Your mid-week sweltering sun ....
Just to remind everyone that the Canadian government led by the inveterate racist, Justin Trudeau, is petty, money-grubbing, hypocritical, paranoid, incompetent and just plain awful:
The government made the outrageous decision to invoke the Emergencies Act (for the first time ever) due to a CBC story which has since been retracted for being false.
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) June 15, 2022
Now they want to pretend that that never happened. pic.twitter.com/6LRczqwf50
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland last night called the Freedom Convoy a “core threat to the Canadian economy” but provided no figures to prove it. Members of a Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency challenged Freeland to justify cabinet’s use of the Emergencies Act against truckers: “I have many figures in my head.”
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Give up your pension, you sad, old cow. You don't deserve it:
The federal agency that manages passports has most employees, 70 percent, working from home, records show. Social Development Minister Karina Gould told reporters she sympathized with Canadians waiting months for travel documents: “I can’t give you a clear timeline in terms of when things are going to return to normal.”
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The Liberal government is finally halting their unscientific and vindictive vaccine mandates for travel.
(Sidebar: not exactly.)
Beginning June 20, Canadians will not have to be vaccinated to board planes, trains, and busses for domestic or international travel.
Mandates will continue to apply on cruise ships.
Mask mandates remain in place, and people will still have to use the ArriveCAN app.
The government also says they may bring the mandates back if case counts rise again.
So, why are they doing this?
Is this a newfound belief in freedom among the Trudeau cabinet?
Of course not.
It’s all political.
The real driving force for the suspension of the mandates seems to be Trudeau’s own undefendable hypocrisy.
On Twitter, Peter McCaffrey explained it perfectly:
“The Prime Minister is triple-vaccinated and has already had COVID.
Yet, he caught it again while overseas, was able to re-enter Canada *with COVID*, and only tested positive after getting home.
Tell me again how all the security theatre at the border is working?”
It isn't.
In case of insolvency, your pension might be saved.
Three opposition parties yesterday announced a pact to speed passage of a bill to save pensions in cases of insolvency. MPs have tried and failed to pass similar amendments to bankruptcy law since 1975: “We hope to see this go to committee and beyond that to really do something.”
Stop relying on the government. Remove the government as an obstacle and, as if by magic, people eat:
The cost of living has gone up for all Canadians. But for those who produce food on any of the tens of thousands of Canadian farms, they’re feeling the pinch, too, with fertilizer and diesel prices skyrocketing in recent months.
Farmers were among the first to see the impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Because those two nations are among the world’s largest wheat producers, the shock to the markets was felt in Canada, with high demand and high prices for Canadian grain.
Both are also among the largest exporters of fertilizers, and the invasion has led to high prices for fertilizers around the world. Buying fertilizer is one of the single largest input costs for farmers each year and not only did they have to worry about prices, there were fears they simply wouldn’t be able to get enough of the product needed to produce good yields.
The average Canadian grain farmer — wheat, canola, barley, oats — would have spent $60 to $65 per acre on fertilizer in 2021. This year, costs are more like $130 to $140 per acre, according to estimates from Fertilizer Canada. For the average farm, according to Statistics Canada, of 778 acres, that means an increase of about $56,000.
Once everyone accepts that this is an act of a petty, vindictive drama queen, it all makes sense:
Border communities in Canada are calling on the federal government to drop the ArriveCan mobile application at the land border, which they say will prevent Americans from visiting their friendly neighbour to the north during the peak tourism season.
This joint call on Wednesday from NDP MP Richard Cannings, mayors of border cities and duty free associations came the day after the federal government announced it would drop its vaccine mandates for domestic travellers and federal public servants as of June 20.
International travellers will still be required to use the ArriveCan app to prove their COVID-19 vaccination status to Canadian officials when entering the country.
But this situation is untenable for travellers arriving at the Canada-United States land borders and could discourage American tourists from visiting Canada, according to Mayor Jim Diodati of Niagara Falls, Ont., a region that highly depends on American tourism for revenue.
“What’s happening right now is Americans are showing up in their minivan, with their family, at the border, with no knowledge of the ArriveCan app. They don’t have roaming, they can’t download the app, there’s a line-up of cars behind them, they can’t get into the country,” he said.
“So I’ll tell you something: you upset your customers, they go back and tell all their friends,” added Diodati. “Many people are bypassing Canada, and that’s going to have long-lasting effects on this country.”
I bet everyone is missing the truckers right about now.
Speaking of petty and vindictive:
The Trudeau government says it will not repay any salary to federal public servants who were suspended since October because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc gave an unexpectedly direct answer when asked Wednesday if the government would reimburse lost wages to public servants who refused to get two COVID-19 shots before the Oct. 6, 2021, deadline imposed by his government.
“Absolutely not,” he told reporters before briskly walking away as he exited a weekly caucus meeting.
His government announced Tuesday that it was lifting the vaccine mandate for federal public servants (as well as those for domestic travellers) that forced all workers who were not considered “fully vaccinated” to be put on unpaid leave until June 20.
As of March 29, 1,828 employees were on unpaid leave due to the vaccination policy, according to numbers shared by Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) with public sector unions in April.
The decision comes as all major unions have been putting increased pressure on the federal government to at the very least review, if not drop, the vaccine mandate at a time where provinces have all but dropped most of their COVID-19 public health measures.
But Justin can rack up a liquor bill because he is "special".
Why would it be morally acceptable to vacation in a communist sh--hole where children as young as twelve sell themselves to feed their families?:
Are the sunny beaches of Cuba any different? There is a functional apartheid at work, not divided by race but by dollars. Until about 10 years ago, local Cubans were banned from frequenting the resorts as customers. Now, they can, but can’t afford it and are harassed if they do. The resorts are for foreigners. The regime desires their hard currency and the resorts are luxury camps designed to hide the reality of Cuba.
Consumer behaviour is moral behaviour. That’s not really controversial, although making judgments about what degree of co-operation with evil is involved is usually very complex. National Post columnist Kelly McParland attempted to go a year without buying anything from China, a noble venture that he learned “takes persistence, pig-headedness and a willingness to pay more than the lowest conceivable price to avoid offering financial support to what many believe is the world’s most dangerous regime.”
Cuba is not the world’s most dangerous regime, but it is the most dangerous regime for the Cuban people. It is also the leading protagonist in exporting repression to Venezuela and Nicaragua, and its malign influence can be found in Bolivia, Peru and elsewhere. And simply not going there on vacation takes literally no effort at all.
Don't give me the crap that you left your clothes there because you just realised that you felt sorry for the Cubans. That is not even in the same hemisphere as to why you went in the first place.
A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.
The depositors were planning to travel to the central province of Henan this week from across China to protest against an almost two-month block on accessing at least $178 million of deposits, which has left companies unable to pay workers and individuals unable to access savings. read more
Rights groups have warned China could use its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle dissent. Without a green code on their smartphone app, citizens lose access to public transport and spaces such as restaurants and malls, as well as the right to travel across the country.
"They are putting digital handcuffs on us," said a depositor from Sichuan province surnamed Chen, who declined to use his full name for fear of government retribution.
I bet everyone is missing those Tienanmen Square protestors right about now.
Why home-schooling is looking like a better option each day:
Ontario’s woke teachers – clearly upset that Premier Doug Ford won a landslide majority earlier this month – took to Twitter non-stop over the past two weeks to express their hatred of conservatives.
Before they leave the classroom for their two month vacation, they also vowed they’d continue to indoctrinate young minds.
Of course they didn’t use the word “indoctrinate.” These radical leftists would prefer to call it “teaching young minds respect, kindness and equity” – code for dividing students into identity groups and ramming Marxist ideologies down their throats.
It’s puzzling that they’re so upset considering the Ford government did nothing to clear out the radical equity bureaucrats brought to the education ministry by Kathleen Wynne or to address the crazy woke policies adopted by various school boards.
There’s never been a time I can remember that Ontario’s more radical teachers — with the help of their leftist unions — didn’t protest, or whine about being hard done by. That was mostly with signs, days of action and glossy union-published pamphlets.
Abolish teachers' unions. Clear out the chaff.
What on earth is going on in the Public School System? pic.twitter.com/LvENIpzTD4
— Ivan Trumpovic 🇦🇺🇭🇷🇺🇸🇷🇺Z (@QualityTweets78) June 14, 2022
Also - it's called child abuse:
Making puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones easier for minor s toaccess has increased youth suicide rates, a new report from the Heritage Foundation asserts.
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