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A lot in the news ....
If you can't beat them, join them:
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s YouTube regulation bill C-10 yesterday was rewritten by MPs to acknowledge “freedom of expression guaranteed to users of social media.” The Commons heritage committee deferred a vote to ban regulation of private users’ uploaded content altogether: “You can never be too careful.”
Not that regulation of the Internet is next to impossible, that censorship is wrong, that reducing any and every expression to raaaaaaaacism is intellectually dishonest and emotionally retarded, that instigator of this travesty is a convicted criminal and said outright that taunting politicians - the morons who have locked us down, destroyed the economy and let a Chinese-made virus ravage the globe - should be illegal. He actually said that.
Not a g-d- one of them are worth it. Not one.
Also:
The effect of these approaches would have been to regulate thousands of Canadians that have found audiences online. If that sounds familiar, Guilbeault said earlier this month that the bill would cover social media users with large audiences, only to try to walk back the comments the following day.
The reality is that government has left little doubt that lobbying interests carry far more weight than the views of Canadians when it comes to Bill C-10. Those lobbyists may be “shocked” to find Canadians concerned with the regulation of user generated content, yet that is precisely the approach that they lobbied the government to implement. If Bill C-10 passes and the CRTC is left to sort out the implementation of the regulations, those groups seem likely to continue their efforts to regulate the user generated content of millions of Canadians.
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Because transparency:
A so-far unsuccessful attempt by opposition parties to reopen House of Commons committee hearings on sexual misconduct in the military appears to be headed for a sequel.
The Conservatives, New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois have all signalled they are in favour of a motion that would summon a former top adviser to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan to testify on what she knows about the handling of an informal allegation of inappropriate conduct against former general Jonathan Vance.
The governing Liberals have, for the second time in a week, prevented the Conservative motion from coming to a vote before the Commons defence defence committee.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quite vague in his responses to questions around the investigation into Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, following allegation of sexual misconduct, but indicated that he was informed about this situation "a number of weeks ago."
Bill C-10 and the grubby media will ensure that we never hear any of this ever again.
Don't think that it won't happen.
Your corrupt government and you:
The Public Health Agency did not carefully monitor operations at a federal lab raided by the RCMP, says an internal report. The audit of the National Microbiology Laboratory made no mention of the raid targeting Chinese employees given secret security clearance: “Often the Laboratory and Agency are not aware of what the other is working on.”
More:
Seven scientists in the special pathogens unit at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg and Chinese military researchers have conducted experiments and co-authored six studies on infectious diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever and Rift Valley fever. The publication dates of the studies range from early 2016 to early 2020.
The Globe and Mail has also learned that one of the Chinese researchers, Feihu Yan, from the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academy of Military Medical Sciences, worked for a period of time at the Winnipeg lab, a Level 4 facility equipped to handle some of the world’s deadliest diseases. This researcher is credited as a co-author on all six of the papers. However, on two of them, he is listed as being affiliated with both the Winnipeg lab and the military medical academy.
Two of the Winnipeg lab scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were fired in January of this year after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, as The Globe reported last week, recommended that their security clearances be removed on national-security grounds. CSIS had also been concerned about the nature of information Dr. Qiu might have passed on to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. ...
Andy Ellis, former CSIS assistant director of operations, said it is “madness” for the Public Health Agency of Canada to be co-operating with the PLA, which in recent years has ramped up its recruitment of scientists and invested heavily in medical research as part of its strategy to modernize its military.
“It is ill-advised. It is the top lab in Canada,” Mr. Ellis said in an interview. “It is just incredible naiveté on their part.”
Mr. Ellis said it is also astounding that PHAC allowed a PLA scientist into the Winnipeg lab that requires the highest-level security clearance to gain entry.
“We won’t let a Canadian in unless we have done a deep background check, but we let [someone] in that we don’t know anything about. It doesn’t make sense,” he added.
Remember - you need a passport for a flu shot that could give you a brain bleed.
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You see - Quebec is special:
The past few days have been very enlightening. Especially around Quebec’s Bill 96 and the attempt to unilaterally alter the Canadian Constitution.
After the bill’s introduction in the Quebec legislature, Prime Minister Trudeau almost breathlessly announced that it was “perfectly legitimate” for one province to alter the Constitution of the entire nation. In particular that Quebec, which did not sign the Constitution Act, is nonetheless endowed with the singular privilege of the power to amend it.
From which I derive a new principle of constitutional law — herewith: that the only province which did not and has not signed the Constitution Act has the right to, unilaterally, amend the Constitution.
And the corollary to that principle is that any and all provinces which have signed that act cannot unilaterally or otherwise amend the Constitution.
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We need the Arctic more than we need hypocrites:
Cabinet must regulate Arctic shipping, the Transportation Safety Board said yesterday. The recommendation followed an investigation of the 2018 grounding of a passenger ship, the Akademik Ioffe: “Insurance costs will play a much bigger role than climate change.”
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Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson faces a Federal Court challenge after listing all “plastic manufactured items” as toxic. A coalition of oil and chemical companies filed its claim only six days after Wilkinson issued the order, calling it “unreasonable,” “political,” “flawed,” “wrong in law” and “based on conjecture, not evidence.”
The Aunt Jemima treatment comes when it does:
@CBC reported that I am a liability. @LeeHardingSK & 3 top political science professors disagree & applaud my opposition to woke group think. My principled convictions are always respectful of opponents. Isn’t that what politics is about? https://t.co/q4H78ea9mA
— Dr. Leslyn Lewis (@LeslynLewis) May 21, 2021
The left - the sad collection of white, emotionally retarded, floor-sticker-following, gated community wokesters - is unable to comprehend an erudite, well-spoken conservative of a more earthen hue.
It's as plain as the physical revulsion felt by a fake vice president upon greeting a leftist but still more accomplished actual leader.
But I digress ...
Today in "look what the Chinese government and their sympathetic "experts" have done to us now" news:
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, according to several reports on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.
The Wall Street Journal, which first broke the story, said that the report provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits – may add weight to calls for a broader probe of whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory.
That's not suspicious at all!
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The real number of Canadian kids admitted to hospital because of COVID-19 is much lower than the data previously indicated, according to a new report from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). ...
“Only 36.6% of pediatric patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were admitted due to an acute respiratory infection,” explains a new report out from PHAC’s Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP).
The report was quietly released last week. The term nosocomial refers to illnesses that originated within a hospital setting.
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One of the top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials who was included in emails between the agency and the nation’s second-largest teachers union on schools reopening will step down from her position this summer, POLITICO reports.
Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director, was one of multiple government health officials included in emails between The American Federation of Teachers union, who repeatedly lobbied against in-person schooling, and the agency over the school reopening guidelines which were released earlier this year.
Schuchat says she is leaving the agency to “allow more time for creative passions” after spending the last seven years in her spot as the CDC’s second-in-command.
Bull. Sh--.
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**This is creepy. Aylmer, Ontario police have named me in a court document as a "person of interest" in connection with a service at a church I've never been to. I haven't even stepped foot in Aylmer in four years. pic.twitter.com/kI2k2kbIoy
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) May 21, 2021
No, Father, people abandoned churches for floor stickers a long time ago. Now, they will just get further used to pretending that their Cheeto-stained selves are the sources of enlightenment:
Pentecost Sunday, which falls 50 days after Easter, doesn’t get quite the attention that Easter and Christmas do, but traditionally it is just as important. Christians often refer to it as the “birthday” of the church, when frightened and cowering disciples were converted by the power of the Holy Spirit into fearless evangelists. They would be the missionary martyrs who would carry the Christian faith, as the scripture puts it, to the ends of the earth.
Pentecost 2021 is not a happy birthday for the Christian churches in Canada. From the seven months and counting abolition of religious liberty in British Columbia, to severe restrictions on worship elsewhere, Christian disciples may well feel, as their ancestors did at the first Pentecost, huddled together, fearful of the authorities.
Yet the pandemic is only a (slowly) passing story. The real question is what will happen once the restrictions are lifted. Will the faithful come back?
The faithful gather in living rooms in China.
If they don't in Canada, it is because they are lazy.
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China's Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd is willing to provide Taiwan with BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, its chairman Wu Yifang told Xinhua news agency, amid a spike in domestic infections on the island.
Nope.
World peace is in capable hands:
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will focus primarily on ensuring that a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas holds during his visit to the region later on Monday, and work to get assistance delivered to the people of Gaza, a senior State Department official said.
This would be the re-grouping truce that the Egyptians sorted but I digress ...
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U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said he and South Korean President Moon Jae-in remain “deeply concerned” about the situation with North Korea, and announced he will deploy a new special envoy to the region to help refocus efforts on pressing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
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Lifting of US missile restrictions signifies Seoul's missile sovereignty, Washington's China strategy: experts
The full lifting of US restrictions on South Korean missiles is expected to beef up Seoul's defense capabilities by allowing it to secure longer-range missiles that can fly beyond the Korean Peninsula, experts said Saturday.
The decision is also seen as part of the US strategy to counter China, and South Korea's deployment of longer-range missiles could bring the country further into the great power game between Washington and Beijing, the experts said.
Rather, it is a signal to China that the US is backing away from an ally.
Oh, dear ... :
A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption covered hundreds of houses in eastern Congo on Sunday, leaving residents to pick gingerly through the wreckage for belongings and loved ones, though the flow halted just short of the city of Goma.
Goma was thrown into panic on Saturday evening as Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active and dangerous volcanoes, erupted, turning the night sky an eerie red and sending a wall of orange lava downhill towards the lakeside city of about 2 million people.
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