ANOTHER TRUDEAU FAIRY TALE

   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accusing Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson and other premiers of being dishonest with Canadians about the impact of his carbon tax on the cost of living was pretty astounding in its hypocrisy.
    “What the premier and others across the country don’t seem to be honest about with Canadians is in the places like Manitoba, where the federal price on pollution applies, average families get more money back from the price on pollution than the extra price on pollution costs them,” Trudeau said Thursday, before a meeting with Stefanson.
   Trudeau’s claim “average families” in these provinces get more back in carbon tax rebates than they pay in carbon taxes is based on his government’s claim 80% of households end up better off financially.
   But in March, independent, non-partisan Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said when the negative financial impact of Trudeau’s carbon tax on the economy is considered — including reduced annual GDP, labour income and business investment — 60% of households in the four provinces end up worse off financially.

"THEY CAME TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT"

    The RCMP feared that serving Mounties sympathetic to the convoy protest against pandemic measures in Ottawa earlier this year might leak operational plans to protesters, says an internal threat advisory obtained by CBC News.
   "The potential exists for serious insider threats," says the Feb. 10 advisory from the RCMP's ideologically motivated criminal intelligence team.
   "Those who have not lost their jobs but are sympathetic to the movement and their former colleagues may be in a position to share law enforcement or military information to the convoy protests."
   The document, obtained by CBC News through an access to information request, shows the RCMP worried that some of their own might co-operate with the protesters who barricaded streets in downtown Ottawa for weeks.

PROF FIGHTS SANCTIONS OVER A PRONOUN MISTAKE

   Richard Bugg has been a theater professor at Southern Utah University for 30 years. According to the Deseret News, he’s also suing his employer for infringing on his free speech rights. At issue? Bugg’s refusal to cave to the pronoun protocol.
   The origin of the suit began on the first day of classes in the fall semester of 2021. A student reportedly told Bugg to use they/them pronouns. Bugg declined because of his personal beliefs but an agreement was reached with the student in which Bugg would perform the verbal gymnastics necessary to refer to the student by name only. Unfortunately, he slipped two or three times and used a female pronoun. Although he had tried to find a compromise, he accidentally committed the sin of using the wrong pronoun a few times.

ALBERTA GOVERNMENT TALKS OF REPLACING RCMP

 EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it will increase the number of officers serving rural communities if the province moves ahead with a plan to replace RCMP policing services with a new provincial police force.

On Tuesday, the United Conservative government released a prospective “deployment” plan that shows how such a force would be distributed around the province and how it would differ from the way the RCMP currently operates.

Tyler Shandro, the provincial justice minister, said the deployment model “shows how an Alberta police service” could make the province safer and bring officers closer to communities.

POLAND SEEKS WAR REPARATIONS FROM GERMANY

   Poland on Thursday estimated the financial cost of World War II losses to be 1.3 trillion euros (dollars) and said it would "ask Germany to negotiate these reparations".
   "It is a major sum of 6.2 trillion" Polish zloty, said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling Law and Justice party and widely considered to be Poland's de facto leader.
   Most of this sum "is compensation for the deaths of more than 5.2 million Polish citizens," he stressed.

FEDS EXPLORE NEXT-GEN COVID-ALERT APP

Ottawa retired the Covid Alert application, the $20 million contact tracing program on Jun. 17, 2022 after Canadians refused to use the application. Despite receiving 6.89 million downloads, Canadians only activated 57,704 user keys – representing only 0.001% of the population.

As a result of Covid Alert, only 2,446 confirmed cases of the virus were identified.

Despite the abhorrent usage statistics, the federal government wants to ramp up data collection for public health purposes while maintaining that privacy rights will be respected.

TRUDEAUS GROWING ISOLATION ON FOSSIL FUELS

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be feeling isolated in his campaign against fossil fuels, especially Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), as leaders around the world reduce their countries’ reliance on inadequate renewable energy and tone down their own rhetoric about lowering GHG emissions. But for political and ideological reasons his government cannot admit to the terribly damaging consequences of its green policies and the urgent need to fundamentally change course. To the contrary, it keeps doubling down on its climate obsession.

Witness the latest pronouncement from Steven Guilbeault, minister of environment and climate change, that the government will block new pipelines from Alberta that could deliver LNG to the Maritimes for export to Europe and India. Lest there be any lingering doubt, Trudeau declared there was no business case for them — having previously trammelled potential projects with regulations designed precisely to make them uneconomic.