Mid-Week Post

Your mid-week spot of laughter ...

 

 

Not at all caring that paid malcontents are ruining (one is past disruption at this point), Justin goes the extra mile just to be a pi$$y little girl:

 

In a forceful response to Trudeau, Scheer said the prime minister's reluctance to use the police to stop the illegal blockades was akin to appeasement, a stance that privileges activists over "hard-working Canadians" and Indigenous people who support development.

Trudeau held a meeting with opposition leaders later Tuesday but didn't extend an invitation to Scheer. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Trudeau said Scheer's speech signalled he isn't willing to cooperate.

"Mr. Scheer disqualified himself from constructive discussions with his unacceptable speech earlier today," Trudeau said.

He's the official opposition, you wimpy little f@g. You can't cut him out of any discussion simply because you don't like what he has to say (and what he has to say is what everyone is already saying).

 

Are you scared of the Jello-Man?

 

 

Also - uh-oh! Quebec is getting involved. Will PM Blackface care now?:

 

Quebec’s premier says he wants Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to issue an ultimatum to protesters to take down within days blockades that have disrupted rail and road traffic across the country.

 

Francois Legault says that if a federal deadline is not respected, co-ordinated police action could be necessary to restore transportation links and end what he calls an illegal action threatening people’s jobs.

 Is there no money in this for you?:

The letter said the ministers understand many of the chiefs may not be available in Smithers, and the ministers commit to returning when they will be there.

Na'moks, one of five hereditary clan chiefs who lead the First Nation under the traditional form of governance, said the other four were heading to Mohawk territory Wednesday to thank members of the First Nation for their solidarity, while he attends a funeral.

They remain unwilling to meet with the ministers until the RCMP and pipeline builder Coastal GasLink pull out of the traditional territory, he said.

 

 

No, Canadians are reaping what the sowed in the racist groper:

 

His rhetoric in opposition about moving Canada beyond fossil fuels and to, in effect, grant Indigenous Canadians a veto on pipelines as a measure of nation-to-nation respect, has crashed  into the reality that without fossil fuels, the Canadian economy is taking an enormous hit, well underway in Western Canada.

That, my good sir, is the point.

Who votes for someone whose shoelaces are smarter than they are?

 

 

The knives are out.

No, really:

 

Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Otsi Simon took part in a news conference in Ottawa Tuesday morning, alongside the Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde and other First Nations chiefs.

 

At the news conference, Simon said he was "pleading with the protesters" to bring down the blockades that were set up as an act of solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs in B.C. who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline project running through their traditional territory.

A blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ont., has shut down CN Rail in eastern Canada, and a blockade in Kahnawake, Kanesatake's sister community on Montreal's South Shore, has interrupted Canadian Pacific services that run through the territory.

"Have you made your point yet? Has the government and industry understood? I think they did," Simon said. ...

 

Simon made similar comments Monday evening on local radio in his home community, which prompted half a dozen people in Kanesatake to show up at the band council office Tuesday morning, where they padlocked the door and lit a bonfire outside.

They held up signs that questioned Simon's authority.

"Serge Simon you are not the voice of Kanehsatà:ke," one sign read.

"Solidarity with hereditary chiefs of  Wet'suwet'en," read another.

What's wrong with all of this? Is it the foreign-funded malcontent? The fact that there is no "First Nations" anything? Is it the absurd idea of "hereditary" chiefs"?

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As the sun rose on budget day in British Columbia, a cadre of activists visited the home of Premier John Horgan, who lives on a quiet dead-end street in Victoria’s suburbs. 

Around a dozen Extinction Rebellion sorts — videos posted on social media showed some middle-aged climate activists — one sporting muttonchops that would put a Civil War general to shame — had set out to block the premier’s driveway. Earlier, Extinction Rebellion’s Vancouver Island chapter said they wanted a “citizen’s arrest” that would disrupt the provincial budget.

There were arrests. Just not by civilians.

At least two protesters who were lying down on Horgan’s driveway were cuffed by the RCMP. Horgan wasn’t at home when the demonstrators showed up, though he came back and, according to one of the activists, lost his temper and cussed them out.

But isn't that unceded land, John?

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Toronto police were called to the home of Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Tuesday because of a suspicious package, the premier's office says.

"At this time, I can confirm the Toronto Police Services were called to the Premier's home today to investigate a suspicious package," Ivana Yelich, spokesperson for Doug, said in an email to CBC Toronto.

The package was sent in the mail and was received by his wife, Karla, Yelich said. She is said to be safe.

"The TPS quickly mobilized to assess the situation and cleared the family of any harm," Yelich said.

"The substance was determined to be a mixture of non-toxic materials," she added.

 

 

It's just an economy:

 

Canadian manufacturing sales unexpectedly sank in December, a disappointing end to an already weak year for the sector.

Factory shipments were down 0.7 per cent from November, the fourth straight monthly decline for the indicator, driven by a sharp drop in motor vehicle sales, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday in Ottawa. Economists had predicted sales would rebound by 0.7 per cent.

Economists had thought December would be a stronger month for factories, particularly after trade data showed a jump in exports in the month following the end to the CN Rail strike in November. The data, which also showed falling new orders, will reinforce expectations the Canadian economy stalled in the final quarter of 2019.

The weak December reading was driven by a 6.8 per cent drop in motor vehicle shipments, along with a 16 per cent decline in aerospace products. Sales were down in 11 of 21 industries, representing 43 per cent of the Canadian manufacturing sector.

In volume terms, sales were down 0.4 per cent.

For all of 2019, sales increased 0.5 per cent, down from 5.4 per cent in 2018 and 6 per cent in 2017.

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The ultimate cost will depend on the duration of the shutdown, and we have plenty of recent evidence to make an early assessment,” Porter said in a note over the weekend. “The November CN strike, which lasted more than a week, ended up carving less than 0.1 ppts from GDP that month. However, this shutdown threatens to be more open-ended, with the situation ‘fluid’.”

  While analysts grapple with the economic fallout, some manufacturers are estimating that the daily rail stoppages is weighing down their revenues.

This morning in Toronto, business executives including Curtis Frank, president and chief operating officer of Maple Leaf Foods, and Ian Anderson, President of CKF Inc. will detail at a press conference that “every day the rail stoppages continue, $850 million worth of manufactured goods are sitting idle.”

 

 

In 2013, Justin swore his undying love to China and everyone laughed it off:

 

A man’s request for government records has been denied after he was branded “vexatious” in a ruling that is troubling freedom of information advocates.

There are fears government departments could use the “vexatious” label — introduced by the Liberals in the last parliament — as a tactic to prevent the public’s right to know.

“Any loophole put in the law is there for the government to hide something that people have the right to know,” said Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, a government accountability group.

The high-profile Mark Norman trial highlighted how the government can abuse the access to information law. Lawyers for the vice-admiral, who were defending him on a charge of breach of trust, said they were obstructed from finding all the government records they requested.

A witness alleged the Department of National Defence deliberately did not use Norman’s name in internal files to keep records from being revealed publicly. The witness testified his superior told him: “Don’t worry, this isn’t our first rodeo. We made sure we never used his name.”

 

 

 

 

 

If you can't kill them off, rent off their homes:

 

Mayor John Tory, appearing on a paid real estate infomercial on his old radio station Sunday, said that baby boomers have to “open their minds” to the idea of creating and renting out duplexes or secondary suites in their homes to make life in Toronto more affordable.

Let's not address the baby boomers' crapulence or Toronto's needlessly sky-high cost-of living. 

No kidding:

 

 

 

 

Wow, people have really handled this coronavirus thing really well:

Hundreds of passengers trundled off a cruise ship in Japan on Wednesday after being held on board in quarantine for more than two weeks, as criticism mounted of Japan’s handling of the biggest coronavirus outbreak outside China.