The left reveals its emotional retardation in the form of bigotry once more:
"As a black conservative, the person that is the greatest threat to me and my colleague Sen. Scott is white liberals, because they have no tolerance for a black man who doesn't agree with their liberal ideology"- @ByronDonalds https://t.co/CrrQLv4tFJ pic.twitter.com/QkDunO8SUt
— Brianna Lyman (@briannalyman2) April 30, 2021
People in Canada are citizens, not colonisers.
If they left en masse, who would buy big screen TVs?:
Green Party MP Jenica Atwin told a parliamentary committee that an amendment to Canada’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) bill, otherwise known as Bill C-15, was a step towards “decolonizing Canada.”
Bill C-15, which was proposed by the Liberal government, hopes to align Canada’s laws with the UNDRIP declaration.
If the legislation passes, the Canadian government will be required to obtain “free, prior and informed consent” from First Nations groups before “the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources” in accordance with the UN directive.
According to Atwin, the bill doesn’t go far enough in achieving its goals.
Languages Commissioner Raymond Théberge waited nearly two weeks to notify internet users of a privacy breach at his office. Staff mistakenly disclosed the IP addresses of more than 1,500 people who filed complaints with Théberge over a two-year period: “I have a responsibility.”
These were the wrong sort of victims:
“There’s a plan for the offender, but there’s no plan for the victim,” said Stafford. “You get told, ‘OK, well, here’s a little bit of money for counseling, good luck’ and that’s basically it. You have no right. No fight to nothing … The offenders get into the correctional system and Correctional Service Canada says, ‘Well, you know what? Well, now we’re going to help you get back on the streets a lot quicker and we’re going to better your life before we put you out there’ and victims don’t have a lot of rights and things need to change.”
(Sidebar: their needs would be better served if we had an elected and accountable judiciary but I digress ...)
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It is therefore puzzling why Canada would deport some Pakistani Christians back to the country they fled in this current climate. The Charismatic Social Integration of Canada (CIOSC) is a Pakistani Christian advocacy group that recently expressed concern about possible deportations of Christians to Pakistan in this current political climate.
In a press release sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the CIOSC stated that “in such a volatile and religiously charged atmosphere, Immigration Canada is making decisions to deport the failed refugee claimants. These decisions are incomprehensible and reprehensible since Canada claims to be a compassionate and humane country.”
It seems there is little thought given to the issue by Immigration Canada. Whether Pakistani Muslims persecute their fellow Pakistanis over perceived blasphemy or whether the French ambassador was responsible for causing offence to these far-right groups, it is indeed a sad reflection on the country’s general state of literacy, enlightenment, and civility.
Nope:
Ottawa says it only learned in February that Canada’s visa-application centre in Beijing is managed by Chinese police, the same month The Globe and Mail reported the arrangement. The federal government has trusted its visa centre in Beijing to a police-owned company since 2008 ...
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Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
It was the first time the vigil had been banned in the global financial hub, with police citing, as it did for all demonstrations last year, coronavirus restrictions on group gatherings. It is expected to face a similar fate this year.
I'm sure he meant to do that.
Port Colborne, Ontario. https://t.co/WH6LFNqx1t
— Chelsea Smith (@chillie2) April 28, 2021
Malice or congenital idiocy?
YOU decide:
At the time, our government was still implying that banning travellers from China would be racist. Health Minister Patty Hajdu accused the opposition of spreading “misinformation and fear” and sensationalizing “the risk to Canadians” for even inquiring about our border policy. As late as March 13, she was still insisting that travel bans were “highly ineffective and, in some cases, can create harm.” It wasn’t until March 20 that Canada actually closed its border to non-essential travel, but by then it was too late.
There is no longer any debate about the efficacy of such policies. Countries that implemented early travel bans — such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand — have fared much better. A study published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health in July, for example, found that the travel bans implemented Down Under reduced the importation of COVID-19 cases by 79 per cent and delayed the outbreak in that country by a month. ...
Throughout this pandemic, Canada has been hobbled to some extent by its system of federalism, and it is certainly true that many provinces have done a poor job of controlling the spread of COVID-19. But border policy is firmly within the control of the federal government. It could have been used to prevent infected individuals from entering the country, thus reducing the strain on provincial testing, tracing and health systems. But in this, the government has failed us, and Canadians are dying as a result.
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It’s inevitable that a vaccine-poor country sharing a 9,000 km border with a vaccine-glutted country would yield some arbitrage. Below, how Canadians are slipping over the border to capitalize on some sweet, sweet American COVID shots.
“We landed in the USA Friday night, and Saturday morning we were fully vaccinated against COVID-19,” reads a recent blog post by Montreal’s Andrew D’Amour, co-founder of the travel website Flytrippers. In early April, D’Amour booked a vaccination appointment at a Tom Thumb grocery store in Dallas, caught a flight the next day to Texas, and will eventually re-enter Canada by road to avoid mandatory hotel quarantine.
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With virtually all of the U.S.’s most vulnerable demographics now fully vaccinated, most states have opened up vaccination to everyone over the age of 16. Proof of U.S. citizenship is not required to get the shot. However, many state immunization authorities have also made it clear that their shots are intended for their own residents, and not out-of-staters or foreign nationals. “If you do not live or work in Washington, please do not make vaccine appointments,” reads the official webpage of the Washington State Department of Health.
Once again, Canadians confident in their healthcare system prove it by running to the US.
Also - why not? Brain bleeds and clots should be for everyone!:
Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted a request for European Union drug regulators to extend the approval of the companies’ coronavirus vaccine to include children ages 12 to 15, a move that could offer younger and less at-risk populations in Europe access to the shots for the first time.
Sweet Pharma money!
Two Toronto-based politicians are pressing a Chinese-Canadian doctor to remove a sign on his office door – in Chinese – that refers to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan pneumonia,” complaining the wording could incite anti-Asian hatred.
A nurse reveals that COVID sufferers were neglected and let die before Andrew Cuomo or the Canadian government got a chance to kill them:
She was assigned to Elmhurst, which she called the epicenter of the epicenter.
"The very first day [at Elmhurst] I was shocked. It was something I’ve never seen before. Patients were alone in the rooms on ventilators [with] no family allowed in [to advocate for them]. People were just dying from gross negligence, medical malpractice, [and] mismanagement," she said.
Olzewski said patients who repeatedly tested negative for the virus were being labeled as "COVID confirmed" in their medical charts, and that triggered a higher level of compensation from the government.
She told LifeSiteNews those "perverse incentives" from the Department of Health and Human Services provided $13,000 for each COVID patient, or $39,000 if they were put on a ventilator.
And she explained the wild variances in treatment.
"[In Florida] we treated our patients with hydroxychloroquine, zinc … sent them home and they were fine," she said. In New York, "they were banning alternative treatments like hydroxychloroquine. The only thing they could do was to put people on ventilators."
B@$#@rds.
No one cares about your "lockdowns":
A Tillsonburg golf course was charged under the Reopening Ontario Act, police announced late Thursday night, after the course opened last weekend in defiance of provincial pandemic restrictions.
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A Saskatoon church that was fined $14,000 for allegedly exceeding the worship services gathering limit has posted notices warning police and government officials against trespassing.
It's all about Canadian content, you see:
Days after the government removed legal safeguards designed to ensure the CRTC would not regulate user generated content as part of Bill C-10, its Broadcasting Act reform bill, the public and political world have awoken to the troubling implications for freedom of expression.
Political columnists are comparing Canada to China in censoring the Internet and opposition MPs have launched petitions with promises to fight back against the bill. The issue unsurprisingly became a major talking point during Question Period in the House of Commons yesterday. While Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault retreated to his usual talking points, it is notable that his claims are not even supported by his own department officials.
Here is what Guilbeault told the House of Commons yesterday in response to a barrage of questions from opposition MPs on Bill C-10 and its implications for free speech:
We have said from the beginning, when we introduced Bill C-10, that user-generated content would be excluded, but that online platforms that act as broadcasters would be included in the legislation. This is exactly what the amendments that have been debated in committee try do, and that is what we will do.
While Guilbeault wants Canadians to believe that user generated content is excluded from the bill, his own department disagrees. Owen Ripley, Canadian Heritage’s Director General of Broadcasting, Copyright and Creative Marketplace, described the implications to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage minutes before it voted to remove Section 4.1, the provision excluding user generated content as a program subject to CRTC regulation:
Ms. Dabrusin has signalled the government intends to repeal, or suggest a repeal, of Section 4.1 altogether, meaning that there would no longer be any exclusion for social media services at all. For the benefit of the committee, in our previous sessions, the committee upheld the exclusion for users of social media companies. In other words, when you or I upload something to YouTube or some other sharing service, we will not be considered broadcasters for the purposes of the Act. The CRTC couldn’t call us before them and we couldn’t be subject to CRTC hearings.
But if the exclusion is removed – if 4.1 is struck down – the programming we upload to Youtube, that programming that we place on that service would be subject to regulation moving forward, but would be the responsibility of Youtube or whatever the sharing service is. The programming that is uploaded could be subject to discoverability requirements or certain obligations like that.
If the way forward to is maintain the exclusion for individual users but to strike down the exclusion for social media companies, that means that all the programming that is on those services would be subject to the Act regardless of whether it was put there by an affiliate or a mandatary of the company.This isn’t complicated. The Liberals established exceptions for users and their content in Bill C-10. In fact, on the day he introduced the legislation, Guilbeault told the House of Commons that “user generated content will not be regulated.” With last week’s change, his own department acknowledges that the content will be regulated.
More:
The hate speech bill soon to be tabled will create a new regulator with the power to levy fines and require transparency from social media outlets, including about their algorithms. The legislation will also set out a legal framework for prohibiting hate speech, terrorist content, content that incites violence, non-consensual sharing of intimate content, and child sexual exploitative content.
(Sidebar: there are already laws against the above. When the Liberals were questioned about Pornhub, they were characteristically cagey. Indeed, they always seem to be non-verbal whenever a sex scandal arises and always rush to defend the Groper. But this is not about obscene material. As Steven Guilbeault said openly, it was about silencing anyone who had anything negative to say about politicians.)
“With the legislation we will be tabling, it won’t matter whether or not the company is Canadian,” Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault recently said, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. “It won’t matter where the company is registered or where their servers are located. Once a publication is flagged, it will have to be taken down within 24 hours.”
Oh, no!
No more Marvel movies.
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As morally and physically repulsive as Trudeau, is, this attempt to turn Canada in to North Korea would not have been possible without the support of Canadians who enjoy being controlled, who prefer a political off-switch to the personal one they lack when opening their mouths about inappropriate things or cuss words. Treatises on free expression fall, predictably, on decidedly deaf ears:
The state does not own the rights of its citizens. It’s an inversion of the relationship between citizen and government to think so. Citizens give orders to governments. Citizens are the ultimate rulers, which any definition of the word democracy will affirm: demos – people; cracy -rule.
Yet we have experienced a grave dilution of how these rights are presently understood, in parallel with a grave dilution of respect for them. The rot began and was sadly nursed in the very institutions by those which should most defend and explain them. Our decaying universities.
Was it not the universities who pioneered the idea of “free speech zones” on campus? This was the granting of some small and marked piece of campus territory where students, whom the university decreed might say something “offensive” or “insensitive” or “perceived as discriminatory” (unwoke is the current terms for all these categories) would be forced, under edict and threat of expulsion to go to these islands, and only there be “allowed” to speak their minds. All else was forbidden space. “Allowed” speech is the antithesis of free speech, and designated “spaces” wherein that allowed speech could be voiced, a surrender of intellectualism, and a woeful instance of the cowardice of elite institutions.
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It was the universities which played midwife to the new anti-intellectual doctrines such as “speech is violence” with its reverse twin dogma that “violence is speech.” They spread the intellectual acid of relativism. The most faithful guardians, so we thought, of unrestrained thinking became the efficient and sly agents of its curtailment.
Even just a few years ago almost everyone could reference the great negative power the great churches of the West once held, the power to excommunicate, set up heretic-hunting inquisitions, draw up lists of which books could be read, and carried to stake or dungeon those who would challenge its power and self-declared infallibility. How the churches have been scorned for treading on such freedoms.
There is no stake or dungeon today, merely cancel culture. However Twitter mobbing and cries of racism or homophobia, declamations for woke bishops are fine 21st century versions of the same.
Unless stronger measures are taken, Goebbels Guilbeault will get away with this. If not now, then somewhere down the road when the idea becomes more palatable to a populace more attuned with banning words that hurt them.
E-mails simply will not do. A presence on Parliament Hill will. It has to be done before meeting with one's compatriots becomes illegal (and it will). And before financial punishments are inflicted.
Also:
Opposition members of Parliament are criticizing the federal government for what they call an increased use of “Cabinet confidence” to withhold information, this time surrounding a sole-sourced contract awarded to an American IT giant by Ottawa.
Because transparency.
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When Justin declared his undying love for the communist dictatorship of China -
- this dictatorship:
On June 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. Turmoil ensued, as tens of thousands of the young students tried to escape the rampaging Chinese forces. Other protesters fought back, stoning the attacking troops and overturning and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats on the scene estimated that at least 300, and perhaps thousands, of the protesters had been killed and as many as 10,000 were arrested.
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China is forcibly harvesting the organs of tens of thousands of political prisoners to operate a rapidly growing medical black market worth $1 billion a year, an international tribunal has found.
For several years, human rights groups have expressed concern many of the estimated 1.5 million people held in prison camps were part of an insidious human farming system.
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Couples who exceed their government-mandated birth limit continue to be punished with crushing fines equal to two to ten times their annual household income, according to the Planned Birth ordinances of Hunan, Liaoning, Hainan, and Henan provinces. Under certain circumstances, these fines can climb even higher. The only exception is Heilongjiang province, where the fine is only pegged to a single year’s income—still a steep fine be anyone’s standards.
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The evidence amassed in the COI report challenges China’s claims that 1) North Koreans entering China illegally are economic migrants who must be deported, and 2) that those forcibly returned are not punished, even though it is a criminal offense to leave North Korea without permission. In an effort to obstruct the commission’s work, China denied it entry to its border areas, and then declared the COI findings to be “divorced from reality,” because it was unable to visit. Nonetheless, the three COI commissioners concluded that China was enabling North Korea to commit crimes against humanity by forcibly returning them to conditions of danger, thereby standing in violation of its obligations under international human rights and refugee law.
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Federal departments and agencies awarded $5.8 million in contracts to China suppliers last year even as Chinese jailers held Canadians in arbitrary detention, records show. It was “business as usual,” said an MP who sought the figures: “It is wrong.”
- everyone thought that Pierre's little cretin was just adorable and laughed it off.
Who's laughing now?:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday that Canada would be in alignment with its international partners and allies on the issue of COVID-19 vaccine passports.
(Sidebar: that's not what you said the last time.)
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The alarming part is that censorship is desirable in principle. And the unrealistic part is that the government can do it. Which brings me to the Raines Sandwich.
You see, in a Puritan attack on sleazy bars and the lowlifes they supposedly contained, New York State’s 1896 “Raines Law” sharply restricted saloons’ hours and hiked liquor license fees. But hotels with 10 or more rooms could still serve drinks with meals at any time, resulting in the immediate creation of the inedible, reusable “Raines Sandwich,” sometimes merely rancid and sometimes literally rubber. It’s the Law of Unintended Consequences, I emphasize, not Unpredictable ones.
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Former CRTC Commissioner Peter Menzies rightly said “Granting a government agency authority over legal user generated content — particularly when backed up by the government’s musings about taking down websites — doesn’t just infringe on free expression, it constitutes a full-blown assault upon it and, through it, the foundations of democracy.” But there seems little point in repeating the arguments against censorship to Thomas Sowell’s “anointed”. Sufficiently convinced of their own virtue as well as our vice, our political and bureaucratic masters believe they can be trusted with what may be said and thought, and what may not.
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On Friday, the heritage committee voted to remove a clause from Bill C-10 that would have exempted user-generated videos posted to sites like YouTube from being regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
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The bill, which was introduced late last year, is intended to give the CRTC control over online streaming services like Apple TV, Disney+ and Prime Video, potentially opening the streaming giants to Canadian content regulations — because if there’s one gripe Canadians have with Netflix, it’s that it doesn’t carry “Little Mosque on the Prairie.” Not content with simply going after the “web giants,” the Liberals now want to give the CRTC the power to regulate your cat videos, as well.
A spokesperson for Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault told the Post that the clause was taken out to allow the CRTC to do a better job of controlling music that’s posted to social media platforms, in an apparent capitulation to recording-industry lobbyists.
Others, such as Daniel Bernhard, the executive director of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, a group that advocates for public funding of the CBC and increased regulation, are praising the bill because it would allow the government to take down videos that contain scenes of child sex abuse.
Which all seems a little strange, given that the reproduction of musical works is covered under copyright law and distributing child pornography is already a serious crime. What this is really about is ensuring that the CRTC has a legal mandate to regulate all forms of media — covering everything from traditional television and radio broadcasters, to podcasts and TikTok videos.
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In the absence of the clause that was removed last week — which exempted “programs that are uploaded to an online undertaking that provides a social media service by a user of the service” from being covered under the act — users who upload videos to social media or streaming sites would not be considered broadcasters, but their content would be subject to regulation.
What form that regulation will take is anyone’s guess, as the bill would simply give the CRTC the power to come up with a regulatory regime at a later date. But it would give the federal government the power to control everything from videos of animals, to young people dancing in the street. If they happen to be dancing to a copyrighted song, look out.
(Sidebar: even Justin's little b!#ch is on board with this. The NDP will never be taken seriously nor will Singh but it couldn't hurt to show one's true colours.)
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Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault yesterday defended an abrupt policy change in support of censoring YouTube videos. Cabinet last Friday had MPs on the Commons heritage committee vote to regulate YouTube under the Broadcasting Act despite an earlier pledge to let “user-generated content” alone: “It is all about restricting content that ‘undermines social cohesion,’ but what does that even mean?”
Slow down, Goebbels!
Tyrannical AND stupid:
Health Minister Patricia Hajdu’s department threw away millions of dollars’ worth of pandemic masks, gloves and other crucial supplies prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, officials disclosed yesterday. The Public Health Agency concealed the information for over a year, claiming national security. The MP who requested the disclosure said Agency mismanagement raised questions of criminal liability: “24,000 people died.”
But you simply must wear these masks everywhere!
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Canada's domestic vaccine manufacturing capability has been hollowed out, leaving the country entirely dependent on foreign sources for the doses that promise an eventual return to normal life.
A Canadian company currently conducting human trials for their COVID-19 vaccine is asking the federal government to respond to their request for support in producing the vaccine.
Speaking at a conference in Calgary on Friday, Brad Sorenson, CEO of Providence Therapeutics criticized the federal government for not responding to their proposal, which was sent a week ago.
"The apathetic response of the Government of Canada to a serious proposal that could save lives is unacceptable," Sorenson said, "Review it and reject it if there is no merit, embrace it if it's viable, but do something."
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AstraZeneca PLC’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and Canadians should have confidence in it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, reacting to news that a Quebec woman had died of a rare blood clot after being inoculated.
Did you hear that?
A snowboard instructor just told you that a flu shot is safe even though it killed someone.
Kenney will rue the day he did not turn off the taps.
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A 30 percent tax on excess profits for large companies that saw pandemic gains would raise $7,947,000,000, the Parliamentary Budget Office said yesterday. The figures were sought by New Democrats who advocate what leader Jagmeet Singh called a “pandemic profiteering tax.”
There is no capitalism (but loads of favouritism) in North Korea, Jag.
Also:
Only a handful of documents from the ministries mention protecting long-term care residents in February, even as cases were steadily arriving in Ontario and the devastation from the infections in Italy became apparent.
Taken as a whole, the documents add to the evidence suggesting the provincial government devoted far less attention to readying the long-term care sector for the impact of the coronavirus than hospitals.
Just like the other provinces did?
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After weeks of increased pressure on the province to introduce paid sick leave, the Ontario government has unveiled a program that will allow workers to take three paid sick days through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why? So that more lockdowns can occur?
Are you sure that people didn't just experience things differently?:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vigorously defended his top aide on Tuesday, saying that while his office knew there was a complaint against then-defence chief general Jonathan Vance three years ago, no one knew it was about sexual misconduct.
The comments came in response to fresh questions about what the prime minister and his chief of staff, Katie Telford, knew about the allegation against Vance in March 2018 following testimony last week from one of Trudeau's former advisers.
Responding to a question during one of his regular COVID-19 briefings, Trudeau described his chief of staff as "an extraordinarily strong leader" who has been instrumental in pushing the federal government to become more feminist.
"It's because of Katie that I have sat down with multiple women leaders within the Armed Forces and elsewhere to have conversations about this over the years, to look at what more can and should be done," the prime minister said.
He went on to say that while "my office knew there was a complaint against (now retired) general Vance, nobody knew that it was a 'Me Too' complaint. We did not have information on what was the nature of that complaint of that allegation."
You're a lying, groping sack of sh--, Justin.
Only in Canada, where people are glad to ignore sexual abuse and harassment (if the right SOB does it, anyway) can a useless, woman-hating piece of cow excrement like yourself get ahead.
How many have taken money from Tides, Big Aboriginal?:
“We do not welcome or support unsolicited involvement or interference by others in our Territory, including third-party activism,” read an April 12 letter drafted by the Pacheedaht First Nation, whose traditional territory encompasses the Fairy Creek watershed. The letter was posted to Twitter by Nathan Cullen, B.C.’s Minister of State for Natural Resource Operations
The letter denounced “increasing polarization” over forestry activities in the area, and asserted the Pacheedaht right to determine how the forest is used. “Our constitutional right to make decisions about forestry resources in our Territory … must be respected,” it read.
It’s a phenomenon that is becoming not all that uncommon in British Columbia which – unlike much of Canada – sits largely on untreatied land. As the province’s Indigenous communities acquire greater control of development and natural resources, they are increasingly butting up against environmentalist groups who claim to represent them.
They were "here first", you see.
Whatever. It's just money:
A federal “cost savings” program to electrify transit will see vehicles purchased at double the cost of conventional buses, data show. Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna launched the program March 4 on a promise of savings: “We’re tackling climate change.”
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Labour Minister Filomena Tassi yesterday introduced a rushed bill ordering striking Montréal longshoreman back to work under threat of $100,000-a day fines. Tassi called it “a matter of life and death.”
International news:
China is "preparing for its final military assault" on Taiwan, the island's foreign minister has told Sky News, as he vowed to "defend ourselves to the very end".
Sharyl (to Metzl): “What have you been told, and what have you found about scientists who feel like they can't step forward?”
Metzl: “Many of these people are afraid to step forward. They've called it career suicide, because there are so many contentious issues, because the stakes are so high. Because the Chinese government, in collaboration, or conjunction, or maybe not even association, but with some very high-level and prominent scientists have put forward this story that I think is wrong.”
Two scientists with knowledge of the matter told me the U.S. government conducted genome sequencing almost immediately in the pandemic. Among other things, they say Covid-19 shows clear hallmarks of man’s intervention.
Russia’s foreign minister sternly warned Ukrainian officials Wednesday that Moscow would not accept their push to revise a peace deal for eastern Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling Tuesday for a modification of the 2015 agreement and inviting other nations to help mediate the stalled talks on a political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine’s east.
Fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists erupted in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, called Donbas, shortly after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. More than 14,000 people have been killed during the seven-year conflict.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Michael Collins:
Michael Collins, the U.S. astronaut who in 1969 experienced an extreme of human solitude by orbiting Earth’s moon by himself as his Apollo 11 crew mates were taking man’s first steps on it, has died. He was 90.
