A lot going on ...
From the most corrupt government ever re-elected:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet plans to introduce legislation this year that will tamp down on Twitter and Facebook posts that are considered to be hurtful or offensive.
Though hate speech is already forbidden in Canada, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault's office has circulated a briefing note that outlines the Liberal government's intentions.
(Sidebar: Steven Guilbeault is a convicted criminal. He differs from his colleagues only in that they have yet to convicted of something.)
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The $657 million-a year Public Health Agency is hiring private contractors by the hour to manage its pandemic response. The plea for outside help follows the Prime Minister’s boast that Canada was “among the best prepared countries in the world” when Covid struck.
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The Public Health Agency in a briefing note denies blacklisting a federal grant application by a scientist who criticized its work. Professor Amir Attaran of the University of Ottawa’s School of Epidemiology told MPs he was asked to remove his name from a funding request because “I was negative.”
(Sidebar: this Amir Attaran. I say let them fight.)
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday rejected any scheme to require that Canadians prove whether they’ve been vaccinated for Covid-19. The issue is too divisive, he said: “There are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get vaccinated.”
(Sidebar: ... says the pansy who runs on division. Rather, the idea is not yet soaked into the Canadian consciousness. Give it time before the pansy trots it out with resounding applause.)
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A federal proposal to tax “extreme wealth” would raise one million dollars next year, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. It would take more than a decade to see more serious revenues, analysts said: “Revenues generated by this new measure will gradually increase over the next few years.”
Only a million?
If this is not bile-inducing Pierre's worthless little b@$#@rd is threatening to run in some sort of sham election.
He'll be voted out when the Chinese no longer have need of him.
Also - Doug Ford will not be out-Trudeaued:
Ontario’s stay-at-home order came into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 14 and will last for at least 28 days. The directive requires residents to stay home except for essential outings, such as accessing health care, shopping for groceries, or outdoor exercise. The province has said there’s no set definition for what is “essential” because everyone has their own unique circumstances and regional considerations. There’s no limit on how many times people can leave their homes per day, or on how long they can be out.
Premier Doug Ford has urged people to use their “best judgment” in deciding whether to go out. “If you’re not sure if a trip is absolutely essential, it probably isn’t,” Ford said. “So please, you must stay home.”
Why don't you have the intestinal fortitude to shut everything down, Doug?
It's not like these lockdowns help and you know it.
Even your former MPP knows it:
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has kicked York Centre MPP Roman Baber out of the Progressive Conservative caucus for sending an open letter, asking for the province's lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions to end.
In a statement issued Friday morning, Ford called the comments from the two-page letter "irresponsible," saying Baber will not be allowed to seek re-election as a PC member.
And - because of course they can get away with it:
Jesse Moore, millionaire CEO of a company in Africa that received taxpayers’ funding in the name of Third World development, has a six-figure salary and $633,000 in stock options, according to accounts. The federal agency that bought shares in Moore’s company yesterday refused comment: “I could do whatever I wanted to do.”
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The head of Radio-Canada, the French arm of Canada’s public broadcaster, apologized but will not face disciplinary action for spending the month of December in Miami despite public health advice strongly discouraging travel.
“As Canadians were strongly advised to avoid staying abroad, I understand the reaction to my trip. I am sincerely sorry and I apologize to employees and citizens,” Michel Bissonnette said in a French statement sent both to media and to CBC/Radio-Canada employees on Thursday afternoon.
Wow, people really have a handle on this coronavirus:
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says production issues in Europe will temporarily reduce Pfizer-BioNTech’s ability to deliver vaccines to Canada.
Anand says the U.S. drug-maker is temporarily reducing deliveries because of issues with its European production lines.
She adds that while the company says it will still be able to deliver four million doses by the end of March, that is no longer guaranteed.
That's some good planning!
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Less than two weeks after China’s conditional approval of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, the chairman and a director at the state-owned drug company suddenly resigned on the same day for “personal reasons.” The unexpected news fueled public speculation and doubts over the quality of the Chinese-made vaccine.
On Jan. 12, Sinopharm Group Co. issued two consecutive announcements, stating that Li Zhiming, chairman of Sinopharm Holding Corporation, and Li Hui, director and general manager of Sinopharm Group Pharmaceutical Co., a subsidiary, have resigned due to “personal reasons.”
The announcement also stated that the resignations will take effect immediately. The board of directors elected Yu Qingming as acting chairman on the same day. Since November 2018, Yu has served as executive director and secretary general of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s committee within the company. Previously, he worked as the secretary to CCP officials of the National Medical Products Administration.
In addition, the announcement stated that although Li Hui holds 54.72 percent of Sinopharm’s shares, his stock ownership will not have a significant adverse effect on the company’s operations, and it will not impact the board of directors.
(Sidebar: it goes without saying that we don't have to trade with China or let it spy on us. The two Michaels don't get to see their families the way Meng Wanzhou does and why do we need slave labour that badly?)
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Around 20,000 people in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei, have been relocated to other areas for quarantine. Local authorities recently admitted that the latest CCP virus outbreak began spreading in the city nearly a month earlier than they had previously reported. Meanwhile, the outbreak has spread to Qiqihar, the second largest city in Heilongjiang Province, which caused an entire district to be locked down.
The new wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, a disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, in Shijiazhuang was concentrated in Zengcun township of Gaocheng district, and has spread to other parts of China.
The Epoch Times learned on Jan. 11 that after many residents in Zengcun were sent to quarantine sites, nearly 20,000 people who had remained were urgently notified by local authorities to be transferred to quarantine centers in remote areas.
Considering that Canadians' multiculturalism extends no further than a bowl of pho, asking people to consume more of it will make Canadians neither more trim nor opening to learning languages and cultures far more stringent than their own:
The Department of Health will spend more than $90,000 to encourage Canadians to eat more ‘culturally diverse’ foods. Staff awarded a contract to a Canada Food Guide consultant who complained too many white people run restaurants: “The wine industry is overwhelmingly white.”
Because going after the man who knows where the bodies are buried can prove to be bad even if one doesn't remember what day of the week it is:
Former FBI director James Comey says U.S. president-elect Joe Biden should consider pardoning outgoing President Donald Trump if he ends up being convicted in any of the criminal investigations he could be facing after he leaves office and that it wouldn't be declaration of innocence if he did.
And people were so desperate to get rid of him before.
Also:
A credible case can be made that Lincoln’s second inaugural — delivered in 1865 just weeks before his assassination and in the final stages of the Civil War — is the greatest political speech ever made, at least in English.
“Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away,” he said. “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds … to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Rather, the Americans should remember this:
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Was it something they said?:
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have collectively seen $51.2 billion in combined market value wiped out over the last two trading sessions since they banned President Donald Trump from their platforms following the U.S. Capitol breach.
You're screwed, Zuckerberg and Radoghast:
Investigative journalism nonprofit Project Veritas on Thursday released a leaked video that appears to show Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s internal discussions before President Donald Trump’s account was banned on the social media platform following the breach of the U.S. Capitol building.
“You should always feel free to express yourself in whatever format manifestation feels right,” Dorsey said in the clip, purportedly secretly filmed by a Twitter “insider whistleblower.”
“We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and it’s going to go on beyond the inauguration,” Dorsey added. “And we have to expect that and we have to be ready for that.”
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A Twitter spokesperson told Fox News Thursday that recent tweets by China’s communist regime denying the existence of forced labor in Xinjiang province and accusing the United States of making up lies about the documented human rights violations there do not break the social media platform’s rules.
Let that soak in.
Where does this man think he is? Canada? The US?:
Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, is standing trial for “incitement to commit felony” for comments concerning territory in border areas, a politically sensitive issue. If found guilty, he could face from six months to two years in prison.
Rong Chhun was arrested in July after the government claimed he spread false information about Cambodia’s border with Vietnam. He has been held in detention ever since. A week before his arrest, Rong Chhun gave an interview to U.S. government-supported Radio Free Asia in which he spoke about meeting farmers in eastern Cambodia who complained about their land being infringed upon by neighbouring Vietnam.
His trial is part of a crackdown on opposition politicians and supporters carried out in the courts by Prime Minister Hun Sen's government. According to the human rights group Amnesty International, about 150 individuals affiliated with the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party are facing treason charges in mass trials, the first of which was held Thursday.
Labour leaders such as Rong Chhun hold significant political influence in Cambodia because they represent the vast number of industrial workers in the textile industry, which is the country’s major export earner. The major unions have historically aligned themselves with the political opposition to Hun Sen.
The issue of Vietnam encroaching on Cambodian land is a highly sensitive one with domestic political significance in Cambodia because of widespread historical antagonism toward the country’s larger neighbour to the east. Hun Sen’s government maintains close relations with Vietnam, leading his political foes to accuse him of failing to protect Cambodian land. Several prominent opposition figures have been prosecuted on various charges in recent years for making such allegations.
Sam Sokong, a lawyer for Rong Chhun, said his client has done nothing illegal in his interview with Radio Free Asia, and that he only had relayed the complaints of villagers along the border to the public at large.
Do the subs have screen doors?:
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un revealed his regime’s submarine-launched ballistic missiles that are apparently under development and other military technology during a parade in Pyongyang, according to state-run media and photos.
According to state-run KCNA, Kim appeared at a parade on Thursday evening along with what state media described as the “world’s most powerful weapon,” claiming they’re North Korea’s “submarine-launch ballistic missile (sic)” that “entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces.”
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