Monday, December 21, 2020

And the Rest of It ...

 Is there really racism in Canadian Chinese army ranks?:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says one of the top priorities for the next commander of the Canadian Armed Forces will be tackling systemic racism and rooting extremism from the ranks.

 

Those Chinese people really don't like black people (or black faces).

I hope that sort of extremism is stamped out in Justin's new shock troops.

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Wow, people really have this coronavirus under control: 

The Public Health Agency in an internal memo recommended nurses wear aprons due to a shortage of medical gowns. The Agency shipped date-expired gowns to provinces after failing to stock up: “Health care workers could consider wearing an apron.”

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More like - "Is it free of charge?":

Nine out of ten Prince Edward Islanders would take the Covid-19 vaccine if they could get it, but only two-thirds of Manitobans are willing. Statistics Canada yesterday documented a range of Canadians who said they were “very likely or somewhat likely” to get a shot: “Anti-vaccine sentiment is a challenge.”

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Because that worked out so well in an election so riddled with fraud that it can be seen from the purported star over Bethlehem:

Dozens of Elections Canada employees have been working all summer to figure out how it would collect and count millions of the mail-in ballots it expects to have to process if — or when — Canada holds a general election during a time of pandemic.

At stake: the very integrity of a Canadian general election could depend on how well a mail-in-ballot system would work.

“Canadian electors and stakeholders are heavily influenced by news coverage from the United States and it will be important to distinguish between Canada’s electoral system and the integrity safeguards built into it versus that of the United States,” according to a late spring memo prepared by the agency’s communications division, one of 600 pages of internal memos, e-mails, and presenation decks reviewed by Global News.

In other general elections, Elections Canada might have to deal with about 50,000 mail-in ballots among 18 million or so ballots cast in a general election. But now, faced with an expected four or even five million mail-in ballots, Elections Canada was facing a complete re-do of some of its most basic processes: Issuing ballots, receiving ballots and counting ballots.

“This is expected to be the single largest transformative effort in the agency’s history,” said a slide in a deck for a meeting of Elections Canada officials in May.

At one point, the task seemed so daunting that a mid-level manager at the agency suggested to a colleague that maybe Elections Canada should ease up a little on any proposed ad campaign to get Canadians to use mail-in-ballots for fear the agency’s systems would be swamped.

 

Canadians will get used to pretty much anything. People without critical thinking skill often do.

But not this. 

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Top of their game:

A new report from an independent police watchdog reveals that the April 19 fatal shooting of the Nova Scotia mass killer occurred after two RCMP officers happened to pull up at a gas pump next to the gunman’s vehicle.
 

He probably wasn't wearing a mask. 

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Oh, shut up, MP Girl Name!:

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole says Indigenous reconciliation is a priority for him and he regrets injecting partisanship into a conversation about residential schools when speaking recently to young party members at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

“I was a little too flippant and partisan on an issue that is very, very important and a sad chapter in our history,” O’Toole said. “On a sensitive topic like that, you have to show thoughtfulness.”

 

You mean troll for votes.

 

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