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Next week, Canada will be virtually indistinguishable from China:
Bill C-18 – the Online News Act – will no longer be debated.
The Liberals – along with the support of the NDP – voted to end debate on the legislation.
As noted by Michael Geist, this means that the Liberal heritage minister – in charge of pushing the legislation – spent more time debating the end of debate on C-18 than he did debating the legislation itself:
“Total minutes Heritage Minister @pablorodriguez has spent in the House debating C-18: 0
Total minutes Heritage Minister @pablorodriguez has spent in the House debating cutting off C-18 debate: 30
The motion to end debate on Online News Act just passed with support of the NDP.”
(Sidebar: NDP, the second round of Nuremberg trials will find your collaboration quite interesting.)
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has adopted 72 secret orders-in-council — hidden from Parliament and Canadians — since coming to office, CBC News has learned.
A review by CBC News of nearly 8,900 orders-in-council (OICs) — or cabinet decrees — adopted by the federal government shows the number of secret or unpublished OICs has been rising since Trudeau came to power in 2015.
The only outside indication that a secret OIC even exists is a missing number in the Privy Council's orders-in-council database. OICs have a wide range of applications, from stopping a foreign company from buying a Canadian business to outlining who is authorized to give the order to shoot down a commercial airliner hijacked by terrorists.
More than half of the secret orders-in-council adopted by the Trudeau government have arrived since April 2020, a month after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Eleven have been adopted so far this year.
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Gatineau mayor confirms that the Gatineau Police did not request the government to invoke the Emergencies Act.
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) May 31, 2022
RCMP: ❌
Ottawa Police: ❌
Gatineau Police: ❌
The government told Canadians that they acted at the request of law enforcement.
It's all falling apart. https://t.co/YeVcZXUdvg
(Sidebar: one could say that the Mayor of Gatineau is simply trying to cover his @$$ just as no one on the Ottawa city council can point to a reason why the convoy was harmful in anyway.)
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The Conservative Party motion to lift travel restrictions on May 30 was soundly defeated by all other parties in the House of Commons, but two Liberal MPs dissented.
Quebec City MP Joël Lightbound voted in favour of the motion, in line with his stance on COVID-19 restrictions he had expressed in a press conference in February.
Lightbound had then spoken at length about the harms he said were being caused by lockdowns and the divisive politics of his party over vaccination status.
Another Liberal MP didn’t vote in favour of the Tory motion and instead abstained.
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who represents a Toronto riding, explained his rationale for abstaining in a lengthy Twitter thread on May 31.
He said he couldn’t vote in favour of the motion as he didn’t support the dropping of the mask mandate in airplanes but that other measures such as vaccine mandates were “no longer justified.”
The obligation to wear masks in Canada has been abolished in almost every setting, with some jurisdictions keeping them mandatory in public transport or health care facilities.
“I didn’t support the idea of dropping masks right away, but I’ve also made it clear to the government that a two-dose vaccine mandate without accommodation is no longer justified,” Erskine-Smith said.
Erskine-Smith also echoed the criticism the Conservatives have been levelling against the government regarding transparency around what science or metrics are being used to justify keeping the mandates.
Erskine-Smith referred to a statement by chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam who said months ago that the mandates were under review.
“Nothing about the re-evaluation of travel-related measures has been transparent. It is not clear what Dr. Tam’s recommendations are, and there’s been no adequate justification provided for continuing the exclusive two-dose mandate,” he said.
The Public Health Agency of Canada announced on May 31 that the current border measures for travellers entering Canada were being extended until at least June 30.
Erskine-Smith said he has supported the two-dose vaccine mandate for travel and also recommended a three-dose mandate, with accommodation via rapid testing, but that mandates have outrun their usefulness in driving uptake and preventing transmission.
The Toronto MP also mentioned accounts from his constituents, one of which declined a second vaccine dose due to suffering partial facial paralysis after receiving her first dose, and another whose mother in Russia holding a valid visa cannot visit her because the vaccine she received isn’t recognized by Health Canada.
Erskine-Smith said these individuals shouldn’t be prevented from travelling.
“There are many stories and contexts, but the core point is that a two-dose mandate no longer makes any sense,” he wrote.
(Sidebar: to date, two businessmen have had attempted to suppress their records rebuffed. For now.)
What's the point? The Liberals can plunder and lord over Canadians and no one will stop them (the people who tried were trampled with horses, arrested and had their bank accounts frozen):
The Commons yesterday by a 169 to 153 vote endorsed an ethics committee report proposing tougher conflict laws. It followed a committee review of cabinet dealings with We Charity: “We need to make sure that we do not fall into the practices of other failed states where kleptocracies rule.”
They already do.
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UN Special Envoy Mark Carney yesterday appealed for cash donations to a Liberal Party think tank. “Please chip in,” said Carney. A United Nations ethics code prohibits conflicts of interest by envoys: “I hope that you will join in and share your ideas and if you’re able, please chip in today.”
(Sidebar: this UN.)
Why not just print the money or steal it?
It was never about a virus and we all know it:
In the year since he became partially paralyzed, Ross Wightman has kept his focus on small victories — from getting up the stairs unassisted, to going for a solo walk near his rural B.C. home.
But the biggest win came in the form of an e-mail from Canada's Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) that confirmed something he says he knew all along: that his condition was likely caused by the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
"That was quite vindicating," Wightman said from his Lake Country home in the Okanagan Valley. "To have it in hand, in paper, acknowledging it has been vindicating."
It's a token and nothing more.
Watch as his payments drag out.
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A military vaccine mandate has seen nearly 1,600 soldiers, sailors and air crew resign, face discharge or be disciplined, the Department of National Defence said yesterday. The number is in addition to 307 civilian employees suspended without pay for declining to show proof of vaccination: “It is expected a portion of the Canadian Armed Forces will be non-compliant.”
I know!
China can fill in as our armed forces!
Starlink satellites, a state university with close links to the country’s communist regime has said.
Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications Technology called Starlink a threat to China’s national security because of its “huge potential for military applications”.
Starlink is Elon Musk’s global connectivity project, consisting of thousands of satellites in a near-Earth orbit paired with ground terminals giving its users high speed internet access.
In a paper published in China’s Modern Defence Technology journal, the five-strong team of academics say Starlink could be used by the US military and called for China to develop weapons to destroy the internet connectivity network. The paper said: “It is necessary to further develop related technologies and form disposal capabilities.”
They add that China should “vigorously develop countermeasures” and be prepared to “use a combination of soft kill and hard kill” techniques against the satellite network.
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It seems that there can indeed be a happenstance genocide. Reproduction itself is targeted, intentionally or not, by the mRNA vaccines. And if you know that reproduction is harmed, and babies and fetuses are harmed, and you know that this is at scale, which everyone at Pfizer and at the FDA who read these documents, knew —and if you do not stop — then does that not ultimately become a genocide?
It's more like staying with the devil one knows than choosing the best candidate.
Not that any candidate is worth it:
A Postmedia/Leger Ontario provincial election poll puts the Ontario PCs at a comfortable 40 per cent share of decided votes, while the Ontario Liberals and NDP — as they have for much of the campaign — remain gripped in a fierce battle for second place in Thursday’s vote, each garnering about a quarter of the vote.
But roughly a third of supporters for the three parties live within Toronto city limits, the poll suggests — carrying 33 per cent support for the PCs, 32 per cent for the Liberals, and 26 per cent for the New Democrats.
Toronto grew four shades of blue darker this week, putting Tory support in the city at 33 per cent while party support in northern Ontario fell from 39 to 33 per cent.
“With these numbers, I would say the PCs are looking at a comfortable majority, up around to where they were in 2018,” said Leger’s Andrew Enns.
If one can believe polls.
Also - Canadians compromised and got neither the fiscal nor social conservative.
Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, an advocate for social conservatives in the party, said he would recommend his supporters to mark Leslyn Lewis – the only openly pro-life candidate in the race – as first choice while encouraging them to rank Poilievre – who is pro-choice – second.
“Both are strong, principled conservatives and capable leaders,” he tweeted.
Abortion is a canned hunt.
How is voting for it "principled"?
Uvalde cops did know children were still alive inside the Texas elementary school during a shooting last week, damning new footage reveals.
Video originally shared on Facebook Live shows the chaotic scene outside Robb Elementary school as Customs and Border Protection agents spoke to a to an injured child during the massacre.
'Are you injured?' the agent asked the child, according to CNN who made the clip public on Tuesday. The child answered: 'I got shot!'
'A kid got shot? A Kid?' an adult is heard saying as the child's voice cuts out.
In addition, ABC News released footage Monday of a 911 call confirming officers knew children were alive after Salvador Ramos, 18, fired more than 100 shots into the classroom, contradicting the local police chief's claims that they thought the scene was no longer active.
'Room 12, are we able to .. is anybody inside of the building ...' the dispatcher asked. '2-1, child is advising he is in the room. Full of victims. Full of victims at this moment.'
The newly released video appears to contradict claims that Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Col. Steven McCraw made during a news briefing on Friday.
He repeatedly alleged police waited to enter the building because the incident commander had considered Ramos 'a barricaded subject, and that there was time, and there were no more children at risk.'
If I had my way, corgis would be involved in most state affairs:
Corgi images adorn commemorative ornaments, pillows, mugs and biscuits. Corgi sculptures have been installed around the streets of central London. And during a finale pageant procession on Sunday, a giant puppet of the queen will be surrounded by a pack of puppet corgis.
The queen, of course, is famous for her love of Pembroke Welsh Corgis. She is said to have had more than 30 during her reign.
Her corgi Susan came along on her honeymoon – and started a royal breeding line that produced hundreds of puppies.
Paul McCartney made the Beatles and Ronnie Hawkins was the driving forces for The Band.
And we all know it:
Lennon was in Canada with wife Yoko Ono on a bizarre mission to meet then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, as part of what they assumed would be their new side gig as self-appointed diplomats for world peace (sort of a like a proto-Bono). It was to be the couple’s third visit to Canada that year. The first was to stage their famous bed-in at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel, and then Lennon made a surprise summer appearance at Toronto’s Rock and Roll Revival festival.
(Sidebar: once again, Lennon and Trudeau ruin things for everyone else.)
The idea to stay at Hawkins’ modest home, in what was then an underdeveloped area of Mississauga, had come via Rolling Stone writer Ritchie Yorke. As one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities, Lennon caused chaos at any hotel he visited. Much simpler was for the Beatle to simply disappear into a guest room at a nondescript Canadian acreage.
Hawkins — who primarily made his living as a bar act — had sat out Beatlemania and knew Lennon mostly by reputation as the “biggest act in the world.”
He’d never really sat down with any of the Beatles’ multi-platinum records, but Hawkins had been a fellow act at the Rock and Roll Revival. He would eventually offer one of history’s more blunt assessments of Ono’s performance at the festival, which would become notorious for its extended atonal screeching. “As hip as everyone there tried to be, Yoko was too much,” Hawkins wrote in his 1989 autobiography.
Lennon, by contrast, was intimately familiar with Hawkins. “He knew all of my records. He knew most of them better than I did,” Hawkins would later tell music journalist Terry Ott.
Lennon and Ono were not good houseguests. Even before she arrived, Ono ordered sixteen new telephone lines run into Hawkins’ house and would run up a $9,000 ($69,000 in 2022 dollars) phone bill during her short stay at the property.
The couple overflowed a bathtub, causing one of Hawkins’ ceilings to collapse. Lennon unwittingly started a fire in Hawkins’ barn. And Ono reportedly inflected the entire visit with a note of tension by quietly resenting every moment that Lennon spent out of her sight.
How awful.
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