GEERT WILDERS ON TRIAL. AGAIN

Dutch anti-Islam opposition leader Geert Wilders goes on trial on Monday for inciting hatred and discrimination, 18 months after he led a chant for fewer Moroccans in the country and called them scum during campaigning for local elections.

 

PODESTA'S BFF LEADS DOJ PROBE OF ABEDIN EMAILS

In other words, the best friend of John Podesta, Clinton's Campaign chair, at the Department Of Justice will be in charge of a probe that could potentially sink Hillary Clinton.

Nothing to see here.  Move along.

 

SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES AT NYU

An NYU professor who launched a twitter war against the growing trend of universities coddling students with "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings" has been pushed out of his own classroom for his "incivility."  According to a report from the New York Post, Liberal Studies professor Michael Rectenwald was forced to go on paid leave for the rest of the semester after his undercover twitter account, "Deplorable NYU Prof", was linked back to him.

 

SCIENTISTS WANT GREENPEACE TO LAY OFF GMOs

Many of the world’s leading scientists are disappointed with Greenpeace. More than 107 Nobel-Prize-winning scientists have signed a letter urging—oh, come on, pleading—with Greenpeace to end its worldwide opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Pleading not in the name of science, however, but humanitarian concern for millions of children in the “developing” nations who go blind, and then die, of Vitamin-A deficiency. These children, say the Nobelists, could be saved if Greenpeace did not block a genetically engineered strain of rice, called “Golden Rice,” that would supply the deficiency.

 

YAH, SURE...IT WAS RACIAL PROFILING

A man who successfully sued the Ottawa police force after a judge ruled he had been racially profiled is back before the court, accused of pimping and beating his teenaged girlfriend.

Jordan Noel, 27, received a small settlement from the Ottawa Police Service after his drug charges were tossed in 2011. Police now allege he made money by forcing an 18-year-old woman to sell herself for sex.

 

THOSE WHO COUNT THE VOTES DECIDE EVERYTHING

With the proliferation of electronic voting machines across the country, many are nervous about the integrity of our election.  Our government has assured us that there's no problem (oh, now I feel better).  They promise there's no voter fraud – just more crazy, conspiracy talk.  Of course, they've been proven wrong again and again with the voting dead, absentee ballots, and yes, machines switching votes.

 

BRAZILE SENT HILLARY DEBATE QUESTIONS

CNN commentator Donna Brazile, who is now the chair of the Democratic National Committee, had been caught again passing debate questions from the network to the Clinton campaign during the Democratic primary.

Brazile had been exposed earlier doing the same — passing a question to the Clinton campaign in advance of a town hall debate against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

CNN fired Brazile on Monday.  Why didn't Hillary report Brazile?

 

THE TWO-FACED SPLIT-TONGUED POLITICIAN

Hillary Clinton isn't just a nasty woman. She's a ruthless hatemonger devoted wholly to two corrupt pursuits while on the federal teat: tearing down and cashing in.

To clueless millennials, “bimbo eruptions” might sound like a Trumpism. But it was vintage Team Hillary's misogynistic moniker for Slick Willie's accuser outbreaks in the 1990s.

 

MAJORITY OF ALBERTANS OPPOSED TO CARBON LEVY

Notley is now linking the carbon tax to the so-called social license needed to ensure the go-ahead for new cross-Canada pipeline construction, and thereby our own province’s economic future.

So if the feds say no to the proposed Trans Mountain expansion in a few weeks, or invent enough so-called conditions that the project dies a lingering death regardless, then where will that leave Notley? It will leave her and her government looking like dead ducks even before we start paying lots more for everything with the carbon levy. Yes, then, go ahead; try trusting a Liberal prime minster whose home base is in Quebec to do the right thing for Alberta and thereby save your political hide.

 

INVESTIGATING MONSEF

A government file has been opened to investigate Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef for possible citizenship fraud, the Sun has learned. An investigation of this type could lead to a number of outcomes, including possible citizenship revocation.

 

AMERICA'S MOMENT OF TRUTH

Pat Condell:  America is at a crossroads. 

Finally a real choice. The American way, or the European way?

h/t SDA

 

THE PLAGUE OF PUTIN

Our chilling dispatch from a small town in Estonia where residents speak of World War Three and the hundreds of Russian tanks which could invade them at any given time.

CHINA'S STAGGERING DEBT

Debt in China has grown by US$4.5 trillion over the past 12 months, by far the highest amount of debt creation globally as compared to US$2.2 trillion in the US, US$870 billion in Japan and US$550 billion in the euro area. Indeed, China on its own has added more debt that the USA, Japan and the euro combined. 

 

OPEC & NON-OPEC ON LIMITING OUTPUT LEVELS

Non-OPEC producers made no specific commitment on Saturday to join the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in limiting oil output levels to prop up prices - a stance that suggested they wanted OPEC to solve its differences first.

Officials and experts from OPEC countries and non-OPEC nations including Azerbaijan, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Oman and Russia met for consultations in Vienna on Saturday and only agreed to meet again in November before a scheduled regular OPEC meeting on Nov. 30, they said in a statement.

 

TENT CITIES NOW CONSIDERED AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Coming soon to Ontario, as residents can't pay their hydro bills? (audio cast)

Vancouver already his its own tent city.

 

A PROSTHETIC HAND THAT CAN FEEL

Igor Spetic, 49, lost his right hand in a work related accident five years ago. But on Oct. 9, he got to bring home an innovative prosthetic hand for the first time, one that not only has more precise gripping, but gives him back his sense of touch.

 

THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS

Paris, the capital of France, is often called La Ville Lumière (meaning ‘The City of Light’), however, beneath this bustling European city of 12 million people, lies a dark subterranean world holding the remains of 6 million of its former inhabitants. These are the Paris Catacombs: a network of old caves, quarries and tunnels stretching hundreds of miles, and seemingly lined with the bones of the dead.

BOOGITY BOO!

 

TURKEY'S ERDOGAN TIGHTENING THE CLAMPS FURTHER

   Turkish authorities have dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating the failed coup in July.

    Thousands of academics, teachers and health workers were among those removed through a new emergency rule decree published on the Official Gazette late on Saturday while 15 media outlets, almost all of which reported from the largely Kurdish southeast, were shut down.

 

 

SEETHING RAGE OF FBI AGENTS

  The former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph DiGenova gave a stark assessment of what led to FBI Director James Comey’s recent decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, after an investigation into Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal led to the discovery of thousands of emails on the computer of Weiner’s estranged wife, top Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.

 The picture painted by DiGenova, based on what he says are discussions with current and former FBI agents, is one of “seething” rage inside the Bureau at the way Comey handled the investigation concerning Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Mr. DiGenova eviscerated the way Comey conducted his investigation and explained that he believes it has tarnished the FBI director’s reputation permanently.

 

THE VOTING DEAD OF CHICAGO

Chicago investigators have found 119 deceased residents who apparently voted 229 times after their burial.

 According to CBS 2 Chicago, many dead Chicagoans are never removed from voter rolls. After combining Chicago Board of Election voter histories and the Social Security Administration’s death master file, they found more than one hundred instances of dead Chicagoans who apparently voted years after their verified deaths. 

 

HMCS ONTARIO HEADING FOR THE ICEBERG

Lawrence Solomon: Ontario is headed for a fatal future and only ending the renewable deals can prevent it.  Ontario was once the engine of the Canadian economy, a Triple-A-rated powerhouse commanding more than 40 per cent of the country’s GDP. Today this once-proud place is a have-not province whose credit rating is near the bottom of the pack, a loser that collects subsidies from the rest of the country.

Ontario lost its lustrous Triple-A credit rating when Ontario Hydro went out of control, ending the province’s low-price advantage, making industry uncompetitive and sinking the province in a morass of debt.

 

 

"ONTARIO HAS THE WORST ENERGY MARKET IN THE WORLD"

Is Premier Wynne's deal to buy hydro-generated electricity from Quebec about phasing out use of modern, efficient natural gas power plants in Ontario?

Let's look at the background that shows this is just another view of the latest Liberal Wynnedoggle that has cost Ontarians so much:

On Friday, March 4th, 2016, Ontario Power Generation released a report that in 2015 and 2014 OPG spilled or diverted water at our Ontario hydro-electric dams that would have produced roughly 3.2 Terawatts hours of power to fully supply 350,000 homes in each year; and, yes, we paid for this non-produced power...

 

SHOULD NEVER PAY TO ACCESS POLITICIANS

   Caught in the middle of a perfect “pay to play” storm this week, the government needs to find a safe harbour. The catchy slogan (also known as “cash for access”), which suggests money is exchanged for favours, or access to government officials, is a high-profile issue on both sides of our border.

    Serious allegations that donations to the Clinton Foundation functioned as a doorway to Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary of State, have found similar resonance in Ontario, as Premier Kathleen Wynne struggles with overdue legislation to tighten up Ontario’s political fundraising rules. With awkward timing, the federal Minister of Finance wandered into the eye of the storm by scheduling several fundraisers, one of which is to be held in a private Toronto house owned by a businessman whose company lobbies the Department of Finance.

 

CONSERVATIVE MERGER IN ALBERTA UNLIKELY

Red Deer — If the Wildrose Party’s polling numbers are correct, a merger between Alberta’s two conservative parties looks increasingly unlikely. 

Speaking with Postmedia during the Wildrose convention Saturday, leader Brian Jean said his party’s grassroots membership has become much less receptive to the idea over the last few months.

 

ONE POINT SEPARATING TRUMP & HILLARY IN TRACKING POLL

A slim point separates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll results, cementing Trump's resurgence in the past week and marking the potentially critical role of turnout in the election’s outcome.

The race stands at 46-45 percent, Clinton-Trump, in the latest results.

 

CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES WANT EXEMPTIONS FROM CETA

There is  controversy over so-called “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” provisions in CETA.  These provisions provide for ways a company from here, if it sets up shop over there, to seek legal redress if the Government of Over There changes its laws in a way that hurts our company’s competitive situation. Sauce for the gander: they give the same rights to companies from over there that want to do business here.

I don’t need to speculate how people would react to all this. Many obviously don’t like it. Already four years ago, 50 municipalities across Canada had passed resolutions asking to be exempted from CETA.

This could mean trouble for the Trudeau government on another front. Next week Finance Minister Bill Morneau will announce plans to attract private investment in federal infrastructure projects. The goal is to multiply each federal dollar by four or five, using money from, mostly, pension funds.

 

 

 

TRUDEAU'S LOVE-IN WITH MILLENIALS WON'T LAST

What millennials need most of all are deep structural reforms to our retirement system.  The steeply rising costs of health care and benefits for retired boomers will be a huge drag on the economy.  The solutions are obvious: encourage people to prolong their working lives, gradually increase the eligibility age for retirement benefits, and introduce more means testing for benefits - including health care - that flow to the affluent.

But that would take real guts and heavy lifting.

 

WILDROSE WOULD END ALBERTA'S CARBON TAX

Wildrose party members have given Official Opposition Leader Brian Jean a mandate to fight Alberta's looming carbon tax.

Party rank and file, voting at the annual general meeting in Red Deer on Saturday, overwhelmingly endorsed a change to the policy manual in order to promise the Wildrose will repeal the $3-billion-a-year tax should it win power.

 

 

POLITICAL PARTIES COLLECTING CITIZENS' DATA

As Parliament considers peering into political parties’ collection and use of sensitive personal information about citizens, those parties are busy developing more powerful and sophisticated tools to track voter data.

Canada has virtually no rules governing how political parties collect, use and share information about voters they meet on the doorstep, hear from on issues, or observe on social media.

 

TESLA'S MUSK SHORT ON ANSWERS

By incorporating solar modules into rooftops, Tesla is hoping to succeed with a solar technology that to date has had little success. Just this year, Dow Chemical said it would stop selling a solar shingle it launched five years ago.

Another green energy bullsh!tter.

 

OBAMA BLAMES MEDIA FOR OBAMACARE FAILURE

President Obama told activists on a conference call that it was negative coverage of Obamacare premium spikes that has dampened the enthusiasm of the public to sign up for health insurance.

The president's own Department of Health and Human Services informed the public this week that Obamacare premiums were set to skyrocket 22% on average with some states seeing up to 116% increase.

 

 

AG LYNCH REFUSES QUESTIONS ABOUT IRAN RANSOM

Congress wants to know what role Attorney General Loretta Lynch played in the transfer of $1.7 billion to Iran in exchange for our hostages but the AG, in effect, is taking the fifth.

 

 

EXPOSING CANADA'S LARGEST IMMIGRATION SCAM

The details of one of Canada's largest immigration scams were laid bare at a sentencing hearing Friday for three Richmond women who helped hundreds of Chinese applicants lie and cheat their way to permanent residency and citizenship.

 

SELECTIVE HEARING OF LIBERALS

How does a government suddenly go tone deaf?

It’s as if the Liberal cabinet was frolicking along among its doting public when an explosion went off at close range, rattling their hearing.

 

QUESTIONING EQUALIZATION PAYMENTS

Brian Jean:  Why should Albertans continue to pay into a system that subsidizes cheap daycare and tuition for Quebec, while Quebec politicians actively engage in blocking critical pipeline infrastructure for our province? Why has Canada maintained an equalization system that has failed to encourage growth for the so-called beneficiaries for almost 50 years?

And finally, why do have-not provinces get to enjoy the wealth of Alberta’s energy sector while intentionally blocking the development of natural resources in their home provinces?

 

CETA DEAL NOT A VICTORY FOR CANADA

 A Belgian region’s decision to let the Canada-European Union trade deal go forward is being portrayed as victory for Canada. It is not.

The deal as written contains a fundamental imbalance. European firms would be able to challenge, at special investment courts, Canadian laws and regulations that interfere with profit-making.

But Canadian firms would have the same rights only in those EU countries that specifically allow such challenges.

 

LIBERAL CRYBULLY STYMIED IN COURT

An Ontario court shot down a bid by an aide to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty facing charges in the gas plant scandal to launch a misconduct hearing against an OPP officer involved in the investigation.

Laura Miller, who is charged in regard to the alleged destruction of government documents in connection with the scandal, filed a complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director in September 2014

 

DROPPING MID-ELECTION BOMBSHELLS

On Friday, the Hillary Clinton campaign’s election endgame was upended by the FBI’s announcement of new emails they would have to consider as part of the formerly shuttered criminal investigation into Clinton’s private email servers. Nearly 11 years ago in Ottawa, RCMP announced a surprise criminal probe that reached into the finance minister’s office, smack in the middle of the 2006 federal election campaign—the one that denied the Liberals a fifth term in office.

 

THE LAURIER CLUB: EXCLUSIVE GROUP OF LIBERALS

Under Canadian political financing law, each individual donor can only give $1,525 per year, for all political parties and candidates.

Those who have contributed at least $1,500 are members of the elite Laurier Club, the Liberal party's exclusive group for their top-tier donors.

According to the Liberal website, becoming a member of the club will get you "invitations to exclusive Laurier Club events across the country, attended by prominent members of the Liberal Party" and "insider updates and briefings."

Nothing to see here.  Move along.

 

TELLING MCKENNA TO BACK OFF

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was forced to overrule her bureaucrats who seemed to be trying to put a muzzle on any MPs, First Nations leaders, NGO representatives or others who wished to be part of the official Canadian delegation to the annual United Nations climate change conference.

McKenna sent a new invitation to potential delegates including to Ed Fast.  She tells Fast that he will be receiving an amended version of a “Canadian Delegation Agreement” — a new set of terms he will have to agree to if he chooses to accept the invitation to join McKenna’s delegation.

 

GETTING THEIR LIES STRAIGHT

Obama had offered his usual denial claiming to have only learned about the scandal from the media. The revelation that Hillary had emailed Obama from her illegal address would show that he had lied. But meanwhile his people struggled to reinvent his lie by claiming that while he knew about her illegal address, he didn’t know that it was illegal. This put his lie in line with Hillary’s lie.

 

H CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION PART II

Steyn:  The 6' 8" gummi worm who runs the FBI has been shamed by some guy holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London into reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. I suppose if you've run one sham investigation there's no harm in running a second. Happily for Hillary, the media seem more interested in a Helsinki tabloid's report that a former Miss Finland is claiming to have been "groped" by Donald Trump.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRUDE OIL PRICES

CALGARY  — The recent jump in oil prices, almost doubling since February, has eliminated the urgency for deal-making in the Alberta oilpatch.

Steve Williams, Suncor Energy Inc.’s president and CEO, said Thursday that expectations his company would dip into its considerable available capital to strike more deals were “overcooked.” He said recent improvement in crude prices, flirting with US$50 per barrel, has reduced the need for some companies to sell assets.

 

COMPARING HYDRO BILL RIP-OFFS IN ONTARIO

With hydro prices on the rise, the Ontario government has been dogged with complaints, particularly from rural residents. Amid the turmoil, Postmedia Network checked in with five ratepayers across Ontario to see how much they pay — and what they're doing to pay less.

 

SURGE IN VOTING FRAUD IN USA

Mounting evidence would suggest it's getting more and more difficult for the left to claim that there are "no signs" of fraud in the 2016 election cycle...though we're sure they will continue to try.  Just this morning the Miami Herald noted that two arrests were made in Miami-Dade county on election fraud charges including efforts by one woman to illegally register voters (some of whom were dead...a recurring theme this election cycle) while another 74-year-old election worker was charged with actually "illegally marking ballots".

 

COMPARING COUNTRIES WITH UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2016 finds that, among comparable countries with universal health care, Canada is the third highest spender but our performance ranks modest-to-low. Notably, Canada ranks 24 out of 28 countries for the number of physicians (2.59 per 1,000 people), and at the bottom for wait times.

 

CMHC FINALLY WAKES UP

There is growing evidence of risk in the country's real estate markets as home prices have climbed faster than income and population growth, a report by Canada's federal housing agency says.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. increased its risk rating for the national housing market on Wednesday to strong, from a moderate rating that it gave in July.

 

CPP A DRAG ON THE ECONOMY

A deal to give Canadians bigger payouts under the Canada Pension Plan will hurt the economy longer than the government has previously disclosed.  CBC News has learned that internal Finance Department projections show the recent agreement between Ottawa and the provinces will act as a drag on the economy until 2030.

 

TRUDEAU'S CARBON TAX IS GOING TO HURT

I’ve just returned from Vancouver. If other Canadians want a taste of what life will be like all across the country once Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is fully implemented by 2022, take a trip to the Left Coast.

Albertans will get an even earlier taste this coming New Year’s Day when the province’s radical NDP government will impose its own carbon tax.

 

LIBERAL TRYING TO LOOK BUSY; TPP CONSULTATIONS

Despite the prime minister signalling Tuesday that the Liberals will bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) into force if Canada’s largest trading partners do, on Wednesday Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland insisted nothing has changed and the government is continuing its consultations.

Consultations?  More like waiting for the USA to decide.

 

 

LIBERAL LOOPHOLES

Ontario's Liberal government has nixed the idea of using legislation to ban chiefs of staff and other behind-the-scenes political decision makers from attending fundraisers, as they prepare to prohibit politicians from doing the same.

Last month, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said he had not ruled out extending the proposed fundraiser ban to senior political staff, but there is no language to that effect in the new amendments, which the Opposition decried as a huge loophole.

"What started all this, of course, is cash for access here in the Liberal government," said Progressive Conservative Vic Fedeli. "The fact that today's amendments show that they're still going to allow the chiefs of staff, that's egregious. They're just turning the cash for access from the politicians to the Liberal government's chiefs."

 

REZONING YOUR LAND WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Ontario:  Farmers considering selling or upgrading their land may want to make a trip to their municipal office, because their land may have been rezoned without them knowing.

Glengarry Landowners’ Association member and real estate agent, Jamie MacMaster, told Farmers Forum that various levels of government, including townships, counties, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, have the power to rezone lands as wetlands, and have been doing so for more than 10 years without informing landowners.

 

 

COMBATTING ISLAMIZATION WITH CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN GERMANY

Angela Merkel has recommended that Germans who are concerned about Islamisation should play Christmas carols on the recorder to contain any possible threat.

 At a national congress of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Wittenburg the German Chancellor told supporters that it’s up to them to hold off the growth of Islam in Germany, by preserving Christmas traditions.

 

GREAT BRITAINS'S DANGEROUS NATIONAL ANTHEM

A Muslim student at King’s College London, and an officer of its Student Union (3 of its 5 top officers are Muslims), one Mahamed Abdullahi, has called for “God Save the Queen,” Great Britain’s national anthem, to be omitted from the school’s graduation ceremonies. He claims the song is “outdated” and “not reflective of the global values the college espouses.” Abdullahi – who is, by the way, a Danish citizen, though not exactly a Dane – insists that this anthem is dangerous “in the context” of the “increasing far-right nationalism across Europe and the legacy of the British Empire.”

 

CENSORSHIP IS A NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM IN GERMANY

Thousands of women and children have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The mainstream media's failure to report the true scope of Germany's migrant rape crisis may explain why — after more than a year of daily sexual assaults — there has been very little public outrage over the calamity that has befallen so many Germans. Censorship has effectively become a national security problem.

 

 

CRICKETS & GRASSHOPPERS ON YOUR DINNER PLATE

From the “in a word, no” department and the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY comes this same tired old story we keep hearing from eco-activists tht believe bugs are more “sustainable” than beef. Because cattle make methane, and that will set the world on fire someday.

 

EXPLAINING THE ELITE MEDIA TO A CBC LEFTY

Peter Mansbridge sits down with former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich about the U.S. Presidential Election and advising Republican candidate Donald Trump.

 

KELLY & GINGRICH DUKE IT OUT

      Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, and the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly got into a televised tiff on Tuesday night in which he accused her of being “fascinated with sex” for her reporting on allegations of unwanted advances and groping by the Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump.

 

GO BERNIER!

Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier is reaching out to gun owners, saying that when he’s prime minister, they “won’t have to worry anymore” that their firearms can be reclassified or taken away.

“Liberals hate guns,” Bernier asserts in a fundraising note sent to Conservative party members on Tuesday. “We know [the Grits are] going to change the law. But we don’t know how,” the Tory candidate states.

 

THAT HAS TO HURT

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she is willing to intervene after a United Nations department rejected an application for media accreditation from a Canadian news company on the grounds that it is an “advocacy media outlet.”

The Rebel, the right-wing news and opinion platform published by political commentator Ezra Levant, received the rejection notice earlier this month from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat after it applied to send three journalists to cover next month’s Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Morocco.

 

LIBERALS INTERFERING IN BUSINESS

The Liberal government hopes that proposed legislation requiring publicly traded companies to disclose the gender composition of their corporate boards and senior management will lead to greater diversity, but will consider imposing specific targets if the new measures don't work.

 

LIBERALS TAKING THE FLAK

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna expressed confidence Wednesday in the federal government’s support for B.C.’s liquefied natural gas industry on the eve of a major legal assault on Ottawa’s position.

First Nations leaders and an environmental group are assembling at the Federal Court of Canada in Vancouver to file a series of actions to challenge Ottawa’s decision last month to approve the $11.4-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG proposal.

 

THE HELL THAT IS VENEZUELA

In Venezuela’s hospitals there are no medicines and supplies for the living and no dignity for the dead.

On Oct, 5, an unbearable stench kept doctors, patients and their families away from the Emergency Room of the Hospital Universitario Antonio Patricio de Alcalá (Huapa) in Cumana, a city of 825,000 in eastern Venezuela.

They said toxic gases and odors coming from a decomposed body that had “exploded” in the morgue right below forced them to move stretchers and wheelchairs to the hallways. The ER is located next to the morgue.

 

ADULT SUPERVISION REQUIRED

Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland is pushing back after Conservative MP Gerry Ritz suggested she needs adult supervision when it comes to the Canada-EU trade talks.

On Monday, the Conservative international trade critic said Freeland is incapable of doing her job, and told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to "grab some adult supervision."

 

RUNNING AWAY FROM THE MESS YOU CREATED

This particular poll found that almost half the respondents don’t believe Premier Kathleen Wynne will lead her party into the next Ontario election. A full 49% think she will quit before the vote, which was supposed to be held in October 2018 but has been moved forward to June 7  to avoid clashing with municipal elections.

Is it Liberal policy now, to have a turn at destroying this province, and to then slither away, like McGuinty, before your term is completed?

 

SHINY PONY GETTING TARNISHED

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was heckled and jeered as he took questions today at a youth labour forum in Ottawa.

Several dozen delegates at the young workers' summit turned their backs on Trudeau as he spoke while many others held signs reading "Keep the Promise."

 

CONSERVATIVE WINS MEDICINE HAT BYELECTION

Conservative candidate Glen Motz expressed gratitude to the Liberal prime minister after winning a federal byelection by a big margin in southern Alberta.

"I want to thank Justin Trudeau," Motz said in his victory speech Monday night in Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner, a riding that Justin Trudeau had recently visited to support Liberal candidate Stan Sakamoto.

"The activity in our campaign absolutely spiked the day he arrived," Motz said of Trudeau.

 

INVESTIGATING THE ONTARIO SPCA

Mike Zimmerman, who worked with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services for decades before retiring last month, will lead an investigation into the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

“I think we have a very good animal welfare law, the OSPCA Act,” said Zimmerman, who led a team that revised the act in 2009.

“But my concern is it might not be enforced effectively, equitably or with accountability.”

 

ONTARIANS' EXPENSIVE HYDRO BILL

Why is my hydro bill so expensive?  The Financial Post crunches the numbers.

 

AMERICAN PRAVDA'S CAMPAIGN OF DISINFORMATION

Their mission is clear: discourage Trump voters. On the polling front Goebbels/Pravda (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the Washington Post and NYT) continues its campaign of disinformation and discouragement.

 

ASYLUM FOR YAZIDI WOMEN & GIRLS

Immigration Minister John McCallum told the House Monday that the Liberals would support a motion from Conservative MP Michelle Rempel to take “immediate action” to provide asylum for persecuted Yazidi women and girls, after reaching a compromise on the language in the motion.

Ms. Rempel won broad-based support for her motion the day before a planned press conference with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman, international advocate for displaced Yazidis, and a survivor of kidnapping and enslavement in Iraq at the hands of ISIS, the militant group also known as Daesh, ISIL, and the Islamic State.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG

The latest allegation of potential impropriety and conflict of interest involving the Democratic Party and the FBI, which over the summer famously cleared Hillary Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing as relates to her personal email server, comes not from a Podesta email or a Wikileaks disclosure, but the WSJ which overnight reported that the political organization of Virginia Govenor Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.

 

POLL-RIGGING RECOMMENDATIONS

Now, for all of you out there who still aren't convinced that the polls are "adjusted", we present to you the following Podesta email, leaked earlier today, that conveniently spells out, in detail, exactly how to "manufacture" the desired data. The email starts out with a request for recommendations on "oversamples for polling" in order to "maximize what we get out of our media polling."

I also want to get your Atlas folks to recommend oversamples for our polling before we start in February. By market, regions, etc. I want to get this all compiled into one set of recommendations so we can maximize what we get out of our media polling.

The email even includes a handy, 37-page guide with the following poll-rigging recommendations.

 

DESPERATE TIMES FOR THE GREEN AGENDA

Dr. Tim Ball:  Support for the global warming/climate change agenda is becoming increasingly desperate, hysterical, and illogical. The causes are many, but chief among them are a plethora of contradictory evidence and growing public skepticism or at least disinterest. There are bizarre parallels to the Frankenstein and Dracula stories. The monster of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) collapses as it turns on the scientists who created it. Dracula needed the energy of blood but knew the dangers of exposure to sunlight. The IPCC failure to consider the Sun is a similar exposure and is causing their demise.

 

 

UN STANDARD FOR MEDIA ACCREDITATION

Why did the UNFCCC refuse to accredit Rebel Media? Apparently because Rebel Media just couldn't be relied upon to echo whatever propaganda the UN might put out. In an interview with Canada's CBC Radio, UNFCCC spokesperson Nick Nuttall suggested that The Rebel's cardinal sin was Levant's dissent from UN climate doctrine. Referring to Levant, Nuttall said: "I don't see what he's actually reporting, you know, as being particularly helpful."

 

"OBAMA HAS MADE US LOOK WEAK"

James Woolsey, former CIA Director in the Clinton administration, said no one should be surprised that Russia has “asserted” itself in Syria because President Obama backed away from the “red line” ultimatum that he gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over his use of chemical weapons and made the U.S. “look weak.”

 

PROGRESSIVES ENABLING TRUDEAU'S PROMISE-BREAKING

The ugly fact is progressive voters are complicit enablers of Trudeau’s promise-breaking. He says it himself. His exact and explicit argument for possibly breaking his election reform promise is that you’re still supporting him.

So don’t. Don’t excuse him. Don’t suggest maybe he misspoke or was misinterpreted. Don’t be complicit.

 

FINANCE MINISTER TIGHTENS MORTGAGE REQUIREMENTS

Mr. Morneau (Toronto Centre, Ont.) announced the tighter new home-buying rules on Oct. 3, which came into effect on Monday, Oct. 17. Mr. Morneau said the new rules are aimed to “protect the long-term financial security” of Canadians and “to help the middle class.”

Why don't you get your own Liberal spending under control if you're so worried about the financial security of Canadians?

 

 

HILLARY'S OPPOSITION TO KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

Hacked emails show Hillary Clinton's campaign wrestled with how to announce her opposition to construction of the Keystone XL pipeline without losing the support of labour unions that supported the project.

As the Clinton team prepared to announce her opposition to the pipeline last year, it heard that President Barack Obama had again pushed back his announcement until late October. Clinton aides speculated that the delay was due to political considerations involving the Canadian election, in which Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau was working to oust Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, an ardent Keystone proponent.

 

TRUDEAU EARNS A "C"

Last week when on CTV’s True North Political Panel I was asked to give Trudeau a rating for his first year in office. I gave him a “C” not because I am so partisan, that I can’t say anything positive about him, but because the jury is still out on promises kept or not kept etc.

In his first few months in office all he had to do was show up for work and not trip going up the stairs and the media would give him rave reviews. We are finally seeing more reporters beginning to question the action and also the inaction of the government on various files. As we saw with the limousine scandal ministers are under closer scrutiny and some of the shine has come off of the Liberal government.

 

TARGETING BIRTH TOURISM IN CANADA

The petition says the practice of birth tourism can be costly to taxpayers for health and education and other social services. Once 18 years old, someone born in Canada can sponsor parents and other family members.

Kerry Starchuk, a resident of Richmond, B.C. who launched the petition, said Canadian citizenship should not be automatically granted when neither parent has any status or ties to the country.

She said she became aware of the issue after noticing a residence next door to her was housing a "revolving door" of pregnant women.

 

 

CASH FOR ACCESS

You know it's bad when Bob Fife is even questioning Liberal ethics.

RCMP INVESTIGATES SHUSWAP FIRST NATION FINANCES

The RCMP is investigating the finances of a tiny B.C. First Nation band that were used to enrich members of a single family to the tune of $4.2 million over three-and-a-half years, according to a forensic audit obtained this week by Postmedia News.

The Shuswap First Nation’s transfers to the family, as well as additional funding for trips to Las Vegas and Cuba, ended in November of 2014 when the family was voted out of office following Postmedia’s disclosure of the family’s lavish salaries.

 

CONDESCENDING HYDRO REPORT CARDS

Ontario ratepayers aren’t pleased at receiving “report cards” from their providers that judge them on their energy consumption and even compare them to their neighbours.

“You never hear them say anything about the cuts they’ll make at hydro to reduce the costs,” says Earl Warren from Kemptville, Ontario. “Now they send out all of these.”

 

WYNNE LIBERALS THROWING AWAY YOUR MONEY. AGAIN.

Electric vehicles are more expensive than conventional ones and have limited range, which decreases in cold weather.

Who buys them? Rich people.

As reported by CBC News, Ontario taxpayers recently paid five millionaires an average of $5,538 each towards their purchase of the Porsche 918 Spyder, which retails for about $1.1 million and is one of the most expensive cars ever made.

 

OIL WARS

With just one month left until the OPEC Vienna meeting in which by some miracle, the cartel of oil producing countries, as well as non-OPEC countries are expected to agree on production cut quotas, things are not looking good. The latest complication emerged on Sunday when Iraq, which one month ago tipped its hand that it would not comply by the Algiers agreement, said it would maintain oil production at current levels after exceeding 4.7 million barrels a day in September, even as other OPEC members discuss limits on output.

30 SECONDS CNN WOULD LIKE TO DISAPPEAR

CNN made the mistake of asking its focus group of real Americans who won the final debate... and instantly regretted it...

OBAMA COMPLAINING ABOUT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA

President Barack Obama is again complaining about conservative media, accusing it of creating candidate Donald Trump.

 “Trump didn’t come out of nowhere now,” Obama said during a campaign speech in Miami. “For years, Republican politicians and far-right media outlets had just been pumping out all kinds of toxic, crazy stuff.”

 

$10 MILLION DRUG BUST AT ALBERTA BORDER

Authorities intercepted $10 million worth of cocaine at Alberta’s Coutts border crossing in the biggest such seizures of the drug in Prairie history.

 

SOROS CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATION

A campaign finance violation complaint has been filed with the Maricopa County Recorder's Office against a newly formed independent political committee linked to hedge fund tycoon George Soros.

An attorney representing Republican incumbent Bill Montgomery's re-election campaign for Maricopa County Attorney filed a complaint Friday, saying the Arizona Safety & Justice has violated a state election law.

 

 

CLINTON FOUNDATION CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Doug Band, once one of Bill Clinton’s closest advisers, accused the former president of having hundreds of conflicts of interest between his family’s embattled foundation, its sponsors, and a connected consulting firm called Teneo Holdings LLC, according to purported emails produced by WikiLeaks.

RULING IN VOTER ID VERIFICATION CASE

A federal judge Thursday ruled against a Democratic initiative in Florida that sought to allow individuals to take advantage of early voting even if their registration eligibility is not yet verified.

United States District Judge Mark Walker ruled against this so-called rapid verification process, preventing it from taking place during early voting in Florida, which starts Monday in several key counties.

During the hearing, Hillsborough County top voting official Craig Latimer’s testimony was cited by Walker.  Latimer testified by phone, saying, “If a voter whose identity can’t be confirmed is allowed to cast a regular ballot, it wouldn’t be legal and it couldn’t be corrected. You’re not going to get that ballot back and that could lead to some real issues.”

 

HILLARY'S CYBER-IDIOTS PUTTING AMERICANS IN DANGER

It's depressing to speculate on the state of U.S. cybersecurity on the day denial of service attacks engulf the country, knocking even Twitter offline (well, maybe that's a good thing).

These days the Democratic Party and its minions want to blame it all on the Russians, but sometimes it's just pure stupidity.

 

 

ON THE CLINTON FOUNDATION PAYROLL

During  Gehad El-Haddad's ascendancy in 2011 and 2012, at which time he served on the Muslim Brotherhood's "Nahda" (Renaissance) Project to revive the caliphate and reinstitute Islamic law and also served as Morsi's campaign spokesman, he was being paid by the Clinton Foundation.

 

THE WAR ON POLICE OFFICERS IN AMERICA

According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, 46 police officers have been shot to death in the United States so far this year, a staggering 55 percent increase over the number seen at this time in 2015.

 

PROFITABILITY AND COMPETITIVENESS AT BOMBARDIER

April 2016:  Bombardier owes Canadians hundreds of millions of dollars but we don’t know exactly how much because the federal government won’t tell us.

Rough calculations appear to leave close to three-quarters of a billion dollars left for Bombardier to repay. But we don’t know for sure because both the interest rate and the repayment schedule are secret.

October 2016:  Bombardier said Friday it plans to eliminate 7,500 positions — more than 10 per cent of its global workforce — through the end of 2018, the company's second mass round of layoffs in less than a year.
 

 

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THE CRA PHONE SCAMMERS ARRESTED

Crooks have raked in a fortune screaming at Canadians on the phone and threatening to lock them up for unpaid taxes, but a crackdown in India has had shocking results.

Reported Canadian losses in the so-called CRA phone scam have virtually evaporated in the weeks since the Oct. 5 crackdown, during which 70 people were arrested and hundreds more questioned at bogus call centres on the outskirts of Mumbai. Numerous call centres employing more than 700 people were dismantled.

 

WHAT ELSE IS WYNNE HIDING ABOUT THIS DEAL?

Ontario will import enough electricity from Quebec to power a city of more than 200,000 people under a seven-year agreement signed Friday, but the provinces won’t say how much Ontario is paying Hydro Quebec.  However, Montreal newspaper La Presse reports the agreement is worth $1 billion, and calculates Ontario will pay five cents a kilowatt hour for the electricity.

Wynne declined to say how much the $70 million in reduced costs would impact electricity bills in Ontario, if at all.

 

EXPLAINING ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR TO LIBERALS

The head of the Ontario Medical Association and a property developer paid $5,500 each to have lunch with Premier Kathleen Wynne as a fundraiser for a posh women’s golf club two years ago, the Toronto Sun has learned.

Wynne’s wife, Jane Rounthwaite, is a member of the club and was on the board of directors of the Ladies Golf Club of Toronto (LGCT) at the time the club auctioned off the lunches.

Fair enough, the premier and the Liberal Party didn’t profit from the deal. There’s nothing wrong or illegal about what she did.

It’s just inappropriate for her to use her position to raise funds for such an organization.

 

PM PREDICTS LIBERAL WIN IN MEDICINE HAT

The Prime Minister says his party will be able to recapture a southern Alberta riding in an upcoming byelection, despite the fact that a Liberal hasn’t been elected to that seat in nearly half a century.

Justin Trudeau made the bold prediction in his opening address Friday at the federal Liberal Party’s Ontario wing convention in Niagara Falls, Ont.

 

EXPECTING A POLITICIAN TO KEEP HIS PROMISE

Two federal cabinet ministers danced around the issue of approving new oil pipelines at this week's climate conference in Ottawa, but both concede that Liberal policy decisions will upset some Canadians.

"We're not going to make everybody happy," Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Friday to the Canadian Climate Forum, packed with green technology advocates, environmental economists, NGOs and climate scientists.

As if on cue, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later found himself on the receiving end of some energy-policy indignation in Hamilton, Ont., where an anti-pipeline protester showered him with pumpkin seeds, shouting, "Keep your promises!"

 

POWDERKEG

In Saskatchewan.

UPDATE

IT'S STILL ALL ABOUT WYNNE'S GREEN DELUSIONS

In a bid to defuse anger over skyrocketing bills, Ontario will announce a new deal Friday to buy more hydroelectric power from Quebec.

The seven-year pact — saving the province $70 million — will have only a “small” impact on household electricity prices but will trim 1 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually, a senior Ontario official said Thursday.

 

QUEBEC TO SUPPLY ONTARIO WITH HYDRO

And the power lines already exist.

Funny, in 2015, Energy Minister Chiarelli had this to say about importing Quebec hydro:

Chiarelli cautioned that increasing power imports is a “difficult issue” both technically and economically.

Quebec currently exports most of its surplus power to the U.S. Chiarelli said that the price Quebec receives for those exports is higher than the spot price on Ontario’s electricity market.

 

 

HACKING DEMOCRACY

With the mainstream media lambasting Trump for daring to suggest the election process is rigged - despite hard evidence - this is the hack that proved America’s elections can be stolen using a few lines of computer code.

 

THE MERDE TO HIT THE FAN AGAIN

Quebec is moving ahead with a law to ban face-coverings in the public sector in a move criticized as marginalizing Muslim women and potentially inflaming anti-immigrant tensions in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province.

The proposed law prohibits anyone giving or receiving government services, such as a provincial government-issued health card, from wearing face-covering garments.

 

HOW HILLARY TREATS THE COMMON FOLK

It's no secret that there is no love lost between Hillary Clinton and her security detail, but the intensity of their dislike for the woman who may become our next president is still a bit jarring. According to the New York Post, members of her diplomatic security detail while she was secretary of state hated her so much that they "privately snickered" after she fell down and broke her arm.

 

ABANDONING BLACK LIVES MATTER

A Black Lives Matter leader in Minnesota who once led a rally chanting "pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon" has since abandoned the movement, saying that it is "on the wrong side of history." He attacked the organization as bad for the black community, especially on the issue of education.

 

ELECTION INTEGRITY IN THE USA

Podesta seems to have figured out that, because of vulnerabilities in our election system, foreigners can get registered to vote and get voter ID at the same time.

He has revealed one of the biggest vulnerabilities in American elections, one that exists entirely because of the Motor Voter law.

 

PM FLIP FLOP

Justin Trudeau says he remains "deeply committed" to reforming the voting system.

The prime minister reaffirmed his commitment Thursday, one day after he appeared to be preparing to renege on his promise that the 2015 federal election would be the last conducted under the first-past-the-post process.

 

CALLING BULLSH!T ON CUTS TO CANADA HEALTH TRANSFER

The 2004 federal health accord with the provinces promised annual increases in the Canada Health Transfer of six per cent for a set 10-year period. That accord expired in 2014, but the Conservative government provided a three-year extension while promising future annual increases of at least three per cent. No federal government promised six per cent increases in perpetuity.

The simple fact is that in absolute dollars and inflation-adjusted dollars, federal health payments to the provinces will continue to go up, not down.

For those reasons, Barrette's assertion that there will be a $60-billion cut in funding over the next 10 years is full of baloney.

 

THE USELESS UN

Canada and Russia traded barbs at the United Nations on Thursday as Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion led calls for an end to the bloody conflict in Syria.

Putin, no doubt, is shaking in his boots.

 

MAINTAINING THE FIREWALL AGAINST CLINTON

Donald Trump was, dare I say, magnificent in the third presidential debate. I am not a member of #NeverTrump, but suffice it to say that I have been extremely skeptical about Trump as a candidate, and Trump as president. I have repeatedly given Trump the opportunity to convince me that he's not only a good conservative, but a good, viable candidate—and that he won't be a megalomaniac once in office. I've repeatedly been left wanting. During the final debate, however, he was disciplined, he was focused, and he was uncharacteristically prepared. Hell, he even sounded like a conservative warrior—something he'd completely failed to accomplish in any previous effort. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, was clearly rattled.

 

NOTLEY INVITES HER FRIENDS

Premier Rachel Notley still insists she wasn’t insulted last October, when Calgary business people were as silent as a morgue at midnight during her state of the province speech.

That wasn’t just a Calgary cold shoulder. It was more like banishment to an ice floe. The major lights of Calgary business could not have made their disdain for the NDP, and Notley, more obvious.

This year, for the first time in memory, a premier’s state of the province speech was not delivered to a business audience.

 All the guests were invited.

 

LULULEMON, SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE

One of Vancouver’s most successful companies is warning it may be forced to move its 1,200-employee head office outside the country because of problems with the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Vancouver-based Lululemon Athletica Inc., which earlier this year delivered a scathing written critique of the strict TFW rules on hiring foreigners, wants the same kind of exemption Ottawa grants to universities, the film industry and Microsoft.

 

WAR GAMES

And recently… for the first time since Operation Barbarossa, German tanks are once again advancing on Russia's border. 

You probably haven’t heard this extraordinary piece of news. That’s because the mass media has basically ignored and obscured it. They’ve been busy covering far more important things… like transgender issues and Kim Kardashian’s latest stunt.

That’s why I want to tell you about Operation Anaconda 2016.

It’s the largest war game in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. It’s essentially a rehearsal to secure a quick NATO victory in the event of war with Russia.

 

 

PUTIN'S SHIPS ON THE MOVE

Moscow clearly wishes to show that it can emulate Washington by sending a task force thousands of miles and then conducting weeks or months of military activity – an exercise that will highlight Russia’s renewed military capability. It will further complicate the political calculus for the United States and others when it comes to finding a way forward in Syria. And, of course, it offers a neat opportunity to remind a host of countries in northern Europe that Moscow cannot be ignored.

 

CANADIANS AREN'T RACIST, JUST SENSIBLE

Canadians are a welcoming and generous people, but there are limits to our openness.

When it comes to immigration, Canadians expect newcomers to join the Canadian family and that they’ll learn the local language, contribute to our economy and respect our laws and traditions. We hope they’ll branch out into the broader community and truly become Canadian.

These are not unreasonable views. In fact, this is what most newcomers expect when they pick up and move to a new country.

 

ONTARIO'S GREAT GREEN DEPRESSION TO GO NATIONAL

Farmers, whose barns and dairies consume a lot of electricity, are pleading for relief. Businesses, particularly manufacturers, are announcing their plans to cancel shifts of workers or even to move to neighbouring American states were power is half or less of the Ontario rate.

And it’s not even winter yet.

 

ANOTHER ONTARIO LIBERAL DISGRACE

Ontario’s energy minister admits the bulk of nearly $12 million spent on the government’s plan to offer financial help to low-income electricity customers went to consultants and advertising.

The Progressive Conservatives accuse the Liberals of badly mismanaging the Ontario Electricity Support Program because $11.7 million of the $11.9 million budget went to consultants, publications, media and advertising.

 

OBAMA'S ABSURD CYBERSECURITY PACT

China’s hackers have stolen most of our defense secrets including plans for the F-22 and the F-35. Beijing’s new stealth jet, which poses a serious threat to us, is based on that stolen data. On top of 40 terabytes of stolen defense information, the OPM database hack allowed China to steal the secrets of 22 million Americans, including Federal employees, and dig into security clearance applications.

The stolen information allowed Russia and China to identify US intelligence operatives.

 

CLINTON CAMPAIGN CORRUPTION

Project Veritas on Tuesday afternoon released the second video in its multi-part series about DNC and Clinton campaign corruption. The first video exposed the dark underbelly of the Democrat Party machine and how the Hillary campaign works to incite violence at Trump rallies.

James O'Keefe promised that his second video would be even worse, and he has delivered. In Part II, we are treated to high-level political operatives explaining -- on tape -- how they successfully engage in massive voter fraud and plotting new ways to get undocumented aliens to vote.

 

PAYING ONTARIO HYDRO BILLS

"I don’t use my dryer anymore and hang my clothes to dry,” writes John Lopes, frustrated with high energy prices. He sets his dishwasher to run in the middle of the night, rarely has lights on, and now hardly uses heating in the winter.

Yet despite all of these efforts, Lopes found his August bill had gone up by 39% compared to last August.

This is a very, very common theme in many of the calls and emails I’ve been receiving from people sharing their hydro headaches. Ontario residents are jumping through hoops to live within the restrictions the government has boxed them. Yet still their rates go up.

 

 

CLIMATE ELITISTS WAGING WAR ON REGULAR FOLKS

Carbon taxes that will definitely harm regular people in the short term are being implemented because there’s a chance they might benefit the environment in the long term.

This is absurd. The only thing more absurd, and offensive, is that politicians clearly know this.

The fact some politicians are proposing rebates to offset the adverse economic effects of green policies, as Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has done, means they know damn well there’ll be negative effects. (The added insult is they also know there’s no way of creating rebates that are truly revenue neutral for individuals, but that’s another story.)

 

FUNDING CANADIAN ARTISTES

Like it or not, your internet bill might soon go up to help pay for something you may not care all that much about — Canadian content.

The federal government has launched a massive review of Canadian-made content in the digital age that will include who should be footing the bill.

One option on the table: a mandatory contribution or so-called tax on internet service providers (ISPs) to help fund home-grown programming.

 

LIBERAL LEAKAGE

That means in announcing a Canadian national carbon price earlier this month of $10 per tonne of emissions starting in 2018, rising to $50 per tonne in 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has saddled our domestic industries with an additional production cost their U.S. competitors won’t have.

That will make our industries less competitive than those of our largest trading partner and will prompt an increasing number of our industries to leave for countries like the U.S. that don’t have a national carbon pricing plan, a problem governments refers to as “leakage”.

 

OBLIVIOUS TO HER OWN ROLE IN MAKING THINGS WORSE

Premier Rachel Notley pledged that Alberta will "lead again," despite the economic challenges it's facing now, in a major speech on Wednesday.

"We've taken some hard economic knocks from the international price of oil, but nobody knocks Alberta down for long," the premier said in her state of the province address.

Wildrose energy critic Leela Aheer said that, regardless of the impact of oil prices on the province's economy, the government has taken steps to make things worse.  "We're looking at policies that are hurting Albertans right now … minimum wage and carbon taxes and all these other things that we've been talking about that are so impactful on Albertans right now."

 

TRUDEAU GOV'T MORE STYLE THAN SUBSTANCE

Despite the prime minister’s popularity, nearly half of all poll respondents were at a loss when asked to name an accomplishment the government has achieved in the past year, the Ipsos poll conducted for Global News suggests. And, one year after the election, six in 10 Canadians either strongly or somewhat agree the Trudeau government is more “style” than “substance.”

Ya think?

 

DISSENSION IN THE RANKS

The Algonquins of Ontario are one step closer to assuming tens of thousands of acres of their ancestral territory in a historic treaty, but their counterparts in Quebec are vowing legal action to stymie the agreement and delay a deal decades in the making.

The agreement-in-principle, signed Tuesday in Ottawa, encompasses roughly 36,000 square kilometres of land stretching from Parliament Hill to parts of Algonquin Park and up to North Bay, an area that Algonquins in Quebec also say is their territory.

 

PM SUNNY WAYS BACKING OFF ELECTORAL REFORM

Trudeau’s comments triggered a predictable explosion in question period today, with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair leading the charge.

“Canadians have been clear that in 2019, every vote should count. A year ago, the prime minister said he agreed with them,” said Mulcair. “Instead of inventing excuses and backing away from his solemn promise to Canadians, will he work with us in good faith to deliver the fair, proportional electoral system the voters deserve?”

 

CLINTON'S MEDIA DOING ITS JOB

Among the latest, ninth round of Podesta email releases by Wikileaks this morning, is a July 31, 2015 email by Hillary Clinton's National Press Secretary Brian Fallon who lays out the agenda for the day's rollout of Clinton's tax record and, more importantly, Hillary's "excellent health" medical statement, where once again the media, listed as "AP, Politico, WSJ, WaPo, etc" is exposed as coordinating and colluding with the campaign to send a message that Hillary is in great health.

USA/RUSSIA: NO MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE ANYTIME SOON

Putin delivered the demand in his proposed legislation to suspend the treaty, which included a detailed list of Washington’s unfriendly actions against Russia. He specifically called for the repeal of the Magnitsky list, which punishes specific Russian officials for the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky while in custody, and the entire U.S sanctions program.
Putin even went one step further: He demanded compensation for unquantified losses stemming from current U.S. sanctions, as well as from the food counter-sanctions that Russia imposed on itself.