NO JUSTIFICATION FOR PREMATURE ELECTION CALL

   Rex Murphy:   Trudeau is butterflying around the country dropping millions here and billions there, as are his worshipful ministers, nattering on about “just transitions” and “building back better” (when not tossing verbal hand grenades at the Montreal Canadiens for their careless sexism), but is anyone raising the question of why Canada, at this moment — when many people just got their first haircut in 18 months and are still suffocating under face masks — has to have an election?

THE FARCE OF RUSSIA'S DOPING BAN

 In every other respect, the Russians competing in Tokyo look entirely like a Russian Olympic team. They wear red, white and blue outfits, and they are announced as representing the Russian Olympic Committee, a meaningless distinction that the IOC seems to think bothers the Russians. The ban on Russia, such as it is, amounts to semantics. For the third straight Games the Russians are here and competing and winning medals and receiving congratulatory phone calls from Vlad Putin, despite having engineered the biggest doping program since the Cold War.

RAILWAY WARS

 The biggest business story in recent months is the fight between Canada’s two railway giants — Calgary-based Canadian Pacific (CP) and Montreal-based Canadian National (CN) — to take control of the American railway giant Kansas City Southern (KCS). The winner will own the continent’s first railway that links the United States, Mexico and Canada.

In March, CP signed a deal with KCS to buy it for US$25.2 billion ($31.4 billion), then CN swooped in and negotiated a deal to pay US$30 billion. KCS’s board of directors accepted the higher bid and paid a US$700-million break fee to CP.

$13.4M SETTLEMENT PROPOSED AGAINST FERTLITY DOCTOR

 More than 200 victims of a disgraced Ottawa fertility doctor, including 17 children conceived using his own sperm, will share in a proposed $13.375 million settlement for damages caused by his actions. It is the first legal case of its kind in the world.

The case is the latest chapter in the stunning story of Ottawa’s Dr. Norman Barwin and the lives he altered with actions that were called “beyond reprehensible” by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Ottawa resident Rebecca Dixon, who is among the 17 children conceived with Barwin’s sperm, called the proposed settlement “an imperfect solution. I think it is challenging that money is the only thing that is offered and not a direct admission of responsibility from Barwin.” She and her parents are lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

BUDGETS GO WHERE NO BUDGETS HAVE GONE BEFORE

 Rex Murphy:  Since 2050 people have stopped breathing out. Inhaling is fine. But exhaling is now illegal. Violators are exiled to Jeff Bezos’ old space stations where they can breathe any way they want.

The CBC has been formally acquired by Greenpeace and the David Suzuki Foundation. It was a friendly takeover.

The pandemic is in its 51st year and 17th wave. (They’ve run out of Greek letters for the variants.)

CONTRADICTING CATHOLIC CHURCH CLAIMS

 The Roman Catholic Church spent millions of dollars that were supposed to go to residential school survivors on lawyers, administration, a private fundraising company and unapproved loans, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

The documents include a host of other revelations. They appear to contradict the Catholic Church's public claims about money paid to survivors.

"There are also a large number of serious accounting discrepancies that are alarming to Canada," states one document, a 53-page federal government "factum" summarizing the evidence in a 2015 court matter.

5 YEAR WAIT FOR ACCESS TO INFORMATION REQUEST

The Access to Information request was prompted by curiosity about PHAC head, Iain Stewart’s refusal to provide a House of Commons committee with unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists, which touched off a battle with Speaker Anthony Rota.

Under federal access law, agencies are supposed to answer requests within 30 days or provide reasons why more time is needed.

The Public Health Agency of Canada recently informed the applicant that an extension of up to 1,950 days — over five years and four months — would be required.

 It said the request involves a large number of records, the original time limit would unduly interfere with agency operations and another government institution must be consulted.

THE FANTASY OF NET ZERO

    Gwyn Morgan:  At their meeting last month G7 leaders agreed to a greenhouse gas emissions target of “net zero” by 2050. That would require phasing out all fossil fuels. But how? The common reply is “putting a price on carbon,”, i.e., carbon taxes. But unless there’s a viable alternative, taxing something people can’t do without only makes them poorer. Policy makers seem to believe that “green power,” meaning wind and solar, is the answer. But despite hundreds of billions of dollars having been spent on them, wind and solar currently account for only 3.3 per cent of world energy supply.

That fact may come as a surprise, since the heavily subsidized wind and solar industry claims a much higher “capacity” number, defined as the electricity that would be generated when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing everywhere. But it’s hard to imagine those conditions existing at any time, let alone during cold, calm Canadian winter nights when power is needed most. Ontario consumers learned this first-hand after large-scale investment in costly windmills and solar panels sent their electricity rates from being among the lowest in North America to among the continent’s highest and driving the province’s manufacturers south to the welcoming arms of Georgia and the Carolinas.

Should we give up hope of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Although it’s clear that “net zero” is simply not on, a substantial reduction is possible. And the biggest opportunity for emissions reduction lies in a fossil fuel that is in practically unlimited supply: natural gas.

OTTAWA COULD POST DEFICITS UNTIL 2070

 OTTAWA — The federal government could be running budget deficits until 2070 if current spending plans are not altered, according to estimates by the Parliamentary Budget Officer that have spurred warning calls over Canada’s fiscal position.

The Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has heaped on numerous new permanent spending programs in recent years, including a planned national childcare program, expanded Employment Insurance, increased elderly benefits, and bigger transfers to provinces for infrastructure, among other things. That, along with drastically weakened fiscal positions in the provinces and territories due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has substantially extended the timeline for when Ottawa might return to balance, according to the PBO’s Fiscal Sustainability Report (FSR). Reaching surplus could now take until 2070, up from 2023 just months before the pandemic struck.

HARPER COMMENTS ON LIBERAL COVID SPENDING

 The Canadian government has spent irresponsibly in its attempt to fend off the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to former prime minister Stephen Harper.

"It's not a good reaction, it's been overkill," Harper said on an episode of the podcast American Optimist, which was released on Tuesday.

"This is bad macroeconomic policy on an enormous scale."

TRUDEAU BRUSHES OFF HIS OWN MISTAKES

 The lesson in this is plain: if you find you’ve made an imprudent or unwise mistake as a youth, it’s best to seek a career for yourself in politics. That will let you lay claim to high moral standards by denouncing and dismissing others for their human failures, while neglecting to apply the same rules to yourself in the hope the public will grant you a reprieve, as they often do. In the end you have a fighting chance to enjoy a long and profitable career of “public service,” safe in a world of firm double standards.

LIBERALS PROPOSE MORE FUNDING FOR CBC

 Despite receiving $1.2 billion annually from Canadian taxpayers, the Department of Canadian Heritage claims the CBC is under immense financial pressure.

“The Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of covering it put immense pressure on CBC’s workforce, operations, finances and systems,” said the April 20 briefing note Funding Support For The CBC, which was first reported on by Blacklocks Reporter. 

The CBC was steadily losing advertising revenue long before the pandemic, with CBC TV revenue decreasing 53% between 2014 and 2019.

PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES ARE LYING

The tragedy here is that Fauci and Murthy DON’T have to lie.

If 5 percent, or 10 percent, or even 15 percent of American Covid deaths are currently occurring in fully vaccinated people, that’s impressive protection considering that more than half of adults have been vaccinated - and more than 80 percent of the elderly, who are most vulnerable. The vaccines look to be holding up better in the United States than Israel, the most comparable country (though whether that gap will continue is not clear, since the United States was a few weeks behind Israel in its vaccination campaign and Israeli cases and hospitalizations have surged this month).

But they won’t offer the real numbers. And as they hype the Delta variant, they refuse to admit the United States has had far fewer Covid deaths overall in July 2021 as in 2020 (while the United Kingdom is now reporting more deaths now than it did in late July 2020, despite having better overall vaccine coverage).

Their reluctance is part of a much larger problem, the unwillingness to offer a serious cost-benefit analysis of the vaccines. Because the truth is messy. The vaccines are clearly far from the miracle that the initial reports promised last November.

NEVER-ENDING COVID JABS

 MONTREAL — The Quebec government says fully vaccinated residents who have received the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can receive a third dose of an mRNA vaccine before travelling. 

Public health officials are offering the extra shot because some countries don't recognize the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine made at the Serum Institute of India. But officials warned Monday it's up to the recipient to seek advice and weigh the risks before getting a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.

A spokesman for the Health Department said in an email Monday a third dose doesn't necessarily provide more protection compared with two doses, adding that the safety of receiving two shots of AstraZeneca and an mRNA vaccine is unclear.

RIDICULING THE VIRTUE SIGNALLING MASKER

A Labour Councillor faced ridicule after she bragged on Twitter about wearing a face mask on an empty train.

Not all heroes wear capes.

“Going to keep wearing my mask on public transport. Even when it’s just me on the tube,” tweeted Alice Perry.

Numerous respondents pointed out that Perry must have been disappointed that no one on the train could see how compliant and virtuous she was, which is why she decided to take selfie and post it to Twitter.

FAR OVERSTATING COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS IN UK

Over half of those hospitalized with Covid-19 in the UK only tested positive after admission - suggesting that "vast numbers are being classed as hospitalised by Covid when they were admitted with other ailments, with the virus picked up by routine testing," according to The Telegraph, citing leaked government figures.

The takeaway? Oft-cited statistics published daily may far overstate Covid hospitalizations - and consequently, pressures on the National Health Service (NHS).

FBI ORCHESTRATES ITS OWN TERROR PLOTS

But this evidence does not so much raise that question as much as it answers it. The idea of kidnapping Gov. Whitmer came from the FBI. It was a plot designed by the agency, and they then went on the hunt to target people they believed they could manipulate into joining their plot — either people were easily manipulated due to psychological weakness, financial vulnerability, and/or their strongly held political views. In sum, the FBI devised this plot, was the primary organizer of it, funded it, purposely directed their targets to pose for incriminating pictures that they then released to the press, and then heaped praise on themselves for stopping what they themselves had created.

For anyone covering the FBI during the first War on Terror, none of this is new. So many of the supposed “terror plots” the FBI purported to disrupt over the last twenty years were — just like the Michigan plot — ones that were created and driven by, and would not have happened without, the FBI's own planning, funding and direction.

Just as they are doing now, the FBI used those plots to elevate fear levels and justify more domestic surveillance power and funding for the U.S. security state. While the targets then were typically young American Muslims with anti-government views rather than young right-wing white men with anti-government views, the tactics were identical.

CDC QUIETLY ABANDONING PCR TEST FOR COVID

Numerous epidemiological experts have argued that cycle thresholds are an important metric by which patients, the public, and policymakers can make more informed decisions about how infectious and/or sick an individual with a positive COVID-19 test might be. However, as JustTheNews reports, health departments across the country are failing to collect that data.

Here are a few headlines from those experts and scientific studies:

1. Experts compiled three datasets with officials from the states of Massachusetts, New York and Nevada that conclude: “Up to 90% of the people who tested positive did not carry a virus."

2. The Wadworth Center, a New York State laboratory, analyzed the results of its July tests at the request of the NYT: 794 positive tests with a Ct of 40: “With a Ct threshold of 35, approximately half of these PCR tests would no longer be considered positive,” said the NYT. “And about 70% would no longer be considered positive with a Ct of 30! “

3. An appeals court in Portugal has ruled that the PCR process is not a reliable test for Sars-Cov-2, and therefore any enforced quarantine based on those test results is unlawful.

WOKE LANGUAGE

 Have you noticed how our language is changing? At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.”

Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative action” to “diversity.” The Associated Press no longer uses “mistress.” It tells reporters to use “companion, friend or lover.”

Worse, certain speech is now labelled “violence.” Calling a transgender woman a man is “an act of violence,” says transgender actress Laverne Cox.

50 CHURCHES VANDALIZED, DESECRATED, OR BURNED DOWN

 Canada hit a dubious mark this week; more than 50 churches have now been vandalized, desecrated or burned to the ground since the announcement in Kamloops, B.C. of unmarked graves found near a residential school.

Fifty communities have been robbed of a sacred space to pray and effectively stripped of a fundamental right we hold dear in Canada — so much so that it is the very first right enumerated in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

So, where are the politicians? Where are the police? Why aren’t these churches being protected?

SERFDOM: LINING UP TO SHOW COVID DOCUMENTATION

That means that a check-in agent, whose previous training was in determining allowable baggage limits, now, with understandably no expertise or experience in the matter, has to evaluate whatever documents passengers produce. If you are in Toronto and you have a standard Ontario Health COVID test, that would be easy enough. But you are not supposed to have that standard Ontario Health result because the public health system is not supposed to do COVID tests for travel purposes. So the airline agent will likely be confronted with a document from a private lab, each one with its own format.

On the other end, the customs and border official in, say, Lisbon, is supposed to monitor vaccination status. Is she familiar with documents issued by the health system in Nova Scotia, or an Indigenous reserve in British Columbia? What about a Walgreen’s vaccine record from Colorado? So unless the passenger himself reveals a lack of vaccination, whatever document is produced is waved through. And if whatever document is waved through, why require it in the first place?

On the return it is even more absurd. Canada requires a negative COVID test for entry, and is particular about which kind. PCR is is the favoured flavour, not antigen. That means another airline agent must determine — in English or French, no matter if his first language is Polish or German — whether the right result was obtained at the right time with the right kind of test. Numerous acquaintances confirm what one would expect: everyone is waved through.

PREDICTING BIDEN'S RESIGNATION

Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician-turned-congressman, says he’s “terrified for our country” in the wake of President Joe Biden’s disastrous town hall this week — and that he doubts whether the commander in chief has the cognitive ability to make it through a full term.

“He’s completely LOST it!” Jackson (R-Tex.) tweeted Saturday, along with a video clip — recorded this week — in which Biden bizarrely answered a reporter’s question about defunding the police by claiming that Republicans accuse him of “sucking the blood out of kids.”

“Needs a cognitive exam NOW!” Jackson posted.

INCONSISTANT NARRATIVE FROM CLIMATE ALARMISTS

  Climate alarmists have a problem presenting a consistent narrative on the dangers supposed human-caused climate change poses.
   Instead, they follow Lewis Carroll’s irrepressible and violent Red Queen down the climate change rabbit hole, as when in response to Alice’s statement that “one can't believe impossible things,” she proudly proclaimed, “I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

   As award-winning meteorologist Anthony Watts pointed out recently, above or below-average snowfall, monsoon rains, or rising or falling Great Lake levels or wind speeds may be indications of climate change, but only if a single, consistent direction of change is sustained over decades. If, instead, these patterns shift back and forth annually or every few years, that’s just normal weather.

REINING IN MICHIGAN'S GOVERNOR WHITMER

 In a rebuke to Gretchen Whitmer, the Republican-led Michigan state House of Representatives repealed a 76-year-old law that gave the governor broad emergency powers used to lock down much of the state during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a 60-48 vote mainly along party lines, the Emergency Powers Act of 1945 was officially scuttled. The state Senate had already voted to kill the act last week.

Though the legislation does not take effect immediately it was a clear shot at Whitmer, whose strict shut-down policies stirred protests last year, but also made her a political darling among Democrats.

SHAMEFUL DOUBLE STANDARD COVERING TERROR ATTACKS

 We were informed that the person charged in connection with the death was 31-year-old Umar Zameer and that he appeared in court that same day. No pictures of the suspect were released, by police or media. 

Unlike other police press releases, there wasn’t even an indication of where Zameer called home. We don’t know if he was also charged in connection with Northrup’s partner.

A publication ban was quickly slapped on any further details of the alleged killing, and to this day there has been radio silence.

QUEBEC SAYS NON TO LNG FACILITY

Premier François Legault had initially supported the project, but it was met with widespread opposition

The Quebec government has refused to approve construction of a liquified natural gas (LNG) facility in the Saguenay, north of Quebec City, following years of opposition from citizens, Indigenous communities and environmental experts.

The decision, announced Wednesday by Environment Minister Benoit Charette, effectively kills a $14-billion project that would have carried natural gas from Western Canada across Quebec to the Saguenay port, then shipped it to markets overseas.

LEAKED PRESENTATIONS RE COVID PASSPORT

Leaked presentations reveal that Canada won’t have a national Covid-19 vaccine passport system until December 2021, at the earliest. A total lack of national infrastructure, however, means that could be delayed even further.

The internal PowerPoint presentation, prepared by the Treasury Board of Canada, reveals that even more than a year after the global pandemic hit, Canada still lags other countries in developing a system to issue and recognize proof of immunity to Covid-19.

While there are no plans to make such a vaccine passport mandatory, a lack of a standardized, national, vaccine record could hobble Canadians’ ability to travel abroad as the world slowly reopens.

NO SCIENTIFIC BACKING FOR VACCINE CERTIFICATES

   Brian Lilley:  The Ontario Science Table says the Ford government needs to provide “vaccine certificates” to prove people are vaccinated before going out in public.

 They say this despite admitting that there is no scientific proof that such documents will help stop the spread of COVID-19 or boost vaccine uptake.

Basically, they want them because they want them — and it makes them feel better.

This would be the same self-appointed and overly self-important “Science Table” which has consistently botched projections for case counts of COVID and what it would take for the government to get the pandemic under control.

PM's DISMISSAL OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN MILITARY

Astonishingly, when asked if he’s angry he didn’t know about a 2018 allegation of inappropriate behaviour against former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance, Prime Minister Trudeau said, “No.”

 There’s really no way to sugarcoat this: Our prime minister is very probably lying to the public in order to cover up a cover up of a #MeToo complaint. That he, or at least his office, didn’t know the allegation against Vance was a sexual misconduct complaint simply beggars belief. The military ombudsman described it as sexual misconduct, the clerk of the the Privy Council described it as sexual harassment, and Trudeau’s own staff described it as sexual harassment in their emails.

If he’s not angry, there are only three credible explanations as to why not. One: The entire question is based on a false premise. He’s not angry because he knew all along. Two: His staff didn’t tell him in order to shield him and he’s not angry because he prioritizes protecting himself and his seat of power at all costs. Three: He’s not angry because he lacks empathy and really doesn’t give a flying fig about women.

OLYMPIC COVID SURVIVOR REFUSES VACCINATION

 He is both a COVID-19 survivor but also one of the minority of athletes preparing for these beleaguered Games that has refused to become vaccinated. Andrew, who is scheduled to compete in the 100-metre breaststroke, the 200-metre individual medley and the 50-metre freestyle, has his reasons. But for many, they aren’t sitting well.

“My reason behind it is, for one, it was kind of last moment (and) I didn’t want to put anything in my body that I didn’t know how I would potentially react to,” Andrew said during a pre-Olympics video press conference. “As an athlete on the elite level, everything you do is very calculated and understood.

“For me, in the training cycle, especially leading up to (the U.S. Olympic trials) I didn’t want to risk any days out. There were periods where you take a vaccine (and) you have to deal with some days off.”

LIBERAL IDEALOGUES' CONTINUED SUPPORT OF TRUDEAU

  The naive view of events is that the famously unideological Liberal Party has been captured by hardened identity-politics warriors and environmental zealots. In fact, it is they who have been captured, drafted irrevocably into the political service of the leader.
   They have proved especially invaluable to this leader. Had they, and he, not advertised their devotion to sexual and racial equality with such fervour, his own history of sexual and racial indiscretions might have surfaced earlier, and to more effect.
   As it was he was able to skate through. Partly by adroit use of woke buzzwords (“men and women experience things differently,” as a defence to a charge of groping, is effectively “chicks be crazy” under a fresh coat of feminist subjectivism; “I was blinded by my privilege” doesn’t even begin to explain his peculiar penchant for dressing in blackface), and partly because, having so completely thrown in their lot with him, they have nowhere else to go.
   How complete is the capture of the ideologues can be seen in the silence they have been forced to observe, through one episode after another in which it has been made excruciatingly clear that their loyalty was not reciprocated.

JAPAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA IS STRAINED

 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Japan’s relationship with China was no better than notoriously strained Sino-Australian relations, the Japanese ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday.

Japan’s ties with China are often held up as an example to Australia of how productive relations can be maintained with Beijing despite national differences. But Ambassador Shingo Yamagami said he had encountered a common misperception in Australia about the state of Japan’s relations with China since he took up his post in December last year.

“The nutshell of that argument is Japan is doing far better than Australia when it comes to dealing with Japan’s neighbor, China,” Yamagami told the National Press Club of Australia.

“My simple answer is: no way. I’m afraid I don’t subscribe to such an argument. Why? Because each and every day Japan is struggling,” Yamagami added.

BC FN PROPOSE NEW LNG FACILITY

 A First Nation in British Columbia is proposing a new liquified natural gas (LNG) export facility to be built on the community's treaty land and is making an environmental pledge to reach net-zero emissions within three years of commencing operations.

The Nisga'a Nation, whose territory is north of Prince Rupert near the Alaska border, is partnering with a group of Western Canadian natural gas producers called Rockies LNG Partners and a Texas-based energy company called Western LNG.

The project is called Ksi Lisims LNG and would include a pipeline to transport natural gas from the northeast corner of the province to the coast. The facility itself is estimated to cost $10 billion.

TIME FOR USING THE STICK ON THE UNVACCINATED!

The spread of the Delta variant has public health officials in the U.K. projecting as many as 100,000 new daily cases “within weeks,” although the country’s high vaccination rates mean the number of hospitalizations and deaths will be lower than previous waves. But they are rising, and they’re rising even faster in places like Texas and Florida, where half the adult population has yet to receive their first dose. And while Canada is now ahead of the United States in terms of the numbers of people who are fully vaccinated, we’re not out of the woods yet.

That’s because the new and more contagious variants mean so-called “herd immunity” requires 75 to 90 per cent vaccination rates, not the 60 to 70 per cent previously seen as the threshold. And because children under 12 can’t get vaccinated yet and represent approximately 13 per cent of the population, that means we need just about everyone over the age of 12 to get vaccinated.

CARNEY WILL NOT RUN FOR LIBERALS

 OTTAWA — Mark Carney says he won't be on the Liberal ticket if there's an election this fall.

The former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England says he's made a commitment to help organize the private financial sector in the run-up to the United Nations climate conference, which is scheduled to run from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12.

Carney says he can't walk away from that commitment at such a crucial moment.

Carney is the UN special envoy on climate action and finance and also chairs the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, which aims to bring together banks and asset management firms worldwide to accelerate the transition to net-zero carbon emissions.

ALLIES BLAME CHINA FOR MICROSOFT HACK

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau joined Western allies in publicly blaming China for orchestrating a far-reaching hack on Microsoft email software earlier this year, saying it was part of a “pattern of irresponsible and harmful cyberspace behaviour” by the country.

In a statement, Global Affairs Canada named as responsible China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), saying Canada and its allies are “confident” that the state intelligence agency organized the attack. The department also identified on Monday a specific regional office within the MSS that had previously targeted Canada’s defense, biopharmaceutical and oceanic technology sectors in a series of attacks in 2017 and 2018.

 Canadian counterintelligence agencies, for their part, have been defending against attacks with increasing frequency. A recent report by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said it issued more than 2,500 foreign intelligence reports in 2020 to “alert and inform” government officials across 28 departments and agencies about attempted cyber attacks.

OPENING CANADA'S BORDERS TO VACCINATED

 WASHINGTON — Fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents will be allowed into Canada as of Aug. 9, joined by the rest of the world Sept. 7, federal officials announced Monday as the country prepares to lower border barriers that were erected to limit the spread of COVID-19. 

However, the United States is not currently planning to reciprocate by easing travel restrictions on would-be Canadian visitors hoping to go south of the border. 

Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said he briefed Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas about the steps Canada intended to take, but got no indication that the U.S. would be following suit before the existing restrictions are set for renewal on Wednesday. 

INVESTIGATING 81 DEATHS AT SCARBOROUGH LTC

For months, health experts warned of a second, deadly wave of COVID-19 and that long-term care homes in Ontario were vulnerable. But, despite the warnings, more residents died in the second wave than the first – an unthinkable tragedy that was largely avoidable, health experts say.

A Toronto long-term care home where 81 residents died of COVID-19 turned down advice from health officials to use “baby monitors” and “room dividers” to help create up to 20 potentially life-saving rooms for sickened residents, according to emails from Toronto Public Health.


The emails provide new details on how Tendercare Living Centre — a long-term care home in Scarborough — failed to enact an emergency plan to use the building’s fourth floor to isolate infected residents.

LATEST NUMBERS FROM VAERS RE COVID JABS

 The latest data released shows that between the end of 2020, and July 9, 2021, a total of 463,457 total adverse events were reported to the CDC’s vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS.) These numbers include 10,991 deaths which is an increase of almost 2,000 over the past week. There were 48,385 serious injuries reported during the same time period which is an increase of 7,370 compared with the previous week.

According to the CDC’s vaccine adverse reactions portal, there have been 4,006 deaths following Covid-19 vaccinations reported between June 26 and July 9. During the same time period, the CDC shows 3,114 deaths attributed to Covid-19. That means there have been over 28% more vaccine-related deaths than Covid-related deaths during the two-week period.

By the way:  According to the first-quarter results published by Pfizer this week, its coronavirus jab has reaped revenues of $3.5bn for the biopharma giant in the first three months of 2021. The financial results also revealed that Pfizer has vastly exceeded its Covid-19 vaccine sales forecast of $15bn, and now expects the jab to bring in $26bn of revenue in 2021 – an increase of 73% on previously anticipated figures.

DEATHS DUE TO COVID VACCINES IN UK

A freedom of information request made to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has revealed just how deadly the Covid-19 vaccines really are.

The request made by Duncan Husband on the 29th May 2021 asked the MHRA to provide a list of all new vaccines in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2020 and to also provide the number of deaths, per vaccine, per month for the same time frame.

Deaths due to the Covid vaccines in the UK after 6 months are 407% higher than deaths due to all other vaccines combined in the past 11 years

BUSINESS BUCKLING UNDER COVID ISOLATION DEMANDS

 LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - England's car plants, railways, supermarkets and pubs warned the government on Monday that a COVID-19 tracing app, which has told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate, was wrecking the recovery and pushing supply chains to the brink of collapse.

Cases of COVID-19 in Britain hit around 50,000 a day on some days last week.

Alerts, or "pings", sent out by the official app telling anyone identified as a contact of someone with the disease to self-isolate for 10 days have caused huge disruption in schools, businesses and the healthcare system.

LAST PILOT OF DAMBUSTERS SQUADRON DIES

 The last surviving pilot from the RAF's 'Dambusters' squadron, who was awarded France's highest honour after carrying out 30 operations against enemy targets in the Second World War, has died at the age of 100.

Squadron Leader Lawrence 'Benny' Goodman helped to demolish Germany's Arnsberg railway viaduct with a 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb in March 1945.

He also took part in a raid which aimed to destroy the German battleship the Tirpitz in October 1944, after it had been damaged by bombs a month earlier.

FORCING CITIZENS OF FRANCE TO GET COVID JAB

People in France who enter a bar or restaurant without a COVID pass face 6 months in jail, while business owners who fail to check their status face a 1 year prison sentence and a €45,000 fine.

Yes, really.

The punishments are part of a draconian effort by the French government to force citizens to get the coronavirus jab amidst multiple unruly protests across numerous major cities.

President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this week that those unable to prove they’re vaccinated or a negative COVID test (at their own cost) will be banned from using public transport, entering a cinema, shopping mall, bar, cafe, restaurant and other venues from August 1st.

COVID BUSYBODIES

 That said, there was a very small but vocal minority of people who thrived throughout the pandemic. Their true selves really came out to shine.

These are the COVID busybodies.

While most people are content to just live their lives and mind their own business, there are some people who have always obsessed over what others are doing and wanted to control their every move — pandemic or not.

You’re standing too close! You’re not following the arrows! You had guests over at your house! You weren’t wearing your mask properly!  There are teenagers … in the park … talking together! Do something!

JUDGING THE PAST BY THE PRESENT

 Such was the case with media coverage last week as Toronto Council — often the epicentre of absurdity in Canadian municipal politics — lived up to its reputation by voting to spend up to $6.3 million renaming Dundas Street, named for Scottish politician Henry Dundas.

The costs will involve expunging the name “Dundas” from street signs, subway stations and other namesakes such as the city’s iconic Yonge-Dundas Square.

It will take until 2023 to come up with a new name for Dundas and complete the transformation, according to the city.

Council will also decide what do about 60 other streets with so-called problematic names.

CONFESSIONS OF A MODERNA REP

During that call, the Moderna representative reads her the following disclaimer:

“The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has not been approved or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, but it has been authorized for emergency use by the FDA under an emergency use authorization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019, for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

There is no FDA-approved vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The EUA for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 EUA declaration, justifying emergency use of the product unless that declaration is terminated or the authorization is revoked sooner.”

The rep also points out that all clinical trial phases are still ongoing, and that long-term protective efficacy against COVID-19 is unknown. When the patient asks whether everyone who gets the COVID shot — even if they did not specifically sign up to be a trial participant — is in fact part of the clinical trial, he replies, with a chuckle, “pretty much, yeah.”

TRUDEAU FACING ANOTHER ETHICS PROBE

   Lilley:  Would it be easier for ethics commissioner Mario Dion to have a desk in the prime minister’s office and follow him around to every event and meeting?

It’s starting to seem that way after Dion said he’s looking into Justin Trudeau’s actions once again.

This time, Dion is looking into whether Trudeau used his position — and your tax dollars — to benefit his friend Tom Pitfield.

INSURRECTION IN LEGOLAND

Mark Steyn:

'Riot Leader Had "Fully Constructed U.S. Capitol Lego Set" at Home, FBI Says'

Dozens of crack G-men from the FBI descended on the home of a Pennsylvania man – Robert Morss, 27 - alleged to have plotted the insurrection in league with Donald J Trump, Robert E Lee, and others, and discovered as Exhibit A in the forthcoming show trial that he had a fully finished Lego set of the Capitol Building...

AUSTRALIA'S ENDLESS COVID SCARE CAMPAIGN

If there’s one thing worse than COVID-19, it’s the endless “scare campaigns” – not just from politicians and medical bureaucrats, but from certain “experts” on TV, according to Sky News host Rowan Dean.

CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY CORNERED

More than ever, the Chinese Communist Party is finding itself backed into a corner as the world wakes up to its human rights atrocities, according to Nury Turkel, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

Global outcry over human rights atrocities in China have been increasing, with lawmakers pushing for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics from within their respective governments.

Over the past week, the U.S. blacklisted over a dozen Chinese entities that had a role in aiding abuses in the Xinjiang region and the regime’s military modernization, while at the same time it dialed up warnings of business risks in Xinjiang. Forced organ harvesting, a state-sanctioned practice primarily targeting Falun Gong practitioners but also other prisoners of conscience, is also drawing greater scrutiny.

DACA RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Open borders activists are decrying Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling that declared former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program unconstitutional, stating that amnesty for illegal aliens is now more important than ever.

On Friday, Hanen ruled that the Obama administration had illegally implemented the DACA program to shield hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from deportation. The program, Hanen ordered, must be effectively shut down to new, illegal alien applicants.

WHITE HOUSE FLAGGING FACEBOOK MISINFORMATION

White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted that the Biden administration is working with Facebook to flag “problematic” posts that “spread disinformation” on COVID-19. She explained that the Administration has created “aggressive” policing systems to spot “misinformation” to be “flagged” for the social media companies.

MIXED VACCINE DOSES CAN CAUSE TRAVEL PROBLEMS

Canadians who have received two different doses of COVID-19 vaccines may face difficulties travelling to countries where vaccine mixing has not been approved by health officials.

In June, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization issued guidance permitting AstraZeneca-Oxford, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna shots to be used interchangeably in certain situations.

But some travelers vaccinated using that advice are starting to face difficulties entering countries where mixing doses is not recognized.

USA POST-VACCINE RELATED DEATHS

The latest weekly US VAERS update added a shocking 2,083 post-vaccination deaths – by far the largest weekly increase to date – raising the total of reported post-vaccination deaths to 9,048. Not all of these 2,083 deaths occurred within a week, as there is a very significant reporting backlog.

In total, close to 1,000 post-vaccination miscarriages, more than 3,000 heart attacks, about 7,500 disabilities, close to 20,000 severe allergic reactions, and close to 1,000 cases of heart muscle inflammation in people under 25 have already been reported to VAERS.

A recent analysis by researchers at Queen Mary University in London found that even in senior citizens, about 85% of deaths reported to VAERS were definitively, likely or possibly caused by the vaccine. Moreover, due to significant under-reporting, the true number of vaccine-related deaths may already be significantly higher, possibly in the range of 10,000 to 50,000 deaths in the US alone.

LONG TERM DAMAGE FROM COVID VACCINES

Dr. Hoffe's research shows serious problems after taking covid vaccines.

VANCE CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Former chief of the defense staff Gen. Jonathan Vance has been charged with one count of obstruction of justice following a probe by military police into allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

Vance has been at the centre of a military reckoning over sexual misconduct allegations levelled against multiple senior leaders in the Canadian Forces.

According to the court documents, military police allege that between Feb. 1 and Feb. 3, Vance “did willfully attempt to obstruct the course of justice in a judicial proceeding by repeatedly contacting Mrs K.B. by phone and attempting to persuade her to make false statements about their past relationship to the Canadians Forces National Investigation Service, contrary to section 139(1) of the Criminal Code.”

LUMBER PRICE DROPPING

 Lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction demand soaring and stoked fears of inflation, has officially wiped out all of its staggering gains for the year.

Prices at Monday’s close are now down 0.6 per cent for the year as demand eases and supply expands in response to earlier gains. The rally turned a common building product into a social media sensation and a flash point in the debate over U.S. monetary policy. At one point, lumber futures were trading as high as US$1,733.50 per thousand board feet, more than quadruple the level of a year earlier.

REFUSING TO BE THE VACCINE POLICE

  Lilley:  Back in April when Premier Doug Ford said he was giving police the power to stop people and ask them for identification to find out where they were going, people got rightly upset.  The move was seen as a violation of Charter rights — which it most certainly was — and the government backed down.

Now, many of the same people who didn’t want police to have the power to enforce the stay-at-home order are demanding the government give the power to a clerk at the Bay store or a waiter at your local restaurant to demand personal medical information.

Some people, including some politicians and plenty of people in the media, think that if you can’t show proof of vaccination, then you should be excluded from going to the store, to a restaurant, on a flight, or to a concert. Such a move would, as many business owners and operators have told me, turn them and their staff into the vaccine police.

LIBERALS PUNISHING THE TORY-VOTING WEST

On Monday the government added a third insult to the rule of law when it rejected Saskatchewan’s plans to fully enter the federal carbon levy scheme with a carbon tax that would have provided a refund to gas purchasers. The Saskatchewan plan would have cushioned consumer fuel from the tax squeeze that is intended to promote fuel efficiency and incentivize better driving habits. It is unquestionably the addition of a loophole. The problem is that New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island were already welcomed into the federal plan despite applying precisely analogous fuel rebates at the provincial level.

 Saskatchewan, which resisted the carbon levy before the courts, is being held explicitly to a different standard than N.B. and P.E.I. The alleged justification for this is that the Liberal government intends to change the rules for the small Atlantic provinces, and actually enforce a carbon reduction incentive on their drivers, at some point in the future. (Some point not too close to a federal election, probably.) So it’s not really patent unfairness or a double standard. It’s just a standard that is being applied immediately in places that vote Tory, and very slowly in places that vote Liberal.

$25M TO GASPE WIND TURBINE PLANT

GASPÉ, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Quebec's Gaspé region on Wednesday and made a campaign-style announcement of $25 million to expand a wind turbine plant to produce blades destined for markets in the United States and Europe.

"We have the skills, expertise and resources here in Canada to be leaders in clean technologies," Trudeau told a gathering at the plant in Gaspé, about 700 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

"And our government will continue to take real actions to develop our industrial advantage when it comes to renewable energy."

After listing a series of green-energy investments his government has recently made, the prime minister said, "It's been six years I've been trying to explain to Conservatives — who refuse to listen but Canadians understand well — that fighting climate change and protecting the environment is the way to secure the jobs of the future."

LEADERSHIP LACKING IN SO MANY AREAS

 Politicians are well-known for speaking out of both sides of their mouths.

At no time did we see more of that behaviour than during the past 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic when we expected our politicians to show some modicum of leadership.

Sadly, for the most part, that leadership has been lacking in so many areas.

Take the excruciatingly long lockdown in Ontario by a Premier who has spent far too much time listening to pollsters and public health officials (who want a COVID zero outcome) instead of actually sticking to the goalposts he himself set for reopening the economy.

TEFLON PM BLUNDERS MERRILY ALONG

  Joe Oliver:  In May in these pages I wrote a column titled “Will Liberal failures and lapses never end?” Now as we near mid-summer, I’m sorry, but not surprised, to have to report: Not yet. New missteps appear every couple of weeks.

An overarching electoral question is whether voters will continue to tolerate a scandal-plagued leader who theatrically emotes progressive talking points but rarely delivers, evades parliamentary accountability, rejects any semblance of fiscal prudence and is mealy-mouthed in praise of the country he leads. Doling out hundreds of billions of dollars, finally delivering vaccines and vilifying the Conservative opposition are working their magic. The farrago of ethical outrages and gross ineptitude have not dented Trudeau’s poll numbers. Of invaluable assistance is a compliant mainstream media narrative: “Not much to see here and look, Justin shaved his beard!” Liberal apparatchiks must marvel at their Teflon PM.

EXPOSING THE LIES SURROUNDING COVID-19

 Dr. Reiner Fuellmich who has been leading the charge on exposing the true information surrounding COVID-19 recently hosted Dr. David Martin, a professional analyst who has shared some disturbing information. His evidence appears very compelling and credible, and I have fact checked some of the patents he has identified. It’s clear COVID-19 was never a novel (new) virus.

Watch this interview in full, hear the testimony of Dr. David Martin and the patents he’s analyzed over the last many years. All publicly available going back to 1999 showing the Novel Coronavirus was well known for two decades. He explains his credentials and provides many quotes about how this present outbreak was probably engineered.

It was a surprise to me that we knew about this back in 2000 following a patent application by Miller, Klepfer, Reid and Jones Jan 28 2000 US patent 6372224.

CUBANS PROTEST IN ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS

Cuba has been experiencing a worsening economic crisis for two years, which the government blames mainly on U.S. sanctions and the pandemic, while its detractors cite incompetence and a Soviet-style one-party system.

A combination of sanctions, inefficiencies and the pandemic has shut down tourism and slowed other foreign revenue flows in a country dependent on them to import the bulk of its food, fuel and inputs for agriculture and manufacturing.

The economy contracted 10.9% last year, and 2% through June of 2021. The resulting cash crunch has spawned shortages that have forced Cubans to queue for hours for basic goods throughout the pandemic.

CYA: WHO ADVISES AGAINST COVID-19 JAB MIXING

OTTAWA -- Canadian officials and doctors are defending sanctioning the mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines, after the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist issued a new caution about citizens opting to receive vaccines from different manufacturers, saying that the data remains limited on the practice.

On Monday, WHO Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that the global health agency has received “a lot of queries” about people who have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine from one pharmaceutical company and were planning to take another shot from a different authorized drug maker.

She called it: “A little bit of a dangerous trend.”

MOST PREMIERS REJECT VACCINE PASSPORTS

  Lilley:  It’s part of the reason why Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was able to be so forceful on Monday in rejecting the idea of imposing a vaccine passport in his province. Well, that and most experts believe imposing such a condition would violate several laws and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

 “We’ve been very clear from the beginning that we will not facilitate or accept vaccine passports,” Kenney said as he spoke to reporters at his Stampede pancake breakfast.

“I believe they would in principle contravene the Health Information Act and also possibly the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, though, is saying he isn’t going to bring in such a system, saying it is everyone’s constitutional right to decide on their own medical treatments including vaccines.

DESTROYING CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

  Rex Murphy:  “Hell, they’re only churches. What’s the big deal?”

That seems to be all too common a response to the highly alarming arson and vandalism attacks on Christian churches in Canada.

 How many churches, Catholic, Protestant or other, on Indigenous lands or off, have been vandalized, severely damaged or burnt straight to the ground in recent weeks? By my count, it’s been more than 20. In a strong column in the Post last week, Melissa Mbarki of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute wrote that 10 churches were vandalized in Alberta on Canada Day alone. That figure should be — is — astonishing.

Some churches have been turned to pure ash. There have been failed attempts to burn others. The vandals are very sure of themselves. Two prize nits may be seen on video throwing paint on St. Jude’s Church in East Vancouver. There is no telling which church will be the next target.

CMHC AT CROSSROADS

When the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation moved to tighten its underwriting practices last summer, it was the largest provider of mortgage insurance in the country, capturing 49 per cent of new business in the second quarter.

“There is no doubt that we have willingly chosen to forgo some profitable business that our competitors would find appealing,” then-chief executive Evan Siddall wrote in August, in a letter to Canada’s biggest lenders, following the implementation of the stricter standards. Siddall used the letter to caution the banks and others mortgage lenders about risky lending, warning that “there is a dark economic underbelly to this business that I want to expose.”

 Instead, the CMHC saw its market share of new insurance originations plummet, dropping the Crown Corporation all the way to third place, behind private insurers Sagen and Canada Guaranty. In the first quarter of 2021, the CMHC held just a 23 per cent share of new underwritings, according to figures calculated by RBC Capital Markets. Sagen (formerly known as Genworth Financial) held 44 per cent of the pie, followed by Canada Guaranty with 33 per cent.

MANDATORY COVID JABS ON CAMPUS DEBATE

 The ultimate path out of COVID hinges on mass vaccine buy-in, University of Manitoba researchers recently wrote. But Canada appears to be hitting a complacency wall, with the lowest uptake being among the university-age demographic, the 18- to 29-year-olds. Some warn that anything that hints of a de facto vaccine mandate risks trampling individual liberty and autonomy, while others argue that it’s astonishing more universities in Canada are not requiring vaccination for on-campus attendance.

There are no mandatory vaccines in Canada. The current COVID-19 vaccines have been granted emergency use authorization, not full approval, which might make any policy legally shaky. Offer vaccines, urge them and hope people take them, bioethicist Arthur Caplan has said, but people are free to say no. According to a World Health Organization policy brief on the ethical considerations and caveats of mandatory COVID vaccination, “policy-makers should consider specifically whether vaccines authorized for emergency or conditional use meet an evidentiary threshold for safety sufficient for a mandate.”

LEFTY POLITICS IN ONTARIO'S MATH CURRICULUM

  Lilley:  “Mathematics is often positioned as an objective and pure discipline. However, the content and the context in which it is taught, the mathematicians who are celebrated, and the importance that is placed upon mathematics by society are subjective,” the new curriculum reads.

If we are talking about the history surrounding mathematics, then there may be some merit to this statement, but that is not the issue with this part of the curriculum.

“Mathematics has been used to normalize racism and marginalization of non-Eurocentric mathematical knowledges, and a decolonial, anti-racist approach to mathematics education makes visible its historical roots and social constructions,” the curriculum states.

TREE DNA USED TO PROVE THEFT

 Tree poaching is a growing issue in the Pacific Northwest. Thieves have consistently targeted public lands and national forests in Washington, California and Oregon, High Country News reported in 2017. The thefts cost the U.S. Forest Service about $100 million per year.

With the strict rules in mind, Wilke, 39, and Williams, 49, often scouted for trees at night, according to the indictment. From April to August of 2018, the men ventured into the forest, used an ax to peel back the bark and inspected the patterned wood underneath.

“After identifying maples with figured wood, Wilke and others used a chain saw to fell the targeted maples,” court documents said. “Wilke and others cut the trees into smaller rounds or blocks, which they removed from the national forest.”

The group would take the wood to a private property nearby and prepare it for sale to a mill in Tumwater, Wash. They’d then present the business with forged paperwork showing that they harvested the maples from private land.

WHY TRUMP IS SUING BIG TECH

Following last week's announcement that President Trump was filing a class-action lawsuit suing the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google over allegations of illegal censorship, Trump has published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he lays out his legal team's argument: Big Tech has colluded with government to censor the free speech of the American people, Trump said.

 Since social media has become "as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations." Despite the fact that the internet is "the new public square", Big Tech has become increasingly "brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media - banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends."

Trump also cited Big Tech's decision to bar him from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. "Perhaps most egregious, in the weeks after the election, Big Tech blocked the social-media accounts of the sitting president. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you—and believe me, they are."

STOPPING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UK

“We saw 43 people drown in the Mediterranean yesterday, honestly, there is going to be a very major tragedy in the Channel before too long,” Nigel Farage said.

The Brexiteer noted said that while the mainstream media often highlights pictures of young women and children, he said that it is overwhelmingly young men between the ages of 18 and 30 who are arriving.

“Very few have identity documents, they deliberately throw them away, because if you don’t know where they are from. Even if you had the will or were allowed to legally deport them you can’t do it because where would you send them?”

 “I’m going to stick my neck out and say that at least 20,000 come this year through the Dover route, and nothing Priti Patel has said is going to work,” Farage concluded.

TRUDEAU SPENDING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

 SURREY, B.C. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moved his campaign-style sweep to Surrey, B.C., on Friday, announcing federal government funding of up to $1.3 billion to extend Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain line from Surrey to neighbouring Langley. 

Trudeau made the announcement in Surrey with the existing SkyTrain line in the background as protesters from different groups shouted in the plaza behind him and a convoy of trucks circled the block with horns blaring. 

Public transit is key to Ottawa's plan for a clean recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Trudeau told the news conference. 

HARPER URGES SHUNNING OF IRAN'S PRESIDENT

 Governments around the world should shun Iran's incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister  argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-eastern country. 

Stephen Harper's remarks came at a virtual sitting of the Free Iran World Summit. Canada's 22nd prime minister told attendees that hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi's rise to power is further evidence of escalating extremism at play in Iran.

The judiciary chief is set to formally take power next month, becoming the first serving Iranian president sanctioned by the U.S. government even before entering office in part over his involvement in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

DEBATING TRANSGENDER DISPLAY IN SPA

Men have a clear legal right to display their “male-appearing genitalia” at children and women in health spas, as long as the men say they are transgender women, and especially when objectors are “bigots,” according to a condescending editorial in the Los Angeles Times.

The statement by the paper’s editorial board was intended to denounce widespread criticism of a man who claimed transgender status while displaying his male genitals in a Korean-style spa for women and girls in Los Angeles.

The June 26 dispute went viral when a black Christian woman disregarded the elites’ intense pressure for silence and subservience. She used her Twitter account to slam the man, the spa’s management, and the state’s anti-privacy law. The woman later held a July 7 press conference at her church, which received minimal publicity from pro-transgender reporters and editors