonstrators fought back, and skirmishes continued for hours before outside law enforcement agencies were called to intervene. No one was arrested, and at least 15 protesters suffered injuries in the confrontation, part of a recent spate of escalating violence that's occurring on some college campuses nationally over the Israel-Hamas war.

“The community needs to feel the police are protecting them, not enabling others to harm them,” Rebecca Husaini, chief of staff for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said in a news conference on the Los Angeles campus later Wednesday, where some Muslim students detailed the overnight events.


The community of thugs needs to realise that threatening Jews comes with a price.

If the police stand idly by (as they do in Canada) and let people be threatened, physically attacked or even held hostage (as in the case of Columbia University in New York), someone will fill in that void.

Go to hell.

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Now we can have October 7th every day!:

A federally-funded immigrant aid society is petitioning Parliament to accept at least 10,000 people from Gaza. It also asked that Gazans gain access to the same free medicare, social services and legal counsel as Ukrainian war refugees: “We are all failing Gazans at this point.”


We wouldn't want to fail those rapists, would we?

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"Don't bug me!" cries Canada's new censor:

Justice Minister Arif Virani says protesters who took their cause to his home over the weekend crossed a line.
A few dozen pro-Palestinian protesters showed up at Mr. Virani’s Toronto-area home on April 27, waving flags and placards with his photo on them at the edge of his driveway.
Mr. Virani told reporters on his way into a cabinet meeting on April 30 that he believes in the right to “lawful and peaceful protest,” which the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees.

I take exception to fascists determining what I can and cannot say and who welcome with open arms rapists and Jew-haters.

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What are the actual numbers of Gazan dead?

Who is to know?:

They are “highly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbers. Most likely, the Hamas ministry settled on a daily total arbitrarily. We know this because the daily totals increase too consistently to be real. Then they assigned about 70% of the total to be women and children, splitting that amount randomly from day to day. Then they in-filled the number of men as set by the predetermined total. This explains all the data observed.”



We don't have to trade with China:

They say the Canadian government never told them of this People’s Republic of China (PRC) cyberattack despite the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation passed on the information to foreign capitals in 2022.
Liberal MP John McKay and Conservative MP Garnett Genuis are co-chairs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) and they are among about 30 Canadian parliamentarians who belong to the global organization. They were only informed last week by IPAC that they were among 18 Canadians MPs and senators who were targeted.
In a joint statement, Mr. McKay and Mr. Genuis say they are upset about Ottawa’s failure to warn them. And they named a number of other Canadian parliamentarians who also belong to IPAC and agreed to be identified as among those who were targeted.
“We have become aware of a reconnaissance cyberattack from a PRC state-controlled entity targeting Canadian legislators affiliated with IPAC in 2021, including the two of us. This is an unacceptable attack on Canadian sovereignty and on parliamentary privilege,” they said.
“Canadian legislators should have been informed as soon as possible, especially given the progressive nature of this attack. Steps should be taken to ensure legislators are informed of attacks or potential attacks against them in the future, and to sanction those responsible for this attack,” Mr. McKay and Mr. Genuis said in a statement. Mr. McKay is also chair of the Commons defence committee.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s office declined to say whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the minister knew of this targeting. It also declined to say whether the Liberal government asked the RCMP to investigate, whether it informed the continuing public inquiry into foreign interference or whether it lodged a protest with China.
“Democracies around the world are grappling with the threat of foreign interference from state actors such as China,” Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesman for Mr. LeBlanc, said in a statement. He noted that the government established the inquiry “to examine this threat” and make recommendations.
“In the meantime, we are taking action, as we have done for the last number of years, to protect our democracy and our democratic institutions – and that is exactly what we will continue to do, in concert with our allies.”

You are doing nothing because you are in the employ of China.
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The Conservatives are condemning Ottawa’s funding of a Canada-China scholars exchange program that requires participants to show allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following an Epoch Times report on the matter.

On April 9, the federal government issued a notice about the 2024–25 Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program for Chinese applicants. The notice, posted on a website managed by a division of Global Affairs Canada, provides a link to a corresponding notice on the Chinese regime agency’s website specifying the conditions for applicants.

The first condition states in Chinese: “[Candidates should] support the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics; love the motherland; have good moral character; abide by laws and regulations; have a sense of responsibility to serve the country, serve the society, and serve the people; and have a correct world view, outlook on life, and values.”



It was never about a virus:

Canada’s drug regulator asked Pfizer to provide data on the size of DNA fragments in its COVID-19 vaccine, due to genomic integration concerns, shortly after learning the pharma giant withheld information on DNA sequences contained in its product.
“Concerning the residual plasmid DNA in the drug substance, provide data/information characterizing [...] the size distribution of the residual DNA fragments [and] residual intact circular plasmid,” says a request for clarification Health Canada issued to Pfizer on Aug. 4, 2023.
The information was released as part of records obtained through an access-to-information request. It shows, in part, that a Health Canada official was keeping the department’s counterparts in the United States and Europe apprised of the department’s interactions with Pfizer, in a bid to harmonize the regulators’ approaches regarding the recently discovered DNA fragment impurities.
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This information appears among multiple emails between staff from key drug regulators, including Health Canada (HC), the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The information was obtained through an access-to-information request.
On Aug. 23, 2023, Dr. Dean Smith, a senior scientific evaluator in Health Canada’s Vaccine Quality Division, wrote an email to a colleague at the FDA about SV40.
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Federal managers paid out more than $500,000 in settlements to employees suspended under vax mandates, records show. The payments were disclosed at the request of Conservative MP Ted Falk (Provencher, Man.) who opposed mandatory vaccination as a breach of Charter rights: “That is what happened.”

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Details of the experiments showed that changing the viruses could be done and “would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation,” an unknown person told the FBI on April 23, 2020, one of the emails showed.
The details were outlined on a webpage for a grant funded by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the agency headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci until late 2022. The government has funded $4.3 million for the grant. A portion of the funds were sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a laboratory located in the same Chinese city in which the first COVID-19 cases appeared in 2019.
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Children who received an original COVID-19 vaccine have little protection against hospitalization just months after vaccination, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Children initially have 52 percent protection against hospitalization but that estimated effectiveness plummeted to 19 percent after four months, according to the paper.
Protection against so-called critical illness also dropped sharply, from 57 percent to 25 percent, researchers found.
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The study shows there were 1,568,961 total deaths in Japan in 2022. About 1,453,162 deaths were expected based on statistical predictions using pre-pandemic information, which means there were 115,799 excess deaths in 2022.

The 115,799 “age-adjusted excess number of deaths” in 2022 occurred after two-thirds of the Japanese population had received the third dose of COVID vaccine.



Let the much-vaunted Canadian healthcare system fail for ideological reasons.

The voters who wait five hours in the emergency room can own it:

Apparently, Dr. Davids’s healthcare advice made the woman conspiring to murder the baby in her womb “uncomfortable and anxious,” so she filed a complaint with the regulatory agency (College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan, or CPSS). And, per the document shared by CLC, CPSS already determined Dr. Davids to be “guilty,” so now he’s facing a disciplinary action hearing, and his license to practice medicine is set to be revoked. (It’s unclear if any sort of evidentiary hearing took place, but I doubt it did).

Yeah, those anxious feelings bothering this young woman? They weren’t Dr. Davids’s fault for suggesting she rethink her decision to kill her precious child, they were due to the fact that she was planning to pay someone to dismember her own flesh and blood.


 


Also - because of course it's Cuba:

A Nova Scotia man who suffered a medical emergency while on an international trip is now stuck abroad after his family was told no hospitals could admit him back home due to a lack of available beds.

Murray Balser was on vacation with his family in Cuba earlier this month when he broke his hip on a boating excursion. Due to a shortage of available beds in Nova Scotia, he had to stay in a Cuban hospital for a week and a half.

“We had the insurance. We thought we were covered,” said Tammy Fader, Balser’s sister-in-law.

“We never in a million years would have thought we would have been denied coming back because there was no bed in our own province, in our own country.”

Fader said the Cuban hospital’s facilities were lacking and Balser was left in excruciating pain. She said the only pain medication he received was some Tylenol she brought with her, and two aspirin he was given at the hospital.

 


How strange:

An Afro-Canadien Museum dedicated to documenting slavery in pre-Confederation Québec has been cited for breach of migrant labour rules. Management yesterday did not comment: “The pay or working conditions didn’t match.”



Where is it written that Stone Age cultures punished rape with hug circles?:

A woman accusing former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash of sexual assault has filed a civil suit, saying she never wanted prosecutors to divert his criminal charge to a restorative justice program.

Carmen Roy, who fought to have her name released in the case, alleges she was sexually assaulted a year ago, and now lives with "psychiatric, psychological, emotional and physical injuries."

In a statement of claim filed Tuesday, Roy publicly details the specifics of her allegations for the first time.

None of the allegations has been tested in court and no statement of defence has been filed. Saganash's lawyer declined comment, but Ethan Pollock has previously said that his client is presumed innocent. He has also requested that Saganash's privacy be respected.

"My client is determined to seek justice and stand up not only for herself but for victims everywhere," Roy's lawyer, Kathryn Marshall, said in a statement.

"She is a fighter and she is brave."

Winnipeg police arrested Saganash, who represented a northern Quebec riding for eight years, late last June and charged him with sexual assault over an incident that took place in Winnipeg on May 1, 2023.

In October, officials diverted the case to the Manitoba Restorative Justice Centre.

The provincial government describes its approach to restorative justice as one that "focuses on 'restoring' relationships, fixing the damage that has been done and preventing more crimes from occurring."

The effort to reintegrate the offender can include victims and community members "when appropriate," it says.

Saganash is next scheduled to be in court May 17 for an administrative appearance.


 

They are communists.

Betrayal is what they do well:

In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn't give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power -- and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every other group. One of the first things the Communist Party did after attaining power was disband independent labor unions and prohibit workers' strikes. Yes, the "workers' party" banned strikes.

The one major exception was the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power as the great defender of peasants. And the CCP slaughtered about 60 million of them.

This has been the modus operandi of every left-wing group everywhere: Claim concern for some group, and use that group to fool people -- specifically, naive liberals, who share few values with the Left but have frequently served as useful idiots for the Left. Liberals do so to this day.

Teachers unions are nothing more than left-wing groups that use alleged concern for students to attain and retain power. The reality, however, is while they care about teachers, they harm students far more than they help them.

One example is teachers unions' opposition to school choice. Those who actually care about students support the right of parents to choose their children's schools -- just as many teachers do when they send their own children to schools of their choice.

A second example is teachers unions' making it nearly impossible to fire incompetent teachers.

A third example was teachers unions' demands that schools lock down for nearly two years during the COVID-19 era. The unions did so despite there being no scientific evidence in support of school lockdowns and despite ample warnings that many children would suffer intellectually, scholastically, emotionally and psychologically.


Also:

Forty years ago, a KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov, revealed the systematic plan Soviet communists used to take down countries and establish a communist-type society and regime. More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) demoralization, 2) disorientation, 3) crisis, and 4) normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture, which will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.



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