NEW🧵: @PrideToronto exploited Cree artist Kent Monkman’s name on yet another federal grant.
This $1million @FedDevOntario grant was not included in Pride Toronto’s apology and KPMG review earlier this year, current leadership must be held accountable for this cover up.
Since 2019, this is the third federal grant that @PrideToronto used Kent Monkman’s name without permission.
This is the fourth federal grant where Pride Toronto promised benefits for Indigenous artists and communities that were never delivered. This now totals $2,850,000.
The grant required that @PrideToronto submit authorization from the Board of Directors, this enabled staff to administer the project funds. Pride Toronto submitted to @FedDevOntario forged signatures of the Board.
WTFTX?
The FTX Collapse Explained in 99 Seconds
More: (link fixed)
In 2008, Goldman mastered the art of crony capitalism: pay up for government protection & get bailed out when you need it most. That’s why Goldman got bailed out while Lehman didn’t. Crypto-dude Sam Bankman-Fried just tried to play the same game by donating $30mm+ to Democrats.
The failed exchange FTX had no board of directors. That was one point of failure by investors. They wanted in the deal so badly, they let the ship go through the ocean without a rudder.
But of course! The Ukrainian government website detailing the partnership, which sought to raise $200,000,000 in cryptocurrency to be sent to the National Bank of Ukraine, has been wiped from the internet following FTX filing for bankruptcy.
N’Oublions Jamais
It’s Puppy Day at the Journal De Montreal.
Once You Start Pretending, Where Do You Stop?
“In the interview, [he] stated that he had always wished he had been born a woman who was paralysed from the waist down.”
Could You Maybe Tone Down Your ‘Whole Self,’ Just A Notch?
There follows some obligatory rumbling about the “freedom” to have ostentatious hairstyles “without negative repercussions,” before we are informed of black employees’ entitlement to speak and behave in ways that are likely to be “interpreted as violent or aggressive.” No, really. You see, if an employee is surly, or starts cursing and shouting, while invading your personal space and flailing their arms about – such that these things can be “interpreted as violent or aggressive” – this is something that employers must tolerate, and of course defer to. We’re told, for instance, that a dislike of being shouted at or bullied by the emotionally incontinent can only be evidence of “deep, inherent bias and deeply inherent systemic racism.”
Money
Neil Oliver writes about banks and taking back control of money.
Welcome To The Clown Quarter
Regarding those rubber boobs and the subsequent contortions of ‘progressive’ commentators:
Two thoughts occur. Firstly, he is not a she. The teacher in question is a forty-something man with a mental health problem, and children should not be coerced to pretend otherwise. Secondly, using the word traumatising to mock or dismiss the children’s possible feelings on the subject is a sly evasion, a deflection by hyperbole. It seems more likely that some pupils will find the educator’s behaviour distracting, uncomfortable or obnoxiously gratuitous. A piss-take or shit-test at their expense.
Female students, for instance, may not feel entirely affirmed by a grotesque parody of their sex being enacted daily by a supposedly grown man, to whom they are expected to defer. Some may see such behaviour as an imposition, a provocation, a wilful overstepping of boundaries. Which of course it is. Whether the motive is lawsuit-trolling – “I’m an oppressed sexual minority, I dare you to fire me” – or just an unhinged narcissistic compulsion. Neither of which bode well for any involuntary participants.
Biden’s America
Victor Davis Hanson writes about the American justice system.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
You Must Pretend He Isn’t There, Madam
When an 80-year-old lady encounters the pointy end of transgender ideology:
When [Julie] Jaman asked… why no signs had been posted informing women that males could potentially be in the locker rooms, she says she was told: “‘We post pride signs, and we assume that lets women know what to expect.’”
What is expected, it seems, is that women who are not entirely comfortable with dysmorphic men using ladies’ changing rooms and showers, and watching small girls undress, should simply pretend that it isn’t happening. As is the custom, a kind of farce ensues, including accusations of “hatred,” bigotry, and being “unscientific.”
The Woke Elites
Victor Davis Hanson explains why people have lost trust in the expert class. And the failure of our expert class on China.
Pandemics And Passports And Pilots, Oh My!
A fish rots from the human resources department;
Members of the Canadian aviation industry say growing backlogs at Transport Canada are making it more difficult for new and existing pilots to get their licences, and the federal government has failed to address the issue.
“They’ve completely dropped the ball,” said Dario Matrundola, president of Canadian Flyers Aviation College — a flight school based at Buttonville Airport northeast of Toronto.
“They don’t answer the phone, they don’t call you back, and you’re lucky if they answer emails.”
Transport Canada’s civil aviation department is struggling to issue the paperwork necessary to fly, effectively grounding an unknown number of Canadian and foreign pilots who train here. Of particular concern are unacceptable delays with Transport Canada’s issuance of medical certificates.
While applicants normally receive their certificates between 30 and 40 days after submitting their paperwork, some of Matrundola’s students have been left waiting more than a year.
“They’re still working, we’re still working — its just Transport Canada and actual government employees who aren’t doing anything,” he said.
Are You Brown Enough To Review Our Play?
Come, let us dip a toe in the world of woke Canadian theatre criticism, where our progressive betters applaud each other, and thereby themselves, for seeing an indigenous play and submitting to preconditions on what they may say about it.
Show Me The Man, I’ll Show You The Gun Crime
If America had the same laws that Trudeau is promising, Hunter Biden would never have been able to lie on a Form 4473 in his illegal purchase of a handgun. His girlfriend wouldn’t have had the opportunity to drop it in a garbage can across the street from a school, and law enforcement wouldn’t have had to stonewall an investigation into Joe Biden’s son lying on a background check — a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
He’d have just bought it off the street. Like his drugs.
Please Tase ‘Em, Bro
Just Don’t Blow Any Horns
Global- CP Rail workers walk off the job amid fears strike could further impact supply chains
Financial Post- CP Rail shutdown begins across the country as labour talks continue
Trust The Experts
Want to be trusted? Be trustworthy.
The Brutal Reality of Trudeau’s Canada
Reading The Fine Print
Some are more equal than others.
Tom MacDonald vs. Justin Trudeau
Some people want their music played on the radio or in the club. That would definitely be cool…but I’m SO MUCH MORE PROUD that my music being played as the backdrop for a peaceful push toward freedom ❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸 This is what it’s all about. Love y’all ✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/Y6U0J2JLNi
— Tom MacDonald (@IAMTOMMACDONALD) February 8, 2022
So far, hundreds of RCMP officers have been mobilized to support the Ottawa Police Services. We’re also working with municipal partners to further strengthen our response, and we’ll continue to be there with whatever resources are needed to get the situation under control.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 8, 2022
More people with more video recording devices need to get to Ottawa to protect the Freedom Protesters. If Trudeau’s henchmen cut off cellular service, then start recording directly onto your phones.