PRIVACY BREACH OF COVID VAX PASSPORT

 Private proof-of-vaccination app Portpass exposed personal information, including the driver's 
licenses, of what could be as many as hundreds of thousands of users by leaving its website unsecured.

On Monday evening, CBC News received a tip that the user profiles on the app's website could be accessed by members of the public.

CBC is not sharing how to access those profiles, in order to protect users' personal information, but has verified that email addresses, names, blood types, phone numbers, birthdays, as well as photos of identification like driver's licences and passports can easily be viewed by reviewing dozens of users' profiles.

The information was not encrypted and could be viewed in plain text.

DISTORTION OF FACTS RE INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

 Dear Mr. Cecco,

Your article in today’s edition of The Guardian, entitled “‘Cultural genocide’: the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools”, prompts me to write to you — and I apologize if this message simply adds more clutter to your Inbox.

Like far too many published news and opinion pieces that deal with Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous people, and in particular its Indian Residential Schools, your article presents a highly simplified and even distorted picture of a very complicated and very human story.  Its totally negative description of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system and the harm it did to vulnerable Indigenous children contains so many distorted and just plain false statements that I’m not sure where to begin.

I append below some verifiable facts about the IRS system and the people who established and operated the schools. 

USA GENERALS: BIDEN RESPONSIBLE FOR AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE

The nation’s top generals testified on Tuesday that they advised Joe Biden earlier this year to keep several thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan, directly contradicting his claims that no one had warned him not to withdraw completely from the country.

The botched withdrawal led to panicked mob scenes scenes at the Kabul airport, the loss of billions of dollars worth of military weaponry to the Taliban, and the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and Afghan allies in the war-torn country. Worse yet, thirteen American service members were killed in an ISIS bombing attack at the airport, and in an attempt to retaliate, the Biden regime droned an innocent family in Kabul, mistaking an Afghan aid worker for an ISIS terrorist.

The generals’ testimony today placed the burden for the debacle squarely on Biden’s shoulders.

PUBLIC DISTRUST OF AUTHORITIES

   Rex Murphy: Early on during the pandemic, it was easy to accept that the politicians, guided by thei  r selected cadre of experts, knew what they were doing. And there was likewise in the public mind a considerable reservoir of trust in their pronouncements, which was not diminished if — in the very early days — a caution or a recommendation put out one week was altered, revised, or even contradicted by a caution or recommendation the week following.

We heard from Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam that “Canada’s risk is much, much lower than that of many countries. (COVID) is going to be rare.” Alas, we have learned throughout the past nearly two years that that declaration was a wild and very, very wrong surmise.

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FORCING TRUDEAU TO MAKE HUAWEI/5G DECISION

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he hopes to share a decision on whether to ban Huawei Technologies from Canada’s 5G wireless network rollout “in the coming weeks.”

Canada is the only remaining member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance to have not banned or restricted Huawei from partaking in the implementation of the network.

Former diplomats and international security experts have speculated that the federal government was holding off on making a decision because of the uncertain fate of Spavor and Kovrig and that banning the telecommunications giant outright might make an already charged situation worse.

Now that the two men are free, the Liberals will face heightened pressure.

ENVIRONMENT CANADA TOUTS FARM FERTILIZER REDUCTION

 Ottawa—Armed with an independent study that backs its claims, the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) is restarting its battle against farm fertilizer reduction rules Environment Canada mooted earlier this year.

An analysis by the accounting firm Meyers Norris Penny looked at the impact of the fertilizer reduction plan proposed by the department on corn, canola, and spring wheat, the big three grain crops in Canada. WCWGA and many other farm groups have blasted the Environment Canada plan.

The proposed rules would lead to a $1.8 billion drop in production in 2023 climbing to a $10.4 billion reduction by 2030, MNP said in the study commissioned by Fertilizer Canada. “The estimated lost production has significant effects on Canada’s ability to fill domestic processing capacity such as canola crushing facilities as well as export capacity.

PARAMEDIC BLOWS THE WHISTLE

 Thomas, a paramedic from Ontario, speaks out on what he is seeing concerning the hyperbole and lies about covid numbers, procedures, vaccinations and lockdowns.

$3.3M IN SEVERANCE PAYMENTS TO MPs

 OTTAWA — MPs who lost their seats or stood down before the recent federal election could get $3.3 million in farewell payments, an analysis by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has found.

MPs defeated at the polls and those who decided not to run again qualify for a severance cheque worth half their salary — some $92,900 or more if they were a cabinet minister or chaired a committee.

They include 10 MPs who served less than two years in the House of Commons, figures from the federation show.

TESTING PROPAGANDA ON CANADIANS

 Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.

The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.

But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.

SNC LAVALIN OFFERED GET-OUT-OF-JAIL CARD

 The Liberal government has given SNC-Lavalin its “get-out-of-jail-free” card.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the company on Thursday became the first corporation in Canada to be offered an out-of-court settlement under a provision cabinet wrote into the Criminal Code in 2018.

The engineering firm, including two former executives, were charged with forgery and conspiracy to defraud taxpayers over a $128 million contract on Montréal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.

The settlement would allow SNC-Lavalin to pay a fine in exchange for “voluntary disclosure of wrongdoing.”

LITTLE POTATO LIBERALS' DELUSIONS RE CHINA

 Canada’s “eyes are wide open” when it comes to normalizing its relationship with China, Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said on Sunday, two days after the release of a Huawei executive following almost three years of house arrest in Vancouver.

Garneau told CBC News the government is now following a fourfold approach to China: “coexist,” “compete,” “cooperate” and “challenge.”

From the comments:

What the Trudeau Liberals actually mean ….

Foreign Minister Marc Garneau says in the squeaky really annoying voice of Trudeau …

“Canada would compete with China in badminton and on issues like trading Pokémon Cards and cooperate on climate change like China makes the pollution and Canadians will suck the cost, while challenging .. oops I’m really sorry China. I mean while turning a blind eye to China’s treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans and Hong Kong as Ottawa has never ever done in the past”

There … that looks more like it.

DEFENDING CANADA'S ARCTIC

 Britain is signalling its interest in working with the Canadian military in the Arctic by offering to take part in cold-weather exercises and bring in some of its more advanced capabilities — such as nuclear-powered submarines — to help with surveillance and defence in the Far North.

In a recent exclusive interview with CBC News, the United Kingdom's top military commander said his country is "keen to co-operate" and learn more about how to survive and fight in a cold, remote setting.

Gen. Sir Nick Carter said Britain would also like to "co-operate in terms of helping Canada do what Canada needs to do as an Arctic country."

The offer was quietly floated months ago in government circles. Experts say, however, that successive Canadian governments have been reluctant to allow anyone — even close allies — to become too deeply embedded in the region.

LIBERALS SUBMIT TO ABUSE, HOSTAGE DIPLOMACY, DUPLICITY & HUMILIATION

 In the way the story’s usually told, relations between Canada and China are said to be at the lowest point in decades, or at an all-time low, or chillier than ever. But any close examination of the relationship will show that what these expressions more precisely describe is an ongoing, abject humiliation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government by China’s capricious and sadistic supreme ruler, Xi Jinping.

It’s been a very public humiliation, too. It began well before Xi’s Ministry of State Security kidnapped and imprisoned the diplomat-on-leave Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor in December, 2018, to punish Canada for having detained one of the Chinese Communist Party’s elite untouchables on a U.S. extradition request.

No matter how far the “relationship” drags Canada away from its traditional allies and Five Eyes intelligence partners, Ottawa’s singular focus has been on avoiding hard questions, keeping quiet and hoping nobody notices. While Beijing’s ratings in Canadian public opinion polls have continued to plummet year after year, the Trudeau government’s main worry hasn’t been about the outrages against international norms that were causing Canadians to take such a dim view of the Xi regime. Its main worry was that Beijing’s behaviour was harming the “relationship.”

USA TO WITHDRAW EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR MENG WANZHOU

WASHINGTON — Meng Wanzhou pleaded not guilty to all charges in a New York courtroom Friday, even as a U.S. judge signed off on a deferred prosecution agreement that all but ended the 34-month saga of the Huawei executive’s detention in Canada.

Details of the agreement were not released in open court, but Donnelly signed off on a personal recognizance bond that grants Meng’s freedom, subject to certain conditions, once the proceedings in Vancouver are complete.

Assistant U.S. attorney David Kessler told court that as soon as the agreement was approved, the U.S. Justice Department would formally notify Justice Minister David Lametti that it would be withdrawing its extradition request.

The agreement, Kessler explained, would allow for the charges against Meng to be dismissed after Dec. 1, 2022 — four years from the date of her arrest — provided that she “complies with all her obligations” under the terms of the deal.

CANADA'S BEST DOCTORS TARGETS OF COVID INQUISITION

Some of Canada’s best doctors have suffered undue trouble for sharing their concerns with lockdowns, masks, social distancing and COVID-19 vaccines. Authorities in the medical profession have treated these physicians like apparent heretics under the threat of inquisition. That is unfortunate because their dedication to science, patients and principles makes them more noble than their rulers who try to constrain them to silence.

Dr. Charles Hoffe has been a family doctor in Lytton for the past 28 years. When he began to see new and lasting issues in post-vaccination patients, he e-mailed local health care providers to say, “This is causing harm, should we be pausing this just to take stock?”

Hoffe was subsequently forbidden by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia to say anything negative about the vaccine, lest he cause “vaccine hesitancy.” His refusal to stop got him barred from the local emergency ward. Ten of his patients who took the jab have shortness of breath or ongoing neurological problems. He has also done D-dimer tests on COVID-19 vaccine recipients and found 62 per cent had developed recent blood clots.

MP Derek Sloan raises concerns over censorship of nurses, doctors and scientists.  From June, 2021

$1.1B LAWSUIT AGAINST RCMP ALLEGING SYSTEMIC NEGLIGENCE

 A massive $1.1 billion lawsuit against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police alleging "systemic negligence" in cases of bullying and intimidation in the ranks has cleared another hurdle.

Earlier this week, a judge dismissed Crown arguments in favour of de-certifying a class action claim alleging that internal remedies within the RCMP for complaints of bullying and harassment are ineffective.

The claim says that such remedies are tainted because they depend on the chain of command, which is often made up of people who were either responsible for the offending behaviour or acted to protect others.

FABRICATED TRUMP-RUSSIA CONSPIRACY THEORY

In accusing Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI, Special Counsel John Durham offers new evidence of the fabrications behind the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.

The indictment of Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann offers new evidence that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory that engulfed Trump’s term in office was itself the product of fabrications involving Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Although Sussmann faces just one count on a false statement charge, the 27-page charging document offers an expansive window into how the Russiagate scam began, and how Democratic operatives, intelligence officials, and establishment media figures dishonestly fed it to the public.

BRITAIN'S DOCTORS GIVE NATION THE MIDDLE FINGER

Britain’s grotesquely overpaid, inexcusably unproductive doctors have a message for the nation: “Here is our collective middle finger. Sit on it and swivel!”

Or, as a Telegraph headline more delicately phrases it: ‘GPs Demand More Cash to See Patients Face-to-Face’.

But it amounts to the same thing. Britain’s General Practitioners have, for the most part, been perfectly useless during the pandemic: more than happy to hoover up the £12.58 their surgeries get paid for every Covid jab they administer; rather less keen on the business of actually seeing their patients.

TRUDEAU SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND

If the 43rd and 44th Canadian parliaments promise to be as similar as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, it does not mean the election campaign was without consequence.

Justin Trudeau, in his acceptance speech, said some have talked about divisions in the country “but that’s not what I see.”

 That is wilful blindness. Trudeau’s Liberal Party has retained power — just — but has lost nearly two million votes since its resounding win in 2015; the prime minister has won two elections with a smaller share of the popular vote than his Conservative rivals; he has helped bolster the far right People’s Party, which attracted more than 800,000 votes, and by calling an election in a pandemic, has helped to contribute to a turnout of 58.4 per cent, the lowest in Canadian history if confirmed.

MASTER PLAN BEHIND COVID CRISIS

But that is not all by far. As a consequence of the lockdowns up to now we have a severe global economic crisis to manage. Worldwide production hangs in complete disarray. Global logistics is on the floor, supply chains are broken, harvests are being lost, there are food supply bottlenecks, and on top of this a scarcity for a large part of the economy of essential semi-conductors.

But also we are seeing the problems are not being addressed and solved, but multiplied and magnified via the application of further measures and the constant threat of new restrictions.

The most recent example: in China a port freight terminal, the third largest in the world, has been closed down due to a single positive test from a worker there. Or take New Zealand, where in all seriousness during the last week, five million people were put in lockdown for three days because a single 58-year-old had a positive test.

AN ELECTION FULL OF SEETHING RESENTMENTS

The CBC reports that Justin Trudeau has set another spending record: at $610 million, this election will be the most expensive ever, a full $100 million more than the vote the Liberal leader called just two years ago.

 That’s $1.1 billion in total for two campaigns, not a big number for a government that shovels out money as readily as this one. And why not? Trudeau’s six years in power have already given the country the biggest deficits and the deepest debt in 154 years of trying, plunging us into the biggest financial hole in our history. So why not tack on a gold medal in running inconclusive elections?

Anything could happen Monday when the ballots are counted — or maybe it will be Tuesday or Wednesday before the mail-in votes can be tallied — but as of the weekend the 36-day race has the Liberals at 31.4 per cent support, with the Conservatives at 30.9 per cent, according to the national broadcaster’s aggregate of polls, both down slightly in the last hours of the campaign.

That’s half a percentage point, or, in polling terms, nothing. The Liberals could still eke out a victory given how the votes are spread, but it hardly suggests a ringing endorsement of Trudeau’s leadership, or his wisdom in forcing this shambles of a contest. The numbers say the Liberals are less popular at the end of the campaign than they were at the start, less popular still than after the 2019 campaign, and eons less popular than 2015, when Trudeau still came across as young, chipper, eager and hopeful, before the disappointment set in.

TRUDEAU OVERLOOKED FRUSTRATION, FEAR & HATE

 Whoever wins the election on Monday, they’re going to have a much tougher time uniting and leading the country than Justin Trudeau did a mere five weeks ago. Canada is now an angrier and more polarized place than when the Liberal leader made the call in mid-August. This tear in the country’s social and political fabric is the true tragedy of forcing an unnecessary vote during such a tumultuous time.

Trudeau misread the public mood and that will have consequences. There has been much talk about of what this means for the Liberal party itself, which most likely won’t win a majority and may not even pull off a minority. But much more important is this election’s lasting effect on the country as a whole.

By wrongly assuming Canadians were an overall happy bunch, elated by loosening restrictions and eager to reward him with another term in office, Trudeau overlooked the volcano of frustration, fear and, yes, hate that would erupt by thrusting the nation into weeks of campaign rhetoric, resurfaced wedge issues, and pressure to pick a side.

FRANCE ROWS WITH USA, UK, AND AUSTRALIA

In a stunning break with the United States' oldest ally, France has recalled its ambassador to the US after a blowup over a new pact between the US, Great Britain, and Australia.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves LeDrian announced the move to recall ambassador Philippe Etienne Friday night, saying it came in a request from French President Emmanuel Macron.

He cited the 'exceptional seriousness of the announcements' – which caught France off guard and resulted in the cancelation of multi-billion dollar contracts for Australia to build and purchase French diesel submarines for its defense.

THE COVID NARRATIVE FALLING APART

The controversy over the efficacy and safety of the COVID vaccines and boosters, and the validity of vaccine passports, seems only to have grown more pronounced and, indeed, more vehement with every passing week. The apologists for the vaccines—political leaders, medical “experts” (usually government-affiliated), the media and the punditocracy—have deposed that everyone must be vaccinated, unleashing an army of “fact-checkers” to torpedo any dissident argument and call the credentials and bona fides of highly accredited objectors into question, that is, when they are not being summarily censored.

   The legacy press, as to be expected, is busy advancing the staple narrative of the official echelons. There are very few exceptions. I have just come across a particularly egregious and representative sample of such sanctimonious special pleading by Jonathan Kay in Canada’s National Post, worth attending to as an example of hack opportunism to be met with almost everywhere in the mainstream media. The moving finger writes, but in the case of the majority of journalists, only after it has gauged the direction of the wind.
    As for our politicians and public health bureaucracies, they have put all their eggs in the mRNA vaccine basket and are now incapable of responding honestly to the bankruptcy of their policies. Their only strategy is to double down on their failure and persist in terrifying a gullible citizenry. Maintaining authority, the perks of office and reputation are powerful incentives. Notwithstanding, contradictions continue to poke holes in the consensus of what passes for official—and much public—unanimity.

CANADIANS PAYING LIFETIME TAX BURDEN

 

• Federal debt has risen substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic and is projected to continue rising for the foreseeable future. Large deficits come with costs and Canadians will have to pay for our borrowing today through additional taxation implemented at a later date.
• This bulletin demonstrates that Canadians aged 16 to 80 in 2025 can expect to pay an additional $332.5 billion in personal income taxes over their lifetimes (on a present value basis) to pay for the projected federal debt accumulation since 2019. On average, Canadians between the ages of 16 and 80 will each pay $10,498 in additional taxes.

ALL VACCINATED PEOPLE MUST QUARANTINE

World Health Organization European Advisory Group of Experts in Immunization former Vice President Professor Christian Perronne yesterday said that all vaccinated people must quarantine over the winter months or risk serious illness

Perronne specializes in tropical pathologies and emerging infectious diseases. He was Chairman of the Specialized Committee on Communicable Diseases of the High Council of Public Health.

Confirming the rapidly deteriorating situation in Israel and the UK, the infectious disease expert stated: “Vaccinated people should be put in quarantine, and should be isolated from the society.”

He went on to say: “Unvaccinated people are not dangerous; vaccinated people are dangerous for others. It’s proven in Israel now – I’m in contact with many physicians in Israel – they’re having big problems, severe cases in the hospitals are among vaccinated people, and in UK also, you have the larger vaccination program and also there are problems.”

CHINA IN DEEP TROUBLE; BOUND TO GET WORSE

China the next superpower? Is the media's depiction of the country as a ten-foot giant really accurate? That's dubious. For all its bluster on the global stage, China is a giant in trouble.

Here are some of the reasons we know:

Perhaps the biggest problem in China is its erstwhile "one child" policy, which created many single, self-absorbed adults with poor social skills and an entitlement mindset that included no great desire to marry young and bear the financial burden of offspring. China switched to a two-child policy and recently revised it to allow three children per family. But it's too little, too late. The best result is that in about 20 years, the Chinese population will probably be more than halved anyway, instead of something worse, and the elderly will be a great burden on their single offspring and the economy.

Already only about 10% of China's young population is getting married, which implies an even more precipitous drop in population in the future. China does not encourage immigration from abroad, so a precipitous drop in population will have a drastically bad impact on a shrinking economy and even on the social life of the average Chinese.

VANCE'S PROBABILITY OF PATERNITY

The probability that retired Gen. Jonathan Vance fathered one child with Maj. Kellie Brennan — years after he said their sexual relationship ended — is more than 99 per cent, according to the results of a paternity test shared with Global News.

The test taken by Vance analyzed the genetic material from him and one of the children alleged by Brennan to be his, and found the probability of Vance’s paternity of the child to be just shy of 100 per cent.

“The alleged father cannot be excluded as the biological father of the tested child,” the test results stated. “Based on the analysis … the probability of paternity is 99.99991%.”

CHINA'S MILITARY CONNECTION WITH WINNIPEG LAB

A high-ranking officer in the People’s Liberation Army, recently lauded by President Xi Jinping for developing a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, collaborated on Ebola research with one of the scientists who was later fired from Canada’s high-security infectious disease laboratory in Winnipeg.

The joint research conducted by Major-General Chen Wei and former Canadian government lab scientist Xiangguo Qiu indicates that co-operation between the Chinese military and scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) went much higher than was previously known. The People’s Liberation Army is the military wing of China’s ruling Communist Party.

VANCE WILL NOT FACE MILITARY SERVICE CHARGES

 The military police investigation into whether retired Gen. Jonathan Vance broke code of service rules with an allegedly inappropriate relationship has officially ended with no charges, despite him currently facing a separate criminal charge of obstruction of justice in connection with the probe.

When pressed for an explanation as to why the probe into any possible military service violations ended on Aug. 6 with no charges, a military police spokesperson pointed to a recent report from former Supreme Court justice Morris Fish, which warned it was “legally impossible” under the current rules to try someone of Vance’s rank in the military system.

A senior defence source confirmed to Global News the decision to end the investigation without any military code of service charges was specifically tied to Vance’s rank as a four-star general.

THE BIGGEST PUBLIC HEALTH FIASCO IN HISTORY

 “Those who are pushing these vaccine mandates and vaccine passports … they’re doing so much more damage to vaccine confidence than anybody else,” says Dr. Martin Kulldorff, one of the world’s leading epidemiologists.

This video interview with Kulldorf is an interesting deep dive on COVID-19 immunity, vaccines, the Delta variant, and his observation that the global COVID response has been the “biggest public health fiasco in history.”

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He helped develop the CDC’s current system for monitoring potential vaccine risks, and he is also one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for “focused protection” of the most vulnerable, instead of lockdowns.

TRUDEAU THE FEMINIST: THE WOMEN ARE TO BLAME

 Four times Canada’s prime minister has come up against women angry at his treatment of them, and four times he’s rejected their complaints out of hand.

Former Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes said she’d been treated as a token in Trudeau’s caucus, trotted out for “my blackness” to greet visiting black leaders but otherwise ignored. When she told him she wouldn’t seek re-election he exploded, she said, accusing her of failing to appreciate all he’d done for her. He “was speaking to me like a child, like someone he happens to own.”

Jane Philpott was once a cabinet heavyweight, but when she sided with Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould over the SNC-Lavalin scandal she ended up out of cabinet and out of the party. When she urged Trudeau to apologize in the wake of a devastating ethics probe into the affair, he insisted he had nothing to apologize for.

LIBERALS IGNORING THE GIANT PANDA IN THE ROOM

 Of the many obstacles that have been strategically placed in the path of the voting public’s comprehension of where the parties situate themselves in the federal election campaign that’s just now heading into its final lap around the track, there’s nothing quite so peculiar as the cordon sanitaire Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have been allowed to construct around any serious discussion of foreign policy.

The Liberals are similarly counting on voters not to notice that what distinguishes their foreign policy is the thing that has caused the Chinese government and its network of diplomats and well-connected friends in Canada to be rather too obvious in their enthusiasm for a Liberal re-election. So enthusiastic, in fact, that they’re already coming close to violating Canadian laws intended to safeguard federal elections from foreign interference.

TRUDEAU LOOKS OUT FOR NUMBER ONE

 “When Mr. Trudeau was partying, and we’ve all seen the photos, I was doing search-and-rescue missions in the military,” O’Toole said. “Every Canadian has met a Justin Trudeau in their lives — privileged, entitled, and always looking out for number one.”

He then laid into Trudeau for calling an early election as cases were rising.

“He was looking out for number one when he called this expensive and unnecessary election in the middle of a pandemic,” O’Toole said. “A $600-million power grab. An election that has done nothing to stop the fourth wave, it’s only made things worse by taking the government’s eye off the ball.”

TURNING BACK THE DINGHIES

It is surprisingly difficult to get to the UK legally. Even a tourist visa requires you to fill in lots of forms and demonstrate that you have enough money to visit here without there being a risk of you staying. To obtain the right to live and work here and especially to obtain a British passport is harder still. You have to pass various tests, pay thousands of pounds and after many years you get your passport. The alternative to all of these legal methods is to get in a rubber dinghy sail here and walk up the beach.

CANADA NEEDS ANTI RACKETEERING LAWS

B.C. Attorney General David Eby, troubled by Canada’s inability to prosecute international drug cartels and vast money laundering operations, has urged federal public safety minister Bill Blair to institute the U.S.-style racketeering laws that are credited for dismantling New York City’s powerful Mafia families.

And some Canadian experts on the transnational gangs active in Toronto and Vancouver support Eby’s call for federal legal reforms.

The reason, they say, is Canada’s current organized crime provisions fail to address “actual” organized crime, leaving gang bosses immune from prosecution, while the nation’s justice system is outdated and overpowered by sophisticated transnational cartels.

ADMITTED: VACCINE PASSPORTS ABOUT COERCION

Unaware that he was on a hot mic and being broadcast live on a TV station, Israeli health minister Nitzan Horowitz admitted that vaccine passports were primarily about coercing skeptical people to get the vaccine.

LIBERAL ELITE DEMONIZE POPULISTS

 Again last weekend in Montreal, Canadians of all walks of life — of diverse backgrounds and ethnicities — came out to protest against vaccine passports. An estimated 50,000 freedom-loving Canadians were peacefully using their voice to say “enough is enough.”

The media either completely ignore the concerns of these protestors, or like Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, demonized them as “angry extremists.”

Trudeau goes even further in his ruthless attacks against populist protesters.

Trudeau referred to them as “those people” — a phrase similar to the one that got iconic Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry fired.

PROTESTS AGAINST VACCINE PASSPORTS

Cross-country protests rejecting vaccine passports and COVID-19 public health measures are planned for Monday, a series of demonstrations by a group that features among its organizers two Ontario nurses who travelled to Washington on the day of the infamous Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol building.

The protests, scheduled for cities from Victoria to St. John’s and organized by a group calling itself Canadian Frontline Nurses, echo those that have rippled across Canada in recent weeks in response to government announcements that they would initiate some variety of vaccine passport system, which would limit the access unvaccinated Canadians have to public spaces.

 Both women travelled to Washington last January for a rally organized by Global Frontline Nurses, an organization that claims there is no evidence that social distancing is helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 and that “lockdowns do not work,” both positions widely disputed by public-health experts.

THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF CANADA

The PPC is widely portrayed as a far right “fringe party” whose support base is ostensibly white middle class males, many of whom are presumed to be racist and anti-immigrant. 

 The reality of the PPC is much more varied than the stereotype would suggest, even though the actions of some Bernier supporters and some of his own rhetoric is decidedly over heated and provocative. Nonetheless, the issues that they raise, whether it be government overreach, vaccine passports, or immigration policy are continuing to gain traction, whether one agrees with them or not, and they cannot be wished away.

LIBERALS A DIRECT THREAT TO FREE SPEECH

 As if giving control over large swaths of the internet to the mandarins at the CRTC and reinstating a law that put a chill on free speech in this country for years were not enough, at the end of July, the Liberals opened consultations on a proposed online harms bill that would create a giant new government bureaucracy to monitor and police online expression.

The sites would be required to remove the offending material within 24 hours, which would act as an incentive for platforms to abide by any requests that come along, rather than consider their merits. And the commissioner would have the power to send inspectors into workplaces (and even private residences if they obtain a warrant), to search for documents, software and other information, which could violate Canadians’ right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

The Liberals also propose to create new bodies to adjudicate disputes, with the power to hold hearings behind closed doors. As law Prof. Michael Geist described it, the plans “pick up where Bill C-10 left off, treating freedom of expression as a danger to be constrained through regulations and the creation of a bureaucratic super-structure that includes a new digital safety commission, digital tribunal to rule on content removal and social media regulation advisory board.”

ABSURD HYSTERICAL REACTION

 The hysterical reaction by Quebec and federal politicians to Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet being asked about Quebec’s discriminatory language and secular legislation by moderator Shachi Kurl during Thursday’s English language leaders’ debate is absurd.

It helps to explain why so many Canadians are cynical about politics in Canada today, because of the ridiculous idea among political elites that you can’t raise concerns about certain “sacred” subjects, without being called a racist.

JWR: I KNEW HE WANTED ME TO LIE

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said he would “never” ask Jody Wilson-Raybould to lie, after an explosive book excerpt from the former Liberal cabinet minister alleged he wanted her to do just that.

In the book, Wilson-Raybould describes conversations she had with Trudeau about what would later become publicly known as the SNC-Lavalin affair.

“I could see the agitation visibly building in the Prime Minister. His mood was shifting. I remember seeing it. I remember feeling it. I had seen and felt this before on a few occasions, when he would get frustrated and angry. But this was different. He became strident and disputed everything I had said,” she said.

“He made it clear that everyone in his office was telling the truth and that I, and by extension Jessica Prince, my chief of staff, and others, were not. He told me I had not experienced what I said I did. He used the line that would later become public, that I had ‘experienced things differently.'”

EXPOSING SCIENTISTS' TIES TO WUHAN LAB

Of the 27 scientists who wrote a letter in The Lancet medical journal dismissing the possibility that Covid-19 originated from a Wuhan lab, 26 have links to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or its benefactors, a new investigation has revealed.

On March 7 last year, the influential journal published the letter in which the 27 scientists said they 'strongly condemned conspiracy theories' surrounding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has impacted all corners of the world.

All debate into whether Covid-19 had man-made origins or leaked from the lab in Wuhan - the Chinese city that was ground-zero for the virus - was effectively shut down by the letter.

However, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph newspaper into the signatories has found that 26 of the 27 had some link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the leak was suspected - calling into question their impartiality.

TRUDEAU CONFIDENT IN HIS BAD DECISION

After weeks of being hammered by opposition leaders for plunging the country into a federal election during the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is standing firmly behind his decision.

Speaking to reporters during a Friday press conference, Trudeau was asked if he has any regrets about triggering the election and sending Canadians to the polls.

“No. Absolutely not,” the Liberal leader said.

 Trudeau has repeatedly pointed to the election as a necessity as the government decides how to navigate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, stating that Canadians “should get to be very clear” about “how they want to end this pandemic.”

INADVERTENTLY NEGLECTED TO INFORM THE GOV'T

OTTAWA — The Liberal government has directed a state-owned Chinese telecommunications firm to divest its stake in a Canadian subsidiary over national security concerns, prompting a court challenge of the order.

 CMI Canada says it inadvertently neglected to inform the federal government of its presence as a new Canadian business until October of last year. A series of requests for information from federal officials soon followed.

In January, the government informed CMI Canada of a review on security grounds, saying the investment could result in the Canadian business being leveraged by the Chinese state "for non-commercial purposes, such as the compromise of critical infrastructure and foreign interference, to the detriment of Canada’s national security."

LIVING THROUGH THE COVID NIGHTMARE

Neil Oliver: I'm convinced I’m living through a waking Covid nightmare that keeps getting worse.

TRUDEAU GOV'T MUZZLED SCIENTISTS

 Over the past 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s become readily apparent that the Public Health Agency of Canada is a politicized arm of the Trudeau government.

Rather than a fiercely independent public health body whose sole focus is on giving accurate and timely advice to Canadians on the pandemic and other public health issues, PHAC struggles not to offend its political masters.

While it’s ironic, given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s searing criticism of Stephen Harper for “muzzling scientists” during his years as Conservative prime minister, it’s just another example of how all governments eventually become the things they said they despised when they were first elected.

TRUDEAU'S HOLLOW ELECTION

   Rex Murphy:  All the shine is gone. All of it. No one, except the deepest partisans, buys the male-feminist gig anymore. That special, moral relationship Trudeau so fulsomely embraced with our First Nations people has evaporated — forgive a cruel pun — with the boil-water advisories he pledged to end. All show, all talk; no action.

Most of all, the whole persona is dead. The progressive, woke prime minister has lost all glitter and glow. Vogue is no longer calling. He is a politician, and only a politician, just like all the other politicians he once so angrily denounced and looked down upon. He who once was sunny is now, according to the best sources, calling up his “ferocity.” (That’s a really good one.)

 The style that wore so well at first grows cloying. The drama-speak hesitations. That urgent, breathless “sincerity-tone” — called upon for all those sensitivity-displaying apologies — grinds on the nerves. What once attracted, repels. And with the loss of the “style” is the loss of Trudeau’s chief gift. It was never the looks, which are special. Nor even the name, though that gave him an elevator ride to the top. It was always the style.

THE MEDIA YAWN

 Never before in human history has a global pandemic resulted in the dismemberment of first-world economies, highly divisive universal vaccine and mask mandates, education-stunting school shutdowns, and the isolation of entire societies to the point of extreme mental health damage.

Throughout all this, the media have remained incurious as to how this historic misery happened.

Anyone with half a brain cell already knew that a new virus that started within a stone's throw of a biosafety level 4 laboratory in an authoritarian nation likely either leaked or was released from that laboratory. But acknowledging this obvious fact immediately led to expulsion from "polite" society, or at least from social media.

But the fact that Saint Fauci is the director of an organization, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that provided U.S. funding on "gain of function" research to the tune of nearly $600,000 on several types of coronaviruses at the very lab where the leak happened may well be the biggest story of the last fifty years. 

LEGAULT ENDORSES O'TOOLE; DEMAND LIST TO FOLLOW

But this time, Legault went further and practically endorsed the Tories. “The Conservative party has been clear: they want to increase health transfers with no conditions, they want to transfer immigration powers, and Mr. O’Toole has committed to not funding opposition to Bill 21,” Legault stated. “For the Quebec nation, Mr. O’Toole’s approach is a good one.”

“This” is Legault’s way of affirming his position as the most popular premier in the country — and one of the most popular in Quebec in recent memory, polling at nearly 50 per cent. Legault seems to relish his role as federal kingmaker, particularly if it lets him then take credit for shaping a government that is favourable to Quebec. Until the election started, Legault was all smiles with Justin Trudeau, particularly when the latter cut him a $6 billion cheque for 27,000 additional daycare spaces. But just as the Lord giveth, he taketh away — and that’s what Legault did with his announcement.

TRUDEAU THE FEAR MONGER

 He’s been searching hard, ever since it became apparent the campaign wouldn’t be a cakewalk. He tried abortion, a Liberal favourite, but it didn’t work out, maybe because Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s position is essentially the same as his, or perhaps because Liberals have been making the same hollow charges for so long the resonance has waned.

He took a stab at health care, backing up Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s effort to portray the Tories as proponents of private medicine, but that didn’t pan out either, and left the normally sure-footed Freeland looking clumsy and a bit diminished.

For a few days the Liberal leader went after Canada’s big banks, all of which committed the cardinal sin of continuing to make large profits during the pandemic. A Liberal government, Trudeau vowed, would tax those profits right back into the federal treasury! Once again the assault seemed to fizzle. Trudeau, who has boasted he doesn’t worry much about monetary policy, may also lack a firm grasp of banking practices as well. While hugely profitable, the banks pour the bulk of their gains into dividends that support pension plans, mutual funds, retirement packages and individual savings for millions of Canadians. Cripple the banks and you kick a hole in the financial security of a lot of people who aren’t likely to appreciate it.

COST OF LIBERAL & CONSERVATIVE SPENDING PLANS

    During an election campaign, voters must weigh the costs and benefits of the promises made by each political party. As such, voter decisions rely on the transparency—or lack thereof—of the parties. When it comes to government spending, there are legitimate concerns about how transparent the two front-running parties are being about the costs of their spending plans.

  Liberals have signalled they will introduce several new programs such as universal daycare and national pharmacare. These programs will cost billions and the government’s most recent budget indicated it intends to continue borrowing to pay for new spending. The federal deficit is estimated to exceed $150 billion this year, and the Liberals plan to add at least another $225 billion in gross debt over the following four years. Moreover, the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s (PBO) recent analysis indicated that Ottawa will not balance its budget until 2070, absent a change in policy.
    The Conservative tax and spending plan also lacks transparency. To a great extent, Tory policies mirror the policies of the Liberals by promising a decade of deficit-financed spending and no specific tax increases. Like the Liberals, the Conservatives have also not acknowledged that these commitments will simply defer tax increases to the future, sticking younger Canadians with the bill. And although the Tories promise to balance the budget by the end of the decade, they’ve offered little detail on how they’ll achieve this objective. Indeed, it appears both the Liberals and Conservatives have similar strategies—spend today and worry about paying for it later.

AFGHAN DELUSIONS OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA

 In the months before the Taliban stormed out of the hinterlands and seized power in Afghanistan, Global Affairs Canada produced an evaluation report that talked up how the department's "ambitious" gender equality programs helped Afghan women become more "active, confident and self-sufficient."

That report, which examines the impact of Canada's Afghan development initiatives between 2015 and 2020, had been publicly available online but was taken down last month shortly after the Western-backed government of former president Ashraf Ghani fell on Aug. 15.

Many of the women and staff members who delivered those programs are now running for their lives from the new regime. Many of them could be admitted as refugees to Canada, which is prioritizing refugee applicants who fought for gender equality in Afghanistan.

IVERMECTIN WINS IN INDIA

News of India’s defeat of the Delta variant should be common knowledge. It is just about as obvious as the nose on one’s face. It is so clear when one looks at the graphs that no one can deny it.

Yet, for some reason, we are not allowed to talk about it. Thus, for example, Wikipedia cannot mention the peer-reviewed meta-analyses by Dr. Tess Lawrie or Dr. Pierre Kory published in the American Journal of Therapeutics.

Wikipedia is not allowed to publish the recent meta-analysis on Ivermectin authored by Dr. Andrew Hill.

Furthermore, it is not allowed to say anything concerning www.ivmmeta.com showing the 61 studies comprising 23,000 patients which reveal up to a 96% reduction in death [prophylaxis] with Ivermectin.

NEVER-ENDING BOOSTER SHOTS?

 Ireland, Israel govts report 50% hospitalized with COVID are vaccinated. 

MORE COVID JAB SIDE EFFECTS

As of August 7, there were 106 cases of myocarditis or pericarditis diagnosed in people under the age of 25 in Ontario, just over half of all cases, the Toronto Sun reported.

Some 31 cases occurred in 12 to 17 year olds and 75 in 18 to 24 year olds. The majority of the cases – 80 percent – were found in men.

The report went on to say that more cases of myocarditis or pericarditis were reported after the second dose of an mRNA vaccine than after the first, especially after the Moderna vaccine.

TRUDEAU LOOKS FRANTIC, SOUNDS SHRILL

“Canadians are beginning to see that the future being offered by Erin O’Toole is a future of wishy-washy weak leadership — he doesn’t stand up for what he actually believes in,” Trudeau said, in reference to the Conservative leader’s flip-flop on the platform commitment to overturn the Liberal ban on semi-automatic weapons, pending a classification review.

“He’s trying to say whatever he can to Canadians to get elected,” the Liberal leader said.

The problem with political attacks is that they are ineffective when they come from someone who is less esteemed than the target.

CALLING FOR END TO VACCINE MANDATES ON CAMPUS

A group of Canadian university professors have banded together and submitted open letters to the presidents of Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, urging the administrations to repeal their vaccine mandates.

The letters express “deep concerns with the present COVID-19 vaccination and testing policies at (the) universities.”

In the latter letter, professors Daniel Smilek, David Haskell, William McNally and Nikolai Kovalec lay out five key with the mandates: discrimination, rights violations, lack of scientific evidence, coercion and informed consent.

FORD GOVERNMENT IN HIDING

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have prorogued the legislature until after the federal election, a move the Opposition called an "abdication of responsibility" as the province fights a fourth wave of COVID-19.

The government said Friday that the legislature will return on Oct. 4, two weeks after Canadians head to the polls.

"With a federal election underway, during which each party has put forward dramatically different policies and funding commitments that will have a direct impact on our government's legislative agenda, we have made the decision to prorogue the legislature," government house leader Paul Calandra said in a statement.

SHOOTINGS, GUN MURDERS SPIKE UNDER LIBERALS

 There were 277 homicides with guns across Canada in 2018, the last full years Statistics Canada has released data for, compared to 155 in 2014.

Most of those shootings were gang related and committed with handguns which the Liberal legislation does not touch.

Rather than go after criminals with guns, the Liberals are regulating licenced gun owners and telling you they are acting.

If their plan was working, we wouldn’t see more shootings and murders that we ever did when the Conservatives were in power.

THE FRENCH DEBATE INSULTS YOU MISSED

The first leaders debate was last night. It was held entirely in French and only featured the top four party leaders (the Greens and the PPC weren’t invited). Here are the main points everyone seemed to be happy/angry about:

 - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said that if he doesn’t get a majority, Canada might be going to the polls again in 18 months.
 - All of Trudeau’s opponents slagged him for calling an election amidst a pandemic and the Afghanistan crisis. Trudeau responded that the election was needed to “find a way out of the pandemic.”
 - Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet urged Trudeau to “grow a spine” (“fais-toi pousser une colonne”) during a debate on the environment (he also wanted Ottawa to use all the money that it spent on the Trans Mountain pipeline and give it to Quebec instead).

SUNNY SOPHIE IN FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN

 As a small donor to the Liberal Party of Canada, under the nom de plume of Freddy Fudpucker, I now get all the campaign bumpf as if a card-carrying member of the party, along with an invitation, of course, to donate more.

But, for a $99 donation to the Liberals, for example, you get a “free” 2021 Liberal campaign T-shirt.

The most recent campaign email, though, was not from some forgettable party hack but from Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, Justin Trudeau’s épouse and mother of their children.

She signs her name with a swoosh flourish, complete with a kid-like miniature sketch of the sun at the end.

LIBERAL CANDIDATE GETS THE BOOT

 Despite a week of unapologetic and public support by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, the re-election bid by Liberal Kitchener Centre MP Raj Saini has ended.

Steadfastly denying allegations of unwanted sexual advances made towards young female staffers dating back to 2015, Saini issued a statement on Saturday announcing his withdrawal from his re-election campaign in the key Liberal riding.

A statement from the federal Liberals said ‘new information’ was provided to them on Friday, prompting a ‘review process’ that lead to Saini’s ejection.

MEDIA PRETENDING BIDEN IS SANE

Look, Biden is senile. He was always stupid, and always stubbornly attached to whatever dumb ideas formed in the spongy mass of cells that passes for his brain, but now it’s perfectly clear that this guy is riding the Acela Express to Dementiaville. And the media, sitting front row on what could be the biggest story in political history, just sort of pretends that the guy who is one forgotten Depends short of wetting himself on national television is A-OK.

TRUDEAU'S RECORD DEFICITS

 On Wednesday, the federal Liberal Party released its costed election platform detailing how, if re-elected, it would spend an extra $78 billion over five years — or an additional $15.6 billion per year!

That’s on top of his government’s $154.7 billion deficit for the 2021-22 fiscal year as set out just four months ago in his April 19 federal budget that Canadians waited two years for. It smacks of political desperation on Trudeau’s part.

In the past four years, Canada’s federal government debt has more than doubled to $1.4 trillion!

ENBRIDGE TO MOVE OILSANDS CRUDE IN NEW LINE 3

Enbridge Inc. is getting ready to ship crude from the oilsands in the first new cross-border oilsands conduit built between Canada and the U.S. in years.

 The company is offering 620,000 barrels a day of capacity in its Line 3 oil pipeline in October, according to a notice it sent to shippers.  The Line 3 project will replace and older Line 3 that can ship about 390,000 barrels a day. The project is scheduled to go into operation in the fourth quarter, according to an email from Enbridge.

The start of Line 3 is expected to bring relief to Canada’s oilsands producers, who have struggled for years with a shortage of export pipelines as projects face increasing scrutiny from courts and regulators. U.S. President Joe Biden, on his first day in office, rescinded a permit for TC Energy Corp.’s Keystone XL project that would have helped increase shipments of Canadian crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

PATHETIC TRUDEAU BLAMES HARPER

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is blaming former PM Stephen Harper for the fact greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change have gone up since he took office in 2015.

 In an interview with CBC/Radio-Canada, Trudeau said the Harper government did nothing to reach its climate change targets, so he had to start from scratch, which is why he’s behind achieving them.

In fact, Trudeau adopted Harper’s targets when he came into power in 2015, so his failure to meet them six years later is on him, not Harper.

FDA FAKE APPROVAL OF PFITZER'S JAB

The US Government regulator for drugs, the Food and Drug Administration, has just announced that it has voted full approval for the mRNA genetic vaccine of Pfizer and BioNTech, or did they? This supposed new status is being used by the Biden Administration and many states and companies to impose mandatory vaccinations. The notoriously conflicted Biden covid adviser, Tony Fauci of the NIAID, using that ruling, is calling for national mandatory vaccination for the country. What is not being revealed is the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interest between the FDA and the major drug companies, including Pfizer, that stand behind the rushed approval. And it’s not full approval for Pfizer’s jab, only for BioNTech’s legally different vaccine.

NEITHER HONOUR NOR SHAME

 I don’t like senior officers bedecked in countless medals for two reasons:

First, they tend to serve as an unspoken bulwark against any legitimate criticism, not of the bearer's past service, but of their current horrendous policy prescriptions.

Second, the awards seem to grow flashier the farther their bearers drift from the actual shooting. I will use myself as an example:

I served in the Marine Corps for five years. During that time, I saw no combat. Also during that time, I was given five awards.

CANADA'S WOKE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES

 In Canada today, there is a vain prime minister who presents himself as an enlightened feminist, noble climate activist, advocate for Indigenous progress, and so committed a servant of social justice that even the public health measures that closed Parliament could not stop him from kneeling in solidarity at a crowded Black Lives Matter protest. Many Canadians, not wanting to appear stupid or, worse, intolerant, have agreed to pretend that the prime minister is splendidly cloaked in virtue. The reality, however, has become increasingly difficult to ignore. The fact is that Canada’s woke emperor has no clothes.

A POINTLESS ELECTION

  Rex Murphy:  Perhaps within the shadowed cloister where the prime minister’s super smart political ferrets dwell, it was thought “clever” to call an election in August, during a pandemic, two years in from the last one, and during the gift of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

But clever can very quickly become cute, and cute is not a nice word. It is not a generous word. It lives very close to sneaky, sly and tricky. Cute is always wrapped around personal advantage and gain, and is so close to what is referred to in common terms as “pulling a fast one” as to be shorthand for it. Cute is also the very opposite of generous, public-minded, worthy and noble … well, actually noble isn’t even in the same semantic country as cute. I can imagine what they would be pleased to call their strategy session.

 “Hey, if we call it in August, two years before we really have to, with Canadians exhausted from all the toils and anxieties of COVID, weary to numbness from lockdowns and ever-changing mandates, and of course so very many in the deepest distress over job losses, the failure of small businesses built up over the years, their children out of school for over a year, and stressed to breaking point from the imposed claustrophobia of the pandemic — well, let’s just say, in that atmosphere the population will let the premature call just slide by. Who notices a stream when the flood waters are high?

JUSTIN TWO-FACE

 Justin Trudeau’s moral compass, if it exists, is entirely situational and operates on a partisan footing.

A day after saying that Canadians deserve to know if political candidates are facing serious allegations, Trudeau stood by a candidate of his own when serious allegations were revealed. Sadly, it’s not the first time Trudeau has shown a partisan bent on these issues.

A report by CBC details allegations of sexual harassment and an abusive attitude towards staff by MP Raj Saini.

AN ELECTION WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON

It has been said many times that this is an election about nothing.

 Then it started to get hot. Afghanistan and the rowdy anti-vaxxer movement began laying uncomfortable heat on Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau called this election, at a cost of $600 million, without rhyme or reason, in the middle of the fourth wave of the pandemic, and with consumer prices rising faster than a decade ago, solely because the tea leaves promised his Liberals a majority.

But why?

BIDEN THROWS A TANTRUM

 Our hapless president’s speech on Tuesday was not a speech at all.  It was a full-blown childish tantrum.  While he was ostensibly celebrating his massive “airlift” of thousands of mostly-Afghan refugees, from the beginning it was clear he is extremely angry.  He almost shouted his claim that his catastrophic misadventure in Afghanistan has been a smashing success.  This is a huge lie and everyone knows it, even those trying to spin this debacle as a win.