Friday Post

Quite a bit happening ...




The driver of a truck believed to have caused the deaths of a local hockey team and their supporters faces twenty-nine charges:

The 29 criminal charges laid against the semi driver in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash can’t change what happened on April 6 but they are an important part of the ongoing healing process, says the father of a Broncos player who died in the collision.

On Friday, three months to the day after the Broncos bus tragedy, RCMP announced that Jaskirat Sidhu, a 29-year-old man from Calgary, has been charged with 16 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and 13 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm. Sidhu was arrested Friday without incident at his residence in Calgary. He was remanded and is scheduled to appear next week in Saskatchewan court; the specific location has not been finalized, RCMP said.

Charges are dismissed against a man accused of molesting girls at the West Edmonton Mall:

Soleiman Hajj Soleiman was arrested in February 2017 after several teenagers reported being touched by a man in the West Edmonton Mall waterpark. All charges against him, six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child, were dropped in a provincial court ruling Friday morning.

Justice Joyce Lester said that while something did happen at the pool, there was not enough reliable evidence to convict Soleiman.

(Sidebar: this Joyce Lester.)

This is what happens when judges are appointed and not elected.




No doubt still furious that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has refused to pay for the masses of unvetted migrants allowed in by the federal government, unrepentant groper prime minister Justin Trudeau takes a familiar line and repeats it:

Hours after he met with a premier who campaigned successfully on a populist platform, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told supporters he wouldn't let a worldwide trend of populism get in the way of his 2019 campaign.

(Sidebar: populism is defined as being a champion of the people as opposed to the elite. Is Justin saying that he is the latter? He certainly behaves that way.) 

At a rally in Brampton, Ont., Thursday evening, Trudeau was greeted with smiles, applause, and a lineup for selfies — a decidedly different atmosphere than his meeting earlier in the day with Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

There are no selfies with Yazidi rape victims.

The two leaders met at the Ontario legislature at Queen's Park, where they clashed on issues including asylum seekers and carbon pricing.

The prime minister said after the meeting that he outlined Canada's refugee obligations to Ford, and also promised that a carbon price will be imposed on Ontario and residents of the province will receive the proceeds.

(Sidebar:  about that Justin, even the Canadian government's website claims that not having a protected status in the US is not grounds for claiming refugee status. The muzzling of CBSA agents, the fraud, the retention of citizenship for known terrorists and the gross inefficiencies aside, I suggest that you didn't and couldn't explain anything to Ford other than how you plan on extorting him with the carbon tax you know g-d- well will be scrapped in no time.)

Ford's office said Thursday that Trudeau's government is responsible for what it called a migrant "mess" by encouraging asylum seekers to cross the border into Canada.

(Sidebar: this tweet.)

In Brampton, the prime minister told supporters that the federal Conservative Party has been "emboldened" by campaigns elsewhere in the world that "divide" people against each other, but that negative campaigning coupled with nationalism and populism isn't a positive for Canada.

(Sidebar: would this be the hatred of Alberta, the denial that Canada has any core identity, rewarding an unrepentant terrorist, the baffling antipathy towards veterans and special-needs children, the comparison of Mediterranean immigrants with known ISIS rapists and the general scumminess you have exuded since being alive that isn't "positive" for Canada, the airport you ignore for China's "basic dictatorship"?)

"I'm looking forward to putting our vision of an inclusive Canada up against our opponent," said Trudeau.

(Sidebar: what opponent would that be, Justin?)

"Differences are a source of strength, never a source of weakness. That is what our advantage is as Canadians."

(Sidebar: because no other country has ethnic diversity and certainly no other party uses it as well as you do, you divisive grabby-Sam.) 

Speaking of carbon taxes:

Ontario residents, and not the newly elected Progressive Conservative government, will receive the proceeds of a carbon price imposed on the province by the federal government, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.

Trudeau made the comments moments after he met with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has already begun the process of scrapping the province's cap-and-trade system — in defiance of Ottawa's insistence that all provinces put a price on greenhouse gas emissions.

The federal government has said it will "backstop" any province that doesn't have a system in place, and has told provinces they must have submitted details of a carbon pricing plan by Sept. 1. But Ottawa has for months hinted it could return hundreds of millions in revenues it will raise directly to taxpayers, and not to governments that oppose its plan.

"Obviously, it's better if we can work collaboratively with the provinces," Trudeau said Thursday.

That's extortion, @$$hole, and it won't work.

Carbon is not a pollutant and the tax is not "revenue-neutral" nor is it equitable. It is a way to line governmental coffers with money under the guise of conserving the environment. The taxes collected by Wynne's government went to bolster its massive "green" energy programs with "smart thermostats" and "green" housing retrofits. These are no more much-needed social programs than switching to light brand cigarettes is quitting smoking.




If Trump was serious about de-fanging China's lap dog, North Korea, it would raise those tariffs a little higher:

A U.S.-China trade fight resulting in duties on $34 billion worth of each other's imports was seen dragging on for a potentially prolonged period, as Washington and Beijing flexed their muscles with no sign of negotiations to ease tensions.

Friday marked the start of the U.S. duties that were promptly met with retribution by China, as Beijing accused the United States of triggering the "largest-scale trade war."

From the same party that hates Trump's "unfair" immigration policies:

Otto Frank wrote in his 1941 letter to his friend Nathan Straus that he had filed an application at the American consulate in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam in 1938.

However, he also mentioned that “all the papers have been destroyed there,” because on May 14, 1940, while the Frank family was still on a waiting list for possible visas, the American consulate was devastated during German bombardment and all papers were lost.

Even without the loss of their visa application, it would have been difficult for the Franks to immigrate to the United States. With hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge in the U.S. each year by the time war broke out in 1939, Washington was issuing fewer than 30,000 annual visas.

(Paws up)