The WE scandal is one that keeps on giving.
Had Canada been a normal country, heads would actually roll.
But ....
Here is a link dump:
What Does WE Charity Actually Do?
(Sidebar: who knows? There are a lot of real estate deals that certainly aren't normal for a charity that is supposed to "empower" but not seem to do much else. Rather like "voluntourism" where one can see upper-middle-class white sanctimony from outer space but no actual work to improve the lives of the impoverished and marginalised. But it was never about doing, only seeming. That's the Canadian way!)
Journalist paints different picture of WE for MPs
WE Charity pitch to Morneau’s office prior to Trudeau announcement included student service
'DEEPLY REVOLTED': Liberal Party MP speaks out anonymously about Trudeau's corruption
(Sidebar: what could be more revolting than Trudeau and his equally pansy-ish lackeys like MP Chris Biddle?)
Trudeau and chief of staff to testify on WE controversy Thursday
(Sidebar: this ought to be fun to watch.)
Silly Canadians! Do you really think that you deserve answers?:
Newly released court documents say witnesses told the RCMP that the gunman who carried out the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia smuggled drugs and guns from Maine for years and had secret compartments inside several of his properties.
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Protesters gathered at two Nova Scotia locations Monday as family members of mass shooting victims vowed to maintain pressure on Ottawa and the province to hold a full public inquiry into the rampage.
Now, vote Liberal as you are told.
What do we need China for anyway?:
On Sunday July 5, five days after China enacted a new national security law in Hong Kong, Yang Xiaolan and three dozen Falun Gong members stood upright in a public park, their arms outstretched above their closed eyes as their meditation soundtrack blended with birdsong.The spiritual group was banned in mainland China in 1999 but its members have been allowed to practice in Hong Kong freely, even though the group urges people to renounce the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Yang said she no longer feels safe in the city after the security law made the broadly defined crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison.
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Lawyers for a Huawei executive facing possible extradition to the United States are disputing the Canadian government’s claim that it can’t release some documents in the case because it would compromise national security.
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China’s massive Three Gorges Dam project on the upper Yangtze River is at risk. If that dam breaks, the resulting flooding would be a catastrophe of world-historical proportions. Hundreds of millions of people live along the lower Yangtze River. And the catastrophe wouldn’t simply be confined to China. The lower Yangtze is China’s commercial and industrial heartland — which means it is perhaps the world’s most important economic region. If it is swept away by a torrent, it could easily crater the already weak world economy.
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The Department of Public Works says it does not know if billions’ worth of masks and other pandemic supplies contracted in China are made by slave labour. MPs yesterday called the admission shocking: “Canadians deserve to know if their government is financially supporting forced labour."
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China is stepping up military preparedness to overtake Taiwan, the island's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Wednesday, following a recent spike of Chinese drills near the island which Beijing considers its own.
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China's first domestically built icebreaker left this month for its first trip to the Arctic, a few days after President Donald Trump said the US was pursuing as many as 10 new icebreakers of its own, underscoring the growing interest major powers have in being able to access the region.
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While the U.S. government has spoken out against the “political re-education” camps in Xinjiang for a couple of years — imposing some visa restrictions in 2019 — and although knowledge of the camps has been commonplace outside of China for three years, minimal concrete action followed. But the tide started to shift this summer, as Beijing subjected itself to increased scrutiny with an increasingly assertive coronavirus-era grand strategy. The U.N.’s human-rights mechanisms started to turn its attention to China — a group of independent experts penned a letter calling for “renewed attention” to be directed to the situation in Xinjiang. A few days later, a top China scholar published a groundbreaking report showing that Uighur birthrates have plummeted in the past year — the result of government policy of forcibly administering birth control to Uighur women, in addition to injecting some with unknown substances that seem to have resulted in sterilization. Many observers have already applied the term “cultural genocide” to the situation in Xinjiang, but the June report added heft to the case for dropping that qualifier. The images circulating this week will add momentum to that push.
The heads of groups of North Korean defectors, along with opposition lawmakers, hold a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul on July 23, 2020, calling for the government to withdraw steps to ban them from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea.
Not only did deaths in nursing homes soar compared to the number in previous years, but people died in their private homes at far higher rates than normal, the research concluded.
At least half, and probably more, of the thousands of excess deaths were due to COVID-19 itself. Many, though, were likely the result of delayed or avoided medical care and other reasons during the lockdown, the paper said.
The findings by scientists from the University of Toronto, Western University and Ontario’s chief coroner’s office are based on detailed provincial data for cremations. Those typically represent more than 70 per cent of the province’s deceased.
Count this among the other failures the government (in which Canadians have an undying faith): the failure to maintain a stockpile of essential protective equipment, the importing of cheaply-made and inferior items from China (that gave us the coronavirus), the failure of the government to assess information (as it was given to them in January) and warn the public, the hiding of information, the failure to remove incompetent and corrupt officials, the mismanagement of welfare (from what funds? Who knows?) and allowing public sector workers to waste necessary public monies by sitting on its collective @$$ and stalling on the national baby-minding service (also known as school).
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Olivia De Havilland and Mr. John Saxon:
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And now, a happy story:
Daisy the St. Bernard dog, all 55 kilograms of her, was hauled down the lower part of England’s near-1,000-metre Scafell Pike at the weekend after getting into difficulty.
Poor Daisy ...
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