Twelve more days until Halloween ...
The Triumvirate of Crap:
Some Conservative MPs are fuming over Doug Ford's comments supporting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, suggesting ongoing tensions between the federal party and the Ontario premier.
"It's unfortunate," Conservative MP Karen Vecchio said when asked about Ford's vocal support of Trudeau's decision to deploy the act to bring an end to a massive protest against pandemic measures that tied Ottawa in knots for nearly a month last winter.
The London, Ont.-area MP said she thought Ford should have waited to comment until the public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act had finished its work. She said she believes the Public Order Emergency Commission won't agree with Ford's assessment.
Or Doug's support of a cowardly Vichy puppet-head merely validates governmental overreach and it resulted only in Doug being stabbed in the back by these morons:
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson in a private phone call with the Prime Minister called Freedom Convoy protesters nasty and un-Canadian, like “the Republican Party down south,” he said. Watson yesterday in testimony at a convoy inquiry denied politicizing the treatment of protesters: “Reminds me of the Republican Party down south. Can’t reason with them. So vulgar.”
How un-Canadian it is to protest!
Only those awful Republicans protest!
People who hold these views are not simply limited in vision but are emotionally retarded and should never hold public office.
Try saying that about any other nation's government, Jim.
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Let's further debunk this lie:
“no foreign actors identified at this point supporting or financing this convoy. CSIS has also not seen any foreign money coming from other states to support this." You don't say. https://t.co/j5mmAYdgLZ pic.twitter.com/Z4NR6FNyDL
— Rupa Subramanya (@rupasubramanya) October 19, 2022
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The Freedom Convoy made Ottawa “virtually ungovernable,” Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said yesterday. Mendicino told reporters the protest had a significant and harmful impact on the government, a claim contradicted by internal memos from Mendicino’s own department: “We had to take the decision.”
It’s sunny and extremely cold once again today in Ottawa, where big-rigs remain parked near Parliament this morning and the city is bracing for another day of Freedom Convoy protests. Police said “large crowds” roamed the sidewalks and occupied the streets overnight, but there was neither violence nor arrests. Protestors can expect much heavier security today around national monuments and particularly the National War Memorial after images of protestors dancing, drinking and even urinating on the memorial outraged Canadians. ...
House to resume sitting Monday despite convoy blocking access to Parliament
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A plan between City of Ottawa officials and Freedom Convoy organizers to relocate trucks away from residential areas was blocked by the Parliamentary Protective Service, not protesters.
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Ottawa mayor Jim Watson told the Public Order Emergency Commission that neither he nor the City of Ottawa requested the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
He was neither consulted on nor advised of the federal government’s intention of using the unprecedented measure, he said.
(Sidebar: didn't Jim just say that the truckers were wicked, heathenish and American for protesting?)
You will be ripped off and be happy:
By his grace, our benevolent leader – Loblaw chairman and chief executive officer Galen G. Weston – has decreed that his company’s fortunes must be shared with the peasants and penniless wanderers of the nation, now that said fortune has grown tremendously thanks to the peasants and penniless wanderers of the nation. This gift will not come in the form of increased wages for the labourers who toil in his trenches, who are as burdened as any of us by the rising cost of goods, but rather, in incentives for the rest of us to purchase their spoils.Indeed, the company, whose first-quarter profits rose nearly 40 per cent compared with the same period last year, would like Canadians to believe that it is doing consumers a great service by freezing the price of products under its house No Name brand for the next three months. Mr. Weston wrote in an e-mail to customers Monday that the “price of an average basket of groceries is up about 10 per cent” this year, and that he and his company share in the frustrations of the average consumer. “Maddeningly,” he wrote, “much of this is out of our control.”Yes, poor Loblaw had no choice but to pass along price increases to its customers to keep up its bottom line, which somehow grew enormously even though Loblaw, we are to infer, was simply trying to maintain its margins. Likely some of the company’s first-quarter windfall was the result of record-high sales of its No Name brand, which delivered higher profits for the company as Canadians attempted to cut down on their food costs by purchasing discount products. And what better way to maintain or exceed those record-high sales than announcing a temporary freeze on those very same items?
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Food prices continued to soar across the country in September even as the annual rate of inflation cooled to 6.9 per cent, according to Statistics Canada.
Prices on food purchased from the grocery store continued to soar, rising 11.4 per cent to a new 41-year high.
Last month, shoppers paid more for meat (7.6 per cent), dairy (9.7 per cent), bakery goods (14.8 per cent) and fresh vegetables (11.8 per cent), according to StatsCan.
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“It is not a luxury to heat your home in Canada in the winter time, yet the prime minister wants to punish people for doing it,” Poilievre said.
“If he’s not going to back down on his plan to triple the tax, will at least he have the decency to exempt home heating this winter from that tax hike?” he added.
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Never send a journalist to do an economist's job:
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday said an economic slowdown was coming for the world and that Canada has the fiscal capacity to get through the “challenging days” ahead.
“There are still some difficult days ahead for Canada’s economy and for the economies of all of our friends and allies around the world,” Freeland said in a speech in Windsor.
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This new tax will be expensive. According to the report released by LFX Associates, Economic Analysis of the 2022 Federal Clean Fuels Standard, household energy costs will increase by 2.2 to 6.5% a year per household. In real money terms this will mean an extra tax of $1,277 a year per worker.
According to CAE President Dan McTeague “This new carbon tax is being released at a time of soaring household costs. Grocery prices have skyrocketed. Families are struggling to afford the basic necessities for their home. Now the Trudeau government is going to make it even more expensive.”
In provinces that rely more heavily on liquid fuel sources such as oil - like Newfoundland and New Brunswick - these prices will be even higher than in the rest of Canada.
Just get Alberta to pay for it.
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The government is so generous giving you fifty dollars from the hundreds of dollars taken from you.
God forbid that the Liberals should let you keep your money:
https://t.co/xT0ZunPsmf pic.twitter.com/aBV15ky8b2
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) October 19, 2022
It was never about a virus:
Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, says she would welcome any amount of input on Canada’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to prepare for future pandemics, which she says are inevitable going forward.
Okay:
Canadians do not trust Dr. Theresa Tam’s Public Health Agency and will not blindly follow its advice, MPs on the Commons health committee yesterday told the chief public health officer. Conservatives read into the record a string of incorrect statements made by Dr. Tam: “We’re never doing this again. We don’t trust you.”
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An Ontario court has upheld the suspension of a doctor who allegedly gave a COVID vaccine exemption to a patient at high risk from the virus, casting aside an argument that the province’s medical regulator impeded her freedom of expression.
Dr. Crystal Luchkiw of Barrie also suggested on a podcast the pandemic was a government-created hoax, failed to implement public-health rules in her office and obstructed investigators from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Divisional Court decision said.
She is the latest in a string of physicians across Canada censured by their governing bodies for issuing allegedly unwarranted vaccine exemptions, promoting COVID disinformation or otherwise eschewing accepted science around the pandemic.
I'll just leave this here:
Is Justin willing to hand the Canadian Arctic to China and Russia?
Yep:
Canada's hold on the outer reaches of its Arctic territory is "tenuous" and will face significant challenges from both Russia and China in the future, the country's top military commander warned a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.
Gen. Wayne Eyre, the chief of the defence staff, told the House of Commons defence committee — which has embarked on a study of the country's security posture in the region — that the Far North does not face an immediate threat.
"Right now, today, we don't see a clear and present threat to our sovereignty, not today, not this week, not next week, not next year," Eyre said.
"However, in the decades to come, that threat, that tenuous hold that we have on our sovereignty, at the extremities of this nation, is going to come under increasing challenge."
Being against crime is "hard-line", just like protesting is "un-Canadian":
Centre-right mayoral candidates were victorious all across B.C. in Saturday’s municipal elections, in an apparent rebuke to politicians who have failed to respond to urban cores increasingly plagued by tent cities, stranger attacks and petty crime.
Most notably, Ken Sim became the first Chinese-Canadian mayor of Vancouver, having run on a platform of fixing what he called the city’s “public-safety crisis” — a crisis whose very existence was often dismissed by incumbent Kennedy Stewart.
Also:
Canadians in federal focus groups oppose decriminalization of narcotics, according to a Privy Council Office report. The research paper followed cabinet’s decision to decriminalize personal possession of cocaine in British Columbia effective January 1: “Many were concerned about drug users taking advantage of this initiative.”
Senior Chinese diplomat took part in the beating of a dissident:
The Foreign Office has summoned China’s charge d’affaires to demand an explanation after one of the most senior Chinese diplomats in Britain was accused of taking part in violence against protesters in Manchester.
James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, said yesterday he had ordered the summoning of Yang Xiaoguang over the “shocking scenes” that unfolded as demonstrators calling for democratic rights in Hong Kong protested outside the Chinese consulate in the city.
But they were one with the environment!:
Native Americans fought fiercely amongst themselves for centuries before they saw their first white man, killing each other in a brutal fashion. Conquering tribes displaced the tribes they defeated from their ancestral homelands. And slavery was practiced by Native Americans themselves before and after the arrival of the first Europeans.
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Isaac Jogues and his companions were the first martyrs of the North American continent officially recognized by the Church. As a young Jesuit, Isaac Jogues, a man of learning and culture, taught literature in France. He gave up that career to work among the Huron Indians in the New World, and in 1636, he and his companions, under the leadership of Jean de Brébeuf, arrived in Quebec. The Hurons were constantly warred upon by the Iroquois, and in a few years Father Jogues was captured by the Iroquois and imprisoned for 13 months. His letters and journals tell how he and his companions were led from village to village, how they were beaten, tortured, and forced to watch as their Huron converts were mangled and killed.
A Great White shark washes up in New Brunswick:
Seagulls had already started picking at the carcass when Kouchibouguac National Park officials arrived to move the great white shark off a beach on Sunday.
The shark has been discovered earlier that day, washed up dead with blood pooling under its mouth.
The Marine Animal Response Society was contacted and worked with park staff and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to move the shark into the park's woods.
"The carcass was secured by Parks Canada and put in their compound overnight," said DFO spokesperson Krista Petersen in an email. "A technician from the team (Canadian Atlantic Shark Research Laboratory) will conduct a necropsy."
A rescue dog turned police mascot has become one of Brazil's most beloved furry internet sensations.
Dubbed "Corporal Oliveira," the dog was taken in by Rio police officer Cristiano Oliveira, who found him in 2019 near his police station abandoned, injured and hungry.
The dog - decked out in a police uniform with a toy gun strapped in and sunglasses - has become the official mascot of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police's 17th batallion, patrolling alongside his officer and running beside motorbikes.
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