Canada’s privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the controversial ArriveCAN app amid complaints that the app is collecting travelers’ personal information.
“Our office has received and is currently investigating a complaint that raises concerns with respect to the collection of personal information through ArriveCAN and subsequent use of that information,” said the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in an email dated July 27.
Sunday, July 31, 2022
SAUDI-BORN CANADIAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
A Saudi-born Canadian citizen who U.S. prosecutors called one of the “most prolific propagandists” for ISIS has been sentenced Friday to a life of imprisonment.
In materials filed in court ahead of his sentencing hearing, prosecutors said Mohammed Khalifa was a “formidable figure within ISIS.”
In a release, the U.S. Department of Justice said Khalifa executed two Syrian soldiers and provided the narration and translation for around 15 videos created and distributed by ISIS.
In materials filed in court ahead of his sentencing hearing, prosecutors said Mohammed Khalifa was a “formidable figure within ISIS.”
In a release, the U.S. Department of Justice said Khalifa executed two Syrian soldiers and provided the narration and translation for around 15 videos created and distributed by ISIS.
THE WHO'S RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR THE TRUTH
Public health relies on trust. Advertising relies on twisting the truth, even deceiving people, to persuade them to buy a product they may not need. Trust is maintained by telling the truth, giving others accurate information and sound advice. If inclined, you can change direction, trading on trust that you have built in order to deceive more effectively.
This works until the audience starts to understand that you have started lying. It is the worst sort of deceit. The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted this latter course, using its former status to deceive the public in order to increase global uptake of Covid-19 vaccines.
Last week the WHO’s media office issued a press release summarizing an update to its global Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This strategy requires the highest annual budget of any single program in the WHO’s history; $10.1 billion was budgeted for 2021, about three times the previous total annual expenditure of the entire organization.
With $3 billion accrued, the WHO is seeking the shortfall and wants to expand this through 2022. This bill is mainly footed by taxpayers in the ailing economies of the West. Covid-19 remains a minor health burden in the countries on the receiving end, while malnutrition and other infectious diseases are rising. The strategy is therefore important to both sides, as it will harm both.
This works until the audience starts to understand that you have started lying. It is the worst sort of deceit. The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted this latter course, using its former status to deceive the public in order to increase global uptake of Covid-19 vaccines.
Last week the WHO’s media office issued a press release summarizing an update to its global Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This strategy requires the highest annual budget of any single program in the WHO’s history; $10.1 billion was budgeted for 2021, about three times the previous total annual expenditure of the entire organization.
With $3 billion accrued, the WHO is seeking the shortfall and wants to expand this through 2022. This bill is mainly footed by taxpayers in the ailing economies of the West. Covid-19 remains a minor health burden in the countries on the receiving end, while malnutrition and other infectious diseases are rising. The strategy is therefore important to both sides, as it will harm both.
THE ECONOMIC REALITY OF BATTLING CLIMATE CHANGE
Ross McKitrick: The laws of economics are in charge everywhere, which is why political leaders of all stripes (including greens) are now ordering their coal-fired power plants to reopen and go full blast. They are desperate for energy and the alternatives are far costlier.
POTENTIAL PAYDAY FOR EMPLOYEES LAID OFF DURING PANDEMIC
Many employers have forgotten about their laid-off employees hoping, if not assuming, they have moved on to new lines of work. But even if that is the case, employees who were laid off on IDEL (infectious disease emergency leave) could now be entitled to at least their minimum statutory entitlements or their common-law entitlements.
If you are an employee who was laid off during IDEL, the length of service at your employer likely continued to accrue during the pandemic and could lead to the right to seek meaningful damages against your employer if you are not recalled to work once IDEL ends.
For example, if you worked at your employer for eight years, you may be entitled to minimum statutory entitlements of 13 weeks (if severance is payable at your employer). If you did not sign an employment agreement, you could be entitled to as much as eight to 10 months of salary, bonus, benefits and pension (if applicable) under the common law.
If you are an employee who was laid off during IDEL, the length of service at your employer likely continued to accrue during the pandemic and could lead to the right to seek meaningful damages against your employer if you are not recalled to work once IDEL ends.
For example, if you worked at your employer for eight years, you may be entitled to minimum statutory entitlements of 13 weeks (if severance is payable at your employer). If you did not sign an employment agreement, you could be entitled to as much as eight to 10 months of salary, bonus, benefits and pension (if applicable) under the common law.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
654 VACCINE INJURY CLAIMS UNDER REVIEW
Managers of the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) reported that out of 774 claims received, eight received compensation, 71 were deemed ineligible and 654 are still under review.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada's Department of Health would not release information on how much has been paid in compensation so far. The program is expected to provide a total of $75 million to claims made by families of those who suffer death or injury from Covid vaccines until 2026.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada's Department of Health would not release information on how much has been paid in compensation so far. The program is expected to provide a total of $75 million to claims made by families of those who suffer death or injury from Covid vaccines until 2026.
The health department has reported 48,670 adverse events including 9878 rated as “serious” out of almost 86 million Covid vaccine doses given to date. Adverse events could include milder symptoms such as headaches or chest pains while serious outcomes could include heart inflammation or facial paralysis.
CHINESE PEOPLE LONGING FOR CANADA, AS CHINA CRUMBLES
Beijing’s stepped-up quest for “common prosperity” has many worried their savings and assets aren’t being treated as actually theirs — and could be confiscated by Communist party rulers in the name of equality.
More people, especially the rich, want to escape.
In the past 30 years, Canada has been one of the top destinations for people from China seeking a financial haven and more stable lifestyle. China has long been Canada’s second-largest source country, after India, for new immigrants.
DUTCH GOVERNMENT ADMITS TO TARGETING FARMERS
Americans should start paying closer attention to the ongoing farmer protests in the Netherlands, which this week transformed long swaths of Dutch highways into what looked like a post-apocalyptic warzone: roadside fires raging out of control, manure and farming detritus heaped across highways, traffic stalled for miles, and massive protests across the country in support of the farmers.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the Trudeau government has been almost singularly focused on its crusade against climate change, even at the expense of the well-being of Canadians and our geopolitical interests. Its decision to force farmers to reduce fertilizer use at a time of high inflation and increasing food insecurity is another example of a government that turns a blind eye to the human and economic costs of its climate policies.
The ruling coalition government claims its radical plan, pushed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who branded the protests “unacceptable,” is part of an “unavoidable transition” to improve air, land, and water quality. The goal is to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which are produced by livestock but which the government is labeling “pollutants,” by 50 percent nationwide by the year 2030.
The only way to do that, many Dutch farmers say, is to slaughter the vast majority of their livestock and shutter their farms. The government knows this and admitted as much earlier this year, saying in a statement, “The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business,” and that farmers have three options: “Becoming more sustainable, relocating or ending their business.”
The only way to do that, many Dutch farmers say, is to slaughter the vast majority of their livestock and shutter their farms. The government knows this and admitted as much earlier this year, saying in a statement, “The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business,” and that farmers have three options: “Becoming more sustainable, relocating or ending their business.”
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST TIM HORTON'S
Tim Hortons has reached a proposed settlement in multiple class action lawsuits alleging the restaurant's mobile app violated customer privacy, which would see the restaurant offer a free coffee and doughnut to affected users.
The proposed settlement comes after an investigation by federal and provincial privacy watchdogs found the mobile ordering app violated the law by collecting vast amounts of location information from customers.
In a report released last month, privacy commissioners said people who downloaded the Tim Hortons app had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes — even when the app was not open on their phones.
Friday, July 29, 2022
RCMP CULTURE
A Nova Scotia RCMP constable who violated the force's code of conduct after fondling co-workers will keep his job — even though the top Mountie in the province at the time wanted him dismissed for sexual assault.
The case pits the wishes of the local division against Commissioner Brenda Lucki, who — while promising publicly that sexual assault would not be tolerated under her watch — agreed to let the member keep his job.
JOURNALISTS, POPE FRANCIS, & THE AGRICULTURAL MINISTER
Freedom Convoy organizer and political prisoner Tamara Lich was released on bail this week, much to the disappointment of Canada’s legacy media. In particular, one familiar journalist to many supporters of the convoy – Glen Mcgregor. Mcgregor was very upset! As Tamara Lich was exiting the Ottawa courthouse on Monday, video footage emerged of Mcgregor getting physical and shouting at Lich supporters. To everyone’s surprise, Mcgregor failed to mention the altercations with supporters in his reporting.
THE CDC TOLD US IT WAS SAFE
Last week, German Euro Member of Parliament Christine Anderson called vaccine coercion “the worst crime ever committed on humanity.” This would conveniently replace the previous record in this category, held by the Germans. But she may turn out to be right. “There is so much coming to light,” she said. “All of the adverse side effects, numerous studies now available, on fetal disfigurements . . . genetic defects of babies born to women who got vaccinated . . .”
Also last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson drew attention to a recent study published in the Journal of Food and Toxicology claiming to have observed “diverse adverse consequences to human health” from the vaccine, potentially including “a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.”
Also last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson drew attention to a recent study published in the Journal of Food and Toxicology claiming to have observed “diverse adverse consequences to human health” from the vaccine, potentially including “a causal link to neurodegenerative disease, myocarditis, immune thrombocytopenia, Bell’s palsy, liver disease, impaired adaptive immunity, impaired DNA damage response and tumorigenesis.”
Thursday, July 28, 2022
LIBERAL GOV'T ATTACK ON FOOD & ENERGY
Rex Murphy: To flip a very famous phrase, now is the summer of our discontent.
Toronto — always yearning to be a world-renowned city, but not in this way — has had its main airport deemed the “world’s worst.” The government of (what should be) a great country is buying lawn chairs for citizens stranded in endless lines waiting for passports. A democracy-minded woman from Medicine Hat is sitting in an Ottawa jail over highly technical “breach of bail’ conditions while volatile offenders wander freely outside in the summer air. Inquiries into possible interference in a massive police investigation and the first-time invocation of the Emergencies Act are stumbling along with questionable effectiveness.
And as a recent National Post editorial noted, Justin Trudeau, in the face of all this, has been floating around the country like a butterfly, flitting in and out of one venue after another, but of course exempted by virtue of his status and the government jet from the tribulations, anxieties and turmoil of our now famous Pearson holding-port.
USA HAS TRADE CONCERNS OVER ONLINE STREAMING BILL
Washington has raised concerns about the trade implications of Ottawa's online-streaming bill, prompting a legal expert to warn that Canada could face hundreds of millions of dollars of retaliatory tariffs if it becomes law.
The online-streaming bill, which has passed the House of Commons and is now in the Senate, would force American-owned platforms, including YouTube, Netflix and Amazon's Prime Video, to promote Canadian TV, movies, videos or music, and help fund Canadian content.
Ottawa’s public record of the meeting on July 8 with Ng did not mention that her American counterpart raised concerns about the bill
FIREARMS BUYBACK PROGRAM
The federal government is proposing $1,337 in compensation for turning in an AR-15 rifle under a mandatory buyback program.
Public Safety Canada has released a price list detailing how much money owners of banned firearms can expect to get under the program.
At the higher end of the scale, forfeiting a Swiss Arms SG550 could net an owner $6,209.
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
DIRTY SECRETS AT FARM CREDIT CANADA
Farm Credit, Canada's largest agricultural term lender, instructed their employees to record the names of all customers who supported February's Freedom Convoy.
February 25, 2022: Despite the suspension of all emergency orders issued under the Act, the financial blacklisting of Canadian citizens initiated under those orders is yet to see an end.
July 26, 2022: Managers at the federal bank for farmers monitored clients for political opposition to Justin Trudeau and hid those investigations from users of FCC's services and applicants for financing, according to new internal emails obtained exclusively by Blacklock's Reporter.
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
I listened To Former PM Steven Harper’s Endorsement Of Conservative Leadership Candidate Poilievre —Not A Peep About Freedom, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms —The Unconstitutional Actions of the Federal Liberal /NDP Government or The Liberal , Conservative , NDP , Provincial Governments —— Brian Peckford
It’s as if the universe is unfolding as it should .
It’s as if the universe is unfolding as it should .
CORPORATE MEDIA USING LEAKED DOCUMENT AS NEWS
My name is James Topp, Warrant Officer with 28 years in the Canadian Army, regular force infantry. I was placed on leave without pay from my civilian position in the RCMP and am currently in the process of being released from the Canadian Armed Forces under item 5F. As a form of peaceful protest I have marched 4293 Km on foot from the Terry Fox Statue in Vancouver to The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa. I will continue to march commencing on the 18th of July 2022 from Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland to the Greater Toronto Area and/or Windsor Ontario.
Unofficial leaked document on Canadian Forces mandates being lifted, is being used as "news"
James Topp addresses "leaked" document:
"DND poised to end vaccine mandate"
LUCKI CLAIMS CONFERENCE-CALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Canada’s top Mountie blamed conference-call misunderstandings on allegations she’d pressured Nova Scotia mass shooting investigators to release sensitive information to benefit the Liberal government’s impending gun control legislation.
Testifying before the House public safety committee, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki denied Monday she’d urged detectives to make public details of weapons used by Nova Scotia mass murderer Gabriel Wortman, and denied that pressure came from then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The allegations were uncovered in handwritten notes by RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell included in a report published by the mass casualty inquiry last month — detailing pressure Lucki allegedly put on investigators to release the details.
Campbell’s notes, backed by previous commission testimony by RCMP Communications Director Lia Scanlan, described a contentious telephone meeting after an April 28 press conference where a frustrated Lucki chastised officials for not releasing information on Wortman’s firearms — claiming she’d promised both Blair and the Prime Minister the information would be made public.
Testifying before the House public safety committee, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki denied Monday she’d urged detectives to make public details of weapons used by Nova Scotia mass murderer Gabriel Wortman, and denied that pressure came from then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The allegations were uncovered in handwritten notes by RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell included in a report published by the mass casualty inquiry last month — detailing pressure Lucki allegedly put on investigators to release the details.
Campbell’s notes, backed by previous commission testimony by RCMP Communications Director Lia Scanlan, described a contentious telephone meeting after an April 28 press conference where a frustrated Lucki chastised officials for not releasing information on Wortman’s firearms — claiming she’d promised both Blair and the Prime Minister the information would be made public.
TAMARA LICH RELEASED
"Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich was once again released from jail on Tuesday after a Ontario Superior Court judge found errors in the decision to revoke her bail two weeks ago.
Lich was mobbed outside the Ottawa courthouse with cheers and hugs from an enthusiastic group of about two dozen supporters.
They included familiar faces from the protest that gridlocked downtown Ottawa for three weeks earlier this, which saw crowds protesting COVID-19 restrictions, including vaccine mandates, and the Liberal government.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
TRANS HATE MOB'S RELENTLESS ATTACKS
Former Olympian swimmer Sharon Davies has revealed that she is struggling to keep her career as a pundit and a sports ambassador going because she has been relentlessly attacked by trans ‘activists’ for speaking up for women’s rights in sports.
Davies has long been outspoken in her opposition to biological men competing against women in swimming and other sports.
In 2016 she and 60 other influential figures in sports lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC), asking the body to reevaluate the rules for allowing biological males to compete against women.
Her stance stems from having been robbed of a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics by an East German team who doped their female swimmers with testosterone.
Davies has long been outspoken in her opposition to biological men competing against women in swimming and other sports.
In 2016 she and 60 other influential figures in sports lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC), asking the body to reevaluate the rules for allowing biological males to compete against women.
Her stance stems from having been robbed of a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics by an East German team who doped their female swimmers with testosterone.
CALLS FOR COMMISSIONER LUCKI TO BE FIRED
Banwarie, whose 20 years as an RCMP officer ended in 2017, has scathing criticism for Lucki.
“Its control and it’s disgusting. You should not be in the role of commissioner. You need to be out the door, outside. You have no place in the organization. You have no place in policing. You are a disgrace to the noble profession of policing,” Banwarie said.
“I’ve long maintained the commissioner of the RCMP is a deputy minister, serving at the pleasure of whichever political party is in power.”
Banwarie, who formerly led the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada which represents RCMP members in collective bargaining, suggests the Liberals benefited from RCMP inaction in previous scandals.
COMMISSIONER LUCKI STANDS BY HER MINISTER
The Liberals waved away the SNC Lavalin scandal as “nothing beyond the normal operation of government” — that is, contriving affairs for maximum political gain, even if it risks breaking the rules.
Unfortunately for the government, the then justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, interpreted the subtle (and not-so-subtle) coercion she was exposed to as “undue pressure.” She was demoted for failing to bow to that pressure. But her determination to speak truth to power demolished the Trudeau government’s narrative for championing openness and transparency.
Fortunately, for the Liberals, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is no Wilson-Raybould.
Unfortunately for the government, the then justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, interpreted the subtle (and not-so-subtle) coercion she was exposed to as “undue pressure.” She was demoted for failing to bow to that pressure. But her determination to speak truth to power demolished the Trudeau government’s narrative for championing openness and transparency.
Fortunately, for the Liberals, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is no Wilson-Raybould.
Monday, July 25, 2022
RCMP INACTION AGAINST NS MASS SHOOTER
Erin Breen, a St. John’s lawyer representing Halifax non-profits the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Wellness Within, along with other advocacy groups, provided a brief history of the actions of the killer, Gabriel Wortman, from 2010 to 2013, that were known to police.
“If we start first by looking at the threat investigation in 2010, despite very specific and reliable information about this threat to kill his parents and then Paul Wortman’s information about the firearms, there is no real action taken,” Breen said during Mass Casualty Commission inquiry submissions delivered Friday at the completion of two weeks of documentary, witness and roundtable evidence on the subject of intimate-partner and gender-based violence.
“The matter is referred ultimately to the perpetrator’s friend, (RCMP) Const. (Greg) Wiley to determine if the perpetrator has access to firearms,” Breen said. “The file is closed after police speak to the perpetrator and he denies that he has firearms.”
“If we start first by looking at the threat investigation in 2010, despite very specific and reliable information about this threat to kill his parents and then Paul Wortman’s information about the firearms, there is no real action taken,” Breen said during Mass Casualty Commission inquiry submissions delivered Friday at the completion of two weeks of documentary, witness and roundtable evidence on the subject of intimate-partner and gender-based violence.
“The matter is referred ultimately to the perpetrator’s friend, (RCMP) Const. (Greg) Wiley to determine if the perpetrator has access to firearms,” Breen said. “The file is closed after police speak to the perpetrator and he denies that he has firearms.”
RCMP HQ REJECTED REQUEST FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW
One of the top RCMP officers involved in responding to Nova Scotia’s mass-shooting rampage in 2020 says he pushed repeatedly to have an independent review of how the incident was handled — only for national headquarters to reject his request.
Chief Supt. Darren Campbell told the federal-provincial inquiry examining the episode Monday he sent emails and a formal letter to highers-up in Ottawa asking for a review by police critical-incident experts not connected to those involved.
Past experience told him that such an outside review — including even officers from other police forces — is more valuable than an internal one, he said.
EXPOSING COVID JAB INJURIES
Ontario ER doctor speaks out dropping bombshells about covid policies, covid jabs, and the politics surrounding it all.
IGNORANCE, TREACHERY & DECEIT OF DR. BIRX
“No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it,” she admits.
“Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them. However hard it had been to get the fifteen-day shutdown approved, getting another one would be more difficult by many orders of magnitude. In the meantime, I waited for the blowback, for someone from the economic team to call me to the principal’s office or confront me at a task force meeting. None of this happened.”
It was a solution in search of evidence she did not have. She told Trump that the evidence was there anyway. She actually tricked him into believing that locking down a whole population of people was somehow magically going to make a virus to which everyone would inevitably be exposed somehow vanish as a threat.
“Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them. However hard it had been to get the fifteen-day shutdown approved, getting another one would be more difficult by many orders of magnitude. In the meantime, I waited for the blowback, for someone from the economic team to call me to the principal’s office or confront me at a task force meeting. None of this happened.”
It was a solution in search of evidence she did not have. She told Trump that the evidence was there anyway. She actually tricked him into believing that locking down a whole population of people was somehow magically going to make a virus to which everyone would inevitably be exposed somehow vanish as a threat.
FARM GROUPS CALL FOR COMPENSATION
Eastern Canada farm groups have jointly called for compensation from the federal government for high fertilizer prices caused by the 35 per cent tariff on Russian imports imposed on March 3.The groups also want the tariff removed in time for fall planting.
The groups said in a statement the tariff was imposed without any prior consultation with the agriculture sector and, as a result, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canadian farmers were disproportionately impacted because they rely heavily on fertilizer imports.
Approximately 660,000 – 680,000 tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer is imported from Russia to Eastern Canada annually, which represents between 85-90 per cent of the total nitrogen fertilizer used in the region.
TRUDEAU'S FARCICAL CLIMATE TARGETS
In Ottawa, the Trudeau government continues its ongoing farce of claiming Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions can be lowered by 40% to 45% compared to 2005 levels by 2030.
In the latest development, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault told CBC Radio’s The House that Canada’s oil and gas sector may be given more time to achieve the government’s target of reducing its emissions to at least 42% below 2005 levels by 2030.
He appeared to suggest the new date would be 2032, but that’s absurd.
Sunday, July 24, 2022
UNMARKED GRAVES: MONEY OR JUSTICE?
July 2021: The scene is a live CBC broadcast from the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ontario, where, similar to earlier claims in Kamloops, British Columbia, clandestine graves of missing Indigenous children are said to be located. From the teddy-bear-lined steps, reporter Bobby Hristova somberly states, “In terms of the search, we heard Chief Mark Hill say, ‘No Money. No response.’”
In a letter addressed to the Ontario Premier’s office, Chief Hill explains that the $400,000 annual grant secured from the Ontario government, later increased to $700,000 over a three-year period, “falls short and is not commensurate with Ontario’s role in operating the school.” The search for secret catacombs of Indigenous children is a growing Canadian industry, which repeatedly broadcasts that current funding increases are not enough for the “children to be brought home.”
A year later, Hristova reports that Ottawa has signed on for more than $10 million to assist in the search in Brantford; but in spite of this generous amount, the sub-headline of the press release reads, “Group Leading Search Says Money is a good start, but not enough, and waits on Ontario to offer more.”
In a letter addressed to the Ontario Premier’s office, Chief Hill explains that the $400,000 annual grant secured from the Ontario government, later increased to $700,000 over a three-year period, “falls short and is not commensurate with Ontario’s role in operating the school.” The search for secret catacombs of Indigenous children is a growing Canadian industry, which repeatedly broadcasts that current funding increases are not enough for the “children to be brought home.”
A year later, Hristova reports that Ottawa has signed on for more than $10 million to assist in the search in Brantford; but in spite of this generous amount, the sub-headline of the press release reads, “Group Leading Search Says Money is a good start, but not enough, and waits on Ontario to offer more.”
ENTERPRISING AUSTRALIAN TEENAGER NABBED BY POLICE
Police in Australia use a helicopter to track down a teenager riding a vehicle that has been dubbed the “marijuana marijuana unit.” When they apprehend the teen, they discover a filthy bong, a coffee grinder, and cannabis.
LACK OF PIPELINES COSTING CANADA $BILLIONS
Canada today should be a key player in supplying the world with desperately needed oil and natural gas.
After all, according to the federal government, Canada is the world’s fourth-largest producer and third-largest exporter of crude oil and fifth-largest producer and sixth-largest exporter of natural gas.
In light of global oil and natural gas shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we should be major players right now in supplying Europe and Germany in particular with oil and natural gas.
After all, according to the federal government, Canada is the world’s fourth-largest producer and third-largest exporter of crude oil and fifth-largest producer and sixth-largest exporter of natural gas.
In light of global oil and natural gas shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we should be major players right now in supplying Europe and Germany in particular with oil and natural gas.
CANADIANS RALLY FOR FARMERS IN NETHERLANDS
Dutch flags and placards reading “No Farmers, No Food” were raised alongside the maple leaf and symbols of the “freedom movement” as 150 to 200 people held a noisy, but peaceful rally that spilled onto the street outside the Embassy of the Netherlands on Saturday.
The group marched along downtown Ottawa streets to the National War Memorial, where they sang O Canada.
Then it was on to Parliament Hill, where they posed for a group picture with signs supporting Dutch farmers who are protesting their government’s plans to stem emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia. The farmers say it threatens their agricultural way of life and could put them out of business.
More photos here of Ottawa rally
Convoy in Stormont, Glengarry, Prescott, Russell
TRUDEAU'S "SEE MY NEW HAIR CUT" TOUR
It’s no secret that the prime minister loves photo-ops, but he usually manages to at least tangentially connect them to some sort of issue. War in Ukraine? Time for a heavily photographed European tour. Outrage over residential schools? Someone find him a teddy bear and a well-lit place to kneel.
But his latest string of photo-ops don’t even bother with rhyme or reason as he tours the country seemingly at random, for no real purpose, doing basically nothing. One day he’s playing camp counsellor in the woods, the next he’s all smiles and no mask on a sightseeing train. Next thing you know, he’s picking cherries and chumming it up with fruit growers in British Columbia.
So far, no one’s been able to figure out quite why he’s doing this. He hasn’t used the trips to make any policy or funding announcements, wasn’t in town for fundraisers and the notion of a fall election seems absurd even by Liberal standards.
It’d be great if the media could ask him during one of his many photo-ops, but he’s forbidden journalists from posing questions. He wouldn’t want anything to distract from his carefully curated tableaus, and reporters have a pesky habit of wanting to talk about things other than children’s stories and fruit.
But his latest string of photo-ops don’t even bother with rhyme or reason as he tours the country seemingly at random, for no real purpose, doing basically nothing. One day he’s playing camp counsellor in the woods, the next he’s all smiles and no mask on a sightseeing train. Next thing you know, he’s picking cherries and chumming it up with fruit growers in British Columbia.
So far, no one’s been able to figure out quite why he’s doing this. He hasn’t used the trips to make any policy or funding announcements, wasn’t in town for fundraisers and the notion of a fall election seems absurd even by Liberal standards.
It’d be great if the media could ask him during one of his many photo-ops, but he’s forbidden journalists from posing questions. He wouldn’t want anything to distract from his carefully curated tableaus, and reporters have a pesky habit of wanting to talk about things other than children’s stories and fruit.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
SENIOR RCMP OFFICER STAYED HOME WHILE NS MASS SHOOTING OCCURRED
The senior RCMP officer in the district where the Nova Scotia mass shooting occurred says he stayed home during the rampage because having a "white shirt" present at the command post would have caused confusion.
Twenty-two people, including a pregnant woman, would die before police shot the perpetrator at a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
Thompson said his notes indicated that at 9:52 a.m. on April 19, Halliday sent him a message saying "shots fired," and then was unable to provide a further update as he was busy. Thompson said that more than an hour later, at 10:57 a.m., Halliday sent another message saying, "We have major issues," and telephoned his commander 15 minutes later to relay information about additional deaths.
However, Thompson said being present at the command post where Halliday was assisting Staff Sgt. Jeff West, the critical incident commander, wouldn't have helped.
Twenty-two people, including a pregnant woman, would die before police shot the perpetrator at a gas station in Enfield, N.S.
Thompson said his notes indicated that at 9:52 a.m. on April 19, Halliday sent him a message saying "shots fired," and then was unable to provide a further update as he was busy. Thompson said that more than an hour later, at 10:57 a.m., Halliday sent another message saying, "We have major issues," and telephoned his commander 15 minutes later to relay information about additional deaths.
However, Thompson said being present at the command post where Halliday was assisting Staff Sgt. Jeff West, the critical incident commander, wouldn't have helped.
PEARSON WORLD'S WORST AIRPORT FOR DELAYS
Toronto’s Pearson is the worst airport in the world for delays this summer. You don’t need to take my word for it, CNN declared it after analyzing data from Flight Aware between May 26 and July 19.
On cancellations, Pearson is the fourth worst airport in the world.
Over that time period, 52.5% of all scheduled flights at Pearson were delayed while 6.5% were cancelled. The second worst airport for delays was Frankfurt with 45.4% of all flights delayed.
The Trudeau government continues to say this is an international phenomenon, their policies aren’t contributing to any of the delays, and there is nothing more they can do. Yet, Canadian airlines and airports are regularly the worst in the world.
On cancellations, Pearson is the fourth worst airport in the world.
Over that time period, 52.5% of all scheduled flights at Pearson were delayed while 6.5% were cancelled. The second worst airport for delays was Frankfurt with 45.4% of all flights delayed.
The Trudeau government continues to say this is an international phenomenon, their policies aren’t contributing to any of the delays, and there is nothing more they can do. Yet, Canadian airlines and airports are regularly the worst in the world.
TRUDEAU GOV'T PUSHES AHEAD ON FERTILIZER REDUCTION
The federal government is looking to impose a requirement to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizers saying it is a greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. While the Trudeau government says they want a 30% reduction in emissions, not fertilizer, farm producer groups say that at this point, reducing nitrous oxide emissions can’t be done without reducing fertilizer use.
Several provincial governments, and organizations representing farmers have asked for emissions reductions from fertilizer to be measured via intensity – how much food is produced compared to the amount of fertilizer used. The Trudeau government is demanding an absolute reduction in emissions, which farmers say will result in less food being produced at a time when the world can ill afford it.
Federal minister Marie-Claude Bibeau called the government’s target ambitious but claims it’s one that farmers will embrace.
Several provincial governments, and organizations representing farmers have asked for emissions reductions from fertilizer to be measured via intensity – how much food is produced compared to the amount of fertilizer used. The Trudeau government is demanding an absolute reduction in emissions, which farmers say will result in less food being produced at a time when the world can ill afford it.
Federal minister Marie-Claude Bibeau called the government’s target ambitious but claims it’s one that farmers will embrace.
SLOW-ROLL CONVOYS ACROSS CANADA
Dozens of “slow-roll” vehicle convoys will enter Canadian cities on Saturday to show solidarity with Dutch farmers in the middle of a protest against incoming environmental regulations.
“We want to show support for the Dutch farmers, as well as the many problems the Canadian farming industry is facing because of similar policies coming their way,” said Bethan Nodwell, an organizer with Freedom Fighters Canada.
“The farmers are yelling, ‘Trouble is incoming,’ and we need to listen to them.”
Slow-roll convoys are planned for 50 cities across Canada this weekend. These include the cities of Vancouver in B.C.; Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer in Alberta; Saskatoon and Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan; Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba; Thunder Bay, Kingston, Bancroft, Toronto and Ottawa in Ontario; and Fredericton and Moncton in New Brunswick.
TRYING TO HIDE THE PM's TRAIL
The Canadian media has long made excellent use of online flight trackers to document the bizarre taxpayer-funded travel habits of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet.
There was the time in 2019 when Trudeau tweeted “climate change is real” while briefly interrupting a Florida vacation to fly back to Ottawa for a single meeting – a roundtrip that burned 1,400 litres of jet fuel. He took a Christmas vacation that year to Costa Rica that somehow required five separate roundtrip jet flights from Ottawa.
And, of course, there was the time last September when Trudeau clandestinely slipped away for a beach vacation to Tofino rather than commemorate Canada’s first-ever Truth and Reconciliation Day.
There was the time in 2019 when Trudeau tweeted “climate change is real” while briefly interrupting a Florida vacation to fly back to Ottawa for a single meeting – a roundtrip that burned 1,400 litres of jet fuel. He took a Christmas vacation that year to Costa Rica that somehow required five separate roundtrip jet flights from Ottawa.
And, of course, there was the time last September when Trudeau clandestinely slipped away for a beach vacation to Tofino rather than commemorate Canada’s first-ever Truth and Reconciliation Day.
CBC PAID $30MILLION IN BONUSES
Over the course of the pandemic, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paid out more than $30 million in bonuses, according to access to information documents.
The documents, first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, show that in 2020 — Canada’s first COVID-19 case came in late January that year — the public broadcaster spent $15 million on bonuses to employees. In 2020, there were 1,034 full-time employees who received bonuses. On average, that’s about $14,500 per employee. Then, in 2021, with the pandemic in full swing, $15.3 million was paid out. There were 1,033 full-time employees who received bonuses. That’s an average of about $14,800 per employee. However, the document does not specify how much each individual received.
Friday, July 22, 2022
GORBACHEV BLASTS PUTIN
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is dismayed that his life work has been “destroyed” by Vladimir Putin according to a close friend.
Russian journalist Alexei Venediktov, who is in touch with the veteran politician, said the former Soviet President was “upset” over the current situation in relation to the war in Ukraine. Mr Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985.
He instigated a policy of political freedom and openness known as Glasnost and economic reforms known as Perestroika.
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF NS SHOOTER CALLED INTO QUESTION
Authors of a psychological assessment commissioned by the RCMP didn't back up their conclusions about the gunman in Nova Scotia's 2020 mass shooting, according to two researchers appearing in front of the inquiry investigating the tragedy Friday.
In the months after Gabriel Wortman's rampage in April 2020, an RCMP's team — including in-house profilers and an RCMP forensic psychologist — attempted to understand his state of mind at the time of the shootings and identify any behavioural patterns.
In June of 2020, RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell revealed some of the initial finding of the 'psychological autopsy,' calling the gunman an injustice collector — someone who held onto perceived insults until he "boiled over into rage."
In the months after Gabriel Wortman's rampage in April 2020, an RCMP's team — including in-house profilers and an RCMP forensic psychologist — attempted to understand his state of mind at the time of the shootings and identify any behavioural patterns.
In June of 2020, RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell revealed some of the initial finding of the 'psychological autopsy,' calling the gunman an injustice collector — someone who held onto perceived insults until he "boiled over into rage."
ECONOMIC REALITY & COMMON SENSE BADLY NEEDED
Like other western nations, Canada is suffering through a period of economic irrationality, rooted in progressive ideology, green fixation and groupthink, rather than data, economic principles and common sense. Recently, the consequences of policies based on delusion and fantasy have come home to roost, demanding a fundamental rethink of cherished shibboleths.
The global energy crisis is the best example. Germany now seems to understand that her policy of Energiewende or “energy transition” from fossil fuels and nuclear power to intermittent and costly renewables has weakened it geopolitically and economically. The U.K. may soon lift its moratorium on shale fracking because of soaring energy prices. U.S. Democrats are waking up to political reality: a likely battering in the Congressional elections, in part for curbing fossil fuel drilling, which has compromised America’s prosperity and national security. As gas prices soar in this country, too, more and more Canadians are finally coming to see that their energy economy has been sacrificed on the green altar of Prime Minister Trudeau’s unreasonable hostility to the development of the third and fourth largest proven oil and gas reserves in the world.
The global energy crisis is the best example. Germany now seems to understand that her policy of Energiewende or “energy transition” from fossil fuels and nuclear power to intermittent and costly renewables has weakened it geopolitically and economically. The U.K. may soon lift its moratorium on shale fracking because of soaring energy prices. U.S. Democrats are waking up to political reality: a likely battering in the Congressional elections, in part for curbing fossil fuel drilling, which has compromised America’s prosperity and national security. As gas prices soar in this country, too, more and more Canadians are finally coming to see that their energy economy has been sacrificed on the green altar of Prime Minister Trudeau’s unreasonable hostility to the development of the third and fourth largest proven oil and gas reserves in the world.
Thursday, July 21, 2022
HOLES IN OTTAWA'S EXPORT BAN TO RUSSIA
The Canadian government may have dropped the ball when it comes to its export ban on military equipment to Russia.
Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported last week that Italian authorities had seized a U.S.-made, Russia-bound drone shipment. Containers with drones, or drone components, were intercepted at the southern port of Gioia Tauro. They were officially bound for Qatar but investigators suspect their final destination would have been Russia, which is desperate to get its hands on superior American drone guidance and control systems for its war in Ukraine.
The Canadian connection is that the newspaper reported the containers arrived from Canada.
Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported last week that Italian authorities had seized a U.S.-made, Russia-bound drone shipment. Containers with drones, or drone components, were intercepted at the southern port of Gioia Tauro. They were officially bound for Qatar but investigators suspect their final destination would have been Russia, which is desperate to get its hands on superior American drone guidance and control systems for its war in Ukraine.
The Canadian connection is that the newspaper reported the containers arrived from Canada.
OILPATCH ANTICIPATING CURTAILING PRODUCTION
The oilpatch has been rattled by concerns that the federal government’s proposed cap on oil and gas emissions could force the industry to curtail production in order to stay within a regulated limit by the end of the decade.
The federal government said this week that it is considering two options to drive down emissions in order to meet its climate promises: a cap-and-trade system with a set number of allowances distributed to oil and gas facilities, or a modified carbon-pricing system that could see the industry pay a higher carbon price.
So far, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government hasn’t indicated where the ceiling on emissions could be set, but a new discussion paper on the proposed cap is causing a stir among the country’s oil producers.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
CANADIANS' HESITANCY FOR COVID BOOSTER JABS
Most vaccinated Canadians will not take a booster shot, a new poll finds.
An Angus Reid Institute survey on vaccination conducted between July 13 and 15, 2022 found that there’s hesitancy towards booster shots and their effectiveness among some Canadians, including those who have been vaccinated with one or two doses.
The news comes amid legacy media reports of a seventh wave of Covid fuelled by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and some provinces including Ontario and Alberta opening up fourth vaccine doses to the general population.
An Angus Reid Institute survey on vaccination conducted between July 13 and 15, 2022 found that there’s hesitancy towards booster shots and their effectiveness among some Canadians, including those who have been vaccinated with one or two doses.
The news comes amid legacy media reports of a seventh wave of Covid fuelled by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant and some provinces including Ontario and Alberta opening up fourth vaccine doses to the general population.
WHEN SHOULD YOU TAKE CANADA PENSION PLAN?
The standard age for a Canada Pension Plan (CPP) pension is 65, but applicants can begin their pension any time between ages 60 and 70. But the timing is much more important than most seniors think. Indeed, the average 65-year-old entitled to the maximum pension could be forgoing more than $120,000 in future retirement income. Applying before age 65 results in a reduction to your pension of 0.6 per cent per month, or 7.2 per cent per year, while the increase after age 65 is 0.7 per cent per month, or 8.4 per cent per year.
DUTCH FARMERS' REVOLT AGAINST ECO-TYRANNY
Rex Murphy: There is something happening in the Netherlands that has been happening for weeks, which if anything even closely resembling it were happening in Canada, especially in Ottawa, it would surely be called an “insurrection.” It might even have cabinet ministers and the prime minister calling those participating an intolerable “fringe minority.” Come to think of it, it would probably have driven the government to invoke the civil-rights-denying Emergencies Act, and arrest any of its leaders, especially any of those from the rebellion hot spot of darkest and most menacing Medicine Hat.
I am referring to the huge and continuous protest against the Dutch government. For some weeks now upwards of 40,000 farmers have been on their tractors and in their trucks crowding highways and snarling traffic in a mass protest against a green edict that would force them to halve emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia by 2030. Among the minor (sarcasm here) consequences of this wand-wave from on high is that the Dutch would lose about 30 per cent of their livestock numbers. Only 30 per cent — a mere rounding error. Who needs livestock? Food suppliers?
CBSA DENOUNCES ARRIVECAN APP
The ArriveCAN app continues to strand Canadians abroad, condemn innocent people to house arrest and scare away thousands of American tourists from Canadian border towns.
Regardless, none of it appears to have shaken Ottawa’s resolve to make the glitch-prone smartphone app a permanent feature of the Canadian border.
Last week, a contingent of Boy Scouts became stranded in Zurich, Switzerland, after missing their Air Canada flight due to delays caused by ArriveCAN. The group was forbidden from boarding after check-in agents found that their ArriveCAN submission was incomplete. “By the time they got everything sorted out, the check-in desk closed,” Karina Vega, mother of one of the stranded scouts, told CTV.
Regardless, none of it appears to have shaken Ottawa’s resolve to make the glitch-prone smartphone app a permanent feature of the Canadian border.
Last week, a contingent of Boy Scouts became stranded in Zurich, Switzerland, after missing their Air Canada flight due to delays caused by ArriveCAN. The group was forbidden from boarding after check-in agents found that their ArriveCAN submission was incomplete. “By the time they got everything sorted out, the check-in desk closed,” Karina Vega, mother of one of the stranded scouts, told CTV.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
F🍁CK INDIGO, HONK HONK!
A best-selling book about the Freedom Convoy that took over downtown Ottawa earlier this year will not be sold on shelves in Indigo bookstores, and the book’s publisher says he’s mystified.
The book, The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World by Andrew Lawton, a journalist and broadcaster for True North, combines on-the-ground reporting with exclusive interviews with convoy organizers and volunteers to “tell the whole story” of the weeks-long protest against COVID-19 restrictions. It was published by Sutherland House.
“Maybe they don’t think the people who would be interested in this book would shop at Indigo,” said Kenneth Whyte, publishing executive and founder of Sutherland House.
“Maybe they don’t think the people who would be interested in this book would shop at Indigo,” said Kenneth Whyte, publishing executive and founder of Sutherland House.
SOURCE OF MASS KILLER'S $2MILLION ESTATE UNKNOWN
In Portapique, Gabriel Wortman was sometimes described as the millionaire up the road.
A foundational document presented at the Mass Casualty Commission public inquiry Tuesday shows that the millionaire reference was an accurate description of the gunman who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April 2020, including 13 victims in the western Colchester County community of Portapique.
The killer had stockpiled more than two million dollars in assets, including bloated bank accounts containing funds from unknown and untraceable sources.
A foundational document presented at the Mass Casualty Commission public inquiry Tuesday shows that the millionaire reference was an accurate description of the gunman who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April 2020, including 13 victims in the western Colchester County community of Portapique.
The killer had stockpiled more than two million dollars in assets, including bloated bank accounts containing funds from unknown and untraceable sources.
TRUDEAU'S GOV'T JUST DESTROYED CANADA'S FUTURE
Jordan Peterson is back and this time he's laying out the truth about Justin Trudeau's latest move. He just signed a bill that will change Canada forever, and it's a disaster. This video will help you understand what happened, and why it should scare the living daylights out of all of us.
FARMERS FIGHTING FOR US ALL
The contrast could not have been more stark. On one side we have farmers everywhere from Ireland to the Netherlands to, of course, Sri Lanka making it as plain as they can that the warped ideology of Net Zero will make it harder for them to produce the food that humanity needs. And on the other side we have the Net Zero fanatics of the upper middle classes continuing to push their dire, destructive green ideology. The heatwave proves we must cut emissions even faster and more severely, they tweet in their breaks from sunning themselves in their spacious gardens, even as farmers tell them that the zealous obsession with cutting emissions will make it harder to grow crops. So this is where we’re at – with a ruling class more invested in fact-lite narratives of apocalypse than in the basic responsibility of a society to make food.
EX-PQ LEADER SENTENCED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULTS
MONTREAL — Former Parti Québécois leader André Boisclair was sentenced on Monday to two years less a day in jail after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two young men in his Montreal apartment.
Quebec court Judge Pierre Labelle said Boisclair's acts had "devastating consequences" on the two victims, adding the sentence is sufficiently severe and takes into account the fact the former politician has shown remorse and pleaded guilty.
"The acts committed by the offender are highly reprehensible," Labelle said. "Attacking people like this profoundly wounds their physical integrity and their dignity."
EMERGENCY ROOMS CLOSING NATIONWIDE
With surging demand forcing emergency room closures across the country, front-line physicians say more immediate help is needed before things get worse.
Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency room physician in Toronto, says he believes the health system is not collapsing, but rather that it has “already collapsed.”
“Nurses and doctors across Ontario and Canada who are working in emergency departments are greatly dismayed, honestly, by the human situation that patients and families have to face on a daily basis,” he said.
Dr. Raghu Venugopal, an emergency room physician in Toronto, says he believes the health system is not collapsing, but rather that it has “already collapsed.”
“Nurses and doctors across Ontario and Canada who are working in emergency departments are greatly dismayed, honestly, by the human situation that patients and families have to face on a daily basis,” he said.
Monday, July 18, 2022
DND REPLACES VIP AIRCRAFT IN A TIMELY MANNER
The Department of National Defense has garnered a well-deserved reputation for being terrible at procurement. Even the simplest replacement of outdated and even dangerous equipment can take years if not decades.
But this week brought a conspicuous exception: The RCAF apparently has no problem making timely purchases when it comes time to replace VIP aircraft, including the jets used to carry the prime minister.
The Department of Defense announced this week that it will be purchasing a pair of used Airbus A330-200 airliners for approximately $133 million. The two jets will replace part of the air force’s fleet of CC-150 Polaris heavy lift aircraft, which include Can Force One, the aircraft used for long-range transport of VIP personnel including the prime minister and the Governor General.
But this week brought a conspicuous exception: The RCAF apparently has no problem making timely purchases when it comes time to replace VIP aircraft, including the jets used to carry the prime minister.
The Department of Defense announced this week that it will be purchasing a pair of used Airbus A330-200 airliners for approximately $133 million. The two jets will replace part of the air force’s fleet of CC-150 Polaris heavy lift aircraft, which include Can Force One, the aircraft used for long-range transport of VIP personnel including the prime minister and the Governor General.
$80,000 FINE FOR EDMONTON CHURCH
An Edmonton church has been fined $80,000 by an Alberta judge for denying entry to Covid public health rule inspectors on several occasions.
Judge Shelagh Creagh of the Provincial Court of Alberta said that Pastor Tracy Fortin blocked public health officials from entering her church to ensure compliance with mandates.
“These were deliberate and intentional acts,” wrote Creagh. “These offences are very serious. Laws dealing with public health are of fundamental importance.”
Judge Shelagh Creagh of the Provincial Court of Alberta said that Pastor Tracy Fortin blocked public health officials from entering her church to ensure compliance with mandates.
“These were deliberate and intentional acts,” wrote Creagh. “These offences are very serious. Laws dealing with public health are of fundamental importance.”
LIBERAL PLANS TO CAP OIL, GAS EMISSIONS
The federal government is proposing to use an industry-specific cap-and-trade system or a modified carbon pricing system to set a ceiling for emissions from the oil and gas sector and drive them down almost 40 per cent by the end of this decade.
The two options are contained in a discussion paper Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will publish Monday. It is the first glimpse Canadians are getting of how the Liberals expect to implement the oil and gas emissions cap promised in last year’s election.
“We simply cannot ignore the fact that the oil and gas sector is Canada’s biggest emitter,” Guilbeault said in April during a House of Commons committee meeting studying the proposed emissions cap on oil and gas.
What Guilbeault didn’t say then, and what the discussion paper doesn’t say now, is what the specific emissions cap will be. It’s supposed to start at “current levels” — which going by the data that was available when that promise was made would mean 2019 levels, or 203.5 million tonnes.
The two options are contained in a discussion paper Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will publish Monday. It is the first glimpse Canadians are getting of how the Liberals expect to implement the oil and gas emissions cap promised in last year’s election.
“We simply cannot ignore the fact that the oil and gas sector is Canada’s biggest emitter,” Guilbeault said in April during a House of Commons committee meeting studying the proposed emissions cap on oil and gas.
What Guilbeault didn’t say then, and what the discussion paper doesn’t say now, is what the specific emissions cap will be. It’s supposed to start at “current levels” — which going by the data that was available when that promise was made would mean 2019 levels, or 203.5 million tonnes.
ONTARIO NEEDS NEW ELECTRICITY GENERATION
Ontario's electricity system is searching for more power producers as demand rises and a major nuclear plant nears retirement, a process likely to secure more natural gas generation while the government seeks to end reliance on it.
It means that for at least the next two decades, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are set to increase.
But the electricity system operator says Ontario is already using hydro to its max, while solar and wind power rely on the weather, and natural gas generation can provide the reliability and flexibility needed to support green initiatives and an ensuing increase in electricity demand, such as from electric vehicles and electric arc furnaces in steelmaking.
It means that for at least the next two decades, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are set to increase.
But the electricity system operator says Ontario is already using hydro to its max, while solar and wind power rely on the weather, and natural gas generation can provide the reliability and flexibility needed to support green initiatives and an ensuing increase in electricity demand, such as from electric vehicles and electric arc furnaces in steelmaking.
THE WEASEL WORDS OF CATHOLIC DIOCESES
When 48 Catholic church entities signed on to fundraise $25 million for survivors under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, it was spelled out they would do so through their "best efforts."
In total, that fundraising campaign raised less than $4 million. It made up one piece of the compensation package Catholic entities agreed to pay under the settlement struck in 2006 with Ottawa, former students and Indigenous leaders.
Nine years later, a Saskatchewan judge ruled that the church bodies — who had sought to relieve themselves of their remaining obligations — could indeed walk away.
In total, that fundraising campaign raised less than $4 million. It made up one piece of the compensation package Catholic entities agreed to pay under the settlement struck in 2006 with Ottawa, former students and Indigenous leaders.
Nine years later, a Saskatchewan judge ruled that the church bodies — who had sought to relieve themselves of their remaining obligations — could indeed walk away.
Sunday, July 17, 2022
W.H.O. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Video featuring Fahrie Hassan.
Capturing the global health by subversion
Topics include:
Capturing the global health by subversion
Topics include:
1 The “rulers of the world”: asset management companies, Blackrock, Vanguard and Statestreet, who control big pharma, big media, many countries’ ecomonies and almost all major industries.
2 WEF, Klaus Schwabb, with incestuous relations and embeds in all covid operators.
3 How “voluntary” contributors to the WHO can determine how the funds are used, and so control the WHO. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is the source of more than half of the funding ( ~45% directly, but their indirect funding increases that to ~60% ); so “Genocide Bill” controls the WHO. The WHO manipulates the world not for our health, but for these psychopathic investors whose profits far exceed their investment.
2 WEF, Klaus Schwabb, with incestuous relations and embeds in all covid operators.
3 How “voluntary” contributors to the WHO can determine how the funds are used, and so control the WHO. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is the source of more than half of the funding ( ~45% directly, but their indirect funding increases that to ~60% ); so “Genocide Bill” controls the WHO. The WHO manipulates the world not for our health, but for these psychopathic investors whose profits far exceed their investment.
BANFIELD TESTIFIES IN NS MASS SHOOTER INQUIRY
Michael Scott and the team of lawyers with Patterson Law, who represent the families of more than half the victims, left the proceedings early Friday, along with their clients.
“Ms. Banfield has critical important evidence and we’ve been denied an opportunity to get that information from her,” Scott said outside the proceedings.
“What we’re hearing is a pre-prepared statement,” he said of Banfield’s testimony. “We’re not hearing any followup. I’m not exactly sure what the testimony today has to do with the events of April 2020, except for very indirectly.”
“Ms. Banfield has critical important evidence and we’ve been denied an opportunity to get that information from her,” Scott said outside the proceedings.
“What we’re hearing is a pre-prepared statement,” he said of Banfield’s testimony. “We’re not hearing any followup. I’m not exactly sure what the testimony today has to do with the events of April 2020, except for very indirectly.”
CONTRADICTING THE UNMARKED GRAVES NARRATIVE
New archaeological evidence from the former Kamloops Indian Residential School raises more questions about the narrative that 215 “probable burials” of Indigenous children were discovered at the site.
The evidence was unearthed by a professional architect with expertise in aerial photography and published by former anthropology professor Hymie Rubenstein in the REAL Indian Residential Schools Newsletter. The architect reported his findings under the pseudonym Kam Res to avoid retaliation. Res’ findings have not been peer-reviewed.
Other academics who have raised questions about the Kamloops graves have been cancelled and targeted by the media. Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson was removed from her tenured position due to being outspoken on Indigenous issues.
The evidence was unearthed by a professional architect with expertise in aerial photography and published by former anthropology professor Hymie Rubenstein in the REAL Indian Residential Schools Newsletter. The architect reported his findings under the pseudonym Kam Res to avoid retaliation. Res’ findings have not been peer-reviewed.
Other academics who have raised questions about the Kamloops graves have been cancelled and targeted by the media. Mount Royal University professor Frances Widdowson was removed from her tenured position due to being outspoken on Indigenous issues.
HORGAN LEARNS OF TRUDEAU'S SELF-INTEREST
The lead topic for the premiers was the need for the federal government to increase its share of funding for health care.
The premiers, under Horgan’s leadership, had been trying for months to persuade Ottawa to convene a federal-provincial conference on that very topic.
Now at the last minute, the federal minister was calling for an update on something his government had refused to address.
MODERNA TARGETING OUR YOUNGEST
Canada's drug regulator approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for infants and preschoolers, making it the first vaccine approved for that age group in the country.
Health Canada now says the Moderna vaccine can be given to young children between the ages of six months and five years old in doses one-quarter the size of that approved for adults.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to provide advice on its use later today.
Saturday, July 16, 2022
TORONTO'S DISASTROUS HOTEL SHELTER POLICY
The city of Toronto’s controversial plan to dump the homeless in three-star hotels during Covid was supposed to be a temporary measure only.
It was sold to Torontonians as a way of socially distancing the homeless during the pandemic and of providing those who were squatting in downtown parks a roof over their heads. But now more than two years later, the homeless hotels are still operating, many with a phalanx of security guards 24/7 to try to keep the residents from wreaking havoc on the surrounding neighbourhood.
In April, council quietly approved extensions to all of the hotels to next spring.
It was sold to Torontonians as a way of socially distancing the homeless during the pandemic and of providing those who were squatting in downtown parks a roof over their heads. But now more than two years later, the homeless hotels are still operating, many with a phalanx of security guards 24/7 to try to keep the residents from wreaking havoc on the surrounding neighbourhood.
In April, council quietly approved extensions to all of the hotels to next spring.
THE BEST MASK STUDY YET
School districts across the nation have implemented mask mandates for children in the hope of reducing COVID-19 transmission, but the impact of school-based mask mandates on COVID-19 transmission in children is not fully established. While observational studies of school mask mandates have had conflicting results, randomized studies have failed to detect an impact of masking on participants under 50 years of age [1-6]. Here we report the results of a natural experiment in two large K-12 school districts in Fargo, North Dakota, Fargo Public Schools (FPS) and West Fargo Public Schools (WF), to estimate the association between school mask mandates and COVID-19 infections. Our study population is unique because the districts are adjacent to each other in the same county and have similar student demographics, COVID-19 mitigation policies and staff vaccination rates. At the start of the Fall 2021 semester, FPS mandated masks and WF did not. On January 17, 2022, FPS also moved to a mask optional policy, creating a unique natural experiment to study school-based mask mandates.
TRUDEAU'S TRAVELING ROAD SHOW
Rex Murphy: The prime minister darts around like a summer fly, off to useless summits one day, on a European photo-op mission the next, drops in to Ukraine to pose with Madame Joly for the obligatory photo with the beleaguered Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flits back home for a while, off to Calgary, back to Nova Scotia (the quotient of apologies must be maintained), then on to Ontario for an EV announcement, and then off to a police-guarded lunch in Montreal.
Justin Trudeau could be in rehearsal for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The widely regarded brain-trust of the Trudeau cabinet — this would be Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland — does her best to abrade that distinction by noting that high and accelerating prices at the pumps aren’t so bad because they are “a reminder of why climate action is so important.”
Friday, July 15, 2022
TRUDEAU CALLED A TRAITOR BY SO-CALLED ADMIRERS
Did you hear? The prime minister Dear Leader was mobbed by a group of so-called “admirers” while he was in Calgary for the Stampede! …At least that’s what the legacy media was telling Canadians. In reality, Trudeau was jeered and called a “traitor” and “communist” by protesters. Nice try, legacy media!
Plus, Canada’s sports teams have an advantage thanks to the Trudeau government’s draconian Covid rules as American athletes refuse to comply with the Trudeau government’s vaccine mandates.
And the winner of this week’s Ratio of the Week goes to Canada’s foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly! In response to the protests in Sri Lanka, Joly claims the Trudeau government will not tolerate violence against protesters or journalists – kind of like when the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act to violently crack down on the Freedom Convoy.
Plus, Canada’s sports teams have an advantage thanks to the Trudeau government’s draconian Covid rules as American athletes refuse to comply with the Trudeau government’s vaccine mandates.
And the winner of this week’s Ratio of the Week goes to Canada’s foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly! In response to the protests in Sri Lanka, Joly claims the Trudeau government will not tolerate violence against protesters or journalists – kind of like when the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act to violently crack down on the Freedom Convoy.
LACK OF GOV'T OVERSIGHT ON RCMP SPYWARE
An admission from Canada’s national police force that it routinely uses powerful spyware to surveil citizens has prompted concern from experts, who warn the country is “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to regulating and reining in use of the technology.
During a parliamentary session in late June, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police submitted a document, first reported in Politico, outlining how a special investigative team covertly infiltrates the mobile devices of Canadians. The tools, which have been used on at least 10 investigations between 2018 and 2020, give the police access to text messages, email, photos, videos, audio files, calendar entries and financial records. The software can also remotely turn on the camera and microphone of a suspect’s phone or laptop.
During a parliamentary session in late June, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police submitted a document, first reported in Politico, outlining how a special investigative team covertly infiltrates the mobile devices of Canadians. The tools, which have been used on at least 10 investigations between 2018 and 2020, give the police access to text messages, email, photos, videos, audio files, calendar entries and financial records. The software can also remotely turn on the camera and microphone of a suspect’s phone or laptop.
AIR INDIA BOMBING SUSPECT SHOT DEAD
When retired RCMP deputy commissioner Gary Bass was in charge of the terrorism investigation into the 1985 Air India bombing, he saw just how many enemies Ripudaman Singh Malik had.
“I’m not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people.”
Malik, who was acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges in 2005, was shot to death as he sat inside his car about 9:30 a.m. Thursday outside an industrial plaza where he has a business office in the 8200-block of 128th Street.
“I’m not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people.”
Malik, who was acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges in 2005, was shot to death as he sat inside his car about 9:30 a.m. Thursday outside an industrial plaza where he has a business office in the 8200-block of 128th Street.
Thursday, July 14, 2022
TRUDEAU'S MONEY EXPERIMENT GOES EVEN MORE WRONG
John Ivison: Nearly two years ago, the OECD said that, as Canada’s GDP fell by 10 per cent in the second pandemic-hit quarter of 2020, household income grew by 11 per cent, thanks to generous government hand-outs. The same phenomenon did not happen in Germany, France, the U.K. or the U.S.
The Bank of Canada said in its statement on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine, with its effect on energy prices, and continued supply-chain issues led to its decision to increase the overnight interest rate by 100 basis points to 2.5 per cent, giving the nation an effective pay-cut. But it acknowledged that excess demand in the domestic economy was a factor, a hangover from Liberal largesse in 2020 that was entirely predictable.
As Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada and now a fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute said, employment income in 2020 fell but disposable income rose — the only recession in Canadian history where people were actually better off. “We just stuck a huge mixer in the economy and hit top speed. We are still trying to figure out what happened,” he said.
The Bank of Canada said in its statement on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine, with its effect on energy prices, and continued supply-chain issues led to its decision to increase the overnight interest rate by 100 basis points to 2.5 per cent, giving the nation an effective pay-cut. But it acknowledged that excess demand in the domestic economy was a factor, a hangover from Liberal largesse in 2020 that was entirely predictable.
As Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada and now a fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute said, employment income in 2020 fell but disposable income rose — the only recession in Canadian history where people were actually better off. “We just stuck a huge mixer in the economy and hit top speed. We are still trying to figure out what happened,” he said.
JAMES TOPP CONTINUES HIS PROTEST MARCH
Canadian Armed Forces Veteran James Topp marched from Vancouver to Ottawa in protest of Covid-19 mandates and restrictions. His march inspired thousands of Canadians, as he was greeted by a large group of supporters at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Canada Day.
However, the veteran isn’t quite done yet. Topp now plans to continue his protest and march to Newfoundland. Topp says he needs to continue the momentum.
On this episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Topp joins Rupa to discuss his monumental march across Canada, the celebrations on Canada Day, the legacy media’s unfair treatment of him and how the veteran will face a court martial because of his protest.
However, the veteran isn’t quite done yet. Topp now plans to continue his protest and march to Newfoundland. Topp says he needs to continue the momentum.
On this episode of The Rupa Subramanya Show, Topp joins Rupa to discuss his monumental march across Canada, the celebrations on Canada Day, the legacy media’s unfair treatment of him and how the veteran will face a court martial because of his protest.
CHINA'S GREEN AGENDA FURTHERING ITS GLOBAL POWER GOALS
Every country pursues its own national interest, and China is no different in that respect. However, China’s Communist leadership wants to displace the United States as the world’s most powerful country, and it has been pursuing that objective for decades.
China is, in fact, becoming increasingly powerful. It has the largest army and navy in the world, and the second-largest economy.
A new report suggests that China’s climate change policy is essentially focused on weakening the West in order to achieve global supremacy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publicly expresses support for policies reducing climate change, but at home it commonly pursues policies that favour the use of fossil fuels. As the report suggests, this contradiction can best be understood within the context of China’s goal of seeking global power.
China is, in fact, becoming increasingly powerful. It has the largest army and navy in the world, and the second-largest economy.
A new report suggests that China’s climate change policy is essentially focused on weakening the West in order to achieve global supremacy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publicly expresses support for policies reducing climate change, but at home it commonly pursues policies that favour the use of fossil fuels. As the report suggests, this contradiction can best be understood within the context of China’s goal of seeking global power.
GOVERNMENTS IGNORED WARNINGS OF LOCKDOWN HARM
There is also rising awareness of government excesses in violating freedoms and liberties. In a global survey of 52,000 people by the Democracy Perceptions Index, in 50 of the 53 countries surveyed, people expressed net agreement (that is, agreement minus disagreement) with the proposition: “their government has gone too far in limiting people’s freedoms.”
Authorities and lockdown advocates accuse critics of 20/20 hindsight and insist they did the best they could with limited information in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Such a revisionist narrative must not be allowed to take hold. The remarkable thing is how much of the collateral damage was predicted quite early into the lockdowns.
One can understand why the lockdown, mask and vaccine fanatics want everyone to forget their hatred and demonization of all dissenting voices and demand that the sceptics be removed from the public square. But both in the interests of justice and to avoid a repetition of the criminal mistakes, they must not be allowed to whitewash the past and rewrite history.
Authorities and lockdown advocates accuse critics of 20/20 hindsight and insist they did the best they could with limited information in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic. Such a revisionist narrative must not be allowed to take hold. The remarkable thing is how much of the collateral damage was predicted quite early into the lockdowns.
One can understand why the lockdown, mask and vaccine fanatics want everyone to forget their hatred and demonization of all dissenting voices and demand that the sceptics be removed from the public square. But both in the interests of justice and to avoid a repetition of the criminal mistakes, they must not be allowed to whitewash the past and rewrite history.
EXPOSING THE REST OF THE RUSSIAN TURBINES REPAIR DEAL
The Canadian government’s deal to allow the repair of Russian-owned turbines covers a period of up to two years from now and would allow the import and re-export of up to six units – a far more extensive arrangement than had previously been disclosed.
Two government officials told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday that Global Affairs Canada granted the German industrial giant Siemens Energy an exemption under Canada’s Russia sanctions for two years. This allows the company to send turbines from Nord Stream 1, a pipeline majority-owned by Russian state controlled Gazprom, to Siemens Canada’s facilities in Montreal for regular repair and maintenance.
One of the officials stressed that the arrangement with Siemens allows the Canadian government to revoke the sanctions-relief permits at any time.
Two government officials told The Globe and Mail on Tuesday that Global Affairs Canada granted the German industrial giant Siemens Energy an exemption under Canada’s Russia sanctions for two years. This allows the company to send turbines from Nord Stream 1, a pipeline majority-owned by Russian state controlled Gazprom, to Siemens Canada’s facilities in Montreal for regular repair and maintenance.
One of the officials stressed that the arrangement with Siemens allows the Canadian government to revoke the sanctions-relief permits at any time.
TRUDEAU FIDDLES WHILE THE ECONOMY BURNS
Brian Lilley: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is failing Canada and Canadians in every way imaginable right now and he doesn’t seem to see any problem.
On Wednesday morning, the Bank of Canada announced an interest rate hike of a full percentage point to try and control inflation. For anyone with a $500,000 variable rate mortgage, this latest hike will mean their monthly payments increasing by as much as $550 a month compared to what they were paying before rates started rising in March.
How is this Trudeau’s fault in any way, shape or form? Because he has been warned about inflation for more than a year now and has done nothing.
“You’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy. You’ll understand that I think about families,” Trudeau famously said last August when asked if he thought the Bank of Canada should continue to focus on keeping inflation low through interest rates and other monetary policy tools.
On Wednesday morning, the Bank of Canada announced an interest rate hike of a full percentage point to try and control inflation. For anyone with a $500,000 variable rate mortgage, this latest hike will mean their monthly payments increasing by as much as $550 a month compared to what they were paying before rates started rising in March.
How is this Trudeau’s fault in any way, shape or form? Because he has been warned about inflation for more than a year now and has done nothing.
“You’ll forgive me if I don’t think about monetary policy. You’ll understand that I think about families,” Trudeau famously said last August when asked if he thought the Bank of Canada should continue to focus on keeping inflation low through interest rates and other monetary policy tools.
4 DAYS IN HOSPITAL HALLWAY WITH BROKEN LEG
76-year-old man with a shattered leg bone has been languishing on a stretcher in the hallway of a small-town hospital since Sunday, waiting for surgery in London, Ont.
Ron Prickett of Sault Ste Marie was in a cycling accident in Sauble Beach. He fell after swerving on a gravel road to avoid a motorcycle and his tire slipped on loose stones.
Prickett was taken by ambulance to Wiarton Hospital, part of Grey Bruce Health Services, where he's been in excruciating pain in a tiny makeshift room in one of the facility's hallways, He was supposed to be transferred to London Health Sciences Centre, the largest hospital in southwestern Ontario. It has the facilities and surgical expertise he needs to repair his leg — except, he said, a bed shortage in London has prevented him from leaving Wiarton.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
LICH A POLITICAL PRISONER FOR EMBARRASSING LIBERAL GOV'T
Alberta civil liberties lawyer Derek From spoke with the Western Standard about Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich’s legal troubles and shared his take on the legal ramifications of her ordeal.
From said Lich has been made a “political prisoner” because she successfully organized an engaging protest. While most claims surrounding “illegal” Freedom Convoy activities have been dismissed, From said Lich remains in prison on charges of “mischief” and was brought back into custody just before Canada Day for allegedly “breaching her bail conditions.”
"Tamara is behind bars today because she embarrassed the government."
From said Lich has been made a “political prisoner” because she successfully organized an engaging protest. While most claims surrounding “illegal” Freedom Convoy activities have been dismissed, From said Lich remains in prison on charges of “mischief” and was brought back into custody just before Canada Day for allegedly “breaching her bail conditions.”
"Tamara is behind bars today because she embarrassed the government."
FINANCIAL AUDIT OF AFN TO PROCEED
Archibald told the AFN general assembly that she was suspended for trying to investigate corruption within the assembly and for calling for a forensic audit of the organization of the past eight years. She said it came after “decades” of calls for reform within the organization. “When you support me, you will be fighting against corruption,” Archibald said during her election in 2021.
“Millions of dollars have been paid in staff payouts,” she told the general assembly last week. “That’s what the forensic audit will show you. You will see how money that is meant for you and your communities has been going into somebody else’s pocket.”
Archibald has publicly alleged corruption is rife within the AFN, including “financial irregularities” and “backroom deals.” Last week’s rejection of her suspension by the general assembly was evidence that a majority of the chiefs agree with her. In a statement, Tribal Chair of the Tŝilhqot’in National Government Joe Alphonse said “The actions of the AFN executive committee and board of directors are absolutely shameful. Chiefs across the country elected National Chief Archibald — let her do her job.”
“Millions of dollars have been paid in staff payouts,” she told the general assembly last week. “That’s what the forensic audit will show you. You will see how money that is meant for you and your communities has been going into somebody else’s pocket.”
Archibald has publicly alleged corruption is rife within the AFN, including “financial irregularities” and “backroom deals.” Last week’s rejection of her suspension by the general assembly was evidence that a majority of the chiefs agree with her. In a statement, Tribal Chair of the Tŝilhqot’in National Government Joe Alphonse said “The actions of the AFN executive committee and board of directors are absolutely shameful. Chiefs across the country elected National Chief Archibald — let her do her job.”
PEOPLES' REVOLT AGAINST ECO-TYRANNY
This is the story of the revolting Dutch farmers. These tractor-riding rebels have risen up against their government and its plans to introduce stringent environmental measures that they say will severely undermine their ability to make a living. They have been protesting for a couple of years now, but their fury has intensified in recent weeks. They’ve blocked motorways, blocked roads to airports, set fire to bales of hay, and descended on The Hague. Things are so serious that yesterday, in the province of Friesland, police opened fire. Mercifully, no one was injured.
Monday, July 11, 2022
LIBERALS' LATEST ATTEMPT TO CENSOR THE INTERNET
Imagine a Canada where every single thing you say online was watched, checked, and possibly censored by the government. Your text messages, Facebook posts, and comments on YouTube videos — all of it monitored to ensure your speech is “safe.”
It sounds outrageous, right? Totalitarian and gross. Now, what if I told you that the government was just caught planning for it?
Federal Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodgriguez, fresh off spearheading two other censorship bills, C-11 and C-18, has been caught planning his greatest feat yet – to censor all electronic communications within Canada. Going all-in against freedom of speech has become a pattern for this government it seems.
It sounds outrageous, right? Totalitarian and gross. Now, what if I told you that the government was just caught planning for it?
Federal Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodgriguez, fresh off spearheading two other censorship bills, C-11 and C-18, has been caught planning his greatest feat yet – to censor all electronic communications within Canada. Going all-in against freedom of speech has become a pattern for this government it seems.
FORMER HELLS ANGELS CRIME BOSS DEAD
“On July 10, 2022, Maurice Boucher, an inmate under medical care at Archambault Institution, died while in our custody of apparent natural causes,” Correctional Service Canada said in a statement issued Sunday afternoon. “At the time of his death, Mr. Boucher had been serving an indeterminate sentence for two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault with a weapon and carrying a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
“The one thing I can say today is that it closes another chapter on the Hells Angels in Quebec,” said Guy Ouellette, the Chomedey MNA and former Sûreté du Québec investigator who was part of the combined police force that helped take down Boucher and the immense criminal network he built after 1994, the start of conflict between organized crime groups that lasted eight years. More than 160 people died during what came to be known as Quebec’s biker gang war.
“The one thing I can say today is that it closes another chapter on the Hells Angels in Quebec,” said Guy Ouellette, the Chomedey MNA and former Sûreté du Québec investigator who was part of the combined police force that helped take down Boucher and the immense criminal network he built after 1994, the start of conflict between organized crime groups that lasted eight years. More than 160 people died during what came to be known as Quebec’s biker gang war.
HOLDING TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT TO ACCOUNT
Anthony Furey: John Ivison writes in a recent column that a senior bureaucrat compared what was going on with the government to “a body rotting from the inside”. That sends about right. Yet many Canadians are probably still under the impression that Trudeau remains in top form and that it’s the Conservatives who are in crisis.
How has this happened? Some will say it’s media bias that leans favourably to the Liberals. There’s a lot of truth to this. For decades now, Canadians have been exposed to the tired narratives that conservatives are about to become extinct and can’t possibly win the next election unless they do exactly what the most left-wing columnist at the Toronto Star instructs, or that they harbour villainous motives that must be incessantly pursued even when no evidence emerges.
How has this happened? Some will say it’s media bias that leans favourably to the Liberals. There’s a lot of truth to this. For decades now, Canadians have been exposed to the tired narratives that conservatives are about to become extinct and can’t possibly win the next election unless they do exactly what the most left-wing columnist at the Toronto Star instructs, or that they harbour villainous motives that must be incessantly pursued even when no evidence emerges.
Let’s not entirely blame the news preferences of the general public though. The insiders shoulder blame as well. Politicos of all stripes are notorious for preferring campaigns (hypotheticals) over governance and policy (real life). If it was up to them, we’d be in endless leadership campaigns, by-elections and general elections and that’s all we’d ever discuss.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
"I THINK YOU SHOULD STOP TALKING", JUDGE TELLS LAWYER
The trial of a Montrealer accused of hate speech devolved Friday into a bizarre debate over whether the Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust.
In court, the defense lawyer representing Gabriel Sohier Chaput, who is on trial on a charge of fomenting hate, insisted the Holocaust was merely an “economical solution.”
“The Nazis didn’t originally intend to kill millions of Jews in concentration camps,” defense lawyer Hélène Poussard said in court. “It was a solution that someone close to Hitler came up with in order to save money. It was cheaper to gas these people than to (deport them). They were brought to camps to take their things, but the idea to gas them was strictly economical. That’s what I learned in school. What do you want me to say? I’m not trying to shock people, and maybe I’m wrong.
In court, the defense lawyer representing Gabriel Sohier Chaput, who is on trial on a charge of fomenting hate, insisted the Holocaust was merely an “economical solution.”
“The Nazis didn’t originally intend to kill millions of Jews in concentration camps,” defense lawyer Hélène Poussard said in court. “It was a solution that someone close to Hitler came up with in order to save money. It was cheaper to gas these people than to (deport them). They were brought to camps to take their things, but the idea to gas them was strictly economical. That’s what I learned in school. What do you want me to say? I’m not trying to shock people, and maybe I’m wrong.
CRA LOSING AT LEAST $18.1B IN TAX GAP
The tax gap represents the difference between the total amount of taxes that would be paid if every Canadian individual and corporation fully reported all their income properly (including income from the underground economy), took only appropriate expense deductions and properly claimed only the tax credits to which they were entitled compared to the tax actually paid and collected by the Canada Revenue Agency. In short, it’s a measure of the potential loss of tax revenue resulting from tax non-compliance.
The new report shows that for 2018, Canada’s federal “gross” tax gap was estimated to be between $35.1 billion to $40.4 billion before taking into account the CRA’s compliance and collection activities. Through those ongoing audit and collection efforts, the CRA is expected to ultimately reduce the gap to between $18.1 billion to $23.4 billion, or approximately seven to nine per cent of federal tax revenue. This percentage has been fairly stable over a five-year period, even as Canada’s federal tax revenues haven risen to $272 billion (2018-2019 fiscal year) from $237 billion (2014-2015). The gap in 2014 ranged from $15 billion to $19.1 billion.
The new report shows that for 2018, Canada’s federal “gross” tax gap was estimated to be between $35.1 billion to $40.4 billion before taking into account the CRA’s compliance and collection activities. Through those ongoing audit and collection efforts, the CRA is expected to ultimately reduce the gap to between $18.1 billion to $23.4 billion, or approximately seven to nine per cent of federal tax revenue. This percentage has been fairly stable over a five-year period, even as Canada’s federal tax revenues haven risen to $272 billion (2018-2019 fiscal year) from $237 billion (2014-2015). The gap in 2014 ranged from $15 billion to $19.1 billion.
PROVINCES WANT FUNDS FOR MILITARY INVESTIGATIONS & PROSECUTIONS
A dispute between the federal government and provinces over funding and other resources is slowing efforts to transfer military police investigations and prosecutions of alleged sexual crimes to civilian authorities.
Defense Minister Anita Anand said last November the Canadian Armed Forces would start transferring criminal sexual offences to civilian police forces and courts on an interim basis.
Provost Marshal Brig.-Gen. Simon Trudeau, the military’s top police officer, reported last month that 22 new investigations and nine pre-existing cases had been accepted by civilian police forces, including the RCMP, municipal police forces in Quebec and some other provinces.
What Trudeau didn't say was that at least 23 cases have been rejected by civilian authorities and remain with military police amid a disagreement between Ottawa and several provinces over funding and other resources.
Defense Minister Anita Anand said last November the Canadian Armed Forces would start transferring criminal sexual offences to civilian police forces and courts on an interim basis.
Provost Marshal Brig.-Gen. Simon Trudeau, the military’s top police officer, reported last month that 22 new investigations and nine pre-existing cases had been accepted by civilian police forces, including the RCMP, municipal police forces in Quebec and some other provinces.
What Trudeau didn't say was that at least 23 cases have been rejected by civilian authorities and remain with military police amid a disagreement between Ottawa and several provinces over funding and other resources.
RUSSIA'S GAS CUTS CAUSE GERMANY TO RATION ENERGY
Germany has begun rationing hot water, dimming the lights and turning down the heating as the country reels from Vladimir Putin’s gas cuts.
Moscow has already slashed flows through the crucial Nord Stream pipeline to Germany to 40pc of normal levels.
Problems could deepen next week, when the pipeline is set to shut down for 10 days during planned maintenance work. Fears are growing that it will never fully reopen.
CHINA'S HISTORY OF HIDING EPIDEMICS
But, leaving all this aside, there is no doubt on one key point. The Chinese Communist Party has a long history of covering up epidemics within China, and then carelessly — or deliberately — allowing them to spread around the world.
The fall of 1957 saw an outbreak of what came to be known as the Asian flu. It was first reported in the cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, but this new and deadly influenza soon went global.
China played no role in its creation — in this case the offending virus truly did have a natural origin — but it certainly did play a role in its spread. The new flu had arisen in the interior province of Guizhou in early 1957, and had spread throughout China in the months following. But even as tens of thousands of Chinese lay dying, the epidemic was kept hidden from view by the Communist authorities.
The fall of 1957 saw an outbreak of what came to be known as the Asian flu. It was first reported in the cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, but this new and deadly influenza soon went global.
China played no role in its creation — in this case the offending virus truly did have a natural origin — but it certainly did play a role in its spread. The new flu had arisen in the interior province of Guizhou in early 1957, and had spread throughout China in the months following. But even as tens of thousands of Chinese lay dying, the epidemic was kept hidden from view by the Communist authorities.
LIBERALS' GREAT PASSPORT DROUGHT
Rex Murphy: Tried to get a passport from your government lately? Canadian citizens are camping out overnight just to get a spot in a line to some offices.
Canada is a wealthy, 21st-century, high-tech country with a vast, heavily qualified, highly paid civil service. Yet people find themselves having to camp out to get the most fundamental document of their very citizenship — the passport.
Do not think however that the Jagmeet Singh-Justin Trudeau government is without feeling on this terrible issue. And how do we know that?
We know it because the same government issued a tender call late last week to buy 801 chairs (535 armrest-free and 266 with armrests) for people standing in line, for delivery to two locations in Montreal.
Canada is a wealthy, 21st-century, high-tech country with a vast, heavily qualified, highly paid civil service. Yet people find themselves having to camp out to get the most fundamental document of their very citizenship — the passport.
Do not think however that the Jagmeet Singh-Justin Trudeau government is without feeling on this terrible issue. And how do we know that?
We know it because the same government issued a tender call late last week to buy 801 chairs (535 armrest-free and 266 with armrests) for people standing in line, for delivery to two locations in Montreal.
Friday, July 8, 2022
FORD GOV'T IN NO HURRY TO SAVE COLAPSING HEALTH SYSTEM
The storyline about Ontario health care is almost universally negative at the moment. Pretty much every day brings fresh news stories of nursing shortages, cancelled surgeries and emergency room overloading, even closures. The public is repeatedly told by medical people that the health-care system is either “broken” or “collapsing.”
One might have thought that the Ontario government would want to reassure people, given that health care is its most important and most expensive service.
And yet, the silence is deafening. It’s just not a good time, you see. The provincial cabinet lost a lot of health-care knowledge when long-time minister Christine Elliott decided not to run again. Sylvia Jones, who had been solicitor general, was made health minister, as well as deputy premier, in Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet. It was a bit of a surprise. Jones’s prior experience in health care consists of leading the vaccine-distribution task force during the pandemic.
One might have thought that the Ontario government would want to reassure people, given that health care is its most important and most expensive service.
And yet, the silence is deafening. It’s just not a good time, you see. The provincial cabinet lost a lot of health-care knowledge when long-time minister Christine Elliott decided not to run again. Sylvia Jones, who had been solicitor general, was made health minister, as well as deputy premier, in Premier Doug Ford’s new cabinet. It was a bit of a surprise. Jones’s prior experience in health care consists of leading the vaccine-distribution task force during the pandemic.
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