Your post-Christmas Day minute of reflection ...
No matter how incompetent, wasteful, rude, insulting, bigoted, presumptuous and sycophantic the government is, Canadians will still vote it in.
This is why you should never wonder what they will do when the interest payments become too high and they have to walk away from their houses:
As the Liberal government moves to increase a number of taxes in the coming year and fears of a recession continue to grow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning Canadians that 2023 will be “tough.”
I'll stop one right there. We are already IN a recession.
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If we stopped subsidising things, people would have enough money to do what they wanted or needed to with their own money.
But that just makes sense, so ... :
According to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), in 2018 almost half of Canadian households with an annual income of $30,000 or less did not have access to high-speed internet at home. Research has found some low-income people that do have an internet connection end up sacrificing things like food and medication in order to afford it.
Experts say investments in expanding subsidy programs and public internet access are essential to getting those in urban areas connected.
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I assure you that Justin was thinking something else altogether:
A Florida gun designer was shocked to discover his primitive single-shot gag gun landed on the Canadian government’s list of firearms to ban in the country.
“Butt Master” designer and sole owner Mark Serbu commented on the creation’s “absurd” inclusion in Canada’s controversial legislation to curb gun violence Thursday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“This is hilarious, it’s awesome,” Serbu said. “But then you look on official Canadian documentation and you see ‘Butt Master’ and it’s like, how could they be so inept to do that?”
Serbu created a single “Butt Master” 23 years ago, which is still in his possession in Tampa. The one-of-a-kind firearm is listed in Bill C-21’s November amendment of firearms to be banned in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s bid to combat mass shootings.
The government has to get money somehow:
Canadians who were caught violating federal COVID-19 quarantine rules racked up at least $15 million in fines this year, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, but it’s not clear how much of that will actually be paid.
The agency provided data to the House of Commons in the fall in response to a request from Conservative MP Eric Duncan.
Duncan did not respond to a request for comment.
Do you want Lysenkoism?
Because this is how you get Lysenkoism:
Scholars at Montreal’s Concordia University are planning to trace and counter what they say is colonialism in physics, which they describe as a “social field” rather than one of “pure knowledge.”
The project’s website says the initiative “explores ways and approaches to decolonize science, such as revitalizing and restoring Indigenous knowledge, and capacity building.” It also aims to develop “a culture of critical reflection and investigation of the relation of science and colonialism.”
As reported by The College Fix, “Decolonizing Light” is led by Concordia associate professor Tanja Tajmel, who also serves as a special advisor to the dean for equity, diversity and inclusion. Tajmel’s bio on Concordia’s website notes that “her main interest lies in investigating the politics of STEM education and how STEM education and STEM discourses impact social (in)equity.”
Fifteen other people are working on the project, including Concordia associate professors Louellyn White and Ingo Salzmann, who are co-investigators.
Never send a quack to do a real doctor's job:
This holiday season, help prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) by providing support for the pregnant people in your life. Here’s how : https://t.co/FgKOtA5PSa pic.twitter.com/T1LjBgDHL7
— Dr. Theresa Tam (@CPHO_Canada) December 23, 2022
Also - what a real doctor should do:
On Dec. 14, Mark Lacy, a Christian doctor in New Mexico specializing in infectious diseases, joined by the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, sued the state on grounds that the law violates the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech and religious liberty.“Suffering patients need care and sound medical treatment, and they must trust their physicians to care and not kill,” Lacy declared in a prepared statement. He said the New Mexico law, by compelling doctors to offer a path to a practice that violates their convictions, turns them into “mere instruments executing state mandates.”But Lacy and the medical providers who share his objections on grounds of faith or ethics are up against a tide of progressive public opinion, especially in the establishment media, that pooh-poohs such objections as trivial. An unsigned Dec. 21 editorial in the Albuquerque Journal, which has consistently supported the New Mexico law, asked, “How hard is it for a doctor to tell a patient, ‘I don’t believe suicide is the answer, and I can’t be part of it, but you have a right to know your options and I can refer you to another physician.’”
Whatever.
Canadians will simply ask their lazy politicians to pretend to fix these problems and then get used to never travelling:
I’ve never seen anything like this at Pearson Airport in Toronto.
— Devin Heroux (@Devin_Heroux) December 27, 2022
A mass of humanity and luggage upon arrival. pic.twitter.com/VfOOYxSoWA
When will these guys get off the hook?:
Murder charges have been filed against two people who were arrested after an Ontario Provincial Police office was gunned down.
Court documents show Randall McKenzie, who is 25, and Brandi Crystal Lyn Stewart-Sperry, who is 30, both face one count of first-degree murder.
I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned with:
Bank of Japan policymakers saw the need to keep ultralow interest rates but discussed growing prospects that higher wages could finally eradicate the risk of a return to deflation, a summary of opinions at their December meeting showed.
Their increasing attention to mounting inflationary pressures could keep alive market expectations the BOJ will phase out dovish Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's massive stimulus when he steps down in April next year.
"Price rises are accelerating not just for goods but for services. … There's a chance Japan's inflationary momentum is heightening," one member was quoted as saying in the summary, released Wednesday.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said that he expects the next general election to come before a possible hike in taxes that has met resistance from the public and is intended to fund his unprecedented expansion of defense spending.
"We will be asking the people to take on an extra burden starting at an appropriate time between 2024 and 2027,” Kishida said in an interview with satellite broadcaster BS TBS late Tuesday. "We are going to decide on the start date, but I think there will be an election before then.”
Kishida has unveiled plans for a 60% increase in defense spending over five years after many in Japan have been spooked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, rising tensions around Taiwan and developments with North Korea’s missile program. The move marks a historic change for a country with a pacifist Constitution that has capped its military spending at about 1% of gross domestic product for decades.
We don't have to trade with China:
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended what he said was his country’s position of impartiality on the war in Ukraine on Sunday and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year.
Wang, speaking by video to a conference in the Chinese capital, also blamed America for the deterioration in relations between the world’s two largest economies, saying that China has “firmly rejected the United States’ erroneous China policy.”
China has pushed back against Western pressure on trade, technology, human rights and its claims to a broad swath of the western Pacific, accusing the U.S. of bullying. Its refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and join others in imposing sanctions on Russia has further frayed ties and fueled an emerging divide with much of Europe.
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Inside the mortuary of a top hospital in China’s fifth-most populous city of Guangzhou, dead bodies have been piled on the floor since the refrigerated chambers reached capacity. Elsewhere, long lines of cars waiting with bodies to be cremated have formed outside several morgues in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing.
Up north in China’s capital, there were so many corpses that cold stores at state-run food companies have been turned into temporary storage facilities for dead bodies.
The grim scenes emanating out of China in recent days, which were shared by witnesses who spoke to The Epoch Times, are reminiscent of the desperation from nearly three years ago, when COVID-19 first erupted in the country. As the rest of the world learned to live with the virus, the regime held steady to its communist-style campaign known as “zero-COVID,” which aimed to eradicate the disease through a mix of massive lockdowns, intrusive surveillance, and mandatory testing—despite the heavy economic, humanitarian, and psychological toll.
Then, following nationwide unrest in November, the regime abruptly made a U-turn, relaxing the zero-COVID policy in early December. The reversal was made without forewarning or the announcement of measures for a graduated retreat from the policy.
Since then, the virus has ripped through the vast population, who have been ill-prepared for its sudden surge and, after nearly three years of zero-COVID restrictions, lack natural immunity to weather the outbreak.
The country is now in crisis with its health systems and frontline services overrun and overwhelmed. Judiciary and law enforcement facilities have shuttered due to widespread infections. Pharmacy shelves have been stripped bare. Hospitals, which are stretched and vastly understaffed, have tried to hire back retired workers in their efforts to keep up with the influx of COVID patients.
The devastation has continued to unfold despite Beijing’s assurance on Dec. 27 that it’s “fighting a prepared battle.”
“The Chinese Communist Party is all about politics,” Chinese historian Li Yuanhua, who lives in Australia, told The Epoch Times. “It never cares about people’s livelihood.”
What the regime is doing now, he said, is to quickly achieve herd immunity through mass infections, so that the country can revive its faltering economy.
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House Republicans have released a document which reveals the U.S. government funded a Chinese Military Research Institute where a coronavirus scientist and general by the name of Zhou Yusen announced February 24,2020 that he’d already developed a COVID vaccine.
Vanity Fair published that three scientists they consulted felt that General Zhou would have had to have the genetic sequence in November to possibly develop a vaccine so fast. The official date China admitted to knowing the COVID sequence was Jan. 11, 2020.
(Sidebar: they're not the only ones hiding the truth.)
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Why, it's like the Japanese don't trust the Chinese for some reason:
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls for COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there.
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Japan will tighten its border controls for travelers from China on Friday, as the latter nation is seeing a surge in COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday.
The announcement, which marks the first time Japan has tightened its borders since foreign tourists were allowed to enter without restrictions in October, pours cold water on expectations of an influx of Chinese tourists over the Chinese New Year period, which begins Jan. 22.
Kishida’s abrupt announcement comes only a day after news that China will scrap its quarantine for incoming travelers from Jan. 8, one of the country’s most significant steps since it effectively abandoned its two-year “zero-COVID” policy.
All travelers from China, including Japanese citizens and returning foreign nationals living in Japan, as well as those who have been to China within the previous seven days will be tested for COVID-19 upon their arrival in Japan. Those who test positive will be required to quarantine at designated facilities for seven days.
The quarantine period for those who test positive is expected to be seven days if they have developed symptoms. For those who are asymptomatic, the period will be shortened to five days if they test negative on the fifth day, according to the health ministry.
The number of flights from China will also be limited to guard against a sudden increase in COVID-19 infections in Japan, Kishida told reporters at the Prime Minister’s Office. Arrivals from China, Hong Kong and Macao will be limited to four airports: Narita, Haneda, Kansai International and Chubu.
I'm sure that when or if Justin comes back from his holiday, he will admonish whichever Asian group offended his bosses.
Also:
Italian health authorities will begin testing all arrivals from China for Covid after almost half of the passengers on two flights to Milan were found to have the virus.
And:
Nearly 90 percent of Canadians support creating a registry of foreign agents, according to a new survey, conducted after Ottawa announced plans to consult the public on establishing such a registry amid growing concerns of foreign interference from China, Russia, and other authoritarian states.
Couple that with another chance for China to rig an election.
On the Korean Peninsula:
South Korean military officials say North Korea has flown five drones across their mutual border.
The "unmanned aerial vehicles" violated South Korean airspace in the border areas around Gyeonggi province, said the country's joint chiefs of staff.
One drone flew all the way to the northern edge of the capital, Seoul, before returning across the border.
Jets and attack helicopters were deployed, but 100 rounds fired from helicopters failed to shoot them down.
A South Korean military official said they had since lost track of all the drones, but that they were no longer in flight.
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South Korea sent drones across the border into North Korea for the first time on Monday, an unprecedented tit-for-tat military move after Kim Jong Un’s regime dispatched five unmanned aerial vehicles into its air space.
The Kogi State Polytechnic students were said to have been ambushed on Friday, at Ago Jinadu Axis, in Akoko, noted for crimes especially kidnapping.
No fewer than four students, said to be returning home for the yuletide, were reportedly abducted by gunmen, suspected to be bandits, along the Akunnu-Ajowa road, in Akoko area of Ondo State.
God never asked us to compromise or surrender:
"Just over two weeks ago, a Muslim man was accused of harassing young Christian women at a Forefathers Orthodox Church in Beit Sahour near the city of Bethlehem. Soon after, the church was attacked by a large mob of Palestinian men who hurled rocks at the building while congregants cowered inside. Several of the congregants were injured in the attack.
The Palestinian Authority, responsible for security in the area, did nothing.
In October, unidentified gunmen shot at the Christian-owned Bethlehem Hotel after a video on social media associated the hotel with a display that included cardboard cutouts of a Star of David and a Menorah. ...
No arrests were made in connection with the shooting.
Perhaps the greatest shock to the community came in April when the Palestinian evangelical pastor, Johnny Shahwan, was arrested by the Palestinian Authority security forces on charges of 'promoting normalization' with Israel. ...
In January, a large group of masked men carrying sticks and iron bars attacked Christian brothers, Daoud and Daher Nassar, on their farm near Bethlehem. The Palestinian courts have been working to confiscate the farm that has been owned by the family since the Ottoman Empire."
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Among those who offered an opinion, a solid majority, 68 percent, said traditional Christian faiths should not be forced to “compromise their traditions and beliefs to align with liberal ideology around topics like marriage, transgenderism, and critical race theory.”
However, nearly one-third, 32 percent, said they should.
It might have to do with the uncontrolled border situation:
Texas Governor Greg Abbott appears to have celebrated Christmas this weekend by ensuring that two busloads of migrants would be left in the cold outside of Kamala Harris’s residence.
Then don't allow them in, especially knowing full well that they will not be employed or housed.
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