Your mid-week cocktail hour ...
Meet the new WE scapegoat:
Federal New Democrats are citing recently released documents as proof that Youth Minister Bardish Chagger was the key driver in the Liberal government’s decision to have WE Charity administer a multimillion-dollar student-volunteer program.
NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus
levelled the charge against Chagger Tuesday, alleging the documents
released last month directly contradict the Liberals’ assertion that
public servants recommended WE’s run the now-defunct Canada Student
Service Grant.
The documents had been requested by the House of
Commons finance committee as part of an investigation of the
government’s deal with WE, which the Toronto-based youth organization
backed out of in early July amid political controversy.
This WE scandal:
Among the items that WE was supposed to release were details of fees and
expenses paid by the organization to the Trudeau family, as well as a
list of other speakers the group paid to appear. Former WE board chair
Michelle Douglas said she was always informed that speakers were not
paid and was surprised to learn about the Trudeaus making so much money
from appearing at WE events.
Baggish Chagger is going to go under the bus for this.
Is it worth it, Baggish?
Also:
It’s not a sure thing, but the WE affair throws off a seediness that
other scandals have not. It is somehow more provocative. It was done
while COVID ravaged the country. While tens of thousands of small
businesses were going down, while millions were dealing with anguish for
their health, worry about their finances, one organization — with the
best of insider connections — was getting special treatment, being
rescued, by its pals in government.
That’s where the real sting lies.
Wow, the country that was caught with its pants down totally has this coronavirus under control:
Canada has inked two additional deals with companies working on a possible vaccine for COVID-19.
The two agreements include 76 million doses of Novavax Inc.’s vaccine candidate and 38 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s candidate.
They bring Canada’s total number of procurement agreements with vaccine
developers to four, as deals with Pfizer Canada and Moderna were
announced earlier this month. ...
Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine uses “viral vectors” to generate immune
responses. A similar approach is being taken by AstraZeneca, as well as
China’s CanSino, which was once being developed in partnership with
Canada but has since been abandoned.
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Another Quebec company gone down the tubes ... for now:
For the first time in four years, the federal government has added a
new company to its black list of suppliers. Montreal-based Les
Industries Garanties Limitée is banned from bidding on federal contracts
for a decade after an employee admitting bid-rigging in 2017.
The
63-year-old company, which bills itself as “Montreal’s largest and most
innovative leader in air conditioning services for commercial,
industrial, residential and institutional sectors”, is only the fourth
company to be deemed ineligible for federal contracts or real property
agreements under the Integrity Regime.
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New Democrats yesterday said Commons committees must expand
investigations of alleged favouritism in the awarding of federal
contracts. The party’s ethics critic named former Liberal MP Frank
Baylis whose medical supply company received a six-figure contract weeks
after Baylis left Parliament: “How did that contract happen?”
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What? Canadians can be trusted now?:
Health Canada is willing to consider approving home COVID-19 tests
to screen for the virus, a spokesman for the minister of health told
Reuters, in a win for public health experts and doctors who have argued
that frequent and inexpensive testing could beat back the pandemic.
About that:
In June, the department indicated it would not review such applications.
But
Cole Davidson, a spokesman for Health Minister Patty Hajdu, says that
was meant to apply to test kits for diagnosing cases of COVID-19.
Due
to the evolution of the pandemic since then, he says Health Canada is
now considering applications for at-home testing devices for screening
purposes.
Davidson says Health Canada, which regulates the safety
of all medical devices sold in the country, “is open to reviewing all
testing solutions.”
In
a statement Tuesday, Hajdu says a Health Canada official “misspoke” in
confirming earlier this week that applications for home testing kits
would not be reviewed.
From the disgraced quack:
Dr. Tam outlined a number of rules to follow, which include monitoring
yourself for symptoms before engaging in sexual activity, “skipping
kissing” and avoiding closeness, and the considering wearing a mask that
covers the nose and mouth.
It's a virus that is spread through bodily fluids, stupid.
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Canada’s chief public health officer is urging people to “change the way
you speak” about drug addiction. Dr. Theresa Tam added cabinet had no
current plans to decriminalize heroin: “Treat people who use drugs with
compassion.”
Tam, like Payette and Justin the puppet, would be fired had Canada been a normal country.
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They're just people:
A new study published in the August 2020 issue of Psychiatry Research
has found that Canada could be looking at a suicide rate increase of up
to 27 per cent as a direct result of the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns
and economic stagnation.
The study, conducted by University of Toronto psychiatrists Roger
McIntyre and Yena Lee, attempted to project the number of suicides in
Canada based on the skyrocketing unemployment rate.
According to McIntyre and Lee, a single percentage point increase in
unemployment has been associated with a one per cent increase in suicide
rates based on almost two decades of data collected from 2000 to 2018.
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Where is the money coming for all of this?:
An under-subscribed pandemic loan program for small business due to
expire at midnight last night is extended to October 31. Cabinet again
promised to modify terms of the Canada Emergency Business Account to
benefit the smallest operators: “Just send the message up to the Prime
Minister’s Office.”
**
What can justify such a staggeringly large allocation? A recent study
released by the Fraser Institute reveals part of the reason why: the
study estimated that one-quarter of pandemic income support payments — a
total of up to $22.3 billion — were sent to people who didn’t need the
help.
Apparently, the Liberals decided it was too time-consuming
during an emergency for the government to do its due diligence. As of
the end of April, 7.12 million Canadians applied for the Canada
Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), which pays $2,000 per month and has
been extended twice, and that was before the government expanded the
program to include seasonal workers. The only criteria for this
assistance was that the applicant had to have been working, or was
self-employed, and lost his or her income due to the pandemic.
One cannot spell CERB without B-R-I-B-E.
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Labour data for August coming out at the end of this week should give
us a more up-to-date measure of the pace of recovery, after the economy
contracted 38.7 per cent in the second quarter.
TD Bank expects 225,000 new jobs being created in August, down from the 418,000 jobs seen in June and 953,000 in July.
“This
reflects a pause, or plateau, in re-opening plans after emergency
measure rollbacks bolstered the performance in the early stage of the
recovery,” Rishi Sondhi, economist at TD, said in a note over the
weekend. “While third quarter growth will almost assuredly be extremely
strong, it can’t grow that way forever and momentum is predictably
slowing.”
While there is some evidence of the worst of being over
with applications for Canada Emergency Response Benefit falling 10 per
cent to 447,000 recently, small business confidence fell by a few points
in August, coming in at 59.2 points — below the long-term average,
according to the latest small business survey by the Canadian Federation
of Independent Business (CFIB).
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Federal agencies in four years hired fewer than 800 medically-released
veterans though Parliament passed hire-a-vet legislation. An audit said
of those who were hired, fewer than three percent were appointed as
managers: “Civilian life can be a challenging experience.”
Because f--- those guys, right, Justin?
You insulted everyone's intelligence by claiming to be an educator when, in fact, you are an overpaid baby-sitter:
Miss Sayles clearly didn't learn how to distance herself from this Marxist organisation and actually prove her worth as an educator. Anyone can pretend to be important because "teacher!" but very few are actually educators worth their salt. Miss Sayles is proud of her degree in a non-STEM field but none of that is useful when one wants to determine possibility of infections. Miss Sayles has been hiding in her home and not doing any work because of this virus she knows nothing about. Have her nineteen years of experience taught her how to plan lesson while sitting on her @$$ for four months? Will her voice be valued when parents realise that little Cody or Madysson aren't learning anything at all?
Let's see those test scores, Julie.
The fact that fifty-two percent of respondents didn't know anything about the new federal leader of one of the major governing parties of this country shows how utterly incurious and gullible Canadians are and how they are willing to be led by a bribed press:
Most Canadians know very little about new Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole but a new poll suggests his personal qualities and policy positions could eventually give his party a boost.
Fifty-two
per cent of respondents said they didn’t know enough about O’Toole to
say whether they have a positive or negative impression of the new
leader, who took the helm of the Official Opposition one week ago.
That is why Canadians are going to get another Great Depression good and hard.
That's funny because that wasn't the buzz before:
Newly elected Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said triggering a fall election is “not my priority.”
To wit:
The new leader of the federal Conservative party, Erin O’Toole, says
he’s preparing to ask Canadians to give him the job of prime minister
because he believes the Trudeau Liberals “may be trying to trigger” a
snap election that would centre on the response to the pandemic and
catch O’Toole early in his leadership.
“If Mr. Trudeau thinks he
can play some games with a new leader and force an election, we will be
ready,” O’Toole said at a Tuesday morning news conference. “(Prime
Minister) Justin Trudeau would rather play politics than do his job.”
O'Toole doesn't want an election but will be ready for one?
That's passive-aggressive right there.
India captures a Chinese camp:
Indian troops have captured an important Chinese military post after
allegedly fighting off an attempt by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
to occupy further Indian territory in the disputed border region of
Ladakh.
This will be the new hotspot sooner than one thinks.
