Monday, November 30, 2015

GOING HUNGRY IN ONTARIO

Ontario has seen a 35 per cent jump in the number of senior citizens visiting food banks over the past year, according to the Ontario Association of Food Banks' 2015 report, and the highest number on record of single people accessing the service.

THE MANY REGRETS OF DALTON MCGUINTY

Dalton's memoir:  “I have always been very idealistic and positive in my approach to politics,” McGuinty writes. “Some may find that hard to believe, given the expediency and self-interest cynics would have us believe characterize all politics today.” Not “all politics,” no. But Dalton McGuinty’s, certainly.  Readers will say, well, surely this is the sort of nonsense politicians always pack into their memoirs. And they will be right. But it is remarkable to come face to face with someone so utterly convinced of his own idealism, or so cynical as to insist upon it, so soon after he irrefutably demonstrated his lack of it.

CHRISTIANS: THE WORLD'S MOST PERSECUTED MINORITY

Surely we can agree that what Christians need most is a good talking-to from people who don't share their beliefs.  It's quite something, isn't it? The same people who spend this time of year kicking over crèches, expunging Christmas carols, and ensuring no Christian prays in public nevertheless have an ironclad grasp of what Jesus thinks about everything from immigration, to abortion, to gay marriage and guns.

NO BIGGER THREAT TO YOUNG PEOPLE THAN LIBERALISM

The true threat to the youth: liberalism in government makes health care mandatory and more expensive for young people and makes it harder for them to find a job, while in the university it prevents millennials from getting the training in thought and action they need to engage an ever-changing world.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

ANOTHER LIBERAL OINKER AT THE TROUGH

Syrian refugee coordinator in Montreal to make $1,800 a day to welcome the newcomers to Canada.

CORRUPT TO THE END

Maurice Strong: an international man of mystery, or corrupt profiteer, dies at 86.

DESPERATE TO MAINTAIN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Powerful international lobbies are already at work attempting to prove that any return to democratic self-government on the part of Britain will spell doom. American officials have already been primed to state that such a Britain would be excluded from any free trade deal with the USA and that the world needs the TTIP trade treaty which is predicated on the survival of the EU.

3 BILLION EUROS TO TURKEY

Turkey will help the European Union handle the flow of migrants that has called into question the future of Europe's passport-free travel in exchange for cash and restarting stalled talks on EU accession, draft conclusions of an EU-Turkey summit said.  In exchange, Turkey will get 3 billion euros of initial aid to handle the refugees on its territory. The amount might be adjusted later on depending on developments, the draft said.

THE DISAPPEARED HOCKEY STICK

 This is an updated timeline of climatic events and human history for the last 18,000 years.  Charts, graphs, and numerous links to back up the arguments of climate realists. 

ANNIVERSARY OF CLIMATEGATE: CYA @ CRU

Dr. Tim Ball: Most of the people going to Paris will know nothing about the climatology or climate science. They will not know or want to know that the science used as the basis for the conference is a creation of corrupted people who hide behind rules created for a completely different purpose.

INCONVENIENT TIMING

On eve of Paris Climate Conference, Spain's Abengoa Solar goes bankrupt.  Nine billion Euros in debt — that’s about $14 billion. 27,000 employees.  The largest bankruptcy in Spanish history.

VICTORY FOR PRIVACY ADVOCATES IN USA

The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans' phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the Obama administration said on Friday.

Saturday, November 28, 2015

A MERE $7.5 BILLION

 Ontario is projecting that its deficit for next year will be $7.5 billion, as the Liberal government maintains it can eliminate the deficit by 2017-18.

ALBERTA'S NEW FARM SAFETY LEGISLATION

Shandele Battle, a rancher from Delia Alberta went on to explain why she was opposed to the NDPs massive overreach in their new farm safety legislation, Bill 6. In response to Battle's statements, a former occupational Health and Safety Advisor for Alberta Health Services Debby Devlin said she was disgusted by Shandele Battle's remark on the show.  Devlin wrote of Shandele that "her whining reminded me of that gone with the wind kind of pining for slavery. As in, how will we ever keep our wonderful way of life if we have to care about someone else?"

PUTIN, ASSAD, ERDOGAN & ISIS

In flexing its military muscles along the Syrian-Turkish border, sooner or later Russia was likely to go too far. Putin does not play well with others.  In addition, the border area is a hot spot for separatists opposing the Assad regime in Syria. The more determined Moscow got in, trying to wipe out any force pressuring Damascus, the more a clash with Ankara became inevitable.

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS PROPOSE MEAT TAX

Global appetite for meat could be in danger as many consumers believe a tax on beef, chicken and poultry is a sure-fire way to reduce climate change.

THE APPROPRIATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Cultural appropriation is the idea that adopting elements of a foreign culture, from dressing up as Mariachis to wearing dreadlocks if you’re not black, is oppressive. Ein volk, ein culture. This diabolical act of appropriation has been hidden in plain sight. For centuries, nation after nation brutally, viciously, mercilessly appropriated western culture.

Friday, November 27, 2015

DYSFUNCTIONAL CULTURE

In the U.S., there is considerable opposition, especially on the State level, to high numbers of Syrian and other Middle Eastern migrants entering the country. But in Canada, with Justin Trudeau and his Liberals having recently defeated Stephen Harper and his Conservatives, it is a different story.  Day after day, most of our Canadian media broadcast a message that anyone opposing the hurried entry into Canada of 25,000 migrants by the end of February from Syria and other dysfunctional Muslim Islamo-totalitarian states is clearly “racist.”

THE SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES IN CANADA'S PUBLIC SERVICE

Canada’s public servants take up to twice the number of sick days a year as private sector workers do, because of different motivations, work cultures and rules that encourage “gaming the system,” says a new report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. 

NETHERLANDS HAS THE RIGHT TO KICK OUT MIGRANTS

A Dutch high court on Thursday upheld a government policy of withholding food and shelter to rejected asylum-seekers who refuse to be repatriated, giving legal backing to one of Europe's toughest immigration policies.

WORLD IS LOSING INTEREST IN CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISM

“People have given up on climate hysteria. They don’t want to pay for it and they’re concerned that if they sign up to any binding commitments they will be hurt.”

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC RETALIATION AGAINST TURKEY

Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting."
 

PUTIN PUNISHING KIEV

 Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament on Friday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

TORONTO THE GOOD BANS CHRISTIANS

Recently though, a city bureaucrat decreed that this Christian group (Voices of the Nations) will not be allowed to continue holding events starting next year yet, other faith groups continue to hold events in the square.  Yesterday, hundreds of supporters, including Faith Goldy, held a rally to bring attention to this double standard and challenge city officials to reverse this decision.

RUSSIA BRINGING OUT THE BIG GUNS

As a result, Russia now plans to implement new measures aimed at strengthening the security of the country’s air base in Syria and in particular to bolster air defense. Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva, equipped with the ‘Fort’ air defense system, will be deployed off Latakia province's coast.  "We warn that every target posing a potential threat will be destroyed,” lieutenant general Sergey Rudskoy said during the briefing.

STEYN DEFAMATION SUIT REVIEW

On this Thanksgiving eve, I am thankful for many things, but the sclerotic and depraved "justice" system of America's capital city is not one of them. Today marks the first anniversary of my trip to Washington for oral arguments at the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

OBAMA'S TWISTED LOGIC

President Obama delivered his Thanksgiving address this morning, including a political lecture on Syrian refugees. He told Americans that Syrian refugees were just like the pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower.  To our American friends, a Happy Thanksgiving.

UN CONDEMNS ISRAEL 6 TIMES IN ONE DAY

"Surreal barely captures the scene whereby the world is under assault by terrorists killing in the name of Islam and martyrhood — as Palestinians are doing while stabbing Israeli Jews — and the UN’s response is to reflexively condemn Israel in six separate resolutions, all of which are one-sided,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.

PERMANENTLY SCREWING FARMERS IN THE TORONTO GREENBELT

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture and Environmental Defense think it's a good idea to place Classes, 1, 2 &3 of farmland under permanent protection.

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Meet the "new" Minister of Foreign Affairs: Stephane Dion
While leader of the LPC during the 2008 Federal election Stephane Dion campaigned for "The Green Shift" which was an ecotax on carbon. Canadians said NO to that plan with their votes. Now as Foreign Minister, he gets to do-over with the carbon pricing scheme claiming that climate change is the biggest threat we face.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

OBAMA CARRYING OUT IRANIAN FOREIGN POLICY

What it means is clear enough.  We've got a President and a whole administration that have convinced themselves that his greatest legacy is the embrace of Iran.  It's not just making a nuclear deal.  It's not about nukes.  It's about embrace.

OBFUSCATION INDEX

This study demonstrates a pattern in ‘how scientists lie about their data’.  “We believe the underlying idea behind obfuscation is to muddle the truth,” said Markowitz, the lead author on the paper. “Scientists faking data know that they are committing a misconduct and do not want to get caught. Therefore, one strategy to evade this may be to obscure parts of the paper. We suggest that language can be one of many variables to differentiate between fraudulent and genuine science.”

SUB-TROPICAL CANADA? BRING IT ON!

Statistics Canada published a report in 2011 that gave an ominous warning. Over the period from 1948 to 2009 for Canada: “The linear trend indicates an increase in mean temperature of 1.4°C over the 62 years in the record.”  Since global temperature rise is not quite 1° C in 135 years, Canada’s warming rate is almost three times as great.  An obvious question arises. Given the accelerated warming that Canada seems to be experiencing and which is almost triple the global warming rate, how long would it take for real climate change to come to Toronto Canada?

STATISTICALLY ILLITERATE POLITICIANS

They refuse to acknowledge unpleasant facts about how many refugees there really are, and how assimilated (and even dangerous) some of the ones who are already here actually are.  Of course not.
Politicians only care about looking like they care.  And we'll be stuck cleaning up the mess they're making, as usual.

ABOUT THAT SYRIAN DROUGHT CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.....

It’s an easy mistake to have made.  Often when people are short of food and water their natural instinct is to strap on a suicide vest, pick up a Kalashnikov and drive to Paris in order to kill a few hundred people as an important gesture designed to raise public awareness of the urgent need to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions before someone gets hurt.

ERDOGEN & PUTIN: STEP BACK

In the current superheated environment, it will be hard for either Russia’s Putin or Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to back down. Once again, this is how new wars start, and we already have an old war, on ISIS, that we need to win. One war is enough.

BURYING ONTARIO

Ontario, whose economy depends in part on manufacturing, will outline a five-year plan next year with specific commitments for cutting emissions by 15 percent by 2020 and lay out steps toward reaching later targets, Environment Minister Glen Murray said.  "Climate change is not a distant threat - it is already costing the people of Ontario"

THE SITUATION IS UNTENABLE

The European Union's chief executive warned on Wednesday that the survival of Europe's "partially comatose" open border travel zone and its single currency were both at risk if member nations continue erecting internal barriers to keep out refugees.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

$678 MILLION - MARK THAT NUMBER

The Liberal government will not meet its Dec. 31 deadline to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees and now says it aims to complete the program by February.
 

JAMMING A STICK IN TRUDEAU'S SPOKES

The Liberal government is looking into whether it can rescind dozens of appointments that were quietly made last June in the dying days of the Conservative government.  Regular board members can be removed only “on address of the Senate and the House of Commons.” Both houses would have to vote in favour of a motion to remove one of the appointees. It is an arduous process intended to be used to remove prominent figures such as the auditor general or Supreme Court justices.
 

DAVID DESPERATE FOR THE LIMELIGHT. AGAIN.

In a phone interview on SiriusXM’s  Suzuki compared the arguments used by oil supporters against climate change action to the arguments used by 19th-century slavers to stop abolition in the U.S.  That'll get him some attention in Paris....
 

STATING THE OBVIOUS IN QUEBEC

Corruption and collusion in Quebec are far more prevalent than originally thought, says the Quebec judge who oversaw a lengthy probe into the province's construction industry.
"This investigation confirmed there was a real problem in Quebec and that it was broader and more deeply rooted than we believed,''.
 
Remember the flap this Maclean's cover caused in October 2010? 
 
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THE DISAPPEARED INCOME

The court was told that Herb Metcalfe, Ottawa lobbyist and senior federal Liberal strategist,  received payments and benefits from 2002 to 2006 totalling $1,366,411, which he did not report on his personal income tax returns.  The revenue agency said Metcalfe prepared his returns each year by hand, and knew – or was wilfully blind to the fact – that the income he received was taxable and was required to be reported on his returns.
 

BOMBARDIER PREDICTS PROFIT BY 2020

Bombardier said it expects its liquidity position to be strong in 2016, helped by recent cash infusions from Quebec pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and the government of Quebec. Soon to be followed, no doubt, by an "infusion" from the taxpayers in the rest of Canada.

THE SUPREME HYPOCRACY OF WYNNE

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is a hyperfeminist, a lesbian activist. She hates patriarchies, especially old white men who tell women what to do.  See a photo that she herself published, wearing a hijab and sitting in the women's only section of an Ottawa mosque, like a good little subservient, submissive woman, obedient to sharia law!

GREEN WEENIES CREATE WORLD PEACE

A major Italian weekly magazine, L’Espresso, is attributing mass migrations into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa to global warming, warning that a legally binding agreement at the upcoming climate conference in Paris is necessary in order to preserve world peace The Royal Hypocrite, Prince Charles, agrees.  So it must be true.
 

RIGHT TO RESPOND IF AIRSPACE IS VIOLATED

Turkish fighter jets shot down a warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey’s airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, with Russia confirming it had lost one of its jets.
 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG

Even more worrisome, a 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has shown only 69 miles along more than 5,500 miles of the entire northern border between the U.S. and Canada achieved “an acceptable level of security.”  And if criminals can pretty much move illegal contraband with impunity from Canada to America, wouldn’t it make sense that if ISIS wanted to move its savages into the U.S., they would do it the same way?
 

Monday, November 23, 2015

"ETHICAL OIL" QUITE OKAY WITH TAXPAYERS GETTING SCREWED

Read this piece from the Edmonton Sun.  About two-thirds of the way down is a sentence or two about the major oil companies' support for Notley's carbon tax.  Try to read the quote from the Suncor President without gagging.  Now, ask yourself: is this an industry worth supporting?
h/t tj230


BARRY IN DENIAL

Obama said "the most powerful tool" we have in fighting "a bunch of killers with good social media" in ISIS "is to say that we’re not afraid, to not elevate them, to somehow buy into their fantasy that they’re doing something important."
 

NOW, FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT....

Have a laugh as Aunt Chippy shows you how to wrap a gift.   (language warning)
 

ALBERTA'S CARBON TAX 2017

It will help us access new markets for our energy products, and diversify our economy with renewable energy and energy efficiency technology," Notley said in Edmonton. "Alberta is showing leadership on one of the world's biggest problems."
 

Sunday, November 22, 2015

IMMIGRATION FRAUD ON A GRAND SCALE

A Metro Vancouver man  made millions producing fraudulent documents for Mainland Chinese and helping them avoid paying taxes. . Richmond resident Xun Wang’s companies hauled in $10 million over eight years by producing altered Chinese passports and fraudulent identities for up to 1,200 clients in arguably the largest immigration fraud case in Canadian history.
 

NO MONEY? NO PROBLEM; GO BEGGING

A week after the federal election — after the dust had settled, after the evil empire had been banished — a few representatives of the BC provincial government quietly went to Ottawa to talk with the new overlords. The subject was money. They wanted some. Actually, they wanted a lot.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

David Akin provides the list of Parliamentary Ministers and their critics from the opposing parties.

THE RANK HYPOCRACY OF THE WARMISTS

A letter reportedly being circulated among a handful of Democrats this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, calling for an investigation into energy companies’ opinions on climate change, references news reports that the letter’s authors characterize as independent journalism. But according to online records, the reports were actually financed by large foundations that oppose oil and natural gas development.

THE ROOT OF ALL PROBLEMS IS CLIMATE CHANGE

Lest you think this is a joke, you can see just how many things have been claimed to be the fault of global warming, aka “climate change” by reading John Brignell’s Numberwatch warm list.  No doubt you can add a few items yourself.
 

NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM

Steyn: Hillary Clinton assures us: Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.  So not only is terrorism nothing to do with Islam, but Muslims have "nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism". She said this a few hours before yet another US citizen was killed by terrorists shouting "Allahu Akbar!"   This is the old spin that, although some terrorists might claim to be Muslim, there's nothing inherently Muslim about their terrorism.
 

TRUDEAU'S IMAGE

Even more embarrassing, while sitting beside the US President, Trudeau was apologetic for Canada being an energy super power. Apparently under Harper, we simply didn't do enough to cripple our own economy.

OBAMA'S DIPLOMATIC GRANDSTANDING IN PARIS

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the committee chairman and a skeptic regarding reducing greenhouse gases to address global climate change, asserted that if Obama wants to achieve anything of substance at the Paris talks “there is no way around the Senate” since lawmakers will have to approve the price tag. If he hopes to bypass Congress, “then he will be limited to making a non-binding, political commitment with no means of enforcement, accountability, or longevity.”

BENDING OVER DOWN UNDER

The Royal Australian Army Chaplains’ Department is to lose their traditional motto held since 1913, because it is offensive to Muslims.  Incredibly, army chaplains themselves are thought to have been pushing for the change. Ironically it is often protestant churchmen who work hardest to accommodate Muslim sentiment.
 

LIARS AT CNN

Left-wing cable news network CNN has been caught red-handed selectively editing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s comments about a “Muslim registry,” and doing so in order to make it sound as though he is agreeing to this registry. He is not.
 

Saturday, November 21, 2015

STILL FIGHTING THE ZIONIST-CRUSADER ALLIANCE

Islamic terrorists inhabit a mental landscape in which the Middle Ages never went away. The menace of this way of thinking is brutally evident — a world in which young people murdered at a rock concert can be cursed as 'Crusaders' is a world on the verge of going mad.

 

MICROINEQUITIES DIVERSITY TRAINING

We’ve previously reported on how Intel is sacrificing its technological excellence for the hand-wringing teachings of liberal arts and women’s studies courses, leaving the door open for competitors like AMD to make a better offer to talented STEM graduates. Intel now has the dubious track record of slashing $300 million across the entire company while pouring the same amount of money into a fund for valueless feminist YouTube whinging.
 

DEATH SPIRAL OF OBAMACARE

UnitedHealth Group, the country’s largest health insurer, announced on Thursday that it was expecting to lose $600 million on Obamacare policies in 2016 from the health insurance exchange websites, and may terminate its Obamacare business by 2017.
 

Friday, November 20, 2015

ISIS IS SAYING, "WAR WANTS YOU."

“We live in open societies, that’s what we want. But it’s vulnerable. That doesn’t mean an attack will necessarily occur, but according to CIA and FBI reports, approximately 1,000 members of ISIS who are sleepers in the U.S. and Canada are prepared to engage in attacks.
 

INDIGENOUS STUDIES COURSE MANDATORY AT 2 UNIVERSITIES

When indigenous students (who receive subsidized post secondary education) are now forcing students who pay in full to take classes irrelevant to their degrees, classes that they may or may not be able to afford, I doubt that will foster a positive attitude towards indigenous groups.

 

MEETING OF MENSA REJECTS

David Akin: Transcript of the  Obama, Trudeau joint press conference, fielding questions on Syria and Alberta oil.
 

'I FELT LIKE I OWNED THE WORLD"

There's a  tiny pill fuelling war in Syria that turns fighters into superhuman soldiers.   The tiny, highly addictive pill produced in Syria and now widely available across the Middle East, its illegal sale funnels hundreds of millions of dollars back into the war-torn country's black-market economy each year, likely giving militias access to new arms, fighters and the ability to keep the conflict boiling, according to the Guardian.
 

BILINGUALISM NOT REQUIRED IN ALBERTA COURTS

OTTAWA The Supreme Court of Canada says Alberta is not constitutionally required to enact its laws in both English and French.In a 6-3 split decision, the court ruled that the arguments in favour of bilingual legislation brought forward by two appellants were inconsistent with the historical documents they relied on.The ruling ends a legal fight that has spanned more than a decade, beginning when Alberta's Gilles Caron received a traffic ticket in 2003.
 

RUSSIAN "BOMBS AWAY" AGAINST ISIS

ISIS has suffered a third day of heavy losses as the Russians continued their bombing blitz against the terror group. Russian jets flew more than 100 combat sorties on Thursday, following 126 the day before, after President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to escalate their campaign in Syria.
 



 

BURYING ONTARIO

Ontario now boasts the highest proportion of minimum wage workers in Canada and one of the worst rates of long-term unemployment in the country, according to a new report by an anti-poverty coalition representing 90 community and labour organizations across the province.
“Today, Ontario has slid to the bottom of the country, or near it, on key labour force measures,” says the study by the Ontario Common Front. h/t hallsofmacademia
 
 
 

DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'S PRESTIGE AND AUTHORITY

The bodies of slaughtered Parisians were still unburied when our president, the leader of the most powerful country in history, beclowned himself on the world stage.  It’s a sad day when the President of the United States makes a French socialist leader sound like George S. Patton.
 

NO SIRE, I FEAR THIS IS A REVOLUTION

Pat Caddell:  We have in this country two mindsets.  Well, we have mine, and then we have the mainstream political class analysis, mainstream media, and all the people who are so upset, because nothing they believe is coming true.  They start from a premise that there are only two parties, and that nothing changes, and that it is a totally divided country, and it is a matter of inches of what happens politically.
And then there is the new reality, which is, as I've said, a country which is not just in revolt, but something greater. 
 

CYA AT NOAA

The study refuted claims that global warming had “paused” or slowed over the past decade, undercutting a popular argument used by those who refute the scientific consensus that man-made pollution is behind global warming. The research, considered a bombshell in the climate change debate, set off alarms among skeptics.
 

THEIR LORDSHIPS ARE WRIGGLING LIKE STUCK PIGS

Britain’s highest court apologizes for breaking the law but dodges questions about its widely-broadcast September 2015 climate-change propaganda event urging national and international courts to “scotch” the “claims” of skeptical climate scientists and researchers.
 

ADVOCATING FOR FIREARMS OWNERS

The fight over legal gun ownership and gun rights is mainly conducted at the Federal level so with the election of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, what does this mean for gun owners?  Todd Brown has been involved with a number of gun rights groups. He recently started a new group, Firearms Institute for Rational Education (FIRE), that aims to educate people about current laws in order to better assist them in advocating for gun friendly laws.
 

MARGINALIZATION IN QUEBEC

Reluctance among residents in Quebec to accept thousands of Syrian refugees is deepening a rift with the province's Muslim community, raising worries that more Muslims could become radicalized as they have in France and other European nations.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

PLENTY OF TIME LEFT TO SCREW AMERICA

Obama has directed federal agencies to “ban the box,” which prohibits them from asking about an applicant’s criminal history. Jarrett said Obama wants Congress to do the same for federal contractors as well, which requires congressional action.  In addition, the Justice Department has decided to release about 6,000 inmates from federal prison who were convicted of drug-related offenses.
 

CLUELESS PELOSI

While opposing a House bill today intended to stiffen screening of potential Syrian refugees, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed that she's a "lioness" when it comes to national security.
 

Thursday, November 19, 2015

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Meet the "new" Minister of Citizenship and Immigration: John MacCallum

Tasked with flying 25,000  refugees to Canada by Christmas.

RABBITS AND WOLVES IN SOCIETY

Bill Whittle: When you flood the country with illegal immigrants who bring a great deal of crime, a great deal of social disruption -- we have to carry them on the social roles that are already overstuffed due to the Cloward-Piven strategy that I know so many of you know about.  And when we do all of this just in exchange for votes for one party, we're now talking about a criminal enterprise that would rather rule over the ruins than be part of governing a successful and happy republic. 

CALLING BULLSH*T ON SCIENTIFIC MANIPULATIONS

Dr. Tim Ball:  They had to eliminate the natural temperature increase from the nadir of the LIA in 1680.  They also rejected historical evidence of the events, but the facts don’t go away.  Few are familiar with the historic evidence because most don’t read history, fewer read climate history and most don’t know how much climate changes.

CLIMATE CHANGE ADVISOR DISCUSSES HEAVY ISSUES

Forbes tells us that the latest hot tip for saving the planet from climate change and unsustainable resource usage is to avoid red lipstick.
 
 

ON MESSAGE: NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM

Hannity said it's now "beyond mysterious" that President Obama has refused to call out radical Islam and claimed ISIS was "contained" right before the Paris terror attacks.
Steyn answered that Obama's policies are shaped by the long-held view that "America is the problem."
 

INFILTRATING AMERICA

I will let slip now something you should know, but probably do not because coverage of it is largely absent: asylum-seeking Syrian and Iraqi immigrants have been coming over the Mexico-U.S. border and petitioning for asylum, by the hundreds, for three years already.

45 MIN. WARNING TO ISIS OIL TANKERS

"In Al-Bukamal, we destroyed 116 tanker trucks, which we believe will reduce ISIL's ability to transport its stolen oil products," Warren said. "This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude."
 

FAILING TO DEFEND THE INTERESTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Just over a month ago, officials from the Department of Homeland Security admitted before the Immigration Subcommittee that there is no database in Syria against which they can run a check. They have no way to enter Syria to verify the applicants’ personal information.  And we know the region is being flooded with false documents.
 
 

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

MICHAEL MOORE: TALL GRASS WARRIOR

Moore was asked how he thinks the United States should respond to the attacks carried out by ISIS in Paris.  “I think that we first of all need to be in a place of peace. We need to go and not use our young men and women to conduct war anymore – that’s over,” . “You don’t go down to the level of the people who are the murderers and become murderers yourselves. I think those days, I hope, are over.”
 

THE ARROGANCE & THE IGNORANCE

Bloomberg View Columnist Margaret Carlson stated, “those people (immigrants) who have snuck in…maybe they become Americanized, maybe the anger goes away.  Carlson said of assimilating immigrants, “we do know how to do it. Europe doesn’t know how to do it. France especially doesn’t know how to do it. England not very good at it.

IGNORING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AGAIN.

The Obama administration launched a hashtag last night to promote the concept of welcoming Syrian refugees into the United States after a growing number of governors proposed halting the program after the terrorist attacks in Paris.  Who can resist this face?
 

FROM INTELLIGENT PATIENCE TO SCREECHING EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

Once again, reality has intruded on President Obama’s divisive, his anti-science talking points. Just hours after the president used the term “they are scared of widows and orphans” to taunt the GOP over their opposition to flooding America with Syrian refugees ISIS has promised to seed with terrorists, a female suicide bomber in Paris blew herself up as police closed in.
 

TRUDEAU CRIES RACISM

Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau urged Canadians to resist hatred and racism as a poll showed most Canadians were opposed to his plan to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees by year-end and a flurry of racist incidents were reported around the country.  Hey Numbnuts - Syrians are not "a race."  Islamists are not "a race."
 
 

CRINGEWORTHY LIBERALS

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau became the selfie-taking appeaser as the rest of the world declared war on ISIS.  He stuck to a speech about inclusiveness and the economy at a time when the rest of the shocked world was mourning the dead in the horrific attacks and focusing on how to eliminate evil monsters.  Ontario Liberal Premier Wynne was asked if, given the changing circumstances, she still planned to attend the climate change conference in Paris. “I do plan to attend because the reality is that climate change is probably the biggest challenge as a globe we face for this generation,” she said.
 

LEARN FROM ISREAL TO CONFRONT ISLAMIST TERROR

 Whatever one’s political predisposition to Israeli counterterrorism policies may be, its success fighting Islamist terror over the past two decades is the only real-world model for overcoming the specific challenges France now faces.
 

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

PUTIN & HOLLANDE ALLIED

Vladimir Putin has ordered his warships to co-operate with the French military as both countries launched revenge attacks on ISIS targets in Syria. Russia has hit the ISIS 'capital' Raqqa with cruise missiles - just hours after saying the passenger jet brought down in Egypt had been bombed.  Now the Russian President wants his missile cruiser Moskva, which is in the Mediterranean Sea, to work with France's military, who are carrying out more airstrikes over Syria tonight after ISIS claimed responsibility for the Paris terror attacks which killed 129 people and injured 352.
 
 


 

HARPER WAS RIGHT; TRUDEAU IS WRONG

If one death in Turkey was enough to change Canada’s refugee policy with regard to the civil war in Syria, why aren’t 129 deaths in Paris relevant when it comes to giving that policy some serious and sober second thought?
 
harper
Miss me yet?
 

POST-PARIS, OBAMA DOUBLES DOWN: MORE REFUGEES COMING

Despite what he termed the “setback” of last Friday’s jihad massacre in Paris, Barack Obama announced Monday that he was pressing forward with his scheme to flood the U.S. with at least 10,000 refugees from Syria, terming opposition to his plan “shameful.”
 

SWEDEN IN TURMOIL

The Swedish society is in political and social turmoil.  The migrants are in shock. They have come to a country where they thought there was a future and shelter. But what they find is authorities and agencies that are overstretched and panicked. The situation that has arisen is forcing the Swedish people to make a choice:l keep the liberal migration policy that will lead to system failure, civil unrest and Swedes losing their social security, or select a restrictive immigration policy and try to save what is left of the Swedish society.
 
 

BRANT COUNTY GREENBELT EXPANSION BATTLEGROUND

Brant County claims that it's experiencing pressure to reconsider their resolution to stay outside of the designation that many farmers say does not do what the Ontario government says it was intended to do: protect farmland.
 

CREDIT CARD CHIPS CAUSING CONTROVERSY

Credit card technology has recently evolved in the United States from magnetic strips to chips, in an effort to improve customer security. Retailers and bankers, however, are at odds over how the chips should be used.
 

 

CYBER INSURANCE ON THE RISE

Attacks on U.S. banks, retailers and other major companies have led to skyrocketing cyber insurance premiums. Reuters Jim Finkle explores the effect hackers are having on the relationship between the insurance industry and some of their biggest corporate customers.
 

 

REJECTING SYRIAN REFUGEES

Governors across the country are publicly rejecting President Obama’s plan to relocate Syrian refugees.  The growing number of governors rejecting Syrian refugees comes after reports that one of the suspects in Friday’s Paris terrorist attacks, which killed more than 120 people, had entered Paris by masquerading as a Syrian refugee.
 
 

CHASTISED BY CAIR

The Saudi-funded, terror-tied Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is slamming Republican Governors over their efforts to oppose the import of refugees from Syria into the United States.
 
 
 
 

ANONYMOUS HUNTING DOWN ISIS

The hacktivist collective Anonymous began #OpISIS in earnest after January’s attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo — and has now vowed to step up operations to hunt down all of those involved in Friday’s attacks on Paris.
 
 
 
 

LUCKILY, NOT EVERY GERMAN POLITICIAN IS INSANE

 Merkel called for a swift investigation into the motives behind the terrorist carnage to “find out who the perpetrators were, who’s behind them and what connections there were.”
 
 

ISLAMIC EXTREMISM. THERE, I SAID IT

In other words, simply to say “The terrorists are Muslims” is to undermine every lie the left has been selling us and themselves for the last fifty years.  It would be a bitter pill for them to swallow. A bitter, suspiciously Jesus-shaped pill.
 

Monday, November 16, 2015

AFFORDABLE, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE IT

Obama administration officials, urging people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, have trumpeted the low premiums available on the law’s new marketplaces. The sticker shock is coming not on the front end, when they purchase the plans, but on the back end when they get sick: sky-high deductibles that are leaving some newly insured feeling nearly as vulnerable as they were before they had coverage.
 
 

LPC: EXPLAIN TO JUSTIN THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP

Trudeau’s initial reaction to Paris, though it did cover the basics and was certainly not the cataclysmic botch-up it has been purported to be, has been oddly tone-deaf. And his policy of retrenchment will look increasingly untenable, as the French and American responses become more clear in the weeks ahead. Geopolitical circumstances change. Effective leadership adapts.

TIME TO PUT ON YOUR BIG BOY PANTS JUSTIN

The opposition Conservatives, defeated last month after nine years in government, urged Trudeau to make sure it guarded Canada's security as it brought in the refugees.  "How will 1000 per day be screened?" Michelle Rempel, a former Conservative legislator, asked McCallum on Twitter. "What parts of the process will be dropped?"

THEY HAVE THE AK47'S; WE HAVE THE CANDLES

Does the West yet have the resolve to deal with the Islamist threat?
 
 

PATHOS AND PITIFUL MEMES

The West is hanging on by a thread and doesn’t even know it. We are living off the fumes of the accomplishments of our forefathers and those who fought and died in the cause of freedom and individual rights.
 
 

Sunday, November 15, 2015

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE OFF TO PARIS

The Heartland Institute – known globally as the leading think tank debunking global warming alarmism and junk science – is partnering with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and other allied organizations to bring some of the world’s most esteemed climate scientists and policy experts to present the inconvenient, data-based truth to the United Nations’ COP 21 summit in Paris.



PASSIVE AND ENERVATED

Steyn: Just in case our enemies needed another reason to despise us, today the inactivist group Somnolent Tilty-Headed Wankers for Peace launched an exciting new graphic: the same old clapped-out hippie peace symbol but incorporating the Eiffel Tower.

THOUGHT POLICE INFECTING SCIENCE

Jason Richwine was fired for looking at IQ data. Satoshi Kanzowa was vilified for studying the public's idea of beauty.  Anthropologists Napoleon Chagnon and Lawrence H. Keeley were pilloried for being honest about their research. 
 
 

THE ENEMY WITHIN

Canadians believe in freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But when Muslim leaders preach violence against women, gays and non-Muslim “infidels”, and even support violent jihad and the creation of an Islamic state, our police and security services have a duty to investigate to see if Canadian laws are being broken.

QUEBEC POWER KEY TO MAINE'S ECONOMY

Maine Governor Paul LePage on Friday said building high-voltage transmission lines from eastern Canada will be key to helping New England cut its soaring electricity costs, which he said had driven out businesses and cost the region jobs.  Sounds amazingly like the plight of Ontario,  where Liberal Premier Wynne is determined to bury the province.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PODCAST: THE HORROR OF LIFE UNDER ISLAMIC STATE

In this episode of War College, Kevin Sullivan, a senior correspondent at The Washington Post walks us through his five-part series, Life in the Islamic State. Sullivan and his team spent months interviewing men, women and children in and around the territory ISIS calls the caliphate.
 
 

HILLARY'S INTEGRITY

  Clinton defended her big donors and insisted that voters know she’ll level the playing field despite pocketing cash from influential high-rollers.  Clinton charged that Sanders “basically used his answer to impugn my integrity,” and countered that “not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small.
 
 

SAUNDERS - NOT A MEMBER OF MENSA

Democratic Presidential candidate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
said on Saturday that climate change is directly related to terrorism. “In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism,” said Sanders.
 
 

Saturday, November 14, 2015

HOW FRANCE BECAME AN INVITING JIHAD TARGET

France’s population of 66 million is now approximately 10 percent Islamic. As night follows day, when Muslim populations surge, so does support for jihadism and the sharia supremacist ideology that catalyzes it.

OBAMA DENIAL

Since 2009, Obama has admitted more than 250,000 Muslims each year, via family reunification sought by new Muslim citizens and government invites to Muslims fleeing wars in the chaotic Islamic heartland of the Middle East.  Since 2011, more than 100 Muslim immigrants have been charged with jihad-related crimes in the United States, as domestic surveillance has expanded to keep pace with jihadist plots.

LEFTY MEDIA SHIFT FOCUS FROM JIHADIST TERROR

Before the dust had settled and even the extent of the damage and number of dead had been tallied from a string of terror attacks in Paris, France, liberals in the old media establishment were already writing pieces blaming conservatives, bemoaning that the attacks had taken the focus off pet liberal issues like Mizzou and global warming and wringing their hands over the safety of Muslims.
 
 

FRANCE VOWS MERCILESS RESPONSE

Hollande canceled his attendance at the G20 summit after declaring the first nationwide state of emergency since 1945.  "Faced with war, the country must take appropriate action," the president said in a solemn address after an emergency meeting of security chiefs. He announced three days of national mourning.
 

Friday, November 13, 2015

PLAYING BY HIS OWN SET OF RULES

Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in America, is a long-time proponent of higher taxes and greater regulation on business. But his words are usually not matched by his own actions

GREEN GORE INTERRUPTED

A Paris webcast of an all-star marathon event about climate change was suspended after the deadly attacks in that city Friday night.  Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore was due to host the 24-hour live webcast from the foot of the Eiffel Tower to drum up attention for this month’s international climate summit in Paris. 

RUSSIA'S RICHEST PLAN TO CASH OUT

“Few Russian business owners are thinking of transferring their assets to the next generation, so selling is on their agenda.”
 
 

GREEN LIARS AND THEIR MINIONS

In a sensational bit of reportorial distortion and ignorance, CBC News on Thursday reported that Canada and other G20 nations are “spending US$452-billion a year subsidizing their fossil fuel industries.”
 

MICHELLE O's STRUGGLE

Michelle Obama uses a speech in Qatar to complain about America.  She places herself in the victim role, I suppose to "get down" with the women of Qatar.
 
 

CORKING THE EU MIGRANT WAVE

Farage: As I warned in April, face to face with European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker in the European Parliament, the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) common asylum policy was basically sending a message that anyone that came would be welcome. I warned that this could lead to an exodus of biblical proportions.
 
 
 
 

NOTLEY NOT DONE YET

"That was a good start, but more needs to be done," said Notley . "So we will do what needs to be done. So that Alberta - and Canada - can stand before the world in December in Paris, and for decades to come, as one of the world's most progressive and environmentally responsible energy producers."

RUSSIA TO REFORM ITS ANTI-DOPING AGENCY

Russia is ready to carry out an investigation into doping allegations against its athletes in concert with independent organizations, Interfax news agency quoted Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko as saying on Friday.

SUU KYI SECURES MAJORITY IN MYANMAR

The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar's parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect its chosen candidate to the presidency when the new legislature convenes next year.
 
 

AXIS OF IDIOCY

As the expression goes, if you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.
Specifically, if you find yourself made queasy by the group hugs among our new Liberal rulers, our moral and intellectual superiors in the news media, and the people we pay to make our lives that much more difficult through the public bureaucracy, you are in excellent company.
 
 

SING ME A LULLABY DADDY

Canada's new defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, says the country must contribute to the defeat of ISIS, but he rejected the idea that Canadians should be afraid of the jihadist organization.
"ISIS is a threat, no doubt about that. Should we fear it? No. The Canadian population should have full confidence in all the security services to keep us safe." (sorry - CBC link)
 
 

Thursday, November 12, 2015

WHEN THERE'S TOO MUCH OIL

OPEC this morning confirmed not only no change in the already weak global demand picture but the current oil inventory surplus is the largest in at least a decade. This has driven WTI prices down close to a $41 handle this morning (from over $48 a week ago) as simply put, there's too much oil and OPEC's grand strategy for solving this imbalance - pray for a colder winter...

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Meet the "new" Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett.
Maybe she will do better with throat singing than the National Anthem

ENTITLEMENT OF THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN

Steyn:  Mrs Clinton's Secret Service detail required that Secretary Gardner submit to a humiliating pat down for the privilege of entering his own office to participate in Hillary's crappy photo op.



A KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION WITHOUT THE JEWS

In the Swedish city of Umea, organizers of a Kristallnacht commemoration have been accused of excluding the last group anyone would have expected, the Jews.

NO BOUNDARIES AT BOMBARDIER

That fact makes what Bombardier is trying to do now all the more reprehensible. The Canadian Aerospace giant and chronic corporate welfare junkie is trying to sell trains and jets to Iran. This is the same Iran that chants “death to America, death to Israel” and threatened to destroy the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv.



PLUGGING TURBINES

On the back foot around the globe, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers keep trying to convince the chattering classes that country people just can’t wait to snuggle up next to a cuddly bunch of wind turbines. The pitch is that life for rural communities just isn’t complete without a fleet of blade-chucking, pyrotechnic, sonic-torture devices. h/t SDA
 
 

HAMTRAMCK MICHIGAN'S FUTURE

A cell phone video, taken moments after Muslims received the word that they took over the city council, has surfaced of one of the organizers of the Muslim city council effort saying, “Today we show the Polish and everybody else…” The town has a large but shrinking Polish community.
 
 

ANTI-ISRAELIS PULLING STRINGS AT EU

It’s official: the European Union will be sending out guidelines to all 28 of its member states on how to label settlement products from Israel. The move has been in the works for a while. In September the European Parliament voted 525-70 in favor of it. Israeli settlement products have been excluded from EU trade preferences since 2004.
 
 
 

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

WAVING ROOTS IN NOVA SCOTIA

And suddenly the Earth started breathing in Nova Scotia. This weird phenomenon was captured by Brian Nuttall on October 31, 2015 most probably in Apple River.
 
 

TURD WATCH IN MONTREAL

The City of Montreal says it will begin dumping eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River on Wednesday after it agreed to conform its discharge plan to several federal government conditions.
 
 

CLASSY HILLARY THE HYPOCRITE

Hillary Clinton today joked with an audience member who said he wanted to “strangle” Carly Fiorina. 
 
 

TOO BAD THE FENCE HE'S SITTING ON ISN'T ELECTRIC

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's new agriculture minister said on Tuesday he is likely to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the previous government, and is inclined to retaliate against the United States over a longstanding meat-labeling dispute.  "I suspect when I evaluate the whole thing, it will be something I support," said Lawrence MacAulay, 69, a former potato and dairy farmer from the Atlantic province of Prince Edward Island.
 
 

$9B OVER BUDGET - WHAT'S LEFT TO DECIDE?

  The CSeries project, designed to produce a line of single-aisle jets to compete against Boeing Co's 737 and Airbus Group's A-319 and A-320, has been delayed for years and is more than $9 billion dollars over budget. On Tuesday, Trudeau said: "There has to be a strong business case and I know you agree with me on that and we’re going to make sure that decision is taken based on what is in the best interest of Canadians writ large." 
 
 

REJECTING PUTIN'S SOLUTION

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition figures rejected on Wednesday a Russian draft proposal for a process aimed at solving the nearly five-year war, saying Moscow's aim was to keep President Bashar al-Assad in power and marginalize dissenting voices.
 
 

LEST WE FORGET

Poppy power
Freeform Poppy by kattekrab
In 1931 Parliament enacted the Armistice Day Act.  The Act ensured that November 11th would be set aside as a day distinct and apart from any other observance upon which the nation could pay special tribute to those "who gave their lives that freedom might prevail."
 
 

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

BELGIUM SLAPS FACEBOOK

The Brussels court ordered Facebook to stop tracking non-Facebook users in Belgium within 48 hours or pay a daily fine of 250,000 euros to the Belgian privacy regulator, said Margot Neyskens, spokeswoman for the Belgian secretary of state for the protection of privacy.  "Facebook can not follow people on the internet who are not members of Facebook which is very logical because they can not have given permission to follow them,"
 
 

TPP: CORPORATE COUP D'ETAT IN USA

The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared. “The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in American history,”
 
 

CANADA'S DAIRY FARMERS NEED SMARTER LEADERS

The question is not “how much dairy access is allowed under TPP?” But why weren’t dairy farmers told the facts by their leaders?  Especially when dozens of them congregated in Atlanta.
 
 

JIHAD ON A TRAY

Steyn:  Like I was saying only a couple of days ago, it's all Islam, all the time...
 
 

BATHTUB SCIENCE IN ALBERTA

The goal of the climate change conference in Paris this December won’t be to reduce output sufficiently enough to “stop climate change;" China’s actions alone has shown the impossibility of this task. The Paris conference is simply a thinly veiled attempt by poorer nations to get money from the richer ones, as their penance for the alleged sin of developing the most prosperous society mankind has ever seen.
 
 
 

THE LEGALITY OF SEX ACTS WITH ANIMALS

Animal Justice said it agrees with the Crown that bestiality laws exist for moral reasons and to safeguard children, but argues that “Parliament also intended to protect vulnerable animals from sexual exploitation and the risk of harm.”“It went very well,” Animal Justice lawyer Camille Labchuk said Monday. “This is the first time the Supreme Court has heard about the welfare of animals in this manner and that is an encouraging sign.
 
 

RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR THE TRUTH

The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a discredited Rolling Stone article that alleged members of the frat house gang-raped a freshman during a party has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against the magazine.
 
 

APPEALS COURT STOPS OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE AMNESTY

“Today, the Fifth Circuit asserted that the separation of powers remains the law of the land, and the president must follow the rule of law, just like everybody else,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement obtained Monday night by Breitbart Texas. “Throughout this process, the Obama Administration has aggressively disregarded the constitutional limits on executive power, and Texas, leading a charge of 26 states, has secured an important victory to put a halt to the president’s lawlessness.”

BELIEVING HIS OWN LIES

President Obama hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today, insisting that the security of Israel is one of my top foreign policy priorities.” “And that has expressed itself not only in words, but in deeds,” he added. “We have closer military and intelligence cooperation than any two administrations in history.”
 
 

THE WISE LATINA SOTOMAYOR

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her fellow justices to task for endorsing a “shoot first, think later” approach to dealing with violence from criminals. Sotomayor’s dissent in the matter shows she hasn’t a clue what cops face every day.
 
 

TRUSTING ONTARIO'S LYING LIBERALS

But the more important lesson is that, through their example over the years, the Liberals have shown that the only way to get to the bottom of what they’re actually spending on anything is by auditing them.  In that context, the only person I trust is Lysyk, the auditor general, on whatever the hell it is the Liberals have been spending our money on in negotiations with the teacher unions.
 
 

Monday, November 9, 2015

WAR OF THE WOODS IN CANADA

Today’s all-out assault by the combined forces of Canada’s powerful environmental movement on the so-called dirty oil of the oil sands has its precursor in recent history. The present environmental movement cut its teeth with its incursion into Canadian forestry, once the dominant resource extraction industry in Canada. Environmental activists, NGOs and foundations presented forest certification as the solution to the international campaign launched against the forestry industry in the 1990s.  Grab a coffee.
 
 

DOPING RUSSIAN ATHLETES

The WADA investigation's findings that Russian government officials must have known about doping and coverups, with even its intelligence service, the FSB, allegedly involved, threatened to severely tarnish President Vladimir Putin's use of sports to improve his country's global standing.

 

CANADIAN SCIENTISTS' MEDICAL INNOVATION

The blood-brain barrier has long been an obstacle for doctors trying to treat brain diseases. The barrier is a layer of tightly packed cells that act like plastic wrap, surrounding each of the brain's blood vessels, protecting them from infections and toxins.  But neuroscientists at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have found a non-invasive solution.
 

CANADA'S RIGHTEOUS ENVIRONMENT MINISTER

McKenna is in Paris attending ministerial meetings in advance of COP21, where the international community hopes to set in place a post-2020 framework for global action on climate change.
Meanwhile, in Quebec, the city of Montreal will be allowed to dump 8 billion litres of sewage into the St. Lawrence River, provided it meets several conditions imposed by the federal government by Dec. 5, the new federal minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, announced Monday.
 
 
 

TOO COSY WITH BIG GREEN IN AUSTRALIA

It didn’t take long for Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to tear up his promise to keep Abbott’s climate policies. Now Turnbull appears to have taken the next step.  Australians voted overwhelmingly against carbon pricing in the last Federal Election, but for some strange reason carbon pricing now seems to be back on the agenda again.
 
 

PIETY TRUMPS POLICY IN PARIS

Rex Murphy: It is better to speak well on global warming than actually to follow through on the logic of the thought behind speaking well. The more eloquent the signals of planetary distress, the more dire the alarms raised, the less likely it is that those who summon that eloquence or issue those alarms will actually — as the wretched phrase has it — “walk the talk.”

 

MYANMAR'S SUU KYI ON COURSE FOR LANDSLIDE VICTORY

Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in the country's general election on Monday, as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that would ensure it can form the next government.

 

Sunday, November 8, 2015

TRACKING ONLINE ACTIVITY CONTINUES

 U.S. regulators rejected an effort on Friday to force Google, Facebook and other popular web sites to honor "Do Not Track" requests from users, in a setback for digital privacy advocates.
 
 
 
 

TERRORIST LEADER CAUGHT HIDING AMONG MIGRANTS

Angela Merkel is probably the only person in Europe who didn’t know this would happen: Fears that Islamic terror groups might be entering Europe on migrant boats appear to have been confirmed after police in Sicily identified a convicted terrorist among asylum seekers arriving from Libya.
 
 

MIXING IT UP IN MYANMAR

Voters in Myanmar, head to the polls Sunday in a landmark election that is the first since the military junta eased their control and began democratic overhauls in 2010.  Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s Nobel laureate, has been drawing large crowds as she campaigns across the country for her National League for Democracy party. Meanwhile, leaders of the Ma Ba Tha have thrown their support to President Thein Sein, the former general, and his military-backed ruling party.
 
 

THE SCRUTINY OF THE PESKY SKEPTICS

The American Meteorological Society thinks that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s dodgy, data-fudging, parti-pris scientists should be allowed to go on spending taxpayers’ money on green propaganda unimpeded by the scrutiny of pesky skeptics.