Your mid-week stroll through the rain ...
There is only "transparency":
Eight of the media companies and non-profit organizations the Trudeau government consulted on its internet regulation bill have received federal funding.
In response to a question on the order paper in the House of Commons last week, Liberal MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage Julie Dabrusin listed nearly two dozen organizations the Liberal government had consulted on Bill C-10.
“In 2018, the government appointed the broadcasting and telecommunications legislative review panel to study Canada’s communications legislation,” said Debrusin.
“Following the publication of the panel’s report in January 2020, the minister and the department engaged with many stakeholders on the panel’s recommendations through various mechanisms, such as individual stakeholder meetings and roundtables.”
Among the companies Debrusin cited were the Canadian Media Producers Association, Rogers Media, Zoomer Media, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the Indigenous Screen Office, the Canada Media Fund, CBC News/Radio-Canada and the Coalition for Diversity of Cultural Expression.
Publicly available federal grant records revealed that all of the Canadian companies mentioned above had received federal funds since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015.
If you want to know who you can't criticise, see who's on the payroll.
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The WE Charity is in hot water again, this time with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which has levied penalties against it for improperly issuing donation receipts of $1.8 million. The charity has filed an appeal with the tax court and a trial date must now be scheduled.
The donation receipts were issued in connection with so-called “WE Day” events – stadium-sized, one day events held by the charity in cities around the world to celebrate student volunteer efforts. There was no charge to students or other supporters who attended: they earned their tickets by participating in the charity’s programs. The charity’s website billed the gatherings as “star-studded events,” featuring megastars, motivational speakers and entertainment.
Jagmeet Singh sold out to Justin and became his b!#ch. Pretending to be important is a poor attempt to escape the shame of it:
I first experienced racism, not in Canada, but in India and the Middle East, two places where I grew up. I was routinely denigrated by some Indians for having darker skin and by some Arabs for being Indian, dark skinned and not a Muslim. These prejudices can be vicious. The truth is that many people of colour who immigrate to Canada are “racialized” long before they arrive here.
That racism can, and does, exist between people of colour is a reality that’s entirely missing from the discourse on race in Canada, where it’s assumed to be perpetrated solely by old stock white Canadians, with people of colour as their victims. An honest conversation about racism in Canada must acknowledge these complexities, especially given demographic changes driven by large-scale immigration from non-Western countries.
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There is ample anecdotal evidence that some immigrants bring the baggage of religion, caste, skin complexion and social class, to say nothing of traditional patriarchal norms that discriminate against women. Such cultural baggage can fuel intolerance operating on many different dimensions simultaneously.
Now, why would people think that?:
In a new report, a civil rights group says the Canada Revenue Agency has unfairly targeted Muslim charities for audits, causing a disproportionate number to lose their charitable status.
The Canada Revenue Agency said it had suspended the Islamic Society of North America-Canada (ISNA-Canada) for a year effective Sept. 12 and ordered the Mississauga-based charity to pay a $550,000 penalty.
Government auditors alleged ISNA-Canada had “failed to conduct any meaningful due diligence” when it transferred $136,000 to the war-torn Kashmir region, where the militant Hizbul Muhajideen has been fighting Indian troops.
People who have previously been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 are protected against being infected again and thus don’t need to be vaccinated, according to a new study.
“Our conclusion is that if you were previously infected, you are protected because of the previous infection and you don’t need the vaccine,” Dr. Nabin Shrestha, of the Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Infectious Disease, told The Epoch Times.
Shrestha and colleagues at the clinic studied data on employees, separating them into four groups: previously infected and unvaccinated, previously infected and vaccinated, not previously infected and unvaccinated, and not previously infected and vaccinated.
They found that the vaccines were strongly effective in preventing infection from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, but that previous infection also bestowed a natural immunity.
“Among the people who were previously infected, whether they took the vaccine or not, there really were no COVID cases,” Shrestha said.
Of the 52,238 employees studied, 2,579 were previously infected. About half of those remained unvaccinated. Of the 49,659 employees who did not have a previous infection, 41 percent did not get a vaccine.
Using a Cox proportional hazards regression model and adjusting for the phase of the pandemic, vaccination was linked to a significantly lower risk of infection among those not previously infected but not among those who had had the disease.
In conclusion, the authors wrote, “Individuals who had had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before.”
Also - alright! No rape hotels for these guys!:
The federal government on Wednesday announced that “fully vaccinated” Canadian travellers will no longer require mandatory COVID-19 hotel quarantine upon arrival in Canada. Come July, the exemption will apply to Canadian citizens and permanent residents flying back home, according to Intergovernmental Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
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Internal emails disclose the scientific director of a federal lab was uneasy over close ties with researchers in China. Two employees were fired January 20 at the National Microbiology Laboratory in circumstances unexplained to date: “We still don’t know why these two scientists were terminated.”
It's like someone thought the grandiosity and incompetence of the Soviet era was something to emulate:
A federal monument to Cold War victims is now 284 percent over budget and incomplete. The Department of Canadian Heritage blamed the pandemic, though the project has been on the drawing board since 2009: “The design team experienced delays related to ensuring the Memorial is buildable.”
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Homeowners nationwide must embrace high density housing for the sake of climate change, CMHC said yesterday. The federal mortgage insurer said it would help in “unblocking those barriers” that favour construction of single family homes: ‘We feel NIMBYism and zoning issues are very significant barriers.’
Rather, a $12,000 watch can tell us that a fat robber baron rules over a country of starving people:
Kim’s ever-present IWC Schaffhausen Portofino appeared to have been fastened tighter around his wrist in the latest photos released by state media, according to an analysis published Tuesday by NK News. The Seoul-based news site compared close-ups of the $12,000 watch from past months to support observations that Kim, 37, had slimmed down.
There has to be a complete overhaul of the education system in Canada.
I realize it’s hardly a new observation, but it bears repeating here that there’s no reason state funding of education must imply state delivery. If “voucher” scares you, or triggers the blob, call them “charter schools”. The key point is, instead of students following public money to where politicians send it, public money can follow students to where parents send them.
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Schools obliged to satisfy parents would deliver far better on the “3 Rs”. And as John Stuart Mill observed with habitual clarity, funding and requiring basic education for all is vital to equal opportunity but state delivery is bound to turn into indoctrination, including about the vital importance of state delivery of education by highly paid teachers.
Now imagine private rather than public schools being ordered to cease in-person instruction in this pandemic. They would have, of course. But then they’d have worked hard to figure out how to welcome students back safely, and pressured governments to allow it instead of joining the lockdown chorus.
They’d also have worked hard to make online learning better rather than working hard to justify its mediocrity, because they’d have been free to innovate and strongly motivated to persuade parents to choose their school again in the fall.
When a country is built on a bed of corruption and grift, at some point going through the motions is a waste of time.
Canadians abhor freedom and would not dream of taking their children's education into their hands. They will realise sooner than later that their snowflakes are competing with children whose parents do care and that there are no more cushy public sector jobs to be had.
Oh, well.
Also - because China is a Third World country with no regard for its own people:
Education has been a Chinese priority for many centuries, rooted in an imperial civil service examination system with a history extending back 1,300 years. Today, the Chinese government invests more in education, as a percentage of gross domestic product, than the province of Ontario. The annual writing of the gaokao university entrance test is so important that for days ahead of the exam, police shut down roads, close bars and entertainment venues and halt construction work. Residents are even told to turn down television at night.
Yet across China, particularly in its vast rural reaches, children grow up in homes where they receive little mental stimulus. This remnant of peasant culture has a profound impact on the makeup of China today and the ability of its work force in the future to thrive in a knowledge-based economy.
The numbers are stark: in surveys covering a dozen of China’s more rural provinces, 46 per cent of children show cognitive delays. One study of 7,000 junior-high-school children in Gansu and Shaanxi, both poorer provinces, showed that 49 per cent have poor cognitive skills. “They would be in special ed in California,” says Scott Rozelle, a Stanford scholar who has studied childhood development in China for many years.
“You find the same thing in elementary school. You find the same thing in preschools. It’s the biggest problem China has that no one knows about.”
These shortfalls in the education system remain as kids grow older. Surveys show that some 95 per cent of mothers of babies in China expect them to attend university. And yet barely 50 per cent of Chinese students attend any form of postsecondary education.
The research showed that in Chinese rural areas, 23 per cent of families reported reading to their children under five in the previous three days. Just 25 per cent had told a story to their child and 45 per cent had sang to a son.
In the most rural areas, parents themselves may have little education. Ching Tien recalls several years ago speaking to some 30 high-school girls in rural Gansu where the charity she founded, Educating Girls of Rural China, sponsors young women’s studies. Ms. Tien asked how many of the girls’ mothers had finished high school. “One or two hands went up,” she recalled.
If parents themselves don’t have much education, “how can they really even think about reading to their children?” she said.
Some prominent Chinese scholars and writers came under fire last week after nationalistic netizens noticed their names among a list of 144 Chinese intellectuals who had been sponsored by the Japan Foundation to visit Japan from 2008 to 2016.
Two netizens, operating under the pseudonyms Diguaxiong Laoliu and Guyan Muchan, who each have more than six million followers on their Twitter-like Weibo accounts, accused the intellectuals of currying favour with Japan for financial gain.
They joined an online "name and shame" campaign to brand the intellectuals as traitors.
Asked about the controversy at a regular press conference on Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said government-supported people-to-people interaction had contributed positively to relations between China and Japan.
"We hope to achieve more understanding, trust and deeper friendship through continual healthy and stable interaction among Chinese and Japanese people," said Wang.
Wang's comment comes a week after President Xi Jinping told senior Communist Party officials that they should improve the way they communicate with the rest of the world.
"We must focus on setting the tone right, be open and confident but also modest and humble, and strive to create a credible, lovable and respectable image of China," Xi said, according to Xinhua news agency.
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