A LEAN HQ AT DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

“Just under 20,000 people are paid by DND in the National Capital Region,” he said. “The size of the Royal Canadian Navy is under 20,000. We have more people in Ottawa doing headquarters and headquarters-like activity than we have in the entire Royal Canadian Navy.”

 

ON THE MINDS OF ACADEMICS

A controversy over who gets better toilet paper at a Toronto university has critics denouncing what they call a two-tier system, while other Ontario institutions say their bathroom tissue is "equitably distributed."

 

COMING BACK AROUND TO BITE YOU IN THE ASS

 The Tories are in firm command of the Senate, primed for battle with the new Liberal majority in the Commons.  Memories of what happened when the tables were reversed — the blockade of legislation enacting the Canada-U.S. free trade deal in advance of the 1988 election, a similar blockade of the goods and services tax after it, plus various shenanigans in the early Harper years when the Liberals still controlled the Senate — have Tories vowing revenge.

 

ANOTHER CORRUPT PUTIN CONFIDENTE

Russia’s defence minister has secretly built a lavish $24 million palace outside Moscow, according to anti-corruption campaigners who specialise in exposing the greed of the regime’s elite.  Sergei Shoigu tried to hide his ownership of the four-storey Mongolian pagoda-style mansion.

 

WHERE HAS THE LOVE GONE?

The Liberals have gone from hug-a-teacher to a negotiating position tougher than anything mean old Mike Harris considered.

 

PUTIN'S OPPOSITION TO KYOTO

 Dr. Tim Ball: It takes a communist to recognize an attempt at one-world government. Putin is not opposed to this as long as Russia is in control.

 

$240K MULTICULTURAL WINDFALL

 This case enforces the opposite of “equal treatment in the workplace.” It establishes Muslim truckers as having a special right to choose what they transport and what they do not, a privilege that other truckers do not have.

 

GREENLAND IS MELTING AWAY

Stunning visuals and melodrama aside, what’s really melting faster than a river during summertime is the Times’ credibility. The notion that these “researchers” are doing anything close to collecting data that could predict future melting of Greenland’s ice sheet is absurd.

 

ALL ABOARD THE LIBERAL GRAVY TRAIN

Now bureaucrats and scammers in Ottawa have come up with proposals not just for a $10 million renovation of 24 Sussex Drive, but a $150 million rebuild.  That’s more than Bill Gates’ house cost.

 

CONSEQUENCES OF THE ONE CHILD POLICY

The end of the policy after 35 years caps a tumultuous era of coercive family planning that often horrified the outside world and had become economically injurious as China faces a reckoning from the dramatic greying of its population.

 

SELLING HYDRO ONE TO FUND TORONTO TRANSIT

“The province’s fiscal position will deteriorate compared to if they didn’t undertake this sale,” he told reporters at Queen’s Park. “The sale of Hydro One will have an immediate improvement to the province’s balance sheet, but because of the loss of net income that results from the partial sale of Hydro One, there will be subsequent worsening of the government’s fiscal position relative to if this sale had not occurred.”

 

TAX AND SPEND LIBERALS

Trudeau taps into McGuinty leftovers    

                         

COVERING H. CLINTON'S ASS

Like the rest of the DC Media, even though the Gowdy Select Committee uncovered three smoking gun documents that prove Hillary Clinton told the truth about the Benghazi terror attack in private, while lying to the Benghazi families and the American people, Glenn Kessler, of the Washington Post is desperate to shut this fact down and punish anyone who dares speak the truth.

IT'S WORSE IN PRINT

Wednesday night’s epic s*itshow of a debate highlighted one fact beyond all others: if Republicans are to win the presidency in 2016, their main opponent will not be Hillary Clinton, but the established media.

ANOTHER BOMBARDIER BAILOUT

Quebec's $1 billion bailout for aerospace company Bombardier Inc BBDb.TO is meant to protect thousands of jobs in one of the province's top industries, but risks worsening the finances of Canada's most indebted province if it fails.

CANADIAN GDP ON THE RISE

 The Canadian economy grew in August for the third straight month after contracting in the first five months of the year, with oil and gas continuing to recover and manufacturing also making a contribution, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

 

PUTIN GETS SOMETHING RIGHT

To his credit Putin has no qualms about yanking the chain of climate obsessed Western Politicians. During the recent G20 conference in Australia, when asked why there was a fleet of Russian Warships just outside Australian territorial waters, the Russian embassy replied the ships were there to research “climate change”.

 

MISS OCTOBER IS A REAL DOG

Calendars featuring the furriest members of the Vancouver Police Department are being sold to raise money for the B.C. Cancer Foundation and the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation.

 

ALBERTA'S RED INK BUDGET

In order to fund increases to health care, education and capital projects as well as new programs to stoke the province’s slowing economy, the NDP government’s first fiscal plan takes the provincial debt to record highs, empties its rainy-day savings account, and begins borrowing to keep the lights on for the first time in over 20 years.

 

TODAY'S EYE-ROLLER

"Claims that OECTA is a partisan contributor to the Liberal Party and that the Association’s 2014 provincial election advertisements were ‘attack ads’ are wrong," an OECTA statement released Wednesday said.

 

MISFORTUNE OF BEING BORN A WHITE MAN

Bate said a management position opened up at his Whitby office in 2013 and he felt he was a lock. But his bosses allegedly made it clear the promotion would go to someone from one of the designated groups, even though, by Bate’s estimation, about 95% of the staff in the office at the time was women and visible minorities.

 

IMPEACHING THE IRS COMMISSIONER

The House Oversight  & Government Reform Committee  introduced on Tuesday a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, accusing him of making “false statements” under oath, failing to comply with a lawful subpoena, and overseeing the destruction of documents that were being sought under a congressional subpoena.

 

US SENATE PASSES CYBERSECURITY BILL

The U.S. Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by a vote of 74-21, despite vociferous objections from civil liberties groups who say the bill will afford the government even more powers to collect the private online data of ordinary citizens.

 

FENCE POSTS AND AMMO IN AUSTRIA

Gun dealers in Austria report a boost in weapon sales as concern mounts over the large number of migrants entering the country.  Austria will build a fence along its border with European Union (EU) neighbour Slovenia to help stem the migrant invasion now flooding Europe.

 

GRAIN FARMERS OF ONTARIO DISAPPOINTED

The Ontario Superior Court has denied Grain Farmers of Ontario request for a stay of a law that requires farmers to greatly restrict the use of neonicotinoid seed treatments next sprint. 

SHERIFF EXPOSES OBAMA'S LACK OF COURAGE

The other thing is this, again, data and research, 0.04% of perpetrators of black homicide are police officers. Less than 0.1%, and on the other hand, 93% of perpetrators of black homicide were committed by other black people. The president of the United States lacks the courage to look at the black community and tell them to look in the mirror as the source of their problems.

WYNNE'S EXPANDING TAX GRAB

You're about to pay thousands of dollars more for that dream home. The province is set to give all municipalities the right to double the amount of land transfer tax you'll pay on your next real estate deal.

LIBERALS HIT RESET BUTTON ON F-35

Canada's incoming Liberal government intends to completely restart the competition for fighter jets to replace its aging CF-18s, rather than relying on the proposals already made under the outgoing Conservatives, a Liberal source said on Monday.

MOMMY DEAREST

Cover your beaver!

GLOBE & MAIL NEUTRALITY

National Editor Dennis Choquette said the earliest the story could have been ready for publication was for Monday morning’s paper: federal voting day. He said he decided to wait.
“Voters were not being asked to elect a provincial government, so I did not feel that we were withholding essential information that could inform their decision at the polls. We did risk our appearance of neutrality, however, were we to have published on Election Day,”

MIGRANT IMPORTED VIOLENCE

The leader of the German police union has warned of violent clashes between migrant groups being imported into his country. In a newspaper interview he also said that information about the migrant crisis is being withheld by authorities to avoid scaring the public.

MEGA-MOSQUE NIXED IN LONDON ENGLAND

The British government has blocked plans by a radical Islamic group known as the “Army of Darkness” to build the largest mosque in Western Europe.

GERMAN SALAFISTS RECRUITING MIGRANTS

Radical Salafist Islamists are infiltrating German asylum shelters and attempting to indoctrinate the new arrivals.

SAUDI PRINCE JUST TRYING TO MAKES ENDS MEET

A Lebanese official says Beirut airport authorities have foiled one of the country's largest drug smuggling attempts, seizing two tons of amphetamine Captagon pills before they were loaded onto the private plane of a Saudi prince.

30 MILLION CHINESE BACHELORS

Thanks to Beijing’s controversial one-child policy, the nation’s preference for male heirs over female ones, and the illegal, yet still common, practice of sex-selective abortion, China is struggling to deal with a growing gender imbalance.

KNOCK! KNOCK! MR. PRIME MINISTER

Who's there? OFA

TEXAS PHALLIC PROTEST

A  University of Texas student  thinks it is just wrong that in 2016 she will be able to carry a handgun to class but will have to leave her dildo back at the dorm. So she’s organizing a protest for August 2016 during which students can show they share her belief by strapping a dildo to their book bags, their belts, wherever they chose, and brazenly carrying their sex toys into class.

 

 

WHEN WHORES GET REALLY REALLY OLD

They spew pus.

DECEPTION, EXAGGERATION, & FALSIFICATION

Environmentalists took over environmentalism and preached to everyone that they knew best, and only they cared. With blind faith they deceived, misdirected, threatened, destroyed jobs, careers, opportunities and development. Now those who paid the price will be less willing to listen or support genuine environmental concerns.  Dr. Tim Ball, author.

 

THE NEXT TARGET OF THE LEFT

Well, who can fill that vital role? Who can be the magnet of our great discontent now that Stephen Harper is going and soon to be gone? Can we abide a country that is now all sunshine and butterflies, all summer holidays and hootenannies?

 

 

REFORMING CANADIAN HEALTH CARE

Compared to our international peers, Canada’s government health-sector workforces are disproportionately large. And they would be even larger were we to include the many related appendages — such as agencies, boards and councils — of our federal and provincial governments. Yet our outcomes are no better than countries with smaller workforces that spend less on health care.

 

ONTARIO'S BLOATED HEALTH-CARE BUREAUCRACY

Ontario’s health-care bureaucracy has exploded over the past 12 years, mostly because the government has set up a series of arm’s-length agencies it can scapegoat.

 

PUTIN'S LESSONS ON DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS

  The Syrian President's  priority is to defeat "terrorists" before holding elections, but he is ready to call parliamentary and presidential polls if necessary, a Russian lawmaker said.  Syria's last presidential election was in June, 2014. The vote was won overwhelmingly by Assad but dismissed as a sham by opponents, with much of the country at war and millions forced from their homes.

MARKING 70 YEARS OF THE CORRUPT USELESS UN

This is an organization responsible for the biggest bribery scandal in world history. The Oil for Food Program saw $67 billion walk out the door and into the pockets of dozens of businessmen, politicians, and UN bureaucrats. Putting the worst violators of human rights on a human rights commission as well as other transgressions against decency mark the UN as an immoral body that doesn’t deserve the support of the United States.

 

 

THUGS SUPPORTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

LONDON, United Kingdom – A throng of nearly 200 pro-migrant rioters descended on London’s St. Pancras mainline station tonight – the terminal that connects the UK’s capital city with Europe – to demand “no borders” and “no nations”.

 

 

SANDALS: $2.5 MILLION IS PEANUTS

The expenses paid to the unions didn't come with a receipt; the exact details of the spending are not known. Earlier this week, Ontario Liberal Education Minister Sandals did suggest to reporters that the Ministry of Education is aware of the price paid for 100 pizzas as well as the price of staying at hotels.

 

 

WHAT'S ONE MORE LIBERAL LIE?

It can't be denied that Wynne said if Justin became PM, she would not have to go ahead with her plans for the ORPP but now she says that not even a Prime Minister Trudeau can enhance the CPP without the cooperation of all of the Provinces. Or, maybe he told her to just go ahead because he can't fulfil his promise for many years either?

FACEBOOK TO BE SUED

Thousands of Israelis being terrorized by Palestinian violence are demanding that Facebook actively block the incitement it has been permitting on its pages.  It’s time for social media to start being socially responsible.   With the internet and social media, terrorist propaganda reaches millions of people instantly, allowing terrorists to grow their ranks and encourage deadly attacks merely by hitting the “post” button.

 

STENCH FROM THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

The Justice Department notified members of Congress on Friday that it is closing its two-year investigation into whether the IRS improperly targeted tea party and other conservative groups.

There will be no charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner or anyone else at the agency.

 

CLINTON'S CREDIBILITY

One of the more astonishing revelations to come out of the hearing is the fact that approximately 600 pleas for more security by State Department personnel in Benghazi went unheeded as the security situation there deteriorated.

 

THE IMPORTANT WORK OF CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES

....AND MUNICIPALITIES.  Canada Banana Farms faces charges from 2 local municipalities and a Conservation Authority, concerning land-clearing activities and the farm's hoop green houses.

 

HANDWRINGING AND PLATITUDES

This Ontario government spends a lot of time paying lip service to protecting women. When it comes to actually doing something, the Liberals come up woefully short.

 

WOLVES AND COYOTES MIXING GENES

Wolves? Coyotes? “Coywolf” hybrids? All of the above, probably, as National Capital Commission experts who surveyed the park found a “canid soup” that mixes the genes of wolves and coyotes.

BUSTED BRIBING THE UNIONS? TRY THREATS

If no deal is reached or all job actions are not stopped by November 1, Wynne said the province would give school boards permission to take disciplinary measures. Measures like cutting paycheques would require five days’ notice.

STEYN CALLS OUT CLINTON

She tells the truth to the Government of Libya. She tells the truth to the Government of Egypt. But she lies to the people to whom she is meant to be a public servant, the American people.

CHINESE ECONOMY'S TUMULTUOUS YEAR

A summer stock market plunge and shock devaluation of the yuan in August roiled global markets and fanned fears of a hard landing, prompting Chinese leaders to take drastic measures to assure investors they have the economy under control.

 

HILLARY PROUD OF HER WORK

It was the kind of incredibly tense moment — we had protesters going over the walls of our embassy in Khartoum. We had protests, as you rightly point out, all the way to Indonesia. Thankfully, no Americans were killed, partly because I had been consistent in speaking out about that video from the very first day when we knew it had sparked the attack on our embassy in Cairo,” Clinton said.

 

 

ARTS & CRAFTS PROJECT

IS vs. Putin.

MUGABE'S OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD PEACE

The founder of the Confucius Peace Prize, a would-be Chinese rival to the Nobel, on Thursday defended this year’s award to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has often been accused of rights abuses.   Mugabe joins Castro and Putin as winners.

 

NON-PARTISAN, MY A$$

Yesterday the CHRC's unelected, allegedly non-partisan chief commissioner Marie-Claude Landry sent out a press release, congratulating the new Trudeau government, then telling them to "repair the erosion of human rights in Canada."  She goes on to demand the repeal of laws she doesn't like.

 

GOWDY KICKING CLINTON ASS

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) accused former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of simply giving slain Ambassador Chris Stevens help on how to “massage” the story of violence in Libya instead of getting protection from the violence.

 

DREAMY MCDREAMERSON IS THE NEW CANADIAN PM

Trudeau has a reputation of being somewhat of an empty suit, a know-nothing—and these are the sorts of things that his own supporters acknowledge. Canadian investors have told me privately that they believe this outcome to be even worse than if Mulcair had been elected, which is really saying something.

 

SPEND IT LIKE YOU'VE GOT IT

 Wynne's Liberal government has paid $1 million to each of two teacher unions to cover bargaining costs under new legislation. It is unclear if similar payouts were provided to the union representing teachers in Ontario's French-language boards. The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario does not yet have a deal though a source told the Star the money "is also in play with ETFO."

 

 

GOUGING THE ONTARIO TAXPAYER. AGAIN

The cost of the Social Assistance Management System that administers welfare and disability payments to 900,000 Ontario residents has soared to $294 million.

 

 

LAMPOONING RIDICULOUS POLITICS

Canada just elected an idiot.  (Language warning.)

WITHDRAWING CF-18 FIGHTER JETS

“It is a bad news for us. Canada was a major partner in the coalition and it was a great help to Kurdistan,” Mr. Yawar said  about Mr. Trudeau’s plan to end this country’s combat operations in Iraq and Syria.The White House has said  it would prefer Canada continue to play the “important role that they’ve played thus far,” but Mr. Trudeau said he intends to stick with his promise.

REMEMBER CIRILLO & VINCENT

Steyn: I have been writing for almost a decade and a half about the west's wannabe jihadists, often born and raised in Canada and America and Britain and Australia and Europe, some of them converts - or "reverts". Throughout that period, the multiculti delusionists have insisted that Islam's contribution to the diversity mosaic is no less positive than that of Poles or Italians.

EGYPT JAILING LAWYERS

In all, more than 200 lawyers are behind bars in Egypt for defending the government's Islamist opponents, according to attorneys and human rights groups.

 

CYBER INSURANCE COSTS SKYROCKETING

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

 

DEMS CIRCLING THE WAGONS

Democrats, who have long accused Republicans of politicizing the investigation of the Select Committee on Benghazi, are ”ramping up an aggressive,  multi-pronged effort to quash the

 damaging effects of the 17-month investigation before Clinton testifies on Thursday,”  

 

IPCC HAS A NEW CHAIRMAN

Please allow me to take this opportunity to submit to you five questions on the nature of your organisation, which terms itself a “scientific body”

 

QUESTIONING ISLAM: AGAINST CANADIAN VALUES

Millions of complacent westerners genuinely regard Islam as merely another exotic patch in the diversity quilt, but I find it hard to believe that the leaders of liberal progressive political parties can be quite that deluded.

WYNNE KEEPING HER POLITICAL BASE HAPPY

Ontario’s Liberal government paid 2.5 million directly to the province’s teachers’ unions as part of a deal to defuse one of its most explosive labour disputes, a document obtained by The Globe and Mail reveals.

GET USED TO RED INK

With Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau and Premier Kathleen Wynne in charge in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park, Ontarians face a double whammy by political allies who wrongly believe we can spend ourselves rich.

 

J. TRUDEAU'S IOU

Here's Ezra's first attempt at a list which includes the less obvious winners who will be very happy that their guy won because now he can return those favours.

 

 

MERKEL'S FOLLY, EUROPE'S PERIL

Everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe. Europe’s response is madness. We must acknowledge that the European Union’s misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation.

 

BAN KI-MOON & THE USELESS UN

Netanyahu stressed that “it’s time to tell the truth about the causes of Palestinian terrorism.”

 

IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN

"Just watch me"

CLUELESS KERRY

Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters today that Israel has a right to defend itself, but discouraged against “self-help” responses to random stabbing attacks from Palestinians.

 

WHY THE LEFT HATES FREEDOM

”The fundamental error of economic egalitarians,” Frankfurt writes, “lies in supposing that it is morally important whether one person has less than another, regardless of how much either of them has and regardless also of much utility each derives from what he has.”

 

SHOCKER - CHINA STILL HACKING US FIRMS!

Hackers associated with the Chinese government have tried to penetrate at least seven U.S. companies in the three weeks since Washington and Beijing agreed not to spy on each other for commercial reasons, according to a prominent U.S. security firm.

 

HOW'S THAT GREEN FINANCING WORKING FOR YA?

An innovative, government-sponsored program aimed at funding energy-saving home improvements has drawn praise from powerful supporters, including President Obama. But complaints from a growing number of homeowners, lenders and realtors in California suggest the financing is making homes more difficult to sell and disrupting the mortgage market.

WHINING PUBLIC SERVICE UNION DEMANDING RESPECT

Unions argued the Conservatives had challenged that role by not seeking public servants’ advice; silencing scientists; and keeping an iron grip on decisions in the Prime Minister’s Office.  It's argued the common ground for all public servants is restoring respect, the relationship with politicians and protecting services for Canadians.

 

A LIE FROM THE BEGINNING

Selling Hydro One has never made financial sense. Especially for Ontarians who will pay more for privatized power. Now, it isn’t coming close to even selling for what the Liberals promised.

 

 

IMMIGRATION ON MINDS OF SWISS

The anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's national parliamentary elections, initial projections showed, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people moving from the European Union.

OBAMACARE FAILURE CONTINUES

Obamacare non-profit co-op insurance organizations in Colorado and Oregon are shutting down, making it 7 out of 23 non profits to have closed in the last year. Taxpayers stiffed for billions, consumers stiffed on their insurance, the toll being run up by Obamacare just continues to skyrocket.

WORSE THAN PRESIDENT J. CARTER

Carter came to represent American weakness abroad and decline at home, from the Iran hostage crisis to the terrifying effects of “stagflation.” The late Obama years have seen the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), Russia’s posturing in Ukraine and Syria, and a tremendously sluggish “recovery” with low labor participation rates.

CANADIAN FARMLAND BOOM

A hungry planet with a growing population needs food. Canada has lots of space to grow it, and that makes the country’s farm land more and more desirable.  The value of farmland rose 14.3 per cent in 2014, and 22.1 per cent in 2013.

 

LEFTY FRENZIES OF HATRED

Stephen Harper may not be the cuddliest character. He may even run his government like Captain Bligh. But he is definitely not evil, and we should worry about giving the country over to people who think that he is.

 

GERMANY STRUGGLING HOUSING REFUGEES

The challenge of finding adequate housing is turning into one of the biggest tests for the government of Angela Merkel, who has stuck doggedly to her mantra "Wir schaffen das" ("we can do this") in the face of rising public scepticism.  Germany is struggling to cope with a record influx of migrants that could exceed a million this year alone.

 

 

MIGRANT BACKLOG IN BALKANS

Buses packed with migrants backed up on Serbia’s border with Croatia on Sunday, their passage to western Europe slowed by a new diversion through Slovenia, which vowed to limit the influx.  Slovenia said it would only accept as many as are able to exit the country into Austria.

 

PUTIN'S INFORMATION SECURITY

Russia is currently busy rewriting the country’s doctrine of information security, to be adopted in 2016. The internet is defined in the text as a major challenge to the political stability of the regime.

ANOTHER EU BORDER CLOSED

Hungary last night shut its border with Croatia, closing a major entry point for migrants bound for northern Europe, weeks after a similar move on its Serbian frontier caused clashes with refugees.

 

GREENIE IRONY IN ALASKA

 Areas of the state of Alaska are suffering significant climate impacts from rising seas forcing the relocation of remote villages. Expanding the search for oil is necessary to pay for the damage caused by climate change.

 

 

FINGERS ON THE TRIGGERS

IRGC Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said a “new generation” of Iranian missiles would be unveiled next year, while their current missile capabilities have “been designed to safeguard the country’s security and regional tranquility; it does not allow our enemies to make the slightest aggression and means a boost in the Armed Forces’ capability to defend the country’s borders.”

 

ARE WE LIVING ON THE SAME PLANET?

The BBC didn't write much about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tell-it-like-it-is answer to its reporter’s question about why he doesn’t return to the negotiating table with the Palestinians.

 

ROTTEN CORPORATISM: THE BACKGROUND OF DAN GAGNIER

Gagnier is also chair of International Institute for Sustainable Development, one of Maurice Strong’s creations dedicated to blending business and government. He also previously chaired the International Emissions Trading Association. In 2007 Gagnier headed a group that prepared a paper for a European agency titled “Shaping the Global Arena: Preparing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the post-2012 Period.”  Read on.

NOT MUCH UNDER THE HAIR

Justin Trudeau is Canada's Barack Obama. If polls are accurate, an irredeemable nincompoop is about to be become leader of this nation. The above sentence might have appeared in any number of newspapers in the United States during the unfortunate autumn of 2008. Alas, it is written in and of my beloved Canada.

AN INGRATE & A LIAR

Mohamed Fahmy is another Canadian of convenience.  According to Egypt's government, he's a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist; that was his job as an Al Jazeera reporter.

CELEBRATING CARBON DIOXIDE

Patrick Moore: "But there is certainty beyond any doubt that CO2 is the building block for all life on Earth and that without its presence in the global atmosphere at a sufficient concentration this would be a dead planet. "

FROM ALARMIST TO SKEPTIC

As I started to look at the data and read about climate science, I was surprised, then shocked. As I learned more, I changed my mind. I now think there probably is no climate crisis and that the focus on CO2 takes funding and attention from critical environmental problems.

 

POOR LITTLE T. BOONE

For the past four years, Texas oil billionaire and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens has been suing the Liberal government in Ontario under NAFTA, arguing he has been the victim of "unfair" backroom deals involving the province’s green energy program.

 

THE FUTURE FOR CANADA'S DAIRY INDUSTRY

Canada can compete in dairy globally, but it certainly won’t be easy.  According to a recent German-based study, after Switzerland, Canada’s average cost for milk production is the highest in the industrialized world. In light of the mega-transpacific partnership trade deal, many wonder whether our dairies can actually pull it off over the long term.

 

USELESS UN RESOLUTIONS

In a rare moment of openness, Iran on Wednesday broadcast pictures from The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force of a tunnel reportedly dug some 1,640 feet (500 meters) under a mountain. The release of this footage comes just a few days after state media reported that Iran had test-fired new generation long-range ballistic missiles.

 

DEMS DESPERATE TO BURY BENGHAZI

Hanna said. “I support Chairman (Trey) Gowdy and the Select Committee in their efforts to get to the bottom of what happened in Benghazi. I urge both parties to keep the focus on the facts, not the politics. The families of those who lost their loved ones in Benghazi deserve no less.”

 

SCIENTISTS MANIPULATED & POLITICIZED

The chief weatherman at France Télévisions, the country’s state broadcaster, has been suspended for publicly criticizing climate alarmism in his new book Climat Investigation, Philippe Verdier, claims in his book that influential climatologists and political leaders have “taken the world hostage” with fraudulent data.

 

ACCUSING ISRAEL OF ACTS OF TERROR

In the most egregious example of false moral equivalence  we’ve seen from the Obama State Department on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to date, spokesman John Kirby actually accused Israel of perpetrating “acts of terror.”

 

OUR MAN IN TEHRAN

Former Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor, fondly remembered as a hero for his role in sheltering six U.S. citizens during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis in Tehran — a real-life drama known as the Canadian Caper — has died.

 

UNION DARLINGS

Contract talks with public elementary school teachers took a wild turn Wednesday with union leadership accusing school boards of sabotaging progress with a “disrespectful” and “appalling” media stunt.

WYNNE'S THREATS/PROMISES

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne suggested Tuesday that her government would drop the idea of a provincial pension plan if Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau becomes the next prime minister.  Wynne also defended her decision to campaign heavily for her Liberal cousins in the federal election as "standing up for the people of Ontario,"

 

J TRUDEAU'S ETHICS

Trudeau had once supported the Energy East project, to bring oil from Alberta to the east coast for refining or exporting.  He has since been ambivalent and on Thursday declined to clarify whether he would support it.

 

 

OPPOSITION GASSES KOSOVO'S PARLIAMENT

Opposition lawmakers release teargas in Kosovo's parliament in protest of EU-brokered accord with Serbia. 

 

WYNNE'S FEE CUTS DRIVING AWAY DOCTORS

Today, doctors don’t threaten strikes but court challenges, performing fewer non-essential procedures, working fewer hours, retiring and leaving the province to protest what they see as the government’s unilateral and punitive actions against them.

 

J TRUDEAU, ISLAMISTS' DUPE

The video raises concerns about Trudeau's associations with various Islamic groups and individuals in Canada; his recitation of the Muslim convert's "shahada" prayer during a visit to a particular mosque; and much more.

 

 

THEY CALL THAT AUTOPILOT?

Newer Tesla Motors Model S sedans will be able to steer and park themselves under certain conditions starting Thursday, the carmaker said, although the CEO cautioned that drivers should keep holding the steering wheel.

 

IGNORING THE HIKED TAXES & CARBON LEVIES

 Alberta's left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) government said on Wednesday it was reaching out to prominent energy and other industry executives for advice to revamp the western Canadian province's struggling economy.
 

ELECTIONS CANADA ON THE CASE

Yesterday I filed a complaint with Elections Canada over Kathleen Wynne campaigning for Justin Trudeau and the associated costs. Today alone she attended 4 different Liberal candidate events. She also brings with her staff whose costs must also be claimed by the Federal Liberals and or local ridings.

 

VOTING WITH YOUR FACE COVERED

"This is a very sarcastic movement. We want to prove the ridiculousness of the law by voting with the face covered...It doesn't make sense that in a country like Canada we authorize citizens to vote with the covered face and what we want to demonstrate is that it's not common sense," she said.

 

A MERE $2BILLION ANNUALLY

Don’t count on Wynne to speak up when Trudeau’s policies hurt Ontario, or Trudeau to do the same when Ontario’s policies hurt the national economy: Ontarians will thus have their federal tax dollars used to implement a carbon pricing scheme that will increase the cost of most goods and services and that has been an utter failure in Europe

 

THE PROTECTED SPECIES

The conversation turned to Islam when Dawkins criticised those afraid to confront the religion on some of its extreme practices, saying the religion was being given a “free pass”. 

 

PUTIN EATING OBAMA'S LUNCH

Russia was right about Iraq and Libya, and America and Britain were dead wrong. Regime change doesn’t seem to have changed Middle Eastern countries for the better, as Vladimir Putin has been warning for years.

 

MEMBERSHIP HAS ITS PRIVILEGES

Welfare entitlements have gone far beyond temporary assistance to help those down on their luck while they get back on their feet. That was the original idea behind welfare and most would agree that's a good thing.  But the further welfare moves away from that original idea, the more it can become like a family occupation.

 

MUSLIM COUNTRIES' NIQAB BANS

If the most prestigious Islamic university in the Sunni world can ban niqabs and the Egyptian government can require their removal for voting then surely we can do the same here.

 

CHINA'S CRACKDOWN ON RELIGION

The Chinese government has set up internal “patriotic associations” for all five recognized religions—Buddhism, Catholicism, Daoism, Islam, and Protestantism—in an effort to keep control over religion within China.

 

RUSSIA ESCALATING SYRIAN WAR

Russian warplanes violated Turkey’s airspace earlier this week, and now Russia is launching cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea. Both of these actions are significant escalations by the Russians. It is increasingly clear that the Russians do not accept any limit to their military intervention into Syria.

 

LIBERAL ELECTION MATH

Math gets in the way of good, popular promises. Politicians are driven by an intense, reflexive impulse to promise people whatever they want.  The fiscal plan released recently by the Liberals is filled with numbers that carry all the weight of a steamed bun

 

REPRODUCIBILITY PROJECT IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

These 100 studies had cleared the highest hurdles that social science puts up. They had been edited, revised, reviewed by panels of peers, revised again, published, and widely read. Except . . . The researchers “found something very disappointing. Nearly two-thirds of the experiments did not replicate. H/T Metanoodle
 

 

ELECTION PROJECTIONS

For those interested in the predictions of next Monday's Federal election. You can check out the prediction for your own riding.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Kentucky Health Cooperative, an insurance co-op created by Obamacare, is closing its doors after massive losses. This is the fifth co-op to go under this year, following the failure of insurers in Iowa, Louisiana, Nevada, and the largest co-op in the nation, New York.

 

 

IMPENDING US LEGAL DEBT LIMIT

Some conservative Republicans have said they cannot support a debt limit increase unless certain issues are addressed, such as a plan to sharply reduce government spending.

 

USELESS UN CLIMATE CHANGE SECRETARIAT

For all their efforts to get 200 governments to commit to the toughest possible cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate negotiators have all but given up on creating a way to penalize those who fall short.   So sad when a delusional green delegation realizes that it is not all-powerful...

 

97% LIES

Simple numbers prove that "consensus" that 97% of scientists believe in human-caused climate change is horsesh!t

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS MONITORING ELECTION

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights sent a team to Ottawa on Oct. 5 for a two-week mission, assessing Canada's election process.

 

PASS IT ON

Tarek Fatah exposes radical links of Islamist who desecrated Canadian citizenship ceremony.  H/T SDA

 

 

APPARENTLY MONEY IS NO PROBLEM

Canadian Taxpayers Federation: Ontario Provincial debt clock.

Take a gander at the federal debt clock while you're at it.

 

 

SUCH STRENGTH OF CHARACTER

Anti-oilsands Liberal candidate suddenly pro-oilsands at Banff-Airdrie all candidates debate.

WINTER FORECAST 2015-2016

Weatherbell has all kinds of maps, and temperatures to satisfy the weather watchers among us.

THE PROLONGED ABSENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING

These facts should be shown to anyone who persists in believing that, in the words of Mr Obama’s Twitteratus, “global warming is real, manmade and dangerous”.

 

BLAMING WHITE TEACHERS & STUDENTS

Much of Critical Race Theory revolves around the concept of “whiteness,” which is not simply a skin color or racial identification but rather a state of moral turpitude: To have “whiteness” means that you personally share blame for all of society’s ills.

 

QUALITY CONTROL

How's that made in China stamp of approval working out?
h/t Saul

SPENDING BALLOONED BY 98.3%

 If spending had simply kept pace with inflation plus population growth, Alberta would be looking at a $4.4-billion surplus, it says.  Instead, the province is on track to post a record deficit of at least $5.9-billion

 

TIME TO PULL THE PIN

Bombardier Inc shares plummeted on Wednesday as the Canadian plane and train manufacturer's failed attempt to sell a majority stake in its troubled CSeries jet program exposed the depths of its financial problems.

 

FREE SPEECH FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE

She is the president of the Campus Pro-life Group at the university of Alberta and her group is trying to bring an injunction against the university. They want to force the university to uphold it’s own student code of conduct.

OSSIFYING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

One narrow aspect of the TPP deal the Conservatives are clamouring to take credit for is, in fact, a massive sellout of consumers’ interests. It’s the supply management provision that “saves” — a better verb is “ossifies” — Canada’s dairy and poultry monopolies that entrench inefficiencies and drive up both production costs and prices.

EU TALKING DEPORTATIONS

European Union governments are set to agree on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants among the hundreds of thousands who have failed to win asylum as they try to cope with a surge in refugees from war-torn Syria.

CORPORATIONS OUTPLAYING GREEN POLITICIANS

What do you do, if governments are threatening to impose damaging new taxes on your business, in the name of combatting “climate change”? The answer is surprisingly simple. It is a clever solution which creates a devastating setback, for politicians who were hoping to raise serious revenue from carbon taxes.

THE LONG REACH OF CHINA

Beijing is blunting scrutiny of its rights record at the venue created to protect victims of state repression – the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Its success is evidence of China’s growing ability to stifle opposition abroad.

 

IMAGINE: CORRUPTION AT THE UN!

John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was president in 2013, was accused in a complaint filed in federal court in New York of taking more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen.

IPCC OVER-ESTIMATED GLOBAL WARMING - SHOCKER!

A mathematical discovery by Perth-based electrical engineer Dr David Evans may change everything about the climate debate, on the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris next month. h/t SDA

 

CANADIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

Canadian Arthur McDonald shares the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for work on neutrinos.

 

CUTTING THE TAXPAYER PIE

 Stephen Harper announced a $1-billion package to help the auto industry cope with the repercussions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but as he did, he faced questions about why that sector is getting less money than dairy farmers.

EXEMPTION FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

The Ontario government is proposing to extend, for 10 years, agriculture's exemption to the Endangered Species Act's habitat and species protection provisions for the bobolink and the eastern meadowlark.

 

REVIEWING ONTARIO'S CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES

Conservation authorities have become more than just advisors to municipalities and that is causing problems for farmers seeking permission to build structures on their farms.

SHE'S A NASTY PIECE OF WORK

 Hillary Clinton is finished as a presidential candidate because the torpedoing of her campaign is so obviously coming from the White House, aided and abetted by the mainstream media.

 

$4.3 BILLION HOSTILE BID

Suncor Energy Inc launched a hostile bid for Canadian Oil Sands Ltd on Monday, aimed at boosting its stake in the country's biggest synthetic crude project and cementing its position as the country's largest oil producer.

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF TPP

Here are some highlights of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement as described by the Canadian government Monday as it shared details of a deal to create the largest-ever regional trading bloc.

 

SACROSANCT SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Canadian officials have slammed the door on a suggestion by New Zealand that it might push for greater access for its dairy products as the Trans-Pacific Partnership moves forward.

 

RANDY HILLIER NEW CRITIC OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

Hillier exposed the failings of the Attorney Generals office to persecute over 800,000 provincial offences, some of which dated back as far as 2002, due to the lack of court space and court resources.  

 

QUESTIONING THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE OPP

The fall-out in the legislature from the Sudbury byelection charges makes it all the more clear why the RCMP should have investigated this and not the OPP.

REVERSAL OF ONTARIO'S FORTUNES

If the Ontario Liberals could spend Ontario rich, our streets would be paved with gold by now.

Unfortunately the opposite has happened.

 

WHERE THE PARTY LEADERS STAND

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair are proposing very different ideas on how they would lead Canada after the Oct. 19 vote.

PROTECTING THE USA

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his department is actively “tracking” individuals who have re-entered the U.S. after fighting alongside ISIS and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.

SHUKLA'S GOLD MINE SHELL GAME

In addition to his university salary from George Mason University (reported by Pielke as $250,000), Jagadish Shukla, the leader of the #RICO20, together with his wife, had received a further $500,000 more in 2014 alone from federal climate grants funnelled through a Shukla-controlled “non-profit” yielding total income in 2014 of approximately $750,000.

...WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE

 Ironically and unwittingly, James Hansen proved the null hypothesis in his first major attempt to push his agenda that CO2 is causing global warming or climate change.

RUSSIAN AIR CAMPAIGN TO THE RESCUE

Assad said air strikes by Syrian jets, now joined by Russia, had been far more significant than anything achieved by the year-long air campaign by the United States and its Western and Arab allies.

DRUG TALKS AT TPP

A dozen Pacific nations were close to a deal on a sweeping free trade pact on Sunday in Atlanta after a reported breakthrough over how long a monopoly pharmaceutical companies should be given on new biotech drugs.

UAW BATTLING US CAR MAKERS

U.S. auto union faces tough road to salvage failed contract.  A strong recovery at the once-ailing Detroit automakers has failed to vanquish threats to union jobs from lower-wage workers in Mexico and non-union factories in the Southern United States

 

WYNNE STICKING IT TO DOCTORS

Ontario doctors are ramping up their months-long battle with the province over pay, publicly voicing their anger over fee cuts that take effect this week and raising the threat of reduced access to care

 

REPERCUSSIONS OF PUTIN'S WAR IN SYRIA

Now with Russia’s growing presence in Syria, a partnership with Iran and a retreating U.S., Saudi Arabia is faced with a new and unfriendly world.  Israel’s ability to defend itself against Hamas is hampered as well.

POTUS URGES FUNDED GOV'T & DEBT LIMIT INCREASE

On Wednesday, just hours before a midnight deadline when government agency funds were due to run out, Congress extended current spending levels through Dec. 11. That left only 10 weeks to set a budget for the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, 2016.

AGGRESSIVE MIGRANTS IN CALAIS

About 200 migrants broke into the Channel Tunnel from France while several hundred others held up lorries near Calais port on Saturday in renewed tension on the route for migrants trying to reach Britain.

SCREENING FOR TERRORISTS IS NOT FEAR-MONGERING

Critics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper often accuse him of using the so-called “politics of fear and division,” especially when it comes to immigration and Canada’s national security.

 

NOTLEY CONSIDERING CHANGE IN BALANCED BUDGET LAW

The province’s Fiscal Management Act, the latest in a string of balanced-budget laws, requires any government shortfall to be matched by money drawn from Alberta’s contingency account. Once that account is dry, the provincial government is barred from running a deficit

 

FECKLESS U.S. ABSENCE

When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, America’s ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, was not there. Neither was Secretary of State John Kerry. Though both Kerry and Power were in New York.

MULCAIR ALREADY PANDERING TO QUEBEC

The Sherbrooke Declaration touts asymmetrical federalism as "the best way to consolidate the Canadian federal state with the reality of Quebec's national character" and the province's challenge of "preserving the French fact in America."

GOVERNMENT SAVING US FROM OURSELVES

The Michael Schmidt farm raided again today for selling raw milk.

**UPDATE** Officials retreat. Or crawl back under their rock.

CARGO CHAOS IN EASTERN EUROPE

Routes through Serbia and to the Balkans were in a "critical" state, with the crisis slowing both road and rail deliveries.

DEADLY RUSSIAN WEAPON IN UKRAINE

International monitors say they have spotted a new kind of Russian weapons system in rebel-held Ukraine this week.  The Buratino is equipped with thermobaric warheads which spread a flammable liquid around a target and then ignite.

CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP IS A PRIVILEGE

Why does Trudeau have such an issue with something as important as protecting the vast majority of good Canadians from a small amount of bad ones?

ANOTHER GREEN FOOL

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has mostly dismissed dire warnings about climate change as the whinging of environmentalists intent on destroying our national economy.  Greenies are in full drama mode, with the impending UN Climate Change Conference in November in Paris.

BURYING ONTARIO

Wynne's growth-killing policies are sinking what was once the engine of Canada’s economy.

"FALSIFIABILITY"

Canada’s climate change science program is being driven by a predetermined political agenda with a clear disregard of scientific needs.   Environment Canada has been spouting the message of the IPCC, rather than practicing science. Dr. Tim Ball tells the truth behind the so-called muzzling of Canada's scientists.

IGNORING JOB LOSSES IN ALBERTA

Perhaps it has something to do with the media not wanting to destroy the narrative about an NDP win being a positive for working people.

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES

Despite the Iran deal, the Islamic Republic in Tehran will not complete its nuclear arsenal because Israel will attack and defeat them

DEALING WITH MARKETING BOARDS

While eastern Canadian farmers of supply-managed products fear the impact of TPP, the majority who sell to the open market, especially in the West, desperately want a deal. Producers of grain, oilseeds, beef and pork say it's critical to join TPP.

TRUSTING YOUR LONG-TERM ENEMIES

Iran is unlikely to normalize relations with the United States despite a landmark nuclear deal reached with America

RUSSIA SAYS NO ALTERNATIVE TO BASHAR

Russian warplanes bombed a camp run by rebels trained by the CIA, the group's commander said, putting Moscow and Washington on opposing sides in a Middle East conflict for the first time since the Cold War.

MULCAIR'S NORTHERN DREAMS

As part of his plan, Mulcair pledged $100 million in help for 25 northern and remote communities to wean themselves from the "dirty diesel" generators on which their electricity depends. In place of imported diesel, would come small-scale hydro, wind, solar and other green-power projects, he said.

TPP & CANADA'S AUTO INDUSTRY

Japan has been pushing to allow for the tariff-free movement of vehicles and auto parts that contain as little as 30 per cent content produced in the countries that are part of the trade agreement. The risk is that Canadian auto parts makers will lose business to low-cost Asian producers

SUPPLY MANAGEMENT INFO

Supply management controls levels of milk production by tying it to Canadian consumer demand and limiting foreign competition through high tariffs. Similar systems also regulate production of cheese, poultry and eggs.

THE WHINING TERRORIST

Gaya, a convicted member of the Toronto 18, has launched a Charter challenge in Federal Court, arguing that the government’s revocation system amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” and could have “a sufficiently severe psychological and social impact.”