Your mid-week folly ....
When Justin declared his undying love for a country that mowed people down at Tiananmen Square, he bloody well meant it:
Prime Minister Trudeau has ordered the Canadian flag flown on Peace Tower on Parliament Hill lowered at half-mast for Canada Day after the remains of over 1,000 Indigenous children were found at two residential school sites.
The Lower Kootenay Band in British Columbia says a search using ground-penetrating radar has found 182 human remains in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school.
(Sidebar: not unmarked but abandoned, as are many other graves. This country is awash with forgotten cemeteries.)
Oh, and this:
Cowessess First Nation and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina have partnered to rejuvenate the gravesite, located on the reserve since 1898. The official partnership began last year and last week, the Archdiocese announced a $70,000 investment. Part of the money is for aesthetic upgrades, including trees and fences. It will also go toward identifying graves and creating a map of the site. A central monument for all individuals buried there is also planned, which will be beneficial for people like Lerat, who didn’t have the money to buy headstones.
Justin's contempt for Canada is matched only by his melodrama.
The least-important voters block has taken the attention away from the various other scandals and glaring examples of ineptitude that one can lay squarely at the socked feet of Trudeau and his band of greedy, squealing losers.
Before he goes on a two month holiday (he doesn't hold down a job as other MPs might), he casually muttered some blather about the plethora of arsons he has been ignoring for weeks.
These arsons:
Last week, within six days and an hour’s drive of each other in British Columbia, four Catholic churches in the Penticton, Osoyoos, Upper Similkameen and Lower Similkameen Indian Band communities were lost in suspected arson fires — two last Monday, and another two on Saturday. As of this Monday, RCMP are investigating a suspected arson fire at the Siksika First Nation Catholic Church, about 50 kilometres east of Calgary. (The fire was extinguished without major damage.)
Those are just the most recent. The Catholic church in the St. Theresa Point First Nation, about 500 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, burned on Easter Sunday. (Police quickly arrested a 32-year-old suspect who was well known to struggle with addictions, Chief Mary Wood told the Winnipeg Free Press.) Just days later, the 104-year-old St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Attawapiskat, Ont., on James Bay, burned under circumstances that are as yet unclear.
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A Catholic church in northern Alberta has been destroyed by what RCMP are calling a suspicious fire.
RCMP say in a release that officers were called to the blaze at St. John Baptiste Parish in Morinville, about 40 kilometres north of Edmonton, just after 3 a.m.
Nothing falling from the mouths of politicians truly matters. They always talk.
But they also always demonise and divide, too.
Canadians let a snowboard instructor call them racist, claim that Canada was built on genocide and declared Islamophobia to run rampant from far and wide.
Will they now endure a mere "unacceptable"?
Perhaps.
A country so inured with cultural Marxism that burning down Christian houses of worship seems an acceptable response to injustices real or imagined must suit Sock-Boy down to the ground. He no longer has to cry on command. A little nudge will discredit and remove the last bastion of universal morality from China's North American vassal state.
There is only "transparency":
On June 23, hours before the House of Commons adjourned for the summer, the Liberals introduced Bill C-36 – a bill to crack down on “hate speech” published online.
The bill would reinstate section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, amend the Criminal Code and Youth Criminal Justice Act to give the government new powers to address hateful content and give the Canadian Human Rights Commission the power to compel citizens to cease online communication.
According to PPC spokesperson Martin Masse, the legislation would effectively criminalize dissent and criticism that doesn’t align with “far left wokeism.”
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While the Simons speech raised the big picture questions about the Bill C-10 regulatory approach, Housakos simply destroyed the bill, highlighting the exclusion of important voices from committee hearings and the negative implications of its substantive provisions. At least three elements stood out. First, the impact of removing Section 4.1 from the bill:
The fact that the CRTC doesn’t consider you to be a broadcaster when you upload a video onto YouTube means nothing if they can make YouTube change its algorithms so that next to no one will ever see it. It means nothing if they can instead make people see a video with the kind of content they prefer.
Second, Housakos identified the core concern with discoverability requirements:
by prioritizing some content the CRTC will naturally be de-prioritizing other content in ways that go beyond limiting speech. It will be picking winners and losers.And who will be the winners and losers? Housakos calls it:
The beneficiaries of that system will be the established well-funded media production companies with the lobbyists and lawyers to work it to their advantage – more gatekeepers – not the independent YouTube performer looking to go viral and become the next Justin Bieber or Lily Singh.
Third, Housakos linked the current success of the Canadian film and television sector with the gatekeepers’ support for Bill C-10:
The problem isn’t a lack of investment in Canadian talent and Canadian stories. The problem, if you see it that way, is that it’s happening without the need for intermediaries like the Canada Media Fund. The middlemen aren’t getting their cut of the pie, and what’s worse for them is that they’re not controlling which artists and which producers are receiving funding. They want to pick the winners and losers. That’s the beauty of the digital age. The success of artists and producers isn’t determined by the gatekeepers.
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The Senate yesterday referred Bill C-10 to committee hearings as one legislator likened first-ever internet regulations to book burning. “I don’t think this bill needs amendments,” said Senator David Richards (N.B.). “I think however it needs a stake through the heart.”
The new hate speech bill introduced by the Liberal government as the Parliamentary session ended helps ensure freedom of expression for those who are disproportionately targeted online, supporters of the bill argue.
Rather, disaffected individuals whose only outlet for expressing their dissatisfaction with Catherine McKenna's incompetence, fluffy-brained tweets and her drunkenness, Maryam Monsef's fluid interpretation of the Afghani identity (and her incompetence), Bill Morneau's calling Lisa Raitt a "Neanderthal" (surely he had to recover at his French chateau), Chrystia Freeland and Patty Hajdu's rape-shaming and - do we have time to cover the Liberal "men's" sexual harassment? - that this outlet must be shut down because words make people cry?
I'm just not going to entertain that complete twaddle that this bill ensures freedom of speech.
What bullsh--.
When you think of COVID screw-ups and outright tyranny, think of Canada:
Health Canada is updating the label for the Oxford-AstraZeneca and COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccines to add capillary leak syndrome as a potential side-effect.
The agency is also including a warning for patients with a history of the ailment to not get those vaccines.
Capillary leak syndrome is a very rare, serious condition that causes fluid leakage from small blood vessels (capillaries), which can result in the swelling of the arms and legs, sudden weight gain, low blood pressure, thickening of the blood and low levels of the albumin blood protein.
Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada have been monitoring the condition since it was raised as a potential safety concern by the European Medicines Agency in April.
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Saskatchewan will not require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order for people to work or attend events in the province, Premier Scott Moe says.
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The Trudeau government has now taken the extraordinary step of filing a lawsuit against Speaker Anthony Rota (who is himself a Liberal Member of Parliament) in order to circumvent the Parliamentary orders. The ongoing ordeal raises basic questions about Parliamentary supremacy in our constitutional system.
It’s precisely the sort of issue that ought to animate law professors across the country who can usually be relied upon to issue an open letter of condemnation every time a Conservative government makes a decision they don’t like. Yet there’s been deafening silence in response to the government’s act of executive aggrandizement. No open letters. No protests. No media exposes. Not even the usual snark or incredulity on social media. Apparently academic Twitter has suddenly exhausted its usual supply of indignation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis,” using strong language that raised the specter of a mass outbreak in a country that would be scarcely able to handle it.
The state media report Wednesday did not specify what “crucial” lapse had prompted Kim to call the Politburo meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, but experts said the North could be wrestling with a significant setback in its pandemic fight.
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