A Real Country Would Know How to Deal With ISIS

But here we are:

A Canadian whose widely-publicized account of conducting executions for ISIS fueled public outrage and debate in the House of Commons has been charged with allegedly making it up.

Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, who has portrayed himself as a former ISIS member living freely in Canada, was charged with faking his involvement in the terrorist group.

The Burlington, Ont. resident is to appear in court on Nov. 16 to face a terrorism hoax charge. Reached at work, he declined to comment.

 

He's at work now, you see. 

To wit:

Towards the end of last year, Trudeau made it very clear he welcomes the return to Canada of Canadians who went to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State. Gone is the law stripping dual citizens who have taken part in terrorist activities of their Canadian citizenship. Of course these people are never referred to as “terrorists” by the Liberal government. Those who have returned to Canada have been given the cutesy label of “returning foreign fighters.” Gee, they sound just like Canadian vets returning to Canada except the terrorists get much more respect and better treatment from the government than do members of the military. ...

At the town hall in Edmonton, a man asked the PM a question. Whoever he is, he obviously didn’t get the memo that the purpose of these town halls is to lob softball questions at Trudeau to make him look good. The man wanted the PM to explain his views on ISIS; “how you’re going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter 10, 15 or 20 years from now, when you’re letting in people with an ideology that just does not conform to what we’re doing here.”

Trudeau then went into his rambling answer about how Canada is a welcoming country that takes in people from all over the world who are fleeing persecution and poverty. He then made reference to other groups of people who came to Canada in large numbers, specifically Greek, Italian and Portuguese immigrants.

 

In What Universe Could Canada Be A World Power With the Liberals In Charge?

Oh, Lord Black ... :

Canada could be a great power, not a superpower like the United States and China, but in the same category as Britain, France, Germany and Japan. But to do this we must espouse serious and useful goals of international reform and accelerate economic growth. Our ministry of global affairs as it is now portentously called, should repurpose itself to those ends, maintain a generous and focused foreign aid program, and cease its feckless and extravagant pursuit of popularity in disadvantaged areas where it cannot be bought for long and is of little practical utility. Justin may think Canada is post-national, but the world isn’t.

 

No, and here is why: 

Canada’s approach has been typical. During the five years that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in power, there has been almost no talk about doing anything in Canada’s north, let alone consideration of an Arctic strategy, either with the military or in concert with the Inuit.

Were Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole to become prime minister, he has said that he would make building up Canadian defences in the north a priority. The stumbling block for any government is that building and maintaining anything in the Arctic is hugely expensive and the national debt has been growing by the minute this year.

 

Will Canadians be happy that China and Russia have free reign over OUR Arctic?

 

MiniTrue

As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.

 

(1984, Ch. 4, George Orwell) 

 

And people thought that it could never happen here and now:

Cabinet within weeks will introduce amendments to the Broadcasting Act, the first since 1991. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault would not say if he will press ahead with unprecedented regulation of internet news media as broadcasters: “Do we try and change everything under the sun?”  

Also - yes, Canadian parents, let someone else do your job:

Canadian parents are resigned to children’s addiction to the internet, says a Department of Public Safety study. Researchers said parents are “fully conscious of the fact it is simply unrealistic to monitor everything their children do online”, noting wily teenagers commonly evade surveillance with dummy social media accounts: “It is impossible.”

Let the government remind you how redundant and stupid you are.

It's Just Money, Part Deux

Promising things in a speech that went nowhere is as easy as blowing whatever cash this country still has:

According to Stats Canada, 56,296 businesses closed in June, as the economic damage from the CCP Virus Lockdowns continues to spread.

The number of businesses closures was down slightly (5.6%) from May.

However, the number of business closures is still far above normal, with the amount of shuttered businesses up 44% compared to February of 2020.

At the same time, 52,723 businesses opened in June, up 1/3rd from May.

However, the long-term problem is far worse.

Out of all the business that were shuttered in March and April, just 20% have re-opened.

And this year, Canada has lost about 14.1% of all active businesses.

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One of the country’s longest-running federal aid agencies still doesn’t do risk assessments on companies that apply for subsidies, says an audit. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has awarded grants and loans to firms that went bankrupt: “The Agency has limited control.”

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Anyone who quits work to claim new pandemic relief cheques will be disqualified from the $2,000-a month Canada Recovery Benefit, says the Department of Employment. Auditors will also hunt for scofflaws who refuse work: “We believe this is sending a pretty strong message.”

 

(Sidebar: clearly not.)

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Julie Payette’s swearing-in as Governor General in 2017 blew right past its pre-approved budget limit, costing taxpayers $649,000 for a glitzy afternoon and evening, newly released federal documents show.

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But no one asked the government to do any leg work for them:

The federal government says it will soon introduce a free, automatic tax filing system for simple returns — a policy change meant to provide government benefits to qualified people who don't collect them now because they skip filing their taxes.

The promise — a one-line commitment buried in the 6,783-word speech from the throne — could help hundreds of thousands of low- and fixed-income Canadians access benefits that are only paid to people who file tax returns.

 

No, it could help track down errant sources of revenue.

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Serious question. Is this money going to the Chinese National Oil company that just got the approval for exploration drilling in the Flemish Pass Basin? https://t.co/15LK8RnmKH https://t.co/kQ9LqshDeE pic.twitter.com/Knf9BAV4Xi

— Ms. Donna (@DCTFTW) September 26, 2020

 

See, it's alright when SOME people do favours for their friends, even their friend sin the CHinese communist party.

 

 

At least someone cares about Alberta:

Dan Sullivan is a U.S. senator serving Alaska, and Don Young is a Congressman serving the American last frontier. The U.S. president has been sweet on the Canadian oilpatch before, having approved TC Energy Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline project which had been rejected by the previous president Barack Obama. If it proceeds, the railway project could serve as another important outlet for Alberta’s oil producers who have struggled due to lack of pipeline capacity. However, railway lines are deemed to be a more expensive way to transport oil compared to pipelines.

The proposed 2,570-kilometre A2A railway aims to transport bulk commodities such oil, grain and ore in addition to containerized goods, and aims to develop “a new railway connecting the Alaska Railroad and Alaska’s tidewater, to northern Alberta.”

The project is expected to cost $22 billion, of which $7 billion will be built in Alaska and $15 billion in Alberta, according to the company.

Construction will begin near Fairbanks, where the Alaska Railroad currently ends, and move south and east through Alaska, across into Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and into Alberta.

The proposed route will connect the North American railway network, via Northern Alberta to the existing Alaska Railroad network and Alaska’s deep-water ports.

“This is a world-class infrastructure project that will generate more than 18,000 jobs for Canadian workers at a time when they are most needed, provide a new, more efficient route for trans-Pacific shipping and thereby link Alberta to world markets,” A2ARail founder and chairman Sean McCoshen said in July, as he announced commissioning an engineering firm to start a detailed land survey along the Alberta segment of the railway’s proposed route.

“The new rail line will create new economic development opportunities for a wide range of businesses, communities and Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska,” the chairman said. “We estimate that A2A Rail could unlock $60 billion CAD in additional cumulative GDP through 2040 and lift household incomes by an average of 40 per cent.”

The company’s president is Jean Paul Gladu, who served as the president and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business from September 2012 until April 2020.

The Alaska–Alberta Railway Development Corporation (A2A Rail) is privately owned and funded by its McCoshen, who the company says has spent more than US$100 million through the early phases of the project.

 

The Not-DB Cooper Pleads Not Guilty For Her Poor Attempt At Long-Distance Assassination

Yep:

A Quebec woman accused of sending a ricin-laced threat to President Donald Trump has been ordered to remain in U.S. custody.

District Court Judge Kenneth Schroeder Jr. says Pascale Ferrier was clearly capable of causing harm when she tried to cross the Canada-U. S. border last week.

Ferrier, 53, was arrested while attempting to enter the United States at the Peace Bridge border crossing in Buffalo.

Timothy Lynch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo says Ferrier had a semi-automatic handgun and 294 rounds of ammunition at the time.

 

 

 

Never Send a Snowboard Instructor to Do a Real Man's Job

To wit:

This no-beard policy from the National Firefighters Association all comes down to an issue of health and safety.

As a firefighter you’ll need to wear a SCBA mask to protect yourself from the smoke and other substances in the air.

That mask forms create a seal on the face to stop air coming in and to provide a clean flow of oxygen.

The fear is that a beard can cause a barrier between the mask and face, limiting the ability to create a good seal.

This gap, however small, could mean that dust particles get into the beard and the airways of the firefighter.

If dust and soot were to get into the beard, this would increase the risk of developing serious respiratory illnesses and cancers. 

 

This should make clear why Justin's verbal excrement is added to the list of "other stupid things he said":

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday lamented an RCMP policy that calls for all officers to shave their beards and wear medical-grade face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

WE the People

This isn't over:

The controversy around WE Charity in Canada is opening the door to a public discussion about whether WE - and groups like it - actually help the African communities where they operate.

Firoze Manji, the former Africa program director for Amnesty International, said one of the big problems with groups such as WE is that they aren't accountable to the people they claim to serve.

“They are accountable to self-appointed boards,” said Manji, who is originally from Kenya and is now a professor at Carleton University's Institute of African Studies. “The mythology is that they are going to fight poverty. The problem with that proposition, although it sounds very good, is that they don't deal with the causes of impoverishment.”

 

Ahem:

Apparently WE raised money from 🇨🇦 schoolchildren, to build a school “abroad”. The Canadian kids were shown photos of a school being built, thanks to their donations, so they asked to do a trip to see it. They couldn’t, because the project was a lie and the school wasn’t built🤨 https://t.co/7FUYht4SIE

— Laura Nash 🎙 (@ZeroWasteRadio) July 13, 2020

 

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WE is active in over 16,000 public and private schools, where kids are recruited to join the “We Movement.” Some of our sources who went on to work for WE began in high school as WE volunteers. One former employee alleged that she was asked to use misleading messages to motivate schoolchildren in a fundraising campaign. Former employees raised concerns about WE’s use of celebrities to connect with kids, and its practice of presenting its co-founder brothers, Craig and Marc Kielburger, as celebrities in their own right. The brothers, who are promoted publicly as inspiring leaders, were said by some to be prone to angry outbursts towards staff in private.

“Marc is a bully, one hundred per cent,” said a former WE director. 

Why Are We Trading With China?

What does China have to do before the rest of the world stops buying its cheaply-made garbage?:

A broker for Red Cross China facilitated the hoarding of COVID-19 supplies for Chinese government officials who then sold them for profit, and Red Cross China officials were involved, says a man who was roped into the scheme.

Jiang Pengyong, the General Manager of Shenzhen Jipingyong Tech Company, has come forward to reveal the scheme after being sued in China for contract fraud.

The allegation is the latest scandal to dog China’s Red Cross in recent years. In early February, the Canadian government donated 16 tonnes of protective equipment to China via Red Cross China. The move was heavily criticized by Conservative members of Parliament since Canada’s front line health workers were faced with protective equipment shortages once the pandemic arrived in Canada shortly after.

Canada’s donation, announced by Global Affairs on Feb. 9, was facilitated by the Canadian Red Cross, which provided the supplies to Red Cross China.

Around that time, Red Cross China had come under heavy public criticism as many hospitals in China remained without critical supplies despite huge volumes of donations.

 

How Curious

Good sign we’re onto something: the Chinese research database revoked access from whoever found the Chinese-language 2013 MSc and 2016 PhD theses confirming that in 2012 these was a SARS-like pneumonia outbreak in a mine from which WIV got RaTG13/4991 — closest SARS2 relative. https://t.co/JLV6nhtpex

— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) September 27, 2020

 

I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about.

 

Also:

The new Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit had its terms expanded, which will now permit pay of $1,000 worth of sick leave regardless of what the illness is.

The change comes after Liberal Party negotiations with New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, who called the expansion "vital."

Jagmeet Singh is an @$$hole.

Prove me wrong.

 

(Merci)

 

It's Just Money

Leftists must believe that money exists in Monopoly form:

Left-wing commentators are furious I compared government debt to household debt.

So who pays the interest on government debt? The tooth fairy?

Governments' only source of revenue is taxation--almost all of which comes from.... HOUSEHOLDS.

Yes. It. Is. That. Simple. https://t.co/m9nLqNb0wg

— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) September 28, 2020

 

 

How Interesting

Here it is. Facts, not #SkippyDoolittle nonsense and bs.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/vVYpkdyIaC

— Mr Stache (@MrStache9) September 25, 2020

 

It's Just Money

Money that magically appeared when one wanted to avoid a no-confidence motion:

Canada’s back! https://t.co/PYEcSVVnlD

— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) September 26, 2020

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The Liberals are not planning to make child care affordable. They instead want parents to pay more for it on their tax bills. A $22B/year gov-run child care program means a permanent 3% hike in the GST, with no guarantee everyone gets a space.

— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) September 26, 2020

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Finance Min @cafreeland refuses to say if her government will table a budget in this fiscal year. Instead, tables legislation asking for continued blank cheque for COVID-19 spending. No info on the $250B they’ll spend this year on things NOT related to COVID-19. #cdnpoli

— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) September 24, 2020

 

The Soviet Union officially dissolved on December 26th, 1991, confirming what everyone had been saying about communism: it doesn't work.

What followed was a weak economy that couldn't compete on the world stage collapsing completely, leaving people without wages or pensions. 

A series of financial mishaps in New Zealand and the Icelandic banking crisis in 2008 (indeed, one can look no further than Trudeaunomics and the effect it has had on Canada) proves that economies can and do collapse. 

The unfettered spending by people who have never managed so much as a lemonade stand and the willingness of the public to let them do that is reminiscent of characters in Greek tragedies that can see a disaster looming and even warn people about it but to no avail. 

Canadians are going to see, much sooner than later, the unravelling of the economy and experience great financial and ultimately global loss and will not be able to cope or flee.

Such is the price of putting one's self into debt for want of "free things".

 

How Could This Possibly Be a Problem?

Now who's trying to "steal an election"?:

The news release from a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania was provocative: Nine mailed-in military ballots had been “discarded” by the local election office in a swing county of one of the most important presidential battleground states.

All of them were marked for President Donald Trump, it said. Then came another news release with key details changed — the presidential choice was unknown on two of the ballots because they had been resealed — but still little explanation of what had happened and whether investigators believed a criminal act had occurred.

Despite the information vacuum, the White House press secretary told reporters “ballots for the president” had been “cast aside.” The Trump campaign’s rapid response arm pushed out the release from Trump’s own Justice Department under the headline “Democrats are trying to steal the election” — ignoring the fact that the local government, Luzerne County, is controlled by Republicans. Conservative voices used the news release as rocket fuel to amplify the investigation on social media.

 

Perhaps then one could explain why these ballots ended up in the rubbish if this is merely an over-reaction to a story the popular press has largely forgotten.

On the Korean Peninsula

The new prime minister of Japan hopes that South Korea will join in Japan's efforts to deal with North Korea:

Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, spoke to South Korea’s president for the first time on Thursday, calling for both countries to repair their frayed ties and cooperate to counter any threat from North Korea.

Relations between the two U.S. allies have deteriorated sharply over the past year over war-time history and trade, in particular the issue of Korean laborers forced to work at Japanese firms during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule.

“I told President Moon that we cannot leave our current very difficult relations where they are now,” Suga told reporters after a telephone call with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in.

“Cooperation between Japan and South Korea, as well as between Japan, the United States and South Korea, is crucial to deal with North Korea and other issues.”

Japan would “continue to firmly seek appropriate action from South Korea,” he said. He did not elaborate.

 

This North Korea:

South Korea on Thursday accused North Korea of firing at a South Korean government official and burning his body and urged the North to punish those responsible.

The man was a government official who disappeared Monday from a South Korean ship that was checking on potential unauthorized fishing near the inter-Korean sea boundary where several inter-Korean naval skirmishes and deadly attacks blamed on North Korea have occurred.

 

Where Is the Virtue-Signalling For This?

Normally, there would be a cacophony of manufactured outrage over this:

An Associated Press investigation found many like Jum in Malaysia and neighboring Indonesia – an invisible workforce consisting of millions of laborers from some of the poorest corners of Asia, many of them enduring various forms of exploitation, with the most serious abuses including child labor, outright slavery and allegations of rape. Together, the two countries produce about 85 percent of the world’s estimated $65 billion palm oil supply.

There should be outrage over this.

 

Anything American Is Wicked and Heathenish

 ... according to an MP no one cares about:

I’m getting so tired of the self-appointed America Police in this country, constantly bitching out anyone who does or says anything that reminds them of America in any way. https://t.co/cEulBxz0ok

— J.J. McCullough (@JJ_McCullough) September 23, 2020

 

Calling someone or something "American" (in this case, an affluent white liberal calling a conservative black MP) is a grave insult in a country so emotionally stunted that it regards personal liberty, even the liberty to defend one's self, as intolerably foreign and unnatural.

The Second World War Ended Seventy-Five Years Ago

Yes:

The project to purchase pistols to replace the Canadian military’s Second World War-era handguns is once again underway and National Defence hopes to have the new weapons by the summer of 2022.

The project had been stalled for years after small arms firms rejected in 2011 the federal government requirement that the guns be built at Colt Canada in Kitchener, Ont. In addition, the companies balked at the stipulation they had to turn over their proprietary firearms information to Colt, a firm that some saw as a competitor.

But with small arms companies reluctant to bid on the Canadian pistol project, the federal government has had no choice but to drop those requirements and have an open competition.

A request for bids will now be issued in early 2021, DND spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande confirmed to this newspaper.

She said a “minimum of 9,000” handguns will be purchased. “These are mainly intended for the Canadian Army, and will be issued as required,” she added.

 

 

It's Just a Household Budget

How many vegetables can be bought with CERB?:

According to researchers at Dalhousie University, the Atlantic provinces are experiencing significant increases in food costs that are outstripping the rest of Canada, and New Brunswick may be the worst off.

Sylvain Charlebois, a professor at Dalhousie University and director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, looked at numbers from Statistics Canada and found that over the past 20 years, the cost of food has risen faster than the cost of products and services that make up the consumer price index.

And nowhere more so than in New Brunswick.

Charlebois said the problem is New Brunswick's "food comes from far away and logistical costs are really a problem."

 

But not carbon or other taxes or unemployment or anything?

 

 

 

The Supreme Court to Rule in the Government's Favour Later On

The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment on the national carbon tax Wednesday.

After two days of hearings and presentations from more than two dozen interested parties, the court adjourned without yet deciding whether the carbon price is constitutional.

A decision could take several more months.

 

 

But the Liquor Stores Were Kept Open

Because priorities:

The glaring shortcomings in Quebec’s long-term care homes were repeatedly flagged to authorities long before the novel coronavirus pandemic ravaged CHSLDs, the province’s ombudsman said Thursday.

Marie Rinfret pointed to several flaws in her annual report, saying the provincial government has failed to implement solutions to address longstanding failures in the eldercare system.

“Understaffing, employee burnout, lack of qualified workers and dilapidated premises — these problems, among others, gushed to the surface, if not to say exploded,” she wrote.

“And yet, the appalling state of long-term care resources that this picture paints has been repeatedly condemned for decades.”