THE ONTARIO GREEN SHAFT

The Ontario government plans to make the majority of the province’s buildings emissions-free and slash the use of cars to just 20 per cent of commuter trips by 2050 as part of a dramatic plan to meet its climate-change goals.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG

Retired journalist who penned Alberta government's media-access report was then hired as director of media planning.       

 

CLARK'S PRIVATE ALLOWANCE AND STIPENDS

What Ms. Clark fails to understand is that this is serious. There is a matter of grave public interest here. The Premier, the head of government, is selling access through party fundraising events. That is without dispute. And she is benefiting from the proceeds that access generates. It is a clear conflict. And yet, she and her party treat it like a big joke.

 

 

NSIDC CAUGHT TAMPERING WITH CLIMATE RECORDS

NSIDC’s (National Snow and Ice Data Center)  latest attempt to breathe new life into the corpse of the alarmist narrative comprised a press release a few weeks ago claiming that 5+ year old sea ice is at its smallest level on record.

 

LISTING DANGEROUS DENIERS AND GREEN CAMPAIGNERS

Carbon Brief – a green propaganda outlet, lavishly funded by the European Union – has produced a map depicting the world’s most influential environmental campaigners and the world’s most dangerous deniers.

 

 

BOMBARDIER BAILOUT SUPPORTS NATIONAL UNITY

In a perfect world, Bombardier Inc. would design things its customers need or want, manufacture those things efficiently, deliver them on schedule and to cost, and be paid for this good work with alacrity, allowing it to continue being awesome. This should, in theory, not be so hard; it is, in fact, how business is supposed to work.

But Bombardier doesn’t operate that way.

 

FIVE-DAY WEEKENDS IN VENEZUELA

Looking forward, we doubt that the decision to expand the weekend from 3 to 5 days will be reversed any time soon (after all the initial 3-day weekend expansion was supposed to be temporary as well), and the most likely outcome is that in his next decree, Maduro will announce that public workers can just take a 7 day weekend, and no longer show to work. They will also receive a commensurate wage.

 

SKEPTIC FILM "CLIMATE HUSTLE"

Global warming campaigners are not happy about this film. Obviously, they fear the film and what effects it might have on their paid misinformation budget, said to be mainly from the David Suzuki foundation.

 

STEYN VS THE BIG CLIMATE ENFORCERS

Losing the spirit of public discourse.

 

 

SMACKING DOWN RADICAL LEFTIES

The Dream Team of Steven Crowder, Milo Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers were at the University of Massachusetts yesterday as part of an event called 'The Triggering Has Political Correctness Gone Too Far'.

Before the event could even begin, easily offended social justice warrior crybabies began to bitch and boo at the conservative trio.

 

OBAMA'S ABSURD TOWNHALL IN LONDON

Conservative columnist and provocateur Richard Littlejohn poked fun at President Obama Monday after he hosted a town hall in London that was a bit heavy on the "diversity" and political correctness for his taste. 

 

NORTH CAROLINA VOTER ID LAW UPHELD

A federal judge has upheld the North Carolina voter ID law, saying there was no evidence that minorities would be harmed and that challengers of the law "have not established that … African Americans or Hispanics have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”

 

SAVAGE OCCUPATION OF SCHOOL IN PARIS

The 150 migrants have taken over the building of Jean-Jaures school since Friday as they seek shelter, electricity, gas and water. 

Authorities have labelled the takeover of the school in Paris's 19th quarter a "savage occupation".

 

SUPREME COURT BUSY AGAIN

Canada’s Supreme Court has again struck down criminal laws enacted by a democratically elected and accountable parliament, which were genuinely intended to reform our criminal justice system. These reforms were intended to re-balance our justice system to ensure greater accountability for offenders and to place victims in the central role they rightly deserve .

DESPITE ALL THIS "EXTREME WEATHER"...

...lightning strikes are obviously away down.
Seventh Canadian killed by Islamic Terrorists so far this year.

THE PROBLEM WITH JAPAN'S "CULTURAL HOMOGENEITY"

Desperately seeking an antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are exploring ways to bring in more foreign workers without calling it an "immigration policy".  Immigration is a touchy subject in a land where conservatives prize cultural homogeneity and politicians fear losing votes from workers worried about losing jobs.

 

 

BACK AT YA PUTIN

Two of the world's most advanced warplanes have touched down in Romania for the first time, near the shores of the Black Sea and just a short hop from Ukraine, the Crimean Peninsula and Russia.

The United States sent the F-22 Raptors to southeastern Europe two weeks after Russian fighter jets buzzed an American warship in the Baltic Sea.

 

 

GIVING TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO MILLIONAIRES

The Ontario Liberal government gave taxpayer-funded rebates to five millionaires to buy one of the most expensive cars ever manufactured, the Porsche 918 Spyder. 

Five Ontario drivers received funding through the province's Electric Vehicle Incentive Program in 2015 for buying the Porsche 918, which retailed in Canada at about $1.1 million.

 

 

AUSTRIA TAKES IN THE WELCOME MAT

Austria's Freedom Party swept the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, winning over 35 per cent of the vote.  Let the bleating begin.

ALBERTA FOLLOWING ONTARIO INTO GREEN ENERGY HELL

It’s little secret Alberta’s NDP government intends to emulate the Ontario Liberals’ green-energy policies – namely shutter all of the province’s coal-fired power plants and invest heavily in (read: subsidize like crazy) alternative, eco-friendly energy such as wind and solar.

The problem with Ontario’s plan is that it has been an utter economic disaster. Meanwhile, it has produced little if any environmental benefit.

 

LIBERALS: MASTERS OF MISDIRECTION

Last Tuesday, the Liberals shut down an NDP effort to review Canada’s role in the arms trade. On Wednesday, they invoked closure to ram through a bill moving Air Canada workers’ jobs offshore. On Thursday we learned they dropped a court case to require the Catholic Church to fulfill obligations to First Nations Canadians under the residential schools settlement.

 

 

FALLOUT FROM ALBERTA'S BATTERED OIL ECONOMY

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will hold what it says is the largest-ever Canadian industrial auction this week – a selloff of more than 10,000 items, including many pieces of idled equipment from the country’s battered energy sector.

 

LIBERAL FAIRYTALE PREDICTIONS

   The Parliamentary Budget Office has judged the Liberal government’s fiscal direction as being sustainable with the prediction that it’s on track to wipe out the federal debt, within 50 years.

 

ENBRIDGE'S GATEWAY RISES AGAIN

Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline may get a new lease on life as the Canadian government wavers on a planned tanker moratorium that was previously thought to spell the end for the project.

 

MICHELLE'S DISAPPROVAL

In an effort to destabilize the Constitution, disparage Biblical values, and chop away at conventional social mores, every year, Michelle  Obama “turns up like a bad penny” at historically black commencement ceremonies where she attempts to stir up racial divisiveness and gain political points by playing the victim card. 

 

PROPPING UP THE JAPANESE STOCK MARKET

In a shocking finding, the bank of  Japan is now a top 10 holder in 90% of Japanese stocks.  This is simply unprecedented, and confirms that some time over the next several years, the Bank of Japan will not only own a majority of the Japanese bond market, but will be the outright owner of virtually all Japanese stocks!

 

ADVICE FOR CANADA'S ANTI-MUSLIM MEDIA

Haroon Siddiqui: “Canada’s news media are contributing to mistrust of Muslims.”  He said the biggest culprits are the National Post and the Postmedia group of newspapers.

 

THE TRUE COST OF MEETING 2030 EMISSIONS TARGET

A new report from the Conference Board of Canada states that Canada ranks 14th among 16 peer countries when it comes to environmental performance.

 The parliamentary budget office has crunched the national numbers to find that Canada's emissions of greenhouses gases currently are on track to increase through 2030, with a cost of between one and three per cent of gross domestic product to ratchet emissions down to our existing international commitment. 

 

 

ONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER DEMONIZING DOCTORS

Several hundred doctors and patients gathered outside the Ontario legislature on Saturday, calling for the governing Liberal party to "fund health, not scandals."

The rally to protest spending cuts to the health care system came a day after Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced that more than 500 doctors had billed the province's health insurance plan more than $1 million each last year. Hoskins said one doctor billed OHIP $6.6 million.

 

 

DIFFICULT CONCEPTS FOR IMAM TO FOLLOW

A Pennsylvania imam who was fired last year by the Bureau of Prisons for his claims that author and Harvard lecturer Ayaan Hirsi Ali deserved to be killed under Islamic law for apostatizing from Islam recently led an interfaith prayer service after the ISIS attacks in Paris last November.

 

IT HAS COME DOWN TO THIS

But at the 9/11 Memorial, groups are forbidden from singing any song unless they have a permit.

A middle school choir from North Carolina found that out the hard way when they began singing the national anthem at the memorial. About halfway through "The Star-Spangled Banner," a guard walked up and told them they couldn't sing the anthem without a permit

 

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CLIMATE DEAL: SLUSH FUNDS FOR THE PLANET

MacKay chronicles a host of scams, superstitions and mass frenzies, including the South Sea Bubble, Tulipomania, Alchemy and Witch Mania. To this roster, some future historian may someday add the full tale of the early 21st century Climate Mania, in which a throng of politicians, United Nations bureaucrats, film stars and whatnot promised that if they were just given enough power over our use of lightbulbs, cars, planes, ships, oil, gas, electricity and energy in general, they would -- for the greater good of mankind, mind you -- arrange to control to within a few decimal points the temperature of the planet.

 

UNESCO CALLS ISRAEL AN OCCUPYING POWER

The ideological perfidy and willful ahistoricism of the United Nations and its affiliate entities was on despicable display again last week when an official resolution by a U.N. body  referred to Israel as an “occupying power” of the famous Temple Mount in Jerusalem, among other outrageous indignities.

As a large part of a broader, virulently anti-Israel resolution, UNESCO refused even to refer to the Temple Mount as such, instead adopting the Arabic title.

 

 

CHINA WILL INHERIT AMERICA'S MANUFACTURING BASE

  Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says that China is “celebrating” U.S. efforts to reduce its carbon emissions because “they will end up inheriting” much of America’s manufacturing base.  “Everyone is supposed to make a commitment in Paris. You know what their commitment was? Well, they are going to continue to increase. Right now, every 10 days China builds a new coal-fired power plant and they are going to continue to do that by their own admission until 2020

 

SIGNS OF DESPERATION IN THE BIG BLUE TENT.

...When you lower the bar for admission, you damned well have to lower the fees.

MUSLIM FAMILY THERAPIST ON DISCIPLING YOUR WIFE

The grave problems of equality in a marriage......

 

TUNING OUT DOOMSAYERS

Tim Ball on Earth Day: “If history's doomsayers had been right, we wouldn't be here today”.   He points out that the general public has tuned out scientists' dire warnings, and why this is in fact a dangerous thing. He relates the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to the fear-mongering greenies.

 

THE IRRELEVANT VIEWS OF OBAMA

US President Barack Obama has been accused of doing Downing Street's bidding - after he said the UK would be at "the back of the queue" for American trade deals if it left the EU.  Conservative MP Dominic Raab labelled Mr. Obama a "lame-duck American president doing an old British friend a political favour".

 

RUSSIA'S POOR DO NOT BLAME STALLED ECONOMY ON PUTIN

More often, Russians blame the West, the sanctions, the perceived enemies at their borders. Independent polls show the number of Russians feeling uncertain about their future has risen, but the sentiment isn't sticking to the president.

 

 

EVERYTHING'S ON THE TABLE

Announcing the launch of consultations with consumers and creators of cultural content, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly  said she is willing to change laws such as the Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, modify the mandates of the CRTC and the CBC, and create new laws or agencies, as needed.

 

PURGING CONSERVATIVES IN ALBERTA

The NDP is  sounding as mealy-mouthed as the PCs often did, when they claim this has nothing to do with politics.

 

DEALING WITH CULTURAL VIOLENCE IN CANADA

As Canada continues to welcome the highest immigration rates in our history, we have to deal with the fact that some newcomers bring along unpalatable practices that have no place in Canada.

 

 

URINE DIPSTICK TESTS MAKING ONTARIO DOCTORS MILLIONS

There are "a great number" of doctors who prescribe methadone for people with opiate addictions "clustered around the million-dollar mark" in part because they are paid $35 for a urine dipstick test that cost $2 to $3, said Hoskins.  "We found that in many cases physicians were earning more than half of their total billings from that one procedure," he said.

 

 

 

DRUGS FUELLING THE CRISIS IN ATTAWAPISKAT

Each winter in northern Ontario, a 300-kilometre ice road that connects Attawapiskat to the rest of the world becomes a pipeline for drug smugglers and bootleggers who conceal contraband in engine compartments, diaper bags, even in children’s ski-doo pants.

 

FBI $ DOJ AT ODDS OVER HILLARY'S EMAILS

The feud between the FBI and the Department of Justice over whether or not to proceed with charges against Hillary Clinton in the ongoing email investigation just took an unexpected turn.

 

SWEDEN'S ELECTED CLOWNS RESIGNING

A Swedish Green Party politician, who ignited a storm of controversy after refusing to shake hands with a female reporter on grounds that it violated his Muslim faith, announced on Wednesday that he was quitting politics.

 

EMPOWERING THE U.N.

Weather Channel founder John Coleman:  As a skeptic of man-made global warming, I love our environment as much as anyone. I share the deepest commitment to protecting our planet for our children and grandchildren. However, I desperately want to get politics out of the climate debate.  The Paris climate agreement is all about empowering the U.N. and has nothing to do with the climate.

 

 

NL GOV'T OVERSPENDING, WILL HIKE TAXES

Personal income tax rates are being hiked across the board, between one and three percentage points depending on income. Other tax hikes include a higher HST rate (from 13 per cent to 15 per cent), higher corporate income tax rate (from 14 per cent to 15 per cent), and increases to a host of other taxes. The government has even introduced a new temporary income-contingent head-tax that will cost Newfoundlanders up to $900.

            

$33.2 BILLION ALBERTA DEBT BY 2019

The combination of worsening economic conditions and the government’s refusal to change course on spending means Alberta will rack up debt more quickly, with a projected budget deficit of $28.9 billion over the next three years.  By 2018/19, net debt will reach $33.2 billion—about $7,500 for every Albertan.

 

THE DANGER OF PLAYING IN YOUR BACK YARD

A Winnipeg woman says she was reported to and investigated by Child and Family Services simply for letting her children play in her backyard. She also says the grilling she underwent from the CFS worker left her in tears.

 

SAUDI INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON MUST END

The 28 pages of a Congressional report detailing where the 9/11 hijackers got their financing have been classified for years, but what they contain is an open secret. Former Senator Bob Graham explained: “the pages point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier.” So why keep this information secret? Because the Saudis wield undue influence in Washington, among both parties

 

LIBERAL PLANS FOR YOUR WALLET

A new report by Canada's Parliamentary Budget Office refutes claims that a carbon price would ruin the Canadian economy.  However, the report says aggressive measures could lower GDP growth by 1 to 3 per cent by 2030. It could also lower the projected average Canadian income by up to $1,900 in the year 2030, the report found.  And what about all those years in between?

 

DEPENDENCE ON RESOURCE REVENUE

 Premier Rachel Notley’s government is seeing the least amount of resource revenue since before Don Getty’s government. Dependency on that revenue has to end.  Projected borrowing of almost $12.5 billion by 2018-19 is expected to push debt servicing levels to $2 billion a year, making it the fifth largest government expenditure.

 

 

THE SPECTER OF WHITENESS IN AMERICA

A specter is haunting America. The specter of white privilege, white supremacy and whiteness. What is whiteness? If you ask the radical education activists at the 17^th Annual White Privilege Conference, ”whiteness” is the source of all human evil. Also it’s the race of the majority of the country.

 

 

"THE USUAL SUSPECTS" PERSECUTING AGW SKEPTICS

It appears that Pawa,  Passacantando, and Davies, along with Al Gore, are trying out the new theory that going after "climate deniers violating racketeering laws" will finally silence people who criticize the notion of catastrophic human-caused global warming.  But rather than winning big with it, is this now a situation that will expose that it's been a clique of enviro-activists engaging in racketeering efforts for the past 20 years?

 

 

OBAMA'S COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM PROGRAM FAIL

But just over a year from Obama's White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, the programs are now admittedly a complete failure -- and publicly rejected by elements of the very communities they intend to serve.

 

VIRGINIA'S PARENTS BATTLING SCHOOL BOARDS

“School boards are best positioned to ensure that our students are exposed to those appropriate literary and artistic works that will expand students’ horizons and enrich their learning experiences,” McAuliffe said.

“Parents make decisions every day about what video games kids play, what movies they watch, and what material they consume online,” Landes said in a statement. “They should have the same opportunity within the classroom.

 

WINNERS OF THE JEFFERSON MUZZLE AWARD

Every year, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression (TJC) hands out its Jefferson Muzzle Awards -- an honor usually reserved for oppressive federal agencies that curtail free speech.  But this year, the TJC couldn't resist a riper target: the explosion of intolerance and anti-free speech bullies on college campuses.

 

BOMBARDIER: $BILLION BEGGAR

Canada will not give struggling aircraft maker Bombardier Inc federal aid without assurances on jobs, investment in research and the location of the company's headquarters, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

 

THE CREDIBLE DUFFY

Mike Duffy verdict: Judge dismisses 27 of 31 charges and finds ‘credible’ senator not guilty of the other four.

Christie Blatchford has an opposing view: Dark forces in Harper PMO no excuse for Duffy’s criminal conduct, Crown says in closing submissions.

 

THIS IS GETTING OLD

ANOTHER Liberal Minister plays  the “race and gender card"

 

 

NO SUSPENSION OF NEONIC REGULATIONS

Grain Farmers of Ontario is turning its attention to documenting the impact to farmers of Ontario's rules restricting the sales and use of neonicotinoid treated corn and soybean seeds now that the Ontario Appeal Court has dismissed the GFO's challenge to the regulations.

 

 

OBAMA IS NO FRIEND OF BRITAIN

President Obama is flying to Britain to persuade her people that their best interests lie in remaining shackled to the rotting corpse of the European Union.

According to one of his foreign policy advisors, he is doing this because he is Britain’s “friend.”
 

 

MURDERING COMMUNIST DICTATOR FEEL-GOOD STORY

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro delivered a valedictory speech Tuesday to the Communist Party that he put in power a half-century ago, telling party members he is nearing the end of his life and exhorting them to help his ideas survive

 

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THE MORAL INCOHERENCE OF OBAMA

Next month, Obama will be in Japan for the G-7 Summit. There are rumors that he will visit Hiroshima and formally apologize for the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on that city and Nagasaki in August 1945.

 

CHICAGO MAYOR EMANUEL HAS LOST THE PLOT

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to house the George Lucas museum near McCormick Place calls for $1.2 billion in borrowing.

 

SIGNING ON WITH THE REST OF THE POSEURS

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ceremonially signs the United Nations' Paris climate treaty in New York on Friday, it will be the same farce that occurred when Prime Minister Jean Chretien signed the UN’s Kyoto climate treaty in 1998.

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH TURNS 90

Slideshow

 

POT- THE CHOICE OF LOSERS

A study recently published in the medical journal, Addiction confirms what many have observed for years. Teens and young adults who smoke marijuana regularly, grossly underachieve in life.

 

BIG SCIENCE IS BROKEN

Advocates of the existing scientific research paradigm usually smugly declare that while some published conclusions are surely false, the scientific method has “self-correcting mechanisms” that ensure that, eventually, the truth will prevail. Unfortunately for all of us, Wilson makes a convincing argument that those self-correcting mechanisms are broken.

 

 

ONTARIO LIBERAL SOUSA CLAIMS HYDRO BILLS GOING DOWN

When in doubt, blame the consumer. We get dinged with higher bills when we use too much. And we get dinged with higher bills when we don’t use enough.

Either way, we pay through our noses for the disaster this government has made of the electricity sector.

 

THE HUNT FOR AMERICA'S VANISHED SUBSEA CIVILIZATION

The catastrophic effects predicted for global warming should now be apparent. In particular, many proud cities and towns that were thriving in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries should now be sleeping beneath the waves. As Earth Day approaches, it is time that the reality, or lack thereof, of such losses be assessed.

 

TRUDEAU'S DEBT TO UNION BOSSES

Canada’s labour movement helped buy the election for Trudeau whose massive majority was obtained with 39% of the vote.  Canadians sneer about big money in American politics. Here, the big money isn’t from corporations or wealthy robber barons, it’s from union bosses pushing their own agenda.

LOW OIL PRICES MAKE CARBON TAXING EASIER

Low oil prices from the middle east means bad news for the oil-based part of Canada’s economy. It is particularly bad news for Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The good news is that continued low oil prices make it politically easier for Canadian governments to impose so-called carbon pricing in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

 

GREENIES WANT TAXPAYER BACKSTOP FOR PRIVATE LENDERS

Revenues from Canada's multibillion-dollar clean technology industry contracted slightly in 2014 after six consecutive years of growth that outpaced the rest of the economy, says a new report. The numbers point to a sector facing intense international competition from a flourishing global industry. The report includes seven recommendations for action, including putting a "significant and rising" price on carbon and creating some sort of government backstop for private lenders to assist in financing clean tech companies as they scale up operations.

 

LIBERALONTARIO'S CORPORATE WELFARE COMPANIES GIVING BACK

Companies that received corporate welfare from the Ontario government have given the ruling Liberals at least $400,000 over the past decade.  Elections Ontario records shows some of the biggest recipients of taxpayer subsidies – including Cisco Systems, the Ford Motor Company, Toyota and Linamar – helped fill the governing party’s campaign war chest both before and after those companies got their cheques from the province.

 

 

NOTLEY'S WEASEL WORDS

Premier Notley says what almost everyone calls an 10.2% NDP tax hike is not a 10.2% NDP tax hike.  It’s an increase in the take from you for the province’s education property tax but it’s no damn tax hike.

 

 

NDP GIVEN THE BOOT IN MANITOBA

WINNIPEG — An orange dynasty stretching back to the 1990s fell Tuesday as Manitoba voters painted the political landscape a hue of Tory blue.  Brian Pallister's Progressive Conservatives routed Premier Greg Selinger and the New Democrats to put an end to 16 years of the NDP in power.

 

MUSLIM WILL VS THE WESTERN WAY

In the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West, one important fact is regularly overlooked:  one civilization has the will to triumph, but not the way; the other has the way to triumph, but not the will.  

 

CULTURE CLASH

Cultural difference surfaces in small town Canada.

WYNNE'S SELECTIVE OUTRAGE

In the pot-meet-kettle department, Premier Wynne has asked for a code of conduct for MPPs. This is a swipe at MPP Jack MacLaren, who told some off-colour jokes and has used some extremely bad language in riding events.

Hey Premier, look at your own MPPs.  How about a code of conduct that tells staff not to delete e-mails, tells premiers not to cancel gas plants, tells health ministers to keep a closer eye on Ornge scandals, and keeps operatives out of court over byelections in Sudbury?

 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG

Senior enforcement officials at the Canada Revenue Agency attended several posh receptions offering free alcohol and hors d'oeuvres paid for by groups and firms in the tax industry, typically on the sidelines of major national conferences.  The numerous tax firms sponsoring the events included KPMG - which the CRA has alleged for years ran a "sham" offshore tax dodge for rich Canadians

 

 

ONTARIO'S HEALTH CARE DOLLARS PAID TO USA

Ontarians with aggressive cancers and blood disorders have been dying on waiting lists because hospitals here haven’t had the space, staff or funds to meet the rising demand for life-saving stem cell transplants. Now the health ministry of Wynne's Liberal government has approved a plan that front-line doctors fear will create an even deeper health care crisis: outsourcing hundreds of allogeneic transplants to three American centres at a cost of more than $100 million

 

 

LIBERAL SENATOR COLIN KENNY'S ENTITLEMENTS

A Liberal senator is facing new questions about his use of Senate resources for personal business.

Radio-Canada has obtained emails showing that as far back as 2005 Senator Colin Kenny had staff from his office organizing renovations to his home and taking care of business at a tanning salon he once owned.

 

 

DIRTY BIG GREEN CRIMINALIZES CLIMATE SCIENCE

Big Green and its big Democratic backers claim that they are only targeting industries. Their goal is to bankrupt gas and oil just like they bankrupted coal, leaving Americans with no choice except overpriced and unreliable Big Green energy. But their targets aren’t just industries and the people who work for them. They have their sights set on eliminating dissenting ideas that make their fraud possible.

 

THE GLOBAL WARMING SONG

Cap this.

STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL COLLUDE WITH GREENIES

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda.

 

THE POLITICIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY

We are looking at a permanent structural change in the American armed forces that will not only weaken the nation’s ability to defend itself, but endanger constitutional principles.
 

THE CLOSED LOOP ECONOMY OF THE USA

The “closed loop” economy running from Wall Street to Constitution Avenue is a direct result of the incestuous arrangement between the federal government and Wall Street.  As the whistleblower in the Madoff case mentioned, “why would anyone at the SEC turn anyone in for violations?  They are all waiting for a job on Wall Street.”

 

MANITOBA NDP ON ELECTION ROPES

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger's New Democrats have been in power for 16 years, but have faced voter anger since they raised the provincial sales tax in 2013. That broke a previous campaign promise and sidestepped a requirement under the province's balanced budget law to hold a referendum on tax increases.  Polls are suggesting voters are ready to turn to the Progressive Conservatives.

 

NOTLEY COMMENTS ON NDP LEAP MANIFESTO

Alberta’s premier has some choice words for a new NDP policy document that made waves at the party’s national convention last weekend in Edmonton.  Among them: naïve, ill-considered and tone-deaf.

 

DOHA TALKS COLLAPSE

A dive in oil prices sent stock markets lower on Monday after producers meeting in Qatar failed to agree on a plan to curb global supply.  The pact fell apart after Saudi Arabia demanded that Iran join in.

 

TRUDEAU'S MORAL POSTURING

Justin Trudeau is a master of the moral high ground. “Canada is back,” he proclaimed, promising that we will once again be a light unto the nations. Our foreign policy will reflect our values. Our environmental policy will square the circle of sustainability and economic growth.

That’s why the Saudi arms deal is so inconvenient, like those pipelines. Mr. Trudeau isn’t against pipelines. But he isn’t exactly for them, either.

 

5670 PRIVACY BREACHES

New documents show that the private information of tens of thousands of people was mishandled by the federal government last year, including hundreds of taxpayer files inappropriately accessed by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, which was the worst offender.

 

SERVING THE NEEDS OF THE GERMAN REGIME

Steyn:  The German government has approved a criminal inquiry into a comic who mocked the Turkish president, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced.

By law, the government must approve any use of an article of the criminal code on insulting foreign leaders.

 

HE'S A DUDE IN A DRESS

Last month, during a panel discussion at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, I made the unexceptionable observation that Bruce Jenner is just a dude in a dress, and the social justice warriors nearly lost their minds.

 

 

"US EDUCATION TAINTED BY WHITE SUPREMECY"

Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group apparently is a big deal in educational circles concerned with denouncing “white privilege.” School districts all over the country spend big bucks sending teachers and administrators for indoctrination into White Privilege Theory

 

THE SCANDAL THAT IS THE IRS

But as I said, that Internal Revenue Service scandal is only the beginning of the story of tax fraud by millions of illegal aliens. Millions of illegal workers are filing tax forms not to pay their taxes but to claim and then receive refundable tax credits– that is, cash refunds– and those cash payments run into the billions annually.  The IRS collusion with illegal alien tax fraud is not a secret. Over the past decade, there have been regular news stories exposing tax fraud by illegal aliens– and IRS indifference to the scandal.

 

HOLDING SAUDI ARABIA RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11

The New York Times reported that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told President Barack Obama personally when he traveled to Washington, D.C., last month that the kingdom will “sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.”

 

TESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRESIDENTIAL POWERS

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Monday that tests the boundaries of presidential powers, confronting the question of whether President Barack Obama exceeded his authority with unilateral action to spare millions of people in the country illegally from deportation. The case, pits Obama against 26 states led by Texas that filed suit to block his 2014 immigration plan.

 

DELICATE SNOWFLAKES AMONG US

Blatchford:  What was grating, however, was the 10-minute introductory spiel, wherein several members gently reminded everyone that we were in a safe space, of their belief in fair and equal treatment for everyone, of the need for peaceful and civilized discussion, of the value of the human rights of everyone, of the approach to be taken (inclusive, diverse and affirming) and that the university’s “policy on disruption of meetings” was in effect.

 

NOTLEY'S WORDS OF ADVICE

  For the many Albertans not scoring a rebate to cover the extra costs of the carbon tax, Premier Notley has a message.

You can change your ways. Change your car. You can emit less. You can drive a different vehicle. You can make your home more energy efficient.

The NDP  “won’t repeat the mistakes of the past by downloading deficits on Albertans.”

No, the deficits will be downloaded on future Albertans

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TRUDEAU'S WASTE OF $10 BILLION OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY

Last month, despite continuing objections from hosting municipalities and numerous concerns expressed by the office of the Auditor General of Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne’s provincial government approved more renewable energy projects. 

The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers reports that, “adding wind and solar to Ontario’s grid drives CO2  emissions higher”, because they need backup from carbon-emitting gas plants.

Trudeau’s $10 billion climate change initiatives cannot change that fact.

 

AMPLE WIGGLE ROOM TO DO NOTHING

On that day, two decades ago, McGuinty said: “How can I help?”  The issue? The Ontario government’s timid support of the Special Investigations Unit when dealing with the lack of co-operation by Ontario cops.

The SIU needs its own statute and the government needs to beef up oversight. It also needs to allow the publication of its infamous Director’s Report, the written decision sent in a secret envelope to the provincial attorney general at the conclusion of every case when charges aren’t laid.

The Liberals suddenly seem intent on fixing things.  My opinion? Don’t hold your breath.

 

INNU IMPACT BENEFIT AGREEMENTS WITH MINING COMPANIES

The Innu claim the mines and other facilities have ruined the environment, displaced members from their territory and prevented them from practising their traditional way of life, while not giving much back to the community. For the band councils the almost 60 years of alleged damage is worth suing IOC for $900 million.

 

 

THE WAR ON CASH

Are these the sister's of the Niggerian prince that keeps e mailing me?

"HOW PRIVILEGED ARE YOU? " TEACHER RESIGNS

This teacher was only caught because a child was upset enough to bring in her mother, and the mother was upset enough to complain. How many more times do these abuses go unnoticed by parents?

 

SURPRISING NO ONE BUT THE LEFTIES

To the surprise of nobody but leftists, Governor Brown and the California State Legislature Democrats, jobs are beginning to evaporate visibly in the wake of California legislating a phased-in $15 an hour minimum wage.

 

FINING BANKS - WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?

Goldman Sachs has evidently bought their way out of jail, as did the others, with a headline billion-dollar settlement for financial wrongdoing leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. Case closed, we are told.

There are two things very clear. No one goes to jail, and the federal government and this administration has a pot of money that no one in particular is monitoring. 

 

SHOCKER: LACK OF INTEGRITY IN GAMBLING INDUSTRY

Casinos should be run by private interests, with the government’s role limited to regulation and taxation.That’s not the case in most Canadian provinces where instead, provincial governments run the booze and betting businesses, justifying its incursion into these realms based on “social responsibility.”  David Menzies learns that lottery corporations have been guilty of being irresponsible in any number of respects including using false advertising with regarding “odds of winning”.

 

 

IF THEY WERE CLASSMATES OF TRUDEAU'S CHILDREN....

The Rebel exposes the cover-up in Halifax, wherein the local schoolboard and some media are doing their best to pretend that there is no truth to the reports of refugee children slapping and choking Canadian children.

 

LIGHTS OUT FOR SUNEDISON

Solar energy company SunEdison Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy as early as the evening of April 17, nine months after its market value had reached $10 billion. The former darling of Wall Street and the renewable energy sector, whose rapid, debt-fueled expansion with solar and wind energy plants around the world proved unsustainable. The company's market value as of Friday was $117 million.

 

 

WOULD YOU TAKE ADVICE FROM OBAMA?

 It would be hypocritical of President Barack Obama to support Britain staying in the European Union because Washington would never share its own sovereignty, London Mayor Boris Johnson said ahead of a visit by the U.S. leader. 

Johnson is such a polite man; think of what else he could have said about Obama.

 

CIRQUE DE HYPOCRITES

“Cirque du Soleil strongly believes in diversity and equality for every individual and is opposed to discrimination in any form,” the group announced in a press release. “The new HB2 legislation passed in North Carolina is an important regression to ensuring human rights for all.” 

The world-famous circus, however, has not canceled its upcoming performances in the United Arab Emirates of Dubai. You know, the UAE, that bastion of human rights

 

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CONTROLLING UKRAINE

When Ukraine pulled itself apart in 2014, the world was confused over who was doing the pulling. Was the takeover of Luhansk, Donetsk and other regional capitals all part of a Russian plan, or a local movement? 

 

 

 

CONCESSIONS MEANS WEAKNESS

The Islamist mullahs of Iran are meticulously spreading their Sharia laws to other countries and cultures through various methods. If they cannot conquer the world with their military and convert everyone to their radical version of Islam, they will do it in other shrewd ways. Some liberal politicians are assisting them in doing so.

 

NOTLEY VS NENSHI

Premier Rachel Notley says Alberta municipalities won’t get an exemption from the province’s incoming carbon levy 

The levy raised the hackles of Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who said the City of Calgary will face a $6.5-million tab from the tax when it is fully implemented in 2018.

 

AND SO IT BEGINS....

The Citadel is reviewing a request from a female Muslim student who has been admitted to the military college that she receive an exception to uniform regulations and be permitted to wear a hijab.  Such an exception would be the first for the school – which was founded in 1842 – and the controversy surrounding such an exemption is palpable.

DEMANDING MUGABE STEP DOWN

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, organized a thousands-strong protest in the nation’s capital Thursday calling for nonagenarian dictator Robert Mugabe step down after 28 years of iron-fisted rule.  The more brazen signs read “old clueless Mugabe must go.”

 

RCMP REFUGEE SCREENING PROGRAM FAIL

Internal documents obtained by CBC News show that an RCMP program launched in 2011 to have the Mounties vet refugees for possible security issues was an utter failure.  Auditors found a raft of problems.

 

 

RESERVES DO NOT NEED A SYMPOSIUM ON COLONIALISM

Cheam First Nation Chief Ernie Cray:  “People can go on about colonialism, the Indian Act, poverty and the like,” he says, “but they don’t get down to brass tacks. People don’t want to offend, so they avoid specifics.”

And the specifics, he says, are these: “Not all is well on the parenting front, with addictions and mental illness. People are having a heck of a time being parents and their kids end up feeling ignored, neglected, and in many cases, abused.”

 

ONTARIO'S SOARING ELECTRICITY PRICES DUE TO LIBERAL CHOICES

Between the winters of 2005 and 2015, Ontario’s electricity prices increased by more than 50 per cent.   But why have electricity prices increased faster in Ontario? One reason is Ontario’s 2009 Green Energy Act (GEA). The GEA has contributed to higher electricity prices primarily through the creation of “feed-in-tariffs."

BUT WAIT!  Wynne's Liberals haven't finished picking your pocket.

 

 

 

AHHHHH, SPRINGTIME!

When smart men's fancies turn to thoughts of promoting...ABRUPT REGIME CHANGE !!
But China scolds, and Obammy does his ostrich thing, and Canada's little Bunnykins has (surprise, surprise) absolutely no thoughts at all about North Korea's failed missile test.

THE HIGH COST OF CONSERVING

Rule # 1 Always blame the weather.
Ontario electricity rates to rise.

ONTARIO LIBERALS BETRAYING AUTISTIC CHILDREN

What makes that all the more offensive is that it’s a pledge made to some of the most vulnerable in society — autistic children.

If ever there were a group that’s been manipulated, lied to and ignored, it is these vulnerable families.

 

IMPARTIAL GOVERNOR GENERAL SHOWS TRUE COLOURS

During last year's election, parties took firm positions on the rule previously introduced by the Conservatives that required women to remove face-coverings while reciting citizenship oaths.

While the victorious Liberals opposed the ban, polls in the lead up to the vote showed a sizeable majority of Canadians supported the ban. Several prominent Muslim Canadians also voiced support that face-coverings should come off.  And here's the GG implying this ban, with its broad support, was a small-minded initiative. Awkward.

 

ADMIT YOUR ERROR THEN FIX THE PROBLEM

Steyn: While David Cameron and John Kerry and all the rest assure us that terrorism is nothing to do with Islam, you can't help noticing that, in Europe, the less Islam, the less terrorism.

OBAMACARE LOSSES UNSUSTAINABLE FOR INSURANCE CO.

Insurance companies who offer policies on the Obamacare exchanges are worried about the financial sustainability of the Obamacare marketplaces and are looking for big increases in premiums next year.

If they don't get what they want, many companies will probably drop out of Obamacare altogether.

 

GREEDY SHYSTERS VS CLIMATE SKEPTICS

Oil and coal companies and conservative think tank organizations don’t need to be prosecuted for manufacturing doubt about ‘settled global warming science’, those who apparently tried to manufacture doubt about the credibility of skeptic climate scientists are the ones who need to be investigated.

THE MEDIEVALL FIEFDOM OF ATTAWAPISKAT

Attawapiskat is a broken town in Northern Ontario, about 2,000 souls altogether. It makes headlines at least once a year for a calamity of some sort.  One of the richest diamond mines in the world was built just down the highway in 2008. The band’s earned hundreds of millions of dollars from it. (Keep in mind: That doesn’t include the millions they also get in government money.)

 

TERRORISTS IN AFGHANISTAN

A spokesman for U.S. operations in Afghanistan said the ISIS threat there seems to be under control for now, but al-Qaeda has struck up an unsettling "increased relationship" with the Taliban.  There are six groups recognized as foreign terrorist organizations operating out of Afghanistan today

 

 

METIS NOW INCLUDED AS INDIANS

Canada's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that more than 600,000 aboriginal people previously denied special legal status by the federal government should receive it, granting potential access to new rights and benefits.

 

JUSTIN'S PEOPLE

Overloading the system. Make it halal also.

CONCENSUS AMONG ABORIGINALS REQUIRED

NP:  The Trudeau government has an ambitious agenda to move relations with indigenous Canadians beyond the Indian Act, judging by comments made by Jody Wilson-Raybould during Tuesday night’s emergency debate on Attawapiskat.

The justice minister, who belongs to the We Wai Kai First Nation in British Columbia, said it is not easy to remove the “shackles” of 140 years of life under the legislation

 

THE TRAVESTY OF ONTARIO'S BUSINESS SUPPORT PROGRAM

NP: There are any number of criticisms to be made of Ontario’s vast, labyrinthine, largely opaque and unbelievably expensive system of business support.

 

JODY'S ETHICS

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, under attack again Wednesday as part of a broader assault by opposition MPs on the Trudeau government’s credibility in B.C., has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the conflict of interest and ethnics commissioner.

WHINING ABOUT CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Bill Whittle is back with another Firewall video. This time, he's taking down the Social Justice Warriors, the first warriors to faint at the sight of a penknife. They have a new weapon to show off their unearned moral superiority: CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, in which mainstream culture steals from minorities without being "authentic." Surprisingly, Bill agrees with this, and has a list of grievances all his own...

 

CENSORING THE NEWS IN HALIFAX

The Halifax Chronicle-Herald published a shocking report that newly arrived Syrian “refugees” at Chebucto Heights Elementary School were beating up Canadian students.  Not surprisingly, the news story went viral. But soon the Chronicle-Herald started making changes to their story, taking out key facts. Then they just deleted the story entirely from their website — replacing it with a short note explaining that the subject was too sensitive. The Rebel investigates.

 

TRYING TO RUN OUT THE CLOCK ON A SCANDAL

Another attempt by the Obama administration to run out the clock on a scandal.

For more than 3 years, the Treasury Department has been looking into fraud committed by solar companies who received tax payer loans from the Obama administration. But they have yet to release their findings and Congress wants to know what the hell is going on.

 

 

CAUGHT OUT? INVOKE THE GENDER & RACE CARDS

The Justice Minister is the country’s top lawyer in charge of lower court appointments, handing out contracts when government needs outside legal work and charged with shepherding changes to the criminal code.  Last week she and her top policy person walked into the Toronto offices of Torys law firm for a $500 per person cocktail fundraiser. The NDP and Conservatives hammered away in question period Monday while Liberals insisted she did nothing wrong raising money from people she’ll soon be awarding contracts to or appointing to the bench.

 

BC'S PROVINCIAL DEBT $65B AND RISING

After putting B.C. on credit watch before the 2013 election by changing the provincial outlook from “stable” to “negative,” Moody’s last year restored the outlook to “stable.”

Coupled with continuation of the vaunted triple-A credit rating, the government is thereby ensured of the best borrowing rates for the not-inconsiderable provincial debt — $65 billion and rising.

 

 

A GUN SHOW WITH NO AMMO

Robinson was hoping to demonstrate his club’s fast-draw competitions at this weekend’s B.C. Rod and Gun Show at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds. Using wax bullets, shooters compete to see how fast they can draw their firearms from their holsters to shoot a target.

But council balked at having any ammunition at the second annual show; a permit was granted after organizers agreed to a ban against ammo and handguns.

 

 

STOCKMAN CHART OF THE DAY

If J. M. Keynes were around today, he might say "Hmm, that wasn't supposed to happen."

ONTARIO LIBERAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY

The Ontario government seems determined to gamble on costly new energy conservation programs without first stopping to weigh the costs and benefits objectively. As with the Green Energy Act, this experiment is working out badly, with Ontario taxpayers and ratepayers left paying even higher bills.

So, business as usual then.

 

CBC REFUSING CANADA REVENUE AGENCY

The Conservative Party’s national revenue critic is calling on the CBC to hand over its Panama Papers data to Canada’s tax agency, something the Crown corporation is refusing to do.  The tax agency has formally asked the CBC to hand over the information, the broadcaster reported April 11, but the CBC is refusing

 

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WYNNE'S $2-PER-VOTE SUBSIDY

A $2-per-vote subsidy for political parties appears to be on the horizon in Ontario as part of reforms to campaign fundraising in the province.  Wynne said some form of public financing of the parties has to be considered.

 

WHEN THE TAXPAYER IS WATCHING

Members of Parliament dramatically reduced spending on free air travel for return trips anywhere in Canada and also sharply curtailed hospitality expenses as the House of Commons expanded expenditure reporting requirements in the fallout over the 2013 Senate expense scandal, MP spending reports for the period show.

 

HEDGEYE CARTOON OF THE DAY

     I just love their cartoons!

FINANCE MINISTER'S PHANTASY NUMBERS

Chart 5 in the budget is a finance minister setting out a problem: The rich are getting richer while the rest of us are not doing well. In fact, the rest of us, since 2000 and especially since 2005 have been doing better than the rich, the exact opposite of what the finance minister would have you believe.

 

THE PHONY GREENNESS OF TESLA MODEL 3

There remains a huge question as to the actual financial efficacy of current all-electric car ownership/operation. That the recharging electricity comes from fossil fuels and the actual manufacturing of the lithium-ion batteries is done with fossil fuels, and the fact that disposing of depleted lithium-ion batteries is in itself an environmentally-hazardous activity, none of this matters to the Tesla-faithful.

 

BIG BUSINESS PROFITS BY THE POWER OF COERCION

What big corporations hate is freedom of the individual conscience, internally governed families, and churches powerful enough to stand up to the make-believe righteousness of government decrees. All of these things tend to generate independent action and thoughtful morality which can get in the way of profits.

 

WYNNE PETRIFIED OF PUBLIC INQUIRY

Premier Kathleen Wynne announced new rules Monday for political donations in Ontario, but the opposition parties say the Liberal government is ignoring their concerns. 

Brown and Horwath both said they were very disappointed after their meeting with the premier, which the PC leader called a sham and a farce.

"The premier is afraid of an open and transparent process to develop the rules," he said.

 

PIPELINES NEEDED TO FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

Justin Trudeau has told his senior lieutenants to draw up plans to make the Energy East pipeline and the Trans Mountain expansion in British Columbia a reality.  But the problem for the Liberals is that this conviction has to be conveyed subtly to a public that has decidedly mixed views on oilsands expansion and pipelines.

 

 

WANTED: COURAGE IN FARM COUNTRY

The theme of the speech concerned rural Canada being steamrolled by urban-centric governments with their environmental and animal rights agendas.  In reality, all this explaining, grovelling and spinning about the importance of farmers has had zero effect in stopping the onslaught. “It’s simple,” I told the farm leader from the podium. “If they’re not scared of you, they’ll run right over you.”

 

DEFENDING YOUR ISLAND AGAINST WIND TURBINES

The wind turbine battle heats up: Ontario Conservative MPP Randy Hillier calls for civil disobedience by blocking ferry access. Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington MPP Randy Hillier said municipalities need to be willing to be vocal and actively fight against wind turbines if they don’t want them.

 

 

IT'S JUST NOT FAIR...

...Russia always gets 1st choice when it comes to terrorists.

HEY, PSSSST! WATCH THIS!

I can make the dollar rise by a simple bullshit press release!
Canadian dollar "surges" in response to Stats Can release of dubious employment figures...
In particular, the 18,900 rise in net new jobs in Alberta last month seems ripe for revision, to the point where I am wondering whether someone added instead of subtracted when tallying that province’s result.
h/t Manitouwadge

BC GOV'T PAYING TO SHUT OFF HYDRO PRODUCTION

It cost B.C. Hydro $17.5 million last year to ask eight Independent Power Producers of biomass energy to turn off production because their power was not needed, a sizeable figure that B.C.’s energy minister said actually resulted in millions of dollars in savings for ratepayers. 

 

 

 

BEAR PRIORITIES: EATING & MATING

The Boss is back.  Grizzly bear No. 122, believed to be approximately 15 years old, is the largest, toughest and most dominant grizzly bear in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks.

 

OBAMA'S DELUSIONS

"After James Foley was beheaded, you went out and played golf. After Paris, you said it was a setback," the Fox News Sunday host said. "After San Bernardino, you talked about gun control. And some people wonder, do you worry about terrorism and feel the threat of terrorism the way they do?" 

President Obama pushed back by saying "there isn't a president who's taken more terrorists off the field than me."

 

CRIME STATISTICS FROM AUSTRIA & GERMANY

The number of ‘asylum seeker’ criminals in Austrian capital Vienna is on the rise, with a greater proportion turning to crime than ever, with nearly one third suspected or guilty of crime.