Mid-Week Post

 

Your mid-week fish fry ...




All Justin has to do is point out how many pipelines were built, how many Canada-friendly trade deals he has made, how many private sector jobs there are and how Canada is taken seriously on the world stage and how he made all of that possible.

But no:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used Ontario Premier Doug Ford as a boogeyman in a rallying speech to Liberal candidates in Ottawa on Wednesday morning that will likely set the tone for the coming election campaign.

I don't recall Doug Ford embarrassing the nation in India.

Does anyone else?

Miss "Sunny Ways" needs to vilify anyone in one of the two provinces that truly hold any power in Canada because his experience as a snowboard instructor has left him woefully unprepared for the mantle of true leadership.

That's a lot of apologising for something that supposedly never happened:

Liberals have quashed a move to publicly investigate allegations the Prime Minister’s Office tried to “muzzle” two former ambassadors to China, even as Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was making private efforts to apologize.

Controversy has been swirling around whether the government improperly pressured David Mulroney and Guy Saint-Jacques, now private citizens, over what they could say publicly about a deteriorating Canada-China relationship. Their comments have not always been uncontroversial — Mulroney recently recommended, for example, that Canadians avoid non-essential travel to China.

None of this would be necessary if China wasn't a global octopus that smuggled people into countries or oppressed the masses or stole industrial secrets or infiltrated universities:

Look out for colleagues rummaging through others’ desks.

Beware spies who could exploit your divided national loyalties, greed or ego.

And monitor foreign visitors at all times, especially last-minute additions to tour groups.

These are among the tips outlined in an extraordinary manual drafted by the FBI for universities and other research facilities in the U.S., warning about the threat of economic and scientific espionage by China — and advising how to combat it.

As Canada grapples with how to counter Beijing’s meddling here, the American document — called China: The Risk to Academia — recommends a level of alertness that seems almost a throwback to Cold War days.

And it is aimed at a milieu — university and college campuses — where academic freedom and openness are sacrosanct, and government interference usually spurned. Those institutions have also, though, been welcoming tens of thousands of students and scholars from China in recent years.

You can take $600 million but you can't provide one scrap of evidence that this guy is promoting "hate speech" (a term so broad that it is meaningless):

A Saskatchewan People's Party of Canada (PPC) candidate is defending comments in support of the use of "hate speech" he made recently on social media.

Some groups say they fear the comments could incite violence.

"Our country could use more hate speech, more offensive comments, more 'micro-aggressions', more violation of safe spaces with words and more critical thinking," Cody Payant wrote on his Facebook page and Twitter account on July 16. 

"Words are not violence and when we don't have them to debate and articulate our thoughts when communicating, then all we have left is guns," he added.

This cherry-picked screed can be interpreted thusly: a country so brain-washed into thinking that any word disapproved of by the protected oligarchy needs to hear more things that the ruling classes disallow because this country was not founded on tyranny and should not end that way.




Elizabeth Wetllauffer is a serial killer and no amount of money will fix that or prevent future murders from happening.

But I repeat myself:

Ontario must increase funding and staffing at the province's nursing homes to help prevent future serial killers from harming the most vulnerable, the final report into former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer's crimes recommends. 

And nursing homes must limit their use of temp agency nurses and improve how medication is stored and tracked.

It's time to arm Asian countries that aren't China:

North Korea on Wednesday fired several unidentified projectiles off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, less than a week after the North launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a defiance of U.N. resolutions.

Observers say the launches were aimed at ramping up pressure on the United States to make concessions as the two countries are struggling to resume diplomacy on the North’s nuclear weapons program.

India rules that the Islamic quicky divorce is no longer legal:

Muslim men instantly divorcing their wives without explanation has been made illegal in India.

The parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, with 303 for and 82 against, drawing accusations of government interference in a community matter.

It makes “triple talaq” — in which a husband can annul a marriage by saying the Arabic word for divorce three times — punishable by three years in prison.