Your mid-week appeal to sanity ....
It's called communism, you worm, and it failed wherever it was:
The frequently criticized centralization of power within the Prime Minister’s Office is a necessary part of governing — regardless of who is in power — argued two former prime ministerial advisers, at an event in Calgary Tuesday.
It’s a criticism that can be levelled at both of Canada’s most recent prime ministers said Ian Brodie, Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, and Gerald Butts, formerly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s principal adviser. The demands of governing sometimes require stiff, centralized power, they told the crowd of roughly 250 people at Alberta Relaunch, an event held at a conference centre on the Calgary Stampede grounds. ...
In 2015, Trudeau promised to roll back the centralization of power in the PMO, saying, “I quite like the symmetry” of ending a trend his father is credited with starting.
That is one of the reasons why Pierre Trudeau is burning in hell.
Also - Buttsy isn't done making a fool out of himself:
No idea what the real story is in the Lucki imbroglio. But if you’re accepting the word of the Nova Scotia RCMP brass at face value on anything related to Portapique, I’ve got some swampland in Pictou to sell you.
— Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) June 29, 2022
A scathing letter from an RCMP communications manager released Tuesday says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki referred to direct pressure from the federal public safety minister to release firearm details in the days after the Nova Scotia mass shooting.
It's the second such claim by an RCMP official who was on an April 28, 2020, conference call in which Lucki criticized Halifax staff, nine days after the rampage that resulted in 22 deaths.
The letter from Lia Scanlan dated April 14, 2021, claims the RCMP's leader focused on the Liberal government's agenda of passing firearms legislation during the hastily arranged meeting.
Hours earlier during a news conference, Supt. Darren Campbell hadn't provided full details about the two rifles and two pistols used by the killer. According to his handwritten notes, released to the public inquiry, the RCMP was concerned providing this information might jeopardize their investigation.
As the dressing down unfolded, Scanlan said Lucki "informed us of the pressures and conversation with (Public Safety) Minister (Bill) Blair, which we clearly understood was related to the upcoming passing of the gun legislation."
"I remember a feeling of disgust as I realized this was the catalyst for the conversation and perhaps a justification for what you were saying about us."
Scanlan's letter is part of the evidence provided to a public inquiry into the April 18-19, 2020, mass shooting.
According to Scanlan, who was the strategic communications director at the time of the shootings, Lucki had come on the line incensed that the Halifax staff hadn't released the gun details, suggesting they had let down surviving children whose parents were killed in Portapique, N.S.
"It was appalling, inappropriate, unprofessional and extremely belittling," Scanlan wrote.
"To have anyone in the RCMP say we let the boys down. There is nothing that makes that acceptable, especially that it was said by the person, who by rank, is at the top of our organization."
Did he misspeak, Buttsy?
Also:
One report that included testimony from Supt. Darren Campbell, who was the public face of the RCMP in Nova Scotia, and Lia Scanlan, the director of communications for the Mounties in the region, was particularly damning in linking the guns used to upcoming anti-gun legislation.
“The commissioner said she had promised the Minister of Public Safety and the Prime Minister’s Office that the RCMP (we) would release this information,” read the handwritten notes Campbell took at the time.
“I tried to explain there was no intent to disrespect anyone; however, we could not release this information at this time, the commissioner then said that we didn’t understand that this was tied to pending gun control legislation that would make officers and the public safer.”
Tamara Lich is a political prisoner and we all know it:
Tamara Lich is back in jail after police in Ottawa determined she breached her bail conditions. Maxime Bernier, head of the PPC, slammed the move, calling it “disgusting.”
Maxime Bernier believes Tamara Lich is a “political prisoner,” and that the Liberal regime is treating her like a dissident in an authoritarian state. Bernier states that he will “continue to support this courageous woman.”
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said in an interview on Monday that plunging Canada into an early election was “not an option” he’s considering despite claiming that his party could potentially unseat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
You have neither the ability nor the interest, you liar.
Posturing doesn't have to cost the Liberals anything:
In the Environment department’s own “regulatory impact assessment,” federal researchers claimed, “the proposed regulations would prevent approximately 1.6 million tonnes of plastics from entering the waste stream over the analytical period.” That’s 2023 to 2032. But the ban “would also add about 3.2 million tonnes of other materials to the waste stream from the use of substitutes.”
Mostly the substitutes are paper – paper straws, paper bowls, and paper takeout containers. Some are wood fibre, mostly in the form of utensils.
So the irony is while the new ban on plastic straws and bags, six-pack rings, takeout containers, stir sticks and cutlery is projected to keep 1.6 million tonnes of plastics out of landfills, incinerators and recycling plants, the alternatives will add 3.2 million tonnes.
That’s a net increase of 1.6 million tonnes of waste – by Ottawa’s own calculations.
Five or six years from now the same shrieking environmentalists who told us plastics were “toxic” and had to be banned, will come hollering about how paper waste is creating an environmental Armageddon.
Double irony: Much of that added paper waste will make it to landfills in plastic bags because, for now, plastic garbage bags are still okay with the Trudeau government. They’re not banned.
Triple irony: Given current recycling technology and infrastructure across Canada, soiled paper is much harder than plastic to recycle into consumer products. That means there is a likelihood that the feds’ ban on single-use plastics will give municipalities more trash to deal with in their landfills, not less.
Did you start looking at your fellow MPs?:
Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier yesterday acknowledged the value of taxes owed but never collected is billions more than originally claimed. Legislators have spent six years prodding the Canada Revenue Agency to calculate the so-called “tax gap.”
I wouldn't be surprised if this was an attempt to audit the average citizen and squeeze him or her for more cash.
Also:
The Open and Accountable Government guide, codified after Justin Trudeau became prime minister, specifies that when fundraising or dealing with lobbyists, Ministers must avoid conflict of interest with potential to affect government decision-making.
In contrast, a National Post article states that one in six donors have affiliations with organizations currently lobbying our federal government. Donations from international sources are said to have increased ten-fold after Justin Trudeau became prime minister. Conservatives called for an investigation into conflict of interest regarding foreign donations totalling over half a billion dollars.
Net result? Not a darn thing. No detailed analysis has been published by media. Upon deeper analysis, we discover details on the “international” donations. The bulk of them appear to come from China.
In 2016, the Globe and Mail reported on a fundraiser at the Toronto home of a Chinese-Canadian business executive. One of the guests was a wealthy donor seeking Ottawa’s approval to begin operating a new bank aimed at Canada’s Chinese community.
“Trudeau was the top draw at the $1,500-a-ticket Liberal Party event, attended by insurance tycoon Shenglin Xian, the founder of Wealth One Bank of Canada and president of Toronto-based Shenglin Financial Group Inc.”
Among the donors was Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman and political advisor to the Chinese government in Beijing. The newspaper said Zhang, along with a partner, donated $1 million to the Pierre Trudeau Foundation.
What to conclude? How about the idea that the Liberal Party and the Trudeau Foundation pulled the whole thing off without so much as breaking a fingernail.
The intimate relationship between the Liberal Party of Canada and the government of China is something all Canadians should be aware of. We are not, for a simple reason: establishment media have been hiding the Liberal Party-Chinese government relationship since Pierre Trudeau became prime minister in 1968.
And:
Pro-Chinese agents posed as concerned local residents on social media to try to spark protests over the opening of rare earth mines in the U.S. and Canada, cybersecurity researchers said in a new report.
The fake Twitter and Facebook accounts were created to give China, the largest producer of rare earth minerals, a competitive advantage, cybersecurity research company Mandiant disclosed on Tuesday.
Mandiant has reported on a network of thousands of fake accounts across numerous social media platforms, websites and forums since 2019 that support China’s political interests. In one recent campaign Mandiant coined “Dragonbridge”, fake accounts purported to be concerned local residents and environmentalists on Facebook to orchestrate protests at the Texas facility of the Australian mining company Lynas Rare Earths Ltd., according to Mandiant. It was unclear who was behind the campaign, the firm said.
The fake accounts claimed that the processing facility would spur irreversible environmental damage and radioactive contamination that could cause cancer and deformities in newborns, Mandiant researchers said. The accounts also criticized President Joe Biden’s plan to expedite mining of these rare minerals.
China has used its dominance in the rare earth minerals market, critical for manufacturing mobile phones and other electronics, to threaten the U.S. with export bans.
As a result, the Pentagon has promised to beef up domestic production. It inked a US$30 million deal with Lynas in 2021 to build a facility in Texas, which the Australian company said could help it produce a quarter of the world’s demand.
Dragonbridge was also behind fake accounts criticizing a new mine in Saskatchewan from Canada’s Appia Rare Earths & Uranium Corp., which was announced this month, according to the report. In addition, the campaign’s accounts stoked anger over USA Rare Earth LLC’s plans to open a mine in Oklahoma, Mandiant said.
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It remains unclear whether Canada will participate in a new US$600-billion project from the G7 being set up as a western counterbalance China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative economic power play.
(Sidebar: it won't.)
I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned with.
It's probably because of all the lies that you tell:
A Covid Alert app failed in part because Canadians don’t trust the government, says a Department of Health report. The $20 million program was disbanded last Friday: “Trust in government is clearly an issue.”
People lost pay cheques and businesses because of the lockdowns. Some people became so despondent that they took their own lives.
CMHC employees received the equivalent of more than $6,000 in pay raises through the pandemic, according to Access To Information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. The pay hikes were in addition to performance bonuses that averaged $11,000 a year: “We share in the tragedy and the fact the pandemic has made things worse for homeless people.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly received Holy Communion at a Mass with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Pelosi was banned from receiving Holy Communion in her home diocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, in May.
San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said Pelosi should not be admitted to Communion, nor should she present herself to receive the Eucharist, until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion.
Pelosi, who is in Rome on a family vacation, attended Pope Francis‘ Mass for the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Archbishop Cordileone said on May 20 that the step to bar Pelosi from Communion was “purely pastoral, not political” and came after Pelosi, D-Calif., who has described herself as a “devout Catholic,” repeatedly rebuffed his efforts to reach out to her to discuss her abortion advocacy.
Grades are necessary. Teachers' unions are not:
The end of the school year usually comes with all the fear and anticipation of final marks. But that’s not the case for the students in Stacie Oliver’s English classes. They already have a pretty good sense of how they did — that’s because they graded themselves.
Valentina Virviescas-Medina proposed a 90, up from the 82 she gave herself at the midterm. With a digital portfolio of her year’s work to show and a convincing verbal demonstration of what she had learned, the Grade 12 student is graduating from A.B. Lucas Secondary School in London, Ont., with, you guessed it, a 90 in English.
But this isn’t a story about marks.
It’s about an approach to learning, one where a top grade isn’t the ultimate goal. The love of learning is.
This past semester, Oliver introduced the concept of “ungrading” to her Grade 9 destreamed and Grade 12 enrichment classes. It’s a movement that flies in the face of the provincial government’s back-to-basics philosophy, but one that has had growing interest, especially during the pandemic when educators worried about learning loss and wondered aloud about more humane and impactful ways to measure student achievement.
Instead of grading assignments, Oliver gave her students continual, meaningful feedback.
That's what grades are. Coupled with comments, these are meant to inform the student and his or her parents the direction the student is going and what action must be taken.
I'm sure future employers will also appreciate this hands-off approach when they watch their trainees struggle to perform a simple task.
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