Your middle-of-the-week minute of Zen ...
Never forget that the process is the punishment:
Huge win for the truckers.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) August 2, 2022
Huge loss for Trudeau's political police and partisan prosecutors.
This proves that most of the police charges against truckers were simply propaganda, to create a sense of panic and crisis.
When judges see these junk cases, they throw them out. https://t.co/yrPQ1bbjt0
This propaganda, the one that is unravelling and no one seems to care:
The federal government bureaucrat who wrote the policy that prevented unvaccinated Canadians from flying or travelling by train said she has no recollection of health officials recommending a vaccine mandate for travel, according to court documents.
Jennifer Little, director general of COVID Recovery at Transport Canada, made the comments on June 9 and 10 while being cross-examined under oath in federal court as a government witness in support of the mandate.
“I don’t recall a direct recommendation,” Little answered on June 9 when asked if she was aware whether the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) or its parent department Health Canada had recommended a mandatory vaccination policy for travellers.
“Certainly, we worked very closely with them in preparing the policy, which was supported by the government. So in terms of a written recommendation, for example, no,” she said. “But as part of the policy-making process and the decision-making supporting process, certainly … we were working very closely with our health colleagues.”
The court proceedings relate to lawsuits challenging the federal vaccine mandate for travel, which was in place for nine months and was suspended on June 20. The unvaccinated can now travel by plane, train, and marine vessels, but international travellers coming to Canada must still be vaccinated while unvaccinated Canadians need to quarantine upon re-entering the country.
One of the lawsuits was launched by businessmen Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard. Former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford with co-applicants and PPC Leader Maxime Bernier also each have a lawsuit. The fourth lawsuit was filed by Quebec lawyer Nabil Belkacem, who is representing himself.
A policy which not only shut down the economy and caused people to take their own lives but spawned a grassroots movement so large that Justin wet his shorts in terror sought refuge elsewhere strategically relocated:
A judicial inquiry into cabinet’s use of emergency powers against the Freedom Convoy will cost nearly $19 million, says the Privy Council Office. Eighteen lawyers are on staff at the Public Order Emergency Commission: “The Commission has requested up to $18.8 million in funding.”
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s month of feverish jet travel consumed roughly enough fossil fuel to power a good-sized convoy of trucks.
In July, as calculated by the National Post’s Bryan Passifiume, there were only 11 days where Trudeau was not travelling aboard the official prime ministerial jet.
In 20 trips — almost all of which were for photo ops or goodwill visits — Trudeau logged 26,238 kilometres of jet travel. This included a 5,500-km flight to spend six hours at the Calgary Stampede, and a 62-km hop between Penticton and Kelowna in order to avoid rush hour traffic.
When does Justin deal with the ArriveCan app?
The CBC last year paid nearly $12 million in raises in addition to $15.4 million in bonuses while management complained it was under “immense pressure” due to the pandemic, records show. Access To Information records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation confirmed pay hikes and perks were paid even as cabinet qualified the CBC for a Covid bailout: “Taxpayers have every right to question why the CBC is taking so much.”
While fuel prices in Saskatchewan continue to decline, a price war between two rural gas bars reminded drivers of better days at the pump.
The Esso and Gas Plus bars in Blaine Lake, Sask., a town of 500 people located about 80 kilometres north of Saskatoon, are on opposite sides of the highway.
Melissa Johnson, the Esso's manager, said there's an understanding that the Gas Plus would remain only two cents lower than her fuel offerings, although occasionally chose to dip to three or four cents below their price.
On Monday, the Esso owner took exception to the Gas Plus's low price and further lowered their own. The ensuing competition led to prices as low as 94.9 cents a litre for regular fuel at Esso.
It looks like people ARE running back to Saskatoon - for gas!
It was the Canadian government that made the decision to suppress the culture of Indigenous persons, sending children to residential schools operated by the government, Catholic religious orders, and Protestant denominations.
The majority of the schools were not run by Catholics.
The central criticism of these arrangements holds that Canada's policy of forced assimilation resulted in "cultural genocide." In essence, government leaders destroyed the culture of Indigenous persons, imposing on them Western norms and values.
When Pope Francis was in Canada, he was highly critical of the residential schools, but he never used the term "cultural genocide." When returning to Rome, he was asked about this on the papal plane.
Brittany Hobson of the Canadian Press mentioned that the Report "described the residential school system as 'cultural genocide,'" and asked him why he didn't call it that. Before he could answer, she made an important qualification. "This has since been amended to just 'genocide.'"
Don't ever question the institution too big to fail:
A Victoria woman says she felt “shame” after taking out a newspaper ad in a desperate bid to secure “life or death” prescriptions renewals for her 82-year-old husband.
“I felt shame that I couldn’t find a better way, but there was no other way,” Janet Mort told National Post. “Is this the extent we have to go to get health care?”
Janet has been a caregiver to her husband Michael since he underwent brain surgery roughly 15 years ago. The procedure rendered Michael deaf and prone to falls, one of which resulted in a broken hip.
In a Times Colonist ad last week, that has since been taken up as a totem of failed Canadian heath care, Janet pleaded for “a doctor’s help to renew my 82-year-old husband’s prescriptions.”
“We will agree to any reasonable fee,” reads the ad.
The couple live in one of Canada’s most doctor-starved communities. An estimated one million British Columbians do not have access to a primary care physician, and the problem is particularly acute in the provincial capital.
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In the main, Canada has now become the country of the long wait, some of our citizens impatient, most resigned. It is mired in fathomless corruption, penitential politics, and massive incompetence in every sector of the economy, the service industry, and the entire range of its infrastructure. One has no choice, it appears, but to wait for prompt and reasonable action, like a mirage that continually recedes.
Living in Canada is like living in a vast ER in which one waits interminably to no beneficial effect. One seems helpless, or in too many instances merely indifferent, before the rapidly accelerating onset of national gangrene, leading to the specter of the amputation of civil communality, economic health, political accountability, public order, and Constitutional freedoms. In any case, we will have to wait a very long time for anything in this sick country to move forward and change for the better — if it ever does.
We don't have to trade with China:
The federal government’s forthcoming Indo-Pacific strategy must explicitly recognize and respond to the security threat China poses to the region, experts say, otherwise Canada risks being regarded as irrelevant in a part of the world that is expected to be a centre of economic growth for decades.
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While China eventually released the unjustly detained Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – who, it should be said, were held for nearly three years without access to family, counsel, media or an independent judiciary, until they were coincidentally freed on the same day as Ms. Meng returned to China – other innocent Canadians continue to be unjustly detained and even tortured in Chinese prisons. Canadian Uyghur-rights activist Huseyin Celil, whose case I took up as a parliamentarian in 2006 when he was first abducted and arbitrarily detained, has been imprisoned for 16 years, and has effectively been “forcibly disappeared.” Canadian businesswoman and Falun Gong practitioner Sun Qian is now two years into an eight-year sentence imposed after Chinese Communist Party authorities forced her to renounce her Canadian citizenship; her lawyers were repeatedly harassed and themselves detained.
It's a cult:
In June, a pro-life pregnancy center in Buffalo, New York, was burned out, allegedly by the radical leftwing, pro-abortion, militant group Jane’s Revenge, said the health pregnancy center called CompassCare, which helps women keep their babies rather than abort them.“We actually saw the type of [violent] Jane’s Revenge activity happening around our Buffalo location that they were fomenting with their followers” prior to the firebombing of the clinic Rev. James Harden, CEO of CompassCare, told the Epoch Times.“So we reported it to local law enforcement as well as the FBI two weeks in advance of the firebombing,” added Harden, who said Molotov cocktails were used to set the blaze to the CompassCare clinic.Harden blames local and national progressive politicians for the violence, calling measures that the state of New York have taken under Democratic Gov. Kathleen Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James to investigate crisis pregnancy centers like CompassCare as “essentially joining Jane’s Revenge in attacking pro-life pregnancy centers.”
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Hartsock recounted that as she politely thanked her for her time and began to leave the property, a female voice began yelling and cursing from inside the home. Hartsock said that she stopped momentarily to turn around to face the voice yelling expletives and heard her say, “Don’t apologize to her, mom.” As Hartsock was turning, the yelling woman ran out the front door and began chasing her.
The woman shoved Hartsock in the chest with both hands and began hitting her in the head with closed fists. Hartsock attempted to protect herself and leave while the resident’s mother told her daughter to stop the violence.
Hartsock told police that as she made it down the driveway to get distance from the irate pro-abortion supporter, the daughter threw a piece of food that hit her in the face, and she followed Hartsock down the street screaming curses and phrases such as, “I hope you get raped,” and “I hope you get run over by a car.”
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In the lawsuit, Anderson alleges Badeaux broke state law when he refused to tell her where else she could obtain the medication.
Now, Anderson is seeking an unspecified amount of damages in the civil trial and hopes to obtain an injunction requiring Badeaux and the drugstore he works at to follow state law, which forbids discrimination based on sex, including issues related to pregnancy.
Were this Trump, the vile press would be all over it:
In the dead of night, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is expelling thousands of immigrant infants and toddlers into Mexican border cities that the U.S. State Department says are too dangerous for American tourists. New statistics obtained via a Cato Freedom of Information Act request show that as of May 31, CBP had used its Title 42 “health” authority to expel 30,806 children ages 3 and under—with about 41 percent of these expulsions occurring at midnight or later.
According to CBP’s agreements on repatriation with the Mexican government, no deportations should occur between 10pm and 5am, and anyone with special needs should not be deported between 8pm and 7am. But under Title 42, these restrictions are not being followed. CBP is expelling even very young children to Mexico in the middle of the night. The Biden Administration is actually expelling more children at night than even the Trump Administration did.
The results have been horrific. Many expelled children are then kidnapped by cartels, while others are sent back across to the United States by their parents with family members or smugglers as “unaccompanied” kids. Figure 1 shows the number of toddlers and infants that CBP has expelled for each month since Title 42 started under Trump in March 2020. Two‐thirds of the expulsions have been of immigrant toddlers from Honduras and Guatemala, though several countries are represented.
A volcano in southwest Iceland began erupting Wednesday, the country’s meteorological authorities said.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the eruption is near the Fagradalsfjall mountain, 32 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of the capital, Reykjavik. A live video feed from the site shows molten lava spewing from a narrow fissure.
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