Or North Korean women to rape:
Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.
The cry of a desperate country, the government of which has destroyed its own people physically, economically and spiritually.
The paper dragon, indeed.
Can anyone imagine the entertainment value of having the moron speak?
I can:
Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion says he never interviewed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his We Charity investigation because “an affidavit is just as good.” Dion in a May 13 report concluded Trudeau and his family were “closely involved in We Charity’s affairs” but broke no laws: “Because you believed him you found him innocent.”
Having the moron publicly testify under oath would have destroyed him, even in a country like Canada.
That's why Don trusted him.
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Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan says it is “really important to note how important plastics are,” but admitted to the Commons natural resources committee he was unaware industry filed a lawsuit against his own government for listing plastic manufactured items as toxic. The lawsuit was filed two weeks ago: “Plastics are derived from oil.”
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Federal departments are under-reporting lost and stolen equipment, says an internal audit at the Department of Industry. Auditors found managers waited months, even more than a year to properly report missing computers, cellphones and other equipment: “Sensitive data may be compromised.”
It's like the Liberal government and the idiots who voted for it can't help but being dysfunctional and petty:
Opposition MPs on the Commons health committee are demanding the Privy Council Office explain the ongoing concealment of 992,000 pandemic records sought by a House order. Cabinet aides have been slow to produce emails and files though MPs ordered their release by a 176-152 vote last October 26: “Everybody can see what is happening now.”
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That's because the Americans get to go on holidays this summer. Don't give the pets any ideas:
Canada won't rush to reopen its border with the United States to non-essential travel, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday, while new COVID-19 case counts continue to drop across the country.
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Justin Trudeau is encouraging Canadians to help during India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
If Justin wanted to help India, he would apologise for being an @$$hole while was there.
Apologise, @$$hole
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There is no way Justin would anger his Chinese bosses:
We also know that the high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg was conducting research into deadly pathogens, in partnership with the now-notorious Wuhan lab. And although the public doesn’t have all the information, a series of firings and police investigations relating to the Canadian lab point to troubling developments that have taken place behind the scenes.
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In July 2019, the head of the Winnipeg lab’s Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies section in the Special Pathogens Program was Chinese virologist Xiangguo Qiu. That month, she and her husband, Keding Cheng, along with a number of her Chinese students, were marched out of the lab by the RCMP.
At the time, officials made no comment and said it was a procedural investigation. But some experts raised concerns about the possibility of unauthorized shipments of deadly viruses or stolen intellectual property being sent to China.
The two of them were later fired after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) called for their security clearances to be revoked on national security grounds.
There are also concerns over the involvement of Feihu Yan, who was involved in the Winnipeg lab but also a researcher with the Chinese military’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences, according to an intelligence leak recently published in the Globe and Mail.
The article quoted Andy Ellis, formerly with CSIS, who said it was “madness” for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to co-operate with the People’s Liberation Army. “It is ill-advised. It is the top lab in Canada,” said Ellis. “It is just incredible naivete on their part.”
Equally naive was a deal that Trudeau and the National Research Council (NRC) made in March 2020 with a Chinese vaccine company, CanSino Biologics, which saw Canadian intellectual property needed to create vaccines for Ebola and SARS-CoV-2 transferred to the Chinese.
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This led to Canada’s current vaccine dose-delay and rollout mess. The Chinese vaccine was to be tested at Dalhousie University and, if commercialized, the NRC was supposed to get a share of the proceeds. Trudeau was counting on that, which caused him to delay signing deals with other pharmaceutical companies.
In the summer of 2020, Chinese officials blocked test vaccines from being delivered to Canada. CanSino blamed Chinese customs, but China has permitted other vaccine candidates to be shipped to other countries for testing. The move was more likely in retaliation for Ottawa refusing to free Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who’s currently being held in Vancouver while she fights an extradition request from the United States. ...
If Trudeau hopes to retain any credibility, he should follow Biden’s example by commissioning a full report from Canadian intelligence officials into Ottawa’s questionable relationship with China’s scientific and military communities.
Senile cheaters like Biden aren't cognisant enough to demand such transparency and accountability.
The morons who support this history-erasing measure are always welcome to leave Canada and live in North Korea.
There are no Cheetos there, though:
Charlottetown city council has voted to permanently remove a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from a downtown intersection as a response to recent revelations about Canada’s residential school system.
The decision late Monday followed a vigil earlier in the day where demonstrators placed 215 pairs of shoes next to the statue of Macdonald, whose government introduced the residential school system in 1883.
(Sidebar: Babi Yar but not particular enough, I suppose.)
Did anyone leave a pair of shoes for Phoenix Sinclair? What about Kaydance and Santana Pauchay? Why not?
Also:
The Commons has unanimously passed a bill to designate September 30 a paid holiday for 1.3 million federally-regulated employees. The bill proclaiming a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation now proceeds to the Senate: ‘People might ask how one day that establishes a statutory holiday for a limited number of people can make a difference.’
They are taking a paid day for justice!
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Consider the solitary figure standing in front of five tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square.
He looks to be a slender man in his twenties or thirties who prevented tanks from rolling into Tiananmen Square until he was carried off.
He had far more fortitude than anyone who wastes time and money in the House of Commons:
All members of the Liberal Party, the New Democrats, and the Bloc Quebecois voted against a Conservative amendment to Bill C-10 that would have created clearer stipulations that would count user-generated content as an exception from Bill C-10's sweeping powers.
Conservative amendment to restore user generated content protections in Bill C-10 is defeated. Liberals, NDP and Bloc all vote against.
Not one of these people are worth it. Not a g-d- one.
Liberal, NDP and Bloc voters, this is what you wanted. No one will forget who you are and who you supported.
The funny thing is that you won't be able to signal your dubious virtue once this bill is passed.
There will be no Internet.
You will wither and die without your cyber high-fives.
Pathetic.
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| “About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.” |
What Canadians refuse to consider or acknowledge is that the entire country is a plutocracy, from its leaders to its institutions. Only a handful will be wealthy and kept in power and they are never accountable to anyone.
But don't take my word for it:
Fees paid by the federal government for third-party consultants have continued to increase, with costs expected to be $1.3 billion higher this year compared with an earlier estimate just two months ago.
According to a government estimate released in March, the annual cost of outsourcing engineering, legal and other services would reach $16.4 billion in 2022, up from $8.3 billion in 2016. An updated document released on Thursday adds another $1.3 billion to that estimate, bringing the 2022 projection to around $17.7 billion.
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The point of politics is to divide and entrench power, sir. Did you not notice?:
The entire motivation for the new law is political: to exterminate the original separatist party and position the governing Coalition Avenir Québec as the party of choice for the French-speaking majority in Quebec. There is nothing wrong with rough and devious political tactics, as long as they do not damage the welfare of any section of the public. Unfortunately, this bill could do great damage.
(Sidebar: this Quebec because it's special.)
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The only real slam dunk on the order paper right now is Bill C-30, the Liberals’ sprawling budget implementation bill. The omnibus legislation touches on everything from student loan relief to terrorist financing activities to fixing an election misinformation law found to be unconstitutional. ...
Bill C-15, which implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, received its final vote in the House of Commons earlier this week, meaning the Senate should have time to pass it. However, the Conservative caucus opposes this bill and its senators have a history of protesting similar legislation.
The Liberals’ ban on coerced conversion therapy, Bill C-6, will likely get its final vote in the Commons soon. The bill has a broad range of support, with the Conservatives split on it. But assuming it clears the Commons shortly, it will have a good chance of passing by summer. ...
Another is Bill C-10, a hugely controversial bill to enable federal regulation of online platforms such as Netflix and Facebook. The Conservatives have come out strongly against this legislation, and for now it’s unclear whether the Liberals are willing to spend the political capital to try to push it through by the end of June.
The third is Bill C-19, which makes various tweaks to Canada’s elections laws — including to make a pandemic-era election safer to run. This bill has just gotten to a Commons committee, so it has a chance of passing by summer, but it’ll be tough.
Why not just rule by fiat?
Or is that next?
Will China let Justin do that? Isn't that like giving a fire-hose to a baboon?
Get a cold, wet blanket for Mark Carney for he done got burned:
Mark Carney, the former central banker who is now head of impact investing at Brookfield Asset Management Inc., was badgered on everything from pipelines to human rights abuses in China during a parliamentary committee hearing. ...
Ostensibly, the two-hour meeting was to talk about the transition to an low-carbon economy at a hearing that included other expert witnesses. But instead Carney was aggressively hounded by Pierre Poilievre, a high-profile lawmaker for the opposition Conservatives, who accused him of “hypocritical window dressing” and being a Davos elite.
Leave for Switzerland tonight, Mark.
Oh, this can't be good:
Media reports say Ontario is replacing its chief medical officer of health more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multiple anonymous sources told the Toronto Star that Dr. Kieran Moore will replace Dr. David Williams as the province's top doctor.
😬
Also - oh, good! Now we get to stay locked up until Christmas and then miss Christmas again! YAY!:
Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday.
Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients, and found the new version of the virus. He said lab tests suggested it might spread more easily than other versions of the virus.
He's just like those Italian grandmothers Justin apologised to:
From the prison where Zakaria Amara endures his life sentence, the leader of a terrorist plot to explode huge truck bombs in Ontario said the atrocities of ISIL jihadists drove him to re-evaluate and reject his radical beliefs, making him ready for release from prison.
I totally believe him.
After all, a terrorist would never lie, would he?
Why, it's like communist countries are filled with monsters who do awful things:
Orphans, conscripted soldiers, and students — some appearing to be children — are “volunteering” to work manual labor in North Korea, including in coal mines, farms, and large construction projects, the country’s state media have reported.
Hundreds of graduates of orphan schools “volunteered to work in difficult fields,” according to reports by state news agency KCNA.
North Korea is backed by China.
The Philippines has demanded that China withdraw its ships and fishing vessels from the vicinity of a Philippine-occupied island in the South China Sea, where the Chinese military has asserted its sovereignty and vowed to “unswervingly safeguard” the disputed territory.
Why on earth would anyone want to trade with them?
In conclusion, Taiwan is a country, just like Israel.
#Notatallsorry:
Yep:
Australia's ambassador to China was denied entry to a heavily guarded Beijing court on Thursday that is hearing an espionage case against Australian blogger Yang Hengjun, at a time of worsening ties between the two nations.
China said the case involved state secrets and so could not be heard in open court. Yang, an Australian citizen born in China, wrote about Chinese and U.S. politics online as a high-profile blogger and also penned a series of spy novels before his detention two years ago.
Of course! That's why China is clamping down on everyone!
Why? Because. That's why:
Conservative MPs Shannon Stubbs and Marty Morantz pressed Liberal Minister for Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau on the matter Tuesday, to which Garneau admitted that "Iran had failed to be open and accountable for the actions they committed against flight PS752," once again falling short of condemning the IRGC.
There. Are. Rules.
But they only apply to a few:
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is apologizing after a video obtained by Global News shows him breaking COVID-19 restrictions and spending unmasked time in close quarters with an individual who is not from his household.
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It’s anything but quiet on the set these days in Canada. Diligent (and expensive) adherence to health and safety protocol has film and television production surging during the virus’s persistent third wave, and with low reports of COVID-19 incidents.
Since it reopened last summer, the industry has operated full tilt. “I can tell you we’ve rebounded since we reopened last summer and we are hitting historic highs in terms of productions,” said John Lewis, international vice-president and director of Canadian affairs with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
The numbers back up Lewis’s declaration. Gross wages for film technicians in British Columbia, for example, have jumped nearly $4-million during the first quarter of 2021, compared with the corresponding prepandemic figure from 2019.
In Ontario, according to the Directors Guild of Canada, there are 87 major productions happening in the province at the moment – a big number that doesn’t take into account documentaries, unscripted series and commercials.
And in Toronto? Film star Jason Momoa has been a one-man industry.
The reason for Momoa’s heavy workload is that he’s cast in the Netflix fantasy-adventure feature Slumberland and the Apple TV series See, both filmed in Toronto. The explanation as to why filming in Canada is booming and allowed to flourish by governments while other sectors of the economy are locked down and desperately struggling is more complicated.
There i$ nothing complicated about the$e double $tandard$.
Could it be that locking people down for a Chinese-spread virus with an over ninety percent survivability rate is a bad idea?:
The measles virus can rip through a population much faster than COVID-19, and experience shows that 95 per cent of the population needs to be vaccinated to protect everyone.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic early last year, the thinking among scientists was that herd immunity could come if 60 per cent of the population achieved immunity through infection or vaccination. That number is gradually creeping up, with 75 per cent to 85 per cent now being touted as the required level.
It's not about health and it never was.
As long as one can morally posture, slavery doesn't matter:
The lawsuit says, "There is no question that defendants have specific knowledge that the cobalt mined in DRC they use in their various products includes cobalt that was produced by children working under extremely hazardous conditions, that serious mining accidents are common due to the primitive conditions and complete lack of safety precautions in the mines, and that hundreds, if not thousands, of children have been maimed or killed to produce the cobalt needed for the world's modern tech gadgets produced by defendants and other companies."
It can be printed at will:
About 30,000 Canadians will be able to keep $240 million in Canada Emergency Response Benefits despite originally being ineligible for the money, according to government estimates.
The Liberal government has decided to forgive the debt of all self-employed Canadians who claimed an average $8,000 in CERB overpayments — worth a total of $240 million. The claimants did not meet the benefit’s eligibility criteria due to confusing government messaging, according to information quietly published in the Canada Gazette two weeks ago.
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The Public Health Agency breached federal rules in paying out more than $600 million in cash advances to contractors for rush orders on pandemic supplies, auditors disclosed yesterday. The value of money lost on goods never delivered was not revealed: “These contracts are considered riskier.”
Also - because discovering gold rocks is far more important that life-saving drugs:
The Royal Canadian Mint yesterday deleted Nobel Laureate Frederick Banting from a coin commemorating the discovery of insulin, but honoured James “Skookum Jim” Mason of the Tagish First Nation in a separate coin marking discovery of gold in the Yukon. The decision follows a 2019 cabinet policy to address “colonialism, patriarchy and racism” in historical observances: “This contributes to the ongoing process of truth-telling and reconciliation.”
Whom the gods wish to destroy ...
From the government that wants Bill C-10 to be law:
While debate over Bill C-10 is still dominating the public conversation, another disturbing piece of Internet policy has quietly emerged from the federal government: a grab for website blocking powers.
On April 14, the federal government launched a “Consultation on a Modern Copyright Framework for Online Intermediaries”. In the policy paper for the consultation, the government proposes giving itself sweeping censorship powers to demand our ISPs and other online intermediaries — folk like our libraries, universities, and online platforms — block access to websites through their services.
And that’s just to start! The proposal goes on to suggest stripping many of the legal protections intermediaries currently enjoy if their services are used to improperly link to or access copyrighted content, and helpfully suggests ISPs suspend our Internet, or even ban us permanently from their platforms if they’re concerned about their increased legal risk. All this, any time that litigious rights holding companies like Bell, Disney or Corus Entertainment claim anyone using our Internet connection has improperly accessed their copyrighted materials.
These proposals are disproportionate and unjustified by the limited scale of copyright infringement in Canada, and deeply open to abuse. The reality is that online violation of copyright is a limited and shrinking issue in Canada — most people prefer paying for creative content most of the time, when rights holders offer a reasonable way to do so. But this idea to shut off parts of the web at the whim of copyright giants didn’t come out left field. In fact, Bell has put forward different versions of this website blocking proposal — ironically dubbed “FairPlay” — repeatedly for many years, including at the CRTC, during NAFTA renegotiation, during the government’s BTLR review, and during previous copyright consultations. Every level of government has so far rejected their proposals - but that might be about to change.
Bill C-10 would also ensure that things like the items below never go public:
A woman has filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, alleging that, while she was a scholarship student, she was sexually harassed by her mentor and the foundation then pressured her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep it quiet.
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The Commons government operations committee yesterday by a 6-5 vote ordered disclosure of confidential emails regarding a sole-sourced federal contract to the Prime Minister’s half-brother. Kyle Kemper, an Ottawa bitcoin developer, was paid to attend a Swiss conference as a “champion speaker” on behalf of the Government of Canada: “What is the suspicion here?”
Of course, the popular press has millions of reasons to be compliant.
Grovel better than the walking steroid that China is currently peeing on:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has delivered a formal apology for the internment of Canadians of Italian descent during the Second World War.
(Sidebar: how timely! Because it's not like these people are still alive or anything. Or that his dad fought against them.)
Trudeau started talking about refugees, even mentioning the Italian, Greek, and Portuguese community. He tried to make a comparison of past attitudes towards those communities, and then apparently link those attitudes to returning ISIS fighters.
He's just a font of sincerity!:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectured the Conservatives about “anti-Asian racism” and “tolerance” during Question Period on Wednesday when asked about protecting Canadian research institutions from Chinese foreign influence.
Recently, the Globe and Mail revealed that at least seven scientists from Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory collaborated with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on infectious disease studies while working in Canada.
Trudeau made the comments after Conservative MP Candice Bergen pressed him on whether his government was willing to cut research ties with the Chinese communist regime.
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He is trying to exploit the terrible rise in anti-Asian racism to silence criticism of the Chinese Communist Party and China’s effort to co-opt Canadian institutions.
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Looks like Canada is skillfully handling East Asia... with Justin Trudeau mistakenly referring to Japan as China... twice ... alongside Shinzo Abe. (From a CBC article.) pic.twitter.com/Xc9alanLUs
— Iain Marlow (@iainmarlow) April 28, 2019
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"Mr. Floyd’s death was a tragedy and it was a reminder that there are still too many people living with anti-Black racism and injustice, including here in Canada," Trudeau said.
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Global News has obtained video showing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in blackface, the third instance of racist dress to come to light in 12 hours.
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Instead, Trudeau has chosen an approach that seeks to silence legitimate questions, deflect the discussion, attack Canadians as racist for supporting national security, and will lead to a further rise in racism and a more angry and divided nation.
No wonder Justin and his creepy friend want Bill C-10 to pass.
His racism need never be pointed out again.
LIBERAL VOTERS, you get to own this. Every screen cap of every tweet in support of this thoughtless moron will be sent out one day and you will be like the good Germans who vehemently deny support for the reigning scumbag.
Taiwan is a country.
Israel is a country.
Even Canada is a country.
Not much of one anymore but still.
Apologise for that.
Your mid-week pause for clarity ...
You see, Quebec is special:
However Mr. Singh came out this weekend, from behind Justin Trudeau’s chair, to explain to Canadians that Quebec unilaterally amending the whole of the Canadian Constitution is quite fine with him and his party. And his logic was impeccable. It amounted to declaring it OK because it is Quebec that is proposing the amendment.
Which leads to the corollary that were it any other province — particularly Alberta — it would be an unthinkable assault on the very foundations of Canadian governance, and for that matter, Canadian history.
(Sidebar: I'll bet that Jag thought that up all by himself.)
Even has-beens are putting skin in the game:
Yet, the former Liberal Party leader backs Justin Trudeau’s position on Quebec’s attempt to unilaterally amend the Canadian Constitution to declare the province a nation whose only official language is French.
(Sidebar: in case one had forgotten, New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. Without government enforcement, Quebec and the form of French that is partly spoken there would disappear.)
The Bloc Quebecois failed to unanimously pass a motion recognizing Quebec’s right to unilaterally change the Constitution in line with proposed reforms to the province’s language law.
Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet tabled a motion Wednesday in the House of Commons asking lawmakers to recognize that right, but confronted a single, critical “nay” from a lone member of Parliament.
Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould scuppered the unanimity required for a motion tabled without official notice.
In a Twitter post minutes later, she said political partisanship and “pandering” have led lawmakers “to abandon core legal norms” and debate on constitutional issues.
As a “proud (First Nations) woman I’m always ready 2 discuss Nationhood & language,” she wrote, calling the parties’ deference to the Bloc “dismaying.”
(Sidebar: because "here first" or something. Just block some railroads.)
Now it's time for everyone else to realise that oligarchs run this country and that what they truly deserve is to be cut off.
The Alberta government has introduced a revamped version of legislation that had given the province the power to restrict and control shipments of its energy exports as a means to “fight back” against other Canadian jurisdictions that oppose pipeline projects or otherwise block the province’s oil and natural gas.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Today in "the government is filled with petty and corrupt chair-moisteners" news:
A Conservative MP yesterday was threatened with expulsion from the Commons for wearing a pro-oil button. House rules forbid props: “Remove that button.”
Then forbid Justin's fruity socks.
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In the video, O'Toole sets up the scenario of an attack on freedom of expression in the form of Bill C-10. The bill he was describing, however, was not Canadian at all, and was instead on the worrying attack on free expression currently ongoing in Hong Kong.
(Sidebar: this desperate yet much maligned O'Toole and this Bill C-10. No wonder Justin and his creepy friend want Bill C-10 to pass. Imagine being a groping creep owned by O'Toole and everyone knows about it.)
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Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has frequently claimed that his legislative goal in Bill C-10 is to “get money from web giants”. As last week’s post on a Canadian Heritage departmental memo highlighted, Bill C-10 targets far more than just “web giants” as the bill adopts a far broader regulatory approach that targets podcast apps such as Stitcher and Pocket Casts, audiobook services such as Audible, home workout apps, pornographic sites, sports streaming services such as MLB.TV and DAZN, niche video services such as Britbox, and even broadcaster websites such as the BBC.
The effect of significant new regulatory costs on these services is likely to spark one of two responses: some services will simply pass along the costs to consumers in the form of new Cancon surcharges, while others will likely block the Canadian market altogether. The Cancon surcharges, when combined with the new sales taxes on digital services that take effect later this year, could lead to the costs of digital services skyrocketing by nearly 50 per cent in Canada. If that happens, Guilbeault will be getting money from consumers, not the web giants.
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DailyNK reports website this morning, that : “on Apr. 25, approximately forty days after his arrest, Lee was publicly executed in front of a crowd of five hundred people, which included Wonsan officials and their families, teachers, and university students. After forcing Lee’s immediate family members to stand in the front row at the execution, the authorities killed Lee by firing squad.”
“Lee’s wife, son, and daughter collapsed where they were standing in the front row of the execution area. While everyone watched, Ministry of State Security officials picked them up and loaded them into a cargo truck with barred windows for transport to a political prisoner camp.”
“Lee sold the CDs and USB sticks containing South Korean video content for between USD 5 USD and USD 12 each. The Ministry of State Security is searching for those who purchased the videos from Lee. The authorities arrested approximately twenty other merchants involved in the case and are currently conducting preliminary examinations for each of them. If you are caught watching a South Korean video, you receive a sentence of either life in prison or death, so nobody knows who will be executed next,” the source said. “You can receive a seven-year sentence just for not reporting someone [who watched or distributed South Korean media]. The entire population is shaking with fear.
(Sidebar: this North Korea.)
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“The Senate is unelected and unaccountable to anyone other than itself. Sadly, that concept has been twisted to mean that senators are not permitted the procedural fairness available to every other resident of Canada,” he said. “Even the Charter of Rights has no application here.”
Uh, the Charter is toilet paper.
Wait - the lab theory makes sense now?:
Kessler goes over the timeline of the first stories about COVID, back when we were still calling it the novel coronavirus, but he gives the Leftist legacy media a complete pass for their catastrophic failure to do their basic jobs because they had another job to do: undermine the president.
Hate Trump, if one must, but ignoring China's global malfeasance and/or incompetence takes the cake even Walter Duranty would hesitate over.
Also - we don't have to trade with China:
Sauytbay tells of a torture chamber she calls the “black room,” near the guardhouse at the camp where she was imprisoned. The screams coming from the black room “sounded like the raw cries of a dying animal,” she says. “The second you hear them, you know what kind of agony that person is experiencing.”
She recalls seeing chains on the walls in the black room, and chairs with “nails sticking out of the seats” where inmates would be tied down. Torture devices on the walls “looked like they were from the Middle Ages,” including “implements used to pull out fingernails and toenails,” and a spear-like rod “for jabbing into a person’s flesh.” Electric chairs, “iron chairs with holes in the back so that the arms could be twisted back above the shoulder joint,” and other chairs designed to pin victims down lined one side of the room.
“Many of the people they tortured never came back out of that room,” she says. “Others stumbled out, covered in blood.”
It's a good thing that there are people ready to grovel before China.
Also - China crushes underfoot its own people, the Tibetans, the Uighurs, the North Koreans and black people.
But whatever sends the tweets:
Anti-asian violence is one of many negative consequences of a flawed China policy that makes Americans less safe at home.@QuincyInst's @JessLee_DC calls for a more rational debate about U.S.-China relations:https://t.co/avrprMwNwx pic.twitter.com/XrZNDIXw2A
— Quincy Institute (@QuincyInst) May 25, 2021
About 26,000 American men moved to Canada in the 1960s in order to avoid service in the Vietnam War. Notable among them was singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester as well as the husband of Margaret Atwood, whose draft eligibility prompted the couple’s move to Toronto.
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While the influx is often remembered with some measure of national pride, most Canadians at the time were not at all happy with the American newcomers.
A 1968 poll cited by Boyko found that 58 per cent of Canadians said draft evaders should be barred from the country. Vancouver mayor Tom Campbell called them elements of a “scum community” who “won’t even fight for their own country.” In 1966, Canadian director of immigration J.C. Morrison wrote that deserters should not be allowed entry to Canada as they had already demonstrated a willingness to flout “moral or contractual obligations.”
When you think of incompetence and unpreparedness, think of puny Canada:
Canada’s National Emergency Strategic Stockpile was unprepared to deal with the pandemic due to “long-standing unaddressed problems” that had been known for more than a decade when COVID-19 hit, according to the auditor general.
In a report released Wednesday, Auditor General Karen Hogan reviewed the national stockpile and efforts to purchase personal protective equipment and found Canada was ill-prepared to respond to the pandemic.
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The Privy Council Office is concealing hundreds of thousands of records on pandemic mismanagement, the Commons health committee was told. Disclosure of a few records to date detail favouritism in contracting and attempts to hide supply shortages: “Who in government is responsible?”
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The Alberta company’s messenger-RNA shot could be rolling out of the Emergent Biosolutions plant in Winnipeg before year’s end, Sorenson said last week, shortly after Emergent executives underwent a public grilling by U.S. lawmakers.
The Maryland-based manufacturer has taken heat in Congress and the U.S. media for ruining 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, struggling with quality-control problems at its Baltimore plant and generating spotty results from a lucrative government contract.
The firm’s little-known Winnipeg facility, not implicated in the U.S. controversy, is slated to do the final stages of manufacturing on the Canadian vaccine.
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That collaboration has been “great,” said Sorenson, whose firm made headlines earlier this year when Manitoba purchased two million doses of its product in advance, independent from the federal vaccine-procurement program.
But plans are up in the air as Ottawa has shown scant interest in pre-ordering any of the Providence vaccine itself, despite encouraging early results, he complained.
(Sidebar: could this flu shot be worse than the ones that give you blood clots and strokes? But it's not about effectiveness of vaccines. It's about the contempt the government has for its population and that population's comfort with it.)
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Officer Cadet Ladislas Kenderesi was charged with one count of “endeavoring to persuade another person to join in a mutiny,” an offence under the National Defence Act. Kenderesi was also charged with one count of behaving in a scandalous manner unbecoming of an officer.
The charges were laid May 12 by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, defence officials told this newspaper.
Kenderesi had appeared at an anti-lockdown rally in December in Toronto dressed in his Canadian Forces uniform and speaking out about the COVID-19 vaccine, claiming it was a “killer.”
He called on military personnel not to be involved in government plans to distribute the vaccine. “I’m asking military, right now serving, truck drivers, medical, engineers, whatever you are, do not take this unlawful order (for) the distribution of this vaccine,” Kenderesi said at the rally. A video of his speech was posted on YouTube.
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Pandemic stay-home orders and lockdowns were so widespread it cost the federal treasury more than two-third of a billion in lost gas taxes, according to finance department accounts. Fuel tax revenue will remain “well below expected GDP growth” for years to come, wrote staff: “Revenues are projected to fall by 12 percent.”
