OBAMA IN A STATE OF PARALYSIS

Obama issues a new initiative—and the nation snoozes. He wastes the day on the golf links—and the nation snoozes. He smear his critics, invites a rapper to the White House whose latest album cover has a dead white judge lying in front of the White House—and the nation snoozes. He cozies up to America’s enemies and snubs our friends—and the nation snoozes.

 

CLIMATE ALARMISTS MUST ESCALATE THEIR ASSAULT

Here we stand right now. The alarmist movement cannot de-escalate the situation after the dramatic “end of the world” claims it made. It cannot achieve any reasonable goal (like a 10% decrease in CO₂ release), declare victory, and move on, because it has already committed to UN control over the global climate (keeping warming below 2 degrees). Some foreign governments and NGOs still intend to use climate change rhetoric to rob the U.S. on an unprecedented scale The forecast is not comforting: the alarmist core has no choice but to escalate its assault on society, and to push its powerful followers (including the Obama administration) to more and more desperate acts.

 

ONTARIO HRC CALLING FOR END OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane has asked the province to commit publicly to ending the practice and immediately restrict its use.  "We believe that it has a discriminatory and disproportionate impact on code-protected groups — namely, racialized individuals, people with mental health issues and women," said Mandhane, who joined the commission in November.                        

                           

BELL TV'S STARTER PACKAGE CRAP

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has demanded that cable and satellite service providers offer a slimmed-down package for $25 or less by March 1, with a range of pick-and-pay channels to top it up.

Can't wait to binge on the latest season of Ontario Legislative Assembly? Desperate to get your fix of V, replete with francophone dramas and reality shows?

Never so much as raised an antenna to these channels? Bell Media might be thinking otherwise.

 

SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES ON PARLIAMENT HILL

But rumblings about dropping the Friday sitting of Parliament so MPs can take the day off, should be a non-starter. The idea has been floated as a House of Commons committee tries to make Parliament more family friendly.

MPs earn $167,400 a year. The House of Commons sits for just 24 weeks in a 52-week year.

 

CALLING OUT WYNNE'S MEDIOCRITY

Kevin O'Leary writes to Wynne & co., concerning the cap and trade slush fund in Ontario:  Oh, and good luck with the funds performance. No one else on earth has ever reduced emissions or made money doing this, so I’ll be watching and keeping everybody informed with all the good news that is sure to be coming. And, of course, we will all be breathing easier watching those carbon emissions plunge as soon as you start spending this money!

 

THE NEW CALIFORNIA CRIME WAVE

A criminal-justice “reform” measure unleashes thousands of predators.

 

CAMPUS CRYBULLY WARS

The average campus already skews left, but it maintains the pretense of serving an educational purpose. The demands put forward on various campuses begin with racial privileges, but do not end there. These demands call for politicizing every department, the mandatory political indoctrination of all students and faculty, and the submission of non-political academic departments to activist political ones.

 

THE ROT IN UKRAINE

Two years have passed since Yanukovich was deposed and, as it turns out, another ruthless clan of oligarchs has taken power. No wonder then that Ukraine is heading for a new wave of violence and chaos. Oligarchs are fighting each other, the IMF is pulling out of the country, officials issue laws and regulations only to see them repealed within a day or two by others, and raided European companies are leaving the country after being robbed by the so-called pro-Brussels oligarchic elite. 

 

COMPLICIT MEDIA PUSHING FLAWED CLIMATE SCIENCE

Dr. Tim Ball: The public face of climate science practiced by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and their offspring the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were for a political agenda and only secondarily for the money it engendered. However, their methods were made much more effective by magazines and journals who promoted their flawed science primarily for money and sometimes secondarily for politics.

 

VICTORIA BC BACKSLIDING ON SEWAGE

“We want to send a clear message that we’re not happy with the progress on primary sewage treatment,” (in Victoria, BC)  He said he has followed the sewage controversy for more than 20 years and finds the “backsliding” on the issue very frustrating. Sewage treatment deliberations are still at the stage of deciding on a site!

 

CONSEQUENCES OF NO-FAIL EDUCATION POLICY

In an iconoclastic presentation, Joly said trends in education that coddle struggling teens teach them to manipulate adults into allowing them the easy way out as often as possible.  What schools need are solid discipline policies, and "character education" that teaches children to finish what they start and accept the consequences of their action, or inaction, Joly said.

 

NATIONALIZING CANADA'S MEDIA

Prediction: This year we're going to see a push from various interests to normalize the concept of nationalizing Canada's media.

When the government gives you money, they might try to act like they own you.

This is why it's wise for the media to beat the feds back as far as possible.

 

BC'S INEFFECTIVE CARBON TAX

Since 2010, BC's total GHG emissions have increased 3.2%, its energy-related emissions have risen 5.5%, and transportation-related emissions have increased 3.4%. Per capita GHG emissions have actually risen from 13.9 to 14.0 tons CO2e [carbon dioxide equivalents] per person over this time frame.

 

THE COST OF MIGRANTS IN EUROPE

The costs of accommodating migrants in Germany is much higher than sending them back to their countries leading to the push to get many to return home voluntarily. The IFO institute calculated that residence and care costs alone for migrants total 21 billion euros for the German taxpayer.

Estimated costs of integration and training run the numbers even higher with some reports that countries like Sweden will see a cost of 43 billion pounds and others debunking the idea that migrants will be a boon to the economy as many politicians had promised at the beginning of the crisis.

 

ANOTHER 1600 PAGES OF BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS

“Today the State Department turned over more than 1,600 pages of new documents related to former Secretary Clinton and Libya,” the committee said. “The State [Department] claimed in a January 8th court filing that it only recently discovered these new documents from the Office of the Secretary.”

 

CALLING HILLARY OUT FOR BENGHAZI LIES

Chaos ensues when marine confronts Bill Clinton about Benghazi.  Clinton says his mind has been poisoned by lies.  Oh the irony.

 

TRUSTWORTHY SPIES?

Privacy became a sore topic between the EU and the United States after revelations from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 about mass U.S. government surveillance practices.

 

IRAN EMERGING

TEHRAN Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and reformist partners won a big vote of confidence in elections that could speed up Iran's emergence from isolation, and a key ally told long dominant hardliners to accept that voters wanted them to step aside.

The polls for parliament and a leadership body were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of its 80 million population is under 30 and eager to engage with the world following the lifting of most sanctions.

 

 

REX ON ONTARIO'S BUDGET

People are going to buy, and burn, just as much gas after this tax goes into effect as they did before. It’s a hit on those who can least afford it. And it is far more a “revenue tool” than a planet saver.

REMEMBERING BRITISH HOME CHILDREN IN CANADA

Charles is one of 75 children whose remains lie buried, unmarked and virtually forgotten in a pair of mass graves at an Etobicoke cemetery. They were drops in the wave of British home children, sent in droves from the U.K. to build a fresh life on Canadian soil.

Now a research group has dug up their identities, giving new life to youths all but anonymous in death. The revelation unfolded as part of an effort to reclaim the pasts of more than 115,000 children shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants between 1869 and 1948.

 

TRUDEAU'S LIBERALS DEVALUE CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP

Giving false information to obtain Canadian citizenship is a serious offence.

It certainly merits revoking the citizenship of any immigrant to Canada who does it.

But it’s not as serious as a dual citizen carrying out terrorist attacks against Canada.

This makes it hard to understand the Trudeau government’s bizarre obsession with protecting the Canadian citizenship of dual citizens who are convicted of terrorism.

 

ONTARIANS OWE $22,500 PER PERSON BY 2018

Ontario continues to face significant fiscal challenges and the fact is spending restraint will be required in the years ahead. The downward revisions in the province’s deficit projections (totalling $2 billion between this year and next) can be put into context by considering that the province has increased its net debt by a total of approximately $160 billion between 2003/04 and 2015/16. In total, Ontario’s net debt is projected to reach $317 billion in 2017/18

 

 

WYNNE'S BULLHEADED LIBERAL WAYS

Details of Ontario’s proposed cap-and-trade system are finally coming out. Unsurprisingly, the Wynne government made the choice to politically-allocate the permits, rather than using an auction approach generally favoured by economists.  One has to wonder, did the Wynne government make any effort to learn from past experiences with emission trading of greenhouse gases?

 

EXXON STANDS UP TO GREEN AGGRESSION

ExxonMobil has challenged a shareholder resolution that calls for the company to show how its business will be affected by the global commitment to dramatically slow global warming.

 

CRINGEWORTHY ONTARIO FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURE

OFA has been advocating for the provincial government to take action on climate change. We have promoted a Cap and Trade system that would acknowledge the carbon offsets the agricultural industry offers and recognize the efforts farmers are already making to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  Investments in a Cap and Trade system are outlined in the budget, including increases in gasoline and a rise in the cost of natural gas. Everyone will feel the impact of these fuel cost increases as part of the Cap and Trade system, but OFA understands the revenues will be invested in projects to address climate change and enable agriculture offsets.

 

HUNGRY RUSSIAN BEAR AT UKRAINE'S DOOR

Just as with Hitler and his supposed need for “Lebensraum” -- expansion space -- Putin has declared his right, his duty, to put together the old Soviet empire, and he has passed a law to that effect. We can see very clearly what he’s doing. The evil has already unrolled before our eyes. The uniformed “green men” without insignia who took over Crimea? Nobody now supposes that they were other than Russian soldiers.

 

CAIR'S NON-MUSLIM USEFUL IDIOT

Jacob Bender, the non-Muslim Useful Idiot who heads up Hamas-linked CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter, boasted Wednesday on the organization’s website: “What CAIR can do, however, and what it has been doing superbly for 10 years now, is to oppose the anti-Muslim ideology of the Trumps, the Cruzs, the Pamela Gellers, the Robert Spencers…”

MOBILE DEVICE TECHNOLOGY PATENT BATTLES

A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned a $120 million jury verdict against Samsung, finally handing the South Korean smartphone maker a significant win in its longstanding patent feud with top rival Apple.  In a statement, a Samsung spokeswoman said: "Today's decision is a win for consumer choice and puts competition back where it belongs - in the marketplace, not in the courtroom.”

 

CANADA'S FARMERS' SUCCESS IN THE VEGETABLE PATCH

Canadian farmers are cashing in on the highest vegetable prices in years, helped by the country's weak currency and soaring costs of U.S. imports that have made them unexpected winners in a bearish commodity world.

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST DAY OF TRUCE IN SYRIA

Under the U.S.-Russian accord accepted by President Bashar al-Assad's government and many of his enemies, fighting should cease so aid can reach civilians and talks can open to end a war that has killed more than 250,000 people and made 11 million homeless.

VENEZUELA TEETERING TOWARDS DEFAULT

As Venezuela grows closer to exhausting nearly every means of paying its debt, some oil market participants are seriously pondering the possible implications of an unprecedented event: the default of a major crude producing company.

 

BAILING OUT BOMBARDIER

The investment model, proposed by Quebec and supported by Bombardier, would give the federal and provincial governments a combined four seats - provided Canada matches the province's $1 billion investment - on the seven person CSeries board, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Bombardier itself would only be able to nominate three of the seats, putting the company's representatives in a minority.

 

REMEMBERING THE MARCOS GREED AND CORRUPTION

Around the world, she is known as greed personified. And now some of her finest jewels will be sold ; an auction of tiaras, necklaces, gems and watches valued at roughly $28 million. A beautiful collection, perhaps, but tainted by its former owner: Imelda Marcos, wife of the now-deceased dictator Ferdinand Marcos. You'll be surprised to know that back in the Philippines, Imelda is a congresswoman, his daughter Imee is a governor and his son, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr., is now a serious contender for vice-president.

 

THE IMBECILES AT THE CRTC

As cable and satellite service providers ready their low cost "skinny basic" TV plans to be launched by March 1, Videotron has been told it can't offer additional channels for the same price. The CRTC said Videotron would have exceeded the maximum number of local and regional channels allowed under its rules. The CRTC said the move would blur the distinction between entry level and first-tier services and could encourage others to submit similar applications. It would also run contrary to its goal of establishing a service for Canadians who want only a basic package.

 

BC PREMIER CLARK'S ELUSIVE LNG INDUSTRY

Douglas Channel LNG, billed as the most likely project of 20 LNG proposals on B.C.’s coast to proceed because it wouldn’t need its own expensive new pipeline, was shelved by its partners on Thursday who cited worsening conditions in global energy markets.

 

POLAR BEAR DIRE PREDICTION FAILS

Polar bears are not fragile canaries in an Arctic climate-change coal mine but resilient and adaptable predators remarkably suited to their highly variable habitat.  Grim predictions of the imminent demise of polar bears – their “harsh prophetic reality” as it’s been called – have been touted since at least 2001. But such depressing prophesies have so widely missed the mark they can now be said to have failed.

 

PUBLIC SERVICE UNION WANTS TO WRITE POLICY

The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada has sent a team of activists, newly trained by the Earnscliffe Strategy Group, to lobby 30 MPs this week and explain why the union should be players in shaping policy in three key areas — science, contracting out and tax fairness.

Just what we need: unions creating policy. 

 

WYNNE'S ASSAULT ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

I’m certain there were bureaucrats huddled in the Ontario finance ministry desperately casting around for a way to tax sex. When that failed, they produced a budget that screws the middle class.

Just when you thought there was nothing left to tax, these Liberals come up with yet another plan to hit you again.

 

 

CHINA ATTEMPS TO DELEVERAGE AND RE-LEVERAGE SIMULTANEOUSLY

The takeaway from all of this is that trying to pin down credit risk at Chinese banks is an endless game of "Whack-a-Mole". Beijing is constantly working to allow banks to shift and reclassify "assets" and/or transfer credit risk either to some entity where it can't be tracked or at least to areas of the balance sheet where it effectively disappears. As Moody's Stephen Schwartz puts it "every time they clamp down on one area, the financing pops up in another."

 

CHAOS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos warned that the bloc has just 10 days to implement a plan that will bring about “tangible and clear results on the ground” or else “the whole system will completely break down.”  He also cautioned that a humanitarian crisis in Greece and in the Balkans is “very near.” Moves by countries to adopt ad hoc, state-specific measures to stem the flow are exacerbating the problem, the commissioner contends.

 

ONTARIO BUDGET 2016: BILLIONS AWAY FROM BALANCE

Ontario’s 2016 budget landed Thursday. The 346-page document outlines nearly $134 billion in spending and a path to eliminate the $5.7 billion provincial deficit by the end of March 2018.  Both opposition parties said the Liberals will make life more expensive while selling assets and imposing carbon taxes to balance the books. The Liberals, however, maintain that, on sum, their major changes will make life more affordable as they tackle the deficit and climate change.

 

STILL GETTING SCREWED AT THE PUMPS

No matter how low the price of oil goes, we’re still getting screwed at the pumps.  Read David Booth's article that identifies all the fingers in your wallet when you pay at the gas pump.

 

WYNNE'S BALANCED BUDGET IS ANOTHER STRETCH GOAL

Ontario’s Liberal government will outline a plan to eliminate its deficit and stem the growth of its massive debt in Thursday’s provincial budget, the ninth in a row to be awash in red ink.

Premier Kathleen Wynne insists the $7.5-billion deficit will be eliminated by 2017-18 as promised, something credit rating agencies will be watching very closely.

 

CANADIAN TAXPAYER FEDERATION AWARDS FOR 2016

See who won the top prize for the most wasteful municipality, the most expensive museum party. and much more.

 

BRANDING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

A House bill introduced last year by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist entity cleared the House Judiciary Committee today.

The chairman of the Judiciary Committee stressed that under the designation "this administration would actually have to deny admittance to aliens tied to the Muslim Brotherhood rather than continue to proclaim to the world that the Brotherhood is a moderate and secular organization."

 

REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS' TWIT OF THE YEAR

Coulter:  Anyone who talks about politics on TV isn’t going to win them all, but when your horse takes a dump in every single race, week after week, why should we listen to you next time?

If you tuned into ABC’S “This Week” the morning after Trump’s tremendous victory in South Carolina, you’d find George Stephanopoulos promising analysis from a “powerhouse roundtable,” by which I assume he was referring to the table itself.

 

EUROPEAN UNION HIDING A TIME BOMB

Officials have reportedly said that key EU initiatives which may be “controversial” have been shelved to assist Prime Minister David Cameron’s campaign to keep Britain in the European Union. The legislation includes a €20bn increase in the EU’s budget, new rules on the freedom of movement, and indeed the accession to the European Convention on Human Rights – a deeply unpopular, sovereignty-stripping treaty.  “They don’t want to open the pandora’s box before the referendum,”

 

CONFUSING THE GRAVY TRAIN FOR THE FREEDOM TRAIN

West said, “[B]lack people historically have been the most progressive group when it comes to social justice. No doubt Bernie Sanders is the most progressive when it comes to social justice. He’s not tied to Wall Street in any way. We’re talking about free colleges and free universities. And he doesn’t use the language of our dear sister Hillary Clinton, when she talks about young black youth as superpredators that justified expansion of mass incarceration, and of course, the pulling of [the] rug from under welfare.

 

RESILIENT CANADIAN BANKING SYSTEM

While the vulnerabilities associated with elevated household debt have increased in recent years, the Canadian financial system remains resilient and could withstand a major shock, a Bank of Canada official said on Wednesday

Record-high consumer debt and hot home prices in parts of the country have raised worries that a sudden retrenching by over-extended Canadians could pose a risk to the economy and financial system.

 

 

VET THE APPLICANTS; CONTROL THE OUTCOME

A new coalition of agriculture producers says it is worried the Alberta government is stacking the deck for its upcoming consultations over controversial farm safety legislation passed late last year.

 

NOTLEY NOT GRASPING THE CONCEPT OF ETHICS

 Cheryl Oates, who speaks for Premier Rachel Notley, confirmed the party cancelled a portion of a fundraiser at the Art Gallery of Alberta after Ethics Commissioner Marguerite Trussler announced she was investigating whether it squares with the Conflicts of Interest Act.

Last May, the NDP was forced to backtrack after it tried to leverage the swearing-in of Notley and her cabinet into a party fundraising event. 

 

GRAFT & BACKROOM DEALS ALIVE & WELL IN BC

Horgan wanted to know why the Liberals had recently extended Wilson’s appointment as Buy B.C. LNG advocate for another two years “when there’s no Liquid Natural Gas to advance?”

The advocate was supposed to oversee development of an online tool where B.C. firms could sign up for LNG opportunities. The site had been developed by an outside contractor at a cost approaching $1 million. But the opportunities were nowhere to be found, near as the New Democrats could determine.

“I click on ‘opportunity,’” reported Horgan. “Do I find a welding job? Nope. Do I find anything for engineering firms? Nope. How about environmental consultancies? Nope. Nothing, zero, zilch, nada — not a single opportunity on the LNG tool.”

 

LIBERAL AIDES BACK TO COURT

The case of two former Ontario Liberal aides facing breach of trust and mischief charges returns to a Toronto court today.  David Livingston, who was former premier Dalton McGuinty's chief of staff, and Laura Miller, who was the deputy chief of staff, were charged after police investigated the deletion of emails related to the Liberals' cancellation of two gas plants prior to the 2011 election.  That decision cost Ontario taxpayers up to $1.1 billion.

 

TURKEY'S DUPLICITOUS ERDOGAN

Under Erdogan, Turkey has never been interested in fighting ISIS, Al-Nusra, and other Sunni terrorists. On the contrary, it has assisted them in every way possible for at least the last three years. Washington under Obama preferred to look the other way, but the latest events have faced it with a stark choice -- either defeat ISIS and limit growing Russian influence in alliance with the Syrian Kurds, or continue to put up with Erdogan’s duplicitous Islamist agenda and lose the last shreds of credibility it has left in the region.

 

IMPACT OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES ON GOV'T DEBT

Provincial governments have been shifting the structure of their debts toward longer terms to maturity. In this way, they are able to postpone the need to refinance their debts at higher interest rates, if rates were to rise. However, in the long run all of the government’s debt eventually matures. More revenue going to interest payments on the debt means less is available for programs that taxpayers value, such as health care and education, or tax relief. This study analyzes the budgetary implications of interest rate risks faced by the governments of Ontario and Quebec, Canada’s two largest provinces and the most indebted as a share of GDP.

CLIMATIC HYPER-ADJECTIVES

Or, as I like to call it:  the language of the bullsh!tting drama queens of the AGW movement.

ALBERTA NDP PRIORITIES

But really, is the government serious about mental health at all? Well, after this much awaited report, the government has promised to commit just an additional $4 million dollars to mental health in Alberta. This is a province of over 4 million people. That’s a buck a person when we are in the middle of a suicide crisis. The NDP just dished out an additional $5 million in subsidies for green tech companies in January. They also added an extra $30 million dollars in funding for green transit initiatives across the province.

BERNARD, CANADA'S VOICE FROM THE OILFIELD

Now, here is my full interview where we speak in detail about why the industry is so vital to Bernard Hancock, the oilfield worker,  and to all Canadians. He speaks of his disappointment with the “obfuscatory” mainstream media in Canada and gives his thoughts about future prospects of the industry. Bernard is an intelligent articulate voice from the oil patch.

DEMOCRAT CONTORTIONISTS EXPLAINING THEIR PAST

Many of the Democrats who are currently attacking Republicans for vowing to block any Obama Supreme Court nominee have a history of doing the same thing when a Republican was in the White House, and their attempts to explain away their hypocrisy have been creative to say the least.

 

QUESTIONING THE INTEGRITY OF THE DOJ

“Inconceivable.  This is the first time in 14 years I’ve seen this.”

Those were some of federal district judge Leon’s comments regarding what the Department of Justice asked for in court today, as part of an important case that could impact the integrity of the 2016 election.  The DOJ sought to not fight a lawsuit against the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), conceding to a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed by the League of Women voters and other activist groups.

 

MORE GREEN HYPOCRACY

The Guardian article reports on a petition just issued by prominent climate hysterics like James Hansen, Michael Mann, and Naomi Oreskes, who are using the petition to ask the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to end its sponsorship deal with oil giant ExxonMobil. 

Of the more than 100 climate “experts” signing the letter as of now, 73 are affiliated with U.S. universities.  Of those 73 signatories, 59 of them are affiliated at universities that -- in 2014 alone -- accepted grants worth about $40 million from ExxonMobil.

 

ISLAMIST HELL IN REFUGEE HOSTELS

Life in German refugee hostels has now become so unbearable that religious minorities, women traveling alone or with children, and homosexuals are fleeing their accommodations.

   “Here the Sunnis fight the Shiites, there are Salafists of different brands …women are forced to wear the veil. Men are forced to pray. Islamists want to install their values and order there,” said Wendt.

But among the mistreated minority groups, one is especially targeted for abuse: Muslim converts to Christianity. The constant harassment and mistreatment at the hands of Muslim male refugees is not only becoming intolerable and dangerous, but, for some, life-threatening.

 

 

OPEC NATIONS' OIL FREEZE PLAN: FAIL

Saudi Arabia's plan to flood the market with an oversupply of oil has backfired. 

The attempt was initiated to protect the Saudi market share and force rapidly growing, high cost producers out of the market, mainly those doing business in the US shale boom. 

Instead of putting the fire out, the United States increased production, becoming the world’s largest producer and contributing further to the oversupply of oil on the market. 

 

ENCRYPTION CASE IN COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION

Apple Inc on Monday urged the creation of a government panel on encryption, the latest salvo in a standoff over a locked iPhone linked to the San Bernardino shooting that has escalated into a public relations battle between the revered technology company and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 

CELEBRATING LIBERAL DESTRUCTION OF ONTARIO

The Ontario Liberals will celebrate former premier Dalton McGuinty on Tuesday night. The former premier’s portrait will become part of the collection hung on the walls of Queen’s Park. A ceremony and reception Tuesday evening will honour his time in office.

MURDERING PUKE PUBLISHES AUTOBIOGRAPHY

California man Michael Chilldres had no idea who William Pickton was—or what kind of maelstrom he was wading into—when he arranged to have the serial killer’s scrawled autobiography published.

 

LIBERAL "NOT-MY-FAULT" DEFICIT DEFENCE

Given the pounding he has been taking in the Commons in recent days, Finance Minister, Bill Morneau could hardly have been looking forward to weeks more of the same treatment: the opposition demanding to know daily whether the deficit would be more than $30 billion, less than $30 billion, knowing he could not answer but every day drilling the same message deeper into the public’s cranium: the Liberals promised a deficit of $10 billion, but delivered a deficit three times as large.

 

LOW OIL PRICES AFFECTING CANADIAN BANKS

Moody's warned on Monday that the oil price slump will strain profitability at Canada's largest banks, which begin reporting results this week, however analysts expect regional banks will feel the brunt of the pain as the energy-rich province of Alberta reels from the downturn.  The worry is the oil rout will hit mortgages, auto loans and credit card debt of consumers, especially in Alberta.

 

WYNNE'S APPROVAL RATING

The majority of Ontarians disapprove of the way Premier Kathleen Wynne is doing her job, according to a Mainstreet Research/Postmedia poll.   Despite Wynne’s numbers, her party remains particularly strong in Toronto and in the Ottawa region where her plan to improve transit resonates with voters. 

 

 

 

SOLAR PANEL SHADINESS

It's been more than three years since David Crumb of Dunnville put a $30,000 deposit on a ground-mounted solar energy system that was supposed to generate him some income.

Except he's never earned a dime.

 

HOW THE GREENIES HIJACKED ENVIRONMENTALISM

Dr. Tim Ball:  The world needed the new paradigm of environmentalism. The problem is that a few grabbed it for a political agenda. They used it as a vehicle to take the moral high ground, to claim only they cared about the environment. They argued that everyone else was guilty of environmental destruction because of their avarice and wasteful ways. The debate about global warming is a subset of environmentalism that was also hijacked using the same themes.

 

DENMARK DESTROYED BY ITS OWN POLITICIANS

Danish journalist and video blogger, Jeppe Juhl, describes the fall of Sweden and the exodus of its Jewish population among other benchmarks of a dying democracy.

 

A HELLACIOUS PROBLEM IN THE MAKING

Within weeks, two low-profile legal disputes may determine whether an unprecedented wave of bankruptcies expected to hit U.S. oil and gas producers this year will imperil the $500 billion pipeline sector as well.

 

DESTROYING THE ISLAMIC STATE ECONOMY

Islamic State, which is frozen out of traditional financial institutions by international sanctions, operates a cash economy and controls most means of production, including factories producing cement, flour and textiles.

U.S. officials have described it as the world's wealthiest terrorist group. The group looted nearly half a billion dollars from banks in areas it seized in 2014, and besides smuggling oil has derived millions of dollars from taxes and ransoms.

 

 

NO ONE HAS TAKEN THE $100,000 WAGER

Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD ecologist and President of Ecosense Environmental Inc. has offered a bet of US$100,000 that global CO2 emissions will be higher in the year 2025 than they were in 2015.

“The UN Paris climate summit was hailed as ‘an historic agreement that is our best chance save the planet’. If that is so then surely they believe CO2 emissions will come down during the next ten years, as pledged by all the countries attending the meeting. Yet no one seems willing to put their money where their rhetoric is.” 

Odd, eh?

 

LIBERATING BRITAIN FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

An astonishing thing just happened in Britain. UKIP leader Nigel Farage, a strong supporter of US Tea Party Politics, invited the radical left wing politician George Galloway to be his surprise guest speaker.

Their common cause: Liberate Britain from the unelected soviet style apparatchiks who run the European Union.

 

CANADA'S SYRIAN "REFUGEES"

All those "Syrian refugees" coming to Canada? They’re coming from apartment buildings in cities, where they’ve been living peacefully for years. 

Then yesterday, Martin Bolduc, the Vice-President of the Programs Branch at the Canadian Border Services Agency CBSA, answered questions that no Liberal has answered so far. It was a bombshell:

All but a tiny fraction of these "refugees" were already living in cities in neighbouring countries. For years.

 

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CRYBULLIES

Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos made an appearance at Rutgers University, and his ideas and rhetoric so traumatized the delicate flowers who heard him that many of them attended a "group therapy" session afterward. According to the paper, students and faculty members held a wound-licking gathering at a cultural center on campus, where students described “feeling scared, hurt, and discriminated against.” 

 

 

 

CANADA'S 2% JANUARY INFLATION

Canada's annual inflation rate picked up to 2 percent in January, the highest since November 2014, lifted by food prices and a rise in gasoline costs and underlining expectations the Bank of Canada will keep monetary policy unchanged next month. Gasoline prices jumped 2.1 percent, while food costs

 rose 4 percent as consumers paid 18.2 percent more for fresh vegetables, suggesting the impact of a weaker Canadian dollar was being felt.

 

 

LIBERALS WRINGING CONCESSIONS FROM BOMBARDIER. OR NOT.

Canada will likely offer up to $1 billion in aid to ailing plane maker Bombardier Inc BBDb.TO, according to senior government sources, though some in the ruling Liberal Party want to see the company make tough concessions around control.   Although the CSeries is billions of dollars over budget and years late, not helping the firm would cost the Liberals support there. 

Nothing like Liberal priorities, eh?

 

WHEN WHORES GET OLD AND BROKE ...

...they take to scratchin' and bitin'.
CEOs of Torstar and Postmedia call each other names.

HIPPIES SHAKING THEIR TAMBOURINES

Doing all they can to get glyphosate banned.

ALBERTA & SASKATCHEWAN

Paying for Quebec.

THE RETURN OF THE SUNKEN RATS

From 2002-2004 Omar Alghabra served on the Arab Council of Canada. A Liberal, he was first elected in 2006, for the riding of Mississauga Centre. He was defeated in the 2008 and 2011 elections. A big supporter of Sharia Law, as of 2015, he's back.

REINTEGRATING LITTLE OMAR

The federal government has decided against pursuing an appeal of an Alberta court's decision to grant former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr bail.  The Liberal government decision is a sharp break from its Conservative predecessor, which fought hard to keep Khadr behind bars for the duration of his sentence.

RULING AGAINST QUEBEC PEDOPHILES AND OTHER SEXUAL DEVIANTS

A non-profit organization whose website openly offers services to pedophiles should not legally be allowed to operate in the province, a Quebec superior court judge has ruled.

SUICIDAL OVERCOMPENSATION IN GERMANY

Today, Angela Merkel's Germany is making another suicidal gesture by opening the borders to tens of thousands of predatory, war-indoctrinated jihadis – young men of military age, who have been taught to despise, hate, and beat up anybody outside their own Muslim sect.  They are indoctrinated in war theology – the last major war theology on Earth.  Merkel and the EU have drifted into this suicidal fiasco by mistake – but they still refuse to admit it.

WHAT DRIVES OBAMA?

Marco Rubio raised the great mystery about the Obama presidency: are the many catastrophes of the past seven years the results of incompetence, or, as Rubio insisted, does the president know “exactly what he’s doing”?

LIBERAL SPENDING PROBLEM

Rona Ambrose tried to ask a question in the House of Commons about how the Liberals managed to burn through the surplus the Conservatives left in just 100 days.  Liberals hooted, hollered and heckled until the Speaker finally hushed them long enough for Ambrose to finish her question.

NOTLEY'S BLACKLIST

Notley has asked a retired newspaper editor to make recommendations about “the government’s media policies." In Canada though, governments don’t have media policies. The only accreditation necessary is found in the Charter of Rights with its guarantee of a free press. Notley’s desire to regulate journalists – whether through armed sheriffs and Department of Justice letters, as she did last week, or through high-priced advisors, as she’s trying next week, smacks of banana republic socialism.

TRUDEAU'S VANITY PROJECT

Shocking testimony today at the Public Safety Committee of the House of Commons about the fact that of the 21,000 refugees that have been screened and are either in Canada or in transit to Canada, almost none of them came from camps.

CURSING THE POSITIVES OF CO2 INCREASE

Enhanced levels of carbon dioxide are likely cause of global dryland greening, study says From the “inconvenient truth” department and INDIANA UNIVERSITY: Enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are a likely key driver of global dryland greening, according to a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports.

TODAY IS NOT A DAY OF LEADERSHIP

MPs in the House of Commons have started thrashing out their conflicting views of how to oppose the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

BOMBARDIER BUSINESS/BEGGING PLAN

Bombardier announced Wednesday it will eliminate 7,000 positions over two years -- more than a third of which will come from Canada -- in the latest effort by the country's largest aerospace company to turn itself around.  Bombardier said it hopes Ottawa will come through on its request for financial assistance for the CSeries, just as the Quebec government has done in providing US$1 billion in support.  

POUTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Unable to resist the urge to give one last snub to the Supreme Court justice who opposed him at every turn, President Obama will not attend the funeral of Antonin Scalia on Saturday.  There never was such a personal animus on the part of a president toward a justice. Scalia's scathing dissents on Obamacare cases no doubt angered the president. And just recently, Scalia was part of the majority that struck down the president's climate change plans.

REPLACING SCALIA

Republicans have threatened not to act on any nominee put forward by the Democratic president for the Supreme Court seat. Obama's nominee could alter the court's balance of power. Before Scalia's death, it had five conservatives and four liberals.

NOTLEY'S BLACKLIST

Faced with a national storm of outrage, an embarrassed Rachel Notley backed away from her illegal blacklist of journalists. That blacklist had a single name on it: TheRebel.media.

The only problem is, that’s illegal.

 

TRUDEAU'S STRETCHED PROMISE

We’ve known for a while now that the Liberals were going to shoot past their promise of holding deficits down to $10B per year for three years. Just three wafer thin deficits they said, but we knew better.

IMMIGRATION EXPLAINED

Immigration author and journalist Roy Beck's colorful presentation of data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau. 

THE IRASCIBLE MOOD OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE

There is an unquestioned disconnect between the vast majority of the American people and the so-called elites or ruling class.  Whenever I am in the company of those that are members of this exclusive fraternity, and when the conversation inevitably turns to the subject of the irascible mood of the electorate, I offer what I consider to be a valid theory as to one of the primary reasons why.  That is: a plurality of the populace, myself included, firmly believe the United States is approaching the point of no return to its founding as a nation of individual freedom and opportunity, and that the 2016 election is the most significant in 150 years insofar as determining the long term fate of the country.

ONTARIO PENSION PLAN WINS FEDERAL LIBERAL SUPPORT

Ontario has secured the launch — and long-term future — of its new pension plan by winning support from Ottawa to collect payroll premiums through its existing CPP framework, the Star has learned. The long-sought agreement bolsters the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) at a critical time — by avoiding costly duplication of services and red tape, streamlining the process for nervous employers and sparing the province massive startup costs.                        

The two sides reached an understanding over the holiday weekend after months of talks, kicked off shortly after Justin Trudeau's federal Liberals won the last election. Trudeau had promised to overturn former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper's public vow to thwart the provincial pension plan.

YOUR RIGHT TO FEEL SECURE

Edmonton;  It wasn’t personal, and what fool would turn down business in this economy, right? The problem was Ghalab was wearing a full face covering burka when she entered Vale’s store which has a no-facemask policy – regardless of race or religion. The policy was adopted for security reasons because you just don’t know who’s behind that face covering.

NOTLEY'S CUNNING PLAN

What’s Rachel Notley’s plan? Well, They're bragging about "leading on climate change and creating jobs with solar power."

So, you’re sitting on the world’s third-largest oil reserves, but according to this press release, you’re going to give a $5 million subsidy to some schemes to put solar panels on top of barns?

Solar panels that aren’t even made in Alberta — so basically, we’re subsidizing foreign manufacturers whose product can’t pay for itself without a government subsidy.

 

REPLACING SCALIA

About an hour after Scalia's death was confirmed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "threw down the gauntlet," announcing that the Senate would not be confirming a replacement for him until after the 2016 election, a move Politico called, "an historic rebuke of President Obama’s authority and an extraordinary challenge to the practice of considering each nominee on his or her individual merits." But there is nothing "historic" or "extraordinary" about challenging "the practice of considering each nominee on his or her individual merits." Democrats have been blocking judicial nominees based on ideological grounds rather than their "individual merits" for decades now.

HEY MAN....

....like, okay...maybe shit is hitting the fan and all that, but don't worry, your crop is in, right?

FACEBOOK: WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?

And there IS much to like about Mark Zuckerberg's creation. But the astonishing size and global power of the company comes with a price - for Facebook lovers and for people who have never spent a second inside its walls. 

Ira Basen pulls back the curtain on Facebook's phenomenal rise to global domination, and the surprising price we may all pay for it. Are these the dying days of the truly open web?

CBC radio site; click on Listen, for the podcast.

 

THE MIND-BENDING ILLOGIC OF PREMIER CHRISTY CLARK

Let's set up a prosperity fund in British Columbia that depends on tax revenues and royalties from the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry.  Ignore the fact that none of the planned LNG projects have been built.  Take $100M of taxpayers money to kick start the fund. Those would be the same taxpayers who were supposed to be benefiting from the fund, not paying into it. 
Don't suppose she already has any plans for the money in the fund, do you?

MUGABE WANTS $1.5 BILLION FROM UN

President for life Robert Mugabe wants the UN (meaning America) to provide $1.5 billion per year, to feed Zimbabwean people who are currently going hungry, thanks to his government’s decade long policy of looting and trashing productive farms. Naturally he blames his country’s problems on “climate change".

ANOTHER ONTARIO GREEN ENERGY SCANDAL

In late 2012 Windstream Energy, a U.S. company, filed a NAFTA complaint claiming $475 million in damages. The company says it had a contract with the government-controlled Ontario Power Authority to build an offshore wind farm near Wolf Island in Lake Ontario.  Samsung, the Korean energy giant appeared out of the blue to win wind and solar contracts with the government at the time Windstream’s deal seemed to be falling apart. Windstream alleges Smitherman had conferred especially beneficial prices and transmission rights on Samsung, in return for wind and solar investments.

COMBATING GUN SMUGGLING AT CANADA'S BORDERS

Canada bans most guns and has a minuscule number of gun-related homicides a year. But, worried about smuggled firearms from the United States, its government is preparing to stiffen its already tough gun laws and step up border surveillance.  The move comes as police have discovered an increased number of high-powered handguns, semi-automatic and automatic weapons in Canadian cities.

VOICE OF MODERATION CRITICIZING RADICAL ISLAM

Bandar:  "Can anyone convince me that in America or Europe, they do what ISIS is doing to the Syrians, to the Yazidis, or to the Iraqis? Why do we pin all our problems on the West? For 1,400 years we have been slaughtering one another, just because one of us prays one way and another prays a different way. America wasn't around 1,400 years ago. It wasn't around even 300 years ago. We have been fighting and shedding blood for 1,400 years, and now we are blaming America and Britain?!"

H CLINTON'S DEAD END CAMPAIGN

Hillary Clinton may yet win the Democratic nomination—if she is not indicted. It is still likely that the Democratic Party will find a way to aid an ailing and scandal-plagued Mrs. Clinton, rather than turn over its future to a 74-year-old scold, Bernie Sanders.  All that said, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign rhetoric is coming up empty—largely because it is at odds with the way she has lived her life and conducted her various careers over the last two decades. Voters, even younger ones, are now sorely aware of those flagrant contradictions.

CONTEMPLATING A US-RUSSIA ANTI-ISLAMIST ALLIANCE

Until the fall of the USSR, the 20^th Century was dominated by an ideological struggle between American capitalism and Russian communism. But now we also have a different ideological struggle to contend with, namely a civilizational war between the Christian/Secular West and the Islamic Caliphate. They are inimical to each other. North America, Europe and Russia are natural allies in this struggle.

CLEANING UP ABANDONED OIL WELLS

Ottawa may help pay for the clean-up of spent oil wells, Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said on Friday.
A crash in crude oil prices has led oil companies to abandon more wells, particularly in the western Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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LIBERALS MESSING WITH SUCCESS

Learning English or French has become burdensome for immigrants to this country, according to the Liberal government. Currently, new Canadians have to pass a simple French or English test to become citizens, but Trudeau's Liberals want to get rid of that.
  If you look at countries in Europe that place no obligations on immigrants, the result is ghettoization, unemployment and any number of social ills.

RULES OF SWEARING IN FRENCH CANADA

Language warning.  In both official tongues.

I REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE!!!!

...in the wisdom of Solomon.

QUEBEC GREENER THAN GREEN

If the Quebec government backs out of its contract to explore for oil and gas on Anticosti Island, its joint-venture partners say they will sue.
“Quebec thinks it’s greener than green because they use hydrocarbons, but don’t produce them,”

FAILURE TO INDOCTRINATE THE EDUCATORS

A study published in Science reveals that a number of teachers in the USA are rebelling against Federal education directives – that a significant number of school teachers are failing to indoctrinate their students with the politically approved position on climate change, or worse, are teaching students that there are forces other than CO2, which might be driving changes in global temperature.

ONTARIANS DESERVE BETTER

 Last Thursday’s decisive byelection win for PC candidate Lorne Coe in Whitby-Oshawa sent a message to Wynne and her Liberals, who were desperate to win the riding.
Liberals have hiked taxes time and again — yet still can’t balance the budget without selling assets. To say they spend like drunken sailors is an insult to the navy.

Get your books in order, premier. And don’t do it on the backs of taxpayers.

 

 

THE DISGRACEFUL CANADA 150 SLUSH FUND

  From its swearing-in on Nov. 4, 2015 to Feb 12, 2016, the Trudeau government distributed 208 cheques worth a combined $5.3 billion.  For some of the cheque handouts for projects inside the country, the Trudeau government dipped into an envelope of money created in the last Harper budget called the Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program. 

But here’s the funny thing.  While in opposition, Trudeau’s Liberals thought this Canada 150 fund was a terrible idea and would be used for nothing but pork-barrel politics.
 

THE LAW, LAWSUITS, AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Dr. Tim Ball:  It is true that science is ideally amoral and apolitical. It is also true that everything is political to a greater or lesser degree. However, the difference with the use of climate was its deliberate selection for a political agenda. Proof that it was deliberate is found in the failure to follow the scientific method. This was reinforced by planned deception, manipulation of the data, and computer models programmed to predetermine the outcome.

Instead of trying to disprove the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis they set out to prove it.

 

WHY ARE INTEREST RATES SO LOW?

At the core of this paper are a few simple observations. The first is that while the virtues of saving and the evils of indebtedness are widely understood and universally supported, the fact is that every saver who wants to earn a return needs a debtor as an accomplice. Because of the anonymity of financial institutions, the connection is not appreciated and indeed most people taking a loan or a mortgage think they are getting it from the bank or credit union.

AMERICA'S CORRUPT MEDIA

If you really want to know how weak Hillary Clinton is as a candidate, you merely have to appreciate that the U.S. media essentially acts as her own personal PR firm, yet the public still recognizes her as a dishonest crook. Brace yourself for the following story, it’s huge.  In what is an almost hard to believe exchange, Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic,  agreed to insert specific words and imagery into his article in return for a copy of Hillary’s upcoming speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.

COMBATTING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE COURTS

How the progressive left intends to use the courts to harass those who don’t agree with them on the climate: On February 10th, the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (“ACS”) hosted a panel discussion on legal approaches and activities associated with “combatting” climate change through legal action. Topics covered were RICO prosecutions, climate torts and the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan.

OBAMA'S ECONOMIC LEGACY LIES

"Since I came into office, we reduced the deficit by two-thirds, but if you ask the average person, they're sure that spending has shot up. And the reason is because there are a bunch of folks who say that we're wildly overspending, even though we aren't."

CONFLICT BETWEEN NATO & RUSSIA

Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at a Munich security conference, said what everybody except President Obama and most of his administration already knew: that there is a new cold war between Russia and the West.

GREENIES' DISTATE FOR AMERICA'S BRIGHT ENERGY FUTURE

I am living ten times as well as my grandfather did when he was a boy.  There's no reason my grandchildren should not be living ten times as well as I am today.  What stands in their way is not a lack of resources or technology – it's government.  

Specially, liberal government. Obama's outlook – and that of the green activists who gathered in Paris in December for the latest global climate summit – is something very different from that of global prosperity based on cheap fossil fuels.

UPDATING POLICE SERVICES ACT IN ONTARIO

A “made-in-Ontario approach” to helping vulnerable people will invite residents across the province to suggest ways police departments can better liaise with community agencies.

“The current approach cannot respond to, and address, the increasingly complex issues police officers and community partners are confronting each and every day,”

 

FEDERAL INTRUSION INTO ALASKA'S MANAGEMENT

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a new rule that implements federal management control over wildlife in Alaska’s national wildlife refuges.

“These rules will fundamentally alter the federal government’s longstanding wildlife management relationship with Alaska and, once applied in Alaska, we could see similar rules from the service for similar management across all the states,” Vincent-Lang said.

 

SPEND IT LIKE YA GOT IT

Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) warned the American public that the national debt is going to reach “$30 trillion in no time,” explaining that every federal dollar will apply to “unfunded liabilities” and interest on the debt in 11 years, leaving no room for spending in other areas.

The total public debt stood at $5.7 trillion when President George W. Bush entered office in 2001. The debt was $10.6 trillion when President Obama entered office in 2009 after Bush’s two terms as president. The national debt is currently $19 trillion.

 

HUMA ABEDIN AND THE TANGLED CLINTON WEB

 There are additional indications that the government is indeed scrutinizing the cozy relations the State Department enjoyed during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure with both the Clinton Foundation and a Clinton-connected consulting firm called Teneo.

AMERICA'S TOP SOCIALIST

In an eye-meltingly mustard yellow jacket, the uniform of some alien space armada invading the planet, Hillary Clinton glared balefully into the camera and promised the nation twice as much free stuff in return for their submission to her ruthless rule. Bernie Sanders, who kept coughing as if he might not live through the debate, never mind the election, upped the ante to three times as much free stuff.

SATURDAY AT THE MOVIES

With bitter cold gripping most of Canada it is a good day to stay inside. For those interested in history a documentary about the Titanic and was it sunk on purpose ? Or was it the Titanic?
**Grab a coffee it is about 50 minutes long**

WEASEL WORDS: BURYING THE FACTS

At the same time that Justin Trudeau was planning to quit the combat mission against ISIS, he was planning to turn seven Canadian military bases into long-term refugee camps.

The story made news in Washington, New York and even London, England. But a total blackout in Canadian media, for days. 

Canadian media finally picks up Rebel's "refugee camp" scoop -- but BURIES these important facts

 

NASA LAWYERS HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS

HOUSTON, Texas – A Johnson Space Center (JSC) Christian club had it’s e-mail meeting announcement censored by NASA lawyers because it included the word “Jesus” in it. The Liberty Institute sent NASA a demand letter this week threatening to file a federal lawsuit.

OMAR'S FINE FRIENDS FROM GUANTANAMO

Omar Khadr, the convicted Al Qaida war criminal who is out on bail pending a long-shot appeal, is communicating with other Al Qaida activists he met while detained in Guantanamo Bay.

SILENCE OF THE WEST'S CATHOLIC BISHOPS

Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle Eastern Christians. Archbishop Jeanbart was turning over a rock, exposing a scandal within the Catholic Church of catastrophic proportions.

MAINTAINING A FACADE OF MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne deserves credit for keeping her composure when pressed on why her government spent nearly $600,000 on ads for its proposed new pension plan during the federal election. The premier didn’t crack a smile — not even a little grin! — when she insisted the timing of the promotional push for the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) was not intentional, and she had no idea the Conservative government would call the election when it did.  Wynne’s spin should come as no surprise to Ontarians. The Liberal government lost its ethical bearings long ago — back, say, when it allowed unions to run million-dollar ad campaigns against its opponents while topping up union strike funds

PUTIN & ERDOGAN CONFRONTATION

Where things may be going between Russia and Turkey, ancient enemies who have warred many times over the centuries, was evidenced this week, when the Kremlin announced large-scale surprise military exercises in the regions of the country that are close to Turkey.

THE USELESS PRAISING THE CLUELESS

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for last year's climate-change charm offensive in Paris, but urged him to spend more of Canada's wealth on the world's poorest people.

The usually staid Ban appeared almost gleeful at times Thursday as he took Trudeau up on his offer to re-engage with the UN during a packed, daylong visit to Ottawa, including high-level meetings on Parliament Hill and a feel-good assembly at a boisterous local high school auditorium.

 

LIBERAL PLANS FOR GUN CONTROL

Brian Lilley:  I turn to Tony Bernardo, Executive Director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association to see what he makes of some of the troubling op-eds and commentary we’ve been hearing from politicians and political cops lately.  How about storing your guns at the range, rather than at your home? What could possibly go wrong?

LEFT-EAR LISTENING

Melanie Joly, a Liberal MP from Montreal and Heritage Minister tweeted: The greatest success of our first 100 days is the tone that we have adopted as a government, the fact that we're listening to the public.
Joly says the Liberals are listening. Are they listening to the Albertans demanding the Liberals approve pipelines so we can get the country back to work? No. They can't even give us a straight answer about Energy East.

WELCOME TO HELL: CALAIS, FRANCE

A resident of Calais, France described how the city has been transformed by refugees and the infamous 'jungle' is really a city within a city. “Every day, every night there are riots,” she says. “They come to the town centre, by 2-3-4 thousand. Everywhere. They bash cars with iron bars. They attack people. They even attack children. There are rapes. There is theft. It's unimaginable what we suffer.”

DRUG TESTING WELFARE APPLICANTS

Starting late last year, North Carolina began issuing drug tests to new applicants for certain state welfare benefits. Now the state is reporting that 24 percent of the first batch of applicants tested came up positive for illegal drugs.
State officials report that of the 89 applicants given the drug test, 21 of them tested positive. An additional 70 applicants who were told to take the test never showed up for their appointment and consequently never got benefits.

BILL TO RETAIN CELLPHONE PRIVACY

The bill is a direct response to state-level attempts from Democrat Assemblymen in both California and New York to give government and law enforcement agencies access to the private information stored on your phone. The ENCRYPT (Ensuring National Constitutional Rights for Your Private Telecommunications) Act of 2016 may be a bit “on the nose” with its acronym, but it’s a vital step forward in paving the way toward a government that allows private citizens to remain private.

TWITTER'S THOUGHT POLICE

Doubling down on corporate bias against conservatives and libertarians, the company on February 9 announced their own version of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth with the formation of the Twitter Trust & Safety Council, “to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power.”

THE RETURN OF THE SUNKEN RATS

Liberal Mark Holland was first elected in 2004, but in the 2011 election, he lost his seat. He was again re-elected, in the October 2015, election. So where did he go? Seeing how February is Heart and  Stroke month, you may want to keep this in mind, when making a contribution.

AUSSIE GREEN JOBS ON THE LINE

The floor show from Aussie climate scientists whose jobs are on the line is continuing. Now that climate job security is a thing of the past, it turns out there are all sorts of uncertainties about climate projections, which maybe didn’t get much exposure, back in the golden years of government funded research.

HALTING OBAMA'S CLIMATE CHANGE PLANS

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday abruptly halted President Obama's controversial new power plant regulations, dealing a blow to the administration's sweeping plan to address global warming.

OBAMA'S SYRIAN POLICY ON VERGE OF DEFEAT

In early October, Obama warned that the Russian air campaign targeting the Syrian rebels, which had just begun, threatened to draw Putin into a "quagmire." The D.C. foreign policy "smart set" and the establishment media that have been cheerleaders for Obama's Syria policy since 2011 dutifully followed along with the received "quagmire" narrative.

Now, four months later, the rebel stronghold of Aleppo -- Syria's largest city and former commercial center -- is surrounded, and Obama's entire Syria policy teeters on the verge of complete defeat.

 

H CLINTON UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION

Now, in a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI’s general counsel, James Baker, notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI “has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server.”

CHANGES COMING TO CITIZENSHIP ACT

Immigration Minister John McCallum and other MP’s are saying they’re going to do away with various aspects of the Act including the requirement for new citizens to speak either English or French as part of granting citizenship.

REFUGEE CAMPS ON CANADIAN MILITARY BASES

The Canadian military has been ordered by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to draft plans to house more than 6,000 Muslim migrants on a long-term basis at military bases, according to documents obtained exclusively by The Rebel

TRUDEAU DUCKING THE QUESTION OF ENERGY EAST

Trudeau was asked by the Calgary Sun’s Rick Bell if his cabinet would approve the Energy East pipeline if it receives a green light from the National Energy Board, after meeting all its conditions and environmental assessments.

Trudeau’s answer wandered all over the map without ever answering the question.

 

NO BORDER, NO PROBLEM

In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday.

CHARTER CHALLENGE OF OSPCA ACT

Charging that the act violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the challenge alleges the act’s definition of distress is too vague and that it grants the OSPCA police-like authority, including overreaching search and seizure powers. None of these allegations have been tested in court.
The Attorney General of Ontario wants to have the case tossed out.

FARMERS ANGERED BY HOURS OF NEONICS PAPERWORK

 The province argues that neonics are killing honeybees. The Grain Farmers of Ontario say the province is short on science and is siding with environmentalists.
Report from eastern Ontario. 
More acres; more paperwork in western Ontario.   
That didn’t include the half-day course required to use neonics or the actual scouting for pests, which added several weeks and many hours completing the digging of  the government-required five holes for every 100 acres — that’s 800 holes over the 4,000 acres on the Reynold's farm — to set bait for wireworms and grubs.
It's all unpaid work for farmers.

MCDONALD'S RESTAURANTS VERIFYING BEEF FARMS

With even fast-food junkies starting to take a second look at their Big Macs, McDonald’s wants beef from sustainable farms and is offering to pay farmers to prove they take care of their land and animals.  It could give the beef industry a competitive advantage, says Beef Farmers of Ontario producer relations manager Dan Ferguson.

THE SHRINKING AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS

Are you living “the American Dream”?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because most Americans are not.

  Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class makes up a minority of the population, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year, and poverty is growing rapidly.