Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned NATO against crossing a "red line"
in Ukraine, underscoring that Moscow would have no choice but to
respond while boasting about Russia's hypersonic missile development.
Putin
said that the deployment of NATO troops or advanced missile systems on
Ukrainian soil that could strike Moscow within minutes would be a step
too far for Russia. NATO has not taken any steps along these lines.
"If
some kind of strike systems appear on the territory of Ukraine, the
flight time to Moscow will be seven to 10 minutes, and five minutes in
the case of a hypersonic weapon being deployed. Just imagine," Putin
said.
**
The Canadians stationed here are monitoring the build-up of as many as
100,000 combat-ready Russian troops to the south, on the border with
Ukraine. Belarus, which shares a border with Latvia, has also just
started new military exercises along its frontier with Ukraine.
Canada does the bare minimum to prove to its load-bearing allies south of the border and in NATO that it is doing some actual work.
The Canadian military is doing the best it can with what little it has but that won't matter with an unqualified, thoughtless and myopic government willing to withdraw at a moment's notice.
It's not like lives are depending on this or anything.
Also:
Poland’s Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski on Tuesday applied
freshly adopted regulations and declared an area along the nation's
border with Belarus off-limits to everyone except residents and people
who live, work or study in the designated no-access zone.
Earlier
Tuesday, the lower house of parliament, or Sejm, voted to amend the
border law amid a conflict between Poland and Belarus. The president
immediately approved the amended law, allowing for its implementation.
The ban takes effect Wednesday for three months.
As European countries battle to limit the spread of the virus, Verein
Sterbehilfe – the German Euthanasia Association – has issued a new
directive, declaring it will now only help those who have been
vaccinated or recovered from the disease.
The report, titled “A Struggling System,” was conducted by Deloitte for the Canadian Medical Association (CMA).
It reveals that over 4,000 preventable deaths took place between August and December 2020.
Researchers also found that it would cost taxpayers $1.3 billion to
end growing hospital backlogs in critical areas and return to a
pre-pandemic state by June 2022.
Statistics Canada data
shows 19,501 excess deaths from March 2020 to July 2021, which is “5.2%
more deaths than what would be expected were there no pandemic, after
accounting for changes in the population, such as aging.” In comparison,
25,465 deaths during that period were “directly attributed to
COVID-19.” The number has since risen to 29,680.
“CHSLDs were the
blind spot in bracing for COVID-19,” Rinfret wrote. “The truth is that,
above and beyond CHSLDs, it was the residents who were cast aside when
the attack against the virus was being mounted.”
From January to
April 2020, obsessed with the images of Italian hospitals overflowing
with COVID patients, and barely taking note of what was happening closer
to home, the Government of Quebec developed its whole strategy around
the need to protect the province’s hospitals; the officials in charge of
the CHSLD network were not even involved in the process.
The
long-term care facilities were not told to prepare, nor were they
advised on how to prepare. In any case, the nurses and orderlies in
these establishments were neither trained nor adequately equipped to
face a pandemic.
(Sidebar: common sense should have kicked in and the facilities should have taken the initiative but whatever. This is Canada. Sheep follow the shepherd.)
The Ministry of Health made the situation much
worse when it decided to transfer hundreds of elderly patients from
hospitals to CHSLDs in order to free hospital beds for a massive number
of COVID patients that never materialized. To be blunt, it sent those
fragile people to their deaths.
The transfers stopped on April
11, 2020, “as (the ministry) was backed against the wall when CHSLDs
lost control of the situation,” the report reads. This was one day after
the Montreal Gazette reported on the catastrophe unfolding at the
infamous Herron CHSLD, in Dorval, where 47 patients died during the
first wave.
**
205 members of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) have been forced off
the job for not complying with the service’s COVID-19 vaccination
requirement. According to a TPS media advisory, the members have “rendered themselves unable to perform their duties and are being placed on an indefinite unpaid absence.”
The members include 117 uniformed officers and 88 civilians. This
number represents 2.7% of Toronto Police staff. The axed members will
not be allowed to return to work, nor to enter a TPS building or
facility, until they disclose full vaccination status.
**
You are not going to rehire the medical professional you fired. You are not going to hire similarly trained nurses from others countries (as Canada has not done in the past). You are not going to ensure the highest quality of training for these voters blocks you want in.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Ottawa must make it easier for nurses trained abroad to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 in Canada, as the virus continues to strain health-care workers and the new Omicron variant fuels new concerns about the ongoing evolution of the virus.
Nova Scotia’s Department of Health and Wellness has confirmed to True
North that there’s no minimum age for minors to consent to a COVID-19
vaccine without their parent’s approval.
“Mature minors” can consent to vaccination if a vaccine provider
finds them capable of doing so. This is according to the department’s
Media Relations Advisor Marla MacInnis.
Australia’s Northern Territory has imposed a sweeping vaccine mandate
for customer-facing workers, and its chief minister, Michael Gunner,
says anyone who opposes it is an anti-vaxxer, even if they’re fully
vaccinated.
**
We're all going to die - again!:
The new omicron variant of the coronavirus is likely already in
circulation in Canada, health officials said Monday, as cases were
reported in Quebec and Ontario, just as they have been across Europe and
Africa, just days after the World Health Organization flagged the
potentially dangerous new mutation.
**
Have you run this by the Narrative?:
People who have recovered from COVID-19 are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published last week.
Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using
national databases that contain information about patients
with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections.
The studied population contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, between Feb. 28, 2020, and April 28, 2021.
Reinfections were counted if a person tested positive at least 90 days after their first infection.
After excluding approximately 87,500 people with a vaccination
record, researchers found that those with immunity due to having
recovered from COVID-19 had little risk of reinfection or severe cases
of the disease.
Just 1,304 reinfections were identified. That means 0.4 percent of people with natural immunity and without a vaccination record got COVID-19 a second time.
The odds of severe disease were 0.1 times that of primary infection, according to the study. Just four such cases were detected.
No cases of death were recorded among those who got infected a second time.
**
Breakthrough COVID-19 cases are more common and severe in people with weakened immune systems, according to a new study.
Breakthrough infections are those that occur in vaccinated people.
Immunocompromised vaccinated people were three times more likely to contract COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, according to researchers, who published their findings in the Journal of Medical Economics.
The study found that just 0.08 percent of fully vaccinated people had a breakthrough
case, but that 0.18 percent of immunocompromised people had a
breakthrough infection. While immunocompromised people represented 18
percent of those studied, they accounted for over 38 percent of
infections, nearly six in 10 hospitalizations, and all the deaths.
Researchers analyzed nearly 1.2 million U.S. HealthVerity database records between Dec. 10, 2020, and July 8.
The study was conducted by Pfizer scientists and funded by the
company, which makes one of the three COVID-19 vaccines available in the
United States.
“The results supplement other real-world studies, and support the
introduction of a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to increase
protection among the immunocompromised individuals,” Manuela Di Fusco,
the lead author and a part of Pfizer’s health economics and outcomes
research team, said in a statement.
But the shots you gave don't work.
This is medical blackmail. Get the shot and you might not die.
Air masses from the Pacific Ocean bring ample rainfall to the coast.
Autumn and winter are particularly rainy. The interior valleys on the
eastern side of the mountains receive much less precipitation. The
west-facing mountains of Vancouver Island
receive more than 2,500 mm of annual precipitation. By comparison, the
east-coast lowland records only about 700 to 1,000 mm. The western
slopes of the Coast Mountains accumulate 1,000 to 3,000 mm annually. A
large percentage of this precipitation is
snowfall. However, the Okanagan Valley only receives 250 mm of annual precipitation.
Among the worst remaining breaches is at the Timon Levee alongside the
Nooksack, the undammed Washington State river that poured over its banks
two weeks ago, sending a great pulse of water into Canada.
Washed-out roads and flooded farmlands in British Columbia have brought to light dire infrastructure
needs, which policy experts say other provinces also face as existing
infrastructure ages and new and necessary infrastructure remains
unbuilt.
A wet fall capped by torrential rain caused landslides and washed out eight B.C. highways. Some have been reopened for general travel and others for essential travel.
The floods have been especially difficult for the Abbotsford area, a
problem even more frustrating for city officials given that they have
pleaded for years to higher levels of government to upgrade the city’s
insufficient dikes.
In 2015, engineers hired by the province deemed the condition of the
17-kilometre Sumas dike “unacceptable.” “Overtopping is expected during
Nooksack River overflow,” they wrote. “The dike geometry is substandard, causing concern.”
In 2019, engineers told the City of Abbotsford it would cost an
estimated $446 million to do the necessary reconstruction of the dike
system. At the time, Mayor Henry Braun called for decisive action and
help from higher levels of government because the cost was twice the
city’s annual budget. At a Nov. 19 press conference, Braun restated his
belief in the project.
“I shouldn’t say this, my staff will get mad at me, but I can see
that whole structure, that whole dike, having to be repaired—not
repaired, rebuilt—to a higher standard,” he said.
British Columbia has
extended its state of emergency to support flood recovery efforts as
well as orders limiting fuel purchases for non-essential vehicles and
restricting travel along hard-hit sections of the province’s compromised
highways.
In
announcing the extensions on Monday, Public Safety Minister Mike
Farnworth said the “significant weather” continues to pose challenges
for the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which normally brings in 85 per cent of
the fuel that is required in B.C. for refining and has been offline
since Nov. 14.
“The
fuel conservation measures are working and I want to thank British
Columbians for their patience – but we need to stay the course for
another two weeks until we have the Trans Mountain Pipeline back
online,” Mr. Farnworth said. “We need to ensure our supply chains, and
emergency services, have the fuel that they need to function.”
**
Two people were arrested Monday morning after blockading an access
road used by the company building a gas pipeline on traditional
Indigenous territories in northern B.C.
RCMP arrested about 30
Wet'suwet'en members and supporters — along with two photojournalists —
in the same area on Nov. 18 and 19.
At the time, police officials
said they had dismantled blockades "to rescue" more than 500 pipeline
employees stranded in Coastal GasLink work camps because of dwindling
water and food supplies.
**
Lets shut Line 5 down for awhile too.
BC is learning how life is without pipelines.
Biden is learning what happens when you cancel pipelines.
Let's hit the trifecta and teach the east about life without pipelines as well.
Justin Trudeau not only doesn’t know what a litre of milk costs, he and
his government don’t get why this is an issue. Time and again when asked
about inflation, Trudeau and his ministers respond by talking about
their plan for $10-a-day child care.
Last
April, as Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivered the first budget
speech in two years in which she announced $101 billion in massive new
spending measures, 32 Canadians sat watching with a dial in their hand,
rating every new promise and expense.
They were part of a focus
group assembled by polling firm Leger at the behest of Finance Canada as
part of a $53,445 contract for public opinion research.
The goal of the research was to provide Freeland’s department with insight into people’s opinions on the budget and offer direction to the government.
And
the opinions expressed by participants indeed went in every direction,
although everyone generally ended up expressing a positive opinion of a
spending blueprint designed to be liked.
“In
the words of many participants, it would be difficult to be negative
about this budget that included elements to ‘satisfy everyone in
Canada’, was in continuity with the efforts to limit the negative
impacts of the pandemic on Canadians, as well as a ‘recovery-oriented
budget,’ ” Leger notes in the report obtained by the National Post.
But the initial
positive impression quickly gave way to cynicism and skepticism amongst
many participants, with some describing it as an “electoral budget” and
many concerned that certain measures would never be implemented or that
the Liberals would not be able to deliver on their promises.
The
focus groups were divided into four categories: parents of children
aged 0 to 6 years old, seniors (over 65 years old), people who received
the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and Quebecers.
Among
the four groups surveyed, seniors were the most critical of the budget
(though it was still “well received”), expressing skepticism about how
all the promises would be implemented and then how everything would be
paid for.
“I just feel that the government must have a money tree
some place; I don’t know how they’re going to be able to pluck it all
off the tree to do what they say they’re gonna do,” one told Leger.
Among
the worst-rated moments of Freeland’s speech for seniors: any
references to the “sacrifices youth and young adults made as a result of
the pandemic.”
“You could detect a generation gap when it comes to COVID impacts,” Leger concludes.
(Sidebar: not smart.)
The
parents surveyed gave high marks to a wide swath of the budget,
including all promises of more money for early childhood education and
care, increasing minimum wage, more assistance for family businesses and
job creation, and any support to the younger generation of Canadians.
(Sidebar: you DO know that you are living on printed money and that your kids have no future, right?)
But
many were concerned that it was an “election budget” and that the
Liberals’ proposed luxury tax on boats (worth over $250,000) and cars
(worth over $100,000) was neither inclusive nor bold enough.
**
The rising cost of living will be more persistent and long-lasting than
officialdom admits, says a former chief economic analyst with Statistics
Canada. “Containing inflation may not be a simple or short process,”
wrote Philip Cross, senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,
an Ottawa think tank: “Economists did not foresee the surge in prices.”
"If you make something attestation-based, you are increasing the risk of fraud," she said.
"We
knew the risk was there, but it was calculated and we also knew we had
to get the money to Canadians. So we took the risk and we're going to
work really hard at the back end to minimize what that's going to mean
for the government purse."
And there's this:
There is no doubt some Canadians abused one of the best-known pandemic
relief programs, a senior Liberal MP said yesterday. Claims for $2,000
Canada Emergency Response Benefit cheques were six times the number of
Covid jobless: “That is an incredible percentage of the population.”
**
A new Liberal senator billed thousands for flights, meals and other
costs charged as Senate business while Parliament was in recess, records
show. Authorities yesterday defended expenses billed by David Arnot of
Saskatoon when the Senate was adjourned and he had not yet taken the
oath of office: “He was eligible.”
Canada, unlike the U.S., quickly started
welcoming foreign workers and students again after a brief pandemic halt
in what is part of a years-old, pro-immigration policy that’s provided its economy with a much more work-ready labor force.
About 1.9 million newcomers entered the country
in the five years through December, an increase of more than 50% from
the previous five years.
The results are simultaneously terrific and
problematic: Companies have been filling job postings at a breakneck
clip in recent months, pushing payrolls back above pre-pandemic levels
and allowing them to ramp output back up. But workers, with fewer labor
shortages acting as leverage, are scoring tiny wage increases --
currently running at 2% on average -- that leave them poorer after inflation of almost 5% is factored in.
Immigration = cheap (even slave) labour and we all know it.
A Quebec judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit launched by a
Quebec woman who argued that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated her
rights when he called out her “racism” during a Liberal Party rally in
2018.
Diane Blain, of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., took the prime minister
to court alleging that his comments in public violated her rights to
freedom of expression and personal dignity. She sought $90,000 in
damages.
In his written ruling on Monday, Superior Court Justice Michele Monast
said the lawsuit was “ill-founded” and “abusive” and that the only
person to blame for negative comments made about the incident is
herself.
“Ms. Blain appears to have used the August 16, 2018 event to gain
notoriety and promote her political views," wrote Justice Monast in the
decision.
"It is not unreasonable to conclude, as suggested by Mr. Trudeau's
counsel, that she took legal action against him for the same reasons."
The CBC doesn't like it when you use the words: blacklist, blackmail, black sheep, blindsided, blind-spot, brainstorm, crippled, dumb, First Word Problem, ghetto, grandfathered in, gypped, gypsy, inner-city, lame, lowest on the totem pole, pow-wow, savage, spooky, sold down the river, spirit animal, tone-deaf and tribe.
It is time for things to change.
Let us have a pow-wow - all of us and our spirit animals - to root out this savage terminology. We can brainstorm strategies so that we are not blindsided by these words.
Let our tribes leave our ghettos and our inner-cities. Young, old, rich, poor, powerful or resting at the bottom of the totem pole - let us all come together.
Let us not fall tone-deaf or be crippled by what we call First World problems.
Don't be blackmailed by the blind-spots of the entrenched, grandfathered-in gypsies that would leave us lame. Reject those dumb, spooky fossils who gyp us with their antiquated language.
Let us join together as one voice and grunt our disapproval!
Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President
Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European
Union nations and Taiwan.
It is the first joint visit to Taiwan by members of parliament from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Tsai said.
She welcomed the lawmakers, who are attending the 2021 Open Parliament Forum, hosted by Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
China
claims Taiwan is its own territory and rejects any attempts by the
self-ruled island to participate in international forums or establish
diplomatic relations with other countries that would give it
international recognition.
Tsai noted the values and experiences that Taiwan has in common with the three countries.
“Taiwan
and the Baltic nations share similar experiences of breaking free of
authoritarian rule and fighting for freedom. The democracy we enjoy
today was hard earned," Tsai said. "This is something we all understand
most profoundly.”
Matas Maldeikis, head of the Lithuanian delegation, said he hopes to see even stronger ties with Taiwan.
“We
are here to express our solidarity with you. We hope the
soon-to-be-open Lithuanian trade office in Taiwan will help to expand
the partnership between Taiwan and Lithuania and contribute to a closer
relationship with Taiwan and the whole European bloc,” he said.
China's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the visit by the Baltic lawmakers
on Monday, with spokesman Wang Wenbin issuing a warning.
The countries the ban applies to are South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Namibia.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a press conference on Nov.
26 that individuals who have arrived from these countries in the last 14
days will be asked to take a COVID-19 test and to quarantine until they
receive a negative result.
Also, Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or those with a valid
visa coming from the region will be tested on arrival and have to
quarantine in a hotel until receiving a negative result. They will then
be able to complete their self-isolation at home.
The latest measures are expected to remain in effect until Jan. 31.
The United States will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other
African countries on Monday, Nov. 29, in a bid to control the spread of
the new COVID-19 variant.
Coetzee recalled seeing a variety of patients enter with symptoms not
associated with other CCP virus strains, including a high pulse rate.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” Coetzee told The Telegraph.
Most of the patients who turned up to her clinic and have tested positive for COVID-19 felt tired.
Other symptoms included sore muscles and a slight cough, Coetzee added to Sputnik.
“There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected, some are currently being treated at home,” she said.
The most common symptoms from earlier variants include fever, dry
cough, and loss of taste or smell, though some patients are known to
have suffered from fatigue. A small subset of the infected require
hospital care for their symptoms, and deaths are mostly among the
elderly and people with serious underlying health conditions like
obesity and kidney disease.
People with the Omicron variant were also identified in Botswana and
later detected in a slate of other areas, including Hong Kong, the
United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Many nations have barred or restricted travel from southern Africa
over the variant, citing concerns that it’s more transmissible.
It's not racist at all say the "experts" so stop pointing out that banning flights from China was racist but this isn't.
If you Google “public health expert definition,” you’ll get 40
different answers from 40 different academic and government public
health departments. Answers range from “professionals in the field struggle to define public health precisely” to “the science and art of preventing disease.”
That’s
because public health isn’t a real science. Take it from me, as someone
who studied another fake form of science (political science) in
undergrad. Just as the “common good” is not good for everyone, Public
Health suffers from the same innate failures as a health concept. What
is good for Joe may not be good for Jane. What is best for Catherine may
not be best for Carlos. An attempt to optimize and perfect “public
health” will inevitably result in chaos, as we’ve seen play out over the
course of the last year.
You can thank the “public health
experts” for normalizing healthy quarantines, outdoor masking, 6 feet
social distancing, nightly curfews, societal lockdowns and plenty of
other baseless mystical population control measures that were enforced
(and failed to succeed in combating a virus) in the name of science.
Pandemic lockdowns may spell ruin for many Canadian museums, says a
Department of Canadian Heritage report. Cabinet on Friday proposed
millions in bailouts for federal exhibitions while warning local
operators will take years to recover: “The sector was fragile before the
pandemic.”
Hospital protesters face a maximum ten years in prison under Criminal
Code amendments proposed by cabinet. It is the first of two election
campaign bills targeting Canadians opposed to vaccine mandates: “Why
would that legislation be necessary?”
For the same reason why people were threatened with dismissal from their jobs if they didn't get injected with this experimental flu shot.
Sensing that Canada has nowhere to given the American and French snubs, India circles over the North American corpse like a vulture:
Canada and India are quietly setting the stage to reboot formal free
trade talks as the Trudeau government seeks economic alternatives to
China following the dispute over the Meng Wanzhou-two Michaels affair.
British Columbia is bracing for more rainfall in the coming
days and weeks as the province works to rebuild after unprecedented
precipitation earlier this month.
Up to 80 millimetres of rain
is forecast for Metro Vancouver, Howe Sound, Whistler and the Fraser
Valley, starting this morning and continuing until Friday.
Strong
southeast winds near the water are also predicted as part of this
weather system, and freezing levels will rise above mountain tops, which
could trigger snowmelt and worsen the flooding situation.
The federal minister of emergency preparedness says border guards have
been advised that British Columbia residents can cross into the United
States for essential supplies because of flooding in the province after
some travellers were reportedly facing fines or told they would have to
quarantine on returning to Canada.
The Opposition health critic yesterday accused cabinet of spreading
reckless misinformation about vaccines. MP Dr. Stephen Ellis
(Cumberland-Colchester, N.S.), a Truro physician, pointed to incorrect
medical advice from the Government House Leader: ‘Reckless comments like
this further perpetuate confusion.’
Internet regulation has “nothing to do with free speech,” Heritage
Minister Pablo Rodriguez yesterday told reporters. Cabinet had proposed
to reintroduce first-ever legislation covering legal internet content
with a bill permitting the CRTC to regulate YouTube videos: “That bill
has nothing to do with free speech.”
Allegations the Clerk of the Commons misused his office to send inside
information to Liberal MPs should be investigated in secret, cabinet
said yesterday. Charles Robert is accused of incompetence and
favouritism as a $231,000-a year cabinet appointee: “Stick to the facts,
please. That’s all I ask. Something we can prove. The facts. We want to
see the facts.”
Also - censorship is alright when some people do it:
The Parisian media have mentioned Canada! Unfortunately, it’s because
the Toronto District School Board cancelled a book event with former
Islamic State prisoner (and Nobel Peace Prize winner ) Nadia Murad on the grounds that it might promote Islamophobia. Or, as Le Figaro, one of France’s largest dailies, put it : “ Fearful of looking Islamophobic, Canadian schools cancelled an event with Nadia Murad .”
And - this isn't a Chapters; this is a school, one where the Lord's Prayer cannot be said and Christmas pageants cannot be held:
Committees that included administrators, librarians, parents and
students reviewed both “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer” and determined both
to be appropriate for high school readers, Fairfax County Public
Schools said in a news release.
“Both
reviews concluded that the books were valuable in their potential to
reach marginalized youth who may struggle to find relatable literary
characters that reflect their personal journeys,” according to the news
release.
The committees unanimously recommended that the books
remain available, and a top administrator made the final decision to
reinstate them, the district said.
“Gender Queer,” an illustrated
memoir by Maia Kobabe, contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and
masturbation. The novel “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison contains graphic
descriptions of sexual activity. Both books were previous winners of the
American Library Association’s Alex Awards, which each year recognize
“ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults
ages 12 through 18.”
Determining the appropriateness of material for elementary and high school libraries is not the same as censorship.
Had this been a book about Christ, it would be weeded in no time.
Nearly four out of five Canadians are either worried or very worried
about rising inflation, a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for
Global News found.
As Canada’s annual inflation rate hit 4.7 per cent in October, the
fastest pace in nearly 19 years, soaring living costs have become a top
concern for 78 per cent of Canadians the poll found. Only six per cent
said they weren’t at all worried about rising prices.
Among those most likely to fret about inflation are parents, the Ipsos
survey shows. Six out of 10 respondents with kids under 18 said they
concerned they might not have enough money to feed their family,
compared to four in 10 who said the same overall.
In 2015, in 2019, and in 2021, Canadians voted for someone so stupid that dryer lint could outwit him.
From the rugged coast of James Bay to the gilded halls of the
Vatican, Evelyn Korkmaz says she has learned a great deal about the
Catholic Church and its entities.
"Their valuables are more important than humanity," said Korkmaz, a survivor of St. Anne's Indian Residential School, the notorious institution in northern Ontario she was forced to attend and where she was abused as a child.
For years, Korkmaz has sought records and reparations she says the church owes her and other survivors. It's a campaign that took her to Rome in 2019 for a Vatican summit on sexual abuse.
"They've
claimed to be poor, bankrupt. I went to the Vatican — they are far from
bankrupt," said Korkmaz, who has received some compensation but is
still involved in litigation against the groups that operated
residential schools.
Chretien was the minister of Indian affairs between 1968 to 1974 under
then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He went on to become prime minister
and saw the last operational residential school closed while he was in
office.
In the CTV interview, Chretien was asked whether he takes some
responsibility in light of the continued discoveries of unmarked graves
at former residential school sites.
“They [residential schools] were there since a long time… We had to
manage the problem at that time,” he said. “We were not informed of any
abuse at that time.”
A national survey shows wide approval for proposed changes to Canada’s electoral districts that would take a House of Commons seat from Quebec and give additional seats to three other provinces.
The plan, which drew derision from Bloc Québécois Leader
Yves-François Blanchet, has implications for national unity and Liberal
fortunes in Quebec.
The proposal by Elections Canada
chief electoral officer Stephane Perrault calls for Quebec to lose one
House seat, Ontario and British Columbia each to gain one seat, and
Alberta to gain three, increasing the national total from 338 to 342
seats.
The plan has popular support. An Angus Reid survey
released Nov. 17 found that 78 percent of Canadians support the
proposal. Support was strongest in Alberta, where 89 percent backed the
proposal—33 percent strongly—and lowest in Quebec, where 61 percent
approved.
Blanchet condemned the proposal back in October when it was first
announced. He said his party would “unleash the fires of hell” if Quebec
lost a seat in the House and that it was inappropriate given the
province’s status as a nation. The survey found that even though 79
percent of Bloc voters believed Quebec deserved special consideration on
that basis, 49 percent of Bloc voters supported the redistribution plan
overall.
Leftists will have a hard time seeing who the victims are in this one:
An award-winning
Canadian scientist said he has been refused two federal government
grants for his research on the grounds of “lack of diversity” — even
though he is originally from India and has repeatedly suffered racism.
Patanjali
Kambhampati, a professor in the chemistry department at Montreal’s
McGill University, believes the death knell for the latest grant was a
line in the application form where he was asked about hiring staff based
on diversity and inclusion considerations. He says his mistake was
maintaining that he would hire on merit any research assistant who was
qualified, regardless of their identity.
“We will hire the most qualified people based upon their skills and mutual interests,” Kambhampati wrote on the application.
“I’ve
had two people say that was the kiss of death,” said Kambhampati. “I
thought I was trying to be nice saying that if you were interested and
able I’d hire you and that’s all that mattered. I don’t care about the
colour of your skin. I’m interested in hiring someone who wants to work
on the project and is good at it.”
Professor Kambhampati will be a white, tow-headed Christian with a Jewish mother and hails from Alabama in no time.
The Narrative can't afford to make exceptions.
If people start treating each with respect and look only for true ability, Big Grievance will collapse in no time.
A teachers’ union in southern Ontario has decided that if not enough
minority members of the board are present, votes will be weighted to
further the representation of minority members.
This man is a monster:
The man accused of plowing his SUV into a Christmas parade in
Waukesha, Wis., was charged with five counts of first-degree intentional
homicide Tuesday as prosecutors announced that the death toll has risen
to six.
Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, of Milwaukee, was led into court in handcuffs, wearing a mask and what appeared to be a green bulletproof vest.
Brooks
had his head down and wept several times during the proceedings as the
judge read aloud the five charges, each of which carries a mandatory
life prison sentence.
Police said Brooks was fleeing the scene of a domestic disturbance
late Sunday afternoon when he crashed into the parade-goers. Virginia
Sorenson, 79, LeAnna Owen, 71, Tamara Durand, 52, Jane Kulich, 52, and
Wilhelm Hospel, 81, were killed.
Waukesha County District Attorney
Sue Opper informed the court that a sixth victim, a child, had also
died, and prosecutors expect to charge Brooks with a sixth count of
first-degree intentional homicide.
Bail was set at $5 million.
(Sidebar: why not mention the child's name - Jackson Sparks?)
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BREAKING: Court documents confirm Darrel Brooks was observed first driving slowly and then sped up to hit parade participants in Waukesha pic.twitter.com/CfpUJHZ5UK
A £34,050-a-year Kent private school that makes children wear yellow
badges if they are exempt from wearing masks has been slammed for the
‘inappropriate’ similarity to yellow stars Nazis forced condemned Jews
to display.
As reported by the Canadian Press, Strategic Group, which owns over
1,500 rental units in Edmonton and Calgary, hopes that their policy will
inspire other housing providers to do the same.
“We’re proud of it. Very proud of it. And we’d like to see other
landlords implement the same policy. It will help to end this pandemic,”
said the company’s chief operating officer Tracey Steman.
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Gunner, the Northern Territory Chief Minister, has proudly boasted that
38 ‘close contacts’ of positive Covid cases have been transferred to
quarantine camps in army trucks.
Taiwan's leadership will host a group of Lithuanian lawmakers next
week amid a deepening spat between Beijing and Vilnius about the Baltic
state's decision to allow the Chinese-claimed island to open a de facto
embassy.
Beijing downgraded diplomatic ties with Lithuania on
Sunday in a show of anger over the de facto embassy move. China views
democratically-governed Taiwan as one of its provinces, with no right to
the trappings of a state.
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry said on
Wednesday that Matas Maldeikis, leader of the Lithuanian parliament's
Taiwan Friendship Group, would visit Taipei to attend a legislative
forum on Dec 2-3, along with some colleagues and lawmakers from Latvia
and Estonia. In all, 10 representatives from the three Baltic states
will be participating.
The group will meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen along with other senior officials, the ministry added.
Hours after being tapped as Sweden’s prime minister, Magdalena
Andersson resigned Wednesday after suffering a budget defeat in
parliament and its coalition partner left the two-party minority
government.
”For me, it is about respect, but I also do not want to lead a
government where there may be grounds to question its legitimacy,”
Andersson told a news conference.
Thanks to socialism,Venezuela is a dirt-poor country. Thanks to socialism, Canada will soon be joining it:
The Department of Foreign Affairs spent nearly $627,000 promoting
feminism in Venezuela including the hiring of $567-a day publicists to
“arrange high level media interviews” with women legislators. Managers
who signed the contract yesterday would not comment.
The leaders of Japan and Vietnam expressed serious concern on
Wednesday about the situation in the South China Sea and any unilateral
actions aimed at altering the status quo, and agreed to work together to
sustain free and open sea lanes as tensions escalate in the region amid
China's rise.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is the
first foreign leader to visit Japan for talks with new Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida, who took office in October.
Kishida told Chinh in
his opening remarks that “Vietnam is an important partner who holds a
key to achieving ‘a free and open Indo-Pacific,’" a vision aimed at
countering China's increasingly assertive territorial claims in the
disputed region. He did not mention China by name.
The two leaders
“expressed serious concerns about the situation in the South China Sea
and any unilateral attempts to change the status quo and increase
tensions,” they said in a joint statement, without naming any country.
Security forces in Qatar detained two journalists from Norwegian
state television for over 30 hours and deleted footage they gathered at a
migrant labor camp as they tried to report on worker issues ahead of
the FIFA 2022 World Cup, authorities said Wednesday.
Qatar's
government accused NRK journalists Halvor Ekeland and Lokman Ghorbani of
“trespassing on private property and filming without a permit” as the
two returned Wednesday to Norway following their arrest. The journalists
contended they had verbal permission from those they filmed there.
The
arrests sparked a diplomatic dispute between Norway and Qatar.
Norwegian news agency NTB reported that the Qatari ambassador to the
country was summoned to Oslo’s foreign ministry over the matter.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere called the arrests “unacceptable.”
The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed
their solidarity with Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its
eastern border with Belarus, and urged the European Union to increase
its support for the protection of the bloc's external borders.
At a
news briefing in Hungary's capital of Budapest following talks between
the prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia,
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the situation on his
country's eastern border went beyond migration.
It’s a “new
political crisis” in which people are being used by human smugglers and
mafias in cooperation with the authoritarian government of Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashenko to exert pressure on the EU, Morawiecki
said.
"Human beings are used as objects, as tools, which is
horrible. In the hands of the Lukashenko regime, they are merely tools,”
Morawiecki said.
Tuesday's summit of the Visegrad Four grouping
of Central European countries came as thousands of migrants, mostly from
countries in the Middle East, have traveled to Belarus in recent months
and attempted to cross into the EU through neighboring Poland, a member
of the 27-member bloc.
Poland has reinforced its border with riot
police and troops and plans to build a steel barrier, measures
supported by many in the EU. It has also used water cannon and tear gas
to deter migrants attempting to breach the border, drawing criticism
from some human rights groups and others who argue the migrants
shouldn't be pushed back into Belarus and should be allowed to submit
asylum claims.
The EU has argued that Lukashenko is using the
migrants to destabilize the bloc in retaliation for sanctions it imposed
on his government. Belarus denies engineering the crisis.
By empowering China, we let the tragedy that is North Korea continue:
At this stage, despite the appalling economic situation, it is simply
inconceivable that Kim would consider pausing or diminishing his nuclear
programme. Not unreasonably, the regime – looking at the fate of people
like Saddam and Gaddafi – views nukes as their sole means of survival.
Besides, the testing of nuclear weapons is pretty much the only thing
the regime has done ‘well’. The country’s nukes are frequently touted in
propaganda as symbolic of Kim’s power and ingenuity. In this sense,
they are the bedrock of his authority. If Kim is presented with a choice
between feeding his people, and keeping his nukes, he will choose the
nukes. Could we tolerate the consequences of this?
According to a 150-page report naming 24 of the world’s worst
oppressors of Christian minorities, the three groups and individuals
each received the top spot in their respective categories.
There’s less reason to question reports that North Korea is embarked on an anti-Christian jihad,
publicly executing those who would put other gods before His Withering
Majesty. We’ve heard recent reports of hundreds (if not thousands) of public executions in North Korea, we’ve seen smuggled video of at least one such execution, and there is plenty of evidence that North Korea imprisons, tortures, and executes people for believing in or propogating Christianity.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges
stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest
that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer,
says in a new interview that he’s “not a racist person” and supports the
Black Lives Matter movement.
“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do
with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” the 18-year-old
tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview set to air Monday
night. Rittenhouse is white, as were the men he shot.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG)
has launched a new initiative to increase the number of medical
professionals who provide Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) treatment, which
consists of administering the hormone progesterone to counteract the
effects of mifepristone (the abortion pill), a progesterone blocker. To
that end, the organization has launched a new page on its website and produced a new video, both of which answer common questions about APR from a medical provider’s perspective.
Embattled Toronto MP
Kevin Vuong, who was ditched by the Liberals days before the federal
election after failing to disclose a withdrawn sexual-assault charge,
has apologized to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Vuong also apologized to his supporters “for embarrassing them,” as well as his former Liberal colleagues.
In
his first interview since the Sept. 20 election, Vuong said he was
“naive” and “too eager” to become an MP, and regrets the decision not to
tell the party about the charge while being vetted as a candidate.
Despite
being disavowed as the Liberal candidate in Spadina-Fort York days
before the vote, he was elected to Parliament nonetheless and is set to
take his seat as an Independent MP next week.
You have to be high up there, Kevin. Climb that ladder.
Three years after 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team were
killed in a crash on a Saskatchewan highway, the man responsible is
publicly apologizing and lobbying to stay in Canada. As a permanent
resident, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu faces deportation to India when his
prison sentence is complete.
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I
will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all
Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they
teach.”
(A Christmas Carol)
Bridgend Council in Wales UK announced
that, for a second year running, there will be no festive Christmas
events in the schools under its purview due to staff shortages and COVID
fears.
"Unfortunately,
due to limited staffing available to the local authority to support the
likely increased take-up of the offer of a Christmas lunch, there will
be no dedicated Christmas lunches provided in schools. However, some
food will have a 'festive theme,'", said a spokesperson for the council.
Why bother with the "festive theme"?
Isn't that work you "can't" put into the Christmas festivities?
Who will block these biodegradable roads that carry bring resources and unmasked motorists?:
With the weather bomb of 2021, B.C.’s fabled road engineers face a new challenge:how
to rebuild the province’s paralyzed highway network quickly enough to
reanimate an immobilized province and robustly enough to avoid perils of climate change.
“This
has to be a real wake-up call to road engineering departments,” said
Daman Grewal, senior operations manager for Centurion Trucking, whose
fleet of 60 trucks was diverting through the United States as of
Thursday to carry goods between Vancouver and Alberta, doubling the
usual travel time. “We’ll see some bandage fixes coming up. But they
need to re-evaluate and be prepared for the next big event.”
As of Friday, the
province’s four major highways extending north and east from Vancouver
and the rest of the Lower Mainland remained closed, knocking out vital
supply lines between the coast and Interior.
They’re opening back up slowly, but a full recovery won’t take place until next year.
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British Columbia
residents can cross into the United States to buy fuel and other
essential supplies without having to present a negative COVID-19 test to
re-enter Canada.
Catastrophic
flooding has cut off fuel shipments to swaths of the province,
prompting B.C. to order rationing of gasoline. Some food supplies are
also running short.
Mike
Farnworth, B.C. Public Safety Minister, told reporters on Saturday that
he had asked Bill Blair, the federal Emergency Preparedness Minister,
to accelerate the move to waive as of Nov. 30 tests for Canadians
visiting the United States for fewer than 72 hours.
Ottawa
won’t make a formal change to that deadline, but the federal government
has now made it clear that exemptions built into current travel
restrictions do allow for cross-border travel if the purpose is to
purchase necessities such as fuel, food or medicine.
