What former Prime Minister Stephen Harper fails to bring to light is that Western civilisation, the best that humanity has ever seen, is dying because it would rather embrace the nihilism and antipathy of cultural Marxism (the left's guiding ethos) than the ingenuity, imagination and moral and physical fortitude that made the West great. The former's ethos is why so many morons vote for a scumbag (in a rigged game and not a checked and balanced system, one might add) who gropes or hits women and wastes a country's natural potential in lieu of a murderous dictatorship:
In a rare and
uniquely candid interview, former prime minister Stephen Harper warned
of a “nihilist” modern left bent on “ripping everything down” and
seeking to “end the democratic system.”
“If
it plays out, our societies fail,” Harper said in a Tuesday edition of
the podcast American Optimist. He added, “the adolescent egos of the
woke university crowd is not an alternative governing philosophy for any
society.”
I smell another lockdown!:
Canada is headed towards a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, but how
severe of a resurgence it’ll be depends on how many people are fully
vaccinated, warns new national modelling released Friday.
(Sidebar: oh, from the "vaccinated" people?)
**
Canada’s top doctors say Alberta’s decision to end isolation
requirements for those who test positive for COVID-19, or who have been
in close contact with someone who has, could have ripple effects across
the country.
**
Polling from the Association for Canadian Studies (ASC) also points to a
widespread hesitation among vaccinated people to be among
non-vaccinated people in dining rooms, gyms, airplanes, and at work. A
big majority of vaccinated Canadians said they should be entitled to
“greater freedoms” than non-vaccinated people.
F--- off, snowflakes.
**
Cabinet should mandate vaccine passports, says a federal executives’
periodical. The Prime Minister has called it an “extreme measure,” while
one federal agency said any passport mandate would breach the Privacy
Act: “It is an encroachment on civil liberties.”
There is only "transparency":
Cabinet yesterday proposed to appoint a chief internet censor with
sweeping powers to block websites, investigate anonymous complaints and
conduct closed-door hearings into legal but hurtful content deemed a
threat to “democratic institutions.” Technical papers released by
Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department said cabinet would
determine “the threshold for what constitutes potentially illegal
content.”
**
The Liberal government’s online harms bill would create a new regulator
for illegal content with sweeping powers that critics say raise concerns
about secret proceedings and Canadians’ charter rights.
The Charter is toilet paper and will not protect anyone from what China's Vichy government wants to do.
Canadians also lack basic math skills, as well:
According to a new survey from Harris Poll, commissioned by staffing
firm Express Employment Professionals, 59 per cent of Canadian
businesses say they can’t find qualified employees to fill vacancies.
And a third of those businesses say one big reason is because
prospective hires don’t have soft skills such as dependability,
flexibility and a willingness to learn.
Elections Canada research shows a majority of electors oppose giving the
ballot to high schoolers. A bill to lower the federal voting age to 16
was given Second Reading in the Senate on June 22: “What about running
for public office?”
Whoa! Are there shoes for this? What about fire insurance?:
The priest, Rheal
Forest, made the comments during a handful of masses at St. Emile
Catholic Church in Winnipeg earlier this month. Forest was filling in
for the parish’s regular priest.
During one service, Forest said
he worked in the north for 22 years and believes students enjoyed their
time at residential schools. He also suggested survivors claimed they
were victims of sexual abuse to get settlement money.
“If they wanted extra money, for the money that was given to them, they had to lie sometimes,” Forest told parishioners.
“Lie that they were abused sexually and, oop, another $50,000. It’s kind of hard if you are poor not to lie.”
Some church in Winnipeg is going to burn down.
Unimaginative hack fan-boys, aging feminists and a Chinese-appeasing corporation helped destroy characters that were onceappealing.
Not that Black Widow was that great but, you know, cash and all that:
A cinema industry executive familiar with the thinking at Disney said
Iger is frustrated that Chapek may have harmed the company's carefully
cultivated relationships in the all-important China market with its
"Black Widow" release strategy.
Disney's choice of July 9 to release the latest Marvel movie
internationally bumped into China's month-long celebrations of the
Chinese Communist Party's 100-year anniversary. The cinema industry
executive noted that China has yet to give a release date for "Black
Widow." Widespread piracy of the movie also threatens to hurt the China
box office.
**
As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Johansson’s lawsuit
argues that Disney’s decision to employ a simultaneous release strategy
for Black Widow “intentionally induced Marvel’s breach of the agreement,
without justification, in order to prevent Ms. Johansson from realizing
the full benefit of her bargain with Marvel,” as the actress’ salary
for appearing in the film was based heavily on its box office returns.
According to “a person familiar with details of her contract”, Black
Widow’s Disney Plus release will purportedly cost the actress more than
$50 Million USD.
Federal agencies yesterday declined comment on a $120 million housing
loan to one of Canada’s wealthiest developers. Cabinet earlier defended
the loan as critical: “Companies, given their financial statements,
don’t seem to be worthy recipients of taxpayers’ largesse.”
**
Net wealth taxes: The NDP is pushing for a one per cent
annual net wealth tax on fortunes more than $20 million. The
Parliamentary Budget Office predicts the tax would raise 0.2 per cent of
GDP ($5.6 billion). The virtue is in supposedly making a few wealthy
Canadians pay “their fair share” — even though the top 1 per cent
already pays close to 20 per cent of personal income taxes. The extra
revenue won’t make much of a dent in $500 billion in federal spending
this year. Of the 12 countries that had general net wealth taxes in
1990, only four still do today (Colombia, Norway, Spain and Switzerland)
and they collect only small amounts of revenue. Many countries have
annual property taxes on housing that raise much more revenue.
In its estimate, the PBO says the government is projected to tack on
an additional $2.7 trillion in debt before balancing the budget in 2070.
Interest charged will cost Canadians approximately $3.8 trillion by
2070.
**
The newest entry is the Pay Equity Act requiring federally regulated
employers and the federal public sector to pay the same wages to women
as to men for work of the same “value.” Indeed, we have a brand-new Pay
Equity Commissioner, with a host of highly paid bureaucrats under her,
to ensure compliance.
Now, how can I be so churlish as to object to any of this, beyond its expense?
Because
we live in a capitalist society where the price of labour is measured
by a combination of competitive pressures and supply and demand.If our
trucking companies have to pay their office staff the same as their
truck drivers because a zealous government bureaucrat deems them to be
of “equal value,” then our trucking companies’ wage burden will ascend
dramatically. They will be unable to compete with U.S. trucking
companies and eventually go out of business.
Also - wow. You know it's bad when even leftists who have no idea how a national economy works point out your crippling shortcomings:
The Liberals are pushing forward with the cuts even though the party
acknowledges that many of the jobs wiped out by the pandemic aren’t
coming back at the same rate of pay. In place of additional worker
supports, however, the party is instead doubling down on its commitment
to tech entrepreneurialism.
It’s yet another sign that Justin Trudeau’s party is reconciling
itself to a post-pandemic austerity regime in which employers will
impose a new regressive standard on working people across Canada,
leading to widening inequality and rising precarity in the labor market —
all in the name of innovation.
The RCMP in Nova Scotia has replaced two members of the team assigned
to provide information to the public inquiry into the April 2020
killing spree, after claims of a potential conflict of interest were
raised.
Chief Supt. John Robin was assigned to lead the team. He’s married to Chief Supt. Janis Gray, who leads the Halifax RCMP.
The Quebec government has refused to approve construction of a
liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in the Saguenay, north of Quebec
City, following years of opposition from citizens, Indigenous
communities and environmental experts.
The decision, announced
Wednesday by Environment Minister Benoit Charette, effectively kills a
$14-billion project that would have carried natural gas from Western
Canada across Quebec to the Saguenay port, then shipped it to markets
overseas.
Premier François Legault's government had initially
been a proponent of the project, which it hoped would diversify the
economy in a region largely dependent on the aluminum and forestry
industries.
But the
government also set out three criteria for approving the natural gas
facility: it had to help with the transition toward greener forms of
energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions and have sufficient public
support.
Charette said an analysis by his ministry determined
the Énergie Saguenay project couldn't meet the first two criteria.
Ministry officials didn't bother analyzing the third.
Rather than be sensible and apologise to the potentially or perpetually offended later, the Liberals (who have screwed up and keep screwing up this Chinese-made crisis) opted to plow through everyone:
Canadians fault cabinet for waiting too long to ban international
flights as a pandemic precaution, says in-house federal research. Canada
did not restrict air traffic until ten weeks after the first Covid
death was reported in Wuhan: “We remain concerned about social anxiety,
misinformation and discrimination in the Chinese-Canadian community.”
Also - was it something China said?:
Canadians see the Communist Chinese regime as the biggest threat to
Canada’s national security, according to a recent report by the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
“A clear majority, 58%, see China as the biggest threat to Canada,” said a report titled Attitudes To CSIS. “It is followed distantly by Russia (18%), North Korea (10%) and Syria (4%).”
**
Canadians rate China a more serious threat to national interest than
Russia or North Korea. The findings follow in-house research by a
federal agency: “Sometimes you have to face a crisis before you truly
understand there is a problem.”
Its
diplomatic ties to the PRC — which started in 1970 — also forced Canada
to not recognize Taiwan as the “Republic of China.” It was then Taiwan’s
preferred and recognized name to the dismay of the PRC, as both parties
wanted to be viewed as the one and only China amid their Civil War
aftermath.
The problem wouldn’t be solved in Pound’s office, but
instead would unravel on centre stage days before the 1976 Olympics were
to begin, with Taiwanese athletes not being permitted into Canada, or
to compete, using the “Republic of China” name.
For Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Canadian government, they were met with
criticism from their own Olympic committee and the IOC, who talked of
cancelling the games. The U.S. considered boycotting, as presidential
candidates in an election year lambasted Canada for playing politics
with sports — especially with one of its allies involved.
Back
home, newspapers like the Ottawa Citizen called out the “shame and
almost universal condemnation for Canada.” It was just another example
of how politics interfered with sports, amid the belief that they
shouldn't. But this time, Canada was putting itself in the position of
becoming the first host nation to refuse entry to a recognized National
Olympic Committee.
“Canada got a black eye through this scandal,” says Guoqi Xu, the author of Olympic Dreams: China and Sports. “Canada was seen as the bad guy violating the rules.”
**
David Shoemaker, CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee, paid a courtesy
call on the Chinese Embassy six weeks after MPs censured China for
genocide and voted to petition Olympics organizers to relocate the 2022
Winter Games from Beijing. Chinese diplomats “asked to stay in touch.”
This China:
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to Tibet as authorities
tighten controls over the Himalayan region’s traditional Buddhist
culture, accompanied by an accelerated drive for economic development
and modernized infrastructure.
The
note reportedly predates the mass arrests during Cuba’s crackdown on
anti-government protests and internet censorship last week, which
Amnesty International called a violation of human rights law.
“Under President (Miguel) Diaz-Canel, there has been some modest
improvements in freedom of movement and expression until the impacts of
COVID began to raise tensions in the country, and saw authorities begin
to crack down on public dissent,” wrote staff at the Department of
Foreign Affairs.
“Canada recognizes Cuba’s strong commitment to
economic and social rights, particularly in the areas of education and
health,” said the briefing note dated March 19.
“Canada and Cuba
maintain strong diplomatic relations,” the note said. “We hope to
advance regional collaboration and enhance trade and investment ties.”
“We all feel for the people of the DPRK, who are indeed facing all
the most difficult circumstances given the pandemic, and what it means
as well for their food security,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy
Sherman told reporters in Seoul, referring to North Korea’s official
name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“We only hope for a better outcome for the people of the DPRK,” she said.
President Moon Jae-in is considering a pardon
for jailed ex-President Park Geun-hye and Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong on
the occasion of Liberation Day on Aug. 15, sources said Wednesday.
Korea faces a protracted lockdown amid the
collapse of the government's vaccination plans as new infections as new
infections reached 1,650 as of Friday morning.
Why, it's like even the Europeans know that their governments have gone too far and are willing to resort to the old ways of ousting a government:
Thousands upon thousands of demonstrators came out in London, Dublin, Paris, Rome, Athens, and other cities across Europe, according to footage and news reports.
The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation
with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the
leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.
Also - more on the US government's losing battle with reality:
The Department of Justice concluded in an opinion that federal law
doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring
COVID-19 vaccines under the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use
authorization.
**
A top U.S. health agency on Tuesday altered its COVID-19-related guidance once again, telling people to wear masks in some areas even if they are fully vaccinated against the virus that causes the disease.
**
B@$#@rds:
A terrible day for thousands of families. In a letter to @SteveScalise, @TheJusticeDept wrote that they were dropping the nursing home investigations in all states including New York. There will be no justice for our loved ones, and it feels like we’ve lost them all over again. pic.twitter.com/DV7uNRMr9D
For his defiance, Pastor Artur was jailed for three days —
one of four Christian pastors thrown in prison by the Alberta
government, which had the most vicious anti-Christian lockdown in the
world.
Well, the lockdown is finally over in Alberta. But incredibly, the government isn’t done yet with Pastor Artur.
They want to send him back to prison for 21 more days — all because he refuses to admit he was wrong.
There is no more lockdown.
Opening his church is no longer illegal.
But because he won’t apologize for doing so earlier, he is
being prosecuted for “contempt” — and the government is demanding he
serve 21 days of hard time.
Because the Narrative!:
New federal data confirm school, playground and rink closures negatively
affected more Canadian schoolchildren than the pandemic. The Public
Health Agency cited “significant disruptions” to daily life for the 99.9
percent of children who were never hospitalized with Covid: “Children
generally experience mild symptoms if they do become infected.”
**
In Canada, the number of under-18 deaths is 14,
roughly 0.1 per cent of the country’s total COVID-19 death toll. Since
the pandemic began, at least five times that number of Canadian children
have died of drowning.
(Sidebar: but don't tell resident stupid b!#ch Chrystia Freeland that because, you know, priorities.)
Yes, let's not upset the easily offended:
The Saint John Police Force has informed its officers to stop wearing
thin blue line patches following social media posts of officers
sporting the controversial patch.
Tweets posted on Thursday
show Saint John police officers wearing the patches at King's Square on
July 3, while present at a protest being held by members of the
community.
The patch has acquired various connotations, with some
supporters saying wearing the patch is a sign of solidarity between
officers while critics say it fosters a dangerous attitude of opposition
between police officers and civilians.
Community members say the
protest on July 3 was about bringing awareness to the damage being done
by colonialism, following ongoing news of the graves of Indigenous
children being found at the sites of former residential schools.
“Power
is held by white people” at the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
(CDD), the institution has said, and this “white supremacist” structure
must be “dismantled”.
Shut up.
One is saying to every performance artist (good ones, you know?) that their natural talents and ambition must disappear to serve your flimsy and emotionally stunted political purposes.
The families of the 11 athletes killed had long asked the
International Olympic Committee to hold a minute's silence at a Games
opening ceremony but had been turned down for almost half a century.
"We, the Olympic community, also remember all the Olympians and
members of our community who have so sadly left us, in particular, we
remember those who lost their lives during the Olympic Games," said an
announcer during the opening ceremony.
"One group still holds a strong place in all our memories and stand
for all those we have lost at the games - the members of the Israeli
delegation at the Olympic Games Munich 1972," the announcer added as the
stadium darkened and a soft blue light illuminated parts of the arena.
On Sept. 5, 1972, members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken
hostage at the poorly secured athletes' village by Palestinian gunmen
from the Black September terrorist group.
Within 24 hours, 11 Israelis, five Palestinians and a German
policeman were dead after a standoff and subsequent rescue effort
erupted into gunfire. The IOC at the time decided not to stop or
interrupt the Games
"Justice has finally been done for the husbands, fathers and sons who
were murdered in Munich," widows Ilana Romano and Ankie Spitzer, who
watched the ceremony in the stadium, said in a statement. They lost
their husbands – weightlifter Yossef Romano and fencing coach Andre
Spitzer –in the attack.
"We went through 49 years of struggle and never gave up. [We] can't
stop the tears from flowing. For this moment we waited," they said.
Saeid Mollaei won silver in judo at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, then used his victory to honor the enemy of his home country.
Mollaei,
who is originally from Iran but is competing for Mongolia, dedicated
his silver medal to Israel. Iran and Israel have been in a proxy conflict since 1985.
According to The Jerusalem Post,
Mollaei told an Israeli sports channel, "Thank you to Israel for all
the good energy." He added, "This medal is dedicated to you as well, and
I hope Israelis is happy with this victory, todah," which means "thank
you" in Hebrew.
Mollaei's abandonment of Iran stems from an incident at the 2019 World Judo Championships in Tokyo.
There,
Mollaei represented Iran and advanced to the semifinal. He was looking
to defend his championship after winning gold at the previous year's
event in Azerbaijan. But Iranian authorities ordered him to
intentionally lose the match to ensure he wouldn't have to face the
Israeli champion Sagi Muki in the final, he said.
The International Judo Federation this year called Iran's tampering
"a serious breach and gross violation of the statutes of the IJF, its
legitimate interests, its principles and objectives" and suspended the
country from the event for four years.
After exposing what Iranian
authorities had forced him to do, Mollaei fled the country and went
into hiding. He found asylum in Germany in August 2019 on a two-year
visa, then became a citizen of Mongolia in December 2019.
55 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized, burned down or
desecrated since the announcement last month of the apparent discovery
of graves found near a residential school in Kamloops, BC.
Since then, three other first nations have announced similar findings of burial sites located near former residential schools.
In response to these announcements, far-left radicals have used this
opportunity as an excuse to terrorize Catholic and other Christian
communities by targeting churches.
21 churches across the country have been lit on fire in the past two months, many of them have been completely destroyed.
A cross that stood atop Mount Tzouhalem in Cowichan, BC., was
mysteriously removed sometime during the week of July 12th. Law
enforcement have not provided an update on any potential suspects.
**
Vancouver police are calling on witnesses to report suspicious
activity around churches, following a major spike in crimes at religious
properties.
“We’re reminding people to be proactive and to report anything
unusual at church properties, because we’re concerned this could
escalate into a situation where someone gets badly hurt,” said Sgt.
Steve Addison.
“If you see anyone who looks suspicious and you think they’re about to commit a crime, please don’t hesitate to call 9-1-1.”
The department is currently investigating 13 incidents of “mischief
and vandalism” relating to churches and church properties that have
taken place since June 2.
Rocks being thrown through windows, buildings defaced with paint, and
threats of arson are among the incidents listed by VPD, who has
assigned specialized investigators from the Property Crime Unit to
gather evidence.
**
When there are nearly 50 Christian churches from coast to coast
suffering everything from vandalism to full destruction, it is a huge
national event that calls for extraordinary responses from both
government and police forces. This is nothing less than a sustained,
violent and hateful rampage targeting a particular faith. It is a
bigotry of fire, not words.
Yet, on the political front, considering the scale of these events, the reaction has been utterly underwhelming.
Or are some people more special than others?:
At a July 2021 summit on “Islamophobia,” National Council of Canadian Muslims submitted a 100-page proposal to the Liberal government to counter anti-Muslim prejudice in Canada.
When asked if he would adopt the proposal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded by saying “we’re going to move forward” on the recommendations.
According to conservative journalist and social critic Ezra Levant, the demands contain “more police and political tools than Pakistan to hunt down anything judged to be critical of Islam.”
There are 61 recommendations
in the proposal, covering everything from internet censorship and
amendments to the criminal code to a cut back in terrorism
investigations. Additionally, the proposal calls for the Islamic faith to be promoted throughout schools, media and the arts across Canada.
**
Why not some pointless virtue-signalling and attempts to erase history?:
And while renaming institutions, streets and even townships has been an
ongoing part of Canadian history, the intention behind it reflects where
we are historically.
Weak, unsure of ourselves and ready to sate a mob.
**
Youth from the non-profit Chokecherry Studios painted a few crosswalks orange along Broadway Avenue.
The inspiration for the project came from a ’60s Scoop survivor, Rob
Denham, who reached out in June with the idea to memorialize Indigenous
children who never returned from residential schools.
... and all of those other scandals that the Liberals want everyone to forget?:
Erin O’Toole’s office gave nearly $240,000 worth of taxpayer-funded
contracts to Conservative insiders in his first six months on the job,
Global News has learned, even while O’Toole and many of his MPs were
hammering the Trudeau Liberals for sending taxpayer-funded contracts to
Liberal-connected firms.
A federal attempt to
shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation
of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of
Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says.
In
a notice of motion filed Thursday in Federal Court, Rota says the
House, by virtue of its parliamentary privileges, has the power to send
for the “persons, papers and records” it deems necessary to its
functions. ...
“Only Parliament itself has the authority to abrogate, modify or limit its parliamentary privileges.”
The
Liberal government asked the court last month to affirm a prohibition
on disclosure of records concerning dismissal of two scientists from
Canada’s highest-security laboratory.
The CBC remains under immense financial pressure despite ongoing federal
bailouts and 55 percent staff cuts in one division, says a Department
of Canadian Heritage briefing note. The network has not disclosed a
quarterly financial statement since last December 31: “The effects of
Covid will persist into 2022.”
**
A half-billion newspaper bailout did not create jobs as promised, admits
the Department of Canadian Heritage. Staff counted a continued net loss
of thousands of jobs though publishers claimed increased readership
through the pandemic: “This crowd knows very little about the business
of operating a newspaper.”
Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau took the unusual step Tuesday of criticizing a professional
sports team when he weighed in on the Montreal Canadiens’ selection of
scandal-hit London Knights prospect Logan Mailloux.
Trudeau
said the selection near the end of the first round of last weekend’s
NHL draft – arguably the most controversial pick in draft history –
showed a lack of judgment from the organization.
“I am confident that I did not act inappropriately,” Trudeau said at the time.
“I’ll
be blunt about it — often a man experiences an interaction as being
benign or not inappropriate, and a woman, particularly in a professional
context, can experience it differently.”
Then he called the whole affair a “learning experience” for everyone in society.
(Sidebar: yes, we've learned that you're a f---ing disgusting animal.)
**
Only a loyal state broadcaster like the CBC would quote Justin Trudeau on a sexual discrimination case, without mentioning his sexual assault on Rose Knight, who "experienced it differently" or his general abuse of women around him.
Reading
about Kobayashi and Fortin brought to mind a young Canadian with a
well-known name who had a definite taste for dressing up in costumes and
painting
his face (not to mention, chest, arms and legs) black or brown. When
images emerged of Justin Trudeau making a spectacle of himself in
blackface at various points of his pre-politics career, he was suitably
mortified, apologized profusely and used it, as he often does, to share a
homily with Canadians on the importance of learning from the past,
examining our actions with honesty and using the lessons to better
ourselves.
It was similar to his response to complaints that, as a young man, he had groped a young female
reporter at an event in British Columbia. He was a bit less repentant
in that case, insisting he didn’t recall doing anything wrong, but
acknowledging that “someone else might have experienced that
differently.”
He
didn’t step down, of course. And no one in his cabinet or caucus
suggested he should. Rather than stick to the high-minded code he
demanded of others, he played for time, waiting to see if Canadians
would forgive him, which they largely did.
Canadians know how he treats women and do not care.
**
Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau says he isn’t angry that no one told him about a 2018 allegation of inappropriate behaviour made against now-retired Gen. Jonathan Vance, the former chief of the defence staff.
**
There’s really no way to sugarcoat this: Our prime minister is very
probably lying to the public in order to cover up a cover up of a #MeToo
complaint. That he, or at least his office, didn’t know the allegation
against Vance was a sexual misconduct complaint simply beggars belief.
The military ombudsman described it as sexual misconduct, the clerk of
the the Privy Council described it as sexual harassment, and Trudeau’s
own staff described it as sexual harassment in their emails.
If
he’s not angry, there are only three credible explanations as to why
not. One: The entire question is based on a false premise. He’s not
angry because he knew all along. Two: His staff didn’t tell him in order
to shield him and he’s not angry because he prioritizes protecting
himself and his seat of power at all costs. Three: He’s not angry
because he lacks empathy and really doesn’t give a flying fig about
women.
Canadian diplomats in a briefing note praised Cuba’s Communist Party for
embracing “social rights” and freer speech, and blamed human rights
abuses on the pandemic. The note predates mass arrests and internet
censorship by Cuban authorities: “Under President Diaz-Canel, there has
been some modest improvements in freedom of movement and expression.”
Poverty is better explained by Cuba’s Soviet-style, centrally-planned economic system, which Cuban leaders have spent years promising to reform. When capitalist market reforms were implemented in China and Vietnam,
they lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty (while leaving both
countries only superficially socialist). Cuba has not followed suit,
choosing poverty over transformative change which could threaten the
regime.
Deflections
to the embargo also fail to explain or justify Cuba’s repressive
political culture, where opposition parties are outlawed and artists and
intellectuals are jailed for daring to criticize the regime.
Yet
the embargo has been a useful scapegoat for Cuba’s autocrats, allowing
them to obfuscate their failures by pinning blame on a foreign power.
There is only "transparency":
As an example, a
colleague of mine at another Ontario university recently received a
letter from her dean admonishing her for her social media content. A few
students in her program had complained that the content “harmed them”
and made them “feel unsafe.” One of their complaints was that the
professor had cited a published study on gender dysphoria.
Siding
with the students, the dean argued that an investigation was warranted
because the opinions she expressed created a negative learning
environment. While my colleague successfully defended her right to
academic freedom and thus avoided formal penalty, she deleted her social
media accounts.
Self-censorship is not the hallmark of a healthy university.
**
In a ruling that came down in support of free speech, Justice Maria
Morellato said, “In a free and democratic society, the exchange and
expression of diverse and often controversial or unpopular ideas may
cause discomfort. It is, in a sense, the price we pay for our freedom.”
Federal agencies will spend $110,000 producing a pre-election YouTube
video on slavery with commentary by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Video
participants include a Liberal-appointed senator who “felt a sense of
hopelessness” after seeing images of Trudeau clowning in blackface: “It
epitomizes how deeply rooted racism is in our country, how deeply rooted
privilege and power is in our country.”
The video, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows Trudeau covered in
what appears to be dark makeup and raising his hands in the air while
laughing, sticking his tongue out and making faces. He’s wearing a white
T-shirt, and his jeans are ripped at the knees. It appears as though
his arms and legs are covered in makeup as well.
Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger says a national summit on anti-Semitism the federal government
is hosting Wednesday will allow community members to speak directly
with politicians in an environment that ensures their safety.
And pray, what do we say during these prayers? Pious and religious
Muslims who pray five times a day invoke a verse that refers to Jews as
people who have incurred the “wrath of Allah” and Christians as “people
who have been led astray.”
Farmer feed cities. Stalin and the Kimdynasty knew that and acted accordingly:
MPs yesterday summoned Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to explain
cabinet’s opposition to a tax bill benefiting farmers, small business
and fishing corporations. Freeland’s department questioned the validity
of the law after it was approved by Parliament: “The government has
fought this all the way.”
**
Canadian Farmers feed Canadians and people around the world. We have some of the best, safest, most reliable food sources.
Now our own government wants to reduce fertilizer use by 30%.
They don’t realize that when we can’t safely use science based
fertilizer, that our crops won’t produce the food that we all need to
make bread, pasta, cooking oil and hundreds of other foods. It also
means reduced crops for exports and less profits for farmers.
They’re making these fool-hardy decisions without the science to support them.
**
It is curious that McKenna would point to spending as evidence of
successful climate policy. She sold the Liberals’ carbon tax to the
public by affirming that pricing emissions is the most efficient way to
fight climate change, yet pricing and spending are decidedly different
policies. McKenna also presents the government’s regulatory initiatives
as evidence of wisdom, lauding the “no more internal combustion engines
by 2035” diktat as a “signal to the market” — in reality, it is an
attack on the market, not a signal — that will help Canada reach its
Paris Agreement commitments. But she fails to present evidence to
justify her praise for the initiatives she helped lead.
A federal judge has quashed a cabinet order blocking expansion of an
Alberta coal mine in the name of climate change. Environment Minister
Jonathan Wilkinson failed in his duty to consult a First Nation that
supported the mine as a job creator, the Federal Court ruled: “There was
no consultation at all.”
Just awful but I'm sure some good engineering might have prevented some of this:
At least 25 people have died in China‘s
flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway
line in its capital that was drenched by what weather officials called
the heaviest rains for 1,000 years.
About 100,000 people have been evacuated in Zhengzhou, the capital, where rail and road transport have been disrupted, while dams and reservoirs have swelled to warning levels while thousands of troops launched a rescue effort in the province.
China has accused Japan of grossly interfering in its
internal affairs after Tokyo for the first time raised concerns about the
stability over Taiwan in an annual defence paper.
“The Taiwan issue is entirely China’s internal affair and
external forces cannot interfere. The Chinese military will take all necessary
measures to resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity,”
China’s defence ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry said the report “exaggerated the so-called
Chinese threat” and damaged the political foundation of China-Japan relations.
The fire had already
been burning for 12 days last September when 39-year-old firefighter
Charles Morton was killed while trying to extinguish the blaze.
The
inferno that ripped through California’s San Bernardino National
Forest, burning more than 20,000 acres and prompting widespread
evacuations, was sparked, prosecutors say, when Refugio Manuel Jimenez
Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez tried to set off a smoke bomb to announce
their baby’s gender. Now the Southern California couple is facing
manslaughter charges, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason
Anderson said in a Tuesday news conference.
You simply could be happy about a new baby. You had to make it about yourselves and kill someone (allegedly).
