Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week snack-run ...

What. A loser:

No one cares what Justin Trudeau has to say, not even at the UN where he gave his globalist ideologies filled speech to an empty room with a few staffers. pic.twitter.com/IOqta3pCMf

— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) September 23, 2024

Don't be smug, Peter Pan.

You don't have anything to bribe the Bloc with:

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s first non-confidence motion of the fall session was defeated by 211 to 120 votes on Wednesday after the Bloc Québécois, the NDP and the Greens voted against it, ensuring that the Liberal minority in the House continues to govern. ...

“Standing up to bullies requires us to call them out on their crap sometimes, and that is what I will do,” he said.

(Sidebar: says the pansy who ran away from the truckers he insulted at a distance.)

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The Bloc Québécois has drawn its line in the sand. If the Liberals don’t pass two of its private member’s bills to increase support for seniors and protect supply management by Oct. 29, it says it will actively work to bring down the government. 

“If it’s not passed, we’re going to talk to the other opposition (parties) with a view to bringing down the government,” Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet said at a news conference on Parliament Hill Wednesday.

This after supporting the pansy.

This is extortion and this country-destroying party knows it.

Canada is not a democracy. It is a collection of craven thieves conspiring against other thieves.

Speaking of thieves:

Indigenous contracting is rife with unscrupulous practices by “token Indians,” a director of the Assembly of First Nations yesterday told MPs. The Commons governments operations committee is investigating incidents of fake claims to take advantage of an Indigenous set-aside in procurement: “This is huge.”

The MP who tried blotting out her applause for a Ukrainian Nazi denounces the people who question the media her government bribes:

Criticism of media is an attack on Canada, Government House Leader Karina Gould said yesterday. Gould’s comments followed an on-air apology by CTV National News for deceptively editing comments by Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre: “By attacking the media he is attacking Canadians.”

It was never his job to do his job. Not now, not ever:

Elections Canada does not automatically verify that political donors comply with federal law, Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault disclosed yesterday. Testifying at the Commission on Foreign Interference, Perrault said he relied on the general public to spot illegal foreign donors: “We have asked questions, for example, if we see a cheque from a foreign bank.”

You have told Canadians that the greatest good is never to have children and don't keep grandmother alive.

Don't worry - we have cheap labour to have all of those babies no one likes:

Canada’s fertility rate, which has been steadily declining, has hit a record low and the country is now among the “lowest-low” fertility nations.

Statistics Canada released new data on Wednesday showing that the Canadian fertility rate in 2023 was 1.26 children per woman, which is the lowest recorded level since the agency began collecting data.

The record-low fertility rate was registered across the country in 10 of the 13 provinces and territories.

Fertility rate is an estimate of the average number of live births a woman can be expected to have in her reproductive life, according to StatCan.

In 2022, the fertility rate had already fallen to a record low of 1.33 children per woman. But that record has now been broken again.

“This decline from 2022 to 2023 mostly reflects an increase in the number of women of childbearing age in 2023, as the number of births was similar in both years,” StatCan said.

In total, 351,477 babies were born in Canada last year, which is similar to the number from 2022.

Let's put this in perspective: of the number of live births last year, how many are from native-born Canadians? This year alone, 13,000 students claimed asylum and none of them are going to leave.

Why people home-school:

More than a hundred protesters gathered in front of the Toronto District School Board headquarters on Tuesday to denounce a recent school field trip that turned into an anti-Israeli rally.

Protesters who gathered outside the building on Yonge Street waved Israeli and Canadian flags and held placards that read “Keep our kids out of your politics,” “We’ve lost trust in TDSB,” and “Hey teacher! Leave us alone,” among other slogans. The protesters called on the Ontario government to immediately fire those responsible for allowing students from 15 Toronto schools to take part in a protest held in downtown Toronto on Sept. 18.

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“We’re here today because the Toronto District School Board has failed to protect our children, and they must all be relieved of their duties,” Amir Epstein told the protesters. Epstein is the executive director of Tafsik Organization, a Jewish advocacy group that organized the rally.

“Teachers put children as young as eight years old in harm’s way,” he said. “Countless pro-Palestinian rallies have resulted in violence and arrest. Everyone has seen these protests. No normal person would think to bring their children to such a place…. Yet, teachers, administrators, principals of the Toronto District School Board did.”

Last week, students attended a rally in support of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, a community in northwest Ontario that has long suffered from mercury pollution caused by a pulp mill that operated more than 50 years ago. Students were to attend the Grassy Narrows River Run, a march that started at Grange Park in downtown Toronto, but parents were reportedly told they would not be participating.

However, social media video emerged showing students at a rally chanting anti-Israel slogans, including “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.”

This can't be good:

Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine, according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents reviewed by Reuters.

IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned arms company Almaz-Antey, has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China with the help of local specialists, according to one of the documents, a report that Kupol sent to the Russian defence ministry earlier this year outlining its work.

Kupol told the defence ministry in a subsequent update that it was able to produce drones including the G3 at scale at a factory in China so the weapons could be deployed in the "special military operation" in Ukraine, the term Moscow uses for the war.

Kupol, Almaz-Antey and the Russian defence ministry did not respond to requests for comment for this article. China's foreign ministry told Reuters it was not aware of such a project, adding that Beijing had strict control measures on the export of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Hand in glove, ladies and gentlemen.

Also:

When the son of one of Vladimir Putin’s former close allies sought to travel through the Northwest Passage to Alaska, the Canada Border Services Agency instead demanded he sail 1,000 nautical miles off course in an attempt to get permission for the voyage.

The 26-metre yacht Firebird is owned by Andrey Yakunin, the son of Vladimir Yakunin, who was a loyal Kremlin ally and president of the Russian Railways until his son applied for British citizenship a decade ago. The younger Yakunin, who now lives in Italy, attempted to make his journey at a time when tensions have risen between Canada and Russia over the invasion of Ukraine and tit-for-tat sanctions put in place by both countries.

Afuera!:

Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.

Are we still afraid to call a terrorist a terrorist?:

Yariv Mozer, the director of We Will Dance Again, a documentary film about the Nova festival, said that he had to agree with the BBC to not describe Hamas as a terrorist organization if he wanted it to air, according to an interview he gave to The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday.

The film, which is set to broadcast on the BBC today, contains unseen footage of the Hamas massacre at the festival on October 7. It was commissioned by BBC Storyville.

Mozer told The Hollywood Reporter that this was a concession he had to make if he wanted the film to be seen by the British public.

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Muslim militants slit the throats of about 26 people inside a church: "All non-Muslim men over the age of 12 were separated out before being killed." — acnuk.org, August 30, 2024, Burkina Faso.

"So let everyone know that the role of Christians in Lebanon has ended! You have become a minority in this country, and yet you still hold high positions... Nobody would accept this issue. The coming generations will... not accept that the president must be Christian; he must be a Sunni Muslim or Shi'ite." — Reda Saad, pro-Hezbollah commentator, x.com, August 18, 2024.

"We informed the police about the accused, but they still did not take any action, giving sufficient time to Asad to convert the minor child and contract an Islamic marriage with her.... Fairy is just 12 years old. She had no access to a cell phone and rarely went out of the home by herself...." — Parveen Shaukat, mother of Fairy Shaukat,12, abducted, converted and married by Muhammad Assad; morningstarnews.org, August 28, 2024, Pakistan.

"The accused not only kidnapped the child, he converted her and contracted an Islamic marriage to save himself from prosecution [a common practice by kidnappers to sexually exploit underage non-Muslim girls]." — Sumera Shafique, Christian attorney; morningstarnews.org, August 28, 2024, Pakistan.

"Women who disappear and are never recovered must live an unimaginable nightmare. The large majority of these women are never reunited with their families or friends because police response in Egypt is dismissive and corrupt." — Coptic Solidary report, "'Jihad of the Womb': Trafficking of Coptic Women & Girls in Egypt", copticsolidarity.org, September 10, 2020, Egypt.

On August 5, a Muslim migrant from North Africa was arrested for robbing a church in Turin. There were many other acts of arson, desecration (including of a Christian cemetery), statue breaking, and thefts targeting churches in Italy throughout the month of August — torinotoday.it, August 6, 2024, Italy.

On Sunday, Aug. 18, a mob consisting of local officials forcibly dragged a Christian pastor from his church and sealed off its site on the dubious claim that the place had originally belonged to the government.... "What was disappointing was those people who closed my church were my friends...." — morningstarnews.org, September 3, 2024, Indonesia.

On Aug. 30, a massive fire "broke out" in the Coptic Christian Diocese of Beni Suef in Egypt, consuming all of the five-story Christian building's contents.... [T]his is only the latest of many churches in Egypt to be torched and immediately attributed to "faulty wires" and other natural causes. In one month alone, August 2022, a full 11 churches reportedly "caught fire."... Also "interesting" is that "accidental" fires in mosques—which outnumber churches in Egypt by a ratio of 40 to 1—are completely unheard of." — copticslodarity.org, September 2, 2024, Egypt.