Now just in - Alex Trebek:
Alex Trebek, the host of syndicated game show Jeopardy! since 1984, has passed away from pancreatic cancer Sunday, according to various media outlets. He was 80-years-old.
What will the popular press do when it has to walk back on its declaring Biden king?:
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s lead over President Donald Trump in Arizona lessened on Saturday after the reporting of some ballots from several counties.
Biden led by nearly 44,000 votes on Friday morning but had seen his lead dwindle by nearly 10,000 early Nov. 8.
By Saturday night, the lead was down to 18,610, according to unofficial results from Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’s website.
Biden now leads with 49.5 percent of the vote, compared to Trump’s 48.9 percent.
Libertarian Jo Jorgensen has over 49,000 votes as of the latest count, equal to 1.5 percent.
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A Georgia county is rescanning ballots due to an issue related to reporting on the vote-counting conducted on Nov. 6, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
A monitor and investigators are on-site at State Farm Arena in Fulton County, Raffensperger wrote on Twitter on Nov. 7.
“Fulton has discovered an issue involving reporting from their work on Fri. Officials are at State Farm Arena to rescan that work. I have a monitor & investigators onsite. Also sent Dep. SOS as well to oversee the process to make sure to secure the vote and protect all legal votes,” Raffensperger said.
Raffensperger’s office did not respond to a request for more details about the issue.
Somewhat related -
Vote-rigging:
You never get a 98% or 99% turnout in an honest election. You just don't.
Voting is compulsory in Gabon, but it is not enforced; even in Australia where it is enforced, where you can vote by post or online and can be fined for not voting, turnout only reaches 90-95%.
The main reason that a full turnout is practically impossible is that electoral registers, even if they are recently compiled, can rarely be 100% up-to-date.
Even if no-one gets sick or has to travel, people still die. And when a register is updated, new voters are keen to add themselves to the list.
No-one, however, has any great enthusiasm for removing the names of those who have died, and over time the number of these non-existent voters increases.
(Merci)
Vaguely related -
The Speaker of the Senate yesterday banned pandemic masks with slogans. A Manitoba senator was ordered to remove a “Vote 16” mask that promoted amendments to the Canada Elections Act: “This is a new situation. for us.”
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A taxpayer-funded Canadian Muslim Voting Guide published in 2019 by Wilfrid Laurier University breached federal law, says Elections Commissioner Yves Côté. The Guide that criticized opposition MPs carried a government logo and indicated it was funded by a federal agency: “The Commissioner has determined a violation was committed.”
No, a Biden presidency would not mean stability for Canada. It would mean protectionism. No lumber sales, no pipelines. Further decline for Canada.
It would also mean a reversal of what made the United States economically stable:
President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.
Like increasing poverty, for example.
In other news:
Cabinet will impose limits on record deficit spending though details cannot be disclosed, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland last night told the Commons. “I am not hiding anything,” said Freeland.
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The Commons public accounts committee yesterday passed a Conservative motion ordering a 35 percent increase in the budget for federal audits. The Office of the Auditor General for years complained it was so short of funding it delayed investigation of misspending: “The Auditor General’s work is extremely important.”
There is that transparency they promised everyone.
The timeline for how a convicted criminal will police the Internet:
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has told the Wire Report (sub req) that he expects Bill C-10, his Internet regulation bill, to pass through the House and Senate by early 2021 and for the CRTC to establish the regulatory specifics within nine months so that the system is in place by the end of next year. Guilbeault says that he isn’t concerned that the process could drag out for years and create significant industry uncertainty, indicating that “I think this is a really high profile issue. I’m not sure that these companies want to bear the public scrutiny of…trying to delay and delay the implementation of this.”
I'm sure that this is nothing to be concerned with:
The Canadian Forces is looking to set up a new propaganda arm to try to influence the behaviour of people in this country.
Unnecessary, really, because Canadians are stupid enough to believe anything.
Subsidising political parties is an enormous mistake.
UCP MLA Peter Singh has put forward Private Member’s Bill 205, the Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month Act, which establishes April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month.
The bill would acknowledge the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian Holodomor, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Srebrenica massacre, the Yazidi genocide, and the Rohingya genocide,
Alberta’s New Democrats, though, say that the bill falls short, and are demanding that Canada be put on the list for its treatment of Indigenous peoples.
This bit of virtue-signalling and inflammatory suggestion that Canada is participating in a slow-moving genocide of one of its biggest guilt industries serve to show that we get the useless governments we elect.
Another reason not to shop at Whole Foods:
Canada’s veterans affairs minister Tweeted Friday that Whole Foods would be allowing its Canadian employees to wear poppies at work, after a move to initially stop the practice received criticism and prompted motions from politicians across the country.
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