ENERGY POVERTY IN ONTARIO

Officials, residents and experts are all sounding the alarm after electricity rates in the province rose 100 per cent in the past decade.

RUNAWAY REGULATORS

Regulators have absolutely no interest in protecting industry unless the industry has political influence. Their regulations are never wrong, unnecessary or stupid. The regulations are always prudent and based on the best information. In other words, it is all about political spin. 

GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ROTTEN TO THE CORE

The European Central Bank’s debt monetization and negative interest rates, while obscuring the sorry state of the European economy, have only made it sorrier. Chronic debt issuance has left many European governments, and their banks, which own much of that debt, one economic or financial crisis away from insolvency.

Never underestimate the petulance of humiliated Eurocrats, or other poobahs for that matter. What terrifies the Eurocrats is the virtual certainty that the British economy will outperform Europe’s after the Brexit.

 

WHEN FOI FEES BECOME A SCANDAL

Ontario's information and privacy commissioner says the province should consider reducing or eliminating some of the fees charged for access-to-information requests. Federally, the fees that were being charged were $2.50 for every 15 minutes of time per person spent searching for records, with the first five hours at no charge.

In Ontario, the fee is $7.50 for each 15 minutes of search time per person. The same fee is charged for each 15 minutes spent preparing a record for disclosure, including redacting information.

With so many FOI requests of this scandal-ridden Liberal government, the fees totalled $545,698.00 in 2015 alone.

CAN'T EVEN GET A HANDSHAKE RIGHT

The three stooges show off their co-ordination.

 

 

BRIDGES & BRIBERY IN QUEBEC

SNC-Lavalin is once again under a cloud after the RCMP alleged the engineering firm made “bribery payments” of more than $2-million to a Liberal appointee in charge of federal bridges.

 

IS HE STILL A LIBERAL?

The federal Liberal party says it has settled a lawsuit with David Bertschi, a lawyer, who argued he had been wrongly disqualified to run for the nomination in an Ottawa-area riding.  Bertschi launched a lawsuit against the party, campaign executives and leader Justin Trudeau in the aftermath of a bitter nomination in the riding of Orleans where retired general Andrew Leslie became the party's candidate and eventually MP.

 

THE MOST EGREGIOUS INVASION OF PRIVACY BY THE IRS

Lois Lerner, the former chief of the IRS Exempt Organization unit and the figure at the center of the targeting scandal, likely broke the law when she transferred 1.25 million pages of tax-return info to the Justice Department in October of 2010.  Lerner's dragnet swept up thousands of innocent non-profits in an effort to intimidate them into silence going into the election.

 

BREXIT WAS JUST IN TIME

Just days after Brexit, the EU releases a plan for further expansion, an EU army, and Turkish membership.

 

KEEPING THEIR MEMORIES ALIVE

On June 29, the National Rifle Association (NRA) launched a pro-Trump ad narrated by Benghazi survivor Mark “Oz” Geist, USMC (ret.).

 

SKEPTICS WIN!

Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker agreed Wednesday to withdraw his climate-related subpoena of ExxonMobil, a stunning reversal that delivered a blow to the Democratic-led effort to prosecute climate change dissent.

 

FARAGE: LITTLE PEOPLE REJECT BIG POLITICS

Cameron flipped the tables and told European leaders he lost the EU referendum because they failed to address public concerns over immigration, as tensions rose ahead of looming Brexit negotiations. 

It  is Merkel's stickiness on freedom of movement that led to the victory of the Leave camp.

Nigel Farage stole the limelight when he was booed after he called on the EU to take a “grown-up and sensible” attitude to negotiations with the UK. He claimed the result would offer a “beacon of hope” to “democrats” across Europe and threatened that  “the UK will not be the last member state to leave the European Union.”

 

PM'S CUNNING PLAN SHOWS INSTABILITY AND SHORT SIGHTEDNESS

Mr. Trudeau promised in his election platform last fall to lift the visa on all Mexicans “immediately.” But public servants in the federal immigration department have said in the days leading up to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s state visit to Canada that Mexico does not meet all the visa-lifting criteria.

 

THAT'S NOT WHERE YOUR HEAD IS BURIED MANN

“‘Scientist’ Michael Mann says there is no need for statistics: You can just SEE global warming.”

Please allow me to translate: The best tool we have to scare people into supporting carbon taxes and regulations that would empower the ruling elites to control every aspect of wealth generation is propaganda pretending that bad weather, like hurricanes and floods are caused by an increase in carbon dioxide,

 

SYRIAN MIGRANTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK SCHOOLS

Syrian migrant men in their twenties — some with full beards — are being dumped into classrooms at Fredericton High School, next to Canadian schoolgirls as young as 14.

And the results are what you’d expect.

Sexual harassment. Bullying. Picking on the Jewish kids. Threatening and swearing at teachers. Talking about terrorist weapons, like rocket propelled grenades.

Demanding that men and women be separated, sharia style. Refusing to speak English.

 

THE STENCH OF THE UN

The UN, for all its trappings of democratic process, is a collective of 193 member states, of which the majority are not free. Their governments do not actually account to the people they pretend to represent.  The UN -- with its immunities, opacity and spigots of money flowing as an entitlement from the world's developed democracies -- is pretty much impervious to reform. It's been tried, over and over. The chief result is a UN that keeps getting bigger, not better.

 

DEMOCRATS ENSHRINE PROSECUTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTICS

The Democratic Party has officially become the anti-free speech party by adopting a plank in its party platform that promises to prosecute climate change skeptics. Dozens of organizations and ordinary people can have their lives ruined and think-tanks shut down, because the expense of defending oneself against these spurious charges is immense.

 

CANADA'S FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY TURNS NEGATIVE

Canada’s total government spending is now on an unsustainable path, according to an independent watchdog.  Canada’s provinces and other sub-national governments are struggling. A commodities slump and rising health-care spending has worsened their outlook, which was already on an unsustainable path.

INTERPROVINCIAL MIGRATION IN CANADA

The movement of people from one place to another, migration, can be a powerful indicator of a jurisdiction’s success or failure. On average, between 1971/72 and 2014/15, 13,238 more Quebecers left the province annually than people from other provinces moved to Quebec. Interestingly, though, since 2003/04, Ontario’s cumulative out-migration of 142,514 outstripped Quebec’s (−101,497).

ONTARIO LIBERALS BACKTRACK ON AUTISM CONTROVERSY

Children five and older with autism will no longer be cut off from government-funded intensive therapy, as Ontario's Liberal government  announced new funding Tuesday, but some parents are not ready to forgive the Liberals for the "misery" they endured.

 

REPORT ON CLINTON & BENGHAZI

Congressional Republicans on Tuesday accused Hillary Clinton's State Department of failing to protect four Americans killed in a 2012 attack in Libya, in a final report that contained no major new revelations but rekindled debate on the U.S. presidential campaign trail.

 

JUST ASK THEM TO STOP. THAT'LL WORK

The White House responded to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah scoffing at U.S. sanctions by stressing "we have called on all those that fund Hezbollah to stop doing so."

Nasrallah said Friday on the terror group's TV network, Al-Manar, that Hezbollah "will not be affected" by sanctions on financial institutions that work with the group

 

REFUGEE SYSTEM REFORM AT RISK

Changes made to Canada's refugee system in 2012 resulted in faster decisions on asylum claims, but an internal government study warns those improvements may now be at risk.  Targets for hearing dates and removals continue to be missed. The goal of getting 80 per cent of failed claimants out within 12 months of the decision. Just over half were actually removed.

 

 

STARVING CANADA'S RESERVE UNITS

Now, it’s radios that Canadian reserve units are expected to do without, probably until the summer of 2017.

The army recently took away the old radios because it’s replacing them, Postmedia sources say, but with the usual staggering incompetence, failed to synch the clawback with the acquisition of the new ones.

 

TANGLED WEB OF GLOBAL WARMING ACTIVISM

Dr. Tim Ball:  There were several actions required to create the tangled web of deception relating to the claim that human-produced CO2 caused global warming. It involved creating smaller deceptions to control the narrative that instead of creating well-woven cloth became the tangled web. The weavers needed control of the political, scientific, economic inputs, as well as the final message to the politicians to turn total attention on CO2.

 

SHOCKER: CUPW THREATENS TO STRIKE

A breakdown in negotiations between Canada Post Corp. and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) could see mail service across the country grind to a halt.

 

I'LL PRAY FOR YOU

Archbold relates a series of instances where even religious people are cowed into offering a “good thought” rather than a prayer for people in need, for fear of appearing to “impose their values” on others, anathema in today’s social climate.

 

BOOTING OUT THE ARROGANT PRIVILEGED CLASS

Long-developing cracks in the Western political establishment’s century-old paradigm suddenly widened this year. In the USA,  Donald Trump improbably became the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Meanwhile in Europe, the UK voted to leave the European Union, perhaps opening the flood-gates to more defections.  These  events share a common theme: populist and patriotic passions roused by arrogant elites have fueled a rejection of Western establishments and their un-democratic, autocratic, corrupt paradigm.

 

LATEST MICROAGRESSION: CHRISTMAS VACATION

The University of North Carolina has published a guide for the perpetually aggrieved that adds immeasurably to the number of words and phrases that all good snowflakes should avoid.

Please be advised there is no longer a "Christmas vacation." Nor can you compliment a woman on her shoes, refer to a "husband/boyfriend," or play golf.

 

$643 MILLION FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT ALBERTA

The NDP have formed a new provincial agency, Energy Efficiency Alberta, tasked with the job of supporting people in reducing greenhouse emissions, energy use and keeping energy costs down.

 

 

WHILE USA STALLS ON KEYSTONE PIPELINE EXTENSION....

The U.S.A.  “built the equivalent of ten Keystone pipelines” while stalling XL extension on “climate change” grounds.  By falling for the climate change ruse and allowing ourselves to be duped by a nation’s blatantly hypocritical government that clearly doesn’t have climate change and the environment in mind as they increase production and exports, Canada loses and we’re just where the United States wants us.

 

 

BREXIT VICTORY BOOSTS CLIMATE SKEPTICS

Prominent leaders of the “leave” campaign — including Conservative MP and former London mayor Boris Johnson, now being touted as a potential prime minister.  Climate activists fear the “leave” victory will distract the EU from climate change as its biggest priority becomes negotiating the U.K.’s exit from the 28-nation alliance and dealing with independence movements in other EU countries given new life by the Brexit vote.

 

OBAMA'S PITIFUL RECORD OF FREE TRADE WITH CANADA

When Obama assumed office in 2009, for example, Canada and the U.S. had been making headway with what was known as the “Beyond the Borders” initiative, a multi-pronged attempt to improve the way the two countries do more than $1 billion in trade every single day. But when Obama was sworn in, the whole thing stalled.  And despite eight years in office, Obama has not ratified one single new trade deal.

 

LESSON TO TRUDEAU: SHUT YOUR GOB

Farage:  “I mean I’d love the Canadian Prime Minister to tell you guys that you’ve decided to make NAFTA a political union, and that you are going to transfer all Ottawa’s authority to someone else, that you are going to have foreign courts overruling you,” he said. “How long would you last? A day? A week? And yet that’s what the Canadian Prime Minister was effectively recommending to us.

 

FORCED TO FINANCE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN USA

Illegal immigration was not created by business. Businesses cannot give them drivers licenses, government benefits, or issue unconstitutional executive orders as President Obama has. Only government can get away with those actions. How it forces you to financially support illegal immigrants in the U.S. is the real story.

 

 

BUSTED: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS CONSPIRING WITH ATTORNEYS GENERAL RE RICO

These emails not only showed that activists were secretly meeting with the AGs launching investigations, but that both parties were actively trying to hide their meetings through Common Interests Agreements and stonewalling the press.

 

BREXIT BLOWS APART GREEN RESTRICTIONS OF EU

Evidence is mounting that Brexit, and possible “contagion” of the British exit from the EU, the empowerment of nationalist movements throughout Europe demanding their own exit referenda, is the worst nightmare come true for green groups which had been counting on the bureaucratic authoritarianism of the European Union to bind democratically elected politicians to strong green policies. 

 

NOTLEY'S PRIORITY: SPEND $4.4 MILLION ON GREEN PROPAGANDA

Todd Loewen, Wildrose environment critic, said he thinks the NDP could’ve made better use of the $4.4 million by possibly spending it on roads, health care or education. 

“If they have to spend that much money to sell it, obviously Albertans aren’t buying it,” Loewen said. “They continue to spend money on promoting their agenda, and really they need to spend money supporting Albertans.”

 

 

TRANSCANADA FILES $15 BILLION NAFTA CLAIM RE KEYSTONE

TransCanada Corp. is seeking to recoup $15-billion for the Obama administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legal claim that highlights how foreign companies can use trade deals to challenge U.S. policy.

 

 

DOUBLE STANDARDS OF CANADA REVENUE AGENCY

The Canada Revenue Agency claims at least nine people have been convicted of offshore tax evasion over the last two years, receiving $4 million in fines and 84 months of jail time, but it is keeping the names of these tax cheats secret.

Yet there are dozens of people — carpenters, hairdressers, farmers, plumbers, foresters, realtors, architects — who are named and shamed on the CRA’s website for not paying small amounts of tax.

 

BREXIT ABOUT AUTONOMY & OVERBEARING BUREAUCRACY

But the heart of these trends is not a growing hatred of outsiders – it’s a feeling among millions of British people that they no longer have a say in their own lives. In other words, Brexit is about a human reaction to big, obtrusive government that has both literally and figuratively exercised power over many aspects of life from outside the country.

 

LIST OF POSSIBLE ZIKA BIRTH DEFECTS LENGHTENS

The full scope of Zika-related birth defects may extend far beyond abnormally small heads and brain damage. Research suggests that serious joint problems, seizures, vision impairment, trouble feeding and persistent crying can be added to the list of risks from Zika exposure in the womb.

 

MUSKRAT FALLS HYDRO PROJECT A BOONDOGGLE

As new estimated costs for the troubled Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador soar past $11 billion, the man overseeing it didn't hesitate when asked if it's a "boondoggle."  Projected costs for the dam and power house on the lower Churchill River near Happy Valley-Goose Bay are now $11.4 billion including financing. That's up $4 billion since 2012. 

Marshall now says electricity rates for domestic customers will rise to about 21.4 cents per kilowatt hour in 2021, before tax. That's up 6.3 cents from forecasts when the project was sanctioned, and almost double the 12 cents consumers paid in this province last year — potentially adding $150 to an average monthly bill.

Former premier Danny Williams, who championed Muskrat Falls as his grand finale before leaving politics in 2010, was not available Friday to comment.

 

 

NAFTA'S THREE STOOGES ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Mexico is looking to attract financing from Canada and the United States to help it meet greenhouse gas reduction targets as leaders from the three North American nations prepare to endorse continental co-operation on climate change when they meet in Ottawa next week.  From the comments:

"Mexico stole those manufacturing jobs from Canada and the US in the first place by not requiring the same environmental standards we have.  And now they want us to help pay to help them meet greenhouse gas targets? "

 

RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF COLLEGE DEGREES

Perhaps websites like Launch My Career Colorado might just help keep people from piling up significant debt while pursuing a masters in puppetry. With the warning, they might just realize that -- while following one's dreams feels awesome now -- a degree in that dream is possibly, or likely, a financial disaster.

 

 

CAIR TAKING CALLS TO MATEEN FAMILY

Counter Jihad is reporting that members of the media and investigators who attempt to call the father or other family members of Omar Mateen are now being directed to a lawyer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  CAIR lawyered up a suspect who was interviewed by two FBI agents at the mosque for about 30 minutes on Friday. The CAIR lawyer, Omar Saleh, also happens to be a longstanding member of that same mosque.

 

THE LEFT REDUCES VENEZUELA TO STARVATION

Venezuela needs 10 billion bank notes in its new inflationary economy, more than America, and it can’t pay for them. Or pay for anything else. It can’t afford to import food and it refuses to pay fair prices at home. Meanwhile eggs, at the official exchange rate, run to $150, McDonald’s fries for $126 and a pound of coffee for $85. Socialists may not believe in inflation, but inflation believes in them.

No wonder the people are starving.

 

 

THE BRILLIANT OBAMA

“There are entire continents, sub-Saharan Africa or the Indian sub-continent where people are developing rapidly, they’re getting connected,” he said. “They’re going to need electricity, they’re going to need energy, but if they duplicate the ways that we produce energy here, or have in the past, then the entire planet is under water.”

 

 

CLINTON'S SELECTIVE RECORD KEEPING: CYA

The AP noted that Clinton's calendar also repeatedly omitted private dinners with political donors, policy sessions with groups of corporate leaders and "drop-bys" with old Clinton campaign hands and advisers.

 

WORLD'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE LOSE $127.4 BILLION

For all the scaremongering and threats of an imminent financial apocalypse should Brexit win, including dire forecasts from the likes of George Soros, the Bank of England, David Cameron (who even invoked war), and even Jacob Rothschild, something "unexpected" happened yesterday: the UK was the best performing European market following the Brexit outcome.  Britain’s 15 wealthiest citizens had $5.5 billion erased from their collective fortune Friday after the country voted to leave the European Union.

 

 

BREXIT IMPACT ON CANADA

Trade in material goods between Canada and Britain is small and shouldn't be overly affected by the vote, Antunes added. But Canadian companies that have set up offices or subsidiaries in Britain to gain access to the EU are probably going to take a "wait and see" approach before making any further investments.

 

INCREASING OIL PRODUCTION NEEDS PIPELINE CAPACITY

“Today we are sitting right on the knife’s edge,” says McMillan, noting the country’s pipeline system has the capacity to ship about 4 million bpd, while oil companies are producing about 3.98 million barrels. In other words, there’s little room for expansion on the existing transportation network. And during the next five years, oilsands production is anticipated to grow by an average of 128,000 bpd.

 

CHALLENGING THE OSPCA ACT

A Superior Court justice has ruled that a constitutional challenge against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Act can go ahead.  Jeffery Bogaerts of Smiths Falls is challenging the act, saying it violates the Char­ter of Rights and Freedoms by infringing on one’s security of property.

 

BUYING YOUR WAY INTO HOV LANES IN ONTARIO

A pilot project allowing lone drivers to pay to use carpool lanes on the Queen Elizabeth Way between Burlington and Oakville will launch in September. The idea is not sitting well with environmentalists and the NDP.

"I don't like it," Lynda Lukasik, executive director of Environment Hamilton.  "It means people can avoid appropriate behaviour by buying their way out.   "That's what really bugs me about it. It gives a privilege to someone who shouldn't have the privilege, just because they can afford to pay for it."

 

DROP IN COMPENSATION FOR CALGARY'S EXECUTIVES

A tumultuous 2015 saw the value of compensation packages for executives Calgary’s top 100 publicly traded companies drop, on average, by about 10 per cent compared to the year before, according to a survey by the Calgary Herald and consulting firm Global Governance Advisors. 

 

 

GOOD WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

New salary disclosures from the Alberta government reveal that the head of the Workers’ Compensation Board took home almost $900,000 last year.  

Alberta 'Sunshine List' now reveals highest paid employees at boards, agencies and commissions                             

 

BREXIT: END OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

June 23rd will be the day that the British people filed their papers to divorce a global bureaucracy that buried national sovereignty in bureaucratic red tape. After constant failures that left many Brits without jobs and living in a nation being colonized by migrants with no attachment to British culture, enough was enough.

 

 

$46.6 BILLION ANNUAL COST TO UK OF HATED EU RULES

EU bureaucrats cleverly claim that the annual economic benefits to British citizens as members of the EU are $82 billion. But $65.2 billion of the so-called benefits stem from three unmeasurable and vastly over-stated items

 

BOWING TO RADICAL ISLAM

If there were any doubts the West is abdicating its responsibility to stand up for Western values, the amateur attempts by the FBI to cover up the Islamist nature of the Orlando attack, removed them.

 

MOONLIGHTING FOR ONTARIO LIBERALS

Through emails obtained under the Access to Information Act, I found one senior federal government bureaucrat moonlighting as a riding association president for the Ontario Liberals.

In fact, she has even used her federal government email address to conduct Ontario Liberal Party business.The woman in question is Val Trudeau,  the Director of Shared Services Canada. She's also the president of the Glengarry—Prescott—Russell provincial Liberal riding association.

 

SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES ON CAMPUS

Two professors at the University of Northern Colorado were investigated after students complained that they were forced to hear opposing viewpoints.  The complaints were made to Northern Colorado's "Bias Response Team," an Orwellian office on campus that asks students to report their peers and professors for anything that upsets or offends them.

 

 

WYNNE'S EXTRAORDINARILY INEFFICIENT & EXPENSIVE STRATEGY

Wynne's Climate Change Action Plan is wide-ranging, covering areas such as transportation, agriculture, commercial and residential buildings, etc. and represents yet another attempt by the Ontario government to micromanage the economy and the daily lives of Ontarians. Unfortunately, the plan includes a number of policy proposals that will come at a high cost and yield only minimal emissions reductions.

 

BRITAIN CAPTAIN OF ITS OWN SHIP AGAIN: BREXIT WINS

EU referendum results and maps: Full breakdown and find out how your area voted

 

TAKING THE FIFTH 125 TIMES

While Democrats were busy distracting America with their gun-control temper tantrum, Hillary Clinton’s server technician, Bryan Pagliano, was invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid giving testimony in federal court… one hundred and twenty-five times.

 

OBAMA'S AMNESTY PLAN BLOCKED

A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama’s immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation.   The federal appeals court in New Orleans said the Obama administration lacked the authority to shield up to 4 million immigrants from deportation and make them eligible for work permits without approval from Congress.

 

MODERN JOURNALISM:

Where headlines regularly grind against history....

ALTERING THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE

The Democratic Party is collaborating with a foreign billionaire who has repeatedly violated our laws by illegally contributing to elections here, in a project to achieve its progressive agenda by “altering the electorate,” according to an authentic-looking document leaked by a hacker of the DNC computers.

 

CANADA'S DECISIVE PM

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had no answer Wednesday to a challenge thrown down Monday by former prime minister Brian Mulroney to make some "tangible commitments" to NATO as it tries to deal with an increasingly aggressive Russia.

 

AG LYNCH: THE FOOL ON THE HILL

Loretta Lynch -- God bless her hippie heart -- believes that our most powerful weapons against terrorism are "compassion" and "love."

 

 

TRUDEAU'S CANADA: CITIZENSHIP FOR TERRORISTS

He was a ringleader of a sophisticated terrorist group known as the Toronto 18. He recruited, trained and groomed fellow Islamist extremists and actively worked on a plot to murder scores of Canadians, including the Prime Minister.

And yet, the Trudeau government is in a rush to not only forgive him, but to apologize for revoking his citizenship and reward him with the honour of being Canadian

 

 

PROTECTING QUEBEC'S FROGS

Quebec is hopping mad over federal intervention to protect frog habitat

 

WYNNE P!SSES AWAY ANOTHER $20 MILLION

Taxpayers spent close to $20M on an Ontario pension plan that never started and is now winding down.

 

WHY THE RUSH?

Experts are questioning why Ottawa and the provinces are rushing to meet a July 15 deadline to approve this week’s landmark enhancement of the Canada Pension Plan given that so many questions remain on how the reform will work.

 

TIME FOR DION TO GO

It is vital in this era that Canada has a foreign affairs minister who is able to speak compellingly and persuasively to the world as well as to Canadians. The foreign minister must also demonstrate sound judgment and diplomatic skill. He or she must not look a deer in the headlights, as unfortunately Minister Dion often does.

CPP HIKE AFFECTS CANADIAN BUSINESSES

The announced agreement to expand the CPP will basically be a form of payroll tax which, when it is in full force, will put further financial strain on Canada's already struggling businesses and on the middle class," said Perrin Beatty, CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, one of the biggest business lobby groups in the country.

GUNS, ISLAM, AND ORLANDO

Bill Whittle is back with another Firewall video commentary. This time Bill takes on the recent massacre in Orlando, which is not just another case of "homegrown extremism." Despite the shameful censoring of the transcript of the 911 call, the Orlando murders were just another step in the long, bloody march of [OMITTED]; another [OMITTED] responding to the call of [OMITTED] to commit mass murder In the name of [OMITTED].

 

CLINTON FOUNDATION SCANDAL FACTS

A hacked 42-page Democrat National Committee memo released on Monday reveals the dizzying array of Clinton Foundation scandal facts the DNC considers “vulnerabilities” for presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton

 

THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF CO2

This study , written by Dr. Patrick Moore, looks at the positive environmental effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a topic which has been well established in the scientific literature but which is far too often ignored in the current discussions about climate change policy.

COMPENSATING VICTIMS OF TERROR

An Ontario court found that the building — as well as another empty property in Ottawa and two bank accounts — is owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

And last week, a Toronto judge dismissed the country's arguments of state immunity from seizure of property and ordered that the assets be turned over to American victims of Iran-sponsored terrorism who have won cases against Iran in U.S. courts.

 

WHY BREXIT IS GOOD FOR THE UK

The City of London and the pound would both benefit from the U.K. leaving the EU, says billionaire Peter Hargreaves. Brexit may knock the pound initially, but it would rebound, the co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown — the largest U.K. retail broker, with more than $84.1 billion equivalent in assets

PROFESSORS IN THE CROSSHAIRS

In more than 30 years of experience as a university professor, I have observed that threats and unsettling behaviour by students have not only increased in the last decade, they also seem to be more tolerated by the administration.

 

LIVING ON MADURA'S DIET: NO FOOD, NO NOTHING

Economists say years of economic mismanagement — worsened by low prices for oil, the nation’s main source of revenue — have shattered the Venezuelan food supply. Sugar fields in the country’s agricultural centre lie fallow for lack of fertilizers. Unused machinery rots in shuttered state-owned factories. Staples like corn and rice, once exported, now must be imported and arrive in amounts that do not meet the need.

 

 

GREEN ECONOMICS OF $BILLION POWERLINE

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s open to the idea of supporting a new grid that would ship surplus B.C. electricity to Alberta to help that province reduce its reliance on coal.  B.C. power would cost Alberta more than twice what it pays producing power with natural gas and its own renewable sources.

 

MANITOBA MP WILL NOT ATTEND PRIDE PARADE

"Even without a scheduling conflict, my decision to not attend would be the same. I've been clear on this issue many times, and have made my position public on my values of faith, family and community," the statement read.

"Just as I respect the right of people to participate in this event, I am hopeful the event organizers will be respectful of my choice, and the choice of many others, not to participate."

 

COLLECTING THE AMOUNTS OWED TO TAXPAYERS

The Senate has asked Ottawa law firm Auger Hollingsworth to review the cases of seven former senators determined to have wrongly-claimed expenses and decide whether to launch further legal action.

 

SO, LIBERALS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT DEBT NOW?

The federal government is looking at increasing CPP contributions to prop up a middle class that's heavily in debt and has diminished buying power, Liberal MP Steve MacKinnon says.

 

 

WHEN RIDICULOUS IDEAS BECOME LAW

Reading the headlines the other day, I couldn’t help thinking that our country is headed for crazyland as more and more ridiculous ideas are becoming mainstream. Sometimes they become laws.

 

PATRICK BROWN'S MODERN INCLUSIVE ONTARIO PC PARTY

Courting all sides of the party has made Brown a "moving target" for Liberals trying to brand him, said Leone.  An attempt to paint Brown, 38, as a radical social conservative appears to have somewhat fizzled out and the party is now onto "flip flop" attacks and charging that he only stands for what is most politically expedient.

 

PRO-OIL ON THE OFFENSIVE

First Nations that rely on oil and gas extraction for the economic well-being of their communities say it is time that their voices were heard as loud and as often as those that stand in opposition to resource development.

 

THE SAFETY OF CHILDREN ON RESERVES

The Saskatoon Tribal Council has no plans to give the province files on the roughly 70 on-reserve children who receive its welfare services.

 

CANADA'S EYES IN THE SKY

A Canadian surveillance satellite will be put into orbit Tuesday, two years after the federal government scuttled its original launch because of sanctions against Russia.  Department of National Defence said the microsatellite will test new technologies to monitor vessels at sea.

 

DOJ CENSORING TERRORISM REFERENCES

  Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that on Monday the FBI will release edited transcripts of the 911 calls made by the Orlando nightclub shooter to the police during his rampage. One minor matter: the transcripts will be heavily edited.

"What we're not going to do is further proclaim this man's pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups, and further his propaganda," Lynch said.

 

BREXIT THE MOVIE

On June 23rd 2016, the British public will decide whether to remain a member of the European Union. Brexit: The Movie makes the case for Britain to LEAVE the EU.    h/t SDA

 

THE PERPETUALLY OFFENDED IN ALBERTA

A Notley target at the oilmen association golf tournament touches off a storm of protest online.       

 

WYNNE'S SYCOPHANTS PROMOTED

But a number that more accurately describes Wynne’s style of government is that more than half of all Liberal MPPs are now cabinet ministers.

Indeed, 52% of them — a majority — are now in Wynne’s cabinet, earning $165,850 annually, or about $50,000 more than an MPP’s base salary of $116,550.

Of course, the real centre of power in Wynne’s government is Wynne and her senior staff.

 

FIGHTING OVER CONTROL OF YOUR WALLET

  Wynne's Ontario Liberals are balking at the imposition of an additional carbon tax by their federal cousins, arguing it would distort the carbon market they’re entering into with Quebec and California and put too great an economic burden on Ontario businesses and taxpayers. 

Oh!  Now she's concerned about economic burden?

 

EDUCATING ELIZABETH MAY

“Maybe she’s been drinking again” — Elizabeth May insists ISIS isn’t committing genocide

 

 

PURSUITS OF A NATION IN DECLINE

Furey;  A man kills dozens at a gay nightclub in the name of radical Islam and Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne takes to the stage at a vigil and says “homophobia cannot be fought with Islamophobia,” absurdly and insensitively suggesting a moral equivalency between the two ... and yet somehow the crowd doesn't boo her troubling deflection.

Canada won’t go tough on ISIS, but our human rights courts go tough on comedians who make crude jokes. The list goes on.

 

 

HAPPY FATHERS' DAY

There’s a quiet wonderment in the room as Shawn Brown tries on his new glasses, which allow him to clearly see his entire family for the first time.  “It’s just pretty awesome, looking at my little goofballs,” Brown said.

 

OUR MORAL DUTY

It must be true if Pope Francis said it.

 

MERKEL HELL-BENT ON DESTROYING GERMANY

This woman is adopting Hitlerian policies regarding the freedom of speech.  This is so typical of the elites. They control policy, they control the media, they control the culture — but they can’t control the people. And this makes them crazy. If they could, they would change the people.

 

DON'T YOU WORRY YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEAD

The Alberta NDP has refused for months to release any study showing the economic impacts of the new carbon tax — things like how many provincial jobs will be lost or gained, whether GDP will go up or down, the question of oil exports thriving or diving.

Premier Rachel Notley deflected or derided dozens of opposition questions in the legislature. She and her ministers implied that even asking such vile questions denies the reality of climate change.

 

 

ARRESTED ON TERRORISM PEACE BOND

The interview was scrubbed and the questions were left unanswered — questions about El Shaer’s relationship with a notorious Canadian ISIL fighter, his repeated journeys to the Middle East and his apparent proficiency with false travel documents.    He somehow went on to travel to the Middle East three times — once with a known jihadist fighter and twice despite not possessing a valid passport and being the subject of court orders preventing him from leaving Ontario.

 

RAISING THE BAR ON EMMISSIONS

The Ford 150 overhauled

LIBERALS PLAYING POLITICS WITH GENOCIDE

“If you admit it’s genocide, you admit we’ve got to be fighting it to prevent it.”

 

LIBERALS VOTE AGAINST CANADIAN ORGAN DONOR REGISTRY.

It is particularly unfortunate that right after the Liberal caucus banded together to vehemently defend a bill about the lyrics to O Canada that will have zero tangible impact on the lives of everyday Canadians, they linked arms and quietly dismissed a proposal to overhaul the way our health-care system handles, promotes and studies organ donation.

 

 

BEING OFFENDED IN PEEL

This fight is nasty and getting nastier. The unrest in Peel seems to be built around the same old cops are racist allegation without data to back any of it up. It’s tiring and untrue but seems to be the board’s focus. 

 

USA-CANADA SOFTWOOD LUMBER DISPUTE REPETITION

Talks between the United States and Canada on a long-running dispute over softwood lumber exports have bogged down amid "significant differences," the two nations said on Friday, potentially paving the way for a fresh round of lawsuits.

 

IT CUTS BOTH WAYS

If Democratic attorneys general can pursue climate change skeptics for fraud, then also at risk of prosecution are climate alarmists whose predictions of global doom have failed to materialize.  The “cuts both ways” argument was among those raised by 13 Republican attorneys general in a letter urging their Democratic counterparts to stop using their law enforcement power against fossil fuel companies and others that challenge the climate change catastrophe narrative.

 

RAMIFICATIONS OF CPP REFORM

Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne contemplates scrapping her much-vaunted Ontario Retirement Pension Plan — a cornerstone of her last election campaign — in favour of boosting the Canada Pension Plan.

 

BUREAUCRATS' ACCESS TO HEALTH RECORDS

Ontario doctors are raising red flags about new legislation from Wynne's Liberal government they say compromises the sanctity of doctor-patient confidentiality and allows government bureaucrats access to their patients’ private health information.

 

INSULTING THE CANADIAN LEGACY OF VIMY RIDGE

There can be little doubt Montreal politicians knew what they were doing when they approved the renaming of Vimy Park to Jacques Parizeau Park.

 

 

RESPONDING TO ABUSE OF POWER

I don’t usually go for this sort of language, but sometimes, you just have to bow to the absurd, dive in, and say things in language that simple minded people will understand. Such is the case of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey who yesterday expanded the #ExxonKnew documents probe to organizations that don’t even take funding from Exxon.

 

EXPOSING MORE HOCKEY STICK GRAPH EMAILS

It looks like the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund just blew another wad of money for nothing. A long running court battle to get access to Malcolm Hughes (one of Mann’s hockey-stick MBH98 co-authors) and Jonathan Overpeck’s (paleo tree guy and ranter on Twitter) just came to a head with a decision.

 

LET ME DRIVE YOU TO THE AIRPORT

A group of Syrian refugees based in London, Ontario are enraged by how the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre handled their resettlement.

 

CALLING BULLSH!T ON THE PREZ

This doesn’t happen very often: the head of the CIA making a fool of his president.  But that is what happened yesterday as CIA Director John Brennan testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee.Whatever the reasons for Brennan’s honesty in debunking his boss’s claims, the nation is left with a commander in chief who does not want to see or act on the obvious threats we face

 

 

IGNORING KNOWN WOLF TERRORISTS

A lot of digital ink has been spilled in recent days following the horrific terror attack early Sunday morning in Orlando. But within hours, a predictable media narrative began to take root as news of the killer's jihadist motives became clearer. The media expressed uncertainty over whether he had been inspired by radical Islam.

 

 

TRY DOING THE RIGHT THING

The federal Liberal government is allowing hundreds of people who were infected with hepatitis C through tainted blood to go uncompensated even as it tries to recoup hundreds of millions of surplus dollars from a fund established for another set of victims of the same disease.

 

LIBERALS VOTE DOWN "FREE THE BEER" MOTION

"Every time we talked about the importance of opening up trade, they talked about needing to support provincial liquor monopolies rather than consumers. '

 

HARPER WEB PAGES DISAPPEARED BY LIBERAL REQUEST

In total, the documents tabled in the House of Commons show the Liberal government of PM Trudeau made 51 requests to Google between November 4, 2015 and March 3, 2016 to remove the government record of Harper’s time in office from its search results. 

 

 

AFRICA NEEDS $90 BILLION ANNUALLY TO GO GREEN

Renewables are utterly unaffordable.

 

FIVE MYTHS OF THE CANADA PENSION PLAN

From the Fraser Institute.

 

AB NDP: "YOUR KIDS WANT TO BE TAXED"

An amendment to the carbon tax brought forward by Wildrose MLA  Leela Aheer, sought to exempt school bus transportation from the new tax on everything. She was trying to spare rural school boards the hundreds of thousands of additional transportation costs that will be levied upon them

TRUDEAU'S WEASEL WORDS

Ambrose spars with Trudeau as Liberals “hide behind weasel words” to avoid declaring genocide by ISIS.

FLORIDA: AMERICA'S JIHAD PLAYGROUND

Malkin:  The home of the "Happiest Place on Earth" has been breeding killer jihadists and Muslim zealots for years.

UN: ISLAMIC STATE GENOCIDE AGAINST YAZIDIS

Their report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, said that the Islamist militants had been systematically capturing Yazidis in Iraq and Syria since August 2014, seeking to "erase their identity" in a campaign that met the definition of the crime as defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Now, what will the UN do about it?  Crickets.

 

WYNNE EVER GENEROUS WITH TAXPAYERS' MONEY

The Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne said on Wednesday it will provide up to C$85.8 million to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles FCHA.MI to help fund training and research.

 

 

NATO MILITARY BUILDUP IN EASTERN EUROPE

NATO prepares a veritable military buildup in Eastern Europe: German soldiers are operating in Lithuania, the British take over Estonia, and US soldiers move in to protect Latvia. The Canadians will be in Poland. Also in the Mediterranean, combat units are being increased. Russia perceives the activity as a threat, but hasn’t yet announced any countermeasures

 

 

INDIGNANT OBAMA

Obama appeared to have reached the breaking point, after repeated taunts from Trump reminding his followers that Obama refused to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism.”

 

STUNNINGLY STUPID STUDY

From the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Department of the “galactically stupid” comes this new spin coupled with a new buzzword – “climate connectivity”. Authors of the study claim a need for creating “climate corridors” for plants and animals to use to flee to cooler areas.'

 

 

YAKETY - YAK...

Yakabuski talks back.  But Paddy "Tiger " Brown is still missing in action.

KEEP YOUR NOSE OUT OF UK'S DECISION

Canada's finance minister urged Britons on Tuesday to vote to stay in the European Union in next week's referendum and warned them that jobs with Canadian firms based in Britain could be at risk if the country left the bloc.  Of course, his advice would have nothing to do with a trade deal between Canada and the EU that is due to take effect next year.

 

WYNNE'S DYSFUNCTIONAL SCANDAL-PLAGUED CABINET

When a government has been in power as long as the Ontario Liberals, it becomes important to mix things up every now and again, lest the narrative of who-screwed-up-what becomes a little too easy to follow.  Hence the cabinet shuffle.
 

 

 

SAFEGUARDING CANADIANS

In the general election campaign, the Liberals were vocal about repealing the “problematic elements” of the Conservative government’s anti-terror legislation.  In the wake of the carnage in Paris last November, and now Orlando, it is fair to say there is much less enthusiasm to overturn many of its provisions, particularly those that allow the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to disrupt potential terrorist activity.

 

TEAR DOWN PROVINCIAL TRADE BARRIERS

The Canadian economy is losing billions a year because of interprovincial trade barriers, a new Senate report warns after a promised March deadline for a national deal has quietly passed without any explanation from Ottawa or the provinces.

 

FIRST NATIONS VOW TO BLOCK PIPELINES

  More than 130 First Nations are dead-set against pipeline and energy development.   The rest are demanding an absolute veto over any proposed developments before they'll even begin negotiations with governments and energy companies.  "But you also have some other (First Nations) saying very clearly yes to pipelines.

 

 

 

CBC STILL WHINING ABOUT PM HARPER

What in heavens name can the staff or volunteers at the FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting be thinking to send out a fundraising letter via regular mail, dated summer 2016, bashing former Prime Minister Stephen Harper by putting the following question in bright red letters on both their envelope and letter:  Has Stephen Harper poisoned the well?

 

WYNNE CULLS THE GEEZERS

In a highly-inelegant process over the past week, we saw the Liberal Party tossing the old geezers overboard to make way for fresh blood.  There was a series of “resignations,” from older, whiter and mostly-male ministers, stepping down to make way for cabinet “gender parity.”

 

CRASHING: CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE SCAM

According to Sarah Westwood, a reporter at the Washington Examiner, fewer than half of the projects undertaken by the Clinton Global Initiative since 2005 have been completed.

 

TIME FOR HEALTH POLICY REFORM

As the single largest budget item for every province in Canada, it’s important to examine changes in health-care spending by provincial governments as they will have a considerable impact on other social programs, the tax structure, and/or deficits and debt.  While health care consumed 34.4 per cent of provincial budgets in 1998, it grew to consume 40.6 per cent in 2015.

 

SAUDI DOLLARS & AMERICAN POLITICIANS

Petra News Agency, reported on Sunday citing the Saudi crown price, namely that Saudi Arabia is a major funder of Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become the next president of the United States.  As a reminder, It is illegal in the United States for foreign countries to try to influence the outcome of elections by funding candidates. That appears not to have stopped the Saudis, however.

 

PLATITUDES & HASHTAGS WILL NOT STOP TERRORISM

Once again, international landmarks are lit up brightly in solidarity with victims of Islamic barbarism in Orlando, and social media are festooned with hashtags of sympathy for the butchered. Enough.  It’s long past time we broke the cycle of mourning our dead and started taking concrete actions to prevent more fatalities.

 

PETTY & PROVINCIAL LIBERAL POLITICIANS

For a domestic audience, Liberals who use the phrase “Canada is back” intend it to be interpreted as drive-by sneer at the foreign policy of the government of Stephen Harper.

But to an international audience, like the one at the security council Friday that heard Dion use this phrase, “Canada is back” will sound confusing and make Canada’s current government seem petty and provincial.

 

 

WHEN $BILLIONS OF PROFIT ISN'T ENOUGH

If you're already feeling gouged by bank fees, it may be time to check your statements. Almost all of Canada's big banks are doling out some kind of personal banking fee increase this year.

 

WHEN DISHWASHING AFFECTS THE MARKET

The dream of all these companies is to capture the all-powerful and elusive millennial eater, who just isn’t all that into cereal for breakfast. It’s just too much work, for one thing.

 

CALGARY BUSINESSES GOING BUST

Some City Council members point the finger at the provincial government for increasing the educational property tax by 10.2%, but it’s pretty clear that the city’s hands aren’t clean either when it comes to soaring rates.  City Council has increased property taxes three times faster than the inflation rate from 2005 to 2015 and taxes have gone up 181% within the same time frame.   And now, taxes are about to get worse for Albertans with the implementation of the carbon tax.

 

BALTICS ON WAR FOOTING

Leaders in the Baltic countries and Poland fear the force NATO plans to deploy on their territory is too small and symbolic to deter an attack by Russia, whose 2014 annexation of Crimea is fresh in the memories of the former Soviet-bloc states. They will this week press other ministers of the western military alliance to help them build an air defense system against Russian aircraft and missiles.

 

NAMING RADICAL ISLAM AS THE ENEMY

Obama's refusal to name radical Islam stems from two closely entwined factors—an enduring distaste for American power and deep personal shame (not that buried, but buried enough) of his own profound childhood connection to Islam.

 

USA'S OPEN DOOR FOR TERRORISTS

Visas are a component of border security. While much has been made about the need to erect a fence along the U.S. / Mexican border to enhance border security, an effectively administered visa program in essence, moves America's borders out to the U.S. embassies and consulates in countries around the world where the visa applications for aliens seeking entry into the United States are processed.

Most terrorists who have been identified, entered the U.S. through ports of entry.

 

UK SOLAR INDUSTRIES CRUMBLING WITH SUBSIDY CUTS

The solar power industry says it has seen the loss of more than half its 35,000 jobs due to recent changes in government energy policy, just at a time when solar power has eclipsed coal as a major generator of Britain’s electricity. h/t Maz2

 

 

OFA HAPPY WITH CLIMATE CHANGE PLANNING

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) is encouraged that the government intends to make climate change planning a priority. There are a number of incentive programs and retrofit funding included in the plan, and while specific details are yet to be released, OFA expects farmers and rural Ontario to be given equal access to available funding.

 

WYNNE'S $1.14BILLION GAP IN CAP AND TRADE

Today let’s ask Premier Kathleen Wynne and Climate Change Minister Glen Murray a simple question.  If, as they say, the cost of their cap-and-trade scheme to the average Ontario household is only $156 per year, where are they going to get the additional $1.14 billion a year they say it will raise for the government?

 

THE HARD TRUTH ABOUT ATTAWAPISKAT

Throwing more taxpayers’ money at Attawapiskat will solve nothing. Over the years, millions of federal and provincial dollars have been poured into Attawapiskat and flushed down the toilet. It hasn’t lightened the squalor. It hasn’t lifted the despair. It was squandered; misused more than used. The youth now know the outside world through their smart phones and tablets, and they therefore know their deal in life is not only unfair but among the rawest imaginable

 

 

CLOSE CALL IS NOT A SEXUAL ASSAULT

Blatchford:  Far be it from me to throw a little sunshine on the parade of such revelations but, headline writers to the contrary, let’s be clear about one thing: B.C. Premier Christy Clark, much praised for a recent piece about growing up female, wasn’t sexually assaulted.

 

WHEN YOUR GAMBLING IS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT

Ontario's gaming authority could yet be on the hook for a claim by victims of a gambling addict who ripped off more than $4 million to feed her casino habit, Ontario's top court has ruled.

In a split decision Friday, the Court of Appeal said the claim against the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation was not doomed to fail as a lower court had decided, and should proceed to trial.

 

THE PATH TO GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

The path to global governance is plainly marked, visible through all of the turmoil.  It is that turmoil, those “incidents” that are created and fostered by the governments that enable them to further constrict the noose.  The economy plummets in Cyprus and Greece?  Time to limit the cash withdrawals.  The European banks are having a “hard time” in places such as France or Spain?  Time to pillage people’s savings and their IRA’s.

 

INSURERS FLEE A FAILING MARKET

There is only one, lone insurance company willing to sell Obamacare policies to Alaska residents and they are in danger of fleeing the failing market. To forestall that, Alaska Republicans did the unthinkable; they authorized up to $55 million to prop up the market so that residents would not lose their insurance coverage.

 

 

OTTAWA DOCTORS' MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS TREATMENT

MS is among the most common chronic inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, affecting an estimated two million people worldwide.  New Canadian research led by two Ottawa doctors and published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday suggests the high-risk therapy may stop the disease from progressing.

 

CLINTON CRONYISM & CRIMINAL CORRUPTION

It has been widely speculated, if not proven, that donors to the Clinton Foundation who over the years have transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to the "charitable organization", bought political favors with the Clintons in exchange for their generosity. That has now been confirmed thanks to a stunning ABC report which reveals how a major foundation donor - one who previously had practically no experience on intelligence matters - mysteriously ended up as a nuclear weapons advisor to Hillary during her tenure as Secretary of State.

 

SCALES TIP IN FAVOUR OF BREXIT

Despite European Union elites, including some Bilderberg attendees, negotiating a deal with Turkey to temporarily suspend Middle East immigrants pouring into the EU until after the June 23 Brexit vote, UK voters now favor leaving the EU by 10 percent.

 

CANADA'S ORGAN DONORS

New Canadian research is highlighting what experts in transplant medicine say is their new reality: organ donors are older, heavier and sicker than they once were, a phenomenon that’s contributing to suboptimal organs for transplant.

 

MCCALLUM BOASTS AS REFUGEE INTEGRATION STUMBLES

In their mad rush to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada, the government has overburdened just about every aspect of its refugee resettlement system.

There were widespread housing shortages, forcing many refugees to live in budget motels. Refugees arrived with acute illnesses, overburdening our healthcare system and leaving many without the care they need.