Your mid-week coffee break ...
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.
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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.
Reportedly?
There's the truth and then there's the "truth":
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.”
Then you don't need that Internet kill-switch, do you?
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.”
Is Canada a free and democratic society?
Look above and change my mind.
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 .”
(Sidebar: more here.)
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.
Remind me again who you voted for:
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.
Time and time and time again, Justin has proven to have absolutely no financial acumen.
Yet people voted for him.
Time and time and time again, Canadians have proven the similar case.
And now you know how we got here.
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.
I'll just leave this right here:
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.”
Chretien isn't broke.
But ... but ... Quebec is special:
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.
The honest must go!
Also:
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
— Jack Posobiec ✝️ (@JackPosobiec) November 23, 2021
Why does all of this sound familiar?:
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.
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An Alberta property rental company has announced that it will be denying new tenants housing if they’re not vaccinated against COVID-19.
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.
More on the Japanese-Vietnamese alliance:
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.
Qatar has been using North Korean labour:
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.”
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Facepalm. What else can one say about the state of Canada.
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