Canada to Kill the Mentally Ill Soon

There is a reason why a Nazi was applauded in the House of Commons:

MPs in Canada’s House of Commons this afternoon voted down a private members bill introduced by Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Ed Fast that would have repealed the expansion of euthanasia laws to those suffering from mental illness.  

With 150 votes for to 167 against, Fast’s Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), was defeated during its second reading in the House.  

All Conservative MPs voted in favor of the bill as did all left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) MPs, a rare occurrence in Canadian politics. Only a handful of Liberal MPs voted in favor of the bill, along with two Green Party MPs and one independent MP. The bill was defeated in large part by votes against by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and MPs for Bloc Quebecois. 

Bill C-314 reads, “This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide that a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition for which a person could receive medical assistance in dying.”  

Fast said of his bill shortly after it was introduced earlier this year that the government expanding assisted suicide to “include mentally ill persons” and potentially even so-called “mature minors” shows Canada is on a “slippery slope.”  

Should the bill have passed, it would have proceeded to third reading where it would have stood a good chance of getting passed to Canada’s Senate. 

It's Just Money

Well, not the government's money:

The National Capital Commission spent over $8 million to replace a barn on the grounds of Rideau Hall with a “zero-carbon” storage building, according to records obtained by a taxpayer watchdog group.

The completed project is a two-level, partially heated storage and vehicle garage located on the site of a barn near the stables on the Governor General’s estate.

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Final design of the project was approved in June 2019, with construction taking place between July 2020 and the end of 2021.

The building, dubbed “the Barn,” is the National Capital Commission (NCC)’s first certified “zero-carbon building.”

Franco Terrazzano, federal director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, pointed out that the NCC could have purchased 139 Winding Way — a palatial home on the banks of the Rideau River and billed as “Ottawa’s most opulent home” — and still have money left over.

“I don’t know much about farming, but I’m pretty sure my buddies in Brooks (Alta.) can build a barn for a lot less than eight million bucks,” the Alberta-born Terrazzano said.

“It seems like the NCC goes out of its way to spend as much money as possible.”

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Big words from a Peter Pan who thought that exporting gas was not a good business case:

Cabinet will fight Alberta’s claim to more than half the Canada Pension Plan, ministers said yesterday. Warning of a drawn out pension fight followed a protest letter from the Prime Minister to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith: “I don’t buy the math.”

Check this out:

So, Albertans are not Canadians?

Right ...

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The Department of Environment acknowledges it did not count Canadians’ different rates of fuel use in calculating average costs of new climate change regulations. Conservative MP Dan Mazier (Dauphin-Swan River, Man.) said estimates ignored distinctions like urban versus rural fuel consumption: “There was no disputing they were advised these regulations would increase the cost of fuel.”

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Cabinet’s two billion trees program will not plant two billion trees, says the Department of Natural Resources “So why is it called the two billion trees program?” asked Conservative MP Michael Kram (Regina-Wascana): “Why not rename it the billion-and-a-half tree program?”

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The Commons ethics committee last night voted to summon Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne for questioning in an investigation of suspected “green-washing” involving federal subsidies. However the committee by a 7 to 4 vote rejected a Conservative request for all records concerning Sustainable Development Technology Canada: “There is a basic question of trust here.”

Israel's Envoy to Canada Reminds Justin That Freedom of Speech Matters

This must really chap Justin, especially now that Canada and the world are giving him the stink-eye:

Israel's envoy to Canada says it's important for democracies to look at when a line has been crossed between freedom of speech and what he calls "freedom of hate."

Ambassador Iddo Moed spoke generally in an interview with The Canadian Press about what he sees as a "thin line" between the two.

There is no freedom to be protected from life.

Any measure made to "not offend" is merely a grab for all-out censorship which protects the government and not the bodies of anti-semites the government funds.

Canada's Other Apologists for Hamas

There is no shortage of them:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's special representative for combating Islamophobia is warning against allowing the Israel-Hamas war to become a catalyst for the stereotyping of Muslim Canadians.

Amira Elghawaby, who was appointed to the new role in January, released a statement this week about the effect the war is having on members of Canada's Muslim communities.

She said people are expressing fear about a "resurgence" in Islamophobia that "has troubling echoes of the past."

What an overpaid, selfish, self-absorbed, bloated, blathering meatsack.

I, too, do not want a "resurgence" of the past, Amira, you unemployable scold:

Beslan. Mumbai. Paris. Manchester. New York City. Nairobi. Luxor. Sulu. Kibbutz Be’eri.

186 children murdered in a school in Beslan. Dozens of children taken hostage from a Catholic school in the Philippines. Two teachers were beheaded, but not the girls. “We do not kill women. We will just enslave them,” the Jihadists promised. 8-year-olds gunned down in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. The terrorists asked their victims to name Mohammed’s mother to tell apart the non-Muslims from the Muslims. In Luxor, Egypt, the terrorists danced, sang and killed and mutilated the foreign tourists. They “took all the young women, the girls, and disappeared with them. I don’t know where they went with the women, but they hurt them. We could hear screams of pain.” Among the dead was Shaunnah Turner, a 5-year-old British girl.

Pregnant women and children murdered in Israel baffle the world. They seem implausible because each time they happen, we forget. A few days of horror pass and we move on.

When a Muslim terrorist set off a bomb in Manchester at a concert full of children and teens, there was shock and outrage. Nails were pulled out of children’s faces.

“This attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent, defenceless children and young people,” then Prime Minister Theresa May fumed.

That was 6 years ago. It might have been an eternity. ...

We’re told not to look at the pattern. It’s Islamophobic. Instead we must take each attack not as a manifestation of Islam, but of local issues or a response to oppression. When Muslims gang raped and sawed in half a Hindu schoolteacher in Kashmir, it was about India’s treatment of Muslims. And when they rampaged through the Bataclan theater in Paris, killing everyone within reach, they were protesting France’s treatment of ISIS. And when they rape a woman at a concert in Israel by the bodies of her murdered friends, they’re protesting for Gaza.

But in 1929, Muslim mobs in the Jewish city of Safed burst into an orphanage and “smashed the children’s heads and cut off their hands.” During the Hebron Massacre that same year, a British policeman described how, “on hearing screams in a room I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child’s head with a sword. He had already hit him and was having another cut, but on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed; he was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I shot him low in the groin.”

Israel had not even come into existence yet. What were Muslims protesting then: Jews?

During the first siege of Vienna in 1529, when the invading Muslim horde decided that “children were cut out of their mothers’ wombs and stuck on pikes”, was that a protest against colonialism or capitalism? When a Muslim chronicle boasted that during the genocide against the Sikhs in the 18th century, “the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people”, was this a response to globalism or Zionism? Or was this just Islam.

Everything Hamas did during the bloody High Holy Days massacres has been done by Muslims throughout history and is still being practiced today. There is nothing new here whatsoever. Medieval barbarism never went away because Islam kept those grisly practices alive. It endures side by side with the modern world of smartphones, electric cars and AI because its worst crimes are an object of religious law and faith.

A Yazidi girl abducted by the Islamic State when she was only 12 described how the Jihadist who raped her explained to her that because she “practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it”. He “bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her. When it was over, he knelt to pray again”. The girl begged him to stop, but he “said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah.”

This is Islam.

It’s not about Israel, India, Russia, America, England, France, the Philippines or any of the numerous other countries that have been marked by Islamic terrorism. It’s not about “oppression”, “colonialism”, “settlers”, “cartoons” or a lack of “integration”. None of the excuses ever hold up or explain the pattern that consistently and indelibly marks Islamic violence.

Where are your tears for the non-Muslims, Amira?

When will you cry for the people your co-religionists murder and who - when they fight back - are begged to stand back?

In a just world, Amira, you would be begging on the streets for food instead of being paid to be a self-pitying, braying bag of rancid pig filth.

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The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is only paid to find fault in Justin's enemies:

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) — a perennial recipient of federal “anti-racism” monies — has not issued a single statement or social media post in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks against Israel, even when those attacks sparked celebratory rallies across Canada’s major cities.

By contrast, the group issued five statements over five weeks regarding the 1 Million March 4 Children, a protest that called for the removal of “gender identity” instruction from school curricula.

And in early 2022, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network also issued a flurry of statements condemning the anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protests as a nest of far-right racism and anti-Semitism.

It was the CAHN that almost exclusively fuelled media reports at the time that Freedom Convoy was a close ally of Diagolon, an alt-right group that it cited as a national security threat. RCMP reports recently published by researchers Caryma Sa’d and Elisa Hategab found that the Mounties themselves never gave these threats much credence.“Due to the fact that all information traces back to one source (CAHN), triangulation and the verification of facts is almost impossible at the current time,” the RCMP wrote in its profile of Diagolon.

Did Israel make Muslim parents oppose gender studies in schools, Canadian Anti-Hate Network?

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"Get off of our backs about covering for Hamas!" cries the publicly-funded CBC:

While CBC has been inundated with hundreds of complaints for refusing to use the word “terrorist” when referring to Hamas fighters in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, Brodie Fenlon, the editor-in-chief of CBC News, says now is not the time to revisit that policy. ...

(Sidebar: when would be a good time? When Israel is out of the news cycle?)

Earlier this month, a leaked memo from George Achi, CBC’s director of journalistic standards, advised journalists with the public broadcaster to avoid the use of the word “terrorist” when referring to Hamas fighters.

“Do not refer to militants, soldiers, or anyone else as ‘terrorists,'” the memo states.

“The notion of terrorism remains heavily politicized and is part of the story. Even when quoting/clipping a government or a source referring to fighters as ‘terrorists,’ we should add context to ensure the audience understands this is opinion, not fact. That includes statements from the Canadian government and Canadian politicians.”

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Hamas is a listed terrorist entity according to the Canadian government, which describes it as “a radical Islamist-nationalist terrorist organization.”

Not that anyone needs the CBC to define who or what Hamas is but it would be refreshing to hear something that is clearly apparent.

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After being caught plugging for Hamas, MPP Sarah Jama recoils at Ontario Premier Doug Ford's assertions that she is an anti-semite:

Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama is threatening to sue Premier Doug Ford for accusing her of antisemitism over comments she made in support of Palestinians.

Jama's office served the cease and desist letter to Ford on Thursday, said a statement from her lawyer Stephen Ellis and the Legal Centre for Palestine. The letter says if Ford does not remove his social media post, and publicly apologize, Jama will pursue legal action for defamation.

"Ms. Jama maintains the post was reckless and malicious," the statement said. "Ms. Jama will not tolerate Premier Ford's attempts to tarnish her reputation in such a public manner."

NDP leader Marit Stiles responded to Jama providing legal notice to Ford, stating in an email "the premier made inflammatory accusations against MPP Jama." She declined to comment further as it is a legal matter.

"Though I would call out this government for repeatedly and cynically fanning the flames of division during such a painful time," she added.

Did you or did you not accuse Israel of apartheid, Sarah?

Oh, yes you did:

Who is in error now?

"This Time, I Won't Listen to AMERICAN Evidence," Says Village Idiot

Because that will elevate his already poor standing:

Trudeau was asked in a press conference Thursday if he had access to the same evidence provided to U.S. President Joe Biden, who said that he was convinced the explosion was caused by “the other team,” meaning Palestinian militants not Israel. Trudeau said Canada is still working closely with its allies to determine what happened.

“Everyone is in agreement that the deaths of innocents in that hospital in Gaza never should have happened,” he said during a closing event at the summit with leaders representing the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, in Ottawa.

No one is working with you, at all, Justin.

His spiteful, hasty words already cost forty-one diplomats in India.

He waited before condemning Hamas's brutality.

He is desperately trying to walk back his jump to blame Israel for everything.

Did North Korea Give Hamas Weapons?

That's what they're saying:

Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in St. Louis and elsewhere in the U.S. have been using false identities to get the jobs. The money they earned was funneled to the North Korean weapons program, FBI leaders said at a news conference in St. Louis.

Federal authorities announced the seizure of $1.5 million and 17 domain names as part of the investigation, which is ongoing.

Jay Greenberg, special agent in charge of the St. Louis FBI office, said any company that hired freelance IT workers “more than likely” hired someone participating in the scheme. An FBI spokeswoman said Thursday that the North Koreans contracted with companies across the U.S. and in some other countries.

“We can tell you that there are thousands of North Korea IT workers that are part of this,” spokeswoman Rebecca Wu said.

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South Korean officials, two experts on North Korean arms and an Associated Press analysis of weapons captured on the battlefield by Israel point toward Hamas using Pyongyang’s F-7 rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-fired weapon that fighters typically use against armored vehicles.

The evidence shines a light on the murky world of the illicit arms shipments that sanction-battered North Korea uses as a way to fund its own conventional and nuclear weapons programs.

Rocket-propelled grenade launchers fire a single warhead and can be quickly reloaded, making them valuable weapons for guerrilla forces in running skirmishes with heavy vehicles. The F-7 has been documented in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, said N.R. Jenzen-Jones, a weapons expert who works as the director of the consultancy Armament Research Services.

“North Korea has long supported Palestinian militant groups, and North Korean arms have previously been documented amongst interdicted supplies,” Jenzen-Jones told the AP.

First of all, American sanctions on North Korea should be preventing the use of North Korean labour domestically and internationally, something most countries deliberately fail at.

Secondly, all North Korean labour results in remittance of wages. 

Thirdly, North Korea may not be the only player in this:

North Korea sent more than 1,000 containers worth of arms to Russia last month, the U.S. has revealed. American satellite photos show that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un shipped the containers from Rajin port even before he went to Vladivostok last month, and they were then transported by train to a location 290 km from the border with Ukraine. The North was no doubt promised reciprocal rewards. 

In a Workers Party meeting in 2021, Kim announced five major weapons development goals -- hypersonic missiles, large nuclear warheads, nuclear-powered submarines, and intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads. Experts believe the North wants technology from Russia to be used in these projects. North Korea failed twice this year in launching a spy satellite, and the it cannot be ruled out that Moscow will provide Pyongyang with the technology to develop cutting-edge fighter jets and high-tech reconnaissance equipment.

Just what we need - actual Russian interference.

North Korea will do anything to stay afloat, even trade weapons.

Thanks to poor application of sanctions and weakened Western governments, North Korea can continue supplying Hamas and other parties with weapons, thereby prolonging already grim conflicts.

We Don't Have to Trade With China

Did anyone forget the tyranny, organ trafficking, election fixing and international three-dimensional chess?:

MPs at the House of Commons privacy committee grilled executives from social media video platform TikTok over the company’s links to the Chinese government Wednesday.

“We’ve been quite clear that we would not disclose user data to the Chinese government if they made a request. They have not made such a request, and the Chinese government has not asserted the rights over any TikTok user data,” said David Lieber, TikTok’s head of privacy public policy for the Americas.

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He said if the Chinese government made any such request, the company would “certainly” disclose it in its transparency report.

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Of course the Belt and Road Initiative is an alternative to anything American. It is proffered by a backward Third-World dictatorship with a history of poor infrastructure and sending tanks after students:

Xi Jinping portrayed his signature Belt and Road Initiative as a sweeping alternative to the U.S.-led world order, a vision for global economic co-operation endorsed in person by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a speech in Beijing on Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of China’s global infrastructure push, Xi criticized unilateral sanctions, geopolitical rivalry and bloc politics. While he didn’t identify any country, the remarks were clear references to U.S. policy toward China in recent years, which Washington has characterized as derisking but Beijing sees as an effort to thwart its rising power.

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“As the saying goes, when you give roses to others, fragrance lingers on your hand,” Xi said. “In other words, helping others is also helping oneself. Viewing others’ development as a threat or taking economic interdependence as a risk will not make one’s own life better or speed up one’s development.”

Speaking directly after Xi, Putin praised the initiative as in sync with Russia’s goal of a world with interconnected infrastructure in which freedom of trade, investment and labour can be fully ensured.

“Russia and China, like most countries of the world, share the aspiration for equal and mutually beneficial co-operation in order to achieve universal sustainable and long-term economic progress and social well-being while respecting the diversity of civilization and the right of each state to its own development model,” the Russian president said.

“The Chinese idea of Belt and Road logically fits into multilateral efforts to strengthen creative and constructive interaction,” he added.

Rather, you need all the friends you can get.

Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week moment to yourself ...

Oh, Justin ... 

It's like you can't help yourself:

For a party that so brazenly accuses its opponents of spreading disinformation and misinformation, the federal Liberals too often fail to pass their own test. In the aftermath of Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on Israel, and in the midst of one of the most pivotal geopolitical crises in recent years and a pronounced spike in antisemitism, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some of his cabinet ministers seem to be having a hard time breaking their bad habits.

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On Tuesday, reports emerged that the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza had been struck by a missile. The information came from the health ministry in Gaza, which blamed Israel for the strike and claimed that up to 500 people had been killed.

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Quick to forget everything journalists and politicians know about wartime propaganda and bad actors’ use of false flags, some in the Canadian media, along with certain elected officials, rushed to share unverified, suspect information, condemning Israel in the process. ...

Given the rush by some senior Liberals to imply that Israel was to blame for the attack, it’s entirely fair to ask tough questions about the government’s internal biases — which, at best, can be condemned as a cynical urge to play “both sides” despite a lack of moral equivalence.

Worse, it reveals an internalized belief that Israel is the inherent aggressor and that it is violating international law. The Liberals may claim solidarity and support with Israel, but their words and actions reveal those to be largely superficial words.

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Beyond a call that Hamas treat hostages taken in accordance with international law, the term is largely absent from Trudeau’s condemnations of Hamas, which Canada lists as a terrorist group.

Trudeau’s statement also came before Israel had officially answered Hamas’ accusation that its forces were responsible for the explosion. “I don’t know to say whether it was an Israeli airstrike,” Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told the press in the first hours after the blast.

Only later would the Israeli military conclude that the explosion was caused by a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group allied with Hamas.

This misfire:

🧵Now that day has broken, and we're getting better evidence, I'm willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airstrike and are not consistent with claims that 500+ people were killed. pic.twitter.com/dzA3Bx71hr

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) October 18, 2023

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Here's daytime footage from the impact site at the hospital https://t.co/t9C2M3QgfA pic.twitter.com/XjLKvtrNQF

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 18, 2023

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Full footage from TASS, no impact craters, interior spaces appear to be intact. Injuries from flying glass appear to have occurred. pic.twitter.com/XCP8mG5YGx

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 18, 2023

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In addition to the imagery of the car park in this IDF video we now also have the first daytime image of the car park that was hit. via https://t.co/3fTldz7JlH https://t.co/B98caJESeI pic.twitter.com/M07uhR0taI

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 18, 2023

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The conversation between the two terrorists was translated into English goes as follows:

What?

They are saying this was Islamic Jihad.

That this was from us?

It seems that it was from us, yes.

Who is saying this?

They are saying that the shrapnel of the missile are local pieces and not Israeli shrapnel.

What are they saying [there]?

My god, from us, it didn't just explode, but in a hospital!

They may have fired from the cemetery behind.

What?

It seems that they fired this from the cemetery behind the hospital, and it failed and landed on the hospital.

There is a cemetery behind it?

Yes, it is right in its area!

Where is it exactly? When you enter the general courtyard area?

When you enter the courtyard area, so that you do not continue towards the city, but instead from the right side, that is where the hospital is.

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Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said it was not firing in the area when the blast occurred. And, he said, Israeli radar confirmed a rocket barrage was fired by the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad from a nearby cemetery at the time of the blast, around 6:59 p.m. Independent video showed one of the rockets in the barrage falling out of the sky, he said.

The misfired rocket hit the parking lot outside the hospital. Were it an airstrike, there would have been a crater there; instead, the fiery blast came from the misfired rocket’s warhead and its unspent propellant, he said.

Justin is desperate to prove he is the elder stateman and not the blinkered moron who invites scandal after scandal.

It should be no surprise, therefore, that two-thirds of polled Canadian voters want him never, ever to run again.

An irrelevant point to ponder as only his Chinese "admirers" can determine when he finally leaves office.

But Justin isn't the only moron in this "blame Israel" game:

MPs demanded an explanation after New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh said “the seeds of genocide” were being sown in Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces. Legislators including Jewish MPs expressed alarm over Singh’s remark: ‘Yes or no, do you believe Israel is committing genocide?’

How many baby corpses did Israel burn, Jag?

I know that there were at least seven infants killed in the mass murder you "accept the results of".

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Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Montreal Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi said the world must recognize that the Palestinian death toll is mounting, with over 4,000 people reported killed since the start of the war, which he said amounts to one out of 500 people amongst the two million inhabitants.

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“That’s because of bombardments that are falling on the heads of babies, of elderly seniors, of women and children, boys and girls and, yes, innocent adults who are both men and women,” Zuberi said as he was making his way to a caucus meeting with his party.

“We have to see that this stops. This is not acceptable.”

 

Israeli soldiers stand next to the bodies of Israelis killed by Hamas fighters in the Kfar Azza kibbutz in southern Israel, about five kilometres east of Gaza, on Oct. 10, 2023

Also:

Among the litter of guns, korans, and maps discarded by the Hamas terrorists whose bodies lie alongside bullet-riddled vehicles and dusty roads are green Gaza IDs with work permits. Normally residents of the Hamas territory can’t enter Israel, but work permits allowed over 20,000 Gazans to enter Israel. When some returned, it was as Hamas rapists and killers.

The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned dogs.

Speaking of killing children:

Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying), was introduced by Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Ed Fast and a second reading of it will be voted on Wednesday, October 18.  

Should the bill prevail tomorrow, it would then proceed to third reading, where it stands a good chance passing and then heading to Canada’s Senate. 

“MPs should be voting on MAID with their eyes wide open,” wrote Fast about his bill on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.  

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Back in February, the House of Commons released a report on the state of medical assistance in dying, or MAiD. This is also known as assisted suicide or euthanasia. (See archive).

To be clear, there’s no intention of stopping, or even slowing this down. Instead, the report recommends expanding and accelerating the accessibility of death.

Specifically, new recommendations include:
(a) Letting “mature minors” apply for MAiD
(b) Letting people “book in advance” a date to die
(c) Ensuring people with disabilities have options to get MAiD
(d) Consulting with First Nations on MAiD options and availabilities

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A former Surrey schoolteacher who strangled his pregnant wife 17 years ago, then disposed of and burned her body, has been granted full parole.

He wants to be a good dad to his remaining kid.

Yes, but you still applauded a Nazi.

No expunging of the Internet can make anyone forget:

The House affairs committee tomorrow is expected to vote on hearings into how a Waffen SS member was presented to the Commons as a Canadian hero. The September 22 incident “brought shame on Parliament,” MPs were told yesterday: “Canadians deserve answers.”

"Journalist" Chrystia Freeland refuses to listen to provinces over the financial mess she and her party made:

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday bypassed all provincial consumer agencies in ordering that customer complaints against banks go to a single federal ombudsman. A similar attempt sought by bank lobbyists in 2016 was successfully defeated following an outcry in the Senate: “Certainly the banks will love this.”

To wit:

Ottawa is asking Canada’s largest lenders to reduce banking fees and help borrowers cope with higher mortgage costs, as Canadians grapple with high inflation and mounting expenses.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said during a news conference Tuesday that the federal government is pushing banks to comply with new guidelines intended to help financially stressed mortgage borrowers make their rising payments. She also announced that the government is instructing the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC), the country’s financial consumer watchdog, to set an expectation that lenders will reduce the fees they charge for personal banking accounts and other services, including overdraft fees.

These are the latest in a series of recent federal measures aimed at the banking sector.

Over the past two years, Ottawa has made three tax changes that have required banks and insurers to pay billions of dollars to support government initiatives and pay down government debt. This drew rare public criticism from the Canadian Bankers Association. Meanwhile, Canada’s banking regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, has been hiking capital requirements, which has forced banks to set aside billions of dollars as a cushion against a potential economic downturn.

Another stop-gap measure that will not prevent Canada from turning into the Weimar Republic.

Remember - these dolts would starve to death if Alberta left the Dominion of Canada:

It states that Trudeau is “deeply concerned” that a potential Alberta Pension Plan (APP) would would weaken the pensions of seniors in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada, causing “undeniable” harm.

“I have instructed my cabinet and officials to take all necessary steps to ensure Albertans – and Canadians – are fully aware of the risks of your plan, and to do everything possible to ensure CPP remains intact,” it reads.

It goes on to defend the CPP and its investment record over the course of close to six decades.

“We have a model that works in this country. It offers workers a reliable future, and pensioners with peace of mind.”

Smith has yet to issue a response to the letter.

(Sidebar: if Justin is against it, pursue it will all one's heart and soul.)

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An independent Quebec would have its own currency and a peacekeeping-style army, the leader of the Parti Québécois said Wednesday.

But without Albertan money?

Okay.

Sure.

Whatever you say.

Why is this creature even back in the country?:

Dure Ahmed, who is now living in the Toronto area under conditions, was married to El Shafee Elsheikh. He's a high-profile ISIS militant who was part of a cell known as "the Beatles" because of their British accents.

Elsheikh is the highest ranking ISIS member to be tried in the U.S. He's serving multiple life sentences in a supermax prison for his role in the deaths of eight American, British and Japanese hostages.

"It is unacceptable that the Trudeau government allowed someone affiliated with one of the world's worst terrorist groups to re-enter Canada without first ensuring the safety and security of Canadians from this terrorist threat," said Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong in a statement to CBC News. 

"This is but one example of Mr. Trudeau's neglect of Canada's national security."

Also - it's like there is a pattern:

The ISIS supporter who murdered two Swedish nationals in Brussels was flagged as a potential jihadist as far back as 2016.

We don't have to trade with China:

The head of Canada's intelligence agency spoke openly about China's interest in partnering with Canadian universities to gain a military edge during a conference with his Five Eyes counterparts on Tuesday.

"China has been very transparent," Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault said.

"Everything that they're doing in our universities and in new technology, it's going back into a system very organized to create dual-use applications for the military."

Vigneault made the comments on stage during a rare public gathering with spy bosses from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

The representatives of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are meeting in California's Silicon Valley at the invitation of FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss adversaries' use of technology and threats to innovation and research. 

Vigneault said CSIS has been trying to warn Canadian universities about the People's Republic of China's motivations and is in the process of setting up a research security centre to provide advice directly to research institutions.

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“Ottawa resident” (read: federal employee suing protestors for $300 million) takes the stand against Tamara Lich today. She described the Ottawa protests previously as a “purge-like scenario.”

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— Andy Lee - Special Rebel Rapporteur (@RealAndyLeeShow) October 16, 2023

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Another top aide to the Prime Minister yesterday said he missed a 2021 warning that Chinese agents were targeting a Conservative MP. Mike MacDonald, former national security advisor, said an ongoing House affairs committee investigation should not be “about laying blame.”

Oh, burn, Cardinal Zen:

Cardinal Joseph Zen renewed his criticism of the “confused and confusing” Synod on Synodality and denounced the participation of two bishops linked to China’s communist government at the synod.

The former bishop of Hong Kong blasted synod leaders for trying to “reduce the Word of God to the feeling of the people” and emphasizing the “magisterium” of Pope Francis while neglecting nearly 2,000 years of Catholic teaching in an interview with the Catholic Herald.

“The animators of the Synod seem to reduce the Word of God to the feeling of the people – by which they mean all the baptized, even those who left the Church long ago – and refer to the magisterium, not of the past 20 centuries, not of the many recent popes, but only of the reigning pontiff,” he said.

Zen also mocked the concept of “conversations in the Spirit,” a form of “shared prayer” used in the Synod’s small-group discussions that aims at “inclusive consensus” and “discernment” of dissenting views.

The Instrumentum laboris of the synod describes the method not as a “generic exchange of ideas, but a dynamic in which the word spoken and heard generates familiarity, enabling the participants to draw closer to one another.”

“Perhaps a cup of coffee or small glass of something ‘spiritual’ and some cookies might help even more the ‘conversation in the spirit,’” the 91-year-old Hong Kong cardinal remarked. “Please find somebody to explain, in a way that we poor mortals may understand: What does it mean ‘to discuss not ideas but experiences?’”

“So, the long tradition of ‘see and judge’ should be changed to ‘see and do not judge,’” he said. “But Jesus told the Apostles to ‘teach!’”

“If discernment is meant to help the Pope and the bishops to ‘teach,’ and the teaching is surely done through ideas,” he added, “shouldn’t the ‘conversations in the Spirit’ necessarily bring us back to Jesus himself, who said that the Spirit will ‘take from what He has taught to the Apostles?’”

Be not afraid:

With aggressive challenges to traditional Christianity ramping up within the United States and the Catholic Church itself, it’s important to remember that conditions have been far more desperate before: like 400 years ago in Japan.

Last February 6, the Church celebrated the feast day of St. Paul Miki and Companions. The courageous example of the 26 Martyrs of Japan, and other Japanese Christians who kept the faith during centuries of extreme persecution, is vital today — as American Catholics confront powerful forces committed to subverting their religion. ...

Catholicism was introduced to Japan by St. Francis Xavier after his arrival in Kagoshima on August 15, 1549, the Feast of the Assumption. The Catholic Church flourished for the next several decades, especially in Kyushu, the southernmost of the country’s four main islands. The initial embrace would be followed by horrific persecution that nearly extinguished Christianity from the archipelago.

Twenty-four Christians, known as Kirishitan, were rounded up in 1597 on the order of military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had come to view the religion as a foreign-directed political threat. All were Franciscans, six of them Europeans, except for Jesuit brother and renowned preacher, Paul Miki, and two lay catechists who would be made Jesuit brothers before their deaths. The shogun directed that the Christians’ ears and noses be cut off, but a sympathetic government official had their left ear lobes sliced off instead.

The group was forced to travel from the imperial capital of Kyoto to Nagasaki, then and now Japan’s center of Christianity, in the dead of winter and mostly by foot. Guards made additional prisoners of two Catholic laymen encountered along the 400-mile route, neither of whom protested, bringing the total number of captives to 26.

The road to the crucifixion grounds, located on a steep hill overlooking Nagasaki, was lined by silent Kirishitan as the martyrs made their ascent, resolutely singing the “Te Deum” hymn of praise. Seeing the rows of crosses, 12-year-old Luis Ibaraki asked, “Which one is mine?” The boy then ran to his cross and hugged it.