The story so far ...
Jagmeet Singh is elected in a province where most people would vote for any lunatic:
Now Justin will just find a way to buy his way back into his dad's office.
From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:
These negotiations:
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Also - stop digging a hole for yourself, Buttsy:
Convicted and unrepentant terrorist wants the legal system to terminate his eight year sentence for war crimes:
Maybe because Omar has you stymy things for him.
In 2015, Justin declared that Yazidi children running from rape gangs needed parkas:
More government just doesn't work:
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Let them fight:
US President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean tyrant, Kim Jong-Un, in what is sure to be another fruitless summit that will result in Kim keeping his weapons and his people under his rule. While Kim is romanticised by not only by the press but even the American diplomats sent to deal with him (and whose own policies seem to change with whatever narrative is running that day), the other side does not feel so blissful:
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(Sidebar: because he is pro-North Korea?)
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(Paws up and kamsahamnida)
Jagmeet Singh is elected in a province where most people would vote for any lunatic:
Jagmeet Singh tightened his shaky grip on the reins of the NDP Monday by winning a do-or-die federal byelection in British Columbia.
But the challenge he now faces in reviving the party’s flagging fortunes in time for this fall’s national election was underscored by the NDP’s simultaneous loss to the Liberals in Outremont, the Montreal riding that served as a launching pad for the orange wave that swept Quebec in 2011.
With most polls reporting, Singh captured Burnaby South with more than 38 per cent of the vote, ahead of the Liberal contender with 26 per cent and the Conservative with 22 per cent.
Had he lost, Singh would almost certainly have faced demands to resign as leader. Going into Monday’s byelection, many New Democrats — including Singh’s predecessor, Tom Mulcair — had questioned how Singh could lead the party in the October federal election if he couldn’t win a seat for himself.
Now Justin will just find a way to buy his way back into his dad's office.
From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:
The PM has said that his former attorney general can speak but he will limit what she can say.
Despite negotiations throughout Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided it is better to silence his former attorney general than allow her to speak.
These negotiations:
Turpel-Lafond, who currently practises law and teaches in Victoria, expressed serious doubts about the government’s claim — articulated by Wilson-Raybould’s successor, David Lametti, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick and Liberal MPs — that officials are permitted to hold robust discussions with an attorney general under the so-called Shawcross Doctrine.
“I think that’s a fairly flimsy foundation as a lawful authority,” Turpel-Lafond said.
And she cast doubt on Lametti’s and Wernick’s assertions that the decision to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin is one that still remains open to the attorney general, even with the preliminary inquiry underway.
She said there should be a “full” airing of what was said to Wilson-Raybould, adding it would be something she’d expect the RCMP’s sensitive investigations or “integrity” section would already be looking into.
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“The internal briefing note, released
under the Access to Information Act, says the PMO directed Public
Service and Procurement Canada to consult the public in 2017 on both the
overall integrity regime and the possibility of introducing formal
alternatives to prosecuting financial crimes.
Early last year, following the
consultation, the government passed legislation to create what is known
as a remediation agreement — a means of having a corporation accused
of wrongdoing make amends without facing the potentially devastating
consequences of a criminal conviction.
As a result of a second thread of the
consultation, the government is also proposing to soften the penalty
scheme for companies involved in wrongdoing by changing the process for
determining how long an offending firm should be barred from getting
federal contracts.”
Also - stop digging a hole for yourself, Buttsy:
Funny thing: While Butts readily accepted responsibility for his role in the SNC-Lavalin affair, and sought to remedy the situation by resigning, he has appeared determined to dodge any personal responsibility for past screw-ups that have left Canadians with far bigger and longer-lasting concerns.
Convicted and unrepentant terrorist wants the legal system to terminate his eight year sentence for war crimes:
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is asking an Alberta court to declare his eight-year sentence for war crimes to have expired.
The sentence, which was imposed in 2010 by a military commission in the United States, would have ended last October had Khadr remained in custody.
But the clock stopped ticking when an Alberta judge freed him on bail in May 2015 pending Khadr’s appeal of his military conviction — a years-long process that has no end in sight.
His lawyer, Nate Whitling, has told a judge in Edmonton that Khadr had served three years and five months of his eight-year sentence when he was granted bail.
Whitling noted his client has since been on bail for three years and nine months.
The lawyer said the appeal, in the meantime, hasn’t advanced “even an inch” in the U.S.
Maybe because Omar has you stymy things for him.
In 2015, Justin declared that Yazidi children running from rape gangs needed parkas:
Marwa Khedr was only 10 years old.
She was pregnant. The victim of countless rapes by fanatical Islamic State jihadis.
Her whereabouts are unknown.
“There are a lot of girls like her,” Ziad Avdal, a former teacher who runs safe houses for Yazidis escaping ISIS, told the Daily Mail.
“It is not just terrible that she is pregnant — these young girls may have been raped by 100 men before they become pregnant.”
More government just doesn't work:
Ontario is consolidating its local and provincial health networks to create a central agency as part of a system overhaul, the health minister announced Tuesday, though she wouldn’t say if the move will save money or lead to job losses.
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Under the previous Liberal government, the base budget for autism funding sat at $256 million a year; under the current PC government, it is $321 million a year but distributed differently.
That is what has some people outraged.
The previous regime saw most of the money go to one small group of families, the rest had to wait.
Some waited for years with no chance of getting services.
In question period at Queen’s Park on Monday, MacLeod quoted a parent named Alastair who reached out to her.
“I don’t think people understand how bad the autism wait-list currently is. Our son is eight, he’s 853 on the waiting list. The wait-list is moving at about 80 kids a year. Meaning he would age out at 18 and never get service,” Alastair wrote.
Parents that I have spoken with tell me of their frustrations with the current system, the one MacLeod wants to change.
Often they were limited in the therapies they could choose for their children. While advocates opposed to the changes say that each child is different, MacLeod’s changes will give parents greater choice in picking the therapies or assistance that is best for their children.
Of course, even that has gotten the minister in hot water.
After saying that parents could choose a technological aid, like an iPad, the story became that MacLeod wanted to just give kids iPads, which is not what she said.
Let them fight:
A pre-dawn airstrike inside Pakistan that India said targeted a terrorist training camp and killed a “very large number” of militants ratcheted up tensions on Tuesday between the two nuclear-armed rivals at odds over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
US President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean tyrant, Kim Jong-Un, in what is sure to be another fruitless summit that will result in Kim keeping his weapons and his people under his rule. While Kim is romanticised by not only by the press but even the American diplomats sent to deal with him (and whose own policies seem to change with whatever narrative is running that day), the other side does not feel so blissful:
North Korea’s state media criticized U.S. Democrats and American intelligence officials on Sunday for “chilling the atmosphere” ahead of leader Kim Jong Un’s second summit with President Donald Trump this week. ...
KCNA later issued a commentary arguing that if Trump listened to skeptics at home, he could face a “shattered dream” and “miss the rare historic opportunity” to improve relations with North Korea.
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Once the war is declared over, of course the doors are open to all sorts of other changes. North Korea could quite rightly demand the dismantling of the UN Command that still keeps peace at the border, or the scrapping of the Northern Limit Line, which has served as a buffer against more potential invasions by the North. In such a situation, the last thing South Korea can afford is to stand aside deliberately while the U.S. and North Korea discuss its fate. And what will happen when an actual peace treaty is discussed? Where will Seoul be then?
Even until recently Cheong Wa Dae was singing quite a different tune. The presidential office kept Moon's itinerary flexible so he could rush to join the signing of any declaration ending the war. It was China's participation that was a point of debate. What on earth has happened?
It would be a national shame for Seoul to be absent from the signing of the declaration. Yet on the same day the president thundered, "We are the masters of the Korean Peninsula's destiny," his spokesman said Seoul really does not need to play any part. How can Moon possibly contemplate giving more money to the North without even being part of the declaration? The government urgently needs to get its act together.
(Sidebar: because he is pro-North Korea?)
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Only North Koreans can dismantle nuclear and missile facilities in North Korea, not international experts, according to President Moon Jae-in's security adviser, Moon Chung-in.
Moon said Washington should offer some substantial concessions beyond opening a liaison office in Pyongyang to make the upcoming second Washington-Pyongyang summit successful.
He made the remarks in an interview with Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun.
That sounds like one is setting the summit up for failure. Kim will never willingly give up anything. No wonder Moon wants to be a no-show at the proposed end of the Korean War. It simply won't happen.
Fun true fact: North Korea previously pledged denuclearization in 1985, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2017. Each pledge was a lie. If you believe any new promise Kim makes this week, I have five failed casinos in Atlantic City to sell you.— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) February 25, 2019
(Paws up and kamsahamnida)
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