CHARGES STAYED AGAINST JONES & SCHMIDT

Charges were stayed today against Montana Jones and Michael Schmidt, two farmers charged with criminal conspiracy and other offences in December, 2012 following the disappearance of Jones’s sheep from her Hastings, Ontario farm. 

Jones's farm was quarantined and her sheep were given live biopsies, but the biopsies showed the rare Shropshire sheep in her flock to be free of disease.

Nevertheless, the CFIA issued a destruction order for 31 sheep with rare genetics, to be carried out in April, 2012. The targeted sheep disappeared from Jones's farm the night before the CFIA arrived to slaughter them.

 

ONTARIO'S AILING HEALTH CARE

What this province needs is more doctors and more nurses in our hospitals, helping those in need.

What this province is getting is more bureaucrats, more red tape — and a new $90 million unneeded layer of lard in a healthcare system where front-line practitioners have been cut to the bone.

 

JUNCKER: MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO

Jean-Claude Juncker has urged EU leaders not to hold referendums on their membership of the bloc because he fears their voters will also choose to leave. The European Commission president said giving people a vote would be ‘unwise’ as they could seek to replicate Brexit.

 His remarks come as one of the contenders to become Austrian president has threatened to hold a referendum if the EU integrates further.

 

CURRENCY CRISIS IN INDIA

Angry Mobs Lock Up Indian Bankers As Cash Chaos Soars: "We Are Fearing The Worst"

 

ONTARIO AUDITOR BLASTS LIBERALS. AGAIN.

Ontario's government watchdog says taxpayers spend millions of dollars paying repair bills for shoddy work by contractors hired for road maintenance and public transit projects, including part of one bridge that was installed upside down.

Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk also warns of serious shortcomings in the health-care system, and predicts cap-and-trade will cost businesses and individuals $8 billion between 2017 and 2020 but won't meet the emissions reduction target

 

CASH FOR ACCESS

The Liberal way with PM Bongwater.

NY AG MUST TURN OVER DOCUMENT OF SECRET AGREEMENT

The New York Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over a document containing a secret agreement with other states and environmental activist groups regarding the witch hunt being carried out against Exxon and other climate skeptics.  The agreement itself is probably innocuous.  But any supporting documents may reveal strategies that could prove highly embarrassing to the Democratic A.G.s, proving that the "investigation" is a partisan witch hunt designed to shut down opposition to government climate change policy.

 

AG: GOV'T CONSISTENTLY FAILS TO FIX MISTAKES

Canada’s Auditor-General says the federal government must adjust the way it does business after a broad evaluation in which he says departments fail to consider whether their services actually benefit Canadians, cannot stay ahead of emerging trends and do not correct inadequacies even after they have been pointed out.

 In marking the midpoint of his 10-year term, Michael Ferguson used his fall report to take an unusual step back from the assessments of specific programs to point to more systemic problems. Parliament, said Mr. Ferguson, uses his reports to learn about things that have gone wrong but does not ensure that changes are made to set them right.

 

 

TRUDEAU'S PIPELINE DECISIONS

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is approving Kinder Morgan's proposal to triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C. — a $6.8-billion project that has sparked protests by climate change activists from coast to coast.

Trudeau is also effectively killing the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline across northern British Columbia, but giving a green light to Enbridge's lesser-known $7.5-billion Line 3 pipeline expansion from Alberta to Wisconsin.

 

CBC BEGGING AGAIN

CBC/Radio Canada has submitted a position paper to the federal government proposing the public broadcaster move to an ad-free model, similar to the one used to pay for the BBC in the United Kingdom, at a cost of about $400 million in additional funding.

CANADA'S WATCHDOG THAT DOES NOT BARK

John Ivison: Liberal cash-for-access events aren’t just ugly, they may be illegal  The government’s cash-for-access scandals are multiplying like zebra mussels, as more ministers are revealed to have rented out their public office to anyone prepared to stuff hundreds of dollars into the Liberal Party’s coffers.

The ethics commissioner has called the pay to play fundraising activities of the Liberals “unsavoury” but has said she cannot pass judgment on whether they breach Trudeau’s own rules because the prime minister gave that mandate to the Privy Council Office.

 

HYDRO BILLS SENDING ONTARIANS TO FOOD BANKS

Ontario food banks say they are seeing an increase in clients unable to afford the rising cost of hydro bills, which is having a "devastating impact" on the lives of low-income Ontarians.

The association representing Ontario's food banks, which serve 335,000 adults and children each month, is calling on the Liberal government to boost hydro assistance, particularly for the most impoverished families.

 

ONTARIO HYDRO RATES A POLITICAL LIGHTNING ROD

Ontario’s skyrocketing electricity prices are by far the top concern for voters – pushing Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals firmly behind Patrick Brown’s Progressive Conservatives, a new poll suggests.

The Nanos Research survey found hydro was the most important issue for 20.5 per cent of voters, eclipsing perennial priorities health care (15.1 per cent), jobs and the economy (9.6 per cent) and high taxes (7.3 per cent). Respondents were asked for their top issues without being given a list of options.

 

OSPCA DROPS CHARGES, LEAVES FARMER IMPOVERISHED

Crop farmer and former Chesterville dairyman David Robinson has come to the end of one long, dirty, unfulfilling road.

It was a road that found him not guilty of all charges but the same road that crippled the business of this innocent man. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) dropped all 12 animal cruelty charges against him.

The fight cost him his 10 kg. of quota to pay his $156,000 in legal bills and cover ongoing costs. It also cost him the health of his farm and his peace of mind.

   If an officer from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) comes to your farm, you need to be ready to defend yourself.

Here’s a 10-point plan.

 

 

HISTORY WILL NOT ABSOLVE FIDEL CASTRO

There has probably been no modern leader with as much disinformation surrounding his biography as Fidel Castro.

  Castro will be known most of all for his broken promises. The popular revolution he led was a promise of a better life. Instead what Cubans received were the worst examples of oppression and repression in the history of the western hemisphere. History will not absolve Fidel Castro. On the contrary, it will condemn him. Millions of eyewitnesses will see to that.

 

MERKEL'S ASS ON THE LINE, NOW DEPORTATION IMPORTANT

In one of the most shocking flip-flops in recent political history, German Chancellor Angela Merkel now says she will deport about 10% of recently arrived migrants -- 100,000 of them.  The beleaguered Chancellor said authorities would significantly step up the rate of forced returns as she battles to arrest an alarming slump in her popularity which has fuelled a surge in support for the far-right.

 

OBAMA NOT DONE TRANSFORMING AMERICA

The president has been unable to effect much transformation via Congress, so he has once again picked up his pen and is readying a dizzying array of almost 100 new regulations from a dozen different agencies that will massively increase the burden on American business.

Seventeen of the planned regulations are classified as "economically significant," meaning their impact will be at least $100 million on business.

 

A LIST OF POTENTIAL CLIMATE BUDGET CUTS FOR TRUMP

Salon has helpfully provided Americans with a list of Federal climate budget cuts which can be applied on day one of the new Trump administration.

 

EU PENSION FUNDS MUST NOW ASSESS CLIMATE RISK

   The cash strapped European Union has usurped greater control over three trillion Euros of private pension funds, by issuing a directive which requires EU based funds to consider “Climate Risk” as part of the basis of their investment decisions.

   EU pension funds will have to include environmental risks in their investment strategies, under a law passed on Thursday, that ecologists hope will encourage money to flow out of fossil fuels and into greener sectors.

 

OUT OF CONTROL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

This insistence that everyone has to conform to a politically-correct viewpoint or be vilified has frightening implications for free speech.

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD OFF TO CHINA

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna will lead a trade mission to China next month with the aim of "deepening clean energy ties" between the two countries.

McKenna made the announcement Friday at the Toronto Board of Trade where she described the mission as an opportunity to help Canadian businesses take advantage of emerging opportunities.

"China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is making generational changes in how it acquires and uses energy," McKenna said.

 

EXPECT A BACKLASH

In America, President-elect Donald Trump and Cuban American senators all but cheered Fidel Castro's death.

A little farther north, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was mourning “a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century.”

 

OILPATCH ODOURS IN NW ALBERTA

    In 2014, the Alberta Energy Regulator held an inquiry into odours from heavy oil operations in the Peace River area after years of complaints from residents in tiny communities such as Three Creeks. Hours of expert testimony and reams of reports followed. The inquiry concluded the powerful, gassy stench emitted by operators was damaging people's health. It released a string of recommendations, all of which were accepted by Alberta's energy regulator and provincial government.  

    More than two years later, some recommendations are in place. But seven key ones — including everything the province was supposed to have done — are still in draft form, under study or in limbo

 

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FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN CANADIAN ELECTIONS

There is a gap in Canada's election law which means that foreign organizations who contribute to a registered third party have very few restrictions on how that money can be used.

"Are there any restrictions to prevent an organization in the U.S. or anywhere from providing funding to third parties in Canada for use during an election?" Conservative Senator Linda Frum asked Mayrand.
Once the funds are mingled, it's the Canadian organization's funds," Mayrand answered. For that brief moment after, you could hear a pin drop.
   

NCC PLAYING GAMES WITH OTTAWA HOSPITAL

They are not saying much publicly, but behind the scenes sources say officials with The Ottawa Hospital are reeling from Thursday’s selection of Tunney’s Pasture as a potential location for a new Civic Hospital.
The hospital has long favoured locating a $2 billion replacement for the aging Civic hospital across the street at the corner of the Central Experimental Farm — a site promised to the hospital by the Conservative government.

Nothing to see here.  Move along.

TRUMP TO TALK WITH SHERIFF CLARKE

President-elect Donald Trump plans to meet with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke as he continues to vet possible candidates for his administration.  Officials did not say whether Trump is offering Clarke a position with his administration, but signaled interest in his opinions.

WORLD LEADERS' TERRIBLE RESPONSES TO CASTRO'S DEATH

See who is in first place...

 

 

A WORD TO THE CRIMINAL MIGRANT

Pat Condell:  We’ve had enough. The tide is turning.
Multikultistan: A house of horrors for ordinary Europeans.

 

24 SUSSEX

How much was the cost to maintain the empty Prime Minister's residence for 5 months?

Reporters from iPolitics and the Huffington Post, also relying on records released under access to information requests, reported this week that proposals have been put together for a re-fit, demolition or re-location of the official prime minister’s residence with price tags running from between $38 million and $562 million.

TAX CUT SPAT IN POST-PARTISAN SENATE

The supposedly post-partisan Senate inaugurated by Justin Trudeau’s appointment of independent senators has gotten off to an unpromising start.

No sooner had the new senators started arriving in the Red Chamber than one of the most intensely partisan spats of recent times broke out. The Conservative caucus decided to stop tinkering with marginal legislation and go for broke by amending the foundational bill on which the whole Liberal legislative agenda is balanced — the middle-class tax cut.

 

WAITING FOR THAT AMBULANCE IN RURAL ONTARIO?

The City of Ottawa owes a big debt to the United Counties of Prescott-Russell for ambulance call service. The question that counties council would like answered is how long Prescott-Russell can keep up the pace. The report also indicates Prescott-Russell ambulances have responded to 757 calls in Ottawa while Ottawa has only responded to 106 calls in Prescott-Russell.

 

AUSTRALIA STOPS DONATING TO CLINTON FOUNDATION

For months we've been told that the Clinton Foundation, and it's various subsidiaries, were simple, innocent "charitable" organizations, despite the mountain of WikiLeaks evidence suggesting rampant pay-to-play scandals surrounding a uranium deal with Russia and earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti, among others.  Well, if that is, in fact, true perhaps the Clintons could explain why wealthy foreign governments, like Australia and Norway, are suddenly slashing their contributions just as Hillary's schedule has been freed up to focus exclusively on her charity work.  Surely, these foreign governments weren't just contributing to the Clinton Foundation in hopes of currying favor with the future President of the United States, were they?

 

NOT A DEMOCRAT? YOU MUST BE A RUSSIAN PROPAGANDIST

The desperate flailing of a mainstream-media struggling through the five stages of grief continues as no lesser unbiased foundation of the fourth estate than The Washington Post pushes ahead with its "fake news, blame the Russians" narrative for why their candidate failed so miserably.

 The report from PropOrNot, provided to the Post, identifies more than 200 websites that routinely pushed Russian propaganda to at least 15 million Americans, and found that false stories pushed on Facebook were viewed more than 213 million times. You may be surprised by some of the sites on the list (it seems even satirical fakes news sites are propagandists too)...

 

FIDEL CASTRO DEAD

Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century rule, has died at age 90.

THIEVES TARGET THE OILPATCH

When it comes to protecting thousands of remote oil and gas well sites scattered across Alberta’s prairies and foothills, RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters is more concerned about crack addicts than vandals.

The 854 crimes reported at those sites in the first 10 months of 2016 have already exceeded the number in all of 2015, RCMP statistics show, an increase some are blaming on Alberta’s economic slowdown.

He said some of the most unusual reports concern stealing “sight glasses,” long thin glass tubes attached to chemical tanks to provide an external visual gauge of how full the tanks are.

“They make crack pipes and meth pipes out of these sight glasses,” Peters explained in an interview.

 

ALBERTA'S $1.36BILLION DEAL TO SHUT DOWN COAL

The Alberta government will pay three coal power producers more than $1 billion over the next 14 years to compensate them for shutting down their plants early as part of its climate change agenda.

The province said it is also nearing the end of negotiations over power contract disputes that led to a controversial lawsuit, having reached three agreements with companies, though two are tentative.  Talks with a fourth player, Calgary-based public utility Enmax, are ongoing.The deals are the latest in a series of changes the NDP government has made to Alberta’s energy landscape to cut greenhouse gas emissions and produce cleaner power.

 

LIBERALS' DEFENCE: TORIES DID IT TOO

Things are so bad that even the notoriously docile ethics commissioner has called cash-for-access “unsavoury” and suggested parliament establish more stringent rules.

The NDP tried to take the conflict-of-interest issue to the parliamentary ethics committee Thursday but were shut down by Liberal MPs.

In the House, the case for the defence was so thin that had it turned sideways it would have disappeared. Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc said his party had respected all the rules, making the spurious claim that no government business is ever discussed at such fundraising events.

That reply was greeted with hoots and hollers from the other side of the aisle.

 

THE SIMPSONS

Crack a joke about "commie Trudeau".

WYNNE'S DESPERATE ELECTION SURVIVAL STRATEGY

The plan is simple:

First, admit that mistakes have been made and that the government will refocus its attention on issues that really matter to voters, especially jobs, hydro rates and taxes. Voters got their first glimpse of the plan last weekend when a misty-eyed Wynne apologized for screwing up on hydro rates by letting them jump so sharply and “for not paying close enough attention to some of the daily stresses in Ontarian’s lives.”

 

STRAHL RESIGNS FROM TRUDEAU FOUNDATION

Former Conservative MP Chuck Strahl has resigned as a director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in the wake of revelations that a $1-million donation to the organization and University of Montreal was made by senior apparatchiks in Chinese state-run organizations whose purpose is to project Beijing’s influence abroad.

    In a resignation letter, Mr. Strahl says what actually prompted him to quit is that Liberal MPs are invoking his directorship in their defence of the contribution which includes $50,000 to go towards erecting a statue of the former prime minister in Montreal.

“I cannot allow them to imply that my position with the foundation somehow justifies their actions,” Mr. Strahl wrote.

 

200+ FEDERAL OFFICIALS SIGN GAG ORDER ON FIGHTER JETS

Federal procurement officials have been occasionally required to sign such documents in the past, particularly when it comes to selecting a winning bid, Le Bouthillier said.

However, he said, "in this case, a non-disclosure is principally used as a reminder to ensure sensitive and corporate information is protected in the long term."

Two former military procurement chiefs told The Canadian Press in separate interviews that they had never seen such agreements used for procurement projects before.

"I can't recall anyone in any of my project teams having to do that," said Alan Williams, who served as assistant deputy minister of materiel at National Defence from 2000 to 2005.

Nothing to see here, move along.

 

OIL PRODUCERS' CONTORTIONS

With less than a week to go until the much anticipated OPEC meeting in Vienna on November 30, the oil exporting cartel still seems unable to determine the terms of production cut quotas, who will be exempt from cutting, and even who will participate. According to Reuters, in the latest twist to emerge, as OPEC tries to find the sweet spot for production that reduces the oversupply of crude, the organization will ask non-OPEC oil producers to also make big cuts in output, as it seeks to share the burden of declining output and prevent market share gains by non-OPEC nations.

 

GEERT WILDERS SPEAKS AT HIS TRIAL

Wilder's last plea for preservation of the freedom of speech in the Netherlands.

 

MORE MEANINGLESS ONTARIO LIBERAL APOLOGIES

Glen Murray is not the favourite son of Ontario’s farming industry.

The Ontario Minister of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has made few friends in the Ontario farm sector with his push to restrict use of neonicotinoid seed treatments, dismiss sound science, and impose the will of his urban-dominated government on the province’s farmers.

 

MEDIA FALSELY SPINS TRUMP'S CLIMATE COMMENTS

The media spin on President Elect Donald J. Trump’s sit down with the New York Times on November 22, can only be described as dishonest. Trump appears to soften stance on climate change & Donald Trump backflips on climate change  & Trump on climate change in major U-turn

The ‘fake news’ that Trump had somehow moderated or changed his “global warming” views was not supported by the full transcript of the meeting.

Heartland Institute President Joe Bast had this to say about the full transcript of Trump’s meeting: “This is reassuring. The Left wants to drive wedges between Trump and his base by spinning anything he says as “retreating from campaign promises.”  H/T SDA

 

LIBERALS REVERSING TORY RULES

Maryam Monsef, the minister for democratic institutions, has introduced legislation that will allow voters to use the voter information card as valid ID to cast a ballot.

DROUGHT TAX DEFERRAL

Ottawa has seen enough drought in parts of southwestern Alberta, southern and eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec to offer deferrals on their ranchers’ 2016 income tax from breeding livestock sales.

WYNNE IGNORED REPEATED INCESSANT WARNINGS

  Ontario's energy costs have spiralled out of control. Consumers are struggling to pay their hydro bills and still have enough money left to buy a ticket to one of the premier's cash-for-access fundraisers.

   Who — with the exception of everyone — could have foreseen that wasting billions of dollars on cancelled gas plants, paying way above market value for green energy contracts, producing too much energy and selling it to other jurisdictions at a loss, and investing in smart meters that didn't actually do what they were supposed to do would translate into skyrocketing electricity bills for everyday Ontarians?

 

CANADA'S HEALTH CARE WAIT TIMES LONGEST EVER RECORDED

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2016 finds that Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical treatment. The median wait time in Canada in 2016 was 20 weeks—the longest ever recorded—and more than double the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking wait times for medically necessary elective treatments. Among the provinces, Ontario recorded the shortest wait time at 15.6 weeks—up from 14.2 weeks in 2015. New Brunswick recorded the longest wait time (38.8 weeks). It’s estimated that Canadians are currently waiting for nearly one million medically necessary procedures.

 

DRUG COMPANY EMBROILED IN LIBERAL CASH-FOR-ACCESS

    In September 2014, the Federal government banned Apotex from importing products from its Indian facilities citing “significant concerns” about how research data was handled. The Federal court subsequently cancelled the ban and allowed Apotex to import from India. However, Health Canada put inspectors in Apotex’s Canadian facilities and retested any product from India before allowing them to be sold in Canada.

    Apotex is currently suing the government for $500 million, claiming financial and reputational damage from the ban. Morneau sits on the cabinet committee on litigation management. While the $500-million claim has received most of the attention, Apotex’s suit includes another provision: they want a data-integrity requirement dropped for new drug applications, making it easier to sell drugs in Canada —potentially including those manufactured in India.

Nothing to see here.  Move along.

TRUDEAU FUNDRAISER FAILING THE SMELL TEST

The Liberal government’s “cash-for-access” woes deepened Tuesday as the Opposition hammered Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over a news report he mingled with Chinese billionaires at an exclusive Liberal Party fundraiser.  Also among the donors, according to the Globe, was Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman and political advisor to the Chinese government in Beijing. The newspaper said Zhang, along with a partner, donated $1 million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and the University of Montreal Faculty of Law weeks after the fundraiser.

 

ONE ENERGY BOOM, TWO APPROACHES

By contrast, we find that there was a marked difference between Alberta and Texas in terms of how successfully their governments managed public finances during the 2004–2014 period. Program spending per person in Alberta increased by 49 percent during this timeframe, compared to 37.3 percent in Texas. Further, public sector employment growth was approxi­mately twice as rapid in Alberta (2.6 percent) as in Texas (1.2 percent).

The absence of spending discipline in Alberta led to a string of budget deficits, something which did not occur in Texas. As a result, Alberta saw significant erosion in its financial position during this period. In 2006/07, Alberta held net assets representing 12.4 percent of provincial GDP. By 2013/14, provincial net assets had declined to 2.9 percent of GDP. By contrast, Texas saw very little change in its financial asset position during this period.

 

WHY FIRST NATIONS SUCCEED

The eight studies synthesized here highlight the importance of governance. First Nations tend to have higher CWB scores if they run stable governments with leaders serving long terms, pay their leaders less than other First Nations of comparable size, stay out of third-party management, and take advantage of ways to escape the strictures of the Indian Act, such as creating their own property taxes and entering the First Nations Land Management Agreement. Custom governments and Indian Act governments experience similar levels of success; what matters is what governments do, not how they are chosen.

 

OBAMA URGED TO FREE ASYLUM-SEEKERS

Immigration advocates are asking the Obama administration to release thousands of detained Central American women and children who want asylum in the U.S., citing concerns that Donald Trump will deport them after his inauguration in January.

“Instead of removing illegal immigrants, the President has expended enormous time, energy, and resources into settling newly arrived illegal immigrants throughout the United States,” Sessions wrote in a January 2015 “immigration handbook” for Republicans.

The crisis shows no sign of abating. In fiscal 2016 the U.S. apprehended a record 78,000 family members, mainly from Central America, on the southwest border, according to government figures. A record 41,000 immigrants are currently detained in U.S. facilities and half are asylum-seekers

 

ZUCKERBERG SELLS HIS SOUL TO CHINA

Inside Facebook, the work to enter China runs far deeper.

The social network has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity because the tool is confidential. The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where the social network has been blocked, these people said. Mr. Zuckerberg has supported and defended the effort, the people added.

 

SOUNDS LIKE A FINE PLAN

President-elect Trump has piled pressure on the British political establishment, which almost universally backed Clinton, by suggesting Climate Skeptic UKIP leader Nigel Farage should be Britain’s Ambassador to the USA.

 

TRUMP UNLOADS ON MAINSTREAM MEDIA

President-elect Donald Trump met with top reporters and anchors from mainstream media outlets at Trump Tower on Monday, where he reportedly admonished them for their biased coverage during the presidential race.

 The meeting was reportedly “off the record,” but a source told the New York Post that the scene was reminiscent of a “firing squad.”

 

IDENTIFYING SECURITY THREATS TO CANADA

Canada's spy agency is openly warning that Russia and China are out to steal the country's most prized secrets.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which rarely identifies security threats by name, makes the frank statement in briefing notes prepared for service director Michel Coulombe.

While Canada grapples with the problem of jihadi-inspired extremists, the long-standing threat of espionage is also a worrisome preoccupation, the spy agency says in the notes.

"Russia and China, in particular, continue to target Canada's classified information and advanced technology, as well as government officials and systems."

 

TRUDEAU'S BROKEN COMMITTMENTS

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says today’s announcement by the federal government to phase out coal-fired power by 2030 has once again broken a commitment to work with the provinces on a national approach to climate change.

In a statement, Wall said Prime Minister Trudeau agreed to work with the provinces to develop a pan-Canadian plan for climate change that would be discussed at the next First Ministers’ meeting in early December. Wall said that commitment has been “violated” for a second time. The first time being the announcement of a national carbon tax, and now the accelerated phase out of coal-fired power. 

 

MILLENNIAL TANTRUMS: A BOOMER PARENTING FAIL

How did we get here? There are 18-year-olds (in other words, grown-ass adults) curled up in the fetal position in collegiate safe spaces rocking and crying because their favorite candidate lost an election.    
What have you done, parents? I'm speaking to the parents of the current college-aged child. What have you done? Was it the participation trophies? The helicoptering? Never letting them lose? I want to know so that I do not make the same mistake when raising my own young brood. Like most things the Boomers unleashed on the world, their millennial children are profoundly despicable, immature, entitled, privileged, volatile, ignorant brats intent on getting their way despite rules, laws, and the rights of others.

DEMOCRATS A HOLLOWED OUT PARTY

Pat Caddell spoke with Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow on Monday, saying, “The opportunities are high” for the incoming Trump administration. Citing a nation still divided after a long political campaign season, Caddell went on to discuss the current state of the Democratic Party.

 Caddell, a longtime Democrat, called it “a party hollowed out” and unable “to reach out beyond identity politics.” They “keep falling back on the same mantras,” he said.

CANCELLING OBAMA'S ENERGY LEGACY

President-elect Trump has pledged to cancel the Paris Climate Accords and pull back on Obama’s signature Clean Power Plan. He has also promised in his first 100 days in office to lift the Obama administration’s roadblocks preventing the development of energy infrastructure projects such as the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

 

CLINTON FOUNDATION DONATIONS PLUMMET

Donations to the Clinton Foundation tanked in 2015 amid allegations that Hillary Clinton used the billion-dollar charity to siphon seven-figure donations from foreign governments and corporations, who received favorable government actions while Clinton was Secretary of State.

 

ONTARIO CRIMINAL CHARGES STAYED BY DELAYED TRIALS

Progressive Conservative justice critic Randy Hillier said about 43 per cent of criminal cases in Ontario are stayed or withdrawn before trial.

"Ontario is without equal in its failings of the administration of justice," said Hillier. "We have the worst record in the country."                                                

"The justice system is either keeping innocent people behind bars or allowing criminals to walk free," he said. "It doesn't take a legal expert to see that our justice system is acting in the manner that frustrates and obstructs justice while also failing to protect society from dangerous offenders."

 

TRUMP'S VICTORY OVER POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Leftists who infest academia, public schools, mass media, the entertainment industry, the legal system, and every institution of society that has nooks for cadres masquerading as bureaucrats believed that they had transformed thinking in America. 

So when someone like Donald Trump treats all this leftist cant disdainfully and ignores the scolds and witch doctors of leftism, he shows just how little we have to fear from these people.  In fact, the more he pushed the envelope in the middle of a presidential election, the less he fretted about the dire cautions of leftism when he was not politically correct, the more Trump exposed them as old, plump, dull frauds. 

 

CUTTING OFF THE CASH AT COP22

The Marrakesh COP22 climate conference has ended – and green groups are just waking up that without US financial support, nobody has committed any money to anything.  I suspect climate activists are only now waking to the horrible possibility that after years of partying on the US taxpayer’s dime, they really don’t have that many friends anymore.

 

MERKEL & OBAMA WANT TO CONTROL THE INTERNET

President Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel have jointly blamed the disruptive influence of the Internet for their political losses, and have demanded more government control of emerging technology.

 

LE PEN TAKES COMMANDING LEAD IN FRENCH POLLS

Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a substantial lead in the latest French presidential election poll, eight points ahead of her nearest rival.

 Le Pen secured the support of 29 percent of those surveyed by Ipsos, placing her a commanding eight points ahead of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, representing Les Républicains, and a decisive 15 points ahead of Parti de Gauche’s (Left Party’s) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Independent has reported.

 

DOJ HALTS AMNESTY LAWSUIT

  According to the Washington Times, Obama's amnesty plan would have applied to more than 4 million illegal immigrants who were either brought to the U.S. as children, or who were parents of American citizens or legal immigrants.  Under the Obama program, they were to be granted tentative legal status for three years, preventing them from being deported and entitling them to work permits, which would in turn earn them driver’s licenses and some taxpayer benefits.

Judge Hanen, a Texas-based federal judge, ruled the amnesty violated the Administrative Procedure Act because it was a major policy change that should have been put out for public review and comment. An appeals court went further, ruling that Obama broke immigration law, which never envisioned so broad a use of “deferred action” powers. 

 

BANKRUPTING ONTARIO

With electricity costs. 
*Please note that even if the street lights were shut OFF the delivery charges still apply*

ONTARIO MPP HILLIER ON RURAL SCHOOL CLOSURES

Randy Hillier, Ontario Conservative MPP,  wrote an open letter to the Board of Trustees of the Upper Canada District School Board regarding the closure of rural schools. The Board of Trustees responded. 
Acknowledging the Board of Trustees response, Hillier concludes:  I am, however, disappointed that your correspondence made no reference to my specific suggestions and advice, and that they remain unaddressed. In the absence of a response to my concerns, I only see that a revenue hand out is being sought. I trust this was inadvertent and an oversight that will be remedied shortly.
  Let 'em have it Randy.  We've heard crickets from our Liberal MPP, Grant Crack, on these school closures that are happening in his own riding. 

DEADLINES LOOMING FOR LIBERALS; IT'S REALITY TIME

By all indications, the political temperature is about to rise as deadlines looms on three potentially troublesome fronts for the Liberal government. 

 On or before Dec. 1, the special committee that has been exploring a reform of Canada’s voting system will report its findings to the government.  On Dec. 9, Trudeau is tentatively scheduled to meet with the premiers to put the finishing touches on the country’s climate change strategy. Dec. 19 is the deadline for the federal cabinet to decide the fate of Kinder Morgan’s plan to increase the capacity of the TransMountain pipeline.

 

 

WYNNE: "HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES MY MISTAKE"

Wynne said part of convincing Ontarians that she wants to do what is in their best interests is admitting when she has made a mistake.

"People have told me that they've had to choose between paying the electricity bill and buying food or paying rent," Wynne said.

"That is unacceptable to me. It is unacceptable that people in Ontario are facing that choice. Our government made a mistake. It was my mistake."

All very well to say you made a mistake; what will you be doing to fix it?

 

NO RUSSIAN AGGRESSION TOWARDS UKRAINE CLAIMS AMBASSADOR

Russia's ambassador to Canada says NATO is deploying in eastern Europe to justify its existence in a post-Soviet world.

Alexander Darchiev says Canada is a sovereign country that can make its own choices, but he doesn't believe NATO should be moving additional troops into countries that border Russia.

How do you say "liar" in Russian?

 

TRUMP'S PLANS FOR IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said President-elect Donald Trump’s administration would not be able to deport up to 3 million illegal immigrants who have criminal records without additional funding from Congress.

 

NPR CAN'T HANDLE DIVERSITY OF OPINION

   National Public Radio ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen has recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives who may have controversial views, following an interview Nov. 16 with Breitbart News’ Joel B. Pollak.

    Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism.” He also turned the tables, pointing out that NPR has “racist programming,” including a story that called the 2016 election results “nostalgia for a whiter America.”

 

WITHDRAWAL FROM UN CLIMATE DEALS POSSIBLE

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will cancel American involvement in the Paris Agreement on climate change. Commentators have pointed out that, under the treaty’s rules, Trump would need to wait three years from the date on which it came into force, November 4, 2016, to officially notify the United Nations of U.S. cancellation. Even then, the withdrawal will not take effect until one year later.

However, there is a faster, more effective way for the U.S. to exit the Paris Agreement.

 

WORLD VASECTOMY DAY

Friday, you probably didn’t know, was World Vasectomy Day.

“It aims to raise awareness of the importance of being proactive with your family planning, regardless of your culture, creed or country,” said Dr. Neil Pollock, whose scheduled 35 vasectomies on Friday at his Kitsilano clinic will wrap up a worldwide vasectomy marathon. “World Vasectomy Day aims to take away the fear or stigma of vasectomy, and virility as a sign of manhood, with kindness, compassion. A vasectomy is an act of love.”

Pollock has performed upwards of 25,000 vasectomies over his career, not just one of the largest volumes of the procedure in Canada, but worldwide. 

 

EXPOSING ONTARIO'S HYDRO RIP-OFF

Jack MacLaren & Parker Gallant:  If secret costs were attached to any other product or service, there would be outrage and the Competition Bureau would undoubtedly come crashing down on the offending company. Just think of a food store that charged you more for buying less milk, or a gas station that charged you for gas that you didn’t spill.

Despite government talking-points, Ontario is in the grip of an energy crisis. Tinkering around the margins isn’t going to help.

If we’ve shown anything here, it’s that Ontario’s electricity system needs a complete and fundamental overhaul.

 

POSTURING ON THE WORLD STAGE

Rex Murphy:   I thought of these old and desperate melodramas when I read of Catherine McKenna, our environment and climate change minister, on safari to save the planet, this time in Marrakesh, Morocco, trailing her own posse.

The minister signalled to the world that Canada was, again, on the case: “We’re moving forward, as is the world. Everyone is absolutely committed to climate action.” Great news. Everyone is agreed that what we need now is action. Almost makes you wonder why in all their multitudes they went to Marrakesh at all, what with everyone “absolutely committed” to … action.

 

SANTORUM ON TRUDEAU'S STUPID NAFTA MOVE

Prominent Republican Rick Santorum says he was stunned when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pre-emptively offered to sit down with U.S. officials to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Santorum said a negotiator who speaks first during a stare-off usually loses the negotiation.

 

TOO LATE, ANDRE

Speaking after his loss in the Ottawa-Vanier byelection, Andre Marin was blunt in his outlook for the party. He declared that social conservatives need to be put “in their place” by PC leader Patrick Brown, as they constitute “a threat to the party.”

“If they start calling some of the shots, I think you’ll see a very fast erosion in the popularity of the Progressive Conservative party,” Marin said.

 

TWO-FACED NOTLEY

That time Premier Rachel Notley called the Wildrose floor-crossings a 'tremendous betrayal' ....      

                      

DEMOCRAT MEGA-DONORS PLAN TO RETAKE POWER

In a recent email to his allies and donors, Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarche offered a clear indication of where the Democrats plan to direct their attention and resources over the next few years. Specifically, he said that this week's conference would focus on assessing “what steps we will take together to … take back power, beginning in the states in 2017 and 2018.” Raj Goyle, a Democratic activist who is also involved with the Democracy Alliance, concurred that “progressive donors and organizations need to immediately correct the lack of investment in state and local strategies.”
Let that sink in: State and local … State and local … State and local.

 

PUCKERED BUTTS AT THE MOROCCO CLIMATE TALKS

MARRAKESH, Morocco: Fears that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming pushed almost 200 nations at climate talks in Morocco on Thursday to declare action an "urgent duty".

Trump has called man-made global warming a hoax and has said he will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which seeks to wean the global economy off fossil fuels this century with a shift to renewable energies such as wind and solar power.

 

KURDISH PM OPPOSES MASS MIGRATION OF YAZIDIS

The Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq opposes the Canadian plan to bring what could be thousands of Yazidi refugees to Canada in the next four months.

"Prime Minister Barzani thinks the aid and support should be delivered to them in their country."

 

STUNNING USA DEBT

According to data released by the Treasury Department yesterday, the US national debt has soared by a whopping $294 billion since the start of the 2017 fiscal year, just 45 days ago.

That’s an annualized increase of 14%.

 

TRUMP'S MUSLIM REGISTRY NOT ILLEGAL

Despite post-election threats that if the president-elect attempts "to implement his unconstitutional campaign promises, we’ll see him in court," Politico reports that three constitutional lawyers say the ACLU won’t have much of a shot before a judge. The Supreme Court has "consistently reaffirmed the power of the president to control the entry and exit from the country as a matter of national security," giving Trump’s administration a decided advantage in any litigation.

 

INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR, CLAPPER, RESIGNS

In a prepared statement submitted to the committee, the director stressed that "two-thirds of the nations around the world are at some risk of crisis in the next few years."

"There are two key factors driving the scope and complexity of unrest which span political, economic, security, cultural, and ethnic sectors: massive humanitarian crises and perpetual regional instability," he said.

 

NATIONALISM SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD

Nigel Farage, one of the leaders of the Brexit movement, says Donald Trump's election proves nationalism is spreading across the globe. He says he wants to be Trump's bridge to the United Kingdom, and hopes that our two countries can work together better than we have under President Obama. Farage hopes the next dominos to fall for nationalism will be in Austria and Italy.

 

LIBERALS BORROWING TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

By and large, the Conservatives were pikers when compared with the Liberals, a political team so proficient in entitlement spending that if there was a trophy awarded, they’d be allowed to keep it.

 

FEELING SECURE?

The CSE statement says that of more than 4,500 known federal government computer-system compromises to date in 2016, it can identify only three known instances where data were actually stolen. None of this information was determined to have been classified as a state secret. These instances of data “exfiltration” from the government occurred once each within the natural-resources sector, the “security, intelligence and defence” sector, and the “government-administration” sector

 

ONTARIO BYELECTIONS

The Liberals have won a provincial byelection in Ottawa-Vanier, fending off a challenge from a former Ontario ombudsman.  However, the Progressive Conservatives held the riding of Niagara West-Glanbrook in Thursday's other byelection, electing a 19-year-old student as the youngest ever member of the Ontario legislature.

 

ALBERTA'S RURAL LEADERS BOO NDP

The Alberta government got a bit of a rough ride at a meeting with rural politicians in Edmonton.

Deputy premier Sarah Hoffman was booed Thursday as she defended the NDP's climate-change plan, which includes a carbon tax and a phase-out of coal-fired electricity.

 

THEIR SILENCE IS DEAFENING

Obama, Clinton and Sanders.

GEORGE SOROS DEAD OR ALIVE

Putin issues International Arrest Warrant.

NOTLEY'S BATTLE WITH POWER CONTRACTORS CONTINUES

 Electricity companies in Alberta fear Premier Rachel Notley’s government is preparing legislation to retroactively change power contracts signed 15 years ago, a move critics say would create an investment chill in the province.

 

WHO'S BEHIND THE PORTLAND RIOTS?

Two months ago, Charlotte police confirmed that 70% of those arrested during the riots were from out-of-state. 18 months before that, as the riots flared in Ferguson, George Soros spurred the protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to financial records reviewed by The Washington Times. And now, amid more headlines of Soros' involvement, KGW reports that more than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland were from out of state.

 

 

OBAMA'S FINAL GREEN SPENDING SPREE

President Obama’s administration appears to be pushing out a final hundred million dollars in grants to foreign green projects, ahead of the January 20th handover to the new Trump administration.

According to India Economic Times, an additional $20 million has also been released, bringing to total so far to $95 million,

 

 

OVERESTIMATING AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE MEASURES

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has warned President-elect Trump that he will not have the power to derail climate programmes, even climate programmes in the USA.

Say it a lot louder Ban Ki-Moon, somebody might believe you.

 

DENYING OBAMACARE CAUSES JOB LOSS

Obamacare “architect” Jonathan Gruber asserts there is “no evidence” President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation “has caused job loss.”

 In an interview Tuesday, Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo confronted Gruber with Obamacare’s double-digit premium hikes, the fact that insurance companies are leaving exchanges, and that small businesses are either slowing hiring or turning full-time positions to part-time due to the costs of Obamacare

 

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG

The multibillion-dollar effort to replace the navy's warship fleet is being buffeted by concerns about a potential conflict of interest involving the Halifax company that is leading the project. 

Several industry representatives worried that Irving would give BAE and the Type 26 preferential treatment during the design competition because of their existing relationship.

"This is an outright conflict," said one industry source, who like the others did not want to be identified because of a clause in the design competition restricting what companies can say publicly.

 

SENIORS' BENEFITS BOONDOGGLE CONTINUE

Thousands of low-income seniors are getting special compensation payments this month after federal bungling denied them their guaranteed income supplement (GIS) cheques for up to seven years.

Ottawa has already delivered retroactive GIS payments to 89,840 seniors, by the end of last month, at an average of $1,970 each — though several hundred got cheques for more than $20,000. The retroactive payments have totalled $271 million to date.

 

ALBERA FARMERS RECEIVE ENERGY CO'S POWER BILLS

Last June, Alberta's Farmers' Advocate Office got a surprising phone call from a rural landowner. The farmer had noticed something strange on his power bill from the utility company Epcor. 

He had leased a portion of his land to an energy company that had drilled a well, but the company hadn't paid its power bills. And now the farmer was getting dinged for the bill.

"Epcor was attempting to collect payment for the three-phase electric power to that site and attempting to collect it from the landowner, because the company was no longer in existence,"

 

TRUMP DOESN'T BELIEVE YOUR GREEN BULLSH!T, MCKENNA

The momentum behind the movement for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is "irresistible" despite the recent election of Donald Trump, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday.

Speaking at the UN climate change conference in Morocco, Catherine McKenna tried to minimize the effects of the U.S. election result on the international fight against global warming.

"In terms of climate change ... there's an irresistible force now," McKenna told a news conference in Marrakech. "There's no going back. You can't stop the waves from hitting the beach. And what you're seeing is, it's because the market forces recognize the huge opportunity."

 

BYELECTION MESSAGE TO WYNNE

Even if the opposition parties win the two seats up for grabs — Ottawa-Vanier and Niagara West-Glanbrook, when the sun comes up on Friday, Kathleen Wynne will still be the premier of the province with a comfortable majority government.

But voters in those two ridings can send this dreadful government a strong message they can’t ignore: Enough of the waste, mismanagement and arrogance.

 

HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE THE ELITE SCORNED

All the existential rage of the defeated and humiliated elites is now focused against Steve Bannon -- the architect of Trump's victory, the media genius who won the battle with less than a fifth of the financial resources at Hillary Clinton's disposal.
   We have learned from the sewage-storm directed at Bannon that the Establishment plays dirty, and that the formerly Republican #NeverTrumpers aren't just misguided ideologues, but also yellow-bellied, gutter-crawling, backstabbing, bushwhacking liars. Hell hath no fury like a self-designated elite scorned.

UNITED IN CRITICIZING THE CBC

The bastion of Canadian establishment journalism and a pugnacious media upstart took turns ripping into the publicly funded CBC in testimony Tuesday to the Commons Heritage committee.

The publisher of the Globe and Mail newspaper, Philip Crawley, told members of Parliament who are examining Canada's beleaguered news industry that the Globe's ownership isn't seeking "handouts or subsidies — but we do like to play on a level playing field."

Crawley was flanked by an unlikely ally — Brian Lilley of Rebel Media, an online news and right-wing opinion outlet that delights in skewering the dreaded mainstream (or "lamestream") media, of which the Globe might be considered a charter member.

 

SOLAR BOAT NOT A SUCCESS

A mysterious solar-powered boat assembled from scrap wood and tar has ploughed into western Ireland only weeks after it was abandoned on a Newfoundland beach.

While out for a Sunday walk, a resident of Ireland’s County Mayo “came across an unusual type of vessel washed up onto the shore,” read a Monday statement by the Irish Coast Guard.

When a local unit of the Ballyglass Coast Guard showed up, they found a peculiar homemade boat covered in tar with solar panels bolted to the roof. Written in sharpie on the vessel’s interior was a cryptic note: “I, Rick Small, donate this structure to a homeless youth to give them a better life that Newfoundlanders choose not to do! No rent, no mortgage, no hydro.”

 

CARBON PRICING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ALBERTA

At a dinner Sunday night, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips said United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz spoke about the estimated $23 trillion in private investment potential around energy efficiency in the developing world.

Phillips called the mood in that room "optimistic," as the global business community moves further toward a consensus on renewables, energy efficiency and action on man-made climate change.

"As soon as you price carbon, you open up investment opportunities that were not there previously," she said.

 

TORONTO HYDRO ZAPS CITY FOR $35 MILLION

Councillor Gord Perks:

“Hydro recently had a rate increase so there’s no reason they should be doing this. Their claim they’re having trouble meeting their capital needs is just false. Their rate increase was enough to meet their capital needs. The math doesn’t add up. The responsibility is to their shareholder — the City of Toronto. I want a full accounting from Toronto Hydro to understand why they’re violating their shareholder agreement.”

 

ONTARIO LIBERAL FALL ECONOMIC STATEMENT: SMOKE & MIRRORS

The province is in a “dire fiscal state,” Fedeli said.

In order to balance the 2017-18 budget, the government is taking $600 million from contingency funds. And it’s looking for another $800 million from a one-time sale of assets.

“The financial accountability officer (FAO) has said the Liberal government is using one-time money from asset sales and contingency funds to artificially balance the budget, and today’s Fall Economic Statement confirms they’re doubling down on this reckless strategy.

 

PRIME MINISTER PLANK

Politicians, like gamblers, need to know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em.

Justin Trudeau’s pre-emptive decision to tell one of the planet’s most voracious deal-makers that Canada is willing to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, without even being asked, ranks as one of the great examples of a sovereign government disintegrating like cheap toilet paper.

 

 

RIPE FOR CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

The Liberal government is preparing to sell off Canada’s public infrastructure to billion-dollar investment funds and is not being honest with Canadians about it, New Democrats charged Monday.

NDP finance critic Guy Caron sounded the alarm as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with representatives from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurers in Toronto to court investments for infrastructure projects.

 

NEVER STOP WHINING

As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, the Parti Quebecois is looking for evidence that Confederation has been bad for Quebec.

MNA Stephane Bergeron along with UQAM history professor Gilles Laporte have launched what they're calling L'Autre 150, or The Other 150th.

They are asking Quebecers to submit their ideas in order to present 150 ways that Quebec has been let down by the creation of Canada

 

CANADA HELPING THE YAZIDI GENOCIDE SURVIVORS

In June, a United Nations report said ISIS was seeking to destroy the community of 400,000 people, systematically rounding up Yazidis to "erase their identity." That finding meets the definition of genocide under the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.

Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion subsequently declared that genocide was underway.

The House unanimously adopted the multi-pronged Conservative motion on Oct. 25, with a four-month target to bring in an unspecified number of Yazidis.

 

INCREASE IN USE OF CANADIAN FOODBANKS

Food Banks Canada’s new report, HungerCount 2016, shows 863,492 individuals relied on a food bank in March, with eight out of 10 provinces experiencing rise in usage.

 

NOTLEY'S THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATION

The Alberta government is facing renewed criticism over its choice of panellists to head up its oilsands advisory group.

The Wildrose party is calling for co-chair Tzeporah Berman and another appointee, Karen Mahon, to be fired.

The opposition party claims Mahon sent out a fundraising email “imploring people to fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline.”

 

TRUMP TO QUIT PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT ASAP

Donald Trump is looking at quick ways of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement in defiance of widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters has reported.
  A source in the Trump transition team said the victorious Republican, who has called global warming a hoax, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four-year procedure for leaving the accord.

 

GROWING GIGANTIC PUMPKINS

An Eganville man has set a new Ontario giant pumpkin record after two of his pumpkins each weighed as much as a Smart car.

Ryan Hoelke’s previous best was 1,463 lb., but he went to the Woodbridge Fair at Vaughan on Oct. 8 in hopes of breaking the Ontario record of 1,684 lb. The pumpkin tipped the scales at 1,803 lb., smashing the Ontario record.

 

PAYING THE FARM'S HYDRO BILLS IN ONTARIO

Farmers across Western Ontario are expressing frustration with the high price of electricity as some report paying Hydro One bills that have doubled from only a few years ago.

Many farmers say they are discouraged with pretty much every detail on their monthly bill despite taking steps to use less electricity.

Brady Yauch, executive director and economist with the Consumer Policy Institute, said that Hydro One’s prices increased by 68 per cent over the last nine years. Ontario hydro prices are the highest in North America and Hydro One customers pay about three times the price of Manitoba users for the same amount of energy.

 

SPOUTING THE GREEN BULLSH!T LINES

In his response to questions last week on whether the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president-elect — meaning a national carbon price south of the border is as dead as a doornail — will change the PM’s climate policies, Trudeau responded no, adding:

“We know that putting a price on carbon pollution is a way to improve our response to economic challenges, to create good jobs going forward and to show leadership that quite frankly the entire world is looking for, along with the solutions that go with it.” Actually, based on real-world experience, we know nothing of the sort.

 

ONTARIO BYELECTIONS NOVEMBER 17

The Ottawa-Vanier byelection is a referendum on Premier Kathleen Wynne. The riding has been Liberal for decades, vacant after long-time Liberal, Madeleine Meilleur, quit.

The other vote is in Niagara West-Glanbrook.  The top concern is a mixture of hydro rates and my Conservative opponent’s inexperience,” said Ringuette, a Hamilton family lawyer who specializes in fertility law.

“Really? I asked. “You mean voters in Niagara West Glanbrook aren’t raising issues of the Liberal government’s integrity in the wake of senior operatives being charged in the Sudbury byelection scandal?” Not to mention two OPP probes into Ornge and deleted gas plant e-mails. But apparently the good voters of NWG are fretting over a 19-year-old, Sam Oosterhoff,  running for office. OMG. Call the cops.

 

 

THE LEFT LOSES ITS UNREMITTING FIGHT FOR CONTROL

This week the left -- its propagandizing press, pollsters, and university leftist monoculture -- suffered a long deserved and punishing blow, but what it could not win at the ballot box it is attempting to regain in the streets. They seem to want elections to be resolved by the number of people they can turn out to riot and disrupt.

 

WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?

Hillary Clinton blamed FBI director James Comey for her stunning defeat in Tuesday's presidential election in a conference call with her top campaign funders on Saturday, according to two participants who were on the call.

 

GOODBYE AND THANK YOU, LEONARD COHEN

Cohen performs Hallelujah

 

EYES ON THE SKY

The largest, brightest full moon in nearly seven decades will be on display in the coming days, promising Earth-bound sky-watchers a celestial "supermoon" spectacle.

The full moon will come nearer to Earth than at any time since 1948, astronomers said. At closest approach, which occurs at 6:23 a.m. EST on Monday, the moon will pass within 216,486 miles (348,400 km) of Earth's surface, about 22,000 miles (35,400 km) closer than average, they added.

 

WHEN ARSEH0LES CONGREGATE

Some people just want to see the world burn.

As anti-Trump rioters wreaked havoc in the streets of Portland, Oregon on Thursday, they ended up turning on each other and brawling in the road way.

Video shows one rioter hammering an electrical box with a baseball bat.

 

DEFYING THE POPPY POLICE

England and Scotland's football teams wore black armbands with embroidered poppies in Friday's World Cup qualifier - defying FIFA's threats of fines or point deductions

 

BLAMING GOP FOR OBAMACARE FAILURE

While discussing the increasing costs of the Affordable Care Act referred to as Obamacare, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said voters should be mad at “Republican officeholders” who refused to do anything other than vote to repeal Obamacare.

 

CLINTON FOUNDATION PROBE MUST CONTINUE

“But I think to just say, ‘Well, she gets a free pass because she lost,’ here’s the problem with that: If she had won, she was gonna get a free pass because there’s no way the FBI was going to investigate the sitting President of the United States and do so fairly. And now people are saying she’s lost and she should get a free pass. You’re saying they get a free pass regardless of what happens,” Schweizer pointed out.

He said the Clintons were motivated by their hunger for power and money, but added, “I think deeply embedded in that is this sense of entitlement, that they are owed this. They are owed the money. They are owed the power.”